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> "" " Every Requisite For The Sick Room Prescriptions Filled Day or Night Zemp 8c DePass Phone 10. "A Good 6ru|{ Store" _* ? 'V> " > ! i * ) i .fwATKIOIKI.ON FROM AFRICA Hlack Man's Favorite Fruit Came Fr.iin Mia Fatherland. I One beouos convinced that there R nothing ,u'w 'n the world when p Uarr;- that the watermelon Homes from Africa and grown wild Hy thousands in the native home S the race which fancies it most. H is one of the relatively feyv wide dispersed food plants that come H the first instance from the Dark Hontinent. 1 Even as recent a botanist as the Heat Sweede, Linuaeu#* believed the Hatermelon to have come from Huthern Italy, where he had seen H rowing in abundance. The plant spread during the days of anH*nt civilizations, and at the openR of the Thristian era was grown H i'alestine, Greece, the Roman empire, and probably in InH^hat its origin should have beep Rrouded in mystery is not strange :;_R({i one remembers that Africa |, little explored until the middle R the 19th century. In fact LivingRone, the famous missionary, may ^^Lve been the first to establish it as Rfrieari. In his travels he found it Rowing wild in abundance and established beyond a doubt that it was indigenous to that land. The watermefloo'ls one of the food plants shown In drawings on ancient Egyptian monuments, proving thai, they were familiar with it. This makes it likely that it was known also to the ancient Israelites, who carried on Commerce with Egypt and were carried into captivity in that country. Spanish and Berber names with antique characteristics go to show that it was also grown j at the western end of the Mediter- ! ranean in days very long ago. Not until the tenth century A. D. was this melon introduced into China, where it goes under the name, "sikua," but the Sanskrit name, "chayapula" indicates its ancient cultivation in India. Wild watermelons are frequently bitter, a character that has been bred out of the domesticated varieties. The native negroes burst the melons with a club and taste the juice, saving the sweet ones and leaving the bitter ones where they lie. Eurther proof bf its African origin lies in the fact that scientists have failed to find the watermelon growing wild in any other part of the world. It is a member of the citron family, scientifically known as citrullus vulgaris. i n i 11 I I < all expense tours To The I ACADIAN COUNTRY "The Land of Evangeline" The Maritime Provinces of CANADA July 1 to July 13 July 15 to July 27 July 29 to Aug. lO B Aug. 12 to Aug. 24 Aug. 26 to Sept. 7 Under Direction of I. V. WOOD, (Inc.) I For attractiv-ely illustrated itinerary and full information write or consult W. B< McGee, D. P. A., South! Brn Railway System, CoiumI Bbia, S. C. i b j 11 " . The law providing for the punishment by line of anyone who galloped his horse on Main Street, enacted in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 1787, is said to be the lirst speed law. One hundred and fifty whales chasing shoals of herring plunged into shallow water, became frightened, and lashed themselves to death in Moray and Dornoch firths, Scotland. ? 1 In an Italian restaurant on the badks of the Miljacka, the host serves only persons' whose faces he likes. If he does not wish the patronage o! a guest he turns the plate in front of the guest upside down. t?i?i? i '' ' i ?mmmmni i? i ' The French are proud of the fact that they have the Eiffel Tower, the highest structure in the world; the Garabit viaduct, the biggest metal viaduct*, L'He de France, 42,000 tons, the biggest steamer built since the war; the Saint Pierre du Vauvray Bridge, the biggest reinforced concrete bridge; the fastest electric train, running from Paris to Vierzon-Ville; Le Bourget, the biggest airfield, the biggest aviation hangars, at Orly; the Canal de Rove, the biggest underground canal; the billion candle power searchlight at Mont Valerien and the 50,000-kilowatt alternating current generators at Gennevilliers. I Seaboard Air||Line Railway Co. Schedules From and To Camden, South Carolina Corrected to February 1, 1928 I Arrive } ^uT~am~T 11-40 am I 10.56 pm | 6-11 am 4-48 pm j J^25 pm j From poF" Eastern Cities?Florida Eastern Cities?Florida Eastern- Cities?Florida Florida?Eastern Cities Florida?Eastern Cities Florida?-Eastern Cities Leave I 10.10 am f 11.40 am 10.56 pm 6.11 am 4.48 pm 7.25 pm f Diner* \ tion or reservations, call on Ticket v. . ^ .. : i Loans Wanted . ?*? * - \?*:r* *7 " T i ' i funds for remodeling: for buying or building a Usually we are in position in reasonable amounts on jnce property in Camden. e. surplus fuhds you wish At times we require con- \ 3 and can arrange .time of it your convenience. ling & Loan Association MACKEY, Treasurer C) C _. . . C i , i * . >' T i.i Au4.fi.iC3 of At? A vim!* 1*1.4 mil >im Cm cum. who up ptnti>'j id h!.>lory li.i ';i"jf IV. 11, wu? culled, by one (.. niiiin historian the hold*'*! innovator In llonutu history I'v law the ienure ot oillee of u rcinou was limited to el;;iiteon mouths, l>ut Appius Claudius seemed mo much the superior of all other nun of his age that he was elisor for live years and lie carried through, despite frantic op position from the conaervutlves. a law to bring new blood Into the governing classes. The urlslocrucy was Jealous of Its prerogulives and made birth the essen Hal to a senatorial career, hut Applus Claudius broke down the admission requirements, lie put Into the senate the names of many plebeians who hud recently attained wealth and even free men of distinction who were not especially prosperous. 1'robubly the greatest contribution to Komun progress was his building of two great public works .on a scale that (tome bad never known. They were the famous Applan wuy, the great roud that led from Home to Capua, and the vast aqueduct to bring water to the city. Few tourists who visit Home have fulled to drive out upon the historic Applan way or have fulled to catch sight of the tremendous ruins of the once mighty aqueduct that strikes across the Campagna.?Kansas City Star. Painted Rock* Record Where Indian* Played-Painted Hocks," In the Hlo Uraude national forest, record the recreation activities of Indluns. Many moons before the white man Invaded that part of Colorado the forest was the favorite play and bunting grounds of the Indians. Here they held their annual games In connection with their hunts. The forest is rich In Colorado history. Spaniards traversed the mountains more than 200 years ago; Fremont forced his way through, and ruins of his fortifications still are visible at Wagon Wheel gap. Adventurers, trappers and prospectors thronged the .country, and old-timers will relate scores of thrilling stories to the auto tourist. The forest itself contains more than 1,000,000 acres and the granite back of the continental divide has Jagged peaks and vust canyons as It bends and twists for 125 miles. Shipa and Tonnage Tonnage of a ship refers not to Its weight, as Is often supposed, but to its carrying capuclty. The term originated In the time of King Henry VII of England, who Introduced one of the first navigation acts of Its kind In which the importation of Bordeaux wine in any vessels except those owned by the lieges was forbidden. The liquor was carried In huge barrels culled tuns, and, since then, the cargo capacity of a ship has been measured by tunnage or tonnage, the modern term. In connection with war vessels, however, the word refers to the weight of water ^they displace, or their displacement tonnage, the common way of describing the weight of other ships. u ^ ) Advance Information Every trade hits Its stock of wellknown yarns, but occasionally a new one does occur only, alas, In time to become a classic. A certain wtjllknown newspaper man was holding forth to a group of writers among whom was a rather famous novelist The Journalist was saying that he had recently been engaged In revising the obituaries held Id rhndiness by his paper, Turning to the novelist, he added jocosely: "I've Just been writing you up/' But the novelist, apparently, had not been following very closely. Waking up with a start, he asked eagerly j. "When Is it going to be published?" Old Nick sOld Nick is an ancient name for the devil derived from that of the Neck or^Nlkko, a river ocean god of the Scandinavian popular mythology. "British sailors,',' says Sir Walter Stott, poet and novelist, "who fear nothing else, confess their terrors foi this terrible belug, and believe hjuk the author of almost all the various calamities to Which the precarious life of a seaman is so continually exposed." S<$dU wrote this many years ago, - and superstition has greatly decreased sinca then. Nothing Left . Little Ted, five years old, was continually losing his pencils in school. ' Seldom an evening Wient by that he . didn't come homo In tears because he had lost his pencils again. T> jHJt nn and to ft, his mother wrote Ted's name on them one morn log. That evening ha cams home weeping as usual. "What's wrong?" asked his mother. "Tbeyfa gone again," stammered Ted through ills tears; "name and all." TV : "Bug*** Don't Charge for it Science, we are Informed, Is! coming to the old of farming by doing n Job-foe htm formerly done only by a kind of bacteria. The Job U to take the nitrogen out of the sir and turn it Into a nitrogen jom pound which -can be used as fertllM>. The bacteria do a better Job than that, Thay put U right en the tiihi afcjflpi a Wave of Crime Within thu paai month* this country has never before experienced so many gruesome and diabolical mur dera. The latest is that of George Chrisholin, unnatural Indiana father, who drowned his two small sons. The tads, who had been living with their grandmother, begged to be returned rather thun live with Chris* holm and then stepmother. The father tied the boys together witri wire, weighted them with iron burs and shoved them into a deep lake where they were drowned like rats. The ?ountry thought that it had discovered about the limit in crime when I*eopold and Lnob killed little Bobbie Franks for a thrill. But it was only recently thut it received even more of a shock through the terrible torture and mutilation of Marion Parker by William Hickman, i When Ruth Snyder and Henry j Judd Gray used a sash weight to ' slay Mrs. 'Snyder's husband, there was a prolonged shudder at the outcome of the triangle. Then along came pretty Velma West, a young bride, who killed her 'young husband with a hammer in order that she might go to a bridge party which he hadn't cared to attend. She is on trial for her life Nit Painesville, Ohio. Hiram Reed, Illinois farm hand, is awaiting trial on other charges after one conviction for bombing. He conceived the weird plan of putting dynamite in the school stove so thut it would explode and blow up the teacher, lola Bradford, when she started the fire. The explosion failed to kill Miss Bradford, who lived to testify against her former lover. He had wanted to blow her up in order to escape a promise of marriage according to testimony. Insanity is coming to be the common defense, where one is offered for crimes of this type. But of late, juries have been less ready to accept the explanation of mental experts. There is the possibility, too, that the speed with which recent killers have been caught and brought to trial, may serve as a deterrent to further schemers of a like character.? Monroe Enquirer. A frugal postmaster in California sent Postmaster-General New a ball of twine eighteen inches high and five feet in circumference, and weighing 23 Vi pounds. The twine had been salvaged from letters and packages sent to his office during 1926. Responsibility The superior man, afflicted with poverty, ill-health or any other handicap will keep on trying so long us there is somebody dependent on him for support. The common plan, having less sense of duty and u lower standard of chivalry, needs something more than a responsibility to keep him at his labors in spite of handicaps. He needs a comrade from whom ho can draw inspiration and courage. He needs the consciousness that some y ' fellow mortal not only depends upon him but is one with him in spirit. 1 He needs the privilege of loving; and having found somebody to love, ne needs the balm and stimulant of love in return. He needs somebody who will always understand, who will always be loyal, who nevA- will doubt, who never will speak in anger, who will give in full measure the love his weakness so eagerly and hungrily demands. Given such love and such comradeship, he will rise above his handicaps and conquer, though he be a common man; without them he is doomed to mediocrity and failure. Only the superior man finds in himself all the inspiration he needs, , and superior men have few friends.? I Fountain Inn Tribune. Based upon the theory that the elevation from the eyes to the highest point of the head is almost exactly the same in all persons, regardless of height, a mirror has been installed in a store in Portland, Oregon, with a scale so placed that the figure at the point where one's eyes are reflected gives one's height. NOTICE OF COST CERTIFICATE OF STOCK Notice is hereby given thai certificate of stock No. 63, covering ten (10) shares of the capital stock of The Camden Land und Improvement Company, has been lost or destroyed and that application will be made by the undersigned to the said corporation on the 26th duy of March, 1928, for a new certificate. J. DAYTON VOORHEKS. Camden, S. C., Feb. 9, 1928. NOTICE This is to notify all parties concerned that James Giiffir., sometimes called James Hill, is a minor, and has been running away from home near Lugoff. This will warn all parties not to harbor-or employ this boy in any manner. 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