The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 11, 1928, Image 8
AN ORDINANCE
To Require the Payment of Uccan
on Buttlntiw, Occupation*, and ProfcHhioiiH
in the City of Camden,
8. C., for the Year From May 1.
1*28 to May 1. 1929.
He it ordained by the Mayor and
Councihnen of the Oitv of Camden, in
Council a:m-inhied and by the authority
of the Maine.
Section 1. Every person, flrin,
company, or corporation. engaged on
May 1, 1928, in any calling, buMneaa,
profession or occupation in whole or
in part within the city of Camden,
as may be hereinafter specified, shall
obtain during the month of May,
1928, a license therefor in the manner
hereinafter prescribed. Every periwn,
firm, company or corporation
commencing business in said city on
or before the ftrat day of May, 1928,
shall in like manner obtain a license
therefor before entering upon such
calling, buslnose, profession or occupation
as hereinafter specified.
Section 2. Every person, firm,
company or corporation engaged in
or intending to engage in any calling,
businesB, profession or occupation for
which a licenuo is required, shall apply
to the Clerk and Treasurer of
the City of Camden for the same?
by whom all such licenses shall be issued,
and shall at the time of applying,
make und sign a written statement
under oath, and file it with the
said Clerk and Treasurer, setting
forth: First, his or her or its name
or style, the name of the persons constituting
such firm or company.
Second. The calling, business, profession
or occupation for which license
is required. Third, the place
where such calling, business, profession
or occupation is to be carried
on; the amount of capital invested,
or the gross annual income. Parties
in business on the first of May, shall
make hucIi application for new license
and file such written statement before
May 21st.
Section If. A penalty of fifteen
per cent shall be added to all licensee
which are not paid during the month
of May, 1928, except such as may
become due after that time. Provided,
however, that immediate payment
may be required in each and
every case, at the discretion of the
said Clerk ami Treasurer, and the
foregoing provision shall in no wise
stay or hinder action to enforce immediate
payment; which tax and penalty
shall be recovered in the manner
hereinafter prescribed, and if any
person, firm, company or corpbration
required so to do by the terms
of this ordinance shall-refuse or neglect
to make out and deliver to the
Clerk and Treasurer of the City of
Camden, on or before the time herein
required, the statement provided
for by Section 2 of this ordinance, or
shall make a false statement, or
shall refuse to take and subscribe an
oath or affirmation as to the truth of
such statement, or any part thereof;
or from any cause shall fail to take
out such license as may be required
by this ordinance, the said Clerk and
1 reasurer shall report the case to
the Muyor, who ahull proceed to ascertain
as nearly as possible, the business
of such person, firm, company,
or corporation, for which he, she, or
it may be liable to a license tax
therefor, and in case of default for
the purpose of such investigation;
the said Clerk and Treasurer shall
notify the person, firms, companies
or corporation in default to appear
before the Mayor at his office?at a
time stated in said notice; ami also
such witnesses as the Mayor may
desire to examine. The witnosses
called as aforesaid shall be examined
by the Mayor, under oath or affirmation,
touching the nature of the business,
of such party, and everything
which may evince the amount of license
tux for which such party shull
be liable.
Prom the information thus acquired
the Mayor shall find and assess
the. amount of license tax due by
such party whether he, she or it attended
the investigation or not, and
shall add thereto a penalty of fifteen
per cent, thereof, and should such license
tax and penalty be not paid
within five dnys thereafter, the said
Clerk ajid Treasurer ahull issue an
execution thereof under his hand and
the seal of the City of Camden, directed
to the chief of police of the
City of Camden, or the Sheriff of
Kershaw County, in said State and
the said Chief of Police or Sheriff
shall proceed to collect the said license
tax and penalty, by levy and
sale of real or personal property, as
now provided by law for the collection
of taxes, together with an additional
five per cent, of the whole
amount, which shall be the Sheriff's
or Chief of Police's compensation for
making such collection, in addition
to one dollar for making such levy,
which shall bo paid by delinquent
without entry or mileage fees; provided,
however, that any person or
corporation shall have the right of
appeal to the City Council of Camden
(notice of such appeal having been
given to the Clerk and Treasurer
within five days' from the time of
which such assessment of license and
penalty shall have been made) and
upon hearing such appeal, the said
Council shall make such order therein
as it shall deem just and proper; and
provided further, that in lieu of the
remedy nbove set forth to enforce
payment an action or actions may bo
Drought in any court of competent
iurisdiction for the recovery of such
license tax and penalties. And provided
further that any person, firm,
company or corporation who shall
carry on, or attempt' to carry on any
calling, business, profession or occupation
without a license as herein
required, or who shall neglect or refuse
to give the information required
or to answer such questions as may
be required or who shall fail to attend
before the MAyor to be examined
by htm when so required, as provided
in Section* 2 and 3 of this ordinance
may be deemed guilty of a violation
thereof before the Municipal
Court and may be fined not more than
One Hundred Dollars, or be imprisoned
not exceeding thirty days.
Section 4. All license granted under
this ordinance shall be poeted in
a conspicuous place, except in case ol
vehicles for hire, which vehicle# shall
tinif placed upon badges
?-V
with the number of badge, and the
ltcenae year marked thereon, such
badge, to be furnished by the Clerk
and T**ea?urer upon payment of the
license tax. Failure to display ?ueh
badge, will subject the persons owning
or using the syne to a penalty
not more than Flw Ijollur. or imprisonment
not exceeding ten days.
The license .granted under this ordinance
shall at all times be subject
to inspection by any officers of
the City of Camden and no calling,
business, profession or occupation
shall be carried on elsewhere than the
place named in this license therefor,
unless authority be granted by the
Clerk and Treasurer, which authority
shall be endorsed on the license.
Section 5. All licenses granted under
this ordinance shall continue in
force until the first day of May A. D.
1929, except such as are written for
a shorter period, as may hereinafter
be provided.
'Hie City Council reserves the right
to revoke any licenses for any cause
which to them may seem to be just.
Section 6. The following sum or
sums of money are required to be
paid to the said Clerk and Treasurer
for a license to carry on the business,
culling, profession or occupation in'
whole or in part within the limits of
the City of Camden, as in each case
specifically appears.
Class No. 1
Business or income basis, $1,000.
On each additional $1,000, ten cents
per $1,000.
Where the gross annual income
from the business, callings, or professions
enumerated in the following
schedule, shall be One Thousand
Dufllara or less, the license shall be
at the rate set forth in said schedule;
and where the gross annual income
exceeds One Thousand Dollars, the
license shull be increase^ from the
amount set forth in said schedule at
the rate of ten cents for each Thousand*"
Dollars of gross income in excess
of One Thousand Dollars.
Agents for laundries, per year $25.00
Agents advertising, not printing
office 15.00
Agents for merchant tailors .. 10.00
Agents selling books, per year 20.00
Agents selling books, per day . . 5.00
Agents selling fruit trees or
other trees or plants 25.00
Agents selling sewing machines,
paying merchandise
license 15.00
Agents selling and delivering
soft drinks other than those
paying license for bottling
plants 100.00
Agents, advertising land sales
where the land is valued at
more than $5,000.00, per
year 100.00
Architects 10.00
Agents, Claim and collection . . 10.00
Auctioneers, for a year or less 10.00
Automobile agencies 30.00
Automobile dealers or agents
not having an established
agency in Camden, soliciting
or selling automobiles or
trucks in Camden, per year 75.00
Automobile livery or truck,
either for passenger or baggage,
oaeh 15.00
All drivers of automobiles or trucks
for hire whether for passengers or
baggage shall be persons of good
moral character, and no license shall
be issued to anyone who does not
first furnish the City Clerk satisfactory
recommendation; and if such
drivers upon report to the City Council
are found not to he proper persons
to run said automobiles or
trucks, license to the owners of same
shall be revoked unless said drivers
are immediately takert qflf said automobiles
or trucks.
All persons owning or controlling
hacks or other vehicles moving on
wheels and plying for hire in the
City of Camden shall post in a conspicuous
place in said hack or vehicle
a printed schedule of prices, to be
furnished by the City Clerk upon the
issuance of license, and keep the same
so posted during the continuance of
said license; and shall have a tag,
furnished by the City Clerk, carrying
a number corresponding with the
number of said hack or vehicle,
fastened on the outside of said hack
or vehicle in such a position as to be
easily seen; and all drivers of such
hacks or vehicles shall wear a metal
badge, of convenient size, on the left
side of his outer garment, with the
number of his license painted or engraved
thereon.
Storage of automobiles, not in
connection with any other
business, per year 10.00
Barber shops, for each chair . . 5.00
Bakeries 100.00
Bakeries, or agents delivering
bread or cakes, etc 100.00
Bicycles for hire 5.00
Bicycle repair shop 5.00
Bicycle dealers 5.00
Bill posters, per year 25.00
Bill posters, per day 2.00
Billiards, bagatelle or pool
tables, first table per year .. 40.00
Additional tables, per year .... 1.00
Billiard and pool rooms to be
allowed on ground floor only
of any building and not to be
kept open after 12 o'clock at
night. And each table shall
be considered a separate
business.
Blacksmith or wheelwright . . . 10.00
Bowling alley or box ball, each
alley 50.0C
Brokers, pawn 26.00
Brokers, merchandise 25.00
Brick masons, plasterers, taking
contracts 10.00
t Firms of brick masons, for one
member ' 10.0C
Each additional member 10.Ot
Brick yards or dealers in brick 15.0C
Boarding houses furnishing
board for three or mope,
i where the rates are ffom
$1.00 to $2.00, per year 5.0(
1 Boarding houses furnishing
> board for three or more,
where the rates are $2.00 up,
per year 20.01
. Business or income basis;
S1.0Q0; on each additional
$1,000, ten cent# per $1,000.
[ c Where the gross annual income
i from the business callings or profes
. sfons enumerated in the following
schedule, shall be One Thousand Dol
lars or lees, the license shall be ai
i the rate set forth in said schedule
! and where the gross .annual incom<
I sxoeads One Thousand Dollars, tht
i license ahall be increased at the rati
of ten cents, fpr each 0?*? Thousand
of gross income in excess of One
Thousand Dollars, from the amount
set forth in the said Schedule.
Agents taking orders or delivering
pictures $25,00 each week.
Ail contractors shall obtain permits
for each and every job.kuilaing
or repairing, before the work is commenced,
permits to be charged for
as follows. This is to be paid in
addition to the separate license herein
required of painters, plumbers and
electricians, unless general contract
includes same. In the event that the
building is not done by contract but
by day labor, the owner of the building
shall first obtain permit for each
and every idb before the work is done.
$100 and less than $300 1,00
From $300 to $600 2.00
From $500 to $1,000 8.00
From $1,000. to $2,000 6.00
From $2,000 to $3,000 ? 7.00
From $3,000 to $4,000 8.00
From $4,000 to $5,00Q 10.00
From $6,000 to $7,000 . 12.00
From $7,(J00 to $10,000 16.00
From $10,000 to $16,000 20.00
From $15,000 to $20,000 30.00
From $20,000 to $26,000 40.00
From $25,000 to $36,000 ...... 60,00
From $36,000 to $50,000 100.00
From $50,000 up, $100.00; and for
each additional $1,000, $1.00.
Cabinet makers or furniture
repairers 6.00
Candy manufacturers In connection
with other business . 10.00
Candy manufacturers not in j
connection with any other
business 10.00
Candy manufacturers or deal ers
on streets per day .... 5.00
Candy dealers not in connection
with mercantile business,
per year 15.00
Carriage, buggy and wagon
dealers, not paying merchants'
license 15.00
Circusses, menageries, animal
shows, wild west -shows, and
similar exhibitions under
whatever name carrying ten
or less number of cars for
transportation of people, animals,
equipment, paraphernalia
6r fixtures connected
with or incident to the .show,
per day, or part of a day .. 100.00
Circussos, menageries and
shows as above enumerated,
and carrying more than ten
cars, not over 25 cars, per
day or part of a day 150.00
Circusses, menageries and
shows as above enumerated
and carrying more than 26
cars, per day or part of day 200.00
Circus parades, or parades of
menageries, animal shows,
wild west shows, ns above
named when the show locates
outside of city limits,
shall pay for each parade,
the same license as such circus,
menagerie or other show
would be required to pay for
exhibiting within corporated
limits.
Corn and flour mills, each .... 10.00
Cotton se?*d oil mills including
tfins 76.00
Cotton gmners, for each gin . . 5.00
Cotton mills 76.QQ
Civil engineers and surveyors
or either 15.00
Druggist, licensed druggist
other than the proprietor,
each ; ;. 77. ... 5.00
Dealers In caskets and coffins,
paying a merchandise license
10.00
Dealers in coffins, caskets, not
paying merchandise license,
per yefcr 10.00
Dealers in second hand clothing
whether connected with
other business or not .... 26.00
Dealers in second hand shoes,
whether with other business
or uot 25.00
Dealers in 'fertilizer or agents
for dealers in fertilizer, selling
to Consumers, not payLag
merchants' license 25.00
I)enlerSs-?n electric Frigidaires 25.00
Dealers in Radios 10.00
Dealers in fruit, peanuts or
cooked food ou street, per
day 1.00
Dealers in fish or oysters or
either, at place of business 10.00
Dealers in hides, except those
paying mercantile license .. 25.00
Dealers in ice cream, lemonade,
or soda water on the streets,
per day 5.00
Dealers in junk . .V. 50.00
Dealers in junk, per month .. 25.00
Dealers in medicine other than
regular druggist of the City
either on the street or private
property, and ..whether
delivering the medicine
themselves or through orders
to drug stores, per week .. 100.00
Pe' day 20.00
' Dealers in millinery goods, not *
1 paying merchants' license .. 15.00
Dealers in stocks and bonds as
brokers 10.00
I>ealers in kerosene, oil, gaso
' line or either, other than
merchants 100.00
Dealers in stocks and bonds.
as brokers, per yoar 26.00
Dealers in wood, coal or coke
per year 26.00
Dealers in wood only 6.00
Dealers in second hand ma1
chinery, per year 26.00
Dentists 15.00
I Electricians, taking contracts,
1 doing electrical work, or
I selling electrical Supplies .. 15.00
Exhibitions, traveling theatriI
cals, musical or other, for
fain, not in opera house,
25.00 to $100, in the deacre>
tion of Mayor and City
) Clerk. y
Fruits and vegetables sold in
cfudoad lots from railroad
cars, within the city, and
) sold either by wholesale or
retail, not an Established
business, per year 100.00
! Per day 26.00
) J Flying jennies, or horse or
steam riding galleries, per
week 60.00
Foundry ner year 26.00
> Pilling stations not in connection
with any other business
r per year one pump 95.50
more than one pump 60 00
t Filling station in connection
; with storage of cars per
3 Fining stations In connection
atorag* of ears, end ~
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Milling agencies or garages,
. for wiling gasoline ....... 30.01
Fruit and produce dealers, not
wiling on the street, per
year 25.00
Garages and storage 60.00
Garages, not more than two
men employed, per annum .. 26.00
Gunsmiths 6-00
Hair dressers flO.OO; chiropodists
6.00
Hotels, from 10 to 20 rooms,
per year 20.00
Hotels, from 20 to 76 roome,
per year 40.00
Hotels, from 76 rooms upward,
per year 76.00
Dealers in fruits, vegetables,
eggH, chickens, melons, or
other farm produce (not
raised by the seller) and not
sold on the streets, per year 26.00
Huskisters or peddlers of fruit,
vegetables, etc., including
Ready Rolling Stores, if
peddling goods, wares, and
other merchandise, manufactured
articles, fruits, vegetables,
melons, egg* and m
other farm products (not
raised by the owner) per year 60.00
(No license to be prorated.)
Said hucksters or pedlera not to
take a stand, and not to sell on prohibited
streets hereinafter mentioned.
Each wagon or truck used by said
huckster or peddler to constitute a
separate business. Each huckster or
peddler to be furnished with a badge
upon taking out license.
Hucksters or peddlers selling
fresh meats of any kind pn
wagons, trucks, each per year 40.00
(No license to be prorated.)
No huckster or person selling fresh
meats, fowls, fruits, vegetables, merchandise,
manufactured articles, melons,
eggs, or other farm produce may
sell same on DeKalb Street from
Church Street to Market Street, or on
Broad Street from La Fayette Street
to York Street, on Rutledge from
Church Street, to Lyttleton Street.
Wholesale deliveries of meats and
fowls to retail meat markets may be
made on said prohibitive areas. All
such wagons from which said fresh
meats may be sold during every
month of the year except December,
January, February, to keep the meats
on said wagons in refrigerators of
sufficient capacity to carry the said
stock and all portions of said wagons
not taken up by refrigerators to be
screened and said refrigerator at all
times kept in a sanitary condition,
subject at all times to inspection by
the health officer, or any one designated
by him^ No license for sale- of
such meats in wagons on streets is
to be granted by the City without the
application first being submitted and
approved by the health officer of the
City of Camden.
Ice dealers 10.00
Ice manufacturers, each factory
25.00
Labor agents per year 250.00
per day 50.00
Land loan companies, or agents
lending money on real estate,
by mortgage or otherwise
25.00
Laundries, steam, per year . . . 25.00
Laundries, other than steam . . 10.00
Lawyers, each 15.00
Firms of lawyers, each additional
member .. . 10.00
Lenders of money, on personal
property, whether in connection
with other business or
not, except such as are
otherwise specified in this
ordinance 1,000.00
Livery, feed and sales stables 26.00
Livery and drayage business
for each animal 5.00
Lumber dealers or brokers, retail
whether resident or not,
other than lumber or shipglos
from timber or land
owned by sellers ~ 20.00
Lunch stands 10.00
House painters, paper hangers,
interior decorators taking
contracts, per year 16.00
Steeple jack painters, per
year ? 1500
per day i.qo
Piano tuners, repairers of musical
instruments, per year 5.00
Machine dhops 10.00
Moving picture shows, for each
place of business 50.00
Manufacturers or bottlers of
soda water, Coca Cola, ginger
ale and such like soft
dnnks 25.00
Musical instruments, whether
connected with other business
or not 15.00
Manufacturers of ice cream,
not in connection with ice
cream parlors, per year 10,00
Meat markets, green groceries,
per year 30.00
(No license to be prorated.)
All markets to be screened in
accordance with the directions
of the Board of Health
and subject at all times to
inspection by the Board of '
Health and kept in sanitary
condition.
Newspapers, whether connectedwith
J?b woric or not ... 15.00
Old Hoss sales ' 10.00
Oculists or opticians ! 15!oO
Peddlers or agents soliciting
or delivering photographs,
lithographs, pictures, etc., s
for copying or enlarging per
week 25.00
Peddlers or venders selling
merchandise of any description,
per week 100 00
D.day 20.00
Physicians and surgeons, or
either 15.00
Physicians and surgeons, or
e>ther, in firms, for first
member 16 00
ror additional member .... 10.00
Popcorn and peanut parchens
oactt^ot in connection with
other business 10 00
per day 2^00
Printers, job in connection with
1 6.00
Photographers 10 00
Photographers, per day 5 00
i Pressing clubs 10 00
' lumbers, gas fitters, heating
contractors, tinners and
steam fitters, or either, tak'
->? con(r"5t!. 15.00
> lost no such license shall be
until the applicant
*hall first stand a satisfac1
tory examination before the
inspector of sewerage.
Rent agents or collectors, per
year 10.UV
Real mUU AgAnts 20.00
Restaurants and cafes, each..,, 20.00
Saddle or buggy horse for hire
) each 0.00
Salvage companies or pereona
taking charge of mercantile
stock, or other stock not
their own, per day 8.00
Shoe and boot repairers 10.00,
Harness repairers 6.00
Shooting galleries, per mont|f.. 6.00'
Sign painters 10.00
. per day 2.00
Skating rinks, per month 00
per year 10.00
Soda founts, whether connected
with other business or
not 10.00
Stove repairers, itinerant, per
day, $1.00; per year 6.00
Stallion or Jack for service .. 10.00
Tailors, dyers, cleaners, or
agents for either 26.00
Trucks, hauling merchandise
into or out of the City of
Camden 26.00
Undertakers 26.00
Veterinary Surgeon 16.00
Watch makers, whether connected
with other business
or not 5.00
Warehouse, charging storage. . 26.00
Class No. 2 /
Business or income basis, $1000,
on each additional $1,000, ten cents
per $1,000. Where the gross annual
income from the business, callings or
j)rofes8ions enumerated in the following
schedule, shall be One Thousand
Dollars or less, the license shallv
be at the rate set forth in said schedule
and where the gross annual income
exceeds One Thousand Dollars
the license shall be increused from
the amount set forth in said scedule
at the rate of ten cents for each One
Thousand Dollars of gross income in
excess of One Thousand Dollars.
Express Companies _or agencies
for business done exclusively
in the City of Camden
and not including any business
done to or from points
without the State, and not
including any business done
for the government of the
United Statesj its officers Or
agents 75.00
Railroads for business done
exclusively within the City
of Camden, and not including
business done to or
business done for the government
of the United
States, its officers or agents
for each road entering the
city 100.00
Telegraph companies or agen- ' ir'
cies, each, for business done
within the City of Camden,
with points within the State,
. not including any business
done for the government of
the United States 50.00
Telephone Companies or agencies,
each, for business done
within the City of Camden,
with points within the State
and not including any business
done for the government
of the United States.. 100.00
Tea rooms, not selling merchandise,
per yeas . 10.00
Seasonable gift shops or sport
shops, selling merchandise,
not a charitable organization,
per year 60.00
Class No. 3
Business or income basis, $1,000
on each additional $1,000 ten cents
per $1,000. Where the gross annual
income from the business, calling or
professions enumerated in the following
schedule shall be One Thousand
Dollars or less, the license shall
be at the rate set forth in said schedule,
and where the gross annual income
exceeds One Thousand ^Dollars,
. th 0 . license shalll be increased from
the amount set foiibh in said schedule
at the rate of ten cents for each One
Thousand Dollars of gross income in
excess of One Thousand Dollars.
Merchants stocks, retail or
wholesale, including all
classes of merchants, drugs,
jewelry, buggies, harness,
- hardware, etc.;
Merchandise License.
Less than $300, per year $ 5.00
$300 less than $600, per year,. 10.00
1^00 less than $1,000, per year 16.00
$1,000 less than $1,500, per ydar 20.00
fi'522 ^an per year 25.00
fS'JSS Jsasdhan $2,600, per year 80,00
I?9* ^an $3,600, per year 36.00
I*88 than $4,000, per year 40.00
I?88 t?an $4>600> Per year 46.00
f c aaa J?88 than $6,000, per year 50.00
f trAA ?8S t.han $&?&00, per year 55.00
8' nSn i !^an t??00Q*Per year 60.00
I!'?!? ,?88 than $6,500, per year 66.00
IS'aSS e88 t?an Per year 70.00
Jirt aaa 'es8 than $7,600, per year 76.00
$10,000 and above, per year.. 100.00
Accident, Automobile, Casualty,
Fidelity, Guarantee Plate
Glass or other like insurance
Company, , each Company
represented io.OO
Life Insurance Companies;
..... 26.00
All Life Insurance Companies
doing Industrial Insurance
business, per agnum 50 00
Insurance Live -Stock (each
-company) 1000
Section VII. The license on any
business or occupation net named in
the foregoing schedule shall be fixed
by the Mayor and Clerk.
iSfil911*??1: Wherever in this ordinance
the terms "persons, firm
company, corporation br party" ??
used, the same shall include not only
*n their absencb
cupat,?n ?r profession refe^'
, 9uch agent, clerk or employe*
shall be subject to the penalties hswJ
*km??scd for failure to comiriy
Ski !?? terTn8 an<r requirements of
if 'he^she^^th" the RaTne m<mnGT ?
propnetor, ?y Were or
t^cti0n.IX- This ordinance shall go
into effect on and from the first day
or nart^'^f' *2?' &nd a11 ordinances
herewith eonfHct
nerewitn are hereby repealed;^Done
and ratified in Counoil asW?1*r
the corporate seal of
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By A)l*rt Sha^T^ J|}!
Aniiualrt" For jfl
The human mouth j. '
eatiqg, breathing, ftftd JJ
for tittle else, Not k> 3
be<^ Of the animal '
find that the mouth l$3'
pensable.
Nature realizes thU ?iB
the moutha of animtla tuH
flahea so* suitable for ^ J,
purpose*, that on* u 3
marvel at the woixlerfS :
ances to be seen in CJ3 I
the moutha of the animal jS
The Austral ian Poda3.:
known as the "More-p^H
the aound of its cry, h*, 4 J
like that of a bird than 3
This bird lives on large iwj
mantes and locusts aadl
finds a large gaping mouth 3
ful than ,a shar.p bill. )|3
birds possess beaks, yet |3;
ent are the various kindt?
all of <whi?h are adapted 3
uses! The falcon has ?3
curved end which ig,4 jjfl
strument for seizing
small animals ami birds- ?
bill, as its name indioates, ||
admirably constructed for 9
mud and catching the amid ;
therein; the pelican haiMM
pouch attached, in which <3
ed fish; the puffin has
beak useful for oatcbiijfjMj
small fish; and the avoce3
thin bill adapted
scooping in small pools, ||l
can pick up a nut In it|B
hold it there while it break?
on a atone;the shells olB
alao treated in this wayfl
birds, whose beaks are I
gripping the snails. The?
apteryx, which cannot fly?
is a shy bird coming out?
only at night, needs a dm?
sensitive than usual. Accti?
beak is lorKg and pointed, ?
probe into crannies and end?
procure food.
When most animals eattfl
the lower jaw on a kind o?
but the crocodile is an except?
crocodile spends a gread dew
time floating on the water
on the mud. When anythia?
near the animal if it opened i?
by dropping its lower jaw tjl
would escape. On land, too, m
jaw is so near the ground I
could not open its month vein
But the crocodile opens itajH
raising its upper }?w,
abled to procure all the food O
It -is- interesting to-n*t?r?
the crocodile is greatly?
nienced by the leeches which?
way into its mouth and j?
huge creatut% very UN?
has, therefore, placed n?l
of the crocodile the j
hird which hops fearlefl
crocodile's -mouth and B
leeches.,
As fish catch -most of t?
opening their mduths ai?
about, or by making s?
at insects near the ewfl
water, its is obvious ?
mouths have to be capakh?
ing very wide-. 'Hencsi^B
fish have gaping mo ?u?f
be shut like a trap whw*?
The angler fish goes**?
tar than this, for it canMkg
and consequently has to?
food. It lies concealed *j?
weeds and w fust aba#?
opened mottth, a little c?
which hangs: down like Jj
mediately a passing fish ?
bait the angler fish's is?
with a snap,'.and the back?
ing teeth prevent the *4?
doomed prey.
These are a few of many?
which prove how usef^hfl
of the animal.
IJse damp salt to
burns, bee stings, ins?et Nfl
and hives. .Moisten *tMi
part immediately aftsrl?
sting and cover with a tkflf
salt. This will remove tM|
soreness. .
The Jury trying B. ftjj?
for fraudulent bamkiag
disagreed hopelessly
charged yesterday, and he
be tried,Jlgain. He was
the Columbia Savings h?*l
company which closed sij
Auguet Kohn, another o?
bank was acquitted in ?*
* jury. J
' After long
considerstkaT?
WilHam O. Moore
Baptist church of Ch??*|
paetor of the First J
Sumter, one of the
the etate> hogtanlng h*
4nt4h??i*ta-<foM- MZM
Charter for five