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^ HML4MHHH januarTclearance sale] EXTRAORDINARY VALUES IN APPAREL AND ACCESSORIES ? FOR WOMEN, MISSES AND CHILDREN ALL SALES FINAL AX LI A I f ODI/^C NO CREDITS NO EXCHANGES /\ 1 n/AL.r llVlV-Ili NO APPROVALS I : ? January Clearance Of All Men's and Young Men's Suits, Overcoats and Top Coats At ?^? $45. 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BROAD STREET THE BIG STORE CAMDEN, S. C. [J Game Chicken Paper |(1 * Has Unique Record \ (By S. luttlejohn in Greenville | ^ News) GafTuey, Jan. 5. "Remember, y?uij have the world for a field!" | That sentence, written more than ; a score of years ago by a Chicago1 artist in a letter to a struggling'11 IT South Carolina newspaper man, saved tint and Steel, "the world*4 ,l foremost game fowl journal." from joining its predecessors in the long list of deceased publications. P (.'lit and Ste?-1 was about to be s permanently suspended by Kd H. >' DeCamp, the publisher, when he re- P ceived a letter of encouragement and ? inspiration from J. l". Sturdel. Chicago u artist. With others of a sjrnilav, nature from game chicken fanciers tl scattered o\er the country, this let- v tor caused Mr. DoCamp to continue a publishing the magazine, which ncrw Y )v,\> a en cul.tt ion of more than 8,000 d vp:c- per month, going into every c state of the union and into many c foreign countries. < Tb-cognized as an authority and t court of last resort on all matters f pertaining to fighting chickens. Grit 1 and Steel travelled a hard, rocky road 1 fo! -cvcral years after it was started i (iatTney by J. leather Sherrill. a < ju .utcr w ho w as employed ;r, Mr. Dc< amp's newspaper office. i Shel l ill. who was an extsvl meii.auie and an ai'.-t with type, wa- ' al-o \? i>.it:!e with the pi n. lb d: ! i Ci iderabic w: il.ng fui tm liu'Tl.i . . l odger, lVCampN lot ni new - p : prr t under thi com do plume of "K:;iw ] P'.? k? r. lli- lort'lors eHitte t" know , him as ' Flaw.'' He had a column of small low:; and countryside gossip in each issue of the l,e< Igeib Klawpnker had a hobby -game chickens. He had received s?>eral sample copies of publicatn ns devoted to game chickens, but all. in his judgment, were lacking in ability to properly represent the fraternity. So he decided to start a monthly paper devoted exclusively to the interests of game fowls and persons connected with the sport of fighting chickens. Sherrill made arrangements with | DeCamp to do the printing at a cost of %\ per page for 500 copies. The first issue containing sixteen pages, two columns wide by eight inches ft t'cp, appeared iu April 1900. The c ubscription price was 50 cents per c ear. Advertising was sold at the \ ato nf 50 cents per column inch, or s S a page. In a short time the num- v er of subscribers ran up to between 1 00 and 300. The business eventual- <i y showed signs of growth. But c herrill would never have been j warded a prize for good manage- v tent. He never kept his printing s ccount paid up, but beg a ft to fall \ ehind from the beginning. 1 DeCamp continued printing the * aper regularly, however, despite the ( teadily mounting debt. In about two 1 ears Shcrrill owed close to $400 1 tinting bills, and gave no indication 3 f ever being able to meet the account J nless some change was made. ' Having seen the money orders' \ owing in for subscriptions and adertising, iVfamp was confident Grit ml Steel was paying its own way. le know the printer-publisher was j averting at least a part of the inomc to other purposes. Desiring to oiled his printing bill, one day l>e- '' 'amp proposed to Shcrr.'.I that the,1 wo form a partnership, with the \>rmer a> business mai.agvr ami the 1 alter a- en to- ef the , no chicken tape:. : Iv d i - - o 1 \ e d U ; <n the acoiili* u'.ii :>e -quaied. Sherri'l tgrei !. and plan became effective., Thir.g- wort running smoothly uo It :n. i-ev managemer* unf.l the t :ivr\::r.a Press iatitin, ahii'r. Detkinip had been a momh> Tore tr.an .'.(I years without missin,: it:, ..iance at annual convention, do aievi to vUir t)u? Pan-American e\ position at ButTalo, N. Y. De-Cam < joined the members of the as-. . t on on the trip, leaving a sub-: in charge of his printing office r\| It was t:mc to get out the ?? - ?tyf issue t>f Grit ami Steel. Beir.g of a! practical turn of mind ami k >wmgl the existing state of affair-. * ne man DeCamp left in charge postponed printing the chicken paper to turn out a job of "minutes" for a negro religious association. "We'll get some money for printing the minutes, but we don't get anything for Grit and Steel," ho reasoned. DeCamp's return home found Grit and Steel still unprinted, two weeks After the time it should have come from the press. Defamp had reached home Thursday. Sherrill was absent. He failed to report At the >f ftce Friday or Saturday, but did ome in the following Monday. He I c v.is, evidently feeling bad and was . tl urly. Saturday was the regular tl veekly pay day in the office. He'o lad not been on hand the last pay tl lay. so at dinner time Monday he st lemanded his wages. p From time to time DeCamp had ad-,p ranced Sherrill various small pov-lir ;onal loans aggregating about $17, vhieh was in addition to the amount n te owed for printing Grit and Stee'.. ir lis weekly stipend was $7.50. I e< Taking into consideration the j n< imount Sherrill owed him, DeCamp | eplied: "I haven't any money for p ,'oti today. If you w-ant your pay,!a you'll have to be here on Saturday*-'' rj "All right," was the answer. j j] Sherill put on his coat and hat anJ|C| talked out. He did not return to' he office until about 3 o'clock in the 11 1< lfternoon. He had in his hand i ^ >ackage of letters which he handed o DeCamp. remarking: "Here, take these d?d letters and \t attend to them. I'll have no more Cl time to devote to Grit and Steel." p Thereupon he walked out. The c next DeCamp heard of him he was o working in a printing office at ( ha !..:te sixty miles north of GatTncy. t DeCamp found himself in a p uandatx. If Grit and Steel was a -topped at this point, he was cer- i' a:n to lose the $ tun due him. That t as a considerable amount of money n 'or a small tow , newspaperman in t lose days. De( ...up himself knew practically nothing about game chickens or the uanie chicken bus.- < ness. His only it imation was de- ? rived from attend;:: .. e at a few hacks i and mains in his ymith. Resolving to t.ikc a chance, he- c cause he tVb >? - knowledge nf the printing ami publishing business f would make up for his ignorance of i chicken lore n, the conduct of the paper, DeCamp prepared to get out 1 the delayed number of Grit and Steel. ( He substituted his own name fo-D Shorrill's at the masthead as. publish . 1 er. The edition finally appeared> < some three or four weeks late, with, an editorial partly explaining the'1 situation and announcing that the 1 publication would be continued for a ' period of three months on trial. If business justified the venture, Grit and Steel would remain in the ring; otherwise the publication would be suspended permanently. rSSl: : This announcement brought the en-1 S ouraging letter from Mr. Sturze., J ie Chicago artist, strongly urging t< mt Grit and Steel be kept alive, h ther letters came from members of v ie game fowl fraternity from widely p .-parated points asking that the e ublication be continued. Many romised co-operation and assistance v 1 any way possible. t Business began to "pick up" im- c lediately. New subscriptions came 1 rapidly. Soon the circulation pass- C I the 500 mark, a point that had c ever been approached before. Seeing a copy ot the first edition e ut out by DeCamp with his name e t the masthead as publisher, Sher- s ill wrote a rather caustic letter to v eCamp, inquiring by what right the hange had been made. e y DeCamp immediately went to Char>tte to discuss the matter with herrill. No action was taken at this ^ v ;rae, so several days later DeCamp r lade a second trip to Charlotte and ml before Sherill a proposal to canel his printing debt in full, amount- j5 .g to about $400, and pay htln $5 ash for Grit and Steel. Upon the tier being accepted DeCamp wrote ut a check for approximately $8?! he difference in the amount of the | ersonal loans owwl him by Sherrill) id the cash consideration involved n the purchase qf the paper. Sherrill; ok the chock >thus relinquishing js ;1 rights arid claims to the publica-p n. I <; DeCamp secured the assistance of p . me of the foremost authorities and j xperts in the game to aid him in j iiting and preparing copy for the ' agazine. The subscription list cotinued to grow and advertising in- 1 eased in volume. ^ereral months later DeCamp built i new home for his printing office j ir.d installed h more modern and 1 aster press. He arranged to print ' ! 0,000 copies of a certain issue of .irit and Steel for distribution as < sample (copies to a selected mailing ist furnished by game chicken dealer s. In the meantime, Sherrill had suffered a stroke of ill fortune at Charlotte, having had one heel mangled under the wheels of a freight train. Upon learning of the accident DeCamp had gone to Charlotte to see his old friend and employer had given him financial assistance, and had told him to call If more was needed. herrill was genuinely appreciative, le voluntarily offered to come back o Gnflfney to his old job as soon as e was able. He was as good as his :ord, returning in time to do the ress work on the first 10,000-copy dition of Grit and Steel ever issued. Several hundred nerw subscribers ere added to the list as a result of I he sending out of these sample opies. Shortly after Sherrill's return, Delamp installed his first Linotype mahine after sending the former to the-, uctory at Brooklyn to learn how to rect and care for the expensive quipment. The machine had been intalled and operating several months /hen Sherrill finally "pulled out" one iunday, to return to Gaflfney no more xcept upon rare visits. For several ears he has been machinist in charge f a battery of Linotypes in a nowsaper office at Knoxville, Tenp., /here he is doing well, according to eports received by his friends. Grit and Steel has continued to rrow in circulation and prestige until t is without question the most widely ead magazine in the world devoted xclusively to fighting chickens and hicken fighting. The paper that was once shoved iside so that a country printing ofice could turn out . the minutes of he meeting of a negrt) religious association? a job, by the way, for vhich the office never received pay ?is now valued by the owner ut &100,000. I Pensions Old Mule Calhoun, Jan. fi.?'Calhoun county las given Liza, its oldest mule in point of service, a pension. After 20 years of labor, the animal has been rewarded and from now on will be required to do only light work and will be given a full feed bag daily. County officials, who considered the case of the mule, decided to give it an opportunity of passing a pleasing old age rather than sell it. Liza was purchased in 1908 and since that time has, it is said, never missed a day of work. After sixty years of labor the Biblical city of Zion, "the fair place," at Mount Othel, which inspired King David to some of the greatest passages in Old Testament literature, has been laid bare by exploration*. Score Richards Fcm Commuting Two Charleston, Jan. 6.?Terming the commuting of the sentences of John Pinckney and Sam Tolbert as "perfec; illustrations of the folly of placing the pardoning power ija the hands of one man," solicitor James Allen in a statement yesterday scored the governor's act. The men had been sentenced to die for the murder of a Charleston Chinese lauhdryman. '"It is a pity," Mr. Allen who. L prosecuted the cases here in court ? and conducted a hearing in the penitentiary for the governor's, benefit, : declared, "that some of the fervor _ and zeal displayed in the crusade for ?; the enforcement of the ancient Sun-. ^ day laws have not been displayed in the case of laws against murder." The solicitor cited several murder / cases, in which he had secured con-7^ victions, only to have the governor 7 parole the murderers or lighten their sentences. The governor had not, he declared, received recommendations from either the juries or the presiding judges to follow such a course. "We live in a great age where gubernatorial whim replaces that ancient jurisprudence which has guided us up from the dark ages." Mr. Allen's statement concluded. s . .... - .w-i* *3 ? J Fellow Sufferers Wire Roosevelt i Warm Springs, Ga., Jan. 1.?Among ^ telegrams or congratulation received .. today by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York was one sighed by 35 patients of the infantile paralysis colony here where ' Mr. 'Roosevelt . spends most of his time when not in -New Yorkv r~?7 The message said. 77" ' V, "Your friends and 'comrades'- it Warm Springs, your beneficiaries all^j are confident that your government ^ of the Empire State will be conspicuous for justice, humanity an? forward-looking measures. -We hope you will derive the greatest pleasures from the performance of your duties . and we hope you will conserve Jfttue . strength." 1 I'he governor is a sufferer from injaiftile paralysis. A, > A virulent type of cholera ia raging in" the state of Travancora, India, 562 deaths being reported during the Ust week in December. IL:-?'-ifr? I