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The mangled body of William Johnson, 23 year old textile worker of Oaffney was found Sunday morning beside the Southern railway trucks. Officers investigating state that the I man was drinking when last seen j alive. I BETHLEHEM REMAINS SAME ! Kittle VJIImk* Today Murh ut it WW? When Christinas Originated 'liter? Bethlehem, Jan. 10.?The pausing of Christmas yearly raiaes this Judea village to Olympic heights as the spiritual capital of almost 700,000,000 Christmas, write# Ernest Davis. Here one may examine at clo&u range u scene * which the western world has always pictured an far off, unreal ami Vague. Jerusalem is a city which has felt the impact of modern progress, hut Bethlehem remains a town of dreams uud legends. It is still the ancient city of the Bible, hut older than the book. Dirt filled lane# and turnings lead in all directions, some of them so narrow that one modern vehicle would clog t'hein. There are the old houses i of white stone with tiny apertures' for windows, giving the impression j of having stood there from the begin - j rung of time. Bethlehem clings to a hillside with streets at scenic railway angles. It is none too clean or freshly smelling, a place of decay and ruin. Itound about, from beyond its vine-clad hills are fields stretching to Jerusalem in the north and to Hebron and Beersheba on the fringe of the desert in the south. Flocks of sheep graze iA'or the fields, black sheen for the most part, with here and there a white one. Bethlehem is regularly thronged with people as long ago, when at the lector of Caesar Augustus"^all went o be taxed, every one into his own ity." Today it is only the stranger front he west who is filled with wonder tnd amazement when he finds things ust as they are described in the liblo. The people of Bethlehem, on lie contrary, are surprised to find toy deviations from the customs of 1 li e hi tectum of 11I2X yearn ago. The Holy Land lives amidst relics ' Turn Biblical times ami hundreds?of K'tsons pass daily along the street ( hrough which Christ was led to Gal;othn. To the north, east, west and ^ iouth am ancient Jewish towns now 11 jeing excavated by historical socie- ^ ies. Kven to the present day the ( samantans may be seen bringing the ( jassover sacrifice to Mt. Gerisim, and j here is harly a mile of any road lack- I ' ng in geographical designations from j ( he Bible. ! Here n daily life one meets, with ] lozo?i> 1.1' things spoken of in the j ( lihle. Thus, for instance, it would ; iot ocvur to anyone in Palestine to! iuubt that .Moses- was able to look < [ .! the promised land from Mt. Nebo. he transparent y of the air permits a bar vision. T'ae population of the Holy Land ne !!' ; deeply impressed by the holiless of their country and the worship- ; ul a: ;it uue of foreigners toward , Itthleinni a:.d .Jerusalem arouses | heir curiosity. They see the Hags: 1 ; aised every Su ia\ over the conp.b.tes of the pev.e< antl lowered to!, uilt-mast on Good Friday and other :: of mourning and they are pu? . t ?:. ! ' Palestine watches the celebration of j ' iiit-e Christ masses, December LT> by { , :ic denominations of Harope ami ' < \imtica, danuavv 0 by the Greek iiui; :i and January 18 by tho Armennns. I m ine:.tally this arrangement tends ! .i avo-,1 conflicts. The place in which J hia.tL as supposed to have been born 1 s now covered over by the ancient j lasilioa of Constantine. It remains] mchanged since its restoration in tho eign of Justin1;. !. 1?:0 yeai s ag >. Tho area"- '?!' ' cd ; > ea h denomi- , ' :-t > " . . c k a .ua d. Fa. ii n;l~ , ' . ...v snu:. h assigned t? . :! I * is v.-d to pre ! ' h ill ; F-a.i t 1 : ?. . . .. I ' r Mail Not i 'r >fi t a ble u st.motty i a the ? 1. ' ' Mill'.! , .s*. ,jl y? t ' *11 i g .dam $5.UcU.uuo t., - t.ppo.OOO . .. .> ..r. T: *c. ait . rates! >i po-"ag*. to- ni" ?prv '-;i;Mo:tl t'..< amount c.ii vied, but it a cut the j ro:\:rr.- to t ae gnvernmen* ; woT" The publi< will fed tin.: is is a! good s,i vice, and that u r., people! fully realize its benefits,' :h? y will to.kr nv-ve advantage >.f As the population and wealth the country increase, more p?-...?le will want to gel quick com. iv.' a ion with their distant friends ami business connections. Many business letters are sent by ordinary mail the importance of which is so great that (hey should bn sent by air ma!!. The present rate is low, and a 'multitude of letters cross the continent every day on which n quick answer would be worth far more than the slight cost of nn air mail stamp. The thing the service needs most is more advertising. Happy, Though Blind, 18 Coroner of York j t The Charlotte New* of Sunday carried the following story by Dick Youi)g. with a faithful picture of our "happie?t citizen*" Kven though he moves in eternal daikneaa, Paul G. McCorkle, blind coroner of York, S. C., lives a life that is characterized by the brilliant sunshine of a cheerful disposition and .a merry soul. ' ' The greatest affliction ha* come upon him, seared his eyes and left him totally blind, but to talk with tyim, to heur the merry tinkle in his voice and to listen to his sincero thanks for?the good things of life, one would not believe that he looked out on the world with eyes that see - . r ,L?iari n^l-uHL ;! not. His philosophy of life is one of u man who is drawing to the close of a fruitful life, filled with pleasant memories and thankfulness for the joys of existence. There is not the slightest tincture of discontent or complaint in his attitude. There is no "crying pvpr spilt milk," and no wailing over his calamity. With a spirit of the pioneer, that know." no hardships, he has overcome an affliction that would leave a weaker man cringing before fate and perhaps, finally dangling u tin cup for alms. But not Mr. McCorkle; he walks with his head in the clouds and his face toAvard the rising sun? a mar. proud of living and making the mo.st of it. He i* 11 prominent and respected ( business man of the community? , one capable of meeting others in r? highly competitive business and one j having the confidence of his fellow-^townsmen, who have elected him to ( a county office. For ten years lie , has held the office of county cora- * dec and tiie record shows that he has met his duties, fearlessly- and efft- iently. . Just the other day _he_ was the J cntriil figure in the sensational in- : /estigation into the death of pretty ( h'aye Wilson King, 24-year-old high r school teacher, of Sharon, S. ~C. A ;i iuryO which he had empaneled con- t| lucted an all-day inquiry into the I i circumstances of the teacher's death. | > In this investigation, he performed 1 h he duties required of him, and in the lischarge of this office had the "as- ] sistance of Solicitor J. Lyles Glenn, a :)f Chester, S. C., who was ordered 'to A the investigation by the governor of n the State. p Mr. McCorkle is iu business as a t g;ain broker and performs the du ties of coroner in addition to tne 1 conduct of his own business. The j diet that he is blind seemingly does lot enter into his scheme of things, ^ or he operates hi- business as well s is a man with v > good eyes. He * moves about the streets of York s with a nonchalance that startle* ^ those who aiv not acquainted with * him. He is able aico to "get arour. I," ^ without 'ns-Utance, in Rock Mill I Hester ami Lancaster. Only once has he been hit by an lutoniobite ar.d this time, he quickly explains, it was entirely his own fault. This ready explanation is in- c iicative of. his consideration of oth- r i*i s. This thoughtfulness and appieiiation of others is the outstand- c ng fa. t of liis life. t Mr. McCorkle is a nflran who read- ? i!y makes friends and he takes pride t in tho fart that he numbers -firs friends am eg ;.*. high aiui the low,; t the rich and the poor. The late L*L ! < I', l.atta. of Charlotte, was his in-| c t mate friend and admirer and after I < his death, Mr. l.atta remembered 1 hi:; in l is will and made him ai } hi m Ji.-iary of !. .- e.-tate. Mr. .McCorkle is aNo an intimate;) o e l M i.n M. Sc .11. banker, of J ; ; . am! lie a ted a.- best man J ) r.t .M.. S.w.-diing. Col. Letoyi ; g-. of Chari.ote and Lancaster, | ; n'other friend. Mr. McCorl le j i : ' ' ly w: .. .ated with Cclt-L-; re: hv.-' , - and lived la 'he ; y; g- hi.,: ., Luu-a-tei. And ] .a. . moat a d orkle rev* -e- a eht ft *?m ' appro, t:i* i. n r he >e: \: I-" la:- rendered. i Mem in Y< ' years ago, Mr. M Ci i k'.i is the ,f Col W. .1. M - j Ciokle, who w.is .lie commanding f- ! fner of the 12th South Carol.ta Regim.cn* ' Infantry during t*ie [Civil \\o>. His mother was Mis* L1 va Cine., f Steele Creek. Mecklenburg l...a;y. She was a j of Dr. S. \ Gtier*- pradicing phy- . I siciati at liairisburg, N. C. | Aftei receiving his education in the : schoo; York, and at the old King's i Mount.i.n Military Institute. Mr. MoCorkle went into business. In lv.iO he went to Lancaster, where he was | employed by Colonel Springs as cotton classer and served in this capacity for eight years. As the ~ business developed, other offices were i opened and Mr. McCorkle* handled these at Rock Hill, Charlotte and Chester. It was white b? was at Chester ? hat ho was the victim of an acciiont that resulted in the loss of his dght. He was in a runaway and his light was forever imj>aired by th" tick of u horse. This happened to iim wheri he was 11 years of age. Hut the terrible accident did not handicap him, for he quickly re- j adjusted himself and for six yeari mulled the business of Colonel ^1'.:.rigs' office until it was no longcu : -essa: y to maintain an office at . Then he returned to hi? nav ?* In that historic little city he has >? <! a life of usefulness as a citizen, lie ::w- alone, his wife having died :r.:iu\ \v..s ago. His life is wrapped lip a -on. who is the last of the fami!\. This son was graduated last years from the Union Theological Seminai y at Richmond and is now taking post-graduate work at Princeton University. He is W. H. McCorkle. 11, ond his father is justly proud of him. His picture sat on Mr. Met lorkle's desk and he was I] anxious fntvj&he interviewer to see it. He cnlldffvspecial attention to it. I| Among Mr. McCorkle's most valued possessions is a unique watch, which was presented to him by his friends. This watch, by manipulation of a tiny switch, strikes the hours ?and the minutes, and hy the means of*ii he is able to tell the time of day. - "I have the advantage over you j other folks." he laughingly declared, j as he exhibited the watch. "At night all I have to do to tell the hour reach for my watch, while y<m_ll*ve tg make a. light toaeed' S&-. mmk.:,} COST OF HUNTING AVIATORS * V Trim of Thou??nd? of Dollar* Spent On Keck leu* Airmen Over Ocean London.- Searching for lo?t trans* Atlantic fliers haa become an important item in the expense of operating ocean liners. Even when a flight is successful, ships along the route tak?n by the aviators are obliged to provide an jyxtra watch and to communicate the position of Any plane sighted. This is cheerfully done, of * course, and ships are diverted from their courses just as cheerfully when the word is received that a plane has been lost. Hut the expense to the shipping companies is far greater than the layman would imagine. if (i liner tfpeiuia one day seeking a lost airplane, the shipping company must bcur at least the following loss: one day's extra pay for the crew; one day's extra food for passengers; fuel for one extra day; one day lost in port before the return sailing. Then, too, passengers may miss connections in port or suffer business losses; the officer and crew are forced to work under nervous tension during the search and in attempting to regain lost time after the ship'? course is resumed. Officials of shipping companies do not complain of this extra expense. Saving lives is part of the tradition >f the sea. There is no thought of compensation. A remembrance for Lhe captain or a donation for the crew >f-4 lim-r may be made in all sin-J rerity, but.>it is nothing compared with the expense of a rescue. Many hips whah leave their courses too ale to be of service are not even mentioned when the newspapers tell heir thrilling story of what the iviators thought about while waiting , .o be saved. "The actual cost of making a res- ' ue at sea can hardly be estimated," ! i spokesman for the United States ' .ines London told?the United- ' s'ews." If a stranded airplane sends >ut an S O S, all the ships within easonable distance answer the call it full steam. But the plane may Irift from 50 to 100 miles before it s sighted. The first ship on the cene will advise the others if their eip is not needed. "Suppose that the Leviathan, with 1 .000 passengers and 800 crew, loses C day seeking or rescuing a transatlantic plane. A conservative estimate, without counting a day lost in i ort before the return voyage, places i he loss at $14,000."? Bow Legs Basis For Suit Baltimore, Feb. 12?Mrs. Elizabeth 1 rl. .Justice had a husband who was J < nsitive about his bow legs. She ' ts'ticd that he accused her and a 1 ister of laughing at them when real- i y i: was at something else and that 1 hen he deserted her. She -was ^ ;rantcd a divorce. * One of Slayers Held Indianapolis. Feb. 12.?Ray Cole- t nan. 29. arrested here ten days ago ] fter a fight with police, is wanted at ] spartanburg, S. C., on a charge of nurder, police announced today. Coleman is believed to hatfe been i me of three or four bandits who at- 1 empted to holdup a paymaster of the ! )rayton mills. While being pursued ] he paymaster was shot and killed, 1 Murderer of Hoy* Guilty in First Degree Riverside, ?!., Feb. 7.?A jury which hud been deliberating the fate of Gordon Stewart NorthcoU, charged with the killing of three youths at hia Winevllle ranch, returned a verdict Of murder in the fleet degree tonight after it had been out thr?e hours. The verdict carried with it the death penalty. . Judge George R. Freeman asked Northcott if he wished to poll thejury. "A poll ia entirely unnecessary, your honor,'* Northcott aaid, rising calmly to hia feet and a pricing in an un<|uavering' voice. VI wish to thank the jury," he aaid a moment later', "for the attention it has given me/! The jurymen found Northcott guilty as charged in the indictment on all three counts against him?tho slaying of Nelson Winslow, of Lewis Winslow and an unidentified Mexican boy. . - - " , 4 The young Canadian's iron contro. amazed deputy sheriffs who had massed around him. He called McKinley Cameron, Canadian barrister, to him and asked: "How did I conduct myself J" Judge Freeman set Monday at 10 a. m. for sentence. It is understood Northcott will file an appeal. Investigation of murders alleged to j have been committed by Northcott I was smarted Sept. 14, 1028,... when. Sanford Clark, the 22-year-old Can- j adian's nephew, told a story of gravo , digging and slaying on the isolated j chicken ranch. Clark asserted he had been kept for two years a virtual prisoner. Northcott and Mrs. Sarah Louisa Northcott, then supposed to be his' mother but now asserted by bofh to be his grandmother, fied to Canada, \ Mrs. Northcott, too, having been im- 1 plicated in the murders. There Mrs. | Northcott was arrested on Sept. 18, ind Gordon Stewart the?next day. Voung Northcott's extradition to the U. S. was not accomplished until November 27 and Mrs. Northcott's not in til. some time later. Just before the start of Northcott's rial, Mrs. Sarah Louisa Northcott j fieaded guilty to the murder of thsi j Collins boy and accepted a life term ' n prison. Later she tried to repu- j liate the entire confession. Girl Scout News The Girl Scouts were entertained ast Friday at the home of. Zadia L,ang. Harriet Beard, of the "Owls" ock charge of the program. Emily iemp read the Bible followed by the word's Prayer by all. Kathryn Ljtle entertained us with an amusing )oem about "Maggie, Jiggs and Saint Peter." Every one enjoyed it, ind also the jokes from Marie Haile. Vfary Jane Mackey read an interest ng poem called "Our Heroes," then Dlivia Buddin played a selection on * he piano. She held everybody's at- I :ention. , | After a brief business session, the j neeting was adjourned to be held J ;he next time on Feb. 16th at the lonie of Kathryn Little.?Katherine Kennedy, Scribe. J. V. Self, 4J, a laborer, employed ! n a dairy plant in Charlotte, lost his ife in the engine room of the plant Saturday afternoon, when a broken pipe filled the room with ammonia fumes. ?: Work Progressing I We informed that the work^| concreting the upper end of the L shaw-Camden highway, begun H*J I weeks ago, is progressing very on such days as the force of h*Jj able to work on the road. TheiJ^H in. ii have been vci^ much hituu^| in their operations by the bad w?3 since they began, We have be?a]!^B formed also that the contractor! paving the lower end of the road J either. begun, or will 3 soon be ready to go ahead with tk^l "part of the work. There are thing over fourteen miles of ro?3 be paved to establish connection the way from Kershaw to < Kershaw Era. A Cincinnati judge has mledtU^B i tttiio music, isn't noise, which to the conjecture that there'i 3 he hasn't heard yet,?'Macon Ttkfl graph. ' j^Worried^L ? Night after Night jk 1 as health declined S **1 0UWTMMKD tf- HHH J? 3 quently from nerv- Br ^ gr 7ft OUB headachee, and IR * jgH 9 I could not aleop J| ? Cora Dover, II. F. I). EhL^ 2 , m ^ ^ Hidcory WB^ 2 2 and pale. I was so ^Kr j wK *B weak 1^could scarce- I^ i X eral remedies which <?L P were auggeeted, but BB^^W ftr nothing seemed to 3? fX help mo. Night after night I 2b # worried because I could see i ^ ( was going down-hill. I had my 2? j wm children to look after, and I j 5 was afraid of what would be- j 5 come of them if anything hap- JjS I tjm poned to mo. Sc j g "I began to take Cardui on J& ? the recommendation of a J#3 j X friend. It wagfi't long until I fib g? was beginning to pick up. My &K Sg strength gradually began to Xi i 3 return. I rented. belter at S| i Jg night and was less nervous. I ?j I took several bottles of Cardui, X i and when I hud finished tak- {S | * ing iFl was in fine health." Sg: i CARDUI I ft Helps Women m 'jf To Health S t % Take Thedford'a Black-Drauaht fi ji ror Constipation, lndlgestisn jE t-gS and ntltousn???. i iiay, J i T. B. BRUCE i Veterinarian Day Phone 30?Night Phone 114'' j CAMDEN, .1 C. 1 J ' - > NO-MO-KORN FOR CORNS AND CALLOUSES [ Made in Camden And For Sale By i DoKalh Pharmacy?Phone 95 [ L - -* ? d R. E. CHEWN1NG J.' Contractor and General w Builder :;<> Years Experience Lid me liKiire pn your next u , building job. B f riiinr dressing machine. gu O DcKAI.B COUNCIL No 88 I \ . . .Junior Cider I'. A. M. Regular counail first and j X third Mondays of each month at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed. 1>. J. CREED, : I.. II. .JONES, Councillor. Recording Socty. f KERSHAW I.OIK; E No. 29 I < 5\\ A. F. M. > ' ? 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