The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 05, 1929, Image 3
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Get AU Those Eggs?
OmWn ^un* ?A turn|irV
0f record? kept by M flock ownC
coop?ratin? with Clomooa Oollega
demonstrating bettor poultry pNic cei
h?wl) a production of 17.6 eggs
Er hen for the month of May, reE,b
P- H- Gooding,, extension poulEy
specialist In charge of the demon potions.
| There was a total of }2,&16 hens on
hrse 94 farms. The gross income
Er hen was 74.6 cents end the feed
Km per bird was 88,9 cents, leaving
I average profit of 87.5 cents per
Ken for the month. The average sellprice
per dozen was 82 cants.
| Among the 94 flocks were 87 White
Leghorn flocks with a production of
|7.4 eggs per hen; 18 Barred Rock
locks with a production of 16.8 eggs
Lr hen;'27 Rhode Island Red flocks
Kith a production of ,14.7 eggs per
Ken; and 17 flocks composed of both
Levy a,l<l I'tfht breeds with a production
of 16.3 eggs per hen for the
I John William Hunsinger, of GasIonia,
8? years old, fell dead in the
Street near his home, apparently
tightened to death by the noise of
Kver thirty sirens from as many mo orcycle
state highway police passing
hrough town. When he heard the
ireu, he ran out of his housd' and
Lout a block and then dropped dead.
L had had heart disease and had
ved in West Gastonia for several
Hars.
I Ignorance Encourages Fraud
"The fraudulent stock salesmen and
Kromoters who are said to obtain a
Hj&ion dollars a year from the pub
thrive on the ignorance of Ui
Aactically every get-rich-quick
Hkme is a fraud. And the legitiHite
stock - exchanges, investment
Hankers and brokers of the United
Rtates, in co-operation with the Retler
Business Bureau and other organizations,
are doing everything possible
Ho protect the investor and bring his
Hnoney into honest industry.
The average investor lacks the
Hnowledge to study stock issues and
Hthe things that make them either
failures or successes. He should
avoid "tips" and buy only securities
which are listed by recognized stock
exchanges and reliable investment
bankers.
HL.l>nAN AND I"
Camden Lawyer WrlU. on -Principle,
Poverty and PolUIcs"
Thpm*f J- Kirklind
(Thl. papar I. taaed 0? my
recollection and I, dictated without
reference to any contemporary records
or papers. Some dates and the
Order in which incidents are related
a?y be not quite accurate. Hut the <
vents themselves are clearly and iay
damped on my mind.)
About the year 1886 Benjamin R.
I*??nan. i farmer of Edgefield county,
whose pos toff ice whs Ropers, became
prominent in the State Farmers'
association as an agitator in behalf
o the farmers, who were then, as
ver, in a depressed condition. How
this particular farmers' movement
started I am unaware. As usual it
was along political lines. The vivid
utterances of Tillman as published attracted
my attention. He seemed!
deeply in earnest and spoke for an
agricultural college and ridiculed the
handshaking politician. He asserted
jJM the government of the state was
falling into control of a ring, and violently
assailed the Coosaw Phosphate
jMinjng company, for imposing upon
the farmers and the legislature. The
state derived a royalty upon the
phosphates mined. He opposed renewing
the company's charter.
I was attracted to him by his apparent
honesty, and wrote to him.
Several letters were exchanged between
us. In the Kershaw county
convention of 1888, held for the selection
of delegates to the state convention,
I made a speech defending
Tillman, and stated that I would like
to see him governor of the state. To
my surprise this swept the convention,
which was crowded, and I became
absolute dictator as to who
should attend the state convention.
The progressive or farm element
were in complete control of the coun(ty
convention, but I 'suggested i that
I we divide the delegation equally with
I the opposing element, known as Conservatives,
out of respect to such of
them as General J. D. Keunedy and
J other ex-Confederates whom we all
j loved. Our delegation of six or eight
was thus equally divided.
At the state convention the Conservatives
supported Governor John
P. Richardson, and the farmers' faction,
who came to be termed "Reformers,"
supported Attorney General
Earle of Sumter, who was called over
to confer with a caucus of the Farmers
or Reformers." He was very
reluctant to accept their support, urging
that he felt himself bound to
Richardson. We voted for him nevertheless,
but Richardson was nominated.
After this first defeat, Tillman
later told, me .that he Went home and
moped in the house for six weeks,
without going out of doors. After
that the remnants of the Reformers
held a meeting in Columbia which
was poorly attended. Tillman himself
was not present?Dr. W. H. Timmerman
presided. It seemed as if the
whole movement was in a dying condition.
; u)
However, it was only smouldering,
and owing to some provocation Tillman,
again got upon the war-path,
and made some more rousing
speeches, none of which I attended.
At Hodges, in Abbeville county, he
wrought the audience of farmers to
a high pitch of excitement. Up to
this time I had never met him, although
occasionally I exchanged letters
with ;him. In one of these letters
I pointed out to him that as
mueh as I sympathized with him, it
seemed to me that his statements
were extravagant in regard to the
state expenditures and that our government
was conducted with all economy
possible; but that I was intensely
with him for the Farmers' college
and against machine politicians and
hand shakers. The state expends
now ten or twelve times as mucfy as
in those days, and proposes besides
; to assume a debt of $65,000,000.
[Times do change.
In the summer of 1889 I got a
letter from Tillman, saying in substance,
"I am going down to make a
speech in Charleston on such a date,
in which I shall attack Dawson without
mercy, in reply to his editorials
against me. It may be dangerous
hut come down and hear the fun." 1
could not resist, so on the afternoon
1 of the day got upon the train at Camden
for Charleston. I arrived there
late, but hurried to the meeting
. which was held at the city^ hall, OI
the corner of Broad and Meeting
streets. When I got there, Tillmar
was speaking from the balcony to i
large audience, which was packet
closely, and contained from three t<
five thousand persons. They wen
highly wroufht up and relished ever:
word Ke uttered. He read long edi
. torials from the News and Courier
written by Dawson during the day:
of Reconstruction, following then
with the most devastating comments
At one point, referring to Dawson
he said, "His mind was once brilUan
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Wectrle Rail' Mm Abandoned
Columbia, June 27.?Favorable action
by the South Carolina railroad
cop)mission on the petition of the
South Carolina Power company to be
allowed to discontinue operation of
the electric railway line from Aiken
to Augusta and for the removal of
the track and roadbed yesterday was
followed Sy approval of the application
of the Camel City Coach company
for a certificate allowing opera- j
tion of passenger and freight motor j
buses over practically the same route
| as that electric light before me there
: on the Street, but now they tell me" '
the rest of his remarks were drpwnec}
I in noise from the crowd, who seemed
to understand the allusion. Some one
hastened to the News and Courier
office and brought Dawson to the
meeting. He came up the steps and
addressed the crowd, which seemed
by no means friendly. I do not re-i
member what he said. Aftfcr he departed,
Tillman resumed his sway
ovei the audience. The meeting lasted
some two or throe hours and no
one left. All seemed riveted. He
wound up with the anecdote about the
fight between the United States
troops and the Indians, somewhere
in the mountains of the West; how
they strapped a Howitzer upon the
back of a mule who rebelled vigor|
ously with his heels. He caught hold
[of the railing and imitating the mule,
kicked up, to the extreme amusement
j of the audience. As the story goes,
.the howitzer, when fired at; the InI
dians, carried the mule along with
I the shell, and Tillman concluded his
effort by saying, "I have shot the
whole jackass at you."
As soon as he had ended I ran up
the steps, through the jam, and went
I up to him. He looked at me with his
i piercing eye and said: "Who are
you . I explained and he was very
cordial, and he waited there a while
and said: "I don't like the looks of
some of those men down there at
jthe foot of the steps. I think I will
! lfct them disperse. A dangerous looking
fellow came up here just now and
eyed me in a very suspicious manner.
I said, "You need not fear anybody
down there, for every one is
heart and soul for you. I have been
among them, standing there for an
hour or so." We then went down
the steps together and entered a carriage
with two of his original lieutenants,
D. K. Norris and Hugh L.
Farley I think, who were with him.
We four drove through wild cheers
along the street, to the Charleston
hotelr and the next morning took tho
train together, as far as Branchville,
where Tillman took the line towards
Augusta and I, with the other two,
the branch towards Columbia. On the
train from Charleston, discussing the
political situation, I remarked to Tillman
that it might be well for the
state to take over the phosphate beds
and operate them with penitentiary
hands. With one of those grimaces,
j which no- other face could produce
like his, he said, "Oh! the state government
is utterly unfit to conduct
a business operation." This remark
stuck in my mind and re-appeared
| like Banquo's Ghost, when later, as
:a member of the legislature,-! had
, to pass upon Tillman's dispensary
scheme to put the state into the
.liquor business, which I inflexibly op'
posed, much to his displeasure.
A few weeks after the Charleston
meeting I received from Tillman an
invitation to visit him at his home.
He met me at Trenton station. It
was Sunday afternoon, hot, and my
train was several hours late. On
alighting at Trenton I saw him
squatted on the platform, leaning up
against the side of the station house,
his head down on his knees. He
seemed much irritated and said:
What in the hell has delayed you
so long? I have sat here mighty
near all day." He was the only living
creature in sight. He drove a
buggy, drawn by a pair of ponies, to
his home some ten miles or more
over a terribly rough road, in a very
reckless manner. It seemed at times
that the buggy, must be smashed or
turned over, but we got through
safety. I could see at oqce, how during
he was by nature.
i His home was about midway on
, the slope of a very long hill. It was
' a plajn one-story cottage nnd an L
t was built with rough boards placed
up and down, with slats over the
> joints. He hfld a fine vineyard on
, the side of this hill, and crushed some
I. of the grapes for wine while I was.
I there. He had a herd of Jersey cows
i and sold a quantity of butter in Au)
gusta. He had a silo and a fine crop
i I of silage corn. In a spring at the
> j foot of the hill he kept milk in deep
g buckets, with glass slots to show the
/ depth of cream. He stood near his
- j house watching two of his hands
, drive up the cows. He bawled them
s out with terrific oaths, and turning to
n me said: "We cannot work free
. negroes without ensafag," Looking
,' at his hogs in the lot ha said, "I have
t had to use the knife on those hogs,
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Hen and Snake Fight To Finiah
Walterboro, June 26.?Captain H.
A. McCee, the genial conductor of
the Walterboro-Erhardt branch of
the A. C. L. railroad, whose hobby is
raising game chickens, had an unusual
experience last week. Some of
his fancy specimens of these birds he
keeps at Green Pond. One of the
hens had a fine brood of young ones.
On making a visit to see about the
welfare of these chicks he found a
huge copperhead moccasin lying dead
beside her foe. Each had killed the
Jothvi in the fight to the finish. The
mother hen had been bitten by the
snake, but true to her instinct to protea
her young she had slain her
enemy before succumbing to his poison.
and 1 like to cut living flesh with the
| knife." A remark which made my
fleah crawl.
He was entertaining, while I was
I there fyr a day or two, an old gentleman
from Charleston?I forget his
name; also a Presbyterian preacher,
j whose name also escapes me. The
parson offered to cut Tillman's hair,
which he allowt^i him to do, and the
enormous shock from his hitad ..filled
l a peck basket. He ever afterwards
I wore his hair clipped. His head was
I large and finely shaped. At that
time, in uddition to the aforesaid
mass of hair, he wore u scraggy
beard on his chin, which with his
gleaming eye, gri,m and rugged featJures
gave him the look of a desperado.
A crayon portrait of him in this
! guise he afterwards pointed out to
me m the governor's mansion, saying:
"That was made of me in the
days when I looked like Catahm*."
He told me that he had lost his eye
when he was a boy, by an abscess
which destroyed the ball, and almost ;
proved fatal, causing him terrible j
agony. The remaining eye was bril-i
liant and penetrating. There was j
great force and magnetism in his per- j
sonality. Indeed he was the most |
extraordinary individual I ever met. j
On my visit, owing to the lack of j
room, he and I were bedfellows. During
a thunderstorm he slept soundly,
but the vivid lightning, terrific thunder
and torrents of rain kept me
awake. It seemed as if the house
would be washed down hill.
At one time during our correspondence
he became much irritated at
my criticisms and protests against.
some of his contentions and once
wrote me to this effects- "I do not
[ .
know whether to call you my friend
or not." However, he closed the letter
with the quotation from Lovelace:
"I could not love thee, Love so
much, Loved I not honor more."
He wrote a fine bold hand, currente
calamo, using his left, and he was
versed in all the finer literary English
classics. He never forgot anything
he had read. He was fond of
music and had talent in that line.
(To be continued next week.)
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Four banks in Raleigh, Greensboro,
Wilmington, and Lumberton are
merging into one with a capital of
over $7,000,000 and rea^rces of $60,000,000.
Gastonia Kan of Ku Klux publish
a notice that it had nothing to do
with the Aery cross burned a few
nights ago near the tent colony
there, and that it stands squarely for
Americanism upheld by the usual
practice and methods.
EXCURSIONS
TO
Atlantic City, N. J., and Niagara Falls, N. Y.
At following low round trip fares: ?
' . To To
Atlantic City Niagara Falls
Barnwell, S. C , $29.86 $89.70
Columbia 27.55 87.40
Camden -.-T 2ftriK 86.00
Chester 26.26 36.10
Denmark 29.20 - 89.05
Lancaster 25.40 35.25
Newberry >..., 28.20 38.05
Orangeburg : 28.35 88.20
Prosperity ... 28.20 38.05
Kidgeway 26.90 36.75 i
Hock Hill 24.40 34.25
York 25.00 34.85
i Proportionate fares to all New Jersey seashore resorts.
j?
Tickets good for eighteen days.
| Atlantic City and other New Jersey resorts: |
tfATES OK SALE:
S'iu Pennsylvania It. R. Via Baltimore & Ohio R. R.
June 18th. June 26th,
July 2, 16, 30 July 10, 24.
[ August 13, 27. August 7, 21.
J September 10, 1020. September 4, 18, 1029.
; Stop overs at Philadelphia, Wilmington, Del., Baltimore and i
Washington on return trip only.
To Niagara Falls, N. Y.: j
I DATES OF SALE:
| Via Pennsylvania R. R. Via Baltimore & Ohio It. R.
' June 26th. June 20th
July 10, 24. . .
j August 7, 21. ,Iuly 4' 18September
4, 18. August 1, 16, 20.
October 2, 1029. September 12, 26, 1929
Stop overs at Buffalo, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Del.,
! Baltimore and Washington on return trip only.
I A RARE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE SUMMER VACATION.
Consult Ticket Agents.
Southern Railway System
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_JC 'M. KENNEDY, JR.
Happy Hours
Every W ednesday free concert by
Williams' Famous Orchestra,
"W to 10; i >o. Get your free tickets
from Kloreucia, Florence, S. .TC.
*ncin^ eveVy Wednesday night
10:00 'tin 2:00, Ted Williams or Lestrr..
Happy Hours dining room
pen viay 12 noon 'till 12 midH?ht
unt.i 2 on Wednesdays. Phone
distance, Florence for reserva
ons private dining rooms for priII
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Systematic saving is the only kind bhat pays. Spasmodic thrift gets c
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spent during your periods of extravagancies.
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