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No body'8 Business bitten for Tb? Chronicle by Gee MoCee, Copyright, i?ae, UwreocevUle, Ge., Aug 81, 11)29 Kit Gee MeGee: ; je "mike Clerk, rfd" e reel or a flctious character ? If lie ia a .human eing, he ought to ttioot you, but if e'g fictitious, your imagination cerlinly does run rampant at times. I ill appreciate your promptness in nswering my question. I read NOODY'S liU8lN'K3S every day and njoy it. Your# truly, Sam K. Knott - -i i *v * at rock, s. C., sepp the 5, VJZ<J eor mr. knott:?my friend, gee mcgee, has just give te the letter you rote him and he gked me to ancer same, and i will 0 so. ? - * no man can stand ,up. to my face nd call me a fictitious currackter. i ave never been in jail but twi&te, nd 1 of them times was when i took miss ereant there for stealing a iff out of my lot and the other time as when my wife's cousin sum sent >r me. and i want you to understand that think you are a little bit too fresh -hqn you accuse me of being guilty f fictitious or anny other offense jrin the piece and dignity of the law, nd if you ever come to anderson, s. iirul ask who is the finest citison 1 the said county, nearly everyboddy xcept a few fellers who owes me or beef ansoforth will tell you that like Clark, rfd, is the citison in quesion. i am 4 feet and 14 inches tall and i-eigh 115 lbs during watter million eason. i own my own house except ?art of it which is being paid for by he month and in 77 months, it will )c mine, and i also own a nice beef waggin and 8 dogs and a fine wife and 2 yearlings and toaff intrust in) a big hog and her increase, and i stand well in the community and have been called on to lead in prayer 2 or 3 times, but onner count of bad colds, ii never hope them out at that time. r i am the kurriner of my county and beat 4 good men in the race for same and my bizness has, picked up a right smart since my first inquest was hell and they all found out that i no the law from crap shooting to pand larceny after trust, i am dimurcrat all over and belong to the liodist church, after you read this tb?r foam if you don't think i am man. yours trulie, mike Clark, rfd Mr. H. I. Liwer is awfully'good to to old mother. Nearly every Sabhth afternoon, he drives up to the poor-house and takeB her for a long ride in his Packard 8. They Are Toasted. ^ The average flapper who smoke3 cigarettes constantly will not make ja very good mother as she might let cigarette Jo ~ ^ ?*yes an&oforth. I g-u?ss it j* o. K though for our youn* tfrl, to but it only add. onother burden to " ?lr?iKly top-honvy budget. The cigarette manufacturers are a sHck set. They first got a bunch of doctor# and beauty specialists to condemn obesity in the most severe terms, and preach a doctrine of thinness amongst women from coast to coast, claiming that fatness is a sin and u shame, and that men admired the slender types and none other. ANIW^.. After about 98 per cent of the women decided that they were overly thick, the cigarette makers began to tell the world thut nothing but cigarette smoking would keep that lightning-rod thinness and school-day resilency in the modern girl, and then she walked a mile and found that there was not a cough in a carload and that they satisfy, therefore? when she craves a sweet, she reaches for a lucky. Now she is so thin her mammy uses her for a book-mark. What will a girl not do if sihe thinks her features and figger will be improved by the undertaking? They sleep with their faces covered with dirt-dobber mud, they rub their cheeks with rouge and complexion crenm till they glow like unto a lizard's stummick, and they polish their finger-nails from the time they get up till they get ready to go out. Xhey blopdine and permanent wave "their Hair till it looks like pin-cushion packing, and so's your old woman. It costs more now to doll up a set of eyebrows than it did to dress a lady 35 years ago, and it has become an art to landscape a pair of lips in such a manner that they do nothing but invite kisses from mora till night and oftentimes later. There are over 25,000 different kinds of so-called beauty preparations on the market today and a set of new ones is born every minute. Now, girls, not a word of this piece is intended as a condemnation, except according to -my way uf ?hinkmk,->oU could leave off cigarette smoking and still be thin enough to please all of the men and some of the policemen. But if you must smoke, please do so after or before meals, and don't prop your feet upon the mantel or the dresser or the medicine chest in the bath-room. There ain't no use scarring up everything just to get a few reducing puffs. Unreasonable Rates on Peaches. .Washington, August 28.?Freight rates on carload lots of peaches from Georgia, Nbrth Carolina and South Carolina to Schenectady, N. Y., and a number of other points in New York state today were held to be unreasonable by the interstate commerce commission. The commission ruled that the rates on peaches from the three states to the points in New York and J also the Pittsburgh-Buffalo zone "were and for the future would be unreasonable to the extent that they exceeded or might exceed the rates as formulated by the commission in previous rulings-i The commission held, however, that the rates on past shipments 'had not been unreasonable, and declared that complaints filed by shippers in the case would be dismiss-' ed. The commission in the same ruling also found carload rates on potatoes from points in Virginia and North Carolina to New York state points unreasonable for the future, "but not otherwise unreasonable." t Seventy People Drown. San Francisco, Aug. 30? Seventy persons, passengers and members of the crew of the coastwise steamer San Juan, were missing today and were believed to have drowned when the vessel collided with the Standard Oil tanker S. C. T. Dodd and sank in a heavy fog off Pigeon Point, south of here at midnight last night. Forty-two passengers and members of the San Juan's crew were' rescued. The tanker stood by and saved 29 persons and transferred them to the coast guard cutter Shawnee. 'Hie San Juan, a vessel 47 years old, sank within five minutes after the two vessels came together with terrific impact; a huge hole being stove in the.San Juan's port side. Rapidly filling with water, the San Juan plunged downward carrying to their deaths the majority-oMhe passengers and crew. A new and very rich mineral field has been discovered in northern Saskatchewan, Canada, and a miner's rush Is on to the new field. The strike Includes deposit*-of copper, fold, silver, sine, nickel, platinum and lead. ' S m1 flam D. Burchell, fifi, the father of fourteen children, committed suicide at his home at Spray, N. C., .. .r *_. No Letts Than 300,000 Negroes Live In New York City. i ' Long after the bright lights of Broadway grow dim and flicker out those in HurlemVi "Little Africa" blase 011 unblushingly until the pale flush of dawn, for negro Harlem hover really goes to bed, says a news article in the New York Times. From midnight to sunrise there is plenty of life on the Great Black Ways of Lenox and Seventh avenues and 135th street. Here is n city within u city, composed of colored people from all parts of the world. Alderman Fred R. Moore, negro editor and publisher, estimates its population as 800,000. Other well informed negroes in the district place the population at the same figure. Since there is much congestion and over-crowding- in this northeast section of the city and. there is a large population of negroes who live in furnished rooms and move frequently, census enumerators have found difficulty in accurately tabulating the residents. . Ever since the World war the negro population of the district has been increasing by leaps and bounds. A large majority of these new arrivals have come to New York from the South. Today, besides this large influx of Southern negroes, there are West Indians, Africans from both British and French colonies, Cuban and Porto Rican negroes, Spanish and Portuguese, South American, and other representatives from far fkway cornet's of the old world. Hence it is a polyglot, heterogeneous population thrown together in a great melting pot. One may readily recognize the West Indian negro jjy his English accent. Usually he is educated and industrious and confident of making headway in the world. On the whole he is a good business man. Many West Indians own prosperous stores in the district. In recent years many young negroes from Southern colleges and universities have been settling in New York to carve out careers as physicians, lawyers and teachers. In the district there are also many i Northern und -Ner.v York negroes. They were among the early settlers of the colony. It is surprising how soon the newcomers, especially those from small, primitive towns and hamlets of the South, adapt themselves to new conditions. One may readily recognize these new arrivals. At first they are greatly bewildered. They saunter along the avenues, gazing big-eyed at everything they see; the tall buildings, rows of barrack-like flat houses and th$ hurrying throngs.^ Some of them are as simple-minded as small children and believe everything they are told. And they are too ready to accept strangers at their face value. Consequently it is not surprising that they fall easy prey to rogues and sharpers who rob them of the little money which they have. In recent years the district has been swelling and expanding. Rents in "Little Africa" are not cheap. Many of the old brick tenements in *the heart of the quarter are veritable beehives. Although apartments .may be had in the newer houses for $75, $85, or $100 a month, it is not, such an easy matter to find a suitableflat at a reasonable- rental. Consequently two or three families are living in flats and apartments that were originally designed for a single family. In this manner negroes are able" to pay high rents. There are many prosperous negroes in Harlem and these live in private houses or in new model apartments with push-button elevators, decorated courts and luxurious apartments. These negroes own expensive motor cars and keep servants. It was estimated recently that there were several millionaires in the district. Some of them accumulated fortunes in the real estate business. "Little Africa" now has every conceivable kind of store, most of which are owned and operated by negroes. There are innumerable beauty shops scattered throughout the district, apprising pasersby that they use this or that system for beautifying both the h^ir and complexion. There are restaurants of all kinds from cafeterias to homelike little basement- places with clean lines and shining dishes, where real Southern dishes are served. In season these restaurants, presided over by Southern mammies, specialize in yams and chicken cooked "from forgotten old Southern recipes, k- There Are shops, not of them eating places, which remain opsn all night These are generally tobacconists, barbers, bakeriea and sundry other shops. There are a gftat many night workers in the district and men and women who are In the theatrical business. Hence owners find It profitable to keep their shops . open both day and night Scattered here end there are night chibe and cabarets. Host of them pet on prstentious re I views with negro entertainers. How* I ever, the negroes who enter to ploai* I ure seekers ere really much in the I minority. The district Abounds in I churches. There ere little ami big I temples of worship and on Sunday morning church belle everywhere I summon the faithful and the avenues are thronged with soberly clad wor| shippers. Monster Rattler Given To Zoo. j Asheville, Aug. 546.?A rattlesnake I Ave feet long with nine rattles is I some snake and takes considerable I strategy to capture. When P. S. BagI well and A. P. Swink c?me upon such I a monster in Hickory Nut Gap re* I cently, the snake was coiled, ready to strike. While Mr. Swink teased the snake I with a stick to keep him from gliding I away into the buehes, Mr. liagwell I cut a pole about eight feet in length I with ^ forked end. Not being able to I |?iii the snake while he was in a coil, J they poked at him with the stick until J the big reptile jumped at them, and I then pinned him to the earth just be1 hind the head with the forked stick. A slip noose in a rope was then 1 slipped over the tail of the infuriated I snake, and tied just behind his head, I and in that way his two captors were i | a bit to introduce him into a covered I basket. The rattler was given to the I 7.00 by Mr. Bagwell and Mr. Swink. The planking of a boat used by a 1 fisherman off the coast of California, was on Tuesday punctured by an inI furiated swordfish after it had been J hooked. The big fish was gaffed, and J its sword-like nose broke off. It weighed .'126 pounds. I . . Coffins and j ^ Caskets When in need of a neat, j I cheap Coffin or Casket, call on us. We keep a I complete stock on hand at all times. Tke Camden Furniture Co. j Day Phone 156 Night 116 Newberry Magistrate a Suicide Newberry, Sept. 1.?C. IIamp Alewine, 67, magistrate from No. 2 township in Newberry county for the past several years, uppurently committed suicide this afternoon at his home several miles northeast of Newberry. Mr. Alcwine 'has been in bad health for some time. He was found about 5 o'clock in an upstairs room at his home with a bullet from his pistol through his temple, death resulting three hours later. He is survived by his widow, four sons and four daughters. Joseph E. Harlow, 67, American resident of Havana, with claims against the Cuban government totaling $9,000,000, has been lodged in prison in Cuba, the nature of the charges against him not being made known. Mrs. Charles A. Linbergh (has been granted a flying license by the aeronautics branch of the department of commerce at Washington. Five Fife port, 111., women en route home front a vueution in Wisconsin, were killed near Bancroft, Wis., Tuesday when their car Was struck by u train on a grade crossing. Your tongue tells when you need @>s Coated tongue, dry mouth, bad breath, muddy akin, groggy nerves and sour stomach suggest its use. L s' - PAINFUL INDIGESTION *1 SUFFERED ftvwn liwH. sfestion ? everything I ite gave me heartburn," jays Mrs. Mattie Medina, of Pound, Va. *Tor months, I did not ?ee a well day. I won Kfl tied along, bat never felt well. M *1 got e package of Thed|U ford's Black-Draught at the store fnd began taking H?a f -J I dose every night before going m to bed. I had been having an j II awful pain. After I had taken 21 Black-Draught, this pain enHi tirely stopped. I began to gain nl in weight, and rested well at night. In a few months I waa MJ fooling fine. My health waa better than it had been in years. |U "I keep Black-Draught in Bj| our home, and we all take it : Q for constipation and upeet IwB stomach." Insist on Thsdford's ^1 coiiaTir^^a, iWDioirnoB, SH I Yt" All T>arr? 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