The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 25, 1929, Image 7
Nobody's Business
Written for Th? Chronicle by Gee
McGee, Copyright, 1926.
An IB and 92 Fox Hunt
Uncle Joe claims to be one of the
niodt famous hunters of the game
that ever picked up a trail. Various
gnd sundry haive been his experiences
^jth all kinds of wild bensts, varmint#
anaoforth. He recently told me
0f the following catastrophe:
To use Uncle Joe's own words?
?yes, sit' re?? me U'd okl Towsetr
and 2 other niggers went fox huntin
un Monday" mornin' just before
day. Old Towser had the reputation
0f .smelling a fox the furtherest and
holding on to his scent the longest
of any dog in captivity, and, I never
carried no.other dog with me. Old
fywser was cayenne for any fox that
ever dived into a hole."
"Well, folks, old Towser set up a
wail about sun-up that I knew meant
bizness. It was a red fox, his bfftking
proved that, i He had a different
bark for every kind of 4-legged animal.
It was coarse for a red fox,
sorter mediufn for a grey fox, real
keen for ,a hear, very unregular fo
a rabbit, and growly like for a coon
or wildcat."
"That old fox had a regular 24'mile
circle that he would run around.
Hollowed the .chase around that circle
so many times, I wore out 3
horses and two mules. Old Towser
stayed within 7 and 4 inches of that
fox for 3 days and' 3 nights. I would
ride till me an the horse both give
out and then we'd go home and get
some feed, and take out riding again."
"Along about 2 o'clock on the 4th
afternoon, old Towser gained 2 feet
and 9 inches - on did Mr. Fox. Me
and that dog and them horses and
mules I rode had done wore a regular
highway around that circle. That
dog and that fox was running so
fast, they overtook me and passed
me 34 different times by the sixth
day. The niggers give out the third
day and went back to pulling fodder.
"By the seventh day, folks had
done built grand-stand seats all a ound
that circle and was selling
same at 2 dollars per seat, plus war
<ix, which is the football rate at preRiik.
We could tell that the case
winearing itr end. Old Towser had
fee stretched out till he was 17 feet
Bhl 3 and one-half inches long from
:Kp to tip and he wasn't no bigger
iBtound than a good-sized well rope."
1 ''Gosh, that was an exciting race.
Several folks starved to death watchHiftg
us. The red fox showed some
*e;ikness and was stretching out too.
He looked to be about 9 feet long, I
HSnely had to give up using horses
Bind mules and got a Ford. I wore
Bit plumb out, and about the time I
thought we'd better call off thte te'rBrible
ordeal, old Towser ketched that
fox and befpre I could get to him he
Bswallowed him whole, and both of
Bthem together weighed oply three
Pounds. My, my, boys, that was some
fox hunt." (He put a chew of
Browns Mule and went on tup the
Bfoad, Uncle Joe never lingered af ter
a recital of his wonderful experiences.
He dreaded questions.)
Mike Write* on Farming
flat rock, a. C? ockt 22, 1929
door mr, editor:
i have been asked by a good many
of my Hdmiriiitf friends to rite up my
farming experienta and i will do so
as followers:
i was raised on a farm in georgy
till i was grown and then i taken up
farming for myself, the first year,
1 had a heap of trouble, the drouth
ketqjied me betwixt July and ocktober
and i got married in june and
the liberty stable taken my mule
back in may, so i plowed a yearling
the ba 11anee of the time and i didn't,
get married early enuff for my wife
to be of no help and i made 1 bale
of cotton and 2 bu. of corn and some
fodder ansoforth and had to pay 2
bales rent.
betwixt 1H90 and 1900, i was fair,
ly successful onner count of chillun
to do most of the work and we,
meaning i, owned 2 mules and a waggin
on which i hud paid IB dollars
and give a crop morgago for same
which was carried over from year to
year till old beck dide and then i cut
down my crop to 1 mule and got
along verry well by moving from
farm to farm where i could be hope
the most by the land lord, but i did
not accumulate mutch except the
same mule and a good many of my
wife's kinfolks who followed us from
georgy.
i got along very well up to 19 and
B when the Republicans set in to
ruin the south which they succeeded
in doing in 19 and 7 and then i went
to work on halvers but me and mr.
brown couldn't get along, so i turned
the crop over to him and took up
publick work, but could not find no
job, and returned to a farm in another
township that some other feller
had left for publick work and i
made it o. k. till januwary when the
measles set in i had a relapse and
my folks done the work for the next
2 yr. while i was limping around with
a walking stick ansoforth.
i was still holding my on up to 19
and 14, except i was gaining with
chillun, but as fast as 1 would get
old enuff to work, 1 would marry on
the other end of the line, but some
of my wife's kinsfolk's had picked
up and left; they picked up 1 of my
suits once and borried 2 dollars from
me to~run off on and he still owes
same. mr. jones sold me a farm in
19 and 19 at 150$ per aker with
nothing down except a federal landbank
mortgage, and about that time,
farm relief set in, and i moved again,
and then i made up my mind to get
m polliticks which i did with much
success, and am now kurriner of my
home county, and have hell 36 inquests
in 34 weeks to the satisfaction
of all concerned except a crowd
i have put in jail, i suspose i am
thru with the farm now as i intend
to stand in with the voters ansoforth.
rite or foam if you want to
print this, and i will let you do so.
yores trulie,
mike Clark, rfd.
INSTALLMENT SALES
More Than Four Billion of Merchandise
Sold Annually by that Method
More than four and one-half billion
dollars' worth of merchandise?comforts,
luxuries and essentials?is sold
on the installment plan annually. Yet,
the head of :one of the largest companies
engaged in financing installment
selling recently estimated that
losses are no more than seventy-five
hundredth of one per cent.
Naturally this is a favorable consideration
to many lines which depend
largely on)installment selling to sustain
their sales volumes, but it has
perhaps broader significance. For one
thing, it goes a long way in dispelling
the idea that installments purchasing
inculcates extravagance and
results in a mortgaging of future
earning power beyond a capacity to
pay. This danger has been stressed
by economists and bankers since the
inception of time merchandising.
Apparently, however, the basic intelligence
of the American consumer
has not been justly evaluated. With
the automobile, furniture, farm equipment
and even department store and
mail order sales made on time, it
vyould seem that a loss of less tha.i
one per cent, demonstrates a very
sane individual appraisal of future
ability to meet obligations.
Moreover, the successful payments
for this great total of consumer
goods also attests to the fundamental
prosperity of the country. It
shows the practical result of a generally
higher earning power, met by
a liberal wage scale, which in turn
provides the wherewithal for jthe vast
consumption demand that is the backbone
of industry.?From the Magazine
of Wall Street.
Thevvisiting card is of Chinese
origin, f . ' '
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Take a Wool One Sheep
To Make Man's Suit
How culling und wise attention to ,
breeding of farm animals may be expected
to produce return# for farmer#
ia reflected in eUtistic# gathered ,
by the Bureau of Animal Industry ,
and published in the current Yearbook
of the United State# Department
of Agriculture.
"Iq 1840,'' #ay# K. W. Sheets, In ,
charge of animal husbarhfry investi- |
gutions, "the average weight of the
fleece sheared from American sheep
was less than 2 pounds. By 1000 it
had increased to nearly ft 1-2 pounds.
Today it is approaching 8 pounds.
In other words, an average sheep today
grows wool enough each year to
make approximately one suit of S
clothes. In 1810 it took the wool of
four sheep to muke a suit of equal
weight and quality."
Better breeding and more rigid
culling of breeding flocks promise to
ruise this average still further. Wool
production is similar to such qualities
as heavy milk production in dai-1
ry cattle and heavy egg production
by hens. The offsprings,f>f heavy producers
are likely to bo heavy producers
and to transmit to their offspring
the capacity of heavy production.
In the case of sheep, Mr. Sheet
says: "There is still room for improvement.
By 'weeding out' the
poor producers and .breeding from
the heavily fleeced sheep, flock owners
can raise the average."
The body of Otto Alig, 32, bank
cashier, was found in the Little Blue
river near Kansas City, Mo., Saturday.
Dalzell Man Charged j
With Serious Offense'
' I
Vernon Dinkins, u prominent farmer
of the Dalzell section uf Sumter
county, was at liberty Thursday untier
$500 Ixmd, charged with malicious
mischief in connection with an
alleged attempt to pour acid in the
machinery of J. M. Kdens' cotton Kin
at Dalzell. The alleged offense occurred
Wednesday night.
According to the allegations of Mr.
Kdens, the lubricator of his gin has
been damaged twice by acid this sea- .
turn, forcing him .to ahut down on *
huili occasions.- After the second
shut down a watchman was placed '
in the engine room at night.,
Wednesday night William Edward
Scarborough was on watch, according
to the story told the officers,
when he saw a man come in the cnroom
carrying a receptacle of
>' m kind. Mr. Scarborough drew
' p -lol on the intruder, who made
n. attempt to get away. The man
witf. the receptacle was Wrnon Dinbi:
The receptacle containing a
gai. >n of commercial muriatic acid,
which has the property of destroying
metal with which it comes in contact.
Mr. Dinkins was brought t,o Sumter
and turned over to Chief of Rural
Police Seale. He was later released
under bond of $500. General sessions
court will convene in Sumter on November
11, and it is Assumed this
case will come up for trial then.?
Thursday's Sumter Item.
A bee travels 40,000 miles to get a
pound of honey.
Loyal Convicts Rewarded
Denver, Colo.?Convicts who remained
loyal and fought the fires
during the mutiny that cost thirteen
lives will be rewarded by reductions
in their sentences, .according to Governor
Adams, who, in his three years
of office, has not grhnted a pardon,
parole, or commutation.
Killed by an Elephant
At Corsicana, Texas, Mr*. Buck
Griffin v^ps killed Saturday ufternoon
by un elephant with A. G.
Barnes Circus when the unimal ran
umuck on tin* show grounds. Several
persons, including his trainer, were
injured before the elephant was subdued.
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If You Start a
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good excuse when you are tempted toward extravagance
and don't want to yield to it.
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CAPITAL $100,000.00
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