The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 05, 1930, Image 3
14 Tribute to His Dog
^ Bdgar Howard, Lieut-Gov0l
Nebraska.)
iJC" u, dead! Ho was a dour in
flimal kingdom, but a tall mau
j jttrjbutoa of kindness and loy-1
He never spoke about his own
Hi but be showed thom in his ,
jiy life. I wish I might know
who gave the deadly poison
dog. I have uo desire to carry
to him, but rather a desire to
him a gentler and a better man
jnting for him a word-picture
>r liix and his sufferings. For
days under skillful treatment
veterinary and the uursiijjf of.
who loved him, Bix fought athe
effects of the drug, never
lining, never showing resentrewarding
every effort in his
with a wag of his tail, or with
pr ess ion of thanks from his
eye. In the last effort of his
> dragged himself to my feet,
his drooping muzzle and laid
my hand, as oft I've seen a
epose a weary head "on'moth lee.
Thus he died, and in the
ijlaze upon his intelligent
eyes I thought I read u mesf
forgiveness for the whipping
e him one day, when anger
ivcn from my head that fair
of renson which should direct
lings of men, if not of dogs,
never been able to accept the
igs of those ancients who held
t death-time the souls of men
omen sometimes are transferee
bodies of birds and dogs,
I could accept ; that view<?I
then believe that one day there
pon the earth a rare and radiul
within the body of the genoman
ever sent into the world
to brighten and bless mankind with
her, good presence; and that when
she died the death of the body the!
godu transferred her soul to the body
of my Bix, ao good he was, and kind.
But I can't believe such things, and
all that is left for me now is to give
to Bix in my memory-garden a place
among the roses, with a promise and
& pledge to make my own life among
men reflect somewhat the lessons in
loyalty and kindness acquired by contact
wtih my dog. And so, good Bix,
good-bye!
A fight in Koscoe Cole's filling
station near Gaffney, Wednesday
morning about 1 a. m? resulted in the
death <6f L. H. Lane, .% years old, and
Walter Cole, 28, is in a serious condition
in n city hospital. Cane's death
resulted from three pistol wounds and
three wounds from a shot gun. Cole
was shot in the abdomen with a pistol,
and in his arm by a shot gun.
#Jim Cromer was charged by a coroner's
jury with the killing, and
Grady Spencer, alleged to have participated
in the battle, was charged
with assault and battery with intent
to kill. Both are held in the Cherokee
county jail. Spencer and Lane
according to evidence at the inquest,
entered Cole's filling station cursing
and with pistols drawn. Walter
Cole drew a gun and the shooting
started. Lane after being shot
staggered out, and Cromer is alleged
to have shot him three times
with a double barreled shot gun.
Governor Parnell of Arkansas, has
declined to call a special session of
the state legislature to deal with the
drought situation, as suggested at
a meeting of the Arkansas county
judges association.
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WHITE SLAVES OF BLACK ?
CHIEF FOUND IN AFRICA .
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Traveler Finds Race pf Serfs In Kala.
harl Desert; Contented
With Lot.
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Johannesburg. South Africa.?An as- 1
founding story of white men and wouj- '
on, slaves of a black chief in the heart ,s
of Africa, recently brought to the <.
notice of the government by a trav- .
eler, has been corroborated by travelers
who have returned from the \
Kalahari desert. j
Although these whites, it has been
ascertained, have been living in bond*
age for generations, the fact of their '
captivity and enslavement has by the 1
merest chance reached the ears of '
civilization.
A terrltic storm necessitated a trav- i
eler halting ut a village in the Kal- I
ahari desert. lie was hospitably en- j
tertained by a chief, who astonished (
him by summoning to minister to his
wants a number of hnlf-clothed, miserable
looking whites of both sexes.
The chief, who happened to have
been educated at un English university,
described them as his serfs.
He had, he said, inherited them from
his purents. He uppeared uncertain
as to how long his tribe had owned
them, but told a circumstantial story
which indicated thq{ they were the
descendants of a band of early Dutch
pioneers who had treked into the
Kalahari.
Disaster had overtaken them in the
shape of disease, lions and bu.shmen.
They were captured by a wandering
tribe nnd became their property. Not
the least interesting feature of this
strange tale of darkest Africa is that
the exiles rerused to intermarry with
the natives, the truveler said :
i "I endeavored to speak with as
many of them as I was able and' discovered
these wldte slaves to be mostly
half-wits or of the lowest possible
intelligence. No doubt extensive inbreeding
had been responsible for their
poor mentality. They boaBted that
they had never married blacks."
Barbarians' Weapons
Covered With Gold
London.?The American gangster,
with his expensive machine guns, is a
comparative piker alongside the fierce,
barbaric tribes of 1300 years ago, in
expensive weapons, at least.
An exhibition of "Art in the Dark
Ages,'.* here reveals the savages used
gold lavishly in their weapons.
One chieftain used a spur of solid
gold weighing more than 13 ounces,
highly decorative gold-mounted daggers,
an iron spearhead, with a band
of red cloissonpe enamel on a gold
base above the mouth, and wore a
gold collnr of six curved almost oblong
plates embossed with scenes and
figures.
Neither was his horse neglected. It
was provided with a set of gold trappings
with gold "rivets.
These relics were removed from a
tomb of a Lombard chieftain who led
his warriors across the Danube in 580
abd began the conquest of Italy.
Proving That One Can
Be Too Nice to a Cop
Tokyo.?There's auch a thing as be
1- lng too polite, as seven Tokyo fisher!
men have found to their sorrow.
The seven had been in the habit of
gambling In the back of a truck which
took" them to the central fish market
early each morning. The other day
the driver of the truck was stopped
for speeding and the fishermen were
sure tha% their illegal activities had
been observed. The policeman had
failed to observe them, ho\lbver, and
ordered the truck driver to proceed.
In their relief .the gamblers arose
and bowed several times to the officer.
Now, even in Japan, a traffic cop isn't
showered with politeness, and this par
tlculnr officer, growing suspicious,
commandeered a taxi nnd followed the
truck, overtaking It Jn time to cutch
the gamblers red-handed.
Sliding Trousers Win
Popularity on Rainier
Longmire, Wash.?Coasting on spe
dally prepared trousers down the
snowy slopes of Mount Rainier is
popular this spring. There is no need
to pull heavy toboggans up hill. Loosefitting
canvas pantaloons are given
several coats of hot paraffin, then liberally
waxed. Wearing these over the !
ordinary clothing th$ devotee of slidlng
becomes a sndWworm impervious
to cold and moisture.
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Lion Hangs Solf
Gunnison, Utah.?A mountain lion,
escaped from a cage after capture
near here, accidentally killed himself !
a short while after his dash for free 1
dom. A chain, trailing fronj his neck,
caught on the limb of a tree as the
big cat jumped, and the animal hung,
suspended in the air until strangulation
stopped his frantic efforts to free'
" himself.
jfe In The Cacao |
Country Of Brazil
Washington, I). C.?"In the mouth
t a crocodile-infested nver wo an- 1
hored our seaplane <uid went ashore
i the palm-fringed little town of
Iheos, Brazil," writes Frederick
impich, National Geographic Soeity
correspondent with the seaplane
arty which is surveying routes from \
Washington to liuumis Aires. "II-1
eos lives on chocolate beans, or caao.
One-seventh of the world's crop
novo* from here, and five men marine
the giant industry.
"Hiding in u gasoline s(>eed car,
kith the railway manager, we rat- I
led out over the 50-mile toy lino
rhich wanders into the jungle.
"From the forest whizzed a sting*
ng hug and bit our driver on the
lose. 'If we weren*t here he would
irobably take u crocodile tooth from
lis pocket and rub his nose with it',
aid our host. 'That is the popular !
ure here for snake bites, and other
joisons.' We passed a new-made
fravu, with Powers on it. A man
tilled by a crocodile had just been
juried. /
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"Dogs are the crocodiles' favorite
lish. When a village dog ventures
lear the river bank at night and
aarks, the crocodiles gather.
"In the state of Hahia are about
?0,000,000 cocoa trees; this fruit has
been grown here for about 150 years,
and the tiny railway serves the heart
of the great cocoa region. It handles
more tons of freight per mile than
any other line in South America.
"leaving the coastal plain and entering
the foothills, one sees the
cacao plantations. We walked in?
shaded groves. Among bigger, protecting
trees the small cacao trees
are planted, thus sheltered from sun
and wind. I twisted off a green
fruit, broke it open and tasted whitish
seeds; the flavor was like watermelon.
Barefoot men and women |
split the pods, empty the seeds on a j
wide platform, and tread them freoj
of pulp ??nd pith. They call this
'Dancing the Cacao.'
"The seeds are dried by stirring
them in a big flat bin. A wide roof,
set on wheels, is at hand, to be hastily
hauled over the bin if it rains.
Turning a dark brown when dried,
and tasting plainly of unsweetened
chocolate when ripe, the beans are
packed in bags and sent to Europe
and the United States. In 30 years
Bahia's export has risen frmo 150,000
to 1,200,000 bags a year. Brazil her
self drinks very little chocolate?but
much coffeet
"Near a station named 'Lava Fes,'
or 'Wash Your Feet,' we stopped to
watch a long file of umbrella ants.
Kac'h carried a leaf, as if it were an
umbrella. Many ants were up in a
tree, biting off bits of leaf and dropping
them to other ants waiting on
the ground. This line of marching
ants is often a mile or more long.
The ants cany the leaves to their
uii?la*pround home, and store them.
On the leaves a fungus forms, and
this the insects eat.
"Under a shed nearby we saw four
men, with machetes, scraping a wild
pig they had shot.
"Farther up the line we crossed
a small stream running among cafao-covered
hills. Long chutes made
of boards ran down the hillsides to
the water's edge. Down these chutes
natives were sliding fresh cacao
beans, which emptied into waiting
dugout canoes. Although cacao has
i been grown here for so long, the
! methods of harvesting it are still
primitive, for labor is cheap.
"White men find life here hard,
because of so many insects, and malaria.
Bugs are a plague. I slaw
a horned tumble-bug more. than seven
inches long?larger than many kinds
of birds. And there were snails that
must have weighed half a pound, and
there was the fer de lance, and other
bad snakes.
" 'For dyas I see only native workmen,'
an English superintendent told
me. 'The natives' language is quickly
learned?they use only ala>ut 400
words, a blond </f Portugese, Indian
and African ywrds imported by
slaves.' "
B. Y. P. U. Social
f A delightful social was given by
the members of the II. Y. P. U. of
thb First Baptist church Thursday
night at the old parsonage in honor
of the several members who are
leaving to attend college and to resume
their school work. Numerous
games and contests were enjoyed.
1 Quite a number of visitors- were
present.
Marshall Robbins, of Johnston-?
county, N. C., on Tuesday shot his
vfife to death, ran his son off at the
point of a shotgun, set Are to his
home and four tobacco barns and
then committed suicide. A family
quarrel was the cause of the tragedy.
I WHAT
BYRNES'
Neighbors Think of Him
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In the Spartanburg* feity ward in which
James. F. Byrnes resides he received, in
the first primary, 897 votes against 91 cast
for Senator Blease. j
In Aiken city, where Mr. Byrnes- for j
merly resided, he received 992 votes
against 176 for Senator Blease. j
These Figures Are Convincing
Byrnes has conducted a clean and j
clear-out campaign, confining himself to
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the issues, and has made
Constructive Suggestions For
Agricultural Relief in the
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. Present Crisis
He possesses the experience and the
proven ability in Congress to successfully j
carry out1 his program as outlined and his 1
highest ambition is service to the state |
and nation.
Byrnes is profoundly grateful to the
People for the magnificent support received
by him in the first primary, and urges
a full vote in the second primary next
Tuesday. If the people turn out and express
themselves at the ballot box?
Byrnes Will Be Elected
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Hear James F. Byrnes in His Radio Speech
Monday Night, Sept. 8, at 8 o'clock
From WBT, CHarlotte.
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Your Money in
Bank Adds to Business Life
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Depositing in the bank is a duty you owe
yourself and the community at large, for it is
money in circulation that enables business
* life to go forward.
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Loan and Savings Bank
CAPITAL $100,000.00
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A Savings Account
Will Do It?
LONG YEARS of hard work?consistent,
systematic saving and at last, as the fruit of
his providence, the wise man retires to
epjoy his declining years in comfort.
THERE IS ONE sure way to enjoy this
comfort. Hard work alone will not do it;
you must save?and save systematically.
! Open a Savings account with our ".bank
I today and make it a habit to deposit a cer- j
j tain amount every week.
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