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Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by Gee McGee. Copyright, 1928. A Week'a Vacation . (First I>ay) ...My doctor came to see me last week. He told me to take a vacation: he went so far as to say that if 1 diddent take a vacation that a vacation would take mo. My blood pressure was down and my dander was up and my digestive organs refused to function. I decided to listen to him, so borrowed 40 dollars and here I am at the beach. (N. B. It looks kinder like 40 dollars will last nearly 2 whole days?but when it Kives out, I'm going to try a few checks on 'ew. 1 spent my first 10 dollars deepsea fishing and had the time of my life. The friend who was going along to teach me how to deep-sea' fish got so sea-sick before our boat scrambled over the horizon, he coulddent tell whether the east was west or the north was south. He fed the fishes on victuals for a short while, then he. tried them out on underwear, and finally gave them dessert in the form of his socks. He was the sickest man I ever saw to survive. ....Believe it or not, I caught fish till I got so I diddent mind if they refused to bite. My equipment was of the 2-hook, long-line, no^pole type. I caught 6 large black bass in only 2 jerks. L began to worry once when 1 realized if I kept up that fast schedule that it would bo my bounding duty to ask my favorite > senator or congressman to restock the Atlantic ocean with block bass, but I possibly left a few couples to go forth and re-plenish the briny deep. ....I broke up one large school of fish ? when I caught their teacher. I think I got the superintendent and possibly the principal near the boat one time, but they got away. (They weighed 14 pounds each?estimated). I was terribly impressed with a certain fish 1 hauled in just before quitting time. He had a mouth like a legislator, large and- noisy, and he floundered around in the boat like a bank president when he doesn't want to make a loan to meet your lust installment, but shortly thereafter he became stiff in death and reminded me of a poor patient who could not pay the dcotor and decided to die a r.atural death. ....The tide began to roll in about noon and the captain hauled in trnr anchor and we departed from thence. I was afraid that the boat was overloaded when we started and threw several large fish overboard. And, by the way, I diddent know until I got ready to make this fishing excursion that you have to slip up on deep-sea fish "before day" if you would ketch them. We were right in their neighborhood when the eastern sky started to turn red, having left the- wharf just after midnight. I prefer to catch fish that don't have to be pulled out of bed, but there's more sport in* deep-sea fishing than any other kind?if you've got the money to pay for the boat and the bait and the other stuff that is essential to the successful maritime indulgence.. A Week's Vacation (Second Day) ....Our "stopping place" is ideal from every angle. Our Inn in only 500 yard* from the bent bathing beach extant. Our room (an well ax all room* in the building) U large and airy. Our i>e*i? are comfortable and our mattrexte* are minus cob* and fthucktf. Our looking glaxx make* ux look perfectly natural and not diatortod. And a board walk lead* ux to the waxh-hole. . .. .And, folk*?let me tell you about our Inn Keeper*. They are of the semi-old-maid design, but are good looking, petite, possessed of much domesticity, kind and gentle, to their guest*, know all that should be known about "things to eat," and they paint and powder just a tiny bit, but when it comes to making folks feel perfectly at home?and even better than that, these two fine ex-school teachers stand at the very top of the qualification. (Vep, my wife and daughter are ever and always with me.) ....The principal garb at the beach this season seems to lean heavily toward beach pajamas, and I have not yet seen a pair that the- wearer thereof could not ciAwl through either of the legs thereof and as some of them are made of cotton, their use ought to help the price (of cotton) to some extent. 1 don't like these garments a-taM. They don't show up the fjgger* of a bathing beauty any more than a shadow shows up the rose. Ami the prettier the pajamas the le.N.s she dons a bathing suit and swims. .... I hose 1-piece V-back suits are without parallel for sun-burning purposes. Some of them are cut so low that the ?-un-tan extend- so far south that frequently it is painful to sit down after exposure '-to the sun, not the son. But. I wonder why men weren t modeled somewhat trimmer and neater, nnd possibly less lanky or vice versa? Some of them, including your humble scribe, look so pitilul to the audience for them to drift by on their way to the water. The first scare-crow was no doubt hatched in the mind of its inventor while he or she was gazing at Mr. Swimmer in a bathing suit. ... .If 1 could float a mortj^B?j};o "{u second one) on my farm. I'd try to spend a whole month at this place. It s such a pity to be poor. The girls (meaning our hostesses) talk sorter TTke they would "credit mr, but I woulddent feel right in asking them to take such risk^s. By the way, they are celebrating-TKeTr twenty-fourtir birthday for the fifth time tomorrow, lit is singular, hut true?these ladies are not twins, but they were born on tlie same date. Kate evidently understood that they would become business partners sooner or later, and thus saved them from the cost of celebrating separate birthdays. Well, the folks are already to get into the swim, so?Good-day until tomorriw. Charles Estrattn, notorious NewYork racketeer and close pal of I>egs Diamond, wus shot to death Monday as he sat in the office of G. Winkenfield Co., bottle manufacturers of Brooklyn. John Smith, 9, on Wednesday jumped into the drainage canal at New Orleans, La., and saved his little '>n,,sin Marv Smith* 3. from drowning. The children were playing on the banks of the canal when the little girl fell in. ( hartie Bryson, 45, a widower, the father of five children, calle<i Edna Ilinkle, 18, to the door of an inn at Lake Toxaway, N. C., and shot six bullets into her body, killing her instantly. He then went to his home and committed suicide. The girl had rejected Bryson's plea that she marry him. Eorest fires swept over considerable portions of California this week, destroying mountain towns, ranch houses, herds of cattle, timber, rip-1 oned grain and valuable pasture. A i force of 7(H) men engaged in fighting] the fire on a 25.000 acre tract which; swept up three sides of Mount 1 >ia bio, Contra county, where estimated damn ire totaled over $100,000. The' blaze at some places was along a 14-mile front. Floyd Dies For Brutal Killing State Penitentiary, Columbia, July 10,?<Prote?ting that ha ahould not be electrocuted, Albert Floyd, 36 year old Greenville county farmer, was put to death here for murder of llowurd Bell, Clearwater, S. C\, mechanic. "I don't feel I ought tof be electrocuted," he aaid, as he was placed in the chair., He admitted slaying the Clearwater mechanic, hie friend, when Bell returned home unexpectedly to find him with Mrs. Bell in the garage. He contended in the triul the murder was not premeditated. He also made a plea of spectator* who crowded the death house that they help "my children and my little | wife." *y Even after the straps were adjusted on his arms and legs and the head straps covered his face, he continued to pray, thc\ first shock stopping him in the midst of a sentence. He was brought in the death chamber shortly after 10 o'clock, his face white and his hands trembling. As he sat in the chair, he asked to be allowed to say a few words. "All I have to say," he began, "is that all of you live right, serve the I^ord and be ready to die." He then made his statement that he did not think he should die, adding that he prayed for the "good men who dealt with me and against me," and said he had asked God to "save them." "I am weak and I am broke down from my ^roubles," he said. "It's an awful hour, it's a hard hour." He delivered a brief prayer, after which the straps were adjusted. With his hands extended as high as possible, and trembling violently, he repeated an almost incoherent prayer in a rapid manner, which consisted chiefly of the words "Blessed God." (apt. Olin Sanders, of the Penitentiary Guard, whose duty it is to tap the bell as a signal for throwing the current, waited for him to finish. The spectators were tense as Floyd continued praying. Sam Cannon, tijj,c_signaled_C'apt. Sar,-_ deCs .to tab the bell., When it became tippairent that the man woul i continue his prayer indefinitely, Cannon turned on the electricity with out waiting for the signal. He was pronounced dead at 10:30. The body is to be taken to Greenville. Penitentiary officials said he had spent moat of the night praying and crying. He ate little breakfast this morning. Floyd's expressed wish yesterday that his family visit him was granted last night. His fattier, mother, wife and two children all were allowed to talk to him. Floyd admitt^l striking Bel) in the head with an iron pipe and then driving his automobile into a bank to make jt appear there had been an accident. Mrs. Bell, whose testimony was largely responsible for Floyd's conviction, was sentenced to serve five years. Floyd's father and brother made last minute appeals in the Governor's office and the Supreme Court office this morning in an effort to i save his life. The Governor, who is sick, could not be reached, and none j of the higher court justices was in Columbia today. At tho request of Sheriff Cliff Bramlett of Greenville Floyd was questioned fast night about the murder of J. Ed. Thackston in Montague ten years ago. His uncle, with whoni( Floyd was seen on the day of the murder, was later convicted and sentenced to serve 20 years and Jerry Hester was given life sentence. Floyd denied he knew anything of the crime. Mrs. Bell Not in Jail Columbia, July 10.?The State says that Mrs. Mamie Bell, lover of Albert Floyd, who was electrocuted at the state penitentiary here today, for slaying her husband, Howard Bell, has not begun her five year sentence in the case and is living near Gastonia, N. C\, with a brother who is a Baptist minister, pending an appeal to the Supreme Court. After her conviction as an accessory after the fact of the murder of her husband and her sentence Mrs. Bell was released under ?2,000 bond in January when she appealed. La nee y Sterling, negro, 30, who six times has faced the electric chair .at..the sUte. ^prison .at Rajeigh, N. C., has had His sentence" comrnutM" by Governor Gardner to life imprisonment because of "grave doubt of his guilt." W. C. Harllee Dead at Itembert | Sumter, July 15.?W. C. Harllee, 81, of Rembert, died in the Tourney j hospital shortly before midnight on Tuesday night, following a brief illness. Mr. Harllee is survived by his widow, who before marriage was Miss j Mamie Young of Rembert, and two 'children, Mrs. C. R. Freeman, of Raejford, N. C., and H. T. Harllee, member of the United States coast guard, stationed at Templeton, Staten Island, N. Y. A sister, Mrs. J. C. Pearce, of Atlanta, Ga? an grandchildren, Mary Raye and lene Harllee Freeman, also sun The funeral party will lew Hurst funeral home at 1:301V afternoon for Hopewell cea near Florence, where final a will be conducted by Mr. Hi pastor, the Rev. E. S. Duribi Rembert. J. J. Hood, negro doctor, isi at Rocky Mount, N. C., on^ of performing an illegal operiti a white woman,' from the i of which she later died. -? ? ? LOOKING BACKWARl T,tr. From ih. File* of Th? Chronicle Fifteen out Thirtjr Yew, . M " ' THIRTY YBARS AGO July 17, 1901. Hal Kelly, son of 6. H. Kelly, dies at his home near .Southern depot and i body carried to Darlington for burial. I Khody I*wson, negro Woman, ia i found dead in bed at her home on ' lower Main street, : J. W. Gardner, of Tiller's Ferry, i sends a report to the weather bureau in Columbia that a shower of small fish accompanied a heuvy rain. They were seen floating between the cotton rows after the rain ceased, Gaskin White, old negro died in Pisgah section, lie is said to have been an oarsman on the ill-fated flat which sank in Boykin pond when so many were drowned. George T. Little (buys a lot'in Bishlopville preparatory to opening livery feed and sale stable. W. H. Owens, of Westville, married to Miss Ix)ttie Peach, of Bethune. Announcement of engagement of Gus Hirsch, of Camden, to Miss Dinah Kohn, of Orangeburg, received in Camden. The new battleship Maine launched at Philadelphia navy yard with interesting ceremonies. <She takes the place of the ill-fated Maine lying ?n Havana harbor whose sii\king causer! the Spanish-American war. Three men killed when boiler exploded at plant of Winyah lumber company at Georgetown. Fire in the heart of the business section of Atlantic City, New Jersey resort, did property damage to the extent of $5<X),000 Monday. FIFTBBN YEAKsTgq July 21, 191? j Floods in Wateree river sway Wataret river bridge uj board Air line trestle. No trai snd out of Camden for severs! The bridge was built by the J in 1910 and cost *42,000. That, no insurance and the loss wt| plete. Windstorm does heavy 4. throughout county. Armon cotton mill at Mounts land swept awsy by floods thousand bales of cotton reporg be floating down Wateree river. Mass meeting tof citizens he) discuss rebuilding of W uteres 1 bridge. Enterprise Mercantile Compaq move from old Villepigue Savage store formerly oecupj| Loan & Savings bank. Scipio Timbers, old time Cs negro, dies. He was a well fa trimmer of hedges. Engagement Announced of Everet Birchrnore to Normn Head of' Aiken. Southern states hard hit by causing thirteen deaths, manyi ing and property damage tm at $16,000,000. V - | Village of Chimney RockfN,< ported destroyed by flood. j Both state farms near Hag<n ported under water from floodj ing heavy loss to the state. Large number of auto partie nearby towns come to Cam view flood waters in river. / ^X^hcn BAIN Comes WHAT many people call indigestion very often means excess acid in the stomach. The stomach nerves have been over-atimulated, and food sours. The corrective is an alkali, which quickly neutralizes acids. And the best alkali known to medical science is Phillips Milk of Magnesia. One spoonful of this harmless, tasteless alkali neutralizes instantly many times as much harmful acid, and then the symptoms disappear at once. You will never use crude methods when once you learn the efficiency of this. Go get a small bottle to try. Gel the genuine Phillips Milk of Magnesia, the kitid physicians have prescribed for 50 years in correcting excess acids. 25c and 50c a hot tie?any drugstore. SLUGGISH FEELING j "I hare used Thedford's BlackDrauftht off and oil for twenty-five year*," writes Mr. Dave 8tewart, Of 1912 K. 2nd St,, Austin Texa.a. "They used it In my father'? home for many years and It was our ffenerAl family medicine. "My health waa food, and that la about all I ever took. I vised It for oonstlpAtlon and bilious sick headaches. It Is a fine medicine to take when a man Rets up In the morning feeling dull and sluggish. After a course of It I feel fine. 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