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?' - " Tv | Everybody Loses When Timber Burns Kershaw county and youth Carolina need productive forest and rango lands to maintain its prosperity but Xt cannot have them while woodsburning continues. Ycurly burnings in this county cover about 00,000 acres, representing a loss of many thousands of dollars to the farmers and timberland owners,! The woods burner, like the boll weevil, the malaria germ and the cattle tick, drags down business and undermines the general welfare. Because of hum only a small perceat-* age of merchantable second-growth timber which cauld have replaced the virgin stand is now available on cutover lands* Because of the woods burner land values have suffered, industries and population have moved $ out and idle acres have multiplied. Because of him every year millions of young forest seedlings, which in a short time would have constituted a valuable asset to land-owners, have been licked up by the flumes. The southern states, unlike the stutes of the west where serliSus tire losses are caused by lightning, has the power to eliminate its forest tires; for they are man-causpd and can be prevented by curbing the oneless fire user and dealing- firmly with the malicious fire setter. Sound ee onomic policy demands that this power be exerted and that the brand of the woods burner be extinguished Kershaw county cannot afford to let the woods burner block economic pro * gross. We are now in the midst of .the spring lire season and serious losses will be suffered unle.ss great care in handling of file is exercised. The j Kershaw County Forestry Association is attempting to stamp out the evil of woods burning in this county and the thoughtful co-operation of every farmer and timberland owner in the county is urgently requested. , "i We have at the present time some .'>(1.OOP acres of forest land under organized protection and- an additional Ho,000 acres in the northern part of the county will he placed under protection at an early date. 1 believe that the Kershaw county forestry association has the best tire record of any protective organization in t Instate and we are anxious to maintain that enviable position. We can do it if we get the proper co-operation. It would be. a great help if farmers giul tenants would notify the county forestet at Camden when and where they contemplate burning brush and litter in connection with their farming operations. Thi- might he done by postal card, letter or by telephone. The co-operation of the gOod people of the county in this very important work w ill be greatly appreciated, says Charles W. NuiW; county forester. Dr. Adol f l.orcnz, noted Viennese surgeon, in New York, canceled an engagement to speak over the radio Wednesday night, because of his resentment over announcements that he I was to be a guesi speaker lor a shot concern, which would have used the doctor in its advertising campaign. The H-itish Id per cent, tariff law hoc a die etfrcliw Monday night, with ? Mtiifs ,.f ?D?)?? fading to -each London ami unload theii cargoes heft it the: time limit expired. Ships front til! nation* were delay* i hy stormand gall's in the North, sea und the l\ngli>h vha ' in !. , New No r, statist:,nans >;,y that the market \ ai .it : .-n New ^ rk st-i k eXi han_ e gained a bill.on dollar- dir.ng ir.o month of Fehvu a r y - - Page .Mr. Kipley j Th? license plates on a Connecticut undertaker's auto read U 2! MuraJ is the name of a cigarette. Hut the sultun after whom it wus named was a rabid tobacco prohibitionist. In 1633 he had a luw passed' making: smoking a capital offense. Dr. John Ashton, editor of the Valley farmer at Mercedes, Tex., has received from the Dorufalah Museum near Delhi, India, a grain of rice with lit) legible Knglish characters on it. The grain is fastened in a glass rod inclosed in a glass vial protected by a metal container resembling a thermos bottle. Prince Edward Island, with a pop| ulation of nearly 100,000, has no divorce court. All such cases must go to parliament. As an illustration of how stars are scattered through space, Sir James Jeans ?uys that if only three grains of dust were in a room it would be far more crowded than space is with stars.' If you could master one foreign I language every three months, it would keep you busy for about 200 years to lenin to speak all the languages of the .world. John Berry of St. Andrews, Scotland, has achieved what has long been held impossible., lie has tamed a Hock of wild geese, normally the shi| est and wildest of birds.?The Pathj finder. I . The departmentv of agriculture .states that the general level of farm prices are 40 per cent lower than the 1010 to 1014 average. Chickens are the only farm product that is higher now on the average than during the pre-war period, being 12.6 cenfs a pound as compared with 11.4 cepts a pound for the period of 1010-1014. Miss Anna Bus, 24, walked up to Joseph Karap, 25, in Buffalo, N. Y.( and said, "It's leap year. Will you nuirry me?" The man replied. "It's a go." They will be married in two weeks. The gul had taken advantage of the leap year proposal. When all the United States navy -hips now ui the Atlantic and ordered to the Pacific for maneuvers, arrive and gather at the appointed places, the force will include 202 warships of the various classes. I SORENESSALL OVER "! wuh in a rundown i-ondition and suffering with my hark ami side*," nays Mrs M. M Cook, of 1m?i t I'uyiif, Ala. "The pain In my side watt HO )^i t It caused a 8orcn< sa ail throiiKh my body, 1 was ninl_ lifK tb" newspaper ;ifid saw I'.ii itii advertised. 1 tbounbt it miRiit help ia". After my fiist bottl". 1 felt better. 1 took another. after which 1 was greatly Improved, ho much ho that I have recommended ^ Curilul Blnce." ! Additional Penalty on Taxes; State, County and School taxes for '.he war 1'Jbl. payable between Sep* } tember Hi Lb and December dlst. 1 ;?d 1. J n~rnrft-rer to law one per cent pen-j il'y will be added tp all taxes not ' paid by .January 1st. 1 also an j tddi' oval or;,' per cent w;ll be added j o a!! taxes not pan! by February \ny information concern- I rar office will be ffiven at office | or by mail. When inuuirin.: about ax< p ta-e -tate school district in I who', you !..? r own property. YoU's -espootful'v. S. \V. HOC UK, Trea.*isrej-. K"- haw County. Camden. S. ( .. .January "J.'lrd. 1P.TJ. I MAGNOLIA GARDENS ! LOW EXCURSION FARES I Fridays and Saturdays MARCH 4-5; MARCH 11-12 I Also For 1 rain No. 16 Sunday Mornings Qood Returning Wednesday's Following | E\ !;iiv.s applying front: I ( \ M i >K.\ <>n LANCASTER 4.00 III. ATM H'KINCS | M ?i;;; a!.! M i < i ' M' t < T. ( i'?i t'( 1 eli- now appmachj 111 g Jil'llk : ! 1.. i A1 > > . V,t )NK FARK AND ONE| IT^LI"' round trip. .-<>M I'VLruary 1 1 -1 6-1 S-2 1-22-2 V28 ; MiSrch 1 10-1 2-1 5-1 7-20-22. 1022. C.ood 7 days. Convenient Train Service: Day Coaches, Pullman Cars, Dining Cars. Consult Ticket Agents SOUTHERRN RAILWAY SYSTEM TRAVEL BY TRAIN COMFORTABLE?ECONOMICAI SAFE _ DREAM OF HIDDEN GOLD COMES TRUE One of Moit Dramatic Storie? of Lost Riches. Mexico CH.v.~Tweoly years ago, a OerintlH'U reamed of a hoard of hidden K'o'd. Now he has found a tunnel which he helleves will lead him to the treasure of a long-dead kin#. The scene of thla Is In the hinterland of Mexico, and the story Is one of the most dramatic 1n the annals of loat riches. Twenty years ago Krneato Loeck^ was a rising business man In the derma n town of Dusseldorf. He was then Just turned forty, and his diligence and acutnent were enabling him to put by what promised to he a handsome III tie competence. About h year nfter his wife died he had a vivid and remarkahle dream. The scene was the crest of a high mountain, and along a narrow track wound a long line of light skinned and seantjly clad Indians. They marched In single file, and on the shoulders of each was borne h roughly made hide sack?a sack containing gold. The carriers seemed to disappear Into the heart of the mountain,' and watching .them was a tall man of noble aspect. Just as the dream faded thm? seemed to appear written on tils hrow In letters of lire the word Cal-* gout/in. The drenin was so vivid and made so great ail Impression on I.neck that tie begun to wonder whether history had any record of u man named f'alxontzln. A long search revealed that If hud. There was a Turn scan king of Hint name who was ruling in a part of Mexico some -100 years ago, and who had vanished with gold worth Now, after 'JO years of search. I.occk has found on the summit of I.a lhitcs <1e Oro a narrow underground passage, lie Is confident that that tunnel will lend him to the hidden gold. Old Bible Holds Civil War Vet's Death Message Pittsburgh, I'll. ?A strange me*, mi go. almost seventy years old, is In the possession of I larrv C'. Wood. Win ?d found a small, hand carved Milile containing the message, packed away In a trunk in the attic. 'If helonged to William Met 'utchcon. a cousin, who enlisted in the f'ivil war. With It were a diary of 1kC,:t. n penknife a picture of the youth, and letters in his nioUier. ^ It was a last message fo his mother. iti event he never returned. A letter. found with it. told of its existence, and told the mother that It was not to he opened unless lie were killed Met 'uteheon carved the Hihle nnd hollowed it out before he went away. The message was placed inside, and the opening sealed. I'.ilf he returned wu'iin a year. Five years later, in 1v'hv . he died. His mother, w bo wis i!| at tin- time, never opened 'I e I'.'h'e. Kin' died <ooii afterward. The Hihle was put away and forgotten until Woi-d found it Vow Wood is undecided whether he should open it. Forest Highway Building Provides Work for Idle Marristmrg. I'a. ? l-'oresf road building is helping residents lii remote mountain set I loinents, most of whom depend on state forest work for a livelihood. according to I.ewis hi. Staley, secretary of the state department of forests and waters. * lu cooperation with t he state high way depart meat, the department of forests and waters is pushing new road cot-traction ;tl -"date forests. Nineteen new road projects arc un tier u;n now. with I'mi men at work. With ei.Uiplet i 11 of tlies,. projects, 7" miles ,if new forest road and two re built 1" foot strati bridges will he available for use. Landslide Moves House Nov. u. i lt.i.\ A tanner's limne here wa- moved, without harm, for more than !.*.<' feet by a landslide. Whet) the farmer returned home lie found h s hou-e in aii entirely differ ent po--t on Kv t, the household ef I t*'?ts were not in1"'!"!, Grape Vine 156 Years Old Sa tl i iahr- e| i .1 i i f I lie Trii.it > I vioe. I hi S-ttt Hnbrtel in 177"' Imlds t!o- !.-r a,- iof, ,,f being the ol ! >! grape !> -.. r ng one in tlie state 1! e hr.l'o tie* i f t!.e V.tle cover 1 ; *ii e mi v,; ;,,r,' teet. c ' > g 0 C Cr C Ov-tH>M>OC - 7 700000000 o o 2 Prisoner Pleads in Vain for Lash o O o O \\ .11*!s,ir. un 1 he unusu.t o ? le of I pr s.iMer pleading ^ o ' 1 O o ' > !'? Th.ggert was Wit new,.-! m g S .. ,! A I, p..;, e court W hen g o V ,g s*-i??, sin.:' ser.tettce,! '"lar- O g . : . i Mi nurd. twohf.v three, to g o .rs :n the penitent.arv O o 0 of- ' irv in \ rubers: burg O s> XI r..?r ! . s,,ed in \ain for a $ O ,. , , ? o -h... '. |- -el, e \\ t.'l i.ISties iii q . i'.. e up Itic d 'hefelice $ D O "I -petit the t'Cst years of my o g life so far in lonla prison." tie g i O told the hench "I am witling to 0 2 pay for this crime, but I do not g I 0 want to spend the greater part O 2 ,,f my life In prison." 2 V Mag'sfrnte Smith pointed out 0 5 that Canadian law does not per ft Y ndt Imposition of the laah for g o burglary. o Modems Perfect Ideas of Ancient Machinists? Speaking of' steam-driven couflies, Prof. John S. Worley, of the Unlvernitv of Michigan, nays there waa a steam engine In Alexandria In 300 ?. <_\, thousands of years before James Watt sat and watched his grandmother's tea kettle bubble. The steam engine Invented by the scientist. Ilero of Alexandria, was portrayed In a scientific book in 1?00. The engine was merely a toy. but the outgoing steam whirled a large globe on the ornate apparatus and biased the way for power by steam. The wuter turbine Is supposed to be a modern Invention, but Professor. Worley points out that one was created by the Homan, Vltruvlus, In itOO B. C. and was, historians suy, used to grind grain. | "Looking It all over." Professor Wor. |ey said, "modern man must find gratification In the Invention of several key Implements that have made the perfection of old discoveries possible. I We take, for Instance, the Invention of the Bessemer converter, with the resulting steel tools, the construction of forges and the building of Intricate gauges. These are things that our generation has contributed to wringing Into use the discoveries of the ancient machinist, who labored alone and unrecognized in his laboratories to produce brain children tfmt people centuries later were to claim as their own." ??? Man Has No Monopoly of Sense of Gratitude Gratitude In a human being Is an j Indication of culture of heart. Those [ who give their lives to uplifting, splriti unliziug their fellows, and are often j rewarded by crucifixion upon the tree of Indinference, wonder sometimes if It is a humanity, a quality peculiar to man by which lie may he distinguished from other beings, says ,T. Otis Swift. In the New York World-Telegram. The wise cultivate gratitude to their environment and the universe as an attribute that, In giving, will make them Sought after, will surround them with friends, and return to them In wealth ? since wealth flows toward those who are beloved: w'UfrW personalities nt4 rm t friends. The celfpndlne. gone wild from some beloved garden of the grandmothers, grateful for the long summer, stays green long after other phmn^/nre sere, and even after "the i first snow flurries. It gives Its yellow, | juice to color Christinas ball dresses of milkweed silk for fairy ladles of I Queen Mah's court. The weeping willow, Salix Babylonicn. among the first to put out color in spring, gratefully stays green until after the first snows to cheer a world that made it smile through its tears all summer. Drooping itself. It defied sadness In others as when "by the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yen, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst t hereof." Not a Nice Pose The fann-us duke of Wellington was -itfine for the sculptor, who was un- j satisfied with the pose of the famous general. "As I am going to make ft statue of your grace." said the sculptor, "can you not .<>11 me what you were doing before, say. the battle of Salamanca? Were you not galloping about the fields cheering on your men to deeds of valor hv word and action?" "Bah !" sa'd the duke, "if you really want to model me as I was on the morning of Salamanca, then do me crawling along a ditch on my stomach, with ft telescope in mv hand." Persian* First in Field The fellow who thought of the automatic toy. or the mechanical cartoon in which silly iliings get themselves accomplished hv elaborate, hut nonsensical nifiina. seems to be Just about I 7<W) years behind the times. The I'er-i.itts b<- f I 'mi t" it way :i Che Thirteenth century and made elaborate < rn'wings of their foolish devices in beautiful books whhb are now among the priceless treasures of the nrt w orld. Stcr.r A p- ~ ?;7 The skull of a rhinoceros that might well have been the target of Stone age -pears is among the exhibits in the 1 held "f **ntnrrt History, In hieago. The animal was a woolly hinoceros. coeval in Europe with the reat hairy mammoths and other ' easts now exMn< t that roamed the alleys ditr ng inter Ire age time* The -pecimen was sent bv the Royal rrm - nun. Brussels Belgium. Big Mouth H?i No Value Although the mouth of the baleen hale, the target creature in the world. Is so large that a rr.an eou'd - and upright in its throat is scarce !v large enough to admit a man's fi--t nd the tube hv means of which its food renche^lts stomach Is about, the re of ii wa'k tig stick. Since this huge animal is toothless. It can there 'ore eat only very tiny creatures. Grapes Almost Universal The original home of grapes seems to have been Asia, but they now grow n northern Africa, southern Europe, and In North and South America Drapes were introduced into France and Italy, presumably by the Phoeni clans, and were taken to England by the Romans; the Butch carried the plants to South Africa and the Span lab brought them to America. o r ~~ ? _ j j .ai-p-- * i LIGHTS IIIUMIU I t. | of NBW Y?Kl!i j A fellow I know, who was a captain In the late war, got on a street ear the other day in a purt of Urenter New York unfamiliar to him, to receive a warm greeting from the conductor. VPou't you rometnher me?" ?#ld Ike latter. "I wan In y<uur outfit." 5 After tulking to hhu for a moment, the former ofticer did remember him. He was u man he hud demoted to a private because he wus no good as a corporal. Hut he was glad to see him and glad the man remembered him kindly, lie proffered his nickel. "Oh, no, captain I" exclaimed the conductor, with u royal gesture of generosity, "I couldn't lake money from you." v Xhere didn't seem to be any wuy gracefully to refuse such a striking courtesy, but the former ofticer hopee there was no inspector on the car. There Is a middle-aged man of Manila ttan whose business Is making maps. Kvery time some adventurer finds an unknown Jungle village, or a uew rlv?>r. mountain, valley or plain, this man makes little dots or lines on Ids maps, and dpes a bit of lettering In spaces which have been blank since map making commenced. Sometimes he Is the first, aside from the explorers, to know what lies beyond the mountains, across the rivers. As he puts in his dots and his letters his imagination must show him wild woods and hills, great stretches of ice, sunbaked veldts, ijueer birds and beasts. Vicariously, he Is the greatest adventurer of them all. lie had been working hard, so they gave him a vacation, a whole month to spend ,as he liked, go where he wished. The first thing he did was to head for a boat. It happened to be a ferryboat. He journeyed to New Jersey and spent his vacation In Newark. * * There are always discouraged persons in any large city who pick the lock of the gates of night before the dark angel is ready to open them. If they waited one more day, most of them probably wouldn't do it. Hut there was a peculiar suicide in New York not long ago concerning which I didn't seet much In the papers. A man who had lost considerable money in the crash, but who still had earning power and apparently no more Immediate troubles than the average, laid h velvet portiere on the tloor In the kitchen of his bachelor apartment, and laid himself on the portiere, after shutting the windows and turning on the gas. Hut the peculiar thing was that they found scattered about him, like fresh green l<Sn-vos, l.'.NK) new onedollar bills. \ '? Charles Chaplin and Maurice Chevalier were at Juan les Pins this summer. One naturally would expect the children to go crazy over Chaplin, hut they tell me that Chevalier was their beau ideal. One day a small girl went In great excitement to her mother. "I talked with Mr. Chevalier." she said. "Yes?'' said her mother. "What did you talk about?" "Well." answered the daughter, "he said. 'l/ook out! I am going to dive.'" Martin Johnson finally has disposed of all the gorillas, chimps and native boys he (nought hack front Africa. The native hoys went Harlem on him and he shipped I hem home. Some of the clumps and gorillas went. I am told, to San Diego. This gives Mr. Johnson a hit more room in his apartment, as one or two of the gorillas were his guests. They were not a bit more trouble than a couple of lions. (fc> teal I?.-!! Syndicate.) ? WNl,' Service. j Lost Longhorn Herd Enriches Texas Man San Antonio, Texas. ? Domains of a lost herd of longhorn rattle, famous in tho hi-tory of tin* Texas range, have been found by I.. D. P.ertlllinn of Mincola. Texas, and their horns have ! made him rich. In 1^12 Jacob Don I/onerr's entire herd of several thousand longhorns stain' eded in a storm noir 'Cor!!ngar., crees I hov were never found. That is. net until Bertfllinn trailed a nearby canyon to n rave opening and found a great heap of hones and horns. rtert'TTTon -has since sold more than ' worth of hoftis, and Is now negotiating for a sale to the prinre of Wales. Rcfu^eci Return Rome. ? The ministry of , olon'es has | ar.noi!.'! ed '.hut during Dm past .If) | j mold' s more than 400 refugees from ' j Tripol'tania have r?*Dirned fo their nn I rive rountrv. I I 1 ; ! ? Ancient Copybook ? Given to College j. Williamsburg, Vu. ? A Tallin X ? composition h*>nk published in {* .j. t *..V) has come Into possession <,f X |l* William and Mary college, a gift *{ { from Justice Robert F Thorn;* X son. of the New York Supreme Y y e??urf .j, j. Across the title pnge |s the X Y inscription penned in InkA "From the library of Chief Jus X Y tire Marshall, obtained at Rich y ^ mnnd.?J IC. Th" X X "I K. P." was James Kirk Y & Punlslng. a famous Amorleni au S X tbnr M 770-1 SrtO). \ * l - , -- - -j f . A'' i'r . Shower* of Meteorite* Not Unusual Happening The oldest meteorite u>j, be discovered Immediately after falling to earth is wtIII preserved. It fell In France uu November 7, 1492, and penetrated ii,l(> the ?oll to a depth of six feet, causing a KKfiAt noise that was heard over * wide area. The emperor had the . , tone, which weighed 2<X) pounds placed lu a church, and the wise iueq' of the day regarded it as a divine' sign, for It was the first meteorite they had ever seen. However, there are Chinese records dating back before Christ telling of falling meteorites, on? of which dropped on a royal palace. It is not at all unusual for meteorites to descend upon the earth lu showers. In 1808 a great mass, ndt unlike * small comet, crushed In Poland, and by actual count, the swarm consisted of 100,000 piece*. In Hungary another collection of small particles was gathered In. the total being 1,200 pounds. Some outstanding meteorites and the places where th# were recovered, together with their welghtsi, are: Bacublrlto, Mexico, twenty-seven, toua; Willamette, Ore., sixteen tous; Bendago, Braxil, five tons, and Australia, four tons. During the past 120 years only 850 meteorites have been dlscovj ered on cnrth. but millions are consumed In our atmosphere long before they reach the surface, Pevelopment of Knife as Tebie Appointment From the Seventeenth century after the fork caused so much excitement, the development of table appointment -was rapid. Silver service was soon Introduced and In ordinary use in the Eighteenth century. Although comparatively recent as a , table implement, the knife might be established as older than the fork or I spoon if traced to the original cutting j implements of Hint or other stone. In the Bronze age there were cutting tools of bronze and so on down through the centuries, but as late as 300 years ago the table knife was a rarity. For a long period men curried about with them in their belt or shoe u knife for general purposes, much as j modern man carries around a pocket ! knife. Whenever a large portion of , food were served him, he cut it with this knife and then returned it to its holder. j The greatest advance in the table knife took place after the Seventeenth ' century, when the implement became popular in England. Shetlield developed as one of the greatest cutlery manufacturing centers in the world | and lias retained to the present day the proud title without challenge. Labor Unions' History The guilds of craftsmen of the Middle ages were in some respects labor unions, hut of skilled workers. For unskilled labor the best prototype Is furnished by the Six Men of Dorset. They were farm laborers who about 1"><> years ago handed together to demand of their employers moat to eat at least once a week. They were pros pouted for conspiracy and sentenced to < long terms of penal servitude. It was I specifically against the law to form a labor union in England until 1S24, when slight relaxations were admitted. The labor union movement was slow in starting in the United States. It was not until the middle of the Nineteenth ^ 1 century that labor unions were at all tolerated and then only mildly. Their rights were negligible. The rise of the labor unions in this country has been since that time. Pioneer'i Grave Unknown Arkansas Post on the Arkansas rlv er was the first settlement In Arkansas. It was founded In 1GS6 by Chevalier de Tonti. Nothing much is left there but excavations where the houses stood and an ancient eemetery. It is in this old graveyard that > the interest of St. Louis'lies; for here, it Is believed, the body of IMerre Laclede Legueste rests. He was eo his way from St. Louis to New Orleans in 1773 when he fell ill at Ar- _ Kansas I'ost and died there. He was burled in the edge of the wilderness that then surrounded the outpost. His grave has never been identified, hnt !t is pronahie the cemetery still there grew around it.?St. Louis Globe-Democrat. State'* Long Coast Lines Michigan lias the longest coast line of any state, 1.71miles, including in the uppe/" and S10 in the lower peninsula. Florida is second with 1.107 miles on the Atlantic and the gulf j Mexico. California is third with 013 i mite*. Maine Is u good way down the ~ list, with ??S miles of coast, as mens| urod by tlo? United States coast | geodetic .surwy. and is preceded by Texas, Louisiana. North Carolina and Or. g.,n. If, however, all the indentations and hays <?f Maine are taken into I consideration, its shore line Is over 2,"iO0 miles, or much longer than that of any other state. Hsrdy Musk-Ox 'I he musk-ox is evidently An ani1 mal uf a former age which has persisted in the bleakest, mqpt Tin prom Ising part of our globe, says Nature Magazine. "Now their range la the barren lands of Canada, west of Hudson bay, the Islands of the Arctic ocean and the northern coast ot 4Greenland. When assailed, the mutk-ox Witt form a circle, heads out and lowered, with the young within. Thus they pv*" sent an impenetrable w*n of sharp horn* ... 1 dBS - ? - H?i