The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 07, 1932, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
Nobody's Business
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for The Chronicle by Gee
McG?. Copyright, Xt)28.
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new* from ?at rock
speck-tide salesman has been in
' ! town tor 2 or 8 weeks Belling
"Ilk* and he ba? benn verry ?uck,ful.
ho haa tt 8,i*n-boar<l iu$fc
m! they use in jewelry stoars to
L the eye sight by. he trades
? yore old specks for only 8$ to boot.
Ss name is <\r. jacob pirkins, m. d.
i ?. h. d. his sign-board hae the
J,lU,wing on. K: "x. y. *.
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u.{' fb m .
the sick horse belonging to the
-idder elliston which was reported in
mt collum last week passed away the
J,y after the vettemerry drove down
to see him. he gargled her throte
with a bottle of new medieon too. he
had the hay fever, so the vettemerry
,aid?from eating too much hay. she
will be badly missed.
a big fuss has broke, apt in our
icholl. it seems that miss jennie
veeve smith, our school principle,
whipped sammie jones and cut the
blood out of him when he jumped
loose from her, and his ma and his
pa rushed to the rescue of him in
his ford and it looked like once that
she would slap miss jennie veeve, but
jhe was afraid of her onner count
of her weighing 1&0 pounds. . thejr
will resort to the law and sue her
for malfeasance and salt and battery
of a high and aggervated nature on
the person of sammie and his legs
ansoforth.
..yore corry spondent, mr. miko
Clark, rfd, has gone back into the
dog bizness and plans to keep a nice
jtock of beegles and possum dogs and
hounds, as well as a^few plain dogs,
they will range in price from 2$ up
according to age and moddel, with the
hounds in the lead, if you plan -to
buy a dog, plese rite or foam me befoar
calling so's i can have them looking
nice.
..the sunday scholl picknick planned
by the bizzy bees <xf rehober for next
satturday afternoon at 6 p. m. at the
jones swimming pool will be put off:
the committee found it unpossible to
raise enough money to buy the icecream
with, plese be governed accordingly
and stay at home,
yores trulie,
mike Clark, rfd. '<
corry spondent.
WE KEPT I P WITH THE JONESES
..It has been mighty hard on us to
keep up with the Joneses, but by
Heck, we have done it....and the
Joneses are busted and so are we, but
its their fault: they started this high
living thing.
..The day after old man Jones
fetched that 7-tube, super-hetrodine,
full-mesh extra grid radio home, we
installed a set just like it and played
as loud as they did. They bought a
new car in 1929, and so did we. Ours
had 4-wheel brakes too.
..Mrs. Jones diddent get to wear her
2-carat supper ring but 3 days till
our family had one just like it. They
began painting their house on Tuesday,
so we borrowed some money and
started painting our house on Thursday.
We got doije a day ahead of
them, as our house is smaller.
..Mrs. Jones and her family went to
the seashore in June and me my family
went to the seashore in June. . We
borrowed money for that also. Willie
Jones went to college in 1930, so our
boy had to go to college too. And
We sent him on credit. We had no
idea of lotting any of the Joneses
or outshine us.
The Joneses traded at the very best
stores In town, and so did we: only
4ey Paid cash, and we had a charge
account. The Joneses bought some
docks outright, and- we bought some
shocks on margin. Mrs. Jones has a
Pond that measures 20 by 30 feet;
j^r*. built the following week after
- wa- built, measures 20 by 30
. She hni snails and salamanders
,n ^er Pond and so have we.
^ The Jonese? cook with both elecar.d
gas: we have 2 stoves too.
7 have an automatic refrigerator:
?ws is just like theirs, only ours ain't
1Ulto pa:d for yet, and so ain't our
j^r an<* stoves and radio. Old Man
ran for the legislature, and so
' r,u* old man....and both of us
*>t Vat
TV
ls is the only time in history
*t the Joneses... .who always set
bTe"' {t iR thc r,eck* We
j e 'th ppor now and we borrow
t0?L ?ne another. They ain't trying
j. *eT> UP with us and we ahVt try}]
*CeeP up with them. Our fam
are on good terms and we aetu0rw
arK>tber very often and >
j*? lo church on Sabbaths too. The
are nice folks.
Depredations of Birds '
Offset by Good Work
The fickleness among allied nations
and their shifting from one .side to
unother in different wura has a counterpart
In the course conducted by
some of man's allies In the war on Insect
pests. The birds, for Instance,
sometimes do tremendous damage to
drops through the damage to ynuug
shoot* first coming through the ground
and to the entire crop through the
eating of seed. Krult trees and berry
bushes also suffer from the depredations
of birds.
In spite of the damage they do,
however, the birds as a usual thing
are to be fouud ou the side of man
whon It comes to the war with insects.
It has been noted by experts studying
the insect problem that uuy unusual
outbreak of pests invariably finds the
birds flocking to the section where the
outbreak has occurred. Every insect
seems to have an overwhelming number
of enemies among the birds. The
gypsy moth, for instance, Is eaten by
40 different types of birds. The cotton
boll weevil is uttucked by 00. the
nrmy worm by 48, tho leaf hoppers by
1?B, the potato beetle by 34 and the
wlreworm by 205.
The birds, when they feed on the
Insects, really $et themselves down to
serious eating. One killdeer, shot and
examined for research purposes, had
383 alfalfa weevils In its stomach
while a blackbird was found to have
442. Such a capacity for Insects
makes the birds welcome allies when
the Insect outbreaks are on, no matter
how much they may bo opposed to
the best Interests of man when they
are carrying on their own depredating
acU^ltles.?Washington Star.
Reference fo "Auroch"
in Biblical Writings?
In all Scrlpturul references the word
translated unicorns Is the Hebrew
"reem," which modern > science declares
to be best understood by making
It refer to the "auroch" or wild
ox, which did formerly live on the
east sideof Jordan, and elsewhere,
even in east Europe, according to
many authorities.
This was an exceedingly powerful,
active and at times, dangerous wild
beast, of great sire, viflth long power- I
ful horns.
It is interesting to note that the
reem Is not known to, or at ieerst Is
not mentioned by any cal wrtloc I,
after the time, of Isaiah, $ncl
agrees with the dictum of a^cheologists
founded on discoveries among ,
the monumental records of past ages,
that the nurochs became extinct in
Assyria about the year 1000 B. C.
The auroch, It is now considered,
may be held to be the very animal understood
by the sacred writers to bear
tho name reem. That they used the
name of-the- mythical unicorn in translating
It may be set down to the understanding
of the age In which our
translation of the Hlble was nmde, and
not with any intention of perpetuating
the legend of the one-horned creature
by the men who gave us our incomparable.
so-called, Authorized Versions of
the inspired Scriptures.
History of Chalk
In ocean waters are tiny animals
with shells so small that a person can
hardly see them without the help of
a microscope. Study of chalk in chalk
cliffs has proved that the chalk is
made up chiefly of the shells of tiny
animals like those found in the sea
today. On investigation we And millions?even
billions?of these tiny
animals living and dying in the ocean
waters, each one leaving his shell behind.
In a piece of chalk two inches
long, it is estimated that there are
. the shells of more than 100,000 of
these tiny animals. Chalk Is a form
of soft limestone. Other, kinds of
limestone were made In much the
game way j but chalk is the kind
" which wIlT leave white marks on a
blackboard.
Hi# Way
There had been a somewhat heated
argument In the club card room, and
when the battle was over one of the
younger members present sought advice
from an old member wise In the
ways of cards and card players.
"Question Is. sir. if one Is playing
against opponents weaker than oneself
in knowledge of the game, should
one point out errors, or should one
remain silent?"
"As a younger mnn," said the old-player,
"I used to try to be helpful,
but now I thank heaven silently, keep
my face straight, and take their money.
"?London Tit-Hits.
Longfellow Over Modest
Longfellow received $25 for "The
Wreck of the Hesperus." This was the
poofs own price. The editor wrote
In accepting tHe poem: "Your ballad
Is grand. Enclosed are $25. .the sum
you mention, for it, paid by tho proprietors
of the New World, in which
glorious paper it will resplendentl.v
coruscate on Saturday next. Of ail
American Journals, the New^ World Is
alone Worthy to contain it.
Fruit# in Temperate Zone
The sequldllla. the chayote, the
akee. breadfruit. Jack fruit, mangosteen.
sapodilln and durian are some of ,
the tropical fruits that are not yet
common in the markets of the tetn
perate' zone. Tomatoes, eggplants
pomegranates, limes, oranges, lem
ons, grapefruit, bananas, plneap
ptpq. figs, dates and peara are r
ii* familiar as many of the natlv.
fruits of the temperate zone.
"Hunger March" Started
Revolution in France
la Fraiuo the great revolution bopan
with the arrival in I'arla during
July, 178U, of thousands of "hunger
pilgrims" from the provincial towns,
James Wuhlo Fuwceit writes, in the
Washington Tost. They hud tnurchod
to the cupttal to demand hreud of the
Wing. It was, these riotous elements
which Joined with the city mob to take
the Bastille on July 14. Ity October
the swollen populating1 qt the metrorolitan
urea was starving. The inunlclpallty
endeavored to supply bread
to the more necessitous people, but the
demand was too great to be met In this
way. On October 0 a delegation of
women set out for Versailles to petition
Ix>uls XVI. As they morched
they were Joined by multitudes of other
women. Arriving at their goal they
increased their originally mild demands.
The "Insurrection of women" was
promptly followed by a similar march
to Versalllea of the men of Paris led
by the National Guard. The arrival of
La Fayette saved the royal family for
the moment, but the king was forced
to return to I'arls, accompanied by tho
mob. On January 21, 1703, be was
executed. The French revolution was
"a marching revolution" from first to
last, and in the end Napoleon Bonaparte
Was directing the marches.
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Sugar and Insanity in
Bond of Relationship
There Is a relation between sugar
and melancholy.
' Investigations reported by Dr. P. K.
McOowan In the British Medical Journal,
Lancet, show that In certain types
of .insanity the amount of blood sugar
above the normal Is closely associated
with the depth of the depression.
Doctor McCowan has devised a technique
for measuring the "hyperglycne1c
Index" as a measure of abnormal
blood content nnd believes that it hns
some diagnostic value. Thus a patient
who apparently had recovered
from a depression would not be released
while the blood sugar remained
too high. In Insane states characterised
by extreme excitement, he found,
there Is little abnormality In this respect.
Sometimes a depressed^ patient will
be found, he reported, who has a low
hlood sugar index. This Is a bad sign
nnd greatly diminishes the likelihood
of recovery.
The sugar Increase In depression,
he says. Is a secondary phenomenon
incidental to body changes that ac'company
emotion.
- Day of "FulL Dreii"
"How,, many undergarments should
he worn in cold weather?" was one of
the groat problems of the. belle of the
nineties. Doctor Everett of New York
"author of "Health Fragments,"
thus expressed his opinion: "From
the first of November until the first
of May, three suits should be worn.
First: a full suit of wool flannel from
neck to heels and wrists. Second: a
full suit of heavy unbleached English
canton flannel, entirely soverlng th?
^ult of wool flannel, or first suit.
Third: a light suit of pretty muslin,
extending to knee and wrist. If, over
all these.'a lady desires to ndorn herself
by an exquisite chemise, which
buttons In front from top to bottom,
there is no objection to her doing so.
She will be neither warmer nor colder
by the addition."?Detroit News.
English Folk Lore
Here are a few Interestihg superstitions
of rural England: "Hit no animal
with a willow stick?for the curse
upon It." The Blessed Virgin, so It is
said, whipped her son with a birch
of willow that caused him to say:
Cursed be the "Sally Tree" which
maketh Me to smart,
The "Sally Tree" BhaJl be the first to
decay at heart.
?"The Sally" Is the local name for
willow, In which tree the heart decays
very early without killing the tree.
Little bird-nest furze among wheat
stubble is said to fortell by its spores
the number of shillings per bushel the
wheat will sell for.
To Provost Cray Hair
Modern Mechanics and Inventions
Magazine points out three rules whereby
gray hair may be eliminated. First,
keep the head uncovered as much as
possible and avoid tight hats. Second,
massage the scalp night and morning
with the Angers and use h good hair
tonic every day nnd some bland oil
once a week. Third, the diet should
contnln whole wheat brend Instead of
white bread. Fruit salads are advocated
nnd ample vegetables, especially
spinach.
Famous Tea Set
" The pink Spode tea set In the museum
of the D. A. K. Memorial Continental
hall was owned by Colonel
Mnrstelter, aide-de-camp to General
Washington. The officer was a distinguished
resident of Alexandria. The
ten set, used in entertaining Washington,
was inherited by the late Mrs. H.
A. Mulfiken, member of the Army and
Navy Chapter, D. A. It.; a descendent
of Colonel Marsteller. Mrs. Mulllken
bequeathed the pink Spode tea set
to the D. A. It. museum.
Human Body a Museum
p A walking museum of relics out of
the past Is a description applied to
the human body by an eminent British
naturalist In Modern Mechanics and
Inventions Magazine. "Vestige organs."
like the Appendix. And the et* muscles
which enable some people to
twitch their ears, are examples.
Governor
Roosevelt
Says:
Mf TOO. believe In Individualism;
* but I mean It In everything
that the word Implies. I believe,
that our Industrial and economic
system ta made tor Individual men
and women; and not Individual men
and women for the benefit ot the
system."
,
"I believe that the Individual
should have full liberty ot action
to make thd< most ot himself; but
1 do not believe that In the name
ot that sacred word a few power
tul luterests should be permitted
to make Industrial cannon-fodder ol
the lives of half of the population
of the United States."
"I believe in the sacredness.of
private property, which mepns that
1 do not believe that it should be
subjected to the ruthless manlpulatlon
of professional gamblers In the
stock markets and In the corporate
system. 1 share the President's complaint
against regimentation, but
unlike him. t dislike It not only
when it is carried on by an Informal
group amounting to an economic
government of the United 8tates,
but when It Is done by the government
of the United States Itself."
M1 believe that the government
without becoming a prying bureau.
cracy, can act as a check or counter
balance to the oligarchy so as to
secure Initiative life, a chance to
work, and the safety- of savings
to men and women, rather than
safety of exploitation to the exploiter,
safety of manipulation to
the financial manipulator, safety of
unlicensed power to those who
would speculate to the bitter end
with the welfare and property of
other people."
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SMITH'S STORY
> 'Some days ago Senator Ed. Smith
was in the village and stopped in
front of the Tribune office to win my
vote.
That was my first glimpse- of him
and the shock was so great that I
could scarcely believe him real. He
seemed to have stepped out of some
novel by Qpie Reed.
He did most of the talking, but it
wasn't conversation and he seemed
very personal about it. . He just
made speeches at me. With his eyes
closed or gazing at imaginary crows
over my head, he orated and harrangued
and made the welkin ring. Never
have I heard so much gorgeous
language wasted on one man. He
never used less than three figures of
speech, two quotations from the
classics and forty big words to express
the most simple three-word
idea. He must be a curly wolf on
the 8tump if he can do tftat well in
private.. . ,'
Most of what he said was banked
under flowers and concealed behind
baijners so that I couldn't understand
what it was about, but the story he
used as a cracker was simple enough
and deserves repetition.
A certain politician was told that
a Mr. Brown was abusing and berating
him and moving Heaven and
earth to defeat him.
"That's strange," he mused. "Why,
I never did him a favor in my life."
I liked that story because I have
had so many similar experiences.
When I am asked to do anybody a
favor I comply reluctantly and sadly.
I know what the result will bp.
I am about to lose a friend.
The only people who scowl at me
on the street or berate me in my absence
are those for whom I have
done 8ome favor.
But, no; there is one exception.
Yesterday I met a man who had always
greeted me with a sm+le and
this time his eyes were cold and his
greeting unfriendly. He had done
something to injure me and he
couldn't forgive me for it. ? Bob
Quiljen in Fountain Inn Tribune.)
Starves With Money in Pocket
Stanley, Wis., Oct. 4.?Steve Bernet,
71, of Stanley, died at a local
' hospital after having been found uni
conscious at his home. Physicians
I believe starvation was the cause of
-his death.
Bemet was found Sunday by Chief
of Police Carl Halmstad, who had
l beetf summoned by a neighbor who
| suspected something was wrong.
In Bernet's clothing was found
$230, while a bank book showed deposits
of $450.
One man from Sumter county and
another from Port Royal have written
Governor Blackwood commending his
request for a $5,000,000 loan from
Uncle Sam to build more highways, as
a result of the general condemnation
given the k*n request by papers,
solons and people of this state.
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Selling Corn to Hogs
Still Advised by Clark
Clemeon College, rSept. 24.?"With
the low price of hogs it is evident
that the hog producer, who is also
in general the corn grower, can not
make much money from the corn-hog
combination ns he could during periods
of higher hog prices," says O. M.
Clark, extension economist, who urges,
however, that "where the choice
is between selling com as grain and *
marketing it through hogs, the opportunities
offered by hogs as a
means through which to market corn
are not far out of line with the opportunities
offered during the pre
depression years."
\ "The price of hogs," Mr. Clark continues
in explanation, "has been lower
during the current hog marketing
season than it has been for the same
quality of hogs in the more than 30
years of which we have records; but)
even so it has not been as low reta- j
tively as have the prices of corn,
oats and cottonseed meal, and only
somewhat lower relatively than fish
meal and tankage."
T<5 illustrate his tpoint Mr. Clark
says:
"Hogs at $4;26 a hundred, assuming
an average feed requirement and'
average grain, would leave the same I
return above feed cost as hoge at I
$8.65 would have left at this time in i
1928. The average price of things
farmers 'buy has declined about 30
per cent since 1928. Allowing for
this decline, hogs at $4.26 now will
leave above feed cost a return which
will buy as much as could have been
bought with the return above feed
cost from hogs selling for $9.10 at
the corresponding period in 1928."
Life Termer Dies
In Massachusetts
Bridgewater, Mass., 'Sept. 30.?
Jesse Pomeroy, Massachusetts' notorious
life prisoner, died at the state
farm here last night at the. age of
70, after having served 56 years behind
prison bars.
Pomeroy, who served 40 years of
his life sentence in solitary confinement
at the state prison in Charleston,
was sentenced in 1873 for the
murder of a child. He was known tc
have killed at least two children as
a result of mutilation and beating
and to have injured several others,
but not fatally. He was then but 14
years old, having begun his career
of crime at the age of 13.
Schoolboy Makes
Good
Chicago, Sept. 22.?When 12-yearold
James Noble, Jr., said to his
schoolmates, "I betcha a thousand
(dollars I'm right," he produced a
$1,000 bill from his pocket to back
up his boast.
James went even further. He
flashed a $600 bill and two $60 bills
and toifl his friends he was thinking
of buying a new bicycle. His school
teacher heard the boy's boasts and
told police about it.
Tbjpy questioned James and found
the money genuine. James told officers
his father had said he was going
to Denver three weeks ago and if
he didn't come back to look in a tin
can in the clothes closet.
When his parent did not return,
James looked and found the $1,600.
Police started to hunt the father.
Ready Reference
Bed of Great Help
The fall garden has jsuffered so
many disasters that the ready reference
bed will be a great help in supplying
the family table with vegetables
throughout the winter. It will
also furnish plants for later transplanting.
This bed has an advantage
of being small so it can be looked
after more closely for insect pests. This
bed is 20 feet long, 6 feet wide
and 18 inches deep. It is made like
a hot bed. Excavate the soil to a
depth of 18 inches. In this excavation
put an even layer of fermenting
horse stable manure inches deep.
Pack this layer of manure firmly and
sprinkle immediately until saturated. .
The manure is to furnish bottom heat.
On top of the layer of manure add
4 to 6 inches of rich garden soil, free
from roots and trash; level and
slightly pack this layer, and then sift
about onejhalf inch of fine, soil or
woods earth <Jver it. Care should be
taken to know that the- soil is free
from disease.
Seeds for this bed are: 1 tablespoon
of Georgia cabbage, collard*
for transplanting; 1 tablespoon of
mustard; 1 tablespoon of Kale; 1 teaspoon
of Iceberg lettuce; 1 teaspoon
of radish; 1 tablespoon of white egg >
; turnip; 1 tablespoon of purple top
turnip; 1 tablespoon of Spanish brown
onion for transplanting later.
Place seed in bowl, mix well, add 6
times as many spoons of soil as you
have seed, stir all together well and
sow broadcast.
BANKRUPT I
SALE
Entire stock of Ladies', Men's and |
Children's High Grade SHOES? I
formerly of E. P. & F. A. Davis I
I Shoe Store of Columbia, S. C., I
bought from U. S. Court. , I
SALE BEGINS 9 A. M. Q I
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7
Camden Salvage Co. I
Schlosburg's Stbre h
Cotton Farmers!
We would like'to figure with you before you sell
your cotton crop. We believe we can save you money.
In addition to our usual liberal advances on optional
and annual pool cotton we are in a position to
buy cotton from our members and make a settlement
in full at time of delivery.
We can store your cotton for you at 20c per bale
! per month. Our interest r&te is 5 per cent. j
An Association representative will be in Camden
at the Loan & Savings Bank building on Thursday's
and will be glad to discuss the marketing of your cotton
through the Association with you.
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S. C. Cotton Growers Co-Op. Association
W. T. BEASLEY, District Field Agent
O. L. HOGON, Cl&sser,
(Licensed by U. S. D. AA r- ?r
SUMTER OFFICE?TELEPHONE 152