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StMalo, Brittany 8t. Malo'a Forry on Whoelt. I I iPr?i?r*<l by National Oeogrnphto Soowty. ' WMhlnuton. 1>^.)-WNU Service. ST. MALO, did Brittany Beuport, Ih donning party Areas for the celebration In May of the four hundredth anniversary of Brittany's annexation to France. Without "fancy dress" St. Maio Is i'charming, picture book town of the French north const. Along tho water front. In the shadow of the city's old walls, visitors stumble upon, groups of old saJts, smoking stubby pipes as they spin yarns of the sea. Nearby their sturdy boats ure clustered In the barbor. Within eyeshot of the yarn-tellers, new St. Malo .reveals itself; splended beaches with modern hotels and gambling casinos In the background. Where Ash nets once wore dried and repaired, "aliens"?vacationists from England, France, and other parts of Europe?are swinging tennis rackets on smooth courts, tapping croquet balls, building castles of sand and seaweed. flying kites, shivering from dips 1n the chilly waters of the English channel, and sitting under canvas shades with nothing more to do thkn to watch their favorite dogs dig holes. Gone are the days of the corsairs when St Malo's mariners ranked 4, among the bravest afloat*, The grizzled suns uf the Cbrsal.rs why made England hut with rage for lost ships and who carried the name of St. Malo around the world through the half century before 1825, now sail forth to battle with the gaily-tinted herring and the peaceful oyster. An annual fishing cruise to the grand banks of Newfoundland is the longest venture. The stores of merchants who staked fortunes on a single privajfcerlng e? peditlon now have other owners, whose modern show windows display bathing suits or high-heeled shoes. >'jSt. Malo no longer needs to dare the waves In searcli of foreign booty. Instead of fleets and armies, excursion boats come with tourists. Syncopated music and the Ivory ball tinkle in the casinos until dawn. The old lure of the sea, and the stout Breton heart persist. Once Home of Co real re. In the years of its greatness, St. Malo flung to the winds of every cilme the colors of FTanee and its own corsair flag of blue with the white cross and sleeping ermine. No other city in France was so well known in the Americas and the Indies. One of its sons gave Canada to France, another captured Itlo de Janeiro, another blockaded the Ganges, another took Madras. St. Malo's toll of English shipping was set at 382 warships and 4,510 merchantmen. England and Holland sent fleets and armies to hatter down the "scourge of the soas." St. Malo fought back as blithely us It fought .with kings of France, dukes of Ilrltlnny, or Its own triple-headed government. The city of corsairs loved to flght either on the water or on Its own rocky-isle. Today, as then, the tide rises and falls twice In each 24 'hours?30 feet ordinarily, more than 40 when the sea runs full. Castles of sand and seaweed disappear at the ^flood, the scars of the day are smoothed and the waves break against the Twelfth century rnmparts. The fortified Islands stur-1 out black agn!n<t the setting sun. Clear above the serried h''la of steep roof* the crenelated spire of old St. Vincent's pricks the sky of mottled red and green. Grim structures of steel-gray granltp. flecked with ? mica which sparkles in the sun, slope down to the broad ramparts and the squat towers of the oltndel outside. St. Malo of the ages endures. Blue and white enamel signs imTnnrtaliz,? notable personages of St. Malo. in (j10 natne8 of most of the public squares and of nearly all the s:r.-.um, except lh??se leading to 1 the pri:.<\]t;|] gates, wore changed to j " nor those who made the town fani- , ou.v ! T!.f '.Uf |? ;(,ng. Old names, sug- j gpMi-... , < vniifsbed landmarks?Dane- i (Ja:. llronurv Uriim, Gluttony, Cum- i main, lancet, Haines of I.ight Habits, Big Little Steps. Harp. Break of Hiv i?m Butter. Soft Grass, Pillory, Street Suuppers, Hangman?have been changed to make n St. JIalo Who's Who The* known orn joprjuos Cartier. discoverer of the St. Lawrence fiver; Maupertuls, the mathematician; En Mi-ttrie, exposer of quacks! Doctor Brmissnis, erirly evolutionist; Porcon dc la Bnrhlnals. given a parole by the Algerian pirates nnd beheaded when he returned; Mnhe de La Bourdonn?i-s, captor of Madras and the "governor" in "Paul and Virginia"; Feliclte Lamennais. famous agnostic; Archbishop Tmblet, whose family animated Hermit Aaron; De Goumay, France's first industrialist; Admiral Boursaint, wealthy suicide; Count Thevennrd. France's first cannon founder, and. even .Benjamin FraJ&kwhose thrift struck a responsive Mafotiin chord. The *tpna Croix du flet, now over a street cornor, marked tho spot on tho original ramparts where the bishop's feudal estato started outside tho walls. Its fountain Is a city water hydrant, but tho ^)d shrine to tho ' Virgin Is In the wall. * Croix du Fief Still There. St. Thomas' Gate takes Its name from u chapel. The Breton sailor, when not pirating, loved to pray, and St. Thomas was his favorite saint. The gate wns endowed with Its original shrine by a crew who told their credulous fellow townsmen hdto the patron had saved them from an octopus that had wrapped Its urms about their craft. 0 The grog was strong In those days and the tale was vlvld. When the shrine was built, however, the snllors divided St. Thomas' glory, adding to his statue a painting of themselves shooting the octopus from a yardurm. Through the city gnte from the beach, across the Clmtenubrlund square and a few steps up the street of the same name, the Venelle aux Chlens (Alley of Dogs) branches off to tho left. It is so straight and narrow that it might be mistaken for a hallway. In 1155, when St. Malo was comparatively young, 2-$ watchdogs were purchased In England to guard the corsairs' beach, an<^ it was from these dogs that the street took Its name. In those days St. Malo did not have its Inner harbor, where the tides are cheated by locks; its tidal harbor, where 300-ton steamers tie up to the pier and gradually settle down on dry land until the water returns to float them off, or the other works of grnn-> Ite which now make It a port. Tides were the snm.e, and the wooden ships lolled on their sides on the beach while crews made merry within the walls. Each night at ten, when the, great bell rang the "covers fire," the dogs were unleased on the beach ae" a menace to thieves and a warning to moist but honest sailors against overstaying shore leave. Founded by a Welshman. The modern St. Malo was only three years old when the dogs were, purchased, Jbut the city was ancient even then. In the Sixth century, a hermit named Aaron had a hut of stone on the rock opposite, where formerly had stood the Gnllo-Roman city of Aleth, now St. Servan. One day a holy man called Malo, Maclow. Maclou, Machnt, or'Maclovlus enme over the waves from Wales In a homemade stone dugout. According to his memory, he had been born In 520. With the hermit Aaron as an audience, the visitor held religious services on the back of^jr complnlsnnt- whale. The taciturn Malouln has neither sagas nor script and may have confused his patron with Jonah. But n* carping historian has proved the tale false, t Malo from Wales built a hut of his own and started to perform miracles. By 080, he had been canonized, and his skull and an arm bone were brought back. Charlemagne's warriors destroyed church and city In 811, and Charlemagne restored them. Otherwise, early life In' St. Malo was uneventful. In 1008 was born Jean de ChatUlon, better known to Mnlcu.ns as Jca.i de la Grille, from the in n latticework put over his tomb to prevent pious souvenir hunters from carrying off his body piecemeal. He wus the founder of the ?SL Malo thut stands today. When he became bishop of Aleth, In 1144, molt of his flock lived across the bay, on Aaron rock, the site of the present St. Malo. His predecessor had given the rock to the Benedictine monks, and it was only after eight years, during which Jean made four trips to Rome on foot, that the Rope ordered the Benedictines to return the rock. In 1155 he started the walls that still form the sea face of the ramparts. So well were they built that thev withstood enemy cannon tire and the pound of angry wav**s throughout ,ho centuries. Jean was both Temporal and spiritual ruJer. In>'i* time Immense establishments <?, rbc ..ur** and holy orders In the little city elbowed merchant corsairs' imposing storehouses and mansions with double floors and two story cellars cut Into the rock to hide sea booty from tax collectors. The Rue Jcar. ~e ChatUlon of the present day leads past narrow stone stairways, dark passages, and vast caves that date from the time of the warlike bishop. Belted by its ramparts, St. Malo had no room to grow. Its gray stone houses were built high and close, and cellars were deep: , The voyages of St. Malo husbands were long. The population Increased only 132 a year for 20 years. Nfoday a rustic policeman stands inside St. Vincent's Gate, stopping automoblllsts from drtvlng up the crowded main street and advising them to leave their cars outside the ** the little city can be crossed *n a few steps..' - ' . ? - ^- - - ? . ?? i * Five-Day Week Common Forty Centuries Ago Soviet Russia. in establishing u fiveday week, merely adopted u calendar which was In use more than forty centuries ugoVuuong tlie ancient Hittltos um^-Assyrians Dr. I. J. Gelb of the Oriental institute at the University of Chicago, discovered. tablets containing the business correspondence of some Assyrian merchants who went to trade In tlie lilttile city about IJ200 it. C? were also found; Their messages were Inscribed on clay, which were then baked into brick. The tablets disclose /hat tho credit ratings of vUe <WMiw? wore hone too good with the Assyrian visitors. The visiting merchants charged tho local business men from .r>0 to ill) per cent for loans, and one Assyrian lender got ISO per cent and a bonus In honey. The terms never exceeded six months, and there was no dlllloulty in enforcing a Judgment. If the borrower didn't pay, lie became tho slave of ids creditor. Between themselves. the Assyrians loaned money at from 20 to HO per <*lbt. The borrowers were not without legal protection, however, It was disclosed by one tablet deciphered by Doctor Gelt>. "I am returning herewith the half inlna of sliver which I owe you," the debtor wrote, "and if you ngaln request payment. I have the right to kill you." , Flax Cultivation Old Matter to the Maoris TIiq application of science to Industry has done much to Increase the productivity of New Zealand soil, but In one Instance at least science lias now only discovered what the old-time Maoris knew 100 years ago. This fact was reudlly admitted by Dr. 15. Marsden, secretary of the New Zealand department of scientific and Industrial research, when discussing the develop'inent of the llax Industry. Doctor Marsden said the Slnoris had a complete knowledge of the varieties of llux Suitable for their several purposes. Three of the best varieties used by the department for breeding and crossing have been obtained from old Maori women. Some of -the plants owped by these Maoris had been maintained for specific uses for the past 100 years, and the knowl?lge of the peculiar properties of the different varieties possessed by the aged cultivators had surprised the reseurch officers. I Venetian Merchant Fleets Crowe und Ca^alcaselle wrote of the merchant fleets of old Venice: "Ev- j ery year six fleets were formed and manned and convoyed at the public, expense. The freightage of the fleet was sold by auction and anyone might ship his merchandise at the price of the day. One squadron sailed to the Black sea with goods for Russia and Central Asia; another stopped at Constantinople after touching at ports of Greece and the islands; a third took the Armenian traffic to the harbors of Asia Minor and Syria; a fourth fed the markets of Egypt through Alexandria ; a fifth, the Moors of Africa and Spain; the sixth went through the straits to the Netherlands and British isles." Where "Bad" Mean. "Good" .For the protection of the word "bad," the German government has passed a special new law. The word "bad" is affixed before the names of countless big or small German spas. A "bad" Is a health resort where nature supposedly provides all that is required to restore the health of weary humans. A town may now call Itself "bad" only if it has "special medical qualities, such as' mineral springs, curative waters, or specially Invigorating air." Furthermore, It must have perfect drinking water, good quarters for visitors, hygienic sanitary provisions -and at least one doctor and one drug store with full medical equipment. Queer Old Belief. Chocolate, which has enjoyed first place popularity for many hundreds of years, was once regarded as a sinful food. Joan Franc Rauch in 1024 wrote n treatise about chocolate In which he condemned it as a "violent lnflamer of the passions," and urged that the monks should be forbidden to drink it. Another writer complained that the addition of sugar destroyed the value of chocolate, because sugar was a "corrosive salt and an enemy of the body." Beginning of Great Work What is said. t<> bo the earliest I.a11 icsr AT.r-soriMj \rr>rT," T~ sj.ok.-n of in the ninth chapter of Acts, from the thirty-fifth to the fortieth verses, describing* Tahitha or Dorcas, who with other saints and widows devoted their time to serving the distressed of the early Christians, ministering to the sick and afflicted and making little coats and garments for the clothing and health of the poor children, as well as ministering to the disciples and apostles. Laugh at Your.elf Prof. Carl G. Gaum of Rutgers college. New Jersey, who when he says that, smiles: "A moron, a halfwit, even an idiot, can laugh at other peo pie's mishaps; the man who can la Ugh at a superstition, a custom, n ..tradition, an Institution, must be an observer; but the man who can gen uihely laugh at hintsel. is truly Intel Hgent."?Qm?ten in "Golden Book." ? 1 . ' "? ?' "'!? TOctober Busy Month on Progressive Farm Clemson College, Oct. 3.?Important October joibs on South Carolina farms are suggested by R. W. Hum-lilton, agronomist; K. H. Kawl, horticulturist; J. T. MeA lister, agricultural engineer; and Alfred Lutkcn, entomologist^, Agronomy-?Start now saving citable manure for next year's crops. Plant winter cover crops ^to redoce loss of plant food and to add nitrogen. Plant oat? early for best re-1 suits. Sow rye early for improvement of poor soils. Sow barley as u source of excellent feed. Horticulture?(Select varieties best adapted to your section and place order for fruit trees with a reliable nursery. Cut out all dead branches on fruit trees before the leaves drop. Set out strawberry plants in October for home gardens. Thin oufc young turnips, beets, kale, suinach, and lettuce to hasten development. Gather green tomatoes just before frost andstore in a cool place; even half-grown ones will ripen. Agricultural Engineering? Clean out grain drills and sot to plant desired quantity of seed. Set grain drill furrow-openers to run three inches deep. This may prevent some winter killing. Use three-mule riding turn plows and four-mule disc harrows for fall plowing if tractors are not available. Use corn husker and shredder or ensilage cutter to convert com fodder into ^esirable roughage. Plant Diseases and Insects?Treat small grain seed for smut. Select sweet potato seed from disease-free vines. Use paradich^robenzine by October 15 to control peachtree boreal Harvest corn early to reduce weevil infestation. Fumigate stored grain with carbon bisulphide. Kill plant lice on fall vegetables with nicotine sulphate and soap spray. Requeen hives and feed bees where necessary. Animal Husbandry?Plant enough winter forages for hog raising. Cull out the unproductive sows. Repair hog houses for winter. Make maximum use of permanent pastures and cheap roughage in wintering beef cattle, but do not let cattle lose weight. Take rams away from flock by the latter part of October. Feed idle mules plenty of roughage but reduce the groin. Dairying?'Run cows on hay and corn fields to clean up after harvest. Feed each cow grain in proportion to milk yield shown by milk records. Cull low producing cows to avoid wintering them. Increase hay and oilage as pastures die. Secure service of good purebred bull to make calves more valuable. ? Poultry?IMove pullets to laying house before they come into full production. Clean and spray the laying house and delouse the pullets before putting them in it. Keep corn before Leghorns and thus save labor without egg production. Seleot and sell non-layers. 1 Oat Smut Control Formaldehyde Treatment.?Fan the seed to remove light seed and foreign material. o | Mix one pint of formalin (40 per cent formaldehyde) with 10 to 30 gallons of water and keep the solution covered until ready to use. This quantity is sufficient for 50 bushels. The amount of water can be varied to suit the operator, so long as one pint of formalin is applied to 50 bushels. Place the grain on a clean, tight floor. Apply the solution with a sprinkling can while the oats are ^hoveled from one pile to another, or spread in a thin layer, sprinkle, and shovel until each grain is wet. Shovel the oats into a pile and coyer 'frith canvas, blankets or sacks thai have been dipped in the formaldehyde solution. The pile should be covered at least two hours ami may be loft covered el?ht~hOUT5 or overnight. When the cover is removed, sow the .seed immediately." Allow for the swollen condition by setting the drill to sow ab?>ut ono-fourth more per acre. If sowing is delayed, spread the seed in a thin layer and stir frequently until thoroughly dried. For fuller information on treating oats, wheat and barley for smut get a copy of information card No. 40 from County Agent Henry D. Green. Bee Work Mrs. E. S. Prevost, extension bee specialist from Clemson college, is to work with County Agent Green in Kershaw county Friday, October 7, and this is to request that all bee keepers who desire assistance notify the county agent at once In order that they may be visited on that <kite. Car Loadings Increase. Washington, Sept. 24.?The'American Railway Association announced today that loadings of revenue freight for the we^c ended September 17 totalled wdw, the highest of any week eince December 12, 1001. Farm Women Have A Good Meeting Last Saturday afternoon fifteen officers and membens of the Kershaw County Council -of Farm Women met in the office of the Homo' Demonstration Agent to) plan the fall program and to plan tho county program of work for the year 1932-1938. Mrs. Kate B. Getty*, president of the council, presided. After the reading of the minutes of the last busi* nese meeting by the secretary, Mrs. J, A. Hell, the new business was discusscd. It was decided to hold the fait council meeting in the Camden high school auditorium on Friday evening, October 14, beginning at 8 o'clock. Tho chief speaker of'the evening will be Mr. A. A. McKeown, district farm agent. He will speak on the timely subject of taxation. Every man and woman in fCorshaw county is invited to attend this meeting and hear Mr. McKeown. Watch next week's paper for complete program, saye M^'s. W. C. West, the publicity chairman.* What Reforestation Means Reforestation moans tho renowal and perpetuation of tree growth. In the main, its object is to rear and harvest on the samo land, in an unending round, successive timber crops. Unlike many natural resources, forests can be used and regrown for* ever and forever. Continuous production of tree crops on land bost suited for that purpose is the aim of forestry. President Coolidge, in n speech before the National Conference on Wood Utilization, said: "Strange as it may seem, the American people, bred for many generations to forest Jife, drawing no small measure of their wealth from the forests, have not yet acquired tho sense of timber as a crop. Immense stretches of cut-over land, mostly too rough or too sterile for tilling, have not awakened us to their vast potential worth as growths of wood. Fully one fourth of our land area ought to be kept in forests?not poor, dwindling thickets of scrub, but forests of trees fit for bridges and houses and ships. Train Wrecked, By Mail Pouch Lynchburg, Va., Sept. 26.?-A mail pouch which tumbled from a porter's truok onto the railroad track today derailed a Southern railway freight train with the resultant injury of A. A. Beaver of Salisbury, N. C., a fireman. The train crushed the pouch but articles of women's wearing apparel entangled themselves into the machinery. 4 Finally the locomotive left the track, pulling with it five cars which piled up across the tracks. A moment later a southbound freight train, unable to stop in time, crashed into the tumbled cars, demolished the headlight and pilot. Beaver, who was in the cab of the engine was slightly injured. It was necessary to re-route through trains through Union station for nine hours after tho wreck. , v e Five robbers held up and robbed an armored truck on the streets of New York on Saturday, getting away with $13,000 in payrolls. Official Senate Vote Blease Smith Abbeville 2,201 2,361 Aiken 3,633 4,988 Allendale 376 1,278 Anderson 9,708 5,456 Bamberg . 940 2,251 Barnwefl 1,189 1,687 Beaufort 406 1,120 Berkeley 504 958 Calhoun 489 940 Charleston 774 8,679 Cherokee 3.779 _ 2,197 Chester 2,234 2,283 Chesterfield 1,8:18 3,582 Clarendon 1,181 1,688 Colleton 1,842 3,023 Darlington 2,291 4,395 Dillon 503 1,416 Dorchester 060 785 Edgefield 864 1,916 Fairfield 1,200 1,886 Florence 3,497 6,103 Georgetown t*X5 963 Greenville 9,462 11,840 Greenwood 3,521 3,448 Hampton 877 1,990 Horry 4,174 3,749 Jasper 558 799 Kershaw 2,188 2,652 I>ahcaster 2,235 2,856 Laurens 3,613 3,198 Lee 1,158 1,991 Lexington 3,954 4,141 McCormick 535 1,092 Marion 1,183 1,859 Marlboro 2,098 2,307 Newberry 3,833 3,603 Oconee 2,953 3,681 Orangeburg 2,227 5,338 Pickens 3,863 4,896 Richland 4,389 7,162 Saluda 1,612 2,098 Spartanburg ... 9,865 10,968 Sumter 061 2,537 Union 2,180 2,774 Williamsburg \ 7. > .. ,1,384 2^91 Vork 4,922 " 2^4S Totals 114,840 160,468 - K / Return to Work > yNewell, W. Vn., Sept, 24*.?Seven (hundred and flPty men will return to work within 10 days at the Edwin M. Knowlea China Company kilne, the compuny has announced. The kilns have op^ra/tod only .part time for four month#. Killing frosts and freezing temperatures swept over a larger portion of the Now England states Friday morning. The SIoss Sheffield Steel and Iron company of Birmingham, Ala., called 600 additional men hack to work beginning Tuesday. / 0 Lost 20 Lbs. of Fat In Just 4 Weeks Mrs. Mae West, of St. Louis, Mo., writes: "I'm only 2d yra. old and weighed 170 lbs. until taking one box of your Kruschen SifcltH just 4 woeks ago. I now weigh 150 lbs. I also have more energy and furt'hormoro I've never had a hungry moment." Fat folks should take one half teaspooitful of Kruschen iSalts in a glass 01 hot water in the morning before breakfast?it's tho SAFE, harmless way to reduce as tens of thousands at men and women know. For your health's sake ask for and get Kruschen at DeKalb Pharmacy or any drug store?the cost for a bottle that lasts 4 weeks is but a trifle and if after thoGflrst bottlo you are not joyfully satisfied with results?money back. Notice to Debtors and Creditors All parties indebted to the estate of D. MoLester are hereby notified to make payment to tho undersigned, and all parties, if any, having claims against the said estate will present them likewise, duly attested, within the time prescribed by law. l. E. Molester, Administrator Estate of J. I). McLester. Camden, S.' C., Sept. 21, 1931 ICapudine best for HEADACHE | "because It gives relief by soothing I nerves - not J I I . them. Contains no opiates. I " * Won't Mpset stomach. ^ I wp-taa"**". 10 thin ptlli ot P?w I M at dreg stores In tingle ?uL M TRADE MARK REO. For laaey liveV, stomach and . _ kidneys, biliousness, indigestion, constipation, head- a ache, colds and fever. 10* and 35* at dealers. r i NO-MO-KORN FOR CORNS AND CALLOUSRS Made in Camden And For Sale Bjr DeKalb Pharmacy?Phone tS , ROBT. W. MITCH AM Architect Crocker Building, Camden, S. C. KERSHAW LODGE No. 2% A. P. M. Regular communicatfon of this lodge is held on the first Tuesday !n each month at o p.m. Visitlnff Brethren are welcomed. W. R. CLYBURN, J. E. ROSS, Worshipful Master. Secretary. 1-14-27-tf DcKALB COUNCIL No W Junior Order U. A. M. Regular council seoond and fourth Mondays of each month at 8 p.m. visiting Brethren are welcomed. J. W, THOMPSON, L. H. JONES, Councillor. Recording Sectj. I EYES EXAMINED and Glasses Fitted & s THE HOFFER COMPANY Jcwelmim and Optometriate I . 8~>*