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LOOKING BACKWARD Taken From the File* of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Yeara Ago THIRTY YKARD AGO November II, 1 iH)4 Memorial Dining Hall, of Thornwell Orphanage, Clinton, S. C., destroyed by fire. Nine persona were killed in flood at Winston-Salem, N. ., when waterworks reaervoir "fcyrat, releasing 800,000 gallons of water. Cotton quoted at 0:50. Cherokee Greenhouse ready for business, hiving on hand carnations, violets, chrysanthemums and pot plants. Visitors welcomed. Two private cars bring following distinguished visitors to Camden: Hons. Seth McMilliken, ('as. Perkins, Thoa. Van Valkenberry, iS. D. Brewster, Peter Reed, Reland Hatch, of New York; N. W. Rice, R. P. .Shelling, F. J. Hale, of Boston; Jas. D. . Ihtvidson, of Rhode island; E. M. Green, of Orange, N. J.; M. V. Richards, land and industrial agent, of the Southern .Railroad of Washington, D. C. All expressed themselves as highly pleased with our town. "Hello Bill," comedy farce to be presented at Opera House. The Historical Society had interesting meetinK?Mrs. Mary A. Shannon gave an account of relics in possession of the Association; Miss Sadie Kennedy read a paper telling of many relics owned by Camden citizens; Dr. John W. Corbett told of old cannons of Revolutionary fame. T. J. Kirkland and little daughter Elise Kirkland go to St. Augustine for a visit to I>r. and Mrs. Alexander. K1KTKKM YKAK8 AGO November 7, 1919 Seventeen real estate transfers publ iahed. John Thomas Ogburn, of Westville and Miss Alma Hough, of Kershaw married by Probate Judge W. L. McDowell. Mrs. William Shnnnon and Mrs. C. M. Coleman joint hostesses at John 1). Kennedy Chapter U. D. C. meeting. William S. Hart, popular cow boy character at Majectic Theatre in "Wagon Wheels." Camden Public Library given by the late Andrew Carnegie, built in ItM5 has 3,000 volumes and 500 Camden families enjoying benefit, reports the popular librarian, Miss Ivouise Nettles. Dr. and Mrs. J. T. Hay entertain at their home "Gravel Ridge," Boykin, for Miss Ellen l>ouglas Boykin and Robert Emmett Allen, whose marriage is to be on Wednesday. Miss Marie' Stokes and Lewis L West, both of C*u*a*tt. married. Ingram- Truesdel Live Stock company, of Kershaw chartered wrth capital of $10,000. John W. Ingram, president; F. L. Truesdel, vice president; L. F. Truesdale, secretarytreasurer. Bids to be received for construction of two miles of road from Wateree river bridge to city limits on DeKalb street. Rev. John Graves, former pastor of Lyttleton Street Methodist church, now in I^atta, pays*visit to city. ? J . _ J. C. Adams In Serious Wreck J. C. Adams., of Chesterfield, was seriously injured in an automobile wreck between Chadbourn and bumberton, N. Inst Fr: lay evening, when his companion da'son Mercer, and Buster Ivey, were killed. G. A. Sweum was also injured. Sweum was driving a truck loaded with two bales of cotton, on top of which rode Buster Iyey. There still remains some uncertainty as to who was driving the car in which Mercer and Adams were riding. Mr. Adams maintains he was not driving. Witnesses testified at the coroner's inquest that he was taken from under the steering wheel. At a coroner's inquest Tuesday, it was brought out that the truck when hit was on the wrong side of the road and was struck on its right side. The driver, Sweum, who was not seriously hurt, claims he cut across the road to dodg"e the on-coming automobile, which he says was far over on his side. Senator G. K. Laney, who is representing Mr. Adams, says from the position of the vehicles when the accident occurred it appears "that the truck had cut across the road in front of the car to enter a side road leading to a gin. After the inquest both Adams and Sweum were placed under bond for fu-ther investigation by circuit court. Mr. Adams is a son of Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Adams, of Chesterfield. He learned hi^ trade, linotype opera; r. in The Advertiser otTice. where he worked for a number of years. For the ;>a-t year he has been cmployed by the f'olumbtis County News, of Chadbou n. X. C. lie is confined in a hospital at Lumber ton wi;h a badly broker, thigh and other cuts and hru;.-e-.?The ( he - ten field Advertiser. Fish Insensitive To Color and Noise "Shut up. or you'll scare the fish away!" How often have you been roughly silenced in this fashion by a fisherman? Or how often have you been told not to wear bright clothes on a fishing trip, since fish run from colors? According to Prof. Havilah Habcock, of the University of South Carolina, naturalists have concluded that fish are not only insensitive to color, but are not disturbed by noises made above the surface of the water. How Much Should One Exercise? Gentle exercise stimulates the ll?w of digestive iluids in the stomach, but severe, protracted and violent exercise retards the flow, which is subsequently grektlyincreased. Gentle exercjse hastens the emptying of the stomach; I severe exertion delays digestion. | if the heart is healthy, exercise is I all right; hut if the heart has been affected by disease, one must Ik* careful about exercising. One German physical-training instructor uses animals a.- examples of the proper way to exercise. After a given number of lc-ssons the pupil becomes proficient in imitating an animal such as. perhaps, the monyey. A ??:ood many persons manage quite well without the lessons. A better suggestion is to watch the children at play and note their enthusiasm and naturalness, or better still, play with them. One authority says that exercises should be slow, smooth, regular and rhythmical. That sounds all right, but we have often wondered what makes anyone an "authority" in a thing of that kind. < Special apparatus is undesirable. A man of fifty needs a gentler form of exercise than the man of thirty. Moderation should be the rule, and fresh air is an indispensable ally. I^abor is not "exercise." The man doing hard work is most likely to be overdeveloped in one way and underdeveloped in another. Exercises will l offset the uneven use of the body, i bringing into play muscles not used j in performing the routine tasks of the i shop and office. Spinal curvatures have been measurably corrected by j means of counteracting exercises. ! : Ouce Had World's Longest Railroad t South Carolina once had tne long. est r?v,.r??ad in the wei'd. It ran from Charleston to Hamburg and was; If. miles m length. j The citizens of Charleston saw that I Savannah was getting too much of the Piedmont trade because of better transportation facilities and so chartered in 1828 the South Carolina | Canal and Railroad Company. The railroad was completed in 1833 and the "Best Friend of Charleston" was the first locomotive used. These facts concerning early transportation in South Carolina are from the book, the "Centennial History of South Carolina Railroads," written by Dr. S. M. Derrick, professor of Economics in the University of South Carolina. TO THE FARMERS This is to announce to my friends and customers that I am no longer connected with the J. T. Hay Cotton and Fertilizer Company. I am now connected with the McLeod & McLauchlin firm and am prepared to take care of all SODA and FERTILIZER contracts. I wish to take this means of thanking my customers " for their business. J. S. DUNN t ' ?WW?WHIPPY" 1 J I IIU...1. MILLIONS IN COLD STILL OUT In apit* of the acts of Congress, and presidential proclamation* foj- 1 lowing the well remembered bank holiday, which mi tide the possession Of t gold and gold certificates illegal, teapots. old stockings, and safety deposit boxes still hold millions of dollars worth of gold notes. At the time I President Roosevelt went into office i there were gold certificates to the < extent of $1 ,1560,000.000 out*i/!e the Treasury. Over half of these or i about 1660,000,000 worth were in the I hands of the public; the rest were in Federal Reserve Banks. At the i present time about 60 per cent of the < publicly held notes have been returned to the Treasury, but that still leaves $1-10,000,000 worth unaccounted for. They are still coming Jp, however, but the rate of return has dropped from $8,000,000 a month to barely $3,000,000 which indicates that the supply is rapidly becoming less and that even when the most determined hoarders finally surrender their holdings the Treasury records will still show a large number of the certificates outstanding. Much of the money which is not tucked away in the nation's thousands of curious places of safe-keeping will never be seen again. Fire and other destructive forces have effectively reduced the supply of the outstanding paper. But there is still another portion which will continue to flow into the Treasury in a sickly stream for a long time. Foreign banks still hold many of our gold notes.?The Pathfinder. Science Nibbles Iludyerd Bolton, of Chicago, on an expedition into Africa found that sunlight on the Sahara is no stronger than in his home town. A Swiss doctor, W. H. Schopfer, has learned that disease-causing organisms are greatly stimulated by some of the vitamins. I-aurence Allwardt, Ohio scientist, has discovered a new germ. It causes a disease similar to typhoid, but is decidedly different from bacillus typhosus. Ter-ts are being made by Dr. (io<.rg<- \\ alkcr of Baltimore, to prove a theory that the air above 10,000 fee' j? entirely germ less. Light the star Vega and the inoon ha\v_ been converted into sound wave&ftuul recorded. The sound produced is a pronged swell and ebb similar to the musical note "A." | By a Caesarian operation Dr. It. J. i Me Ivor of Oakland, Cal., brought a i baby into the world 10 minutes after the death of the mother. The baby is alive and healthy.?The Pathfinder. Mind Your Own Business The accidental killing of a man at Walterboro, when he was hit by a bolt that fell from a water tank there and struck him on the head, fracturing his skull, recalls an incident that happened here in Yorkville in 1894, when the old standpipe was being erected. The brick work had been completed and a negro on top of it was cleaning it up preparatory for the iron workers to start laying the bottom of the big pipe. On the ground below was another negro, likewise engaged in cleaning up the ground. Tht* negro at the top noticed his brother on the ground and called down: Look out down dar, niggah. De fust ting you know sumpin will drap j down dar and bust yore haid open." To this the darkey on the ground re; plied: "Oh. go long, niggah, I know, my business." "AH right, now, I dun tole ycr. I Things don't <irap up." ; And .-trange as it may seen;, some | half an hour or so later"-sump;::* did drap and hit the negro on the ground in the top of the-"haid." and !a:d him out cold for an hour or more. Murderer "Safe" :n L\ S. I Census bureau figures show that 12,128 murders were committed in t'he United States in 1933. Fewer than 4,000 people were sentenced as homicides, and only 153 were executed. _/ ^ ou need study those figures only i for a moment to see what a comparatively small risk a killer actually ' runs. His chance of paying any kind j of penalty at all for his crime is only about one in three; and there is just one chance in 80 that he will be exj ecuted. ( More startling than this, however? though doubtless in some way felat| ed to it?is the fact that the 1933 j record is a r.cw high for the United [States; furthermore, the tot.,1 has i risen by more than 4.000 in the last :ten years, fewer than 8,000 homicides having been recorded in 19*23. j As a disclosure^ the growth of j utter lawlessness in vhis land, these j figures point their own morai.?Sumter Daily Item. 1 Chest Colds Don't let them get a strangle hold. Fight them quickly. Creomulsion combines 7 help* in one. Powerful but harmless. Pleasant to toko. No narcotics. Your own druggist ia - authorised to refund your money on *Ko pot if your cough or cold U not relieved by Creomulsion. - (?dv.) % Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by Gee McGoe, Copyright, 1928..^* M1KK IS SKKI^INC; GOVERNMENT JOB flat rock, a. C. noveni 3, 1934 hop. henry watiis, seeker-terry of agger-culture, deer sir:? - plesa rite or foam the boas of the govverment beef cannery which you have started up in flat rock and ask him to give me a job in same at once, i am the best beef cutter that ever stuck a knife in a livver, and i have peddled beef for the past 46 yr. i am the only heef peddler that can cut a t-bone stake out of a cow's horns, and a round stake out of her huffs, i can save you monney from one end of the cow to the other, and will garrantee to can more cans from a single cow than anny other dimmere rat on yore staff. by placing me in the beef house, you will take me and my wife and 5 or 6 others off of the f. ,e. r. a. relief rolls and i will work for you at 14$ a week which is the minimum allowed by the n. r. a. of coarse, i will expect to take a few nice cuts home with me ever night, but will be satisfied with stew cuts and a few brains. if you want me to slawter the cows for you, i am handy at that, i don't have nothing to do except hit a cow betwixt his eyes with my fist, and that knocks the day-light out of her/ and i dress them by ketching her by the nose and stripping her akin off of her just like she was a bannanna. i can do the work of 3 men and 4 women and 2 boys and 10 republicanst i can kill a 1000-pound yearling, and fix all of his anatomy reddy for the kitchen in less than 15 minnets, and i can allso prepare for the beef cans in about 14 minnutes: if you get me, you can turn off at least 9 of yore best men. my experients dates back to my childhood where i useter milk 4 or 5 cows ever morning befoar breakfast while cutting stove wood for the next day. as to my fitness, i hereby refer you to scudd Clark, or judd Clark, or mrs, mike Clarke, rfd. they will all be glad to recker-mend me to you and if you hire me, yore trubbles will be over so far as our factory is concerned. ancer soon, and'r send 2 months sallery at once by p. o. monney'' o^der. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. beef cutter. HOW THE FURNACE FIXED ME ?' . .A few evenings ago, my "boss" and I were out strolling, and she espied a sprinkling of jack-frost on a punkin vine, and she up and says: "Geebus, (that's her pet name for me), you must turn on the furnace tomorrow, sure: it's getting rather cool in places here-of-late." I had already found that out, but didnt talk back. ..Well, the next day while I was at dinner (1.00 P. M.), I concluded that I might as well take a peep at the old coal eater in the basement so's everything would be in trim for me to start a fire, the cook, or the captain herself, had permitted the firebox to become jam-full of papers, boxes, discarded chinaware, tin pans, and other garbage-can materials. , ? After toting out 3 hamper-basketfuls of the accumulation, I thought I'd examine the airpipes (hot air), and took a hammer and tapped the smoke-pipe first, but very gently, the hammer went thru like it was butter. About 0 of the other pipes had also rusted out and were even worse than butter. ($G5.00). I peeped in at the grate bars; they were burnt out and were snoozing sweetly in the ashbox. ($41.00). Nearly everything else down there was in a bad condition. I worked on it for about 2 hours. ..My hands were so dirty, I couldn't open the front door to tell the mistress of the misfortune that had overtaken us, but I rang the door-bell with my nose. Our little boy came forward, peeped thru the side-light at me and ran back and said: "Mother there's a colored man at the front door?he wants to see you." She wiped the turnip-greens off of her lips and chin, and came out: she clidn t know me either. . . .she simply remarked. I m sorry we have no work that needs to he done"^ today." Then she slammed the door. ..I sneaked around to the rear entrance and the cook happened to recognize me by my shoes. I got into the bath-room without getting shot. It had got smeared with soot from my furnace work in the basement, and the tub had about 3 quarts of lamp-black and ashes in it. Omy 6 of the inner rooms in the house were in the same fix. The truble came when I tried to burn some of the litter in the furnace before I realized that it was thoroughly incapacitated for Heating purposes. ..My experience in trying to "fix th?| furnace" cost me a ruined white shirt 255555HE555555555HS5S5H525K355 Baby Whale Far Fro in Home A whale on fc Carolina beach is just as great a novelty as would be an I alligator fast alseep beneath a palm tree upon iBeacon Street. Sullivan's Island was named for Captain Florenso OTSullivan who, in. 1674, was there made keeper of a gun at the mouth of ''Lord Ashley's River." Frequently he had occasion to Are this gun in order to warn sen- I tries on Charles Town's curtain wall that pirate vessels, or other hostile craft, were entering the harbor. Later on, Rdgar Allen Poe?while a soldier at historic Fort Moultrie?wrote his "Gold Bug" and laid the scene in myrtle thickets upon the island. The myrtle trees, the slender palms, the pale gold sea oats on white dunes, must have seemed an alien Land to the wounded pygmy whale which wushed ashore on the broad front beach at mid-afternoon of Tuesday, September 11, 1934. I iSummer residents came in numbers to see the unusual visitor. Their interest changed to concern and distress when they saw that the helpless animal was wounded and suffering. A group of Charleston men, examining it, found it scraped and bleeding as though from collision with a boat or battle with some othl er marine monster. They tried, at lonce, to get it back into the surf and to deep water. As the "baby whale" measured about fifteen feet in length, and as they were attempting to handle it gently, this was no easy task. With help of a rope around its tail, they finally got it afloat. But, a short time afterward, the waves again cast it upon the beach. Three times during the afternoon,, kindhearted islanders restored their unusual guest to its native element. Dusk fell . . . deepened to darkness. Cottagers fell asleep, hoping that the "baby whale" was at sea and recovering from its injuries. But the creature, evidently, had been too seriously hurt to swim. During the night, high tide brought it back again. When morning came, it was found, quite dead, upon the sand. As soon as the news reached Charleston, representatives of the Charleston Museum of Natural History crossed to the island. Laymen had called it a "baby whale"; but, those more learned had reason to suspect that it might be a full-grown prymy sperm whale. Unfortunately for them, it had just been remdyed and buried. Latest reports were to the effect that they were digging it up to investigate. * But whether a pgymy sperm whale or merely the young of a larger species, the lost and wounded creature found, far from its home, true "hu- i man kindness" upon the beaches of a distant and alien land!?Our Dumb 1 Animals. Officers and directors of the Du- j Pont company from 1919 to 1934 made campaign contributions totaling j $432,000 to both political parties. I and collar, $1.00 for cleaning and pressing my Sunday suit of clothes,' 19 cents for a pair of new under-! clothes, 3 cents for a handkerchief, 2 bars of soap and 1 box of washing powder and 12 cents worth of kerosene, $25.00 for painting and washing the various rooms that became soiled, all of my religion, 35 cents for a haircut, and 20 cents for 3 hours lost at the office. . .The next time I fool with putting a furnace to work is going to be when I can't hire somebody on credit to do it for me. I thought once of 'giving this up as a had job and moving to Florida, but didn't. She and the furnace are both about normal again, but I had to buy her 4 extra pieces of furniture to appease her for the I cussing and damage jlone. > * IN UNION THBRE 18 STUKNgB "As individuals, one farm#B strength cancels another's," Jfl Chester C. Davis, AAA AdminiitB recently. "Through organisation, > strength multiplies. Only as h.-'(4B and will express himself through or? anization is the farmer's influtol felt in national councils." That brie/ statement concerns eifl ery American farmer. One of tlB greatest difficulties faced in the puB both by private and public bodies, ?; seeking to stabilize and improfl farniing conditions, has been lsck fl organization. Too many farmers <? isted solely as individuals, and no one to apeak for them. ]n Kri J agriculture lacked centralized authoB ities of the farmer's own choosinB who could exert continued and 9 gressive efforts to bettering his stB I That was true, and is probably stB true, of the majority of farmers. bB a minority of farm producers haiB a different story to present. TheiB farmers have joined in creating greBl organizations. They have elected <B rectors who hire trained, experiencB executives. And no one who hs^B watched agriculture during receiB years can help but be impressed bfl the progress' these associations h&<B made. Dealing in milk, cotton, fruiB and other products, they have and solved many problems. They haBj had their ups and downs. While the? haven't brought about an agricultui^B millenium, members of these coopenM tive farm organizations have hadBi much happier time of it than hav? unorganized farmers. The old saying that "In union theiH is strength," was never more apB than it is today?and it goes fcB farmers as well as all other wortaB and producers.?Industrial News. 1 "Dixie" 75 Years Old I Seventy-five years ago Daniel D^V catur Emmett, member of a blaclB face minstrel troupe, turned fro^B watching a cold rain coursing dov^B the window pane of his New YoiB room, and wrote: ^B I wish I was in de land ob cotton B Old time dar am not forgotten, Look away, look away, look awiB Dixie land. B I Thus, intended simply as a numbe? (for Bryant's Minstrels, was born H i song which was to be sung by weuB Confederate soldiers straggling hom? from Appomattox. Dan Enmett^B "Dixie," sung for the first time faK* the composer and * his troupers oH: I September 19. 1859, became as clojBj an approach as America has to a cjV j tional folksong. | So relates J. B. Sager, of ScLoni?j| 1 historian for the Sons of the Rev<Bj lution in Missouri, who has found story of the song's authorship in th^P ; records of the >hio Historicab-S^B ciety.?St. Louis Star-Times. i Siamese Twins To Marry Kj Mansfield, Ohio, Oct 30.?The H?j ton "Siamese" twins came forth tod^y with pronouncements. Viol?/{ said that she ^vould marry in Sou? Carolina "soon," and Daisy that "might get married in six months.1? The sisters are filling a stage e? gagement here. ; ! Violet said they would go to Hi? risburg, Pa., to join an orchestra wi? which Maurice Lambert, her trom? onist sweetheart, played, for ?southern tour. ? She asserted "practically evfi?c state in the south" had invited the?h to marry within its borders, bat rather think the wedding will Oj?| place soon in South Carolina. Kj The Boss?''What's that item Bb your expense account. "Overhead i^B1 pense, $4,007" The Traveling Salesman?"Th? was an umbrella I bought."?Ex. ; I FARMS FOR SALE I Now i? the time to buy a farm. 1 have twenty * I nice farms for .?le i? Kershaw Count,. Will b. .t I Hotel Camden. Camden. S. C., every Friday. j H. G. BATES, SR. I 1 See E. H. Sterrett. 1308 Fair Street?Phone 170. 10rt?4t REAL ESTATE 9 RENTS COLLECTED, FARM AND CITY PROPERTY I HUNTING PRESERVES j Repairing and Can-Ttkkf of Proparty . ALL FORMS OF INSURANCE A DeKAlB INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE CO. ft ' ?S*?