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' " Copy of a lotter from Federal Home Loan Bank of Winston-Salem. Winston-Salem, North Carolina to First Federal Savings and I^oan Association, Camden, S. C. December 10, 15134. "Gentlemen: Wo are glad to see from your statement us of November 30, that you are now acquiring mortgage loans and we will be glad to assist you in handling additional calls upon the Secretary of the Treasury just as rapidly as the local investments in your share# will justify." * (Signed) Jos. W. Holt, Federal Savings and Loan Division. This puts it squarely up to you, thrifty citizens of Camden. If you can do one fourth of your part in saving and helping your community, your Uncle Sam is ready to do the other three fourths. First Federal Savings and Loan Ass'n. r~^???? ?' 1 ' ' NOTICE On and after February 1, 19,15 (he office of the I IRtfT FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION Mill be located in the office adjoining thftt of Henry Savage, Jr., i>n DeKalb Street, in the Crocker building* : IVhere Safety of your Investment s InHured up to $5,000.00 in The Kederal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation, Washington, 1). C. ODD ACCIDENTS .Loss of a wheel meant only delay r repairs to a clergyman driving ong a Michigan road but to William ender it meant a sojourn in a hostal. As the car was passing, a heel came off, bounded up and ruck Bender in the head as he sat i his front porch. It was a case of the hunted becomg the hunter when two Ontario en, Messrs. Gravelle and Burke, set it to kill a moose. An unusually le specimen leaped into the road id attacked them. After a futile tempt to demolish their car the anial rushed back into the woods with e radiator shell and a fender clingg to y^antjers. Itr-tvould be hard to convince a iung Marylander, John Wood, that ere is no such thing as luck. When f car was sideswiped by a truck <! knocked through a bridge abuter.t it was saved from plunging v n an embankment when it lodged Dp a telephone pole. , A young man in Monterey, Calif., is forced to take to crutches beiiso his feet failed to awaken with i rest of his body. Stepping from i bed his right foot turned under using a severe sprain. The same ng occurred when he shifted his ight to the other foot. But when a West Virginia coal nor, A. McHaffey, got out of his 1 to investigate a noise he found dead man sitting upright at the >t of the stairs. He had fallen km his car as it rounded a curve d had plunged through the door lo the house. When Eskil Karl son of Sweden enavored to prove to his wife that he ,s the better dishwasher of the two i foot slipped causing him to fall on a breadknife he was holding, ter he returned from the hospital decided to let her do the dishes. Package Of Gold Traveled Afar And speaking of good stories, here i | is one for ltipley. One of the venCMable citizens ot Lancaster, Judge Eugene Sec-rest tells one that would strain the Imagination if it were not for the fact that one knows him to be 1 a truthful gentleman. 'Several years before his mother died the judge gave her two hundred dollars in gold with which to take a trip. Through some change in plans she never took the trip. After her death her son broke up housekeeping. He let various persons have the use of what of his furniture was suited to their needs. A sewing machine was a very papular piece of his house-1 hold goods. It travelled around considerably. Finally after several years it rested once more in Judge .Secrest's room. He was looking for needle and thread one morning to sew on a button. He opened the machine drawer. Ho found no needle but there was a small package wrapped in dingey paper yellow with age. Curiosity prompted Judge Secrest to open the parcel. And there fell out into his hand the two hundred dollars in gold that he had given his mother, years no telling how many, before. The sewing machine had been doing service in various families fur years and no one had thought to look in that little package that had been collecting dust in that machine drawer. Dot did not get the story direct from Judge Secrest, but a very reputable person told it to her so! she passes it on as an astonishing proof that truth is stranger than fiction.?Lancaster News. BANANA FEELINGS Ever see a fellow who had no conception of the danger, peel a banana and throw the peelings on the pavement? We have. This causes us to quote the. following from the editorial columns of the Columbia State with the hope that it might be read by some who are so thoughtless: "It was hard for the lad to move under his own power at all. He walked on two crutches, and his poor crooked legs made your heart turn over in your breast to look at him. But with that cheerfulness of the crippled that is a fresh marvel every time you meet it, he smiled as he swung along down on the side streets. A paved walk, and his crutches made a slow click-clack as he moved. Suddenly, one of those crutches slipped and slid on the walk. He tottered, balanced a moment and fell against a passerby who rushed to his aid. Still smiling, in spite of his narrow escape from what might have been a cruel fall, the boy looked at the sidewalk: "A darned banana peeling," he sai,d. "I get along all right on everything but ice and* banana peelings." "Ice and snow we can't do very much about, but fortunately we don't have ? great deal of them here. But banana peelings, that's anobher matter. You would think by now people would be careful not to add this extra hazard to streets, dangerous to all, but perhaps actually fatal to the physically handicapped, the old and the lame." A British seaplane, traveling from London to the naval base at Singapore, crashed in Sicily against a hillside, and the nine persons aboard ] were burned almost beyond recognition. A Bladder Lax ie Juniper Oil, Buchu Leaves, etc. This 25c test free if it fails. If regularity wakes you up, flush out ipurities and excess acids. Get ichu leaves, juniper oil, etc., in liti green tablets called Bukets, the adder lax. Works on the bladder nilar to. castor oil on the bowels, orly acting bladder can cause disirbed sleep, frequent desire, scanty >w, burning or backache. In four ty.s, if not pleased any druggist will fund your 25c. Get your regular fop and feel "full of pep." DeKALB PHARMACY ? Money to Loan From Private Funds on improved Homes and to responsible persons only. Interest and Terms by agreement. Kirkland & deLoach * ^^^^^^^weareagentsfor^^^^^^^T| CALCIUM PHOSPHATE I A Material Analysing 24% Total Phosphoric Acid I 30% Calcium (Lime) Excellent for Home Fertilizer Mixtures j j ' Calcium Phosphate Priced $11.50 F. O. R. Our Warehouses, Camden, S. C. I Recommended as a Fertiliser Material and a Soil Builder j j OLD PERUVIAN (Nitrate Agencies Co.) and ! j ROYSTER?FERTILIZERS | All Materials?Nitrate of Soda?Sulphate Ammonia I .. J. . Coker's Pedigreed Seeds# H We Will Appreciate Your Business ' L J. T. HAY COTTON CO. I , Camden, ?S. C. ^ . - jJt. . ' i." A " ' - - ' ? .. Ism&Up Stuto Hudson River Vista From West Point. | Propare<f hy National C! coifraplit* SooUty, Washington, 1). ?'?WNU 8?tvIcm. EAGLKS usually nest lit out-ofthe-way places. IUit recently two American eagles were discovered . housekeeping only MO miles from Bultlinore. Accustomed to | living in the vicinity of water, they selected a tall pine tree near the Magot'hy river as the site for an Immense nest. Huildlng u huge structure of sticks at considerable height from the ground, several large white eggs were laid, and the two birds took turns remaining on the nest tor the month's period of incubation. An enthusiastic ornithologist who scaled the tree numerous times was fortunate enough to observe the two young eaglets from the time they were hatched until they flew away eleven weeks later. Fugles and their many relatives among the hawks and vultures are distributed throughout the world, except over the open seas, the barren Antarctic continent, and the smallest and | most isolated of oceanic islands. Wherever found, they appeal even to the novice in knowledge of things outdoors because of (heir manner of life and predatory habits, liohust of form ami strong in tlilt!11. they are remarked at every appoaranee. The emblem of the Suntertan city of l.aga?h. in the third millennium hefore the Christian Km. was an eagle, which was engraved on the tablets and seals of the leaders and was carried as a military standard by the army. An eagle also appeared on the seal of the King of Ur, and continued In double-headed form in Ilitt'lte art, on certain coins of the Mohammedans, on the flags of Turkoman princes, and so on Into modern times. The eagle symbol is probably derived from forms similar to our golden eagles or closely allied to that species, as several species of that type are found In the regions mentioned. Messenger of Zeus. To early Qreeks the eagle was the messenger of Zeus and the only bird that dwelt* In heaven? a fancy based, perhaps, on the high-flying powers of these birds. A silver eagle standing on a spear was placed on the military .standards of the legions of Rome, and this emblem has been used widely as a conventional badge of military power. Today it Is a common decoration on flagstaffs In many countries. An American species of this group, the bald eagle, Is found In the design of the coat of arms of the United States, which appears on the Grent Seal. A representation of it Is blazoned on many of our coins and decorations. It also appears on the President's flag, and on the President's Seal In the bronze plate on the floor of the vestibule of the White House. The fierce harpy eagle, a bird of dauntless courage, called by the Aztecs "the winged wolf," Is engraved on the official coat of arms and senl of Mexico and appears on the flag of that country. It Is distinguishable from our species by Its prominently crested head. The eagles and their kin form the group of birds of the order of Falconlformes, which Inpludes about 288 distinct specie*, with many additional geographic races, so that In all there are recognized somewhat more than 700 living forms. The order Is divided Into four principal families. The eagles, hawks, kites, and their relatives, forming the family Acclpltrldae, Include the largest numDer of forms. They are mainly birds of medium to large size, with broad wings, stroqg legs, feet armed with sharp claws, and strongly hooked hills. Many possess light-colored eyes, which, with their active Interest in any movement1 that might Indicate possible prey, give them a tierce and aggressive appearance. Their Methods of Flight. Flight tn the hawklike birds varies gtnslderably. according to the kind, ngles, the lnrge hnvrks, and the vultures. both of the New and Old Worlds, have broad wings which they flap slowly. Frequently they soar with set wings, utilizing air currents rising from the heated surface of the earth or currents generated by winds. These birds frequently soar for hours with scarcely a wing beat, turning and wheeling In the sky, often at such altitudes that they appear as mers specks aguir.st the blue. I The turkey vulture is ti \scll known species that is pariiculhrly adept In this art. In tact, It finds this method of progression so adapted to its needs thnt frequently it remains in its roost through the day when the air Is heavy and still. The falcons have longer, more poluted wings that enable them to My with Kreut speed, and, though they may enjoy souring, they do not practice this so constantly as the other hawks. The larger species cap capture the swiftest Dying sandpipers and ducks on the wing without the slightest difficulty. The food of birds of the hawk group is highly varied, though It Is taken entirely from the animal kingdom. The larger species of falcons subsist mulnly on various kinds of birds and small mammals, hut the smaller kinds, such as sparrow hawks and falconets, eat llzzards, grasshoppers and other Inserts, and mice. The bearded vultures of the (Hi) World are said to carry - turtles and large bones from the carcasses of dead animals to a i great height, in order to drop them on rocks, where tlicv break open so that the bird can eat the marrow i ' Some species of hawks, particularly certain forms that range In the i j Tropics, eat snakes as their principal I fond. There Is one group of species found in India and adjacent regions in which tills habit Is so constant that tlie birds are known as "serpent eagles." The osproy and seme of the sen eagles confine their attention limlnly to fish, which they capture alive by plunging after thorn as they approach the surface of the water. The powerful harpy eagle feeds regularly on monkeys. The golden eagle, one of the most powerful of American birds of prey, has a varied menu. Where prairie dogs are present In large numbers, these are favored food; a pair of eagles will destroy several hundred in the course of a season. At times they turn to sharp-tailed grouse when these are abundant, proving a scourge to the flocks. Jack rabbits, cottontails, marmots, and ground squirrels are killed In large numbers. In winter, when other food Is scarce, they may come to dead carcasses, being sometimes hard put in severe weather when the meat is frozen, even with the great strength that they possess In bill and feet. They also attack lambs and fawns on occasion, and one observer records that three golden eagles* working together pulled down and killed a prongj horn antelope during severe winter { weather when other food was scarce, j They will kill and ont coyotes caught i In traps, and will also steal the halt j when wolf traps are halted with meat. ] Snakes and wild ducks, and an occa| slonnl goose, also may figure in their I diet. Hawk Tribe Always Hurted. The hand of civilized mnn lins been , raised universally against ttie hawk ; tribe, and birds of this group are shot . or otherwise destroyed at every oi>portunity. It Is rare, Indeed, for hawks I to come within gun range of n hunter J without receiving a charge of shot, j and they are killed in many localities by setting steel traps on the tops of posts or poles thnt the birds utilize . as perches. ! The mujestlc bald eagle, our national ! bird, has fallen under the displeasure of some farmers and has been rather ! relentlessly hunted. Bird lovers have taken up the fight on behalf of this great bird of froe: (lorn, declaring that he has been mls' represented and that his occasional fhefts of poultry are more than offset by services In keeping our beaches clean of dead fish. The flight and appearance of hawks i and other birds, ami certain of their anatomical features, were nsod by the | augurs of ancient Itome in their j prophecies of the future. A more | practical use of those birds was found among the North American Indians, particularly of the Plains and Pueblo groups, when beautiful headdresses were made from the large feathers of the golden eagle, and otlwr ornaments and decorations were fashioned from the smaller feathers of this hirj] i and from the feathers of hawks. Ttfe j downy bases of the eagle feathers j sometimes were twisted In strands thnt j were woven Into feather blankets of a peculiar and Interesting type. Hawks . and eagle claws were used to make necklaces ,and other decorations. ? ? , ?????? a | BOULDER DAM Bigfte.sf NNutiw J'owcr Dcvclopnu'iit Ji? the \\ ?>rIcJ a( I're.seiiC. Within <?IH' week fioit) ihia ilalc. , (Jumiury 21. J ) water will begin U) '' ^c "> the j^-ami,.- reservoir t?I* Moulder Dam Every Amcri! ran .should Ik- proud of Moulder Dam and ially .Mr. F. p. Crowe, the tall Aim ru an engineer who ha a sup er intended the job. Six Anit-ruan contracting corporations combined lo complete the one I I hundred and sixty-five million dollar J job. l'he contractors agreed to finish the job by January 7, 1 and fail i')K to so complete it they would be required to forfeit $11,001) "damages" for every day's delay.' The job will be completed by the last of July, this year, two and ? half years before the ! contract calls for delivery of the job | to the government. This will he a I lot of time saved, hut the contractors , will not receive a "bonus" to oil' set i.the "damage" clause in the contract. I - It is promised that the burdened taxpayer will greatly benefit by the I early completion of this dam, as the current thut will be created will be sold at such prices and in such quantities, that the entire cost and the interest will be pauj off within fifty years. The city of Los Angeles and power companies of southern California have already contracted with the government to consume the 1,800,000 horse power of elecCVic energy that will be generated. "lhe dam structure rises more than 720 feet from bed rock. The case of the dam is 000 feet thick and tapers off to 45 feet in width at the top. Water pressure is greater at the bottom of the dam on account of the water above it. In the wall and the power plant there have been used 4,200,000 cubic yards of concrete, and contractors will want to know that pebbles as large as nine inches in diameter are used in the mixture. Just above the dam, on government land, an inexhaustible bed of beautifully polished pebbles, was found ready for the work. Water will cover that deposit when the dam is filled, hut it might be dredged for future work, when other dams are built higher up the river to use power generated above the Moulder level. The amount of concrete in that job according to the department of the interior would build a monument one hundred feet square, two and one eighth miles in height. Secretary of the Interior Ickcs informs the public that the concrete used at Moulder dam job would build "a standard sixteen foot wide paved highway reaching from Miami in Florida to Seattle in Washington." Across the top of the dam 45 feet wide, a paved highway for automobiles will carry travellers from Nevada to Arizona. On the Arizona side a winding road will lead to the top of the canyon. The dam forms an arch, like a section of a circle, reaching from wall to wall of the canyon, the outer curve turned up stream, the arch holding the weight of the accumulated waters, in a reservoir "lake" reaching upstream 110 miles. It is the height of the water back of the dam, not the volume accumulated upstream that creates pressure on the dam. You might put the whole Atlantic_ocean upstream back of that dam, at the same height, as planned for the reservoir, and the dam' would hold it. Kind hearted ladies and "sportsmen" that like to kill things, will bo , glad to hear that the reservoir lake | and all that Colorado river region \ belonging to Uncle Sam has been made a bird sanctuary. You may fish in the reservoir, but may not kill wild ducks or other birds that are expected to breed there. In millions, from Boulder dam they will fly in all directions, and sportsmen will have the j pleasure of killing them. Boulder dam is the highest dam in | the world towering 726 feet above bed rock, 130 feet below the river bed. On both sides of the canyon the wall of the dam is anchored in the canyon rock walls to a depth of 60 feet. Across the canyon, from wall to wall, are stretched numerous cables, over which engineers, workmen and materials travel .back and forth. Suspended below these cables are open swinging platforms, on which you stand as you cross tl>e canyon four times with Mr. Cjrowe. The platforms are strong enough to hold 20 tons but carrying you from one side to the other, 600 feet above the canyon floor, swaying and dipping, they seem a little insecure, traveling 1,200 feet a minute across the Arizona side, and back. Another trip leads to the bottom of the river bed, where you enter round tunnel fifty feet in diameter cut in the rock to bring the. water! under 600 feet of pressure to turbines that will produce electric power horses ^ ^259!i ^'1,300,000 ! ^ ** ih* alone c?ntalns more cubic yaYda masonl^^n1 would be seeded Uf fe, grreat pyramids of xLiT w.u.d Ulc? IIK WAS A STOIC' The parsing of the late George Little of ('anulin, brings a note of xjuij hok to u few York county folks who | knew that jfentIpmnn. Mr. Little was a good sportsinan. lie loved horses j and he loved fox chase. One of his York county friends tells this one about Mr. Little: ^^"Wlicn he got hurt last year he was i out on a foxhunt with oue of his old friends. They had gone out some distance from Camden, in a ear with a trailei attached in which were the dogs. The car was stopped on an incline, and Mr. Little failed to apply the brakes. When he got out und walked arotlnd to tho front of the car after the dogs had been released, tho car started tolling, knocked Mr. Little down and ran over him, breaking his legs and otherwise injuring him. "His friend didn't have strength enough to aid Mr. Little much and he could not drive a car. So he walked three miles to the nearest telephone to get help. When he came back, of course he found Mr. Little light where he had left him on the ground, j suffering terribly fiom his injuries, and about the first thing Mr. Little said when assistance arrived was: " 'Do you know for the last three hours I have been listening to the finest fox race 1 ever listened at in my life? The dogs caught the fox and you will find him right over there (indicating), if you will go look for him.' "He was certainly a fine gentleman and a real fox hunter," concluded his York county friend.?Yorkville Knquirer. Mrs. Frances A. Robinson, wife of Thomas H. Robinson, Jr., alleged kidnaper of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll, I^ouisvillo, Ky., society woman, has been released from jail after being held for four months on a bond of $5,000. Mrs. Robinson's trial for aiding the kidnaping, is set for March 18th. Her husband is yet to be arrested. employed on the "dam, working with old Egyptians methods, at least 1,000 years to finish the concrete wall of the dam alone, to say nothing of double tunnels through the solid rock on either side of the canyoh, and all tho steel and machinery that ancient methods could not have produced at all. The wall of the dam weighs 6,600,000 tons, and pressure of the water against the cement wall at the base of the dam will he 4,500 pounds to the square foot. The concrete wall more than 600 feet thick will hold that easily. Chemical action caused by the "setting" of the cement, plus intense pressure, raises the wall to a temperature of 150 degrees. This is overcome by circulating water just above the freezing point through the cement in 575, miles of one inch steel tuibing. The water is artificially cooled, andit takes the cement about two years to cool off. The wall of the dam is not reinforced?but 3,500,000 pounds of reinforced bars and rails will be used, all supplied by "United States Steel" which for this job has provided materials of unusually strong quality. The "Bureau of Standards" inspect everything. The dam which goes from 110 to 180 feet Into the rock below the river bed will raise the level of the river back of the dam 485 feet, and will be 1,184 feet wide at the top. The government purchases all materials, contractors supplying the labor and me-;. . chanical equipment, including trucks that carry 50 tons. The reservoir back of the dam wilL hold 30,500,000 acre feet of water, enough to cover 30,500,000 acres one foot deep. That amount of water would cover the state of New York to a depth of one foot, which means ten trillion gallons of water, 80,000 gallons for each person in the United States, 5,000 gallons fqr every inhabitant of the earth. The average flow of the river would fill the reservoir in two years, and water for power, irrigation can be used before the reservoir is full. Gigantic emergency spillways on both sides of the canyon in addition to the huge diversion tunnels through the canyon rock walls, will provide for any possible flood or sudden rise in the river. The spillways are arranged to take care of 526,000 cubic feet of water per second. The Colorado river is now control 1; ed, and docile. There will be no more floods in the Imperial valley, but instead regular supplies of water and power as may be needed. Spillways and other outlets with their capacity of 526,000 cubic feet of water per second, would carry water enough to develop 25,000,000 horse power. Any one of the numerous spillways would take care of all the water that flows over Niagara falls and the power-developing drop would be three times as great as at Niagara. All other water powers on earth are small - compared with thi* fiant power producing dam. The next gWatest power plant in the. World, the Dnieprostroy, Russian plant/ develops. 750,000 horsepower- against toottdtHfanfc 1,885,000 horsepower.That en erg}' means 4,330 miiH?llrill