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I ANNOUNCEMENT! j* J? J* The executor* of the Estate of George T. Little i announce to the public that they shall continue as in the past the business of | J? J* J? j I LITTLE'S STABLES I | j Livestock?Farm Machinery?Sporting Goods | J I UK SI.OT MACHINE T'i.i'It at- a nil in ber of i?a><>n- ? ' > the slut inut hit.i' should be |>| ohib. <?l (>y lav.. t)iit tint- u! tin* most glaring is rl'.i- fa> ' that it m-nlmu-ly !< a'Ljt vi.'nil- on ami or. making them IkImm tr.i-y w it gam "ion- than they, lost*. Hilly Arthur, in The State,; tells it ihis way: j The .slot machine is the outstanding modern .siren. 1 he unwury, innocent citizen is <lrawn into its dangerous grasp before he realizes it. Invariably the course of procedure is the ,-ame. lie stands in some hotel lobby or store, watching one or more fools inserting nickels into the hungry jaw of one of these contraptions. And he says to himself: "What an absurd folly!" or words to that olfect. , From where he is standing, how? h. cannot help hut watch the h: :gk: ly painted .ie-igns Hash around, a 'he operators pull the lever. He j'.iv .> ha1;) hreath as two oral.g h w up a:d the third just ; . r,. dfU WS a lit' le i "a" i.e n ay he able to s?*e finally quit :n*d:sa . . :.g i: ell i-d their n.ck i'. 'iteii.i umains for a moment o ."lig, > . lie gianee.s at the again, and then quickly -tuiT.s las eyes in another direction.' Hut ere long, his orbs once more focus upon the machine. Its subtle 1 \oice is whispering to him: "Try me just once. It'll only cost a nickel, j and then you can quit. You can quit for the rest of your life, if you want I to. Come on?be a sport; only a nickel!" Our hero glances about him and observes that no one is watching him. His hand reaches into his pocket, extracts therefrom a nickel, and inserts it into the slot. He pulls down the lever. The thing-um-abobs whirl around. One lohejrry? two cherries?a plum! There's a click?then a pause?then a cheerful rattle of coins as they course down into the little pan underneath. He reaches into it and finds that he has won four nickels. Does he continue playing the machine? Does he put each one of those four nickels back into the contraption again? That he doesn't, lie pockets his winnings and stalks away. He's one man who is going to show some real sense and judgment . ' And he does, too; until the next day, when he sees someone else playing another machine. They are unsuccessful. lie shove- them a- do and remarks jokingly : "Here, lot me show you how it's done!" Into tim slot goes the nnr.il. Wham, goes the lever. The doo-dads go around and?.presto! Two n.iktldrop out!" "What <1 ill 1 till you!" he crows. "Now watch me repeat." Hut lie doesn't. So he -hoots ;n another niekcl?and he doesn't some tr.orc. I'.ut there's no use in continuing 'he story further. Our lie:" ipi<w beyond salvation.. He's a u>nti> nic i -lot-niachiner. and there's no hope for iiim. He. lupins to accumulate sturies of e\t inordinary happenings that have taken place. He. delights in telling you how Hill Jones wo# the jack-pot with one nickel; how he himself, after having put in thirteen dollars in nickels, won twenty nickels, twice in succession. And he raves over the fact that after having invested nine dollars and sixty cents in the machine at Zilch's Drug Store, Tom Edwards came along and got the whole jackpot with one measly nickel. Lincoln, Washington, Moses and Lydia Pinkham's husiband are no longer heroes to him. His idea of a truly great citizen is Hezekiah Bimjay, a plumber's helper, who hit the jack-pot twice in one week. His friends, seeing to what depths he has fallen, pause to argue and plead with him. They prove conclusively that he is bound to lose; that ' the odds are overwhelmingly great [against him; that he is depriving his ' wife of a now fur coat and his chilj dren of a new car?but their arguments are without avail. He babbles incoherently of Sam Weeks, who won three dollars at a cost of only seven dollar.*; of Oscar (limfit/ who had figured out a system for boating one of the nfachines, and of Julius Tea' pot. \\h>> had kept track of his operation for ,-;x months and was only $>7 .".4 behind?but he had won, seven jnckp?>? *! II:- friends might just as well save the;- breath.? Manhvilie Home. 1 ~e -tatc of New Jersey will pay t no costs nocesary for printing the re> end in the Hauptmann appeal to a higher eourt. This cost usually falls on the appellant, and in this case w :1? r-fnl several thousand dollars. Death Of J. it. Oh toe Kershaw, Feb. 23. James It. Caa well known citizen of Kershaw i .nnty died Saturday morning' at the I.<>me of his nephew, Ernest Trues. i.-li. Mr. Oatoe had a stroke of paralysis two weeks ago of which he never recovered. He was born and reared in Kershaw county and died at the age of 72. Funeral services were conducted at the Second Baptist Church of Kershaw Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, fie was laid to rest at I^aurel Hill. Mr. Oatoe is survived by his wife, who was formerly Miss Margaret Vincent and the following children: Mrs. R. O. Terry, Mrs. L. J. Truesdell, Mrs. Lem Bradley and Edward Catoe of Kershaw; Mr. G. T. Oatoe, Orien Catoe, Rock Hill and Hollis Catoe, Camden. He is also survived by 37 grand children and 3 great grand children. He leaves a brother, 1 >. K. Oatoe; two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Byrd and Mrs. Kitty Byrd, of Kor.-ha w. ?T SPECIAL TAX NOTICE j* J* j? After February 28th, 1935, five per cent, penalty will be | added to all taxes assessed for j the year'1934, not paid. j Yours respectfully, S. W. HOGUE, Treasurer of Kershaw County, Camden, S. C. Sources ^Chocolate Cacao Bean* Are Cleaned by Shuffling Feet In Brazil. by Nn.tu.nnl OwoKrauhlc Society W aihlnKlon. D. C.??- WNU teeivice. Do YOU like hot chocoluie candy? Chocolate cake? or chocolate I co cream sodas? Then you'll be Interested In the news that science Is waging a dcterniined fight to save the famous cacao plantations of Trinidad, an island in the West Indies, from u de stmotive plant disease. Trinidad is one of the principal sources of the bean which furnishes "the makings" for a hot beverage surpassed in world importance only by coffee and tea, as well as for candles, sweetmeats, etc. Chocolate was a gift to man's palate from the western hemisphere. Like tobacco, the potato, and a number of other plant products, it was taken back to Europe by explorers soon after Columbus opened the road to the New world, and launched on the way that has led to world markets. In trade circles today three torms are used: chocolate, cocoa and cacao. The tropical tree which is the source of chocolate Is called the cacao. In its leathery, cucumberlike fruit are cacao pods which contain cacao beans. But when the beans are roasted and ground, and inueli of the fat is pressed ' ut, the remaining hrown substance (ground to a dry powder). Is cocoa. It the fat i< not prevvdi nut, tin? darker substance is < diocwlato. : <"rn,?ir for the 1 v.-"'net ;re of i hoi?! oh.fe li-otii the L. id I. -e. 1 of :iii 111.. j I I e J10 > V, - g M\;u I v !.. (he (.rig inal \|,.x p, when IP. nando i / in? aded t hat '"III.! l"\ , I, I I t : ! I he e.'leao tree was v. ' ! > ru':,\n:- d. The nn f ives had eon. o< P d a drink called "chocolatl" > r vaeahu.u 1." from which have come the names "chocolate" and "cocoa." Frothing pitchers of chocolate were served hv Montezuma when he entertained Cortex. Long in Uso In Mexico. Students of American native cus- j touis have estimated that the drink j was in use 1,000 years before the ar- ; rival of Europeans. According to Mex- j lean mythology, the seed of the cacao tree was carried from a New worhl version of the Garden of Eden Into Mexico by Quetzalcoatl, God of Air. The fruit, It Is related, was a favorite food of the gods. The great Swedish botanist Linnaeus, christened the fruit theobroma cacao, meaning In Greek "Food of the Gods." Cacao was used as a means of barter and the payment of tribute by the Aztecs and Mayans. A man's wealth wns often Judged by the number of i cacao beans he possessed. In Mexico a good slave could be purchased for 100 beans. Its highly concentrated food value, ' low cost of production, and numerous uses, have stimulated cacao cultivation to such an extent -that now it is grown in practically all tropical countries. The wet tropical areas of the West African colonies of Great Britain and Portugal, and the South and Central Americas are especially well suited to the cultivation of the trees. The Introduction of the cacao tree In Africa has resulted in a remarkable growth of the industry and economic development of (he continent. The Gold coast has taken first place away ti'.un Brazil in (he world's production of cacao. What were once trackless and useless African Jungles, Inhabited only by savage bushmen and wild animals, today are cacao plantations, operated for the most part by natives. America Largest Consumer. As an International commodity, the cacao bean has grown In importance to such an extent that the United States alone, in 1033. imported 474."JTO.OOl pounds, valued at $ 18.739.000. The United States is by far the largest consumer, cacao ranking sixteenth In value on our list of imports. Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands follow In the order named. For many years the Spaniards of South America and of some of the W est Indies nietvpo'.zed the cacao in dustry. Chocolate was Introduced into Spain by Uortoz and his comjuls'a.lores about the beginning of the Sixte? n: ii veutury, Pat the process of j < !; '.,,te :a.?n.:f.o ::ire was kept a se- ' ct'et f. r .. :n >?t put years. In ltkx> an .! !' i. an !.- \ r 1 the n,,,f j.-,;.- j .v.o-F.y afterwards, monks! .ile! e : > spread the new s througlv 1 "! 1; e. the at!i a id I.e.-.. | e dr.i.k No-.oPP inermtsit-.g. ; ' i - - v.. re . st.iPl *?,. ,| jrt ! , i land, as ? !', .ij? the continent. <'P i:. . h,,\\i \? r. was }l luxury 1 wlie.ii only the ri< o e<"i*d afford. sin -e ! it si-'.d '"or as mu 1> n> *.*> a pound. To- j day good choco'ate can he pur< -based for a few cents a pound, and Is consumed In one form or another by mil lions of people the world over. ^3 Modern methods of cocoa and choco late manufacture differ little from those used by primitive people centuries ago. In Mexico the natives roasted the beans and then ground I them between two warm tlut stones I until a tine pa>le was obtained. This i was sometimes mixed with maize (corn) and llavored with vanilla and j apices, 'I tie paste was molded Into . forms desired and allowed to cool, j Modern preparation of the commodity : is more scienlitic and thorougli. but j the princi[?al steps taken are much I the same. Cocoa butter Is an Important byproduct of the cacao bean, which contains 50 per cent fats. The butter, removed by crushing the beans under hydraulic pressure, is extensively used In confectionery, and In pharmaceutical preparations. Almost every household has some commodity that contains this vegetable fat. Cocoa butter is an Ingredient of many soaps, pomades, perfumes, ointments, plasters, and cosmetics. The Gold coast colony In Africa Is normally the world's largest producer of cnea#. In one recent year the Colj omt^shfppcft tons <>f cacao, valued at to tlio United States. While the Gold coast no longer puts Its tru-1 in gold, cacao has displaced the metal only within the la-t few wmi's, I or I'*! yours gold was the ho;..- ihtt it-r?*d for white men on Ho- G -hi eo.i*;. Cob] initios built the rui;:. .i-[ to s n '-e, i'. r which Talc r..-:: port, in 102; g.dd ship i :i ! it.or * t' i ri s **). bip 1 ... , v., p- to- m ariiig r-xliau-t .' !!. A g -o! .gi. v.irvi-y of the Cold .. ;?>! co'.oiiy in ltd" revealed other minerals which may themselves relegate gold to the background. Manganese and bauxite are important exports. The first Is used in steel making and the second for aluminum. Big Industry in Brazil. In the state of Bahla In Brazil are about 80,000,000 cacao trees; this fruit has been grown here for about 150 j years, and a tiny railway serves the j heart of the great cacao region. It hauls more tons of freight per mile than any other railway line In South America. Leaving th? coastal plain and entering the foothills, one sees the cacao plantations in long shaded groves. Among bigger, protecting trees the small cacao trees are planted, thus sheltered from sun and wind. Twist off a green fruit, breAk It open and taste the whitish seeds; the flavor [? like watermelon. Barefoot men and women split the pods, empty the seeds on a wide platform, and tread them free of pulp and pith. They call this "Dancing the Cacao." The seeds are dried by stirring them In a big fiat bin. A wide roof, set on wheels, is at hand, to be hastily hauled over the bin if it rains. Turning a dark brown when dried, and tasting of unsweetened chocolate when ripe, the beans are packed In bags and sent to Europe and the United States. In .TO years Bahia's export has risen ! from 150.000 to 1,2)10,000 hags a year. ! Brazil drinks very little chocolate, but much coffee. Niar a station named "Lava Pes," or I "Wash Your Feet," the visitor may stop to watch a long file of umbrella j ants. Each carries a leaf, as if It i were an umbrella. Many ants are up In a tree, biting off bits of leaf and dropping them to other ants waiting on the ground. This line of marching ants Is often a mile or more long. The ants carry the leaves to their underground home, and store thorn. On the leaves a fungus forms, and this the Insects eat. Farther up the line one crosses a small stream running among cacaocovered hills. Long chutes made of boards run down the hillsides to the water's edge. Down these chutes natives slide fresh cacao beans, which empty Into waiting dugout canoes. Although cacao has been grown here for so long, the methods of harvesting it are still primitive, for human labor Is cheap. White men find life here hard, because of so many Insects and malaria, lhigs are a plague: horned tumble-bugs more than seven Inches long?larger than many kinds of birds, snails weighing half a pound, and the for de lance and other bad snakes. Work Unknown To Many Columbia, Feb. 26.?Twelve nil* i lion, six hundred thirty-four thottfr! and, nine hundred seventy-four pa* pie were given work by the gow?ment in relief work in the Unitoi States in 1934, according to Mill Leila Johnson, adjunct professor of sociology in the University of Souti Carolina. Of those that register^, for work, 34.2 per cent were unaU^: ed workers, and only 4.4 per cert were members of professions, whik 7.7. per cent had had no preview work experience. The Difference Harry Morley forwards it. Inquii*: itive little Abie, after hearing ? much about prosperity and depreJv sion asked his father: "Papa, vot is de deefrance betweea. prosperity and depression?" "Veil, my boy," papa replied, proseperity ve had vine, vimmen and song, but in depression all ve got i?beer, mpmma and de radio."?Chicay go Tribune. HOME STORES WEEK END SPECIALS MOTHER S J COCOA 2Z iTc 1 -lb pkg. 10c Chocolate Cream Drops lb. 10c ARGO PEACHES 2If lfc ! 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You will find at our Warehouse at The Oil Mill all grades 0f Mixed Fertilizers, and Raw Material, such as Acid, Kainit, Manure Salts, Sulphate of Ammonia and Nitrate of Soda. You are assured of prompt and courteous service and your business here is appreciated. We have in stock ARCADIAN, CHAMPION and OLD STYLE NITRATE of SODA. Let us fill your orders. ? - -~v 2 Southern Cotton Oil Company Phone 54