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Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by dee McOee, Copyright, 1928. FRIENDS, we WILL NOW HEAR FROM-*..A person who oan talk In publft and enjoys doing so Is a most remarkable Individual. I am reliably informed that lots of folks love it, and are always itching to be called upon to expatiate. ..A few nights ago, I was sitting quietly in an audiencb of about 40 people, attending to my own business --dozing between talks and remarks that were being made by my friends who were unfortunate enough to be on the program. I was really and truly enjoying myself, WHEN: ..Suddenly somebody with keen eye-' sight and a roving vision spied me, and inasmuch as I write a daily col'umn for a few long-suffering newspapers and longer-suffering readers, he thought mebbe that I could make a speech, so he said, FOL?KS: V \1 . . "We have with us tonight a man whom all of you know, a man. who has lived among us for 15 or 20 years,,] a man who is interested in the wel-1 fare of the public, a man who needs -j no introduction, (I still didn't have i any idea who this great guy was), and a. man who is always ready to toll us something we don't know:?4-take great pleasure in introducing . Gee McGee." ..The man sitting on my right and the woman sitting on my left helped me to my feet; an aspen leaf knows nothing about trembling as compared with my then jelly-like^natomy; m,y head began to swim hither and yon; my knees suddenly began to caress each other at the j^te of about 60 tunes per second, and was my face red ? . I tried to say something, but my mouth was so dry a match could have been struck on my tongue; my eyes were emitting golf-ball tears; my stummick began to ache in 8 differ_aut places, and nauseau was present In a prolific manner. The folks on the rostrum fifty feet in front of me began to move up and sit down and t out and in, and the crowd around me was a-whirling in every direction like unto an election and Its nucleus. When I came to, I was sitting down. 1 don't know what I said, nor does anybody else know^ not even my wife. How I wish I could make a public apeech, but I wasn't taught that when 1 went to school! in fact, nothing like that was thought of-hy eighth-graders ? that's where I quit. And now, It's too late to talk on my feet. THBN AND NOW I counted 22 different toys on the ioor of our fegr sitting-room, ell the property of our little boy a few nlghU frlublittt -?(Afltloch Home Heiuonst ration Vlub met Monday, December 20 at the home of Mrs L. A. Shlvar, with Mrs. Ora Belle Waters aa Joint ho* tess. The meeting was called to order by the president, Mrs. Kato Wil. On, followed by the devotional by wra. Uuiti'ke Munn. The roll whh called and the minutes read by the ?*<: rotary. Together ull sung the song of the month, "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing." Miss Margaret Fowell told a beautiful Christinas story, "The White Chrlatm&a," which was most interesting. A very amusing talk was made | on the condition of our country and others because of war. The many cemeteries of France and a distressing story of our loss in iuou and money was also given by Miss! FeweU. The members of (he club played several games of bingo and prises of candy were awarded to Mrs. J Beulah Funderburk, Mrs. Ora Belle Waters, Mrs. Marlon Shlvar, Mrs. L. A. Shlvar and Mrs. K. M. Shannon. The club decided to use part of the money In the treasury to help with Christmas in some of the homes In the community which probably other wise would not enjoy Christmas. Delicious refreshments were served In the dining room which was attractively decorated in Christmas colors and evergreen. Tpe meeting was dismissed by a Chris turns story and prayer. ago. There were no expensive toys, mind you; just penny marbles, 6-cent blocks, dime pistols, and possibly 2 or 3 machine guns, trucks, and Indian things that cost a quarter. Ab poor as we are, we possibly spend as much per month for toys for this one kid as father and mother spent in 20 years on their 10 younguns. ..The play-things of my childhood days consisted of ho-made popguns, i made of alder bushes, then called "elders," by us; a bow and arrow, or a cross-bow which we Bhot nails from that we stole from father's shop, a walking stick which we rode for a horse, the hind-legs of grass-hoppers, a horse shoe nail which was also a tool to pick goodies out of hickory nuts, and possibly a cheap mouth-organ at Christmas time. ..Plaj'lng in the said, making froghouses, was our chief sport. My foot was so wide at the toe-end I always tore my houses up sliding it out. I^eap frog and fox-in-the-war furnished us with most of our "big recess" pleasure. Handy-over was also an excitlng game, and If moot of uahad not been so busy trying to peep and cheat ?there wouldn't have been half so many fights. ..I almost faint now if I happen to walk across the floor and let my barefoot come In contact with a pecan hull. When I was 14 years old I could run a rabbit a sight race (bare-footed) thru brambrew briars, corn patches, freshly cut wheat fleldB, over rocky ground, up and down swamps, across ditches and gullies, Jumping fences and crawling undef foot-logs and never suffer so much as a scratch. ..Times have certainly changed since I arrived a-howling, so they say. Nobody had any money back then;, in fact there wasn't any money that we knew anything of. A 6-cent piece among our white and colored associates excited as much attention and amazement then as an air-plane, the property of a small boy, would fetch on today. ..The first traction steam englno I saw scared me so badly It took my father and older brothers 3 hours to catch me. I was only 14 though when I saw my first train, find was it a whopper? An engine, 2 freight cars, and a passenger car; all of them together were nearly as long as two of our modern road-Hoggers, commonly called trailer-trucks by the highway department. Verily, verily, the world do. move. ill Cfcflttmji Return lech Month ^yrP with a subscription to *V* BOYS' LIFE An ideal Chriilmai i present lor oil boys "Tcti me what a boy reads . . . and I will tell you what he wUl become r^p leaves Meked^ AA 1 7*l?tSKf1?? I QL thrills, action, I Scoutcraft . . , " Mall subscriptions direct to the BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 2 Perk Ave., New York, N. Y. Publishers of Boys' Life or throu#* your local Scout office Farms For Sale i 1 m 1 1 " * | , ' ^ ?f J* u' -gK . 1 :L .v .- ?-.r .... We have several Federal Land f-N - <T Bank farms in Kershaw Coujity for sale. Long Terms. Low rate of interest See, Write or 'Phone r Ba. c. bradham Secretary and Treasurer, National Farm Load Association Offica: Camden, . C. I l1. . I H. a BATES, SR. fta* Batata Salaam**4 radar*! Land Bank ^ H ' laala* at r PARIS FAIR FATAL " " TO UGLY TROCADERO Eyesore Partly Wrecked for 1C37 Exposition. Washington. ? "Down with the Trocadero!" was for years the cry of artistic Parisians, who saw only an eyesore in the huge circular Lmilding on the north bank of the Seine. To clear the stage for the. Paris World's Fair of 1937, the round central 'tub" of the structure and its two* towers have been leveled. Only the two semicircular wings have been allowed to remain as unobtrusive features of the riverside landscape. "The Trocadero palace was built for the World's Fair of 1878, and sold to the city when the fair was over," says the National Geographic society. "Complimentary critics called it a fair building, but the caustic dubbed it one of Europe's ugliest public buildings. "Although 'unadmired, the Trocadero was an impressive structure. The circular centra) building, pinched up to a glass peak in the middle and topped with a colossal statue of Fame, was flanked by twin square minarets half as high as the Washington monument. In front, a terraced park sloped down to the river, ornamented with cascades splashing into a central basin and studded with huge statues of a horse, a bull, a rhinoceros, and an elephant, and figures representing water and air. Unsurpassed Location 'Demolition of the Trocadero presents the coming fair with an unsurpassed location in the Passy district of Paris, with an unobstructed area stretching across the Seine at the Pont d'lena to the Champ de Mars and the Eiffel tower. This tower, like the Trocadero, was constructed for one of the half-dozen world's fairs held in that neighborhood. This section of the Seine is memorable as the scene of some of Robert Fulton's early experiments with the steamboat. "The interior of the Trocadero's central building contained the huge hall, Salle des Fetes, seating 6,000, which was used for occasional performances of the state-subsidized National Popular theater and for organ concerts. The hall was 180 feet high, and its lavish oriental decorations were illuminated from above through the glass dome. "An elevator in the spindly northeast minaret encouraged a favorite summer pastime, a twilight ascent to watch Paris become submerged in a lake of purple dusk, dotted with lights. - * i "Two twin crescent wings, which remain unscathed have the permanent attraction of famous museum cohesions. The Museum of Comparative Sculpture, in the northeast wing, consists of casts of medieval and Renaissance statuary arranged chronologically to show the development of that branch of French art. The southwest wing houses a collection of the fantastic art of Cambodia in the days of the ancient Kmers?seven-headed hydras, three-headed elephants, and gilded models of elaborately lacy temples. Also an ethnographical section shows the varying cultures of different races, with an Indian hut from Tierra del Fuego, marionettes from Java, cyclopean monuments from the Balearic isles, and other groups from world-wide sources, including a collection of dolls dressed in representative national costumes. A Famous Site "Disappearance of the Trocadero is another incident of change on a hill where history has justified the Parisian proverb, 'Only the temporary endures.' Given away by Louis XI in 1450 as part of the old feudal property of Chaillot, the hill has been the site of many pretentious structures, all of them torn down to make way for more pretentious plans. "The Trocadero was familiar to Americans, who found many homelike features in its neighborhood. Here ends the Avenue du PresidentWilson, and on the northeast begins * the Rue Franklin, with the famous seated bronze statue of Benjamin Franklin in the role of minister to the court of Louis XVI. Not far away is the site of his residence, where he installed the first lightning rod made in France. Nearby if the Place d'lena, where stands an equestrian statue of George Washington, by Daniel Chester French and Edward Potter, presented to Paris in memory of Revolutionary friendship by women of the United States." & Bull Elk Becomes Sheep Herder in California Alturas, Cal.?Spike, a nine-yearold bull elk, herds sheep at the XL ranch of Hal Johnson near hare. ~f: x . Originally sent here with a mate from the city of Baker, Oregon, as a gesture of interstate friendship, Spike languished after the death of his doe, and was liberated by the city, keeper to prevent his death from a life of captivity. After not being seen for months. Spike turned up on tin Johnson 8plke warns the lambs against as MM/I eime n ai , . coyotes ana outer predators, steers tk AW A/% f ? ?A. _ _ _ fmpw W pciioii* ?' - . - . ' Old Brazil and Coffee Famous Bean It At Bottom of Great Economic Puzzle Coffee, famous bean ttint conlrlb-i utes to hillliona of Aiuortuan breakfusts, U making world headlines aguln. ilraxil, the world's largest producer of coffee, ban reduced her ex-1 port tax on the commodity and the world coffee producer a are wonder lux how this may effect their fortunes. More than throe billion coffee trees, three-fifths of pll there are In the world, are busily producing coffee in Brazil's cool uplunda, and 38 or more other countries and colonies are adding to the world crop, which reached 2,500,000 tons in the last crop-year, enough to nmkc two und u half pounds fur every human being on earth." says a bulletin from the Washington, D. C., headquarters of the Na tionul Geographic Society. Coffee is un immigrant from ane clent. Ethiopia that made good in the New World. On the highlands of tho old African kingdom recently conquered by Italy, coffee trees have grown wild alnoe early times. Legend says that the stimulating properties of coffee were discovered by a prieBt, who noticed that goats refused to take their ordinary rest after eating coffee berries. From Ethiopia coffee crossed the Red Seu to Arabia, then travelled to Java, and finally came as a "vegetable immigrant" to the Americas. There coffee's reuf success story. Like many humam immigrants, coffee made good in the New World to an extent far beyond anything ever dreamed of In the "old country." South America became its greatest producer, and North America its greatest consumer. In the 1936-1937 crop-year, Brazil alone grew approximately 68 per cent of the world s coffee production, and the United States used half of all the coffee consumed in the world. But the world in recant years has consumed far less coffee than it has produced, and coffee's success story has changed lately to a tale of woe With Brazil's own production increasing, and other countries planting cof fee trees to compete with her, coffee prices haVe dropped. Hoping to improve the situation, Brazil began destroying part of her crop. Ixmg before the United States began "plowing under" cotton and killing off pigs to boost prices. Brazil was burning surplus coffee by the ton. 8ince 1931 nearly 52,000,000 bags, or 3,432,000 tons have been destroyed. Some of the ash was used as fertilizer on Brazilian farms. In the crop-year of 1936-1937, Brazil alone produced a million bags more Of coffee than the world consumed In the same period. (The standard bag of coffee weighs 132 DoimdeL-T World coffee production In that crop year was 13,000,000 bags In excess of the amount consumed. leading coffee producers next to Brazil are Colombia, Netherlands, East Indies, Venezuela, Guatemala and Salvador. * Coffee trees thrive host on land from 1,000 to 4,000 feet above, sea level In the tropics. They are eVergreelH, and blossom two or three times a year. Coffee blossotns are pure white anil fragrant, and the berries are dark red, very much like cherries. The coffee "bean" Is the soed of this berry. After the berries are harvostod the pulp and other extraneous matter Is removed, leaving the coffee beans of commerce. Strangely enough the leaves of the coffee tree contain more caffeine, the stimulating alkaloid foufftl In coffee, than coffee beans. In some regions, for this reason, a sort of "tea" has been made from coffee leuves, but is not an especially pleasant drink, as the leaves lack the aroma that makes regular coffee so popular. Because of the stimulating properties of coffee, It was once conBldeied an intoxicant among orthodox Mohammedans and therefore was a forbidden drink. But etffffee nevertheless increased In popularity among the Paper Factory For Darlington Darlington, Dec. 27.?A branch factory of the Dixie-Vortex company, manufacturers of paper drinking cups and containers, will be located here soon, Secretary A. L. Flowers of the Darlington chamber of commerce said today. Ho Haid the company had arranged to occupy u building on January 1 and that the new fuotory was one of two to bo opened. The other previously having been announced for Los Angeles, Culif. The parliament of Austria haB restored eight entntoB to the Hapsburg family, thus making Archduke Otto, pretender to the dofunct throne, one of the largest land owners in the country. Arabian Moslems, and became as Closely identified with Arabia us is tea with China. Until the cIobo of the 17th c,cntury, practically all of the worlds supply of coffee cntno from Yemen, in southern Arabia, and the name of Mocha, a Yemenlto Beaport, became a sort of synonym for coffee. Later . coffee culture spread to Java, and for a time this Fast Indies island led in production, so thnt its namo also bocame a synonym for coffee.?Yorkvlll? Enquirer. ft. ,1, , 1 ,1.,1 " ll' I "I 111 I , 1 FEEDS I ; GOLDEN OATS TIMOTHY HAY RACE HORSE OATS CLOVER MIXED CLIPPED OATS ALFALFA MIXED No. 2 WHITE OATS NATIVE HAY GAINES DOG FOOD STURDY DOG FOOD SPARTAN DOG FOOD WHITAKER & CO. 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