Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WILLIAMS INSURANCE & REALTY COMPANY (Incorporate*]. ) 1012 Broad Street Camden, South Carolina DRUG - STORE - NEWS We certainly have them ? anything you may want that ? Drug Store carries. Th? quality it good ? we look out for that. Tli* Prices are right ? very fair. Have u? fill your Pretcriptiont and PHone ui for Sick Room Supplies. WE APPRECIATE YOUR PATRONAGE w ROBIN ZEMP'S DRUG STORE ?^ONE 30 - ? I .. _ ^ _ Two Doors Above Postoffice rwio* 1/ WlilUM /? tWJMHK U*kMJ I ? Remains of One of the 8panish Forte at Porto Bello. w? Vil lage on Taboga Island. -Down verdure-clad slopes and ter racing reaches Where orange and mango and pine apple grow, One wanders through Eden to ocean washed beaches? An Eden that only the sun-children 1 know." Thus James S. Gilbert, the late la mented poet of Panama, wrote of aboga Island. It was so enticing at I determined to bo one of .tho sun-children for a day, or two and so steamed away In a little launch twelve miles out Into the Pacific to that beauty spot. Ij is all that Mr. Gil bert called it, and more,, and It 1r no wonder that (he sanitarium, '-estab lished there by the French canal com- I pany and reopened by the Americans. I is so well patronized. If you are a I canal employe? white? and liavo been ill, the doctor may bo' kind enough to send you over to .Taboga for two weeks to recuperate. If you are a mere visitor you can put up at the unpretentious little hotel con ducted by William Jones, the Ameri can Bix-footer who looks like a1 miner and dances like a cotillon ! leader. In either case you will bo ' fortunate, for: you will find those ! verdure-clad slopes" gorgeous with flowers and alive with brilliant birds, and the "ocean-washed beaches," the finest places in the world for a swim You can sail about the pretty bays w 1th the native fishermen, or you can climb up the hills where tho boys are vociferously driving the kine home to ! be milked, or you can merely lie in the shade and dream dreams of the Spanish galleons and the buccaneers A more delightful place for rest and the repair of shattered nerves would be hard to find. < !? has a h,otory. too, small as it ib. De Luque, the second bishop" of Panama, looked upon the Island, fuW l/ 11 was sood and established there his country residence. In fact he maintained a household there the year round, for, like many another churchman of tho old days, he did not adhere closely to the rule of celibacy. His memory Is preserved by a bath ing place in a stream that runs down the mountain side, called the Bish op s Pool, It was reserved for the use of him and his retinue. Above it Fami,y p?ol, for women and children, and still higher up Is the Pool of the Letters, for the men. The last one derives its name from the inscription "J. F. B., Ohio" carved on a near-by rock. This Is a reminder that in 1852 the Fourth Infantry. XJ. S. A., crossed the isthmus en route for garrison duty in California, hav ing sailed from New York on the United States mail steamer Ohio Cholera was prevalent at the time in Panama and the American soldiers *?? ith(L ?a,lor8 from the 0h,? were attacked by the disease, about eighty of them dying. Some of the' sick were left on Taboga Island to recov er, and evidently one of them did re cover sufficiently to climb up to the bathing pool and leave the record that is a mystery to the native in habitants of this day. Incidentally . ? ' ' then ft cnPtain, was with the Fourth infantry on that trip If you climb up the hill, following this 8 1 ream most of the way, you wifl come to a place at the summit of a pass called Las Cruces. There, set in cement, are three small crosses commemorating the mOst exciting in cident in the island's history. Ac cording to a Spanish work written early in the last century, a shipload of Peruvian pirates came sailing up the coast in 1815 and decided Taboga was a good place to loot^ They land ed and drove the small Spanish gar rison out of the village and up the mountain. But in the pass the *nl die rs rallied, the inhabitant, cam* ?? their assistance and -there, says the *hron.eler . a moat bloody comba! raged for hours. Finally the pirates routcd and fled to their ship three men dead on the field t v J Jn 1 reeks with history ' " interesting pa8l 1 ' to do With Porto . . . . . i *ho, goes of the mighty 1 of the old Spanish days will be woefully dis appointed by the. town as It. now is. Romance, commerce, everything at tractive has lied long ago from that place and Porto Hello 1b nothing but a dirty, immoral little village, full of low cantinaB, slatternly natives and mangy curs. At each side of the town is the ruin of a Spanish fort, ilg plcturosqueneBS marred by ilshor men's nets atid tho local washing hung up to dry. Thus the work of man has decayed, hut Nature is as kind as ever to Porto Hello. Its bottle-shaped har bor Is one of tho prettiest, to bo found, with promontories guarding tho entrance, beautiful hills on both . sides and entrancing little rivers meandering down from the moun tains and through the jungle Into Its upper end. One hill opposite thek town boasts the remains of three un usually interesting Spanish forts. One Is at tho water's edge,, another severa'i hundred yards up the slope, and theso two were once connected by a covered stone stairway the ruins of which still provide ( the easiest means of ascending. On the sum mit of the hill Is the third fort, a mighty square tower surrounded "by a deep moat. The wallo are almost intact but the roof has fallen In and the fortress is full of trees and shrub bery. ? With these three forts, two others protecting the harbor entrance, tho two at the ends of the town and an other just above It, Porto Hello might well seem to have been impregnable, yet It was taken twice by the Eng lish. Sir Francis Drake planned to capture It in 1596, but just as his ships were about to begin the attack Drake died and was -burled in the mouth of the harbor. Dispirited by the loss of their leader, the English sailed away, but Capt. William Parker took up the project in 1602.- With two ships he got past the first forts at night and after a desperkte fight captured and sacked the city, carry ing off 10,000 ducts' worth of plunder. The second taking of Porto Hello was the first notable exploit of Henry Morgan, the famous buccaneer, as an independent commander of a fleet. Sailing Into what is now Colon har bor, 1\e took his men up. a river in canoes, landed at a place called Eb tefa Donga Demos and marching through the jungle, attacked the city from the rear. First capturing the castle above the town, he shut the garrison in one room and blew them and the fort to pieces with gunpow der. The governor,, the citizens and the rest of the soldiers, surprised and terror-stricken, were soon driven into one of the other forts and for hours they bravely withstood the assaults of the buccaneers until, as Esquemel ing tells us, Captain Morgan began to despair of tho whole success of tho enterprise. Finally he had a number of ladders made and forced the priests and nuns whom he had cap tured to iet them up against the walls. Many of these poor creatures were killed by the defenders, but at last the ladders were placed and the buccaneers s\varmed up them carrying fireballs and pots of powder which they kindled and hurled among the Spaniards. The garrison surrendered at discretion, but the gallant governor defended himself' bo obstinately that the English werft forced to kill him. Morgan remained in Porto Hello sev eral weeks, plundering the place and torturing tho citizens to induce them to reveal the hiding places of their riches. Though an lrnj?rtant place In tho transshipment of gold from the west coast of South America. Porto Bello never was a large town, but for sev eral weeks each year it was very populous. This was at the time of the annual fair, when the galleons from Spain were In the harbor wait ing for the mulo trains to bring the," gold from Panama. Then merchants; and adventurers from all that part of^ the world gathered In the village and. trade was brisk In the big building now called the custom house, whose j ruined walls still are standing. Met^, chandlslng, drinking and fighting dlvld-' ed the time unttl the galleons set sail: for Spain with thsir golden cargoes.! SAWYER'S KID What would be the use for us to sell you a poor cigar? It would only finish in your buying your cigars from someone else. We want you to buy your cigars from us ?all of them so we give you a cigar that we know you will come for again. Buy a whole box. Don't be short on the "smokes" when your friends come in. Come to OUR Drug Store Sawyer Drug Company REAL ESTATE ' ? SELL Do. You Want to > loan BORROW \ May Help You. LAURENS T. MILLS, CAMDEN, S. C. COLD DRINKS From Our Fount Will Knock the 'Ouch' Out of 'Grouch. Camden Candy Kitchen Polite and Courteous Waiters to Serve You THE EXQUISITE, BECOMING MODISH Summer Millinery that we are displaying will convince you that your spring hat had best come from this establishment, for our styles are in keeping with the best and taste and Metropolitan demands, and are really exclusive. We would be delighted if you would accept our invita tion to call. MISS MATTIE GERALD