The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 23, 1916, Image 7
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,, (iiImMH'I Is lloUKetl within lis wh)ls.
|s a most unusual condition even
fit (hi-- hh'sMHl county, and .luiu-r
nryrtMl svtlivcl.v knows how to <x\nij>^
vis tluK'i Mo ha* taken UdvuntuKo of
i |ii< o|?|H>rt unity, however, to haw a
^tiirral cleaning ULusuid has had every
.'II scrubbed from V?vlllnj; to Hqm\ The
?*oM4ilTtn? tmvo at?<? tavn uiwu thorough
attention, tiiut whon ho gets through,
tho Jail will I^iH cMii as new Jailor
Itrvant hU.vs tho emnMiifxti of iho Jail
at Mil* time t* duo In i u?*l> t<? (lit* -? ? ? ?
it \ .?f ll(|ii<M'N Klorrlirc IMlHt'M
ThO Huoooxsor tt? i h?? la to Kov. \V.
It. Wharton ax suinMlntontk'ni of Kp
worth Oiphaiutco will not lx> cIihUmI
until NovoinVair.
"Summer? I Don't Dread It!"
"/BOOKING will be a real pleasure
^^this su primer on my New Perfec
tion Oil Cook Stove ? for the kitchen
will be cool!"
Why cook over a hot range in a hot
kitchen when yon can be cool and
comfortable. The New Perfection Oil
Cook Stove , the stove with the long
blue chimney, works like a gas stove.
The long blue chimney gives a perfect
draft, assures a clean, odorless heat and
lasting satisfaction. The fuel cost is
only two cents for a meal for six.
New Perfection Oil Cook Stoves are made
in many styles and sizes. They are
sold by most good dealers who will
gladly show them.
Look for The Long Slue Chimney
Use Aladdin Security Oil to obtain the
best results in Oil Stoves, Heaters
and Lamps
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Washington, D. C.
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Richmond, Va.
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Charlotte, N. C.
Charleston, W. Va.
Charleston, S. C.
''its thelong
BLUE CHIMNEY**
Wake up
- i *?s? miff Ben of Buslfl?w?
I The Bell Telephone 1? the Big ?e
iRing up on the BelL ,tfU you i08e
I You may talk about save your
pour breath but it wo? it^rjanhone.
I breath to talk into your Bell Te fresh Hit
t Ring up old customer, then "tart ? c that
lof prospects, the** is no jg
I ?aves more time jg? exp****?~- ~ now
I If you haven't iiBett Telephone, get
I Call the Tlniiin w offto# war retel
I SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAM COMPANY
Hakvespng on ac.hilc island
T LAST we came where the
road ended and stood opposite
the seldom visited Island of
Acliill Beg. There was only
one thing for us to do ? that was to
shout and shout until someone on the
island heard us and launched a boat
to ferry us across, writes a traveler to
the Emerald Isle. In Ireland. Wo
talked whilp we waited about the ul
tra-nationalism of the friend we were
going to visit. There had been a
projoct to build a causeway from this
peninsula of the mainland to the is
land of his sojourn. Our friend ob
jected because he did not want tho 2f>
families he lived amongst to be cor
rupted by an alien culture. We shout
ed again.
Then we saw a stir on tho island
and know that a boat was being
launched. Another wayfarer had
come up and was waiting to cross over
with us. This was a young woman
who thought little of nursing her baby
while she waited. She had taken
the child to some far-away dispensary
upon tho peninsula and had received
a pronouncement upon its sickness.
Now she held It and talked to it as
If it was a treasure ? as if it was won
derful she had got the child back so
far. This young woman took our
phrases in Gaelic as good conversa
tional coin. Most native speakers talk
to learners either scornfully or
patronizingly, but she talked trusting
ly, as if we had the Gaelic "like the
flowing sea," as they say. It was evi
dently that our friend on the island J
had brought no hint of paucity in
Gaelic speech.
He lived with one of the island
families in the utmost discomfort.
Meat the people seldom saw. and they
burnt it when they undertook to took
it. They boiled potatoes well enough.
But no amount of repetition could get
them to make drinkable tea. Our
friend had a room that had no catch
on its door and he was waited upon by
a barefooted girl. His mental nour
ishment seemed as zestless as his
physical fare. There were books on
his shelf, but they were dictionaries,
grammars, textbooks, handbooks, ex
ercises in translation, volumes of
propagandist journals. There was
one thing in the room that promised
some delight ? our friend's fiddle. We
knew how well he could play the
music of fishers and shepherds of Gae
lic Scotland and Ireland.
A Stronghold of Gaelic.
He held this remote Island as a
lonely post In a battle that seemed
long lost ? a battle of languages
civilization. Gaelic might be surren
dered or sold on the mainland or in
the big islands, but hero 25 families
would be drilled to hold and keep it.
Actually ho had made this island the
one spot in the British Islands whore
English is a decaying language. Fie
had found it flourishing here and Hae
lic weak and ready to give out. He
bad restored Gaelic. The young men
and young women who would spend
six months of the year in the fields
of England and East Scotland sj?uke
no English here. We saw him fling
the door open and dart out like a
weasel when he heard an English
phrase used by someone in the main
room. But the harvester was speak
ing of "The Midland Great Western
Railway" and how contd a name like
that be put Into Gaelic?
He was giving a lecture that night,
and we followed him as be went. Ian"
tern in hand, To the sch'oolhouse. We
passed closed houses before which
geese seemed to sleep standing. We
walked amongst ^ucks that gave one
the Impression that they were truants
from school ? they slipped Into pools of
water and pushed out. "They'll say
nothing about it; they'll say nothing
about it," they- told each other in
quacking undertones. We crossed the
gtepplng stones and came to the
scbooTfiouse. Inside we lighted lamps
and waited.
Hare you aeen a herd of mountain
ponle* break down a road? So they
rushed in, the inland girls who came to
our friend's lecture. No one else
came. They flupg> themselves about
the room until tbey were winded.
Then they became less disorderly. At
last, having trepanned then between
school desks, oar frletti begun lilt leo-.
ture. When he whb three-quarters
through they showed some disposition
to break away. But the power of tho
human eye held them for a space long
or. Then It became necessary to ap
ply the voice threateningly: "Now
Ilrighld," "Now Oona," "Now Slav."
At last, by opening wide the door, ho
signified that the lecture was over.
Brighid, Oona. Slav. Oauth and the
others bolted out.
Comfort of Pent Fire?.
The peat fires make it possible to
live in houses that are drenched with
constant rain. On tho outside walls
where the thatch drips down you see
the green of the damp. But Inside,
with the pile of burning peat on the (
hearth, everything is dry and warm.
Naturally, the people do not keep their
good friends tjie horse or the cow
from the kindly warmth. T}ie family
sits about the fire, and at. the end of
tho room the horse stands as quiet
and as well-behaved as a guest could
be. From infam y tho children are in
timate with the animals; at three one
can drive the cow whore it should go,
at five ono rides on a pony behind
hampers of sea wood. Tho people
have a fuller life than those who have
no friendliness with horses or cattle.
And yet we have heard II. Q. Wells
speak of such people as parasites liv
ing upon animals. Wo suppose it
would bo impossible for the groat pro
phot of machinery to understand that
people may live with animMs, and be
better human beings for tho expert
ence.
In the house where my friend stays,
around the fire in the living room, a
few young men are seated. They are
not dressed Jn the flannels of the is
land. nor in the ready-mades one might
buy in a town on the mainland, but in
ragged elothes that suggest Lanca
shire. They are returned harvesters.
Prom April until October the young
men and women of the island work
for the farmers of England and East
Scotland, crossing over with the gangs
that go from the west of Ireland. For
the rest of the year the young men
atay on the island, putting in their
time working on fields on which the
plow cannot be put or fishing in boats
that do not go miles out to sea. The
main income of the island is earned
abroad. The young men and women
come back with from ?12 to ?20
in their pockets. This goes to pay
the rent, the shop debts, or buys tea
and the bag of flour or meal. The
English that the young men can speak
is scanty and is eked out with a good
many oaths. Abroad they have the
name of being good workers.
Music of Crickets and Sea.
In our friend's room the peat fire is
lighted also. He takes up his fiddle
and sits down on his bed until the
barefooted girl comes into the room
with an apron full of peat. The fire is
Renewed, and it Is time to go to bed.
.A mattress is laid on the floor, and
our friend shows us how to make a
sailor's bed, folding the blanket into a
.sleeping bag, into which we insert
ourselves. Then we lie down at the
fire. The visitors have left the room
above and the people of the house
have gone to bed.
It Is now the hour of the crickets.
They riot about the fire in the living
room, making a continuous noise. And
the noise of the crickets bas for a
background the noise of the sea ? a
score of yards from the house it
dashes upon the island. But at last
comes sleep, and we hear no more un
til a sea bird cries in the silence of the
morning. Then a young harvester
comes into the room with another arm
ful of peat, and the fire, which was
slumbering down In the ashes, breaks
up again. Hread and tea and eggs
soop come our way, and our friend
talks of taking us to shoot wild goats
on the high places of the peninsula.
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Eighteen of One Family Killed In War.
Court Chamberlain Count Carl von
-Wedel-Plesdorf, the head of one of the
most distinguished aristocratic fam
ilies in Germany, reports that since
the beginning of the war five counts
and thirteen barons Von Wed el have
given their lives for their country.
Seventeen other members of the fam
ily hare bees badly wounded aad five
slightly wounded.
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