The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 07, 1916, Image 2
LOVE IN THE ORIENT
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COURTSHIPS THAT OO ON UNDCfl
MANY DIFFICULTIES.
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In Soma Tribes Several Swains Served
Their Adored Ones Until th* On#
Chosen From Among the Oth
ers Has Been Designated.
Some customs prevailing in certain
(tarts or the Sudan have been enter
tainingly described in a series of let
ters which an tCnglish traveler, a min
ister of education, lias written to bis
wife who is visiting America.
He came across certain tribes w hero
the *oinen, he sa>s, "seem to have
passed the limits of even American
women," and lie naively adds that but
for tbq^ distant e f rom Cairo and tho
wilducsu of the country be would will
ingly pans several months in the midst
of these good folk in order to iearu
the meaning of virtue In both the an
cient and the modern sense of the
word
"One girl may have as many as from
seven to fifteen wooers, who court
and' flirt with her for a whole year In
the sifcht of her parents. They not
only visit her in the daytime, but re
main at night near her dwelling to
mount guard outside her room, going
so far even as to keep watch within
her room in order to be at her serv
ice in case she should awake.
"If she asks for water, as many
calabashes of water are offered to her
as there are lovers in attendance.
Should she desire to pay calls on her
friends the whole of her lovers offer
to carry her palanquin, and again it is
the aspirants to her hand who under
take to anoint her with butter every
morning The period of courtship
lasts for a year, at the end of which
period the beauty must make her
choice. When she does so the un
successful wooers go away to repeat
their performanee with another girl."
These maidens are black and, nom
inally at least, Mohammedans, but in '
the matter of rights and liberties they
have little to learn. The Shllluks of
the White Nile, on the othor hand, are
as far as possible from being Moham- j
rnedaAs, yet their women have simi
lar privileges.
"With the Shilluks it is the women
that rule the household, the young
women themselves that choose their
husbands and that, once married, as
sume the post of command. The
strongest and most 1ui(-headed man
dare not beat his wife, forTte-tf ould be
looked down upon immediately and
would be unable to find a second wife
to succeed his llrst. No missionary ef
fort affects the Shilluk woman; it is
practically impossible to convert her
either to Christianity or to Islamism,
for she Is the guardian and depository
of the Shilluk traditions, religion and
historical customs." ? Philadelphia In
quirer.
Zinc Has Big Place In War.
Zinc i 8 bo essential in wartime that
it ha3 risen enormously in price in the
past year. Costing originally only
two-fifths as much as copper, it now
costs decidedly more than copper. In
spite of the fact that copper itself has
sharply increased In value. ,
Zinc is a constituent of cartridge
brass and shell-fuses, and is used also
as a covering for iron barbed wire
fencing. In 11*13 the I'nited States,
Germany and Belgium were the lead
ing producers of zinc.
Of tho three, only the United States
smelted domestic ores. Belgium and
Germany relied mainly on zinc con
centrates that they imported from the
Broken Hill mines in New South
Wales, where, for one reason and an
other. it does not pay to do the snieit
lng. France, Spain and Great Brit
ain also produce substantial quantities,
but not enough to supply their own
needs.
Austria and Germany have consider
able deposits of ore in Silesia. Hun
gary. Carinthia and the Tyrol. As tho
tine smelting furnaces of Great Brit
ain are not well adapted for dealing
with the Broken Hill concentrates it
buys the bulk of its supplies from the
United States.
Save Your Paper, Says Uncle Sam.
Save your old paper and rags! By
bo doing, according to the department
of commerce, vou not only will hr> en
riching yourself to a certain extent,
but will be aiding paper manufacturers
to solve what promises to become a
very r.cricus problem ? the shortage of
raw materials.
The department is sending broad
cast letters to business firms urging
them to conserve their old paper.
Something liko 15 000 tons of paper
are manufactured every day In the
United States and a large proportion
of this, after being used. Is thrown
away or burned, with the result that
Just so much raw material must be
obtained
Most of this paper can_be_u?ed_ again
in the niauufactur? of a slightly in
ferior grade.
His Quest.
"You say you are a wanderer over
the faco of the earth?" we asked the
shabby, sad-eyed man with the utterly
hopeless air.
"Yes," he answered with a sigh.
"Seven years ago my wife sent ma
out with a sathple of yarn to match,
and I am still trying to match K."
Diligent.
"What has he accomplished from
studying art?"
"Well, he frequently' points the
town red. ' *
FOUND SOURCE OF REAL FUN
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#Mnjcs's Osruonstrstlon ?f extrav
agance 8urpri*ed and Pleased at
V; th? Same Tlm?. ':v y,.
, v.
"A ?ult Ilka the blue you e*n wear
through |w? n?a?4>it(t." the wlMwoiimn
said "Of course the brown Is a good
suit. too. but It haan't equally fine
lines. 'The difference In price is only
five dollars "
Eunice Morgan looked at the brown
suit an It wat reflected In the mirror;
her delicate brown were drawn togeth
er In a frowu She had not been pay
ing much heed to the saleswoman, but
(he last words caught her attention.
It suddenly seemed to her that all her
life she had been buying the cheaper
thing and being discontented with it
when a few more cents or a few more
dollars would have given her the Joy,
of satisfied desires In her revulsion'
against the constant fret, she declared
to herself that for once she would have
what she liked, no matter what else
she had to do without.
"Well?" Sally Penuock Inquired.
Kunlce hud taken Sally along for mor
al support ? which, being Interpreted,
meant to tell her that the cheaper
thing was the most becoming. Eunice
drew a long breath.
"Ob, I suppose I'm going to be wise,"
she said, "and I bate being wise."
"Lirown la always becoming to you,"
Bally declared loyally. "I think you'll
like it, Eunice ? truly, I do."
liut when It game home Eunice did
not like it. She liked It even less than
she had at the store. She was stand
ing before the glass with tears of vex
ation in her eyes, when there came a
knock at the door, and she turned to
see Jennie Scott with her bundle of
laundry. Jennie's eyes widened admir
ingly.
"O Miss Eunice." she cried, "isn't
It lovely! Vou look beautiful in it."
Eunice smiled. No one could have
resisted Jennie's eyes.
"1 wish I liked it half as well as you
do," she replied.
Jennie'B adoring face grew wistful.
"It must be so beautiful to match," she
said. "Some day ? " she hesitated and
then went boldly on ? "some day, Miss
Eunice, I'm going to have a whole suit.
I have almost five dollars saved. But
when It seems a long time to wait,
I just remember that everyone's wait
ing for something, and then, you know,
I grow ashamed."
Eunice looked from her own new
suit to the shabby, brave little figure.
"Jennie." she exclaimed, "1 have an
idea! Will you come around once a
week and mend for me an hour ?
gjoves and skirt bindings and things?
I'll gladly pay twenty-five cents a
week, and that will be eight dollars
to add to your five by next spring."
"O Miss Eunice!" Jennie cried.
As the girl's happy feet ran down
the stairs, Eunice took off the suit.
"For once," she said to herself, "I've
been extravagant, and it's the best fun
I ever knew."- ? Youth's Companion.
Pot Shooting at Professor*.
Professional Harvard awoke the oth
er morning to find itself In the lime
light, and many a professor who
dropped into peaceful slumber the
night before is scratching his head
nervously and asking what can be
done^ remarks the Boston Traveler.
Two rather frisky Harvard under
graduates had taken it into their
heads to give the members of
the Harvard faculty a bad three or
four days, so Elmer Klsworth Hagler,
Jr., spent his leisure moments in a
month by drawing overzealous like
nesses of some of the college's most
revered professors, and prefacing
each sketch with a bit of satire. Rob
ert C. Bacon, *16, who received his
degree in midyear, published and copy
righted the book, which went on sale
to a rushing business.
Hagler has been in the eye of the
Harvard college office before, for his
clean-cut editorials in the Crimson,
ofteu of a radical nature, have made
him more or less a marked man, and
his drawings and writings in the
Lampoon have been a feature of three
seasons. Bacon has Just retired as
business manager of the lampoon.
"Harvard Inside Out" Is the name
of the harbinger of disquietude that
has already created a furore at Har
vard, and everybody that is some
body at Harvard, save Prof. Adolphua
Terry, gets a jab from Hagler. The
foibles, eccentricities and vanities of
more than a score of Harvard pro
fessors have been hit off by the youth
iui writer; and the undergraduates and
public are having more than a quiet
laugh and awaiting results.
Alabama Coal.
The earliest known record of the ex
istence of coal In Alabama was made
in 1834, but the first statement of pro
duction in the state is contained in the
United Slates census report for 1840,
In which the amount mined Is given as
946 tons. The mines of Alabama wore
probably worked to a considerable ex
tent during the Civil war, but there are
no specific records until 2870, for
which the United States census re
ports a production of 11,000 tons. The
development of the present great in
dustry really began in 1881 and 18S2,
when attention was directed to the
large iron deposits near the city of
Birmingham. In 1914, according to
the United States geological surrey,
the production was 15,593,422 tons.
Ready to Prove It.
"I hear bad reports of you, my boy,'*
?aid a fond father to his young hope
fuL "Your teacher tells me that yov
won't learn anything at school."
"That Isn't so, dad," replied the
youngster. "I've learned to count up
to a thousand. Now, Just sit down ant
listen to me."
Take a Jitney Joy Ride
Here's a trip you will
enjoy. The spicy road
leads straight to the
grocer man? and Zu Zu,
the spicy little snaps that
please everybody.
NATIONAL
BISCUIT
COMPANY
FIVE TIMES IN MEXICO.
When Stars and Stripe* Enter
ed Southern Neighbor Before.
once again as the United States cel
ebrated Flag day old tJlory waved on
foreign sol). Down In Mexico the stars
and strijies are tly in&c over camps of
A me lien n troops.
For the fifth time in hlstroy the
American nation Is engaged in a dis
pute with her obstreperous Kouthern
neighbor. No other nation on the fact'
of tin? glols* has harras^ed onr feelings
as provoklngly and as i>crslstently as
Mexico. And the end is not yet
Tracing the beginning of the trouble
takes lis hack to the early days of Tex
as. In 1820 Texas was a Mexican pro
vince. The territory was originally in
cluded In the Loulsinla purchase, 'but
had been ceded to Spain In 1819 In
the treaty which gave Florida to the
United States.
Among the emigrants who flocked to
Texas in response to land inducements
was a ha yd of Connecticut Yankees un
der the leadership of Moses Austin,
who rode into San Antonio in the fall
of is*jo and coolly requested a grant of I
land for a colony of Americans. His
request was granted. ,
Slowly the colony grew. By 18.Tr>
15,000 Americans had drifted into it
across the border. By virtue of their
industry they accumulated power and
incidentally aroused the jealousy of
Mexican officials. This jealousy xeu
tcred in Antonio Ijojiez tie Santa Anna.
One of his first acts was to send an
army into Texas to overawe the set
tlers.
The Alamo is a name that has be
come a watchword of lovers of liberty
the world over. Here in the strong
hold of San Antonio Texans took
their stand against 4.<?0o Mexicans and
fought till they died, and died to a
man.
"Bcnicinbcr tie* Alamo!" became the
slogan of the Texans. Under the lead
ership of Sain Houston they met the
Mexican* a few days later on the Im
mortal field of San Jacinto and gave
them the worst thrashing that any
army ever received on a battlefield.
The next time Americans carried a
flag into this region was in 1S4G. when
the Mexican war began. This was over
the Texas boundary. Our Hag was
flown in the Mexican breeze for two
years, ami during the entire time our
troops won every pitched battle in
which they engaged, (ienernl Wlnfleld
Scott marched into the enemy's coun
try and wrested stronghold after
stronghold from the hands of greatly
superior forces. Scott then went to
Vera Cruz, capturing that city and
working his way to the very capital it
self, where he raised the American
flag to the breeze.
Meanwhile, (Ieneral Taylor was
sweeping into Mexico. Matamoros was
j taken. Monterey followed ; then came
Bnena Vista with its overwhelming
victory.
Soon after the beginning of our civil
war France sent troops into Mexico to
overthrow the government and estab
lish an empire. Archduke Maximilian,
brother of Franz Joseph, the present
emperor of Austria, was to reign at
it'; head. President Juarez, the full
blooded Indian patriot, was ordered
treated as a bandit.
Our government refused to recognize
the empire so long as it was supported
by France. In July. 18G5, it empha
sized its disapproval by massing troops
on the border in Texas. 'Napoleon III.
withdrew his troops from Vera CruE,
leaving Maximilian to his fat?\
From that date until 101 1? -compara
tive recent, history? all went well be
tween the T nited. States ami Mexico.
After Diaz came Madero. Madero's
power was soon weakened. Victorians
Huerta came upon the scene His ca
reer as president of Mexico was mark
ed by the murder of his predecessor.
Madero.
Now comes the memorable incident
of April 1014. an insult to this na
lion'* tin#.
The t'nttcd Stntes government upon;
helot informed of the Tamploo inei
rlent ?leH?aiMled Kit Mpolutfy of Uut>)(4
in the shajH' of a sji 1 it 1 1* to the ting that
hud. iHt'it ho unjUHtly insulted. But the
val ute w'Hx not forthcoming. Then
away went the lutttleshl|M to Vera
t i ii/
{following the (Nvu|Mition of. Vera
<"ru? active preparations for mobiliza
tion were begun. General Frederick
Kunstou was went with a |H>rtlon of the
army for a march to the <*ity of Mexi
co. llut the stream of events were
turned in their course. A proposition
cnuie from the A. It. <\ i>o.wers of South
America, t'oiiipohcs] prMMpany ??f life
"?ountrioN of Argentina, (W.ii ami Chile,
to allow them, to mediate and settle
tin* ?litll< ulty. This was agreed upon.
The troops wore withdrawn from Mex
ican territory and the hattlcMhlpM from
Mexican waters. This bring* history
\\soll nigh up to the m-ent raids on the
Texan towutt.
OflF Day for Beggara.
It is pretty well known that a great
many apparent cases of distress are
fictitious, and at least four-tifths of
tin* sheet beggars are lmiKwters* hut.
it is to he ho|tcd that very few benevo
lent |M?rsons are so highly deceived as
the lady who recently Investigated the
wants of some pensioners on her boun
ty,
"Where is the blind man?" she asked
of a little girl she met at the door of
the tenement house.
"He's rend in* the pa]>er, mum."
"Ah. where Is the deaf man?"
"lie's talkin' |M>ntics with the dumb
man." '
"And what has become of the ]u>ra
lytic?"
"lie's in bed."
"That's strange! He ought to !>e
running a race," said the lady, sar
castlcally. "He is the only honest beg
gar in tiie house. Why Is he In bedF'
"Because he's dead."
W. S. Chadwick, a mill operative
and itinerant preacher who was sen
tenced to serve fifteen years on the
Greenville county ehaingang following
his conviction in Greenville two years
ago of killing Deputy Sheriff Lindsay
made his escape from the gang last
week and has m>t l>een re-t.*aptured.
WHOLE FAMILY
Ker IVt flayed Ih Ab?iult {
Fearher hi Im Om
For thirty -seven year* w?
rviMtrtlux court ptouvdlHgn
those lotiu years wc hiV|
anything to touch uk with k
grec of sadnesa, not even (bed
tenee on a murderer, a* tfhi
last Thursday, when
summoned almost an cutliv
fore him to receive seuteth*
eourt for assault and Imttffy u
ami WfKttiVattKl nature oft a
young holy svliool teacher. ju
Mtii's hsturo to thoui while i
was do lie lu such a teu?U*r.
way tlmt It touched the heart <*1
oho who heard It. lie sal<nt,
most painful duty to hlia.
had enough to ivass sentence
negro, hut when it eoni** to
sentence \i\nm a whole family ,
l?eoplc. w ho from hoth a inoftl
tolllgeut standpoint, outfit to kn?
tor than to commit such a d^j
douhly painful, Hut he saltl *
pathos and fooling "1 aw n<?
sentence on you, Mr. (illbert, t\
family. ?0 flinch as upon the
crlino that has heen eomwltti
for the vindication of 1^ (t^
law aiid order. The sen tern* <
court Is that Mr. Kills Gilbert k
tliied at hard lahor for one yetn
a tine of $500. Mrs. Susanutki
lie cohflimd In the county J?U|
year, or pay $500, Misses l
Huhy Ollhert he confined In
Jail six months or jmy a fli
each, Jjawton ami Koton (W\m
lahor for six months or pay t|
$250 each."
The Judge heard Mr. B.
argument for a new trial
lug sentence, which was n
The defendants wore* let vu,
pending ten day limit for an j
the Supreme Court. ? Hist
or and Vindicator.
The year-old son of Mr,
P. Kvans of Bowman, ...
county, swallowed a medium
ty pin ; last week. The chlhh
to a Columbia hospital for
and will probably recover.
A new $10, 000 school bulWlagi
erected at Chester.
WOFFORD COLLE4
SPARTANBURG, S. C
Founded in 1854. A Christian College with
standards and ideals. Located in. the foothills of n
Blue Ridge Mountains. Offers full and thorough courwj
Strong faculty. Well equipped Laboratory
Next session opens September 20th, 1916.
and special information address Henry N. Snyder,
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Wofford. College
A high grade preparatory school for boys, lr
ual attention. Careful moral training. Expenses |
Next session opens September 20th. For catalogue
special information address
HEAD MASTER, Spartanburg, S. C.
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