The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 22, 1916, Image 13
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[News.
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Work of a Beacon.
, 1 flashing tH'acon 011 ltlcb
;k. a wavo swept spot west of
f, Barbara Clauds. California,
(bout alteation. will flash its
every three seconds for soven
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nt?r
K officers of our lodge. Bach
| plug bat the year bo was
HCibws City Journal.
I bo ej re and to aaapect no
> greatest prerogative of
r. Johnson.
out PAIN
! oil liniment. That**
wav to 8 top them,
rubbing liniment is
f for the Ailments of
Mules, Cattle, Etc*
/ for your own A ches,
| Rheumatism. Sprains,
1, Barns, Etc;
$1. At all Dealers.
I L. Kirkland
Ieyor and civil
ENGINEER
in Crocker Building,
r Main and DeKalb
Streets
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N, S. C.
A. ALEXANDER
Veterinarian
STABLES.
16?. Night Phone 23.
IfBf TO LOAN.
?ed (arms. Easy terms.
P- B. Clarke. Camden, 8
60.
L GREGORY
Veterinarian
of all Animals. Night
promptly answered.
Phone S01-L.
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GUIDED B? BEACONS
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LIVES OF TRAVELER8 SAVED BY
"LAND LIQHTHOU8ES."
Safety Signals on Desolate English
Waters Were a Neoesslty In Times
Gone By? Many of Them Still
\ In Existence.
Of all the remarkable lighthouses In
existence, end there are mauy of them,
what la described us "the only land
lighthouse" U the moat extraordinary.
This Is the lofty tower, 100 feet high,
on the lonely levels of UucoIq 11 oath.'
five miles from Lincoln, In the parish
of Duuston. It la known us "Dunston
Plllur," says h writer lu London An
swers.
When the strange building first came
Into being In 1761 Lincoln heath was
easily the most daugerous waste place
In England. About twenty miles
square, It had theu no made roads, no >
signposts and uo Inclosing hedges.
Travelers found It a risky place to
venture in, especially in the short days
of winter.
The registers of Leaslngham church,
on the outskirts of the vast solitude,
contain accounts of the burials of
many unfortunate travelers who lost
their way htrre and perished In snow
storms and tempests.
So notorious wecft those dangers
that at Potter Hanworth and at Blank
ney, In this region, there are pieces of
land bequeathed as thank-offerings by
strayed Wayfarers whose lives had
been saved by hearing the church
bell's chimes, so that their steps were
guided to shelter. The revenues from
therfe lands were Intended to secure
the continuance of those nightly ring
ings, so that no others should run
such risks.
% It was Francis Dashwood, Lord le
Pespeoser, who built Dunston Pillar.
It served ad a signpost by day and
;,i?S u beacon by night, being at that
-lime surmounted by a lantern, which
was brilliantly Illuminated.
But, after some fifty-nine years, a j
good road was at last made across |
these wilds and the lantern was no \
longer considered necessary. So In j
place of it a colossal stone statue of ,
George III. was placed there in 1810,
the year of his jubilee. And there It ?
stands today.
- ? ? Beside?' -Dunston Hilar, there are
many more beacons that were intend
ed to keep the old-time travelers in
the right path. We have one In the
neighborhood of London. This is the
old Iron firepot, or cresset, on the
angle turret of Monken Hadley church,,
near Barnet, placed there originally
hundreds of years ago for the express j
purpose of guiding travelers who i
hiight be coining after nightfall !
through the lonely and deeply wooded '
districts of Enfield Chase. The Iron !
pot has, of course, been often re- j
newed.
A ^i!?)!!uT Srcput oluuuft tin iiif to w
er of GUIlngham church, near Chut
hnm, overlooking the River Med way.
A much more elaborate affair, which
was as much a "land lighthouse" as
Dunston Pillar, Is the lantern which
still stands on the tower of Great Wel
don church, in the Rockingham Forest
district of Northamptonshire. It was
lighted every night for the express
purpose of guiding benighted travelers
to safety through the entangled forest
brakes.
Of course, many of our lighthouses
serving our mariners aloug our coasts
are actually built on land, notably the
famous North Foreland and the Lizard
lights.
Among the most curious of these is
Dungeness lighthouse, standing on the
desolate wastes of shingle on the
Kentish coast.
It was about 1615 when the first
lighthouse was built there by a pri
vate speculator, who disposed of his
interest to one William Lamplough,
clerk to the king's kitchen.
To Stimulate Reading.
Five books, fiction or nonfiction, may
henceforth be drawn on one card is
sued to aa adult reader from the Chi
cago public library. This Is to Include
fell aorta of books, except the newest
fiction, which is Issued as before, only
for a seven-day period, nonrenewable.
"We do not expect, however,) that
there will be a noticeable Increase In
the number of books taken out accord
ing to thl? privilege," said Carl B. Ho
den, assistant librarian. "We are do
ing this merely as an incentive to the
public to read more. The power of
suggestion Is more effective than any
thing elsfe in making the public read.
For Instance, one of the popular col
umn conductors of a city newspaper
will merely mention a; certain book,
land our librarians are swamped with
requests for that book, no matter how
abstruse or lengthy It Is. No other
book on the same subject will do." ?
.Chicago News. ;1 ...
8 tart of Phrenology.
The first announcement made by
Fran* Joseph Gail regarding his sys
tem of phrenology was In an address
delivered before his medical colleagues
in Vienna Just a century and a quar
ter ago. (Sail was a native of Baden,
but settled In Vienna In 17S1 and began
the practice of medicine in the Aus
trian capital. From his boyhood he
had been interested In studying the
Cmniums of Ids companions, and many
observations and touch study convinced
him that the talents and dispositions of
men may be Inferred with perfect ex
actitude and precision from the exter
nal appearance of the skull. This
theory ho elaborated In many lectures,
pamphlets and books, and soon gained
to the scientific werf* j
GYPSIES WHO LIVE ON WATEH
Fifty Thousand Nomads, It Hu ??on
Estimated, "Run tha Bank*"
of the Mississippi.
The lower MlsslNsippi river Is one of
the greatest housel>oat |>lHy regions of
the United States. Beginning I** the
early autumn, people who dread tho
cold ami who seek a long winter rest
leave Ohio uml upper Mississippi river
towns and seek the thousand miles ol
flowing road from Tape Girardeau to
the Gulf of Mexico. This fall migra
tion of humanity ? thin wandering of
river gypsies Is one of the strangest in
the country.
It' Is said there are more than fifty
thousand people living on the hundred
thousand miles of navigable streams
In the Mississippi ha sin. These are
the Hhanty boaters, who dwell in vari
ous ways on the rivers and ''rubbing
the banks." Ih>sldes these river people
there are large numbers of sportsmei.
and temporary residents afloat In mo
tor boats and houseboats, making a
population of perhaps one hundred
thousand, not Including the "steam
boaters." who scorn the shanty boat
ers.
Between the two classes of river
people Is a feud that dates from the
old keelboat days, when steam power
deprived the huge rowboats of their
passenger and freight traffic.
The shanty boaters are strange float
ing nomads. They have many kinds
of boats, which they call "cabin boat#/*
and which range nil the way from a
"hogpen on a raft" to luxurious gaso
line-driven houseboats of large size
and beautifully equipped. An iceman,
whose factory Is In a lower Ohio town,
slips away nt the end of his season
and cruises In the low Mississippi dur
ing the winter months, accompanied
by hunting dogs, a deckhand, and a
motor engineer. He Is a real shanty
boater, because he knows all the old
timers and dwells in amity with them,
though he drives a $10,000 houseboat
and some of his good friends live In
driftwood scows covered with a tent
of old cahvas patched with tor paper
.
ONLY BOYHOOD MEMORY NOW
Writer Recalls Old Tin Safe That
Stood in the Dining Room and Was
Forerunner of Icebox.
Ileinomber the old tin safe that
stood in the corner of the dining room?
1 1 is still in use to some extent in
the country, but we in the city do not
encounter it so frequently as formerly.
The Icechest has taken Its place, and
the china eloset and the pantry have
made it obsolete for the most part.
Rut it was a <*v underfill invention in Its
day ? and the eold food you could snook
out of it when nobody was looking was
the nest food in the world, remarks
the i>avton (i).) News.
A flimsy sort of thihg so far as the
woodwork was concerned; cheap pop
lar lumber stained with a cheap var
nisli ? that Ls uiiout *11 it amounted to,
with sheets of tin punched full of tiny
holes like a nutmeg grater. It was or
namental, all right, with oil of its
shortcomings, for the holes were
punched after a pattern, and it had
a pleasing effect because you knew
what it contained. Why, there was
the sugar bowl on the top shelf ; they
always put the sugar bowl as high as
possible, just so a chap would have
to get a chair to stand on when he
wanted to Investigate.
If the ants discovered the safe, the
legs had to he placed In a little re
ceptacle with kerosene In thera. Files
could not get through the small holes
In the tin, but the gnats passed
through readily and found delight in
the apple sauce that was in evidence
along about this tlmo of the year.
Gnats certainly liked apple sauce, but '
a boy didn't care anything about
gnats when her wanted apple sauce.
, Mother was somewhat artistic in her
tastes. She scalloped red or pink tis
sue paper and placed it upon the
shelves, so the edges would drop down
and present a pleasing, wavy picture
when the safe was opened, but news
papers were, used upon the shelves ?
folded neatly and pressed down flat.
There was a sort of sacred ? At
mosphere surrounding the old tin sa te.
It was the most used and the most
useful piece of furniture about the
home. The children sought it when
nobody else was present, and half bur
rowed themselves in its generous car- '
Ities. And now ? Just think ? we
haven't seen an old tin safe for a gen
?ratioQ.
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Origin c t- ,
The word 'Dago was originally
given by sailors to Ki-aniards, Portu- -
gjese aad Italians, in general. Thar?
are several theories a a to its derive
tion. Probably the moat widely ac
cepted is that the word is a corrup
tion of the Spanish name Diego, uaed
aa an equlrr :?ot of the English Jack
or James. Others believe it to be
puiji'f a co' option or nickname de*
rivtu fir*cv tne Spanish word hidalgo,
which came to be applied u> any for
eigner from Latin Europe. It la now
used chieflj aa a nickname for Italia*
Immigrants to this oountry.
Much Fish Consumed In Tokyo.
The 2,000.000 people of Tokyo aa* I
nually spend $5 par head for -flab.
Collins Brothers
Undertakers for Colored People
RIGHT TO SOIL OF BRITAIN
Initiative of Duke of Sutherland May
Bo Followed by Other Large
Landowner*.
The titles of the British nobility to
their great landed estates rest largely
upon 'military service performed by
their ancestors. Such a title always
hat* baen good in England, hihI will b?*
hatter now that one of the k^'hIchI
laml-ownlng nobles in tho kingdom
has uttcst^d tils belief (but British sol
diers now lighting for their country
are winning an equal eluiin to a share
of the land, tho Kansas City Star ob
serves.
The duke of Sutherland owns 1,3T?S,
1KK) acres of the soil of England. Per
sonally he did not win any of it by
the sword, but bis ancestors helped
their sovereigns subdue Scotland and
his house has not wanted for elbow
room since. The duke has now con
veyed back to the government the abf
polute title of 12.000 acrea of this lam!
and has stipulated that It shall be cut
up into small farms and bestowed
upon British soldiers and sailors after
the war. The duke evidently takes the
view that their right to It is just as
good as was that of his ancestors, who
won It by the same means.
ller& Is perhaps a solution of the
land problem in England. Back In the
days of the Henrys and the Edwards
a man who stood near to the king and
was brisk with the sword could easily
win for himself a good landed estate.
Having won It, he hastened to fen ce
it in and put up signs warning less
fortunate persons off. The result is
that England is pretty well fenced In
today ? and Englishmen pretty well
fenced out. But after the war, when
a couple of million Englishmen come
home, having performed exactly the
same service that the ancestors of the
owners of the fenced-in land per
formed, why should there not be the
same recognition of such service? In
deed, when Mr. Tennnnt, secretary for
Scotlund, announced the duke's pur
pose in the house of commons a mem
ber nsked the right honorable gentle
man if he could get other landlords to
follow the duke's example. To which
Mr. Tannant replied that he theu and
there extended a hearty invitation to
other landlords to do \lkewlse. (Hear,
hear.) . ??
Where All Pisces Meet.
The giant log hotel at Glacier Park
hns ' "Indian tepees, Alaskan totem
poles, Japanese lanterns, Turkish
baths, and an Alpine-clad set of wait
resses. A solitary Jnp with a ram
shackle 'rickshaw meets the trains.
The hotel Is like the railway, for it Is
us International as the meat sauce I
had in Spokane, which is called Inter
national because, with a spoonful of
that on the tongue of a man, no one
nation can hold him. Without leav
ing the train one can go to Inverness
or Ayr. Carlisle or Riga. Devil's Lake
Is near Church's Ferry, and from
Karlsruhe to Genoa Is only 30
miles. Calais and Glasgow, Madras
and Zurich are all possible in a few
hours, and a stop at Havre (pro
nounced Ilave'er) Is made on the way
to Bombay. Bremen and Hamburg
are vls-a-vls, but It seems discordant
soon after to slide Into Norfolk. Con
centration Is the keynote ull along
the line. A single day at Glacier is
the experience of a lifetime. ? The
Christian Herald,
What Monarch* Like to Eat.
Good old roast beef is the most fa
vorite dish of the queen of Holland.
She is also partial to mutton. The czar
of Russia has a great fondness for all
kinds of fish, especially codfish, sea
oned with oil, pepper and garlic. He
once remarked to a late president of
France that he could "eat codlings
twice a day."
The kings of Italy and Spain both
have weaknesses for sweets, such as
whipped cream, chocolate and tarts.
King Victor Emmanuel is also fond of
the Italian national dish, called polen
ta. This is a kind of meal porridge.
The late pope considered polenta to be
his favorite dish. He was an exceed
ingly plain eater. The remarkably
aged, emperor of Austria has a craving
for the pecullhr dish of calves' tongues
in red wine. The German emperor Is
exceptionally susceptible to the temp
tation of well-buttered toast.
T# Classify Fruits.
The internal structure of fruits is
likely to giy? a useful means of classi
fying the various kinds, and may prove
of value in showing the relationship
of varieties. In hte novel experiments,
Prof. A J. Kraus of the Oregon Agri
cultural college, has cut thin sections
from the center of suture specimens
of various apples and pears. The sec
tions were first dehydrated with alco
hol, and were then soaked In a mixture
xylol and codar-ofe They became
beautifully transparent. The vascular,
system stood out distinctly, snd in
many fine photographs has seemed to
be always the same for any one kind
of fruit, regardless of the place of
growth, but his tUffered much in the
different varieties. The structural dif
ferences are very striking in both the
flesh and the core of the fruits that
were brought under observation.
Gigantic Coal ship.
r The largest coalship in the world ?
the Mi lasso? ^recently docked in New
York. She was designed by an Italian,
Oapt. Kmilio Menada, who has earned
a reputation for himself as an Inven
tor of transporting machinery. The
Ml lasso dm hold 14,000 long tons of
coal and 4JB00 tons at oil. She Is a
veritable storehouse of intricate bm
chinery. Goal car* ran on tracks tq
Chance for'a Good Living.
It you uit not particular about the
way you get it, a good living can be
roado oir those whom the Uootora have
fallal to cure.? Tojxtka capital
I
Ftrrt Spring SpohH.
Wheels re?ille??y by ?p riv
?pokes w<\rt* putontcHl in ICnglMMl m
oerly hx 1836. In Prance tn 1M9 ami
In tho United Htututj tu 1831.
GREETINGS
IT IS A PLEASANT PRIVI
LEGE TO EXTEND TO YOU
THE SEASON'S GREETINGS
AND WISH FOK YOU UN
BOUNDED HAPPINESS FOK
THE COMING YEAK AND TO
THANK YOU FOR YOUR
PAST PATRONAGE.
G. L. BLACKWELL
JoWeler and Optician Camden, S. C.
The W. E. DeLoache place, situa
ted three miles East of Camden.
Plantation contains 255 acres, ten
tenant houses, dwelling, barns, etc.
Situated on one of the main high
ways'intoJjCamden, and is one of
the best propositions for a hustler
offered anywhere.
SEE ME FOR PRICES
AND TERMS
R. M. Kennedy, Jr. Realty Co.
Fire Is No Respecter
of Value
It consumes the poor man's hard e?rned home witfe
just as much zest a 8 it does the millionaire's mansion.
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Joy.
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us protect you and make it a joyful Christmas for the
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