The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, March 16, 1917, Image 8
FINAL DISCHARGE.
Notice In hereby given that (Jrover
O. Klrkland, ^Administrator of the K
*tate of Levi KlrkJand, do^ased, has
tills day made application unto top for
4 final dlscharjce an such AdudrtlMta
tor. uod tliut Tuesday the 20th day of
Mmnli, HM7. at 11 o'eloek In till' furu
noon, at the Probate oitlee of Kershaw
</'utility Iiiih been api?oln|ed Die time)
aud plai-e for (lit* hearing of said is>
ill Ion and for urauttuu to the said Ad
lululstrator I.etjJers I Msnilssory.
All i?i?rtit's, if any, bavin# oluims
MK'iliisI the said Kstalv art- hereby .no- j
tilled to present tlinn duly attested,
?<> the Probate .lihlue or (o the Admin 1
Islrator on or before that date or lie!
forever hari*e.d.
W 1. MelM )\VKI,l?
.ludue of I'rohattv
I'aindeii, S C February 1 r?|It. l)i|7
FARM LOANS
Wo are prepared to nego
tiate loans on improved farm
lands in Kershaw county at
a low rate of interest. Loans
to run for five years.
J. C. MA8SEY
I. C. HOUGH
Collins Brothers
Undertakers for Colored People
Telephone *11 714 W. DeKalb St.
-RUB OUT PAIN
with good oil liniment. That's
the surest way to stop them.
1 he best robbing liniment is (
MUSTANG
LINIMENT
Good for the Ailments of
Horses, Mules, Cattle, Etc.
(jood for your own A ches.
Pains, Rheumatism, Sprains,
* Cuts, Burns, Etc.
25c. 50c. $1. At all Dealers.
Wm. L Kirkland
SURVEYOR AND CIVIL
ENGINEER
Ollicc in Crocker Building,
Corner Main and DeKalb
St reets
CAMDEN, S. C.
DR. S. A. ALEXANDER
Veterinarian
LITTLK S KTAISLKS.
Saturdays ami Suii(lay>
1 Ki \ l'honr !(?!>. N'iirlit l'iiolir L'.'J.
MONEY TO IX>AN.
On Improved farm*. Easy t?rm?
Apply to B. B. Clarke. Camden, S
0. 50.
DR. H. L. GREGORY
Veterinarian
Treatment of nil Aiiiina 1>. Niul?l
and il.iy ea'lls promptly answered.
I'hone 201-1,.
MON-KY TO IX)AN
ON RKAL K8TATE ? K AST
TERMS
G. G. TonTrwfkow.
Dr. E. H. KERRISON
Dentist
Otllre nvcr liruro'x Store
Broad ami I>t?Knlb Sts. Phone 1?ST>
COLUMBIA LUMBER &
MANUFACTURING CO.
MILL WORK
SASH, DOORS, BLINDS
AND LUMBER
PLAIN & HUGER STS. Phone 71
COLUMBIA, S. C.
UK. K. E. STEVENSON
DENTIST
OHic* CttHr Br??d *aW Dlltk Su.
Camden. 8. C.
OLD WAR ENGINES
British "Tank" Is One of Long
Lino of Queer Devices.
Wooden Home of Troy, Hlde?Cov?r#d
Towers Used by Alexander in
3iege of Tyre and Caesar's
Javelins with Iron Points.
The British "tank." described as h
ciii* of death resembling a ponderous,
hloWUIoViUK Mool CUll'lpillar, is oue
of a Inrur family of strange engines ot
(U'siruction sired l>> the God ol \\ ur, i
says a bulletin of the National How
' graphic society. Reviewing the his
tory of warfare anions civilised uu
lions, out* of the curliest engines of
destruction whoso fame has been per
petuated on I In- page* of legendary
epic was the groat wooden horse whU'li
the crafty Ulysses loft on the plains of
111inn, and which the Trojans believed
to he an offering sacred to the goddess
Athena. Counseled hy the false Xinon,
the Trojans razed lliulr walls in order
that the "Kilt" of the Ureeks might be
brought Into the oily. Alter nightfall
the warriors hidden inside the wooden
animal crept oul, threw open the gates
of the city and admitted their compan
ions, thus bringing uhout iho destruc
tion of the city of l'rhiui and wreaking
vengeance upon the people who had
sIh'Itcrcd Paris and the fair hut false
Helen of Troy.
An engine of war which ^merges
from the cloud of legoiid and takes Its
place among historical actualities was
that employed hy Alexander the (ireal
in his seven-months siege of the fu
mous Phoenician metropolis, Tyre. This
ancient city was strongly situated on
an Island and as there were no long
range catapults in the fourth century
before tin* Christian era, Alexander
conceived the plan of building a mole
or causeway from the mainland to the
Island. This engineering enterprise
Has hampered by tin- Tyrians, who
launched bla/.ing ships against the as
sailants as they sunk piles to hold in
place the rock and debris that formed
a roadway over which the army was
to march. In order to protect his con
struction corps Alexander ' devised
great towers covered with green hides.
These wore set up as shields against
the floating flames of the enemy and
the result was one of the memorable
victories in Alexander's conquest of
the eastern world.
One of the simplest and yet one of
the most effective in\eulions of an
cient times was tin* javelin with a
point of soft Iron employed by Julius
Caesar in one of his Gallic wars. The
Komau legionaries hurled these weap
ons against the .shields ot their cue- '
mles. The iron head penetrated the ;
outer covering of bull's hide, but flat- (
toned out against the hardwood or ?
metal back of the shield, and thus be- (
came hooked to this protector. I ho ?
shanks of the dangling javelins so im- j
peded the movements of the barbarian
soldiers that they Were forced either
to throw away their shields and tight
uncovered against the Romans or else
stop long enough (a fatal delay in their
advance) to disencumber themselves
from IliH unique weapon which may
properly be called the dum-dum pilum,
the progenitor of (lie soft-nose or dum
dum bullet of today.
Perhaps the strangest engines of
destruction In the history of the world
were the seven trumpets of ram's horn
which the priests of Israel blew as
they encompassed the walls of Jericho
1 once each day for six successive days
and seven times on the seventh day.
After the final blast the hosts of Isreal
gave a great shout and the walls fell
j flat, according to the Blhlioul uceount
In the Book of Joshua. Those who en
deavor to explain all miracles on the
j theory that they are the result of ex
traordinary applications of the natural
law have seen in this remarkable event
a demonstration of the vast destruc
tive power of sympathetic vibration?
' the <ame principle which has been
' known to shake to Its very foundation
a great bridge of steel and concrete
; when a dog trots across it.
Another arms oddity of Biblical in
I terest was the ruse employed by
Gideon, leader of only .'*00 Israelites,
who successfully engaged a vast host
of Mldianltes and Amalekites that "lay
along In the valley like grasshoppers
for multitude.; and their camels were
! without number, as the sand by the
seaside for multitude." Gideon's en
gines-of destruction were 300 trumpets,
i 300 empty pitchers and 300 lumps wlth
i In the pitchers. As the enemy's camp
was approached during the night the
pitchers were smashed, the lamps held
aloft in the left hand, while terrifying
blasts from the 300 trumpets spread
consternation and terror among the
sleepers who in darkness Imagined that
1 they had been attacked by a great
army. The result was wholesale
slaughter aiaoug themselves while the
followers of Gideon watched.
Eskimo Lamp*.
It Is believed that the Kskimo lamp
whs invented I ?re its jK?ssessors
emigrated from their original home,
which was probably farther south and
r near tie* <eacuusi. But tin* form of
the lamp becomes more specialized the
higher the latitude is. The lamps of
, southern Alaska have a wick edge of
two inche*. while those of Point Har
row and northern Greenland haw- wick
edges of IT to 3fl inches. The hnnp is
employed for melting snow and ice to
obtain drinking water, for cooking,
fighting, warming, drying skins, and
i in the 1'is. It is also a social factor
und the sign of the family unit, eacb
head of a family having his lamp.
along the, Watcjc. tromt
STRIKING picture of street
A,i,y in Siilonlkl, Greece, is given
l? ? bulletin of the Nntlona
lieogrnphle society, compiled
from 11 communication to the society
front 11. t?. I->wlght. ^
Somebody hml tohl me that ^'loiuM
was rather like Genoa. wr tes M .
ltwighi Mv first Impression, theiefcu.
a disappointing tl.it.ness not in
lho least comparable to the lot> .r
lht> lhMli bastiont'<l. henvcn-scallnt, ail.
of the Italian city. \ei
s.ales heaven. too. in her more
discreet manner. And theie is evt
This Is most palpahle on
broad quay of the water front. **V?
Hallv when a veritable row of tlslu r
men from the Adrirtic are drying net
or sails under the sea wall. Just ani thO
(lu in Venice. The crescent ot whiU
! f,.he blue buy - J
in nny 1
/ii The White tower, wlmb is
<?u-phuous Of them, nilfiht P?*>"
f.Mtlv luive been the work ot an It.?l
lall prince. Indeed, a doge ot .
U s;,ill to have built the first edition o.
it> :ll,d Suleiman the Magnificent em
,)b>ved Venetians for his own.
V "splendid palace" opens tlori.l
eutes of hospitality there. A ska tin
rink ami a cinematograph oiler then
own more exotic entertainment . t<vh?
uMsser-bv. Cafes abound. overflowing
onto the awninged sidewalk. hleettn
trams clang back and forth in proud
consciousness of the fact that they ex
i.t,d when imperial Constantinople
was yet innocent of such modernities.
These cars take you around the east
ern horn of the bay to the trim whit
suburb of Kalamaria. where consuls
and other notables of Salonikl live, and
Where Sultan' Abdul Hamld 11 spent
nearly four bitter years in the Italian
villa Allattlnl. looking out at the pro
vincial capital which he and Nero em
bellished in tkeir day. On the opposlt
horn of the crescent Is thebiUn-enougi
park of Hesh Chlnar (Five Ham
Trees), where It is good to sip colter
and listen to music in the cool of the
dav. And If. you did not know that
greater prize and ornament of Salonika
for < Hympus, the true Thessahan Olym
pus of Greek legend, you might easily
imagine it to be some white Alp or
Apennlne looming magnificently across
the bay.
Not Wholly Italian in Look*.
Look a little closer, however, and
this Italian appearing town has un
familiar details. The white campanll
that everywhere prick up above the
roofs of weathered red are too slender
and too pointed for true bell towers.
Then, as you land at the quay you Per
ceive that the electric cars are labeled
in strange alphabets. The cafes do not
look quite as they should.
for the people in them, a good many
would pass without question. Just such
slight and trim young men in Italy
would sit at little tables on the sble
walk. Just such young women, rather
pale and powdered as to comple*1"^
rather dusky as to eyes and hair,
would sit beside them. And you heat
a good deal of Italian. But you hear
more of other and less familiar lan
guages. And those red fexzes are a
new note. So are those more numer
ous ha> --colored uniforms that sat at
no cafe' in my Italian days.
A more striking note is afforded by
numerous dignified old gentlemen tak
ing their ease In their bathrobes ns
were. Kilt a little up th?V side and tied
about the waist with a gay silk girdle.
Over the bathrobe they usually wear a
long, open coat lined with yellow ^ ur,
which guards thorn from the <o? n
Winter and In the -umsner from m-uu
And none of them Is without a strinp
of beads, preferably of amber, dnnghnk
from his hand and giving him some
thing to play with.
Queerly Garbed Old Ladies.
Such an old gentleman should be ac
com pan led by an old ?ady. who con
j tributes what is most characteristic to
I the local color ??t* Salonlkl. The foun
| dutiou of her costume i? a petticoat of
some dark silk, ami a white bodice
crossed below her throat?a very thin
i bodice, cut very low at the neck ami
| palpably unstifTened by any such mail
i as western women arm themselves
j with.
' (?ver this superstructure the old lady
wears n dark skirt bolero lined with
fur and two striped silk aprons?one
before and one behind. The latter is
i caught up on oue side, some corner of
! It being apparently .tucked into a inys
' trrioiis pocket. But the crown and
| glory of the old lady is her headdress
?a .sort of flat frame, tightly wound
about with a stamped or embroidered]
handkerchief, and crowned with an
oval plaque set olf by s'eed pearls.
Whatever its color, this creation in
variably ends in a fringed tail of dark
green silk, also ornamented by a gilt
or .^?.ld plaque of seed pearls, hanging
half way down the old lady's back. In
tins wonderful tail she keeps her hair,
i>f which you see not a scrap, unless at
the temples; And about her throat
she wears strings ami strings of more
seed pearls.
She is. this decorative, this often ex
tremely handsome old lady, a mother
in Israel. The old gentleman in the
gaberdine is her legitimate consort,
while many of the modernized young
people at the cafe tables are their de
scendant.*?very many. A dozen differ
ent estimates of the population are
given, varying according to the race of
I the informant ; but they all agree on
the point thai Saloniki contains not
far from l."?0.du0 people, and that more
than half of them are Jews.
MAN NOT REALLY STRONGER
Woman Says Idea Is Merely a Fiction
Inspired and Fostered by the
Gentler Sex.
It is strange that no man envies us; (
that you never hear oue of these lords
of creation bemoaning the fact that
he was born a man and not a woman.
Time and time again women will rail
against the supposed handicap of their
sex. Without so much as a protest
they let the poet write about man as
"the noblest work of God." It never
so tnuch as occurred to them to dispute
or deny it.
It is refreshing and no less surpris
ing, then, to find in one of the current
magazines, the Unpopular Review, an
article on the Joy of being a woman.
Men are geniuses, the writer con
tends, merely because women permit
them to be. Women lose nothing by
this generosity, since it Is infinitely
more gratifying, more soul-satisfying,
to have made a I'lato than merely to
have evolved his philosophy. Woman
deliberately and with malice afore
thought permitted herself to be sad
dled with a reputation for weakness
so that man might grow strong.enough
to be considered a worthy mate for
her.
"Man is a timorous, self distrustful
creature," the Author writes, "who
would never have discovered his pow
ers if not stimulated by woman's weak
ness.
"Women, conscious how they hold
men's welfare in their hands, simply
do not dare to discover how strong
they might be if they tried, because
they have ho fnr used their physical
weakness not only as a means of
arousing men's good activities, but also
ns a means of turning to nobler direc
tions their bad ones. Men are natural
ly acquisitive, impelled to work for
gain and gold. Unable to deter them
/rom this impulse, we let them support
as. preserving for their sakes the fic
tion that we are too frail to support
ourselves."?Philadelphia Ledger.
Tattooing was a distinct trade in
Caesar's time.
Isaac V, (1 riff en, u 10-year-old boy
of Charleston, ha? enlisted iu the
llritlNh army,' having in Canada
Hint gone from there 40 Kiigland. IIIn
mother at Charleston In taking steps
to haw the hoy discharged and sent
Irnck home.
About 00,000 old cauH xrtnv
In OriUI^WW **Kt *? U*
or a cleanup miuiMilKn lugucuutftl
111 that city, lloyn anil Klrt? w?3
jgtvtn U frtH* ticket to tu? uwvini plqJ
I turn ?l">w for every twenty can* th, J
! coll?ot#0?liemv tiu? lurge ft)* o(eu9
It. M. IVrry. Ties. ,!. F?. WllHapis, Hoc. I). IIhkoI Bulk, IxhiiI Maimgn
Kershaw Lumber Co.
"Everything in Lumber"
Ol'R STOCK OF BUILDING MATERIALS KM
BRACKS EVERYTHING YOU WILL NEED IN THE
ERECTION OF YOUR HOME.
WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A SHIPMENT OF
SASII. DOORS AND COLUMNS. LET US QUOTE YOU
PRICES BEFORE YOU BUY El .SEW HERE.
ALL ORDERS LARGE OR SMALL GIVEN SPE
CIAL ATTENTION.
Telephone 340 Camden, s. c.
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
Ford Service Station
Full line Ford Parts and Accessories
also Good Year and Imperial Tires
and Tire Accessories.
All Parts and Accessories For Cash Only
KERSHAW MOTOR CO.
Country Merchants Needing
Heavy Groceries, Flour, Sugar, Rice, Lard, Bacon,
Meal, Grits, Hay, Grain and Crackers, will find it to their
advantage to see us.
Workman Grocery Co.
Crocker Building
A Store Full of Fruit
That's just what we have and more too, for we
carry at all times anything that you want in the candy
line.
Fresh vegetables of every description are always
carried in season.
It's impossible to enumerate the many tempting
things that we have, but whatever you want, it's here
for you and we want you to come here and get it.
Camden Candy Kitchen
Spero_Beleos,|Prop. Telephone 78