The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 05, 1918, Image 7
Helps
teeth,
breath,
appetite,
digestion.
-Give It 10 me*,
please. Grand
daddy."
"Why Bobby, if
you waif a bit for
it you'll have It
to enJoy longer!"
"Poo-poo! That's
IN
After every meal
The ladies exclusively will be interested .in- our
Cut in the prevailing mode, made on the graceful
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lines so prominent this spring, they cannot fail io
. please the most critical.
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Our line has the merit of individuality and origi
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nality.- Each garment is a distinct creation in itself.
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We urge you not to miss seeing this splendid col
lection, now before 4&er we &cked over. _
The 'ROOTS
TO BAGDAD
Along the Tigris.
WHEN British? guns camel
pounding ut the ?i}o*iW i
walls pf Bagdad, ancient
home of Stnhnd the Sailor
and Iluroim-al-HaKC^td, a new epoch
began in the history of this Ions (lor- j
niant middle Kant. The romantic eity j
of golden injnaretfl and languorous
dreams awoke to new life ? to play a
big, eventful part In the. giant upheaval
that Ik changing the map of the world.
sGono forever, now, Is that favorite
phrase, "The Changeless East," says a
writer in the Los Angeles Times.
Today the British hold Mesopotamia,
the* richest province in the Ottoman
empire. They have built their own rail
road from the Perttan golf to Bagdad
?through 600 miles of changing lnnd
sc?pe-^a landscape of dense date
"grovest "of fertile fields, of WlHrnjflrsh
es, and sandy desert. Bagdad* the
key, to the middle East, is theirs,
The Bagdad route proper begins at
Scutari, a suburb of Constantinople on
the Asiatic side of the Bosporous. runs
southeast of Aleppo, thence off epst to
the Euphrates and Tigris country ?
with network of branches ? and thenco
south along the winding Tigris to the
hot waters of the Persian gulf.
For sheer human Interest, no trip
In the world can compare with n jour
ney over the route of the Bagdad rail
way.
And, vyjieri the great war has ended,
and trlflpers are again making the tour
of thft;;^Vorl(l, It is inevitable that
Imrdos^Wlil forsake the Suez route to
go by/?pj via Nineveh, Bagdad, and
jtfie ol<t$Gfarden of Eden.
?'W-*1 Region Older Than History.
mt Is a region that was old when his
tory began ? the veritable cradle of the
racc ? the home of the Phoenicians, the
Chaldeans, the Assyrians and Baby
lonians. And remnants of some of
these old races are still found there,
living now as they lived so many thou
sands of years ago. Among the desert
Bedouins the covenant of bread and
salt Is still kept, and the law of asylum
is strictly observed. If yau are being j
pursued by an enemy, you can run into
Abraham x tar tod on his voyage of ex
i ploration t<> the Land of Canaan.
Scene* Along the Tlflrls,
A^ your train wfiuls along the swift,
muddy Tigris, you will see Arabs trav
i ellng by "kelek," which Is a raft of
polos supported by the Inflated shins
of goats. The.^e same ohl rafts, by the
way, are '?pictured on the inscribed
walls of Nineveh. These sumo picture
walls show men crossing the river by
| the aid of inflated goat skins, each man
supporting himself on ?i skin and pad
dling with bis hand^as a child pnddles
In his swimming pool with "water
wings." And to this day, nt Mossnl
(which Is opposite old Nineveh), the
Arab workmen er6?s tht rtver by
means of these sklhs. From faraway
Persian provinces, from Kurdestan and
' mountnTn emmfrtes lortfr enrnel cam
vans come trekking In, bringing wool,
hides, carpets and skins of dates. And
when they go back, they carry cases of
American kerosene, or bales of "piece
goods" from Manchester, or cube sugar
from France.
Ncarlng Bagdad, the ? river towns
take on an air of greater bustle. The
l-people will no longer throw rocks, or
I run shrieking at sight of the train and
the "ferenghles" (foreigners). They
will come peddling all mnnner of ed
ibles, from curdled camel-milk to Turk
ish nougat and pistachio nuts. And In
the crowded, dusty bazaar streets ?
roofed, over like tunnels to keep out
the lieat ? you will see offered for sale
hand sewing machines, "dollar watch
es," graphophones and tons of gaudy
?calicoes.
There Is another class of tourists,
also, who stream across Mesopotamia
! by tens of thousands, every year. And,
to handle this trafllc, the far-slRhted
(jermnns planned a branch railroad
from the Persian frontier down to Bap
dad. thence southwest through old
Babylon to the holy cities or Kerbein
and Nedjef. The Sbla pilgrims, this
strange tourist horde Is called, and
from this pilgrim trade alone the Bag
? dad railway will ? when open to nor
in-il t raffle? derive millions of dollars a
Scene In Bagdad.
V ; ?V .... ~T^
an Arab's tent, and claim asylum. And
your enemy cannot follow, you to this
haven ; your host, too. Is bound by the
law of the desert to protect you? to
fight for you if he must? anil, after
you ifcaYe eaten a meal with him, be is
further bound to respect your person
and property for 24 hours after your
departure. But by another fayr of the
desert, when you have gone 24 hours
from your host's tent, It Is quite good
form for him to' chase you, and to kill
and rob you. If the Whim seises him.
In these Mesopotsmlan towns, too.
live ' thousands of Jews, dressed In
flowing white goWns and aandala, call
ing each other "Tusuf" (Joseph) and
"Ibrahim" {Abraham), living now ju*t
as they did In Christ's time, *lsylng
sheep to seal a row, or bind a contract,
The todrtst of the future, gotog around '
the world by way of the Bagdad rail
way, can get a stopover at' old Nlne^
veh, the N Same Nineveh that was de
stroyed, and from whose startling
ruins Layard dug up the "Creation
Tablets,** odd cuneiform records telling
of the making of man, of his fsll, and
of the overwhelming world flood. Tou I
cross the great wheat plains of Cellcla,
where flt. Paul ua* bora, and
through Ha ran, the town from which
Jf* ? t \ j . ? & 1*1 . ~ ' V '
year. These Sblas are the "dissenters"
of the1 Mohammedan faith ; the Sunt
or orthodox Moslems do, but go Instead
to Kerbels and Nedjef ? cities sacred
to the memory of Alt nephew of Ms
bomefi founder of the Shis seet. Froth
all over Persia, Kurdestan, parts of In
dia and even Tibet, these zealots come,
their long srduous journey by mule or
camel sometimes occupying a whole
year. They bring with them the dried
sod salted bodies of their dead, for
burls! outside the wslls of Nedjef ?
and, Hire the Mecca pilgrim, the 8b la
who fin been to Nedjef can paint his
beard a bright red and enjoy the title
94-^BmM" the rest of hie Ufa. To Ned
jef every good Shis Is supposed to go,
at least once In his career ? If he can
afford it, and, In the shsdow of Ned
watts fee ecpecte hU tease ta re <
pose, tt his children csn raise the price.
Misunderstood.
"EMd you hear of podr Futhead's
misfortune T*
"No; wfcat it Itf ?
"He observed to Miss Oldglri when
he saw how she won at bridge that
he would like to hsve her hand, aad
now she's suing him for breach at
promise.**
KIIJMCI) Willi, K FKAY1N0.
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Crime uf tiennans Cn-alcs <?re?ter
llnte Among Kivnrh People.
All Associated Press lUsptftcll from
Paris dated M?ivh ~l>. says: '?Seventy
live ihtsoiis wore killed ami IH> wound ^
?jd, most of whom were wimiiimi anil
chilil wii, when a shell tired I ?y a tier*
mail lung range KUii fell on a church
III tlie region of PorU while <?tH?d Fri
day servhre* wi'iv being held, accord
ing to an otllcial communication Issued
(his evening. Anions those killed was
II. Stroehllp, couHHollor of the Swiss
legation in Paris.
The same church was struck h,\ a
shell during the celebration of high
ma last Sumlay anil many casualties
I'esultiHl. <? <)
President Polucaro vision the church
where he met Premier Olemencca u ;
Cardinal Amette and the rector who
had already arrived. Tho president af
terward visited the wounded In the
hospital.
The killing of the women and chil
dren who were praying in tho church
this afternoon has caused a feeling of
h??rror and Intense Indignation In 1'arN.
Feeling runs high tonight. It Is no
peace crowd that walks the streets or
co?itfr??gutcs in the cafes, (heaters and
churches, The stern resolution to con
duct the war to a smvessful termina
tion is written on the face of everyone.
"Siamese Twins'' Farm Said.
.Ml. Airy. N C? March 'JS.- The farm
formerly owned and occupied by Chang
Hunker, one, of tho Siamese twins,
was sold for division last week. The
twins speu I half their time on this
line plantation located two ami a half
miles south of Mt. Airy. They spent
the other half of their lime at an ad
Joining farm iKdouglng to Fug Hun
ker, the other twin. These two farms
are very valuable and are expected to I
continue to be held by members id'
the two families.
I High M?lregor Mustard, the live
year old 8011 of Mr. and Mr?. W, 1*.
^Instant of Hopkins fell from the Sou
thern railway trestle below llopklTts
and was drowned Friday afternoon.
WE WANT
r
?YOUR?
Barber Business
Shave 10c
Hair. Cut 25c
Electrical Ma?sage ?... 25c
Hand Massage .... 25c
Glovcr'? and all
OH Shampoos* - 50c
Plain Shampoo ...... 25c
EUREKA BARBER SHOP
, I. B. ENGLISH, Prop.
DR. J. W. &HARF
Veterinary Surgeon ami |)?niN
1 niHkf ? Hporialty of SurK?ry miiiI
DenUl Surgery.
onioo riionc k?9
CAMDKN. S. 0.
c
A 4<Lcnky Sho?
on a
"Leaky" Day
Wliat run bo more niiuuy iuic?
And it 'h daiiReroiiH, too.
Hut, oil! S?i ontiily rvimuliod.
.Inst stop into uty shop ami Uhvo
tlirin mado water-tight, and ko on
your way rojolrinir.
C. C. WHITAKER
COLUMBIA LUMBER &
MANUFACTURING CO.
MILL WORK
SASH, DOORS, BLINDS
AND LUMBER
PI A1N & HUGER STS. Phone 71
COLUMBIA, S. C.
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Collins Brothers
Undertaker# (or Colored People
Telrphoi
oe 41 714 W. DeKalb St.
HOLSTEIN BULL
^ Registered
Will be for service at
Westerham Plantation.
Terms $2.00 cash for season.
W. A. RUSH, Manager,
Lugoff, S. C.
Phone 2
WHEN YOU
"J
WANT
4\
THE BEST
Groceries
LANG'S
HIGH GRADE GROCERY
. "Hard Wear" naturally suggests itself when you
think of Hardware.
"Hard Wear" is what you expect to give any article .
bought at a hardware store.
And that's just what we guarantee from every ar
ticle bought of us. \ ,<>
Our edge tools are made of the finest tempered stoel.
Wooden articles are of the strongest and most suitable
timber, harness of the finest leather? .
?
In short, we sell you hardware- that we guarantee
? ' ' ' tij~ ??'
to . stand hard wear. _ ? / *
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Anything from a tack to a tractor.
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PEARCE-YOUNG COMPANY
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DR. R. E. STEVENSON
DENTIST
Crocker Building
Camden* S. C.