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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE ,j-> . .J If I). NU*? and / > Publisher*. K. N. MelHmrll \ Published every Friday at )HH> No Hroad Street, nikI entered at the Cam ?it'll postolHoe an second clas* until mat ter. Price jkt annum SI.HO ... ,, ? . *. ? w - CwndMii 8, n??v. . miH. Wonder if there IK MUotlMJ InU'U the ?l/.e of Cauideu in South Carolina. or the South, t l(u t is content to go uluiiK with oul>; half night electric service? The old cry of shortage of coal wont K" uow. hut aoine other plausible ?x euse will be given for not huviug all night twrvioM again this winter. Appeal* addressed to Mm. Woodl'OW Wilson and Mitw Jane. Adams, of Chi cago. on behalf of the women of flor ?uuiy asking that the armistice terms he modified to prevent "unspeakable dls aster" have beeu sent from the German wlreletk* station at Na'uen. They were pioked up by the military intelligence radio at Haulton, Maine, The appeal to .Mis. Wilson said the women and child ren of Oermany l*ave been "starving for years" and thai they will "die from hunger by the millions" unless the terms uf the armistice are changed so that sufficient rolling stock will ha made available fur moving food from the farms. ' ( It was dated at Merlin and aigped by tlertrude Ilaeumer and Alice Soloman for the "National Council of Women of Oenuany." The appeal to Miss Adaftis was from Anita Augsburg at Pass, .?> It said tha^t the German women "foresee ing entire famishment and mutiny for f hoi r country," urged "their American sis ters" t?> intercede to bave ;Ttnr armistice terms modified. "We are all free voters of a free republic now, greeting you heartily." the appeal said. * * Wight hundred of the 1.800 Porto I Lilians engaged in war construction at (Vlumbia who were thrown out of em ployment by the abandonment of the building of the North Columbia canton ment' have been sent to other contract ors, 700 going to the Tennessee Coal and Iron Compauy und 1,00 ''to Charles ton. One-? thousand Porto Iticans re main^ awaiting orders from Washington. Norway lost during the war 831 ves sels, aggregating ?dose on to one ami u quarter million tons, according to offi cial statistics, in addition, 33 v easels of approximately 00,000 ton#, wer^ dam aged by (lerman submarines. More than 1,000 lives were lost iu these disasters. It tnay take more- than two years to demobilise our lighting forces and un til that time the government will need our money. Keep your W. H. S. pledge and. buy more W. S. S. BIRIJ BABIKS , / How Mother Nature Safeguards Defense less Fledglings. (Arthur Jeffrey in Dtimb Animals) Very effeeeivo measures have been d?? " vised by Mother Nature to make hid ing the safeguard pf otherwise defense less bird babies. About them she throws a cloak of invisibility no less wonder ful than the magic garments which fairy god*mothevs are supposed to weave for their proteges who are about to het out among the dangers of the great world. Young birds have the iiiHtiucfahd ability to conceal themselves from the enemies irom which they are powerless to pro tect themselves by speed or strength. The little bobwbite, at the lirst hint of danger, becomes n flat and motion* !.?- thing . 1 1 1 ? > > i ? k the brown w??d stems and gratows. Two yellow ?trl|KW travera iliK bin fluffy brown back from shoulder In liip break Up the ?x|?unM- of In., Uo) t?ii)K ^ > thil M iMhf like u leaf witb two grass blades lying across ' il t ha it u real. Uvfi fefftf bird. In fact it dor* not ")<M?k" at all ; then la oott^j tug about tin* motionless little body with 4Jt* neutral and broken color (MtchcH to . attract tb?* eye.. The 'little bird be ? ] comes In it* stillness a part of the inaui | mute owrlug of the soil ? a mere stitch j ill Mut Ik i Nature's big patchwork quilt i - - quite invisible eveu to the gwift aud cruel sharp shlnued bnwk plunging from the nky toward the bobw.hite family, | Another bird baby tbat owes to pro* tectlvo coloration its safety through m ? ii. \ u dangcrou* day Is the little wlilppowi will. The home in which the w hipiNxirwill grows from infancy to lull Hedged estate iu nothing mora than a depression among the old leave* that thickly carpet the tloor of home remote tree-walled room, in Mother Nature'ii out-of-the-way country place. There it* nothing uear It except curled, brojken ami overlapping hrowu leaven bright* fitted here aud there by tiny Hecks of Hunllght. Here the little whippoorwills spend all the days of their babyhood; quite ptfweTles* to defeud themselves t against predatory auinuln aud birds. > Hilt they are fairly safe since their own feathers . exactly match the brown leaves and the titiy Hecks of light. Ono may look directly at a pair of baby whippoorwilla motionless in their dftjs | time" sleep ? and not nee them at all. | Tlu?ret,are baby birds f<>r whom Moth* Ler Nature haa made no Huch provision, but she lin.H given their parents instinct* that supply another sort of protection. 1 have found young turkey- vulture* iu the downy stage? white s an snow-balls and contrasting dangerously with the black walls of their hollow-tree home. Hut. iu their case, the very depth and darkness of the cavern Insure the safety that their own color fails to supply. Usually the nest in a largo cavity In a big tree, Its doorway ten or llfteen feet above the ground, ho that inquisi tive or evil-purposed neighbors have no chance to look in upon the helpless . babies. And these vulture babies ? so far as 1 have observed ? are as clean and interesting as the babies of bird fami- , lien in much better social' standing, i ? Anyway Mother Nature has provided equul protection for them. Even iu families where the adult birds have gaudy colors the young are clothed in less noticeable garb until ' mature strength aud experience shall have ren-! dercd surh protection no longer neces- ; sar.v. Tlio young of the red-headed i woodpecker has a bluish-gray head, the 1 young redbird Is brownish and the young indigo bunting la grayish. Weakness and (^experience, in the baby bird's life.; have been offset by the ability to hide ( even more effectively than the adults. Kaeh little bird starting out in the world wears the cloak of - invisibility until some of the dangers have been" passed, or at any rate, more thoroughly understood. The most lovable tree in the world today is probably the hut^ble flikta* or silver spruce, yrhich is found grow ing by the million in ? the forests of British Columbia. ' Only a short time ago this tree was scorned by the lum bermen. Today it is the most sought after of nil the woods in the world by reason of its being the only timber thnt meets all the exacting and peculiar de mands of the aeroplane builder. * <s More for less ? -buy W. S. 8. A $5.00 War Havng Stamp can be bought now for *4.23. FRUIT CAKE The Best Quality at The Best Price Give us your Thanksgiving and Christmas fruit cake order now, as we only have a limited amount and cannot get any more. T^rese cakes are put up in 1-pound, 2 1-2, and 5 pound sealed tins at 65 cents per pound. Lang's Grocery Camden, S. C. MADE BAD LANDING Young Boche Airman Really Dcm served Better Luck. A* It Wat, the Youth Probably Only Escaped Ignominious Personal Chas tisement by Bolng Made a I Prisoner of War. Although he was ft bocbe we ???' wired bis audacity. Ho came bum ming out of the summer blue on a I sultry afternoon, swooping from no where right In the Inner guard of bulf a dozen of our unsuspecting kite bal loons. Hwift aud straight as a ta Icon be dived, and at the ratUe of bis ma. chine gun and the fllaab of bis tracer I bullets pigmy figures strangely agitat ed came bobbing ami gyrating earth- 1 ward under their spreading para chutes* Whirr I went hla gun# and blfT, went the first balloon, a Uiln train of fire lending to a scarlet blase and a gos samer wreckage. Before one couUl count twelve a .second sausage had shriveled Into skin and the Hun plane home,-. J The ' ''Archies" had been taken by surprise. For a moment It looked as If the unwelcome visitor would reach bis lines, But suddenly the "Archies" ceased firing, and It was then we saw a British plane pursuing at a pace that could only have one result, The Otottftan ''side-stepped" twice bf In tention and once involuntarily. Ho smashed Into a cottage like a goat but ting through a ' <pnce4 his pfopellers going through '? the tha,tched roof and his rudder cocking up In the air. The I solitary pilot was pitched Into a cor ner of tho long orchard, little tho worse for his fall. He was a. small, thin, rather mean-looking young man, and he blinked stupidly at tbo re mains of what had once been ah air plane. A little dog barked at him, half a dozen fussy hens scolded him, and a very angfy and very determined old lady came out of the cottage to Investigate him. She was a typical Flemish dame, masslVe of build, tenacious In charac ter and practical in nil things. Delib erately and of set purpose Jtoe ad vanced on the dazed nlrman. Sho caught him by the collar of his tunic. She shook her fist in his face, and sho asked him In the Incisive vernacular of the Jgtemtsh peasant what he meant BSfsmashlng up her house. She ordered him to look at the mess he had made, calculated the cost and de manded payment, all In n breath. She heaped Insults on him, his parents and J bis airplane. . 1 As she talked all the glory of war and the spirit of conquest evaporated from the flying Hun. He shrank till be looked like a small boy caught in a mean theft; his airplane, with Its gaudy splashes, resembled a broken J toy, and he tugged ruofully at hla hair, and flushed and stammered and edged cautiously away. . ? 1, As he retired the old woman ad vanced, nnd I am convinced that but for the prompt arrival of a guard of J grinning Tommies she ? would . bave J] spanked that unhappy Teuton youth, r Never did a man surrender so eagerly. When he and bis escort iiad de- I parted the dame "shooed" aWay thel hens nnd then Industriously picked up the assorted fragments of the airplane! for firewood. ? Montreal Herald. I Tunes for Tanks. I Probably no more unique donation has ever been made for the amuse- 1 ment of soldiers than one of $50 re cently given by a charitably disposed I lady for gramophone records to equip I J a tank. Other donations which have come to I light from time to time have not I lacked nn element of the picturesque, I as, for Instance, the supplying of a I hospital in Paris which was filled with) African troops with 700 fans. They j were so appreciated during the sum- J me? months, that the hospital apponled i for more. Not long ago a French offl- 1 cer Issued an appeal for games for his men. In one regiment In which most of the soldiers wero fathers of families tho preference was for bowl- j jng. The trench does not make a bad j alley. U Women's Club Markets Own Products. < The women of a Tennessee home, demonstration club are marketing their own vegetables, small fruits, eggs, poultry, butter and cottage cheese with tho help of the local homo dem onstration agent. A, tablo has been sccured for them at the entrance to the market house, where the products are attractively displayed. Since none of the women had experience In dress* lng fowls for markfet, the agent called a mooting at one of the homes And show od them the proper way to kill and dress poultry. The clob members are making a specialty of week-end baskets. Ordinary peck baskets are used and are filled to order to meet the tastes of the purchaser*. Cub Bear Caused Excitement. A cub bear, about ten months old, caused much excitement at lfooae Lake. Minn., the other day wh?A tt walked Into town and scratched at the back door of a local restaurant. The cook thought It was the owner's dog. Her dlscoveiy that It was not began a aeries of activities In the kitchen which could have been equaled only by the bursting of a high explosive shell. When the cause of the disturb* ance was learned the men of the town formed an escort and . drove the cob beck t? Its haunts. Bears are pro tected by law and for that reason i! was not killed. viVv.'i We do not know, and no one knows, what the I ^ N price of cotton may be sixty or ninety days, or six months from now. We cannot, therefore, do not - advise our friends- as to whether they should sell at present low price or hold for better price. The general impression of best informed farmers throughout the state, and ? we believe, throughout the Q ' ' ? South, is that if remainder of Crop is held for 35c and ' ? ' * \\ * " ? gradually sold it will bring that price. At the farmers meeting held in Columbia Mon day it was clearly seen that those present, to a man, were in favor of holding for 35c basis middling. At this meeting it was decided (and a fund was raised for the purpose) to put on a State wide advertising campaign urginjg all farmers not to offer a bale of ? i cotton until price advanced to 35c. The other cotton V ' ? i states , are urged to put on like campaign and con certed action may bring desired results. V ? ' ?' ? C>* ,..J l: ? * ? ? ' . ? . - ?:*/ ? S : ' . : To the farmers of our county desiring to join in this movement, hoping to get better price for their cotton, We are pleased to offer the full resources of ?: ? ? - t our Bank and will cheerfully make loans on cotton, a ? f ? properly warehoused and insured, at 6 per cent. If ; ... our bank can be of help and assistance to the farmers of our county, in this crisis, we are at their command ^ . . . ? - ? _ , and we invite them to use us to the full extent of our resources, which includes the limit of our borrowing capacity, if found necessary. If we can help the farmers of our county to get ? ? $25.00 to $35.00 per bale moire than they can now get for the cotton they still have to sell, we feel that we would be rendering them, as well as the commun ity, a real service that would be appreciated and re membered. We can easily loan -all vour- available funds at 8 per cent, which means betted profits for us, but we prefer helping our farmers first,. . We Are at .Your Service. - i;.-' ... ~ 1 1 ' 1 11 " ' ?? . )T""| ( i ? FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CAMDEN, S*^C. - ___ . ' ; ? igp?:*-*