The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, November 22, 1918, Image 4
THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE
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> 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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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We do not know, and no one knows, what the
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price of cotton may be sixty or ninety days, or six
months from now. We cannot, therefore, do not
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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
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South, is that if remainder of Crop is held for 35c and
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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
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cotton until price advanced to 35c. The other cotton
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states , are urged to put on like campaign and con
certed action may bring desired results.
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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
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our Bank and will cheerfully make loans on cotton,
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properly warehoused and insured, at 6 per cent. If
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our bank can be of help and assistance to the farmers
of our county, in this crisis, we are at their command
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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
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$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;.-'
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