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A ?,.t '"'a'- enough for us ? >ir" ?ud .feorww ? cup of j^rHrt. bla Hhc in the ne#r ^ hnv* ?P. hpr A * T . of #M?e thou ?^\ rate uh, but that IL .b.."* >'?!?? nitr US, but that r III ltd) when rohipa red witl? L(k n.v.v ?? ii huudrrri Ailititiir L,mv,I toother would n-aeli from L) to ilw ?" "" W* not know L Bi^.n i> ?|K>ki?u of us "ahe" fj tfhe ww uH.,ws the i, (be moon 1,1 h*?vc homo at Sin. ?? lb*4 dawn ?>f time this w ?f ?ur> h?^ whedt' hej- softened ?pt tbo ? h?uifi"? fa<T.of the globe, iflJJw* (,i' faltering' Month af ft. >?*f nftrr .vea r, and century i (rttun. *1"' fulfill?*! the Dl to "KulO the night" al ii t:ae to the we<*>ud. 8ho ha h , *.?-u i? her placid beauty on (pD<f that has takeu place ou ku duce its birth at Creation's \ [g ke watched it through the cool ly null huw the flrat dry land li,r pal** radiauce aoftened the of ancient <-outine?ta and oceans. ,, the wtately march of the pe ,Ut marked Tts growth from the famed to the present, "f'rom the I da;? of history the moon has jru au objwt of ' humun specula wonder. It is probable that tmimn being who has over lived, ilK.sr unfortunate* who have been lh<> jyirilege of Might, have gased tihor fan* and felt a strange thrill, [te reflect that the moon that i* the East tonight, and touches intr the every -day objects around, , ome moon that cast a length jk?dow across the sand* as the Jfc frew In height ; and the same fttt lighted the waftdecing of the <rd Kings and silvered the^central h Cavalry, wo experience emo ftit nothing else la nature 'can i, She. has looked in pity on tottlefieid of earth from the first jT of the Western Iront, She ? nations rise and #all> empires is to existence only to pass away it forgotten. No poet is worthy 1 1 name who has not embalmed rtuty unit l??'t mystery In verse, 10 lover is a lover at all, who has total up to her and sighed. All vmaqee ??f all the uges has eluster rsuntl this "Queen of the Nights," the Chaldeans, the Egyptians, the j Is and the Komans have each had story to n?vount for the presence, be Man' in the >toon, the figure ?finer ha* formed from the spots i?r face. All these legends agree tying that he was banished from l for some niixdeed. The latest of > Ifpnds. though it ^is many huU i of years old. says that an oldj *i* met by h n angel as lie was ij wit of n wood with a bundle W>i on his baek. When expostn-" I *ith f.'r working on Hunday, he r?'i>li?*<l that he ww Obliged* to work,] and Htytiday, with him, whs the same I a* Monday. The angel told him, as he] would not keep Hnnduy on earth, In* ^ould observe Moon-day iu heaven for* eve? afterward. No a ay clear night, thin old map rau Kt.il I be aeen with bla fagot of wood on his shoulders. In volume. the moon is a little le#s than half the ? I flgc of the earth; to he exa?t, it * in jUKt ? ?lrf*y forty-ninth a* large with a diameter v,f U,16H mile*, From all that science has been able to learn. It *mnf to be u dead world ? a world with the easonce of it* composition exhausted. It if has an atiuo*ph?re, it is one in whleh no life a* we know life, could exist. For two weeks In each month, the temperature in estimated to bo from 200 to 800 degrees below aero, and for the next two weeks it is thought that the direct rays of the snu probably raises the temperature to the boiling point, at le?fft. *o if there is any vegetation or auhoal life; it must be a very different kind ??f lift- from any that we know. The moon ha* no moto light of it# own thau tin: earth, and all it? heat, like ours, >s borrowed from the sun. The- attraction of uravitation on the moon is ouly one-sixth of that on the earth, ho an apple falling there would hardly have attracted the attention of a Sir Isaac Newton. On the moon, a pedestrian could leap twenty feet In the ?iir, juwt as easily as he could stop up on a pavement herev A strange thing about the mooir Ih, that though It \ re volves on It-M own axis, we ne\W sec anything hut the same side. The same face or the same side is always' turned in our directiou^ and uo human has <*Vor caught a glimpse of the other side. Rut this is easily explained, suppose, you draw a circle* on the ground, and place some object, say a marble, in the center. Tbeu walk slowly around the circlc, always facing nud keeping your eyes on the marble, and When you have completed the circle, you will lind that you have made a complete rota tion </n your axis, and still, your face like themoonVliasbeen the marble. Besides this motion of its own, the moon has two others, one its revo lution around the earth, and the other the path^|t travels as it accompauies the earth on its annual journey around the 'sun. As seen through the largest telescopes, the surface of the moon seems to be pock-marked with the craters of extiu<Vt volcanoes ? >a veritable "No Man's I /and" of the heavens, all frozen into eternal stillness. *pie mountains of the moon are not only' very numerous but many of them extremely Jofty, more so in proportion to its sixe than the ntoun tains of earth. The highest of tjiese peaks reaches an altitude of 20,<Wl. ? O. A. /David in Greenville News. " - i Ladde.n Fulcher. a lineman iu (i wen wood, wa? instantly killed Monday af ternoon w'hen be caine in contact wfth a live wire, ^ [Trafficj Motor Trucks The Camden Motor Company "has secured the Traffic Motor Truck for tP?e State, and will 4*8^r^u^e from Camden. This is the greatest truck proposition, on the American market, and it is "built for service ot a price every one that can use a truck can buy ? a full two ton truck with the best material that goes to make a truck that will stand up* at the price of. $1,395.00 fob factory They will have these trucks on display in the next two weeks to show prospects^ Camden Motor Company Camden, S. G. FOR SALE One model 17 Saxon touring car, gix cylinder, one 17 model seven passenger Nash; one Maxwell to car, model 17; one seven passenger Studiebaker, mo e 17; one Ford pouring car, 18 model, with demoun rims. All in good condition. View of. Avion*. Dispatches ten that the Al banians havo Joined vfprces with the soldiers of denioc racy. From the pan-Albanian Federation of America, Vajra, which has Its headquarters In Boston, comes word- that the 70,000 Albanians In the Uulted States have purchased nearly $t, 000,000 worth of Liberty bonds through the organization. The news indicates that a most auclent and hardy nation at last has made the proper choice, observes the New York Sun, Albania stretches along the eastern coast of the Adriatic sea, opposite Italy, having Montenegro on the north, | Serbia on the east and tlrepce on the south. Albania has a commanding place upon the landlocked sen, and her harbor at Avlona, one of the fin est in the world, -is considered by mili tary critics an Adriatic Gibraltar. The country is a. rugged, wild, heavily wooded mountain, complex, undevel oped and unpathed. a 45 Albania became nominally a prov ince of Turkey In 1468 and remained such until 1913, when the London con ference granted a national Independ ence under ? prince chosen by the f^eat powers. The Albanians bitterly complained at that time about the bor ders delimited for them on the grounds that man/ purely Albanian* districts had. been given to Moqtenegro, Greece and Serbia. Albauia was In a aulky mood at the outbreak of the great war. However, Its Isolation was char acteristic, for Albania has stood alone throughout its history. In this time of flaming national prides the Albanian, or 8hkypetar, de serves a fleeting notice. He has fought the longest and the hardest of , all historic struggles for native land and Independence, but wild, inhospit able and untutored In the uses' of -propaganda, his heroic story has at tracted rare and scant attention! Un supported by allies, sympathy, song or story, the Shkypetara, a "little na tion," with their backs to their bar ren crags, war for,, freedom vdlceleds throughout the centuries. 2,000 Years' Struggle. Serbia's or Montenegro's endurance 1s pale compared to that which has preserved this remnant of a race against all comers through truceless ages. For more than 2,000 years the Albantans have stood their* ground, yielding their patrimony foot by foot, but guarding the fragment of their native land so well that It today re mains the least known region in Eu rope. They are the oldesf race In Europe to survive upon the land where the morning light of history found It and th|s stubborn tenure of 'their fatherland hafli befell possible only by a longer, braver and more in domitable struggle than that waged by any other Balkan people. The taciturn and doiir Sbkypetar, however, has fought silently, with morose and un broken spirit and at lone venture. All other Balkan peoples have continuous ly clamored for the sympathy of the world. Today, however, their hills, swal lowed up in the overwhelming mael strom of world war, their laftd crossed b j {be battle llnerf of great powers* they are llylog the last, chapter of their troubled history. Whatever- turn ' the great battle in the Balkans may take, it apparently can only mean that the time hrfs come At last for Albanian submergence. Italians, Austrians and Serbians are contending blttwfjr for the last strip of the Shkypetar herit age, and it seems that the iqeasure of their existence has been reached. They in-ill emerge fram this jworld shock Italians, Serbians of Austrian s, and the ancient Illyrinn will vanish into the limbo of forgotten things. Fought Without^ Complaint. "There Is no snch thing as Albanian j nationality !n' Bismarck roughly ex claimed at the congress of Berlin. &&>re properly speaking there was no Albanlnn diplomatist, no Albanlnn spokesman. There was Just a little nation ie be dealt with acconllng to the Irrefutable wisdonvof power, Just the tommmts *t>f-aft:-aeel4wt- racc that has been forced over farther into a fringe of unproductive mountains. The conflict sustained for more &an 2,000 years against Greek and Slav anil Turk ami Frank, by this un< <m querable race, ha a awakened no echo of understanding or applause abroad ?ln the civilized world. Montenegro's sturdy defiance of the Turk through five centuries; the .courageous resist ance of the Serbians; the stolid sur vival of the Bulgarian under cen turies of merciless domination, and the revival of the Greeks, the nation of Illustrious ancestry ; all these huve stlrrsH the world. The wrongs and the hopes and the virtues of all other Balkau peoples have been told In the press everywhere. The Shkypejtar has continued his history Into modern times of propaganda and press agcn* ctes practically voiceless. Overshad owed and.overshouted by the peoples nrouud him, he at best received flushes of consideration as a possible booty or as a ruce of guerrillas. Lord Byron gave the Shkypetar a momentary notice, a brief literary memorial, when lit* said that the wild Albanian had never shown an eneiny his hack or broken his faith to u guest. The Albanittn has asked noth ing of Europe, and Europe has given him nothing but a sad reputation, which, judged according to the great er enlightenment of our civilisation, he undoubtedly hus deserved. Neglected by Missionaries. ? But even the mission schools have passed him by and so Be has ho I lit tle opportunity to learn the advantage of the high moral codes and humanl tarlsm which rule the destinies of civ ilisation. Pillaged and warred upon through the centuries, he has become habituated to war and- pillage. The Albanians are the remnants of the original inhabitants of Illyrla, Rplrus, Macedonia and Thrace. Over whelming waves of Celts,' Goths, Ro mans, Greeks, Serbs, Bulgers, Franks And Turks have flooded against them, but the Shkypetars have always sur vived tne shock; have survived the burning. of their Villages, the wasting of their lands, the massacres of their people, and have somehow emerged un broken, nnasfelmllated upon the stage of the twentieth century. ' They have borne the assault of Sla vonic storm almost since the Euro pean debut of the Slavs. Between the Slavs and the Illyrlans there have been Centuries of blood feud. The Slav has called the Albanian a brigand and plunderer,- and the world has accepted the verdict, while the Slav and the Turk have steadily encroached upon the Shkypetars' homeland. Until the wild torrents of this world war swept over his country the Albanian had managed to malntain the freedom of his hills. Single Handed for independence. Though occasionally beaten and forced Into narrower limits, he has ob stinately refused submission, has op posed a rugged, uncomplaining, uncon querable spirit to all grievous misfor tune ; and alonet without the sympathy of anyone, Illiterate, poor In country, his few remaining rocks coveted by every neighbor, with no ally or disin terested counsellor, at the outbreak of the world war the Shkypetar stood at the ?nd of a splendid fight of more than 2,000 yearaV duration, in .which the armistices have been few and short. r _ y , '' And their claims are the best In Eu rope to the lands they occupy. There can be no doubt of the legitimacy of their tenure. When the Slavs first ap peared IB the Balkans hi the beginning of the sixth century the Shkypetars hsd already enjoyed^ 1,100 years' pqs ?sesslon. True, the Albanian has not been a friend to the stranger nor has he beeti a seeker after the stranger's light, bqt then almost the whole story of his con tact with higher civilisation has been in battle for his. hearth and home agafnsi aggression. Homo policed the. shores of the Al banians' country/but left the unbreak able people largely to themselves. THe Slavs drove them from many of their lands, but could not crush or subdue them. For more than l.000 years the 8hkyiw?tars have contested their ground fvrt for foot against the Slav and Turk. Montenegro struggled against the Turk a bare five centuriea. All Now in Pink Wrappers S ? 1 r' ?. , ? To save tin foil for Uncle Sam* WRIGLEYS is now all wrapped in pink paper and hermetically sealed in wax: 1. The tangey flavor of mint 2* The luscious different flavor 3. The soothing flavor of peppermint The Flavor Lasts! All in pink-end packages and all sealed air-tight. Be Sure to get WRIGLEYS because t. . 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