The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 13, 1918, Image 3
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? >ir" ?ud .feorww ? cup of
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^ hnv* ?P. hpr A
* T . of #M?e thou
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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, ^
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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.
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