The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 19, 1919, SECTION TWO, Image 9
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CAMDEN. SOUTH CAROUNA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1919
NUMBER 37
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^ DLIC Of MKXICO
^ Suokei. of a? "The Tlttlaure House
Of Thr World"
1*0. ??" -I Vrt invul f*0
hit.?j faot? about Mexico are tgiyeu
jhe follow i ng bulletin in thr National
^r*pbie Society :
Lprior to 1H30, Mexico, ?h u Span
rtiK>uy ? ??<' tbe United ytntes cot
,J proximately equal area? of North
Berk*. 1)111 t',<> '*,<?xas secession . au'l
r result of the Mexiertt war added
irly a million square in ilea to our tor
ory, am' the. extent of Mexico now is
t than one-fourth that of continental
ijtfd States." sayrf the bulletin, which
b?*e<l e? several communications fc>
ie Society. ? ' ,
,gut our neighbor Kepufblii* still h?*
sitorial ex|H>h?e -equal to the aggre
^ of Austria, Hungary, Germany,
OreMt Britain, and Ireland.
-The total area of the ItepuWic of
>xte* (707.000 square miles) is loss
ia that of our five largest Stated
us. California, Montana, New Mex
i. and Arizona -combined, all of these
rvpt Montana having beeu a part of
.*? Spain 7f? yearn ago. None of the
political subdivisions of our neigh'
r is a? large as any of the five Stutes
oied, but four Mexican states eontin
JUS to tilt' United States aggregate an
lent greater than that <yf Texas,
Thihualnn:. the largest Mexican Stute,
pryxlmates in area (87,000 square
lesl that of I'tah, Honor (77,000 square
of Nebraska. UoahuHn <63,000
jf.ro miles) of Oeorgia, and Durango
I,fl00 square miles) of Kentucky. Nine
bdivisions of the United States (ex
iding Alaska ) are larger than' Chihua
a, lit of greater magnitude than Sonora
il K2 larger than d)urango. The rug.
1 and <les?Tt character of the Mexi
a border States support sparse popu?
ion and cities resulting therefrom have
Dcentrated settlement. -
"The melting snows from the San
an and Snngre de'Christo ranges of
} Kooky Mountains in southern Col
lilo form fhe genesis of the ttio Grande,
lieh, after flowing south through New
?xico. bends southeast at the western
o ,
extremity of Texan, courses between (t
and Mexico for a distance to that of
Kr.int l.tMii* from New York, and des
cends iu 1,100 miles from an elevation
?pf 1,500 feet to m'n level at the Gulf
of Mexico.
"Except when in Hood, the Kiy Uraude
is apparently an unimportant stream and
readii^ crbssed, for the uoruial How is
well utilized for irrigation in both coun
tries; but it ha* carved in a part of
it# court* canyon* difficult- of explort
tion. The changes wrought by freshets,
which shift the chanel, demauded lb*'
attention of an International commission,
which hi.* adjusted the boundary along
the Kio (irtfnde to meet the varying con
ditions. The uncertainty of this is il
lustrated by a claim some years ago
that a portion of the important city of
El Pane, was Mexican soil, The retmain
ing 7(H) miles of the international boun
dary t<> the west separating our neigh
' bor Republic from New Mexico, Arizona,
aud California, is through an^arld des
ert section, much of which is mountain
, ous. This is not a direct line, but has
ttvo changes l/i alignment, which have
beeu acurateiy surveyed, and established
by ,258 permanent monuments easily dis
tinguishable.
t "Mexico has an area approximately
one-fourth of that of the United States,
a fourth of whose area oucfc belonged to
.Mexico. It has h coastline some 0,000
' miles long, although its greatest length
is less than 2,000 miles and its greatest
breadth only 750 miles. Although Its
area Is only one-fourth that of Brazil,
"-ffs peculation is approximately ciiua' (.>
that uf the largest republic jjf the south
j era contingent.
"?pme 15,000000 souls live within io
borders, of whom more than two-thirds
, ran neither read nor write.
"<>f the total i>opulation, only 19
I per cent are white, 43 per cent are
'?mixed parentage, while 38 per cent still
I maintafg^ their Indian blood uncorrupt
1 ed. The foreigti population in 1912 num
bered ioo.ooo souls, of whom 30,000 were
? Americans, 20,000 Spanish and 5,000
| British. ? . !
! "Mexico probably ha* a greater range
of remarkable vegetation- than any other I
country in the world.
"No other country in tin- Now World,
south of tti<> ltio Grande. was ho well
RUplN with railroads as wus MfStM
prior to the Madero revolution. Then
it had 20,000 ration of up^to-date Arneri
run railroad. At hIx dlffereut point*
line-. CKMNMhI the frontier from the I'nited
States, and Laredo. Kagle l'?^, and IDl
Paso gateways Hiu4M ipuch tratBc to
and from Mexico. ? The Mexican rail
roads earrled 11,000,(100 passenger* au
nnally at that time, and handled ctoout
i 1 ,000.000 ton* of freight. Their total
revenue* amounted to ulx>ut #40,000,000.
"Humboldt onoe pronounced Mexico
"the treasure-house of the world". Be
fore the world war it produced one-third
of the world's silver, a considerable per
centage of its gold, one-ninth of it# lead,
and one-twentieth of its copper. The
(tountry'g mineral production, exclusive
of iron, coal, and petroleum, amounted
to $158,000,000 in 1010. With the ex
ception of iCampeche, Tubasco, aud Yuca
tan. every State in the Mexican Repub
lic possesses mines, of which there are
21,000 covering 038,000 acres of mineral
lands, aud giving employment to half
a million in en. Yet probably loss than
one-fourth of the mineral possibilities
of the republic have Ix-cn exploited. Prior
to the outbreak of the Madero revolu
tion. upward of f?. 000 Yh tiling claims were
registered each year."
Georgia Papers Will liaise Kate.
Macou. (la.- ? ;l'ubUshei\sN of country
weekly and daily newspapers of Georgia,
mnnrbers of the Gamwia Press Associa
tion, on i ?Saturday Voted at the filial
day's session yf a special business meet
ing to inmutw , advertising rates and
-ubecription r&t&f and to curtail tile con
sumption of whi^i 'pajwr to meet the
shortage of paper, the shortage of l^ittor
and the rapidly increasing cost of oper
, ating their plants,
The association dealt a body blow
to so-called "press agents" who have been
"putting over" advertising matter or po
litical propaganda 1n guised news stor
ies, when it adopted a policy to consign
a'll such matter to the waste basket un
less paid for at full advertising rates
i for such matter.
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CHRISTMAS BELLS
Hark! Hark I 1 hear a distant bell,
And now a clilnie? they softly ring;
Wlntt Joyful tidings, do they tell
Am' back and forth they swing.
*TU mid of nlght-*-who rings those bellsT
r?rhu|>M ioieu doves there nestling,
And while each little bosom swells.
And warm, they touch with gentle win*
The tuneful metal, and It fools
80 Incubated It would swbng
To life, and wake the world with peals
K- Of gladnesr as for new-crowned King.
Those midnight bell a. how sweet they
chime;
The welkin vibrates with their sound;
To heart* attune they are sublime,
Nor spread they dread alarm abound.
l<ol now I see, from Kast afar
A light shines through the steeple'i
frame.
'TIb brighter than the brightest star.
It gilds the bells with tfolden Mams;
There, too, I see some cherubs ollnf
Fust hold the ropes> How fair th?y bel
They swing the bell* and sweetly sing
"This Is the Christ's nativity."
Wake every heStrt, Join In their song
Of pralHe to Christ, our new-born WJng;
To him our sweetest strains belong.
And his. our rlchost uttering. -
When wakes the god of dsy, and ahlnes
Athwart the heavens, what of glee
Will wake as well? With box and pines
And flowers gay, yon house will bo
Adorned, and while the anthem swell*
With organ's voice, all Christendom
Will vibrant be as are those bells
That Christ's nattvktM has come.
-4. William Pope
ANCIENT CHRISTMAS TOYS
Ooll* That Delighted Children of Rom*
and Greece in Early Days Re
cently Excavated.
t Itng dolls nre ns old lis the hills and
bo are dolls with movable nnns and
legs. toy dogs, rocking horses nnd a
heat of othtr things that bring de
light to the children on Christmas
morning.
Recent excavations In the (rulns of
ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt, have
placed the British museum in posses
sion of an interesting assortment of
these relics of early Christian days,
some of which may possibly have
been given to the children of the fol
lowers of Christ at a time when the
observation of Chrfedmas day was an
innovation.
v In tho nursery of a newly excavated
house at Behnes?r Egypt, a fairly well
preserved rag doll was found with
, arms nnd legs still Intact and painted
face. The dbll Is by no means a beau
ty and does not compare with the
Christmas dolls of today, but neverthe
less it must have brought Joy to a lit
tle girl's heart nearly 2,000 years ago.s
... The Jointed dolls of long ago were
made to sit down, stand up and move
their arm#, 'but they dUjn't close their
eyes or squeak "mamma." Among the
toy dogs, horses and donkeys are some
mnde of stone and baked clay and
others carved out of wood.
A CONVENIENCE.
"So yon think the Santa Clous myth
is a good thing?"
"Yea, It's a great convenience to
have somev Imaginary person to take
the responsibility when the children
are disappointed Christmas morning."
A Christmas "Suppose."
We would not chunge the children's
Christmas. But suppose all the grown
up people were to say to one another:
"This year, Instead of my giving yon
a present and your giving me a pres
ent, let us club together and give our
present to some poor child who will
not have any Chrlstmns. There are
hundreds of them somewhere. Or, if
we do not know of such a child, let us
give our present to n hospital for chil
dren, a home for crippled Children, for
Incurables, for the aged, the blind, the
feeble-minded." This to be. of course,
in addition* to what we usually irlve
to charities at this season. Why could
we not try this as an experiment, rnd
see what the result would be?? Chils
tian Register.
- Trolley Dirigible.
Trolley dirigible system, electric mo
tor drfven, Is proposed for the earrylng
of mails, particularly for over sparse
ly settled territory. The pipe fr^m ear
to jrns bag carries electrically heated
air for retroloting the buoyancy. The
trolley cnbtc t* wound on a 4r?m, ?l
lowlrtg adjustment of altitude. ? Popu
lar Mechanic* Magazine.
A ciiiustmXm stohy
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And h IMe* Fur Tho Starving Children
of ilw N?*r Knsl.
M.v Dear Header: 1 wish you to
regard this little Christmas story tt> ?ti
personal letter.
It happened oue oold, crisp, ChrUtmatf
Kve tive ye mix ago. I was standing
iu front of u brilliantly lighted toy store
in a city not necessary to naiue. Withiu
was arranged in splendid masses every
type of toy to gladdeu the heart of
childhood, Coming and going In eager,
anxious haste were mothers and fathers
elad in ktylUb, as well a* comfortable
clothes, their faces Hiniling because they
kuew the joy they were making ready
for the roming morrow, There wer?
also little ones iu that throng who in
their childish cunning knew full well that
mutij of those self same toys would hang
on their Christmas trees, placed there by,
a mysterious Santa Clans, and they were
Hut all seemed to fail or refuse to sec
h poor,. t b Inly clad mother, whose face
showed (hat she had known brighter and
better days. Dlingiug to her hand wan
;; little girl of six, whose only Christ
mas joy. would be the view uf the toy*
which tomorrow would be the uctu&l
possession of thousands of happy child
ren. 1 watched heu,.for a few minutes
and realized that this was only too true.
Presently n man attired in his every
d.\y working clothes modestly slipped Into
the mother's "hand a crisp tive dollar bill
with I he rtMtue*| that she spend it for
the Hi tie one's happiness. T thru and
there discovered that there Is no elo
quence on earth to compare wiflh a tear
drop glistening iu a mother's eye, plr.ced
there because of gratitude.
Now, my dear friend, as this Christ
less and helpless orphans, whose eyes
are filled with tears? not tears for Christ
mas toys, but tears for bread to satisfy
the guawings of hunger and to keep their
starved mid emaciated bodies from fall
ing by the wayside and becoming dry
bones to mingle with the thousands of
Others who have already fallen, There
Is no father to ho Mr their cries because
he has been killed by the oruol Turk,
, Neither is there any mother, u.or will
there ho, to wipe away their learn, for
tlurv have thou kcatlcrod into the nioun*'
tains mix) deserts, in many case* never
to ??ee tlielr loved one* again. K*f t>
thousand of them* mother* are unwilling
victims in Turkish It a reins Whore a brand
has been burned into their Mesh and
the threat of death placed over their
head* should they escape. How in a it. \
of these will over see their little one*
Kgailt. <Jod only know*.
Now niy friend, 1 call upon you to
assist in bringing Christmas to these
iWtlo ones. 1 call upon you hi the until*
of Him, who made Ohri?tma* possible
for us all and iiaid "Inawinuch as ye
have done }t unto ono of the least of
these ye have done it uuto mo." I call
upon you whether you, recognise Him us
the Christ pr not I ?call upon you in the
tmme nf sufferiuK humanity. You may
not see the tear drop of gratitude come
into their eyes as 1 saw it come iuto
that mother's on that Christmas eve.
but their gratitude to you will bo far
greater and you >luill not lose your re
ward.
Simply (ill out your chock, for what
ever amount your heart may prompt,
and forward the same to \V. ltanks
Dove, State < 'h-iiitnan, 211 Liberty. Nn
tjj&ial Hank Huilding. Columbia, IS. (V
(?.?:* llomb Shields Safes and Vaults.
Poison gas foils would-be robber 8. who
lilow open safes or vuultfc equipped with
a ni-.w protective device deaei ibed in th^
January 1'opnlar Meichanloa Magazine,
A tliin glass bottle, lilled with chemicals,,
is placed in i< metal holder inshh the
doors. WIumi - ati explosive is used to
bleak them open, the cm?iicUss1oU shatters
the tlnsk and release* Its contents. Ex
posed to the air, the chemicals form n
gas which siiffoca-te* and causes tempor
ary "blindness.
Cruelty to Haldheads.
The fashionable haircut runs the back
of your neek all around, your head, and
reap*" the last hope of the baldheaded
in a II, ? Minneapolis Journal.
Money Helps to
Make a Merry .
J
Christmas!
Here's the Way to Have $5th w
Christmas Savings Club
Hundreds flocked to join our Christmas Savings Club,
which started December 17, and you should not let
the chance go by. > .
Costs nothing to become a member ? - no fees, no
fines, nothing to lose. * *
CLUB NOW FORMING-JOIN!
It will enable you to save when you couldn't do it
otherwise.
You'll have money for Christmas or other use and '
wonder how you accumulated so, much!
A little each week regularly and watch your savings
grow !
It's a great co-operative plan. You get yoth: share
of the general benefit.
Call for full particulars.- Save for your family and
friends. Get others to join. Save for any special pur
pose. But hurry, while you're thinking about it\
The First National Bank
OF CAMDEN, S. C