The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 09, 1920, Image 3
first to teach philosophy
I hp"*" '? ThilM, Who K?
tablithed ? School Which exorte*
Wld* 4nflutnco. '
?riu- ftr#t school of philosophy was
;#itil>l'*hcd ill MllltVI (AhJ? Minor)
!by Thtlt^ ??ne rtf tbi wl?? men. unit
wsa ?? remarkable institution,
ririiin,: un influence for morn than
? century
Thales seems to have given
more entirely to this school rjian to
toy of hia other undertaking*. There
In h legend that he never married, and
wlieu hi* mother pressed him to do ?o
he said: 'it Is not yet tliue." After
his youth was passed she again urged
l,tin io marry and he said: "It l? no
longer time." WM
^iaiiy of t he/subjects taught In 'ills
M'tiool, sueh as astronomy, geometry
?ml geography, show the Influence of
Kgypt and Phoenicia; hut (he phi
losophy* was probably an original prod
uct, for while some of the sciences
were somewhat advanced, the phlloKO
phy was apparently a first attempt at
mii explanation of the origin of the
world. It originated a movement
which culminated more than a
century later iif7he Idealism of Plata.
We may perhaps understand Home
thing of the attitude of the eom
uon people toward Thales* school of
philosophy from the story of the old
woman who laugbed when the paster
fell backward Into a ditch afte>\ gax
lag too long at the Mnrs. The old
woman nf>t only laugbed, but *he Is
Mild to have called after him: "if
you cannot see what Is under your
feet, how cnu you understand what Is
In heaven ?"
Tlio geography abd astronomy
taugbit in this school were very prim
itive: The earth was flat, the sun
circled around (t horizontally, helng
concealed at niglit by high liilb. One
writer of the time describes the world
hi the following poetlcul way: "God
makes a mantle, large and fair and
embroiders on it eurth and ocean and
ocean's dwellings."
different kinds of speed
Aviator and Motorist Didn't Have tha
Same Kind of Comparison as
They Traveled. ?r
The motorist was taking an aviator
friend; recently returned from the
army air service, out for a spin.
'Chinking of the 125-mlle-an-houiNspeed
to which the airman was accustomed,
the motorist felt that It was incumbent
opon him to "let 'er out." His friend,
he felt, would feel badly ambling along
st the land rate fol$s are used to trav
eling. So he cu^ loose and the car
was zipping along at something like
BO miles an hour.
, Then the motorist felt a hand laid
upon his arm.'.
"Going pretty fast, aren't you?" re
marked the aviator, a trifle uneasily.
After the motorist had slowed down
he asked: "Why, I thought the best
speed I could make wonld seem slow
to you. How is It that it appeared so
fast?",, ' .
"You see, in tfie air, even at our
greatest speed, we seera more or less
stationary unless we look below us and
#ee objects flitting past," explained
the aviator. "You know speed can
only be reckou^ visually?by tilings
one is leavingbehind. Now, the gait'
you were moving a few minutes, ago
looked mighty fast, uncomfortably fast
I might say, to me. I kept noticing
things we are leaving behind."
"Well, I'll be darned," said the mo
torist. "I never thought of it In that
way before." .
And the hand of the speed clock Jig
gled back to the 2*5-mile marlr^Kan
sas City Star.
If yt Only Were!
The late Klla ' Wheefer Wilcox,
though the most popular poet of mod
ern ilines, steadfastly refused to enter
New York society. The most exclusive
Fifth avenue portals were open to her,
!>ut Mrs. Wilcox passed them indiffer
ently by.
A New York magazine editor ouce
sought her out with an invitation to a
Fifth avenue dinner party.
"I'm sorry," she said, "but I can't
*o."
"Oh." said the editor, "you must ac
cept this invitation i"
"Why ruust I?" said tire poet.
"Our host," the editor answered, "is
rich?rich*?a multimillionaire. You
must accept."
"Well, I would." said Mrs. Wilcox,
with u smile, "if It were catching!"
He Was No Mollycoddle.
A neighbor's son was entertaining
*bout twenty of his tittle boy amLglrl
friends at his birthday party. The
children were supposed to return to
their respective homes at eight o'clock
in the evening; however, they were
having such a good time when the
going home hour arrived, its passing
?till found them hard at It. The moth
er of the little host suggested to him
'he advisability of intimating to his
tittle friends the lateness of the hour.
This Is how he did It:
"Say, it's nine o'clock; I'm getting
*leepy, and you kids have got to go
t?f>me!" ?
"What's that? (Jo home this early?"
?aid one of his Indignant little guesta.
"I thought this was to be an all-night
ifTair!"
Some Old. ~ i
"Ho you've been In the array, eh?"
\*ked the old gentleman kindly. ?'And
?H me. did you do much shooting
?hlle ye* were over there?"
~I wis $30 the first day I landed la
^sne*,'* answered the gambler. pr?ra4?
BIKD HUMtK!. CLEVER TRICK
Mat Vii of Northern Nigciu ANbiiW
RiHfflblanci of (h? Quarry They
Are Seeking.
Someone mu.V hu\e called yuu "a
t fcird" with exchiututory ?iCcents ?f ad
miruilon, but Iihv?' you ,ever tried to
act ilko a bird ?.?r to appear like a
to uldiKt it f?\il liinl': . >>ii, so
,\oij hliVGU'l, fur 1111 s Uu*t (In- wax wt
In tlil? country go hunting. even though
We 11t.iy In" I hi i;u??i j,I drill o| Spptt*
un*n. It ih, however, one Idrddiuuting
method In Africa, writes Temple .Mun
ulug iu the St. Louis iu'|>111<i11
A reoent i11 un i rut ion ??Iiown how a
dusky heuu seta out to t'wscinatc one
of flu4 leathered iiuIivcm of the woods
aud plains of ourtlioru Nigeria. If was
in liasaa, to be ex&Ct, where i lit* pho
tograph froui which the picture ,1a
drawn was snapped, And the person
who was caught In the very net ot en
ticing a bird belongs to the tribe which
goes by the name of Munshi.
Industrious and very good tillers of
the soil as they are, the Munshla are
s^ld to be ? quarrelsome aud great
lovers of alcohol, which they sometimes
contrive to smuggle 4n and to drink
with vast speed, it may be, Indeed,
that this Munshi hoped to cuteh his
bird for the drink It would bring. At
any rate, he was most serious as he
wopt about his bird-acting.
Clad in a straw shirt to give the
effect of the scene In which he moved,
the hunter held t he artificial ^ bird's
head close to his own and begun to
stalk his quarry. To human eyes view
ing him from a distunce be looked
more like a strange caricature of an
ostrich than anything else. To bird
eyes perhaps he appeared Hke a scene
from the surrounding country?that is,
a bird teetering on u coal-black branch,
swaying above a field of grain that
moved In the wind.
It seems odd that so simple, an ex
pedient should be so successful. It Is
true thai the hunters sometimes return
empty-handed, but more often they
come hack laden with the birds they
set forth to get. In this country aud
in these days, when huutcrs sometimes
seem almost as numerous as the bunt
ed, it would be exceedingly dungerouH
to appear like tjie quarry, for a bullet
most certainly would be the reward.
But in Nigeria tlie method is a success,
although it requires much practice to
imitate a bird well enough to deceive
the birds themselves.
Procession of Splendor.
In-the whole gallery of war pictures,
It may be doubted if any could have
been more colorful than those com
posed by the remarkable British cam
paign in which Colonel Lawrence,
archaeologist by pre-war profession,
gathered and led the desert host of
Arabs. "The order of march," says
Colonel Lawrence, describing the en
trance of the conquerors Into the town
of Kl-Wijh, "was splendid and bar
baric. Feisal rode in front dressed in
pure white. I was on his left, also in
white, and ou his right was another
shereef wearing a red headcloth and
a tunic and cloak dyed with henna,
and behind us were Bedouins carrying
three banders of purple silk, topped
with gold spikes, aud behind them
rode three drummers playing a march,
and they were followed by a wild,
bouncing mass of 3,000 camels that
constituted our bodyguard, the men
In every variety of colored gown and
headdress, and the camels equally bril
liant In their trappings, and thp wfeole
crowd - singing at the top of their
voice* a war song in honor of Felsal
and his (arally." Memory runs over
accounts of conquering hosts of all
ages and finds nothing, as the English
itfourr
baric and splendid. /
Scout* Keep the. Law.
Kvery now and then soine judge or
Juvenile couft worker bears testi
mony that scouting keeps boys out of
toischlef, that scouts keep the law and
are good citizens In embryo. Recently
U. K. Harnien, nn attorney of Tacoma,
Wash., made the following statement:
"Of all the boys passing through the
juvenile court i?the last year, not one
was an active scout." There are 700
boys affiliated with the Tacoma coun
cil, so this statement really means
something. Vot one boy who came up
as a case before fhe court was an ac
tive scont, and tiffon investigation It
was shown thnt 1n only two cases were
the offenders boys who had had any
connection whatever at any time wltti
scouting.?.Tames R. West. In Boys'
JJtm. v
A Hybrid Mariner.
"An old salt, eh?"
"You might call hin^ that."
"He's the sort of sailor. I presume,
who feels sorry for us poor Landlub
bers when there's a storm at oea,
knowing that chimneys are tnmbling
about our ears and roofs being blown
off while he's snug and safe In his
berth nbourd fhe Many Ann or the
Liza .lane?"
"lie l?n'f that kind of an old suit,
lie's employed on a liner, one of those
big floating hotels, and 1k? doesn't see
much more of th<? ocean than the aver
age haggaKe man In a land ho^el."??
Birmingham Age-Herald.
Rice Fields Increasing.
Rice growing was first begun in
.Manchuria by the Koreans who moved
Into that country, but now the Chinese
are principally engaged In this indus
try. The Japanese are also opening
cp wild lands for paddy fields along
the railways In various parte of Man*
chnrla. an<1 the area of rice fields fa
inert rx'-z-g each year. The present i
Lxfce crop sipotints to stout 3,WHW0j
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Kt)R CONGKKMS
I h-reUy Hi>tKWtMsk tn the rotors of the
Kifth t.Vug rowrtcnul I > 1st riot of ftouth
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"WftOPt iu the past *io<l to a*?Urc them
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the t?o?t of my ubiKty as- 1 have endeavor
ed to do in the past.
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XotU*> ix hi-rvVy Kivou that ow? month
fin^i tliis <h?t?\ v>n Suturd;iy. April 24, i
l!0?. I wilt Jir;lk?> t>? U?<' PmtMto < \?ui I ,
of K?*r.>h.rt\Y t\?u?ty in> flat) r*4um us I
A.ljiunvMrut! | v of I ho Vktutc oi DaVtl
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dM ? I will ui>i?iy t<? the *ai?l <V?urt for
a final ?tix(har$v as >-uWI A?lm'n?i.s1ratri\.
1IATT1K JOHNSON
KuwcrJy lhvttio Uuthcihml.
?\iu>vhlto, s. <\. March iHHh. 1920.
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