The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 09, 1920, Image 9
Doors
Have just received car of
Sash and Doors and can fill
all orders for stock sizes.
Also car round porch
columns.
J. L Guy Lumber Co.
Milb Near Seaboard Freight Depot
Service and Quality
We established our business on the principle of
[being fair with our customers, giving them full value
[for the money they leave with us.
We have continued that policy throughout the
kears we have been serving you, and we are pursuing
ttt more persistently than ever in this era of price in
flation today. But we never lower the standard of our
(goods.
On this high plane of commercially we solicit
kour patronage. ? ? .
rlracesPure Food Store
, -.r , l--. . ">i - ?'?"?V ? -
PHONE <66
HUPMOBILES
We are now accepting orders for imme
diate delivery on the new Hupmobile 1 920
Model. Can rjiake delivery within one
weeks notice.?'**
jGEORGE T. LITTLE
fmble Seal Piston Rings for
Automobiles are Guaranteed
<* 'rujiruiin-f l>oub|p Seal Kings to give entire sa4i>?fa<4tjon when n 1' I'LI'
iv |)?hm'i*I.v installed. If, within days a?tt?r purchase, the user
lid txivKiic dissatisfied with the rin#M, we will reAnd tke money we receive
?Iioid ivfmn receipt of "Hie rings, and tilie original iuioice showing purchase,
rinjfs slionlil b?- returned through the clmnuoWs received. Ask for "Keep
^?p Down."
(OLUMBIA SUPPLY COMPANY
WEST GERVIAS ST. COLUMBIA, S. C.
Life Insurance
Protects mortgaged real estate. A
"Life" Policy pays the mortgage if the bor
rower dies. It gives him time to discharge
the obligation if he dies. An "Endowment
Policy pays off the mortgage whether the ,
borrower lives or dies.
outheastern Life Insurance Co.,
L. A. McDowell, Agent
p"
Pwrra*~i liMi'l" ' ?
tion K SB ^? ?-??? Ad?rt??r?
PRECURSOR OF THE PIANO
J
Harpsichord, in Arrangement if K?y< ;
board and Strings, Resembled the
Instrument in Us? Today.
The hurpakbord was a s( rjnged mil-.
'altil Insfrumeut in use in the itjth,
17th and 18th centuries, which In Its
form and In the arrangement of the
keyboard and strings resembled a pi
ano, hut in which che torn? was pro
duced by the plucking or snapping of
the strings by leather or quill points,
Which wore .sot in Jacks connected by
levers with t!?*? keys. ill form it usu
ally resembled a modcru grand piano
forte, though both square eud uprigiit
varieties were also made. The length
of the keyboard was four to six and
a half octaves. The number of sep
arate strings to a key varied from
one t<S four, sometimes including one
tuned an octave above the others; the
latter variety was called a double
harpsichord. The tone was weak and
tinkling, and gradation of force was
Impossible. Two keyboards were
sometimes combined, one for soft
effects; the other for.loud. Numerous
devicrs, usually connected with the
Jacks, were introduced at different
times to secure variety in force, and
especially in quality. These mechan
isms. which often aimed to simulate
the tone qualities of various orehes
trai instruments, were usually con
trolled by stopknobs near the key
board. The hurpsiciiord. though et
sentlaily different from the pianoforte,
was ijs immediate predecessor. Be
fore 1800 It was regularly used In ail
dramatic music, especially In accom
panying recitatives and In orchestral
music. The conductor usually direct
ed from his neat at a harpsichord
placed amid the other Instruments.
WORK OF MONKS IN EXILE
Congregation of Armenian Christians
Has Diffused Knowledge of Coun
try's Language and Literature.
The Mechltarist monks are a small
congregation of Armenian Christians
who were exiled from their native land
at the beginning of the eighteenth cen
tury. The church in Armenia hud long
been dlvidod Into bitterly hostile camps
over the question of the nature of
Christ, and when the Meehltarlsts en
tered Into communion with the Church
of Home in 1712 the Armenian patri
arch succeeded In drlvhyg them from
the country. They took tip thole resi
dence in the Morea, but they had again
to flee before the advance of I he* con
quering Turk, and in 1715 they estab
lished themselves in Venice, on the
Island of Snn Lazzaro. Here they set
up a printing press artd galliered to
gether a large and valuable library of
oriental works. Their n&mo Is de
rived from itechtar d? I'etro, who
founded a religious snHety at Constan
tinople about the year 1700, and who
aimed at uplifting the intellectual tind
spiritual conditions of his eountryiuen,
and ^at diffusing a knowledge of the
old ,Armenian language and literature.
The colony of exiles during their so- |
joiirn In Venice lias printed most of
the elassle writings in Armenian lit
erature and translated t?he works of
Kuseblus, Philo and other writers.
*<???<*Geography Sixty Years Old.
Tin* rapid development of geography
hh a college >tudv. shirt* iis tlrst upr
pearnnce lii h iiniveryiI,v curriculum,
about half n eeuiury ago. Is discussed
l?y I'rof. It. H. I*i11 ??'<?!< of lli<* l-nl*
varsity of Wisconsin. hi a rt'owit ar
ticle on "(Jeography in American and
Kuropean Universities." nuhlislicd in
th?' Journal of <Jeograpliy. He points
out ihe following interesting fuels!
In IK<34> Harvard and Princeton
wort' flu* only American universities 1
offering courses-in geography.
Cornell and University of Wiscon
sin Introduced the subject Tn 1.8(18,
and Yale followed In 1872. In 10(H)
only 12 American universities taught
the subject, but by 1010 thirty-one |
universities were offering a variety j
of 142 courses.
With 704 students enrolled in geog
raphy. the University of Wisconsin I
led all others In 1IU0. With J.OttO en
rolled In 1917, It led all others except J
the University of Pennsylvania. It
now offers seven courses in physical
and economic geography, climatology
and other phases of the subject.
Sung by Request.
They were having a company sing
in n "Y" building. The song leader,
a lieutenant, asked If there was any
particular song the men wished to
sing.
The company funny boy, thinking to
produce a laugh, yells out: "Let's sing
Molly, get the hammer, there's a fly
on baby's head."
"Very well," said the lieutenant;
"suppose you couae up and sing It a
few times, so that we may learn If."
And, amid Jeer* of his companion*,
he was forced to get up before the
company and sin* that single line
otrer and over agufn, making up the
tone as he went.
Discard London Town House*.
For hundreds of years members of
England's wealthy Has* have main
fained their splendid town houses In
London. But today, with the perfect
ing of the automobile and the In
creased convenience of apartment and
bote], there Is a growing tendency to
break with tradition and maintain only
tbe country home. This fashionable
back-tothe-land movement is expected
to have royal sanction, too. as tbe klnr
and queen will use beautiful old Wind
sor castle, 2ft miles from 1/ond'iD, this
sea*<*:?, .ouch more than Buckingham
palace. In tba Htg.r^-Poptiltr Jtfecha*.
les Magazine,
MUCH LIKE WESTERN CITY
T?fVj*?, Cap tai of New Georgian Re
public, hy No Meant Typical
of the Ea$t.
Mr Motvitta ClUHot', rocnllun T?T"
pressjons in die National iJeogiajdilc
Vl?u;i/.un\ Illiuilt* (lull fn> Uils sur
prised wljen he ai'l'lved in Tillls. cap*
ival of flic* now (!i'urt?liiU iviiiihl^', I If
hail expected a city Jiioiv j*u?ipMitivo
of the i:us(j ih& Western mind pie.
fmos It ; Imii iluk <!?>lovli|sk> pvospokt.
the main thorongUfn.ro through* the
heart of t)??> c|ty, sireleh??d before lilui,
'"us |iHialsoia<* ? bit of modern metro
polilanism us can bo found an.vwlioro."
iiinl It* rosiauranfH, shops, vpora. anil
what used to l?o tho vloerogul pallU*e
bill which now lies ilie standard of
tile now I 111 t i ? >11. sliHK?>slt'i| ill OUcO Iho
French adjective "chic." More than
thai, litis new capital was brilliant
wUh uniforms. Itussiun. Conrgian. Ar
nioii an. Itritish. and most pleturosuue
of all. tho Caucasian costume, with Its
hrotnlshoiihh'roil. wash-wulsicd coat,
hl^rh. heelless hoots, and ustra.khun
cap. One marveled at tho Ton It of
WiMPoUK that comphsted it; a swurd
rattling hihI clanking with the wear
er's innrt in I stride, a brace of pistols,
a pair of daggers. and a collection of
what looked like enormous fountain
pons hung across tho Caucaalftu
bosom, hut which turned out to ho
hollow?tube*?Htfemied?to be?Hmded"
wlth pmvdor and shot. One must add
atlff mustaches ami a close-shaven
skull to picture this (leoi'Klan In all
!ds tflory on the Oolovlnsk.v prospokt
of Ills national capital. Clothing for
civilian* Is scarce and expensive In
Tlflls. hut Iho cast-off uniforms of
military officers are for sale, and many
a citizen In need of a now snil had
bought JilinNolf an old uniform.
ARE RETURNING TO FARMS
Not Many of Uncle Sam'i Fighter*
Have Succumbed to the Lure
of the City.
v 1 ? ' *'** _
Of America's mighty war forces of
more than 4..*>00,000 men. 1.U00.00O, It
t9 estimated came from farms, flee
or<ls in the bureau of war-risk insur
ance I': Washington Indicate that those
farm-bred or farm-raised boys rnrrli'd
government life insurance iiiuoutillng
to over $10.000,000.t>00.
During the ^arllcr demobilization It
was so difficult to keep track of the
discharged service men that it seemed
as though a very largo proportion of
rboni did not return to their former
amjressos or homes. So many of the
soi v*-e men who had come from the
farms seemed to he listening to the
call of iho city that It was feared more
than one-half of them were not going
j back to iho farms. I .a tor the tide of
I migration set in toward the country,
j and now It Is believed thai Hie loss In
I man power to the farms, as the result
for former Service men shilling else
where, may not be more iban 500,000.
Dead Towns Awaken,
Dead towns of the West are coming
to life as a result of the silver boom.
Then* were towns In Colorado ami Ne
vada and Arizona, which, under the In
fluence of silver in those days after
the Civil war. hurst Into wild, rich life
that has no parallel in history.
Clouds of^lust are rising along the
trails that load across nagobrush
plains. The mining engineer, present
day successor of the prospector' and
his hiiiTo, Is .nstir ,ln the silver coun
try.
They are going back to the old
shafts that yielded wealth \*hen silver
was above a dollar. Willi the advance
In mining processes in the last four
decades the chances of profits are
many times multiplied.
Keeps Windows Free From Frost.
In these days. when .lack Frost; Ih
busy drawing pictures on the windows,
ninny beautiful works appear over
night. but when he completely covers
tbe glass, be is not so welcome. The
Russians have h very effective way of
preventing the obscuring of the win
flows by frost. In Russia the wallA of
the buildings are' very thick, and
double windows are ftoted to the
houses, set about l.'l Inches apart. The
window hIII between the outer and In
ner windows Is decorated with bright
green moss, and hidden there is a dish
tilled with calcium chloride, whicli ab
sorbs nil the moisture and thus effec
tually prevents the formation of lee
during the long, cold wlnter
Farming Fish.
The InternatioiiHl Association of
(iame, Fish nnd Conservationist Com
missioners, at their recent convention
in I,ouisville, pledged themselves to
use every Influence possible toward
stimulation of h nation-wide move
ment looking to the construction of
fifth ponds upon farms in which desir
able species of game nri<l food fishes,
especially the basses ami the sun
fishes. can be propagated for recrea
tion nnd for food, nt a comparatively
amall expense when contrasted with
the vast ?lieneflr* which will result
therefrom.'
Fifty-Nine Degrees Below Zero.
Fifty-nine degrees below zero was
registered in some pnrts of the Adiron
darks isst winter around (lie first of
the Tf?r, according to weather bureau
statistics. Better (or wor*e) than that
was done by Jack Frost in Sweden,
where the temperature registered 70.6
below zero. And in some parts of
Alaska thermometer* are absolutely
ashless, f? best of rliein fr?*??r.ing up
and refuslnr to tetI how cold it Is. In
the dead if winter. In lite Interior of
Alaska, pore alcohol freeze* into solid
blocks of Ice, ?? doe? kerosene,* -B*
efcanie.
h\>i uii'i' Sopwtarjr UnMing and !*?*
I*m M. \Vo?>U\v who on \V?nW:?v?l't> il}jr
rviulonnl his jHsst us solMtov of Uu%
stal?' ?U'|Mt*iiurnt. havo fortuvil a jmrt
lUM'wihlp for iho prwlkv of iiitvmutiou
rtl'Hnw1. 1 "".?!"1 '
?I>i\ Thoaxi* U. (luroU^M, a woll
kimwu Mtui bHov?\i physician of
Hill OWtt at hou>?> in (Mklaml W?sl
lU'sUay jilvrhi at 1U oVkvk after a l<mu
Uhu'ss. Ilo had Ixvu iu falliiitr health
for liium iuo! 11is
Why Do Most People
Use GOODYEARS?
Ohere can only be one answer to this question.
When vsueh an overwhelming majority of people
prefer GOODYEAR Tires?
It Is Because They Serve Best
Have you found that out yet?
Let us show you are line of Goodyear Clincher
Tires,?
Sizes :u) x a?no \ $ \-2?HI x A.
Built especially for the smaller car.
Our Service Facilities are Ripht?all other sizes
in stock.
Kershaw Motor Company
Cuimltu. s,
GARDEN SEED
Onion Sets
Seed Potatoes '
W. Robin Zemp's Drug Store
Telephone 30.
JSuouie 4 Bfoi.. Irtr./ 192<K
Who Knows?
\/Lf H O knows val lies?
* * you? Don't be
offended. Think it over!
Would you want to trust
to your own judgment
of diamond values?, And
don't you think that if a
dealer started out to fool
you he could do it?
HfGHAwCujmes
MAOli BY fTROt>K A BROTH?':*". Inr
MALnVOHK. .M r>.
are clothes of known
worth. The High 'Art
labef is a definite way of
knowing that your
money is well invested.
It's safer than depending
011 your own judgment.
Bros. & Co.
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