The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 22, 1920, Image 13
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JwCAlL TO AMERICAN#
, t920 Should &o R?*nembor?d by
All M Anniversary of E?Ubll?h
mint of Fr?? Inftltutlooo,
.^luguislu'tl American*,. Including
M> TMft- ^,>?4,,,W4 Huichea and
Hf,?l (iihhous. have appealed to
Vjr fellow countrymen to ivimuuDir
[jJJfcfiOr ??>" celebration* ul any
Sable tlmo l?t June 4 (ho
! ^1,1 jslioient of free (pwtlttiflotMi tn
L^rlf*. A ?r<,nl iK u>^il Threo
feuuifr?*?l )*'"'* a?? beginning tlu* 30 Ui
1 ^ i;t?i July. tlM'iv was being held in
|jI}s?5iqwii, colony of Virginia?; tho
, , ,*jU)erleaii legislative assembly
i |,j n,v Mien of lawful tkf^ and
j . ;?M^fal??lVii.u;. Am) during this time,
I || : ? . < l IMIM Ml 111 Its birth hour,
, pilgrims from Rutland after a
years' HojotM'ii In Holland were
n- iv.nlv tO e Hlhllsti In jfbe lie W
i ^ iwau? el r*Jjgtpu# t ? ?
one y?'>n' "u< Virginian* liter,
I .inn hum) set sail for Aiiicr
Uu iici'iirtUitf from U\v<len, Hollaml,
julj 80. HUirtliernjore let It not'
forgotten thai Nov. 11 Is not only
,hlMiiinivfr>iU\v ?lay of ftlgnlllff of the
May/lower compact, second assump
tion "by KukUmIi colonies In America
0( the .unalienable right of self-govern
im'.'ii. teW " is ll,s" (lf Hie figging of
ihi- hi mi?i ?? i ? I < > ?> 1 1 1 the | ,'reat war
tn which, the above representative
jpoke#inen point out. the descendant*
of (lie IMIgflinf cf New England ?n<i
(lit* en vn I lei's of Virginia and their
kiiKlrrtl ero>.sed the sea and won lib
tu^efhetv A year with au ltu*
peniHvt' rluUlenge to renew policies of
Aiji'i'loanization and patriotic con*e
nuiicM f* 1920. and no community
jkpiild be without ltM religious and
avio expression In acknowledgment of
die past and in dedication to the fu
tufo ? ; ' : / ; y ;
Landmark to Be Preserved.
XIm* M ul l:i 1 1 tree, landmark of the
old Mullun (rail, (l?e first highway
connect I >i? .Montana and Idaho with
'the coast, will he prcse/rvpd to posteri
ty through i I ? * ? creation of a national
monument area by the president; On
July I. 1S01. Captain John Mullan,
leader of t lie party having in charge
the survey am! construction of the
Mullan trull from Walla Walla, Wash.,
to Ft. Benton. Mont., closed his work
it the connecting point of the roads !
from the east and west, at the head j
of the Fourth of July canyon, he- j
ween Walla ee, Idaho, and Ooeur |
d'Aleuo,' Mh ho. There lie marked up- ;
proprhtiely a huge white pine tree,
*hicl? since that time has been known
vi the Mullan tree. Tourists seeking ?
-oiivenirs of their jaunt along the j
Yeilnu-stone trail have damaged the I
ancicnt tree so" ntueli that forest'serv- ?
iir ntHcers have found It necessary '
?a take steps to protect it, ami lb ae
ft?nj]>llsh this have submitted a peti
tion proposing that a national monu- ;
uieiit area ho created, Which has been I
i|i|i!oved -- Kansas City Journal.
The Family Knew;
A certain thrifty young man often
rails on n-eertain young woman, hut"
ticker yd has he ever taken her to a
picture show or out riding In his
iuioiiiohile or even to the corner drug
?tlore. lor ice. cream. The family haw
noticed and often commented on what
they term his "stinginess,", and all
before tin- young wotnaii's ten-year
ohl brother.
Xuu, ti?~ other night the ten -year*
old yon mister was in the living room
-rttto Thf voting man was calling. Th?*
cilicr. who was sitting close to the
firephir,' ami stretching forth his
'IfSinls to j li?? chcrfui blaze, suddenly
mid. how 1 do love to sit before
your tlrepiaee and think, think "
i.ikr :i flash came 4 quick interrup
tion from the 1 en-year-older. "Think
?think nf how you are saving money
fcysiitiny lii-re." he said. ? Indianapolis
News.
Wireless txperiments.
VmIiiuIiIc experiments in Wireless te
ie^rapii \ are l?esng conducted by t If**
French war sloop Aldebaran. which
ha? In-fit i-ruis<ng in the 1'nctlc .near
the Chatham and Bounty islands.
LieittHiiHiii < Jnierre. wireless expert,
*i!l prohnhlv submit the result of his
'xp*rim?Mits 10 the international wire
1 ? nuft'i-enee In Washington
*iiort I * . Hi; states that the wireless
"reception" in New Zealand from
Frouc I, iiist nnu^Hts is of special In
terest .u, continental experts, as New
Vilatvl is practically the nntipode of
^ ratn?-<-. |i u claimed that the Al'le
i'ai'nn 1- i-nrrying out for the first time
truly comprehensive system of
"'?m snrl nc tin- strength of "re?-ep
!i""s :il:hoi!j?h an American had
pi?n-i.r,ii tl?> \\ ? y In this respect.
Philippine Sugar Industry.
I'm- r 1 i ? ?< 1 1 ? r j 1 sugar mills are pro
W!"! :u \. vros. P. I., with a total j
ai-acirv ? .f .\000 tons of cane dally, j
T*n in i I ' < ? \ i r u h capacity of .'UHlo tons j
"? 'n' " '.ii!y are already in opera- !
'?or . 1, ? district. The movement
'"!? Ih'Hit <uulpniont and orgaui/.a
"Ti !r. ~ 1 r central* I* likely to con- .
linn* unfii (Mcry sugsr district capa
' p ?f supporting a central is supplied
* 'li ni<n|?-rn mills. The general rate i
^ payment nmde by the centrals to (
* '?rtners for their eane is ft.r> per
of 'he value of the sqgsr ob- ?
'?ififfl
1- I
The Doughnut Band.
T*"en*T young Salvation army lsa
*jt* who cooked tloughnuts for the
in I- r?nce nave organtied a
hand in Philadelphia.
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In the Game ef Life.
nmn plays the deuce It !?
^?quenMy his last card. ? B? Ion
nWF SAVAtiKS KHM)
K?mUy of Mev?iit<*u WIW Whites Live
In Oeorgta Swamp.
* l ' ' . .
Okefrnokee Swamp, is a 40 mile iu?>
rMf* of deuse vegetation its doJiely i*e,
ambling the hu|>enetable tp0pl(?
Jungle* at, anything in America. !x>?
! rat ml In Southern (ieorgla and North
ern Florida, It U remote from all set
t lenient* . turpemnm. still* i.> >lng the
only sign of life about Its desolate
Natives llftd a superstitious
fear of its mysterious depWis ami It
was said even criminals Ua red not
make their way Into It. Storle^ wore
told that It wag Inhabited by a witch
who devoured nun, and that a famous
Srminole I mil. in chUf, Hilly ? llowleg*.
had Inade bis last stand against I4?e
whites in its interior. So far as was'
known, no man had ever e\pi,,red It,
byt one who bad made the attempt
was reported to have been brought
back by 'his native- guide after a half
day's struggle to |?enetrntc Its barriers
refusing any explanation.
When a party of scientists from Cor
nell University , turned their attention
to the swamp in their search for new
fauna and flora and sought to deter
mine the expediehcy of having made
.Into a national park by the govem
meul. UO native could be found who
would attempt tu guide theui. In a re
ceyt lecture at the University of Ken
tucky, I>r. W. It. Funkhouscr. who was
one of the party, described how this
only inteu, Hilled their curiosity and they
pushed In the true spirit of the early
explorers to make discoveries that
amply repaid them.
"We five started in alone, carrying
50 -pound packs, with ,a compass as
our guide," I)r. Funkhouser said. "The
water was from waist to shoulder deep
full of giant cypress trees, and so
closely overgrown with underbruah
and entangling vines that we literally
had to cut our way with. axes at every
step, and could only advance a mile n
day on the bottom was a Nilck growth
of moss, which would support the
weight of a umn while moving, hut
which would begin to sink with us as
soon as we stopped or stood still to
begin cutting the brush.
"We soon had to discard cameras,
provisions and other paraphernalia be
cause of 1h<Vdifficulty of travel, and
we ate bear meat and alligator tails.
The swamp was-fu'll of game of every
kind, and the water abounded with
fish and alligators. We drank the"
swamp water which was coffee-eolored
but had nothing to pollute it. as no
human inhabitants were near.
- "At night- we piled brush as high as
we could around the cypress trees to
make beds. Of course the brush soon
sank below the water, which would
wak?* us, and we then cut more brush
and made more Iwds indefinitely until
morning. There were myriads of mos
quitoes and other insects^ but as there
were no other people for them to .bite
they could not give us malaria. We
were wet all the time and everything
that 'could be spoiled by water was
rttntnpfl: "" /
"Sometimes we came to a 'gator
tunnel through the underbrush. where
a large" alligator had crushed his way
through and we could crawl t'h rough
it to save some cutting. The difficul
ties were tthat the sides were usually
suppled wMh warsps nests and there
was always a chance of meeting the
al'ligator coming back.
"At the end of the twentieth day we
came in sight of a low island covered
witih pint tre??s. Here we found a fam
ily of person* who in many ways can
he compared only to animals. It con
sisted. of an old woman, her thre<?
sons and two daughters, who had in
termarried and their eleven children.
All of ttheni were degenerate weak
lings. undernourished, and had hook
worm and bad l>!ood. as the testes we
made showed. They had a large grave
yard which was about full.
"The family had no shelter except
a rude lean-to built against a tree, and
worp no covering to ?i>eak of. the child
ren being entirely naked. While they
spoke English, we had much difficulty
In understanding them, as their vocab
ulary wa<\ CfThucerian, Spenserian and
Nhakespfyi rea n. We did' not know this
a I tihe time and their speech was- very
strange t<> us. hut we made a diction
ary of it during our ^umiuer stay on
the island, and when we eatne out
we learned that many of the word*
they used are known to the world only
through Ohaucer. while niorc are of
the time of Shakespeare and S|>enscr.
"They hitd never hoard of reading,
writing or any of the things we take
for granted, and on learning that we
were fp'in New York inquired if it
were another island or a turpentine
fiT Y11. Only one of them had ever been
off the island. He had found the <head
waters of tlie Suwannee river, which
rises iti-the swamp, and twice n year
he floated down it in a flat l*>ttomed
HAIJe S A VVVA (1 KS FOUND
boat to nhe edge of the swamp, where
there \*\ia a tur]>entine still and a
small store. He l^id a suit of overalls
which he wore at these tfn?es and kept
concealed wiffii the lK>at in the brush
in the meantime.
"(Hi these semi annual trip* ho trad
ed boa ? and alligator akins for salt and
corn meal at tin* store. hut he dhlu't
talk to au.\one t h?- re. |A(t th?-v tuppoyfil
li^m to he ptte of t?h.e (ivorifla erackajra
of tht* vicinity. Although h<- didn't
talk h? listened, a lid tin* classic Mpoeoh
Of the ^ family was peculiarly mi\ed
with the Georgia cracker dialect, t >i?
one of his trip* ho look hack a snuiN
acetylene lamp, w^hicii was the most
wouderful thing h??t brothers and sis
ters. who ha<( never heard of candles,
had over seeu. They contended that
water would burn mm ha hfed managed
tO sonc < ail?ldc. and would pQltV
water from the swamp into Wie con
tainer and HgVt it,
"In *pite of their entire libra nee
of t lie world and total inability to u?e
derstand anything outside of their is
hind, these people wore very religious
and one of tihem asked. uie If I believed
in the living Qoil
?
??'I'Ik* development *>f titcir senses
and their acute powers of observation
can be compared only to animals. They
could trail by smell like dugs, They
could describe birds, insects or animals
so accurately thai the scientists in t'he
party .could recognize them. They also
knew more about nature than anyone
in our party.
"We could never learn how long
the family luid been In'hnhitlng the la*
laud', although we were convinced that
the old woman knew. She refused to
talk about It at all. Our theory was
that a convict or some fugitive from
justiee made <hls way into the swamp
generations ago with one or more com
panions and that it had been impressed
on the old woman that she must never
reveal the facts.
"As to one ot'her tradition we learn
ed more. On opening an Indian mound
.on the island wo disinterred the skele
ton of an Indian, undoubtedly bowleg
ged. with a tomahawk hole in his skull
and his dog* and wives buried In eon
centric circles around him. There were
also in the mottud other art usually
found in Indian burial places.
"After learning about the outlet by
way of the Suwanee we floated down it.
sot provisions cameras and other
"scientific equipment for obtaining and
preserving specimens, which we shipped
north by the same route. AV^ found i
many, many s|X?cies new to science :
adult specimens, eggs ,U1(| nests of the
ivory-billed woodpecker^ supposed to
have been extinct half a century i n? w
-and rare insects, animals and plants;
and much evidence tR.il crocodile#, sup
|h?smI never to have lived in th*> I'UittHl
Stales are to be found in 1 1*%? water* of
the swmpp
"Tli*.' |?cnph\ wi'i'c very hclpfuMn ob
(hIiiIu^ s|?eolu\ens, and when they once
saw what ?<" wanted, couUl gel as
many more i ha u we could, and I ell us
farts rthunt them which were unknown
to science. They .had trail* from Hie
island out Into tin* mviuui?, going by
way of fallen log*, shallow pools of
water and tufts of nevss which mad*'
It mui'li easier for u* There were
m'Vi'imI oihe-r small i-dnmK or small
pieces of land two or three inches under
wal?r. in the vicinity. The people had
nancd . i ' I oilier islands hut the one
wto ich they lived oil. One of lhes<\
whh-h they called Many Kike Island,
we had much difficulty in reaching,
as- they refused for a long time tY? guide
Us I here, because Miey said 'tl)-?re be
longed to the merry wings there,'
"They would H"t 14*11 us what "merry
wlnm* were, hut I found nut. When
we wore finally taken to the inland,
where we spent one night, some hfscct
which we never sjjw, slung us *o (hit!
my ey< s were swollen almost who! and
*jn.v fingers so that tOtey stood stiffly
from my paWns for several days, What
ever the insect was. i( was entirely un
known to science.
"To the islanders we were ak some
higher hoi ug, and they stood around
us. watching oi\? every action, as long
a* We were tliere. As beings higher
than I hey it was ijpt fitting that they
question any of ?>ur actions. The first
thing we saw in the morning was Mia I
ring of 17 persons standing ahont us,
and it was our last sight at night.
"The women on the island did not
ask one question about \Vomen in the
outside world, and none of the family
had any conception of life off tihe Is
land. Their family name was Lee and.
their Christian names were all IMblcal."
FACTS FOR YOI\
Sonic Things Von Know and Sopu' you
* Don't Know.
Dr. ( Jray.?on, I be president -* .physi
cian. ?*:?s signed Mil order for a bicycle
for the president , l>ut denies thai it
will lie used by the president.
Slxfe-n ni'l"s of pipe were required
1?? convert the ofejin I '.nor Aipiitaula
Into an oil burner.
.lapaireso fishermen arc s.'id I" be
I s?,v!:iiisl v depleting the fish supply on
: Hie California coast^ bv the ns? of
U;:tm ic-'s h.'trtug a ,,r Torty
[ Ions of fish.
5+
ca package
' before the war
- ?' " <J- v ? ?' , ' , ' . t
. ' ? ; \ .? f V *? ' . ? ? '
5*J a packaae
' during the war
and
5*"""" NOW
0 ? , ? ..lj
The Flavor Lasts
So Does the Price!
A-151 r
< ?ii<* hundred suits f'l.V
(HHi.OOil nl?'?l in SrptCMiilx'r lty I In
tli'I >rt t'tini'iit of jnsi lc?? nyalnst war com
tractors accusal of defrauding tb?r
ir- >vor'mu?'!>t. This uinkt's the total- of
such suits fih'd i\yo, .
. % ??
You can buy
Goodrichllres
today at an average of
25% less than in 1910
Goodrich Tires today are sold by good deaka i
everywhere at a lower jjrice than m 1910 ? ap/d
what is more to the point in this comparison,
Goodrich Tires in 1920 give on the average neatly
double the number of miles per tire*
The Goodrich adjustment basis of 8,000 miles
for Silvertowns and 6,000 miles for -Fabrics ft
today's prices give motorists twice the mileage rife
less cost per tire.
FABRIC TIRE PRICES
SIZE
30*3
30*3&
32*4
34*4%
35*5
19IO
25.45
33.85
46.65
65.35
TODAI
19. XO
23.26
36L80
53.15
Goodrich
Tires
? SOocrtoum Cords * $000 MiUt t Ffkrig J$r& frqflgjjffg
Serf in the Long Run
4f|MQ (ZIIO JKnXHDKVIfnU f/v
Geo. T. Little, Gamden, 8. G.
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