The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 22, 1920, Image 15
TTrVM i CENTER OF CRUDE
OIL AND CLASSIC STORY
Mingle aft all-pervading odor or pe
irolfum with the aroma of 1,000 years
ot history; picture the physical us
necis af a Texas town of the HXirtfVr
Lion. iDCtndtnK putting train* lumber-'
lux (1) rough the principal street amid
- swarthy human coutent of Turk, Ar
BJrtiiHii. Georgia? and Greek, and you^
nt tin hi? ^?e Incongruity of Hn
(BIO. <
Banna ha* grown like a mushroom
.within n generation become a pipe
H?e poured precious oil through Its
Black scii l>ort- nestles at the foot
hills of ? stream of history that paral
lel the pipe Hue and the 660-mile
hjM(l9 Of t he railway to Baku, which
link* the Bluck sea to the Caspian.
?nd passes such peaks of legend as
the 18.1MH) -foot Mt. Klburz, where Pro
ioctheiih was bound to a rock 'as* the
Yolturep consumed his flesh.
From WOT to 1011, Inclusive, pearly
looe-flfth of the world's oil supply came
fnmi the Caucasus region, and In nor
mal times Batum was credited with
exporting more petroleum than any
other port In the world. . Batum won
this boon hy the natural advantage ?of
a harbor ' ranked as one of the best In
the world, despite the . occasional
iloruis 'that render Its shelter treach
erous.
' The city enme to Its Industrial own
when It passed from Turkish domin
ion to Russian hands in 1878; but po
litical troubles, even before the war
bolts of 191-4, affected Its commerce.
Before the World war a movement had
been launched to boom Ilatum as a
health resort. In that field It had
some assets, despite its' get-rlch-qulck
[anomalies and unkempt 'appearance,
>uch as a climate where the foliage
was thick In mid-wetter, and its boule
; rgrtls, shaded by paints, acacias and
twnann trees.
In Batum had an economic ex
perience that affected It more deeply/
perltHfK, titan political disturbances.
It jjevur recovered from the general
f!rlkc (if that- year, which spread-over
the entire South Russia, and. In Ba
tum, brought paralysis to business,
[suffering to Htizcns and palsy to prog
| re*s.
Katum Is built in a sort of amphi
theater facing a beautiful bay. Wine
was produced In lite vineyards In Its
vicinity; and In the spring tons of
?strawberries were grown in the fields
nearby. lloth products were exported
before the war. In those days auto
mobiles, sewing machines, tireless
,'Wokers nnd writing materials passed
[its custom house on their way to- the
Caucasus or Persia.
WHAT'S IN SOME GEO
GRAPHIC NAMES
Names of such women as Joan of
Arc and Edith Cavell are written in
delibly upon the hearts of people for
ill ages. Generous and well deserved
tributes have been paid lastingly to
others, hut *o much have tlielr names
become a part of our dally lives that
many who frequently pronounce them
Are unmindful of their significance.
Cities, rivers, provinces and Islands
hear the names of women of distinc
tion.
Lady Franklin island, n?ar Baffin Ts
land, in the nretic circle, Is named for
the wife of Sir John Franklin, the ex
plorer who lost Ids life in first finding
'he Northwest passage through the
rent Ice of the polar regions. There
It perhaps no more beautiful story of
Wiring devotion and persistent ef
fort than that of Lady Jane Frank
lin uho. nfter the failure of many at
tests, fitted out a ship which, though
It brought back to her the definite
Proof of the loss of her husband's ex
pedition. established his achievement
his object.
Tb'1 picturesque stories of the llt
t'e Indian princess Pocahontas al
will hold n loved place In the
hearts <,f American childhood. Conn
ie* in i.iw-fl 4utd West Virginia, vll
in Hond county, Illinois, and
r*pe Oirnrdenu county. Missouri, and
In the Rocky mountains In Alberta,
^nada, arc named for her.
Quoen Victoria's name Is wrapped
tfound the British empire from the
^pltal of P.ritish Columbia, over the
? 'art of Afri. n at Victoria Nynnza and
Jftoria lVMs, and beyond Into the
Qtte??nslfi n.l nnd Victoria In far-away
*5stralin
? Antprica, ?.?<?, in Its early days of
fixation paid its tribute to the
of the mother country nnd to
* * rraoions ladles who braved the
papers of untried shores with their
'Td* Elizabeth, a cape in Maine,
W Elizabeth City In Virginia, as
*^1 as the state itself, together with
'J.i ot!i,.r piaeos hn the. United
tin* name of the clever,
V' r"^tlle coquette, who roofc the
|J**?*lon.tf,rn England and whipped
tTUr> n pla^e a? a world power.
[ ./jihotb r?rteret, the charming
I 6 f "n? of tb<> aristocratic propri
^ N. w Jersey, shares with
: KMr.tbeih some of the honors
! n:?ror. F.iizabetluown, In North
Carolina. him) Kllznbeth City, In New
Jersey, tuv uiiiiMHt for Jier.
I he uatiie of Clara Barton Is perpet
uated in fturion county, Kansas, und
$be wife of iicui^re Washington, who
before lu?r first marrlflue was Martha
>nndrldge. is honored in the town of
Dftndridge. Toon.
Maryland ami Virginia are fairly l>c
spattvred with t tie names of the queens
ami princesses of pnglund, the state
of tin- former being taken
front that of Queen Henrietta Maria,
the wife of Chart 64 I. Then. too, thero
tit' A .i.;;pol|s. i in Diet | for t Im- w lie of
James l of Kugland ; and, Anne Aran
del and Caroline couutles, in Mary*
land. called after the wives of two of
l he ( alvorts; Fluvanna OOlJJlty mul
the -North Anna river Id Virginia,
named for Queen Anno; and Charldtte.
Amelia and Carollnu couutles and
Charlottesville, the homo of the lJnl?
versify of Virginia, nil ended for tlu>
wives and daughters of Kngitah kings.
Marietta. (>., v*iS named for, the
haughty, charming Antoinette. The
Aleutian Mumis. off the coast of
, AlaHka, when that territory was Rus
sian, were known as Catherine archl*
pel a go, ^ jn honor of Catherine the
Oreat. Ekaterinburg was named for
the Russian Catherine who ruled II u*
sla through her husband, Peter the
Great.
VERA CRUZ: TRAVERSING
A CONTINENT IN 75
MILES
"While fully aware of the high per
centage of error most sweeping asser
tions contain, I nevertheless venture
to clulin that the country lying be
tween the cities of Vera Cruz and Mex
ico City possesses more varied nat
ural attractions than any other area
of similar extent in the world."
This is the statement of Frank M.
Chapman, In a communication to the
National Ceographlc society concern
ing \ era Cruz, which figures so con
spicuously in news dispatches from
Mexico. Doctor Chapman continues;
"Be one student or tourist, there can,
he no question that one should enter
! Mejxleo from the gulf. A journey from
the coast, to the capital follows a nat
ural ? succession of climatic zones as
well as the sequence of early historic
events.
"The day, Itfdeed, should begin nt
sunrise, some hours before disembark
ing at Vera Cruz, with a hope thut one
i may have the rare good fortune' to see
the first rays of the sun touch the
summit of Mt. Orizaba, the first, as It
will be among the most lasting, of
one's impressionp of Mexico. The
"Shore is still some 80 miles distant,
the mountain itself about 100 miles,
and one Is with difficulty convinced
..that the gleaming pink cloud high
above the horizon Is part of the still
invisible dartli beneath it. Doubtless
the Aztecs were not familiar with this
View of Mt. Orizaba, but from no
other place is their name for it ? Clt
laltapetl (the Star Mountain) ? so ap
plicable.
"Time was when Vera Cruz was
dreaded as a pest-hole, and trains at
once took one from the steamer up the
Sierras on the way. to Mexico City,
usually as far as Orlznhn. NTow, hnw.
ever, sanitary conditions and hotel ac
commodations have been so improved
that one may stay here without dan
ger or discomfort. -
"In our journey from the gulf to the
summit of the Sletras we pass through
tropical, temperate and boreal zones ?
the Tlerras Caliente, Templada and
Frla of the native. Our actual jour
ney, In passing from sea level to snow
line, may be a matter of 75 miles, our
change of altitude approximately three
miles ; but If we were to seek the
Canadian zone not on mountain top
but on the coast, it would be neces
sary for us to travel to Maine or Nova
Scotia. In other words, a journey of
some 1,500 miles would bo required to
reach conditions which are here dis
tant but three altltudinal miles.
"It Follows, then, that one can actu
ally stand In a tropical jpngle, where
parrots, trogons, toucans, and other
equatorial birds are calling from the
liana-draped trees, and look upward to
forests of pines and spruce, where
crossbills, Juncos, pine siskins* and
evening grosbeaks are among the com
mon ^permanent resident species.
"Later we may ascend the snows on
Orizaba to discover at approximately
what altitude the palms of the Tlerra
Caliente give way to the oaks of the
Tierra Templada, to be In turn re
placed by the spruce of the Tierra
Frla."
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QUACKS: ANCIENT AND
MODERN
Do yon regard cold cream as an ul
tra-modern palliative?
Or pure food and drug laws as h com
paratively recent type of legislation?
Or the familiar "en re nil" as an up
to-date quack device for the twentieth
century credulous?
You lire wrong, according to the
statement#! contained In a communica*
tlon to the National Geographic socie
ty from Or. John A. I-'oote. A; part of
the communlcntlon states:
"Mos4 people a t some time or nn
other use cold eretiui. If Reems quite
a modern luxury Indispensable alike
to peer and peri, and adapted to many
and varied uses In fact, one traveler
tells recently of having some of his
cold cream ?-7i ? ???? l?y a fat hunirry valet
In Germany. S?> we are inclined to re
gard It nf a fairly modern product.
And yet 'ungivntum refrigerant.' cold
cream, has come down t < > us from Ro
tnan days. The U rTiin'a at
tributed tr Galen u ho lived .4 r* <1 wrote
in tli.* ;-'Cond rn.tury
today Is praet??Hl'v 'he rime though
'Dr.' Galen's oriplrinl fmrnn'n Mts int
Itated and * Improved' hundreds pt
times.
"Emperor KY*-dertck II; of Sicily, In
ll!40 <?r liMl, published the ttrst pure
food and drugs net. He was about 700
years ahead of l>r. Wiley, for he spool*
tied strict regulation* of i tie standard
of drug purity, <?ivl provided for dr?j^'
Inspectors, and lined all. offenders.
'The practice of medicine wan ulso j
regulated. A | > ! i v s'c'an was required
to have a diploma from a university
before ho could Mudy medicine; then
he took a three year C0Ur?e In the
school of medicine and one year prac
tice under a practicing physician. Spe
cial post graduate work in anatomy
was required if he was to dq. surgery.
"All ihls with lu the s . called Mark
ages,' Kveo the fees ot phyilclaoa
and pluinnat'isis w ore strictly regulat
ed by law ami were In purchasing val-*
ue about the same as the charges of
the present duy. Thysicians were not
allowed to own grijg storeS and drug
adulterators were severely dealt with.
"Mlthradatlum was the name of the
great antidote of Homan pharmacy.
It had from 40 to W> vegetable Ingredi
ents, few of which had any real me
dicinal value except opium, and these
drugs were blended with honey.
"It remained for Nero's physician,
Andromachus. to put the finishing
.touches to tlds wonderful compound.
Andromachus added viper's llesh to the
formula and called Ids new compound
Therlacn. lie wrote some verses dedi
cated to Nero, describing this medicine
and claiming virtues for it which In
our day would subject him to prosecu
tion. ICvldeiUly he believed he had
created in thlp one compound a veri
table pharmaceutical' monopoly.
"Galen, one of the fathers of medi
cine, went even further. He recom
mended it as a cure for all poisons,
bites, headaches, vertigo, deafness,
opllepsy, apoplexy, dimness of sight,
.loss of voice, asthma, coughs, spitting
of blood, tightness. of breath, colic, the
lilac passion (appendicitis), jaundice,
hardening of the spleen-, stone, fevers,
dropsy, leprosy, melancholy, all pesti
lences, etc. Nowadays he would prob
ably have included coupon thumb, golf
shoulder and movie eye.
"As Galen's writings dominated -med
ical thought for over 1,500 years, It is
not surprising that tlds advertisement
made Mithradatlum, or Thcriaca, a
valued remedy. Kyery physician of
note for Centuries afterward claimed
some improvement on the original for
mula."
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SAGH ALIEN : A LONG TIME
political perplexity
The island of Saghalien, recently
subject of diplomatic correspondence
between the United States and Japan,
lias been a political perplexity both
to Russia and Japan for yumy years.
Soon after the Pilgrim Fathers landed
on the east coast of North America, a
Japanese feudal ballon dispatched an
agent to this far northern Island of
the g?oup that swings south from Si
beria, at the mouth of the Amur, to
Formosa and Fukien on the China
coast. Within twenty years after that
the Russians had landed on Sagha
11 en. t ? ? - ? ? - ? ?
The Japanese subsequently made
several trips of inspection but a small
handful of Russian colonists remained
mnd today the majority of the perma
nent inhabitants of Saghalien, are Rus
sian, while to the Japanese it is lit
tle mo ns than a summer fishing re
sort.
In 1853 Russia sent an ambassador
to Nagaski and a bund of troops to
Saghalien. While the ambassador
conducted negotiations the troops built
a fortress but, after repeated attempts,
tiie boundary question was still un
settled.
By 3875 the sea-going Japanese gave
up all rights in Saghalien to the Rus
sians In return for full rights In the
Kurile Islands and this condition of
affairs continued until the Treaty of
Portsmouth which gave southern Sag
halien, up to the fiftieth parallel, to
Japan.
Japanese Saghalien has little agri
cultural land but has large forests of
both deciduous and evergreen trees,
amounting to more than 8,000,000
acres. Japanese papy mills are sit
uated in Otomari and elsewhere and
an effort Is being made to develop the
papermaking industry.
But It is on fishing that the ma
jority of the Japanese Inhabitants de
pend for a Hying. As soon as the sum
mer season is over the fishermen mi
grate to the southern islands of Japan
for the winter. Mauka, on the west
coast of Saghalien, is the center of
the oral) fisheries and much q f the
crab flake consumed in the Far East
comes from this little town. A post
road connects Mauka with Toyohara,
which is the capital of Karafuto. the
name which the Japanese have given
to the southern part of Saghalien.
Saghalien has less than sixty miles
of railway and white, red or blue linos
are painted across the windows of the
cars to prevent the people from trying
to stick their heads through the glass.
The average annual temperature of
Saghalien is near the freezing point
and if the Japanese are ever to
colonize the Island they will have to
change their methods of dressing and
building.
Karafuto has much coal and there
is considerable gold, but in the past
the Russian residents have largely con
fined their efforts to farming and the
Japanese to fishing.
Saghalien has not been developed to
any gr?-nt extent, but what natural de
velopment has taken place ha* been
done more by the Russian exiles whose
permanent homes were there than by
?hr .T? j... uh???e fishing ramps and
'tig .'?!):??!? have dotted the shore
Jibe
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i You will prefer this Camel blend to either
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Camels mellow-mildness will certainly
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Just compare Camels with any ciga
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Camola arm aotd mvary whara in aciontiilcally aoalod
P?cA?|m of 20 cugarattoa; or ton pack a ja a (300
oifarattaa) in ? gt> aaainopattOr-cororad carton. I
Wo atrongly racomrnand thia carton for tho homo I
' or offlca aupply or whon you traval.
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Atlanta, Oct. 10.--- Farmers in North
ern Alabama, where several ginn?'r|<>s
and mercantile establishments have
been warned t l>a t if they attempt to
pick their cotton .while t'he staple
selling for less than forty, rents a
pound it will lie destroyed in the fields.
Thly ucav development in the attempts
of night riders to keep cotton off^the
market while- it is tjfrnglng less flmn
what many pointers term the cost of
production, has hern reported to Con
rad W. Austin. Alabama law enforce
ment officer, hy State Fire Marshall W.
J. Williams, who is investigating fires
in the Haneville section.
Warnings wlriih conl Inue" to he re
ceived hy t'lie gin operators and busi
ness men orderiug them to close their
establishment have l>e???? brought offi
cially to the attention of the authori
ties cfnd the Governors of several States
have received appeals for protection.
Governor Kirliy, of Alabama, bas an
nounced that the state would pay a
reward of $250. for the arrest and con
viction of any one implicated in the de
struction of property and t lie' Morgan
county branch of the American Cotton
Association at a meeting yesterday in
Albany voted a reward of $200 for the
conviction of any person guilty of such
acts in Morgan County.
The night riders also have been ac
tive in Georgia and the receipt 1?y op
erators at Toceoa of warnings." that
their plants would he destroyed if they
did not close down for sixty days has
resulted in the "posting of armed guards
about their premises with instructions
I.i .shoot (?? lc ill ) f an attempt, is ititt ?1?%
to curry out I In* threat? The American
Oil Company iuul tin* City Council of
KllavUl'e jointly have offered. a r'ward
of $i500 for the 'arrest and conviction
of. persons .who attempted Friday night
to fire t*he I'JIlaville gin operated by
the corporation. In Jasper County four
'jrirts have been posted." the night rider's
threatening t<? destroy them K-ilfv do
; not close until cotton reaches forty
cHits.-r ?
Activities of " the night riders arc
| widespread, warning having been re
ceived a 'so 'in Texas. Arkansas and
South Carolina. Several gins in T?'x
IVy-?* ? . ? ? ... . -
V "
as luivf heun tlfsl tl after their own
nrrs h.t<l ^Ignored warnings to cioBO
down ami liins in Anderson County,
Smith Carolina : i re <>p*- ra t 1 n^ with nrni
?il guards the plant*.
Authorities investigating tin* situa
tlu.i i;"Ji<'\ ? the threats ami fires art1
tin* result <?f a ? t i \ i I i<*s of iyeal unor
_r:i u ; x.< '<! ? 1 m i m I s only, not wii1istaudin>?
that w.-irnlnu's roeeived in widespread
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