The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, November 19, 1920, Image 11
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HAN1LA: KANSAS CITY OF
THE PHILIPPINES
in ctiiiiH'f* l^11 V ',1' l,a> cont lulled dls
^<,11 <>t' independence for the Phil
Sue* tin* i apllul city of the Islands,
jjulla becomes of special intercut.
to a transport \veiuln Inward from
^obln* 11 patwes the Island of
!'Viu,"T which stretches
iay, whose IHO at i la clrcumfer
^ could surround the navies of the
^ld. Its rival will not ho fouud In
ijg fur EiU't. Dn the right of Its ?n
j^nct- stands Cavfte, where Dewey
the ' Spanish fleet.
from the l>ay the city *of Manila
i^uis to lie almost at water level
ilib hazy mountains for a back
ground. Before the United States
time to the Islands Manllu was a
town, crawled lazily beyond
dn bay and the wharves of the river
pmfr which bisects It. Its. streets
tew' quiet and almost deserted at
^ its suburbs shady and pretty,
Mi a general air of "roanana" per
vided its atmosidiere.
Today Us estimated population
fluals that of Jersey City, Iudlanap
ilia 9t Kansas City ; the river Is alive
witli launches and vessels of every
description, including the houseboats
rf a literally floating population of
Sftwii thousand; and through Its port
lt*emls yearly to other countries near
ly a hundred million dollars' worth of
hmp, sugar, copra, tobacco and other
romodlties.
A unique fight in Manila Js the I'ace
cfoetery, which at present lias fallen
Mo disuse. It is composed of two con
centric walls about six feet thick,
hioeycomhed with holes Just large
eowgh for a eoflin. In the olden days
these were leased for periods of five
years. At the end of that time If no
roe was sufficiently interested In the
remains of an inmnte to pay his rent
(or another five years his bones were
thrown on a heap at the bnck of the
cemetery. Imagine the "shimmy" the
lesh on an uneestor-worshlping China
man's backbone would perform should
be behold the queue of one of his pro
pnltors protruding from this Golgotha.
Out from the walled city near the
4j shore Is Luneta, a small amuse
Dent park, nrnl Wallace field, used
f* sport* and the? annual carnival,
la the days of Spanish rule Wallace
kid was an execution ground for po
Jtlcal prisoners, and here Dr. Jose
ikal, the Filipino surgeon, ? novelist
ad patriot, was executed.
Manila's chief shopping district Is
wrth of the river, and enterprising
mipino.H, Americans and Chinese have
*t up stores, hanks, factories and
wtaurants. giving this i>ortion of the
kj an up-and-doing air.
WHAT'S IN THE NAME
"AMERICA"
Millions sing "America" ; compara
ily few know the origin of the
dp. Its history and Its symbolism
described In a communication to
National Geographic society by
John 1!. Finley as follows:
"'America* ? a name that was first
irt on the planet, or at any rate
put on a printed page, according
the bo?t authorities, In the village
St. Die, among the Vosges moun
ting in the east of France, often call
I the baptismal font of America.
"On a pilgrimage to this valley of
Vo.cjres some years ago, I found
standing the cloisters where the
flars had lived who wrote 'The In
duction to Ptolemy's Cosmography*
h* book in which It was suggested
st the nnme 'America* be given to
newly-di.vjcovered fourth continent
who prepared the now famous
tp on which the emerging continent
identified. There, too, I found
'He of t ho old printing shop, and
house itself in which the printer,
in r.ijs'.n had lived.
At the beginning of the war the
"roans hnd occupied It, and in 1917
dins looked down upon it from
*Mue lino of the Vosges.' The
under the inouptalns,
I found in n recent and Second pll
biol not heon dumaged. hut
wort* !:i;iiiy houses that had been
<ro>ed by ^hell or by wanton lire.
.1e;m I'.asln's was still sfand
frou^SP
I Eurpi*. l'.d not readll
**raf'by its Infancy
^ A i, erica began from
Wog nett'.emcnt with an astronomy
Infinite distances, with a geography
^'r:c of the sky as well as of the
lr"l land.
Ai thfr<? was no feudal system of
p'i for America to unlearn, he
a;aS as it did with the 'compact'
rftnsn?t]tior nl.' so there was no
"Nral t heoj->- of the mil verse for It
E'^ndon. j( was democratic and
J^Tiiouj, from its first national con
'bu Coponrcan CMisciou*ncs*
-Kintver-e America should be th*
m r?rr>v!r,c!ai . ?f the Voatlhenls. for
Aff.'-a ns well as Europe
l,,r * er tin- old <*osmoprBph.>
"Otne i'nrker regions still clin^
an?*
S3 n
BARBADOSi ISLAND OF
VAST RESOURCES
> liUi' iMtlOK is OJU' of (lit' IttOHl IllUM'
a 11(1 N'USI kliOVMi Of till' po*
&tai<M)g of (i reai H 1-1 1 1? ) I
IVttr-?lut|K>ii, solitary. farthest east
>1 till Wesl hull, I p'ln ,':il
v ' i' 'UU'rd lh?* 1(10*1 honltlntl of
" v>.ii though u Is i In* i..usi
; i :>:i!o?is K.iinin ' n ! 1..^ World,
tiUlLCC UlUft, mx?- '?t < 'h !ii;i . and ?'?...?(?
Wft?ilUlgtui) runuil to hi* nm\i> t lti*
H'iuUh of snia 1 1 poX COlUnutt'll >M it
WkI( thoro.
Tlu> inland thriv is hut o'.a< (lesj l;?
the i. u .ulli - ^hiral QUI ? >s tan j\jn
eighth she si/?> c.f i >u i' (?, Intnl.
!'Ui i ,vs twice rtH Inhabitants
per square mile as o.ur hvi?)
most densely populated *ijit?.
*' Seldom doeg a volcano become an
asset, l?ut volcanic omptlpiix have con
tributed largely to the fortuity of Bar
bados. When the sun' was ohs,ii:v?|
throughout one day In May. 101L? the
Bn. la, tin us \\?-u* p&Dlo *trirlcn. nut
win ii the gentle ralu of bihck <inst
subsided, the domett was found to
he ashes from an eruption of St. Vin
cent Soufrlern, nearly lot) miles to the
west, which enriched the soil.
Long before that time, ttipunh, Bar
bados was productive; Oldest of Brit
ish colonial possessions except New
foundland, It also was the first plaee
li^ the British empire where sugar
enne was planted. Its average crop
of this nuw hlghprleiHl commodity I* j
50,000 tons. It also has* 2.000 acres i
planted in sea-Island or long-staple j
cotton; raises 40,000 hunches yearly of
the- Chinese banana, and exports mo
lasses. * ?
One phenomenon of Barbados has
not been accounted for. For years
the MO-callcd "Barbados Coffin Story"
fui nlshod a mystery which would in
terest present-day psychic investiga
tors. In the yard of a church near
(>lwt lii's Town is a churchyard burial
vault, hewn from rock and arched with
cemented stone. A woman was burled
there lu a lead coflln, according to
Barhadan custom. Several years later
when the vault was opened again to
receive another body, the coffin bad
been removed from its original po
sition. Upon the second occasion spe
ciul precautions were Uiken to seal
the vault. Several times thereafter,
though swils were unbroken and there
seemed no other mode of entering
the solid rock and masonry, the cof
fins were displaced, Finally the mouth
of the vault was cemented, and when
It was time to receive another body
officials of the island and an im
mense crowd gathered for the cere
inony. Once more all the leaden cask
ets were found to have been disturbed
hml the famtlft' had their dead removed
to another burying ground. No satis
factory solution of these strange oc
currences has been offered.
A natural curiosity of Barbados is
the "Animal Flower Cpve," the so
called flowers being sea worms.
Not so agreeable ane the Mauchineel,
or poison trees, along tlie shpres
whose leaves blister the skin and con
taminate the water.
fr
WHAT IS THE UKRAINE?
Iir the heart of the Ukrainian ter
ritory Poles and Ukrainians partici
pated In a struggle with the Bolshe
vik!.
"What Is the Ukraine? The Poles
and the Lithuanians of a few centuries
ago knew well tills most turbulent sec
tlon over which they attempted to
rule, and Imperial Russia for a long
time was greatly troubled by this very
unguly part of her expansive domain.
The Tatars and the Turks felt its
proximity because of the many raids
made upon them by the wild warriors
of the steppes," says Nevln O. Winter
in a communication to the National
Geographic society.
"The Ukraine Includes southeastern
Itussla, with the exception of the
province known as Bessarabia, which
Ukraine Peasant Girl.
?artakes of the character of the Bal
an slates ami Is i?eopled with Iloti
?nnlnn* rt rt? I Bulgarians. The ^r?>n'
vaport of Odes.?i nnd surroundln
?ountry have heen added to It mirier
? e new alignment.
"The Ukraine does not r?*a -h mtjrl
lorth of I\"ev or east of Kharkov, hu*
t Is n Inri'e state In Itself, about u
nrtre :? the former Cermnn empire
?rlth twenty-five nr thfrtv mtt
i' I ??p'e living ill it .>
"Tl ? * - a lure ahotit rlie
ure? of the stew0* lit tJ->
'Jkra i.? . ri vide, level ^jmic.-s. or ti
(Antic tii.duisiion*, they icach oat in
p*y nnrt <>ii meet lu ? hnielj
pojvopl il.l.-' ! lilt*. I'Hl'lS uf it IV lilHt
?lit- ve.> iu|h'li of ?wr own \v?? orn
pral?h> Ju spring uiiii sutuuiei it is
40 " amu of verdur*. with the Viir!#jfl
ttftadv* uf green of the growiiiK *eg?
(ailon lateral* rs. il wlili isiwci'K of
niHii\ hues ; Inter, in till" autumn .il'u-r |
the crop* urn harvested, it becO'tit'S-A i
i'n?w ii \vusto ot mum.u> niui buiit '' It) I
PA st lift N ; hi Winfoi; it is a Ji;> 1
toni.nu uvpansv <?f snow.
"There are not illMU.V ohl t*?v ??* in I
i ho Ukraine. K\eopt in K1e? anil
Klinr\ov, oim' will hahPy ilnd a build
ing wore than a hundred >ears o\d. |
No o|(\ medieval- churr-hes hit-Ut up by ;
the oil of generations l,f devout |
hands, no old chateaux < ?f the noblb j
1 1 \ im> pithuvs l it h lit pictures will
be encountered. Thuj great majority
hi :he towns are still hiy. overgrown
village*. ?
"The toWnrt'UVe separated from euch
other by eupruious distances. with iin
juMffCt vmumunicu t ion. The peasants
plant rhctr Yltlttges in the lee of some
swell In the surface or by the w|g? of
a vtrcum lu which they fan water their
tlociks during I ho drought which may
Come."
SOME BIG GAME OF THREE
MILLION YEARS AGO
Hpaiiking or the brontosaurus. if any
one ever did, one might paraphrase j
(iolott HutKesfs ,
' \ ?- ? "1
"1 never saw a dinosaur, *
I never hope to see one."
Yet. according to reports from Af- I
rlean explorers a live dinosaur, a !
brontosaurus has been found in Africa. |
Now that the dinosaur is with us, '
potentially, bJg game enthusiasts will
he interested In this description of pre J
historic big game, quoted from a coin,
nunilcntlou to the National Geographic
society by Barnum Brown : ?,a
"Today we must go to Africa for the ,
biggest game; but there was a time
In the dim dlstaut past when America
produced animals larger than any now
living. That was so long ago that
nothing remains of these creatures ex
cept their bones, and they are turned
to stone.
"The animals are dinosaurs; for
the moment we will call them lizards ?
not the creeping, crawling kind, but
huge reptiles that stalked upright
through the Jungles, rivaling In size
the elephant, the hippopotamus and
the rhinoceros.
"The place Is Alberta, Canada, and
the time of their existence 3, (XX), 000
years ago.
"In these marshes of prehistoric
times dwelt a host of reptiles, some
large, some small and of various forms,
flesh eaters and herb eaters, but all
sharing certain characters In common
and known as dinosaurs. Not any
were closely related to any living roiv
tlle, yet they had some characters
common to the lizards, crocodiles and
birds. ?
"Of the kinds characteristic of the
period one species, a herb eater named
Trach^don, was more than 30 feet long
and about 15 feet high when standing
erect. Its head, with broadly-expand
ed mouth, resembles that of a duck,
but back of the beak there are more
than 2,000 small teeth, disposed In
many vertical rows each containing
several individual teeth, the new ones
coming up from below as the old ones
wore out.
??The long hlna legs terminated In
three large-hoofed toes, and the short
er, slender front feet were partly
webbed. A long, tldn, slender tall act
ed as a powerful swimming organ, and
the body was covered with rough tu
berculate skin. Having no means of
defense, It lived chiefly In the water,
where It was free from attacks of the
flesh eaters."
SEA SLEDS FOR AIRPLANES
Speed of Giant Floats Makes the
Taking Off From Small Space a
Matter of Ease.
Giant sen sleds capable of currying
airplanes out In mid ocean aro being
developed by a Boston concern. Some
are equipped with four motors, total
ing 1,750 horsepower, and have a
speed of 5S miles an hour.
In the event of war with a foreign
nation these sea sleds would be util
ized to transport heavy bombing
planes across the ocean. Thousands
could be sent at a comparatively low !
cost.
VHiile It Is possible for an airplane
to leirve the deck of a sea sled, there
Is not sufficient room for a landing to
be made. The flying machine would
have to work out Its own salvation
once' Its wheels left the sled.
These sea sleds are built to lift and
ran <?n the surface of the water. When
a speed of 50 miles an hour Is reached
It Is possible for an airplane to opan
Its motors and lenve the deck without
any further runway.
Experiments made off the New Eng- j
land const show that a small airplane
can "take off" when the sea sled is
making but 40 miles uu hour In a
heavy sen. Other tests nre being made
to develop the hi>;h power planing sea
sleds into pleasure craft as well as for
military and naval purposes.
Gordon S. Orme of New Orleans, n
wenltny sportsman, has had a 32- foot- j
er built for his use In the Gulf of Mex- j
Ico. Factories have been established
In Atluntlc City to aid In produefnc
the sea . sleds, which arc now being
tested off the New England eon sr.
Paesing True.
"Th? leading lady of the play made
her mark in lh*? first Renin."
"Y. s i saw her do it when she
leaned her powdered fnrp on lb" heron
black dress coat shoulder.*" j
"Our
Budget Plan witl bring/ . .
the New Edison this Xtnasf"
HIS is the time of the year when our Budget
. Plan is most helpful. You ought to come Id
right away and find out what It can do for you, J
In the first place, it will put a New Edison beside
your Christmas tree, (how the family will rejoice!)
In the second place, it will stretch your Christmas
dollar so that you'll hardly feel the purchase.
The Budget Plan treats the New Edison as an
essential of life, such as a home, and arranges
payments on the sound "time" principle. It com*
bines modern business practice with thrift
This wuy of treating a dollar actually makes it go
farther. Let us explain how the Budget Plan^
brings the longed-for New Edison for what an'
extremely ordinary gift would cost, ? and makes
1921 thrift pay for the balance.
Camden Furniture Co., Camden, S, C.
There ure In the United States 25,
000,000 women and girls over ten
years of age who are not wageearnera,
but are occupied In tbelr homes.
Women were practically unknown In
the business world In Argentina until
American business concerns begun es
tablishing branches there.
The honor of being the fit' 8 1 woman
recorder in New Jer #ey room to Hisa
Frances Ilasknrd, recently anointed
to (hut position in I'ininfielo.
It's a cinch
to figure why
Camels sell!
You should know why Camels
are so unusual, so refreshing, so
satisfying. First, quality ? second, .
Camels expert blend of choice Turkish
and choice Domestic tobaccos which
you 11 certainly prefer to either kind
smoked straight !
Camels blend makes possible that
wonderful mellow mildness? yet all th<5
desirable body is there ( And, Camels
never tire your taste (
You'll appreciate Camels freedorrx ?
from any unpleasant cigaretty after
taste or unpleasant cigaretty odor !
For your own satisfaction compare
Camels puff by puff with any ciga
rette in the world at any price !
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