The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 28, 1921, Image 8
LOWER CALIFORNIA
<V?ininu.ni? ittoii makes THt civiltia
tlon. The airplane promises to ipuke
ucciv^tiile many hitherto obscure re
glons. mhi along inuln line* of m<-r
or ru thvay tra\el.
For 'example, the avrn^i1 American
im?l Utile reason heretofore to iu? lo
Uwor California. Recently, however,
this peninsula has l??M?n the resting
place for airplanes In #1 Ik>? ik from the
Faclllc coast of llu* rolled Slates lo
the Fnnama ('Him!.
Frederick Slmplch writes lo (he Nu
1 1on a I (<eoi(rnphic society hh follows:
"The long, hoot-shaped peninsula
thai swings down ?>rr the left-hand cor
ner of l hi* United States belongs to
Mexico and Is known on Mexican limp*
mm 'Baja.' or l.iiwcr California. Karly
Spanish maps of Auirrlca showed Cal
ifornia as an Island. dii?\ no doubt,
to limited explorations of this penln
aula.
' "S< n.nllJy khuwn :is It Is to tin' av
erage American, this 8(K) lulle-lortH
atrip (if rocks, peaks, hrnsh grown
mesas, and rare, fertile little valleys
Ik a. favorite haunt for .many Yankee
naturalists, fishermen, and big-game
hunters; and here and there, in the
mere- favored, welhwaterod, grassy
spots of the higher ranges, hardy
Amerivnn cattlemen, have built their
adobe home*, where they enjoy the
limitless freedom of vast imfeneed
aretis. The Circle Bar company of
Ojos Negro* Ranch rum* cattle Over a
leaned territory of two and a half mil
lion a crux, and a British corporation
holds title lo something Wkc fifteen
million a?-res.
"Away down at peaceful, picturesque
lA Fa/., where Cortex repaired Ills j
iM'booners and where, centuries later,
Walker, the Yankee filibuster, raised
hit flag, another Yankee today runs
? busy little tannery, turning out 000
?Ideg of ?ood leather every day, for
an Americtn shoe fictorf. Here and
there, In bill and valley, Americans
, are delving for metal* or growing the
vtapla frljole,
"But the country-** a whole, owing
t? It* manj desert, waterless areas. !
I* but ?p%r?ely settled, and. ?? one i
writer *?#*," 4In *11 Its turbulent, ro
mantle history, since the h nicy on days
when Sir Francis Drake dropped his
pirate anchor In Magdalena Bay, no
wheeled vehicle be* traversed its rough
??nd tortuous length/
"Rich as are Its mine* ami fat mr
are Its bonis of cattle. Its chief
aource of wealth lies In the cotton
growing regions around Mexican.
"At the Colorado delta, at the head
of the CJulf of California, which sep
arates the -Lower ?California peninsula
from Sonora, more than at any other
point on the whole bonier, the Interests
of the United Slates and of .Mexico
are closely .joined-. This is due to the
singular topography ??f that region
<part of it Is below sea-level) slid
to the diversion of water from the
-Oolorado river. In the opinion of many
irrigation engineers and political stu
dents. ibis peculiarly delicate problem
of Irrigation and water rights, as be
tween planters on the American and
Mexican sides of 4 he line, respective
ily, can be solved sat isfactorlly only
:?ry some Joint treaty between t.he two
republic*, involving either the flxlmr
of n neutral /.one or the of h
KTitall strip of territory."
"V
.WILL ELEPHANTS GO THE
WAY OF BUFFALOES?
"Will the African elephants aoon hn*e
lo be protected as are buffaloes Jn the
United States. le-st ihej become ex
Unct ?
The peaceful progress of farming
la i fi menace which the elephant
faces. Already the South African ('ape
4-ouncil has decided to exterminate the
elephants becau?" thev despoil crops
and sometimes kill n irt- 1 ? >?tl r it f?t I l?
horers. j
Sir Harry Johnston famous African ?
nut horlt > . i flit* of his experience with '
African elephants In a communication ;
t<? the National tJeoKiaphlc soelply
"If, after uiuiiv \ears of trial*. the
African elephant !s pronounced to he
hopelesa as a domestic nntmal f m ?m!
It should be rememhei ed thai most
male African elephants In captivity
ha\e shown ihemsdvea to he hoplenn* (
ly sava^O then ?if !ea??t for lis mntf j
ulticent i*oiy i he ? reature is worth ,
preserviuj? an an as><et to the >tale.
If the Indian elephant shows himself
to he more docile than t he African I
'elephant. II in M st he remembered: on
? the other hand, that lie is nf very lit
tie value for his Ivorv
1 "t)ne dny n hah v oleph.m' was pre- '
wented to me hv an fpnnda 'hie* M
lis a sad thhiK to relate l< 'hr?-e tm-n
?were killer! in arrrmptitiir 'o . .?p*ure
1 flrM elephant I had expre??ed
n wish one day for -??nie elephants
t?? experiment With In ? Imo-M i? a I ?on i
and the natives, wirli their usual de I
fdre fo ple>t?e me, wer?* so ard?*><' In I
iheir <i? iernitn?;Jno t*? ?rniif> my wi.sh t
and so ?leUfjnlned in ihelf purwo.t of :
, i he jounc ej^phnnt ih^t ihe mother j
.^IrpJiont knocked over and "Willed three
uf <?*en>. Hut Anally thev ntjeeeeeded
in their icci . capturing the calf, and
to my irr?-at surprise It troi'o'l Into
?3i nm b*hln?i on# of the men.
I " ' ? * ? -v.
j "This little 'restore wan at (ha time
only tour feet high la (wo day* It
bad become perfectly tame, and would
follow w human being an readily an hta
own mother. 1( w uh easy enough to
film v\ 1 1 1 1 milk, because nil that
w un required wan a initio with a Iqm^
neck. This bottle wan filled with cow^t
j milk ?li I it t ?m i with water* and poured j
j down the elephant'* throat. Soon all j
that one had to do wan to place the
neck <?f Ihe bottle in ihe elephant's
mouth, and (he, Intelligent creature
wound iu trunk around 1 1??? neck of
th u- bottle, tutt.il ii up, uud absorbed
, the contents... For several weeks the
I eloph0n( throve and ht-cume a mom
I .dcltgh t fill |??it . It WOUld ?!!??? ?in>
<?11. i<> Hilt* on us hack, and seemed
to tit.lio [iliMiiiire and iituuaenieiii In
this exercise. It wouhl find 1 1 h way
through diverse passages Into my sit
ting room, not upsetting <?>? Injuilpg
tiny thing, hut deftly smelling and ex
amining objects of curiosity with its
trunk. & ,<?,
"?At the Maine time we had lo catv
(ivliy a young fccbre? which was also
i the pioneer of a domesticated
i. atrip## horse. These (wo orphans, the
elephant and the zebra, became great
ly attached (o each other, though per
haps there watt more enthusiastic af
fection on ihe part of (he elephant,
the zebra. a( times, getting a Utile
bored wl(h const ant embrace#, Alas
apd ultt' k ! both elephaut and /.ebru
died eventually from the un whole*
koiiipiii'ss, to them, of cow's milk."
MALMEDY: WALLOON ISLE
RELINQUISHED BY
| PRUSSIA
In patching together the pictui e ptiR
zle of Knropcan -nations to fit more
nearly racial and historical units the
peace conference commission on Bel*
gian claims approved Belgium'# de
mand for Malraedy.
i Malinedy l<mg formed one of those
alien racial clusters thai seem to cling
like barnacles to many a European
boundary line.
In (he case of Maluicdy and the
| region about (hat town, a group or,
! Walloons was left in ftbejilsh 1'rus
I sta when (he hlstc 1c Benedictine Ab
i bey of Stavelot-Malmedy was cot In
two iu 181 ft. Malmedy fell lo Prus
sia, while six miles to (he wes(, across
(he pre war Belgian border, 1* Stave
lot.
TJie latter town was the scat of the
febbt? which warn iudopondent until
ttoe LxjDavlllc peaoa of 1801. The ab
I bey fall to France nntll Its partition
14 years later. Tin abbey waa found
ad In the Seventh century am] later
ita abbots ranked aa prince*. 7%&y
raled many small villages along the
Amblffve, on which ataveiot (a aftu
Hted, aud nlong the Wan'hf which
flow a through Maitnedy.
Charles Mattel, grandfather of Char
lemagne, who ruled the Franks wfclle
he let rlieir kings reign on. won a de
cisive victory over \'eu?uria at Slave
j lot 1 1?< m ? years ag??.
liuedy lies in a pretty valley of
! the afore mentioned river. 1'0 miles
j xioith of Alx-)a-('hapelle. The to?Hn
j had les* than r?,0(M) population before
' 'b?? war. Dyeing, paper-making and
; l aniline, wen* lis "Industrie*'.
The term Walloon is used fo dcslg
nate those Belgian* who speak either
h rein h or a French <llalcct. The Wnl
loons of Belgium desired Maitnedy's
restoration for llugual as well us for
sentimental reasons. In Liege and Na
iiiur a movement for the. revival of Wal
loon as a literary iHngnnge -for it had
been so used until about (he Hf(een(h
century ? was well under way when the
I war began. In the midst of (lerman
! s|?eaklug neighbors Malruedy and Its
| environs preserved the old Walloon
? dialect, whereas among many Belgian'
1 Walloon* it lias been supplanted by
i pur** French.
THE STRAITS OF MESSINA
Hel weeti I be rocky musses of Sicily
h ml the "toe" of the Italian penin
sula. there In but a narrow lane of
*?en. known :? ? the- ftralts .of Measina.
Yet thl* ribbon of WHter might hrt
ocean-wide. .Indeed by the divert* civ
ilizations of Italy nnd Its Island neigh
bor. .
The Sicilian ami IiaJlau ImnkH, which
border the Straits of Mca*lua for near
ly ? miles to the east and west, are
among the most iuturlant to be found
In a cruise of the Mediterranean Mag
nificent golden groves of lemon and
orange and orchards of pomegranate,
\wlfh their brilliant red fnilt. contrast
wonderfully with the (l.inrri of the
almond trees which perfume the \* hole
region.
The m rails are entered from the
Tyrrhenian sea. on the north, at the
narrowest point, 'lie distance between
I'wnta del Faro <>n rhe Hhillan shore
and the mainland lighthouse on I'untn '
I'eTzo being not more than two mllon
?'i"hc <?? (Tie Culahriaji < ?>asf la
thfcklV ?own with villages, some cling j
In# to the besfh. while other* clamber ?
UP tl>e side-' of 'liO well-wooded 'hills
which culminate in the towering Mont
alto, rising to an elevation >?f more j
than a mile above 'he sea liej ond !
the Straits 10 'he southwe*'. looms j
ever threatening K'na. the h'/tie?t vol
i-nno in Ki:rop?
The tno^i impmiitn! ? ?!(% ^ i : ti a t ?^d
on the strsilts is thfc nnve magnificent
teapot t of Me?slna. w h!< h t ?<-?? *? r l h j
pOp urn tlofi <?* i ii !in in i a n t s hf* j
f?re "the worlds most . ruel ?*nrth- :
qnakc" of l>eve;ji her. J*. IviO* ;ov.sed !
nearly H hundred thousand li\<-s away j
The harbor of Meislna is the larg- |
est snd safent In the kingdom of It |
alj. with A depth of more than ?'U) ?
faLhufott Before the great calamity if I
was visited n nnually by more than i
5.000 retftta Tjblch broufht rarg*M
) ft wh.nl wooj and Imrdwan
; nd look a? mv la excluinge !?*inon- |
' ? ranges^ almonds ?incs ..live oil ant i
| Mllkm.
Homer <)ul oof nuoi tl ? definite hai '
^Mutton, 'tar hi* terrible ' aea-creatun ,
Key Ha and Charyhdla. but mariner* :
familiar *v' Ithrtfcc i?erll* of tht* roci*
on i lie ftuHuii side of the atralt* ami
nit]| the strong ?'(Mies near tlx* llttt
bur of Mcstdna. mhw In ih*4 mythical
monsters no r\ pi.i u;i I lop of siu'h dtll.?
;rers. Xrylia wits ||)ppose<i to b? ?
horrible creature with six head* and
a do/to i.t i, who barked like a dog
She dwelt In a lofty cave from which
alio rushed w^niftvf ? ship triad tu
pass beneath. ami she would tfUitch
Ills unlucky .st'uiui M from ibe iigglnu
or ax they stood at the helm endeav
oring to f tilde their vesarla through
the perilous passage. Oiarybdls dwelt
under a rock only a bowshot away,
on the opposite shore. The second
creature sucked In and hlew out ?et
water three times a dpy, and woe to
the ship caught In the maelstrom of
Ita mouth!
NEW REBELLION IN
GARDEN OF EDEN
"Mesopotamia. Upjwr and Lower,
vies with Kgypt In claiming the honor
of being the home of ancient civilisa
tion," artys a bulletin of* the National
(Jeographic sociefj? quoting fr<?m sev
eral communications concerning the
! laud of Adam and Eve where the
British recently sent more troops fs
cause of native uprisings.
1 . "Mesopotamia comprises the valley g
of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Here flourished the Chaldean, Baby
lonian, and Assyrian empires. The
city of Bingdud, with all Its glamor
of myatery and magic, In in the heart
of Mesopotamia.
"This was the richest land in the
| world, the granary of .the ancients;
yet, In Spile of nil that it has been.
It today lies largely waste. the desert
sands have encroached upon the fer
tile fields while the clogged vauals
have turned other portions ' into
swamps h n<i marshes.
"What population there Is ? not more
than one million? Is of Arab' origin
and the Arshic language is spoken
throughout. There is. lu fact, a very
dlatlnct dividing line between the Arab
ic and the Turkish speaking por'ions
of the former Ottoman empire. This
boundary corresponds with the line of
the Bagdad railway from the Medi
terranean to the Persian Oulf. It is
for the exploitation of this rich' land
of Mesopotamia ihai the famous Bag
dad Hue ?n bull(.
"Syria cloaca 1 lie east end of the
Mediterranean and Is hounded on the
j north by the Taurus mountains. The
! Syrian and Arabian deserts limit fur
; thar settlement th the east and south.
But in connection e?jih world com
in the Date Garden* of Bagdad.
meri'9 it (Syria) ha? always been
closely related to 'the fertile ralleya
of the Nile and the twin Mesopotamia!!
rlvera, and its commercial life of to
morrow cannot be divorced from that
of Mesopotamia.
"Meaopota inia is as fertile today
an when It was the birthplace of
tinman history and when the elriliza
t loo that developed there had only
tha NIW valley as a competitive field.
"Various factors delayed the inevit
able reopening of the historic trade
ronte across Syria and Mesopotamia
In Aiodern times.
""Nowhere, however, did trade fol
low the railway to a greater extent
than along the Bagdad line, and <n the
spring of 1914 A lepjxt was a thriving
commercial renter of (Jerrnan trade.
At the hotels engineers and merchants
crowded the dining rooms and talked
of a mighty future In Mesopotamia.
That summer, war came. and the burn
ing question of stylos was rapidly
j succeeded by one of food enough to
keep body and soul together.
fifty miles west of Bagdad. along
the Kupbrafe*, lie* ihe region now
commonly regarded as' the Cardcn of
i Kden To Irrigate' this Kdeti .uid fto
rccfaliu millions uf fertile a? res around
Bagdad via* the stupendous task to
I which :li?* Turkish irovnrnment ad
dressed itself
"At Mt;s?ayrh on the l'ti|ihrates, a
pre u?r Mrtseler -aw l.tXK) Arabs
digging like moles .n ihr Babylonian
plain making a new channel for the
r'wr In ' he dry bed of rbis artificial
? hauucl .in I'lluimuil.H dam was' built.
a.
" Whu< loo Inez/a r's \a*t irrigation
system wbi?h ome watered all Bnby
lop:* ? an 'till be easily traced for
mites mImmi? Ha^dftti. "ne giatit canal,
the \.<ra\\n runs patailel with the
Tigris for nearly miles ; it I* .'V?0
fe?-r u ?(!.'. nnd all about It the take
off mm?1 laterals may *UH he hknitifled.
1 i i-i mjwt p . umI<| be found a 'forest of
verdure rfonj ?nd to end' when h? ?!??
Ited Mesopotamia.*'
Letters From The People
TIIK DISARMAMENT UKKTINti
I ? ? r "
j lu inviting lb? Uatlon* uf Mif < Willi
\ to meet to see if some agreement
j could not Ik> made to stop this vast
| expenditure of mot icy in naval mill
j tcrsi was a wise step on the part of
the I'resMcut and if carried out will
i Ui rgcly ensure the |>eace of the world.
tun it now looks a- if a scheme Is
j on foot to net the United St a tea to
I liive the Allied nations the vast debt
they are due this country. The Amer
lean peofde passed on the question
; hust fall that they desired no allied
? MStmelrtHow of nations such as Mr, NVMI
.son wanted them to d?y, ami if the
Itepnblieau party donates to the Kuro
l>ean people what tltvy are due this
country In the face of the vote of hod
year they will he swept out of exist
enee in the next election. The Ameri
can nation is like a sleeping lion
bother* no one utiles!* molested ^njust
j ly ? theu the fury is great and the
' opposing nation will he whipped just
as all who ever molested this country
not. The huUdjhg of warships no
doubt will he largely. a thing of the
j pitst, for navy fights will largely he
j of the air. Ho it Is useless' to coutinue
to build vast warehtps when they can
so easily he destroyed hy bombs from
airships. An agreement to .stop build
ing warships and devote the money in
building them to the paying of debt'*
and make Internal improvements
would he wise to any country. This
agreement could be easily entered in
to without any other obligation. If
things go on as they are ho\V the
world or nations will destroy them
selves in future fights. The good peo
pie of the world should exert them
selves in each country to bring about
a better spirit and frown on that
which would endanger the peace of
the world. This can 1h? done without
entering into a Lwtgue of Nations of
the Wilson kind.
.1. K. I>ul're.
Keinbert. S. t'., October HI.
Wife Killer Released.
Columbia, Oct. 24.? Tom Har
rison. the tJreenville man recently
convicted of killing his wife and sen
tenced to fifteen years in the state
penitentiary, was todviy admitted to
hail by the supreme court, pending his
appeal. The amount of bis bond was
fixed at ten thousand dollars. Har
rison was In the court room. The
court ordered that he be taken back fo
Greenville to execute the bond. j
Quite a sensation was created at the!
spring exhibition at the British Royal !
Academy, when Mtes Bileen Soper,
aged 15 years, exhibited two etchings
of children that were accepted before
the judges were aware of her age. She
has never been to a real art class.
THE WORTH OF
YOUR CAR
i' ? - ?. %V-j33
? ,
What would it be worth if it looked like a new one?
A coat of paint may be the only necessary thing to raise
the value of your car many times the cost of the job
A new coat of paint is the greatest preventive of
depreciation known today ? especially is this true of
automobiles. <? Keep the value of your car up where it
properly belongs by protecting the exposed surfaces.
Money invested in painting and trimming is well invest*
ed. ' v
Th^re isn't a more modern or complete automobile
paint and trim shop in the South than we maintain right
here in Columbia. Some day while in Columbia take ?
look into our plant ? then you will know why a Gibbet
job is the standard in South Carolina.
"EVERY JOB IS GUARANTEED"
Gibbes Machinery Co.
Columbia. S. C.
DISTRIBUTORS r
Packard - Paige - . and - Durant Cars
Statistics .show <that the average
American woman is five fpet, four
inches in height.
A
At tixe age. of eigfcty, Miss Marie
Redding is considered as the (loan ?f
? 5._ i__" , J
AtJunta'.s business women.
'? rr^-nr- ; r.T.-i .sS'3
K.
of Ladies and Mens Ready-to-Wear Apparel Starting
Saturday, October 29th, 1921
AND LASTING FOR TEN DAYS
?%
2S' a*:,,hFf 'F Sr'""?! S&" ??
know that you will buv All ik~.' ??T?P e Qu?l'ty, Styles and Prices and we
y buy- A" ,he*e go<>ds are new this seasons style, and materials.
Ladies all wool suits. Val
ues $25.00 to $30.00, for
only $1*9.75
ladies coats, values up to
$15.00, only $9.75
Ladies dresses, values up
to $20.00, only . $11.75
Ladies fine quality Trico
tine suits, value $:$5.00 to
$40.00, only $23.75
Ladies coats, value $20.00
to $25.00. only $16.75
L a d i e s dresses, values
$20.00 to $25.00. to be
sold for only .... $14.75
Ladies suits, made out of
Tricotine and Velour, val
ues $^2.50 to $50.00, our
price only $28.75
Ladies coats values $30.00
to $35.00, only $21.75
Ladies dresses, values up
to $35.00, only $19.75
Ladies coats, values up to
$50.00. only $25.00
Ladies dresses, values up
to $40.00, only .. $23.75
Sweaters for Ladies and
Children at special low
prices for this sale.
Extra nice line of Over
coats. values $25.00 to
$30.00. special price for
this sale . $17.45
Rig line of Young Mens
suits, value $20.00 special
sale price .. $14.75
Handsome Overcoats, val
ues $35.00 to $40.00, spe
cial price $22.75
Big line of Overcoats, val
ues $18.00 to $20.00, spe
cial price $12.48
Children^ coats in this sale
from $2.98 to $10.00
Kxtra fine Boys suits, val
ue $10.00, for this sale,
only $7.48
Mens suits in pretty pat
terns, values $25.00 to
$35.00, our price .. $18.75
Big line in Boys suits, val
ue $7.50, special .... $4.98
Our line of boys suits reg
ular $15.00 value, special
price $9.98
All of our pretty $40.00
suits, special for this sale,
only $29.75
EVERYTHING ELSE IN OUR STORE WILL BE REDUCED ACCORDINGLY.
ASK FOR PRICES AND YOU WILL SEE THAT WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY
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Wolfe-Eichel Company