Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SEAPORT FOR inland STATE Arizona Wants Slice of(>Mexioo to Gam Access to Sea for Its Huge Shipments of Minerals, \v??liin*4on.? ""rPh* 'Ararat' of a strictly American *jfToah,' real com munist Inhabitants, a huge lava floflr, and Halt and Hand sufllclent to, cure moat of the world's fish and to keep all Its builders and glass factories busy" ? these, says a bulletin issued by the National Geographic society, are some of the by-products, valuable and otherwise, that the United States would acquire If It successfully acted on a recently reported resolution of the Arizona house of representatives. The resolution seeks to add to the state a small triangle of northern Mexico. "Tt Is for quite a different reason, however," continues the bulletin, "that Arizona desires what might be called this 'second Gadsden Purchase' of one of . the most desolate and least known regions of North America. The map shows that while the south ern boundary of ' the state extends due west for n space from the south western corner of New Mexico, It theh -strikes northwestward at a very slight angle. Tlio resolution seeks an * arrangement with Mexico by which this bend In the sout.liori) boundary of the state would be eliminated so that the line would continue as It started, In a due east and west' dlrde , tjon. The triangular area that would be rtdded t<> the state would he about , miles" long by about W miles wide at the point of greatest breadth. Bottled Up by Narrow Strip. "The Important .'-'consideration Is that this long narrow triangle Is all that separates Arizona, from the sea ? the (rill f"*' of California, huge arm of the I'acltlc. Add It to Arizona, and overnight the state would desert the 27 Inland commonwealths .and Join the 21 that border bn salt water. With Its hundreds ?>f thousands of tons of mlnersals. to ship, the state Is now v bottled up by a narrow region unde veloped and little likely to fte devel oped by Its present owner. It Is felt that oven the desolate, practically trallless desert, and the lack of nat ural Itarhors on the ?ulf would not deter Yankee enterprise and Yankee engineering ability from laying down a trail of steel and constructing quays or piers at which ocean steamers would soon bo loading, furnishing the cheap transportation that bulky prod ucts demand. "The areas of most states are well known, oven the parts sparsely popu lated. It Is hard for dwellers In many other portions of the United States to realize, therefore, that not only Is this triangle of Mexico a terra Incognita, but thnt the x>ort!on of Arizona which adjoins It Is almost equally so. Most of the rojjlon south of the Southern Pacific rallrmtd may bo thought of as n desert on which small broken rocky rnnges of mountains have been super Imposed. "Until north ami south of fhe bor der. (J?Ih region Is Riven over almost wholly fo a handful of Pa pa go Indian* with <*ommu?lsttc ? customs who range ns frrolj as did their romofo ances tors. needing to give In tholr desolate j homeland little or no thought to bor der-lines or to the governmental ma chinery of states and nations. The region ? both American and Mexican ? I Is known roughly as 'Papaguerla.' nnd Is seldom traversed by white men. "Through it the international boun dary extends, the ultimate in arbi trary lines. Swerving neither to the 1 right nor to thn left It extends, a straight, geometrical line, running tip sheer rllffs nnd over craggy j>eaks, hurdling great valleys and tiny urmvos. crossing deserts, lava flows, and sand ' dnnrc, until It strikes the Colorado 1 river some fifteen miles below Yuma. ! \ nd i.i n "N en h" S .i v?d Wolf And Beetle. "Tie' Mi \ ieii n triangle of Pupa- j gurr' i ?' h it is proposed to add to Arizona. !s even a more Inhospitable country than the bonier region In addl'li n. ?<> tln? features of the latter, j It e:nhr-i.-es t <! -?rb*t bv IO miles i covered ' ew r- \i?!.,an!e craters nnd an -in> ert ' : i \ rl ow. and hun- l dreds of - jnnre : ??< of great tower ing sand ?! ini-s ?*:>.? rrea'e a land i scape like tliar o* jc.rfs "f 'he Sahara. I On the highest las a peaks ..<? f'!naCHt*?, ? ny the ol I Pipigo le^.-n N. 'J:e!r '111- . der Prother' hind- d from I v cask after the deluge ;tn ! afte- floating j around the world four times Wh'.lej his solicitude for nn'mals r of n * cTtervslve as that of the He1. !?..?<- \i?:th*. 1 he at 1 e;i st managed to save a eo\???e { and a beetle The Papagos f rmerl.v , were 'sand people', living in the sand- ; dune ri glon near fhe lava fields, with headquarter* at tho few small water 1 holes Phis region Is now practically deserted, the Papagos living by dry farming and sfock raising farther en*t and north. "There is no general knowledge of | good natural harbors along the portion of the (Julf of CVilifornla that would be included In the proposed triangular addition to Arizona. but probably there would be little difficulty In con structing harbor facilities either along Hahla Amir. \\hich( would mark the southern boundary of the addition, or northward toward the head of the gulf The larger sand dunes are 2fi miles from the shore near ths gulf head and an equal dls*arve from fhe Colorado river The most feasible railroad route probablr would b? from I uie neignnornood or Ynma, extending | roughlj parallel to the river." UNCLE JOE TALKS ON BOOTS ?x-Nttpr*M?t?tlv? Cannon &tirr*d to RsnUrdscsncs by tight of Pair \ of Cowhides. Several members of congrv*s wera sitting on the western steps of tht cspltol, watching an unusually beauti ful 'sunset beyond the wooded hills of Virginia, an they chatted ui>on vari ous subjects, according to the Nation* al Republican. The talking and look ing, .however,* came , to a sudden halt when u stranger strolled by wearing a pair of old-fashioned cowhide boots, with hla pants (no, not trousers) stuffed Into the tops. "Hoys," slowly remarked "Uncle Joe," "that's the tlret pair of cowhldea I've Hcen la Washington In a dozen or 10 years. How well do I remember the old days when I wore them and greased them every little while with tallow! And, oh^ what a Job It was to work up a shine on them out In the woodshed when 1 wanted to KU^on a little courting trip! fjl "Hy the by, do you realize that a considerable nfllnltty exists between men und hoots? They both have like weaknesses and good qualities, and are similarly affected under certain cir cumstances. "Hoots go on feet ; so do me.n. "Boots have soles ; adv have men.. "Hoots sometimes get tight ; so do men. "A boot will Rhine, If polished; so will a man. "Home bonis have red tops; ho have some men. *' ^ "Some boots lose their solCs; ho do some men. "Hoots are tunned; so are men ? mostly In their youth. "Some boots can't stand water; neither can some men. "When a boot Is well soaked It Is a hard case,; so Is a man. "A boot to be of much account must have a mate; ho must a man, "A boot when well heeled always feels comfortable; so does a man. "The less understanding there Is in a boot the bigger it leels; so It Is with a man." PUT WIRELESS TO GOOD USE Travelers on Ocean Liners May En gage Hotel Rooms ?ar in Advance of Their Landing. J A leadiftg?New York hotel Is adver tising a list of Marconi code words In an ocean travelers' guide to Induce the making .of reservations by wireless from ships. Hy the use of the words" a passenger In able to reserve anything from the bridal suite to the grand ball room by paying only for the transmis sion of a single code word, plus his own name anil the name of bin vessel. The hotel, by consulting lists of liner arrivals, Is able to tell the date on which the reservation goes Into effect. Thus "ashes" Is the code word for "reserve two double bedded roomst two single rooms, sitting rooms and baths for , arriving steamship." And "azure" Is the. code for "reserve .three servants' rooms." The modest patron whose requirements are only a single room, raMes "aback," which means "reserve single rm>m." ? New York York Sun. Judge Wilmeth Goes Homo. Delbert ? >. Wilmeth, Judge of the rtty court, had been holding an over time court. His wife had invited friends for dinner nnd the Judge wns In a hurry to Kot home. He called on (.-attain Pope. who wus in charge at the police station, for transportation. The driver of the car said he was not very familiar with the neighbor hood where the Judge lives, as the persons living there seldom call on the police to adjust their family differ ence#, and it Vs |w>nslhle that he was responsible for what happened. -The driver said an automobile wns parked In front of the Wilmeth home, so he stopped in front of the house next door. In his defetiso, the Judge says the two houses are alike. At any rate. It N said, t.he Judge carefully removed his overshoes on his neighbor's door unit. and walked In on them unceremo niously.? Indianapolis New s. Century of British Artiste. The Koyal Society of British Artists Is making preparation# to hold an ex hibition In celebration of Its one bun dredth anniversary. The si>clety will exhibit works by members and exhib itors ranging .over the hundred years *>f its existence The tracing of works of Importance by some of the past ex hibitors presents many difficulties, nnd the society would be Rlad to heur of owners (preferably In or near London, on account of the dlthculty of trans P"rt ) who would be willing to lend examples by the following art 1st a: F. H, Potter, Henry Dawson, W. J Mailer, J. tiluver. George Hunter, Kate Oreenaway, I). Roberts, "Kdlnhurgh Castle From the (Jrass Market'" (ex hibited 1WJ t. K. B. Darts' "(Vronutlo* Procession of H. M King William IV" (exhibited l'v12). ? London observer. Valuable T rees. The. trees of Borneo, the I'hil.pplnes and New (Julnea, It Is said, are valu able enough to pay the allied debt. In those Islands Is the exquisite camagon. whose wood Is yellow and black, like tortolseehell. There 1? the molave, which resists the sea slue and white ants, and the beautiful red and yellow narrah (mahogany), the red assuming n deep lustrous wine color when It Is Immersed in salt water. There Is laun. vrhirh makes hnjr* masts and dungan, which Is the hardest wood known There is balete, a .sort of fig ..Mtvii |iunn ojuuuu tree*. Kill ing them, and feeding on th? deed trunk until it If entirely consumed. TIRES JF_ DIARY Man Confesses He Has the Usual Sliding Scale. Starts Out Wall, but 8omehow liv taraat Is Cost aa the Days Slowly Pau. "Thl? Im a (Hue of tbe year, "re marked Inlgo Wimple to hit* suatiuate on the 5111, ''when I indulge one of toy Hiuiti I vices. 1 ought to be ashamed of It. ! suppose, but I'm not. In fact, I thoroughly enjoy It. And here," he continued, tugging at bin pocket, "Ih the 1D28 installment." lie exhibited it moderately large diary, remarks a New York Sun writer. "A page for every day, you see," explained Inlgo. "1 start off on the first day of January with plenty ^>f use for a full page. 1 record the t?m? perature, the direction of the wind and divers and sundry miscellaneous ob servations on the weather. I (five as detailed an account ?f what I have for bruukfaut aa If I were a literary crl\lc. I Indulge my Hair for philosophy and Introspect Ion. When the page for thq day Ih finished It not only Ih a circum stantial account of my day's doings, hut it la also a spiritual resume of the duy. "That zeal lusts until about the middle of January, as a rule. Then I begin to relax. 1 don't need a whole page. Half a page* Is plenty. The weather doesn't seem ho Important; I don't find the tlrnc to watch It closely.. I stick to facts. Like '(Jot up, bathed, shaved, caught the S ; J S, worked, had lunch with Harry, etc.' "This period is shorter than the first. By the- end of January J am ready for a line a day vest pocket diary. The most that I can manage to write is '(Jot up late, worked as usual,' or 'Nothing unusual happened today.' ~ "About the first of February I begin to skip and that's a sure sign of the end. The diary is at an end by the middle- of February or the flrftt of March at the latest. "But I can't resist the temptation when the old year ends; the fever to buy a diary keeps mounting. It would take too exhausting a moral struggle U> resist It. "But what puzzles me is why manu facturers of diaries haven't come to the rescue of people like myself. You can get diaries of every shape and size and binding, ranging from those as largo *s ledgers and day books down to the slender things you can slip In next to your fountain pen. But they're all standardized. They are all put together without any . understand ing -of human nature. They take it for granted that all people finsh what they start, in exactly the manner in which they started the particular enterprise. "Nothing is further from truth. For nine out of ten people who start a diary allot constantly . diminishing space to the days. In January a page to a day, In July a page to a week, In December a jmge to a month. Am I right? Or am I wrong?" "Genius !" remarked the voluble Inlgo's seatmate. "Nothing but." Retting Weather Storms arc more often in our minds than In the air. This winter season Is rather nature's quiet holiday, a vacation that will bear Its fruit In more active seasons to come. Frost to tear at the rocks, Ire to ruh gravel down, melting snow nnd Hooding rain to spread the life-containing loam owr and through the earth's clay ? any student can tell of these. The Immortal life of our world pursues Its way In t lie calm of winter, though more withdrawn from sl?ht, Just as In the leaping Joy of spring. And, as always, beautiful beyond knowledge or deserving. It Is our eyes that are dull In winter, not the sky or land. Lavender of snow shadows, purple of maple buds, laced designs of tree top> living gray against the clouds, oak trunks coal Mack above melting Ice, pointed firs like Jade carvings over sunlit snow, the holy pearl and silver of late misted sunrise and the flaring red of sunsets wind-blown along the western hills, the winter days move over our world In beauty us t!..> stars across the sky.? < 'oilier s Wrekly. Dental Care of Teeth The total number . .f teeth in the rnlted States needing dental care is m<?re than NX >.<**?- almost four to everv man, woman ??! ?*h i 1 1 i In fhe ei?nmtry, according to fin estimate pub lished by the (*<?lur:.h!a 1'nlversity School i f I??*nt:str> Tills school. through i * < Department of ?':al Hygiene. |v d-lng preventive w< r'* arm fig <*ld! !r. n !n New York r"v I'uMI' ?<??: ?. i : ft ?'??n thousand if:.! -en vvi!; !??? r r?- 1 ? . - 1 by Columbia's \\ otii< M sf lident ?< til's v en r It Anna Hughe*. ,M rector of the H\g:ene department, said the \?ilue i.?" i.r:il ! > I'li'in' .\ork is shown by figures fr< ? : . < a ? ." r > w here a flve ) #nr program of ? ? r ? 1 ;>roph \ lax is has been !? !*?>;?? e T'> reduction of '!>-r ' a I d ? ? f ? * ' ? t v !n thar . !t\ lias been ? ? 7 "> per i ?*nt. she ?r i'??l. nnd refardu f1 r. -n r 1 1 ?? ??.une *< l">oi> has dropped fV? fir' .?!;* N'ru York Worbi WHat Did Mother Do? Marjorie Ann li\*? In tin* 1M?? block In North llra> streev' ShP l? past two and fake^ n kepn , merest In many things She whs disturbed by the wind rattling ? window a fe*r nights ago, and called to her mother* m??v. or. put n nightgown nn the wind so It will be still and go to sleep. Indi*? cpolU News. IS ARCTIC OCEAN ^ARMING? R?port<;d Change* Have Been tbe Sub ject of InUroot to Unitod | Woather Bureau* ! * The Arctic seems to he warming "P. IleiM?rti? from fishermen, seul huntera, and explorer* who sail the 'seas about Kplubergen and the eastern Arctic "II point to. a radical change In cHmatlc conditions, and hitherto unheard of high teuipeiutuivsVd fflftf JSiirt <>f the earth's surface, The weather hureuu of the United States Department of Agriculture Is Interested In the report made on this |n>lnt by the American consul ut liergen, Norway, as condi tions In the Arctic affect weather phe nomena all over the earth. Arctic Ice conditions are said to he exceptional In this particular region. Never before has so little Ice beeu noted. One oceanographlc expedition sailed as far north as 81 degrees 20 minutes In Ice free waters- The gulf stream was traced as a warm surface current be yond the eighty-first parallel. The warmth of the waters makes It prob able that the favorable ice conditions will continue for some time. Many old landmarks are ho changed as to be unrecognizable. Where for merly great masses of Ice were found there are now often moraines, accumu lations of earth and stones. At many points where glaciers formerly ex tended far Into th? sea they have en tirely disappeared. The change In temperature bus also brought great changes In the flora anil fauna of this portion *of the Arctic. Former great Hlioals of white flsh ha ye disappeared front* Spitsbergen waters and the seal catch Is far under Irhe average- Her ring and smelt, however, have come In great numbers. In contrast with the mild Arctic conditions in the vicinity of Spitsber gen. present advices seem to Indicate an excess of lee- accumulations In the Arctic north of Alaska and North America. v ?'* m Give a Little Help. John was a big fellow, rather shy, and It was hard for him to express his thought*. For months I knew lie was trying to get up courage enough to propose. Jim wan traveling, and once n month he was In town and had asked me several times. He. was turned down, but came back undismayed. I re ceived a letter from Jln\ saying he would be at home Thanksgiving and expected me to say "Yes" when he saw me. That night I had Jim's letter on the table where John could see It. Of course. It was mentioned, and when he asked what Jim had to say I told him t-he truth and added that I cared more for someone else, so Jim's an swer would be "No." It did not take one minute for him to take me In his arms and tell me what I had been waiting to hear. Hut to this day I have never regretted the little help I gave. ? Exchange. Ants In the Himalayas. In the Himalayas, on the side facing India, the limit of perpetual snow Is about 6,500 feet higher than in the Alps. One result of this is that vari ous forms of life are found In the grent Asian mountains at an elevation that seems extraordinary. Among these are many species of ants, which have been particularly studied by Doc tor Forel. Up to nearly 10,000 feet the ants are very abundant, and even at the elevation of 12,000 feet four spe cies have been found, and it Is believed that more careful Investigation would show that they exist even nt 13,000 feet or more. A Unique fact, not found In any other great mountain range, Is that the Himalayas possess an Im mense variety of local species of ants. Out of 110 forms recognized In the Himalayas, ,r>0 are peculiar to those mountains. ? Washington Star. ??ot Away With It. Verbosity and the "grand manner" will sometimes accomplish marvels. An elderly notor with stately bearing and melodious \oIce went for a holiday to Su nderland. Fishing one day In a forbidden stream he wns accosted by the keeper, who asked him by what right he dared* to wield the rod i.nd line In private grounds. "]$y what right?" answered the melo dramatic one. "iU that grout right the vast and towering mind has- ..\>r Instinct of the vulgar k Lrnl." The keeper stared ?tt him f??r a mo ment. then touched 1.1s cap and said: "Reg pnrdou. sir. I didn't know that." ? London Tl^lllts. Apron Pocket a Dangerous Thing. One morning when calling on my neighbor across the hall. I complained of a sore throat. She Immediately produced two wicked looking lozenges and Insisted that I use them as a gargle. I thanked lier effusively and slipped them Into my apron j>ocket, having no Intention of using them. The next morning she ran in to In quire about my throat and asked me If 1 gargled with the lozenges. I shamefully assured 'her that 1 had. and! the relief was like magtr. Picture my feeling when I reached ! in the selfsame pocket for a hand kerchief nn<1 lor-to/l ? ^change. A Still Small Volca. Charles |h very proud of his mother j and dotes on her tfenfle voice He In | especially please<l *o have her attend ' the parent-fencher meetings w! ->re he ' can ?how her to his classmates. The i other day Charles cnme home from j ? ,,, ;,,malu | discuss hlF teacher, he said : "Mother, my teacher hasn't let her ??lee g?t i away i!roin her yet," - j To Hold Golf Match. The Ridgewood Country Club Golf Team of Columbia will piny tho Cam don Country Club in Camden on Fri day afternoon, commencing at throe thirty. Ap Kidgewood has alw'ays put out a fast bunch of players and as most of Camden's players are jbegin ncrs, it looks as if the visitors Should have an easy victory however, ' tho locals intend to make them light for evpiy point. The contest will be gov erned by the Nassau system of scor ing. The Camden team is composed strictly of local men. Heretofore, most of the players have been visiting tou rists. The teams will be limited to twelve or fourteen men on account of ? ???? only nine holes of -the Country Club liij^s buing open at this time. " t t Camden recently defeated the com bined teams from Sumter and Orange burg by a very one-sided score and if successful in this match will probably challenge the Charleston or Greenvile Country Club. Refreshments will be served the visitors after the match. Quite a large gallery will no doubt be on hand to witness the playing. Keen disappointment is felt in the absence of John VillepigUe, Camden's star player, who was- counted upon to win from Hudgins, the Columbia champion. He has been called to Charleston as a juror in the Federal Q>urt. The visiting te*m will be ^ J of lludgins, Graham, Habenicht.il rer, Dana, Mimnaugh, tf^ndley, J Johnson, ;Rtehey, Hartt, KirljS Heyward' ami Wilson. ea,21 team will be selected from rtJp Villepigue, Jack Watkins, Kirkland, Ralph Shannon, 3 IJalaiill, Thomas Anciru?, o3 Heath, Will Goodale, K. p. BUkJJl Jack \Vhittaker, Randolph KirkJ H. K. Hallett, Roland Goodalv, Wallace, C. P. DuBose, H. B Hubert Wilson and M. F. Wheltn, Still Captured on Watere?. F. T. Arnold, United States pra vbition agont, S. M. Henry and G. Hayes, state constables, J. C. St? and J. C. G. Caldwell, deputy sheri Great Falls, last Saturday eapta a large still, located on what is ki#, us the old London place, now i property Of the Southern Power C< pany, in Fairfield county, about miles down the river from Gn Falls. George Goins and Harry ^ mar, colored, were also captured vj| this still. The officers reported \\ this is the largest outfit in the m of a still they had ever captured this part of the country, and thai* gest one most of the officers had en seen. This atijl was being, oper^t by a large steam boiler an.l all otii equipment in connection with thj outfit were of the gigantic type. Wfo in full operation it would make tt gallon of whis*key in seven minutq About 4,00lf gallons of beer was tin destroyed.? Lancaster News. How Quickly Do You Open Your Telephone Door? Your telephone is a door to your establish ment. In some lines of business more- trade v flows through it than through the office door. The customer who calls on you by telephone deserves the same prompt, courteous atten tion that you give to the customer who visits you in person. Always open your telephone door promptly. The importance of prompt answers to telephone calls is being recognized more and more each day throughout the South, but there is still opportunity for a great reduction in the delay in answering telephone calls. The improvement is due to the increasing importance and value of telephone service, but there is still oppor tunity for a great reduction' in the delay in answering telephone calls. ' ? . ? > It is both courtesy and good business to open your telephone door promptly. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY THE Represents the latest achievement in Typewriter Construction; gives the greatest measure of satisfactory service and a quality of work that is unsur passed. Woodstock Typewriter Company General Sales Office 35 IS/. Deaborn Street Chicago, Illinois F. LP. UUUUALE, Agent, Camden, S. C.