The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 06, 1923, Image 7
WTHOS IN RUIN
Knee Magnificent Home of the
? U&jjjk a Wreck.
Lhat th* Uol?h?vikl Havo Not Do
f fyoy'i Th*y H*v# Marrod? Seen?
| of N?0ltot and 0?Mrtion.
1D0 Winter iwlace, once a place of
tttdeur and the home of the caars,
stands abandoned, according to a
?#nt visitors there. I'etfograd in the.
ild days was a city of palaces, and the
inter puluco, largest of all, also was
,e tin est. Three thousand could dunce
iert. t>< one time and 2,000 could be
^1 at a single sitting. On Buch occa
ionn the palace wan a aceue of lavish
llaplay of gowns, Jewels and uniforms.
Today the gardeua are In a state of
,eglect and desertion. The wrought
on fence which once surrounded
,em has bejtajl torn down. Grass wan
owing l? tba cqurtyard, . As
te entered the palace doorway, be be
g,nu aware of a penetrating damp
.etw, an intensely disagreeable sensa
ton. In the dining room, where Nlch
tas and his predecessors toasted and
ere toasted, six chairs around a
ood?n table seemed to await their oc
?upants.
On one of the steps of the grand
^airway the words, In French: ?'Vive
!e commune I" bare been scrawled. At
ie bottom of the stairway stood two
;uffed bison covered with dust. The
?lis, once decorated with many war
[ctures, held gruesome photographs,
aat notes of condemned revolutlona
.en have been assembled and tacked
p. in one corner was a limb of the
from which Youdenlch was
tanged.
In the bridal chamber of Alexander
.1 ii rid Made Alexandrovna, a Chinese
lamp? In a thousand pieces ? was
itrewn about the floor. A' great dock
as in fragments and i battered piano
oou i-C TVS?!. A crystal can
delabra, torn from the ceiling, lay In a
t w i m r 1 1 and shattered heap.
: in Alexander II's death chamber
was the bed where he died after the
attempt on his life. In a corner of the
room was the clock which, since the
afternoon of March 1, 1881, has marked
the fatal hour, minutes of four,
when Alexander died. It was his son,
Alexander III, who stopped the hands
so that those present might never for
got the hour. A half-smoked cigarette,
which Alexander II had thrown down
on the way to review one of hla.jfegl
inontx, was preserved in a glass case.
And there were several little frocks of
a <langhter who hftd died In her youth.
Alexander II kept these In his room
and frequently would have them dis
plays! before hlint ? v
The Nicholas II salon has been used
for 'a motion, picture location and was
in . extreme disorder. Nicholas II's
study was under lock and seal- and
could not be viewed. Near the Nich
olas 1 1 .salon, in a dark coiridor, was a
full length portrait of Alexander II ?
the face marred with bayonet holes.
Over the furniture some one had
daubed lime.. The Winter palace, once
a palace of imperial magnificence, was
a house of silence.
Ancient Phyaielana Knew Mueh.
A French physician finds that what-!
ever Hippocrates may bare known in
his day, physicians a thousand years
ar<> were practicing the healing art
In many respects as their successors
are doing today, and lie has toldljthe j
Paris Academy of Medicine about It.
We Matter ourselves, for example, that
our treatment of tuberculosis Is strict-'
ly modern, but this physician shows
that an Arab doctor named Avldenne,
who was born in the Tenth century
A D. and lived to be one hundred
yearn old, prescribed this treatment
for consumption; Fresh air, rest of
holy anjl mind, milk and superfeed
In?. And we almost thought we had
invented fresh air I
Hospitals In Air.
Giant airplanes equipped as flying
hospitals, w|th white walled operating
theaters and staffed with surgeons and
anaesthetists; in addition tO'Rllota and
mechanics, ire to be supplied to the
French colonial medtaal. ssttfftOM far
carrying out work in<r?aot* territories.
These aerial hospitals will hare
triple specially allenced engines, and
vibrations and oscillations will ha fa
duesd to a minimum, So that even moat
?erirnia operations can be carried out
while the patient is being borne through
the clouds. - r ? ? A - *r ul
Muit Part With Something.
"You must give up coffee." ? ?
"Never touch it, cPoc." ;
"Give up smoking.*^'
"I don't smoke*"
"Then give- up $5 and we'll call It j
square."?- Judge, ?
? No Sympathy., t>.
"Have you any aympathy for a;
la inn duck?"
"None whatever," replied Senator |
Sorghum; "any man who has energy'
*nd ouli enough to get elected to
congress can easily get himself a betr
ter Job."
On With the Danes.
*TK> you dance?"
"No," replied Miss Cayenne. "I
follow the .present custom. I slmplj )
?tend stilltnalow-ndtir dross and
?Mmr In ""Una"
Washington Htar.
Bep?rlally th? Co?t.
coal ladmtrj la said to ha
OOD COMPANY FPU QUAKER
Reactions to Voioe of Man of Poo*
Said to Bo Sumo m Thoae of
Qenorai HIndenburg.
An Interesting story reaches us from
ft Quaker source about the discovery
of u Germtut professor of phonetics who
U engaged lu collecting and analysing
lihonogvupMe recorda of (lie voice of
speakers of every country and lan
guage. During the war lie not ouly got
records from allies and war prisoners
of uearly every country under the nun,
hut also carefully tabulated the voice
reactions of the most famous of his
owu countrymen.
Recently he begged a well-known
Kngllsh Quaker, who was on a visit
to llerlln In connection with Interna
tloual peace work, to allow a record of
his voice to be made. This was Mr.
Heath, the late secretary of the Na
tional Peace council. ftnd now secretary
of the Friends' Council for Interna
tional Service, lie gave a brief address
on the peace principles of Quakerism
Into the phonographic receiver, while
the profpssor eagerly watched the ma
chine's delicate Indicator, which re
corded all the lights and shades of the
speaker's voice.
At the conclusion of the test the pro
fessor pronounced that the verdict of
thft machine was that the reactions to
the Quaker's voice were exactly the
qaiue as those to General Hlndenburg's.
? Manchester (Eng.) Guardian.
INDIANA AS LITERARY STATE
Beginning of Its Eminent Placa in Litr
orature May Be Traoed to Gen.
Lew Wftilaoe.
It may be surmised what made In
diana a literary atate: MBen~Hur"
and the fortune It built Imaginative
and book-minded youth of that com
monwealth today ? truly no more gift
ed, 'in all probability, than that of any
other ? looked upon Oen? Lew Wal
lace's monumental work and pro
nounced it gpod (as the world did)
aud also wor eh while, nuu
youth did not bury its talents In a
napkin.
It forthwith began to write and
brought forth fruit, spme tflx?fold~and
some ten-fold ? honoring the example
of General Wallace and establishing
what is now one of the most famed
schools of literature in the world.
Headed by Booth Tarkington. In
diana continues to interpret the life of
the jjrent central American valley,
aided by new colonies of writers all,
over the West who have followed In
diana's lead.- They, for the most part,
stem from den. Lew Wallace and his
"Ben Hur," though they have traveled
far from that ancient, romantic ideal.
-r-St. Louis <31obe-Democrut.
American Explorers Helped.
The British occupation of Palestine
to the present time has proved of
greater usefulness to American ex
plorers tnan to those of the manda
tory power. The work at Belsan is
only a commencement of American
researches In the Holy l>and. The fa
mous historical sites or Taanach and
Meglddo have been allocated provi
sionally to two other American uni
versities ; while a third university,
that of Harvard, has obtained a re
, newed concession for the alt*
Samaria, where, previous to the war,
they had disclosed imposing Roman
rains of the period of Herod, and
earlier remains down to that period in
Jewish history when Ahab first estab
lished on that site the capital of
While British universities have
been slow to respond to the great op
portunity which now lies open, there
2, at any rate, much satisfaction to
? derived frem the increaaing activ
ity ' on the part of American col
leges. Harmony and enthusiasm
prevail, and the friendly .rivalry Upas
established Is a healthy and helpful
stimulus.
Contented Cowa.
"Hawking* told me abotot following
Co rot in the fields When he was paint
ing. One day when the master had
made a particularly beautiful land
scape, with cows browsing in the fore
ground, Hawkins objected to the fact
that Co rot had painted in a pond
when there was nelly none In sight.
'My ww? will be in my picture far a
thousand years;' he answered, 'and I
pat In the pond to give them eome wa
ter.' * ? From "Seven to Seventy,* by
Bdward Simmons.
One for the Vicar.
A new vftoar called on a yonng wom
an with musical Ability and- asked her
b^w. she spent her Sundays.
"I rest." said the young woman,
"and dtring the rest of the week I
practice. .What do yon do on 8un
daya?"
-Oh, I preach," replied the vicar,
smiling.
AAnd during the rest of the week
do you practice t" she asked. ? London
Tit-Bits. "
E$yn+ ftMrfa For*; (ill G?plUt.
The Egyptian governent Is preparing
to offer valuable concessions to Amer
ican or English capitalists who might
wish to avail themselves of sn abun
dance of raw material to establish In
dustries In that country. It is aald the
government believes Egyptians incap
able of developing their country Indus
triiiBy. "? f
UNO YET TO BE EXPLORED
?ru|l Has Mor# Wholly Unknown
Territory Than Has tho Entire
African Continent. - - ?
Just us the most remain trie devel
opment of the Nineteenth century took
place In North America, so the most
wonderful development* of the Twenti
eth century are destined to take place
In Latin America, Samuel G. lnman
writes In Current , History. Here la
room for the overcrowded populations
of the world ; hero Is power to pro
duce the food and raw product* for
the world ; here In u great market
place fori the manufactured goods of
the world, and tlnally In these coun
tries Is found one of the most remark
able circles of Intellectual leaders In
all civilisation.
Beginning at the lUo Grande auU
stretching on down through Mexico,
over Central America, beyond l'anama,
through Colombia und Venezuela, the
Andean countries, Brazil, Chile, dowu
through the abounding plalus of Argen
tina to the Straits of Magellan, Is the
largest expanse of undeveloped fertile
land In the whole world. There la
mora undiscovered territory In Brazil
than there is In the whole continent
of Africa. One state In that mighty
republic equals the area of Great
Britain, France, Germany, Austria and
Switzerland. - If Argentina were a*
densely populated as la the atate of
New York-? and It ta far mora capable
of caring for a dense population ? it
would have 225,000.000 instead of ita
present population of 9,000,000. Ven
ezuela Is not considered one of the
largest republics, but it baa three
times more territory than Japan, while
Japan has a population equal to that
of all South America. Argunjenta
might ;fcave been made in the old daya
against the dense population of some
of theee lands because they are trop
ical, .but rnoMera science has overcome
the difficulties of the tropics fqr men.
The island of Santo Doinlngo ,1s said
to be more capable of sustaining a
dense population than any other sim
ilar-sized territory la the world. ^.Ntfw
that the Uuiidd States I* severely re
stricting immigration, the overcrowded
populations of the Orient and of Eu
rope will very rapidly ttirn to the
great fertile fields and friendly cll-r
mates of these Latin-American coun
tries.
GIVE WARNING OF STORMS
?
Tides Said to Show When Unusual At
mospheric Disturbances May Be
Looked For.
It has been shown, In the opinion
of certain scientists, that West Indiun
-hurricanes and other great storms at
sea frequently produce a remarkable
effect upon the tides along neighbor
ing coasts.
When a tempest Is approaching, or
passing out on the ocean, the tides
are noticeably higher than usual, as If
~the water bad been driven In a vast
wave before the storm. The Influence
extends a great distance from the cy
clonic storm center, so that the pos
sibility exists of foretelling the ap
proach of a dangerous hurricane by
means of indications furnished by the
tide gauges situated far away from tha
place then occupied by the whirling
; winds. ? - __1 i . ? .. 1
... The fact that the tidal wave out
stripe the advancing stOrm show* how
extremely sensitive the surface of the
sea Is to the changes of pressure
brought to bear upon It by the never
resting atmosphere.
' .
To KNp Relic of Warship.
The captain's cabin of H. M. 8. Im
pregnable, one of the last of the old
wooden warships, has, by a happy de
cision, not been broken up. Instead,
it has been erected in the basement of
a Westminster store and was opened
as a wireless demonstration room by
Admiral Sir E. Kr?omantle. The cabin,
complete In every detail, is flitted with
the original brass lamps, both Oil and
candle. -Outaldtf one of the portholes
Is a moving picture of what would be
seen If the ship was anchored off
Gibraltar at night. This moves up
and down and represents the toll of
the ship, while at the same tin* /the
swish of an artificial wave Is heard.
The . Impregnable was * built and
'launched at Pembroke in 1800, and
about 1006 she served, under Admiral
Freeroantle at Plymouth.? London
Times.
? ? ?
Wiped Out the Gophers.
As a prise for the township killing
the largest number of gophsrs, Linden
township won purebred Holstetn bull
given by Cavalier county (North Da
kota) in its 1022 gopher campaign, ac
cording to reports to the United States
Department of Agriculture. The go
phers were well cleaned up, saving the*
county 410,000 bushels of grain on
a conservative estimate, and every
fanner in Linden township has the
privilege of breeding to the bull for a
small feo charged to help defcray the
expense of keeping him. The prize
promises to be of much benefit to the
dairy Industry of the township. _
Require Much Grass 8?ed.
It Is estimated that golf clubs will
use 2,000,000 pounds of grass seedthls
year for seeding, the 2.500 links in use
and for planting the approximately
200 new courses. : The old courses,
comprising some 200.000 acres, use an
average of 400 pounds a year, while
-Uit pew require/ ?,000 pounds for the
firft sowing. Most of the seed wed
for fairways is bfcw grass and red
tap, wane ?updtne venrwjr putting
Wnm*4* bent variety find* favor.
It la paid that the outlay of golfers
*r KM M*4 to (boat ?1,000,?00 ?
: IS THERE WARMTH IN SM0KE7
Matter Ovsr Which There Seems to
| P? Possibility for Considerable
j Qlfference of Opinion.
It sosiuls rathor unreasonable and,
Anyway, wo would rather be collier
and nee the sunshine. We refer to the
funded discovery by a suburban New
Yorker that coal smoke makes the
City warmer. 11# write*: "Several
towns an the south aide of Long i*
laud have noticed a greater discrep
ancy lu the weather this winter than
ever before* Instead of varying three
or four or live degree* from the New
York city temperature, It In noted
thut there Is a variation of ten or
fifteen degrees. That is, It Is warmer
In New York by that much. Ia It poo
Nlble that the use of aoft coal, with
amoke hanging like a blanket over ,
the elty, has a tendency to make It less
cowr.
- It would take a long and precise se
ries of experiments to prove this;
and there would still be the posslbll-..
lty that the higher temperature might
be due to other muses. We know
that the elty Is hotter In the summer
than the country, but that Is due to
the reflection from the pavements and
superheated walls of buildings.
If the "lnioke pall" keeps out the
greater atmospheric froatlness, . It
would possibly be explained on the
same lines that a smoke smudge pro
tects peach and orange orchards from
northern blasts In earty spring.
Cities live under a mors or less.per
petuui smudge. The "smudge pots"
are always going; but If we could
have our pure air from heaven strained
of smoke and tho sun-rays falling upon
us instead of the Boot, we should cheer*
fully Accept aero instead of ten degrees
above.
NO AVAILABLE WOOD SUPPLY
Investigation Shows That United
States Cannot Rely on Pbrslflh
Importations of Lumber.
T '
A unique and exhaustive compilation
or the forest resources of the world
has been completed by the Forest serv
ice, United States Department of Ag
riculture. This reveals, among other
things, that so far aa our great struc
tural and nil-purpose woods ? the soft
woods- ? are concerned we must be
come self-sufficient or go without. If
all the available Siberian timber were
put at the undisputed call of the Uni
ted -States the yearly export would
hardly supply one-fourth of oar an
nual timber heeds. Thero Is an Im
mense reservoir of hardwoods In the
tropics which can be used for limited
and special purposes and secured at
mahogany prices. But the struggle for
the world's supply of soft woods will
become more and more intense, 80/1
those nations will fare best that pru
dently use their suitable waBte lands
for growing coniferous woo<fs. This
study shatters the dream of those who
rely on Importing the timber we peed
when our own is gone.
77 '?
Standard* of Measure.
For most of us the knowledge that
a meter is 3.S7 inches longer than *
yard is quite sufficient./ We must
know as much as that, because the
metric system of measure la so widely
employed that one constantly finds it
necessary to turn meters Into feet or
yards. But the refinements of modern
science demand a far higher degree of
accuracy in measurement than is .per*
haps ever dreamed of in the ordinary
walks of life. The pains taken to ob
tain precise standards of measure are
almost beyond belief of one who is not
familiar with scientific methods.
Eveiry one knows that so-called
"standard" bars, on which the exact
length of the yard and the meter are
marked, are in the possession of the
goverhments of the United States,
Qreat Britain, France and other coun
tries, but every one does not know
,with what care these standards have
been compared and with what patience
they have been minutely measured
again and again. ? Washington Star.
Should Grow Timber.
The national lumber shipment in
lflao was about 2,070,00? carloads, and
the average haul for each carload 485
miles. -According to the best estlnAte
of the vforeet service, United States
Department of Agriculture, the freight
bill on lumber for that year Was $25,
000,000. A fraction of this sum, says
the forest service, wisely invested each
year In forest protection and rehabili
tation would grow timber where it
Is needed, reduce the nation's freight
bill, cheapen lumber, and releasp vast
amounts of railroad equipment and la
for for unavoidable transport. Coal
and iron cannot be grown, but timber
can be.
Invisible.
A peculiar machine Is exhibited |n
America by Peter Davey of England.
It's called the "oscilloscope." An elec
- trie sowing -me chine is run fit top
speed. Light rays from the uosclllo
ecope mnke the faat-rtylng needle seem
perfectly motionless. Switch the light
off and the needle is seen darting up
and down.
Light vibrations thus deceive the
eye. .Makes ' you wonder about the
forces and "thlngH" around us that are
invisible because our five senses are
not "sensitive to their vibrations. The
sixth sense (psychic power) may be
the ability to *?eeT these vibrational
Peanut Crop Worth While.
The value of the peannt crop in 1922
le estimated at $29,22*000 0} t he
United Btatee Department of Afs?40t
tore. In 1081 the value waa eetinatetf
at WJOWJOQO ?s4 ft*
Confutation.
Two sisters apparently nil in nil to,
each oti\er? rhaii liyfid together for
many years. Then when ?the one was
ninety-eight, and the otbor ninety-six,
the elder djed. The relutive who un?
? U'l took tin- (ask of luvnkuig 0u* pain
ful newa to the survivor feared tho
shock would ho fatal to her. But tho
?lil lady bovo up wonderfully. "Ah,
well." she replied, "now I suppose I
shall ht> able to huve niy tea nuule an
I liko it,"? Royal Magazine.
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