The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 13, 1923, Image 3
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Inherits Millions From
? Woman He Befriended
l.uiit Junuary Capt. H. L. Zeitun, a
tifty-y ear-old soldier of fortune? by
(urn soldier, Inventor, merchant and
secretary ? met Mrs. Jnlla Stone Woods
navies of Excelsior .Springs, Mo., In
Rome. She wns 111 and he befriended
her, obtaining medical attention, etc.
So she offered him u position as sec
retary at $100 a week. Four months
later she sailed for America for a short
trip and he remained In London, be
coming Interpreter at the famous Bovr
Street police court j
At her recent death it was discov
ered that she had made two wills dis
posing of all her property In England
and In all other countries ? upproxl
mately $14,800,000 ? leaving all to Zel
t tin exceptNr few he<jMests to her fa
vorite charltl^a.
Arrangements for the wills were
made by her Immediately after the
recent deoth of her father. I>r. Wil
liam Stone Dnvies of Excelsior
Springs.
Zeitun, an undischarged bankrupt,
said bis first act upon receipt of the
bequest would be to pay all Ids cred
itors with Interest. He has led an
adventurous life us a globe-trotter und
gone through several fortunes. Much
or Ms life was spent In the Orient.
Mrs. Dnvies bad been four times
married and her widower, it Is report
ed, . pi. ms to fight the will.' He was
expressly cut oft In he.r testaments.
Villas Built Upon
Site of Cferthage
London. ? After hundreds of years
of desolation, the site of ancient Car
thage Is again inhabited.
While the department of antiquities
of Tunlsiu In collaboration with a
party of American excavators Is seek
ing unknown treasures within the
gretit sea wall of the Punic capital,
villas are being built on the site of
Mif dry destroyed by the Romans In
14U B. O.
Carthage threatens to become a
suburb of modern Tunis. I^and Is be
ing let and buildings are going up.
ft round Is being dug to provide the
foundations for new houses, but 'not
necessarily deep enough to reveal
whatever remains of the ancient city
mav lie lower down. The sea wall
lts?lf. with Its pillars, many of them
fallen, but unbroken, might contain
lonKon.1 in the history of military
arrhlteeture.
Within the city, In spite of limited
means, the explorers have already un
earthed 05 buildings, or scattered frag
ments of buildings, sufficiently pre
fer vml to be of Interest.
whatever the areheological value
of the Punic remains of Carthage ?
and there are persons who doubt
whether much of value Is left ? the ex
oavaHons now going on may furnish
?urprlaea. It must be remembered
that successive cities have risen on
th* SHuifi site. Ruins of Roman build
ings stand on Punic foundations, and
the city flourished In the early cen
t?iri ? m of the Christian era. Pere
DeUttr* has uncovered much of what
remains of the early pillars ornament
ed with animals which show an evolu
M >ri similar to that Which took place
!n Kiirr>j>e.
Sweden Plant Railroad
to Cost $12,600,000
Stockholm.? The first coast-to-coast
rai;rt?n<l electrification In the world,
??x:. i.<l!nu from Stockholm, on the Jial
tl>* h.-j, to Oothenburg. on the North
is heralded In the official request
! n.ade to the Swedish government
state railway administration
tlui? it ()f, empowered to be^ln lmmedl
a'-'v -.v'.th the expenditure of the 28,
'?"Vixxi crowns which have already
h?*r> npprnprlated toward tM? project.
1'hN Is an Important step In the
irr"H * movement which has already re
i in (j,p electrification of hun
dr?.j, nf leading industrial establlsh
Qtt'iii^ nnd at least T>0 per cent of all
t ." running area In Sweden.
1 "he trunk line from Stockholm to
''?' 'I'-nhurR. which carries heavy traf
fl<" h?,rh of freight and paaaerifterSp Is
rno miles in length. work
?f electrification can be carried
thr.juKh within two year*, says the
r,i'w?> administration, and If It !?
Wun Immediately the total coat will
"hout 47,000,000 erawu, m about
NIGHT IN THE PRISON CELL
Plctur?$qu? Description Of Hour* of
Dark^cM Spent in Vain Regrets
and Unavailing Sorrow.
The (lay Is done. The sun has de
parted beyond (Ii*- western whII, the
tyi/xards ha\e ceased their leisurely
wheeling in tVit4 Nky add all nature
has gone to rest. We have flpAafied
our daily tasks, ciiton our evening
meal and have returned to our con
structed cells. Th# holts are shot
home and we are safely housed ami
protected agaffist the temptations of
the great world.
The long evening drags wearily
away, punctuated now hy desultory
reading and now hy aimless smoking
and listless converse. The warning
hell has sounded, we have crawled
each Into Ifls narrow hunk, the lights
are out and night Is hvrfc.
For some, sleep and oblivion,
blessed release from the Iron In the
soul; for others, wakefulness ami the
weary retravellng of life's pathway;,
first, one llghtlieartedly turns liolne
ward, but the vision Is evocative of
sad and weary faces of dear on.es
struggling against adverse fate.
One Worries over the ailing little
one, ovei; the sorr<?w of the /althful
old mother with her accumulation of
years mourning for her absent boy,
her waning strength Inadequate for
such burden-bearing ; over the heroic,
fajthful devotion of the dear wife;
over the chagrin and wounded feek
ings of the children under the Jlbea
uf their school mates; over the vicar
ious punishment of all one's dear ones.
Then one's mind traverses and re
hearses the pettiness of the day just
closed, as they come trooijhig In re
view with vain regrets for unljnproy^d
opportunities for kindliness, with
poignant regrets for the grasped op
portunities of hasty and Impatient
speech, all these in photographic clear
ness present themselves to the mental
ftoforu rr
The Jangling nerves are In open re
bellion. Again to the trejulmlll amid
the surging waves of thought und
again we are wading through the
deeps of the past. Slowly, how slow
ly, the hours drag by ; the guard makes
his quiet round with felt-clad feet, the
hum of the human throng slowly falls
away from the consciousness and ex
hausted nature brings to the tired
brain sweet oblivion, and to the weary
eyelids sleep. ? flood Words.
An Automobile Joke.
If the victim of this joke reads this,
and puts two and two together, there
Is going to he trouble. He h?s an o/hre
In a downtown building and pnrks his
car in front. His neighbor In the
building also has a car. but has to
hunt for parking spnee and- # hell eves'
the other gentleman hns a "pull" With
the traffic officer who watches the
parked cars. Finally he hit on a
scheme to eliminate his rival from
parking space. This was to hang a
sign, "For Sale, $25," on hl? rival's
car along with the rival's name and
address. Passersby boarded the car,
an expensive one with tines worth con
siderably more than $25 each, and
tried the upholstery, lifted the hood,
etc. Finally an employee of the car's
ojvner noticed the crowd and notified
his employer that for some reason a
large crowd of men and women were
tearing his car to pieces. When the
owner, breathless, reached his car, he
was accosted by a hatless man who
puffed out: "Key, mister, I saw th?
sign first. Here's your $25." There
was a near-riot as the owner drove
his car to a nearby garage. ? Exchange,
OH From Beechnuts.
Not long ago measures were taken
by the minister of agriculture 1b Hol
land fo Increase the supply of edible
oils In that country by making a full
use of the domestic beechnut crof>. It
Is estimated that between 2,000 and
2,600 metric tons of these nuts may be
collected If every effort be made, and
that from this amount of raw nuts
800,000 to 400,000 kilos of oil may be
obtained. This would afford a valua
ble addition to the stocks of edible
oils In the Netherlands.
Owners of private lands from which
beechnuts are gathered receive com.
pensation at the rate of 6 per cent of
the sums paid to the gatherers, and
they also enjoy the right to purchase
cattle cake, prepared from the pulp of
the nuts from their property at !J0
florins per 100 kilos. ? New York Her
ald.
German Translations.
German translations 'of contempo
rary foreign writers are very full.
Among the English writers who have
been translated recently are D. H.
Lawrence, Arnold Bennett nnd O. K.
Chesterton : and among the American*
are Upton Sinclair, who is more widely
esteemed as a novelist In Kurope than
In America ; H. L. Mencken, who has
never been anywise, hostile to any
thing made in Germany,' and John Doa
Passos, whose novel, "The Three Sol
diers," la appearing serially In a
German socialist newspaper. ? Living
Age
Too Much Ic?.
Rooming only a few doors from my
married sister, I often run in at odd
moments and habitually rail "Ice" as
I rome In the door, for It very much
pleases my nephew, who rep<les In
kind. Last Sunday, after an early
dinner, I ran up the hack stepe, found
-uo o twr-fn the kttehen, stuck my hwn)
through the swinging door of the din*
lng room, loudly calling "Ice." There
sat the family, as well as two aston
ished couples whom I had never as en
before. I let them explain wttbosl
BOOSTS THE "GOLDEN STATE"
Report of Director of AgNculturo of
California Cannot Bo Otherwise
Than Encouraging.
In Ills annulil report, IMreetdr of Af
rk'uHuro (?. 11. Ileeke states thut the
value* of the farm crops of the stato
in 1022 wua$tt07,H20,000, Tho produo
tlon i?f the year wos tho greatest In
tho history of the state, hut, ??f course,
values do not ?hjum1 that of a sonuv
whut smaller tonnage at peak war
prices/ The values given are farm
values. With all the development of
our fruit industries, the value of tield
crops has hitherto exceeded that of
our orchards and vineyards, hut. la
1022 our fruit crops brought $104, ?
8M,(xh>, as against $t8a,?^2,6o0 for tieia
crop,*. This was due largely to In*
creased fruit ucrcage coming into
hearing, hut fruit prices were relative
ly better than prices of Held crops.
A large crop of wine grapes at $7IS to
$100 a ton helped a lot. Concurrent
ly with the report of the director cov
ering last year's -output, the crop-re
porting service .states thut the out
look for the current year la excellent.
Director llecke states that ( Calif or*
nla Is now experiencing the most rapid
agricultural development In our his
tory. Not only Is cultivated acreags
Increasing, hut better and more Inten
sive farming Is getting better yields.
Also more people are arriving to help
till the soli. During the last two or
three years we have frequently had oc
casion to say that California was ths
most prosperous spot In the world.
That situation still continues. ? San
Francisco Chronicle.
SOUNDED FAMILIAR TO HER
Letter of Old 8weetheart Mad Reco*.
lections That Created Embar.
raising Situation.
It was while attending college that
1 roet a young man who was a veri
table Hercules. Then, too, he was a
westerner and affected a broad sonv
! brero In which he was especially no
ticeable. Indeed, many fair young co?
eds wore their handsomest smllei
when he passed, which I had occasion
to notice on my frequent walks with
him. Naturally I felt singularly
blessed In receiving his undivided at
tention and was soon hopelessly In
love. I had reason to feel my alTeo
tlons were returned. #
One week-end I went to visit a for*
mer classmate .who was teaching in
a nearby town. While there I re
ceived a letter from my admirer. It
was a thriller and I wanted 'to shar?
It with my friend, so I read parts of
It. Suddenly I noticed she was laugh
ing. I asked what she thought- so
amusing.
"I thought you were reading one of
my old sweetheart's letters, for it
sounds Just like 'Dan.' "
"Dan who 'C I asked.
"Why, Dai) West. There aren't twe
of him."
Men are deceivers ever. ? Detroit
Free Press.
New Source of Electricity.
Electricity from brown eoal is tht
bold undertaking now belntf put
through by the government of Vlo
torla. The scheme provides for the
?rection of a generating station on th?
coalfield with* an Initial capacity o!
60,000 kilowatts, but capable of doulv
ling. The estimated cost Is about
$12,000,000 for the Initial development,
and over $26,000,000 for the final proj
ect. The first section will includeyfoui
12,600-kIlowatt turbo-alternatojUK run
ning at 3,000 revolutions per mlnuta,
with an 80(Vkllowatt set for starting
up the bigger ones. The boilers and
the steel for the buildings are actually
under construction, and preliminary
steps are being taken for the erection
of the high-tension transmission line
of 112 miles to a point near Mel
bourne. This line is to operate at 132,
000, volts, and will consist of ulunv
Inum-steel re-enforced cable strung on
galvanized towers 1,000 feet apart.-?
Scientific American.
Old English Cuetom Revived.
An ancient custom of "rocking" the
bfcby, In his church that had been al
lowed to lapse for a century, was re
vived by the vicar of Blldworth, Eng
land, at the Sunday evening service
following Candlemas. The latest born
baby boy of the parish was taken to
the church by its parents and placed
In an old wooden cradle, decorated
with Candlemas flowers and with two
candles on either side, that was dedi
cated by the rlcar (a bachelor) who
"rocked" the cradle several times, in
side the altar rails. The "rocking" la
not a legend, but an Important village
ceremony that recalls Christ's presen
tation to the temple, and calls (Chris
tian parents to offer their Infants to
Christ. The ceremony died out be
cause Candlemas was a bad time to
expose a baby, for February breezea
touch Infant cheeks very roughly.
Judff? and Interpreter.
In a recent trial in London Mr. Jus
tice Darling examined a witness In
Italian, and translated the answers to
the Jury. lie Is also well known aw a
lawyer, poet, painter And huntsman.
Yet, In a debate at Inner Temple hall
on whether education was a handicap
In life, he said: "I never went to
?w-hool ; I never went to a university ; I
am not an educated person." It will
be ftffy year# next year urtnre he trsa
Ailed to the bar, and he has been a
Judge for twenty-aix years. On an
other occasion he told an audience that
he began aa a solicitor, but found tha
life too strennon*. and became a bar
rister because It' was the moat idle lite
be oookl fled. ? Umikm Mail.
WEALTH BEYOND HUMAN IDEA
If th* V?lu*bl#? Found In "King Tufa"
Tomb Had Been Invested
Whan Ha Died.
It has beeu estimated by Ia>t'<l Coir*
narvon, who has bvon superintending
the excavations nf the tomb of King
TO t ? AWk h A i neri ueiF "T'ux or, ICgypt,
that the total vulue of all objects
found in the tomb Is about $l{\,tXK>,t*H).
Somebody with a ? mathematical
mind popped up and usked :
"How inuoh would that have amount
ed to If, lustful of having been burled
with the king thirty-ttve centuries ago,
It had been put out In safe 0 per eent
ground routs and compounded Interest
up to the present day?"
Here Is the answer: $14,288,000,000,.
000, lXX>,0<>0t0(X>,0(X>, 000, 000,000, 0<XM*H>, -
CKK?.0(K),()()t)1t)<K)ltKX)l(HX>ltHH)1lHH),000,tXK), .
0(MMXX>.0O0,(KK>,t>00.000.
That Is, it Is the answer given by
l?r, John Hogers MuKselnian, assistant
professor of mathematics at Johns
Hopkins university.
It's all vory simple, according to
the mathematicians. You manage It
by logarithms.
How do you say It In words? There
"ain't no such sum." There are mil
lions, billions, trillions, quadrillions,
qulntlllions and so on. Hut the humAn
Imagination hasn't gone so far lu fig
uring dollars up to the sums quoted
above. It would exceed the wealth
of the world.
GRANDDAD OF ALL ROACHES
Inaaot Baliavad to Hava Enterad Safe
davanty-Flva Years Ago Still
:i la In Exlatanca. ... -
' Atchison probably has the oldest
cockroach In the world, nays the Globe
of that city. In the office of Jim Byraiu
and John Bobbins Is an Iron safe that
wa s opened the other day for the first
time In 20 years. On that safe Is a
lock that had not been taken apart
since 1840, the year the safe was man
ufactured, And yet when Robblns and
Byram took that lock apart the other
day they found In It a huge cockroach
which seemed to bo dead, but revived
within a few minutes and Is now as
pert as a flapper. There was no way
for the cockroach to. get Into that lock
after the lock was put together In
1849. You may doubt that a cock
road can live 74 years, but your doubt
fs not answering the question. How
did that cockroach get Into that lock
after the lock was put together In
1N49? Prof. Charles Kennedy says It
doesn't seem possible that a roach
could live to be seventy-four years old,
and yet he Is not taking a positive
stand In the matter, and says his
great-grandfather had a cockroach that
was sixty-two years old when a big
footed woman stepped on It.
New Guinea Rich Country.
Fortunes In cocoa could be made in
New Guinea, says Brigadier General
Wisdom, who states that the soil and
climate of the country are well suited
for growing profitable vegetation. Itlce
Is Imported Into New Guinea, though
rice could be grown there In abun
dance. Another opportunity lay In
the distillation of commercial alcohol.
The nepa plant, containing 25 per cent
alcohol, grew all over New Guinea.
General Wisdom said the country
teemed with opportunities for men of
enterprise and with a small amount
of capital. I^sbor was cheap, natives
being paid abqpt $1.25 per week, and
the center of the Island could be
cleared of the dense mangrove
swamps. There were two navigable
rivers, one 400 and ^the other 200
miles long, and If men with tropical
experience could 'be got, thfe country
would develop Into one of the bright
est British possessions. I
British Boilers.
In some parts of England there are
steam hollers still working that were
Installed from fifty to one hundred
years ago. They provide active wit
ness to the excellence of British en
gineering. A short time ago a leading
British boiler expert had the curiosity
to subject two old Iron boilers, proba
bly about sixty years old, to careful
tests. He found that the old Iron
stood up astonishingly well under
heavy hydraulic pressure, and he noted
particularly that the slight cracks
which had' been formed round the rivet
holea in the original punching had not
extended during the working life of
the boilers. Thus he proved that the
old kind of Iron used In these British
boilers wns hardly surpassed by the
malerlftl employe*! by the finest of up
to-date plants.
Nation's Forest Problem.
Every year makes the forest prob
lem of the United States more clean;
says Col. William B. Greeley, chief of
the forest service, United States De
partment of Agricylture. The pr<xblem
has two main features. The first fea
ture I* the rising cost of timber prod
ucts, which Is due primarily to heav
ier transportation charges from more
o.nrt more distant sources of supply.
The second feature is the unproduc
tive conditions of immense areas of
land which are not adapted -to agricul
ture.
Affects Ail Countries.
The international rhamhnr of com
merce is a federation of financial, In
dustrie and commercial forces of the
world modeled upon the chamber * of
of th?? lmlt*f| States for
Tjiytlng business In the work of remov
htt artificial and unneee**ary obsta
cles to trade betweeti nations and over
coming foreign trade resistance. It
has more than 1.000 members In 25
countries, among which the U|1U4
State* U iBClsdsd.
J, l>. Urewry, 40, a widower, is in
jail at Chatham, Va., charged with
the nuudor of Nelllo Dalton, 1!|, to
whom ho hud lu-ott paying attention.
Drewry attempted smVidv and may
<i io.
I Archy ('00 per, a London accountant,
| giving up a job paying him $160,000
j a year, l\a? signed a contract to work
: for nn Kngllsft firm (if soap makers
at a salary of $250,000 a yrar for tlf
j toon years. .
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