Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Inactive Livei "I have had tremble with an inactive liver," wrote Mr*. S, Nichola, of 4412 Spencer St., Houaton, Texas. "When . I would get constipated, 1 would feel a light, dizzy feeling in my head. To get up in the morning with a lightness in the head and a trembly feeling is often a sign that the stomacM is out of order. For this I took Thtdford's Black- Draught, and without a doubt can say I have never found its aqual in any liver medicine, it not only cleans the liver, but leaves you in such a good condition. 1 have used it a long time, when food does not seem to set well, or the stomach is a little sour." If it isn* . Thedfor j'sT| I_ -'nsfm mJ it isn't , BLACK-DRAUGHT I | Liver Medicine. I The bodies of Lieutenants Robert S. Olmsead and John W. Shoptaw, Am erican army aeronauts, recently killed m a balloon accident in Belgium, are to be sent to the United States for in tormcnt L-i ; ? i; ; L- - New York papers began to get back to normal sizo in number of pages on Tuesday for the first time since the pressmen went on a strike the' previous Tuesday. The government has sold the Gor gas steam plant portion of the Muscle Shoals plant to the Alabama Power company for $3,500,000. This is un derstood to operate as a final rejec tion of Henry Ford's offer. . Hon. Magnus Johnson, United States senator from Minnesota, made an address to the Progressive Labor league in Carnegie Hall this week. This was his first speech in the east, since his election. PIANO TUNING Lewis L. Moore 242W PHONE or 156 CAMDEN, S. C. G. A. CREED General Contractor Estimates Furnished 311 DeKalb St Phone 192 J CAMDEN, S. C. T. B. BRUCE Veterinarian l.yttleton St., Phone 114. CAMDEN, S. C. DR. G. C. TRANTHAM DENTIST F irst Floor, Crocker Building PHONE 450 Dr. C. F. Sowell DENTIST (Office Oyer Bruce's Store) CAMDEN, S. C. DR. R. E. STEVENSON DENTIST Crocker Building Camden, 8. C. A. R. COLLINS Undertaker and Embalmer AMBULANCE SERVICE Camden, . S. C. Telepfcw Day 41$ . Niffht 380 ' 1 _ Breaking Cloves From the Stems; Zanzibar (Prepared b^the National Geographic So ciety, Washington. D. C.J Zanzibar, romantic melting pot off the east coast of Africa, a sort of island vestibule to Kenya, England's latest colony, does not share the upset conditions of that mainland region which has recently kept the British cabinet in hot water. Nominally under its sultan, and largely ruled by a British high commissioner and a Brit ish resident, the island goes on the more or less serene way of the trans planted }5ast, furnishing plots for comic operas and cloves for most of the spice-loving world. Hundreds of tourists and govern ment employees, on the manifold er rands of empire, see the town of Zan * zibnr without knowing milch of It or evqr exploring beyond the English ten nis club. But this is less remarkable i tlian the fact that merchants, priests, ; secular missionaries, military and dip , lomatic personages, Indians, Arabs, i Parsis and Europeans (as iriconeplcu i one artisans or petty traders) actually' ' live In the town year in and year out without so much as walking half a , mile beyond the terminus of the little American railway at Bu-bu-bu, a vil lage a few miles from the town itself. The precedent for this neglect ? and ' the social fabric of Zanzibar Is de pendent on precedent ? is undoubtedly the indifference of the early explorers, who iltted out caravans in the old ; town and, bent on discovering a vol cano or a nyanza far afield, never 'wasted time in* wandering about the I glorious island itself. On the first day that one leaves the road behind and finds oneself at large I In the dense green of Zanzibar's titanic , verdure one Is conscious of a newness of Interest as when one reads for the ! first time some book of very distinctive imaginative quality. The woods and fields, the "shambas" [ (plantations), are like the contents of ja Brohdlngnaglan glass house; the col ors of flowers and trees themselves ! are so elementary as to seem like a ; child's concept of beauty in nature, ; and when, unexpectedly, without prep j aratlon of any kind, the sight of the ! clove trees, shining green, red [ stemmed, symmetrical, stretches be j fore one, with the ultramarine of the ! Indian ocean as a background for their J unequaled loveliness, the beauty of the ! whole writes Itself on tho memory of I the most commonplace of observers as j an Indelible delight. As Large as Long Island. ' The island, about the same size In ! square miles as Long Island, is of a ' different shape, being shorter and much broader. It is one of Great Brit ' ain's protectorates. : To the south of the town the land scaj>e Is not so redundant and riotous in vegetable expression, but goats abound and And all they need in the way of food to make them marketable. But to the north the mango trees, palms, cloves and every form of orange and lemon crowd thick and glorious . under the most primitive of husband men. Just as Africa itself Is netted over with aimless foothpaths, so Is - Zanzibar veined with little tracks worn deep Into the living green so long ago that no tradition follows the feet of those who made them. The Industrial life of Zarzibar has changed three times since David Liv ingstone cried for mercy for the black man, who sorely needed It. Under the Arabs the town was n slave center, where the poor creatures who were caught in the course of one of Tlppoo Tib's "war walks" into the Interior were brought to the Island carrying Ivory, and prepared by various heavy handed methods for service as slaves on the Persian gulf or In the shambas and warehouses of Zanzibar Itself. The achieved the ln*st negroes imag inable. whatever their method* may have b? en. snd when Kngland ruined Tlppoo Tib by her slave regulations Ivory look the place of riflYJJS M-JL trade staple, and dealers f?"^g? hither and yon -brought their Ivory^or.utle ? to' tl?e quaint Ainfr tow* wh??* tatlon was then ft by-word of the EasL _ The bodies of de*d slaves wer# fre ~ f neatly put out oo the btach by Arabs too Inhuman to give them burial, and animals who had died were disposed Of In the same fashion. Hath water was Informally evicted through harem windows, and all the wanton waste of the cooking department In large Arab houses was banked up by the kitchen doors. There Is a tendency to that sort of thing still, but Zanzibar's ern health officers have removed Sir Wchard Burton's reproachfully apt epithet of filth In connection with Zan zibar towii. Cloves Are Its Salvation.* But the third and last phase of In dustry in Zanzibar has been its salva tion, and will keep It alive as a place of Importance long after Momhasa has caught up with and passed It as the center for general trade and the entrepot for the African hinterland. | This last phase Ik clove cultivation, and the history of the clove In Zanzi bar Is a record of such pluck and fore sight as may well teach a lesson to the ? proud Saxoh who considers his race a monopolist of both qualities. In 1800 an Arab named Tellm bin Tsse came up from Mauritius with a handful of cloves I h his pocket and 200 plants to put Into his shamba. Ills Idea of agriculture was very unique, and he only Intended to persevere In 0I0ve cUlture If he Could depend on a crop after every neglect an*! affront had been offered Ids trees. Their beauty (cloves are a kind of myrtle and exquisite in appearance) excited the interest of Said tturgasli, about to become Zanzibar's sultan, and he wrote at once to the Moluccas to obtain the finest plants which could be bought for money. Two Dutch ships brought them in an unusually short time, and the sul tan the most remarkable man Zanzi bar' has ever produced or associated with Its fortunes, sent out numbers of his henchmen to compel laborers from every side to get the plants into the Boll immediately. He had read up the whole subject in a book of French au thorship, which he had caused to be written out in Arabic, and saw that the enterprise. had a great mercantile future for Zanzibar. He knew that the Island's supremacy as a tr.ade center would pass, and he hoped to make r It, with Temba, the extremely fertile but rather uninteresting island to Zanzi bar's north, paramount iji the world of spices. In 1872 a cyclone blew over Zanzi bar. which uprooted all the clove trees and blew the coconuts flat to the earth without breaking them. Many clove trees were blown Into the sea ; many were broken off short. ithln a week after the storm Said Burgash was rounding up his laborers again and sending hither and yon for plants, which he presented to the poorer Arabs who had seized on tho idea of u crop which could be sold to Ruro peans, and had put their all into the purchase of plants and slaves for their fulture. From that second planting comes the groat bulk of the world's clove supply today, and when one realizes that the least output of cloves per an num has amounted (from Zanzibar alone) to 80,000 bales and the great est output to 200,000. and when one furthermore realizes that the govern^ ment claims as tax one bag out ol each five, one may ratch k vista i of Bargash's dream, and concede tha the Oriental has In part the greatest of mental attributes-imagination. One might write n book on Zanzibar, Bod in the hurry of Its beauties and the horrors of its mystefious ratas trophes, like the smallpox epidemic or the bubonic P^gue. forg,t o te l h* half of its wonders. It will a y remain in one's mind like a soiled n??e of the "Arabian Nights." with what promised to be a splendid out come ruined by some fearful v1*tat,OT1 I of cyclone or of rtclmeaa. But the bv trlnslc strength of the island continue* in the clove crop aijd ftfft ftttn,CI*f ** enormous nujnber cOndl an s, ^ fa*t driving out th^ Arab and , Lu'tory insert, ?tth NOT ALL GOOD FOR HEATING Much Variation In Soapttonaa? Claaal* ] ftoation of Propartla* Would Be Most Valuable. Soupstoive Is a term that has been loosely uppllcd to several varieties of j rock with differing chemical and phys- , leal proportion. 8ouu> aoapatonos are ) hard, being only slight ly different from sarpcnttne, and others aro soft and contain more' talc. Sotuo va riot lea have a definite gruln and others aro ' composed, of Interlocking prismatic 1 crystuls. The illlYeronoo lu properties affects the suitability of various soapstone* ; for different uses. In the const ruction ; of fabricated forms hardness, tough- ! noss and absence of grain aro most 1 important, but In the manufacture of foot warmers, griddles and heating stoves for tireless cookers resistance heat and retention of heat are more Important. Thus soapstone from cer tain localities In Virginia Is more valu able for fabricating than for heat re tention, and certain ?Vermont soap stones are superior for heating pur poses. An investigation of the proper ties of Various soapstones and classltl eatlon by such properties would be most valuable. ? New York Herald. X-RAY LITTLE UNDERSTOOD Not Much More Known of It Than When. It Was First Made Public by Roentgen. Wounds are no longer probed for bullets; fractures are not set by guess; flawed teeth are examined without be ing pulled, Bu4? Um-fcxiguurdlnnry fnct ennoerfl ing the X-ray Is that practically noth ing has been learned about It since It I was first Introduced and experimented with by Roentgen. Enough has been found out about, the laws that govern It to make It a practicable instrument for diagnosis, but as a scientific phe nomenon it Is almost Isolated and Is far from being understood. It remains, for the lay mind at loast, an Inexplicable demonst ration of tho lack of solidity In matter. If there Is a kind of light and a kind of sight that go through fl^sh and blood, then flesh and blood are subject to laws of which the race Is so far al most completely Ignorant. When the existing clews are developed It Is fairly certain that Roentgen's contribution to science will loom larger oven than at th* present time. ? New York World. Only three women can lay claim to being rulers in theiy own right. They are Wilhelmina, "queen of the Neth erlands; Charlotte, grand duchess of ijyxemburg, and Waizeru Zauditu, empress of Abysinnia. All Night Service Commencing immediately, we have arranged to keep our Garage and Filling Station open ail night and maintain a TWENTY-FOUR HOUR SKRVICF. You are cordially invited to buy your Gasoline, Oil, Tires etc.,. from us at any and all hours. We believe an automobile owner wants what he wants when he wants it. Any time your car needs supplies, you caivget them here. / CAMDEN, S C. ' soi'Thkkn kn(;;nfkk mkao. Frank Holland, Veteran Kntfineihan. W as Native of Camden. Frank Leslie Holland, veteran on- i gineor of the Southern railway has made hip last trip over tho rails and for the? last, time lias his tried and true hand pullod a throttle of his fav orite loconiotlvo, for after an illness that incapacitated him tor the past six months, dining; which, he was op erated upon, losing oho of his legs '?? tlu* ordeal, but always an optimist, ho died at his residence 1K17 Sumter treet, Friday morning, at 7:<15 o'clock, in hia 73rd year. ,'i he deceased was in tho employ of the Southern railway for 52 years, and except for the period given over to his apprenticeship as a fireman, ? was an engineer. For the largest I pait of his career as an engineer, Mr. i Holland was on the Augusta-( Jolum I hi a run, and in tho (Jeorgia y he j had nearly as wide a circle of friends | as was tho case in his homo city. ; Wherever railroad men met and talk ed, Frank Holland was a central fig ure. H? was tho last word in good nature and affability "and. the general verdict was that ho was "ono of th? Horn in Camden, November 24, 1S50, Mr. Holland early entered rail oad wor-k on the operating ond; and at --!1. early time in his lifo he became a t-t:v,..ent of Columbia, where he "was very popular and highly esteemed. He Wii'i a loyal i:iund and a One neigh bor. Mr. Holland leaves a wife, two sans, l'\ L. Holland, Jr., nnd A. M. lloiland, and the following daughters: M i -s I'.lla Holland, Mrs. C, W. Riley and Mrs. H. L. Mcintosh, besides many other relatives nut in the im mediate family circle. ? Columbia Record, Sept. 28th. Ci. C. (?handler, well known citizen and cotton mil foreman of Columbus, (la., has been. sent to the state prison for throe years after a consent verdict of involuntary manslaughter in con nection with the killing of a Mrs. C. S. Jones in July by running her down with an automobile. Jesse Pruitt, aged 25, df Buffalo, Union county, was shot and killed on Wednesday by Howard Hombroe, 25. Hembree surrendered to the -sheriff at Union. i. ii in. ??m SOUTHERN R A I LWAY SYSTEM Keeping pace with the South The first American locomotive to enter ac tual service was the "Best Friend" of 1830. Built in a New York foundry, shipped by sea to Charleston, it hauled the first passenger train on what is now the Southern Railway System. Twenty-two hundred locomotives, sc me of them fifty times as heavy as this famous pioneer engine, and 70,000 cars, operating on 8,300 miles of Southern Railway System lines, are now doing the work that was be gun by the "Best Friend." From the Ohio and the Potomac to the Gulf, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi, the far flung rails of the Southern reach across twelve states with 40,000,000 inhabitants. The Southern serves the South ? from the northern gateways at Washington, Cincin nati and Louisville ? and the western gate ways at St. Louis and Memphis ? to the ocean ports of Norfolk, Charleston, Savannah, Brunswick and Jacksonville ? and the Gulf ports of Mobile and New Orleans. Operated by men of the South, who have been bred in its traditions to understand its problems and its needs, the Southern keeps pace with the South. The investment in its properties is now more than $710,000,000, of which $285,000,000 has been expended in the past two decades. With the continued cooperation of tho people of the South, we will be enabled to com mand the capital for the greater transpor tation facilities that Southern development wiH inevitably demand. Southern Railway System last year st>ent in the South $20,000, 000 more than it received from the South. THE "BEST FRIEND" (^the SOUTHERN SERVES THE SOUTH