The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 03, 1926, Image 2
A/orld Slow to Hail
Geniue of Hawthorne
Home of uh know that great as N#
thtmlol Hawthorne was, It wiu not un
til 18H7 thut through tin* persuasion of
bin friend* lie allowed himself to pub
llsh sonic Of Ids stories In book form
under tbo title, "Twice Told Tales."
H aya I 'r, Fru nk II. Vl/.etelly, The
tale* were received coldly and proved
that tlielr author could nor live upon
Ida literary earning. At Jtowdolfi be
wrote "Seven TmIch of My Native
I .and," a manuscript, which, ufier
many journeys to pubUxhma, w?* <?<msigned
to the flume*. After that he
wrote hi* ilrKt novel, "Fanahuwe," pub
llaln-d In 1828, but It received chilly re
leption. In 1825 lie Joined bla mother
and til at or at Halem, where the Indlea
lived In seclusion.
Here Hawthorne led the life of u
rdcluae, weeing little of the member*
of his family, having mowt of Ida meals,
nerved alone and rarely taking exerclae
save aft^f dark, lie wrote once
to a friend: "We do not live at our
houae," then announced Ida Intention
of taking up literature aw a profession.
A second series of "Twice Told Tales"
and Mosses From an Old Manse" obtained
small profit Tor their author,
who Jn J8ftl complained that for muny
years he wuh "the obscurest man of
letters In America." /
This was the author of that Immortal
work, "The Scarlet l/etter," which
he published In tSflO, and followed
with "The House of the HevenU-Qahles,"
and "The Hlythedale Romance,"
three books that are universally acknowledged
rHuklng among the literary
masterpieces of the world.
Popular Johnny Cake
Traced to Shawnees
It bus been generally claimed by
students of words that "Johnny cake",
is a corruption of "Journey cuke." Apparently
there Is no evidence to support
the theory. Will H. Lowdermilk,
In his History of Cumberland, has advanced
a theory which seems to be
more plausible. A favorite article of
diet among the Shawnee Indians who
lived in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia
and Ohio was a cake made of
corn beaten as fine us the means ut
command would permit. This was
mixed with water and baked on a flut
stone which had boon previously heated
In the lire, ^i'he early hunters and
trappers In this region followed the
example of (he Indians In making
these cukes, which they culled "Shawnee
cakes," uftcr the tribe. - After the
lapse of a few years "Shawnee cuke"
was corrupted by those who did not
know Its origin Into "Johnny cuke."
Noiseleaa Auction
A noiseless auction is (lie latest
boon to mankind that has come out
of Holland. It sounds Impossible, but
the scheme Is simple. Everybody
who attends the auction and wants to
bid Is provided with a seat. Each
chair Is aiimhered, and connected
with wires to u big dial on the auctioneer's
platform. On the dial are
-numbers representing prices from the
lowest to the highest amounts.
When the sale begins, (he auctioneer
describes his wares, and then calls
for bids. The hand on the dial on the
platform starts to move up the range
of prices, and whenever any bidder
wants to drop out, he signals sut*li by
presiding the button on his chair.
hen all have dropped out hut one,
a bell rings and a light flashes on the
dial hoard, and (he highest bid Is thus
uscertaiaed without any noise or confusion.
Tibetan Customs
In Pi bet it is the custom of the natives
when meeting friends to stick
out their tongues as h mark of respect.
A peasant who would accost
a person of higher caste without doing
this would be regarded as grossly dlscou
rteous.
Another custom Is the "senrf of
welcome." When calling upon a Tl
botnn gentleman it Is necessary to
send a servant In advance with a
white scarf which Is presented to the
host, and he then presents a similar
one to the guest. The scarf the visitor
tajc.es away he presents to another
official on bis next visit.
Such social visits always entail tea
drinking as well, no matter what time
of day It is. Tea in Tibet is omuls!
fled with butter flavored with soda,
so that It Is really more like sonp thnn_.
tea.?1?7 ,K. Ward. In th^.^J^ >VotHd.
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Medical Miatletoe
Tp the former days It was believed
flint the mistletoe had some mysterl- '
<?us medicinal virtues, but, It was
thought, to become a really efllcactous
remedy all mistletoe used medicinally
must be plucked from an oak tree
upon which the parasite rarely grows
It was considered unlucky to cut this,
or to sell It. In 1ftf>7 the only oak
known to hear mistletoe grew In Nor
wood. Eng. Some persons cut this
mistletoe and sold pieces to I.ondon
apothecaries at 10 shillings ench
Accordingly we rend that of these
"sacrilegious wretches one fell lame,
each of the others lost an eye. and
the ringleader broke his leg."
Oh, Because
A little bov. seeing a glass pyp in ?
shop window, usked what It was. and.
being told. Inquired If people cbuld
see with false eyes He was told that
'bey couldn't.
K day or two later be wished to
know whether people could ont with
false teeth, and was told flint they
could.
"Then, If people rnn eat with false
teeth." he s?l<l. "why can't tliev see
with fn'se eyesV ? "Hf-RtML
Cm rcai u/ue Even in
Moments of Leisure
f-'urrn w0incn hove recognized thut
well t>jii (fc<| lujd well used leisure is
the oil which makes the nc?V-s ory dupes
nf Mfc he performed happily. Carl
Sandburg hua said: "Life )? a combination
of hhh'itiu and and
fho farm woman I* learning to realize
the value of the hyuelntln a? she Juih
long since realized I lie value of the
hiaeulla, p writer In the Country GenHaitian
asserts, She Ik changing her
objective from shining pots and pans
to wh In ink' Joyous faces, and she and
her family alike are* pro.'ltjiig hy the
change in accent.
Not all farm women are realizing
he value of lolnure, and Irut few farm
(Women as yet have leisure In needed
measure; nor are all who have won It
using it effectively. ipit a good beginning
has heen made and the future
is full of hope,
These times of leisure are Uteraily
moments only for some women. I
know one mother of five young children
who can't thai 15-tlilfiute periods
for recreating mind and soul. She
says she cau find leisure only for a
moment here am) there. To he sure,
she looks ahead ,U> the time when she
can lessen ttie personal service to the
little folks, but now practically every
moment demands her attention, and so
her leisure, like a rosary, Is counted
bead upon head.
Wind's Great Effect
i . " ' '
on Personal Comfort
I rersonul comfort at Hiiy time of the
yeur depends to an astonishing degree
on wind; that Is on the motion of the
air. An Interesting experiment, described
hy a writer In the American
Magazine, Illustrates the point.
To find out the different effects of
still air and of air In motion, a man
was shut up In a telephone booth. The
booth contained an electric fan and It
also had tubes through which fresh
nlr could be supplied. The innn had a
lighted cigarette.
With the electric fun going, and
with no froah nlr coming In through
the tubes, the man wua comfortable,
even aftor his cigarette had gone out
because of lack of oxygen to burn. But
when he was shut up In the booth
without the fun being turned on, he
was soon in great discomfort, even
though lie was being supplied with
fresh nlr through the tubes.
"Divine" High Priest
.The Grand Lama is the supreme
high priest of the Lnmalstlc hierarchy,
and is regarded as a divine being.
Lamaism la the name of the religion
prevailing in Mongolia and. Tibet "and
to some extent In China; Its followers
,are numbered In the millions. LamaIsm
Is a form of Buddhism, corrupted
by Sfvalsm, and by Shamanism or
spirit worship'. It was introduced Into
Tibet by the Chinese about the middle
of tlie Seventh century, A. IX, nmk
shortly thereafter the holy city of
Lhasa became a goal for pious pilgrims
and tlie seat of the Grand Lama.
The Grand Lama Is also called the
Dalai Lama, I. e., the ocean priest, or
priest as wide as the ocean.?Exchange.
What She Was After
Mrs. Sktflington. during the course
of an afternoon call on Mrs. Blfllngton,
sought the hitter's advice regarding
a proposed divorce action.
"Well," said Mrs. Blftlngtnn, on the
conclusion of her friend's lengthy recital
of her woes, "you^iave had your
marital troubles ?n,-f mu,. the rest of
us ; hut I am not at all sure that you
would he Justified in taking this stop
You have no other grounds for seeking
u divorce, have you?"
Mrs. tskllllngton hesitated n moment,
and I hen added: "To tell, the truth. In
addition to what I have Just suld, 1
have a brother who Is a lawyer, and
I am very anxious to give him something
to do."
Retiring Into Oneself
Men seek retreats, houses In the
country, seashores, and mountains;
and thou, too, nre wont to desire such
things very much. Rut this Is altogether
a mark of the most common
sort of men ; for It Is In thy power
whenever thou shnlt choose, to retire
Into thyself. For nowhere either
with raor^qulet or mdf e"freedonC from
trouble does a man retire thnn Into
his own soul, particularly when he has
within him such thoughts that by look-,
ing Into them he is Immediately In
perfect tranquility.?Marcus Aurellus.
Cane and Beet Sugar
When highly refined no one can dls
tingulsh between cane and beet sugar,
as they are one and the same thing
Between the crude or raw beet and
onne sugars there Is a great difference.
the latter being sllhle, while
the former Is not, as It possesses a
very disagreeable odor and taste,
fane sugar molasses Is good for cull
nary purposes; beet sugar molasses
Is not. Cane Juice contains glucose,
hut beet Juice does not, though the
latter contains rathnose and the for
nier does not.
"Curiosity Killed the Cat"
Just how this spying got started
Is unknown. There was an old proverb
that a cat has nine lives. yet care
i would wear them out. Another version
of the proverb Is that though she had
nine lives care killed the cat
Probably "curiosity killed the cnt** Is
merely a corruption of the former
saving Its popularity seems to rest
on the alliteration of the three hard
-c sounds, rnther than on the sense '
of the exprcssrroTT ? Exchange.
!?: M. .
(GOVERNORS FOR BU9SB8.
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McGowan Order a Inter-City Carriers
T# Get Them Immediately.
/
Columbia, Aug. 24.?-All inter-city
buses operating in South Carolina will
have to have "governors" installed on
them on or before November 1, 1926,
according to a memorandum Jssucd
thia morning by Admiral Samuel Mo
Cowan, chief highway commissioner,
to the director of motor . trarinporlft'
tion department, J. Wesley Wilas.
The memorandum said in part:
"You will please take immediate
steps to require the operators of inter
city motor buses to have installed on
all such vehicles on or before Noyember
1, 1926, governors or other mechanical
devices which can be so set
as to physically prevent the >making
of speed in excess of 26 miles an hour,
such governors or other mechanical
devices to be thereafter kept <at all
times in gdod working order and subject
to inspection.
"It is understood that the State
Highway department at this time has
no authority to require the installation
of speed limiters on privately
owned and operated cars. If, however,
the experiment now to be undertaken
proves to be successful, the subject
will be taken up with the State Highway
Commission for the purpose of
securing, if possible, an urgent recommendation
to the Legislature that
the same be obtained at the next session
of Ihe General Assembly."
.. ^ ' The
total value of automobiles and
trucks exported from the United
States in 1925 was $222,599,132, a
gain of 66.4 per cent over 1924.
The Gaston ia gazette, in a very
thoughtful editorial article, entitled
"What Is Fame?" takes up the varying
amount of newspaper space given
ltudolph Valentino, moving picture
star, and Dr. Charles W. Eliot, veporublc
president emeritus of Harvard
University, who died within a day or
two of each other, and concludes its
soliloquizing as follows: "Valentino
amused and entertained millions of
l p#&ple. It was not a-very high class
of entertainment at that?-just a momentary
pleasure that failed to leave
anything of permanent value. Dr.
Eliot trained and directed the thinking
of thousands of young jpen.
Though years of age?ripe with
honors and achievements?he kept
busy almost to the en<NJiinking, writing,
sending forth an influence pf good
that will never cease of accomplishing
worthwhile results. He sought to help t
solve the problem of world peace; in
fact, he gave his thought to all the
great problems of life and government.
He was a really great and constructive.
character of his day and
generation. He will be honored in
death as he was in life. He will be
remembered and loved long after Vai
lentino is entirely forgotten. Yet it
' is discouraging to see such a tendency
in our American life?a tendency that
makes the great public rave over a
| man or woman who has some ability
to amuse them for a passing hour and
at the same time neglect or fail to
hock to a man who is an international
figure and whose life has left an indellible
stamp on the history of his
country. It makes one wonder if we
are growing better as a race or if we
are slipping."
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Bright, permanent colors. A better Job for leaa
money.
There's a "Star" dealer near you. See him? >
or write us for literature and name of dealer.
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