The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, March 23, 1928, Image 5
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.fwATKIOIKI.ON FROM AFRICA
Hlack Man's Favorite Fruit Came
Fr.iin Mia Fatherland.
I One beouos convinced that there
R nothing ,u'w 'n the world when
p Uarr;- that the watermelon
Homes from Africa and grown wild
Hy thousands in the native home
S the race which fancies it most.
H is one of the relatively feyv wide
dispersed food plants that come
H the first instance from the Dark
Hontinent.
1 Even as recent a botanist as the
Heat Sweede, Linuaeu#* believed the
Hatermelon to have come from
Huthern Italy, where he had seen
H rowing in abundance. The plant
spread during the days of anH*nt
civilizations, and at the openR
of the Thristian era was grown
H i'alestine, Greece, the
Roman empire, and probably in InH^hat
its origin should have beep
Rrouded in mystery is not strange
:;_R({i one remembers that Africa
|, little explored until the middle
R the 19th century. In fact LivingRone,
the famous missionary, may
^^Lve been the first to establish it as
Rfrieari. In his travels he found it
Rowing wild in abundance and established
beyond a doubt that it was
indigenous to that land.
The watermefloo'ls one of the food
plants shown In drawings on ancient
Egyptian monuments, proving thai,
they were familiar with it. This
makes it likely that it was known
also to the ancient Israelites, who
carried on Commerce with Egypt
and were carried into captivity in
that country. Spanish and Berber
names with antique characteristics
go to show that it was also grown j
at the western end of the Mediter- !
ranean in days very long ago.
Not until the tenth century A. D.
was this melon introduced into China,
where it goes under the name,
"sikua," but the Sanskrit name,
"chayapula" indicates its ancient
cultivation in India.
Wild watermelons are frequently
bitter, a character that has been
bred out of the domesticated varieties.
The native negroes burst
the melons with a club and taste
the juice, saving the sweet ones and
leaving the bitter ones where they
lie.
Eurther proof bf its African origin
lies in the fact that scientists
have failed to find the watermelon
growing wild in any other part of
the world. It is a member of the
citron family, scientifically known
as citrullus vulgaris.
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. The law providing for the punishment
by line of anyone who galloped
his horse on Main Street, enacted in
Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 1787, is
said to be the lirst speed law.
One hundred and fifty whales
chasing shoals of herring plunged
into shallow water, became frightened,
and lashed themselves to death in
Moray and Dornoch firths, Scotland.
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In an Italian restaurant on the
badks of the Miljacka, the host
serves only persons' whose faces he
likes. If he does not wish the patronage
o! a guest he turns the plate
in front of the guest upside down.
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' The French are proud of the fact
that they have the Eiffel Tower, the
highest structure in the world; the
Garabit viaduct, the biggest metal
viaduct*, L'He de France, 42,000 tons,
the biggest steamer built since the
war; the Saint Pierre du Vauvray
Bridge, the biggest reinforced concrete
bridge; the fastest electric
train, running from Paris to Vierzon-Ville;
Le Bourget, the biggest
airfield, the biggest aviation hangars,
at Orly; the Canal de Rove, the biggest
underground canal; the billion
candle power searchlight at Mont
Valerien and the 50,000-kilowatt alternating
current generators at Gennevilliers.
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Schedules From and To Camden, South Carolina
Corrected to February 1, 1928
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i Loans Wanted
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i funds for remodeling:
for buying or building a
Usually we are in position
in reasonable amounts on
jnce property in Camden.
e. surplus fuhds you wish
At times we require con- \
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it your convenience.
ling & Loan Association
MACKEY, Treasurer
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i.i Au4.fi.iC3 of At?
A vim!* 1*1.4 mil >im Cm cum. who up
ptnti>'j id h!.>lory li.i ';i"jf IV. 11, wu?
culled, by one (.. niiiin historian the
hold*'*! innovator In llonutu history
I'v law the ienure ot oillee of u rcinou
was limited to el;;iiteon mouths, l>ut
Appius Claudius seemed mo much the
superior of all other nun of his age
that he was elisor for live years and
lie carried through, despite frantic op
position from the conaervutlves. a law
to bring new blood Into the governing
classes.
The urlslocrucy was Jealous of Its
prerogulives and made birth the essen
Hal to a senatorial career, hut Applus
Claudius broke down the admission
requirements, lie put Into the senate
the names of many plebeians who hud
recently attained wealth and even free
men of distinction who were not especially
prosperous.
1'robubly the greatest contribution
to Komun progress was his building of
two great public works .on a scale that
(tome bad never known. They were
the famous Applan wuy, the great
roud that led from Home to Capua,
and the vast aqueduct to bring water
to the city. Few tourists who visit
Home have fulled to drive out upon
the historic Applan way or have fulled
to catch sight of the tremendous ruins
of the once mighty aqueduct that
strikes across the Campagna.?Kansas
City Star.
Painted Rock* Record
Where Indian* Played-Painted
Hocks," In the Hlo Uraude
national forest, record the recreation
activities of Indluns.
Many moons before the white man
Invaded that part of Colorado the forest
was the favorite play and bunting
grounds of the Indians. Here they
held their annual games In connection
with their hunts.
The forest is rich In Colorado history.
Spaniards traversed the mountains
more than 200 years ago; Fremont
forced his way through, and
ruins of his fortifications still are visible
at Wagon Wheel gap. Adventurers,
trappers and prospectors thronged
the .country, and old-timers will relate
scores of thrilling stories to the auto
tourist.
The forest itself contains more than
1,000,000 acres and the granite back
of the continental divide has Jagged
peaks and vust canyons as It bends
and twists for 125 miles.
Shipa and Tonnage
Tonnage of a ship refers not to Its
weight, as Is often supposed, but to its
carrying capuclty. The term originated
In the time of King Henry VII
of England, who Introduced one of the
first navigation acts of Its kind In
which the importation of Bordeaux
wine in any vessels except those
owned by the lieges was forbidden.
The liquor was carried In huge barrels
culled tuns, and, since then, the
cargo capacity of a ship has been
measured by tunnage or tonnage, the
modern term. In connection with war
vessels, however, the word refers to
the weight of water ^they displace, or
their displacement tonnage, the common
way of describing the weight of
other ships.
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Advance Information
Every trade hits Its stock of wellknown
yarns, but occasionally a new
one does occur only, alas, In time to
become a classic. A certain wtjllknown
newspaper man was holding
forth to a group of writers among
whom was a rather famous novelist
The Journalist was saying that he had
recently been engaged In revising the
obituaries held Id rhndiness by his paper,
Turning to the novelist, he added
jocosely: "I've Just been writing
you up/'
But the novelist, apparently, had
not been following very closely. Waking
up with a start, he asked eagerly j.
"When Is it going to be published?"
Old Nick sOld
Nick is an ancient name for the
devil derived from that of the Neck
or^Nlkko, a river ocean god of the
Scandinavian popular mythology.
"British sailors,',' says Sir Walter
Stott, poet and novelist, "who fear
nothing else, confess their terrors foi
this terrible belug, and believe hjuk the
author of almost all the various calamities
to Which the precarious life of
a seaman is so continually exposed."
S<$dU wrote this many years ago,
- and superstition has greatly decreased
sinca then.
Nothing Left
. Little Ted, five years old, was continually
losing his pencils in school.
' Seldom an evening Wient by that he
. didn't come homo In tears because he
had lost his pencils again.
T> jHJt nn and to ft, his mother
wrote Ted's name on them one morn
log. That evening ha cams home
weeping as usual.
"What's wrong?" asked his mother.
"Tbeyfa gone again," stammered
Ted through ills tears; "name and
all." TV
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"Bug*** Don't Charge for it
Science, we are Informed, Is! coming
to the old of farming by doing
n Job-foe htm formerly done only
by a kind of bacteria. The Job U
to take the nitrogen out of the sir
and turn it Into a nitrogen jom
pound which -can be used as fertllM>.
The bacteria do a better Job
than that, Thay put U right en the
tiihi afcjflpi a
Wave of Crime
Within thu paai month* this country
has never before experienced so
many gruesome and diabolical mur
dera. The latest is that of George
Chrisholin, unnatural Indiana father,
who drowned his two small sons.
The tads, who had been living with
their grandmother, begged to be returned
rather thun live with Chris*
holm and then stepmother. The
father tied the boys together witri
wire, weighted them with iron burs
and shoved them into a deep lake
where they were drowned like rats.
The ?ountry thought that it had
discovered about the limit in crime
when I*eopold and Lnob killed little
Bobbie Franks for a thrill. But it
was only recently thut it received
even more of a shock through the
terrible torture and mutilation of
Marion Parker by William Hickman, i
When Ruth Snyder and Henry j
Judd Gray used a sash weight to '
slay Mrs. 'Snyder's husband, there
was a prolonged shudder at the outcome
of the triangle.
Then along came pretty Velma
West, a young bride, who killed her
'young husband with a hammer in order
that she might go to a bridge
party which he hadn't cared to attend.
She is on trial for her life
Nit Painesville, Ohio.
Hiram Reed, Illinois farm hand, is
awaiting trial on other charges after
one conviction for bombing. He conceived
the weird plan of putting dynamite
in the school stove so thut
it would explode and blow up the
teacher, lola Bradford, when she
started the fire. The explosion failed
to kill Miss Bradford, who lived to
testify against her former lover. He
had wanted to blow her up in order
to escape a promise of marriage according
to testimony.
Insanity is coming to be the common
defense, where one is offered for
crimes of this type. But of late, juries
have been less ready to accept
the explanation of mental experts.
There is the possibility, too, that
the speed with which recent killers
have been caught and brought to
trial, may serve as a deterrent to further
schemers of a like character.?
Monroe Enquirer.
A frugal postmaster in California
sent Postmaster-General New a ball
of twine eighteen inches high and
five feet in circumference, and weighing
23 Vi pounds. The twine had
been salvaged from letters and packages
sent to his office during 1926.
Responsibility
The superior man, afflicted with
poverty, ill-health or any other handicap
will keep on trying so long us
there is somebody dependent on him
for support.
The common plan, having less
sense of duty and u lower standard
of chivalry, needs something more
than a responsibility to keep him at
his labors in spite of handicaps.
He needs a comrade from whom ho
can draw inspiration and courage.
He needs the consciousness that some
y '
fellow mortal not only depends upon
him but is one with him in spirit.
1 He needs the privilege of loving;
and having found somebody to love,
ne needs the balm and stimulant of
love in return. He needs somebody
who will always understand, who will
always be loyal, who nevA- will doubt,
who never will speak in anger, who
will give in full measure the love his
weakness so eagerly and hungrily demands.
Given such love and such comradeship,
he will rise above his handicaps
and conquer, though he be a common
man; without them he is doomed to
mediocrity and failure.
Only the superior man finds in
himself all the inspiration he needs, ,
and superior men have few friends.? I
Fountain Inn Tribune.
Based upon the theory that the elevation
from the eyes to the highest
point of the head is almost exactly
the same in all persons, regardless
of height, a mirror has been installed
in a store in Portland, Oregon, with a
scale so placed that the figure at the
point where one's eyes are reflected
gives one's height.
NOTICE OF COST CERTIFICATE
OF STOCK
Notice is hereby given thai certificate
of stock No. 63, covering ten
(10) shares of the capital stock of
The Camden Land und Improvement
Company, has been lost or destroyed
and that application will be made by
the undersigned to the said corporation
on the 26th duy of March, 1928,
for a new certificate.
J. DAYTON VOORHEKS.
Camden, S. C., Feb. 9, 1928.
NOTICE
This is to notify all parties concerned
that James Giiffir., sometimes
called James Hill, is a minor, and
has been running away from home
near Lugoff. This will warn all
parties not to harbor-or employ this
boy in any manner. Rural police
are instructed to arrest him if caught
loafing at any time.
A. J. BOYKIN,
His Guardian
March 3, 1928.
More people die of cancer eacn
year than are killed by railroads,
street cars, automobiles, fires, drownings,
machinery, poison, homicide and
suicide combined.
i Pasture
Ready for stock on April
First. Special attention given
to tourists' horses when
desired. For terms apply to
W. D. TRANTHAM,
- Camden, S. C.
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