The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 06, 1935, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8
Man Trapped In Well
Ten Days Rescued
North WUkesboro, Dec. ltobcrt
Dyson, 42, resident of the Boomer emotion
of Wilkes county, today owes his
life to a dog.
Dyson, according to report^*, disappeared
from his home Friday a week
ago. News of his disappearance was
kept quiet by his family and the officers
of the county as foul play was
suspected.^ But this morning several
young men of the community were
going through the woods and had
several dogs with them. As they
neared an old sawmill place about a
frenrrr ttnr Dyson tiome~anfl on n
mountain, the dogs approached an old
well and began to sniff,
f The men uiso came to the well,
which was about 26 feet deep but
dry. Tliey looked down and saw a
human being. Further investigation
proved it to be Dyson, help was summoned
and Sheriff W, H, Homers was
notified to come to the scene and
bring Coroner I. M. Myers with him.
When the officers arrived it" was
found Dyson was yet alive, although
he had been without food and water
for ten days. Dyson was able to speak
faintly to those at the top qf the
well, afi'd quickly asked for watdr.
Soon he was rescued from the well
with the uid of blankets and a rope,
given a small amount of stimulant
and a little food, then rushed to the
Wilkes liospithI here, where lale today
he was reported as being vory
weak bUt with a good chance to regain
IiIh health. Dyson Is said to
have been drinking at the time he disappeared
from his homeland it is
believed he wandered away from his
home and as be walked through the
woods, stumbled in the well.
As he fell into the well, a pine stick
fell In also and Jio Rsi?]_ihls stick
in digging out holes in the side of
the well In an attempt to get out,
coming within eight feet of the top
at one place,
Dyson Is 42 years of age and has
a wife ami several children.
Asks For Help
On New Project
The National Uuide, a projoet of
the W. 1'. A. has been started hi
South Carolina. A representative
from the Columbia office was In town
Thursday lirst visiting Mayor Osborne
as the sturtlng point for assembling
material about our historic
town and section.
He informs us that as a background
he had read the llrst volume of "Historic
Camden'.' by Kennedy uud Kirkland
and which was published in
l!M)f>. He still bus to read the second
volume. With tills base lie visited us
many of the noted places and buildings
as possible, making many notes
to be incorporated in his report. As
much material may have been discovered
since 1905 will any Cumdenite
please place such material or any
information of uny kind reluting to
Camden and vicinity, at his disposal
by leaving It with Mayor Osborne?
The hearty cooporatlon of all Is requested
in niuktng this a success aud
bringing to the attention of the Nation
the extremely Interesting, historic
and cultural background of our
towu,.which will be reflected In more
visitors, we hope, thUB giving us additional
opportunities to extend more
widely than ever true Southern hospitality.
The niunlcpal government at Tampa,
Fla., shows a surplus of ?418,831.15
for the fiscal year ended May
31, 1935, according to Mayor Chancery.
Arrangements have been made for
thb sale of a membership on the New
Vork Cotton Kxchange for |12,500.
'JThjU Is over t^ie last one sold.
THE STORY OF ETHIOPIA
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Massive Barrier Haa Isolated Nation
For Many Centuries*
1
Washington, D. C ^Ethiopia's tor
! rain, over which' any 'land troops invadliiK
the country must pass, Ih de?
scribed vividly by Ij. B. Huberts In au
article In the September. 1B35, National
Geographic Muguzlue. lie also tells
of the people and their customs.
"Ethiopia's population has been variously
estimated ut from live and a
half to twelve millions," writes Mr.
Roberts. "1 believe about seven roll
lion is more nearly correct, although
no census has been taken. Officially,
Ethiopia Ih a Christian country; but
within the confines of the empire
there are also Moslems and pagans.
"In size Ethiopia comprises about
424,000 square miles or Is nearly nine
times as large as rfew York state.
"West of Eritrea and French Bomallium!
there is an Ethiopian desert
belt 100 miles wide; its lava formations
resemble Arizona mulpulu country
ut "its worst. The dry season
strikes here with terrific force; wuter
holes are far apurt.
"In north and central Kthlopiu ure
live Christian provinces: Tlgre, Amhara,
(Jojjain, Wallo and Shoa; tQ the
southwest Is Kafu, the home of coffee
which took ita name therefrom; farther
south and east ure smaller provinces
conquered by Emperor Menellk
II. ' * ' ;
"West of the desert is one of the
world's most striking topographical
foatures-^an escarpment rising u mile
or more above the urid lowlands. This
massive barrier bus isolated Ethiopian
mountain dwellers from the outside
world for centuries.
"These highlands extend west from
the custom escarpment some 200
miles, to aiv equally steep slope on
the west. Much of the iuku between
the western escarpment nnd the Sudan
border Is unmapped, but it Is
known thut this lowland Is densely
forrostod and the soil Is the black,
di-oasy, gumbo type. In the east and
west lowlands, heat is terrlllc; on the
highlands, which vury from 8,000 to
nearly 15,000 feet above ihe Red Sea,
It is generally cold.
"Twodistinct seasons exist?a heavy
rainy season lusting from June until
the end of September, and u dry
season for the remaining eight
months.
"llailstoneH are -a menace; often
the stones ure so large, that they cripple
mules in a caravan. They usually
occur In December and January. I
saw the ground covered a foot deep
with hailstones that did not melt for
two days.
"Time means nothing here. The
'Ishl nahga* ('yes, soon') of Ethiopia
Is even more common than the 'manana'
of Mexico.
"Highland Ethiopians are essentially
an agricultural people. Teff, one
of the dwarf varieties of millet, is the
princlpul crop. Some maize Is cultivated,
as well as barley and chick
peas. Pepper Is grown extensively
and used dully on meat and bread.
Cattle are large, and thousands of
sheep graze on the hills.
"Village life Is placid. The people
are content with few possessions. Men
spend much of the day In the "fields
emu jci imv? pit'niy or lime ror gossip.
Women are modest; they work
steadily, yet not too hard.
"No newspapers are known, but all
news is broadcast at the markets,,
each village having Its weekly market
day.
"In the vicinity of Addis Ababa,
coins and the paper money issued by
the Hank of Ethiopia are used as
mediums of exchange. In the Interior.
however, salt bars, which have a
trade value of about half a .Maria
Tluyesn thaler, are a more desirable
c iii ii'iii \ than silver coins.
"Scmiihern Ethiopia is reported to
liavi lions. Many types of antelopes!
an 'o tonnd iti the high Anise ;
Icduntr;. and il>e\ in the mountains
ft north* -rn Time; but in Shoo and
th-j i'in e.i'in is scare. There are a
leu .small gaxelles; and hyenas laugh
inmhe niuht. but hide during the day.
Haboons and little monkeys tire plentiful
and respond quickly to decent
treatment. In tlie lagoonlike reaches
of the HI lie Nile, as well as in the
lake proper, there are herds of hippopotami.
1 saw as many as fifteen
at one time enjoying the water.
"Forests- along the Sudan frontier
shelter elephants, lions, and leopards.
"Hv far the most important factor
| in the life of the people oT Eiluopia's
l highland country is their church.
{'There is a church on almost every
hill, and on every sightly piece of
land. It has been estimated that at
the present time there are between
K? and IS thousand recognized churches
in the empire.
"Churches are built in groves of
trees and arc circular, with successive
round enclosures where all ranks
Ulio people, the deacons, and the
priests) have definite stations. Location
of doors is prescribed by custom;
there being no windows, tho interiors
are gloomy. Entrance for the priests
is on the east, for the men on the
north; doors for women open to the
south.
"Priests may marry once, engage
in business, administer church-owned
land* lend money, end set ae jndges
in disputes. They dally hold serrlcas
of prayer and chanting, and thefr
fasts are long and severe."
KNOW ANY 'BIGGER?
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Quite a long time ago J|fcn W- Morrison
of TemTaeola, Fh?., waa' let In
<u? a secret which he now paeaea on
tl you In the following tale. Frunk
Jdhqsou used to rniae watermelons;
not uny more though. All he does
now Is loaf around, living on the
money he made four years ago, and
telling how it all happened. It seems
that when he set out his crop that
yeur he wanted to see which end of
his 40 acres was producing the better
crop, so he took an old black log he
found in the barn and put it in the
log was one of the inany queerly
shaped pieces that had beeu washed
from no one knows where aud left
on his farm during that big flood in
'71.' Hut be soon found out it wasn't
a log at all. It wag a giant watermelon
seed, It sprouted, grew a
huge vine and produced just one watermelon.
liy the time the melon was ripe,
however, It took over a hundred men
and several teams of horses to load
It on six flat cars which were specially
hired,to haul it.* Then all the men
got on tligT^train to help unload it In
town.. When the train hit that hairpin
curve down by the river, It was
travelling so fast It slung the melon
off and broke It Into small pieces.
Frank was mad as a wet hen and
vfas cursing the train crew good and
proper ^hen he suddenly had an idea.
The seeds were enormous, so he bad
the men cojlect them and make rafts
of them. They word then floated down
the river to the saw mill and sold for
$400,000. To-this day nobody knows
they weren't real ebony logs, except,
of course, me and Frank and the men
who helped get them to the mill.
Frank saved a couple of the seeds
and will be glad to give them to anyone
who will tell him a bigger one.?
The Pathfinder.
HELP F UL H1N T S *
Potatoes to be baked ih the shin
will cook quicker if they are diiod
before being placed in the oven.
Linoleum can be cleaned with alcohol.
A pinch of salt added to very sour
fruits while cooking will reduce the
amount of sugar needed to sweeten
them.
Heels retain their color and flavor
better if cooked with the skins on.
Mince-meat in a hollo wed-out apple
(baked or raw) will prove as popular
with the family as minco-ineat pie.
Green vegetables are bettor if boiled
fast In very little water with the
lid off, while root vegetables should
be boiled slowly with tho 11(1 on the
container.
Egg stains can be removed from
tajile linens by soaking in cold water.
?The Pathfinder.
Nearly 100 arrests for drunkenness
and Its effects, at Greenville, on Saturday
night, broke the all time record
there for drunkenness. Greenville
voted for the repeal of prohibition In
this state to stop drunkenness, it is
recalled.
[Raising Frogs Now
*1 Booming Business
The jiiocxly, deep base voice of the
frog resounds throughout the country
not from hit* own habitat but from
artificial home* conducted by enterprising
persons for their own profit.
The promise of rich returns from a
few pairs of breeds has paused hum
drcds to pause and debate whether to
plant carrots and potatoes in their
backyard or to dig a pond and put
in giant frogs.
Kven the mention of a frog farm
~w6Uid umu(6 moit persons iMcxor &
bit, but those who are serious about
the matter say the industry is nothing
to laugh at. 'They point out that
just one pair of breeders lay more
than 10,000 eggs a year, and giant
frogs that weigh up to three pouuds
at maturity sell for $0 a dozen on the
big markets.
Using a little simple arithmetic, one
can find that the inon^y-muklng capacity
of Just one puir of frogs ryounts
up to moro than $2,000, which is a
figure worth a second glance.
Frog enthusiasts say there is more
to be excited about than mere money
possibilities. Frogs eat insects, minnows,
and crawfish?found around
brooks and streams in any neighborhood.
So all the farmer has to do to
feed the frogs is to capture a stock
of these creatures anil place thorn In
frog ponds, and their offspring will
make frog food.
Another Important feature about the
business is its adaptation to small
areas. An ordinary backyard is all
that's necessary to begin. Of course,
if a portion wishes to operate on a
big profit-making scale, he should
have at least an acre or two for his
farm.
Most'beginners. howeVtr, begin with
a backyard pond and expand later as
they guin experience. A marsh or
swamp Is entirely unnecessary, be
cause artificial ponds serve the purpose
equally well and the stock can
be controlled better under these conditions.
The usual layout of a frog farm
consists of three ponds, one for breeders,
another for tadpoles, and a third
for growing frogs. The breeder pond,
35x10 feet, houses h!x to eight puirs,
of frogs permanently, winter and summer.
The tadpole pond, which is
really an Incubator for the eggs, is
10x 1feet. The growing pond usually
consumes the rest of the backward.
Work on a frog farm is simple.
When the eggs are laid in the breeder
pond, which is any time between
spring and autumn, the attendant
dips them out with a screen - and
| places them gently in the tadpole
pond. There the sun hatches them
90 per cent into tiny, black tadpoles
less than a quarter of an inch long.
Tadpoles feed on vegetation, table
scraps and anything else they can
get in the water.
About four months after the eggs
are laid the tadpoles begin to "sprout
legs." This Is the time when they
are seined out and put into the growing
pond, where they are fed minnows,
insects and crawfish until they
I measure four inches or more in body'
length. Then they are considered
ready for market. The usual time for
growing a marketable frog is a yeat
to 18 ntonths, depending on climatic
conditions.
The most valuable frog is the "jumbo,"
which measures eight, inches in
body length and stretches out to more
than 18 Inches, weighing more than
three pounds, tl takes two to three
years, however, to get frogs to the
jumbo size, which accounts for most
of the frogs reaching the market when
much smaller.
Arguments in favor of frog culture
sound logical. The initial cost is
small, being confined mostly to fenc|
ing material and the, price of breeders,
i Nature furnishes the other equipment,
! which can be had for the trouble of
j gathering it along the streams and
j ponds in any vicinity^
j Reports of renewed enthusiasm are
heard all over the country by thoso
who haw tried the new business and
found It to be unusually profitable.
One factory in New Orleans does
. virtually nothing but can frogs, and j
in the peak of the season as many
as 10,000.000 'frogs go to their doom
to appeal the appetites of thoso who
iove the tender white meat of tho
creatures.
Herbert Stanley, 55, a tobacco farmer.
is In Jail at Trenton, N. C. He
admits he killed his father, Edward
Stanley, 81, because "he didn't give
me and my stepmother enough freedom
around the house." The stepmother
Is in Jail at Kinston, N. C , in
connection with the killing. She says
she* wouldn't marry hor step-son. who
is UhmSTflea. He says he would be
willing to marry his step-mother. He
blames the step-mother and Insists
' that she had been after him for a
( whole year to kill his father. She
1 says she didn't
The DuPont Rayon company and
' the DuPont Cellophane company at
1 Old Hickory, Tenn., have announced
h "iti upward adjustment 61 hourly
wages," affecting about 6,600 employ'
es. The annual payroll of the two
planta la about M.000,000.
The widow o? tEe late President
Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. Edith Kermlt
Roosevelt, is reported sefiously
ill at Glen Cove, N. Y. She is 74 and
last week incurred a leg fr&cture In
a fall.
Warning against a potential shortage
of merchant ships in war emergencies.
Secretary Roper on Monday
night, projected the possibility of government
ownership of the merchant
Marine conference in New York.
The estate of Lou Tellegen, actor,
who died in Los Angeles, Cal., in October,
1934, was valued at $300 in letters
of administration issued in New
York this week to his widow, Julia
llorne Tellegen.
It was estimated that 100.000 people
went hunting- in North Carolina
Thanksgiving day.
Capt. H. D. Folwler, aged 103, tl^|
oldest alumnus of Wake Forest cfl
lege who graduated there in 1857,
dead at Duarte, Calif. !
The National Safety Council, heaH
quarters in Chicago, will begin Jan^H
ary 1, a nation-wide drive to cut a^H
tomobile highway accidents., Alreacfl
nine governors have assured the coufl i
cil of their cooperation, *nd road of^H
cials of- ten other states have Joinfl
for the campaign to continue for j
years. It is expected that officials i^B
80 state and 800 cities of the counti^B
will join the movement.
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Carnegie Portrait Presented
To Libraries for Centenary
ANDREW CARNEGIE
A8 a part of the Andrtw>Caf negle centennial celebration, the Carnegie
Corporation of New York la presenting to all Carnegie libraries In
the United States and the British Dominions and Colonies, a reproduction
of a portrait of Andrew Carnegie by Luis Mora, framed tor permanent
display. The above la a picture of the Mora portrait.
Between 1881r when he built Me first library In Dunferrtillne, Scotland,'
and 1917, when hie library gifts ceased, Carnegie donated 2?11 publlo
libraries tn the English opeaktng world. Of these 1,9** were tram Hi
the United States. Carnegie eras born In Dunfermline, November 9ft,
1839. The Carnegie centennial celebration held In the United.
States November tft. tf and^ST.
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in
"red salute"
with Hardte Albright, Ruth Donnelly,
Cliff Edwards and Gordon
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Tom Tyler in a mlle-a-minute acj
tlon filled Western
"THE FORTY-NINER"
Extra .Special: "Keystone Hotel"
Also Comic Cartoon and Buck
; Jones Serial
LATE SHOW 10:30 Sally Eilers in"
"ALIAS MARY DOW"
~M^Nl)AY~a^^EsbAY
" DECEMBER 9 and 10.
Thrill to romance with this bittersweet
drama of three who loved
and ulniost lost! Sweeping on to
new fame together? Eredric
March, Merle Oberon and Herbert
Marshall in
"THE DARjC ANGEL"
Enchanting in beauty, breathless
in its exciting drama !
Extra: "Our Gang Follies of 1936"
: WE DN ES DAY7~DEC. 11.'
James Dunn, Arline Judge, Raymond
Walburn and Charles Ray in
"WELCOME HOME"
Grand entertainment throughoVit
and you'll roar with delight. j
thu^day'i^ftirday'
DECEMBER 12 and 13.
Heroes and lovers all! They live
again to ride and fight for love
and king!
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The world's most loved adventure
story leaps to life as you would
have it live in your memory
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2:00 'TIL 7:00
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With , BOB STEELE
Comedy: Roseoe Ates In
: "IN THI8 CORNER"
. 4th Chapter of TOM MIX In
. "MIRACLE RIDER"
saturday night show?
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SYLVIA SIDNEY in
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"the last outpost"
With Cary Grant and Claude Wains.
Comedy: "FIFTY DOLLAR BILL"
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