IVERPOOL OF AFRICA "
Is Outlook For The City Gf
Dakar.
. DY A PORT OF IMPORTANCE
Stato of Savagery Fifty Years
, Now Making Rapid Strides
g the Path of Civilization?
x : Africans Who Would Pass for
S ricans.
knr. which Is scldorrt heard
promises to be a focal point In
xpected rivalry of European
ies with the United States for
with South America?a possi#
that everyone Is hearing a great
% bout just now," says a bulletin
he National Geographic Society,
sudden interest in Dakar, the
n states, arises from dispatches
of proposed Paris to Brazil and
J to Brazil rail and water routes,
iso of a contemplated trans-Ata'eroplane
flight from Dakar to
nbuco, Brazil
fiance at the map will show why
/ holds a strategic position for
American communication," says
illetln. "The distance from Dan
the tip of Cape "Verde, to
nbuco, the eastermost city of
louth American continent, is
.716 miles as compared with 3,les
from New York to Liverpool,
eady Dakar is a port of prime
ance for vessels which ply beEuropcan
ports and either
America or southern Africa,
nizing this fact the French have
red the harbor/ with its naval
ry dock, arsenal, torpedo boat
and facilities 'for transferring
from boat to train. Work on a
harbor and a larger dry dock
re under way.
kar also is important-to its own
/ land, for it is , the seat of adration
for all the French possesin
West Africa, which include,
Senegal, of which Dakar is tHe
city, French Guinea, the Ivory
Dahomey, French Sudan and
k tania.
e visitor today would find a
ig city of about zo.uuu persons,
vide, well laid out streets, a large
cal school, hospitals and workand
he might have trouble
ling himself in Africa were it
?r the preponderance of swarthy
s as compared with only about
Frenchmen.
js than half a century ago
lers brought back different .reThen
children could have been
unning naked about the unkept
i, and eating, pig-like, from the
bowl. Mothers performed their
j with babies strapped, astride,
their backs, and one writer rethat
children could be. bought'
vflling mothers for a few f^ahes;
i he did not k state what one
want with the purchase,
j men, literally, wore rings on
Ingers and bells on their toes,
mention amulets, beads, coins,
surprising assortment of trlnkistly
regarded as charms,
the Senegalese natives are far
avage, except in their ability to
is many American boys learned
>served them in France. The
African tribes, such as the Berc
Serer, the Rulah , and the
igo, all of which are reprcsentSenegal,
are among the most
ed of the African natives.
Berbers, for example, have a
. dating back to pre-historic
which mystifies ethnologists,
ire believed, by some experts,
t been at one time the masters
Mediterranean. Today many of
vere they attired as we are,
pass for Americans. Their
light, and some, of them arc
y times have the Berbers been
cd. driven out of their homeand,
like the Jews, have bcrangers
in new lands, but they
maintained their racial identi
?1 1 oi.~l.4U. ~
x pn>MU?u vital uuin wuta, auu n
^ nt love 0^ freedom. Their
like those of ancient Sparta
jdern Russia. Jtiave fought hatbands'
sides, and their fnoralibc
judged from the fact that
th penalty is administered for
f. They have what amounts to
* *1 male suffrage, through an
y of all males, and the cquiof
universal military train\g,
ach boy is equipped, when
with arms which he must be
> use until he is sixty,
avice can tell a light skinned
from a Wolof, 'black of the
Both Dakar, and St. Loujs,
capital of Senegal, are in the
region. These ebony hued
rship animals, revere Vsharks
,y, but their poetic imaginallustrated
by the ceremony
^served in crowning-the king
r, an old state recognized by
ich government. After election
arch is presented with a vase
* ft PA ft 11 4 nl.mla
.? ciiv; ui an mt |M(iuio '
i the kingdom, signifying that
id of the land.'
akar, too. towering head and
a above the French, and well
e natives, may be seen Scrers. i
jrship holds the snake in ven- j
and they belive in transmi- |
t\f CAllta WlV f/,At I' i i A fl V. f\! I
common height for them,
tps the most intelligent of all ;
gaiese natives arc the Fulahs. j
lk tales betray lofty ideals and
nagery that is comparable |
ly Greek and Norse lore. Their |
nship is famous, and their i
noted for daring and valor. |
liigence of their women, and
cct accorded them, is attest- I
?. e proverb. "Let a female slave ,
household and. she soon be- j
j ist rosy."
is the IJe'rbers whom Gen. i
~ YANKEE TROO
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A photograph taken from the roof
I the monument can be seen coming the
doughboys.
Faldherbe, the French governor, had
to Subdue In the fifties qf the last
century, before he could accomplish
the inland advance of the French and
assure protection for the coast settlements.
Thus he paved the way for
the founding of Dakar, in 1802. That
city's commercial importance dates
from the building of a railway line
connecting it with St. Louis, 163 miles
to the northeast." \
AGE OF CATTLE.
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Department of Agriculture Gives Valuable
Information on Subject,,
The department of agriculture has
issued a bulletin, "Determining the
Age of Cattle by the teeth," rrom
which the following Is taken:
"The age of cattle can be approximated
closely by the appearance, development
and subsequent wear r of
their second Incisor teeth. Cattle haV-e
eight incisor teeth, all-in the lower
jaw. In the calf at birth two or more
of the temporary or first incisor teeth
are present. With the first month the
entire eight incisors hjfve appeared.
"As the animal approaches two!
years of age the center pair of tempoitry
incisor teeth or pinchers aro
! replaced by the permanent pinchers
I which at two years attain full development.
"At from fwo and a half to three
yeiro TOO permanent first intermediates
are cut and are usually'fully developed
at three years.
' '"At three and a half years the sec
ond intermediates or. laterals arc cut.
They arc on a level wittr the first, intermediates
and begin to wear at four
years.
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The tire it to
17 years to bu
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of Buckingham palace, with the .Victoria
United States troops. Passing around ti
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"At four and a half to five years the
corner teeth are replaced, the animal
at five years having: the full complement
of incisors with the corners
fully developed.
"At five to six years there is a leveling
of the permanent pinchers, the ,
pinchers usually being leveled at six
and both pairs of intermediates partially
leveled and the corner Incisors
showing wear.
"Frdm seven to eight the pinchers
are notieeably worn; from eight to
nine the middle pairs, and by ten years
the corner teeth.
"After six years the arch gradually
loses its rounded contour and becomes
nearly straight by the 12th
year. In the meantime the teeth' have
gradually, become triangular in shape,
distinctly separated, and show the
progressive wearing to stubs."
V
? C. C. Edwards, head of a business
college in High Point, N. C., was acquitted
in municipal court Monday,
when he was tried on'a charge of assaulting.
Miss Olivia Preston, a student
in the college. According to the
evidence the young woman tried, to
create dissatisfaction in the college and
Edwards took her by the arm and i
led her out. Technically under the North
Carolina law if a man Vlaces
his hand op a female he is guilty of 1
an nssault .but tjie judge ruled .that 1
Edwards had a right to run his own
college and if the woman would not ]
get out when ordered he had a right 1
to put her out. i
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? Camp Shelby at Hattiesburg, Miss.,
is to be ^bandoned Jay the government 1
on September 30. 1
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PEACE PARADE^
monument In the foreground. Behind
a nfntiio nn tho lpftv arft BlHft Ynnlf<??
HIS FIRST TRAIN RIDE.
Greenville Mountaineer Came to Rock
Hill For Trial.
Mark Bryant, silver-locked, three
Bcores in ago and of feeble step,
boarded the train in Greenville for
Bock Hill, where he was to be tried
on the charge of making whisky
contrary to the laws of the .land.
Other prisoners were carried on the
same train by United States Marshal
C. J. Lyon but It was different with
the aged mountaineer for in his
three score years he had 'hever before
ridden on a train.
In -spite of the fact' that he had
been literally snatched away from his
little family back in the mountains,
Bryant enjoyed the ride. He expressed
surprise at many thing3 on the
train, but none more than the fact
that meals were served] on the cars.
In his years he never-jiad heard ol
that and it was almoatffio much for
him to believe with hid Mvn eye^. now
weakened by years of peeping through
the coves of .the Blue Ridge.l
But whatever Bryant's Impressions
might have boen on the trip to Rock
Hill, he did' not have opportunity to
tell Marshal Lyon what he thought
of the return trip. Bfryant did not
return to his Greenvilli,'county home.
The sentence of the cojut was that
he serve a year and. Jf-dnv in the
Federal prison in AtlantA and in company
with a deputy marshal he was
taken to Atlanta Saturday night. But
not until he had called Marshal Lyon
iside.
"Marshal, I ain't done nothin' and I
lin't knowed nothin' but make licker
ill of my life. My daddy made It and
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sal Cord
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that built
ichable cycle tire,
natic auto tire, the
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ful non-skid, the
able rim, and the
casing?would not
re until absolutely
is tire was a disn
tire making.
; are the result of
md tests which
muous since lyui.
esultof 17 years of
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nf imnrnrrnniinnr
vi uiipicgiiaLuig g
bber gives greater reir
wear. Add to this
eat over-size of Miches,
the superiority of
'reads and the fairness
id you know why we
elin Cord as the best
y man. (
L COURTNEY
iTORK, S. C.
W//ll/lbmm^S
I suppose my granddaddy did too. It
was about all that we could do with
the com that we made," he told Marshal
Lyon.
The old man's voice almost faltered
as he continued:
"But Marshal, I have a favor to
ask of you. I ain't complaining at the
sentence of this here court. Hut I
want you to go up to my home and
bring my children and family to town
if you can get them any work to do.
They don't know nothing but them
mountains and I don't want them: to
be raised as I have been. Won't you
see if you can't get them a job in
Greenville, where they can see something
beside those hills all of theli
4 days?"
Marshal Lyon assured the aged
mountaineer that he woiild do what he
could toward bringing his family tc
Greenville and securing, work fo?
them.
"And one thing more, Marshal,'
Bryant continued, "here is something
that I want you ^to give, to the old
lady. She and thq children will need
it, and maybe it will help thfem from
following in my footsteps." Fumbling
in an inside pocket, Bryant produced
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; two ten-dollar bills which he gave tq
, Marshal Lyon with the request that
they be given to his wife. Turning to
tlie waiting officer, Bryant was oft and
ready to begin his sentence. He was
ready to begin,'the second train ride of
? his life but this time the trip led away
from his home instead of to it.
According to; Marshal Lyon, Bryant
[ 1b one of the most picturesque chari
acters that hasi been in fthe toils of
. the law in some time. Hje is a rem
t nant of the tS*po which formerly liv>
ed in the mountains but which now
i has almost passed away. He and his
i family resided in tbt! upper section
. of the (county more (than a mile from
v any road and where the only means
i of travel wtire diking and horse[
back riding.
, In passing sentence, on Bryant (W
, presiding judge tstated that if the
. prisoner's conduct was such that lie
merited it ' a parole rtould be rccom,
mended' within ' three months.' Bry,
ant received a sentence of ana year
| and a day in Atlanta prison.
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ed States Steel corporation met in
I New York, last Tuesday and remain)
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ed in conference for about an hour.
At the close of the meeting Elbert H.
Gray, chairman of the board of directory
who presided, was asked If the
threatened strike had been discussed.
He refused to answer directly but remarked:
"The wave of Bolshevism may
.yet strike us." When Mr. Gray's attention
was called to claims of the union
leaders that the steel workers were
100 per cent organized, he reiterated
his previous statement that according,
to His information not more than IS ^
per cent, of the corporation's employes
were union men." However, he
added, "I do not" believe in denying
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| tilings i nave no knowledge or." in
I regard to the attitude of the Independent
stocl manufacturers in the event - 1
of a strike Mr. Gray declared he
rather felt they would welcome It. Mr.
Gray and President Farrell, whos^tso
was present at the conference, both
denied that thepe was any particular
significance to the meeting which they
declared was merely the regular gath- ?
erlng of the committee. . ,
i ?/a. car/Kit cotton containing thirtyBvo
bales was destroyed by Are at
Blackvilfe, Sunday night.
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