Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

PREHISTORIC RACE IN CALHOUN CO HAD REACHED CIVIL. ~ATION BEYOND INDIANS Imprint First Made in Mud, Then the Change by Nature to Mud Records Tracks The Carolinian, St. Matthews. After considerable correspondenec with the United States Merchants associations of Boston, New York'and Philadelphia, Mr. A. E. Weston, representing: these associations, was sent to St. Matthews for a conference with the officials of the American Cotton association Mr. Weston is a post graduate of Yale university and is recognized as an authority on agriculture and scientific research. Mr. Weston stated: " I have long wished to visit your section. Charles Kussell came from nly home state of Massachusetts, about 1715, to command a frontier garrison on the Congaree, near where Ganby was afterwards built. After the settlers were strong enough to take care of themselves, the garrison was abandoned, and Charles Russell settled in Amelia Township and became a leading planter. Russell street the principal street in Orangeburg, perpetuates his name. "Moses Thomson, a distinguished man from Pennsylvania, moved to South Carolina and settled in what is I now Calhoun county, .in about 1727, He was promient in the militia and rose to Colonel of the Berkeley county regiment. His son" Wiluam, was conspicuous in the rangers of frontier police, before the Revolution, and dtiring the Revolution distinguished hltsself as colonel of the 3rd regiment of South Carolina Continental tfoops. He was state senator and held manv other positions of trust and honpr in this section. "Through relatives of these people N ' V % JB who still reside in my section of America many years ago I heard of "the devil's track" on the bluff to the Congaree river in what is now Calhoun county. I have always had an especial desire to visit this site. You wiH , rtemember, we are generally taughl that the ocean once extended to Spartanburg. It was my impression, beT A VIV HIIO ^1LC, i/UCl L A ? \J U I U find a track that would confirm evolution?a track made by some prehistoric afcimaL , In atbi% I find that I was mistaken. A careful examination of the so called "devil's track' brings to light the unquestioned fact that this is a track, not cut or carved but made by the imprint of a humar foot in what is now solfd rock. Som< rftiles down the river, on the opposite bluff, imbedded in solid rock, is another track. This, to my mind, es taWishes beyond question, the exis tfence of a pre-historic race of whicl know nothing. It is amazing thai scientific research has not been made for the purpose of throwing addition aJ light on this track that comes dowr to us from the misty ages of the past *' "The man who made this track wen a.sjioe. Close to the track in the solic rock is the track made by his buggy This is proof positive that long be fsre Columbus discovered Americs r' that this section was visited by a mar vfto had reached the stage of civilization when they wore shoes and usee * buggies. It is unreasonable to drav the conclusion that this man was fron a great prehistoric rave who inhabitec this section of the American continent. "Calhoun county indeed possesses ajtemarkable record of the prehistoric past, yet this is known to only a few ofy.your citizens and scarcely beyond the border lines of your county. Ir nte;riative state of Massachusetts, enrolled on a tablet in the public build 'v'.' i i i - I.J -T-.n i.: ings, would De recoraea iun parucul&rs concerning this remarkable prooi of the prehistoric existence of mar on the American continent. In fact, the various historical events have occurred within your borders would be * so recorded. "In addition to the historical events, unusual and record breaking products of agriculture should cor tainly be recorded?and you nave made many enviable records. Outstanding, undeveloped, natural resources should be recorded, and unusual conditions that should attract prehistoric research (like the above mentioned) assuredly should be recorded. The so called "devil's track" wmiM sppm to disnrove some of the strongest teachings in evolution. One vi the best authorities on evolution recently issued the following statement: The Age of Reptiles?When They Dominated Land, Sea and Air By Sir W. Boyd Dawkins * ! > t Artr r>r> +V10 no rfVi X UC illCLV/i jr vj. liiv, V?.x- VU1 revealed by the fossils in the rocks, shows that the animals appear in due order according to their organization. The simplest?the infinite variety of sponges, corals, molluses, etc., constituting the invertebrates?appear in the oldest rocks, and the rest follow? the fishes, the newt tribe (amphibia) [r the reptiles, the birds, the lower mam-1 c mals (metaheria) and the higher mamjt mals (cutheria) that have been the j t masters of the earth from the begin-jj ning of the tertiary period down to t the present day. Man is the lastjt in the long procession through "the,c corridors of time.'' 11 rr1'? ~ ! 1 nc ie n -norurwl in 1 + JL XICT clJiC WA It'pvuto 10 i? ... the ancient history of the earth in- c defiitely remote as compared with the s first apeparance of man. It repre- j \ sents a stage in the evolution of life 2 when reptile were the dominant in- j 1 j habitants of the earth and occupied t j the place now held by the mammalia .< j in the economy of nature. They were ; masters of the land, of the sea, and j ( even of the air. u Britain in the Reptilian Age ! j During the reptilian age Britain', was on the southern margin of a great i j continent, ranging from the high-! j lanus of Scotland to the north and'j - - * ? 1 _ I 1 west into the Atlantic, ana towaras ^ | Sweden and Norway and indefinitely ', towards the pole. The hills of the' Lake district of Wales, Devtm, and < ( Cornwall were islands, and probably Lalso the Pennines and the Mendips. I. 1 Then continent and the islands were; j covered with forests, mostly of coni-jj fers, cyads, and zamiae with an un- J? Horo-rnwth of ferns. jA On this great continent and its \ ' islands there were reptiles great and small, some witft naked scaly skins, ' and others covered with an armor of( j < 1 bony plates and pointed horns. Some j' ; were existing reptilian types, such as' crocodiles -and gavials, while others j ^ are extinct. The latter, possessed of characters no longer found in the livm* * * i ; ing. reptiles, in size rivalled, 11 not surpassed, the largest elephants and, I 4 I | 1 giraifes. Like the mammalia, +heyj consisted of eaters of plarts and eat-jj ers of flesh. Among the former inj. Britain we may note the iguanodon j1 of the Weald of Kent, a giant reptile!' ' living in the forests, measuring 16 i feet high with teeth specially adapted ,i _il ; for feeding on plants, ana wixn a build and gait like a kangaroo. There | ! is also the still larger cetiasaurus, 10 j' 1-2 feet high and 60 feet long, of the jj i oolitic strata of Oxford and Peter-! borough, which probably haunted the |' 1 marshes, rivers and sea shore, feeding t mainly on aquatic plants, with its!! small, conical, singularly inefficient l tppf-Vi. and like the diplodocus of Am-! 1 erica, heavy footed and walking on all fours. These creatures took the f place in their world long afterwards!' ' occupied by the elephants, rhinocer-P oses, hoppotami, and other herbivores * in the world of mammals. ' The most notable of flesh-eating > dinosaurs? the megalosarus? was.1 i specially provided with double edged J - and serrated cutting teeth of the 1 -1 same design as those of the sharp ' " j tOOtn0d Llger OI tut; imuuic a.u<u j jtertiary strata, and it lived upon thej] reptilian herbivores, just as the lions, i: 1 tigers and wolves find their prey in:1 t the ^antelopes, giraffes, deer, oxen andj1 ^ the other living mammalia. j; On the American Continent j1 We may take the above as example^ of the large and varied land fauna J found not only on its margin in Brit I ain, but also in Germany, Belgium ' and France. In the United States j< they are represented by analogous but j 1 more gigantic and more perfect forms 1 11that delight and astonish the Euro-.* ~ ( |pean visitor to the museums 01 iait, i I jNew York, Philadelphia and Wash-ji 1 ington. Some are so large that a dor- j 1 sal vertebra placed on the floor ofj: ' Dr. Marsh's laboratory at Yale raised.' < its sping above my head, and was not ' less than 5 feet, 8 inches in height. , >;The size of the reptile, with its back : bone formed of many such vertebrae,' r may be left to the imagination. I In America, as in Europe, a great i continent extended northwards into - Canada and Greenland towards the j Pole, but it is an open question whe ther, it was united with that of Eu-1 . i : rope in the secondary period. There i is, however, no sign that land reptiles ? migrated from the one region to the other, and consequently there must have been a barrier to migration cither of sea or climate. | While, however, the reptilian mas' tery was undisputed in the secondary period, it must be noted that there ' were the beginnings of mammalian' life on the land in small metateria '(marsupials) and of birds in the mak ing, which have not yet lost their rep tilian characters. The mastery of reptiles in nature was maintained down to the time i when the great interval between the , j ' secondary and tertiary periods. | : "I have visited all of the impori tant agricultural sections of America, in the interest of scientific research, and recently in the interestj of the great mercantile organisations' of the north, who are commencing to! realize the vital importance of agriculture to business. I can frankly | and truthfully state that I have never! visited a section which has greater j j undeveloped opportunities for scien-j i agriculture than has Calhoun i "O county. Here, you can grow any, i crop that can be grown anywhere. | 4,Whcn I started in this work it was! i v ny idea that it was only the citizens, t >f our great cities who failed to un- t lerstand the importance of ajrricul- i ure. I fear very much that the peo- 1 >le living in St. Matthews, like the <. )eople living in the great cities, en- r ;ircly fail to grasp the full meaning i >f our agriculture, and I sincerely t lope that they will carefully read t he following letter which was re- > ently received by the mercantile as-j i iociations which I represent andjf vhich has attracted a great deal of ; t ittention and brought home to thejc )usiness men of these cities, an en-j t ;irely different viewpoint concerning js American agriculture: |1 Is it true that a very great many r )f our captains of industry came ori-1 finally from farms? And if so, why,( s it that so few, apparently, retain! r: i my sympathetic understanding- 01 j4 ?arm life? I believe it will be found I f we go about it without prejudice, 1 ;hat the gulf between city men and ! farmers is created not so much by 1 ictual or imagined class differences < is it is to environment. Men be- :ome so absorbed in business or pol- 1 tics that they seldom give a thought 1 :o the man who produced the steak j1 ;hey eat or the wool in their clothes. I f there chance to be any. Ask a city nan where his meat came from and he vill name some packer. Back of that i le knows nothing of the source. < Mention a farm and most men ' think, instantly, of a place they have >een, or the home of their boyhood. ! They don't picture it as it is in its ' world significance. Imagine the as;onishment of a New York merchant when I told him .that if all the farmAi v 0 + r?+/?c. eVirmlH rlpfido I 2rs in me uimeu owica v.. to go into another business?if they :ould sell all their live stock and J ;rops for just one year, they would lave enough to buy all the railroads in the nation, with all the rolling ?tock and other equipment. If they ivere- to sell all their land also, along I' with the crops and stock, they could! Duy the railroads, all the manufac- turing establishments now on record, all the mines, and all the quarries. It svoijld, indeed, be about an even trade 1 * -11 between the farm property ana .an ( other productive property in' the United States except the purely mer- ; cantile establishments. With their < income from live stock and crops it is figured they could in a single year pay the entire national debt. The investment in agriculture amounts to . ibout SO billion dollars. In 1919 the ] ;alue of live stock and crops aggregated 25 billions. Worth thinking ibout, isn't it? Of course no business man needs ^o be told that an industry worth 80 . millions is too important to be ignored. Business men know that when :rops are poor, business falls off. j; They know that right now farmers are j not?or have not recently been?in ; a buying mood. That makes sales; show up poorly. Think 04 the enormous buying power of cotton, wheat and tobacco which, in 1919 had a farm Va.ue of nearly 5 billion dollars !j Think of the live stock growers whose j products were valued at more than 8 billions! I have mentioned three j ?arwi sixtv of them are jiupo V/IUJ , ? grown on American farms. Don'-t think of a man with a few ! riundred bushels of wheat, or a cal? j or two or a load of hay when you j >, think of the farm. Think of American. agriculture, and what it means to your J business. . Did you know, for in-!, stance, that products of the farm, raw or manufactured, make a larger contribution to advertising space than all L " ' 1 nmi y4 I\EU TIF Why buy a Cheap Tii The FIS ?an KELLY-SPF for about the same m< be able to compare tl Tires with cheaper or the price just Zb rer "ONCE USED" Central Newberry, S. C. jther institutions and industries com- [ >ined? They do. Start with break- ' 'ast foods, if you will, and see how nany you can count in the newspapers and magazines. There are more J han 75 such products. As you gobble i t down some morning do you never | hink, if some hard-handed man in j liL-o vnn lrnn\v \ I vv I <1111cm 11 v. 1II>V, _? V . ...v, .. , ,vhat, there would be* no oats to roll, i 10 wheat or rice to puff, no corn to j lake, no macaroni to?whatever it is j hey do to it? Sugar cured hams, ountry sausuge, chipped beef, baked j jeans, oranges, cotton and wool,,1 ;hocs, leather, sugar, syrup, you j enow the whole lot of them, and | /ouVe been eating and using and t guying and selling, and doing some! ussir.g too, without ever a thought) :o the folks that made the business possible. Think of the industrial and com-| 1 y-x,-v ^ ? f r\ -f tKn Atlanfi/"* I litre* let 1 Ut'V Clt'inilUIIt V/X CUV. .luunuv J Seaboard states. There's something: most business men understand because it's close to them. To provide Mew England enough wheat, on the 3asis of its normal average consumption of 4 1-3 bushels per capita, re-| luires about 40,000,000 bushels a ^ear. New England produced, in 1911), only 50,000 bushels of wheat. That is barely enough to feed its population for one week. I^or the other ">1 weeks of the year, New England iepends upon a steady flow of wheat from the state producing a great surplus. You know what would happen if New England didn't s/et that wheat. It couldn't come from Russia. Not now. You may know how important it is to keep New England well fed, anil wnrkinc everv dav That region means a lot to us with its wool and :otton and leather, and goodness knows what, pouring from the mills and factories, a busy world to clothe. Another confronting thought is this: In these days of open shop ag(Continuted on page six.) 1 NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT! ? - . J I will make a final settlement of j the estate of Jim W. Watts in the j Probate Court for Newberry County, 3. C., on Monday, the 30th day of May, 1921, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon and will immediately thereafter : ask for my discharge as Administra tor of said estate. . j J. HENRY RASORR, Administrator. Newberry, S. C., April I7thv1921. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT Notice is hereby given that I will! make a final settlement of the personal estate of R. Cummings McCartha, deceased, in the office of the Judge of Probate for Nevrberry County, at Newberry, S.*C., at 11 o'clock A. M. on Wednesday, June 1st, 1921, and immediately thereafter apply for a discharge as Administrator of said estate. T. P. McCARTHA, As Administrator of the personal estate of R. Cummings McCartha, deceased. _____ i NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT I will make final settlement of the gstate of Mrs. Louisa F. Zobel, Hel-j cna, S. C., in the Probate Court forj Newberry, S. C., on'Monday, the 23rd day of May, 1921, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon and will immediately ask for my discharge as Administrator of said estate. ' All persons holding claims against said estate will present the same, pro-j vided as reqired by law, to me or to; the attorney in the case, Hon. Geo. J B. Cromer, and all claims not presentDd will be forever barred. All persons indebted to said estate will make immediate payment. OTTO KLETTNER, Administrator. :tion \ IE S ! j re when you can get Best ?K UNGFIELD i :>neye That you may he quality of these ; les, we hcive reduced j Cent. "AIWAYS IJSF.D" JL ~JL JLmJ T T A A ? PS^ ^ ?? ?? Garage Prosperity, S. C. To prevent a cold take 666.?Adv. I ?, <??> | m \ Do Your Children j like CastorOil? i j then why make them take it? Why cling to the old idea that a medicine must be unpleasant in order to be good? Dr. Miles9 Laxative Tablets j TASTE UKE CANDY j ACT LIKE MAGIC | The best authorities say that their main .ingredient "accelerates the peristalsis in the same i way as castor oil." Good for children and adults. Get a box at - j your drug store. Subscribe tp The Herald and News $2.00 a year. Accept ? j| | g No Substitutes gg j n S3! i Ttiedford's 11 BLACK-DRAUfiHT 9 Purely 9 | Vegetable ? | Liver Medicine | mm ^mai a^s&BaHnsissasj : ?J " ' I IFWFIR V f JUJMJ&t r > tooper: Sale Starts W and continues daily { i of our fine Diamonds fy creditors. Remember this sa for creditors who are will be sold to the hi Don't fail to atten have just such an opp< kind at your own pric one of these sales as ever held in INewberr Remember the da1 and continues for sev rT JAS. E. CURRAN, A ... * I *?SSSS Don't ?p; <5 in time of si mprlicine m get well aga depend upc the medicine Bring your tion here an what his or< up of the p< drugs, with and skill, ye reasonably. Mayes Newberry, i ft ?T. ?? ednesday, Jui '* ^ >**<-! ft P nni XL %J CllAVA V < ATA* V??J 1 , Watches, Jewelry, i le is for no other re< as hard pressed for r ighest bidder regard] d this sale as you wil 3rtunity to buy high g :e. It will pay you t it will be the most w y... Valuable prizes { te, Wednesday, June eral days. Jeweler uctioneer. V s / I ire the Spoon ckness. Doses of tust be taken to in, but a lot will >n the Quality of JL W 5 the spoon holds, doctor's prescripd you will get just ler calls for, made jrest and freshest consummate care f pkavrrorl fni* mnet I V/iiaigVU A V/JL A11VU?. Prompt service. Drug Store South Carolina ? ION SALE ( editors ? J 11 11 ne 1 at 3 P. M. :il we have sold enough Silverware, etc., to satis xson than to get the cash noney as we arc. Goods less of cost. 11 probably never again ,rade merchandise of this n each and ever*/ wonderful sale of its kind ^iven d?ily. 1st, 3 P, Mo and 8 P. M., i % iper _J *