MOTORING IN THE DESERT.
Christian Science Monitor.
The deserts of the world are constantly
becoming more and more contracted;
and the motor car is, of
course, one of the reasons why. In
western America, for instance, many
of the great regions that had hardly
been explored when men had to go
afoot, horseback, or by wagon, aro
now easily traversed in comfort in
less than a day by enthusiastic picnic
parties In motor cars. Wherever
<jne lives, whether It be In a mining
camp amid the sagebrush, or at a
ranch where n tiny stream trickles
| down from the mountains to irrigate
n thousand acres, it Is always possible
nowadays to go for a pleasant
r'.de. The stranger from the city may
think, as he looks, from the collection
of brick buildings and shacks that
v form the town, out over the desert,
that there is no place to go; but he's
mistaken. Somewhere out In those
hills that are so blue in the early
morning, there Is a spring with a few
trees around It; somewhere else there
are the ruins of an old stone house
by another water hole and everywhere
there Is the broad country to
ro through, with Its hard, straight
road that required little making.
A desert in America is not usually
a place of mere sand. The sand Is
to be found here and there In the
irrigated regions; but what 's still
barren is usually rather good soil
which lacks only water to make it
productive. Over a track through
this good soil a motor ear can go
about as fast as over a modern concrete
road. That is one reason why,
cen In this new era of road, making,
the concreto has not yet extended
much into the desert. Motoring on
tne desert. nowevcr. is not to no adequately
judged by what ono encounters
on some of the main traveled
highways across the country. The
o'd trails that go almost from nov.
here to nowhere, for a hundred
miles or more away from the smallest
settlements, are sometimes the
best for pleasure traveling. An alkali
flat of Just the ripht kind Is esII
t otally satisfactory for speeding, for
there the wheels of the car hardly
make a dent in the solid surface.
As one speeds over the desert there
is always plenty to see If one Is really
watchful. Idr.ards, locusts and rabbits.
spears of Brass, and areas of
rabbit wood, with perhaps here and
. there a small Joshua tree, which Is
not really a tree at all. but a kind
of yucca, all these are more interesting
from an automobile than from
a train window. Indeed, from the
observation car one would not see
any of these varied details which help
to Rive a zest to the motoring. Prospect
holes and abandoned mine
dumps of the smaller sort, tunnels
and rouBh shafts, with here and there
the remains of a house that was built
of tin cans and rocks, these also still
show something of the old mystery
cf the desert that has mainly passed
away with the broader use of the automobile.
People who have heen prejudiced
"against I ho desert, who have thought
of it as haro and uninteresting to pass
through on tho train, need to motor
hero and there over its actual surface
in order to appreciate it. With all
Its baroness, there is a constant variety
of shape and color, a wonderful
clearness of the atmosphere, and
often n very welcome coolness of the
air, especially at night or in the morning.
Motoring at night on the desert
if, of course, best of all. for then the
eyes of every animal, small or large,
are afire in lite dark: and. one nnd all.
what animals are there are attracted
by the lights of the car. Nobody who
has traveled thus at night could call
the desert really lonely. A ride over
it is quite different from a ride In
a city park; but it is a ride to enjoy
and to remember. Old prejudices
ngainst the desert must, indeed, rapidly
disappenr as its actual nature is
better understood.
Coal May Igist 2,000 Years.
We shall not freeze for quite a
while yet, if the miners keep on digging
coal nnd railroad workers do not
refuse to transport it.
According to the estimate of the
1'nlted States geological survey onefourth
of our anthracite is gone; hut
we have enough left to last us 100
years at the present rate of consumption.
We have in this country enough
coal of other kinds to Inst 4,000 years
^at the present rate of consumption.
Increased consumption, as population
grows, may easily cut that down to
2.000 years' supply.
The Western States have about
two-thirds of our total coal. The coal
of the remaining States. If consumed
at the present rate (f>00 million tons
per year), would last 1.000 years.
Our great smokeless fuel, anthrn
otto, will ho nearly pone half a eontury
from now, if consumption cont'nuea
to Inoroaso, an<l lonp before
that time it will ho so expensive that
only rioh folks ran afford to burn it.
Our proat prnndehildron will have to
ho oontent with somothinp less desirahlo
for domestic use.
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Bread From Rotated Pompcti.
Pompeii and Herculaneum ore us- < ,
ually spoken of together. They were i >
neighboring towns In the foothills of * \
Vesuvius and were together destroyed : ?
by the great eruption of 79 A. D. <
Pompeii was a summer resort. | [
rather like our own Newport, where
wealthy Romans maintained beautiful | [
villas. Herculaneum was more of a j >
business town. We know very little < >
about Herculaneum, but today we j J
may walk about the streets of Pom- , ,
pell and get a pretty fair notion of
what the place was like. ! *
Pompeii was overwhelmed by show- ( >
crs of volcanic ashes?hot. fiery stuff ;
that drove the people out of the city. 1 [
There was plenty of warning and not <
very many lives seem to have been ' 1
logt. Crowds were taken off the beach >
In ships. By day there was darkness <
as of night. Illumined only by the ( J
glare of the volcano, nnd the panic < >
n.ust have been frightful. |
But the ashes did not wholly bury ' *
the town. They fell deep enough T
only to reach the second stories of the
houses, or not much more than that. |
Pompeii was destroyed, but In recent I
years the task of digging It out and
uncovering most of It has not been X
too difficult or arduous to be worth T
v hile from an antiquarian viewpoint.
Herculaneum, on the other hand. A
was burled beneath a flood of lava a
from the burning mountain, it la to- t
day entombed In solid rock, and to 4
disinter it is a praetleally hopeless ?
proposition. Besides, the molten ^
flood must have destroyed it. a
One of the most Interesting things
found in ruined Pompeii was a x
linker's shop, with 48 loaves of bread &
rendy for delivery to customers. Each
loaf was stamped with the baker's 4
name. X
Im|M>rtnnt News Bulletin. |
"Marketing Cotton in South Onro- 4
linn" is the title of extension bulle- 4
tin 4 0 Just published by the exten<don
service of Olemson college to aid 5
in the cnmpnlRn for the promotion &
of proper grading, warehousing and
marketing of cotton. The publico- 4
tion contains discussions of cotton ^
guiding, the necessity of warehouses,
tho cost of construction and opera- 4
tion of warehouses, n synopsis of the ?
State warehouse laws, the coopers
tive agreement recently made be- 4
tween the extension service, the bu- w
renu of markets, the warehouse com- ^
mlssioner ami the South Carolina 4
Cotton association, and copies of half ^
.1 hundred letters from farmers show- *
Ing what they think of the otllclal 4
cotton grading service. Copies of the $
bulletin may be obtained from county x
agents or by writing the extension 4
service of the division of publico- $
tions. Clemson Collegp, S. C. 4
Vice lTesiilent of S.%. J
franklin i?. iiooseveu, Democratic &
01 ndldnte for vice president. was *
naked whether If elected at 38. he Y
would he the youngest vice president $
Of the United States. He did not ?
Know, but hoped some of his friends __
wculd look the matter up.
John Cabell Breckenrldge was
elected vice president on the Democratic
ticket with James Ruchan-ut
in 1856. He assumed office March
4, 1857, when he was 36 years, one
month and 14 days old. When Breckenrldge
completed his term he was
candidate for president ns representative
of the Southern Democracy. The
same year he wns elected to the
United States senate, hut soon afterward
joined the Confederate army,
l'roni January to April. 1865, he was
sicretury of war Itr the cabinet of
Drosident Davis. He died in I^exington.
Ky., May 17. 1875.
J. T. Young yesterday attended the
J'athe Dealers' convention in Charlotte.
Mr. Young was accompanied to
Charlotte by Mrs. Young, who spent
the day In that city with relatives.
William J. Ilryan is being urged by
the national prohibition convention.
now In session in IJncoln. Neb., to H
iiccept that party's nomination for
the presidency. Friends of Mr. Rry
an say he will not accept the nomination.
Parley P. Chritensen, farmer-labor
candidate for the presidency, urges
tit i.iid illinium ill join II 111 111 II
request to tho president that he pardon
Eugene V. Debs, socialist candidate
for the presidency, who Is
nerving a term in the Atlanta penitentiary.
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POH SAEE CHEAP?Berkshire
sow with eight pigs; six thoroughbred
Poland-China pigs; eight Duroc and
Berkshire mixed breed pigs. W. II.
Windell, Oak drove Farm, Fort Mill,
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FOR SAI.K?Two Jersey milch A
cows, oiio ersey male 14 months old.
one new rubber tired top buggy, one
nice combination horse. E. K. Oarrl- T
son, Pineville, N. C.
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into?9:25 P. M.t May 20th, to 1:5 0 p.
i?tos Plowed?16.8 acres, fi 1-2 to 7 1-2
minutes.
mo?15 hourso, 4 4 minutes (not tnclud
ters which had slipped during the
'uel Consumption?Approximately 2 Rail
til added?0.
Vater added? 0.
'iehl?Clover, rye n? n rover crop; ; I
full of molHture; heavy, inter mill
8tnek bottom choked plow scvei
24 HOUR TRACTOR D]
At COLUMBt
?uto?4:45 P. M.. June 7th to 4:45 P.
\<tch Plowed?24.72 acres, 7 1-2 to 8 ir
line?24 hours (less SO minute** for nd
strainer in pipe line as one tank <
Fuel Consumption?54 Rallons of ker?.*<
HI added?0.
'leld?< >Id pnsture unplowed for 27 year
'osl |?er Aere?About .15 cents for f uel
Bailes Lun
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inches deep, one acre every 56
inR 20 minutes for adJustinR coulniRht).
una of kerosene per acre.
larRe trees in middle of tield; soil
lent showers Friday morninR; old
-al times; broke one break-pin.
emonstration
rs, n. j.
M., June 8th.
iches deep.
justinR coulters and cleanlnp fuel
?i Kerosene wan extremely dirty.)
>ne or 2.1 Kallons per acre.
r, grass 12 inchett deep.
and oil. . ! . !l
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We will soil "Cnrhnrrt" Mvcrnlk
% "Old Hickory" and X. & \V. Ovora
I All Slippers at 25 per cent. off.
$:i.00 pair on men's and ladies',
children's. Buy now. something new
Brand" kind.
tAll Straw Ilats at 2.r> per cent. ofT,
sides the above mentioned, we will sj
^ may happen to need.
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"good things to eat.
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* Bread 1,6
t Cheese 7
Ham... 6
4 Steak. 2
^ Eggs 2
| Eat twice as mud
cut down your Yv
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+ drates, Fats and Water. A
only food containing all of t
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ami from 75c to $1.50 pair on ^
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cheapest food.
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SO Calories
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