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^ w f . A ' Established 1891. THE JACKSON HIGHWAY. I mm Koad Named for -South Carolinian Almost Finished. If the spirits of those who have passed on find. any interest and satisfaction in earthly progress and accomplishment, then the soul of Uen. Andrew Jackson ('Old Hickory") must glow in pritle of fulfillment?a^ter long waiting?on looking down upon the new visible line of communication between Chicago and New Orleans, says a writer in the Dearborn independent. Near in g completion is the Jackson high* way, a road-building project be I... t ^ T 1 .. ?iiu uy uen. (juctwsuii muic man u century ugo. - ? , It seems strange?among u people boasting rapid development?" that a helpful, needed highway fiom the Cireat Lakes to the Gulf region, the southern reaches of which were begun -in 1816, should ? not be finished in 1922. But such is a fact. Yet all along the 1,100-route interest has been stimulated and work has progressed to a point from which completion _ within tttejioming year is an easy (possibility. Bearing the name of f the patriot who projected it, and leuduigto and through the scenes of his efforts to develop virgin territory and his vigorous and victorious exploits?first against the lndiuns anil later against a foreign foe?it will be the most historic and, mayhap, the most useful highway in America. The real beginning of the Jackson highway took place in 1805 by means of a treaty between the United States and the Cherokee . It-Hinnu In thnHp ilnvs of UliSlir veyed forests and dense undergrowth, truffle necessarily was carried on the rivers; the streams were the lines of communication for the delivery ?f supplies from established white settlements to tilt more precarious abodes of the - i pioneers who fciftil pushed farther south and southwest through the forests. The. great Tennessee river on the north and the smaller Tombigbee in Mississippi and .Alabama to the southwest were two such streams. Although known in history as ail intrepid fighter, Uen. .Jackson at heart and in fact was a constructionist, a developer. Roads; bridges, homes?he wanted to see tl:ein built through the wilderness, and he helped to build them. And when he returned from the battle of New Orleans to Tennessee he asked^the war department tn ennstpiiet a nermanent roud over the ludiun wars trail and to project* it to within reach of New Orleans. So in 1816 Congress appropriated $10,000- to start the work. It was "Old Hickory's" belief that soldiers, when not engaged in fighting, should be employed in useful work. And so this roadbuilding was done largely by troops. .It begun in 1817 and was completed in 1820. it was .necessarily a crude, though direct, road from Madisonville, La., on Lake Pontchartraiu, north of New Orleans, to Columbia, Tenn. (A road already had been established between Columbia and Nashville.) , The northern section of the \ Jackson highway?that between Nashville , and Chicago?is, of course, without historical significance so far as the name<of Jackson is concerned. Not a great .deal of work remains to be done either north or south of the Ohio river. Through Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi :Und Louisiana the Jackson highway will present an a|most eom"> plete panorama of the life and agrarian activities and possibilities of America. .Coming south and out of a section of the corn - belt, the traveler will enter the k blue grass pastures of western ' KMhl^lrtr whoro ava 2a ^ ^ ? V ?UV v. V " charmed by inviting rural homes, deep meadows, purebred Herefords and* Shorthorns and blooded horses. Then?into the hill country of western Tennessee, with its cotton and -corn, the split-bottoiu chfir and the "kiwered" wagon. NChr Naslmlle he will see the rHE i ? ??ggg=se GREAT EDITOR PASSES. The death of Lord Northcliffe marks the passing from power of one of the greatest Britishers of the present time, says a exchange. Alfred Charles William Harmfcworth was born near Dublin and, like Sir Thomas Lipton, was an Irishman who liked to live in the heart of the British empire and direct the destinies of that powerful confederation by means of his 80-odd publications and his magnetic personality. It was he who dubbed himself a "Britisher." He tumbled premiers from their seats and installed others in their place, notably in the case of Asquith, who was forced aside by him that Lloyd Qeorge might control the activities of the tlT I 1 *? 1 ? ? - I worm war. 111s challenge to tne war office over the matter of sending the army in France high explosives in place of ineffective shrapnel early in the war was. perhaps his greatest risk and greatest achievement for the public weal. His success in altering the pluns of the war office is said by critics to have been one of the determining factors in the allies' success. His rise from the obscurity of a small office from which was published Answers, a weekly paper of seemingly no intellectual appeal, but which rapidly gained u circulation that passed the million mark, reads * like a storyfioiu the Arabian Nights and shows that opportunity is not dead, even in these days when the popular cry iH that wealthy men alone have a chance to rise. Lord Northcliffe was never poverty stricken, hbwever, his father being a barrister of Middle Temple, which presupposes the possession of an independent , income. He had little money from his father on starting out iu ljf<V his muin asset being a solid education, an indomitable will uud high ideals, together with a good business head. His great admiration for America .'brought him in closer touch with prominent men in the United States than was the case with almost any other public man in London. Death came to him while he was just past the zenith of his powers, his last lingering illness lfWlUlltiiwa !*?? ^ t u.i|>ait nig i lie lie I lull OX 1118 WOlldtrful bruin, judging by recent events in his greut 'publishing house. His passing ut the age of 57 will leave his fume unimpaired and posterity is likely to place him even higher than his admirers of the present day have done. Miss Susie White of Fort Mill* toVvnship, who was one of the teachers in the Fort MiU graded school during the last session, is underslod to have declined to to teach in the school during the session which will open a few days hence, but instead has accepted a position in one of tht. deaprtmeufs of the government in Washington city. President Polk, and then through the rich phosphate fields around Mt. Pleasant, Tenn. From here into northern Alabama and the Muscle Shoals district, where the past is revealed in remarkable contrast to the present, old homes and plantations in proximity to vast potential hydro-electric power and coming electro-chemical industries. At Kuessellvilee, just south of the Tennessee river, the visitor will (pass through the richest brown hematite ore region in the South. Through central Mississippi he will see the Old South merging into the New?large cot ton plantations turning in marked measure' to diversified farming. .On the last lap of the journey the tourist or home-seeker will, puss through the wonderful long- j leaf yellow pine region of the Gulf coast?great trees straight I as arrows in deep, open forests j into which one can look for consirierable distances. Here the at[Biosphere is laden with luag; clearing, health-gaining ozone j from numberless evergreen nee-1 idles of the forest; here; as in' j Jackson's, time, the.jvinds' play in nUbange, perpetual symphonies' U Igh the pines. | t rORT ! FOB* MILL, B. 0, TB *SSSSSS*SSBSBS!SSS? * 1 it S I I II IB NEWS 07 YOB* COUNTY. litems of General Interest Found in the Yorkrllle Eriquirer. Jack MeConuell, young lad of llock Hill; slid down a -plank while playing around the new building being erected by the First Presbyterian church in Rock Hill, Sunday. The plank had nails in it. The boy didn't know it. The doctor took 13 stitches in him. There are nine county prisoners in the York county jail awaiting trial at the September term of court of general sessions, which convenes on September 12. The total number of prisoners in the Keeping of the county jailor at this time is 11, but two of these are under charges of the United States court. "1 understand/' said Mr. Will Adams of Bethel township the other morning, "that the contractors who are building the Boyd's ferry bridge over Catawba river are now working on the steel structure, having completed the work of building the piers with which they had so much trouble for a time. The contractors buildiiig the stretch of road l'rom the bridge to the Bethel townshij) rouds have ubout completed their contract." The Peoples National bank of liock Hill has completed the compilation of an estimate of the cotton crop of South Carolina for this year as compared with last year. The total of last year's crop was 770,661 bales, and according to the bank's estimate, made up principally from the reports of banks throughout the State, this years crop looks like 563,264 bales. York county made 41,092 bales last year 'and the bank puts this year's crop at 25,000 bales, or 61 per cent of last year's crop. Representative E? W. Pursley of Santiago, a candidate for reelection, is telling the voters on the several stumps of the county { campaign a story that usually j brings a laugh. According to Mr. Pnrsley, a colored man named Joshua was arrested on a charge of making moonshine liquor. When hailed into court the prosecuting attorney seeking to ll 1', Vll QAmn fllftl i? tl*'* wu t v ovauv AUU OIL lilC UA JJU1IOU Ui Joshua, inquired, "Are you the Joshua who made the suu stand still?" The reply was, "No sah, l'se de Joshua what made de moon sbine." Five boys of Rock Hill were seriously hurt, one probably fatally. Saturday night on the cement road a mile from the city when a big truck was sideswipe^ by an automobile, driven by au unknown party. The boys were taken to local hospitals and are reported as getting along as well as could be expected. The dri ver of the automobile did uot even slow up with the collision and officers have been endeavor ing to learn his identity. The! truck, one of the Arcade mill's, I driven by Roy Wallace, was taking a number of boys out to the river bridge for a watermelon cutting, the party being in charge of Miss Moouey, community worker, and Mrs. C. D. Williams, wife of the Y. M. C. A. seerelary st the mill. , There is a gasoline war on in Yorkville and by reason of it people who buy gasoline in town are getting it at 27 cents a gallon. The wholesale price here is 26 cents, thus giving the warring retailers a profit of 1 cent a gallon, whereas they have been getting 3 cents profit. According to the best information obtainable, one of the dealers has for some i ??ii? ?? unit! pool iireii seiuug gasoline 10 special friend* aftd customers at. 27 cents a gallon. Another deal-, er learning of this alleged fact,' decided to put the price down to 27 cents for all and of course the ( remainder of the dealers had to. do likewise. There have been such J "wars" before, but after a bit j the warring dealers have gotten sick of it and pat the retail price back to normal as they are expected to do this time after a. week or two-of fighting. ? j W. D. Wolfe and his family * left Tuesday morning on a motor trip thooogh- the mountains of | western North Carolina.. 1 " Z ' y" s - ' jr-" ^ v ~ " .*k . -r ir^.lvc.^ V # 1 v " ^ Mill [PmHAY, AUQUBT 24, 1928. VISIT TO COAL mm. How Fuel for American Homes is Dug Oout of Earth. The householder is not shoveling coal in these piping times of summer, but because of the strike and fears that his favorite winter indoor sport will be interefered with when the snow flics, coul has fof some time been uppermost in his thoughts, none the less. A bulletin from the National Geographic society presents a little-known aspect of the coal industry to stay-on-the-surfacc uses of this modern necessity? the working of a big anthracite mine when operating full blast. Describing a visit, to a mine ill which there are 85 miles of underground railway, the bulletin says: * "One thing above ground we will be even more vitally interested in when we go below is the ventilating fan, for without it we would be in danger of being 'gassed' in times of peace. The fans in this mine fly around with a rim speed of a mile a minute. Evey mine has two shafts?the hoisting shaft and the air shaft. To keep the mine free enough from gas to permit work in safety. enormous quantities of fresh air must be sent down the one opening aud corresponding quantities of gas-laden air drawn out the other. "To start on our downward journey we step on the 'tag3' or elevator, the mine superintendent gives a signal, and the flopr t1 t*AlTka I^AlVn <1 Atltti /lfkicat u* ww mi, uun u, wumii w i whiz past stratum after statum of rock. "Arriving at the bottom, we soon find that a coal mine is planned like a city. There is one main street, or entry, unl it lias been laid out with the nicety of a grand boulevard. Parallel with this are other entries, and across these entries run other streets, at right angles, usually, which are called headings. Lining all these | headings as houses line the streets are chambers, or rooms, in which the miners >vork. "When we stop at the bottom we find ourselves in a small sired hurricane. It is the air rushing down the shaft and starting I through the mine, on its mission of purification. ' "We walk and walk until we begin to feel as though we might be coming out over in, China or France, and then we come to rtie rooms or chambers?for all the coal in the neighborhood of the hoisting shaft has gone up in l. a -1. - i l ~ * | im tti ur Biuv&e lung UBiwrc how and this mine is far flung. "These chambers might - be monks' cell? in some catacombs for the living. Here the miner bores and blasts and digs away the coal and loads it into the winfe cars. If he has a helper he does not need to do the loading himself.. The car holds about 6 000 pounds of run-of-the mine coal, and a miner is supposed to fill two of them a day. "When the car is loaded the miner puts his number on it and presently, with much ado,, there comes up the heading and into the passageway leading into the chamber a string of mules walking tandem, or single file, and dragging an empty car behind. They pull out the loaded car, set the empty one where the miner wants it and go back the way they came with the load of coal. "There are other strings pf mules, also, hnd" they distribute the empties and mobilize the loaded cars from and at given points. Then the compressed air engine comes along and makes up a train of loaded ears after dropping one of empties ready for distribution. The coal trains are pulled down to the hoisting shaft and one by one the ears go to the surface, an empty coming down ap a loaded one goes up. "Having seen the harvest iu the eoal field, let us turn to the seed time. Millions of years ago nature stored away billions of tons of eoal for us and then left us a Yecord of her processes written in a language that all ages and tongues can understand. It in a story so wonderful as almost to' defy belief, add yet one as* plain to him who reads it aa to ... ' i/ - ' , ' ' o \ ' </ . Time f HITTING THE BULLSEYE One way to shorten your life is to live fast. The Japs are leaving Siberia. And that is probably all they are leaving. Germany seems to have lost everything except her nerve and her voice. Now that we seem to be back to normalcy, let'a get down to work and pull out of it. President Harding's main job i ll<kCik V/v h rt ^lv ? uivov ua%v o csixiua iu uc iu [iicn up the beans somebody has spilled. Yes, a friend in need is a friend irdeed. And we never see some ot onr friends until they are in need. Courtesy is the quality that keeps you from telling a man that he is a liar when you know he is one. Another trouble with the country is that the average town hasn't got parking space for its automobiles. There are two kinds of weather: The kind that starts and can't stop and the kind that stops and can't start. Some women marry in order to have a man to lean 011 and some oihers apparently marry to have one to sit on. There are only 200 rattlesnakes left in the country, according to u naturalist. But even at that ihe supply exceeds the demand. A dispatch from Warsaw says the doctors there are studvinir the problem of increasing the Ion- ] gevity of the Poles. And The Southern Lumberman suggests that they be given the creosote treatment. A senate investigating committee reports that the American government committed some blunders in Haiti. But the committee surely did not expect the government to do better in Haiti than at home. The two men who shot and killed Kietd Marshal Henry Wilson in London were tried and convicted and sentenced to death within one month after the assassination. The English people may be slow in some respects, but they know how to administer justice. That preacher who eloped with a young woman, leaving a wife and nine children, declaring that he was misunderstood, is mistaken. . The country understands him perfectly and knows when* he belongs. Auditor Love's Father Dead. Robert J. Love, 79 years of age, Confederate veteran and influential citizen, died at 2 o'clock Tuesday at the home of his son, Itroadus M. Love, in York. Death followed an illness of about three weeks, which was the culmination of a considerable period of declining health. Funeral services and interment took place at 11 o'clock yesterday at Heersheba 1'resbybterian church, 6 miles northeast of York. defy unbelief. ''Vegetation grew ranklv, the lcuvcs and stulks settled into marshes and were carbonized, almost as though it had been for our benefit. Those were happy days' in the vegetable kingdom. Plant life was quickened as animal life is stirred by the ozone of the sea, for the air wag laden with unimaginable supplies of carbonic acid gas, which was>*v J haled by the jungle. "Indeed, so rich ,was the at- ( mosphere ill its supply of this gas that while it made vegetation; grow extraordinarily rank it ' 1J 1 e e * wouiu nave smiocaieu man. u ur-, thermore, there was warmth ex-J ceediiig anything we know in the tropica today, and there was J moisture in abundance, more than ( the most spendthrift of plants could wish for. "IIow amazingly dense v. as the i vegetation of the coal-forming era may be shown by compari-| sons with existing forests. Should nature,Jby the process of the coal | age, tpmsform the densest jungle in the world tiday into a coal j seam, it probably would bo only ( a few inches thick; yet there are coal seams which are 60 feet thick, though ten feet is regarded as a fine seam, and thro*, feet will produce more than 5,000 tons to the acre." ^ ' ' 'rs < -- ' s . " . ^ T - I ' , v . x ' .... ' j> ?- ., . A: s. $1.60 Per Ywur. x 5B53BE555B55B5BB5EB5555BEfiSB? SON OR A AND THE YAQU18. "Just the mere head line 'Yaqui chief may be governor of Souoitt' sounds like a paradox?but then Sonora is a State of the sharpest contrasts," says a bulletin of the National Geographic society. "Imagine western Pennsylvania with its farms and coal mines, and gold and silver mines as well, with unsubdued tribes of thieves and killers whom the State police could not quell, dwelling in its mountains with one of these tribesmen running lor governor, and you have only a partial comprehension of Mexico's second largest State. "No other place ou our continent is comparable to Sonora in wealth. Its history discloses incidents that would have sturtled Croesus and Solomon: Indians picking up a GOO-pound nugget of pure silver and carrying it away on a platform slung between two mules. The owner of the famous C^uintera mine who lined a bridal chamber for his daughter with bars silver and laid a pavement o this chaste metal irom her home to the. church. The widow who packed her ingots on 40 mules and set out with the overladen beasts to Mexico City where she sought safety for her wealth by depositing it with the Spanish viceroy. The lady disappeared in a manner officially unknown and her fortune reverted to the State. "In modern times episodes like these were transformed by the magic of scientific mining and, in the years of Mexico's normalcy, Sonera's annual output of mineral 's exceeded 50 million dollars. "And yet in some parts of Sinora you can 'kickyour breaklast off the trees any morning in the year.' Unlike many mining regions Sonora also comprises areas of marvelous fertility. Critics who hold that Americans cossed the border at Nogales only to take away buried treasure of gold, silver, copper, iron, coal and lead should visit the man made ~Eden in the Yaqui valley where an American company employed the wizardry of irrigation to make thousands of acres bear fruit and grain. "Before the days of Villa another American corporation had a cattle ranch in Sonora which was subdived into 200 pastures lands, and overseers were equipped with automobiles and maps t'.iat showed trails, fences, roads and pastures. I j lie rotate 01 JSonorn sends its sons to American schools and buys American automobiles, shoes, phonographs, sewing machines and golf clubs. It tamed its treacherous Apaches and put thorn to work on farms. It lined up many V a quia, but even a 4 tame 'Vaqui,' |or Manzos, must follow his natural bent, so he is employed as a I soldier. The wild Yaqui is about as the .Spaniard found him? fighting, raiding, always equipped with water gourd and a weapon, and nowadays wearing sandals of green cowskin. lie sleeps with a corner of his mind awake for the sound of the dried skin signal drum. 4The sound of thai drum,' said one Mexican ofticer, 'always * ~ gives the enemy an earache.' 44 'The Little City of Beauty' is the capital of the resonant State, and close by the capital is the 'Hill of the Bells,' to translate the ineauingle.SK native names. Sonora is derived from 'Sonorous.' El C'erro de las Campauas is the hill near Hermosillo, the . capital, which gave the State its name; the rock in this hill gives a bell-like sound when it is struck, and the same sort of white marble is found in other parts of the State. * / "Oil the same latitude line as Hermosillo, in the 'Gulf of Cali9. ? wruin, which uounus ?onora's entire west coast, lies Shark island, or Tiburon. A Mexican guidebooks mildly mentions that , 'visitors to the island arc^ unwelcome.* It has not been many years since this lack of welcome meant almost certain death. Ther^are tales of cannibalism among the Seris, who fish with bowxand arrow and poison the arrow when they go 'gunning* for humana.*' - " 1 ^ * . *