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Established 1891.
THE JACKSON HIGHWAY.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. |
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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
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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
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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
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[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
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| 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
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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 '
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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." ^
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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.*'
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