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IliTH CLAIM HONOR Jspute Over Location of Firat Press in Northwest. [tlnneiotj and South Dakota Each Firm III th? Bella# That Thsy Are In poaseualon of Mlatorlo Old Rallo. The location of the first printing [reus III the Northwest Ih being dia (ut'ed by two states Minnesota and louth Dakota, nays a dispatch to the pinneapolls Journal. The historic printing press, an old Washington hand-press, which, It Ih [aimed, printed the first newspaper In ie Northwest, Is now In the hands of; ie Minnesota Historical society. The [innesota contention as to the history f the press It substantially as fol y * *Its active career began back in 1886, hen John King of Dubuque pur based It -In Cincinnati. He arrived In ubuqv'e with the new press on May , 1830, after s tedious trip On a river teamboat. His first issue of this pa er, the Dubuque Vlfeltor, appeared on lay 11. It la said that the Visitor was u) only paper north of St. Louis and rest of the Mississippi river at that Inie. ?The press, In 1843, for some reason r other, was sold to three represents" tves of a stock concern, J. Allen Bar er, Daniel BenfiU and Nelson Derby, rho latter was to become Wisconsin's rst governor. These men took the ress across the river to Lancaster, ?ls., to print the Qrant County Her ld. of wlilch L. O, Bchrader was the rst editor, vzi r: "The Herald passed finally Into the' ands of James M. Goodhue, a lawyer ] y profession and a lighting editor of lie old school. Goodhue In the spring f 1849 shipped his press up the river p St. Paul, Minn., where he founded be rioneer, which years afterward b* anie the< Pioneer Press. "In' 1856 the press passed Into the ands of Jeremiah Russell, who took It d Sauk Rapids to use In printing an ther pioneer venture, the Frontlers jnn. After that It changed hands fre uently. It printed among other pub Icatlons the Sauk Valley Press con ucte<l by Herman Muhlenberg, state djutant general. ,The material of this ubllcation was later sold to the tilnd trom Citizen, a Swedish newspaper, hortly after this old press found Its ist home In the state museum. In St 'mil. "Gov. Samuel J. Alright, associate ditor of the St. Paul paper, purchased tie press In 1868, carried It 400 miles cross the prairies to Sioux Falls, Da eta Territory, where, July 3, 1859, he stabllshed. and printed the Dakota >emocrat. "During the , Indian hostilities of 802, Sioux Falls was abandoned and be Indians took possession of the lace. They found the old press and roke It to pieces. The settlers found tie fragments but could not put it to ether again. Senator R. F. Pettlgrewr] f Sioux Falls Is understood to have ecured the plate and made from it a nor stop. ? /The South Dakota story has been erlfied satisfactorily so far as the outh Dakota department Is con* erned, by Governor Albright, who Tote In regard to It that 'It was so tated, so understood and, I believe, ho uwished upon its removal toJPakota.' "But, on the other hand, In Ifce Mln esota museum stands a press which i claimed to be the one In dispute.. Ills one is simply constructed/ and ] rotn Its appearance might have print 8 every pioneer newspaper In tl*e forthwest. Whatever the true story f the Identity of the prtss may be, It I well worth contention.*' The Right Man. [One day as Dan Was going up n> elevator In tlie high VIaUtod bulld Ig In New York city at the rsar of 10 car was a messenger boy with his pros flKed with a seore of bundles all the same size. Peering over the top of the ambus ide, he fixed his eyes steadily upon r. Beardr~Tlre nattonal ~BCinit~ C0iiF~ Isstoner of the 400,000 and more Boy Mats of America knew the signs well kongh to realize that something was ksslng through the boy's mind. He Iked the lad what he was thinking out. The boy .replied: "T was just Inkln* that yJti look like a friend mine." a-- ~ "What's your friend's name?" asked \e man who Is the- frleud of, all ys. "Dan Board," said the messenger. "I am Dan Beard," replied the com Isalonar with a smile. Gosh!" was the only reply of the tonfehed .boy, who dumped his b|in es under the feet of the amused pas tigers and brought his right hand to a stiff salute. Aerial pellet for Oermany. [Oehnany has a network of aerial ?lice patrols organized -to prevent the Igratlon of capital from Oermany, addition to fighting against orlm uls generally. A landing place for Alee airplanes is already being laid t on the Swiss frontier. Similar m bllfthments are planned for Hmn rg. Breslau and other towns. . aoA -DemamL i| Th? great question now before us,!* n the ponderous constituent. e*ve, got more questions on hand now titer we really need,** Inter* M - iSenator Sorrhum. - - - "Corns HE mt> fc* <> # holy city jmow forgotten , Established by Mormon? on Island In ! L?ko Michigan, It Wat of Con* slderablo Importance. . ^ ! t -M The Wisconsin Stat* Historical ao dety In preparing u history of the Mormons who settled la uui] around the state during the middle of the j nineteenth century. The history will contain much now mutcrJul concerning tho early Mormons who settled In Illl i noli and built their sacred city of i : Nivhvoo, just above Keokuk. ^if(er the death of Joseph Smith, leader of tho Mormons, In 1844, oue of the claimants to the sWCCtlrtOtt wa* James J. Strang of Burlington, wis, who was converted to Mormonlsm lu 1843 by missionaries whti came to BuiS" lingtoii. Strang soou gained a Itfoog following and established a holy city at Voroo* where bis followers made their headquarters, sent out mission arles and became successful rivals to the Brlgham Young movement In Utah. V-V1' . . About 1840 Strang moved his follow Mrs to Beaver Island la Lake Michigan, where he built a new sacrod city, and had his headquarters from 1849 to 1856. The city of St. James ifras the most Important between Detroit and Milwaukee. Strang met death at the hands of two of his followers. He left no successor, and the Gentiles, profit ing by the confusion, descended on his domain and looted It. The inhabitants were forced to leave with such of their possessions as they could carry, and were deported by boat to Chicago and Milwaukee. The church built up by Strang was thus destroyed. It Is esti mated that of this branch of the Mor mons less than two hundred now re main. ^UGAR FROM TREE AND FIELD ' . . Years Ago People Qot Sweetening Ma* terlal From the Msple and tho Watermelon. As long ago aa 1791 Dr. Benjamin Rush put before the Phllpsophlcal so ciety of Philadelphia sn earnest pro posal to use maple sugar, pointing out that "tor a great number of years many hundred private families In New York and Pennsylvania have supplied themselves plentifully with thla sugar during the whole y6ar." The year before that the United States had bought over 17,000,000 pounds of brown sugar, and more than 200,000 pounds of other varieties from the West Indies. Seven years after Doctor Rush made his appeal the brown sugar Importation amounted to nearly 07,000,000 pounds, and the loaf sugar exceeded 20,500,000 pounds. At that time somebody In Philadelphia succeeded In obtaining sugar from"wa termelons. getting half a pint of sirup by gradually boiling the strained pulp and Juice of a melon that weighed 14 pounds, This led J. B. Bordley, an ag ricultural writer, to compute In a book published in 1801 llmt an acre of wa termelons would #T?T(T f 143 worth of sirup. Antl-Alrcraft Fire Control. The army officer assigned to tlii anti-aircraft artillery has hitherto been regarded by his comrades of the line as a mathematical prodigy, with head full of figures, formulas, and mystic symbols. Now appears a mechanical apparatus prepared to do most of his calculating for him, says the Popular Mechanics magazine In. an Illustrated article. Over a terrain board* hangs an object which Is moved In .exact correspondence with the flight of tha hostile- air craft. From this objeot cords stretch down to posltioua of friendly batteries and searchlights. Here the cords wind on registering drums to show the range in yards from each station to the target Similarly, at each gnu or aearchllght station Is a vertical quadrant, permitting tha angle of. elevation to be read at a glance. ?hi)>'s Remarkable Record. Twenty years on a reef In Magellan straits has In no way incapacitated the four-master Alejandriaa. which has ? Jnst docked In New York with a cargo of wool from Patagonia, vatued at $1,500,000. For a score of years the huge ftilk of the vessel lay on a reef 'at.the southern point of South Amer ica, exposed to' all the elements, but so well constructed that, after a 02-day voyage from the graveyard to New Tork, examination In dry dock shewed her practically undamaged. 'The''tall masts of the ship would not permit her to pass nnder the Brooklyn bridge. Now In National Forest. Congress has set apart 1,116,000 acres of iana in laano aflown Af the Thunder mountain region as^ a na tional forest land. This great tract, difficult of accesa and having not over one, per cent of lta area suitable for agriculture, has for years been the scene of destructive flres and devasta tion due to overgrazing. It Is now to he added to the Payette National for ^st. Whlch adjoins it on thewroth, and west, and the Idaho National forest, which adjoin a ft on the north rod | west. ?" ??-?-t '. ? '* ^'v"^ Institution of Phonetics Planned. The University of London Is plan ning to build an Institution of phonet ic* at a-cost of-#000,000, where sev enty assistants would be engaged In trch work on the 1^000 language* of the British empire, The scheme, wblcfe originated with Daniel Jones, heatf 9t the phonetic department of tte university, calls for the expend I tar* *f *2*00,000. SCHOLARS TO GET RFC' OS Attendants 9t Welch Schaols and Col leges Will Smbark in an In teresting Kxpeflnunt. x WmIph, throng t??*r schools. Is about to Uliucll ttu experiment. SehoolS and colleges tinvo Own Invited to make a collection of nil the Welsh lle)?l. place j ami ro?d ntunc.t. Including those of lanes, hill*, wooOs, mounds and dykes, and to mark on the six<lnch ordnance map the spot* to which the name* arc attached, A fund hita been placed at the^lls posal of tho Welsh department to provide the materials for the records, which will he collated by the hoard Of Celtic studies In connection with the univeralty of Wales, and deposited In the Welsh library. Each school Is recommended to re tain a duplicate of the record, which tan be added to from time to time. Space la provided for supplemental Information on such matters as the existence' of rural Industries; the survival of old or curious customs or crafts; peculiar words or pronuncla Hons; local proverbs or quaint say* tugs; the use of old agricultural Im plements; particulars of Interesting local "characters" who may have been distinguished by their oddlttee, their benefactions, or their services during the war. Though It (s Intended for Wales, there Is no reasou- why a similar scheme should not be put into force In the other parts of the United King dom. The framers of the schejne have hit upon a method of making the teaching of history and geography a very living thing, of great educational and national value.?London Man. CREDIT GHOST WITH WRECK Devon People ?alleva Sight ef Spanish Flag en British Ship Angered' Admiral Orake. Anyone -who knows the villages of tlie west of England will be awnre that they are a fertile soli for all man* ner of superstitious beliefs. And the process of creating new legeuds has evidently not yet come to an end, If we may accept a statement made at a recent women's Institute meeting at Exeter, at which yarious speakers re* counted the traditions of their respect* lve localities. A few years ago the bhttle ship Montague was wrecked on Lundy island as she was entering the Bristol channel In a fog. The people of the neighborhood, we are told, have no doubt that she was lured to her doom by the spirit of Sir Francis Drake. She happened to be flying the Spanish flag In honor of the marriage of King Alphonso and Princess Ena.. Tills the proud ghost of Devon's great seaman could not brook, and he made her pay the penalty by running her upon the rocks.?Manchester Guardian. Easy. "Now, children," the teacher said, "suppose we wished to go^o Calcutta, how would we proceed? You tell us, Tommle?" "I'd get on the train and go to New York,"- Tommle responded promptly, then paused. "Yes?." the teacher encouraged. "Then I'd get a steamship," Tommle answered and sat down. "But you haven't told us the route you would follow,** teacher protested. Again Tommle rose. "Oil, I would not butt In on that,*' he declared. "I'd leave that to the ship captain, 'cause he'd^ Ukely have been there*before, and, besides, I believe In -leaving ill technical"matter* to ?? perta.** r:J ; Cat IVulee the Rmt, (told Hill, Ore., has a cat that J*ft< I the distinction of "ruling the roost.** I Several montha ago a half-starved and wild klttep made Its appearance In a pen of chickens At a horns in the suburbs ang fed with Inmates of the enclosure. It has become quite docile since but never comes within reach of a person, still feeds with the chick ens, which have a fond attachment for It, aleeps In the nests at night and during the daytime occupies the nest while the hens are laying. Recently the cat repelled a skunk that attempted to Invade the hennery and caused it to be treed by the house dog, which held it at bay till morning, when it was killed. l$e fur netted.the Kby of the family |6. Airplane Muffler. ?t Like all healthy youngsters, the air plane is a noisy affair. Propeller and engine uniteto produce a roar that al ways make conversation difficult, and, hi time of war, supplies to a keen-, eared enamy a sure warning of Ijn* pending danger. to mitigate the evil, and ao.far, though unable to deaden the "whir" of the propeller, have produced numerous featherweight mufflers to silence the engine, exhaust. The attachment has now passed the experimental stage, says the Popular Mechanics Magaslne, Jn an Illustrated article, showing a French war airplane equipped with a standard muffler. The Chinese are gradually adoptiA4 the European style of footwear. At the present time, almost 40 per cent of the footwear In China Is reported to be of European style. Domestic fac tories which Canton -has twenty,. Hongkong Ave and nearly every port 1 at farina stigasl one, srectilefiy for the manufacture of the red leather used for the soles of the native shoes. The ?<?*ars at native shoes are pser ally made from cloth or an inltatlea box caif. Tin Wonders ef Anrica By T. T. MAXEY ?,? . THE LIBRARY OF CONQRMt. | AUHItAHY for w?? an un* questtoned necessity. Consequent ly, the congressional library whh found* ed ubout the same time the government WRI first established, or In 1800. It was entirely destroyed by fli'e In the j war of 1812 and alio suffered serious-j ly from Are at a later date. Ho, con gress authorlxed the construction of a building that could not be burned, llesult, the present structure, com pleted In 1807, said to be the moat perfectly adapted for the convenient use uml storage of hooks of any large library lu the world, likewise the larg* ?at, costliest and safest. It consists of three stories, a base meat aud a dome, covers almost three and ohe-half acres and lias a totals floor space of about eight acres. You can better grasp the magnitude of this building, when I tell you that It contains 22,000,000 brick, to say noth ing of the other materials, and hit* 60,200 shelves with a total length of about forty miles. It now houses considerably moro than one million books and pamph lets, which is the largsst alagla collec tion on the pastern hemisphere. Ita estimated total capacity Is about 1. 000,800 publications. Its more than 2,000 windows render It the beat light ed library In the world. The colorings of the reading room are soft, quiet, rich and warm, being conducive to the greatest comfort. Tha walla carry many helpful and In spiring Inscriptions. Ita conspicuous beauty or charm, however, Is in the wonderful mural decorative scheme, 11 balug. unquestionably, the moat gor geously decorated public building in America. Francis James Oakes, who 'ban just (lied in New York nt the age of SO, ofteu asserted that he fired the first gun from Fort Kivmter in defense of the union. Wo wish to announce to our friends and the pub lic that we have opened a grocery store on East De Kalb Street in the building between Thomas' Ice Cream Parlor and the C. W. Evan's undertaking par or where we will be glad to* serve the public. We have an absolutely fresh line of fancy and family groceries, fruits and vegetables and are now ready to serve you. East DeKalb St. Camden, S. C. ?..2, Masked Men Rob Bank. ?Four masked robbers held up officials nml customers of the Phoenli Oirard Hank at Girard, Ala., Friday and escape ed with about $30,000 in cash uiul se curities. The men entered the institu tion ho unobstruMively that the first thing noticed was a flourish oi pistols accom. punlod by one shot flred to intimidate the victims. With an order to every body bo throw up their hands the men ?procetded to work as though by prear raugisnent. They had slipped ou masks in the meanwhile. Because of the rain there were few cuatomrs in the bi.uk. The Widow's Spite. The 1'iuMin?"Mr?. 8iuither? seeing very cross with me?don't you notice she almost cut me?" The Friend?'Tea not surprised." The Pam>u?"But Why?" The Frieud?."Don't you rememb - whou you were preaching her husband funeral seraion you aald he had goue to a better htwne?".?London Passing Show. Majestic Today D. Wv Griffith's "BROKEN IH.OSSOMS" MAXWELL Has Won Its Following Through ir '? Its Quality POUND for pound, the metals used in the Maxwell chassis compare favorably with those in the best cars that the world has produced, according to metallurgists. ? * ? There is a deep seated reason for this quality in a J* Maxwell. , - , * For the fundamental purpose of the Maxwell is to carry the same passenger ibadover the same roads and at the same speeds as larger and more expensive cars. . Its particular mission is to carry this passenger load 4-? in an txtremety economical way. Therefore the Maxwell had -to be light. But to - make it strong as well As light only die very best of ~ materials could be employed."" s ~ 1 ? Hence, the quality metals. And it was through the quality of its metals that Maxwell developed its following. This is a following that began five years ago with a foundation of 5,000 and new reaches a mark of 100,000 in 1920. < 300,000 Maxwells now on the highways of two continents are a daily endorsement of the merit of this great car. Utrt mlUt t*r gatlto Miri miUl 0ft Um Carolina Motor Co., fine.) Camden, S. C.