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ZION NATIONAL PAHK ? The oewMt of the national park a/atom, eatablUhed laat No vember?is likely to bave many rial torn this season. Some will go because It is new. Othera will go be cause of the claim of Utah that Zlon equals Yoaemlte Id beauty of form and far excels It lu beauty of color. And still othera will go because of the ?tory of a mysterious cliff dwelling that has been discovered ? and Is be lieved to be Inaccessible and untouch ed by the hand of modern man. More over, it AecomJ canon, with muuy ram ifications, hug been discovered in Zlon National park. White men have been In it- ? or at least have looked down Into It from the plateau thousands of feet above? but they are few. And who knows what relics of the mysteri ous prehistoric people of- the great American Southwest those unexplored cinqna may contain i? ? ~ ? ? ? ? Kxploratlon parties are already get ting ready In Halt I^ike City and Ia>s Angeles. It's no wonder. The story of the discover/ of the Inaccessible {llff-dwellings In one to whet I be In terest of the keenest mountaineer. Thus the story goes : Byre Powell of Venicfc, (jallf", point ed his telephoto lens at a high per pendicular cliff In a side canon about three-quarters of a inlle away and squeezed the bulb. A certain quarter of an Inch In the print attracted his at tention. He enlarged it as much us possible. It then showed what Is ap parently a cliff-dwelling something like 400 feet, long and 00 feet wide. The cliff-dwelling Is In a shallow cave about 400 feet above the falus at the foot of the cliff, llelow It are appar ently traces of ledges once used as an ascent and now almost eroded by the elements. Hence It Is a fair guess that this particular cliff-dwelling has been unvlslted since modern men entered this region. . And If this mysterious, long-hidden abode of the Cliff-dwellers proves to be a reality and Is reached by some daring climber, will It yield something new? That of couVse Is the question that adds zest to the quest. For, though here -and there are archaeolo gists who believe tliey have solved the mystery of the prehistoric people, It looks to the common people as if the scientists were still guessing at the answers to the questions: Who are they? How l?ng did they live there? What became of them? So Ihe pos sibility that this Zlon Cliff-dwellers' inaccessible refuge, untouched by the hand of the spoiler, may contain some thing that will throw light on these un answered questions Is fascinating. Curiously enough, the many relics of this prehistoric people throw little or no light on these questions. This Is the more strange, ? since the Tillage sites of the ancient Inhabitants, with all the accessories of village life? klviis. shrines, burial places, fields, Ir rigation works, lookouts, stairways ? preserve n pretty complete picture of life In this ancient Southwest. More over. burled under the debris of build ings and In the graves of the dead are various artifacts of stone, bone, wood, fiber and clay, which Indicate the In dustrial and domestic life of the peo ple. Ceremonial objects, uuch as pipes, fetiches und medicine stones, together with the symbolic ornamentation of domestic and mortuary pottery, give glimpses of the social and religious life of the times. Such structures as are above ground have been pretty thoroughly examined and an astonishing variety has been found. F(jr example, there are many cllff-dwelllngs. of which those In Mesa Verde National park In southwestern Colorado are probably the linest In nU the Southwest. On the Jeuiez plateau in ihe north ern central part of New Mexico ? a part of which it in proposed to set aside as the. national pnrk of the cliff cities ? there are both pueblos end cliff dwellings of the excavated type called "cavate dwellings.'' The pueldo ruins are many-chambered community honses, found upon the mesa tops and In valleys. The smaller ones nrr> of one story; the larger ones have from two to four stories. The ravate dwell inga vary widely. Some are enlarge) natural caves, others are wholly ar tlflelc! excavations In the face of the cliff, the front wall beinj: formed ??r the natural rock In ?d'ii Some are excavatlous with a front of masonry. Other* are complete houses on a hIojh lug talus, with excavated rooms at th? back. In I be Hovenweep region on bdtb sides of the Colorado-Utah line and between Mesa Verde and Zlon? tbla area In likely to be established as the Hovenweep Natlonul monument ? are many remarkable towers of varying shape. The archeolofiots consider them among the moat Interesting aud important of the prehistoric relics. <'u?o Grande National monument In the Gila valley of south central Ari zona contains Cass Grande ? Great House ? which was discovered in 1607 by the Spanish. It was even then a burned-out, dismantled group of wnlls. It was plastered within and without. It was probably thft_^gt_el.nn Indef inite number of such houses* us all around It are the ruins of older struc tures. Excavation in this prehistoric South west is only beginning. The results have attracted the Attention of arche ologlsts the world over. Possibly the most Impnrtaut work to date Is that of Dr. Walter Few ken of the Smith sonian institution in Mesa Verde. There he has excavated and restored In part the temple of the sun and Far View house. These are large aud pre tentious structures on the mesa above t tie cliff-dwellings. They are appar ently buildings for religious ceremoni als. It Is guessed that they were aban doned about 1800 years ago. 'llie urcheologlsts are confident, that sooner or later they will find some thing that will answer one or more of the three great questions about this mysterious people of the American Southwest. Will they find It some such ruin as Casa Grande beneath the dust of centuries or will it come to light In some cliff dwelling now unknown ami untouched by vandal hands, such as those suspected to exist In the tin- ! explored depths ?>f /Ion? PARIS LANDMARK MUST GO House of Robespierre Forced to Givs Way to March of City Im provement. The I'aris correspondent of The Lon don Times writes: The house where Robespierre Is said to have lived, or, at any rule, passed several nights, 1? to follow the way of many reminders of the past in the general scheme for Improving Parts. This handsomely fronted building I? situated In the Glte (III Itetlro, an an tiquated backwatef between the Made lelne and the Faubourg Saint Honore, which was overlooked when this quar ter was brought up to date. The ten ants of the prince of .Monaco, to whoiB the -district belongs, have been given notice, but the demolition probably will he postponed for a few years, ow ing to the action of the law which per mlts the owners of condemned proper ty to continue uslug It for five years. The capital will soon he very much Improved, and all slums will dlsappeat In accordance with the general schema for flattening out the fortifications and allowing the city to undergo natural expansion. With this object the tin derground railway tines are to be ex tended fur Into the country, with two j proposed termini at St. Ocirmain and | Malson* I.aftitte. The Metropolitan | railway reaching the latter \ylll great ly ease the strain upon the ordinary railways on race days. Great Britain's Whites and Blacks. In the Hritlsh empire there are (12, (MUX*) white and 376,000,000 colored people. The 02,0<H).000 white repre sent capital wealth amounting to $500. ihhmmnmhhv as against the $5. 000, 000, 0<x) possessed by the black, , brown and yellow people The decree of Illit eracy among the white people, accord ing to Sir Henry Johnson, is probably not more than 1' per rent : among the r-ntnrrvt rare* If is nearly '.Hi per cent. Daughter's Views. j Mother ?(!< teaching little daugh ter proper appellation*, pointing #??tf 'lie ?*hur'*h us "tind's lions#*." Passing one Siimla> morning a* the | < ongrega t i>>n wav leaving the < hurrh j after ser- iee? I ? ? I ?? .laughter ei J r'ain ? ??h. look. iiioHh r. at ail the crowd. <;o,i i), :st he 1 1 ?? v ; r i k r party." ?".'.I" ?' ? ? i ?H p -|| ? > ? v v , ' ? ;] VOI'Mi MAN KOHHTJ* Truck IHiver TW to Tr?* and I* Ueve4 *# CmK Mr. Jennings Tin suffered quite a sciirv ami IWityftO OipBrtODCV ycster day yviiing about nix o'clock when ho w\ts ( rett{rjriiix from Manning over the I ?in?u- Mill bridge, Willi IiIm father'** truck U|m?ii which wk? a piano. Ax he aproacbeU the bridge tui saw two colored men, one Itlg uiau dressed lu overalls and a Mealier negro who up l>eared Ivell dressed. When bo reach c<l (hem they auk (Hi him to Htop and then .asked 'hlni tor some gasoline. He filled I ha I hc^ad Jt H1U1 asked" them What they (yfo re gol<ig ui^'i^ry It'^awav ( *'Vl^. *old M'VJf would fUul, soiiietjdtffc And off. the truck, m drAw tho gas out of t)ie tank. Vh^ they grahlted hluj ami to|d hlin ptfty did not want tfoi gag hu^^ajiTettlWrn. covered hlin wlffli a pistol -while tU<; other ja mined Ids hat doyn/jptW his face, tore off Ids shirt ami securely w rajMwl It around his face and head. They then took a strap Which he usu ally used to secure the Instruments on his truck, and taking hlni out Into tlx? awamp, tied liim securely to a tree. They then rifled his pockets, and throw tag down tHie checks, took what money he had, about $28.00,, and left blm tied to tho tree. Ho wrigpled around un til he succeeded in partially freeing hlmxelf, and, hearing a oar comLug managed to attract the attention of the driver who went out and liberated him. j Ho reported tfhe matter at once to hi* father, who in trun reported It to tho sheriff, who with his deputy, Mr. H. a. McKagen, and a fow other*, went to the seeno of the 'holdup whore they found no clues which would lead to tho arrest of any one. After search ing tho woods for .several houra they returned to the city empty handed.? .Sumter Herald. ! Horribly Mangled (JreenvHle June 23.*? Five hours af ter his body liad been irevolved oarer HK) times lit one minute, having been caught in a shafting lu JVlham cotton mills, Perry Corn, aged 42 years, suc cumbed this afternoon to the many fnt ctu res~he had sustained. Mr. Corn's body wan spun around and round by the wheel, his left arm l>eing grfipi>ed tightly in ithe shafting. On each rev olution his feet struck both the floor and an overhead pipe, and hardly a bone in either of the lower limbs es caped fracture. The left arm, was pu^ed from its socket and almost torn loose from the body. Mr. Corn leaves a wife and so vera 1 children. At the Majestic Monday. July 5th John Barrymvrc in "I>r Jekyll and Mr.. Ilyde.' A supreme motion picture clas sic, from the pen of Robert Louis Stevenson. -let the bands play ?and the songs ring out "YJ/'E'JIE ready for the Gloriout Fourth. Are you? Come in and let ?. I"' Tou *n Independence Day musical praenm. a vivid tii n . !!5 how to m?e the Fo-rSf . day officer meani/gT^ UoZ! "***** U JSSt^ t0 yW h?me~t<*ethor with ? ??? greup f ? ' % V - ? A . . .. . ? 2&NEW mT%0 Phonograph with a ( Our Budget Plan wiU turn your "ftreworkj'* fa money into a &rat payment. It will make t similar economies provide the balance. It's a systematic thrift idea. Why throw your money Into the air on the Fouith f Isn't It a finer patriotum, a bigger family polic y t to ?peod it on music-? good moiic t What's a Fourth without music? The thrill In those grand, old aira of the Repob He I The ezalution 1 The memories f The ringing pledge! AH th aac tad more? hare been given lift by tbe ?oaring art and the fervid hearts of great trftof At the* 9*d more we Ri-Cuurn for foa bf the marvelous realism of the New EdUon. TV Ptrfe* reelan of the New Edison wm proved again in an astonishing teit mode March ? JO, 19*0, at Carnegie HftQ, New York Cltj. Anna Case, world-famed ?oprtno, matched her . troke <iir?ctly agtJnst iulU-C&SATioN bjthe New SdtKHi. During the tetti the Jghtt went out The audience, in the tokneM, could not tell whether Anna Cue was singing or whether the New Edison Was JU-Cmatiro her voice. v , Yon can experience the New Edison's tupremt ' ralam for yourself. Come in end let m |Wt yoto Mf. S(lu?'s Realism Ten* _ ' _i i_ , *%) Camden Furniture Company ? Phone 156 , A Hits ? nj?/Af/c