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THI: MEXic.w IJOI;I>I?:K. Path of Action That Continues in! Public Mind. j "No region in all North America is more frequently mentioned or more widely misunderstood, perhaps, than! the Mexican border," writes Frederick Simpich, formerly American Consul! at Xogales, .Mexico, to the National! Geographic Society. "From the Gulf erf Mexico up to El Paso, along the Texas frontier, the Kio urancie lorms me oounaarv utrtween the United States and Mexico; thence to the Pacific coast the line is marked by stone or iron monuments (save a short break at the Colorado), so set that one is supposed to be visible from another. By this plan a soldier, miner, or cowman (yes/and a smuggler, too) can always tell which side of the line he is on: or, if wholly lost and he comes suddenly on a monument, he can soon get oriented. "Adventurous, colorful, and full of contrasts as it is, the USOOrinile trip along the crooked, historic line is rough and difficult and has been made by few -people. "The Rio Grande part of this bord-| er has caused both Uncle Sam and Mexico much work and mental anguish. During bad floods the line as formed by the river squirms around in so astonishing and lively a manner that what is Mexico soil one day may be in Texas the next, and vice versa. "Railroads cut this long border line at Brownsville, Laredo, at Douglas,! Naco, and Xogales, in Arizona, and at Calexico and Tia Juana, in California. Only four of these railroads, however, are main lines of through traffic that penetrate the inferior of Mexico; these start at Laredo, Eagle Pass, El Paso and Xogales. "You visualize the bigness of Texas when you look at the length of its side that borders on Mexico. You realize its emptiness, too, when you travel through some of its border regions, where the population is less than two per square mile. "XTo section of the border has seen so much of adventure, tragedy, and turbulent activity as Texas. The flags of France. Spain, and Mexico have waved over it; for a time it flew its own Lone Star and also the Confederate flag. "In Brownsville you hear more i.1. 1 _ V 1 _ i opanisn man jcmgnsn, Decause most of the 8,000 people who live there are Mexicans. "Up the river from Brownsville lies v Laredo, most important border town in south Texas, even if an old map does call this vicinity*"a wilderness filled with wild horses.' "Eagle Pass, on up the Rio Grande, was a favorite camping spot for the California gold-hunters in '49. "As you follow the border west, oaks, pines and underbrush decrease, aridity increases, and cattle lift their thorny heads. Border counties like Brewster, Presidio, and El Paso are of our small eastern states. Windmills are everywhere?'big electric fans to keep the cattle cool,' a waggish cowboy once explained to a London tenderfoot. "El Paso is the only large city from 'San Antone' to Los Angeles, a ride of j 1,500 dry, dusty miles. "The largest irrigation reservoir anywhere in the great Elephant Butte dam, which stores more water than the world-famous Assuan dam on the1 Nile. This big dam, built in the Rio Grande above El Paso at a point in New Mexico, holds water enough, we Q I'D f 1 G A fill O 1 "1 V ^ ^ " ? u.1 V. iviu, IV 1:11 a. ^LUiiUyiptJ XX XtJtJl ill diameter reaching from El Paso to the moon, or to cover Massachusetts to to a depth of six inches!' "From a point at Monument Xo. 1 where the boundary line crawls Qut of the Rio Grande (at the southeast corner of Xew Mexico), it strikes west into a wilderness of singularly dry and empty aspect. For 4 0 miles along this march the traveler must carry his own water. "To the west lie the rough, hostile foothills of the Dog Mountains; near here, in the San Luts Range, the line reaches a point of 6,600 feet above the sa, marking the continental divide. "In the San Bernardino Valley the line strikes the first running water after quitting the Rio Grande?192 miles to the east. Here rises the fam ous laqui river, mat long, crooked stream that meanders through the vast Mexican stat of. Sonora and through the turbulent Yaqui Indian Zone, finally emptying in the Gulf of California below Guaymas. "In the whole 700-mile stretch from the Rio Grande to the Pacific, this line crosses only five permanent running streams, and the average rainfall throughout its length is only eight inches. "Save fhe hamlets of Columbus and Hachita, the New Mexico section of this border is almost uninhabited." ?enovatiiig. His Wife?We ought to have a new car. This one looks disreputable. Hardy Upton?Can't afford it. But I'll fix up this old 'bus?wash it up and put a fresh mortgage on it. ? Cotton sheets reduced to GOc at G. O. Simmons's, Bamberg, S. C. UTO.MOMLi: TOLL HKAVY. Stalistics Show One Person Killed i I]very d.~> .Minutes. i1 Three times as many persons are,' killed annually by automobile acci- , i1 dents as are killed in all the mines; and factories?all industries?and on 1 the railroads combined, according to statements made in a report submit-! ted to the National Safety Council by its executive committee, says a Kan sas c lty uispaim. ruverv imn\-n\e minutes in the United States a death ' i results from an automobile accident, j says the report. Even airplane acci-; dents do not compare in extent with; automobile accidents. In part, the; report says: "Reports dealing with the commer- | cial development of the airplane just1 received from England show that 75,-1 000 persons were carried upon aerial! journeys in that country during the last year with very few accidents and ; but one fatality. "Statistics for the current year in j this country show that three times as] many people are being killed by auto- j mobiles as in all the factories, mines, i railroads, and other industries in! America. "One person is killed by an auto-! mobile in the United States everyj thirty-five minutes, and the menace! is growing all the time, almost in j proportion to the increase of the j machines in use. "It is estimated there will be 10,000,000 automobiles in this countrv by the end of 1920 and the number! i probably will continue to grow tre- j mendouslv. "Chicago automobile deaths the! first six months of this year were 25 per cent, greater than during the pre- j vious year, despite all the efforts put forth by those in authority to decrease the peril. "Uniformity of safety legislation in states and cities is one of the most important problems to be considered j by all public safety agencies. A great j deal of conflict is responsible for i much of the needless peril to which | the public is subject. Motor regula-i tions should be as nearly uniform as j in l.tint^in rr + f f a f puooiuic 111 ^ III! llllClSLdlC 1 automobile reciprocity. This condi-1 tion will be aided by co-operative ac-! tion of the many highway bodies of! the country and the various traffic organizations." Garden Luck. v "Is your husband having any luck with his garden?" \ "Oh, yes. He got a sunstroke and I collected $200 health insurance."?J Boston Transcript. Both Cheap. "Curious marriage, wasn't it?" "How, curious?" "The bride was given away and the ! girls say the groom threw himself; away."?Boston Transcript. B^fipP'TT'p' TfT'^ ' PU ill I i v Lii '|nW Ml ' I ' llF Sn&L i 1 w ^ BkL, i I* Wf i/_ Sl^^U r\ nBI r ? a ^fc Just received, shipment of tohaeco ???[ sheets. H. C.FOLK CO. RILEY & COPELAND Habitual Constipation Cured Successors to . I . 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