The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-08-20
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'Sena Hunters Of the Tennessee
Mountains - Reminder Of Daniel
Boone-cosras Of ceyIon--stranse
Water craft-several Kinds Of Flour.
Ingenious Case Of Wooden Books.
ESPECIAL. coRREspoNDENcE By
MARK BENNITT.l
The sinewy title Of "OId Hickory +" in
separable from the name Of Andrew
Jackson, is strictly Tennesseean. That's
why it stuck to the old general / found
It out by sitting rehectiseiy in the Ten
nessee exhibit of woods. My eyes went
trotting through the display and fell
upon snnburst Of hickory handles
Mr. A. r. Foster Of Tennessee caught
my eye and said, Yes those are old
hickory, every one a perfect specimen
"Jacksonian," said l.
"And that suggests" said Mr.. Foster.
''the story OF how President Jackson
got the title. In 1912 he organized by
government authority military expe-
dition at Natchez Waiting under or
ders for many weeks. he and his men
became restless and did not hesitate to
show that they wanted to do some
thing. Finally came the order to dis
band, which Jackson fatty refused TO
do. for 1t meant the Abandonment Of his
army In wilderness without means Of
support ''I'll march them into the
heart of Tennessee to disband," he said,
and away they went, the general march
| ing with his men AS they tramped on
the way one Of his soldiers exclaimed,
s'See General Jackson there, tough as
old hickory"
The old hickory Of Tennessee, as well
as its once living, sentient embodiment,
has wide fame
"One of our turning works. said Mr.
Foster. ''selIs its product In such dis
tant markets ais Rio de Janeiro, Hong
kong Calcutta, Cape Town Sydney.
Melbourne and Marseilles Think Of a
Tennessee mountain village having such
worldwide representation Scarcely any
of the product is sold in America
Three OF the greatest things in the
world are right here before ones eyes,
and you couldn't guess them in week
One is the largest wooden bowl ever
made, big enough for the three wise
men Of Gotham to cross the Atlantic In
If the weather was calm and their de-
pertinent right steady. 1t is four feet
across and two and half feet deep. 1t
used to belong to d Tennessee giant, for
you may know they have giants III Ten
nessee real live giants This one must
have been zoo feet high, with thou
sands Of limbs and millions Of leaves
Another greatest thing on earth Is the
section Of black walnut log six feet
mine and d half inches across. The third
Is display of the only butchers skew
er factory in the United States So
when you draw a hesitating skewer
from the juicy roast Of beef at your
next dinner think of Tennessee and her
| 100000 acres Of woods
i Tennessee has forests 50 old that the
trees are dying of senility, and in these
woods are people as curious as the
naked pygmies on the hill yonder or the
Patagonlan giants In their decoIlete
summer blankets. / would like to add
the ginseng hunters Of Tennessee to DR..
McGee's chronological display With d
life so ride that the American Indian Is
d nabob. the 'seng hunters Of the Ten
nessee uplauds carry on a traffic that
rolls up handsomely in money. In
/ Nashville alone $4,000 worth Of GIN
seng IS sold annually, product of the
woods.
So while New York state is preserv-
ing her forests and getting anxious
about her future timber supply Tennes-
see IS inviting investors to come down
and make money out Of the lumber in
dustry. Here, at the worlds fair, Ten
nessee has 119 kinds Of wood, all Of it
useful all Of It beautiful, for nature
does her work most wonderfully iii fit
ting together the millions Of minute
cells into what we call the grain Of the
wood Mr.. Foster will call your atten-
ton to panels Of mahogany, and you
will have to guess which is mahogany
and which is stained sycamore
Reminders Of the pictures and the
days Of Daniel Boone are the coonskin
hunters cap, the long rife weighing
sixteen pounds, the old powderh0rn
and leather sack and dugout canoe.
conclude that Ceylon is not looking
for immigration, else She would not
exhibit in a great show case Ia the
Palace Of Forestry Fish and Game
/ two hooded cobras with heads erect
and coiled ready for the fatal spring
fatal to any living thing whose flesh the
poison penetrates. AS well might Arkan.
sas exhibit the poisonous water mecca
sin or Pennsylvania her rattlesnakes.
What an emblem of irrevocable decree
Is the cobra! The cobra's bite knows
no antidote Who can say but that
intimate association with the cobra
since times prehistoric, since the period
Of primitive man, In the ancient east
Is responsible for the now Unborn spirit
Of fatalism from which few orientaIs
are exempt?
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