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room which formed his cell, as high as he
could reach. with gold. in exchange for
his liberty. After Pizarro had gotten the
gold he had the inca chief killed. A Ut
tie farther south OF here is the town OF
Tru5illo. which was founded by Pizarro
in Spain. The town is older than Lima.
and It has now about 1900 or 10000 peo-
pie. There are great ruins nearby.
In this Same desert IL the Chimcana
valley. whore a short time ago Mr.. 1.
Hewett Myring unearthed pottery which
pie who were old when the pyramids
were young. They lived from 1000 TO
10000 years ago. They had a remarkable
civilization and the pottery was exqui-
sitely shaped and Of remarkable artistic
beauty. I have before me some photo
graphs Of 1t which were recently taken
for the London News. The objects are
now, I believe, in the British Museum In
London.
hnd the desert OF Peru wonderfully
interesting. Parts of it are rocky. like
much OF the Sahara, and many parts OF
it have as fine sand as that which sur
rounds the pyramids on the banks Of the
Nile In some places the sand gathers
in drifts or great mounds and these
mounds are moved along by the winds.
The mounds are in the shape Of cres-
cent They are made of millions OF mil
lions of little grains OF sand not as large
as a mustard seed. which the winds roll
up over the top Of the crescent These
sand mounds travel always in the direc-
ton Of tho winds. which are here toward
the north. They climb over the hills and
make their way through the valleys
They will not stop for roads or rail-
roads, and they are the terror OF the
civil engineer. Some Of the railways
that cross the desert have been swai-
ND
It Is impossible to keep them back by
such arransements a. our snow sheds or
fences. They have to be shoveled out
for the trains to pass, and the track De
relaid until they have gone on.
Such sand hills often cover the paths
Of the desert, and the blowing sand IRE
quentiy blots out the landmarks
have spoken OF Paita as port that
will furnish business for the Panama
canal. The town has a railroad to the
Piura valley, which is about sixty miles
inland; and I am told that this road
miles over the Andes and connect with
the MarAnon river. one of the great
tributaries Of the Amazon. This extern
sion would put Paita in close connection
with the upper Amazon valley: 1t would
bring one Of the most fertile parts Of
South America right at her door. and
make It feeder for the Panama canal.
AZ It Is now. the Piura valley prom
Uses to furnish a big export of cotton.
II is there that grows the famous native
cotton Of Peru, . cotton which brings
or cents pound more in our markets
than that We raise in America, and that
IL shipped to tho United States by the
thousands Of bales. The native Peruvian
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saw piles of skulls from ten to fifteen
feet in height Nothing seems to decay
in the desert, and there are long lines
of skeletons of animals scattered here
and there over the sand.
During a former trip to this desert l
visited some of the ruins of cities that
were in existence long before the Incas
came. In the Jequetepeque (Hek-e-te-
pe-ke) valley back Of Pacasmayo
found a large mound which was once the
site Of a palace or possibly a temple de-
voted to the vestal virgins Of the sun.
All about me were bits of pottery OF an
unknown nation of the past. The re-
mains showed that the building was
nearly square. and it was 500 feet wide
at the base. 1t was made of adobe and
then plastered on the outside with mud
and washed with color
Not far from that place up in the An
des is Cajamarca. where Atahualpa was
imprisoned by Pizarro until he filled the
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MISS ELEANOR TREHAwKE L

life. It's because Of my old-fashioned
ideas that I've always contented myself
with being a passenger in an aeroplane
and never attempted to drive one my
self. for don't believe in a woman's
doing indinerently what a man can do
well. l fly because l love the sensation
1t is the champagne of motion, and 1t
appeals to me particularly because 1 am
retrospective by temperament and one
is SO detached and elemental up there in
the clouds
DO you never consider the danger
when you are dyingw
Scarcely ever. But I often have
thought, I hope. when death does come,
I shall fall several thousand feet and be
killed instantly, rather than drop from q
short height and stand a chance of being
horribly mangled.' But flying ID 4 won.
derful tonic. A flight Of half an hour 10
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and has made the larger part of this
continent bloom like a garden.
On the side of the Andes, in this
strip of 1000 miles, about the only
water comes from the melting SHOWS
on the tops of the mountains. 1t sell
dom rains. Paita has not had. to use
umbrella for the past twenty-five
years, and waterproof coats and rubber
boots would be drug in the market
anywhere from below Tumbez to far
beyond Antofagasta. Indeed, the only
fertile regions OF the desert are where
the snow-fed rivers from the noun
tains cross II and flow out to the sea.
There are fifty-five such streams along
the coast of Peru: and the cultivable ter
rftory watered by them has an area of
100000 acres. Two-fifths of this is
irrigated and already in use, and 1t pro-
duces some Of the finest crops of the
world. 1t is at present the most i'm
portant part of Peru: it feeds most of
the people and supplies a vast deal of
exports. The government is now con-
sidering the further development of
this region by the extension of the ir-
rigation system, and it has had Amerl-
can engineers here going over the
ground.
One of the richest Of these desert valleys
is that of Piura, which Is not far from
Paita- Here the lands are irrigated by
The PIura river and they grow great
quantities of cotton, sugar cane and grain
as well as every kind of fruit that we
have in California. There are GASES along
every stream between here and Callao
and Lima is the product of the Rimac.
which gathers the SHOWS of the Andes
and spreads them in the shape of water
out over the plains.
I am writing this letter at Paita. the
port for the Piura oasis. 1t is a desert
city, with streets of sand and one and
two story houses mazda ~ a fr,p,auorL
of wood poles and bamboo canes, over
which Is spread a mixture of sand and
mud that dazzles ones eyes. Indeed. most
of the houses are of mud and fishing poles
smoothed down with stucco. Their walls
are painted all the colors of the rain
bow. The custom house, where 1 stopped
when I came to the wharf. is bright
green. and when ] passed through the
plaza behind faced a big church of sky
blue surrounded by buildings some Of
which were as yellow as gold. This
church looks out upon the plaza, which
contains about the only vegetation in the
whole town. This is garden as big as
a bed quilt. filled with stunted palm
trees and thirsty looking tropical plants
that of the ocean, and much of the drink
Ing supply Is peddled about upon donkeys
in ten-gallon kegs from house to house.
The most Of the traffic of Paita is
upon donkeys. l saw caravans of them
bringing vegetables. sugar and rice to
the port. and when I went to the post Of
flee l walked by the side of the mail
wagon, which was really q dray drawn
by a mule.
Notwithstanding all this, Paita Is the
chief port of northern Peru, and it prom
Uses to grow very fast when the canal Is
completed. 1t will certainly need some
sanitation before 1t can be made a safe
port for our great waterway. Just now
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iAo 10 TIC piuSAiest
woman in Europe?
Pr o b a b y there
W ould be keen
competition for this
distinction, hut one
fancies that most
people = especially
her French admir-
ers = would h a II Il
it unhesitatingly to
Miss Eleanor Ire
hawke Davies, the
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"a L a. ti u.
AM $50 m IL e s
south of Panama,
on the northern
edge of the great
South American
desert My last
letter was dated
in the jungles of
the Ecuadoran
tropics. T h j 8
comes from q
country as dry as
any part of the
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cotton il sometimes called vegetable
wool. 1t has a long fiber. and 1t ID very
like wool in its texture. We use II to mix
with wool for the making Of hats. hosiery
and underwear. It Is said to give the
cloth a finer luster and to render 1t less
liable to shrink
Indeed, this land seems to be the home
of the cotton plant. It was growing here
when Pizarro came, and he found cotton
cloth In the tombs Of people who lived
long before the Incas. The native cot
ton grows on a tree which will continue
70 yield for twenty years after planting.
1t Is usually at its best at three years,
and after that II begins to decline. The
common method of planting Is to put the
seeds In the ground with a stick. and let
the trees reach a height of six or eight
feet. After that they are cut back from
year to year in order that the crop may
be the more easily gathered. On other
Plantations a single sowing is allowed
to do for several annual crops. The cot
ton begins to ripen about ten months
after 1t is planted. and the principal yield
is obtained when the plants are twenty
months old
The picking is done by the native men.
women and children. who also sort the
cotton by color before 1t is ginned.
say by color. for much of this Peruvian
cotton Is brown or red. The brown cot
ton and white cotton grow on the same
tree; and there may be brown and white
Is largely sold to the Indians. who use
1t for their ponchos and hammocks.
In addition to this native Peruvian cot
ton, they are now growing American up
land cotton and Sea Island cotton from
American seed. The Sea Island cotton
has but a small acreage. and its produc-
ton Ii confined to several small valleys
The American cotton will yield here for
three years without replanting, but the
plants are cut back every year. At pres
emit the cotton exports OF Peru amount to
something like 10000 bales yearly.
About 1900 bales Of this product is con-
stunned at home. There are seven cotton
factories scattered here and there over
the country. nve OF them being in the
city of Lima.
The Peruvian steamer upon which am
sailing has brought here two bargeloads
Of galvanized iron pipe and Of eight-inch
cast-iron castings for the Lobitos oil re-
sions, which are situated about forty-dve
miles UP the coast. The pipe comes
from the National Tube Works at Pitts
burgh. and the shippers are branch Of
the Standard Oil Company. do not
know how this freight got TO our Allan
tic seaboard. but 1t was carried down to
the Isthmus Of Panama and there trans
ferred to the railroad and thence to this
Peruvian steamer. The freight must be
heavy, and. considering the handling at
Panama, the rate will probably be cut In
pleksd. We have a great deaf Of heavy
machinery on board that has como the
same way.
Speaking Of the oil fields Of Peru. I
could see the derricks Of the petroleum
port of Tarala as we came down to Paita
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AS direct result of her recent defiance
of her physician this girl. who owns two
aeroplanes and has made. in all. between
$50 and 200 flights, now lies in a critical
condition, and there is a sad possibility
that the interview with her that follows
may be not only the first but also the
last that ever will be printed
III you have kept any track whatever
OF the progress of aviation on this side
Of the water the name of Eleanor Ire
hawke Davies must be familiar to you,
but what have you ever heard about her
personality? Just nothing. one is will
ing to wager, which is exactly as much
as most folk on this side OF the water
have heard. When she made her famous
first flight across the channel with
Hamel the papers were full of it, and
when. as passenger with the late J. Fl.
L. Ashley. she came dashing down from
a height Of 800 feet to what seemed
certain death. and wrote In her diary
the while, all the world marveled at her
nerve. yet In a whole sheaf of newspaper
clippings which. prior to seeing her.
the writer had collected, there In no
word to tell who she 10 or anything of
her history-which proves to have been
an uncomnionly interesting one-before
she took UP flying.
Because l am hopelessly old-fashien-
ed, was the surprising reply of the fly
ing woman. and have a real horror of
talking about myself
The interviewer found her in bed,
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Queer Features of the

Queer Features of the
Desert - Its Buried
Mummies and Its Trav-
cling Sands-The Port
of Paita, Where 1t
Has Not Rained for
Twenty-Five Years
The Red Cotton of
Peru, That Grows
Upon Trees-The New
Oil Regions. Some OF
Which Are Two Miles
Above the Sea-Slnklng
Wells With Pipes From
Pittsburgh - Queer
Features of Steamboat
Travel.
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around me which feel sure cana from
the propeller. Then the feeling came
over mo that We had flown our last
aight- The machine veered until she
Te sr a. vertical s,t H. position. the left
the ground. I thought I should be
hurled out and would fall head down
ward to the ground. and vet I was not
frightened. though felt convinced
that the end had come.
TN less time than 1t takes to tell II the
Inonoplane reached the earth and doubled
-. the right wing furrowing along the
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English nying s1ri, VINO got up from
bed of illness to loop the loop with
Gustav Hamel the other day. and who
has made more seroplane fights and had
more exciting adventures in the air than
any other woman living.
Miss Davies. who is dangerously i'll,
told the writer yesterday. in what she de-
scribed as the first real interview that
she ever has granted, that she disre-
sarded her physicians imperative orders
and accepted Hamers invitation to go up
with him because she wanted the dis
tinction Of being the first woman to fy
upside down in addition TO those which
she possessed already OF being the first
of her sex to fly across the English
channel and of having assembled higher in
the air than any other woman. well
as that. which she neglected to mention,
OF having spent, perhaps more money on
aviation than any other private person
has done.
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Ipeciai Correspondence of The star.
~w~n

LONDON, February Il, 1914.
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Sahara The coast about me is all sand
and rock. and the Andes mountains,
which lie close behind, are as sterile
as the driest part of our great west
ern plateau. The first port after leav-
ing Guayaquil is Tumbez 1t belongs
to Peru. but it lies just over the Ecua-
doran line and is an oasis of green.
Beyond Tumbez the desert begins. and
it extends from there southwark down
the western coast of the continent for
a distance as long as that between
the Atlantic ocean and the Great Salt
lake Its length Is 1900 miles. 1t
borders the whole of Peru and takes
up all northern Chile. extending almost
to Valparaiso. In no place Is 1t more
than eighty miles wide. and yet it Ia
1000 miles long. At its eastern edge
IL is lost in the Andes. which are with
out vegetation clear to their tops, where
the rocks are lost in the snow.
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1 have seen something of the other
great deserts of the world. ] have been
on the edge of the Kalahari desert, In
South Africa, and have travelled through
the Sahara in Morocco, Tripoli. AL
geria and Egypt. I have sailed along
the coast of Arabia and know some
thing of the desert of Cobb. on the
edge of Mongolia None of them is
like the Peruvian desert, and none
seems to be so fated to be q. desert for
all time to come.
This desert is shut in between the
ocean and the great wall of the Andes.
Those mountains rise almost precipi-
tously from this long coastal plain and
they are among the highest on the
earth. They are 80 high and SO cold
that they squeeze the rain out of the
winds from the east that bring all the
moisture, and 1t flows down their east
ern slopes. The winds here all come
from over the mountains. but the water
has been squeezed out of them on their
way. and when they how down the
western slopes Of the Andes they are
as dry as bone. Their load has al
ready been dropped 1t has covered
eastern South America with tropical
verdure. 1t has filled the valleys Of the
Amazon and the Parana with the
greatest water supply known to man,
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Copyrighted, 1914, by Franz u. cJ-pen,er.l
PAITA Peru
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-03-17
KickapOO Worm Killer EXpels the
Worms.

The cause of your child's ills-the
foul, fetid, offensive breath-the
starting up with terror and grinding
of teeth while asleep-the sallow
complexion-the dark circles under
the eyes-are all indications of
worms. Kickapoo Worm Killer is
what your child needs; it expels the
worms, the cause of the child's un-
healthy condition. For the removal
of seat, stomach and pin worms
Kickapoo Worm Killer gives sure re-
lief. Its laxative effect adds tone to
the general system. Supplied as
candy confection-children like it.
Safe and sure relief. Guaranteed;
Buy box today. Price 25 cents. All
druggists or by mail. Kickapoo IN
dian Med Co., Philadelphia or 81,
Louis.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-03-17
GIRL HANDICAPPED IN JOKE.
Steel Bracelets Have to Be Filed On
Wrists of Miss Willie Miller.

1t was all a joke, but it was not
much of a joke after all; in fact, in
the opinion of Miss Willie Miller OF
Cordele it was a serious reality, for
being held prisoner for several
hours with a pair of handcuffs-sure
enough steel bracelets-closed about
ones wrists is situation by no
means to be enjoyed. And the worst
part of it is that this modest and
refined young lady had done nothing
for which to be handcuffed, for she is
so much of a truly womanly nature
that she does not know the first prin-
ciple of crime.
1t was through the joke of young
gentleman friend that the handouts
came to be placed upon her wrists
and it was when this young man at
tempted to unlock them and broke
off the key in the lock that she was
made prisoner Every other imagi-
nable method of getting the hand
cuffs loose was put into practice
without effect, and it was finally con-
cluded that since a key could not be
found to open them they should be
filed off and this at the expense of
the gallant young joker.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-03-17
THIS IS What Mr.. CRISP WOULD CUT
Congress Has Voted $13,OOO,OOO to
Run District of Columbia. Knock
ed Out Official Automobiles.

The senate has passed the annual
appropriation bill for the District OF
Columbia, amounting to $4,000
600.
Included in this is funds for de-
fraying the expenses of the govern
ment of the city of Washington, to
which Congressman Crisp of the
Third district is opposed, and has in
troduced a bill which, if passed, will
require the residents of the city to
pay the expenses of governing 1t.
In the appropriation bill which
has been passed the senate incorpor-
ated an amendment to provide that
no part of the money should be used
to maintain automobiles, except for
the fire, police or emergency health
service.
If the house concurs the amend
ment will send to storage some thlr-
ty-one automobiles now used by the
district government.
Senator John Sharp Williams pro
posed the restriction, insisting that
District officials could use the street
cars or pay for their own machines.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-03-17
THIS NEW MEDICINE
SAVES YOU MONEY

We are druggists right here in
your town and make living out OF
the drug business, but it is because
people have to have drugs and not
because We like to see people suffer-
we don't Our duty is to render the
best service we can, and when some
one is ailing we are interested in see
ing them take the best medicine
there is for their particular trouble.
We don't recommend "cure-alls," as
we don't believe there are such
things. We don't want you to spend
more than you have to. Some OF you
get small wages, and when you are
sick none at all, and you should get
the most you can for your money.
We recently came across a new
remedy for increasing strength and
building up people who are rundown
and emaciated We know that a
slight trouble sometimes grows into
a serious one, and to stop it in the
beginning will save you money i'll the
end. This new compound is called
Rexall Olive Oil Emulsion. 1t is the
best remedy when you are rundown,
tired out, nervOus-no matter what
the cause. 1t doesn't merely stimu-
late you and make you feel good for
few hours, but takes hold of the
weakness and builds you up to a
healthy, normal condition. 1t is a
real nerve-food tonic and builder of
good blood, strong muscle, good di-
gestion. 1t contains Hypophosphites,
which tone the nerves, and pure olive
oil, which nourishes the nerves, the
blood and the entire system. Pleas
ant to take. Contains no alcohol or
habit-forming drugs. We promise
that if you are not perfectly satisfied
with it we'll give back your money as
soon as you tell US. Sold only at the
1000 Rexall Stores, and in this town
only by us. HORSLEY DRUG CO.,
126 Main ST., Dawson, Ga.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-03-17

dying when the son Henry was but
4 years old, left him a heritage not
of wealth, but of natural talent and
character that stamped him an Amer
lean of all times.
There was Green Clay, father of
Cassius NJ. Clay, whose migration to
the Kentucky district of Virginia was
undertaken about the time the rev.
olutiOn broke out. From his meager
biography it is gathered that he was
man of force, rectitude and learn
ing. The fact that he named his son
Cassius Marcellus argues for a
knowledge of the classics. In him,
too, strength of mind was coupled
with strength of will and strength
of muscle. He was a land surveyor.
His military service came in the war
of 1912, when he led regiment of
volunteers to relieve Gen. Harrison
Old Tippecanoe-at Fort Meigs. He
acquired wealth on his plantation.
Henry Clay had sons. Henry Clay,
Jr., was killed while leading a gal
liant charge in the Mexican war.
Even the son, James Brown Clay,
who died an exile in Montreal, hav-
ing espoused the accession cause, was
elected to congress from his fathers
old district.
And so, with the passing of the one
time child wife of Cassius NJ. Clay,
scion of a great house, there recedes
into the annals of the country fam
lily name that is inseparable from our
national growth. We cannot say his
equal does not live today, for only
time can determine the immOrtals;
but it is a name that will never be
erased from American annals.