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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-03-10

I1On, Dull WHICH tne etAss
allow.
Cotton IL another experiment
here and is proving its superiority
in several distinct lines. It is SAID
to make the toughest and best au-
tomobile fabric known, and the
smoothest, strongest thread, and
Pima cotton is becoming famed
for the length and strength OF It's
fibre and it is bringing big sums on
the market.
Az we rounded an elevation We
suddenly came upon low. won
derfully green and lovely country
the valley OF the Santa Cruz river.
The stream is dignified by the ap-
pellation river, though 1t is now
nothing more than q creek cutting
quietly through a wide. sandy
wash which the natives tell me IN
season is a raging torrent, wash
ing the soft earth away from the
bridges for hundreds Of feet. Tney
have to show me by producing one
of those torrents for / can't 1mag-
inc so much water in this arid land
-Arizona-"arid-zone."
Tricky outlining the wash are
great, old, gnarled cottonwoods
with a wide spreading canopy OF
branches and deep green leaves
Our wood passes beneath such an
arbor for several miles, the
branches OF the trees on either side
forming one long, shady, leafy arcn
which Of course could not help ou'
be called Lovers lane.
Immerging suddenly from the
lane We were again in the noun
tains. On every hand are the noble
bulks and walls of mountains from
whose shoulders rise noble peaks
on which a little lop-sided inclinine
to the north, are crowns Of snow
the foot hills wrapped in warm
grey blankets of desert vegetation
The colors of these mountains arr
a constant mystery and fascination
to ME for they vary through every
shade of blue to'sliver grey. rose
brick red, amethyst, lavender ano
purple. In all my travels across
the continent, east, west, north anc
south, have l never before seer
such variety of shades OF colol
thrown together in a single range
of mountains and with such beau
tiful effect. And it is no uncom
mon sight to see half a rang
wrapped in deepest blue and thu
other in every shade of the rain
bow as the white clouds cast theil
shadows, long and deep, and tn
quality Of the air brings into prom
inent relief every peak.
| Tubac Rich in History.
Crossing a shoulder of a rang
I suddenly found myself at Tubae
a name famed in the history Of thi
country. 1t was once settlemen
Of several thousand people, a ricl
community, but now having
population Of scarce so. Blu
around it clusters some of the mos
thrilling history Of Arizona.
Il Though the blood thirst.
IApaches hid in the mountains o.
| all sides. the country about Tuba
was considered so fabulous!y ricI
in minerals that there was a grea
influx of men Indifferent to peril
and hardships SO long as there wa
either the golden lure of fortune o
a brave chance for adventure.
There was no law but love an
no occupation but labor; no gov
; eminent, no taxes, no public deb
no politics, but much adventur
. and free life.
From the mountains surroundin
Tubac were taken fabulous for
tunes in minerals. From one min
: alone in the course Of a few month
, it is said 100000 worth OF silve
> was produced. 1t is still rich i
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-03-10

ores and many are the legions Of
lost mines and the credulous are
still seeking them.
It was at Tubac in 1859 that the
nrst newspaper In Arizona. The
weekly Arizonian. was published.
It had four pages and four columns
to the page and was printed on .
nand press. It Is said that citizens
even then took exception to editor
ial policies and objected when the
editor took them to task for allow
ing q dead burro to lie in the
streets for more than week COM
planning at the hurry when there is
so much time tomorrow to take it
away-besides what was a dead
burro on the street!
The Indians repeatedly raided
the town and in q pass close BY
they murdered scores OF whites.
Four OF the cid and best known
pioneers fell here, victories Of the
Apaches' savagery and for them
four mountain peaks have been
named. Immediately the cruel
Apaches fell upon Tubac and made
a harvest Of pillage and murdered
as many Of the settlers as they
could reach; stole hundreds OF
horses and mules and cattle. They
were only driven of when q relief
party came from Tucson to whom
word 6f the massacre had been
taken by an express rider who
| broke through the Indian line.
Scarcely had relief from the In
dams attack reached the town
when a party Of Mexican bandits
who came up from Sonora,
swooped down upon the unsuspect-
ing town, but they too were driven
off.
So frightened were the remain
ing settlers of Tubac and the min
! ers and ranchers from the sur
rounding country, that they made
hasty flight to Tucson.
Tucson at this time was a pop
ular rendezvous for a malodorous
lot of criminals and desperadoes
fugitives from vast region here
about, and so thriving was the bus.
mess along certain lines that it is
said every gambling house in Tue.
son was obliged to pay a tax Of
500 a month, and every keeper o.
a bar must pay a similar amount
1t is thus not hard to figure out OF
imagine the then high life of this
now eminently quiet and respect
able town.
Visit Old Mission.
| But one of the most interesting
sights on the trip was my visit t.
the old Spanish mission. Tumaca
corr. which is said to be the oldes
building in this country erected b!
white men. 1t is now part of ;
national monument comprising II
acres, and is situated close Il
Tubac.
From Mexico north the padre
built Spanish missions a day
journey apart. Tumacacori a
Tubac, San Xavier at Tucson ant
others further north are part o
the system. San Xavier has bee
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-03-10

FALL.
Fall for Abraham's Pecan Roll
and you fall into a state of salts
faction and contentment.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-03-10
Whoopins Cough

For moro than a generation Dr.
brakes Glessco Cough and Group
Remedy has been recognized as the
best medicine for Whooping Cough.
It gives the promptest relief, and
ore little dose usually relieves the
everest spasms Of coughing. Every
ecttle guaranteed to give satisfac.
ton.
DIR. BRAKES
GLE S SEQ
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-05-04
NUT TREES FOR ROADS
Black Walnuts and Pecans Make
Good Shade Trees

Naples. poplars. elms, willows and
the a.!anthus are seen along roadWays
AID IN PARKS wherever public ambl-
ton for shade has been sufficient IN
degree to induce authorities to put
in trees of one sort or another. For
the most part our northern highways
are unshaded except by such trees
as may accidentally spring up by
the roadside and, after competition
! with variol; enemies, finally reach
above the fences, writes Robert T.
Morris. member of the American
: Forestry association Of Washington,
in The American City on "Nut
Trees for Roads and Parks" Trees
for city roads and parks, particular
ly in the larger cities, are often
enough selected by some nursery
, man favored by the political powers
that be, and the nurseryman furnish
es what he wishes to supply the un-
critical purchaser. The time for this
sort Of procedure is passing, and
people are beginning to awaken on
the subject.
Progress IN civilization along tnlS
line will mean that we are gradually
to dispose of the kind of trees that
furnish nothing but punches of leaves
which in due season litter the ground
and when swept up contain nothing
more than incidental trash. Now, if
these trees were to give place to nut
trees and fruit trees, there would be
very much besides leaves to De swept
up in the autumn. One of my friends
in Illinois told me that in 1913 he re-
ceived So per bushel for his black wal
nuts Of a particularly good kind, anc
that some of the trees bore as many
as IA bushels to the tree.
Suppose that we were 10 suppiant
willows and poplars along the road
side with trees which would give US
bushels of products worth many dol
lars per bushel when the leaves were
swept up in the fell. 1t is no more
difficult to set out a black walnut than
it is to set out willow or poplar.
The first cost is no greater If we set
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-05-04

out seeding trees, although, if par
ticuiarly good kinds of grated black
walnut are set out, the first cost is
something more-yet negligible in
view of the return. Investment in a
nut tree differs from an investment in
an Industrial enterprise, for the rea-
son that the plant of the industrial
enterprise is decreasing in value from
wear and tear the moment after it is
completed A nut tree, on the other
hand, is increasing in value from the
moment it is set out
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-05-04
SEEK USE FOR LOW
GRADE COTTON
Pref. Duggar to Cooperate With
National Research Council Com
ments Upon Convention.

The American Cotton Association
'm&>h met lest week at Montgomery
Al, has taken steps to cooperate
VIII, the national research council
of Washington. looking to a scientific
IL; "stigation into the greater use OF
low grades Of cotton in the manu-
5acture of textiles Conferences or
this subject were had during the
convention between the association
officials and Harrison +. Howe, the
representative of the council.
SO impressed were the officials OF
the association with the councils
p1opo ,ition as presented by Mr.. Howe
.aat it has been decided to name a
member of the association as Its rep
resentative on committee OF the
council which WI undertake to find
means and methods to make sorry
cotton of iarge use in industry.
Prof. j. Z. Duggar, director of the
Alabama experiment and extension
service, will in all likelihood be the
associations representative on the
scientific committee.
Professor Duggar was also named
by President Wannamaker as one Of
the members at large to investigate
and report on plan of cooperative
marketing for the association. Speak
ing on this latter subject and the re-
salts of the convention, Professor
Duggar said:
The sessions of this convention
nave been chockful of constructive
work. This work has not been chiefly
IN public, but has been effected i'll the
interesting work of numerous COM
,nittees. Probably there never was
a farmer convention held IN the
South at which committee work was
more arduous. Among the most con-
structive steps taken were those to-
ward the more general installation OF
bonded warehouses. Marketing was
the main theme of the convention, III
Guiding, as it does, warei1ouslng,
chasing and prevention of present
-wasteful methods of handling.
.'The convention was notable IN
that il did not pass hot air resolu-
4ion, but mapped out only such work
as seemed of definite accomplishment
and practicable. Probably the most
interesting subject presented was
that of the California delegate, who
gave the results of the experience OF
cooperative marketing by the Pacific
slope fruit growers. Committees re-
ceived much helpful suggestions from
Shese plans. but refrained from hasty
endorsement of them. Instead the
association appointed committee on
cooperative marketing to work out
"a plan that. can be adopted to South
aern conditions as they now exist OF
-as we may reasonably expect them
20 improve within the next four
years.
THE keynote of the conventions
conclusions was that the seller must
be on an equality with the buyer and
therefore have more to say than IN
the past regarding the price to be
received from his cotton
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-05-04
upon me as a long-delayed revela-
ton. tho | had loved him since | was

upon me as a long-delayed revela-
ton, tho | had loved him since | was
nine.
The richness of my dictionary al
most overwhelmed ne. Really, a
good dictionary is reading for a life
time. What surprises it holds? What
hundreds of words YOU don know;
what hundreds you can not spell:
How you grow into the intimacy of
speech; what relationships spring up
about you. When your dictionary
begins to live, you almost feel Ian
guage in the making. think for a
few weeks of delicate browsing, |
shall pasture on my dictionary alone.
A Bible, a Shakespeare, diction-
ary, and Golden Treasury and
no man need be hungry. Upon my
word, have grown rich on having no
money and no books!
1t was rather blow to me when l
felt "dryness" settling on my world.
l had always been bad sleeper, and,
without the kind persuasion of a
nightcap, sleep, I thought, would for
sake my pillow forever. With grim
sense of fatality that was not resigna-
ton, l took my nightcap off. was
thinking what pity it was never to
have wink of sleep again, when |
woke up after very good night. My
nightcap was fool's-cap that wor
RED me with it's jingling bells. cast
1t off, and felt my head calmer and
cooler.
Do you know, I think that "doing
without is rather a growing pleas
ure. 1t is more than not missing
things. 1t is attaining something be-
yond; it is climbing a hill into lighter
and purer air. 1t is a sense of the
spirits being best man. Certain it
is that the more you do without, the
more you have. It is an earnest of
the keen and starry existence when
the body shall be outgrown, the
spirit, in exquisite -sufficiency,
shall fill the whole beings needs.
All the people who are learning to
do without are becoming citizens of
a new world, larger, clearer, higher
than the old. Who could have
thought that such radiant gift lay
clasped in the hateful hand of War?
The Literary Digest.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-05-04

to sun only to end their lives as they
began them in penury and poverty.
There is one answer to all this talk OF
profteering by farmers, and that IS
the exodus to the cities, 1lt it is OF
no value for the North American or
other periodicals to point out the ex-
treme menace involved in this dis
tressing situation unless they have a
cure for it. In fact, such articles
merely tend to promote unrest IN the
rural regions.
How many billions have been lost
since Confederate war by the sulcl-
dial national policy of permitting or
even encouraging low prices tor COT
ton when the greater part OF tna1
staple was being sent abroad! In
order that comparatively few man
ufacturers in this country get their
raw material at small price, it was
considered good policy to sell the
greatest of our national products at
bankruptcy prices to foreigners. Had
the nation received anything like a
fair price for cotton in years SINCE
the Confederate war, it would be
richer today than it is by an amount
not less than S1O,OO0,000,00O. More
over, if cotton farmers had been per
n,itted to exact & just price tor thelr
products, there would not have been
ten years ago a great area OF aoand-
oned acreage.
What is true of cotton is true,
though in lesser degree of wheat.
The Kansas mortgage was a stand
ing Joke for comic papers 80 years
ago, but it was not any joke Tor
those sturdy men who put their
hearts and souls into their crops, only
to reap as reward year after year
an ever-growing debt.
There is hardly one Of all the
present candidates for the presidency
who has evinced even a casual appre-
citation of the agricultural situation
in the United States. There is hard
lv one of them who seems to know
ANYTHING about it. Some of them
talk in eloquent phrases about the
high cost Of living, and seem to
imagine that it can be solved by, a
congressional edict. Apparently,
thew do not comprehend that agrl-
culture has been so exploited by IN
dustrv that the question of a mere
national food supply is acute, and
that unless there is quick change
in conditions the nation will actually
have to be purchasing its food
abroad within the next ten years.
No man should be elected presl-
dent of the United States in Novem-
Der unless he has given definite as
surances not only that he compre-
hends the magnitude of the agrlcu!-
tural problem, but also that he IS
determined to recommend to con-
eress and to bring about the forma-
ton of definite and permanent
agricultural policy that will so stimu-
late agriculture as to assure It's
growth and prosperity.
We can go on raising wages on the
railroads and in the factories lndef-
nitely, but every time we do it we
rob the farmers more and more OF
their labor, and we put a new pre-
MUM on every ounce of food that
goes into urban mouths. In such a
race with disaster, the nation may
appear for a time to be the winner,
but it is the rosy cheek that comes
from paint and rouge and not from
Glowing health.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-05-04
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
AND APPLICATION FOR DIS
CHARGE.

Notice is hereby given that I will
make final settlement as executor of
the estate of John Thomas Adams,
deceased; in the probate court Of
Newberry county, South Carolina, on
June 1, 1920, at II o'clock a. H., and
will Immediately thereafter apply to
W. F. Ewart, judge of said court, for
final discharge as such executor. All
persons are notified to make imme-
date payment of any indebtedness to
said estate. All parties holding
claims against said estate will pre-
sent the same, duly proved, for pay
ment, or such claims will be forever
barredl
Thomas P. Adams,
Executor of the Estate of John
Thomas Adams, Deceased.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-05-04
DOING WITHOUT

Cannon Landbridge in the London
! Daily News.
! How things have changed!
| remember the day when, observing a
crease in my coat, I turned into my
tailor's and ordered a new suit. Now,
for five years, l have lived, as bear
| on his fat, on my own husbanded re-
sources. If pair of trousers showed
an undesirable roundness, l put them
between the mattresses of my bed. If
| my waistcoat were greasy, rubbed it
| with ammonia and water. If my
boots were down-at-the-heel, and
lumpy as an ancient pod of peas, |
put them into cobler's hands.
became a connoisseur in patches-l,
who always preferred jaunty hole
to the patient premeditation of a
seam.
Everybody, suppose, has few old
things lying about him, like rose
leaves on a garden bed. They are
not so old as they look. Old clothes
can learn a sprightliness unguessed'
if you go the right way with them.
They can be refreshed like ancient
pictures. Like long lanes, they have
their turnings. Like damaged young
men in elegant shops, they can ac-
ouire a smile of artificial charm, and
teach their wool a second summer:
The can be turned out well-groomed
young fellows, N not too strong a
light.
Take your old things in rotation;
every time their turn comes round,
they will come up smiling. l have
kept my four suits marching round
and round, like stage army OF
about the same number. Happily, l
have long preferred unobtruslve
apparel; you can't hide thunder-and-
LIGHTNING; carpet patterns will out.
But my symphonies and nocturnes IN
gray were sweet. shy things, like
violets by messy stone. find l
can subdue the shininess of trous-
er-leg by looking firmly into peoples
ewes; it protects all but the very
crookiest knees. 1f any faded
philosopher has found way of
MAINTAINING Cne leNel VI iis hASSS'
wish he would tell me the trick)
With collars l contrive very sue
cessful thrift. India-rubber and
bread crumbs are fine restorers. Be-
sides, in this New-year light, a gentle
dubiousness passes as merely an
autumnal shadow. My unfortunate
habit of losing my right-hand glove
has been neutralized by carrying an
f! odd left glove in the covered hand.
, One of the chief expenses of my
extravagant old days was the pur-
! chase of books. Merely reading q
book is painful pleasure to me:
! want to have all good books, and
want to read no others. II book
isn't better than ever at its tenth
reading, it never was very good: Wher
I found that books were too dear to
buy, I fell back on the old books
that I had I was amazed by then
number. All around me were master
pieces that knew hardly more than
bv sight. Robinson Crusoe' came
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-05-04
AGRICULTURE is THE
GREATEST STABtLIZER
Rome Fell When Fields Were Desert
ed-Growth of Cities Menace to
America-How Farmers Are
Robbed.

Manufacturers Record.
We are impressed by an editoria
appearing in the Philadelphia NORTH
American under the caption ''Tht
Warning of Rcme's Fall"
This editorial points out, as tht
Manufacturers Record has been EN-
:phasizing for years, that "the future
Of this nation is gravely menancec
ny steady diminishing agricultural
productivity-that is to say, by {
s3windling food supply. That decline
as due to excessive development Of
J. our Industrial capacity; and for the
injurious reaction upon agriculture
the policies of both labor and CAPT
tal are responsible.
The North American quotes at
some length from Guglielmo Ferrero
who is one of the most eminent of
living historians. as follows: ''The
nigh cost of living today is a repeti-
zion of history The first grave symp-
2smn is that every excess of urbanisnl
: Whlcs was the ruin of Rome. Modern
costliness is born from the override
yelopnent of cities. Too many men
and too much capital are there agglo-
gnerated to add to industries and ex-
; travagance. The natural conse-
1uence of this disproportion is easy
30 understand. The cities enlarge,
industries grow in number and size;
suxuries and the wants of the many
crowded there multiply. But the
productiveness of the land does not
keepwith all this In no country
IS cnis condition more apparent than
v.n the United States. Why? Because
IN America the disproportion between
Che progress Of the fields and that of
: he cities, between that Of industries
ano 1nat of agriculture, is still great
er than in Europe, where populations
i've habituated for centuries to
country life
The North American concludes its
editorial with a further quotation
srom Ferrero: 'The eXcesses of ur-
oanism, the cause of the splendor and
. apparent wealth, converted them
selves into a dissolvent force that
.reprecipitated into chaos the bril-.
;zant world which that every force had
once produced"
This country for so years has beer
, without any agricultural policy. 1
: .:aas been dominated throughout in al
its great policies by industrialism
= These policies have been eminentl!
successful, and it may be that thu
.nand of destiny was behind them, fo7
It was industrial America that savet
the world for civilization. True
American agriculture also saved it
eut only because the destructive IN
auences which have been denudins
= the farmers of their labor had no
vet reached their full fruition.
We pointed out only recently tha
what this country needs almost NOR,
chan anything else is the develop
ment of definite agricultural policy
Sensible men are no longer going t.
i've on the farms and toll from SUI
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-05-04
NOTICE TO DELINQUENT TAX
PAYERS

The Treasurer of Newberry county
has turned over to me for collection
executions against all persons who
failed to pay their taxes for the year
1919.
All persons affected can save some
expense by paying the same at my
office on or before May 10th, 1920.
After that date levies will be made
to satisfy said executions according
to law.
CANNON C. BLEASE,
4-2O-6t Sheriff.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-05-04
Amick-Lott.

There was much interest centered
in the marriage of Mr.. A. B. Lott
and Miss Amick Of Newberry, which
occurred on Thursday afternoon.
Miss Amick is charming
young woman of many beautiful
traits of character, and the groom
who is one of the towns highly es-
teemed young business men, is in
every way worthy of his fair bride.
The happy young couple will make
their home here.-Johnston cor Edge
field Chronicle.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-05-04
ATTEND THE MEETING
OF THE COLLEGE CLUB

A meeting of the Newberry Coun-
ty College club is hereby called to be
held on Monday night, May 8, in the
court house. Every member is urg-
ed to be present as business of great
interest and much Importance will
be transacted. All alumni and ex-
students who are not members are
invited to be present AID join the
club.
W. H. Hunt,
President.
Jas. C. Kinard,
Secretary.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-05-04
TEACHERS WANTED.

For the Silverstreet school. One
principal and two assistants. Appli
cations may be filed with the under
signed on or before the first of June,
1920.
C. L. Leitzsey,
Clerk Of the Board.