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The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-06-15

171-Steep hill, get into low or in.
termediate gear.
17.3-Negro church and schoo
right and left.
18.9-Bear to the right up hill.
19.1-Keep left road,
20.2-Keep to the right.
21.2-Turn to left road.
224-Mineral Springs church and
graveyard right.
22.8-Keep to the left.
23.7-W. C. Sparkman right, Mel
rose grove.
24.2-H. L. Sparkman left.
24.5-Sparkman school left.
25.5-Coal Fire creek.
26.O-Cross Deal-Curtis Lumber
Co. railroad; big mill IS thousand
daily capacity.
262-Coal Fire, Alabama.
270-Braneh.
28.3-J. |. Bonner home.
28.4-Cross overhead bridge over
NJ and o. railroad.
ESQ School.
29.5-William Daugherty, right.
297-G. P. Sloan, right.
304-R. T. Macarthur, left.
3O.S-Reform in the distance, birds
eye view
31.2-Turn to right.
31.4-A. T. and N. railroad cross
ing.
Reform, Alabama wireless
station located here. Population 900
fine high school, churches, Chamber
of Commerce, Civic organization, ect.)
33.5-Pecan orchard left
35.O-Harper Place, right.
36.2- Stansel, Alabama.
369-J NJ. Harper, left.
372-Bethel Church and grave
yard
3s.3-Pickens County poor house,
right
3S.9-J. V. Somerville.
3s2-A f. Bells farm.
4O.2-L. c. Fnderburk.
407-J. T. Collins, right
4l.0-Carrollton population 975,
county site of Pickens county, news
paper banks, churches, etc.)
The tourists viii get dinner at Car
rollton.
ga. b. Garrison, left.
AS. c. Pickett, left.
42S-Lipsey place, right
43O-Turn to left.
43.9-Dois Springs, Alabama, Ten
tire community owned by a. +. Bell.
large lumber manufacturer and hold
er Of extensive farming interests.)
Turn to right at Bell home.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-06-15
44.O- Saw Mill, left.

44.O-Saw Mill, left.
44.3-Turn to left, Cross Bell Lum-
Der Co. railroad.
451-W. NJ Cottrell, right.
Ash. w. McCafferty.
473-Home Of Mr.. and Mrs. How
ard Fitzpatrick Mrs Fitzpatrick was
formerly Miss Mary Clark of Co
lumbus)
475-Union Chapel church. left.
5O.5-Negro church, right.
51O-Fason place, left.
51.9-Oak Grove church, right; j.
A. Summerville, right.
Franconia Alabama.
529-Aliceville Alabama. (Popu-
lation $50, splendid business houses,
machine shops, paved sidewalks, etc)
56.2 Garden, Alabama. Turn to
right.
5G.6-Turn to left.
57,2-Hood place, Garden, Alabama
community. (So-called because Of
the luxiurant growth of vegetation
and the fine soil and farming landJ
579-Negro church, left.
58.S-M Martin, left.
59.3-Mrs. J. S. Long home, left.
60O-Chapman Place, right.
60.5-Bell Place, right
charlottesville, Ala Dickens
vile was at one time the leading
town Of West Alabama II is located
on the Tombigbee river, and was the
distributing point for all Of the ter
ritory in West Alabama. The COM
ing of the railroad through Pickens
county took its prestige from it as a
trade point. Two colleges were locat-
ed here at one time. The old Ma
sonic temple ia partial ruins may now
be seen standing On the Main street
Of the town..
64O-New York In the days B. p.
Before Prohibition this was the
scene Of the old Pickensville saloon
known as the New York.
641-PickensvilIe graveyard, right
65.3-J. f. Stewart, right.
65.6-Mrs. Stewart, right.
66.2-Gus Coleman, left.
670-Elbert Stewart, right.
68.0-Coal Fire bottom and swamp,
the scene Of many murders in the days
that have gone.
Eddins place, right.
69.7-Dr. Wyatt place, formerly the
site Of a Sanatorium.
7O.3- School house, right
Brandon's Store, right
71l-Turn to the left
713-Vera Cook, left
71.7-Turn to the right.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-06-15
\ TONIC

Grove TasteIess chill Tonic restores
Energy and Vitality by Purifying and
Enriching the Blood. When you feel its
strengthening invigorating effect, see how
il brings color to the cheeks and how
it improves the appetite, you will then
appreciate It's true tonic value.
Groves Tasteless chill Tonic is simply
iron qnd Quinine suspended in syrup. So
pleasant even children like il. The blood
needs OUlNINE 10 Purify il and IRON to
Enrich it, Destroys Malarial germs and
Grip germs by IFS Strengthening, lnvigOr-
atine Effect. Coo
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-06-15

Start from Main street, down Col
lege to 18th street to Air Line road.
Miles.
1.8-Air Line bridge.
2.5-Frank Brown place on left.
3.2-Air Line School to the left.
3.3-McCrary home.>
Graham Jones place left.
Bishop place to the right.
d7- Bishop dairy to the right.
5 Charley Brown place right.
52-Turn TO left.
53-Bob Phillips home to the left.
5.S-W. r. Mcpherson place left.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-06-15

7G3-Geo Boyd place, left, church
right.
7GG-Dr +. NJ. Vaughan place
right.
7T8- Ellis Place.
1915 Thomas Place,
1919 Thomas Pecan grove, left.
S0.7- Storm area.
Wndham place
End Of Federal road.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-06-15
ri Holmes Mil, left.

721-lIolmes' Mill, left
72.4-Frank Fitzpatrick place
1872 State Line, Mississippi-Ala-
bama line.
Federal and County Road begins
here, Lowndes county.
IA Raymond Locke place, right
74.9- HollmRsworth saw min, re-
Gently destroyed by fire, right
751-Smith place, right.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-06-15
Log of Get Acquainted Tour Through
Pickens County By Columbus Business
Men On Tuesday, June q, 1921.

distance Of Driving hours and Is
Columbus Ethelvil 1913 miles, time hour minutes
Etheville to Reform 48 miles; time hour.
Reform to Carrolon ga miles, time 35 minutes.
Cauolton to Alicevile 1917 miles; time / hour
Alicoyile Pkensvlle miles; time As minutes.
Eckensve Columbus miles; hour and minutes.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-06-15
$50 Greenhill bridge.
65.S-Corporation line.
S7.1- Main street.

666 has more In tations than any
other Fever q nj a the market, but
no one wants limitations.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-06-15

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The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-06-15
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The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-06-15

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The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-06-15

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The New York herald., 1921-02-06
;ellers Yield Fortunes for Their Clever Authors
Facts About
Authors Returns
Gathered From Pub
lishers---H G. Wells
and Blasco Ibanez
Good Business Men

Poetry once fled from by canny publish
ers now finds an ear turned in its direction.
The reason is poetry sells Masefield, with
his virile sea and animal stories in verse, Is
responsible for some of the newly developed
masculine interest in song. and the war is
more responsible. This without elucdation
may serve as prelude to a statement made
by the publishers of "Domesday Book.
thick volume of blank verse by Egdar Lee
Masters author of spoon River Anthology
Although the critics were not kind to
"Domesday Book" it has gone ahead selling
until it merits a place in the popular pro-
cession. 1t would go up nearer the head,
say the knowing were it not for the price
$3.50 is a good deal of money to pay for
volume of new poetry while children's SHOES
continue to come so high.
Kathleen Norris Louis Tracy, Basil King,
James Oliver Curwood. Harold McGrath,
Cosmo Hamilton-these may be classed to-
gether, however different they are in style
and merit, as popular authors who have been
kindly received by the public but not spoiled
by getting suddenly plutocratic.
Winston Churchill, Owen Wister. Booth
Harrington, Robert w. Chambers (same
apologies as above will be considered as
accepted) are believed by the public to have
made more money and to hold that public
by the buttonhole more firmly. Churchill is
a millionaire without other visible means OF
support than is afforded by his pen. His
books have a perennial sale and his income
increases rather than diminishes as he
grows older and is not affected by his failure
to turn out book year. With Chambers
the very reverse is true His public is
faithful and cordial as long he works.
They want new books by him and they
generally get them. If Chambers is not a
millionaire like the contemporary noted II
is his own spendthrift fault
The New York herald., 1921-02-06

understanding what an authors royalty is
and how it is computed. People see book
copyrighted by it's publishers and are puzzled
to know what the authors property consists
of If not a copyright Well, he parts with
it serially, perhaps. TO a magazine and in
book form to a firm of publishers. The for
mer gives him a lump sum for the privilege
OF printing his work and the latter contracts
to pay him a percentage on every copy of
the book sold. The publishers may advance
him q sum of money This money which
they, properly enough. call an advance" is
not bonus; the sales of the book must
work it out before he gets any more
royalty"
When a new author approaches a pub
Usher with manuscript he isn't apt to re-
ceive an advance, and in many cases the
publishers contract reads that 1000 or more
copies are to be sold before his royalty
begins This is to protect the publishers
for their original outlay of typesetting.
stereotyping, printing, binding &C., which
make tho cost of publishing. Then he is
offered say, 5, or Z, or 10 per cent as royalty
on every book sold i'm excess of the reserved
number of copies. If IL doesn't sell in excess,
and this has been known to happen in vol
umes of poetry and fiction, then the author
has had his labor for his pains
But an author who has arrived" makes
a very different treaty with his publisher.
He demands and receives an advance calcu-
lated on his supposed or real popularity He
demands also as large a percentage In roy
atty as the publishers can bear without
swooning. Sometimes he gets what he asks,
but generally there is dckering and whit
Ting down of the terms he proposes
The New York herald., 1921-02-06
Analysis Of Traditional Ghosts
Upsets the Popular Conception

through the corpse or to cut off the head: in
short, to kill it. These and other beliefs in
dicate that the superstition originally had
reference to living men.
In the early ages of human existence
times were hard and men were cruel. Small
communities struggling for existence could
not afford to support useless members. and
the folklore of many races tends to show
that the sick and injured and those who
were too old or feeble to take their share of
the hardships and dangers We're driven out
OF the settlement and left to feed for them
selves as best they could.
Their condition must have been pitiable in
the extreme, and death must soon have come
to them. But while they lived hunger must
have driven them to return to the settlement
in search of food. The most favorable op-
portunity to do so unperceived would be
during the hours Of darkness. and this pre-
cisely is the time when ghosts are said 10
walk - "the very witchins time OF night.
when churchyards yawn." At dawn they
vanish: cock Grow is the signal for their re-
treat
SO the belief in ghosts records the efforts
OF those who had been driven out to return
To their homes But II they were living men
how did the idea arise that they were dead?
This is explained by what Max Muller called
a disease OF language. The men were not
dead. but they were about to die. Primitive
language may have had but one word TO de-
scribe both, and in that monumental work
THE Golden Bough" Sir J. G.. Frazer men
tions races living to-day who have only one
word to describe the dead and the very old
who are near death. SO the poverty OF
primitive language led to the belief that II is
the dead who return to haunt the living
This. in brief, is the theory put forward in
THE Burial of the Dead" but II is not likely
to find favor among spiritualists and the fol-
lowers of Sir Oliver Lodge
The New York herald., 1921-02-06

EANY people who do not peneVe IN
MI ghosts" would hesitate to spend a
night alone in a haunted house.
So strong is the effect Of inherited tradition
that il overcomes our common sense and,
like conscience, makes towards of us all.
For the belief in ghosts is worldwide and of
extreme antiquity. 1t exists to-day through
out the globe, among every race from the
most primitive TO the most highly civilized.
Popular beliefs die hard, and it is easy to
understand that once the idea of ghosts had
arisen 1t might continue to exist for count
less generations. The difficulty is TO ex-
plain how superstition so contrary to COM
mon sense could have first arisen.
A new solution of the mystery has recently
been suggested in THE Burial of the Dead"
According to this latest theory, ghosts were
originally not disembodied spirits but living
men A survey of superstitions throughout
the world discloses the fact that there are
certain characteristics common to the
ghosts of all nations. Among other things.
they suffer from hunger and cold. So the
good natured Breton peasant, when he goes
TO bed at night is in the habit Of leaving n
little food on the table and some fire in the
crate so that the poor ghosts may eat and
warm themselves.
Again. among many races IL is believed
that ghost may be wounded or even killed.
and Il is not uncommon for savages to or
ganize ghost hunts.
The same idea is prevalent in Europe with
regard TO vampires. A vampire, according
TO popular superstition, is the ghost OF a
dead man which leaves the corpse at night
to go and suck the blood of living people
while they sleep. The corpse may easily be
recognized because II remains fresh, supple
and ruddy; IL will bleed when cut and even
move or shrek. The traditional method Of
'ltying" a vampire is TO drive a stake
The New York herald., 1921-02-06

novel, which has still years to sell in. 1t
would be curious to know how the success
full modern author felt when "toting" up
such generous figures. Probably they take
the money as a matter of course. and not
on knees Of gratitude, as George Eliot did
when she received a royalty check of $10,-
600 from America.
English writer's who, are popular here still
have a better chance to make money than
their American cousins. Or they have addi-
tional chances. Wells, Barrie, May Sinclair,
to instance but a few well known names,
make two contracts, one with the American
and the other with the English publisher.
This is true even when the American house
is a branch or an output of the English
one.
Nav Sinclair's income from royalties since
the appearance and great sale of Mary
Olivier" is over $4,000 a year. This is made
OF her early books, The Divine Fire" and
1.-THE Three Sisters" Each new book as it
is talked about heralded and criticised in
the case of every author with an acknowl-
edged audience, revves a sale of its pre-
decessors. Miss Sinclair is reported to have
received in British gold and American green
backs for the psychological study mentioned
a sum in excess of $4,000.
But here is a woman who makes even
more money by her pen and, 1t is safe to
say that a number of persons who belong
to the class that describes itself as mot
reading the books but never missing a re-
view" never even heard of her. She is
Natalie Sumner Lincoln, who lives and
wields that aforesaid pen i'm Washington,
ID. C. Her stories are battling mystery tales
that nobody can guess as her publishers
say THE Red Seal" sold up in the hundred
thousands. and her next to appear. which
is called THE Unseen Ear" undoubtedly will
beat that figure, because the publishers mean
to use all their powers to make her more
widely known. At present they are them
selves a trifle vague about where her vogue
lies. Here is a bit of help to them thrown
by the way.
The claim is made. by Zane Grey's pub
fishers that his novel Of the 1920 vintage
outsold all others and they are sitting back
to see the sales of his book of this year creep
steadily up on the best sellers and at last
beat them by nose. This popular writer
has no cause to complain OF slow awaken
ing of the public to his swift moving narra-
tive. The people liked his Western stories
from the start and they have bought sun
f;cient number of them to make Zane Grey
a pretty good picture of millionaire.
When the embryo author came first to
New York he arrived in the guise OF a
dentist a calling seemingly the last that
this athleticaly inclined individual would
take up While this job held him he exer-
cised on the baseball field of his home In the
Oranges, New Jersey. Only when he was
playing ball did he feel free. but successful
book filled with the wind of the West and
the spirit of the Rockies helped him to a
genuine Acknowledgement
From his royalties Grey has acquired a
house with plenty of embellished acres at a
cost of $225,0OO. and a more recent purchase
has been a stock farm valued at 100000.
Perhaps there is general vagueness of
The New York herald., 1921-02-06

/ 500 600 copies of this novel were soid IN the
three years preceding the war, and putting
his royalty basis and his interest in the book
concern at 20 per cent. which is probably
far below what he did receive the author
profited by this one book in the sum of
100000.
The sales of Wrights latest published
novel, THE Recreation of Benjamin Kent
almost doubled those of the novel OF 1911,
but with the increase in the cost of pub
lcation it may be doubted if his money re-
turn from this second phenomenally popular
book doubled that of the Barbara Worth
novel, and it may be conjectured also that
as he was a sort of partner in the publish
ing end he did not benefit by the increased
price of the book as an author with regu-
lar publisher might do. Perhaps it was this
feature of the business that persuaded Har-
old Bell Wright to go with Appleton. That
house will bring out next August his new
story, Helen of the Old House"
The publishing house guard the Nsecret of
their contract with Wright. but do not at
tempt to conceal satisfaction ii it. There
is no doubt in their minds that the new book
will do as well as If not better than any one
of it's five predecessors and they were doubt
less sure of this when they made the Wright
contract. No author in this country has
ever had an offer so magnificent, yet it took
some persuasion to bring this one into the
conventional fold.
I'm every small town in this country"
said the Appleton representative, who had
most to do with putting through the nego-
tiations, Harold Bell Wright is the writer
they know and love- They watch for a new
book from him with a vertable longing and
with every new novel his vogue grows. I
wager you couldn't go into a town of 5000
inhabitants in the West and South without
finding that $500 have read books by him.
In two-thirds of the homes you would find
bis books; the people buy 'em and keep en-
The last assertion was made as If it were
a curious thing. perhaps it is.
Among the authors who have made
money recently under the Appleton aegis
is Edith Wharton. Her age of Innocence"
is a best seller just her "House of
Mirth" of a former day and under a diff
ferent publisher was. Mrs. Wharton's roy
alties-and almost from the beginning she
has demanded and obtained the highest paid
are believed to exceed $4,000 on this
The New York herald., 1921-02-06
Wage Reduction Factor
In Increasing Number of Crimes

High wages are being reduced, and your
mechanic and skilled laborer who earned $40
a day last year has received a big cut in
ties which he cannot now crafty. He does
not make the transition from comparative
luxury and afiuence to lower scale of liv
ing with good grace. The good citizen
cusses hard times and lets il go at that, but
your near criminal says: Society owes me
a living, and II society will not pay me what
! am worth am going to take it, He then
proceeds to turn foodpad.
"He has learned that II Is easy to beat the
law, that penalties for serious offences are
light and that even II he is sent to prison
welfare workers have seen to IL that he is
provided with comfortable quarters and hui
name treatment. The result is that he be-
comes a habitual criminal
This crime wave which nearly every
large American city is experiencing is a
real menace. 1t is hindering forward and
progressive movements, such as the Uni
versty of Virginia Centennial Endowment
Fund Wealthy citizens have become un-
duly alarmed at highly colored newspaper
accounts which are actually melting men TO
spirit of unrest has increased far beyond
it's actual proportions.
II believe that the crime wave will not be
fully checked until the country experiences
a return to normal economic conditions. un-
til national confidence supplants national
unrest and until the American people have
learned to accept the Eighteenth Amend
ment as part of the Constitution"
The New York herald., 1921-02-06
Fl. G. Wells Gains Reputation
For His Business Ability

III. G.. Wells has the reputation of an ex-
cellent business man when he sells his own
wares. The advance sum he asks is very
large and the percentage of royalty is COM
puted at the very highest mark the book
will stand. But this English author has
written so much and so variously that he has
assembled a really vast audience. and pub
fishers know this just as he does. Besides
his contract with an English publishing
house anxious to bring out book by him
he has one with the American house who
wants TO do the same thing here. Because
the two houses may be allied makes no diff
ference in Welss attitude towards them.
No better proof Of his strength with the
public and-consequently with the publishers
could have been given than was furnished
by his plain history of life and mankind,
The Outline of History" This work is In
two thick volumes illustrated. and sells for
$1,000 To bring il out meant n big outlay
of money, but probably most of the publish
ers of the day would willingly have taken
the risk.
The book has had fine sale The first
edition. issued last November. sold as
soon as 1t came from the presses; the second,
issued three weeks later. was exhausted
before publication; the third edition was
sold out on December 5, the fourth. an edi-
tion of 10000. repeated this feat and there
have been three larger prntngs since Per-
haps no historical work has been popular
since Macaulay's History of England" was
The New York herald., 1921-02-06

EANY people who do not believe in
II ghosts" would hesitate to spend
l. night alone in a haunted house.
The New York herald., 1921-02-06
Psychologist Attributes Crime Wave
To Prohibition and Economic Unrest

people. For a generation accustomed to
prohibition the Volstead act would be an
ideal statute. but for the present, at least.
it is bound to cause trouble
"The blue laws have made the near crimi-
nails see red. The near criminal naturally
rebels at all restraint. He is. of course,
weak. He wants to continue in his petty
vices and designations. When these are sud-
denly made impossible he feels that he has
a grievance against the world in general and
against society in particular. Lawbreaking
results
The New York herald., 1921-02-06
Tactics Prove Their Merits in
Record Breaking Book Sale.

These tactics proved enormously success
fui, especially in the interest and sale of the
book, THE Winning of Barbara Worth"
C91I. The sales of this book reached
rumber so large that it swallows up the big
figures that used to be placed after the
books of one Z. p. Roe, also a minister and
popular novelist, as a whale swallows
school of minnows. 1t is estimated that