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The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1921-09-29

The Story Of
Our States I.
BY JONATHAN BRACE
ky, XiY.,-ARKANSAS :
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uH &&fy$$e&NN river which
WS #EN flows diagon-
NN3Nfa&WN II ally through
~&A% this state and
e is one of the
chief tributaries of the Missis-
sippi. 1t Is said that the early
settlers found in this territory,
an Indian tribe named Arkansas,
but tho actual meaning Of the
word Is not known. 1t probably
has some relation to the word
Kansas. There has been much
confusion as to the correct pro
nunciation Of Arkansas. To re-
move this as far as possible a
resolution was passed by the
state senate in 1881 which speci-
fed that the true pronunciation
was "Ar-kan.saw."
Originally Arkansas was
part of the Louisiana Purchase.
Its first settlement was made by
the French about 1886. Except
for the few years during which
by secret treaty 1t was ceded to
Spain, 1t remained under French
rule, until purchased by the Uni
ted States In 1903. For nearly
ten years after this, 1t was q
part of Louisiana territory. With
the admission of the State OF
Louisiana in 1872 this northern
section was formed into the Mis-
souri, territory. In 1910 there
was another partition and Ar
kansas territory was created,
which included the present state
and what later was called Indian
territory.
+ Due to the reports of an early
explorer named Pike, who visited
this region in 1905, the In. r
rect idea/wa generally accer |
that most of the expanse of
plains east Of the Rockies was
vast desert. This idea per-
sisted to such an extent that as
late as 1850 the western plains
were called in the school geog-
raphies "The Great American
Desert" Adventurous settlers,
especially from the South, found
conditions In Arkansas quite 9th
erwise, however, and by 1888
Arkansas was admitted as the
twenty-flfth state, Of the Union
with an area Of 53,335 square
miles.
The natural resources Of the
state are considerable. There
are the mineral springs of me-
dfcnal value, which have been
placed under governmental con-
troll at Hot Springs.
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The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1921-09-29

The Story of
Our States
by JONATHAN BRACE
XXX.-WISCONSIN
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Nh &ASfSNIARN with French
Ng H}lW SAS2k 9A1YEB names show
Y kNlS1X4U n the French
WSSySh AaxHIW influence In
aa9oa It's early set
tlemcnt. The first white man
to penetrate this region was
Jean Nicollet, who was sent out
in 1884 by Champlain to open
trade with the Indians. EIe
landed at Green Bay ana prob
ably traverSed the country to
Chicago. Fur traders and mis-
sionarieS followed and the latter
built a mission where Ashland
now stands. This was the first
church erected in the state and
around it sprang up the first
permanent settlement. Joliet
and Father Marquette descended
the Wisconsin river, and La
Sale explored a great deal Of
Wisconsin before he took his
famous trip down the Mississippi
pi. Among the fur traders to
come to Wisconsin shores was
Daniel du Lhut, after whom the
city of Duluth, MINI, was
named.
During the Revolution Wiscon-
sin remained loyal to the Brit
iSh and though Wisconsin be-
came part Of the United
! States by che Treaty OF Paris in
1888, ii was not until 1916 that
federal troops really established
authority there. Indian upris-
ingS continued for some time
ending only with the Black
Hawk war III 1892. Then fol-
lowed extensive immigration
from the New England States.
Wisconsin had formed part
of the Northwest territory until
$500, when il became part OF
Michigan territory. under which
jurisdiction 1t remained until
1886, with the exception Of niIc
years, when it was considered
part Of illinois territory. with
the admission Of Michigan as a
state, the Wisconsin territory
was created, which included al
so the present states of Iowa
and Minnesota and portions of
North and South Dakota.
In 1914 Wisconsin was taken
into the Union as the thirtieth
state. It's area Is 58,088 square
miles and 1t has thirteen cleo
toral votes for president.
The state is named after the
Wisconsin river. This is an
Ojibwa phrase which means
gathering waters" 1t is some
times called the Badger State.
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The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1921-09-29

The Story of
Our States
By JONATHAN BRACE
XXI.--ILLINOIS
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NSllSSWs eSSSM Oldest town in
Na\ t.aae3%PHy"l the site of an
&S9ee here that
Father Marquette, after his first
discovery of the Illinois river,
established Jesuit mission in
1873. -Four years later LII Sale,
the French explorer, passed
through the Great Lakes, landed
at the Chicago river and pushed
on to the Illinois river, which he
named after the Indian tribes
'i''"@ in that region. Here lie
buiit Il .1.l and sent his boar
back to Montreul for further sup
plies. When his vessel did not
return he started home on foot
and succeeded i'm finding his way
10 Montrca' through thousand
miles Of tangled wilderness. lie
gathered together another expo
dition and returned to the fort,
which he had left in charge Of
hiS companion Tonty. The fort
he found N ruins, but finally sue
ccrdcd in locating and rcscuing
Tunty. who had been driven out
hE The IrOQu0iS Indians.
riS rivcrWay to the MisHi isSip-
ri pccame 6ne of the leading
avenues Of :communication ho-
tween the French in the North
ana Louisiana. French settlers
soon located here and cStuh-
iShcd the most friendly rc!a-
ticnS With the Indians. In fact,
though thc Illinois country Was
coded by France to England in
1853, the sentiment OF The lndi-
ans and French together was 50
hostile that it was scvcraI years
BEFORE the territory could he o,:-
cupicd.
During the Revolution il was
George Rogers Clark and his cN-
pcdition. into the territory north
OF The Ohio which captured Kas-
kaskia and drove the English
from this province. Various
states claimed rights to parts Of
This territory, but these were
finally ccdcd to the federal gov
ernmcnt and in 1857 it was
formed into the Northwest Ter
ritory. This tract extended from
Pennsylvania to the Mississippi
and was eventually divided into
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michi-
gan.
in 1918 Illinois was admitted
as the twenty.first state with an
area Of 56,685 square miles. The
state Is one Of the most level IN
the country and is often called
the Prairie State. Politically
Illinois is the most important
state in the Union next to New
York and Pennsylvania as it has
twenty-nine electoral votes for
president.
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The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1921-09-29

The Story of
Our States
BY JONATHAN BRACE
XX.-MISSISSIPPI
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R AN$A @> \SM sippi derives
hT EsqISs4SfseA \gN its name from
Mk<SalS ssSSssISV which forms
W3S, (5W it's western
a boun dary.
The word itself comes from the
Algonquin missi-sepe which
means great river" 1t is popu-
larly supposed to mean "Fathcr
of the Waters" but this intcrpre-
tation is incorrect. The state is
also known as the Bayou State
from the many bayOuS which are
formed by the shifting river. In
this connection it is interesting
to note the uneven course of the
Mississippi river. Though the
extreme length Of the state from
the Gulf to Tennessee Is $50
miles, the western border. due
to the winding of the Mississippi
river, extends for nearly 500
miles.
The rivers play an important
part in this state. They are so
numerous and the country 50
subject TO Hood that the river
bottoms cover nearly one fifth
Of the area Of The entire state.
The early history of Mlissis.
sippi is yollcd up with that Of
Louisiana Of which it originally
formed q part, Discovered by
De Soto in 1880, ii Was not until
La Sale sailed down the liver
and claimed this territory. which
he named - honor of his French
king, Louis XIV, that pcrma-
nent settlement was established.
In 1853 the territory east OF
the Mississippi was coded by the
French to the IIngiiSm. For a
while the lower portion of the
present state was called West
Florida. After being captured
by the Spanish and later re-
turned to the United States, the
Territory Of Mississippi was ex-
tended to Its present size Of 4G..
8G5 square miles and in 1917 it
was admitted as the twentieth
state of the Union. At the time
of the Mexican war, although
called upon TO supply one regi-
ment of volunteers, Mississippi
responded with enough men for
two. One OF these regiments
was commanded by Jefferson
Davis, who later was the presi-
dent of the Confederate states.
Since its readmittance 70 the Un.
ion in 1870 Mississippi in ma
tional elections has been Demo
cratic state except in 1872, when
1t voted for Grant.
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New-York tribune., 1921-05-30
Woman, 81, to Appear
I'm Anti -Volstead Parade
VIII Ride in Rickshaw Carried
by Pretty Girls; Mothers
Clubs Also 20 March

Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, of 436 West
Fortysecond Street, who is eighty
seven years old, informed Frank c.
Drake, director of the anti-prohibition
parade Of July 4, yesterday that she
was going to be in that parade.
She wasn't so spry as she used to
be, she said, but she had fixed things
so that she could traverse the entire
route, from Washington Square to
Seventy-ninth Street, and wouldn't be
unobserved either. She was going to
parade in 'rickshaw, with six of the
prettiest girls she knew as coolies,
she said.
Another woman who sent word to ex-
pect her July is Josephine Madden,
who is in charge of settlement work
and head of the mothers clubs in the
9th Assembly District Her mothers
clubs were going to march, too, she said.
Mr.. Drake has established perma-
nent headquarters at 1868 Broadway;
telephone, Pennsylvania 1880. and is
sued another warning from there yes
to-day to beware of persons soliciting
funds for the parade. Nobody is au-
thorized to ask for money for it, he
S0ii
New-York tribune., 1921-05-30

That is good advice from Old MIR.
Toad. He knows. He has been in
some tight places in his life, such
tight places that he couldn't see any
way out at all; such tight places that
he was in despair and hadn't the
least bit of hope left. But every
time something happened to give Old
Mr.. Toad chance to escape and get
back to Farmer Browns garden and
his business of keeping that garden
as free as possible of worms and
bugs.
But probably the tightest place Old
Mr.. Toad ever was in was when he
was caught by Mr.. Blacksnake, and
actually had got we'll started down
Mr., Blacksnakes throat 1t was a
tight place in more ways than one.
In the first place, it was tight place
because Old Mr.. Toad was bigger
than Mr.. Blacksnake's throat. But
that didn't prevent him from start
ing down that throat. You see Mr..
Blacksnake has rubberv kind of
throat. That is, it is throat that
will stretch. All Snakes are like
that. So. in spite of his struggles,
'old Mr.. Toad was being slowly swal-
lowed.
Then it was a tight place because.
unless something happened, Old Mr..
roads life would soon be ended, and
because he couldn't think OF thing
that could happen he was in despair
and hadn't the tiniest bit Of hope left.
lie says now that if ever he gets in
such a tight place again, which he
hopes he never will, he won't give IN
nope, because now he knows things
can happen even when you are sure
Old Mr.. Toad's hindlegs and the
lower part OF his body were still out
or Mr.. Blacksnake's mouth and old
mf. Toad was trying his best to kick
put couldn't kick very much, because
ne vas held so tight, when Mr.. Black
snake 81 began to move off with him.
before this he had remained right in
one place. Of course, Old Mr.. Toad
couldn't see, but ne knew by the
feei1ng that Mr.. Blacksnake had
started off with him. In the first
place, Mr.. Blacksnake had stoned
trying to swallow him. He was no
longer going down that long throat.
lie couldn't back >out, but he was no
longer going down, and that was a
reIlet. Ihen he knew by the motion
that Mr.. Blacksnake was starting off
with him, and he had feeling that
Mr. niacksnake was in something of
a hurry.
But even then Old Mr.. Toad didn't
have any hope. He was still held fast,
New-York tribune., 1921-05-30
Navy to Supply Ship to
Succeed Granite State

The Navy Department is expected
shortly to designate ship for head
quarters and 'armory Of the New York
State naval militia to replace the Gran
lite State, old wooden war frigate, de-
stroyed by fire at its station in the
Hudson River at the foot of Ninety
sixth Street last week
Uniforms and equipment lost in the
fire by the ships personnel have been
entirely replaced by the 1st Battalion.
which reported for duty and acted as
escort to West Point for the Governor
Miller party attending, the Army and
Navy baseball game there Saturday.
The men were able to go fully.
equipped on Eagle Boats 26 and 81
U. 5. ~, assigned to special duty bv
the Navy Department. William l.. Nal
lon, on Eagle Boat 81, was the senior
oftlcer in command, with Lieutenant
William II. Patton in command of
Eagle Boat 26. Recruiting for the
naval militia has been resumed at the
new temporary quarters ashore from
the former anchorage of the Granite
State. '''
New-York tribune., 1921-05-30
Shower at Coney Drives
800, 900 Home i'm Hurry
Flood Water Kneedeep Outside
TerlninS Where Crowds
Wait to Gain Fntrance

The Coney Island crowd was esti-
mated at 100000 yesterday and when
a sharp thunder shower broke with q
deluge of rain about o'clock, nearly
eVer5 body started for home in a hurry.
The reserves from the Coney Island
police station had difficulty restraining
the throng that pressed about the West
Enc Terminal.
Thousands who had to wait outside
III the rain until enough trains had
cone In to carry away the other thou
sands inside, found the approaches to
the terminal flooded nee-deep, owing
to the lnadequacy Of the drainage sys.
Ven. They sloshed along through the
water and when the rush had subsidized
and the rain had stopped about T
O'Clock, employees of the railroad set
TO work with buckets and brooms to
dredge the entrances.
AT the West Eighth Street station,
where the Culver and Brighton trains
stop, SO much water got into the sta
tlon approaches that at 10 O'Clock il
still was necessary to ford them mn
less some agile pedestrian preferred
To cross on p9anks which f1oated in the
muddy water.
1t was at the West Eighth Street
station that the only accident. due to
the sudden panicky desire for home.
LOOK place. Florence Olken, of 515
Fifth Street, Manhattan,j was pushed
INTO the gap between two cars. She
was taken to Coney Island Hosuital
suffering from hysteria and bruises.
The rain did not last long, and early
IN the evening another crowd had pos
session of the resort.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-30
Orders for Babies, 1ripIets
Or 7wiros, Taken and Filled
Demands for Pilgrim Infants So Far Exceed Sup
ply That British National Adoption society
Will Ship More to Disappointed Women

terday. They leave Miss spence's
School early this week and their new
home will be. outside New York State.
At least fifty families tried to get these
youngsters, who registered their first
impression of this country by yelling
Justify. The schoolgirls, who made
them their special pets, were heavy
hearted yesterday afternoon when in
formed that the twins were about to go.
A disappointed woman who had hoped
to adopt them importuned Miss Plows-
Day to hurry up and get some more
twins out to this country.
"I don't care anything about their
ancestry. | don't even care if they are
ed-headed and freckled, but they must
be twins and ] want them soon" she
declared. "If they are one-half as
charming as Rolapd and Franklin I
shall be perfectly contented"
Blue-eyeda Betty, who is still de-
pendent on bottle for existence, goes
to her new home on Wednesday, and
Valerie leavs on the same day for
Philadelphia. With Joan gone, the five
babies that Miss Spence has had under
her personal supervision are all placed
now
The little family of three, harbored
at the Alice Chaplin Nursery, 21O0 Lex
lngton Avenue, has dwindled down to
one. Eileen is comfortably settled in
Connecticut. Baby Susanne, four
months Of age, goes to Long Island to-
morrow. Hannah still sits in her
rocking chair while DR.. Henry Dwight
Chaplin tries to decide where she shall
60, There are many requests for her
Good accounts of the babies who have
already been placed are being received
by members Of the committee. So far
none Of the baby pilgrims has gone
into New York home.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-30
Dry Raid Interrupts
Chorus Girls ReveIrv
Liquor Worth $4,000 Seized
After Exciting Skirmish in
Worcester Hotel
Spec{al Dtspatch 10 Tb. Tr;,....,

WORCESTER, Mass, May 2o-n.
Supervisor William J. MCCARTHY =,
his assistants had one Of the most -
citing evenings Of their rather bs,t..
career when they swooped down :.
Paul McHale's hotel last night lust :,
crowd Of $50 men and women. inclnd
ing group Of chorus girls, were ~.
joying their drinks.
Mccarthy, with dozen Of his sssi,.
ants, marched into the dining roon :.
the psychological rooment and nut y
party to rout. Tablet we're oyertnrees ,,'s
and bottles were hurled to the Aoor or 4.
an attempt to destroy the evidenrs
There was general mix-up in wbi,I
it was hard to untangle the dry agent. ~.
the male guests and the chorus oi,i.
Fists few, and for & while it see1nss e1o.s
as though nobody cared just where n.
blows landed.
The agents, however, nlanasaa .,
seize several bottles Of liquor IN ths
dining room. They then searched ~
hotel, and declare they found ANN,
$4,000 worth, 100000 Of it in one roop
New-York tribune., 1921-05-30
Autoists Barely Escape
AS Palisades Rock Falls
Huge Bowlder Crashes to Drive
just After Several Cars
Had Passed

A huge bowlder that plunged from
the top of the Palisades, three hundred
1eet north of the Dyckman Street
Englewood ferry late yesterday after
noon, missed several loaded automo-
ibile9 on the Hudson shore road, four
hundred feet below, by a narrow mar
GIN and smashed into fragments
Patrolman Burt Whipple, of the In
terstate Park police, heard the rendinp
NOISE made by the bowlder when It
broke loose and halted traffic m +be
Hendrick Hudson Driveway az the
mass of rock tore its way down the AL
most perpendicular cliff, uprooting and
crushing. trees in its fl ight.
Several automobiles, travelling one
behind another as closely as thev could
be packed, had just cleared the danger
point when the huge rock took its final
plunge to the drive.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-30
u. S. Agents Depressing
Pothier, Asserts Lawyer
Charges Intimidation Designed
to Make Rosenbiuth Wit

ness Reaairm "Confession''
Jonah J. Goldstein, counsel for Rob
ert Rosenbluth, former captain in the
army, yesterday issued statement in
which he charges that Federal agents
are making "desperate efforts to clear
themselves of accusations made against
them by Captain Rosenbluth and his
many friends"
The lawyer asserts that third degree
methods were us9d on Roland Pothier,
who was said to have repudiated a
''confession" involving Rosenbluth in
charges growing out OF the death of
Major Alexander P. Cronkhite, at Camp
Lewis, Wash, October %, 1918.
"Pothier has been arrested twice re-
GENTLY" continues MFR. Goldstein's
statement. Both arrests were without
warrant and were clearly made to
frighten him into withdrawal of his
retractions by which Captain Rosen-
bluth was definitely cleared. Despite
suffering induced by Department of
Justice agents, Pothier remained firm
in his statement that Captain Rosen-
bluth had nothing to do with the shoot
ing.
"These latest developments have
been transmitted to the American Le-
gion, which will try to see that Poth-
ier's desperate condition will not be
made use of by the departments agents
to produce further miscarriage of
Justice"
New-York tribune., 1921-05-30

The latest thing Is to ..'order" your
baby-say whether you want girl or
boy, twins or ttipets, blue eyes or
brown, black hair or blond and the
National Adoption Society of Britain,
working through it's American com
mittee, will see that the requirements
are filed At least one hundred def
mite orders" Of this kind are now in
the hands Of Miss Clara b. Spence and
Miss Josephine Plows- Day, of Miss
Spence's School for Girls, 30 West
Fifty-tifth Street.
Demands for the thirteen Pilgrim
babies who arrived here on the Aqui-
tania the other day were so numerous
that promises Of further supply were
made to disappointed women. Within
the shortest possible space of time
equally lovely babies will be brought
over to grow UP in American homes.
Miss Plows-Day leaves soon for Eng
land to arrange for the second infant
pilgrimage, which she hopes will reach
this country by the end of June. She
has to be on the ground VIXEN the chill
dren are selected, IS she has the "or-
ders" and knows what is wanted in
every instance Twins cannot always
be obtained for the asking, but there
are hundreds of babies on the list of
the National Adoption Society in Lon
don waiting to be brought across the
Atlantic. On this side the demand for
them is increasing every day. Blue
eyed and fair-haired babies are the
most popular, and the twins in the
pioneering party made such hit that
there is a surprising number of re-
quests for more Of their kind.
1t took ten days deliberation to de-
eide who should get Roland and Frank
lin, the ighteen-month-o old twins.
However, the future was decided yes
New-York tribune., 1921-05-30
W Envoy Adopts
Waif Flung From
Train by Mother
Armenian Boy, Found Beside
Track, to Have American
Home; Foster Father of
Another Dies ON Voyage

The Rev. Mr.. B.. II. Gabriel, Of
Hamilton, N. Y, who went to the
Leyant three years ago to work for
the Y. NJ. C. A., returned yesterday
from the Pir9us on the Greek liner
Megali Hellas, accompanied by an
Armenian boy, six years old, whom he
recently adopted.
The child had attached 10 him the
thrilling history Of nearly all Armeni-
ans that have been brought here by
American foster parents.
When he was born the boy received
the nanlH Of Azad Haijaz. When he was
three years old he was found by the
side of a railroad track severely in
jured and was taken home by Kurd,
who was walking the rails. 1t Is as
sumed that the boys mother, prisoner
on her way into Turkey, threw the
child from the train in tbs hope Of
saving him from bondage.
y Nobody knew anything about Azad
except the Kurd, and his knowledge did
not antedate the day he found him.
The youngster attracted some Rtten-
Mr.. Gabriel adopted him.
Another adopted child, Greek boy
five years old, came on the vessel, bat
he viii be taken to Ellis Island as
Louces Carraloncas. his fostcr-father.
died at sea on Saturday. Mrs Car
raloncas said that the boy is the son
Of the latter's sister in Athens.
Also on the steamship was George K.
Stiles, American Consul at Patras. He
said that American manufacturers had
splendid opportunity to do business
in Greece just now and that they
should not let the chance go by.
Britain and Italy, Mr. Stiles said, had
a strong hold on the trade with Greece,
but the United States obtained a foot
hold during the war. Hardware and
cotton hosiery sold directly from
American exporters to Greek retailers,
he explained, formed fine medium for
trade