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Show ( THE S A LINA SUN, SALINA, UTAH Flivver Pump for Rural Fire Fighting Savants Meet in Convention in Philadelphia lire pump, mounted ou a lUvver bumper and used exieusmiy tu ngniing forest Urea, This portable li jn Is endorsed for general use In rural communities. a-ui- Hill Stories Recall Pioneer ' : : ! H 1 1 MI-1-- 1 I H-H-- Read This, Then Bring on Your Fih Stories Berlin. When the night press from Frankfort steamed into Hamburg the other morn- - Savants from the four corners of the earth gathered ill lhiludelphia for the convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Some of the educators are here seen at a geography clinic class at the University of Pennsylvania designed to demonstrate modern methods of education. ; ; ! : ex-'- ! ; ; ! ! Civil War Veteran and His Queer Trophies ing officials discovered a scantlroof on of the clad asleep girl ly a carriage. Aboard the train 1 great excitement prevailed over a of young ;; the disappearance ! ; girl who was left sleeping In the A of ; search car by her parents. ! ! ! the train failed to reveal a trace ' of her whereabouts. Walking In ; ! I her sleep, the girl had made the . . ; . perilous ascent to the top of the' ; racing train, where she was I) found sleeping amid icicles and !! cinders when the train arrived ; ; at Hamburg. ! ; 1 1 1 It was the most popular drive taken and by residents of Hendersonville visitors in the days of Automobiles " even today vehicles. Motor Tourists. make the summit over this road, but most of the motorists, excepting those n N. C. When Hendersonville, aspiring toward hazards, prefer to group- of children returning from a stay on the wider highparty in this picturesque mountain ways, the outgrowth, of Solomons town late one night recently, told n idea. Among the many other roads story of seeing a towering man, with built by Solomon Jones was Jones long, flowing hair, beating through the Gap, named for him, which leads to brush in the vicinity of Mount Hebron, Caesars Head In the Carolina. This H"M" i ii sow, was constructed H following a' great long before the Civil whose tail lie held in his left hand, war and for more than sixty years was while with iiis right hand he swung an used by Jones and his heirs as a toll ax from side to side, parents were road. Porcupine and Magpie not unduly alarmed. Ruin Wyoming Crops Father of Twelve Children. To the parents of one of the chilr was well termed the The Wyo. The porcupine Cheyenne, dren, natives of the Hendersonville old man of the mountains. have been playing the magpie and grnnd section of the Blue Ridge country, the He was, indeed, a patriarch. Standing havoc in Wyoming. ghost with the ax" recalled the story six feet two inches tall and The winter food of porcupines is of Solomon Jones. Interrogation of 20D pounds and gifted with weighing keen In- largely the bark and cambium layers recolnbrators youthful lie was a man who commandof trees. The trees often are girdled vealed that tilt story of the mountain tellect, ed the respect of all who knew him. and Albert M. Day, state leader of one of laid sow been and the patriarch of twelve children, ten sons rodent control, says dead trees are several related at ihe party during ttie Tliefather and he was credited evidence of the damage in all the fortwo daughters, evening, and lint the apparition" was with and bringing up seven ests. On a ranch in Campbell county adopting the development of juvenile Imaginaother orphan children left to his care. the porcupines have damaged the timtion. He was ninety-seveyears of age ber and killed nearly nil of the native Wlille there are few people superwhen death claimed him. wild fruits. Ioison Is placed in their Soloto believe that stitious enough Solomon Jones, because of his large dens. mon Jones ghost haunts Mount Hebfamily, which lie wished to see well The magpie not only lobs the nests in the section will ron, every to turned schools. educated, naturally other birds and kills young chickof agree that the spirit of t lie rugged He was one of the pioneers in educaens and turkeys, but pecks holes In near to the lived who mountaineer, tional work, stumping western North the hides of cattle and slieep. Ap' century mark, ts everywhere manl- Carolina in an effort to get the pres- proximately 1,500 pounds of poisoned iest In the great modern school system established. ground beef has been used this year ent public highways radiating through the mounHe thus early recognized the fact that in getting rid of the bird. tains in every direction. For .Solomon if the mountain farmer was to ImJones possesses the distinction of behis condition. It would be prove ing the first American scenic road through the combination of good Canada Has Air Fleet builder whose pursuit was so recogschools and roads. to Fight Forest Fires nized. Tradition holds that his r sow, Sue, was ids chief engiToronto, Ont. Radio, airplanes and Inventor Still Try neer. . . wireless telephones cut the toll of forfires in Ontario to a minimum fa His Winding Roads. for Perpetual Motion est 1926, according to a bulletin Issued by To those who like to romahce of the Washington. Even knowledge of the department of ladds and forests. past, Solomon Jones Is referred to as the realistic laws of mathematics does Ontario maintains a fleet of 16 hyIlls trails of yes- not make the trail blazer. inventors immune to the roa are states great highways mantic lure of one of the oldest falla- droplanes which patrol the timbered teryear areas daily, says the bulletin. Lookof today, and the slashing of his cies cherished by human beings. out towers equipped with radio transhatchet reverberates today through Belief that Inanimate matter can mountain gaps in the pounding of mitting apparatus and wireless telebe so.patterned that it 'will, after reroad making machinery. phones are located at strategic points. When a blaze Is reported, airplanes Whether it is true that when about ceiving an initial human Impulse, proto build a road, Solomon Jones gripped duce perpetual motion ts shown by carry forest rangers and records to remain the to the scene of the fire. his sow. Sue, by the tail patent-officcardinal faith of an astonishing num- equipment and followed her over the mountains, ber of dreamers. hacking a trail as he went, will always Earliest Form of Mammals Many, have been men of considerhe a matter of dispute before mounThe archaic mammals" able some and to have erudition, their tain firesides, noted surveyors and of the mamwere forms the earliest credit Inventions of sound worth. civil engineers who have visited Hento malian exist group They appeared Most them of have experienced the derson county have marveled at the in the early eocene period and wen fact that old Solomons roads followed elation of apparent success until their and generalized la type. the lowest grades aDd found the nat- little machines were stopped by the very primitive These first mammals soon died out, laws of nature. ural gaps through the mountains, giving place to the modern mammals, A sketchy record of broken hopes which accounts for their continuous which are of an entirely different almost like a extends far back Into the files of the winding sometimes stock. patent office. The only estimate of spiral stairway in their regularity. Solomon Jones blazed the number of applicants to patent Although Kills Own Child trails as far back as the days shortly perpetual motion devices received 1812 was while office the of Mich. he since established. War Is a the Flint, following Crawling on the drivewas still in his teens. It was about vague thousands. None of the de- way, the daughter fifty years ago that he completed his vices lias been found patentable after ef James Lee of this city was Instant None have ly killed when the latter backed hi first scenic road. This Is the road to examination by experts. - the. lofty summit of Mount Hebron been found to have an economical car out of the garage, striking tlis child. to the tomb of the old mountaineer. value to industry. 1 Trails Blazed by Solomon Jones Serve Modern ! horse-draw- n ! - hard-surface- d ; razor-backe- nm d m h-h- -1 1 1 road-make- "tlfe-retur- i . . n Joseph Trax of Newcastle, I'a., who was in the Second with part of Ids extraordinary collection of war trophies. him. It weighs 252 pounds, and among the things used where Lincoln was shot, nine pairs of Confederate spurs, dollars, and cotintless army buttons, bullets, shell cases, . old-tim- West Virginia cavalry during t lie Civil war. is shmvn above Of all the urtides lie Is proudest of the little gun beside to cast It were two brass door keys front Ford's themer a B. A O. brass lock from Harper's Ferry, three gold army infantry flag spears ami bugles. t hard-surface- d Lincoln, Badly and Well Lighted REV. C. H. HEUSTIS - razor-hacke- d e razor-backe- d These two photogruplM of the sculptured-hea- d ofAbrahutp Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington show how Aew lighting to be Installed wilt Improve the appearance of the heni, preserving the character and dignity of the sculpture. The head at the left shows the effeet of proper lighting, the beams Coining from above. In striking unfavorable contrast Is the head at the right, with ligLt shooting upward, giving a staring, vacant expression to the face. Expert Airplane Pilot at eighteen-month-ol- d Radio Finds Relatives of Man Killed in Fall Newark, N. J. Station WOR, which was asked to aid in finding the relatives of a dead mau, learned that Its appeal over the air had been successful. Charles Armstrong of Philadelphia, who tuned in the other night expect- ing to hear music and songs, was the relative who responded. The first words he heard announced ttiat his brother, George, a watchman at the Armour companys plant at Carteret, N. J., bad been killed when he fell off a runway. The Philadelphian went to Carteret to thank the chief of police for suggesting the appeal, and to claim the body. A Busy Woman Florence A. to for her audition in caring Tracy, seven children, most of whom are In school. Is now helping her husband practice law. Sbe has Just beau admitted to the bar. Taunton. Muss. Mrs. Rev. Charles II. lleustls of Toronto, who has been appointed general secretary of the Lord's Day alliance, ncceedihg Rev. W. M. Rochester. 14 TO WED DENBY, JR. AMERICAN SOLDIERS ARE THE BEST PAID FIGHTERS IN WORLD 0 American General Submits Statistics to Arms Commission at Geneva. Geneva.-ThAmerican private soldier is a prince from the standpoint of pay ns compared with the soldiers of other countries. Statistics to demonstrate tills were presented by General Nolan of the Unitid States army to the leagues disarmament commission here. General Nolans contention was that while a universal and systematic reduction of military budgets all over the world would necessarily result in a reduction of urinies anti armaments, It nevertheless constitutes rather an unfair basis for comparison, owing to the different rates of pay, standards of life, cost of production of war material. and other elements in the different countries. As the limit striking point. General Nolan cited that the pay of the lowest ranking American doughboy would pay approximately 5 French poll us; 41 Italian soldiers aDd 11 Japanese' In the same manner the cost of that 'the Amersoldier eats much better or a great deal more than any other is subsistence-rlpipiyl- ng ican much higher in America thun elsewhere. For example, the cost of fowling one American soldier ts sufficient for 2.5 French soldiers; 2.4 Italiun soldiers, 1.5 Japanese soldiers and 1.4 British Tommies. General Nolan cited as other Items that render armament budgets a poor basis of comparison for fixing reductions of nrntininent, rates of 'exchange In the different countries, cost of transportation both of raw material und the finished product and the purchasing power of the money of country both at home and abroad , Komis of Pea Moines. Iowa, Although only fourtem veer oM. latwr-nean expert airplane pilot, lie recently completed a lliree hundred mile flight i auk look, tusking tiie Might alone. Lnwrence Is from I'cs Moines to believed to be the yoinv'csl a visitor in the midwest, lie learned to liy less than vlx nn.ir hs ago Is (ii,J-ili:- Miss Rosamond Reed, daughter of Mrs. David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, whose engagement tu Charles Den by, Jr., son of former United States minister to Chimi and Mrs. Charles Denby of Washington, has been announced by her parent, Senator and |
