MAY 31, 1923
LARGE LIMESTONE CAVE
REPORTED IN MCDOWELL!
Morion Progress.
A very large cave is said to exist
tinder Linville Mountain. A report '
lias becv?me current that an exploring ;
parly hr.s visited this oau* ana tha? '
it is one of the -uost marvelous underground
caverns known. If the report
is true this cave has alreadyi
beer, explored for more than a mile !
and a half but is of. greater proper- i
lions and embraces a large under- '
ground cavity. It is located in the
neighborhood of the Clinchtieid Lime i
Company's property.
Caves are frequently found in lime !
stone countries. From natural causes i
the lime is' dissolved, thus leaving
sometimes great caverns. This ex
ploration it is said was made bj a
California traveller who recently visited
this section. This traveler was!
unusually impressed with the great
scenic beauty of western North Carolina
and especially McDowell county
?having traveled over the Rocxiesj
and the great sections of the west
famed for beauty of scenery, thi.traveler
found more beauty in thisection
than in any other section
over which he had traveled.
With the construction of the new
state highway from McDowell to Avery
through the winding stairs the'
of the Limine section which is real-"
ly a section famed fo its scenery,
will be opened to travel and should 1
there really be a great cave it will i
become one of the great natural
curiosities of Western Xorth Care-1
lina and will doubtless attract travelers
and tourists by the thousands j
to this section. "The Progress" is
not in aposition to vouch for the
accuracy of this report, but hopethat
it is authoritive and that it will
add much to the attractions of McDowell
county.
YOUR DOUBLE
Hav1 you ever met your double?
Somewhere walking the earth at this
very moment is a person who is a
person who is such an exact duplicate
of you, thai brought together few
could tell you apart.
Occasionally your attention is call/
ed to the Law of Duplicates when I
newspapers discover and print p?ctures
of the doubles of famous politicians.
movie stars and so on.
You of course, have had the experience
of a stranger mistaking you
lor some one living at a distance
Sometimes the resemblance is so
striking that the stranger thinks you
are joshing when you inform him that
he is mistaken.
The real you?the mysterious and
indefinable inner something that in-'
eludes thought and character and
emotion?is never duplicated exactly,
though occasionally each of us
meets a person whose viewpoint is so J
strikingly similar to ours that it he-:
wilders us.
An extraordinary case of mistaken
identity was exposed the other dav
in England. Arthur Collins arrested
by Scotland Yard detectives on the
charge of being an army deserter |
TTuo found i.? uu tue double ol the I
man wanted.
He even had the same name, lived
on the same street .followed the
same trade in civilian "life and joined
the army on the same day. Their
fingerprints differ.
The "long arm of coincidence'* in j
this case operated to an extent never;
equaled in fiction even i; the "Pri>-|
oner of Zenda."
? We not only have living duplicates1
but we are duplicates of people who
lived in the past. Old settlers have 1
often observed this?how a boy or
girl is almost an exatt double of
some ancestor of a few generations
< since.
Photography is a comparatively "recent
invention, so few of us can
check back and find our double of
long ago. (n families where oil
paintings have been preserved for
- ^ several generations, the recurrnece of
looks is almost universally recognized.
It would be a great sport to turn
the clock back a few centuries and
come face to face with the man or
woman, whose features build and
mannerisms have cropped out in us.
Ever, more fascinating would be
^ to turn the clock the other way and
see the persons of the distant future
who wil! be doubles of us who are
living today.
50
GOOD
CIGARETTES
ioc
, . GENUINE
"Bull"
DURHAM
Jnf ?% TOBACCO
SPIRIT PICTURES AND A SPEAK
ING SKULL
Everyone who believes in spiritb
Lie phenomena, as well as those vrbc
are openly skeptical, cannot fail tc
be interested in the "'spirit pictures*
made by the 'esait priest. Father d*
Heredia. The Jesuits, as is common
iy known, study diligently for at
least 13 years, take the three vows oi
poverty, chastity, and obedience an-!
Lhen follow some particular line oi
study to which the rest of their lives
is devoted.
Father de Heredia has spent hi?
life investigating: spiritism and ha.
followed it not so much with th?
mind of a scientist as with the un
complicated logic of a boy. for tha
is the way. he says, to strip spiritism
its name. He demonstrated recent I >
iti the Popular Mechanics photogra
phic studio how spirit pictures could
be made under "test" conditions sc
that the closest observer could no!
say how it was done. Using tht
magazine's equipment. including
camera, plates, and chemicals, nutn
erous ''spirit" views were produced
even to the white cloud of "ecto
of the frauds commonly practiced it
plasm* commonly associated wit!
them.
The priest clips his "ghosts"?.
beautiful child, a gliding figure. ;
line of marching soldiers, an age<
woman?from foreign periodicalHe
always has a supply with then
surfaces washed with luminous pain
and freshly exposed to the light. A
sitter enters the studio. Perhap.
fearing fraud he has brough his owi
plates and chemicals?or his owi
camera even He examines everyth
ing relating to his mission. Th?
good father refuses to use th
plates until the subject has writtei
his name on them to insure that n<
shifting can be done. Father di
Heredia watches him sign the plate
his own hand?in the plain of wbicl
is the paint-treated spirit pictureresting
lightly on one corner. Tht
plate is then placed in the earner;
by the subject himself, who may ever
rh?i l?n!!i The i?c n.tffor
He insists on developing and printiiu
the plate immediately. His eager
ness increases. The print is still we
hut there?unmistakably?is no
only his own likeness, but that of th*
aged mother for whom no norma
person ever ceased to yearn.
Let us pass, however from the do
monstiations of the Jesuit to a
Corinthian-pillar hall where an
gathered several score of people
everyone of whom has suffered a be
reavement that has left him gropmf
through the hard facts of reality in
to the shadows of the unseen.
A group of men at the front an
setting up a cabinet which they hav<
carefully examined. The median
herself is in the hands of the ex am
ining committee of women; she wil
soon appear in a coat ana skirt bor
rowed from persons in the audience
The overhead lights blink out one bj
one. The room now is in semidark
ness so that the dope-faced man a
tht piano looks like a de?rh isaik. i:
the gioom. Over the rostrum on<
biu elight gleams. No one quiti
knows when it was switched on, bu
thi-pp it i< r. ^niririml .>vn f.i ..??
press any who may doubt.
The medium stumbles out of th
anteroom into the cabinet.
Suddenly a voice?a gruff, lou<
voice?from the cabinet' I; i
Pedro, the medium's control. "Watci
for Bals&mo.*'
The curtains part, they are sway
ed by a filmy gust. Heavens! wha
is this? It is not the usual spiritua
Just Re<
Another large shipm
ton Shoes in all style
ing absolutely the b
be found in this secti
as to my statements <
I have also added a n<
fine Ladies Untrimn
going fast so come i
make the best select]
Last but not least pat
partment. New custo
ery day. I am keepi
very best there is in g
are as low as is consis
If you can't come
what you want and i
where in town. Call a
W.j
THE WAT A
i tiguri1, but a skull that emerv- /
i horrid grinning human skull. Pedn
' -"taks again. "Babamo will ai.-we
questions Three raps viC meai
? 'yes' and two raps 'n? is*. I. that riich
?I Balsaioo?"
The skull opens its grinning iaw
'; and clicks its teeth J. .getbe sharp!;
tr.r-e times?meaning "yes" Th<
people are leaning forward breath
. lessly.
I Is there anyone here who wotih
ilk; to ask Ba!samo question - call
. Pedro. The women shrink back, ba
a graying man calls out: "Have yot
e\er seen .lohn Patterson \>n th<
* other side?"
"Click! ciick! click!" answers o;?I
?ine. turning his hollow evc-s upoi
: tut speaker, wim trembles visibly,
i *Vai: you take a message to hiti:?'
"tuck! click! cli.k!"
*'Tei! him'"?with a big son
I knows he was not a coward."
? "Click! click! nick!*' answv.d th>
t t ut where i- it?
it has <*isapi eared, ur-J th. me
dt-m is st*ggciing 01* into the arm
ot rhe wair?n.r committee.
tiuch a * m * e . - cuitc poss^ !1
v. ere Balsamo, the mechanical skull
to fall into the hands of unscrupuiou
person-. It is the invention o
Profess* r Freud, otherwise known a
Joseffy. the magician.
On the same day that h'at.h^r D
Heredia showed the assembled edi
tors of Popular Mechanic; Magazin
how to take spirit pictures, JosefT;
exhibited Balsamo. who ha- bee
named after a Spanish magician wh
died in 17.-V Balsamo has no visibl
mechanism of any kind. The head i
pivoted on a small circular base
ihiee-rnch frill of chilTor. around it
neck. It was passed from hand t
hand: There wore no connections b<
tween ii and it? control?-JoseiTy. 1
was then placed upon a pedestal an
not only gave the performance described
but did many othei things
There were more tricks. Min
reading; answers from beyond t
questions.
"Through transference?'' questior
ed one hesitatingly.
"Through transference?" chuckle
Father do Heredia; "no, just a trie!
hut I will not tell yoa how it ee
done. It ees a great secret. Ha
Ha r*
"EctopifHe !*' laught Joseffy, th
I wizard.?Popular Mechanics.
-I
I My Auto, Without Thee 1 Mono
In Would Be. Sad, Sad, But True
My auto tis of thee, short cut t
r poverty?of thee 1 chant. I blew
pile of dough on you three years ag
and now you refuse to go, or won
, j or cant. Through town and country
J side I drove thee full of pride; n
1I charm you lacked; I loved your gai
j dy hue, your tires so round and nej!
?now I feel mighty blue, the wa
you act. To thee old rattle box, cam
many bumps and knocks, for thee
. grieve, badly the top is torn, frave
_| are thy seats and worn; the crou
t' affects thy horn. I do believe. Th
? perfume swells the breeze, while goo
e folks chokt and sneeze, as we pa:
e by ; I paid for thee a price, 'twoul
t buy a mansion twice; now everyor
yells "Ice", I wonder why. Thy i?i
, tor has the grip, thy spark plug lu
e: the pip. and woe is thine. I, tot
have suffered chills, fatigue, and kii
rj ?I?vd ills, trying to pay bills, sin<
s thou wort mine. Gone now is m
^ bank roll now; no more twould chol
a cow as before: yet if I had the y<
so help me John?amen! I'd buy
. car ag: :r.. and speed some more.
, ?Seiectei
il
eeived
ent of the famous Day:s
and prices. I am sellest
line of footwear to
on. If you are skeptical
:ome and be convinced.
2W and complete line of
led hats, and they are
and see while you can
ions. . . .
xonize my Grocery Deimers
are coming in evincr
a larcrp ctnrU of <V?A
roceries, and my prices
tent with good business
, just let me know
t will be delivered anynd
see me. . .
4. THOMAS
kUGA DEMOCRAT
V 1 SAYS TIMBER SHOULD
BE REGARDED AS CROf
rj \* nether timber is to be mined
i our forests without thought of
t1 r.*Ti .. i-ment, like ct>al from our hills
| or 'iter it Is to he considered as
s' u ci hare est ed ai i gr -\vr
i* I like other farm crops is the mailt
| thee." of un article in the 1922 Year
- j bock of the United States depart
inter: ??f Agriculture. entitled ''tiniijber:
Mine or Crop."
sj T' article discusses very thort
oug the problems now coufrontr
ir.f -.he ouztlry as a result of the
v lark of a forestry policy and the resulting
depletion, of the nation's for
ests by legging operations and fire.
i Yearly half the land area of the ,
j l'nif- 1 States, come s22.OU0,0OO acre,
' j was *>rigii tally forested, -ays the artij
cle. 5 -he forested area has now ,
- been reduced to 138,000.000 acres of,
comparatively inferior culled and 1
e second irrnwth. and 81,000,000 acres'
of barren land, a total of slightly less [
thar 470.000,000 acres.
^ "Irn< t* fhrnnrh t 'rnhf-r mininp" " 1
it continues, "the original stand of I
^ timber has been reduced from more 1
U thai >,200 billion board feet of vir
pin timber to 1,600 billion feet of
fjvirg::. timber and 00 billion feet i
? j additi<> :al in culled and second
Igi stands.
-1 "> wnty-five per cent of the re
ma:* : . virgin timber is west of the
* I Great Plains and more than 50 pet
y J ce : all our remaining saw t;mn
her i - in the three Pacific Coast
Stat- . while nearly half of the lume
ber ut 1 consumed in the region
? vast the Mississippi and north of
a tl <> :. ? and Potomac rivers Lum~
be; t- discing and consuming cenaiv
so far apart that we pay
- $2">?'.mio.OOO annually in lumber
t freight."
Th* article traces the shifting of
the timber industry from the east to
the dale west and south and then
d to the West. The necessity for vig0
orous reforestation and for the con-1
serration of our remaining forests is
?- emphasized since, according to the
article, the available timber supply
s of the United States is being cons?r.
.e?i about four times as fa>t as it
s is being replaced.
< opies of the year book separate
containing this article may be sett
mi ? ...< fr-.n imrtd unnPi.fitinn to rh.
Division of Publications. United
States Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C. as long as the
r supply lasts. Ask for "Timber: Mine
or Crop?
o
a AT THE CROSSING
0 I've spoken of this thing before,
*t I've cautioned every passing gent,,
and I admit it makes me sore that no
,? one seems to care a cent. In nearly
_ every sheet I read there is the same
,v old grisly tale; some guy approached
v with frantic speed, a locomotive on
io the rail; there was no reason fori
1 his haste, he had all day to cross the
,i track; the locomotive clove his waist
p and split him lengthwise up the back
v the locomotive hit his car and hoisted
d i- .same twenty miles; ami undertafc i
^ ^
j.!
I
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WE HAVE A C
WOMEN AND
OVER FROM I
ANXIOUS TO
PRICE IN HAL
I hese are goc
en and they \1U
We have just re
breilas and the j
i
Agency for Carl
is wearing them
I? CL' i.
uiiicry ijiuri&
Van Heusen Co
by the box.''
Hosiry! Hosiery
wide range of st
1
HENFtt
P?ft TKreo
er> near and far are selling shroudsj
the latest styie. And coronets on
ea.cv; hoofs purine their rounds and?
strive t-> please, collecting backbom s
from the roofs and taking tegs from
,roa?:>:?K- trees. The wise mar. rovtr
take- a chance, he promptly stops
hi> creaking dray; ho sets the railway
era't advance and knows it has the
ri_:. ,f way. And from his cab the
engi .-r looks forth and sigh.-" lie's
safe and sane; he'.- too much gumption.
ii i- clear, to try to heat a railway
train." The stern conductor sees
him wait and to the brake mail says
"Ou - grass! I'm glad to sec there is
one i'.y with sens, ? nough to let us
pass." And ail the passengers exclaim
as fr ?nj the oar'.or cars tVv **?- ??
"Tr.<-M- it; one man who p'ay> thn
wnif?may blessings- ha \v all his
clays."
?L'r.c Walt Mason.
lOut-Ov
Bfi3
::;h?.
-"? ? ? 1
I Land f<
ji
iLc.
te
n
H FOUR HUNDRED A
w
M MILL CREEK SECTK
p FORK AREA
H WILL SELL THIS
K OR WOULD MAKE
3ft
S STOCK OF GOODS.
For further inform
|g?jj me at the Morgan Lun
ShuIIs Miiis, North Ca
| C. H. G?
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Oxford
HALF
"M T A MTITV AC AVCAn
1111 i vi v^/\r vi\
CHILDREN THAT WI
.AST SEASON THAT V
CLOSE OUT, AND HA
)d shoes-not junk, but tilt
ST GO.
iceived a nice assortment
prices are very reasonable
lartt Overalls?"Ask the i
The man's size shirt, "Th
liars-?"Try one and you
r! Hosiery!?You will fh
yles and prices.
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II
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JS
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5_=r
CRES IN MOODY :S
#!
3N OF THE BOONE |g
an
la
LAND OUTRIGHT it
is
EXCHANGE FOR p
ide
1
ation write or see |a
iber Company's store ??!
^ri
rolina. ftp
kRLAND j
Is at
PRICE
DS FOR MEN,
LRE CARRIED
VE ARE VERY
lVE CUT THE
? sizes are brokof
Ladies Umman
or boy w ho
ey fit"
. will buy them
ad it here in a
ARDIN