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VOL. UH. GRAHAM, IN, C., THURSDAY JULY 21, 1927. NO. 25.
DOINGS OF THF. WFF.K |
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Earthquake in Palestine and
Transjordania Is Fatal
-to Hundreds.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
HUNDREDS of men, women and
children?perhaps as many as a
thousand?were killed in Palestine
and Transjordania by the severest
earthquake that region has experi
enced in a hundred years. Thousands
were injured and other thousands
were rendered homeless. In Jerusalem
many famous buildings were seriously
damaged, including the Church of the
Holy Sepulcher, the Hebrew univer
sity, the Dome of the Bock, the Ilasil
icu, the Russian church, the Bag
dudcse synagogue and the government
house on the Mount of Olives; but the
casualties in the "City of Peace" were
few. Elsewhere, especially east and
south of the Dead sea, the destruction
in towns and villages was almost com
plete and hundreds of mangled bodies
were taken from the ruins of houses.
Half of the town of Nablus was ut
terly wrecked and many inhabitants
were killed. It ^as reported that 3(10
were dead at Maan, 3(1 at Amman, 72
at Kamleh and 80 at Ludd. In Jericho
there was but one victim, but the Win
ter Palace hotel collapsed and other
buildings were damaged.
British military aviators from Trans
jordania helped in the rescue of many
survivors, and relief work was got
ui.der wily promptly. Pope Pius,
deeply grieved by the catastrophe,
sept instructions to the patriarcldate
at Jerusalem concerning relief meas
ures. The earthquake was felt in
Egypt and caused great alarm but not
much damage. On the same day there
were severe temblors in Victoria, Aus
'triil in.
i' loods following a cloudburst in the
valleys of the Gottleuba and Mugiitz
rivers, tributaries of the Elbe in Sax
ony, killed about 200 persons and
devastated the valleys, burying the
ruins of villages deep in mud. Troops
and hundreds of relief workers were
rushed to the rescue, the Red Cross
leading the expedition and being/ fol
lowed by thje communists, the Fascists,
tjie "Steel Helffiets" and the rebub
lhwn''Reichsbahniei". forces, all united
for once in the 'task of extricating and
feeding the haples^ survivors. The
same violent storm that struck Sax
ony raged along the Alps and Apen
nines in northern and central Italy,
doing vast damage.
Y EVIN CHRISTOPHER O'HIG
^ GINS, vice .president of .the Irish
Free State, minister for justice and
perhaps the leading man in the gov
ernment. was assassinated as he was
on his way to church in Booterstown.
a suburb of Dublin. Three men tired
bullets into his head and body and
.escaped in a motor car. O'Higgins.
before his death a few hours later,
whispered: "I go as Collins went.and
as my father went I die as I have
lived?-for Ireland. I die at peace with
thy enemies and with God. I forgive
them all."
The brutal murder caused intense
h:d;gnation, not only in the Free State
bui throughout the world, and mes
sages of sympathy were received by
President Cosgrave from King George,
the duke of Aberoorn for northern Ire
tond and many other personages.
Ramon de Valera denounced the crime
as murder inexcusable from any stand
point and said b^ was confident the
republican organization was not re
sponsible for it Ten men, all said to
be connected with irregular organiza
tions. were arrested, the charge being
tout us senior officers of secret groups
toe.v directed the conspiracy resulting
to the assassination. One of the pris
oner* was a son t>f Count George
Plunkett
A NOTHER week of debate in the
naval limitation conference at
Geneva, and no definite results. Great
BfUain, still striving to maintain her
predominance on the seas but not will
tog that the conference should fail.
?nggested a compromise solution of
toe cruiser problem. \V\ C. Bridge
Genres Rust Tour It
Spontored by A. F. L.
x<w York.?William Green, prest
('ri* of the American Federation of
?ttlmr charged thai the aim of a del
ation of trade unionists, sailing this
toonth for Russia, is to bring about
JJ*?Snltion of Russia by the United
tMt0* arKj tiis organization
t(i Qo connection with the move
ment.
The delegation, he said, is composed
'en trade unionists and a large
roan, first-lord df the admiralty, said
if the United "States would agree to
limit the nurrifeer of 10,000-ton cruisers
to ten each for America and England
and six for Japan, he would be pre
pared to accept the maximum tonnage
figures of 400,000 tons fixed by the
United States. Mr. Gibson and his
colleagues might have reached some
agreement with the British with this
as a starter, although it was asserted
in Washington that our government
could not accept Bridgeman's figures.
But here the Japanese stepped in with
the -flat statement that they would not
go above 480,000 tons for cruisers and
destroyers combined, this being the
total for both categories as suggested
in the original American plan. Vis
count Saito said his delegation was
ready to return home without any
treaty, and that if the Americans and
British could get together, they might !
as well sign a two-power pact. This, j
however, did not suit Mr. Gibson at
sill 1
Afr. Cridgeman requested that a
plenary session of the conference be .j
held on Thursday. At this he, Mr.
Gibson and Viscount Saito again set
forth the positions of their respective
governments in the matter of cruisers,
and there was a formal review of wha^
had been accomplisli^tl?if anything.
Talking to the correspondents, Mr.
Gibson was optimistic. "We luckily
hold a middle position" he said. "The
Japanese are in full accord with our
original figures and we can get an
agreement with the British on in
creased tonnage totals under consid
eration. Now it is up to the British
and Japanese to get together."
America has not definitely held out
for 25 10,000-ton cruisers, Mr. Gibson
added.
Representatives of the agricul
turists in 16 Middle Western
states, attending the Northwest farm
conference in St. Paul, voted to sup
port the McNary-Haugen farm reLief
bill until it becomes law, though they
were willing it should be revised to
meet President Coolidge's objections.
Drafted by Congressman Charles
Brand of Ohio, the resolutions urg?]
that the bill be changed:
To permit the President to select
nominees for tire federal board to sta
bilize prices of farm products, instead
of having them chosen by farm organ
izations.
To make the bill general in its appli
cation so as to include all farm prod
ucts, instead of the five specifically
named in the bill which Mr. Coolidge
vetoed.
MR. COOLIDGE received a call from
representatives of the Western
Stock Marketing association who pre
sented a plan for extending the co-op
erative marketing process to the cattle
business, and asked government aid in
its organization. Extended to the en
tire Western range, as is suggested,
cattle would be manipulated just as
the fruit growers of California handle
their crops, holding them until they
get a certain minimum price. Such an
organization would compel the packers
to bargain for cattle on the ranches
instead of in the Omaha and Chicago
markets.
Among other visitors of the week at
the summer White House were a large
number of members of the Natlonul
Women's party, just from their meet
ing in Colorado Springs, who pre
sented to the President their demand
for "equal rights for women." The
farmers of North Dakota also sent a
delegation to tell Mr. Coolidge that
they are in favor of the St. Lawrence
waterway project and a new diversion
of the Missouri river waters through
the James river valley and to urge the !
early completion of those projects. |
I
FRANK O. LOWDEN, whose*boom I
for the Presidential nomination has
just received the indorsement of 10.
000 residents of Muntana. delivered
an address before the Wisconsin legis
lature. and seemed to make an excel
lent impression. He confined his talk
entirely to the problems of agriculture
and the necessity for stabilization of
prices of farm products. Especially
vigorous applause greeted these two
parts of the speech:
"What the farmer asks is that be
be given the same right to name a
price in the first instance and that he
be enabled to acquire an organization
which will secure to him the same
staff of economists and styles Itself
tlie American trade union delegation
to Russia. Its report, he said, was j
to be made the basis of the campaign
for recognition.
The following. Mr. Green said, are
members r?f the commission: L. E.
I Sheppard. president of the Order of
! Railway Conductors, chairman; Wll
| liarn Johnston, former president of
| we International Association of Ma
| ehinists: E. J. Manioc, president of
the Order of Railway Telegraphers;
I'hil E. Zeigler, editor of the Railway
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power to maintain that /price which
other industries through tfheir superior
organization now enjoy*5'
"The federal farm board should be
able to empower organizations of farm
ers to take control of the surplus and
to distribute the cost of that operation
not only among the members of the
co-operatives but among alii the pro
ducers, whether they we members or
not."
HONOLULU is host, for two weeks,
of the Institute of Pacific Rela
tions, and 106 leading citizens of ten
nations bordering on the Pacific or
having especial interests in that ocean
are trying to arrive at an understand
Ing of the causes of friction between
East and West. The conference is un
official and the discussions are frank
and open, with no germane topics for
bidden.
Nearly 50 Americans are present, in
cluding Dr. Kay Lyman Wilbur, presi
dent of Stanford university and chair
man of the institute; Prof. James T.
Shotwell of Columbia university ; Rob
ert Dollar, president of the Dollar
Steamship company; Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Catt, lecturer of New York:
Stephen P. Duggan, director of the
Institute of International Education,
and Archbishop Edward J. Hunna of
California.
r^MI'I A'PIVfi nili'op r.pnmiEPll Miir
shal I'ilsudsky has executed an
other coup d'etat In Roland by send
ing ids soldiers into the senate and
ordering it to dissolve because it
would not pass laws lie considered nec
essary without debating them. ? 1*11
sudski had given democratic rule a
trial for about ten months but It
wasn't satisfactory to him so he has
resumed the absolute dictatorship.
PROHIBITION COMMISSIONER
DORAN held a conference with his
district administrators in Washington
and warned them that honest physi
cians and retail druggists are not to
be harrassed in the prescription or
sale of liquor for medicinal purposes.
Prohibition agents are not expected
to practice medicine or pharmacy In
the enforcement of the Volstead act
according to Commissioner Doran, who
continued that doctors and druggists
as members of responsible profes
sions, should be given an ample op
portunity to explain apparently Irreg
ular practices before they are sub
jected to the expense of proceedings
to revoke their permits.
WHETHER the two $1,000,000 libel
suits against Henry Ford will be
settled out of dburt as a result of his
public retraction of and apology for
the anti-Jewish articles In the Dear
born Independent is uncertain at this
writing, but Aaron Sapiro said he was
negotiating a settlement of his ac
tion. in Washington there was a mass
meeting of Jews called to consider
Ford's apology, and eloquent appeal*
for its acceptance in good faith were
made. But a majority of those pres
ent preferred to wait and see if Ford's
actions conform to his words. 80 the
resolution of acceptance was rejected
JOHN DREW'S death in San Fran
cisco caused the nation to heave a
sigh of regret, for the dean of tin
American stage was universally be
loved and respected. His entire lif?
bad been given over to ttye work of
entertaining the public with clean. In
telligent and thoroughly artistic act
ing and he passed away "in the har
ness" though be had readied the age
of seventy-three years. Another
capable and popular actor, Gregory
Kelly, died in New York after several
months' illness.
DR. F. SCOTT M'BRIDE, general
superintendent of tl?e Anti-Sa
loon league, has issued a statement
saying the league will make every
effort to elect a bone dry congress
next year, despite the fact that many
constitutional lawyers are of the opin
ion that any modification of the Vol
! stead act would be held unconstitu
tional by the Supreme court of tin*
I United States. "The 1928 campaign,"
be says, "will be carried Into every
I congressional district. Candidates who
are not known friends of the prohibi
, tlon cause will be opposed, while can
! didate9 who are friendly, to prohibi
tion will be supported to the fullest j
extent."
1
Clerk; Timothy Shea, assistant pres
ident of the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Firemen and Enginemen; John
Brophjr. former president of District
No. 2. United Mine Workers; Frank
Palmer, editor of The Colorado Labor
Advocate (Typographical union); Wil
liam Mitch. Indiana state secretary of
the United Mine Workers; Albert F.
Coyie. editor of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers' Journal; James
W Fitzpa trick. president of the
American Artists' and Actors' feder
ation.
A PARTNERSHIP
IN THE TROUT
BUSINESS
<?) ?jr D. J. Wal?h.)
Grandfather prown, who
walked on four legs, two of
them being canes, and eleven
year-old Leslie, were great
chums. They would wander down the
hill and along the brook and Into the
woods, and grandfather would tell
about when he was a boy,; how then
more than half the country was
woods; how his grandfather had told
him of wolves cbmlng up to the very
door of the log cabin In the night,
and how, one one occasion, when his
mother was In the best room talking
with a neighbor, a bear had ambled
into the kitchen and eaten all the
Thanksgiving dinner. And Leslie
woijld listen with her round eyes full
of wonder, and try to picture to her
self the almost unbroken forest, with
bears and wolves and all sorts of
wild animals roaming about In the
shadowy depths.
On the IJrown place was a "live"
spring where the water bubbled up
merrily, and from which the overflow
wont dancing and sparkling down to
the brook at the foot of the slope.
One day grandfather stopped at the
spring and said musingly:
"John an' me used to have good
times round here. To think o' the
trout we raised In this spring 1 Seems
like It was only yesterday."
"Raised trout?" queried Leslie,
skeptically.
"Yes, we were boys then. John was
your great uncle?died more'n sixty
years ago. Long time. Isn't It?"
"But how did you raise them, grand
father?" persisted Leslie.
"Oh, Just caught Vm In the brook
with nets an' put 'em In the spring.
Then we stopped up the outlet with
wire nettln', so they couldn't get out.
Used to feed 'em with grasshoppers
an' bugs an' things. Time an' tling
ng'ln I've been to SI Hopkins, the
butcher, for chunks o' liver an' such
meat as he'd give away. My I but
didn't they eat."
"How old were you, grandfather?"
asked Leslie, the glow of a sudden
resolution beginning to form In her
brown eyes. "Older'n me?"'
"Lemme see. I guess I was "bout
nine an' Johnny ten. Stlrrin' chaps
we was then. Didn't have to go round
with two canee."
Be laughed regretfully and moved
away toward the brook.
Leslie walked soberly toy his side
evidently trying to solve some prob
lem which his words made complex.
But as they went on ber face cleared
and presently she was racing on
ahead In pursuit of an unusually
pretty butterfly.
Every afternoon grandfather took a
long nap and then Leslie played with
the chickens or kittens or Towser or
went down the slope to gather flow
ers. But this afternoon she had some
thing more Important In view. She
slipped Into the woodshed, got the net
he had made for ber to catch butter
flies, went down to >he "brook and
tried to dip out some of the tiny flsh
that were darting about In the water.
But the holes In the net were too large
and as a ft en as she caught them they
slipped through, so that at the end of
an hour she returned empty-handed.
The next day, when grandfather was
asleep again, site tried the net once
more. And the next, and the next.
Then she hung the net on Its peg In
the shed and tried to think of some
other plan. She was not going to
give tt up this way; not she. She
wns eleven and grandfather and Uncle
John had been only nine and ten.
Grandfather shouldn't know a word
about It until the flsh were safe In
the spring and the door shut so they
couldn't get out
Bat In spite of the thoughtful look
on her face and her tightly shut 11 pa,
two whole daya went by and ahe waa
no nearer solving the problem. Then
a late spring freshet came tumbling
down the valley and helped her.
It commenced to rain on Sunday
and poured down with scarcely a
break until Friday and. In addition to
this, there was a rumor of a dam
giving way somewhere up In the conn
try. Anyhow, the water came rushing
and roaring down the valley, "blgh
er'n he'd ever seen It afore," grand
father declared. The brook became a
river; Ita water rose np to the very
edge of the spring, and the ledge of
rock where they had been accustomed
?o go after mosses and lichens was
entirely submerged. It took three days
for the water to go down and two
more for the ground to become dry
enough for Leslie to visit the spring.
Grandfather had the rheumatism and
said he guessed he wouldn't go along;
he'd look over the almanac until she
got back.
But he had scarcely got bis spec
tacle* on his nose when she came
racing up the hill with glowing cheeks,
and an exultant expression In her
eyes.
"Why?why! What's the matter,
child?" grandfather asked.
But Leslie only pressed her fingers
against her lips and shook her head.
A few minutes later he suw her hurry
ing back to the spring with what ap
peared to be a piece of wire netting
and some bits of boards. At first he
thought of following her, then some
thing In the almanac engaged bis at
tention and he forgot all about 1L
The next day the sun came out
bright and warm and after breakfast
grandfather proposed a walk. It was
Just the proposal that was trembling
on Leslie's lips, and she caught up her
hat and went racing down the slope.
Leslie was standing demurely at the
spring when be caught up with her
and he was about to chide her for
running away when his glance fell
upon the water.
"Small fry?little trout 1" he ejacu
lated, wonderingly; "an' hundreds of
'em I Land sakes, child; where did
they come from?"
"I 'spose the freshet brought 'em
down," Leslie answered gleefully.
"Anyway, I found 'em here and shut
them In. See, grandfather," pointing
eagerly to a piece of wire netting
placed clumsily In the outlet of the
spring.
"Yes, I declare! I see It. You're a
keen one. Metihe I can fix the nettln'
a bit for ye, though". But what ye
goln' to do with 'em, Leslie?ruise
'em?"
"Y'os, you and I?In partnership,
you know," triumphantly.
"So we be, so we be?In partner
ship," he assented. "I guess you an'
I will make a pretty sound firm, eh,
Leslie? Whnt I can't do In catchln'
grasshoppers 111 make up In buyln'
liver an' givln' advice. But s'pose we
fix this wire door first."
As the weeks went by f!sh-feedlng
became one of their regular occupa
tions, and It was a question which of
them derived the most pleasure from
the task. By next spring many of the
trout were four or five Inches In
length, and grandfather began to get
In the habit of shaking his heud as
be looked at them. ?
"Too many of 'em, Leslie," he said
gravely. "When hot weather comes
the spring will not be large enough
an' lots of 'em will die. We'll likely
be obliged to let half of 'em out; but
we won't yet. Folks do say as trout
fetch a big price nowadays, an' I'd
like to fatten "em up good, now we're
partners."
Before the summer was over the
story of Leslie's trout began to get
about the neighborhood and there
were many visitors who wished to
see the spring. Not far away was a
summer resort, and one day a gentle
man drove In and asked to see the
trout It was near feeding time and
as he stood by and watched them he
explained that he had a small pond on
his place which he wished to stock
with trout.
"Tour flub doom to ho strong and
healthy," ho anld, briskly, as they
walked toward the house. "I am anx
ious to get good stock, and If yon ran
spare me a few dozen I will be glad
to pay you fifty c^nts each for them."
Fifty cental Even grandfather's
mild bine eyes opened wider than
usual at the offer. Hut only for a mo
ment; then he regained control of
himself and gravely closed the bar
gain.
What do yon suppose they did with
the money? Why, enlarge the spring
and had a smaller one dug nearby,
which was to be fed by the old one.
Then they remodeled the outlet an<^
caught more fish, and went Into the
' business In earnest.
"For I b'lleve there's money In It,"
said Grandfather Ilrown, sagely.
"I.eastways. I hear front's wuth a dol
lar a pound at some hotels right now
an' In my days they wa'n't scarcely
wuth glvln' away."
Then there came a "make-believe*
far-off look Into his eyes, and he said.
Jnst as though Leslie were not there
to hear; "Home o' these days a little
girl I know will want a sure 'nougb
education, an' fish money will come In
handy."
Eastern- "Coolies"
The Term "coolie" or cooly," say*
the fhthllnder Magazine, Is from the
Hindu "Isull" or "quill," meaning la
borer. The coolies are unskilled la
borers from India, China and the
Orient In general. They were flrst Im
ported Into Western countries under
contracts according to which they
bound themselves to a certain term
of service
In the United States Chinese Imml
grants in general are sometimes called
coolies.
Brunette? Film Well
There are more brunettes than
blondes among motion-picture ac
tresses because, under normal .condi
tions, dark hair and eyes show up
better on the screen, according to
Liberty.
Antitoxin's Victory
Thirty-three of every hundred chil
dren who caught diphtheria nsed to
die before the discovery of diphtheria
antitoxin.
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Reelfoot Lake,
Hade *>y Earthguakg
i =
Reelfoot Lake, Showing Earthquake Ridges Marked by Trees.
(Prepared by the National Geographic
Society, Washington. D. C.)
MOST large national lakes of
America come Into existence
many thousands of years ago,
the (Sreat Lakes, most nota
bly, being formed during the Ice age.
But one sizable body of water. Keel
* foot lake, Tennessee, was formed by a'
grenf convulsion of nature, before the
startled eyes of the first American
pioneers on the banks of the Missis
sippi little more than a century ago.
And now within the past few weeks
the Ileelfoot country has been shaken
again and'a ridge of gravel has ap
peared in a formerly level section.
Perhaps I)e Soto, In his wanderings
along tin? Mississippi river, saw this
country as a vast unbroken wilder
ness. As he thrust wearily north
ward along the west hank of the, "Fa
ther of Waters,'* to the great Indian
village of Cnhokfa, be little dreamed
that this placid wilderness would
within three hundred years be torn I
and racked by nature's forces, and
that during one of the greatest earth
quakes of historical times lakes cov
ering tens of thousands of acres would
come Into existence overnight.
The old Spanish settlement of New
Madrid, formed many years after I>e )
Soto had come and gone. did. how
ever, play a prominent part in re
cording the story of Iteelfoot. for here
resided many of our American pio
neers whose letters supply the details
of that, to them, awful winter.
At the beginning of the Nineteenth
century this region was called Indian
country, and rightly so, for In the
rich bottom lands dwelt a tribe of the
Chickasaw*, which camped at the
base of bluffs that rose 800 feet above
the Mississippi, providing the look
nut -twiinfm km nee<li>d In n wilderness.
Birth of Reelfoot Lake.
One of the pioneer* of New Madrid.
Kllza Bryan, described the earthquake
that mused the birth of Heelfoot lake
a* follow*:
"The Mississippi first seemed to re
cede from it* hank*, and It* waters
gathered up like n mountain, leaving
for a moment many boats. wfifcH were
on their way to New Orleans, on the
bare sand, In which time the poor
sailor* mnde their escape from I hem.
'?Then, rising 15 or 20 feet (>erpen
dlcularly and expanding, a* It were,
at the same time, the hank* over
flowed with a retrograde current
rapid a* a torrent. The boats, which
before had been left on the sand,
were now torn from their mooring*
and suddenly driven up a little creek,
at the mouth of which they had lain,
to a distance In some Instances of
nearly a quarter of u mile.
"The surface of the earth was from
time to time by these hard shock*
covered to various depths by sand
whhh Issued from fissure* that were
; made In great number* all over this
j country. Some of these closed up Im
I mediately, after they had vomited
! forth their sand and water. In some
(daces, however, a substance resem
bling coal or Impure stone coal was
i thrown up with the sand.
*Tt I* Impossible to say what the
depth of the fissure* was; we have
reason to believe that some of them
, were very deep.
"The site of this town was settled
down at least l.r> feet, hot not more
than a half mile below there does not
appear to be any alteration of the
bank of the river.
"Back from the river larpe ponds,
or lakes, which covered a large part
of the country, were nearly dried op.
The beds of some of them are ele
vated several feet above the former
hank*, producing an alteration from
their original state of 10 or 20 feet,
and lately It ba* been discovered that
a lake was formed on the opposite
side of the Mississippi, In the Indian
country, upward ct 100 miles long and
from 1 to 6 miles wide, of a depth of
from 10 to fiO feet."
Several such letters are full of !n^
teresting detail, yet now we know
that the facts were greatly exag
gerated. For example, the 100-mlle
lake is nearer 14 milqg in length and
4% miles In width.
Great Area Affected. *
This we do know and realise, how
ever: That such an earthquake. If
occurring at the present time, would
probably cause ten times the damage
which followed the San Francisco '
earthquake of 1906.
Reel foot was not the only lake
formed, for large ureas in eastern Ar
kansas and nortliwestern Louisiana
were partly submerged and a number
of small lakes formed. This earth
quake, known historically as the New
Madrid earthquake, caused a settling
and rising of the land over a large
territory, and partly demolished the
old Spanish settlement from which It
was named.
General Roger* of Revolutionary
fame, living at Rook Island, on the
Coney Fork river, at the foot of Cum
berland mountains, 200' mile* to the
east, saw great hloeks of sandstone,
loosened from the top escarpment, 1,
000 feet above the river, crash down
the mountain side*.
A ftreut area throughout America
was affected by this earthquake. Far
up In the northern woods of Canada
the Indians reported that earth tre
mors occurred; to the west in Mis
souri and Arkansas, the rejtorts of
James' expedition say that the In
dians were terrified by the same
I quake, while to the southwest, on the
Washita river, there was much fear
umong the settler*.
What occurred In the Reelfoot re
gion? What happened to New Mad
rid? There were no hard rocks In
that section; ull the country was cov
ered hy rich loams and clays, and un
i der this surface soil was layer after
layer of loose sand and clay, down to
a depth of 2,000 feet.
The earth wave* came up through
these 2.000 feet of sand and clays,
and where breaks occurred on the
surface fsiured streams of quicksand
from deeply buried layers, veritable
sand geysers.
The great forest trees moved, with
branches interlocked, like fields of
grain before the wind. Their trunks,
not having the suppleness of youth,
fell prostrate or reclined at grotesque
angles to the earth.
The rhythmic motion of the earth
is well shown by the parallel lines of
cypress trees growing on the low
crests of the muny rolls In the Reel
foot lake region. An airplane view
I brings to life again (lie roll of the
earth ns It occurred more than a cen
ttiry ago. 1
During the last 100 years the Mls
si-slppl river has continued to ravage
the areas along Its course during the
Hood sou sons. While the river writhed
hark and forth across its mighty
plain, the newly-horn Reel foot lake
grew more beautiful, and nature be
gan to heal scars on the landscape
which were Inflicted at its birth. Its
clear, brownish water became the
home of many flsh and its surface was
dotted with Illy pads, called "yonco
pins," whose gorgeous flowers had the
Imprisoned yellow of a river sunset.
To this haven of beauty, teeming
with plant growth and flsh, soon
came, on their yearly 20,000-mile pil
grimage, the wild denizens of the air
?ducks, geese, water turkey or cor
morants, coots and the White heron,
while the, rail, gaillnule, bitter* and
teel nested among the saw grass and
the lily pads.
Some fifteen years ago the state et
Tennessee, reellatag the value of Mat
foot lake as a source of revetnsa,
made It a flsh and game pusses*.