Boancvillo, Ark.—“Money—
rattlesnake—flat rock”—
These five words, gasped incoherent
ly by a dying man way buck in 1889,
in what is now Stigler Okla., caused j
M. C. Hall to abandon the ministry;
and come to Booneville on the thirty-1
five-year search for buried treasure
that transformed him into an almost
l egendary character know as the
‘•Wild Man of Magazine Mountain.”
led him into adventure as thrilling
and as pictureque as any experienced
by Stevenson“s seekers after pirate
gold—and, finally brought him into
possession of a fortune after the
weary span of years.
With the muttered words of his
father. “Uncle Jake” Hal) who died
in 1889 at the age of ninety five, as ,
the only clue .young Hall took up the
search for $20,000 in gold which the.
aged man was known to have hidden j
somewhere.
Starts His Search
The elder Hall had, a year pre-j
vious to his death, been visiting a,
farm which he owned near Boonevllle ,
and the son, believing this was where i
the treasure trove would he found,
began tils search there.
While he was out hunting with an
other son on Magazine Mountain, an
other of his sons had been accident
ally wounded, while standing on a
large flat ruck. Years before, the
father had been bitten by u rattle-1
snake near a cliff in the same vicinity.
Piecing together the broken sentence,
of thy father, the treasure hunter
conceived the idea that it was some-!
where on this mountain that the gold j
was buried.
So he took up the search, combing
the wide expanse of the hill inch by ■
inch, during the years that followed j
I He virtually spent all his time on the
wind-swept hill, prosecuting his
search, and so intent did he become
that lie paid little attention to his ap
pearance.
He grew a beard, and became al
most a hermit, living alone on the
mountain much of the time. Thus, he
became known us the “Wild Man of
the Mountain” to residents of the vic
inity, and many were the wild stories
told of his queer actions, most of
these being the product of fanciful
imaginations.
Recently -Hall, almost depairing of
success, now an old man of 00, stum
bled unexpectedly upon his buried
gold. It was buried in the face of a
cliff, near a huge flat rock, at the
place where the rattlesnake had bit
ten his father, years before. Thus,
the words of the father, trying to tell
him where the treasure war hidden
were explained.
The gold was in several' squirrel;
skin baps, each labelled with the
name of one of the children and one
for the mother. There was one large
bap of bearskin, contain, np .$ 1 .’>,000,
addressed “To The Finder."
The “Wild Man of the Mountain”
has purchased a fertile farm home
near tSigler, Oklahoma, and has set
tled down to enjoy the fruits of his ,
35 year quest, according to W. P.
Morgan of Booneville, hi nephew.
New Harmony was Mrst I own to
Go “Dry” and Give Women
Right to Vote.
New Harmony, Ind.,—This little j
community which frist offered to
America equal political rights for
women, universal elementary educa
tion, prohibition of liquor, and other
reforms then regarded as communis
tic, is to be made accessible to tour
ists after a century of isolation.
Here Thomas Say, zoologists; John
Audubon, ornithologist; John Chap
plesmitli, engi neer, and Gerard Troost
geologist began the works which la
ter brought them fame.
Huddled in the Wabash valley in
the far southewestern “toe” of In
diana, New Harmony has kept to it
self interesting history, except when
those who knew the way here pene
trated the hills which hide it from
the main highways. Now the Evans
ville Motor Club and the Hoosier
Automobile Association have joined
to mark and improve the trail con-J
reeling it with advertised highways.
It was in 1815 that George Rapp
brought hither from Pennsylvania a
group of German followers to estab
lish in the wilderness a colony which
they named “Harmonic.” All the 800
settlers lived a life of strict selfde
nial, shared equally in property, and
received the necessities of life from a
community depot. The stone build
ings they erected are still in use, and
on an outer wall of what war. a Rap
pist storeroom survives an old sun
dial at which the peasants assembled
n century ugo to march to the fields.
After the Rappists had cultivated
5,000 of their 30,000 acres and built
cotton, woolen and four mills, they
sold the entire colony in 1824, to Ro
bert Owen, wealthy Scotch philanthro
pist and special worker. Recruiting
I Ids settlers in Scotland, Owen brought
many leaders in science and education
The community war. named "New
Harmony,” and William Maclure,
Scotch educator, established and ad
vaneetl public school system. But
slothfulness vied witli culture and the
experiment failed.
Equal political rights for women
were demanded first by Francis
Wright in a speech at New Harmony.
It was the first community to declare
for abolition of alcoholic liquors. It
was an early center of slavery aboli
tion. Universal elementary education
at public expense without regard to
sex or sect was first proclaimed
here, and in later years the community
introduced to the middle west com
pulsory education, its system being
the foundation of the Indiana compul
sory education system later pattern
ed after throughout the west. The
first club exclusively for women was
formed here,
Today the village contains a scant
thousand persons. The descendants of
its founders have scattered or their
blood lias become intermingled with
that of subsequent settlers.
Halt Is Called
On Leg Pictures
On Windshields
Greensboro, ,— Determination to
stop the activities of people who
paste picture of women’s legs on au
tomobiles is expressed here, with the
tax authorities tubing formal legal
action, G. M. Ross, of the tax depart
ment, has sworn out a warrant a
gainst the Greensboro Nehi Bottling
Company, agents of which stuck
many leg pictures on the windshield
of automobiles when they were park
ed. The charge is engaging in adver
tising without a license. The city will
endeavor to establish the right to
demand a license tax for advertising
The case is slated to come up for
trial this week. A. D. Cone, manager
of the Nehi company, is the defend
ant in the case.
City authorities had their atten
tion brought to the case when T. D.
Dupuy private citizen, secured a war
rant charging Nehi concern with de
facing his personal property by glu
ing one of the stickers to his automo
bile windshield without securing his
permission. The Nehi Company was
fined $50 for doing that it was point
ed out anybody else whose car had
been so defaced coufd secure a like
warrant.
Marriage isn’t a failure. The shoe
business isn’t a failure just because
somebody gets shoes that don't fit..
Even if chemists should perfect syn
thetic food, it would be necessary to
raise enough wheat to gamble with
Doubtless the only thing that keeps
exployers from settling in the Arctic
regions is the low grade of publicity
up there.
Words Of
Next Governor
(From Cha; lotto News)
Max Gardner was the orator at
the Armistice Day ceremonies in1
Greensboro Wednesday and after pay- j
inp tribute to the fa Hen soldiery ui j
the World War and in spiring the
lin ing to renewed endeavor to jusli- j
t'y their sacrifice, with the usual j
picturesque Gardnc force of thought
and beauty of diction, lie said some
other things that are of especial .,ig
nificance because they .will be con
strued and interpreted as the sent'i- j
ments of the next Governor of North'
Carolina.
liiU. fiuauiuuz uruti -' vs* iwwo
papers that have somewhat copiously
reported the Gardner message found,
in their judgment,, a place to lay the
emphasis upon what he said in re
ference to the adoption of the Austra-1
lian ballot system in the State.
Perhaps that was daring enough to
compel attention, especially from
the lips of one who, The Greensboro
News keeps on saying lost the elec
tion to Mr. Morrison because he had
the courage and audacity and un
timely zeal to champion woman suf
frage before his party had progress
ed so far in its thought with him.
i Concerning the elimination of the
present balloting methods in the
State and the inauguration of the
Australian ballot system, Mr. Gard
ner was emphatic, to be sure and in
so being displayed that type of line
plunging manhood which has always
been so admirable in him. His words
Concerning this subject have a m.ii
tant ring about them. They are these:
On a modern democracy the life
of a people is expressed at the
ballot 'box. The boasted scept
er and crown of a free people is^
1 an untrammeled ballot. Our elec
tions have been as free from
corruption and injustic as human
nature and partisan feeling will
permit, but l am convinced that
the time has come in our State
when we should stand abreast of
our sister Commonwealths and
offer to the electorate of North
Carolina a secret ballot in con
, formity to the Australian law.
My feelings are that we should
maintain an election law so fair
and fre? that it will secure be
yond the shadow of a doubt un
challenged expression of popular
will. 1 therefore urge the Ameri
can Legion to throw the weight
of its powerful influence to the
enactment by pur next General
Assembly of the Australian bal
lot.
There is ne evasion or equivocation
in these expressions end the peopic
of the State will unquestionably find
in the Gardner who is later to be
come the more 'active candidate for
. Ivir ballots for the gubernatorial
honor: a man who will bo found on
one .side of the fence or the other,
never straddling or dodging an issue,
a: flat-footed and emphatic on other
issues as he has dared to be on this,
whatever the consequences.
But the more important declara
tions of the Gardner speech were not
centered, in the judgement of this
newspaper, upon the Australian bal
lot, hut upon his attitude to the
great issue of Commonwealth pro
gress and what he had to say about
this constitutes what we may reason
ably interpret as a prototype of his
forthcoming platform.
And of this more anon.
Another way to have a:i exciting ad
venture is to say “Hello, Sweetie” to
the stout spinster in mannish garb.
If only the umpire would begin a
little while before the game and warm
up his eye.
MARRIAGE
QKlaozr. ....on—
The Iowa bureau of child welfare
I -it.; 00,000 Iowans who are inelig
ible t:i marry. These include the in
itiates of insane asyum and all other
whom the hoard knows to be unfit
for marriage.
If tiie last classification means
what it says, perhaps; but human
ly.
Who is fit for marriage?
Certainly not the selfish, the in
considerate, the stupid, the lazy, the
moody or the unclean.
Not thc.se who can not have a diff
ernenee of opinion without quarrel
ing over it. Not those who stand too
rigidly for their own way, or yield
loo weakly to the other’s
Not the too intense or the too
placid; those who measure marriage
wholly by happiness or wholly by
duty; those who are too alike or two
unlike—not, in fact, most cf us.
Indeed, i! is doubtful if anybody
, is lit for marriage but the angels—
! and they don’t.
For u-<, we must get along as best
we can. And considering the unprom
isi.'g nature most of the material,
we do surprisingly well.
i
Your Boy And Girl
(Yorkville Enquirer.)
I “I Want my boy and girl to have
an easier time in life than I have.”
You have often heard that remark,
and it sounds very pleasant; but is
it logical ? Just when did your boy
| and your girl become entitled to bet
ter things in this world than you
have? Is your endeavor to do better
by your boy or girl, beyond certain
limits, fair to your boy and girl? i
And then just what <!o you mean
by making things easier for your boy
and Kid-’ Do you mean that you are j
jroing to save them from some of the1
hard knocks of the world or all of
them? Does it mean that your boy
and girl are going to be given such
an easy time in this World tiiai by
the time they are twenty-one years of
age, or older they will have absolutely
no knowledge of what work is, what
the value of lime and a dollar may
be ?
Well if you are raising your boy
or girl or. this line, you are doing
them a grave injustice. No matter
how much wealth you may have ac
quired: no matter how easy you may
make their lot in life, you are mak
ing a mistake, if you do not teach
your girl and boy something of the
value of the dollar—what it takes to
get a dollar by Work, and that after
all money earned1 is worth more than
money that is given them—and you
are making another mistake if your
boy and girl are not taught to do
some honest work-in return for hug
est [lay. The time can easily come to
your boy and girl, as it has come to
thousands of other rich men’s sons
and daughters, when they will not
have father’s money and prestige to
help them over the rdffged pain of
life, arid if such should huppelr after
you are gone, if you could look back
from the spirit world and see your
offspring up against a hard, cruel
world, such as the misfits and useless
Usually find, perhaps you would rea
lize that your idea of making things
easy in this world for your children
was a terrible mistake.
Yes, e’-ery parent should do his
very he:' to educate and train his
children for useful, producing lives,
but don’t make the mistake of think
ing that your children are entitled
to be raised on an ambrosia diet. It
doesn't pay.
Footfall and Accidents.
Charlotte Observer.
Death as the result of accident 'Is
not sufficient reason for the condem
. at ion of a great sport. Accident.; <.
cur in all walks of life, aria for ninny
reasons and for no reason at nil. To
condemn football because a deplorable
accident has occurred would be to say
that all athletics should be barred.
Men have been killed playing baa
ball. Men have been killed playing
polo. Strong swimmers have been
onuyned when taken with a sudden
cramp. All athletic games carry with
them a certain possibility for acci
dent.
The death of young Gillian, of Le
r.oir-R’riyne, will be deplored by all
people. Nothing could be more unfor
tunate than the sudden end of this gal
lant youth. His death Was an accident,
and should not be charged against the
game in which he was indulging at
the time. The fact that the victim w <
},laying football is a mere circum
stance. More people are killed in au
tomobile accidents in one day than
ever have been killed while plavino
t oothilll.
But it is probable that a SIVrt
hut an:! cry will be raised over the
land because of the death of y.)un,.
Ciliion on the footall field. The Kamo
.will be dcnonced as brutalizing; and
vill lie condemned in tato. Football
i a game that none but a brave bid
play, and strong men require rough
sport. A game is not brutalizing be
cause it is rough, and it is not neces
sarily dangerous because of an unto.
■Yard accident. Such things happen tn
people who are not taking part n
any form of sport.
Football has its place in the sports
curriculum. It teaches men the lessor
of discipline and obedience. It is a
game that develops the utmost of
both tnental and physical activity. A
man must not only think fast, but he
must move with the speed of hi*
thought. He must outguess and out
general his opponent. and he mud
use the strength of his bodv to defend
art! make possible his play. It teaches
the lesson of the value of co-operation
arid coala tion-—the submergence of.
«■< If that the goal may be reached, ft
mi. game that none but a brave lad
may play.
Breaks Neck In
Fall From Tree
Winston-Salem, Nov. 1(3.—While
descending from the top of a tall
spruce pine where he had climbed to
catch an opossum, William McKinley
Reid, aged 29, a farmer residing
t about ten miles northwest of this
! city on the Box Mountain Road, fell
i for a distance of something like 40
; Vet when a limb broke, landing on
! his head and breaking his neck. He
i died about an hour after the accident.
The young farmer and several of
: Ids neighbors had gone hunting and
j the opossum sought refuge in a tall
I nine and Reid had climbed to the top
i of the tree and caught the opossum
| and was .beginning to descend when a
: limb he Was holding to suddenly
broke and he fell. The comrades of
: Reid carried him to his home, a mile
I distant and a physician was hastily
summoned but the young fellow died
within less than an hour. He was not
rendered entirely unconscious by the
fall but was in a semi-conscious con
ditio'; and kept saying up to a few
minutes before he died, “I am coming
down, I an coming down.”
He was a son of Henry H. Reid
j and is survived by his parents ten
j brothers and one sister. The funeral
1 was held this afternoon from St.
! Mark’s Methodist Church on the Box
i Mountain road.
WE BUY
WE SELL FOR
BLANTON-WRI
1
CASH FOR LESS—
SAM BLANTON-*-SUCCESSORS TO EVANS E. McBRAYER-W. L. WRIGHT » , -
Having purchased the entire stock of Men’s Clothing, Furnishing Goods, Shoes and Hats of the well known EVANS E. McBRAYER at a big discount, we are
able to offer this stock to the people of Cleveland County and surrounding counties at an unusually big saving. It is our desire to unload all the present*stock to
make room for the new merchandise which will soon be arriving. We have made prices to MOVE THEM QUICKLY. THIS MERCHANDISE tS All r*! PAN
FALL AND WINTER STOCK. °
—MEN’S SUITS
$50.00 values reduced
to...
$35.00 values reduced
to...
$30.00 values reduced
to.
$25.00 values reduced
to.....
$22.50 values reduced
to.
We have these in conservative and
voung men’s models, made in regu
lars, slims and stouts.
$42.50
$29.50
$24.50
$19.95
$16.50
—MEN'S'SHOES
$9.50 Shoes reduced
to.
$6.95 Shoes reduced
to....
$5.95 Shoes reduced
to..
$4.95 Shoes reduced
to.
Men’s Auto Gloves
reduced to..
$7.95
$5.95
$4.95
$3.95
$2.45
— MEN —
We will sell you a quality
Suit, Overcoat, Fair Shoes or
Hat for less than any concern in
this part of the State, if you are
‘Doubting Thomas'9 come in
<<i
^ and WE’LL PROVE IT.
9 u
—MEN S OVERALLS
Men’s Heavy
Overalls ..
CARHARTT
Overalls...
Heavy Blue Work Shirts
reduced to.
$1.29
$1.98
75c
—MEN’S TIES—
50c Ties reduced 39 C
$ 1.25 and $ l" 5 0 Ties. QCr
reduced to.
$2.00 Ties reduced gQ
$2.50 Ties reduced
w lurm*
—MEN’S SHIRTS
.$0.00 Wilson Bros. Shirts
reduced to.......
$5.00 Wilson Bros. Shirts
reduced to..
$3.50 Wilson Bros. Shirts
reduced to...
$3.00 Wilson Bros. Shirts
reduced to.
$2.50 Wilson Bros. Shirts
reduced to.
$1.75 to $1.50 values
For..
$4.95
$3.95
$2.95
$2.45
$1.95
$1.00
—MEN’S UNDERWEAR—
Men’s Ribbed Union Suits made by
$1.25
$1.69
$1.95
$2.95
Wilson Bros.,
reduced to..
Men’s Outing Night
Shirts..
Men’s Outing
Pajamas.
Men’s Sassuth
Pajamas.
We have several lots of Suits and Overcoats which were in transit when the stock was purchased by us—This merchandise will go at the same big reduction
BLANTON-WRIGHT CLOTHING COMPANY
SAM BLANTON
SUCCESSORS TO EVANS E. McBRAYER
W. L. WRIGHT
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