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MANILA: KANSAS CITY
THE PHILIPPINES
In connection with the continued dis
eusslori of independence f„r the
ippines the capital city of the
Manila becomes of special Interest.
As a transport wends Inward
the Chine sea, It passes the Island
Corregldor, beyond which stretehc
Manila buy, whose 120-uille circuml'ci
ence could surround the navies of
world. Its rival will not he found
the far East. On the right of its en
trance stands Cavite, where
sank the Spanish fleet.
% From the hay the city of Manila
seems to lie almost at water
with hazy mountains for a had
ground. Before flu* United
came to the Islands Manila was
sleepy town, sprawled lazily
the bay and the wharves of the
Pasig, which bisects It. Its
were quiet und almost deserted
times, Its suburbs shady and
und a general air of "mamum" per
vailed Its atmosphere.
Today Its estimated population
equals that of Jersey City, Indiatiap
oils or Kansas City; the river Is alive
with launches and vessels of every
description, including the houseboat *
of a literally floating population of
fifteen thousand; and through its port
It sends yearly to other countries neat¬
ly a hundred million dollars’ worth of
hemp, sugar, copra, tobacco and other
comodltles.
A unique in MuiiIIh is tlie I’mv
cemetery, which at present has fallen
Into disuse. It Is compoMcd of two con
centric walls about six feet thick [
honeycombed with holes just largi
enough for a coffin. In the olden days
these were leased for periods of five
years. At the end of that time If no
one was sufficiently Interested la tin
reuiaius of an inmate to pay Ids rent
for another five years his hones wen
thrown on a heap at the hack of tin
cemetery. Imagine the “shimmy” the
flesh on an ancestor-worshiping China
man’s backbone would perforin should
he behold the queue of one of his pro¬
genitors iwotrudlng from tills Golgotha.
Out from the walled city near tin ,
bay shore is Luneta, a small amuse
ment park, and Wallace field, used
for suorN ami the annual carnival.
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! S EDWARDS BROS
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5 £ % £ BIG REDUCTION SALE
£ £ ■ ■
fi £ FOR THE CASH
£ £ The plain fact is this. We have simply too many goods on hand, and want
£ £ to turn them into money. Our goods are of the same high standard of
£ s Quality and Style as they have ever been. We carry only the best that the
£ £ markets afford, hence you won’t get cheap goods, but Good Goods at a
£ £ little money. Below are listed a few items just to show you what we
! £ propose to do. COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF.
£
1 Men’s Suits & Overcoats Men’s & Ladies’Fine Shoes
! Just as we said, none but the Best. What’s better than Stacy Adams and
fj ! Hart, Schaffner & Marx, and Style Plus. Thompson Bros?
£ £ 25 per cent. off. 20 per cent. off.
£ £
! i All Goods Charged Will Be At The Regular Prices.
li EDWARDS BROS
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GEORGIA
In the days of Spanish rule
Held was an execution ground for
litical prisoners, and here Dr.
Itl/.nl. the Filipino surgeon, novelist
and patriot, was executed.
Manila's chief shopping district Is
north of the river, and
Filipinos, Americans and Chinese have
set up stores, banks, factories and
restaurants, giving this portion of
city an up-and doing air.
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WHAT’S IN THE NAME
• < AMERICA
Millions slug “America”; compara¬
tively few know the origin of the
name. Its history and Its symbolism
are described In a communication to
the National Geographic society by
John H. Finley as follows:
• > . America’ -u name that was first
heard on the planet, or at. any rate
first put on a printed page, according
to the betft authorities, in the village
of St. Die, among the Vosges moun¬
tains In the east of France, often call¬
ed the baptismal font of America.
“On a pilgrimage to this valley of
the Vosges some years ago, I found
still standing the cloisters where the
scholars had lived who wrote ‘The In¬
troduction to Ptolemy's Cosmography’
the hook In which If was suggested
that the name ‘America’ be given to
the newly discovered fourth continent
“-anil who prepared the now famous
map on which the emerging continent
was Identified, There, too, I found
the site of the old printing shop, and
the house Itself In which tlie printer,
Jean Basin, had lived.
“At the beginning of the war the
Germans had occupied it, and In 1917
their guns looked down upon It from
the ‘blue line of the Vosges.’ The
cloisters, close under the mountains,
I found In a recent and second pll
grimnge had not been damaged, but
theye were many'houses that had been
destroyed by shell or by wanton fire,
though Jean Basin’s was still stand¬
ing.
"Europe could not readily forget tin
geography of its Infancy and child¬
hood, hut America began from its God
fearing settlement with an astronomy
of Infinite distances, with a geograph.\
partaking of the sky as well as of the
sen niul land.
As tl,ere was "° fe,l,lal of
(or America to unlearn, be
ginning its It did with the ‘compact’
and ‘constitutional,’ so there was no
physical theory of the universe for It
to abandon. II was democratic and
fopernlcHii from its first national con
sclousness.
With this Copemican consciousness
<*f Ihe universe, America should he the
least provincial of the continents, for
Asia and Africa, as well as Europe,
still remember the old cosmography
anil in some darker regions still cling
to It.
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| BARBADOS: ISLAND OF
VAST RESOURCES
Barbados Is one of the most Inter
eating and least known of the pot*
sessions of Great Britain.
J rear-shaped, solitary, farthest east
,,f the West Indies, Barbados general
, }y is accounted the most healthful of
the group, even though it Is the most
populous country In the world, per
. square mile, ,, except ( him. , and , ,, ..........
j marks Washington of smallpox curried to contracted his grave the
; on a
visit there.
The island there Is but one despite
the misleading plural name Is hut an
I eighth the sl/e of our Rhode Island.
| )U( | |(JS tw > as many Inhabitants
per square mile as our smallest and
most densely populated state.
Seldom does a volcano become art
asset, hut volcanic eruptions have con
tributed largely to the fertility of Bar
bados. When the sun was obscured
throughout one day In May, 11*12. the
Barbarians were panic stricken, hut
when the gentle rain of black dust
subsided, the deposit was found to
he ashes front an eruption of SI. Vin¬
cent Soufriers, nearly 100 ntllcs to tin*
west, which enriched the soil.
Long before that time, though, Bar¬
bados was productive. Oldest of Brit
isli colonial possessions except New¬
foundland, It also was the first place
In the British empire where sugar
cane was planted. Its average crop
of this now high-priced commodity i->
50,(KM) tons. It also lias 2 ,ihio acres
planted In sea-island or long-staple
cotton; raises 40,000 hunches yearly of
the Chinese banana, and expends mo¬
lasses.
One phenomenon of Barbados litis
not been accounted for. For years
the so-called “Barbados Coffin Story”
furnished a mystery which would in
terest present-day psychic Investlga
tors. In the yard of a church near
Oistin’s Town is a churchyard burial
vault, hewn from rock and arched with
cemented stone. A woman was hurled
there In a lead coffin, according to
Barhadnn custom. Several years fitter
when tfie vault was o)K-ned again to
receive another body, the coffin had
been removed from Its original po
sltion. Upon the second occasion ype
elal precautions were taken to sea!
the vault. Several times thereafter,
though seals were unbroken and there
seemed no other modi* of entering
the solid rock and masonry, the cof¬
fins were displaced. Finally the mouth
of the vault was cemented, and when
it W ns time to receive another body
officials of the island and an Im
ntense crowd gathered for the cere
inonj. Once more all ihe leaden cask
ets were found to have been disturbed
and the family had their dead removed
to another burying ground. No satis
factory solution of these strange oc
curretn-es has been offered.
A, natural curiosity of Barbados Is
the "Animal Flower Cave," the so-
I called flowers being sea worms,
! Not agreeable the Mauehineel,
SO are
' ■ along the shores,
or poison trees,
whose leaves blister the skin and eon
i laminate the water.
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WHAT IS THE UKRAINE?
In the heart of the Ukrainian ter
rltorv Poles and Ukrainians partici
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I "What Is the Ukraine? The Poles
uiul the Lithuanians of a few centuries
ago knew well this most turbulent sec¬
tion over which they attempted to
rule, and imperial Russia for a long
time was greatly troubled by this very
unruly part of her expansive domain.
The Tatars and the Turks felt its
proximity beenu*»e of the many raids
made upon them by the wild warriors
of the steppe says Nevin O. Winter
In a communication to the National
Geographic society.
"The Ukraine Includes southeastern
Russia, with the exception of the
province known as Bessarabia, which
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partakes of the character of the Bal
kan states and is peopled with Rou
manians and Bulgarians. The greaj
yea port oY Odessa and surrounding
country have been added to it under
the new alignment.
The Ukraine does not reach much
north of Kiev oi east of Kharkov, hut
It is a large state in itself, about as
lyrge as the former German empire,
with some twenty five or thirty mil
lions of people living in it.
"There is a lure about the limitless
stretches of the steppes in the
Flu-aim-, In wide, level spaces, or in
gentle undulations, they reach out uti-
til sky ami horizon moot in a h" T e'
perceptible line, {’arts of it re- ilffi
one very much of our own nosier*
prairies. In" spring and summer it '.
an ocean of verdure, with the varied
shades of green of the growing vege
, tatlori Interspersed with flowers
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many hues; later, In the autumn after
the crops are harvested, it becomes a
brown waste of stubble and burned-up
pastures; In winter it Is a white, glis¬
tening expanse of snow.
Ur There are not many old towns if.
the Ukraine. Except in Kiev and
Kharkov, one will hardly find a Imild
ing more than a hundred years old.
No old medieval churches built up by
tfie toil of generations of devout
hands, no old chateaux of the nobil
fty, no palaces rich in pictures will
he encountered. The great majority
of the towns are still big, overgrowv
villages.
“The towns are separated from each
other by enormous distances, with im
perfect communication. The peasants
plant their villages In the lee of some
swell In the surface or by the i-dge of
a stream in which they can water their
flocks during the drought which may
come.
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SOME BIG GAME OF THREE
MILLION YEARS AGO
Speaking of the brontosaurus, if any
one ever did, one might paraphrase
Geiett Burgess:
“I never saw a dinosaur,
I never hope to see one.”
Yet, according to reports from Af¬
rican explorers a live dinosaur, a
brontosaurus has been found in Africa.
Now that the dinosaur Is with us.
potentially, big game enthusiasts will
he interested in this description of pre¬
historic big game, quoted from a com¬
munication to the National Geographic
society by Barnum Brown:
today we must go to Africa for the ,
biggest game; hut there was a time !
in the dim distant past when America !
produced animals larger than any now j
living. That was so long ago that |
nothing remains of these creatures ex
cept their bones, and they are turned
to stone.
“The animal* are dinosaurs; for
the moment we will call them lizards—
not the creeping. crawling kind, hut
huge reptiles that stalked upright
through the jungles, rivaling in size
the elephant, the hippopotamus and
the rhinoceros,
ti* 1'he place is Alberta, Canada, and
the time of tln-ir existence 3,000,000 ,
years ago. j
In tlfi-se marshes of prehistoric
times dwelt a host of reptiles, some
large, some small and of various forms,
flesh eaters anil herb eaters, but nil
sharing certain i harai-ters In common ,
and known as dinosaurs, Not any
were closely related to any living rep- j
tile, yet they had some characters
common to the lizards, crocodiles aud
OCTOBER 28, 1920.
birds. the
Of the kinds characteristic of
period one species, a herb eater named
Trachodon, was more than 30 feet long
and about 15 feet high when standing
erect. Its head, with broadly-expand¬
ed mouth, resembles that of a duck,
but back of the beak there are mere
than 2,000 small teeth, disposed In
many vertical rows each containing
several individual teeth, the new ones
coming up from below as the old ones
wore out. In
“The long hind legs terminated
three large-hoofed toes, and the shotr
er. slender front feet were partly
webbed. A long, thin, slender tail act¬
ed a powerful swimming organ, and
as rough tu
the body was covered with
berculate skin, Having no nteans of
defense, it lived chiefly in the water,
. of the
where It was free from attacks
flesh enters.”
SEA SLEDS FOR AIRPLANES
Speed of Giant Float* Makes the
Taking Off From Small Space a
Matter of Ease.
Giant sea sleds capable of carrying
airplanes out In midocean are being
developed by a Boston concern. Some
are equipped with four motors, total¬
ing 1,750 horsepower, and have a
speed of 55 miles an hour.
In the event of war with a foreign
nation these sea sleds would be utll
ized to transport heavy bombing
planes across the ocean. Thousands
■ •ould he sent at a comparatively low
cost.
While It Is possible for an airplane
to leirve the deck of a sea sled, there
is not sufficient room for a landing to
be made. The flying machine would
have to work out its own salvation
once its wheels left the sled.
These sea sleds are built to lift and
run on the surface of the water. When
a speed of 50 miles an hour is reached
It Is possible for an airplane to open
its motors and leave the deck without
any further runway.
Experiments made off the New Eng
land coast show that a small airplane
can take off’ when the sea sled Is
making hut 40 miles an hour in a
heavy sea. Other tests are being made
to develop the high power planing sea
sleds into pleasure craft as well as for
military arid naval purposes,
Gordon S. Orme of New Orleans, a
wealthy sportsman, has had a .‘!2-foot
er built for his use In the Gulf of Mex
fco. Factories have been established
in Atlantic City to aid in producing
the sea sleds, which are now- being
tested off the New England coast.
Passing True.
The leading lady of the play made
her mark In the first scene."
“Yes, I saw her do it when she
leaned her powdered face on the hero's
black dress coat shoulder.”
