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Moulin 2 'n hIS and th tone Mountain at snar he hora -n, oi. v. on DC CreeK, near ne.xsaKer county, He name. This horse was left near the Ma. lor Broum fflrm 14 m1a a ii-i the fcbr.i-wandered.rrouna no year-, or mora ind th Tftrm drifted toward Kentucky, and recovered it when he returned after not far from Butler, Ten- (Second Base) good ng through bhady near tms fftrm Qn there), to creek and 20 veara ago.

when 75 vu.ru near Kingsport, far from HoW- not old, told Grayson how the creek got Its and thence. by Star gap to Dry run, following Daniel Boone's trail all the way. The above statement "was made to on the way' from Cable's house to 1 park, June Lorenzi Dow Ward, pprn on Rock House branch, near" where he now. Uves at-the foot of road, leading through Ward's gap. May 2, .1834, and has close around ever since.

He has always heard that Boone's trail was up Beaver Dams ridge, after "following Cove creek to; the. mouth of Rock House branch through near Ward's gap to where Harrison Farthing lives on Beaver. Dams, and then over Stone- -mountain by Star gap; knows this from old people who know, and the trail "itself, which fa still visible. This statement was made to me at his home, June 4, 1909, Beaver Dame. Joseph H.

Mast was, born within one-nnartr tt a mile of where he now name. was a man of above the aver age intelligence. 1-7t aiiJ here on a beech, he. oiled a bar. 1760." Near probably crossed over Gap into Kentucky, crossing rom uutler, Boone probably went through Carter COUhtv to Boon'iif(rMlr In Wastihgton county, Tennessee, six or eight miles northwest Johnson City.

Can trace him no further. He spoke' of a and near ADingaon. Virginia. pinty of Indian in the North fountains at the time Boone but there was no udder fjr.l.-r... xoane tree near Mountain City, where In 1870 Grayson was at ThJs would have been only one and oner half miles off or distant from Roan's creek trail and up Town creek, then cJi- Ingham, clerk ot the urt of Watauga county, told i509, at his office in Boone, ias about six-ty years old, and r.

Mi oig Jorn creeK. Grayaon made a canvas for sheriff of rAY dAmLL lives (June 4, 1909) on the left bank of Cove creek, on the 9th of April, 1827, and has lived there ever Since. He has heard; Johnson county In 188S, and went among me people, as he knew, he would nev 1 x-x. old people say that Boone's trail passed from. Boone down Cove creek to the er see many of them and that they could hot -get.

to the polia for that s' -ip went rrom aoone Vf-ove creek by aonville, N. Term, thence down Ro- he might have crossed and none over by the Beaver Baker's G-ap into Johnson which would have been Lrect route to SuUlvan county, ar.1 Powell's valley. Calvin S. Farthing. of Beaver mouth of Rock House branch one and one-half miles below Mast's present home, and passed up-, and over leading ridge and over to Beaver Dams, coming election.

So he talked to them of things he thought would moat interest them, and from them learned that Boone's trail led down Roan's creek to ita month. Thi Frank Grayson's grandfather lived three miles from Frank's present home on Cove creek in county, North Carolina, at place still known the -o be trees with B(." on. aloe? the route from Boon to down on Beaver Dams creek close to where a Mr. Wilson now lives, or three miles below where Bert Hilliard lives and in the Farthing settlement, and thence over Stone mountain by the Star gap, which is between Baker's gap and the Watauga river. He has been tod that this trail comes in on Dry run in Tennessee, near where Caspar Cable (now dead) used to live, on the waters of Dry run, which goes Into Watauga river.

He hrr. and tnat a Deecn near i 1 1 stands with those initials urayeon OKI one mtle west of Mast's store. This grandfather went from Hrk Ridge, to Kentucky, about 1S50 or earlier and settled, lived, and a Cattlettsburg, Ky. Frank heard of i i.ut.:. r0 west of Beaver Daftur.

He 2 Star Springs got Its name from rf mica in the bottom of the coone from his own father and his own father heard of Boone from his father. has good mind and memory. His grandmother Reece was born near qnd that Star Oap. hrough which is to have pashsed. got ita i Zionville, N.

and lived, there all her life, dying In 1886, and she told him about from -Tat. jyuiij. Newton Reece, living, on upper nli Boone'a trail when she was 90 years old. Reuben Dotson died on Drake's creek. -rail from Boone was through 1 r- one mile above Grayson's home, about 1868, aged 106 years; was uneducated hut had a good memory', and recollected the close of the Revolutionary war and of seeing Tories.

He told Grayson and the other boya who went with him Sundays jj. crossing saia riage at tn.gap IJSger's home, called Grave v-d tnen aiong uie uu-so 01 men rv QVlflm'fl 111 HI ll ABjI Jrj-fi' Pilverstone creek) to the ar ate liaet between Zionville and to near hunting stories told by the old man. that Boone's trail passed through On the diamond, and remember that we make yV Third Bae). clothes on the square. We play to a grand- GARMENTS stand of 50,000.

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NEAL CO. TAILORS, state. i.ine gap between Zionville and Trade and down Roan's creek, and sever, al other storiea of notably the one by which he got the Indiana to Insert route Detweea isoone and their fingers in a rift In a log made by rreek. It is the oldest trail he O. L.

photographer, at Jones-boro, on June 7, 1909, so me a photograph of the Boojne tree, taken by him in July, 1897, said tree being on the Baldwin place. Boone ciled a bar, 179" are the letters on the tree, according to his recollection. Capt. William Thomas Pritchett, cousin of the speaker, 62 years of age, told me at Joneaboro June 7, 1909, that the Boone tree Is a beech near a small creek ofiwlng into Boone creek shortly before it enters Watauga eight mils north of Jones-boro. He was born and reared within four miles of the tree.

It is a large, leaning beech used to lean much more than it does now. Lettering has been on i as far back as he can remember. Thinks it was Boone ciled a bar, 1769." It was quite plain when h'e was a boy, 40 years ago. but Is now defaced, as some miscreant has written his name over Boone's. Others have written their names all over the trunk, which used to contain only that of Boone's etc.

He visited the tree rast summer, with his son-in-law. The land on which the tree stands used to be owned by Samuel Ed-warsd, who lived and died on the place. A Mr. Iseley, postoMlce, Jone9boro, R. F.

R. Rotrte 5, live there now, and protects the tree as well as he can. Prior to Iseley's occupation, no one paid any attention to the tree or Its care. It is spoken jot as being on Boone's creek: but. of or knew of when he was a tfoy.

a weage, knocking the wedge out and catching their lingers, and so escaping. He said letters cut on the bark of beecfc i 0 people tcrfd him that was the way went. It was an old Indian trail, ti parallel to Cove creek to Zionville 4-i nearlr flue northwest from Boon to trees will remain longer than on any other tree. Some of the men Gravson talked to on hia canvass about Boone ni ot Rcan creak. The gap it leads were aiaj.

iaruel Stout, Joe Wagner tne vry iuwest oeLween taoout row or five miles this side of riro'iaa and Tennessee, and traces of the ttuuerj. Tater Dave Siout. grandfather of xiBt. It runs two hundred and xarif the right north of the a. Li.

snownd, storekeeper at Trade; Caspar Cable, Richard Bradlev fw hr be V. V. Jt lieved in witches). They all "agreed that This trail at base of Rich woone trail passed through the State wou a te aoove creK ana i ne gap north of Trade and down Roan's "amupi river, and there never --oriffh only a few lo-w gaps of ridges sniali branches where they head. Powell's valley seven years, Tsr.ty-f.vir -ears ago.

where heard peopie speak of Boone's trad out by had been any or doubt about it. The trail by Baker and Star Gaps over the Beaver Dams trail was not northwest 5. lryon street. 1(1 In an air line, it is at least one mile from -ov? ana uocxy staxion to roir- va.l' through Lee county to Cura- rln4 ca. He has been to BoonevHJ Benosborough.

Kentucky. Statement rai me on upper Cove creek June Meiv.r. Arrendieii, ,9 years old, who nra: 1 rade. ana on tne neaa Roan's creek, Johnson county, Ten- who knows how to tell a story. Never heard of Quirej? Vhy, he is the man who writes those stories of professional ball in People's Ideal Fiction; Magazine.

Don't miss his latest tale ofv the Purple; Sox in the May numberr-the tale of the pitcher who had the team behind him. i esse 4. his ratner tow lum iia it. and on a small creek which very probably winds around and gets into it before it empties Into Watauga river. It is called Basket creek.

The tree Is 200 or 300 feet from it. He thinks Boone's creek takes Its name from the tree, although Judge Kirkpatrick thinks it takes Its name from a waterfall on Boone's creek, two or three miles from the tree, where water pitches over a rock, and behind which Boone is said lohave hidden from the Indians. Captain Pritchett remembers that when a boy he heard people speak of it as- being on or near Boone's trail, into Kentucky. The Watauga and Holston rivers run together five or six miles belo wthe, Boone tree, and become the Holston. Boone's tree Is on the south side of the Watauga and from Boone, and the gaps, "Ward's and George's" between Lower Cover creek and Beaver Dams, and Baker's and Star gaps between Beaver Dams and Roan's creek are all very high, and the roads over hem are very steep, even now.

In going by Beaver Dams. Stone mountain would have had to be crossed In preference to the low gap between Trade and ionville. The foregoing wa made to me hy W. Wrank Grayson, at his home near Trade, June S. 1909.

On the same day. Wellington Swift, at Johnny Sherrill's store on Beaver Dams, said he had lived on Beaver Dams creek ince the fall of I860, and had never; heard of Boone passing there. He is 69 years old; but Daniel Slemp. when old, told Swift, when young, that he had ruse That the Indian trail through by Arnold Bennett; "The Point of. View." another war story by "Ole Luk-Oie;" and "The Education of King Peter" by Edgar Wallace.

Everybody's. Everybody's for May adds another to the list of really important articles on commercial subjects that have long been a feature of that honestly American magazine. Under the title "The Barred Gateway." John L. Matthews telLs of the hapless incongruity between our liberal channel a-nd harbor a.e gap, between Zlonv'1e and Trsle. passed west of his present rrosstng1 Roan's croek two or three hriired vards below his home, and that JACK JOHNSON HAS ARRIVED 3cor crossed there and went on to millionaires.

but so that every one will have an opportunity to keep out of class, Charles Bettell Loomis, in "How Not to Become a Millionaire. points out a vareity of ways in which the reader can avoid reaching this condition of bloated pocketbook and n'arged bank account. "The Maor's Satsuma Jag." by C. C. Leybee, is the amusing narative of p.

close-fisted paterfamilias who, under the mellowing influence of good chanr pasme, buys out a Japanese auction sale. He haa the sent home, and the consternation and astonishment of his devoted wife and daughters Is tremendously funny. yirginla Middleton has written a story called "As A Dream When One Awaketh." in which a loyal girl, trying to save the memory of her sister, is wrongly suspected of unfaithfulness and has take the consequences. Holman F. Day contributes another very humorous story about Cap'n Sproul, "A Stary Night for a Ramble." valley.

That he remembers jiss oa the trees and fire-coals along if-rce'f trails down Roan's creek from 6 AN" FRANCISCO. April Johnson, the negro heavy weight Tiif when he used go with'-hia fath- That his father told him r'nen on this Indian trail, 'TCow we Can He was born where he now ar.i big father's name was Richard, T'rs le'i February 7, 1858, aged years. champion, here last night accompanied by his manager and trainers. The party came in several hours ahead of the time scheduled for their raving ved where Melvin was then the Holston river on the north side of imoroyement policy, and -oar' monopo-the Watauga river, and Boon would ijzei ana obsolete dock systems. To have had to cross both rlvexa unless he 8rend countless millions for the bet-went below the Junction of the and: terment of porta, and then pesrmit tho there Is where he thinks Boone crossed, railway owned water fronts jto forbid John K.

Perry, born In Tennessee, 69 the landing of vessels seems too fool-years ago, has lived on Beaver Dams at? isn to believe. But.it is true. In the the foot of the road through Ward's gap same number of Everybody's Judge since 1866. In the presence of Rev. Harrl-i Ben B.

Lindsey concludes his inspir-son Farthing, he told me, on his own ing story of the long fight against the fronf porch, on the afternoon pf June 4. System in Denver. With all iti dis-1909. that the story of the finding of the couraftementa it is an optimistic sto.ry, Spilt bullet by Jerry M. Cook was only a and the victory that marks thia in-Joke.

The facts follow: Fifteen or twen-j stallment should be an inspiration to ty years ago, Jerry Cook was chopping i other men elsewhere. William Whit novel, published complete in this issue. J. Kenilworth Kgerton has been investigating the Black Hand in Italy and America, and he gives hki results in a two-part story called. "The Passive "Strike." Max Marcin tells how the rival opera housos srot excited over a "Yiddish Nightingale." Theso are only a -few'' of (rood things in this number of the Popular.

'The author.i include Rex Beach, Rupert HuIies, Gouverneur Morris. Francis Lyndo, Ma-rgan Robertson, Maurice Leblanc, Karl Decker. Zane Grey, Max Albert Dbrringrton, Dane Coolidge. J. Egerton and Frank E.

Channon. Smith's. Smith's Magazine for May has more than its usual auota of entertainment and vf-rse. The masrazine opens with a beautiful art supplement containing new and striking portraits of well-known stage favorites, then comes a fascinating novel, after which follows over a dozen clever, readable short storie. brierht v.

and an amusing little sermon by Charles Battell Loo-mis. "A Florida Freeze," the long novel by Susie Bouchelle Wight, is a wonderful story of the "Flower" State. From the very start one's Interest soes out to the lovely girl who has just come through that most discouraging of an oranjee grower's experiences a "black" frost. Woven in the record of her brave flprht to make good the destruction of her precious treee, is a dainty love story a story of a love that came to her in adversity and which she puut from her. time and again.

Is final conquest of this stubborn, determined girl comes as a beautiful climax to a very novel. Not many of us are slated to become arrival. Only a small portion-, ofthe, local coropod population was op hand to weicome the big black, man. Gleason and Rlckard the' two' promot tles to matte rans, on tne nuge leauiug man ana jiawara Muir. repreBeiiiiijs various woolen interests, contribute comments on the recent Important from rear the Ward gap to ferry house, no much of his surprise cut a hi.

net in two as he was felling a small articles on "The Maklnjr of KK." by ters of the coming heavyweight con- test, who accompanied the negro to' Seal Rock, where Johnson will go) into training. Speaking of Sam Langford, -he said that until Langford had proved himself clearly superior to, lighter weight opponents he would not admit his pretentions to heavyweight honors. chestnut tree. Cook found only one-hair Richard. Washburn Child, who cora-of tha bullet, and does not know als on tne rejoinders.

Two became of the other half; but the lead articles contrasting oriental and occi People's Idea Fiction. Look at that man with the bandanna tucked into his collar and tho thermometer not really trying to break existing records! No he's not a thrifty soul, intent on saving laundry bills. It is his baseball habit. He's well known town as the craziest "fan" that ever rooted for the home team till his palate got sunstroke. See the armour-plated trousers he wears.

They are his own invention Blffkins'. Unabraisable Pants, the Only Correct Thing for Baseball Wear. Warranted to Withstand the Wear and Tear of the Bleachers. And see the magazine in his hand. It is his standby.

He is a disciple of Lea-lie W. Quirk, the baseball expert. showed that hn had cut it in two, it was dental luxury are "On the Trail of Haroun-al-Raschid." by B. Alexander so clean and fresh. Cook took the bul and "Lobster raiac So let ta Perrv and showed it to him.

Perry: Powell remembering how hisory had credited ciety." by Julian Street. One tells of the splendors of Bokhara. Samarkand Boone with dividing his bullets when giv In America aviation, be sure to ask the Wrights and then go-ahead. fc- probably 50 years before his made to me June 3, 1309. June 2.

1909. John Carroll 'Smtth. at a k-U in upper Cove creek, near Newton Banners house, said his great uncle was D-jgger. who told him (Smith) Boone's trail came down Brushy rk John C. Smith's present "-rna sni -hen turned over the ridge t-oush Oid Meeting House or Grave- 'i-i eap.

where Walnut Grove Institute nox, thus cutting off the angle forro-d by Cove and Brushy Fork creeks, wh.ch is still visible in places. There be graves In this gap and older Ppia called it Grave-Yard gap. This af-r leaving Brushy Fork followed Kutn or jich mountain in parallel T'-. love creek to the gap between ZiorK and Trade. There was also another leading from trail and striking -otti Cove creek onet-hird mile below Grove rolling mill, "and one-half "-5 above Sugar Grove postofflce, Y- p- Mast lives, and nearest to pla-ce.

Then It went down rr6. two miles to where Hardy now- lives, and then it left Cove -esK and crossed Hard's gap to an3 nis uncle. Bill Iugger, told 'r'r'J'3 that traI1 might be seen. 5ap il went down in the of Tennessea. That "Uncle" vl? now at the Soldier'.

Home, Clty' Tenn- was a Mexican a 7 and 13 nearly 90 years of age now ohed v-ry old 18 or 20 jtears ago. Was a son of the Cianro a arat. en Ws allowance by the Indians when in and such historic capitals of central Asia, the other of the lavish waste ot Mnilvltv and shooting awav one-half IS THERE ANYTHING YOU COULD USE A PENNY AD FOJl TODAY. and keeping the other half of each bullet to be used when he should escape, remarked: "Why, that is a regular Daniel Boone bullet," and Cook answered: "Well, it ought to be. as it was cut out of a tree growing near his old trail." Prrry.

taking the bullet with Its freshly money and false standards of life in New York restaurants. A RadclyfSe Dugmore tells of hunting "His Sulki-nese, the Rhino." with a camera in African wilds, and shows remarkable pictures. Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts, makes Interesting com seen Boone's name on-a beech tree on Roan's creek, Tennessee. Bartlett Yancey Hilliard, born close to his present home on Beaver Dams creek, January, 1834, where he has lived ever since, thinks Boone's trail was along base of Rich mountain by Zionville and Trade to Roan's creek In Tennessee. His father lived on.

Beaver Dams before him, but Bart never heard him say where Boone's trail was. Dr. Jordan Bowers PbiUips, born May 18, 1841. at Jefferson, Ashe county. North Carolina: His father had been sheriff of Ashe eight years when he was drowned the Yadkin river In September.

1843. and hi mother, who was born Louisa Council, daughter of Jordan and Sarah Corncil, returned to the old Jordan Council home place at Boone, where his mother's mother, Sarah Howard Council, still lived. He knew her well. She was close to one hundred years of age when she' died In the fall of I860, and she was 12 years old during the Revolutionary war. She and his uncle.

Jesse Council. ivoJ to talk of old times, and he to listen. Heard his uncle Jesse say that Daniel Boone had never 'ved at Boone, but that Jesse Boone, a brother of Daniel Btone, used to llv i nthe ant east of the town and one mile from Boone, near the old John Hardin hous. where Joseph Ilsrdln. a grandson Qf John's now lives, and that paniel Boone came to Jesse's house to stay while passing through.

He thinks the trail followed by Daniel Boone ran through Rich mountain gap down Brushy fork to the Shoop Rock house, just below Harman Cliffs, where Calvin Harman, a noted preached used to live, and then crossed Cove creek at the mouth of Phillip's brnch. and up the leading ridge, through or near Ward's gap to Beaver Dams and down to Preacher Harrison Farthing's and thence by Dudley Farthing's to Star gap on Stone mountain, coming down on the Tennessee side near the old Jimmie Brown place on Roan creek. He told of Jerry Cook, 46 years old. finding half of a bullet with cut In it. and tpld me that John Perry was with Cook when the bullet was found near Ward gap.

Cook'a child lost the bullet several years ago. He said John Perry was a truth-fu' mar Amos and George Phillips, sons of Dr. Phillips, saw the bullet from Eoonaj'was Orderly Sergeant in C5mpiv 8tth North Carolina; was in North Carolina JLeglslatuio In 1900-01, and is a regularly dicnsed physician. He knew Co'. James M.

Isbell and his father. Thomas Isbell. when thev used to nr, to Bvne to tay with hij uncle, Jordan CouiJCll. and has known Col. James M.

Isbi! since the war. remembers cut surface still shiny and bright, said: "Well, I will mighty soon make it a Dan- ment on "The Aegean Sea. a beauti- iel Boone bullet, whether it is one now fUT painting by Frederick E. Church The Rollman Food reproduced as a color frontispiece. Chopper or not;" and with tnat he niea on two corners of an old three-penny, cut, shingle rail, and with Its point made a D.

He then showed me how the making of a was Just as simple as the making the and under- it made another D. Seven stories, including te third installment of the striking serial "A Successful Wife," a naval story by Robert Dunn, a negro story by Elmore Elliott Peake, an air-ship story. by Michael Williams, a "homey" story Cook carried off the half bullet to Mai C. Harmon's on Cove creek and showed iti by B. Paul Neuman.

a racing story by i'. 'k r. 11 1 parly from the head of to dozens of people, and so the report Elmer Blaney Harris, and a Pa Flick-inger story by Bessie R. Hoover, malce rvr to Kentucky when Boone s3 aftT h'a nra- T- got out, Lncie" Jr.hn nanT-o-- 1. i L1IC W9 arrled John's THE MAGAZINES.

cle" John that --er 8he told "Unc '-S fathpr .1 -s -a 1 remembered Bona we'l: that raD. htnu, 1 j-i I-H vuo creeK took its name from the tjr on us 'srr, s.ae on a hunting trip this been on the -waters of Beav- raek: that in nM "1 "lam Uopincotts. An author who has been steadily forging to the front because of his consistently good work is Will Lev-ington Comfort, whose just-brought-out novel. "Routledge Rides Alone. prosimes soon to take its place among the spring's best sellers.

A characteristic complete novel by this writer appears in the May issue of Llppln-cott's. It is entitled "The Glowworm." and 1 full of Incident and of fin rap by the wagon road, one a- to leave Cove crek one-half Sugar Grove postofflce. and r-'V blanch running in front of Built on up-to date Ideas. It does more work than any household chopper ever invented and does it better with less waste and guaranteed as rapidly The only hygienic chopper on the market, not an ounce of surplus metal used in its construction. Bring 3J Evening Chronicle Coupons I to Yorke Bros.

Rogers Store 21 W. Trade to-gether with .00 in cash itniiatio belonging to 'lis uk, Ben Council, on Brushy fork, at Vila'st brick characterisation. The scene is laid 41 '-an i. to tne gap; he Won a to11 that used to 'f rad' one-Quarter of a mile TV- Banor's house; that o-" knew only from tra--r-n as father had T'COuntry after Boon had tl, hn Oeorge told Smith that of 80t lts name from the fact hpr Worses a roan-had in a small but turbulent island in the house, named Burrill, but never saw the 6 -i nn "-urge's father was a generous gift of fiction. The various departments.

"Straight Talk." "heT Players." "A Row of Books-," "Under the Spreading Chestnut Trtt" and "With 'Everybody's' Publishers" complete the number, which is lavishly illustrated and bound In a brilliant cover that for the first time does the lobster iulj ustice. AJnslee's. To lovers of the mystical and the occult, there will always bo something fascinating about the still undeveloped science of photoghaphy with its power for revealing details unperceived by the naked, eye. On the basis of the idea that sinister traits of character are often brought out. in photographic negatives.

Frederick Orim Bartlett has built up a curiously interesting story, entitled 'The Dark appearing in the May issue of Aihslee's. Tho negative, untouched, in this case saves a fine American girl from mamiine. a corrupt foreigner, The hero in the situation is a village artist, finding his greatest happiness in a calling that reveals hidden beauties, both of nature and of character. Another unusually good story in this issue is "The Miser Garron." by B. Berkeley Smith, a writer who knows how to bring out the lights atid shades of life and landscape as few do.

The story of the Miser Garron is the story of French peasant life in some ol its more brutal aspects. But the characters are drawn with a vividness and truth too artistic to be offensive, and never unattractive. The Popular. Timeliness is the note in the nrs May of the twice-a'-month. Popular Magazine.

Baseball politics, the Black explorers, the opera season- these a-re some of the up-to-date. themes in the storiea in the Popular. The baseball yarn is by 2ano Grey. It tells how the league champions' we.nt up a bunch of wild cats in Canada. Francis Lynda contributes the political story a long -hlB was told tn Cmlfk ago, and whatever wniium ill t' was IS v-oaix.

v-. v. lie? born one an nno fror hla nr-Ao 1 Pr.i.,, nome on tne creK. near Trade. John.

May -853- and ba- nf mountain gap can he'fn- iC- mountain to Stat? an betnoen zionville and Trade. of I ed alon and wen tr-'l" is the near- and p'l6 eaP3 and between -y. 1 Boone. The Sfat- T.rn- Caribbean "an Isle sans extradition," Thither the heroine, a newspaper woman, goes in search of the man- she loves, who is accused of being a defaulter. It is a stirring tale.

There are many other interesting things in the May Lippincott's short storiesN articles, sketches, poems, and humorous matter. It is an unusually attractive number. McOIure Under the title of "The JTew American City Government" George Kib'be Turner tells in the May McClure's of the rapid spread of the commission form of government: Burton J. Hen-drick has an article on "The Skull of Our Immigrants" which upsets the be-lief so long held by scientists that the skull was the one thing that could change: W. A.

Du Puy and E. T. Brewster shoW- what the rat has cost ua In lives and money M. Paolf gives his reminiscences of the Czar of Russia. Foremost in the fiction, is an unusual1 detective story, Anthropologist at large," by Dr.

R. a. editor of the London Lancet. Other storiea are "The Glamour" by Oscar Qraeve: "The Blue by Jfelth Boyce; "The, Nineteenth Hat" oid African slave of that name. Colonel Folk bought the old Ben Howard place, where, he taught a law school many years, and it is now known as Black-stone.

This statement was- made to me at his home on Oove creek. June 4, 1909. Thomas Anderson Cable. years old, agrees that Boone's trail eame down Cove creek by Sugar Grove postofflce to Rock House up the ridge near Ward's srap down to Beaver Dams near Harrison Farthing's and over Star gap into Tennessee on Dry Run and thence to Roan's eree. Mr.

Cable is a most intelligent gentleman, was In the 87th North Carolina and twice independent candidate for sheriff of Watauga county. His great grandfather was named Caspar Cable, and used to own land near Boone Town where the old Jordan Council home place used to be. He went there from near Wilkesboro In 1790, passing over the Deep gap, and settled here. Thejand he lived on Is certainly part of the' present Coffey Hotel, now kept by Murray Crltch-er. His grandfather moved from Boone into Tennessee and settled on Dry run; and Andrew Cable's great uncle Caspar told him fAtidy) that bis.

(Caspar's), father had moved by way of Brushy fork. Cdve ct-eek. R6ck: House branch and up ridge near Ward's gap to Beaver Xams s- a 1 puint on iticn tx by far the low4i T1 Caro-ina and Tenneff-. 'd to th of where M.eV and. T.lnP gap.

and and the chopper is yours. 25c extra if delivered. Coupon appears in The Evening Chronicle every day, 1 X'. 'MM snort-rut From he creek a iin sav Roru, f0 "iuuin in rlvr Trade- Soone a -io 4.