The Chattanooga News from Chattanooga, Tennessee • 20

1 If -C mMImP11140 41111 I 7 THE CtIATTANO6CA NEWS CHATTANOOGA TENNIATURDAY SEPItMBER 1 1923 A GIANT 1 0 1 TRACK i 0 IL tmprint of Human Foot Seventeen and One half Inches Long Found on Rock in North east Hundred and ThirtgSix Other Tracks of Men and Animals Found One Irth ri and A -0'' '''0 r7 'P4 4 7 '040440 I -Ah: 1 111197- i I -4 VA 311) f00014 gii-CherakeesI Cherokee Tradition Asserts that Once Deluged by Water and Great Canoe Landedon Track and Men and Animals Disembiark ing LeftPrints of Feet I Cherokee Tradition Asserts that Carvings ings on Track 'Ascribed to Cherokees Famous Once 'Deluged by 1Vater and poormagoommo IS Great Canoe Landed on Track toiy3'' 1 6 kt and Men and Animals Disembark- 1 4 4 1 I )0 A i 011 40 4 6 :1: 1 14t4 tng LeftPrints of Feet As44ktt 2 i' -r1 1 '1' i4t: 0---- 7 A 4 :410 4 i 4:" '''''44 -i 0 i I 't114 u-411 0 g-- ---04- -10S430 '4eb-d--4 -s 4 i 4 i4titt1( -t e- --04' 0 1'f 6 i I 1- kl-i 2fr- 7 i 4i 'cy (By JOHN FORTY 'Lying unprotected front the le Am 411 VC le----710-- 2 1 IP it f- l'frl Ord" '6041tilC '1'-t 1 ao- rp 4L' A t1-f4 '4 "rA 4 'tot7 At- ir tr't' ite 00 7r tgC 4 yd tit sl" '-''t1-4 t'' 4 0 fre') 0' 1 1 tt :1 49 tsy slto --t4(s 64 -4: I ---e- A 40 7r4r-tw5 )-411e- '1046jit-trd17- pic-r)--7 ---eAr wie 4 10- --I '7ctr- 4:0 e- --606Ait 7--7t 2- t(4 7 ft 45 i A- -got- set 'k r- ---041KI e- vA 5 0e0! 47r 47 I to17 "(x -010- 7 43t 434 "3Crei 1 44r Ti' s- -7? 401- lived on the Iliwassee oPPosite the of tracks or of the feet present Murphy sad warned the Cher- and hands of various ant1111111 In the ole's that they mint not attempt to rooks which appear above iti surface oross'over to the south side of the The number 'risible or defined Is 1211 rirer or the great leech In thozater some of these natural and Per-would swallow them They finally went test others rather bids Imitations and west long before the whites tame The I most of them from the effects of time lye stories ars plainly the tam al- I have become obliterated They cons-though told Independently sod monY 1 Prise human feet from those of 4 A4 miles apart 4 finches In length to those of the groat The best of the" carvings are on the I warrior which measure th 1-I Inches large rock The rock Is about ight i in length ind I 1-4 inches in breadth Ibet long find six feet high and Is con- 'cross the proving him to have siderablyCworn by the weather The been a descendant of Wan Therearrt most pronounced of the tracks are twenty-six of these Impreselons 101 those that rememble human feet Si- bare nave one' which bears the Imcept that they have siz toes They are pression of having worn moccaVna --A deeply carved In the rock and seem al- fine turned band rather delicate ocmost to bays been made there when oupled a place sear the great warrior the rock was aoft 'Sy the actual Im- and is probably the Impression of his I print of a foot either of a bear or man wife's hand who no doubt accompaIli feet these same footprints have nied her husband Many horse tracks given rise to numerous legends about are to be seen one appear i to have a race of six-toed giants who inhabited been shod Some are very mill and this section An acoount by while one' measures 11 1-3 inches by 4 14 the Georgia historian says that some Inches of these supposed kumao' tracks mess- Indian Story of Flood iured 17 1-2 inches iftlength and 7 1-4 "The Indian tradition respecting inches' in breadth 4 So striking is the these Impressions varies One tradidifference between these tracks and tion inert' that the world' was once the other carvings that the impression deluged by water and man and an that they were Imprinted there Is animals were -destroyeS except One strengthened Those that remain in a fault''' Walther with 'various tnimais 1 good state of preservation are not so necessary to replenish the earth that large but immure over 22 Inches Nu- the great canoe once rested on this 'porous chisel marks show where some spot and there the whole troop of ant of them have been removed from other male disembarked leaving the impres- siderabli 'sworn by the weather The most pronounced of the tracks are those that reSemble human test ex- cent that they have six toes They ant deeply carved In the rock and seem most to have been made them when the rock Wal aoft by the actual print of a foot either of a bear or Man Xi feet them same footprints have rise to numerous legends about a race of six-toed giants who inhabited Ithis section An aeoount by White the Georgia historian says that some 1 of these supposed mkuman' tracks meas- ured 17 1-2 inches litlength and 8-4 inches' in breadth So atriking is the difference between these tritcks and the other carving that the 'myrmidon that they were Imprinted there Is strengthened Those that remain In a good state of preservation are not large but Immure over 22 Inches Numerous chisel marks chow where some of them have been removed from other miens of the I DUI animell In the above iti surface I or defined la Ilk natural and' per- Vele imitations and 1 the effects of time Mum coin- from those or 4 at those of the great MIN l'tot I-2 Inches 4 inches In breadth roving him to have of Wan Therearot I impreselons 101 kich bears the im- worn moccaiMs --A rather defeats oc the great warrior Is Impression of Ms no doubt accompa- Many horse tracks ne 'postai to have Cr very email and 1-3 Inches by 1-2 Ty of Flood tradition respecting varies One tradi- the world' was once and man and aU stroyed except One rith 'various animals etch the earth that tones rested on thia whole troop of ant-leaving the 'mores- liSid on theIllwassee opposite the of ImpressiOns of the feet present Murphy and warned the Cher- and hands of varous i11111141 In tho okes that they mint not attempt to rooks which appear above ill surface arose over to the south side of the The number 'risible or defined Is Ilk rirer or the great leech In thezater some of these quite' natural end- per- would swallow them They finally went test others rather ide Imitations and e47 4)1 Ad-ker7 vents and more particularly from the destructive hand ot the souvenir hunter Rock gap" bids fair to become only a name and to dig-appear as one of the last 'vestiges of the race of departed Chemkees- Situate In the heart of the Blui itidgc -mountains in Union county Georgia in a formerly Inaccessibie situation' it Is now with the advent of good roads within easy access of the tourist If nothing is done to protect it it will soon be completely tavaged of its priceless relics It lies about sixty miles from Chattanooga on the headwaters of the Hiwassee river -Track Rock gap has long been known Mention of it is made in of the Georgia" by George White published In ISM For perhaps a much longer time than that it was known to hunters who exl)lored that then almost unattainable region To quote White: 'Track Rock is eituateu about seven mileff east of Blairsville in a gap of a mountain which has received the ottme of 'Enchanted Mountain' at thelieadwaters of the Arquequa and the 'Brass Town creeks The rock 'xPoeare to be a species of soapstone end on it are tracks supposed to have bran made there by the Indians Such as the tracks of turkeys deer cows horses bears men toys girls ets on the side of this mountain is rents and more particularly from the iNb-A T-774P14014w4)tyi 1-5 4t)1114 41 A I tily tit tPt iL 11 Y4111 tie if I 4 a I I ifiteoltiillt4tittblieYiitittlotii anbabob' I prs)A V--- annul Country Was That the -Rock ountryWas rhat the -Rock biark- 1 1 4 4' i I CountruilVas That the -Rock 74 ur :1 '3 I e-IoL 2 iib1-4 '47-7 I- 1 et -4t 471-1 I vil 14 '4 A ki? '-71xer tre46 tirliiortZ -4t07' 4- -9' 44 i rr tr AoetIi '7T9' 7 147 '47'" I' rfkt cf 41F71: -7t 'a te 403-41'Ift --t 47( A 4 0 5 2 w4 I 4 re447 -ne- J- 4214 ir --1- 1-- ex 0-t ci ''44r111P- i''''''' rCi ''ele i0' -Afe" :1417 aay as they do not seem to have sent their agents to examine it Track Rock the writer found to'be fairly accessible It is in the very edge of 'Union county not far from Young Harris It is reached by a good road from Ci ytort to Illwassee to Younellarris anele a flistanca of Only a few miles beyond this place Not knowing its exact location the visitor would never be able to find it without inquiry even though It lies adjacent to the road In fast it is undoubtedly tru3 that some of the Most valuable carvings have been despond In the construction the road which has been built over the pass For scattered over a diatance of several hundred feet there are numerous rOcke which bear undoubted carvings of both animal and human feet- Some of these iocks unfortunately are badly weathered and only the merest outline of the ones well defined carvings remain' The rocks are a micaceous shale and not par ticularly hard' Undoubtedly Track Rock before the hand of the white man destroyed it was of far greater value from the historical viewpoint 7- It is said that there were over 100 rocks of differ ent nixes that were carved At Pres ent there are-not over onshalf dozen Only one (the large cut) is In a good state of preservation Rude chiseling in the rocks offer mute evidence of the hand of the souveniujiunter One learns further that the make excellent chimney stone andon re liable authority the writer learned that several chimneys in the neighborhood had been built from them Position of Peeks Changed Obviously the rocks on which these carvings have been made have been changed from their original position It is possible that at one time they formed part of the wall of a atone fort that surmounteCthe gap in the Arinuntain Such forts have recently been discovered particularly the one' near Dalton surmounting Fort mountain the oge at lientons Ala end the other at Cleveland Tenn There is serlotie question if they were ever built by the Cherokees end hi fact they are rather creditedite a race that preceded the Indiana There Is no record of the In dims ever building walled fortifiestions and legends persistent amongst the Cherokees point to the existence of other inhabitants of thia seetion 'when they first arrived Further evidence of the 'present 01 have sent to be a the very far from ched by a '14tZ al4 -4 Ima) 1 'or: -1 1 rocks in the neighborhood The center of the rock contains a clearly lined drawing It represents i Rower or perhaps it has a religious or '-el tribal significance It is nearly 2 feet In length and about 12 inches in I breadth Vague and blurred impres- alone of the same ign are men at other places on the rock- The so-called "turkey tracks" are re numerous end acatterid around in different pipes They are of varyinr size The tracks do not rem lifelike The historian George White gives an interesting account of Track Rock gap as it appeared in 1850 and inciden- tally explains why the place is called K742'4 1 4't' 461 d11111 '7! 1VV le 0 41 7)t ii 7 7'''A! 107' 416'-' 4-7 'C ''''t4 I 3 c- 4 4 1 p1rr ow wI '4: -liiiAs-444 Pi ''1c 11 i st: -c 0t 4 401 1-v fr -00t: -1 4 er --44 td- 14 -'iA -t4 '''si'''' "A 411eF- 1- 4 4 ise f- ''-'4' 1'1117AIel 4 -yi'1 jr 61t iZ -Al' Piy 4 :17: '16 re 41-4'1 1 7 3': fr SF''' 1 44 i ix i- ey Ir 1- J' i '4411 0 ''144AI'll 1 0' rcil'ir o1 0110:3 0 3 Mons of their feet "A late tradition asserts it to sanctuary of the Great Spirit Who ii so much provoked at the presumption of man in attempting to approach ao near to the summit of Divine majesty that Be commands the elements to Proclaim His power and indigation by awful thtmderings and lightnings az compamied by deluges of rain that His subjects might be kept In and fear" White gives a long description of the adventures of Dr Stevenson in his exploration of Track rock erhe learnett doctor recites that he Wile completely overcome by the fury of the storm The writer may make mention of the fact that be was subject to the same experience anA- was on th'e next day struck by a'bolt of lightning whicn knocked him from his feet Whether credence can be placed In these legends or not the fact reMains that Track rock is in immediate dange of extinction from the hand of man The Smithsonian institute at Washington is advised of ita existence and will doubtless cart away before long what Si left of this prehistoric relic The -main rock which contains these impressions could easily be car tied by truck to Clayton and shiPpen to this Is not done it will before long be completely day atroyed by the hand of the souvenir hunter i asserts it to litI a mat Spirit' Who is at the presumption ting to approach so It of Divine majesty Is the elements to and Indignation by end lightnings ac gas of rain that His kept In and ong ascription of the ftevenson in his ex- rock ens learned he wall completely fury of the storm nake mention of the subject to the same Is on th'e next day of lightning whicn i his feet co can be placed in lot the fact reMains a in Immediate don-from the hand of 011iall Institute at vised of its existence II cart away before of this prehistoric rock which contains could easily be car Clayton and shipped this is not dons it be completely day and of the souvenir a rock fort" The writer had frequently beard trom men living in that vicinity of the Track Rock" By them it was described as a stone lying In the pass On this stone it was said that all It pecks of animals bad left the imprint of their feet It wits said that tle animals in some early mi- being driven perhaps by an earthquake or volcanic eruption bad passed over the rock Ithile it was In a molten Meta and that their tracks had been preeerved in the soft surface The place had boos fiequently visited and a great number of the tracks had been removed or destroyed by souvenir Smithsonian Institution 'nil Smithsonian Institution takes cognizance of Track Rock In its published ethnological reports The to pert asserts that the carvingi were madq by the Indians (probably Cherokees) but does not give any detailed description tit IL Whatever accounts the Smithsonian has of Tta-ck Rock are gathered from hear 1 ItKrf1 -7101(' ii' WsAr''''Itity 5c4r: 47 1 --1A471 "''m i '107p fiteeLoolMe AV il' fl'i4- 4 4c 7 c'1' 41 4-A-- ---4 x4-6 -f i z'4 'NT' -ui14'1 -IJA 4 1 11-4 --4 41Fil At 4' 1 et- 4- -v- 4-Ir' fec'Ar' -c'-'-0' 4ro let i -4--tt 0 --L- 1510 4 I prt3z 171 -rex- 'I'll 14 tdw) 0 0 i 4401iiiiesierta IAA tz-ro 1- tw It '4' otx Le- atAig1401estkettiork-- or-atit-L Aritto o'46 -I ott au 401 itgaly A-IL: -x- Who made these tracks? Are they carvings of the Cherokees or were they made by a race that preceded them? The large Ack Above is the beat preserved of over one hlindred that formerly were at Track Rock Gap in Union county Georgia about sixty 'Miles from Chattanooga 'Interesting legends of the Indians assert that this locality was occupied by a race of "White Giants" 'rue tracks on the cut -above look remarkably like the imprints of human feet made when the rock was soft The so-called "turkey tracks" -shown above are about the size of the human hand and all point in one direction A 'detail of one of the human tracks is given Sime of hem have six toes giving rise to the legend that a race of six- toed giants occupied the territory me Avo i1- 2- loI '3 :1 a r'i 4 of 1:444 i 1' I-- 7 ie r'1-'' 7- A- 0 44i 10 204 -(16-4eK' i'147-Ar 'ts sp --tr? fet sii4-t! AteJAI'cift-- to 1 z-c- rooxiel'av)--- 41e'7 "Enchanted mountain" The account which be quotes is written by Dr Stevenson of Dahlonega of this mountain is considerable compared with the Blue ridge of which it forms a pert the latter being at this point probably 4000 feet high The main chain of mountains is about fifteen miles broad and fortis a great natural barrier between tha eastern and western Ths Enchanted mountain Is a spur of this chili i about ten miles north if it and derives its name from a great number Harry Smith a hallbreed bortv by an old woman a tradition pf et race the northern aide of Elwassee at the Tbonias that wthtchIeto the Eut about ISIS father of the late chief ot of very small people perfectly white mouth of Peachtree creek a few miles Cherokees born about the beginning of the East Cherokees informed the au- who once came end lived for some time I above the present Murphy They the centuty had also heard a triall thor that when boy ha had been told on the site of tbs ancient mound on I afterward removed to the west Col tion of another-race of people who a race that preceded 'the Cherokees ts contained in the nineteenth ethnolotteat report of the government: 7 4MEIMIE I MEN A SEARCH FOR THE MOON-EYED OF Woman Rebels at egtionnaires msbels iaires TETER ON BABY'S SCALP In Eruptions Itched and Burned Cuticura Heals ginning of the top The three behind were too exhausted to answer when be asked them if they thought they could make it The Girl said after ward that she had no idea she could The Perfect Camper was inclined to be a little proud when they got on top When the wall was reached 'that line of email boulders heaped and shaped undoubtedly by the hand of man the spirits of the whole party rose -Here was the last bivouac of the moon-eyed 'men 04 4' --1-- 4 4 7 1 ices" 1 1 stfri4t ity 1 4 1 44 1 --11 't P7 4) 4 1 0 Jr 4 --lirt t1 41ta rei tt I 1 4 1 I I F-r7 ill I ri ifu 4 I 4 ti Ili-fral 11 4 -ts kor i Ar ii (4 -11 4 It AILA '-itle is 1 1 iii 1' I 4 rl '-1 rt' -s 4) 4 4---EAs ciltrottaptovigglea -i "14101141Vwdo opligr VOI ilitOlitt 01 11 1 ISIVIblPlii '414110 dr 44 a 10all 11 I 111 Fi: 11 Imeo io iml 4-tr-14 A 1 If otet fo '1 Ae 4' tt t-r 411664t-' '4111e 7r 4( in" 44- I 1 0- Voile I' 11 'My baby had tetter vet badly It brolts out on her scalp in small eruptions and soon (141 spread The Itching and A0 burning caused bar to ama scratch which nude 4" wpm Hee hair began rattigi hardly sleep a nadt sublet cbot uolnd 1 1111 account of the irritation cent for a free sample of Cult-cunt Soap and Ointment and purchased more and when I had used four cakes of Soap and three boxes of Ointment she was healed" Stetted) Mrs Con 213oat 211 Bristol Tenn Use Cuticurs Soap Ointment and Talcum for all toilet purposes Soils PreellSet ASeest "Ovens tebee etes 111 Sales ea fete 0011P Ithf1 Sop4 themes It sed Se Teiees -erCestieurs Sossleelpelevekieestieses There Is a dim but persistent tradition of a strange whits race preceding the Cherokees Some of the glories even go so tar as to locate thOir former settlements and to Identify them as the authors of ancient works found in the country The earliest refer nee appears to be that of Barton in MI on the statement of a gentleman whom he quotes as a valuable authority on the southern tribes The Cherokees tell Us that when they first (tr rived in the country which they inhabited they found it possessed by certain "moon eyee people who could riot see In the day time These wretches they expelled Ile seems to consider them an albino race Haywood twenty-six years later says that the Invading Cherokee found "white people" near the head of the Little Tennessee with forts extending thence down the Ton nesse as far as Chickamauga creek He gives the location of three of these forts The Chem- keen made war against them and drove them to the mouth of Big Chickamauga creek where they entered into a treaty and agreed to remove if permitted to depart in peaee--Hineteenth report of the American Bureau of Ethnol city When De Soto's banner flamed over Fort mountain in the early days of the sixteenth century the mystery of the moon-eyed people was old but the fortress 'which they built In de fens against thow-C-herokee Indians still stood again protecting a white people against the redekins It Is standing today and the flaming banners of sunrise and sunset vaunt a mystery still unsolved --Dreming by Robert Patterson "There are various coigns of vantage on the wall where as Mr Jordan points out a moon-eyed man might have stood an'd wielded a battle sot or any other weapon he had hantry" 'thos Triniby WALL PAPER PAINTING and PICTURE FRAMING Phone 2717 121 8th St I At last the long suffering modern Woman has rebelled against the couniess questionnaires with which She has been pelted in the name of statistics says the New York Sun arid Globe evt i For many months she has been ie submissively filling out Questionnaires which show whether or not she indulges in spooning why whither and how the flapper is going if she thinks the old-faahioned wife and rnother'will soon be as extinct as the dodo and how she feels about social lam the league of nations Dentin-ism and the one-piece bathing suit But now she turns her 'powers of analysis upon the Questionnaire itself Winifred Kirkland in an article in Harper's Magazine for July from the depths of long experience tells what the average modem woman thinks about Questionnaires "To go back a decade or so In my history I had the misfortune in early life to graduate or in the vernacular to be graduated from a worthy female college and afterward fo keep on picking degrees or parts of them from several other equally' worthy and equally female colleges Now my bitterest complaint is that every year every one of these colleges writes and asks me how many husbands I have acquired since their last date of asking Oh of course they ask me other Questions too under various circumstantial headings with directions in smaller print calculated to keep me veracious to the 'nth detail "Now to my certain knowledge the Questionnaires that come to me from my colleges are made out by women who have never had any more husbands than I therefore I can't under stand their solicitude about mine 1 Every year the demand for an immediate and exhaustive report on my marriage becomes more emotional and more lyric tn expression If it seems heartless of these others to remind me so often of my lack' it seems still more heartless to me ptc withhold any information that is se urgently desired Besides of course a stamped envelope is enclosed ene Ithe effect on the average conscience Of an unused 2-cent stamp is 11) notic A man'who would steal a mil lion doter' from an endowed orphan Ican't bring himself to waste another man's stamped envelope To tear off the stamp soak it free and use it as 1 one's own is somehow heinous white to return the whole envelope intact to the sender needs the expenditure of another envelope end another stamp of one's own and to be coereeti to this outlay makes one vaguely re sentful and so in the end one weakly gives In and uses the disquieting object for the purpose for which it was Intended even though that purpose I is a questionnaire and even though I the questions are about husbands" Tgring modern against the with which the name of 'ew York Snn she has been ie out Question thet or not she why whither going if she fled wife 8nd extinct as the about social Sons Dentin-bathing suit Iter 'powers of tionnaire itself an article in July from the nce tells what woman thinks le or so In my ortune in early the vernacular I a worthy fe' Tward to keep parts of them etually worthy Now my that every year eget writes and disbands I have at date of ask ask me other rations eircum- directions in ed to keep me detail knowledge the me to me from out by women any more hug- I can't under a- about mine nd for an im report on my tore emotional pression If it hese others to of my lack' it diesel to me pie tion that is ae ides of course enclosed anc rage conscience stamp is bye uld steal ft mil- ndowed orphan waste another PC To tear off and use it no heinous white envelope intact the expenditure fnd another id to be coerced DM vaguely re end one weakly disquieting ob Dr which it wile that purpoee Id even though nit husbands" It was next to impossale to make a tire with water-soaked wood- The Girl with ideas suggested that be light a tallow candle width a kind friend had contrth 'tett After Puppe the Girl picked out a aott spot under a tree where die said ohs intended to sleep 'Sho gat out her knife and dug a hole for her hip bone remarking that another friend had told her that that was an eseential prelimiattry to a night in the wilds As iteturned out she needn't have bothered About o'elock the rertect Camper took a look at the sky allot out tre candle flame and 4Iald it was time to start The Uirt gasped ''Start where?" he demanded -) 4 spring "Few mountains have springs" he said "You could stay on a mountain for dam without finding you didn't have any more was a little creek at the foot of the mountain that he spoke of with feel tug The Girl reminded him that Mr Jordan had said a fine bold spring welled out a few hundred yards from the fort He asked her if she wouldn't please lay off that stuff "There- is bound to be a spring near here Don't you see somebody has been camping tight here and not very long ago either" said the Girl drawing amateur detective inferences from a pile of fresh wood ashes pork and beans remains and empty rifle cartridges at a point near the small gate in the wall "Wonder who they were" said the Reporter "I don't care who they were but I'll bet they weren't the first three white women on the mountain" said the Perfect Camper thinking to lure the aforesaid women on to the creek at the foot of the mountain by subtle flattery "But" protested the -Reporter" "we haven't explored as much we want to" "I don't like to be Inconvenienced about my water" said the Perfect Camper firmly "Have we got to climb down that mountain without any breakfast?" asked the Reporter The Girl said something about coffee "Coffee said the Perfect Camper "It will be a lot worse when the sun is hot" A Prehisterie Table So they began the descent The Girl paused to look- at a huge rec tangulat stone which stood a few hundred feet from the wall She said she was sure the moon-eyed ladies must have had tea there some time "sort of a prehistoric roadbouee" she explained It was 10 o'clock when they reached the stream in the valley The descent was easier As the Girl said nobody thought of rattlesnakes poison oak or anything but getting down The Perfect Camper revived slowly even after a drink It took a bucket to quench his thirst and then he was rather indifferent about getting breakfast He seated himself on the ground with a few matches and a pine knot suggested that the Reporter bring him some nice dry sticks 'Then she bad brought all she could find he spoke sadly of Nicholas Nicholas is his friend and the best camper he has ever kno he said "As soon as you pitch camp he starts to get up the wood and you never have to tell hint any- thing" be explained The Britly was Inclined to resent this but the Reporter being his sister and having known him longer said that he al! ways talked about Nicholas like that when he as worn out Having bad his coffee seven cups of George Washington and ten sandwiches the Perfect Calliper was all for up and leaving Fort mountain The Girl and the Reporter were a little sad over not hiving seen any moon-elyed men It was a short hike over to the car Once on the Chatsworth road the tie: porter-turned back for a last look at Fort mountain and remarked "Mr Jordan says that-um day this will be one of the most popular resorts in the whole south" "Yes said the Girt "when air I race-agahrt-race instinct to'precipi tat the war on the Chickamauga when the sturdier redskins overcame the albino race? What sort or civilisation and standard of living marked the days when the fort was pew? Did these people build tents or hutal did they live en tiroly on ruts and game what wee pone did they use and what sports did they enjoy? What clothes did they wear? No markings have been found on the wall to indicate that they had knowledge of hier glyphios as the descendants the I at tribes ot Israel must undoubtedly have car-rho from their far country Fort Mountain by Moonlight Fort mountain the reputed strong bold of the moon-eyed people is an interesting archaeological puzzle by day but by moonlight it is truly mysterious The light from the moon seems to link the past with the pre- ent and to man the i mountain with its prehistoric inhabitants At bust not one of us who ascended it by moonlight last Saturday evening would deny the presence of the moon eyed people It was Mr Jordan' story coupled with the "dim but persistent tradition of a strange white race "preceding I the Cherokee" is set forth in the ethnological report which started tie on the ascent of Fort mountain When we left Chattanooga late Hat urday afternoon we had no intention ot climbing the mountain until the next morning We intended to camp at the toot at evening and ascend it at our leisure next day There were foot of us in the party 1 the Girl Who Mad bier Own Meet the Reporter the Perfect Camper and his pride The Pei rect Camper wee included in the priety on the recommenuation of the Itride who thought he would be handy in case of rattle' snakes We left Chattanooga Saturilar aft trnoon and drove to Chatsworth a town which lies at the foot ot the mountain Arrived on the outskirts of Chateworth we consulted theta prominent citizen and one trannient ell of whom directe1 us to Maj Terry as the local authority on Fort niOlinmin Abandoning his cracker barrel with alacrity Maj Terry took us to the rear door of his store and with a sweeping gesture toward Fort moon- i tains cited us what he considered the beet route up Ito had never been there himself bersaid but bin boy had "Huh Major" asked the Reporter "tit there any water up there?" "Ain't nothin' else Wt" said Mt Ior and the group who bad gothered chimed in with it panegyric of 0 virtues of said water "In that cane" aid the Oirt "we won't take any with us" Later in the day the Reporter bed Occasion to wonder what veer ths Major was in but tho Perfect Camper told her he thought Major was the man's first name and such proved to be tittrcatia Hut anyway' the Maier was too young to have fought in the battle twhen the moon-eyed people encountared the Cherokze on the banks td the Chickamaiteu ent that woe Om tidy war whicil interested us Froot Cluituworth cireititous )yte led to a ravine Otero the ear was 1 obanioned After a Pw mile of IA we came to an ideal campine Feet deposited frit packs end made a temToomey ramp The Porter( Camlivt 'reduced a feeble flicker rIVIII a few 1 5- -al'ir 4 pr 4 --0-- ms I 15: 4I'" "They say the Hon and lizard keep The courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep And Bahram that great hunter1 the wild ass Stamps o'er- his head and cannot break his sleep" quoted the Girl "Your names are off" said the Per feet Camper "There yott go just like the engineers who try to demolish a perfectly good description of this because the -wall is 1700 feet and a few inches over What do dry facts matter as long as the meter Is goodr "They say there never glows so red' The rose as where some Caesar bled And every hytteihth the garden wears Dropped in its lap from some once lovely head" said the Reporter "Weil it does look more like a gar (en up here than a mountain tole paid the Bride i "And what lovely ferneries' they had!" "Those are the turrets where men stood and wielded battle axes" the Reporter corrected Not necessarily" the Bride objected "That story is just supposi lion Nobody knows who built this wall" "It was built for defense all right" said the Perfect Camper "And it's all the fort anybody'd need on this mountain" "Maybe those turrets were higli enough to hide them from their ene mica They were a dwarf people" said the Reporter "Well at any rate they weren't I 1A7's" sighed the Perfect Camper 'It took work to assemble that wall" The Perfect Camper incautionsly Iapread a blanket from his pack and the Bride and the Girl dropped down indifferent to moonlight moon-eyed Imen and anything but rest The Per feet Camper however not satiated with the top of the world even with a fence around it set off to bunt! water He was reinforced by the Re- I Iporter who knew that she would never bear the last of it it she weak 'tied The Perfect Camper Incautiously although the Itepoiter thought she heard a waterfall lie said It there was any water falling down that mountain side it could just fall Personally he was igoing to stay on top a while The Search fee Water Ile reversed this decision when be awoke In the morning At 4:10 o'clock he out on another bunt i for water accompanied this time by I Bride The Reporter being one I of those people who find rising in the morninr trying under the best of circtunstaneta slept until the late 1 hour of 110 o'clock The Girl With Ideas of Iler Own went for a morn lag stroll all alone When they met about 4 o'clock at the gate of the foit the rerfect Camper was hulte indiffe7rn to archaeological remains and ethnological traditions References 1 I to moon-eyed men left him cold He ()clew it OetelqV IN Camper nconntered any nfsrlous op position led by the Girl who found in every flat rot nn ideal place to spend the night After he had let them rtsst for three whole minutes the Reporter nnd the Bride rallied to bin cause howevr "And" the Perfect Catnpor encouraged them "the worst of the climb is over" The Perfect Camper kept seeing clear places where he said you coufd eproad a blanket in he didn't By the time he got to the third Rocky he said there was no uso stopping because there might be a spring a little farther on On the fourth Rocky the Bride said' she didn't care whether she ever saw a spring again The Reporter looked on the view and murmured something' bout the mountain in the moonlight "I never saw it moon-eyed man 'lover hope to see on But this I'll tell you anyhow IA rather see than be one" chanted the Girl thinking a swan song might be in order The Perfect Camper admitted that they must have been devils for climbing hut he added in a moment "The worst of the climb is over Let's go on" "Suppose we can't" said the Bride irritably "You forget that everybody legs nron't as long as yours and we aren't as strong either" The Perfect 'Camper was at lest shinned "But Honey I don't think you ought to talk to me like that" he Paid "Here I'vo asked every one of you all how you kit" "But you don't pay anv attention to um when we tell yotk" said the Bride The Perfect Campo' lookeel firound for support and picked unwieely on tin Gni "Ilow do you feelr he ntketi "I feel floe" he raid long as l'tn flat on my boric" It wee ton tench tor tho Perfeet Camper Ile got tip The! gun ap1 flashlight went w'th him so the (Vet the Reporter and thts itrido trailed otter It watt half at hour afterward that the moonlirht revealed a letiat or flat etwk whkh the Perlovt 1 Fort mountain almost Within alght I ot the most up-to-the-minute titles of the southland le a remnant of the prehistoric past The fortreos which crowns Its summtt was the work ot a warlike people They may have been wretchek" so the gentleman called them and probably "poor benighted heathens" but they were "tualclass tightin' men" in witnetis whereof their fortress remains today Incas celled In Its constructim as a means of defenset A semicircular wall Inclose approximately 100 acres on the top ot Fort mountain The otteopness of the cliffs on three sides of the mountain form a natural defense on the east I south and north The wall aa de 1 earthed by Jordan in the maga1sins section of The News of Auttitat 11 would measure 1100 feet in a 1 straight line At intervals of fifty or 1 sixty feet there are deep pits in which a an might stand waist deep and Ies 144Jordan points out "wield a battle ex" or any other weapon he had handy But whu stood in these pits or what they did wield tto ex Oaring or surveying sparty has been able to determine The unwritten legendry of the Cherokees told and retold perhaps colored by the imagination and ro mance characteristic of the tribe constitutes the sole clue to the origin of the tort Hy coupling their myth' I with the 131blical mention of the lost tribes of Israel interesting but un authenticated explanations have been i advanced I What was this country Ake in the days before the 'Cherokees? Whence did these moon-eyed people of tie (talon pome and preceded them? i Vas titer" suit To hunt for the moomeyed People" he staid "If they ean't nee in the day time they're likely to be out in the moonlight" 'Oh yes' said the Reporter be "The Cherokees tell us that when they first -arrived In the country they found it poem ased hY cortain mum-eyed people who could mot see in the "Let's ro" said the Perfect Camper 'Who had heard it before we went The Perfoot Camper led the way with It Remington 12 in one hand and a flashlight in the other The Reporter the Girl ad the Bride followed in In-emit file their not po Much toward their Oat ea toward poseible "Who was it who sold they didn't cruise at nigat?" naked the llride 1 Conversation lagged from thtnaln All brenth was espentItti in the chilli) es cept a Murmured protest et tr and anon from the Girl It ttovelened that the Perfeet -ea-topeeinteodett to ascend the tAlOttir tain on ita rockist aide despite the Iprotests of his rritle- who Implotvd 1 him to hear lo tits right 1 The first lap was a steep rbille but I Ifairly atty ot asteent It was covered with turn vegetation i two looked such A goAM 1 hitting Place for rattlesnakeit antl the I (WI chloPlaineeh 'slicked ytait shoes I up so" "The Fire Rocky" I It watt not until we elute to What I the 'party' afterward tefert it a I STONE GROUND CORN MEAL Won MA 1 11 That good country (la vor you often long fort Ask Your Grocer! 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