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Rom Ourßeaders >• sj Mr. and Mrs. Dan Warbel have received the following j letter from Perry Winsor of Cromwell and Syracuse, who recently went west on account of his health: On the Desert near Phoenix, Ariz. Feb. 27, 1931. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Warble, Syracuse, Indiana. Dear Friends: . As per promise I shall drop you a few lines relative to our trip so far. We have now traveled several thous|and miles and with few exceptions, it was over smooth, good highways, and always passing that every changing scenery. Through the great cities, over their boulevards, across rivers, into fertile plains, into merry Indian villages and -reservations, then into th.- foot hills of the great chains. The Monarch’s of thf old wild west, finally we meet and master the great Continental Divide, which at times (to me) are dizzy and dangerous. I At the foot of this great range, we see a picture that no man ever forgets, the picture of death and j desolation. The great waterless desert lying between U. S. A. and Old Mexico. - I A sea of rolling, whirling, cutting dust is dotted here and there with various sorts of cactuses w hich pos- i sess the most bayonet like and defiant thorns you ever saw. There is one chetus. 1 can't recall its name.whose touch to your flesh gives you a stinging, bllndfl ■ and . ir.ust cut from the flesh. / Y There is some sage brush, Aomez mesquite brush, plenty of rattle 1 snakes and another reptile., the Gila ' Monster. .No person being 'bitten by* dne is "known to have live<| longer? . than 52 minutes. I At this point we take on plenty of <?xtra gas, oil, water and eats and start to cross the above desert to-1 ward Old Mexico. } While crossing this awful stretch of Waste land, we saw many pathetic | Sights, sights that 1 shall never forget {But it was a very dangerous thing toy stop and pick up a hitch hiker. Border riders told me that the tongues <>f solne of these men were so swollen ' from want of they can’t* talk. It is this desert that “Zane Grey” writes about in his book, “Desert Gold." Read it it tells it. 1 can’t. But we traveled over hundreds of miles of that same desert and m<>un-j tains and today are right near papago wells- During the day the sandsl on these deserts are burning hot. Then with night cotntt a piercing, i penetrating cold that really numbs! the marrow of your bones. All -In-j Idi ana living on jthis dese rt wear a | cloth over the nostril and mouth to | keep from being smothered by that sea of dust. ? The border riders often get l >st , What an awful loneliness, it would be to you and me to know that we 'had to spend our days out there. Such devouring loneliness as it would be. . After pio-sn g . this picture we .aee.j ahead of us again another great ! range and start climbing. We go up a mile and then almost another mile,; my nose starts to shooting blood, the altitude is doing its work. I look ahead, 1 see foreign soldier®, a foreign Hag, and we are at the gateway to a goreign country. We are halted, asked a lot of questions, if we dere born and why? We are also looked over. A Mexican officer well armed motions for us to proceed, and we have left the protection that the stars and stripes afford, and are nowover in Old Mexico. after having traveled .through three of her provinces, into her cities, -her country, her villages and over her deserts and mountains, 1 say, they are a very strange people and the peon ; is very, very poor. Such houses as we saw, made from just a little mud and grass. We noticed several wild deer grazing far up on the mountain slopes at different places. We have visited many points that were of great interest to me. I’ll tell you of a few of them, first, at the. cross roads of old U. S„ A. in our great state, in the city of Indianapolis, we fully equipped ourselves and machine with all the necessary equipment for a 15,000 mile auto trip, in search for a climate that will cure sinus trouble, also the asthma in a real bad form. I will start at Kansas City, Kan., second largest livestock market and meat packing center in the world. The stockyards here handle over ten million head of cattle hnnually. At Leavenworth, Kan., we found the General Service Schools of the U. S. Army. In connection with the Military Prison here is the most important example in the U. S. of the application of farm colony idea for prisoners who are trained in raising pure bred cattle, hogs and poultry and in every other detail of diversified farming. In one corner of this farm is the larg eet Federal prison in the U. S., whose inmates are engaged in different mechanical work. Lansing prison, Mt. St. Mary’s Academy for girls, are close by. I can’t pass Abilene and Salina. Kan., by without saying they are beautiful little cities.. Adilene in the sixties was the northern end erf the Texas Cattle Trail, and made famous by the book and motion picture, “North of 36”. At Fort Riley we visited the Ogden Monument, marking the geographical center of the U. S. It is the Cavalry

! School of the U. S. Army and is the largest in the world and the site of the first capitol of the territory of Kansas is still standing. While passing through Oklahoma we saw hundreds of gas and oil wells, also started seeing Indians. Fort Worth, Texas is the largest grain and livestock market in the south. It is also the major airport of ■ this section of the country. The United States Helium gas plant here represents an expenditure of over five million dollars. The government also maintains a mooring mast for dirigibles near this plant. * Mineral Weift, Texas; is a beautiful liittle City. Located in the foothills of quite a ra: e of mountains, it is a health reso:. and is visited annually by thousands of people. In Texas we 'start crossing, our first deserts. El Paso, Texas, I like fine, it has a delightful climate. It is on the Rio Grande river. Just across the river is Jarney. Here we start seeing Mexican quarters in large lots, “Peace Grove,” through which Villa’s army passed a t few years ago, and a beautiful driveway across the top of the ElephaiA ’ Butte Dan:. The ’dobe house With its dark-skined inmates now becoues interesting. At Las Cruces, N. M., just a few weeks prior to our arrival there, the | remains of an ancient Pueblo had i been discovered T he ruins are located on the "Id trail ‘known as the Journado del Muerto. the journel of death. s<- called by the early Spanish because of the dangers, both from th ?st and India: s. Broken pottery, aifrow points; stone, hammers, shell . heads, bits of turquoise and other ar/tides left by the ancient inhabitants have been found over an area a mile mn extent. It is a real nice little city. We cross the Continental divide between Deining, N. M. and Lords - tburg. same state. The Indian, the ’dobe house and other strange sights ; (to* us) now become more in evidence We now arrive at Douglas, Ariz, a mining section, mines are closed, [times hard and wood is selling for I I'd 1 -.., a pound and I wish you could see it. This is a border town, so we go over to the international line and by the officers, a fine lot of, men, on the U. .S. side we are invited-to stop as long as we care to and watch them work, which was rather interesting. Big game around here is plentiful. ' Bisbu, Ariz., is the most peculiar ! ( town we hove made ..so far. The city is over a mile high, situated in a canyon of the Mule Pass Mountain. The houses' are built one above the other on small terrace.- and ledges. ; Then will came a sheer drop of many ! feet, 1 really don’t see how they ever i get up home right there in the: i city. i After leaving the city we still make I altitude and I am almost frozen ' numb. Here they mine gold, silver ! and lead. In five hours after leaving this | point w:e are on the rolling ho; sands I of the desert. Lest I forget. I’d bet-1 I.ter tell you about Tombstone, Ariz. Once the most famous mining camp | of the great southwest, it, at one time was called, The Hell Roaring Camp. •At that time was heard the clack of ! glasses in saloons, the w hirl of the i roulette w heel and dance hall music i from many of the doors, when miners ; 'traded gold bullions for the amber; . colored fluid. To settle any grievance men met , in - buildings, and on the street, and , j did, “triger tricks,” and long streaks ' of molten lead came from the pistol ; point through many a man. Yet today while looking over the. town you ! can still see the bullet battered buildings bearing mute evidente of soine- ’ one having crossed the “Great Divide” at those 8] • . ¥ Some of these buildings are: The Crystal Palace, the most famous of Arizona's early saloons and dives, The Bucket of Blood, The Oriental,, The Can Can, Papag.o Store, The J Bird Cage Theatre, Sheiffelin Hall, and still others are all worthy of mention in this story to you. Old timers will bold you spellbound with stories of the struggles of those bygone days when on an average| (in a town about the size gs Syra- j cuse) two men were killed a day. ! Their stories are absolutely true and ' so realistic that you almost hear the cracking of the old covered wagon, see long lines of pack trains and .< heavily loaded' burros hitting the trail, as of two score years ago. But now the din of battle is over, : on the old board porches and walks in front of the above named build- I ings We saw tall stalwart copper skined members of a fast vanishing i race, Indians, and cow boys, miners and citizens all sitting peacefully side by side, each waiting for his . city to shake off the dust of those two score of years, and again be- j come The Hell Roaring .Camp of the long ago. I While in Old Mexico visited ; race courses, municipal buildings, scenic highways, old missions, centuries old, bull rings, jails, custom houses, railroad stations, army garrisons, clubs, cases, saloons cities, breweries mountains, valleys, deserts and other places. A strange people. Next we are looking over ancient ruins. We start at Tumacacori ruins, the date of the foundation is not known, the ruins are imposing and picturesque and in fair state of preservation and have been taken over by the government. It is quite a sight Our next treat along this line of ruins is the most marvelous of anything in that line that I have ever looked upon. Scientists say they were built B. C. It is the most interesting I of our now National monuments ■ from a historic point of view, The

Casa Grande Ruins, located between Phoenix and Tucson, out on the open desert. Here for once in our lives we are permitted to occupy an ancient throne, around which are many interesting traditions, while occupying that position, I repeated the Lord’s Prayer. There is "a Museum in connection with these ruins, containing only such articles as have been from the ruins and near by ground. There; we saw human bones, partly burned, that had been offered as a burned sacrifice on the Pyre. Their inode of disposal of a few’ of their dead bodies was cremation. Lack of sptce forbid my naming the many interesting things to be found in the Museum. But as an after thought I will add that I saw something that is food for thought for every Mason in the world and it has not been explained yet. This plot of land was farmed. They had their irrigation system. Thed had and did ! many things that you can hardly believe. Federal officers are on guard here all the time you see lots but touch little. If-ever in this section don’t .miss seeing the Great Ruins for you will marvel at its many wonders. Leaving here I shall now take you with-me on my trip .of a thousand thrills and it is over The Apache Trail, the most scenic highway in America and it surely is. It takes us through the very wildest regions of the great southwest and through the heart of the Apache’s land. It was along this trail that less than a life time ago, savages, naked Apache Indians. held the whites at bay and lighted their tires from Smoke SignaF Peak. We looked far'down into mighty aryons upon a silver thread, the river, also saw far, far down in those yawning chasms, many automoblies that had gone over and into the chasm loaded with carv > « f human and burned masses of steel wreckages Looking up from the other side of our auto we see great peaks raising their lofty spires two and three thousand feet higher with a sheer precpice of hundreds of feet. At many places the mountain sides are aglow with bright mineral colors. The Panorama is wonderful. Remember all this time we are driving over a road bed of'vari colored solid granite. Here we see the tenement houses of a bygone race. The Cliff Dwellers, they are built high in the duffs, and are so located as to give a good view of the sum roundings. It appears to me that it " would have been hard for an enemy to have routed these people as they used long rope ladders to get into these quar- ! ters themselves. As we travel along this trail I try to picture in my mind the days before the white man came to rule. The whole trip teems with historic interest, and with fear, joy and hope. As we pass mile after mile along a narrow tongue of barren rock as great heights which is covered with smooth ice. because of altitude and cold, there is fear. When we wind ‘round and round, and down and down, then to an abrupt stop on a steep slope and mt ke a sharp turn, high mountains on one side and a deep chasm below c n the other side, there is hope that we may never have to do another like that one. Then comes more miles bue less nerve racking. We ar*- in orange groves and the warm Sunshine. There is jdy, that we have been treated to the greatest day’s trip that we ever took. Mbrres did the driving, and otlr Willys Knight acted perfectly. The day we crossed a lady was killed in crossing. I think she jumped. Four days later a large sedan loaded with people left the road and went down those scarred and blasted slopes. There were many points that we crossed in breathless silence. If ever in Arizona Apache Trail by all means. / Several from" back home have written me ahbut work, conditions and cost of living out here in the west. First stnA out of the west unleu you have njenty of money. There is no work. Mines are closed of living is Juite high, papers are warning laborers to stay away ( ditions are appalling. Under one river bridge I sitw about 75 families living; under another bridge about : 150 families living, and that doesn’t scratch the surface. On my desk at present is a report from Hoyt Medler. secretary ; of the live stock sanitary board stating that there is more rustling going on in the state now, than at any time in his|tory. The Salvation Army surely is doing its bit. I have been in touch ! with the relief workers, also the ■ prison workersVisiting the largest Indian school in U. S. A. I saw Co. F. 158 Inf. A. N. G, composed of full blooded Indians, ever fit and ready for service to the state and to our flag They are often used to escort high officials, and for other affairs that require military ceremonies. W’e heard the ‘school band of about 25 or 35 Indians render some very difficult and pleasing selections. They furnished when Ex-President Coolidge dedicaatNO IV j ed the dam here, and on other notable occasions. The Y. W. and Y. M. C. A. is well organized in the school. Thus the student is kept more in. touch with God. Each member has dues to pay, a part of which is sent to the National Board in New York, and a part is

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used in the school to buy gifts for! smaller children. Last year each; member sent a present out to the j Yaqui Indian village for children. Presents W'ere also sent to patients in the hosptals, wonderful brotherly devotion. Am I my brothers keeper? How quickly they acted the correct answer. I also found a company of Camp Fire Gfrls and that in one month 19 of these young Indian girls, by work > in handicraft, had earned their dues also the requirements for membership, an accomplishment, is it not? ; I also found a nice troop of Boy Scouts. Home economics in this school means something more than just cooking. There is serving, mending, washing,, scrubbing, preserving, Canning, in fact home cooking. The school is conducted, along the same lines as the army. The bugle sounds fall in, and we see hundreds of Indian boys and girls come into a company front, we see them deploy with accuracy. The' faces of .these pupils radiate a spirit of give and take, of intelligence and friendliness. They grasp education quickly, but as yet are a little lax to put it int< use. I have in my employ, two graduates from this school, full bloods, a husband and wife. They move with accuracy and fast, as quiet as shadows, and they exercise stealth. In; these people I have the most implicit ! confidence, and if you are kind to i them, there's nothing that they will j not do for you. Their,devotion to a J friend is very noticable. When we* know that less than a lifetime ago j the forefathers of these intelligent’ boys and girls, as savages, were wag-, ing war. one tribe against another, then both against the pale face, isn’t is remarkable, that the>e children, just a step advanced from the above spoken of savagery, are grasping education at the rapid rate that investigation will prove.. Is there an-, other race that has done it.’ No, and could you and I? I wonder.’ As I looked oker reservation after reservation and; |wt .sally saw Where the copper skin had’been driven, the natpye of the soil and etc. out o a worthless desert, i he u to them, for there 1 saw hunger- and thirst. Put th£ pale face oue there and he will starve and soon, too. I am in favor -.f givtngXjur Indians a be:ter chance and the foreigners a little less. A real American, the Indian, he can’t vote? Is it right.’ I ask you? Yet these half starved aand clothed boys and girls under all these adverse conditions are forging ahead intellectually speaking, at all government schools they are fed and I clothed. Most of them leave there intelligent students. As 1 looked into the faces of these many scholars, I saw a dreaded monster sinking its poison fangs into their ranks, that s the F. B. I hate awfully to say it. but they are a fast vanishing race, and I hate to see them go. We have traveled the skyline-trail, we have been from the snow caped peaks above the clouds, down into the valleys and then beneath the earths surface, and on to the open sea. We have basked with other truants in the deserts, sunshine, • have eaten and drank with the Indians, slept under the great canopy of Heaven, in the mountains and on the plains. \\ e have heard the wail of the coyote, have seen bears and wolves and other. game, and have been lulled to sleep by the far western winds. Today we are getting a breath of real spring fragrance. Many trees are in blossom with oceans of sunshine fresh from the mountains and the deserts. We were caught in a mountain storm, which gave me lung fever, 1 was released from the hospital just in time to see the desert flooded with the biggest rainfall in years. As I have written enough to fill a newspaper 1 shall close. Respectfully, vours; PERRY E. WINSOR. P. S.—-There are many things out here on which 1 h ve to wjite. And, Oh, to be an artist. The L IL-wing litter was sent to the Journal by Lew Neff, in Ciearwter, Fl a.: Ec itor of Journal; Clearwater is an all the year round tourist city. On last fourth of July alone seven thousand eight hundred i and fifty automobiles, by actual! c. ut t, crossed the causeway and it isi

Every Sunday Excursion A Whole Day -Visiting, Exploring CHICAGO tC.S.T.) Lv. Syracuse . • • am Ar. Chicago ... 8:00 am See Lincoln Park, Field Museum, ' Art Institute, Thea tree, Lake Front, “Loop,” and. visit Garfield Park Conservatory, open day and night. Returning trains , (C.S.T.) Lv. Chicago . . . 6:15 pm t Ar. Syracuse . . • 9:53 pm MUMM Foe fart' I p V ooeTsr wt 1

[estimated forty thousand people were jon the grounds. George .Ade, famous author and humorist of Kentland, Indiana, is, also at the Bellair hotel for a stay of; several weeks. He has been in this? section the most of the winter but w s at New Port Richie until a few days ago. Mr. Ade has written many i books and articles for newspapers. He is considered one of the leading (writers of the country. A noted writer is in Clearwater, he author of "Mrs. Wiggs of the, Cabbage Patch.” "Loney May” and other books. Her husband, well know n as a poet and dramatist arrived Friday afternoon for a visit at the home of her brother and wife at their winer.hi.me on Palm Bluff. They plan to spend the winter in Clearwater. The Brooklyn baseball team got in its. first real practice of the year Friday morning,’when the - regulars and second team battled for several innings. Daniel Willard, president of the B. and 0. railroad, who is wintering at he Bellair hotel near the writers home was host to a fishirg party on the Gulf of Mexico yesterday. Among his guests were: Judge Kenishaw, Mr. Landis. Dr. Frank Carey, and . F. C. Batchelder, who are also staying at the Bellair. I Uncle Lew Neff. — | ST. PATRICK S DAY SUPPER For 50 cents, to be’ held at the M. i.E. church. Tuesday. Mar. 17. from !o:30 until 7. followjed by a musical , program. Menu: Roast potk, scolloped potatoes, corn .string beans, salad, bread and butter, jelly, ice cream and cake, coffee.x ; adv i . ’ Carolina Woman Lost 47 Lbs. In 3 Months and Feels Years Younger. “L have been taking Kruschen 1 Salts for, nearly 3 months. I have continued taking one teaspoonful in warm water every mq’rning. I then weighed 217 pounds, was always bothered 'with pains in my back and lower part of abdonjen and sides. "Nov,- I am glad to say 1 am a well woman, feel much stronger. ears younger and my weight is 170 pounds. I do not only feel better but I look better, so all my friends say. “I shall never be without Kruschen SaltSj will never cease taking my daily dose, and more than glad to highly recommend it for the great good that is in it.” Mrs./S. A -Solomon. New',Bern, N. C„ Jan, 1930. “P. S. You may think I am exaggerating by writing such a long letter but truly I feel so indebted to you for putting out such wonderful salts that I cannot say enough.” A bottle of Kruschen Salts that lasts 4 weeks costs but 85;cents at Thornburg Drug Co., and druggists 'tie world over: Take otie half teaspoon in a glass of hoi water every morning before breakfast. Attention to diet will help-cut out pastry and fatty meats -go light on“ potatoes, butter, cream and sugar—'the Kruschen way is the safe way to . lose fat. Try bne bottle and if not joyfully satisfied money back.

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DISMAL . Mr. and Harvey Cole and daughter of Fort Wayne visited Mrs. Cole’s parents, Lee Lung and family Saturday. JMr. and Mrs. Lon Burley and son Frank visited their, daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Snepp of near Fort Wayne last Monday. Mrs. Ray Wilkinson and daughter spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gross of Churubusco. The Harry Abram’s family, who have been occupying,one of the Lee Lung residences Since the Cole property was destroyed by fire where they formerly resided, moved southeast of Cromwell last week. Mrs. Nelsen Boheck still remains ill with but litte improvement. Earl Bitner of Illinois was a guest over the week end of his parents, Milton Bitner ,and family. Mr. and Mrs. Sol Bowser visited over the week end with friends in Ligonier. SOLOMON’S CREEK Lester P’ mk has accepted a position at the home ;>f Artie Geyer. Mrs. Stanley Smith and brother-in-law of Deti l it. ?>lich., are spending a few days with her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Rookstool. Mrs. T. J. Hire, who has been spending several weeks with her daughter. Mrs. John Darr, bus gone to visit a few days with Mrs. Rachel Hire of Richville. Mrs. Dora McFall, who has been caring for Mrs. Viea Hapner, is leaving, and Mr* Sarah Judiaj of Berib n is to take her place as soon as the roads are open for her to come t. the Hapner home. : ; Louise Darr, Jaunita Gushwa and Bob Ott spent Sunday afternoon w ith Miriam Darr. Mrs. Ed Darr is visit’::" ih’the Jas. Brvw 1 >e, at Jfc><chv:ile. The ’ played the Jtiday school’s team a game of baseball at the ’Juday school house Friday afternoon. The Hex school won, 13 to 9.

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j BEES IN PACKAGES li GOOD FOR ORCHARD j LAFAYETTE, Ind.—During recent years a large business has been de- - veloped by southern beekeepers in - package beek, which has been a .significant aid to northern beekeepei s, 1 • according to B. E. Montgomery of 1 the Entomology Department of Purdue University.’ Orchard men who , need bees early in the spring for polls ination purposes find this method of . starting colonies of bees to ! have ) many advantages. The beginner al o v finds it desirable to start his apiary by using package bees. Not jinf e quently the commercial beekeeper fine’s this method of enlarging his apiary or replacing lost colonies to be advantageous. I ’ 1 There are about 5,000 bees in a pound and they may be obtanhd in L packages holding one or more pounds. , The two-pound size appears to be ti e niost popular for all purposes, but the > three-pound size may be bettejr for *, orchardists who are ordering bees for use in orchard pollination. Unless otherwise, ordered, a queen is included in each package. As a rule the queen is shipped in a small ‘[queen cage” placed within the package. Package bees are shipped by mail or express in small wood and screen cages with sufficient food for tihe du.ration of the trip. The food ebnsists of sugar syrup. As no honey oy con > is included all danger of disease is j eliminated. ‘ Package bees should be ordered at once for delivery late in Marjch or 1 , early in April. For use in orchards d arrive at east two ’(weeks and preferably three! before ? the first opening of fruit blossjoms. ? Directions for handling package bees whey they arrive will bd sou: d in- Extension Bulletin No. 158: which 1 may be secured from Purdue Univeisi’.y Extension Department up< i ' request. Names of southern beekeeplers who supply package bees may he , found in any beekeeping journal or “ they also will be furnished by the Department of Entomology, Purdue e University, upon request.