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King of the Ivory Coast and His Cabinet
Here is an unusual photograph showing the king of the Ivory Coast, Africa, seated with his ministers and
witch doctors.
Motor Caravan
to Cross Asia
Modernly Equipped Scien-
tists to Explore Least
Known Places.
Washingtcn.—Plans for one of the
most comprehensive and most com-
pletely equipped expeditions of mod-
ern times were disclosed when Dr.
Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the
National Geographic scciety, an-
nounced that the society will ‘co-oper-
ate with Georges-Marie Haardt of
Paris in sending out elght ecaterpil-
lar cars, with scientists in a dozen
fields, to span 5,000 miles of least-
known Asia, from Beyrouth (Beirut),
Syria, to Peiping (Peking), China, and
then return across 8,000 miles more
of a southern route.
M. Haardt came from Paris to
Washington to complete arrangements
with the society to send a representa-
tive with the expedition, whose other
personnel will be entirely French, and
which will have the approval of the
French government and specific mis-
Sions from France's ministry of for-
eign affairs,
Large Personnel of Scientists.
The patron of the expedition in
France is Andre Citroen, lifelong
friend of M. Haardt, and benefactor
of many scientific projects, who also
gave his support to M. Haardt's fa-
mous expedition which traversed Af-
rica and first crossed the Sahara
desert in motor cars.
The Trans-Asiatic expedition, with
the National Geographic society co-
operating, will take the field in
March, with its eight caterpillar cars
each carrying a trailer, conveying a
personnel of 35 men, including spe-
cialists in geography, archeology, or-
nithology, botany, geology, anthropol-
ogy and other branches of science.
It plans to start from France's
westernmost Asiatie territory, in
Syria, traverse Iraq, Persia, Russian
Turkestan, Sinkiang, and China, turn-
ing south at Peiping for the long
trail down to French Indo-China.
‘Thence, from Saigon, it will return
through Siam, Burma, India, Baluch-
istan, Persia and Arabia. In that
journey it will traverse areas which
have been little visited by Europeans
since Marco Polo’s time, skirt some
of the world’s highest mountains,
lofty plateaus, cross ,the vast Gobi
and Ala Shan deserts, and come upon
tribes and racial remnants of ancient
Asiatic peoples whose habits and
habitats are virtually unknown.
Two cars will be devoted to the
taking of one of the most comprehen-
sive geographic vocal motion picture
records ever made. The scenic won-
ders of innermost Asia, the customs
and the costumes of its peoples will
be photographed, both by the black-
and-white and the color camera; and
native dialects, songs, chants and
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rituals will be preserved in sound
records.
Each trailer will carry tents, cots,
camp chairs and a camp table for the
personnel assigned to its car. One of
the cars will be an auto-kitchen,
equipped for quick service when the
explorers halt for a meal.
The expedition will carry a radio
sending station which at all times
will keep it in touch with Paris; and
this sending station will be utilized
by the National Geographie society's
representative in filing dispatches to
the society's headquarters in Wash-
ington.
Fil. Blanks on Weather Maps.
Among the technical studiés to be
made by members of the expedition
will be those dealing with meteorol-
ogy of areas which now -are blank
spaces on world weather maps. Mag-
netic observations will be made. An
artist will supplement photographic
studies with sketches of ethnographic
value. Another will specialize in col-
fecting objects of ethnological inter-
est since the expedition will be trav-
ersing areas where some of the earli-
est phases of mankind's history trans-
pired.
Georges-Marie Haardt, leader of the
expedition, has been called the “motor
car Livingtone of France,” because
of the amazing expedition he previ-
ously led through 15,000 miles of
deserts and jungles in Africa. Upon
that trip he used caterpillar tractors
and automobiles, taking eight months
to go from Algeria across the Sahara,
around Lake Chad, and through the
Belgian Congo to Mozambique. Some
of his cars were then transported to
Madagascar and he explored the in-
terior of that island.
Sheep Is Acquitted
of Murdering Youth
Verviers, Belgium.—Under .an an-
cient penal law which has never been
repealed, animals may be punished
for offenses they commit. A sheep
which recently pushed a four-year-old
boy into the river was summoned be-
fore a court, charged with murder.
The attorney representing the sheep
pleaded that as the animal was teased
by the boy until it“was driven to
frenzy, and that as the child was re-
sponsible for the animal's temper, the
act was not committed by the animal
of its free choice.
The court agreed with the attorney
defending the sheep, and .the culprit
was acquitted.
Teach Weed Control
McClave, Colo.—The McClave high
school has a class in the study of
weed control.
Seventeen different weeds were iden-
tified and sent to the botany depart-
ment of the Colorado Agricultural col-
lege.
Winter Doesn’t Stop Gold Seekers
Ice ana snow do not deter these gold seekers as they erect a new camp
in the Matachewan district near Bannockburn, Ont., where operations will
he centered in following up the gold strike discovered by Bert Ashley and
Bill Garvey.
SNEEZE
ONCE TO BLONDS’ 4 TIMES
European Physicians Discover That
They Are More Immune
to Head Colds.
prefer
more im-
Paris.—Gentlemen may
blonds, but brunettes are
mune to colds in the head.
That is the decision of a group of
European doctors who have been
counting the sneezes of blonds and
the climates of Eu-
about
brunettes in all
rope. The brunettes won by
four to one.
The scientists have not been so rash
as to say why, but in a paper which
has been submitted to the Academy
of Medicine, they summarize their
studies and their decision. Blonds,
they say, have less than half the re-
sistance to head colds than have bru-
nettes.
The same scientists decided again
that the quantity of clothing worn
aas absolutely nothing to do with
colds. Brunettes generally wear as
little as blonds, and blonds or bru-
nettes who cover themselves too heav-
ily are more subject to colds than
those who dress moderately.
The report of the doctors would
show that head colds are far more
prevalent in foggy countries than in
the lands of sunshine. The fact that
women in foggy countries are gener-
ally blonds, while farther south where
the sun shines more the women are
Latin in.race and brunette in type,
may have something to do with the
result.
Bald men are even more immune to
head colds than men with heavy
masses of hair, blond or brunette.
Those who are accustomed to going
hatless are found to be practically
immune. School boys have fewer head
colds now than school boys had two
decades ago, when they wore fur caps,
mufflers, ear muffs and were swathed
in wool from chin to toes. The doc-
tors believe head colds can be made
obsolete by moderate dress.
Woman Reaches Peak of
Attractiveness at 50
Chicago.—Science having stayed the
hand of time in its work of etching
crow’s feet and wrinkles on the femi-
nine countenance, each year added to
Lar age merely adds to the clever
woman's experience in making herself
lovely.
So at least cheerfully reasons Mme,
Helena Rubinstein, beauty authority
of London, Paris and New York, who
admits she is old enough to have per-
sonal knowledge whereof she speaks.
“Any woman with brains enough to
see the advantage o? doing so can clip
from 15 to 20 yess from her age,”
Mme. Rubenstein informed an audi-
ence of beauty specialists here, “Seci-
entific knowledge of diet, exercise and
grooming make the woman of today
appear from one to two decades young-
er than her mother was at the same
age, and a contemporary of her own
daughter.”
KNIFE WINS FOR
WOMAN IN DUEL
AGAINST RIFLE
Enemy Opens Battle With
Shot, Then Forced to
Flee From Slashes.
St. Johns, N. B.—*“We investigated a
report of a fight on the outskirts of
New Waterford between Mrs. Guaetz
and Mrs. Gardiner, and found Mrs.
Gaetz was cut in the row.”
Thus did the provincial police, sta-
tioned in Glace Bay, N. S., sum up one
of the flercest battles between women
ever chronicled {n the maritime
provinces.
Challenged to Duel.
Just how the combat started no-
body seems to know. At all events
Mrs. Gaetz and Mrs. Gardiner, both
residents and neighbors in what are
known as the western front barracks
of New Waterford, had a controversy.
The words preceded a clawing mingle,
and this was followed by a dueling
challenge.
So much heat was displayed in the
challenge and acceptance of the duel
that the type of weapon was not
specified.
The result was that, at the zero
hour, Mrs. Gaetz appeared with a
sawed-off rifle and Mrs. Gardiner flour-
ished a murderous looking butcher
knife. The hour for the beginning of
hostilities was 8:30 p. m.
Knife vs. Rifle. ‘
A gallery of about 100 persons wit-
| nesed the fray, which started by Mrs.
Gaetz trying to shoot her foe. How-
ever, Mrs. Gardiner proved to be very
Gardiner Proved to Be Very
Agggpssive. |
aggressive at close quarters with the
awe-inspiring knife. It is quite true
that Mrs. Gaetz was cut in the row, as
the policemen reported in their investi-
gation, and it is also true that as a
result of the wounds the chairs looked
far less inviting to her than ever be-
Mrs.
fore. When she tried to escape from
the menacing knife she was slashed
some more.
Mrs. Gaetz had no opportunity to
retaliate, as her adversary was too
active, and before she was carved up
completely her friends rushed her to
her home and summoned a doctor, who
treated the several wounds. Mrs.
Gardiner has been duly recognized as
the winner of the unusual duel, in
which a knife triumphed over rifle
and bullets,
| Lawyer's Auto Stolen
Three Times in a Week
Washington.—A short time ago a
Virginia lawyer's auto was stolen.
Police located the car, abandoned and
without gas two days after it was
stolen.
after it, it had been filled with gas
and driven away again.
Several days later it was reported
that the automobile had again been
found. Upon arriving on the scene,
police were told a young man had just
driven the auto away.
Dead Snake Foils Man’s
Novel Plan to End Life
Sao Paulo, Brazil.—Alcohol poisoned
by snake venom was Joao Tekti’s plan
for ending his life. He placed two
snakes taken from the Butantan insti-
tute’s snake farm tn a bottle of alco-
hol, hoping they would poison the
liquid. Later he drank from the bot-
tle but collapsed. One of the snakes,
killed by the alcohol, had slipped into
his mouth,
Youth Prefers Church
to Term in Prison
Washington.—A year of church at-
tendance, or a term in jail were the
alternatives presented to Frank Sipes,
Virginia youth, convicted
larceny in the justice court at New
Hope, Va.
Sipes preferred the church attend-
ance and posted bond to insure regu-
larity.
‘Lost’ Hammer Weighing 5
Tons Sought by Owner
Austin, Texas.—Lots of workmen
have mislaid hammers, but the prize
disappearance is that of a 10,500-
pound one. It was “lost” from the
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RACHEL JACKSOrY
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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
ANUARY 8 is a day for re-
calling a farfious American
fight and a famous Amer-
ican fighter. The fight was
9 the battle of New Orleans,
which took place on Jan-
uary 8, 1815, and which is
unique in history as being a battle
fought after the treaty of peace end-
fing the war had been signed. The
fighter was Gen. Andrew Jackson,
frontiersman, lawyer by profession,
but a natural military leader, hailed
during the war with the Creek In-
dians and the war with the British
by his fellow-frontiersmen as “Old
Hickory” in tribute to the toughness
of his fiber as a man, and later tri-
umphantly elected by them to the
Presidency as the first representative
of the new American democracy to
occupy the White House, after a long
reign there by Virginia and Massachu-
getts aristocrats.
Andrew Jackson is a symbol of
something so intensely American that,
in the words of a recent biographer,
“The people still delight in-the leg-
ends of his prowess, of his lurid lan-
guage, of his imperious and dictato-
rial temper. As a small boy
he comes reeling into American his-
tory with a saber cut on his head
and as the years gather upon him they
gleam with steel and blood. It was
a roaring career, resounding to the
roars of cheering multitudes, of mus-
ketry, of artillery. He was a
great duelist, a great soldier and a
great lover. He was fiery, quixotic,
honest and loyal. He was curiously
romantic. 2
The picture of red-headed Andy
Jackson, the boy, and “Old Hickory,”
the man, “cutting and slashing his
way to power, a raucous fellow, an ex-
plosive, heavy-handed fellow, but with-
al a man who had a code and lived
up to it,” is too familiar to Ameri-
cans to necessitate calling it up again
on the anniversary of his great vie-
tory. In the light of these character-
istics it is more interesting to call up
that other picture of him, because of
the vivid contrast which it presents—
the picture of “the great lover” who
was 80 “curiously romantic.” For the
story of Andrew Jackson and his be-
joved Rachel, the woman he loved to
the end of his days, is one of the most
beautiful romances in American his-
tory.
The story of this romance goes back
to the year 1779 when Col. John Don-
elson, a well-to-do Virginia planter,
led a party of 200 emigrants on a
2,000-mile trip by flatboat from old
Fort Patrick Henry in East Tennessee
(near the present city of Kingsport)
to the Middle Basin of Tennessee, The
trip was made down the upper branch
of the Holston to the Tennessee river,
down its whole length to the Ohio,
up the Ohio to the Cumberland and
thence up that stream to the bluffs
where Col. James Robertson and an
earlier party of settlers had estab-
lished a frontier outpost which was to
become the city of Nashville, It had
taken Donelson’s party four months
to complete their journey and during
that time they had known the horrors
of Indian attack, bitter winter weather
and the scourge of smallpox. Among
the party was Donelson’s twelve-
year-old daughter, Rachel, who, de-
spite the hardships of frontier life—
or perhaps because of them—grew up
to a superb womanhood. “Those who
knew Rachel Donelson never tired. in
their day, teliing of her beauty. her
goodness, her sweetness and natural
! charm,” says John Trotwood Moore,
a Tennessee histormn, “She is de-
scribed as being a brunette, with olive
complexion and high coloring, black
eyes that danced and sparkled; viva-
cious, kindly; lips that were true car-
nelian; a rare wilderness beauty.”
Colonel Donelson was killed by the
Indians during the early years of the
settlement and his widow moved to
Kentucky. There she rented a house
from another frontier widow, a Mrs.
Robards, whose son, Lewis, wooed and
won Rachel Donelson. But the mar-
riage was a failure from the begin-
ning. Robards was moody, tempera-
mental and intensely jealous of his
wife. So Rachel eventually left him,
returning to her mother, who had in
the meantime gone back to Nashville
to live. Faced with the necessity of
making her own living after her hus-
band’s death, Mrs. Donelson had taken
a few men boarders into her home.
One of them was a young lawyer
named John Overton, whe ‘brought
about a reconciliation besween Rachel
and Robards, who then came to live
with his wife and her mother,
Another boarder at the Donelson
home was a red-headed yeung Caro-
linian, named Andrew Jackson, who
had arrived in Nashville in 1788 and
began the practice of law. Again
Robards’ jealousy flamed out and he
accused Rachel of being in love with
Jackson, The young lawyer's protest
to the husband, when he heard the ae-
cusation, only made matters worse
and Robards returned to Kentucky.
Through Overton’s intercession Rachel
went there to live with him again, but
finding the situation impossible, soon
returned, resolved never again to live
with Robards.
Robards then applied to the legisla-
ture of Virginia (since Kentucky was
still a part of that state) for a di-
vorce, and on December 29, 1790, that
body passed an act permitting him to
go into court to seek a divorce from
his wife. Back to Tennessee came the
report that the divorce had been grant-
ed in the summer of 1791, while Ra-
chel was visiting in Natchez, Miss.
Jackson, who had fallen in love with
her but had not spoken of his love
while she was still Robards’ wife,
sought her out and they were mar-
ried. The young couple soon returned
to Tennessee and went to live at the
home, Hunter's Hill, which Jackson,
now United States attorney and al-
ready marked as a man who would be-
come famous, had established in Nash-
ville.
Two years later Jackson and his
wife learned that she was not legally
divorced from Robards when the mar-
riage ceremony in Natchez had taken
place. The scandal mongers and Jack-
son’s political enemies became busy
with the tale. Robards had waited
three years, after filing his first appli-
cation, before finally securing the final
decree of divorce. Immediately after-
wards, on January 17, 1794, Jackson
remarried his wife. Then he bought
two dueling pistols and served notice
upon his enemies that he would kill
any man who assailed his wife's name
or the purity of their motives when
they were first married.
For a time the tongues of his ene-
mies were silenced. Then, as the re-
sult of a dispute over a horse race, a
young man named Charles Dickinson,
who seems to have been made the
tool of Jackson's political enemies,
after a session of heavy drinking de-
nounced Jackson as a coward and a
poltroon and added the further insult
of declaring that, “He lived two years
with his wife before he was married
to her.” The result was the now-fa-
mous Dickinson-Jackson duel in which
Dickinson was killed. Dickinson fired
first and seriously wounded Jack-
son. Later Jackson said to his sec-
ond, “If he had missed me, I intended
to shoot In the air, but when I felt
his ball plow through my ribs, I would
have killed him if he had shot me
through the heart.”
The death of Dickinson silenced
Jackson's enemies for awhile and he
and his wife enjoyed a period of hap-
piness at Hunter's Hill. Then he lost
the major part of his estate of some
50,000 acres through debt, but on the
part which he retained he built a
group of log houses and one frame
building. To the new estate he gave
THE HERITI TAGE, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE 7 7
the name of The Hermitage. Some
time later he built a handsome two-
story brick house to care for the in-
creasing number of guests who were
coming to visit this rising young fron-
tiersman. In 1796 he was elected to
congress and the following year he
accepted an appointment to fill a seat
in the United States senate, not so
much because he was ambitious him-
self, but because he wanted to lift
his beloved Rachel to a social position
which would show his pride in her.
Within a year he resigned, served a
short time as a judge of the Supreme
court in Tennessee and then, happy
in the thought that he was through
with public life, looked forward to
spending the remainder of his years
as a gentleman planter at The Her-
mitage.
But the outbreak of the War of 1812
called him into service again—as the
commander of Tennessee volunteers
to fight the Creek Indians who had
gone on the warpath. In January,
1814, he defeated the Creeks in two
pitched battles and ended the war in
March at the Great Horseshoe Bend
on the Tallapoosa river, As the result
of his splendid campaign he was made
major-general in the regular army.
Then came ward that the British were
preparing to attack New Orleans and
Jackson with his small army of 2,000
men there won one of the most
astounding battles in history—defeat-
ing Pakenham’s British veterans and
inflicting upon them a greater loss
than Jackson's own force.
This victory made him the hero of
the old French city and in his triumph
Rachel Jackson shared. For he sent
for her to come to New Orleans and
there this daughter of the frontier won
the hearts of the granddames of
Louisiana with her naturalness and
her lack of self-consciousness. They
presented her with a set of topaz
jewelry and gave a grand ball in her
honor at which the “Victor of New
Orleans” proudly led her out as his
first choice as a dancing partner,
By this time Jackson had become
a national figure with the promise of
further public honors in store for him,
His devoted Rachel hoped that he
would return to Tennessee and in the
quiet of life at the Hermitage recuper-
ate his health which had been shat-
tered by his arduous campaigns. But
she soon realized that her ambition
was not to be realized. As the Presi-
dential campaign of 1824 drew near
Tennessee was clamoring for her fa-
vorite son to be a candidate. He made
the race, won the largest popular vote,
but in the electorial college John
Quincy Adams, aided by Henry Clay,
was the winner.
Four years later another campaign
was on and again Jackson was a can-
didate. The campaign of 1828 was a
bitter one and once more Jackson's
enemies unearthed the charge of his
illegal marriage. Jackson withheld
his wrath until the election was over,
but he desired more ardently than
ever to win so that he could vindicate
his wife by making her the First
Lady of the Land. That would be her
supreme triumph over those who spoke
ill of her. The result of the election
was a victory for “Old Hickory.”
When the news came to the Hermit-:
age, Rachel Jackson, after much per
suasion, set forth for Nashville to ob-
tain a wardrobe in keeping with her
new station. The honor of being the
President’s wife was not one which
she had coveted, but her husband’s
wish was her law and she planned to
accompany him to. Washington and
share in his triumph. While seated in
the back parlor of a hotel in Nash-
ville she overheard herself discussed
as the woman who was hampering a
great man’s rise to fame, For the first
time there came to her horrified ears
the stories which had been circulated
about her and which her husband had
succeeded in keeping from her knowl-
edge. Her servants’ said she returned
to her home lsoking stunned.
Within a few days she suffered a
heart attack from which she failed to
rally. She had lost the desire to live.
For 16 hours a heart-broken man sat
at her bedside helpless to aid her.
Then she died and with her died all
happiness for Andrew Jackson.
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