I THE EXPERIMENT |
o By MQLLIE MATHER j|:
Patricia’s guardian sighed. It was
, 10 t tlia first time that his niece had
brought from him this sign of dis
tress.
“My dear Bob.” he said, ‘‘l don’t see
how I can influence Patsy to marry
vou ’though that is the dearest wish
ri 111 V heart. You have those staying
qualities that Patricia’s willfulness
needs. Why is she averse to you?”
“Averse!” Bob exclaimed, indig
nantly. “Why, Pat loves me—as much
site can settle down to love any
body.”
The man leaning against the desk
smiled.
♦“When she will, she will,’ ” lie quot
e,] •• ‘and you * may depend on’t.’
‘When she won’t, she won’t, and
there’s an end on’t.’ ”
“Did you ever try making Patsy
jealous? I’ve heard that is a great
remedy for tardiness in love.”
“I've thought I’d like to try her out
on that,” Bob said.
A stenographer entered the office
at this moment, and gathering up some
notes left the room.
“I will see you presently, Miss
Orme,” the lawyer said. The young
woman smiled. Bob wheeled about as
►die smiled.
“Jove!” he exclaimed, “what a
graceful, ladylike girl. Poise, Barney,
poise, in every line. Where’d she
come from?”
Barnett Adams sank into a chair.
“I’ve just thought of a possible
plan, Bob,” he returned. “Better stay
a few minutes. Miss Orme is a par
ticular friend of Pat’s. You have not
been privileged to meet her, because
the girl forswears society in general.
She was Patricia’s college chum. It
was Pat who persuaded me to employ
her. and Miss Orme has made good in
the business world. Occasionally Pat
brings her to take dinner with us.
Miss Orme is always eager to show’
her gratitude to me for my interest
in ber behalf. Also, she knows our
delightful, provoking Patsy well. And
is as anxious as I for her future wel
fare. All of which,” added Barnett
Adams. “leads up to the plan wdiich I
am considering. It might be well to
ask Pat to invite her friend to the
house for several evenings—and If
you happened in, that would appear
only the natural thing. Miss Orme
fort w arned, would, I think, be able
to resist your dangerous fascination,
Bob, if you should devote yourself to
her for a short space of time. If our
difficult charge show's Signs of jeal
ousy—well, then, press your advan
tage.”
Boh. passing out later through an
adjoining office, glanced toward the
smooth, dark head of Miss Olive Orme
and thought that his task w’ould not
be a hard one. «
“Os course I’ll .ask Qllie, the dear,”
Patsy warmly assured her uncle that <
evening—and in return for my will- 1
ingness, you’ll come out of your shell, ;
guardian Barney, won’t you?”
“It’s one thing being a bachelor by
preference—'and another to be selfish .
in your own satisfaction. I’ll let Bob ,
come, and we will have a jolly eve
ning together.” j
The evening, when it arrived, was
not as jolly as anticipated. And |
there seemed to be no reason for this. ,
Patricia, at the piano, could not un- j
derstand what was the matter. Uncle |
Barnett had come obligingly “out of |
ids shell”—or out of his usual com- j
fort able place In his study, and Olive j
Orme was her gay, old-time, college
self. Bob was apparently charmed
'Vith this heretofore unknown friend <
01 and ignoring Uncle Bar
ney, lingered to chat at her side. !
Patricia remained at the piano. She 1
was alone—a novel experience for the ■
popular young woman. When Miss 4
Orme arose to go, Bob, with a hurried ‘
excuse to Patricia, went wdth her. (
. “Wouldn’t do to let the girl go home f
*«r* Jr
alone,” he whispered.
Patsy gathered up her music. “Good-. c
night,” she abruptly told her guardian. . 1
Patricia’s guardian w r as sadly dis
tressed —and the hall which he had ■ »
parted rolling was now Impossible to
eton. } «
without invitation the formerly dij-, *
tant Miss Orme came frequently to; !
Patricia’s home to spend ftfi evening, l j
and on these evenings Bob also would'
be sure to appear. i i
iu tile office the employer re
garded his stenographer wdth in
creasing coldness. And while Miss
Onue appeared to be perplexed by
tins attitude, she was not distressed.
After a succession of sleepless
nights Barnett Adams felt called upon
to ftsk his former favorite a question.
He summoned Bob.
“Your plan?” he asked caustically.
“May I be permitted to know if it has
had the desired result, or have you
become indifferent regarding that re
sult?”
Boh grinned.
“Those two precious girls have been
taking us in,” he said.
“►Seems that Olive dropped a hint
of our experiment and they decided
tojplay up to us. However, Patsy is
going to marry me. gays brie fia«l no
Idea that I cotilq play the flirting ganiß
so expertly, am l cannot afford to IP*
further r j S And Patsy also ' :v ®
Sob, the grin
the experiment *** L- the
state of your toward 01ive<
A.n-1 as far a? 0 concerned —
J at ihhu-vS might/make it a double
l weddn-.g.
“V n can’t beat Patricia,” her lover
added proudly. ,
BRIEF, INTERESTING FACTS
Figures and Historical Mention
Os Interest.
: Dearborn Independent.
In Schaerbeek, Belgium, is a small
museum, dedicated to the remem
biance of the eight women who were
executed by the Germans during the'r
occupation of Antwerp and Brussels.
Z° within the budget, Cincin
nati officials are utilising moonshine
i whmkey, seized by the police, as an
anti-ireeze aid for radiators of city
automobiles, thus saving the expense
of alcohol.
I ■ !
Furbearing and game animals are
to be introduced on islands in South
eastern Alaska. Rabbits will be plac
ed on certain islands as food for the
lur bearers and man while other is
lands will be stocked with mink, mar
ten and beaver and possibly elk. '
|
The government of Switzerland has
subsidized the potato-growing indus
try by contracting to purchase pota-
i oe l ’ i om the producers at from Si.7l
to $1.90 for 220 pounds, delivered at
the station of shipment, the govern
j ment standing all transportation costs.
| i
i , new . Mexican fiber known as
■ Maivavisco, ’ is said to be a substi
tute for jute. This plant grows
abundantly in the humid level lands
near tne rivers and at present is em
| ployed for making brooms.
Taxes on farm land have more than
doubled during the past eight years.
The average tax per acre in 1922 was
II cents as compared with 31 cents in
1914.
I
The faithful negroes who stood by
their masters during the Civil War
were voted pensions by the South
Carolina legislature. The pensions
are to be granted under virtually the
same conditions as those now paid to
Confederate veterans.
An ancient manuscript dealing with
King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
contains the earliest historical refer
ence to airplanes. The manuscript de
clares, “King Solomon gave the Queen
of Sheba a vessel wherein one could
traverse the air (or wind).”
. Professor Albert Einstein has re
signed from the League of Nations. ;
i
Whales acquire barnacles the same
as do ships. However, they do not
cause the whale any discomfort.
| ,
A day of dense fog costs London
nearly $5,000,000 in loss of wages, ex- j
tra lighting, cost of delay, extra
transportation and extra launderings, i
“Uncle Joe” Cannon, who is 86
years old and has served 46 years as
a representative of Illinois in Con
gress, arrived in Chicago and said he
was locking for a “job with a future.”
Near the close of the New Year
in Japan, the housewives get busy and
inspect carefully breakfast, dinner and
tea sets. Each piece of china or
earthenware which shows a crack is
singled out, and a new piece is bought
in its place. Cracked china brings ill
luck, according to the Japanese belief.
A municipal ordinance in Amster
dam forbids that one front door shall
give entrance to more than nine fiats,
and one staircase to more than six
flats.
•In the United States alone we are
now patenting inventions at the rate
of 40,000 a year. ;
Original Verses cf Burns Found.
Four origir -i! verses written by j
Robert Burns were discovered in an j
old volume re»-enily offered for sale !
in lAindon Inscribed in p*-*nri! they *
have been inted <*:ir«*nil!y over by the ;
first owuet of Hit* book n friend of j
the national Scoti; s h poet.--London i
Answers, j
Stevenson’s Warning.
A day or two after his death this
writing was found on the desk of
Robert Louis Stevenson: “Now do ,
lake warning by me. I am set up by j
a beneficent Providence at the corner |
of the road, to wain you to flee from J
the hebetude that is to follow. So re- !
member to keep well; and reillgmbef !
rather anything than not to keep well; !
and again 1 say rather anything than i
not to keep well.”
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A VARICOLORED SILK KNITTED
coat is worn with a pleated skirt ox
tan ribbed silk, with insets of Egyp
tian prints. The stockings axe a mot
ley array of colors to hoM to the at
j me sphere of the entire outfit.
WHITE OR YELLOW CORN.
1 Value for Feeding Purposes.
By J. ii. MsLeod, Livestock Special
ist.
Which is the better corn for stock
| feeding, while or Jedov, '/ This is a
! question that has often been argued
by i- .i .nei's and su>xkmea. The usual
answer has been where an answer has
been cmeia.-'t 'u. Luaii Ciitne ~iO cilx—
' iereuce in the xeedi: g value. One
corn w .s merely yellow in color and
the other white, but the chemical
composition was the same.
The Wisconsin Experiment Station,
however, has given a definite answer
[to the above question. Corn and
tankage has for a number of yearn
been considered a standard ration for
hogs. Two lots of pigs weighing on
an average of sixty-five pounds were
used in the test. O e let was self
fed white com and la ikage and the
other lot self-fed yellow corn and
i tankage. The lot fed with the white
j corn a rd tankage gained .77 pounds
each day and required 473 pounds oi:,
corn and forty-eight pounds tankage
to make 109 pounds gain. On the oth
er ha- d the lot fed yellow corn and
tankage gained 1.04 pounds per head
per- day and only required 424 pQunds
corn and 45 pounds tankage for each :
I 100 pounds gain. In other words, the
pigs fed on yellow coin required 69
pounds less corn and three pounds less
tankage for each 100 pounds gain and ;
in addition gained .27 pounds more |
per head per day.
I A similar test was also carried on j
in feeding of white coi n and skim- j
med milk compared with yellow com
and skim milk. Those fed witth the ;
yellow corn and skim milk did well
upon the ration but those receiving the
white corn and skim milk were un
thrifty and a number of the pigs took
the rickets (known among some far- i
mers as rheumatism.)
The above tests do rot prove that |
white corn is not a good and satis- 1
factory feed for pigs. When the pigs
were placed on a green pasture or fed
a smaß amount of alfalfa hay or rome
other legume hay to pigs fed on
white corn then made just as satisfac- j
torv gains as those fed on the yellow j
corn.
The difference between the white
and yellow com is simply that the yel
low com contains a co-op Bed fat solu
ble vitamine that the white corn does
not possess. All green feeds, how-I
ever, contain this ingredient and when ■
fed in connection with white corn sat- ;
isfnctonv results are secured-
No difference has been noticed in
the resu’t.s from the feeding of white
and yellow corn to horses and cattle, i
—Southern Planter.
BLUFFING DEATH.
Goldsboro News.
Seventeen creatures stand this
morning peering from their cells in
death row in the State’s prison at
Raleigh. It is an unusual day with
them, for sometime as the hours drag
along one of their number will be led
forth from his ceH and be marched
down the corridor to his seat in the
State’s death chair.
The remaining inmates of death row
are blanched and hushed for today.
Tomorrow they will laugh and joke
again and kid each other with the
talk about the pardons and reprieves
and new trials and final escaoe. The
correspondent who writes the story of
their doings implies that they believe
all this, but they do not. A„s they kid
each other they are trying to kid
themselves, not inot believing that
I they will escape but into bluffing
i death. This is their feeble effort ot
save themselves from the reality.
They do not expect to escape, what,
I th ey expect is to kill the pain and
| terror of facing death. Subconscious
ly they strive to protect themselves
! from staggering when they meet the
1 Monster. If they can pass the hor
j ror before it comes in reality, they
i will not quail at last. This is a men
, tal trick that men practice without
! knowing it. Sometimes it is called
j brazenness. . But it is not brazenness,
j It is the victim’s only pass at self
i defense,, his only way of breaking the
j force of a disagreeable fact or shield
ing himself from securing, more than
he can stand, the pangs of disgrace.
The man who tells a lie is apt to make
little of lying. The trial is used as
a self defense measure against both
mental and physical suffering, in fact
against all the stern facts of life.
So we may not think harshly of
the poor devils because they joke and
seem pot US greatly impressed with
thcii : fate as the honorable law ex
pects them to be,
It is observed that never before j
were so many mail awaiting The Day j
in their cells along death row. Peo- ;
pie who believe that legalized death (
is a panacea for crime may explain
why the number is larger and not
smaller. Such persons are perforin- ,
ing about the same mental trick that,
the citizens of death row are employ
ing—substituting fancy for fact with
a doggedness that is all too apparent.
The death sentence may not prevent
crime, but it ought to, therefore we
will keep at it. *!
A member of the prison 1 v J
sought to have the legist .. :
the newspapers she 11 say tnat
counts of elect’' vff hot publish ac
unconscious This is ms
deoth c- - t>t spying that the
the + can no longer stand j
J teat# of reasoPi If the public;
thinks s 0 much about It the public:
lpr nt stop it. IT must not be sub- 1
1 jeeted the publicity. He quietly ig- j
nores the main argument for death— j
that it will act as a deterrent. If it
so acts, the news should be spread far
and wide and not hushed up. The
State made a retreat from its main
position when it decreed that execu
tions should no longer be public in the
county seats where the crime was
committed, but must be done in Ra
leigh. Now, this representative ot
the electric chair would make another
retreat. He would not even avow
any publicity of the matter.. The
State is really ashamed that it can
not prevent crime by killing the enm
inal. But because at bottom electro
cute for prevention, we make a. fetish
of capital punishment and excuse m
i! every way its ineffectiveness. .
1 The denizens of death row, .vd
- themselves to bluff death. *v e Kid
- ourselves to keep it up.
BUILD A HOME NOW!
SCHOOLS FOR WOMEN.
! Raleigh, Apr. 1G. —If you could
■ step inio some of the rural communi
; ties where “demonstration’ work is
being done you would find one day ox
one week; schools being conducted:
where men and women come together
to learn to be better farmers bet
ter home makers, says Mrs. Jctne S.
McKimmon, in charge of home cie
monstxation work for the Stale college
a-td State Department of Agriculture,
nrs. McKimmon states that part of >
tbe day is being taken up by subjects
’ of common interest such as poultry,
dairy work, gardening and liow t to
market surplus produce. Then a time
is set aside v. her the men get ;r»---trn -
t-ion in their farm problems and the
women go into a separate room 10 cLs
cuss the convenient arrangement of
their kitchens, for saving steps, how
to plan a well balanced meal, or how
to make their spring dresses and hats.
Dinner is generally served picnic style
at noon. Mrs. McKimmon reports
that Cabarrus county, with the farm
i ai cl home agents as instructors, held
12 of these meetings in March with an
attendance of 884. Buncombe county
reports 27 such meetings in March !
with an attendance of 2,781. One I
week of thse meetings was given over ■
I to co-operation with the Buncombe
County Farmer’s Federation in its ef
fort to instruct growers in market
ing methods and methods of treating
; potato diseases. I
One feature of a week’s home de- |
j monstration school held for the rural j
| women of Rowan county by the home 1
! agent was the selection, preparation (
and serving of a well balanced meal. !
The women first drew for seats at the .
taMe which wonVI e ’ !
Certain others attending the school
were selected to serve these. The four-.
teen women aml fifty girls remaining j
\ constituted un interested orpt- ;
I ting each point as it was explained by j
! the sne°inlist or home agent. The de- .
monstration included setting the ta- 1
ble and through every reason for sel- »
ecting protein, starch, sweets, fats,
green vegetables or fruit so rthe fam
ily diet.
Mrs. McKimmon fmds that the ru
: ral women of North Carolina, are now
learning to select this food wisely and
to prepare it well.
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“CATHEDRAL OF COMMERCE.”
An artistic and unpublished view!
of the world’s biggest building, the 1
towering Wool worth building, seen
through the arches of the Municipal
Building—arches that serve so much
as a down town try sting place for .
lovers.
Progress,
The man who Is ready to give
piedge that the opinion he will hold
tomorrow wMI he precisely the opin*
lon ha holds today has either thought
very V f le, or to little purpose, or hag
resolved to quit thinking altogether,—
JJeleu Hunt Jackson,
—a gaaagt ~ ~ '■ r
Sinister Earrings. j
Men, as well as women, wore ear- J
Tings quite long ago In Europe, aiid i
there was more than ornament In i
their Intention. The earrings were
really iittle cases or pockets Which
held poison. Life was cheap; if sr*>u5 r *>u i
got tired of it you simply unscrewed ,=
your earrings ainj drank the poison, ]
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MORTGAGEE’S SALE OF LAND, j
tinder. £rvd by virtue of thfc pbw£t .
of contained in a, e®rthin mort- 4
gags deed executed by T. B. Patterson,
and wife, Anna Patterson, dated;
March 29, 19*?, which mortgage deed j
is duly registered in the office of the j
register of deeds for Chatham county,
in book number F. F. at page 460,
payment of the bond accompanying
said mortgage deed having been de
manded and refused, I will on the
14th day of May, 1923, at the court;
house door in Pitt shorn,
Chathm county, North Carolina, at
12 o'clock, noon,
offer for sale to the highest bidder for
cash,, the following described tract of
land:
Beginning at a large sweet gum,
M pore's corner, and running north, 6 1 l
1-2 degrees, east 30 poles to a stone;
thence with Houston’s line s'.tth •• oe-;
grees west 54 poles to a stone; tnencc
south 70 1-2 degrees west 26 poles to
c*one; tVmc north 5 degree;- east I.>
.r!es t > a stone; thence north 29 do
erees east 18 polos to «i sionG; tnone6
! -north 32 degrees west 19 poles to the
beginning. Containing 7 5-16 aci.es,
move or less.
This April 12th, 1923.
Place: Court house door at Pitts
boro, N. C.
Time: Mav 14th, 1923, at roon.
Terms: cash. HOU g TO jj,
Dixon & Dixon, Attys. Mortgagee.
May 10-It-o.
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STATEMENT.
U. S. BRANCH OF THE LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION.
LONDON, ENG. , '
Condition December 31, 1922, as shown by statement filed.
Amount of Ledger Assets December 31st of previous year,
$7,473,914.41; Increase of paid-up Capital, Total $7,473,914.41.
Income —From Policyholders, $4,315,600.15; Miscellaneous,
$478,797.63; Total, $4,794,397.78.
Disbursements —To Policy holders, $1,79i,?49.0J: Miscel.aneous,
$2,688,32,.1d; Total, , $4,486,078.54.
Fire Risks —Written or renewed during year, $046,596,466. In
$2,688,329.15; Total, ?4,48«,078.54.
AU Other Risks—Written or renewed during year, $662,321,^45,
In force, $117,230,934.
ASSETS.
; Value of Bends and Stocks * 6, °lr 188 16
1 Cash In Company’s Office 82.
I Deposited in Trust Companies and Banks on interest. $648,448.82.
i A gents’ balances, representing business written subsequent 10007
i to October 1, 1922, . . , , 1Q99 *oq qo« IK
1 A gents’ balances, representing business pnor to October 1, 1922,
‘ Bills receivable, taken for other risks 559 785.55 L
Interest and Rents due and accrued 8206*583 80
! All Other Assets, as detaUed m statement
I. . , T ° ta \ ... _,, $62,760.94.
! Less Assets not aamitteu 57 QAS 925.17.
Total admitted Assets
liabilities.
» 1 1 p 957
Net amount of unpaid losses and claims $3 358 2*6 01
accounts, fees, etc due or accrued ’ s2,s com
1 Estimated amount payable for Federal, State, county and figs 2V
municipal taxes due or accrued «/i r 7 , i82 45
Contingent commissio-s, or other charges duo or accrued
All other except Capital,
Surplus as
! BUSINESS IN NORTH CAROLINA DURING 1922.
! Th,* . 0 written $3,943,775.00; Premiums received, $64,327.9 <.
■ Losses $ ***’ ■ » ,
United States Manager, John ri. Packard,
e Tj Office London, Eng. #
Attmmev for service: Stacey W. Wade Insurance Commissioner, Raleigh, N.C.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
1 INSURANCE DEPARTMENT, (Seal)
Ea'eigh, March 3, 1923. . . ..., ~ ,
I STACEY W. WADE. Insurance Commissioner, do hereby certify that
44. ’ nhovp "is a true and correct abstract of the statement of the.
US Branch of LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION/of London, Eng.,
filed "with this Department, showing the condition of said Company, on the
31st day of December, 1922. . ...
Wit-ess mv hand and official seal, the day and year above written.
•. Wlu ‘ e ‘' ‘ STACEY W. WADE, Insurance Commissioner. 1 j
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