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i Making Tomorrow's World By WALTER WILLIAMS, LL.D. IN THE SOUTH Gap, Caroline Islands. No old maids are to be found In the South Sea Is lands. There are no "unapproprlat ed blessings." No widow remains a widow many days. There are no "odd" women. The bachelor girl Is one product of civilization which has not yet found way to these tropical Islands, though cigarettes and liquor are here In ample measure. The widow tears her lair, gashes temples, put on mourn 4ng, then, In a few days adopts half imournlng, and, shortly afterward, Seizes on a second husband. Marriage customs vary In different Islands and among different tribes. Usually the bride is bought from the Ivlllage by payment of shell-money, canoes, weapons or other articles of value. Sometimes she Is stolen. When the husband tires of her and sends her away or she divorces him by desertion, the articles of value or their equivalent must be returned, a primitive alimony. Betrothal In Babyhood. ! In Kaiser Wilhelm land, the Bis marck Archipelago and other scat tered Islands of the German posses sions In the Pacific, as indeed in most lands in this great ocean, the "betrothal takes place when the pro spective bride and bridegroom are ba bies and they have nothing to cay about it. In one tribe the girls are betrothed at the age of five years land from that date until their mar- i7 g'i On a 8outh triage, five or ten years afterward, they tare kept imprisoned in bamboo cages from which they are released for only Ian hour once a day. Despite this (close imprisonment, they grow up ap jparently strong and in good health. Romance Is absent from the betrothal ceremony which Is concerned altogeth er with pigs, canoes and tomahawks. Husbands Won by Cookery. The second marriage differs In this tribe from the first In that the widow has her husband selected for her by her relatives, but she must win him by her skill as a cook. As soon as the man is selected, the widow, with her cooking pots, is taken to his house. prepares and cooks his food and rhen he returns in the evening offers It to him with her own hands. Should accept, the marriage is established, but if the lady be not attractive in his res he clicks his tongue, a peculiar ipoan note of disapproval, and she aust leave to try her culinary skill i another man. The good cook n ear- always wins, whether or not she is looking. Not in America alone husband won or kept by "feeding be brute." The American gin who rwears a cook apron gracefully will Wet Iter best young man sure! T A story Is told in New Guinea of a (Papuan widow who was an ln&lffer tent cook. She cooked dinner every Sly for three weeks for ths man so Bected to be her second husband, while (the wily prospective bridegroom, knowing what was in store, took all bis meals with his father. Finally, 15 y "' VS. imwm i i IS: uniiii i i ""' SEA ISLANDS seeing the case w3 hopeless, she re moved the cooking pais, her imple ments of warfare, to the house of another man where she and her din ner proved irresistible. Germany's Islands. Germany's possessions in the Paci fic ocean are not large. They are mere stepping stones along the ocean's highways, thrusting themselves above the surface of the sea as the ancient stepping stones In Columbia, Missouri, or Pompeii, rise above the level of the streets. Germany holds to them with tenacity, however, and governs them with the same autocratic police meth ods that great nation employs at home. The German possessions con sist of German New Guinea (Kaiser Wilhelm Land) Bismarck Archipelago, Marshall Islands, a part of the 8a moan group, the Caroline Islands and the Mariana Islands. The native pop ulation is about 600,000. The contrast between the British and German governmental administra tion of their South Sea Islands is marked. The British Interfere as lit tle as possible with the native. The governor of Papua, British New Gui nea, issued a proclamation recently condemning the undue sale of Euro pean clothing to the native. A shell necklace and a grass loin-cloth, the or dinary wearing apparel, he evidently thought were conducive to morality and progress. The German insists up on Berlin regularity and. upon the na tive becoming Germanized as far as possible and at once. The native po lice army of the Bismarck Archipela go all wear the German military cap, though the climate forbids the coat and trousers! "Self-government?" re marked a German official at Raboul, "how can we give self-government to cannibals?' Natives Enslaved in Copra T raffle Copra Is king in the South Sea Is lands. Copra is the dried flesh of the "I Pacific Island. cocoanut and is used for soap, oil and many commercial purposes. One Ger man firm, with headquarter a Maron, has 600,000 cocoanut trees from which copra is being obtained. The devel opment of the copra industry has brought some commercial prosperity to the islands, but it has brought also many of the demoralising vices of civilization. There are honorable merchants engaged in the business, but there are also many low-class trad ers or "beach combers,'' who dis grace the name of white man. Slave labor, through a system of enforced servitude sailed euphemistically a labor-recruiting system, has nearly ev erywhere been introduced as neces sary for the copra industry. It is not strange to find that the native fears the white man. Wherever possible the white man, trader or planter, in the South Seas forces hhn to labor, when be had never worked before, and carries him, a practical slave, for this labor to cocoanut plantations on dis tant islands. Good Work of Missionaries. The Gfnnan missionary has done and con tin ties to do much good among the natives. For making conditions better in these lonely but beautiful is lands much credit is due to the Ger man missionaries as In other lands credit is due missionaries of other cations. The missionary seldom re ceives the meed of praise ho merits. A new Acts of the Apostles could be written from the stories of the lives of the missionaries, men and women, I out in these outposts of German civ ilization. True, there Is a divided and discordant Christianity, to the shame of Christianity here and at home. Com petition still exists among Christian sects when co-oper;'.;.. has traced ed competition IL- Lsl.. r w.ii.2. True, there -3 tnvrc:'.'. mission aries, rt v'jtn lU has been said against tU.m Ly traders with whose cruel ncthod3 they Interfere and by tourists who travel only tor pleasure and by cynics who are deaf an a blind though not dumb, the world s good is being promoted, immeasurably pro moted, by these self-sacrificing men and women who are engaged in splen did adventure for God and man in the islands of the sea. Heroic Preacher's Work. Take one example out of many. On the island of New Pommeru the Rev. H. P. Weniel, a German Methodist missionary, Is closing his eighth year of unremitting service, without holi day or relief. He gave up a comfort able pulpit in Berlin to come to this distant land. His wife, who came v.-'.th him, died of fever and lies burled near the mission church he built His children were sent home to live with relatives In Germany. Ho kept on with his work, facing loneliness, pri vation, disease, death. Fourteen mis sionaries on the island were killed by hostile natives. His life was threat ened and for a long time in imminent danger. He never faltered. He went about alone among the natives, preach ing, teaching, healing with simple med icines the sick, leading into gentler ways the natives, "half savage and half child.' Cannibalism was stamped out, slavery and polygamy disap peared. The Native Converts. Six thousand converts are the fruits of eight years' labor of this man and his associates. Nor are these con verts merely "rice Christians," as the native Christians for revenue only are contemptuously called In some coun tries, but men and women who lose In present position, socially and ma terially, by adoption of the new faith. They are accepted as converts on pro bation for three years, during which time they must lead upright lives, so ber, Industrious, before they can be received Into the church communion. After baptism they are dropped from the rolls or placed again on probation, should they fall into their old and evil practises. Even the most captious critic in the islands has only words of commendation for the work of Pastor Wenzel and his colleagues. The re sults in the lives of the natives brought under their influence are too patent to be sneered away. And the German Methodist missionaries in the German Islands of the South Seas are types of the hundreds who labor for humanity's betterment In the world's dark places. Of such stuff are gen uine heroes made. (Copyright, 1914, by Joseph B. Bowles.) SEES PROBLEM FOR ENGLAND Trouble Over Ulster Has Been the Cause of Much Comment Through out France. The conflicting reports and rumors with regard to the attitude of the offi cers of the British army toward the crisis in Ulster created a painful Im pression In France. French history has more recent Instances of similar events than that of England. The mu tinies In the south when the troops refused to move against the rioting wine growers led to a general disloca tion of the French army with a view to avoiding the use of local con scripts against their own friends and relatives; but perhaps m closer par allel is to be found in the refusal of a few officers to obey their orders dur ing the taking of the church Invento ries under the church and state sep aration law. Thoao officers were at once arrested and court-martialed. To the general upon whose orders the arrests were made General de GaJ llfet telegraphed: "My heart Is with you; you have done your duty. Dora lex, sed lex." That officers who belong to a nctloa whose sense of discipline is the- ad miration of the French should have tendered their resignations rather than obey orders is regarded as a sign of the extreme gravity of the problem which the Petit Parislen fears may lead to an Irish Vendee. Many Deaths In the Arpa. Fatal Alpine mountain accidents during the year 1913 numbered 118, as compared with 119 In 1912 and 148 In 1911. The causes of the accidents were reported as follows: Avalanche 11; lightning, 6; storm, fog and snow, 6; gathering flowers, unintentional descent from a snow field, 3; slipping on the grass or sod, S; struck by a stone, 8; slipping on a rock, 1; struck by a block of Ice, 1; breaking down of a snow wall, 1; breaking of a rope, 1; slipping on a loose stone, 1; suicide because of loss of way and despair, 1; dizziness, 1; falling over a precipice while hunting, 1; Insufficiently equipped and Insufficiently experi enced in the mountains, 9; no special definite cause given, 69; and disap peared, 1. Among the unfortunates 112 were men, Including i guides and were women. Time for Bird 8tudy. In the last ten years the little com pany of students of bird life has grown into an army. Everywhere the birds are interesting, but not everywhere can they be seen and studied to equal advantage. This month marks the height of the tide of the spring migra tion. The schoolroom has not walls and the sky is Its ceiling. Now Is the time to study. Chicago Post CRIMSON CLOVER Eu;; Mr. V. lieuJture. S. D-pai'mcnt of A;;- A number of ways in v. rich) the early appearance of crimson clover in the spring can be turned to the farmer's advantage are pointed ont i:. a new publication of the United States Depaitment of Agriculture Farmers' Bullttiri. 579, "Crimson Clover Utilization." In the South ern and Central Atlantic States this crop is of particular value. Generallly speaking, it suffers from the severe winters in the North arid from too great dryness west of the Mississippi. Ia Florida, also it has proved less successful than eieewhere. i . i j i I Crimson clover, says the Bulle tin, has two great advantages i It is an excellent fertilizer, and It can be used for pasture and hay before any other green crop is availtibl?, the land then being sown with ar ordinary eummer grown crop. The clover itself can be sown! toward the end of the summer on' land where such late crops as corn or tomatoes are still under cultiva tion. Its use. therefore, does) n interfere with other products and its benefits cost little but the la bor and eeed involved. To obtain the full value of crlm son clover as a fertilizer, the en tire green crop ehould be plowed under, thus adding to the soil a large quantity of nitrogen and musi or decayed vegetable niattt The poorer the land the greater ; the benefit that the succeed i crop derives from this process. A yield of 30 bushels of corn per acre may ordinarily be increased by crimson clover to 45, but on richer nad an Increase) of more than 10 buhls ia uncommon. A convenient method of cultivation is to consider a full crop of crimson tops, about 10 tons an acre, as the clover, weighing, withi rocttl and equivalent of a distribution of S tons of fresh barnyard manure to an acre. In this way the soil is. greatly enriched each year! without interfering in any way with regu lar money crops, such aa cctton, or tomatoes. It 4s, however, by no means nec essary to sacrifice the entire crop of crinisoon clever tioi feittUzing pur . Excellent results can be ob tained by plowtap under merely the roots and stubble. This it is est! matM returns to trie soil 40 per cent as much nitrogen as the green crop. When this is done the clo ver itself can be used eitler for pasture, before the grass ls( suffi ciently far advanced to be avail able, or for hay whichl can be gath ered in time to leave the land free for another crop. Crimson clover Intended for hay must, however, be cut at the right moment, when the most advanced heads are beginning to show fad ed flowers at their base. At this stage the plants1 contain the maxi mum amount of protein and dry matter while the leaves are sVill present and the items comparative ly green. If the harvest is put off the shtrt hairs on the etema and flower heads become dry and stiff. In this stage there is danger that they may form hard, dry! hair balls In the intestinal tracts of horses and mules to which hay is fed. These hair balls, solld,compact, felt-like structures nearly always cause death. Early cutting, how ever, and judicious mixing! with other hay will obviate this) diffi culty, to a greaat extent, and un der any circumtances, cattle are rarelly affected. By dairymen crim son clover hay is considered, a roughage feed fully equal, if not superior to either red or) alslke clover. 1 i For early pasturing crimson clo ver is even more satisfactory, its chief drawback being the limited period in which it can be utilized for this purpose. This period how ever. Is ample to allow, the or dt nary grass pastures' to attain a growth that will increase their carrying ca pacity later on in the season. Af ter the cattle are removed, the un eaten plants and the manure left be bind axe plowed under, the manure. of course, forming a valuable addi tion to the fertllizln effects of the clover. i As pasture, bay or fertilizer, therefore, crimson clover offers it self to farmers at a time when the ordinary summer grown crops are not available, incldentauiy it shou.j be said, this clover is valuable for poultry, j A tubfuU of hand-cropped leaves thrown into the poultry yard will provide the chickens with the best possible green food at a sea son when eggs are ordinarily' high and everything that promotes lay ing ia moat welcome. . Small patches of crimson clover are in fact grown by poultry raisers for this purpose alone. Method of growing the crop, the preparation of the seed bed. and the soils and sections best adapted to tue purpose are discussed in a previous publication of the Depart ment of AgTcuiture. Farmers' Bul letin 650. "Crimson Clover: Grow ing ' the Crop." Both this bulletin and the new bulletin, "Crimson Clo ver; Utilization" will be sent free on request. Worms the Cause of Your Child's Pains. A foul, disagreeable breath, dark circles siround the eye, at times feverish, with great thirst, cheeks flushed and then pale, abdomen swo lea with sharp cramping- pains are ail indications of worms. Don't let your child suffer Kickapoo worm Killer will give sure relief-i-lt kills the worms while its laxative effect adds greatly to the health of your child by removing the dangerous an disagreeable effect of worms rnd parasites from the system. Klckapoo Worm Killer as a health producer should be in every households Per fectly safe. Buy a box today.. Pries 25c. All druggists or by mail. Klckapoo Indilan Med. Co., PhilaJ. or St. Louie. NEW POWER PLANT Messrs. S. J. Pmitlierman and J. C Hurlev are putting in another Hi iw er Dlant on Little rivtr a few uiilen sjuth of the plant put In last vtar at the old burned iactory seat They are putting in a strong concrete dam and wilH raise a pond that will produce several hundred horsepower. The plant wiMi be vsui in connection with the one now in fioeration to make ellectricity for use sat Mt. Gllead. rThe Smither man Cottcm Mill! is run almcst ex clusively by electricity these days. The Troy Roller Mill uses th's power and the knitting milll that is being built will also use it. They have put in a very large i stam Ulant at the upper plant that is used to keep the dynamos going when the water gets low. It I cheaper to make eteam at the power plant than' atf Trey. The excellent dam. race and fp ill way tail race cost these gentlemen lit of money, net to mention the jiower plant, both electric and steam TOe tail race which carries the wa ter from the wheels back into the river. below the plant, wasl cut through hard rock and cost thou sands- of dollars. It appears to be a nuarter or half mile long; the uper end of tie race where it leaves the wheels is bed:.w the bed of theriver nearby. At tfcto point the river faille more rapidly than the race th8t the race by being cut lwer and long coming back into the river at a greater distance down the stream increases the heatf f water on the wheel which means Increased nower. It is said that the lower plant now being constructed will net be so expensive to build anl will furn ish as much or more power. JHont gonierian. Aajed Printer is Dead. : Joseph Ulrich. an old-time print er, enmloved by Horace Greeiy at the founding of the New York in bune. died recently in San Antonio, Texas, at the age 'df 95, During the Civil War Mr. Ulrich was Unit ed States consul at Monterey, Mex ico. Soon after the New York Tribune was founded, Mr. Ulrich was made foreman of the composing room and he attributed his promotion to the fact that he could read Horace Greeley's writing. Garland A. Blair. Garland A. Hair, one of the own ers o the Newst-Miner, was killed in an automobile accident about 3 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. He was almost instantly kiMed by be ing pinned under the overturned machine. ' He was a Southerner and was born in Asheboro, N. C, in 1882. He was a newspaper man of wide experience, having served as adver tising manager of the State Capital, Guthrie. Okla , The Oklahoman of Oklahoma. City, and other Southern papers. For cne year Mr. Blair and his brother. Coltert. conducted the El Reno American (Okla.) Be fore coming to Republic Mr. Blair was traveling representative.' of the Hudson Printing Co. of Kansas City Mo; C. A., as he was known to his intimates, came to Republic In 1910 He quickly made a place for him self in the community. He wsb a genial spirit and took a lively In terest in alll local affairs. At the time of his death he was chairman o the Republican county central committee. An honest, honorabl andcapable young man. hla death came as a shock to his many friend The tall, athletic figure of a loved husband, a devoted brother and a valued friend, will bel missed) in this office for many a day. 'Repub lic News-Miner. Ciet l4id of Your IinSnaUwm. Now is the time to get rid of your rheumatism. You can do it if you apply Chamberlain'el Liniment. W. A Lockhart, Homer City, N. Y.. writes. "Last spring I surterea from rheumatim with terrible pains In my arms and shoulders. I get a bottle of Chamberlain's; Liniment and the first application relieved me. By using one bottle of it I was entirely cured.". For sale by aH druggists. I President Wilson to Address Women of the Confederacy in Raleigh. President Wilson has promised to attend the unveiling of the monument to the Confederate women of North Carolina, in Raleigh, next month. The monument is the put or the late ioi. Ashley Home of Clayton. Never before has a president or tne United States been present on a sim ilar occasion in the South. City's Rihgts Ssmejas One Man's. A bank failed in the panic of 1907, Among its depositors was the city of New York. The courts havo taken nearly seven years to decide that the city has no more rights than . any private depositor, in recovering Its money. The city claimed as a part or tne State of New York it was a soverelam and entitled to be preferred over the other creditors. The Supreme Court decides that the city is not a sever eign to that extent. A. W Cline Become Associated With W. C. Hammer. Newton, May 25. Mr. A.WX3lne, a Catawba county boy, who Is wel known in newsnaneii circles throughout the Otate, and who has many inenae nere, wnere ne was formerly local! editor of The Ca tawba County News, has accepted a position as associate editor of The Asheboro Courier, the paper owned by Mr. .W C. Hammer, now district attorney for the Western North Carolina DUtrlct. He will go to Asheboro this week to take charge. For the past two months he has held a position with The Raleigh News and. Observer. Charlcttet Ob server. M I ' ! I ! I f 'I MEDIATORS PROGRESSING News comes from Niagara that sub stantial agreement has been reached in many of the main points involved by the American and Mexican dele gates. It is hoped that the entire mat ter will be adjusted before the Con stitutionalist army ran reach Mexico City. What Are Your tftikk-cm Rraritag? One of the greatest things that can come to the growing b-y or sirl is a desire for wholesome read inigr matter; and. once this desire created, it is a sacred duty, to see that only the be?t i8 furnish ed the child. In thf day of lit erary trasih and dirt this is not easy. Many publishing- houses are perpetrating stuff on the publio than s liquid be barred from the lails atuff the very cheapness of hSch makes it all the more likely fall into the hands of the book- ir,Ery boy and girlJ Niw by good literature we do lot necessarily mean the ponderous c'assdes. the slowness tf Dickens and Thackeray, or the tediousnee of others foi whose workfe a t'te must be acquired. The boy of the present day is normally a creature of red blood, and his literary f iod must abound In action and "got." anything else he Is apt to re?ard as "medicine," and he is likely to oop upon it and take it a such inly when he has to. The first es sential in creating a desire for good literature is interest -gripping lterest from beinning t" end. Given a good, clean story, fulll of wholesome adventure, and the farm bov will read It with delight and beg for more. Henceforth the prob lem is not how to get the boy to read, but how to direct his reading that interest may be sustained, that nothing unclean may come in hid way. and that gradually there nay De created a taste for the more difficult, but at the same time thougl t-etiinulatin?. workw that stand among the world's best literature. Progressive Farmer. IiHligecrtiflin md OntuMtipatkn. "About five years ago I bezan taking Chamberlain's tablets after suffering from Indigestion and con stipation for years without finding anything to relieve me. Chamber lain Tablets helped me at once, by using them for several weeks I was cured of the complaint." writes Mrs. Mary E. McMullen. (Phelps, N. Y. For sale by all druggists. The "River of Doubt" Col. Rooesvelt was made angry by Sir Clements Markam's published doubts about the river discovered by colonel Kooseveit in Brazil. At Barbadoes, where he stopped on his way home, the Colonel declared with all his old-time emphasis that he would prove every statement he had made. "One might as well doubt the existence of the Hudson river, or the Rhine, or the Rhone," he said. newspapers here and in Eurone have printed many columns of arti cles, some attacking and some de fending Col. Roosevelt's claim. Thus the "River of Doubt" seems rather likely to become a river of ink. Per An Impnired Appetite. To imurove thA annU.a Anr! strengthen the digestion try a few doses of Chamberlain's Tablets. I Mr. J. H. Seitz ctf Detriot. Mloh s- "They restored my appetite; when impaired, relieved nut nr Kiruit feeling- and caused a pleasant and satisfactory movement of the bow- w . x or saie oy ail druggists. TyroIejuK Alpine; raiders. One of the musinal sUrwiUm scheduled to appear at the local Chautauaua which and continues seven days, is the company of Yodlers which gained1 so much notoriety; fromj Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan last summer. Sec retary Bryan appeared on the Chau tauqua platform for falsi lecture Immediately . folBowing thel con cert. The "yellow" MmminM the country tried to use this to mane capuaii against) Mr. Bryan. Their efforts merely resulted! ia greater fame tinth fp n.. the YodHers. The Tyrollean Alpine x outers were aseemoBedj from amjsng the best singers in Switzerland, ee- jwHuiiy ior a production at the New York Htpodrome, catted) "Trio Around) the World." This was on of the biggest snccesBes ion that great theatre, famous for its suc cesses. The Yodlers. In the Alps jscene. were most enthnstaetlcally re ueivea. Notice Ibf Hand Sale X'ndar Mt-t- a. By virtue nf th In the undersigned by that certain mortffSKa dtA mirin ivo- DaU. .Walker to S. H. Carter on the 21ts aay or January, 1911, and recorded In the offices of the Register? of ueeas or Randolph county In Book 19, page 28. I will sell at public auction for cash at the court house door In aA&heboro, N. C. .on the 30th dav of unna. un. . io o'clock M., the following lands ly. H5 in hbw wope townsnip, Ran dolph! county, North Carolina, and bounded aa follow nw1t.: nAn. nlng at a stake, corner Thos. IN ius ime. running south 72 deg. east 9.94 chs. to a nost oak! thon. north 2 deg. east 10.40 chs. to stake In Miller's line; thence north 80 deg. west 9.94 chs to a stake. Cnrnni" Thlna TfllTi'a lln.. jsouth to the ""beginning, containing xv acres, more or, legs. . This mortgage deed contained a Dower tit a.1a aiithvrix1mr i .. del-signed to sell said lands In event oi aeiauit neing made In the pay ment of the lndahtorin o2a baohm by said mortgage deed, said default naving neen maae, this sale is ac cordingly made tinder said power, i This May 28, 1914. ' 8. H. CARTER, J ! 1 ' Mortgagee.
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