North Carolina Newspapers

PAGE FOUR rSeConcord Daily Tribune | 3. B. SHERRILL Editor and Publisher W. M. SHERRILL, Associate Editor MEMBER OF THE j ASSOCIATED PRESS • Tfce Associated Press is exclusively 1 entitled to the use for republication of ell news credited to it or not otherwise Credited in this paper end also the lo eal news published herein. All rights of replication of spec ial dispatches herein are also reserved. Special Representative FROST, LANDIS St KOHN 225 Fifth Avenue, New York Feop lea’ Oas Building, Chicago 1004 Candler Building, Atlanta Entered as second class mail matter at the postoffice at Concord, N. C., un der the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES In the City of Concord by Carrier: One Year $6.00 Six Months 3.00 Three Months 1.50 One Month .50 Outside of the State the Subscription Is the Same as in the City Out of the city and by mail in North Carolina the following prices will pre vail: One Year $5.00 Six Months 2.50 * Three Months 1.25 Less Than Three Months, 60 Cents a Month All Subscriptions Must Be Paid in Advance i„,, RAILROAD SCHEDULE N: ‘ln" Effect Nov. 29, 1925. Northbound 1 No. 40 To New York 9 :28 P. M. No. 136 To Washington 5:05 A. M. No. 36 To New York 10:25 A. M. NO, 34 To New York 4:43 P. M. Nj». 46 To Danville 3 :15 P. M. No. 12 To Richmond 7 :10 P. M. No. 32 To New York 9 :03 P. M. No. 30 To New York 1:55 A. M. Southbound No. 45 To Chhrlotte 3:55 P. M. . No. ,35 To New Orleans 9:56 P. M. No. 29 To Birmingham 2 :35 A. M. No. 31 To Augusta 5:51 A. M. No. 33 To New Orleans 8:25 A. M. No. ll„To Charlotte 8:05 A. M. No. 135 To Atlanta 8:35 P. M. No. 39 To Atlanta 9:50 A. M. No. 37 To New Orleans 10.15 A. M. Train No. 34 will stop in Concord to take on passengers going to Wash ington and beyond. Train No. 37 will stop here to dis charge passengers coming from be yond Washington. All trains stop in Concord except No. 38 northbound. I M —FOR. TODAY—I I|| Bible Thoughts memorized, will prove a |MJ IBi nriceless heritage in alter years jgj DO GOOD TO ALL MENLet us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we fain not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men. especial ly unto them who are of the house hold of faith.—Galatians 6:0. 10. PREDICTS GOOD BUSINESS IN 1926. The Alexander Hamilton Institutes* an agency which keeps accurate tab on the business pulse of the nation, feels that the new year will see a continuation of good business in the United States. In *some lines bus ; - neess should be better, say officials of the Institute who have made a thor ough study of all factors that enter into general business conditions. According to this authority the fao * tor* which are favorable to a contin uation of good business during 10*26 are the following: 1. The credit of the Federal Re serve Banks is njrt over-extended. 2. Merchandise inventories and mercantile credits are generally heal thy. 3. . Prices of building materials have not increased much during 1025. 4. Building contracts are large enough to insure a continuation of ac tivity for some months to come. 5. The large corn and cotton 'grops form a back-lot to prosperity. « Aa onn „t o transportation facili pS3 |HfiUT3 prompt deliveries, a fac tor in Keeping the merchandise sit uation liquid. 7. Railway buying will be up to average or better. 8. The just attitude of the Com meree Commission insures stability in ra i 1 wa yNfi nances. 0. Confidence in the Coolidge Ad ministration and Congress makes for optimism in business. 10. The Locarno Treaty indicates a constructive trend in Europe. There are some unfavorable factors which will act as a drag on further expansion. Some of these are as fol lows : 1. Loans against realty mortgages and stock exchange securities are un usually large. 2. Some localities are adversely af fected by the small wheat crop and the reduced prices of corn and cotton. 3. The cost of living has increased moderately in 11)26; a further in crease in 11)26 would be reflected in a higher cost of doing business and de mands for wage increases and strides. 4. Rates on time loans (stock ex change) have risen from 3 1-2 to 5 per cent, during the past year. MAKING FINE RECORD. No Suiierior Court Judge in North Carolina is performing his duties more satisfactorily than Judge John M. Oglesby, of Concord. Judge Oglesby has just completed a six months’ stay in the 19th district, moot of his time being spent in Asherifle, and the large number of cases disposed of and the fafr apifealK taken* from his decisions tjeli the stoi-y of the efficiency and judi cial teifc|>esament he has displayed. Mfn 'Jtidffc 1 Oglesby has been a big factor In clearing up « civil dock jj| *t in Buncombe and on two occasions |, records for the county in the mina | , ber of cases disposed -of within a Week’s time. He has not resorted to night sessions; rather he has kept the court functioning without interrup t tions and long debates throughout each | day. I Six appeals were sent to the | preme Court from decisions made by \ Judge Oglesby and in five of them he was sustained. The outcome of ap peals does not necessarily determine the worth of a judge but just the same it speaks well of the ability of Judge Oglesby to know that he was sustain ed in five of his six appeals during his first six months on the bench. Judgfe Oglesby bids fair to become one of the most prominent and most successful of the Superior Court Judges in North Carolina. It is understood that the Concord Ministerial Association is discussing 1 plans for the formation of an organi zation in Concord whose duties shall j , be to see that all needy persons are' cared for. Suggestion was made in this paper several days ago that such an organization should be put to work here and we feel certain that the ministers will follow their plans in 1 such a manner that a very efficient organization will soon be functioning here. ..» ; t - THROWS GASOLINE ON SLUGGISH BLAZE i But For Wife Old Negro Probably Would Have Perished. Statesville, Dec. 31.—John Scott, negro, bad an intensely exerting ex perience while starting a fire vrith a mixture of gasoline and kerosene- Had his wife not dashed a fuR bucket of ice-cold water on her hus band he would not have lived to tell the tale. It was about 5 o’clock in the morning, with the thermometer hov ering close to the zero mark. The fire in this modest domicile was burning sluggishly and realizing that it needed added stimulation. Scott reached back in the corner for the can which ordinarly contained kerosene and emptied norae of the contents into the smouldering fire. The blaze followed the can and a ter rific explosion was the instantaneous result. Scott’s clothing was instantly ablaze but the presence of mind of his spouse, who was seated by his side, inthrowing a big bucket of ice water on him quickly extinguished the flames. The physician who was called later in the morning found the negro suffering from a few severe burns and from the shock of having frozen clothing next to his body. The negro is unable to say which is worse, the burns or having his only shirt, rigid with ice. in contact with his body and not enough warmth in the room to thaw it out. RABBI AT GREENSBORO ACCEPTS CHRIST AS MAN But Declares Belief That He is Sou of God Only in Sense All Men Are Soi» of God. Greensboro, Dec- 31.—Rabbi Mil ton Ellis, of the Reformed Jewiflfr congregation here, preaching in Tem ple Emanuel tonight, declared that all Reformed Jews are thoroughly in sympathy with the * declaration of Stephen R. Wise, of New York, who lately stirred the religious world by his announced acceptance of Jesns a* a man. “We do not accept him as Christ.” the Rabbi said, “but as one of the great line of prophets, the Sonof God as their lives reveal God like at tributes. We accept Jesns as a man.” Rabbi Ellis is a cember of the Greensboro Ministerial association, composed of tlie Protestant ministers. Catholic priest and himself. He late ly had a Presbyterian minister of the city to speak in the synogogue pul pit. Post and Flagg’s Cotton Letter. New York. Dec. 31.—After a brief show of activity in the £arly trading the market lapsed into the usual perfunctory affair prior V to a holiday i>eriod and fluctuations were in miniature- A better demand at a sharply higher basis is reported for low grades in the southwest where merchants are said to have sold cot ton of that type but with good staple to the mills in rather large quantity and to the finding now that ideas as to price are stiffening in the interior as demand to fill such engagements comes into competition with that from merchants and others for in vestment purposes. A large public short interest is be lieved to exist and the situation among mil's though probably not uniformly satisfactory i« about the best for a 1 ng time with the outlook for the future A steady demand for seems to be in sore which might be comt urgent if bluyers of goods should find it essential to increase their puchases for later deliveries. No important accumulations of cither goods or raw material are thought to exist and consumption is steadily working back to what would now be normal but for the interrup tion by the was. POST AND FLAGG. Wright to Serve Again as an Emerg ency Judge. Raleigh, Dec. 31-—R. Lee WrigTiY of Salisbury, was again called upon by Governor McLean today so act in the capacity of an emergency judge. He will hoW a two weeks’ civil term in Surry county m lieu of Judge James L. Webb, who ran into con flicting court engagements. ll»* Sur ry term begins January 11, and Judge Webb’s schedule for the en suing f wo weeks taken him to Forsyth superior court for the first week and Rockingham the second, Mr. Wright, who is widely kmrtyn as an attorney, nerved first *n art judge several weeks ago. Big Girins In Clegrlngs of Charlotte Banka. Charlotte, Dfcc. 31. bank clearings during 1025 totalled $836,160,186.14 compared with $41)0,- 526,604.88 in 1024.. the Charlotte clearing bouse association reported today. • A Year Os Interesting Centenaries I \ - —e—'— New . York. ) Deo. 31.—The year i about to begin will be marked by many interesting centenaries, .both in * America and in Eqrope. A .century ; ago both continents were emerging upon a marvelous era of industrial ex ! pansion, due to the birth of the steam ' railways and the invention of labor ' saving machinery. The year 1826 ' also was marked by notable progress t in science, Hie arts and literature. The people of the United States , commemorated the semi-centennial of their Independence. The Fourth of July, the great day of eelebration, be ' came noted in American history by the simultaneous death of two pa triots and former Presidents, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, In the annals of the American [ stage the year 1826 is remembered , for the first appearance of the three ' great actors, Edwin Forrest, William | O. Macrendy fend James H. Hackett. I Cooper brought out his “Last of the Mohicans," and James Kent pub -1 lished his “Commentaries on Ameri i can Law." In England, arts and let ters flourished in the same degree, j Scott and Coleridge were at the height of their fame. Alfred Tennyson pub lished his earliest verses in conjunc tion with his brother; Elisabeth Bar rett also brought out her first poems, and Macaulay was adding to his fame with his essays. | The first railway in the United ; States, a horse power line three miles | long, was completed at Quincy, Mass., for carrying granite to tide-water, j Western Reserve College was found- i ed in 1826. and the state libraries of Massachusetts and Maryland came in- j to existence the same year. The first large suspension bridge in the world : was opened across the Menai Straits. ! The Society of the War of 1812 was organized in New York City. A charter was granted for the Mohawk r—waa——i^— WEEKLY COTTON REVIEW TODAY’S EVENTS New York. Dec. 31.—The cotton Friday, January 1, 1926 market has been higher during the A Happy New Year to All! past week. The prompt stopping of The 20tli century today enters up the first January notices just before ou its second quarter. Christmas day evidently started a eov- Beginning of the Sesquitennia! year ering movement in the near month, of American independence. . These first January notices repre-1 Henri Haeberlin today takes office sented practically the entire local as President of the Swiss Confedera r stock of government classed cotton tion. i a,l( l ‘be market acted as if the sup- James Walker will be installed to . plies attracted here from the South day as mayor of New York, in sne for delivery during December had not cession to John F. Hylan. been sufficient to protect the short This is the date for the municipal ' hedges in the January and March po- elections in many of the principal , sitions. At any rate, there was lie- cities of Ontario. : tive buying of these months either to For the thirty-seventh successive cover short contracts or . transfer year Pasadena today will stage its I hedges to the later delivery and the | New Year carnival known as the advance was led by January con- Tournament of Roses. I tracts which sold up to 20.20 on Wed- One hundred and fifty years ago nesday or 190 points above the low j today the first flag bearing 13 red level of the previous week. Later ami white stripes was raised over months were held back by selling American headquarters in Cambridge, against near months purchases, blit Mass 1 ’l'q « dv « n 7 Witt i A consolidation of the Florida cities L'. , of Dayton*. Daytona fleach. ami ; : < , ° r,, ' bpr S«breeze, under the name of Dnftona las, w-eek m m iß 45 At '"V ' 1W '’ is * «*">* <*"4 today.- \t, k h * ure * I The President and Mrs. Coolidge the advance was cheeked by realizing • wi „ thp WMt( . H nu*e to , hp but the offerings were absorbed on ii( , today for , hp eustomary New comparatively moderate reactions and j Year's reception. . the market showed a generally steady } Thousands of visitors will throng S un dertone as if in anticipation of Philadelphia today to witness the an expandihg trade early in the new year. | nual Mummers' Parade, a New- Year Reports received here at a conference | pageant peculiar to that city, of British cotton trade Interests in Many noted educators have been Manchester had agreed tliat continued ! invited to Coral Gables. Fla., today . curtailment of yarn production in the to attned th’e laying of the foundation . American section of Lancashire was stone for the $25,000,000 University I necessary and the only method by of Miami. which satisfactory yarn prices could - be maintained, bad a momentary un- —_ * 1 settling efferent on sentiment These Liberty Bell Rings Out the Old 1 , advices, however, Yesr at Midnight. h'mill ‘TTT " Philadelphia. Jan. 1.-The Liberty Bntmh mills white the mar, bell at midnight tonight was succeed ket held steady and there was a feel- f„]i T rt , njt f „ r the first time in , l() , nig here that the tone of the Man- yea Microphones, radio amplifier* Chester news might improve materi- and broadcasting stations carried the ally should the demand for goods in- tones throughout the United States crease after the turn of the year. Struck by a gold hammer in the Ihe figures publisltffl by the depart- hands of Mrs. W. Freeland Kendrick 1,1011 1 of commerce on world crops wife of Philadelphia's mayor, the bell’ showed rather a smaller yield prospect announced the beginning of the new for India than previously expected year ami the dawn of Philadelphia's arid ts anything seemed to help the sesqui-centemiial celebration. the tone of the market whitfi was also reverberations were p’ainly audible influenced by the apparent failure of to the crowds on the streets several the advances here to bring in in- blocks away, creased offerings from the south.— „ . . , " - ” ' Durham Second Place. Mairt i Ice-Rnuirt For Past Three Durham in. , , . , y, avs Durham. Dec. ,41.—A report just Elizabeth City. I)et-, 31—The town “*** by ~ ho <l<‘!>arts*nt of federal of Manteo, 59 miles from here, ha" [,7*% ifc' Du^ m «* been ice bound for the past three H f ua " o,u * l days, ail mails and commerce of 21“ ,mr : every sort being held up. All com- f ,,, b -' sap or,wi meree between the island and the 7eedT’ S , i"" mainland is carried on regularly bv " iy , Winston-Salem in boat and Abe ice has made the only £ “'T"’/,". denvfa ‘ means of transportation impossible.' th * S " V ot : ' ,haco<> stanips ' ... After a hundred years of existence Many persons In Australia have ,he town of Oxford. Ga„ recently re never seen snow. /ported its first hold-up. Three Firemen at Lexington Are Killed Answering False Alarm Lexingtrn. Jan. I.—The new year i truck which tras running at u ld-h brought death ami sorrow into Lex- rate of speed, probably 50 miles ingtoli at midnight tonight when one hour. of the town's 'tire true** struck the _ Answering False Alarm, rear fender of an autlmobile and' ~, , -.-, . , .. .. turned over three times' Three ffre- Y ™ f-« m.n,.,es before the New men are dead and three are injured. 7 ***** a f m * The dead are- . turned in. Truck No. 2 of i Doug <\ (’ope/ 50 years old Mi» section, answered ,11,* Ed Cope, about 25. son of Doug C ? ,, ' ,nd w “ , down Main strict, (• 0 . )0 * As It reached Tfurd avenue the truch Howard Michael. 30. T."" anton ‘' l : Thp itMiirpri * - aritWfc by J. H. Thoraiwon. <yf HenryC’ Gibson fexingten. The machine veered and Henry Yarborough. ' I "'” " ,rn " l fl ’ r '‘ > t ""™' Kfley Cope, also son of Dong O. ' Crtpr. Thoirtpson is not held respod| Ihmg C. Cope was instantly killed for I|he »<’<'i‘l<’nt, authorities he while Ed Cope ami Michael died wa,i unayoidnble. Officer* shortly after they were removed to Hri ‘ ma binf an investigatioii to leara fin* M*vj«l*on, hospital. " ho ‘be parties are. who turned ia Gibsom Is painfully hurt. A nmn ; ,bp alarms, ber of hi* teeth were knocked out. Ihiug O. Hope leaves a wife and a and he suffered other injuries. uoinhef of .rtWWfen. p Michael is p!s« Yarborough is batliy eliqrt. and i, iiy survived hF a wife gtid several chil* die before woruing. ’• It is Ulieved dren.i ‘ | that hen* stiffertng interim! injnrfcx. News of the tragedy spread- rapidl* . -“i.ey ( ope, another son of Doug G. throughout the town, and in a few t ope, was thrown free of the (Wreck- moments a large crowd had gathered' a«e. He was given medical attention, at the scene of Ihe catastrophe. Man* Wit his hnrts are of a minor mittire, people Were up to celebrate the entrV Henry Yarborough was driving the of the New Year. j V \ > M: . IRB CONCOftfc BAtLY TfttßUNfi Hudson railroad, file first link in tlie New* York Central system. Kero- 1 sene was first used for Hluminatlng j imrposes. Nafhrille became, the cap ital of Tennessee. Throughout the greater part o?the' year 1826 Brazil and Argentina waged a war for the possession of Uruguay. The military ambitiorte of Nicholas 1., the new Czar of Russia, found vent in a war of conquest in Per sia. In the domain of science. Thomas Drummond perfected his limelight, Hersqhel worked out his spectrum analysis, and Fox Talbot contributed his tfhare by his observation of the orange line of strontium. It was during this year also that John Walk er perfected his invention of friction matches. The first overland party was led to California by the trapper Jedfdiah S. Smith. The Christian 'Advocate, the first weekly publication under the patronage of the Methodist Church, was founded. Tfie socialistic colony of New Harmony, in Indiana, was founded by Robert Owen and his as sociates. One of the sensations of the year was the strange case of William Morgan, which gave rise to the for mation of Anti-Masonic party. In the early part of 1826 Morgan and an associate in Batavia. announced an exposure of Freeinason j ry. Before the book was produced Morgan was arrested for a trifling | debt and confined in Canandaigua | jail, from whence he was secretly i taken on the night of September 12tii 1 to Fort Niagara, at the mouth of the Niagara River, and was never beard :of afterwards. Intense feeling was i aroused throughout the entire coun try. An earnest attempt was made to discover the perpetrators, but with out success. Copyright 1924-25, P. P. Collier 4b S6n Co. and G. P. Putnam’s Sons -BOBBBD HAIB” with Marie Provost Is a ptcterUatlon of this story by Warner Bros. Pictures, Ine. SYNOPSIS Connemara Moore has swam to shore from a yacht in Long Island Sound. Bugle, a faithful dog, accom panied her. Bugle disappeared from the beach and returned bearing a , man’s oilskin coat, which Connie was : glad enough to put on. Then the 'dog reappeared bearing a package con taining $50,000, which the mysterious Pooch gave her the nighs before, but which she induced David Lacy to take. And now Lacy himself suddenly pre sents himself. Connie was much in the ■ompany of rum-runners or revenue officers —she doesn’t know which—last sight. CHAPTER XlV—Continued “If I have the strength*” repeat ed Connemara. “You are not sug gesting walking, are you? Isn't there a team or a car we can use?” And the tone brought tears to La cy’s eyes. “Not a chance. I’m sorry, but it’s walk or stay here.” “All right,” Connemara sighed, “I suppose I'll be warmer walking, anyway. Just turn your back untjl I get this sailor's kimono draped around me—and by the way, I sup pose this is yours.” \ Lacy blushed, although, of course, Connemara couldn't see him. He was rather nicely ingenuous at times for so experienced a young man. Finally Connemara was as well draped as she could be. “All right,” she called. “I guess tins will'do. [’ll make you walk ahead of me, end that will give me a little bit more privacy.” “Do you think you’ll be able to And »o they started on their jour ney. Bugle at their heels. , walk five miles in those?” he asked, pointing to her muddy little silver slippers. j “Why not? I've danced more than twice that number and never thought much about it. If I can’t stand them I can take them off, or it least the heels.- Come on.” And so they started on their jour ney, Bugle at their heels, Connema ra mincing along in her little high* heeled slippers, the slicker slapping at her legs like a wet sail, the once carefully wound and jaunty turban now slipped rakishly over to the side of her head, damp and grimy. And Lacy—the always immaculate Lacy, looking like nothing an outfit ter of class would use as an ad for “the well-dressed man”—strode on in front, forging ahead one moment and then, as Connemara called out to him, shortening his stride to keep one respectful pace ahead of her. As they trudged along, Connema ra told her experiences and how she and McTish went over the side of \*he boat, and Lacy recounted the last dive of the Bloody Nuisance and the capture of the Filomena and her company. "I got away because they thought I Was knocked up so badly there wasn’t any watching me,” he wound up. “Do' you believe that Aunt Celi mena’s in danger?” Connemara ask ed anxiously. “Well, of course, she has been safer,” he admitted, “but there has been a split in policy between our friend Pooch and the Swede, so I fancy for the present—till tonight, anyhow, Jlhey won’t take any defi nite steps one way or the other.” Now they walked in silence. Lacy had led the way along the fxjach in stead of taking the road, and they had come to a stretch of hard sand where they were able to synchro nise their gait a little better. Conne mara even drer/ level with Lacy and, slipping her ann through his, allowed herself to be almost towed. Roads Do For a State. The Birmingham Age-Herakl un dertakes to put succinctly the value of good roads to a state by drawing a comparison of what has happened in Njartfi Caro linn and-in Alabama re- Sp&firely: within tie l*xtfew year*. In 1920 Alabama and'North Caro lina began State .'highway construc tion. dn 1920 Alabama realty valuations were .$(570,178. North Carolina's W*UlO. In 1924 Alabama realty valuations "There - ' is -something 1 want M i! » ask you,” she said gravely. “Why i did you send me that money by j - Bugle? You’re not sure even now || i whether I am a crook or ndt, ar« ,! i you?” And then, as Lacy tried to 1 i stutter a reply, she continued: “Oh, |i i you needn’t protest, it doesn't mat- ! - ter—but feeling that way I’d like toj i know why you gave up the money. - , < “By the way, where is it?” h* . evaded. ( “That’s tpy secret and Bugle’s,” |' , said Connemara, and she turned to ' \ , call Bugle but he had disappeared. 1 He may have felt that with Lacy’s | appearance his responsibility was at ' an end, and had quietly melted out ] of the picture like the gentleman hs 1 was. Maybe he had gone back t« i guard the treasure, or maybe h' ' I just had a date somewhere. What ever it was his doggish fancy had I turned to, he most certainly was no where to be seen. “Bugle’s gone,” wailed Conne mara i “He's all right,” assured Lacy, t, 1 “Don’t worry about him, he'll turn j ' up some time.” “I hope so. I never had a chance to really thank him for all he.did for ■ me. I don’t want him to think mo ungrateful.” “I’ll explain .it to him when I see him,” said Lacy with a little laugh. That laugh was his mistake, for it brought Connemara right back to her topic. Too many men have made the mistake of laughing and appear ing as ease when they thought they had a woman sidetracked from a topic, particularly when a woman develops a one-track mind. “You haven’t answered my ques tion. Why did you give up the i money?” “Well,” he faltered, "I am rather \ given to doing impulsive things. You can understand the feeling bet ter than anyone. I should say. You know what the feeling is when ” j “You're wandering,” she warned. ] “Well, I'm puzzled about you— 1 curious—so when Bugle came back i to me after taking you the slicker, j I staged a little experiment that i ought to givj me (he answer to the J puzzle of you.” ( “Go on,” Connemara commanded, i “Well, you sec”—Ljfcy was speak- , ing very slowly and accusingly now —“I half believe you're that girl I met at Auteuil only— Well, it’s all very confusing and improbable —all the Pooch and Sweetie and. Doc business and their being so chummy with you, and especially handing over all that money to you. ' Oh, 1 feel like a rotter even saying this to yon,” he interrupted himself to exclaim in very real distress. “So, thinking I am a crook, you sent the fifty thousand back to me. , It was nice and generous of you— , but why?” “I told'you I was ipipulsive.” “I should say so —fifty thousand dollars'!” “And yet there was a thought ■ back of it all,” he werit on. “If you really were the girl of Auteuil, ’ was safe, wasn't I? And if you "were mixed up with that gang against your will, there was a nice tidy little ■ sum of money that you probably had as much right to as any of the rest of the gang. Anyway, it gave ■ you a chance to break away, go somewhere and ” ( “Start all over again.” Connemara finished for him. “Yes, for an im pulsive act, it was very well thought j 1 out. Well, let's see how it works.” Sometimes the beach became very rocky, and thdn Lacy would turn : to help her.s At times she accepted his assistance and at others would draw herself up haughtily and wait for him to walk on. By the time they had reached their journey’s end she would gladly have allowed him to carry her. Lacy’s house was one of those old. fashioned houses which have been I remodelled, and about which one is supposed to keep saying “How • quaint 1” Connemara eventually ran out of “How quaints.” Yet it real- , ly was a picture, set in a little grove of pines which must have helped to , make it nice and damp at times, but provided, a charming background. However, pictures meant nothing to Connemara at this time, and La- j cy was sensible enough to realize j* the fact. "The first thing you’ll want is a I, change Os clothes and then a piping 1 hot breakfast, and there, waiting for us, is the person who can furnish , them i ' (To be cootiwted) ( ..77. / . 5g "ere $648,274.370,, North Carolina's $1,672.0 U),000. 1 Because of efficient highway admin istration, North ' Carolina increased her real wealth more than a billion j Hollars, or almost four times in fonr J ynprs. , In?,the same period, because of imjfficient tnghway adbiilnistratfon, Alabama's real wealth declined $27,- (100,000. A_ woman wonlil sooner weaV a new hat that doesn't snit her than an old hat that does. ■ i, ... - a OOOOOOOOOOOOOQOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCAMBJIUBXJOIIIMIINNMIJ BELL-HARRIS FURNITURE CO. J As the year is drawing to a . 1 close, we want to thank you, f 1 one and all for the splendid trade given us during the | year and hope that you have | had as prosperous a year as ~ 1 | we have had. 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