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I WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 17 [
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Prrsidi nt Coclidge’s Millionaire Cabi
net.
K. C. Christian Advocate.
| President Uoolidge inherited a mil
lionaire cabinet, says The National
Methodist Press. Secretary Mellon
jio reputed to be worth over $100,000,-
000. He himself only estimates his
"wealth while some compute it to be
'as high as $600,000,000. Secretary
ranks next, but he is not
ternrly so wealthy as the secretary of
tho treasury. Mr. Hoover has been
gl mining engineer, has lost one for
tune and made a second one, at the
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[ same time finding time to do much ]
humanitarian service. The other
I millionaire members of the cabinet
I are Secretary of State Kollogg, Secre
tary of Labor Davis and Secretary of
Interior Work. Before his recent
resignation, Secretary of War Weeks
made the sixth of ten cabinet mem
bers who are reputed to posses# over
a million each. One wonders if
. President Coolulge feels at home in
l this company, for doubtless this thrif
i ty little Yankee has no more than the
least wealthy of his cabinet. How- 1
ever, his biography records him as
I president of the Nonntuek Savings
Hank of the little town of Northamp
ton. Mass’., so he must know how the
accumulated savings of the people
look.
The idea of immortalizing the
‘‘Unknown Solider." adopted by the
United States. Great Britain.
France, Italy arfd Belgium, is said to
have been conceived firnt by Proses
. sor Santino, an Italian sculpt<u\
Employment is nature’s physician,
and is essential to human happiness.
THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
“I PLANNED XO MURDER MY HUSBAND”
Wofhan Writer Tells of Strange Emotional Experience
in New Book of Real Life Stories
; “In a hundred ways and places I
killed my husband. ...”
The woman who had this strange
psychological experience is Edwin*.
Levin MacDonald. Having married,
at a very tender age. a divorced man
of Latin descent and characteristical
ly uneven temper, soon became
frantic, she declares, at his affection
ate references to his first wife.
“So wretched had T become.*’ he
writes, “that 1 would have left him,
but my father had died since my mar
riage. and it was discovered that he
had left barely enough to take (‘are
of my mother.
“In addition to this I was to have
a child.
“Humiliation and bitterness walked
with me constantly. I was in a
dungeon from which my husband's
deaths alone could set me free. He
was responsible for my incarceration.
He was responsible for my multiplied
helplessness. Thus the desire Mr his
death was born}
“My imagination took hold of the
! thought in horrible fascination.’ I
| would set the stage—our bedroom,
! some night when he would be watch
ing me brush out my hair. I would
tell him what he had done to me.
My bottled bitterness l*d pour out on
him in blessed relief. Then 1 would
take a revolver from the dressing
table drawer and kill him.
Like a Horrible Dream
“Not until 1 had Completed the hor
ried scene of screaming servants,
crowding neighbors and Howard'* oof- i
fin being carried out. would by calm
desert me. Then I would seem to!
come awake from a horrible dream. A
shivering terror of myself would sweep
over Hie. but leaving me weak and
incapable of motion for minute?? to-]
get her.
“Then perhaps at my own table, in
the presence of my guests, I would
find myself rising in imagination,
pouring out my accusations and stab-
SLMMOXS FIGHTS
TAX ON ESTATES
Shows Norris Amendment Most
Monstrous Proposition.
Washington, Feb. 12. Senator
Simmons spoke this afternoon in op
position to an amendment offered by
Senator Norris that would have
; taxed the entire estates of all de
cedents as incomes to the heirs and !
distributees, in the year in which the
decedents died.
Senator Simmons showed how I
monstrous and courageous such a j
proposition would Im*. He proved by
the figures of the actuary of the
treasury that so oppressive would be ]
this tax that it would collect twice j
as much money annually out of the!
estates of dead men as is now rawed
from the income taxes of all the in
dividual taxpayers of the United
States, and that in a multitude of in
stances it would amount to absolute
confiscation, because it would require
the tax all to be paid within one j
year. He showed that even under the {
present relatively mild estate tax the |
treasury gives the-heirs six years in
the maximum in which to pay.
Senator Simmons called Senator |
Norris to task for continued unwar-1
ranted attacks made upon him by
the senator from Nebraska.
First Victory for Wider Streets.
Winston-Salem Journal.
At last the board of aldermen is
beginning to take serious notice of
the public clamor for better traffic |
• conditions. The decision of*the board |
yesterday to extend West Third;
street, to establish new building lines ■
and widen Holly Avenue and Burke j
street was in line with the movement
for wider streets.
By its action yesterday the board j
took one step at least toward com
plying with the Knowles City Plan. |
to which The Journal has more than
I
Small Home Now Built With Artistry of Palace
i \JT Oja
ceMtresr mS7XZS %3? 'oSSSSSSSSS *sr» ML I blml fIKC XMJL]
The log-cabin of the earl;
tettlera. like the covered wagon,
uaa become but a memory of a ro
mance past. But ite evolution
taay be eharply traced to aome of
the eharaing homes of America
today.
A striking note in thla develop
ment ie the subatantial character
ff.the moderate priced home now
being erected- For many yean
atone wae used exclusively in the
more pretentious residence. Today
tho smaller dwelling is designed
with all the fascination and dis
tortion of the palace.
, An example of each artistic
possibilities la indicated la the
English bungalow above. The
tot is partteolariy adapted to a
m JH
EDWIN A LEVIN MACDONALD
bing my husband.
“In a hundred ways and places I
killed my husband. But never se
cretively. Always I told him of my
suffering, before the deed. The idea
of taking him unaware or trying to
hide my crime did 'not appeal to me.
“Not alone in ’horrid pictures 'did
I contemplate the thing I was so con
vincted I must do. There were times
when 1 thought about the matter quite
| calmly. 7 /
“I busied myself nbont setting my
I house in order. Answered all my
! neglected correspondence, paid a visit
to my mother telling her nothing, gave
away clothes that I had quit wear
] ing. and made preparations for my
j journey: for I had no intention of
going on here.
“With an increasing sense of the
nearing of the hour, I made plans
for what 1 mentally called my ‘Fare- i
once recently directed the board’s at
tention. As far back as ID2l—six
years ago—the Knowles plan said
that Burke street “should be widened
to a minimum of nt least sixty feet
between property lines, and seventy
feet if possible.” and “this can be
readily done now and steps should
be taken towards this end immedinte
i iy. n
' West I’liird street should have oeen
] extended years ago. The cost of
! such extension ten years back would
j have been only a fraction of the
| amount the city will have to spend
to put through this project today,
j Thus again is the value of vision re
. vealed. And thus once more is the
; tremendous cost of lack of vision in
the building of streets emphasized.
The extension of West Third street,
however, will in no way relieve the
board of aldermen of responsibility
for co-operating with citizens in the
widening of other streets that are
j now too narrow.
j Forty feet between curbs, with a
j street car track in the center, is too
narrow in any town. It is dnnger
| ous and should not be permitted to
exist any longer than the condition
I can be remedied.
The tax rate bugaboo is dead. If
the board can co-operate with citi
zphs in the extension of streets with
out increasing the tax rate, then the
board can co-operate in the widening
of streets without raising the rate.
If the attitude of the board toward
{street extension means anything, it
i means that the tax rate bugaboo no
| longer can be used among intelligent
j people as an argument against the
] widening of streets.
Winston-Salem not only needs
. more streets. Winston-Salem needs
j better streets.
i By its action yesterday the city ad
i ministration committed itself to these
propositions, for which it is to be
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rust nan.
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Mfit
texture. Leld up In the moat lr
repuier antMnformai style, tbe ex-
designed with six room*.
well Party.’ I was determined to pay
all my social obligations an«l at the
samp time give them something to re
member ‘afterward.’
The “Fa re well Party”
""•'At"’the party, laughing, dancing
with my husband—toward whom I
had a feeling of curious remoteness* —
and others. I kept thinking, ‘ I wond
er when I will dance again.* I felt
that I should never again want to.
J chatted gaily in the punch room
about events to come while I Thought:
‘You will not ask me to your par
ties. But you will not forget mine.’
“As I stood receiving their ‘good
nights' I mentally added to my eneh
good night: ‘And good-by. When
you enter this house again it will bo
in whispering horror. If lam here,
you will not ask to see me. nor speak
to me. Good night. And good-by
to you all.'
“The end wns reached one night
when a servant left a hatchet for
splitting the morning kindling wood
on the renth in our bedroom. I could
not recall afterward that I had seen
it there. I am sure I was not con
sciously aware of it. But in a dream
l got up while m.v husband slept and
—ah. dear (iod! I cannot make my
self give the picture. Years have
passed, but it stands stark in my
memory, each detail ill sharp relief.
"I had done the one thing I had
never meant to do—killed him in fur
tive dastardly fashion. I pass over
the array of details between that hor
rific moment —nil stnrtlingly clear—
and the one when I stood beside his
body in the living room. I recall the
j stony calm which paralysed my emo
tions. The chill of body. I felt I
could never weep again.”
This astonishing confession is one
of tile fourteen intimate revelations
ill “As I Ixiok at I-ife.” This gift
book, issued by Cosmopolitan Maga
zine to its readers, is not available ex
, cept in the complimentary edition.
ta 1 ~ ~~ nv_ j —-c ■■ 1 .■ 11
commended.
Bowman Got Olf Light.
Statesville Daily.
Wade V. Bowman, of Catawba
county, convicted of "an assault on a
female,” was sentenced to a year on
the roads and appealed. A mature
man, married, of .standing in his
community, was found guilty of mis
treating a 12-year-old girl. He es
caped the more serious charge which
carried with it the death penalty,
but for that which he confessed a
year on the roads is light punish
ment. Cases of mature men de
bauching girl children have become
•so numerous asto arouse a feeling of
horror. Putting the ease in its mild
est form, a mature man so low, so
depraved, as to debauch innocence,
should bo severely punished. In fact
he is fortunate *f he cw-uites the
most drastic punishment at the
hands of outraged parents. There is
no defense, no excuse whatever, for
the infamy. But it is noticed that
there is a growing disposition to
treat it lightly, to settle on a money
basis. Some of these days an out
raged father will undertake punish
ment himself; and when he does he
will have the sympathy of all fathers
of girls too young and too innocent
to protect themselves.
Australian Gold Discovery.
Melbourne, Feb. 12.—Australia re
called today as the seventy-fifth an
niversary of the discovery of gold,
which discovery first brought the is
land continent into the world’s lime
light and was chiefly responsible for
its rapid settlement and development.
The discovery was made by Edward
Hargreaves, an Australian who had
been attracted to California by the
great gold discoveries there in 1840.
I'pon his return to Australia tie wns
impressed by the similarity between
the strata and rocks of California and
y' I ■ I ■
j
*W£ 1
to spae* for two additional tat
rooma and bath. v
‘Undone* toward bufiling
Northeastern Section Still in Grasp
6f Storm; Total of Seventeen Deaths
Xow Yerk, Feb. 11.—Ilcople of the
northeastern Cnited States, accus
tomed to motor travel, tonight heard
the old fashioned jingle or sleigh
bells as Dobbin wns called iorth to
break trails where motors could not
£>
Twenty-four hours after the pass
ing of the second severe snowstorm
within a week, most highways were
impassable to motors and all but the
principal streets in eities and towns
likewise were blocked.! The two
storms left a snow blanket two feet
deep on the level ground, and many
frozen drifts six to 12 feet deep.
The death list as a result of the
last Storm stood tonight at 17. and
the number of accidents was many
times greater, he property damage
bad not been .estimated, but the cost
of clearing streets and roads already
had run into milliocu of dollars.
-Along Fifth avenue, the meeea for
expensive motor ears, traffic urew
aside as four sleighs loaded with
girls |from a Broadway musical show
bobbed along tothe melody of seligh
bells.
l)obbin ; however, was missing
from this scene, as the sleighs were
drawn by a motor ear in which was
Exit The Telephone Operator
The Pathfinder.
This year the world will celebrate
the 50th anniversary of the inven
tion of the telephone by Alexander
Graham Bell. The evolution of the
telephone revolutonized the social
and business life of mankind. The
telephone apparatus in use today
does not look nor work much like
that in use in early ’Bos- Shortly
after the invention of the telephone
the original type of mongrel switch
boards were supplemented by the
magneto switchboard. Xext came the
multiple (common bnttezy) switch
board. and now the latest invention,
the automatic exchange, is rapidly
being installed. Mechanical tele
phone service is gradually being sub
stituted for the more familiar type
where central's ‘‘Xlimber, please" is
the outstabding feataure.
A. B. Stronger, of Kansas City,
Mo., invented and developed the
automatic telephone exchange. He
patented his invention in 181)1, The
fiiwt “girl-W' telephone exchange
was installed in La Porte, Ind., in
181)3. From that year until 1900
hut little progress wan made in the
development of the new automatic
system, but following 1900 progress
in its development bps been rapid.
However, there is still much work
done by girls and, in many cases,
men.
Iu the automatic, or “dial" system
each individual subscriber’s register
records all calls. At the exchange
these registers are set row on row in
panels behind dust proof, tightly
locked plate glass doors. Each sub
scriber's line is connected to one of
these registers. At the completion of
each call the device records the mes
sage and. at the end of the month,
the subscriber is charged for the
that of the country surrounding his
home in the district of (’onohelas.'not
far from Bathurst. The idea struck
him so forcibly that ho began dig
ging. and on February 12, 1851, tie
struck gold in considerable quanti
ties.
When news of the discovery reached
Sydney and other centers it caused
wild excitement nnd immediately
there wns a mad rush of prospectors
to the gold fields. A few months
later a native fqpnd a large mass of
gold among a henp of rocks, and later
a minor found H 5 pounds of gold in
three blocks of quartz. Ip the de
cade that followed the first discovery
in 1845, Australia shipped no less
than $400,000,000 in gold to Eng
land.
Profits
depend upon the yield of crop* from your acres
cA pound of Cotton, Tobacco, Com or
other crops, from HIGH YIELDING
ACRES carry less of cost of land, seed,
cultivation, etc., than from Low Yielding
Acres, because there are more pounds to
share the Cost
Use “Planters” Brands
of Fertilizers for High Yields of Cotton,
Tobacco, Com, etc.
Planters' Factory has large capacity, lo
cated on railroads and deep water,
and can givd prompt shipment
“Planters” has the reputation
of producing the Best Fertilizer that can
be made.
in Car lots a Specialty
PLANTERS
Fertilizer & Phosphate Co.
cTVfannfoctonrs Cfasrisstan, 8. C
For Terms, Prices, Etc,, Apply to
k . i J- L. CHOAT
Huntersville, N. C.
Saturday, Feb. 13, 1926
stationed a motion picture camera.
But the procession of waving tnm
o’shnnters nnd gauntleted arms at
tracted more attention than would
horse-drawn sleghs.
In smaller cities and country dis
tricts, home drawn sleighs tem
porarily had displaced automobiles
and trucks ns possessors of the
roaods.
The progress everywhere toward
a resumption of normal activities
was s'.ow. The weather Was clear,
but below freezing teni]ieratures
greatly handicapped the thousands
of shovel gangs which sought to
clear streets nnd highways. 1
Hailroads virtually had returned
to schedule, but surface ears in many
places were operating only intermit
tently. Many suburbs nnd
districts were eatrely isolated, ex
cept for rail connections.
The weather bureau predicted
clear cold weather for tomorrow,
with rising temperature* late in the
day.
11l southern Xcw York state the
heavy blanket of snow has driven
herds of deer to door yards for food.
In one instance two deer mounted
the piazza of a bungalow to get milk
nnd vegetables.
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call* recorded against the phone.
What really happens when the sub
scriber connected with a machine
switching station is that a series of
mV-hanical devices are set in motion.
As soon as hi* receiver is lifted tt
mechanical "fingen” in the central
station goes "feeling" up and down
a device until it locate* an empty
wire for the subscriber's use. Once
tile wire is found and the "dial tone"
sounds, all the appanitib* necessary
to complete the call is at his *ervicc
without a human hun<k other tuau
his having functioned. After the
call is completed, the conversation
over and both parties huug up their
receivers the register attached to the
calling subscriber's line clicks up a
record of the call. If the line k
busy or no answer is received the
register does not function.
Alt telephone subscribers with
dial equipment ohn call all subscrib
er* in other local service* areas, nnd
it makes no difference whether the
called subscriber has a dial or man
ual telephone. However, the opera
tion or method in passing the cnll is
quite different. If one dial subscriber
calls another dial subscriber the
machinery at the central station does
all the work. But if a dial subscriber'
call* a station in a manual office the
number dialed will appear in front
of a "Jl" operator on what is known
as a call indicator,and the operator
completes the connection.
The registers are rend once a
month for accounting purposes. This
"'reading" k done with a special
camera which has beeq_ developed
for the work. Each imnel of .the
register is divided into sections of
six individual registers. The number
at the top of each register.
We AU Know ’an.
Monroe Enquirer.
Xewspaiier men often are called
upon to carry news articles that
really are advertisements. SUcU copy
was presented one day recently when
the writer thereof said words to this
effect;
"Mr. Editor, you are a moulder of
public opinion, you get out a good
paper, and I would like for you to
carry this.”
I suggested pay. whereupon a by
stander suggested that "at leust the
papier should get enough to purchase
the moulds."
Lady I’urdue. a Purdue L'niversltv
tier hatched in 1910, laid her 1,3415 t
egg of September 11, 1925.