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Graveyard Tales Are Going Rounds Strange Story is told of Strang-.1 er Findings in Grave at Hollywood Cemetery Why should anyone sneak into a | cemetery on a dark and stormy; night, open up one of the graves and deposit there dead snakes in'j paper bags and other equally inex- ' I plicable objects? This question remains unanswered j I by any of the score or so of interest- j ed persons who have made trips:! | during the last week to the care-i| takers tool house at Hollywood Corn- I etery to examine the strange things found there the morning after the storm. On Monday of last week there was a heavy rain in the vicinity of Eliz abeth City. On Tuesday the rain continued but qis the temperature dropped it became snow, melting almost as soon as it touched the ground. In the afternoon the weather became warmer and heavy rain and wind continued until about two o'clock Wednesday morning. The story goes that some time be tween 2 o'clock and dawn Wednes day a man and a woman crept into Hollywood Cemetery bent on ghou lish work. As the wind whipped against them they made their way across the city of the dead pausing finally at the grave of Mrs. Love L. Forbes. Accompanied by the dripping water from the leaves and the sigh ing of the wind in the cypress trees close by, the man hastily, furtively dug his spade again and again into the sod of the grave until he had all but uncovered the casket. What really transpired on that wet cold morning no one save the two who were there can say. The, footprints of the man in the newly < disturbed ground showed where ef forts were made to press the dirt back into place. The tracks of the man and the woman back across the cemetery plot showed the direction they took in quitting the place. When the caretaker arrived Wed-; nesday morning, he noticed that the mound had been disturbed. He went to replace the torn soil, thinking it the work of dogs, when he noticed a I cotton string partially imbedded in the mound and running back toward the foot of the grave. This held his attention and he went for a negro man to help him dig. They first uncovered a newspaner unfolded and spread out in the; grave. It was a copy of the Nor-; folk Ledger Dispatch dated March 7. rumpled and torn. The next find was a shingle, and on lifting it out there proved to be1 seven like it, one upon the other. A shingle is a strange thing to find in . a grave, but seven shingles bearing crude drawings in red crayon of human beings, each figure having a name written on all fouri sides, is more strange. On further examination one may see that the -0-- ? uccu n i uen W 1 1 II needles, pins, bits of glass and metal. Some of the needles are imbedded in the wood sideways in such a manner, spectators declare, that they could only have been shot into it by means of a shot gun shell, opened and reloaded. It is impossi ble. it is said, that they could have been beaten into the wood for there are no marks of a hammer or other implement. Some of the tiny missiles passed entirely through the wood leaving small holes and one or two of the shingles -were torn badly at one end by the force of the charge. The names written around the fi gures in pencil and red crayon are apparently: James Forbes or Fonier, Susie A. Harrison, and Clem Thatch J The writing appears to be the work of two persons, one fairly well ed-j mated and the other poorly so. There are two shingles for each1 person named and the name on the! odd shingle is illegible. The two' shingles named for Susie Harrison! are widely different. One is in-; scribed in legible pencil script with the full name, while the other bears the carelessly written name "8usa Harries." Between the last two shingles were found two figures cut from red flannel with features drawn In i with a pencil. Even the fingers of the hands were made on these fl-' gures. Beneath these unusual objects ( was a paper bag containing two ^ dead snakes about eight inches long. The work might have been that of children, except that the track of, the man was large enough to indi cate that he wears about a number 9 shoe and that of the woman about a number 4 or number 5. The headstone of the grave bears | only this Inscription: I>ove \j. Forbes Born December 5, 1852 Died Oct. 29, 1921 "Asleep In Jesus." Mrs. Forbes was a woman of 69 years at the time of her death and ; It Is not believed that the Strang" find In the soil of her grave had any! connection with her. It was select ed in all probability because It Is close to the driveway by which th" ghoulish pair entered, but sufficient ly far back to afford some protec tion "Rut what does It all mean." peo-; pi* are asking. "Are the persons named on the shingles being ho dooed or have they been killed and burled In effigy.?'" I MII/AHY UV.HUiSH AH MIMHTKII OF I>RFRNHK Dublin. March 20 ? Richard Mai- L ctkhy resigned yesterday as minister | of defense after differences of pol-_ Icy with other cabinet members') ? roM. I War on Bad Teeth Makes Nation First in Dental Hygiene TOOTH 6RUSH Cl-IM>C American children lead the world In care of the teeth. Half of the twenty-one million public scbooi pupils have now learned the im portance of clean, sound teeth. The other half soon will be "converts" through efforts of parent-teacher associations and other welfare and health groups, according to an ad dress by Dr. George N. West. Chi cago. national f.fcure in health hy giene work. "Grown-up? are likewise making K eater progress ihar ever before, r West saiH. "Our nation easily leads the world in dental hygiene. Even so. vast numbers still ignore those simple fundamental rules es sential to sound teeth. They fail to recognize that contirued good health is not poasib'.e if teeth are neglected or ignored. Careless, in correct brush i r of tht teeth is dangerous. They should be brush ed outside, inside and in between. While jaw frictioi. helps to clean the outside o* the teeth, the inside of the teeth and the grinding sur faces quickly accumulate dirt. The ? tendency now is to use a smaller brush purposely made to fit easily inside the teetty, Gums should be j protected by using an up btroke ).i ' the lower teeth and a down stroke > on upper teeth. The bru-h should be of the best materials and made under sanitary conditions. After ' being used it should be rinsed and hung up to dry. Fresh air, water and salt are the best sterilizing agents. Placing it in a container is unsanitary, for it prevents free access to air. These are small points but vital ones." A huge industry has grown out of Dr. West's dental hygiene doc trines. Armies of workers are em ployed in factories of the most modern sanitary type producing brushes embodying the principles he advocates, and sold under his name "The tooth brush Is a weapon against disease, the importance of which cannot be exaggerated/' Dr. West concluded. Reporter Happy Hooligan Is Jap Muma Of Broadway Or at Least So Jup Rrgards Himself and He Has a Il??! of Friends Who'll Say That He'll Do Anything for You Regardless of Trouble to Himself l?y HOIIKHT T. SMAM, (Copyright. 1924. By Th? Advance) Washington, March 20. ? "Jap" Muma. who leaped over night from the "obscurity" of the blazing lights | of Broadway to the headlines of ev ery newspaper in the country, often thinks of himself as the "Happy Hooligan" of Eastern journalism. He says he Is always trying to help someone else, usually with disan trous results to himself. "Jap" al so says he belongs to a dying race, ? the old time reporter. "I know what's) going on all the time, but I can't write it," complains the man who has become a central figui'e In the Senate inquiry into the Department of Justice. Muma has already become known on capitol hill as the moving spirit In what Is called the prize-fight film episode. He is one of the most widely known newspaper men in New York where he has lived and grown up with the town for the past 40 years. Muma is well along in his fifties and has spent most of his adult life as th? New York correspondent of the Cin cinnati Enquirer. He was working for John R. McLean when Ned Mo Lean, the present owner of the pa per, was in his swaddling clothes. Muma is a sort of institution on the Enquirer, working when he feels like it. which most of the time he doesn't. Ho Is always on tap, how ever, when anyone wants anything done. Hp Is known from one end of Ohio to the other and has as many and as wide a diversity of friends as any man in the United States "Jap" loves the Importance of doing things for other people. Nothing Is too small or |oo big for him. He will reserve a seat at the theater for a friend with as much ceremony as he charters a yacht for a trip around the world. "Jap" Muma's name was very con fusing to the members of the Senate committee when they first heard it, but it Is no more picturesque than the owner of it. "Jap" is not Mu ma's real name, but he uses It on all of his business and social cards. Out ia Ohio they say his regular giv en name is Jasper. "Jap" blushes when he hears It and Insists tnat Jap Is fcood enough for Mm. When lie wants to be very dignified he call.r himself J. C. Mflma. His last name is a contraction of Mumaugh, the shorter spelling having been adopt ed by all the members of his fam ily. Muma is a Canadian by birth.' He is rather tall, heavy set and has what might be called a blonde com plexion. his hair being a light silver. Muma wears many glasses not all at the same time ? but during the course of an evening he will change, pairs at least three ox. four times. The most characteristic thing about him is an Infectious laugh. Although Ned McLean has aligned himself recently with the Republi can party, Jap Muma, his trusted rmplove, has always remained stal wart in his attachment to the Dem-j icratlc party. He learned his De- j mocracy from John R. McLean and believes In It. That he should be credited with so much "Influence" In a Republican administration here In, Washington is at* least a tribute to tils versatility. Muma long has ^>een the Intimate friend and confldente of men of prominence In the political and bus iness worlds. Hla offices in New k'ork and his apartment. In the very nldat of the "roaring fortlea," are. Ailed with the autographed photo- j liyaHiuhM i graphs of these men of affairs. With ' most of these men Jap Munia is the : first person they call up when they 'roach the metropolis. Like the jolly Jack Tar, Jap is always ready for a tight or a frolic. He knows his New York from the darkest corners of the Bowery to the uppermost reach | es of Riverside Drive. His activities at times also extend to the Bronx, : but like all "typical" New Yorkers J Mumn feels that when you leave old j Broadway you are only camping out. Those who know Jap Munia best say that he is bursting with pride i that he should suddenly have come in for such nation-wide discussion, j but at the same time he would like to know what it is all about and , how it is going to turii out. Jap al ways has been anxious to know what the finish is going to be before he starts anything. That goes for horse racing, too. One of his friends named a horse for him and the equine Jap Muma has won some rather tidy purses down in Cuba this , winter. Jap generally has a small bet down on his namesake, but sel dom has thought better of the liorso 'than $5 or $10. Muma is a poor man and admits It. "He says his salary is not all that it ought to be, but he Is happy in his work and wouldn't change It for the world. From all that has been testified to In Washington, Muma is known by now as a man who talks heaps, reams?veritable tidal waves of con versation. Hut like all loquacious i persons he has the utmost contempt for other people who talk a* great deal. "Tell that fellow anything and , he'll let the whole jail out" he often has snld In expressing his lack of confidence In a gabby guy. Jap is a hard person to beat. Re cently one of his closest friends, spending the winter In New York.i bet Jap a suit of clothes and nil ov-| ercoat that he couldn't stay on thej waterwagon from Thanksgiving un-j til next derby day at Louisville, Mayi 17. Jap bet that he could. He mount ed the wagon nnd became dryer than I any member of the whole Volstead j family. He also became silent an I morose. Kach evening he would vis-' It his friend, take an evening paper I with him and sit In the corner and read. It got on the friend's nerve,".] He asked Jap to stay away, but Jap! wouldn't. He kept comlne sround ( drier and more morose than ever. Finally the friend could stand It noj longer. "I'll give you two suits of clothes and two overcoats If you'll fall o'f the d ? d wagon," he said. "You're on," said Jap and from that time forward a pleasant even-! Ing was had. HonNtowl at Southern Registered at the Southern Hotel Wednesday were: John A. Thomar, llaIHgh; H. J. Prater, Augusta; R. H. Bardett, New York; J. W. Kane. Raleigh; L. H. Harrison, Raleigh; J. A. Oetslnger, Plymouth; J. P. Har ris, 1 Charlotte; F. A. Webb, Char lotte; I^?e 8. Orey, Norfolk; W. H. i Ward, Norfolk; C. D. Fackler, Lan caster; A. E. Stoneley, Greensboro; R. D. Fleming. Rocky Mount; A. J. Clemson, Charlotte; E. J. Rlddlck, Suffolk; and E. R. Harden, Norfolk. | NKI.F DKFHNSK PLKA (Continued From Page One) ? swera were scarcely Intelligible and not at all intelligent and in tile opin | ion of his physician he was never ? in possession of his faculties after ! the blow was struck. I The most direct testimony the : State could offer in rebuttal of the ; testimony of Jones was that of tw ) . negroes, Ned Moore and John Henry Proctor. Moore's demeanor on the stand left something to he desired | while Proctor was a more or less un | willing witness. None hut leading I questions elicited anything from him, which wus perhaps the reason why the State permitted the defense tc: J put him on the stand Instead of put ting him on Itself to corroborate Moore. Moore told a plausible stor-f , but his demeanor on the stand ma> ? have added to the not unnatural re i luctance that a Jury has to convict ing a white man on the testimony o! 1 a negro. Now here is Ned Moore N j version of , the difficulty that led to the killing of Ferebee: "I was working for Alfred and I j had told him when we got through jour Job I wanted my money. John Henry Proctor was helping me haul | peas and when we got to the barn with a trucklond along about ti o'clock I asked Alfred If he was go ing to get the money from Mr. Jones to pay me. He went to the house. After he had been gone for some time I heard Mrs. Jones and the chil dren crying and screaming and we ran out to see what was happening. I heard Mrs. Jones tell Alfred to go on home and he said 'Yes'em, I'm going.' "Then I heard Mr. Jones say - Jt, don't you ever come back." "Ferebee salfl he wouldn't, and was leaving the yard when we turned back to onloading the peas, | thinking the trouble was all over. "Then, In a minute or two, or ! Just the time it would take to on 1 load a couple of sacks, I heard Mrs. Jones scream. 'Don't hit ? him no .more,' and I heard Mr. Jones answer, * ..... ? him, i I'll kill him.' Ily this time I an 1 Proctor had run up and Mr. Jones I was standing over Ferebee resting on the club which he was holding In his hands. I tried to twist It away from him, but he told me to stand back or he'd kill me and I stood back. "The place where Ferebee fell was beside the bridge leading from i the Jones' lot to the Statf highway,] but ou '.side the fence enclosing the yard. It was night and the moon j was shining. Ferebee lay. when I : saw him, with his face tip, his feet toward the road and Ills head toward j the Jones' fence. I went to get ai horse and cart to take him home, but when I got back to the place j where he had been lying he was| gone. I learned later that he had i gone home." Evidence of other witnesses tended to show that Ferebee fell toward the Jones house fare down-, ward, but turned over as Prltchard Thr> Are Hart Boys 2-Pant* Dh-hh Suits. ln?t broath of and Hfrviw; At well. $10.00. $12.50. $13.60, $1 G, $16.60. Dolt and hiicklo with suit. T. T. Tt'ltNttlt * ( O. CrieatHectjfs ttcntcnt Peanut Brittle One Lb. Pnrkntrr 37c f 'nn*oll<lAte Your DEBTS Pay Lit Weekly. INDUSTRIAL BANK and Moore came up. The defendant testified that Fere- J bee Man a good negro under ordin- j arv circumstances, but that when he j [got mad he became a "wild man" wild desperately 'danu< reus.' The d? - i lease was able. however, f" put oil j [only one other witness who test! le d that Alfred IVn-bw had a rep- g utatien when he was in anger of be- 3 |inu a violent and dangerous man. 1 [That witness was J. S. I.ambeit. not j a native of this County. >vho in em- * ployed in dredging work incident to | the building of the State road across g the Dismal Swamp Canal "and who I boarded in the Jones home for a pe-'J rlod of several months. As far as I any other witness would go. inelud-'| ing D. E. Williams, who had known j| Ferebee frojn boyhood, was to say | that Ferebee was insolent or Impu-H dent when he got mad. Mr. Wll-'a liams and his sister. Mrs. Jones, both * testified that they had known their' t father to. have to run the negro olf.j of the place again and again. Then there was testimony thatM when he had a controversy at the.1 store of J. A. Whitehead with the! storekeeper's son as to whether he! had given the boy a $2.00 or a $5.00 J hill, Alfred attacked Mr. Whitehead und threw him to the floor. "I don't know what he would have done to me if somebody hadn't pulled' him off," testified Mr. White head. However, that was 18 years ago und was the only instance of violence on Ferebee's part that the defense was able to show. There was interesting and str'klng divergence in the evidence of the, State and that of the defense as to | the matter of Alfred Fereb??e*s phy-J slq'tie. The defense testified through-, out the trial that Ferebee was at man near to six feet tall and Aelgh-j ing about 1 60 pounds. "He wa? \?"ryr near my height though not quite so heavy." testified I). K. Williams. Witnesses for the State, or the other hand, testified that Ferebee was of slight build, about five foot six inches In height and weight ! less than 135 pounds. The State sprung a surprise on this Issue to ward the end of the trial by putting on S. J. Walston, negro undertaker, who swore that after puffin*, the brain hack In Its place and sewing I up the bend lie weighed the body clothed, except for shoes, and found It to weigh only 110 pounds. f t: this he was substantiated by W. W. | Williams. White. Newland township farmer, whose scales were used, and another white man who was witness, j This developed, i the Interesting question of how much weight Fere I bee lost by reason of his Illness at the hospital, by loss of blood and as a result of the autopsy. I)r. I. Fear ing. coroner, thought that he would (lose practically no weight at all. Dr. ;C. B. Williams thought that he might lose one or two pounds. Roth ] physicians answered In the negative a question for Mr. Aydlett as to (' whether a man lost weight in the passing of life nut of his body. The courthouse was packed all (lay Wednesday during the trial, and I fully half of those in attendance rilware blacks, who followed the trial with the keenest show of Interest. Further indication of the Interest in the case among Newland negroes is seen in the fact that they have as sisted Ferebee's widow, who Is sick ; and unable to attend court, in fin ancing the prosecution, making it . possible for her to employ such able | counsel as Ehringhaus & Hall to as islst Solicitor Small. An insight into the difficulty thpt led to the murder of Alfred Ferebee may probably be gained from the fact that Ferebee had been a ser vant to the Williams family for ro long that he had come to regard himself almost as a part- of the place. It was from Mrs. Jones, or "Miss Hettle" as he called her, that he got his money on the night of the diffi culty. Jones testified that he told ibis wife to give Ferebee the rfloney, but Mrs. Jones' testimony was that she was giving Ferebee or had Just given Ferebee the money when her husband came out from RUpper. Then Jones began to upbraid the negro about slack nens in his work, and the negro must have resented his Inter ference. His words, "I was here be fore you come," perhaps furnish the key to the whole tragedy. INFLUENZA A? a preventive, melt and inhale night and morning ? VICKS Varo Rub Ommr IT Milium Jmrt U?4 Y?mrfy SLEEPLESSNESS Virginia Lady Saya That Many of Her Long - Suffered Ilia Hare Fled Since She Took Cardui. Briatol, Va. ? "I can sleep good at night now, tomething I have never done before in my life," aayt Mr*. Dealt Hawk*, of 718 Prospect St, thi? city, "and It It do* to Cardui. "I was always nervous and toased when I should have been asleep, but alnce I took Cardui It has. strength ened me, and my general health is to improved that many of the ilia from which I Lava suffered for yeara have fled* ? ? "I j ted to go to bed tired and, when [ would get up In the morning, I wat ?till tired. Now I feel like doing a day's work in my garden or in the house, and I owe all thli good health to Car.tui, for I had suffered for yeara until I took it. "I had had female trouble for yean and once, for tlx months, I was flat an my back. I am glad to recommend to other women a medicine which has helped me." If you are nerrout and run-down In health, suffering at Mrs. Hawks de tcrlbet above, it It probable that Cardui will greatly help you. TrjMt. ( OMMMunann B ~ . _ __ g Spring Is Here So Fashion decrees, and j| this store is in line with ? Fashion's demands with an |j attractive new line of Suits, Coots and @ D "-esses I M. Leigh Sheep Co. 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