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Two Horse Plow A Novel Sight On Old Broadway Spectacle of Rich Loam Falling Away from Coulter Kipping Through Sod on City Hall Park Was Enough Ahnoet to Stop Traffic on Metropolitan Thoroughfare n> ROWLAND WOOD. C*9yr1f*t. 1*24. tor Tka A4?ir>t? New York. April 24 ? The spec- I tacle of a two horse plow turning up ? black loam In the "Canyon of Broad-1 H way" almost stopped the traffic to-^B day on one of New York's most fa- I nious and metropolitan streets. New Yorker's are notorious rub bernecks. They will congregate by the hundreds about a street hawker vending patent collar buttons. A fist fight or an arrest Is pood for a crowd of a couple of thousand any day. But it has been a long time since lower Broadway has been stirred as it was today by Patriot Kiernan and his two horse plow. All around the iron fence that shuts In the acre plot In City Hall Park which Kiernan was preparing for the annual seeding down to grass, the crowd gathered three and four deep, while trafTic cops on duty at the busy street intersections had thefr hands full keeping automobil- ? lsts from parking to watch the novelj spectacle. "I feel like I was on exhibition at the circus." said Kiernan. in a rich brogue, under the tree where he had stopped to let "Bess" and "Jim" blow for a minute. "Sure, I've seen lots of crowds gather In New York, but I never thought the sight of a plow would be tying up the trafTic in Broadway." The plowman picked up a stone his plow had unearthed and fingered it meditatively as he gazed across the street at the tallest office building in the world?the Woolworth building. He could easily have shied the ston?* through a Woolworth plate glass window. "The greatest city in the world," he said, with a grin, "and most of it stopping from its work to be a-watchlng me and my plow. It's funny, too, how long some of 'em stand looking. I go round and round and round, and every time I look, I see "the" same faces. Some of them look sort of wistful. I guess a lot of them were raised on farms th*? same as I was, and that with spring coming on and everything, it makes them a little bit homesick. Sure, I there's lots of farm boys In New York. Every time anybody Is elect ed president of some big corpora- j tion, you read in the papers of how he was brought up on a farm. And , there's Mayor Hylan, himself?a; grand man?he Was a farmer boy, you know. "One big fellow climbed over the fence this morning to talk to me about his days on the farm. A bank er he was, I think. It took me back to my own days on the farm In the old cojintry to hear him run on about how it felt to sink your bare feet in the new-turned earth. Yep ?in the old days, him and me both used to walk behind the plow with our hands holding the two handles of it and the reins around oub necks.I Now. I ride and work It with a lever. "Another follow stopped to say me a piece of poetry about the weary plowman homeward wending his way. Tomorrow, I am going to; bring out the harrow and break this loam up fine. Then. I suppose some body, will come by and quote that piece about the toad beneath the harrow. "All right, Bess. All right, Jim. let's go." VARIED APPEALS FOK CONVENTION TICKETS Cleveland. April 24 ?Varle<l ap peals for ticket* to the Republican national convention, to open here June 10. ore deluging headquarters of the local convention committee. They are referred to the national committee at Washington. Proba bly the briefest and tnost sanguine follow,: "Please mail to me In the enclosed stamped envelope a ticket to the Republican convention." "Lost $126 on yon for governor, was the commanding argument hurled at a Cleveland leader by one applicant for tickets. "You wll probaibly recall." urged another, "having inet me when you were In L. . . .during your campaign. We were together on the bandstand from which you spoke that evening." "From the time I was large enough to carry a drum." a fourth proclaimed. "I have done my part. 1 am a thirty-second degre Mason, have a wife who was reared a Re publican and 'three sons whom 1 espect to vote the Republican ticket." u "I have neen an ardent Repub lican. as are all my relatives," la a typical argument. Similar pleas follow: "I have never attended a conven tion of the party for which 1 have always worked and supported, to say nothing of a father and four brothera and as many sisters." FEED Mash For More E(N[? rot SALE B? Aydlett & Owens Phoo? 458 Xllubcth Cltj. N. C. Mile. Curie The beautiful Eva Curie, daugh* ter of Mme. Curie of radium fame, is coming to America for a visit and piano concert tour this sua* mer. This is her latest picture. COMMENCEMENT BEGINS AT SOUTH MILLS FRIDAY South Mills, April 24?The com enmmenctement exercises at the South Mills High School will begin Friday, April 25, with the contest for the D. E. Williams medal offered for the best declamation. The baccalaureate service will be hold In Trinity Church at South Mills tot 11 o'clock Sunday, April 27. Itev. F. H. Scattergood of Elizabeth City will preach the sermon. The senior play will be presented in the High School auditorium Mon- ? day evening at 8 o'clock. The play. I "Light House Nan.'' Is full of rol-i licking humor and Is well presented.' On Wednesday evening comes; the commencement exercises. Dr. i J. H. Oorrell of the chair of modern I languages at Wake Forest College will speak. At the close of the I seniors' part of the program" the di plomas will be presented. Also the Selig medal offered by Sellg's Jew elry store, for the best essay written by a member of the Senior class will be presented on this occasion. <X)Ll'MBIA BRIEFS Columbia. April 24-:?A play en titled "Mr. Bobb" was presented last Friday night in the school audi torium by a number of high school pupils. It was also played at Crea well Tuesday night. Miss Gladys Bateman and iMlaa Lillian Owens who have been away to school spent Baster here with their parents. An Easter program was given at the Methodist church Sunday night and wss enjoyed very much by all who sttended. Superior Court of Columbia Is-In session this weeic. William McClees motored to Greenville Monday on a business trip. Miss Dare Cohoon. Leigh Travis j and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hayman ; motored to Plymouth Sunday. Mrs. S. M. Comos of the Baptist ! Sunday School took a number of ? children to Oak Grove Sunday to sing. Neuralgia orhsadacha?nib th ?m*lt and Inhale I yiCKS ? 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