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PAGE olX SAYS MYSTERY SURROUNDS DISCOVERY OF UNFINISHED GRAVE NEAR BROWNWOOt K.rrwnv.-od. N. t May 20. -In ! > t-?i about o!ir Iron ! ; .a- found an tuikntt^n am - . made irravt vhicii was unfin " : v: i : >adu!> la.. .v i whi.-h hid it ?rom view v*. i?.Je srat lu ring . . r.-. rr.. ir:* i arm ut'AKU m ir . tm same. A: first :hough' : ?.{ > * .trade by a; l.vv jitu i)Ut on further **jve v'-^aDoi i thai tile? held jdhvut'ercd ; eh rroih and u >.it six y fiirh* feet will: a K'pei ? ! three ||et or more 1: had no vau.t, but : v :h ir. * doi! Lr.< plai - of uwknowt l>? -o > i! p&rs^lh nia} have beet f?? ! ?d. as the:} never lord a >a?lil ??. disco verv ?o' -vera days am k-.-. t it ? secret to them - - - am y await r,. fut.i; v . pinenfc Vht n is no reason rha* ea: b? u '. ai the pres* nt t?m iviiy thii v. . e should have been made 01 " lark and hidden spo' :a a vaj >? rhe view of anv -w. a ?d i ' ?- a- :( il niijrht ha - in in led *\>r -omeoiiv to :?cei 'i in. a.- it was mabt a.- fa had bin-: eonsfswiet ? " ..T th? - of a regular gra ? , except ?.ha .a iiuj* north and so iih whet l? eu>toTii of dtlJgrirg ^rave- i-as :sp Sitest. must hao takt >eve*a day o' tv% pers > :> *>. have du| :- era ? e ?i -how> *?, have bee! with :; JT '* at dr.'i. .?t caiX'i Kvel root.- and s?on,es i::t -aw . u ' a saw ?.? <ith? r >i<tru ir ; ami packed closely to?ithe occupy the east s/de > ;' th crave. wo* ? . mum; ve : on ?ion< ai?out February last y th? -ijnt and time who?; d'sco\ : j cd which wa . About Aprii, but not v pi* : :m public iin'.K 'vcoriciy h. n.;'.M5shc\i jjrtv.vi of myster .- 'i\ pusziin?r and munj . ise r ?- bee: advanced " its beiti; r?i will hive to holy .-la " '!? lit mu : led POI'Mir M SOIUv >i. v ar. ipte* t to deftt >j aiul hid tiw crime from the cws <.i the law trty.-c . .-or ject ore.- winch \v. b taken for their worth or uut.il pr.*:>h?t or .-.eer unravels thi? ! \ wftfeh al is as d.. PLRFECl FINAL PLANS FOR PAN-AMERICAN ROAD SHO\ .L\ : Mas is -Special rhu .< .. . en. ' ".'i Sunday n - i .f N ;?h h<i of the off ... ; ?f the lio id Building : . A!. !n;efu*r rr Show v.nKo it is in tha - i< ". speetion aee? :: j i 11 : n format .or received at " a- of ;v North Carolina S HA; assay > *on:m . or, here. C?-r' < .. . nureln. > of Charlotte a; nngir.y io .id late evening sei "s ts far the South American r -oiilativus who will constitut ;j> par; ?f the official group. Th P: testam churches are also pia; r jr for the evening service to A L i at a time the.' will enable .. \ -itors .vho wilt be on the road e route to the city f r a good part the day. Secifeiavy of Commerce Hoove a: i Seer eta r\ ot Agriculture \V alaiha both indicated their intent-o i atlendii.tr the road show, if the; wo aid permit, it was am on:.'<d th Lighv.ax office hen To*'I -v . -h La: b.-American rej jv-vuU*: ives in the official Part\ ' i ... ha.f of which will be men bev- o* the diplomatic and eonsuL coins and foe the other half er.gj needs from the various countric u r members i<: the official part w:b be ail the director* of the Ar< ican Road Builders Association. J nv ricar. Associate,?i t State Htjrl way officials: and other, includir Governor Morrison of N'orth Can lina, Governor Trinkic of Virgini; Governor MsLeod of South Garoiir, and possibly the governors of Geo gia. Alabama and Kentucky. Approximately 150 manufacture of road machinery^have already r served space for the demonstrate of their machines, it was said. Or of the featares of the exhibit wi be the fact that nearly all the ros machines will operate under the own power. These demonstration e hibits of the manufacturers will 1 held at the fair grounds at Green boro. The entire fair grounds ha been turned over to the higbwi officials for the u^e of the ?*oad sho On a stretch of road leading f several miles out from Greenshoi the distance will be divided up in i sections of one third mile each, was explained, and in each secti? certain .voil; in the different phas Tl of road construction wiJi bo under way by the slate highway fore >. ) . ; ? >.- of voad b will be l4iitoi in this Jistatie of I :v.vfion>. >U?rnng with \b<- first scrap II |jSn and lf\o!'.n-JT of tin* road as* p :: iiurd > i'a ' ' A tsv. mafhisory u-ci by the N ?rth ' Carvtb.a State H^fevaj foret> v.-il1 : > .h - . a eperat sou as well a? ha v.- i.-Cv ii 'JoUif^fe' ?i. rhi, x tSa- v. ?k of lie rioprran? wi . * The fTsO'.'iitive < ,'uun'ttev ?>i - he 1 \ i \ - .!* i wi of Siat< H -' > 4 way officials will hold a mtr^irv in I <? 'v; r.sboro i?n J taw it v. a- alio .1 r 'I'dur.ml. ^ Attention was to ?b' f;u t 'hat uiani pcf.-t?i?Si are via bio: t 1 ho is opposed and wanted to at-_ ibi the road bu'.mmjr .-how. '': ' officials mad'.' i- known that all j?> | < :.- are invited. It was.fi: "hot poin:-d one that free transportation : would tie furnished to all who ' ?' <i to% visit the projects on the L i program f< : July -4. 5, 7. Tra.i ^ tat ion facilities wiM be arranged tor a? ?: v. ill meet all visitors at the s jratherirg points on the day.- n im-' ; e?i. ^ John Waidrop. it was stat*-?i has' 1 hi- : appoirieii assistant demons*, ra-; iirector of the entire n ad 1 >} v and ofl'"" s hav<- i>e< 7 ii.-hed in Greensboro which ho :i <.<v.?py during t.he show, for '.he : ri:: f all those who desire any it : >rmation <-o!;eernrhjC the dem M &Lration At present he is ! ir: state highway office. LIFE'S RACE WON (W. A. Watson.) ' The youngster with glaring ! beams through the light of day in 1 farcy. and -ees the beacon ali'.r f * hojv- -hining brightly out bof-< , - fare is turned towards duty. 1 A healthy body and a pure '' N ih?- delight of tie- child and tre : hope o? its parents. [ r. * hex*' '^ivai thoughts - t:i.' .estiny of the rave and the : : iiv ..f great n;I'.ioi united in t! . rnni'Ui e? use. for the enlighti : " ami ; .vara * mestt of the ht.nuie y Hut * he nr.b ru .rid and ; he f 11. it g j of slang a - n.iiiii .in s>\ humar : nrail* ?i ' >' name, ihc n and w.t> mmi have cast then shtfetes ol dark - tfc*? lH.no b> the ungual df ii v:l. :. which i mils t\>rth flan-.e. e'fin and smoke, which destroy- thei moral- even ol' the strongest. Th? iiuj?uarded child which is as I j i n- ami ho\ a- the Cmt* who I : ramped ov? r the i*t^h with a mi.^-aire hope and good cheer for the !y and p'M r. stent > iuiv.h! by influences 1 hat lhc\ have to cope a.al fight down hi a world running i with blasphemy and -a'.ckedness V v. eh ihrow.s it- pull of darkness in \o'\ direction. The greatest hat to i. hfe was not : .gh: by such ger.? rals as Hannk al. Napoleon and the Kaiser of the World War fame, but h\ the irmo:* child combating .vi' intlu that oesei thvi! ways in the '" oirt.ey af life. 1- takes the strong arms of the pa its. iaw, and Godi\ reformation kcci' tht chiid going in the straight and narrow way. You can never atlord to leave your i rtiiu to self destruction, but like the - .other's son who had gone astray from him you must throw out your rms and icv.ch for the tost cue who has repented and come back for resation in the arms o? mercy and : throw Justice to the winds or either i- it. i-.-vi ii'., i iaunr do a kind and noble act we perish 1 ?n greed and Selfishness. IJfes rare t an never be won unless we. look abom daily with a set pur; i?>t* ot relieving some one who is l* mifering and in distress oi who is revelling in temptations which bring the falien low Your life'.- mission war- not intenled for your.-elf a om-, but to look ?-ui upon the passing .' am of hu" mainly as you go forth along life's joarney which quickly end:* with work undone. r.very living soul set their own ;>a<<- either swift or slow, and if ?> . want to make trie nio>t out of < life prepare tor the future days by " laying aside a few treasures of your * living while fond hopes are running ;l highest, for a day when old age overr* takes you on the last rung of the ladder which ends your flight up' ward. The life story of the prodigal son >n has gone the rounds of all the earth ' and in every tongue that can be ill I spoken which sets a w orld record of id j just such characters as are living all ir over the land. x-j The son now like of old, thinks he >e knows more than his father, and does s-Jnot seek his advice or council, b^t re when lured away from him by bad iy{ associates soon finds himself in a sen w.! of trouble, and the Good Book tells or us the "wages of sin is death/' *o, It is the death the coward finds to when his faults are searched out in it his own mind, and which brings hiin on > Godly sorrow a.es he approaches men of courage whe i ie watai;ga democrat?e fs have spoilt their iiie \n b-ililc vvkh! life*.- rcu*- v u:i. We do net beliese in mishiug: out the heart "i -ho fa-ni t?\ a. pur\>i i:>-- t Irian tr. . - a: hear hut like our Heavenly leather torvr've a' ; < i-r y ven- court a here the judge of right' ousn?|i; . . arc a crown of eterv.a; lift-. Thou and oiiiv then can \vi say in truth that you reached. the point where life's raceis won. HOW MUCH FOOD FOR too HENS Knietgh. May U(?.? Frequently the pouitt* L:f. \wr goes into hi- business with te> conception oC the an ount of food that it takes to feed his hen-. He let'd? what m- hits on hand and wuc-.m that oat he! mu.-t ! ma '.:s conducted by poultry ir.ve.-t lgato:v at the State College K\per:tm,,r Station show that one may know : ?? a reasonable; degree ih? amount >i food needed lr. th>- experiments conducted it' was found that where all the feed was bought, hens the size of Leg horns consumed v(? pounds of fee*! each or >,000 pounds for a flock of 1UU birds during the year. I'hirty ; pounds I the amount consumed by: each hen was the mash or dry. ; ground. mi.\ed feci. and fifty j U-.. it- ^ i* f;?! i'Vi ! mix- ' ture. Larger birds such as * hi- Rhode Island Reds uno a:; avt-uige of i*-k pjund.- oj feed per he n per year. This is hh) fo?* the flock <>f 100 birds Of the 94 pounds consumed j pound mash and ?1 pounds grain mixture. In making the.-e tests L>r B. F. Kaspp also --udtd th? amount of feed it required to produce eggs. For high producing leghorns it took 6. Id pounds of feed to produce one doaen eggs and for the larger breeds it took in pounds of feed to produe* a do/.Sni eggs. The heavier the layer ti nunc feed she consumed. These tost s also revealed the fact that ott a four horse farm, between 25 and 50 per cent of the feed would be forage-1 by thi poultry. thus -eniirg tie amount needed to be. bought or d for the sole use of the flock. 40 YEARS AGO? Folks In riled colfec- iiild settled it; with an egg. Ladies rode or. side addles. Little Vl^rifci* wore brass toed shoe and duddj wore brogtms. i ! When a preacher said a truth thoi ! peopb saul "Amen.*' Left over noon victuals were fin-1 . Ind at supper time. j Xi' iihb. rs asked abut your family ;i i. i mount it. rounds were called "tlyi' ; jt nnies." 1'' ikused tooth picks and wore -i.ill p??!it? . A in. cup of red liquor was sold five cents. Ladies' dresses reached from her th? heel Wheat was >ow*n broadcast and i. m with a tree iop. It took 20 minutes to shine shoes with Mason's blacking. TVonit- served pot liquor instead jot cu natal soap. , indigestion a?:d appendicitis were | called plait, beliy-ache. Quinine was taken in coffee, mo! la -sos or tissue paper. \ crmiiliqAi was used as hearth paint instead of face paint. Babies were rocked in cradles with <?ut addling; their brains. Men played mumble peg instead! of poker. The neighbors all got fresh meat at hog killing time. Ar.i a man made the same wife do a ift time. IN PASSING Tak. time to plant some roses a.- you '."j. j Along life's highway?dull with grief and pain. ! Somv merry songsters singing in the sr?c-w Brings back the sunlit smile of spring again. i ako time to plant some lilies oy int* way; The world is weary like a man grown old. nd many a pilgrim faint would pause to pray Where stainless petals clasp a heart of gold. Take time to plant some violets as you toil. In dusty plain or1 by the roaring sea For life is more than greed or glided spoil And beauty sets the captive spirit free. Take time to scatter sunbeams ere you leave, For life is dark with many a brooding care And shadowed hearts somehow forget to grieve. When silvery laughter ripples everywhere. 1 For therr.s and thistles ne'er pro Yoked a smile 1 / R1 THURSDAY?BOONE. N C. >Y ' :n 1?S->mlil'oun?] steamers in I'au.i . Cee?ti7i: 'J IK?|?i.rtmeiit **f Agrieultu-e fr ??ui the farmers .'<?V??*v pboiogruph turn Imoriea The v rid g^-ows weary of the clash of steel, *.e\. i. ?-. the gardener work a litt:? while. I .est > f* i f ighting, men should cease -John Jordan D^cglasrs. D-. W A. Denton will fill his regf ;...i . i>\?introent at oid Mount Piesant I.?:;'reran church Sunday May >_"? ?t! .'.'IiicL- A /-.. ?-ri. jiwit >in <? <1i i Tow Tarheel says that the in j i ehborbood Ha* e.lr? ady made ' i plans for the community fail th: fall. Th> y intend to show the pr-U'-s made in the oommunil} during yea i IMPOR ' ANl i i EM id.. ' >??n had jti>t announced his en - roent to the family. \\ . .. thai jriil! Sin quints." re-, marked. his mother "Sh- !... absolutely no style" add- j ? 1 hi- sister. "K ..ded, isn't she.'" queried his ai. -SI.- t-r-'t any money put in his i uncle. "SI.- doesn't look slnuiff," exclaim ed hi firs* < "She s stuck up!" assevted his sec-J md oustti. ^ "she's a? extravagant ihingrV* -ntern id his third cousin. "Well, sin has one ieueeminiy feature. said the -oil thoufiil fully. "And what > that.'. " asked the family chorus. "She hasn't any relatives," was t.he qui. i reply. - I tisburp; Chronicle. VICES PREDICTED YEARS IN ADVANCE Only Instrument of Kind Aids Geodetic Survey. Washington.?Time and tide watt for no uiau. nor do the scientists of me united Stute.s coa^t and geodetic survey iu Washington wait for the tides. By means of the only machine of Its kind in the world the tide for Astoria, fob instance, is already pre- \ dieted for 1026 and all skeptics are | invited to compare the predictions j with their uetual observations on March 1, 1026, Lf they care to wait that long. For Astoria, high tide will be at 2:06 a. to and 2 p. in. and low ride at 8:2fi a. m. and 8 :38 p. m. High water measure 7 8 feet and 7.9 feet j respectively, while low water will measure 1.8 feet and .5 foot respectively. above mean h#w water. As far as that is concerned, scientists of the roast and geodetic survey j i can turn a fev dials, ?=el a number of 1 complicated looking screws. Jo' some figures down on paper, turn a crank and predict the time and height of : high and low side for any port in the ' vorld a thousand years hence, and | come within a fraction of an inch of ' being correct. Being correct is one of | the main things the coa9t and geodetic | survey Is noted for. Mistakes might mean loss of life and many thousand j dollars' worth of property. Years o* Work Required. To explain the tide-predicting ma- j chine to the layman would be like ex- ; 1 pounding the Einstein theory to a j moron, for it took many years to build 1 i It and each year meant endless calculations and study by men who had de- ; voted their lives to learning the law j of the tides and their relation to the ! *un. moon, winds and old Mother Earth herself. In appearance the tide-predicting instrument Is something of a cross between a threshing machine and a radio set. if one can recognize the j picture. But It res. moles nothing, in i reality, so much as the tide-predicting machine. It Is mode of shiny brass and blued steel, with cogs, pulleys, dials and a fine, flexible chain, which j ran over a hundred thousand mi lea In j an oil bath to give It pliability before ' it was placed on the machine. The tldo-pred Jeter sets dials or. this machine'wfilch represent the 37 com,1 pronent pft"*s of a tidal wave, and fac ing an instrument .. ?.?rd which rwii'ioi ^ ^ ^ ' .? ... ... i.ani ?rtl Clerh> ;;ja n ~'5.suite of the c*>u' of Hiuil t' ? i??kttMl exponent of cur Me? on u 1m' k'-T scale that of an auto mobile, turr.s a crunk. The machine does the rest. Pred'Ct?on Far in Advance. Pi s iMitonuti- ally turn to the day of the tuonrh time and height of high and low water, vhile a pen busily truces on paper tin exa?*t replica, drnwn to jcuIc. ?'f the tide wave as It will appear at that future time So aoeprate i> the machine that it< pre dictions have oeen compared with ac tual oUser cut lens and found to differ by the smallesi fraction. The nitieh-tte rep? -'7\ts the work of two of the survey"- KCl?ort?ts, Or. R. A Harris. 'f piatheniutIrian now dead, and Or ! *. <?. Ft**eher, merhunl oiil engineer who wftiitly retired after long years with the government at a Hillary wliU'h ^ ?uld make a bricklayer laugh in disdain. Tide-predicting is only one of the Invaluable - rvt.-t-s rendered every year by tin . -- M gtodotn *urvey to tiioiiKands of : t..rizi?T?. Th>? tides rre published ? year in ndranre print ed in IhxA form and made avallnhle to anyone wle> sh'N the sea* ??r has to do with littl-Hor facilities in any port. In addition the organization in rctpon s'ble for ihi that guide .skip pers up .no 1 a n the <*, ::?t lino of the raited Stutfs or Into Its countless harbors Xfapptnc. for the tl**s?r time, tin' famous **insid-' route" to Alaska? which will dffri n I he development of th.it vast tei'.;tor\ bv hIIowIqk Mr st comers :?? reach its ports Is one of the recem and important tusks completed by the survey Man Battles With Bull While Lying on His Back Mutd'clown. N V. Lying on his back on the ground wills an angry hull endeavoring to gore tiin* to death, Oeorge II. Myers 01" Montgomery fcuccessfully fought off the animal until t\?? men sriied him. lie was leading the bull ' ? a stable when ft hecume umnnna ' able, knocking him down. Myers hud an ax handle, with which he was able to heat hack the attack of the hull, while with the other hand he clutched the ring in its nose. Although Myers arm was nearly twisted fi?>iu i:s socket. he held to the ling until assistance arrived. The bull wus ahij?ned away for slaughter. Capital School Children Not Potted on Hiitory Washington.?School children of the capital were recently shown astonish Ingly ignorant of salient points In American history. Completion of the tabulation of replies from 1,170 pttplls of rhe seventh and eighth grade classes disclosed that only per cent knew Abraham Lincoln was the author of the emancipation proclamation. The acts of Jefferson and Admiral Dewey were best known. 05 per rent giving the correct answers for these two. The total lis: of names and tlte numbers of pupils nhle to designate their places In history, follow: Jefferson. 15 per cent ; Dewey, 155 per cent Kooaevelt. 5^.4 per cent; IJi'Colu. Vt 2 per cent: I'orry, .\1.4 per cent; Grant, 40..~? per cent; Jackson. 4*> per rent: Hons:on. 38.6 per cent; Hamilton. 31.7 per cent; Meade. 25.3 per cent; Douglas, 24.1 per cent; Decatur. 23.4 per rent; Greene. 2122 per cent; Taylor, 19.-S per cent. Saw From Mayflower Is Found in Medford, Mass. MAY 22. 1924 i It whii - iiT>> r,'", ] rr.ry's population ' r? ? ' ! o by auto-sug^stion. \vb?? 1 STOP AND START" MEN nnHE Incompetent locomotive engl^ neer la known on the railroad a* "atop and atart" man. He can um the brake and the throttle, but he I doesn't know how to take care of his engine. , The "atop and start'" man is never given a good locomotive or aD important train. Life and property are too valuable to be entrusted to ignorance. T?> run a locomotive a man need not have a technical education or know how to build one. But he must have a good understanding of the principle f etcMir. power, of the mechanism of the air brake. And he must. If he Is worth his salt, know how to care for his engine so that, wkile it is in hie aha rge. it will be most efficient. Every human being ilvea and .r.ovw In a machine far more complicated than the r.K>st modern locomotive. And * Bincty-Dlne men out of a hundred lmitiar n n n,.,ra ?K..n# rku .? .???? ? tb?n the 'stop and start'* engineer knows about Mb locomotive. It U no wonder that so many human locomotives spend so much time In the hospital repair shop, or break down and become worthless long before they should How it is constructed, how it should he operated, what kind of fuel and how much of It Is required for the best results?all these are profound mysteries, even to men who can con Jupate Latin verbs or know the names f th* Roman emperor* in their rvler. It la natural to desire long Ufa. It Is pleasant to look forward to & "green old age" But these can be attained only by men who know enough about fhelr : bodily machinery to take care of it properly, and to keep It up to the work It la celled upon to do. It Is not necessary or possible for everybody to study medicine. Rat 1 every man can. with little trcu&ia learn something mora than iww W Btnrt and how to stop bin own machine. USE SWEET POTATOES IN MAKING BISCUITS Department of Agriculture Gives Recipes for Bread. It Prepared by the United S5*atea Department of Agriculture.> ^ Good muffin* and biscuits cun he | made from sweet potatoes, says th? | United States Department of Agrlcul! tare, which furnishes the following I recipes: Sweet Potato Biscuit. (16 biscuits) 2 cupfulb sift?*d 1 cupful maohM flour iwtel potatoes 1 teaspoomui salt 5 Cablrspoonfula S teaspoonfula shortening: i baking powder Liquid sufficient t? mix , Sift together the flour, salt, and bak- ( in* powder Cut or rub into thi? the cold shortening. In the same way rub Into this tlour mixture the mashed po - - ....I . t, auti jipi uno liquid to make tlie mass cling together. ; Do not knead. Place on /loured hoard, ! roll until one-third-inch thick, and cot into rounds. Place these in lightly* i floured biscuit tins and bake fifteen to I twenty minutes in a moderately hot I oven. Bake all potato breads moro slowly than those made with flour lone. Sweet Potato Muffins. (12 to 1C Bk cupfuts wheat 1 or 2 cine* flour I taMe spoonfuls j % teaspoonful salt shorten!ag 1 t tea&pooufuls Liquid sufficient t* I baking powder make a ralfecr 1 cupful cooked stiff batts* sweet potatoes (about H capf?i> Boll the potatoes hi the aklna until tender; drain, peel, and mash fine, or till better pnt them through a rtesr r colander, sift together the ftomr. I salt, anil halting powder. Beat Ike eggs until light and add ,to the eeol mashed potato. Next add the melted shortening, then the door mixture, ah tematlng with portions of the liquid, until a hatter la formed soinewfcat I atlffer than for ordinary floor muffins. Bake In mulfin pans for about thirty minutes In a moderately hot oxea. J
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