TWO
mievevesuvius
will erupt soon
More Than Two Hundred Quakes
Registered in Vicinity of Volcano
Within Two Days. Might
Be cf Some Magnitude.
Naples. Italy.?Mount Vesuvius,
fiery ancient volcano, after slumbering
two years, resumed intense activity
Friday. Deep rumblings and
earth shocks caused pan:.e among the
people of the countryside and nearby
villages.
More than 200 'quakes had been
registered since early Friday morning,
the dittctor of the Vesuvius observatory
announced. The most severe
was felt in nearby towns of
Torre Del Greco, Resila and Portich.
Vesuvius snouted ashes and numerous
explosions deep within rue
mountain caused peasants to fear an
eruption of the dreaded boiling lava,
which has snuffed out cmnless lives
and flooded over villages and towns
for centuries.
"The new activity of Vesuvius has
manifested itself in explosions, rum1.H
i i- f i
nuug* a?in spounp.tr 01 mcanuescent
ashes," Professor Malladra reported.
"The glowing, rosy sky around .the
top, over the crater is due to the
boiling lava inside.
"The phenomenon is easily visible
at night from Naples. The present
activity must be ascribed to obstructions
in the eruptive conduit caused
bv small landslides in the interiorj
of the voieano, which reduced the |
actual opening for the outflow to j
small proportions."
The observatory director said an
eruption of some magnitude might I
be expected any I hue, adding:
"It is presumable that Vesuvius
is threatening a new eruptive phase,
which may happen in the spring, as
often has been tbe case. It is hoped
the eruption will not be of catastrophic
character, like the one in
11*29, when lava poured into the
homes of people in Tt-rzigno."
Malladra said some of the QuakesI
were >f "fourth and f'fth degree of
severity," registered by the observatory
at the base of the volcano.
Polk County People
Pay Tribute to Sidney
Lanier on His Birthday,
Try on, N. C.?Friday was the
birthday of Sidney Lanier, musician,'
Confederate soldier and poet, and
1 in the folk Couoiy
died people pnusu?d to pay jffiBS tribute
while hundreds of school chiir
? ~* ?tflnnn?? rktswromo?*ttt. -m
the "Sweet Singer ol the South."
There arc still many residents of
Polk County who knov the poet
when he died September 7th, 1881,
at the hamlet of Lynn. It was in the
Polk hills that. Lanier, perhaps the
gont-Va most beloved poet-musician,
wrote his last song.
Mrs. Lonier is generally credited
with having brought her husband's
works to the attention of the public,
and much of her work also was
done in this section.
Lanier served as signal officer on
blockade runners around Wilmington
during his service in the Civil War.
and then he came to the Polk hills
. v:. 1? 1
kV IVkkLC Ills I11M Wilis.
He w? born in Macon, Ga., in
1S12, and from childhood win passionately
fond of the flute, the mastery
of which helped support him.
He enlisted in the Confederate army
in 1861, and served first in Virginia;
then his health began to fail and
he was transferred to a blockaderunner,
was captured and spent five
months in a federal prison. He was
exchanged in 1865 and started homo
on foot, arriving exhausted.
He later began practice of law,
then went to Texas -for his health,
hut was forced to return.
The poet wrote numerous hooks
and continued playing liiS flute, but
in the spring of 1881 he was carried
to Lynn to try camp life and improve
his health, but he died.
Lanier is considered by many the i
greatest southern poet since Poe.
Many regarded his genius more musical
than poetical, others though!
the opposite. Still others regard Lanier
as modern America's most original
and talented poet.
Davidson County farmers report a
seed T"r. of 5,000 pounds of lespedeza
scricca.
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OVER LOSiMG 44IS
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Taxpayer snoo gIROO $
Single 34 332
Married,
noehildrrn no lnx
Married, . ,
1 child n
Married,
2 children "? "" 1
Married,
I 3 chil.lren | ""tax | "? 'nx 1 r
A bove are charted income tax flgui
to all, inasmuch as new rates apply and
cnt ways. 'The above table impplementa
ton Cclomn at the left. Oaly personal e
above chart. You may have other deduo
j Girls of "Gay 90V' I
Sent Hot Valentines
Chicago.?The parties responsible
for propaganda that Victorian mai- v
dons were reticent in expressing ten- c
der emotions were much mistaken? g
if the valentines they sent indicate t
anything.
In fact some of these missives are j
so torrid as to make a 1333 miss ex- \
claim: c
"Gollv, a woman didn't mind tell- <
ing a man in those days how mucn
she thought of him." t
Which may be a hit different from 1
! wriat many 01 us nave nearn?and (
| anyone wishing to verify this can
step into the Chicago Art Institute 3
ami examine the early American and ?
English valentines collected years ago a
by Mrs. Emma B. Hodge, now de- i
ceased. t
Here's how a 19th century maiden y
let a man know she was "that way" r
about him. ^
She sent him an S-by-10-inch card,
embossed, with a steel engraving of c
a girl speeding Cupid forth from her j
window with a note?and says the ^
inscription: i
flv. ,
"Tell the fond youth, 1
"For him I sigh."
in surprising her by "popping the j
question/' she prodded htm with a j
valentine that must either have sent ^
him to the jeweler's or aboard 1-he j
first stagecoach out of town. 1
Says T.he tender message:
"Armed with sincerity and truth }
*rI send -lutw IiiibS ~to you, uc?i 1
youth. t
"In love's own rite, I'd fair in- >
dine ?
"To join my faithful heart with
thine." 1
The Vkitorian maid didn't seem \
a bit modest about letting u man ,
know "you're the one, the only one."
She sent him a valentine showing ,
a girl holding Cupid hy the shoul- ;
der. She is bidding the little trou- ,
Me maker shoot an arrow into a i
young man sitting unsuspectingly on ,
a park bench. ,
If he neglected her. =he didn't just
call up somebody else. She put into j
his mail for February 14 a picture ,
of a woman hiding her crying face j
in her arms while a mournful hound i
looks on. It reads:
"In this recess my passion here i
let sway
"To disappointment my heart is
prey."
Ir. their valentines of the same
period men likewise went in for ar- j
dent- poetrv. ,
If they were serious about shoul- <
dering some girl's grocery bill for (
life, there was to be found in the t
background of the picture the temple ;
of love and a church steeple. (
If they weren't so sure?they selected
or.e without the steeple. f
St. Valentine is credited with star- (
ting it all in 207 A. D., when he j
whiled away long hours of his im- i
prisonment by sending love messages
to the daughter of his keeper. j
And from an old Roman notion c
that birds mare on February 14th
sprang the custom of young men j
and women selecting each other at j
"valentines" on that date. t
in early Knglaiui names ot un- s
married men and women were drawn a
by lot on the eve of St. Valentine's 1
day. They were each other's valen- s
tine for that year. j
The Board of Agriculture of Ca- J
tawba County is co-operatir.g with t
the farm demonstration agent by de- (
signaling the kinds of extension work s
which will be more useful to farm- t
ers of the county.
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Bricklayer (first day on job)?
Guess I can't work here?there's no
place to park my auto.
Boss?Xo, you won't do. We can r
only u3e bricklayers who have their f
own chauffeurs. a
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How Science Hopes to Produce
Power from the Sun's Revs and the
Ocean Depths, Explained by Profei- (
cor TKarunin, Distinguished French h
Scientist, in The American Weekly, ?
the Magazine Distributed with Next r
Sand*RshiwwS Amsriess. &
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' INCOMli ' jf|
2000 83600 85100 86100
860 8104 8168 8249
<4 844 $104 8145 ??
a lax 828 *88 8129
10 tax 812 *72 *113
to lax no lax | $52 $97 j
res which should bo of special interest
various incomes cro effected in differ- *""**
tho outline as given in our Washingkcmptionb
have been deducted in the
Hone to further rodtioo your tax.
Vine Led Out of Fire ||
Run Back and Perish |=
Cleveland, Ohio.?Nine frenzieii ~
vomen patients raced into a blazing
ottnge on the Ridgecliff Sanitarium ==
rrotihds Friday and perished?after
hey had once been led to safety.
Nurses and attendants fought a
ritched battle with fourteen others
vho lived in the cottage and succeed- ?
;d in keeping them outside until help zz:
tame. zz:
The weird encounter occuriect ill rrr
:he bitter cold before dawn at the zzz
irivate institution in Wickliffe, r. ez:
Cleveland suburb. zzz
Twelve hours later Suite Fire zzz
rl a its ha I Va! Halncr announced he rzz
uspectcd incendiarism, possibly by z=
pyrbmaniuc among the patients.
lospital authorities, however, asked
he arrest of a man who they said =
lad threatened vengeance oh the
nanagemcnt in a dispute over mon- ==?
;y some time ago. ==
Attendant Millard Smith discov?red
the lire in the cottage basement
ust after 1 a. m. He said he used a
garden hose to extinguish the fire 5=
n the furnace, but more flames 3p- sss
-He coming from ^another
>axt of the basement. ^
With three women nurses be start- ~
tit tiTTTriCixd"". -" ? Stmm
Erom the two upper floors, hut as
East as the scantily' attired inmates M?
vert exposed to the cold most of ?
them insisted on returning to the zEE
,varmth inside. EE5
By this time attendants from the zz;
siain sanitarium building had gone ?
luu utiioiiL with a step ladder, drag ?
ring the struggling woman through s;
windows and doorways. It was neces- zz;
,ary to use force in most eaises. zz:
Attendant Sam Brady dragged 4 ?
frightened women from an upstairs zz
jedroom, while firemen were pouring zzz
streams of water into the cottage. zz
"The smoke was about to get me," ZZ
said Brady, "when I looked under a zzz
bed ar.d found an elderly woman zz
trouehed against the wall. I dragged zz
ler to the window and handed her ZZJ
jut. It was all I could do to follow zz
Jown the ladder." S!2
Within five hours all of the pa- S-ri
dents had been accounted for, wit. sz:
me exception. Her body was found jzt
n tne ruins ol the cottage late ill
the day.
CALIFORNIA RATS FOUND =?
TO RAISE SEED CROPS ==
Washington.?Giant kangaroo rats ==that
own farms and raise seed-bear- 5S:
ng plants have been found to inhabit 5EE
i narrow range on the Southwestern -SS
;ide of the San Joaquin Valley in 5js
California, according to a report
nade Co the American Society of 55
d?mmaiogist3 by Dr. Joseph Grinell jag
>f the University of California.
The land ownership. Dr. Grinell
ound, is confined to individual rats, as
iach separating his "farm" from the 5jj
'arms of his neighbor's by a thin as
iarren strip of land.
Bach farm is from two to four as
'arus across and no rat trespasses JSS
in his neighbor's property.
That sueli a large aainial should 5E
ie saitisfied with such a limited habtat,
Grinnell found, is probably due ~
o a peculiar combination of circum- j*I
tances that assures it a good food ?
upply and safety. The kinds of seed- ?5
tearing plants it likes grows there in ??
ibundance. There is little rainfall to ~3?
lood the shallow, but numerous bur- 35 '
ows with which the farm is under- 55
run en. The rat is a weak digger and
he soil is of a nature that permits 5s
if easy excavation, yet of such con- ss
istency that it does not drift with sss
ne wind or aosoro me water easily, sac
rhe kangaroo rat3 could not find 3?
uch a fitting combination elsewhere. SS
The rata have been able to adjust 3E
hemselves to two very serious ene- zsz
nies, the coyote and the horned owl, Err
or it is a powerful runner and has =
in exceptionally keen sense of aifcht ?==
mil hearing. m
s
E. M. Currin of Harnett County E5
iroduced $1,200 bushels of wheat 5jE
ast season to supply his tenants with S:
lour and also has enough home cured 55
neat and home-cooked sorghum to 5=
arrv them throuerh the year. -THUD
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