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CELNSEORO DAILY NEWS ?.U TOHIil . raklhaea Bvae TtaT la ae Yeas IHnndM Neva Claim K. a. mnmtii ai . it. joy ten Aevaesaataa- BOnPKT..., . t STOCKTON.. Ml Deltr aaa hn. WjM Man M wsekt dally aarv, eel reari lea w Mk lly. Set Saaaay, fa. Member at Ai I FM a aaaaw afloat nel an nr laaaMtonia anhaMli MONDAY. DECEMBER IS, lt. borrowed biucfs. 1 . 1 .,J. ... ,h. frnoc brtwvea hugging ane dene- .-MT" , rTt 1 .1 A. cannulas la on In Germany tol aid needy newspaper men. .who ever aw any outer Kinai mnm eoani; tat K tit? art could?.. doubt to the ant la would so to the movlea. Duluth e am Ml Kiwn ana. H lW - rwliliallM at ante a a aasnal UOBtaiiB oaa ,."rim thair )!. .rii. ,i.kt r ki in.i"v w uuu crests a rocket eludes their , rtsht to get out. Do- r LoWorf other aid of the border, ana Dmn ? PreaT ""' "" ' vx.....' i..H hi. right to . work Henry For la resuming oper-1 Sentinel r.. it bo that tho "Tiger's- fod- was for hard-boiled eggs la what snakes him ao "hard boiled"? Pitta- burgh Dispatch. Con.- would bo a bolter Instttu- i it indulaea in mora iru' ana iea """ , it waa with nrprioo m "" w. j Bryan a aatomobllo had craahoa into a woman oandldatoa ear ojt MaWS ato before. Oran itapioa rr. The soft aoao a candidate bands ?t .houidn't have any lie in it. PARACKAPHICS. . . .u u t The modern manners tale is not much of an Improvement on the ancient liauor, liquor everywhere, nor any drop to drink. Now IFttTweatherworkt will rive the United Order ox juevenui- Hour Christmas Shoppers a shake, theyll show yon some speed. ,.. l , . 1 Tt h necessary to aid the imagi- nation of the modern child by ex- l.iir.r to him that Santa Clans Is now getting ready to fill his reindeer would like to believe that the coun mrith gas snd oil. . t7 looks at h differently. One W. .upthatthedisens- of ex tha. rDi Fear iincr.1J( . our the cargo of the Message of Peace was scuttled t'other day have been drinking like a fish. But if the chief' Justice did the work cheaper than anyone else would have done it, lent the ques tion as to his psy rather a danger ous point to raise? ' Get Your Poison. Headline over newspaper article. In tha old days the words were "Name your poison. Present reference is to calcium ar senate for dosing the boll weevil Raleigh Times: "Dallas, Tet, judge says a man haa a right to get drunk in his own home. But how's he to get the Bcker, lawfully?" Judge may have in mind auto-in- " toxication. -, . Mr. Ratal has assumed th duties of president of Poland; and the. proof-readers find this mucn conso ' lation in bis accession his name is a long sight essier spelled thsn Karntowics.- . These are days and nighte for automobiling for those who have urgent need to go aomewhere in a hurry, or where it is toe far to walk. Others, if , prudent, keep their cars indoors. Ths president of PoTsnd was just entering the art exhibit, so there ' Isn't even the explanation that he might have -expressed liis resl opinion of the artist's picture just before he was shot. ' StatisticUns show 10,000 murders In the United States during 1921. What with the killers, and the in creasing number of motor car ac cidents, the Americsn citizen msy fear disease less and less. The chances of sny disesse getting a citiren are rapidly diminishing. ' Ths Americsn delegation at Lau sanne declares the Turkish plan to expel the Greek patriarch from Constantinople "an intolerable in justice." But since the American delegation has not the slightest in tention to do anything about it, our guess is thst we shall manage to tolerate it, after all. ' the weather, Sunday: Yesterday was the eighth day of a season of ' heavy cloud and frequent rain, with seldom a peep of sunshine,' several 'days the sun hardly visible at ail; and followed several days of con . alderable cloudiness and light rain. The long autumn drought had left a considerable precipitation de ficiency which probably is far from , made op; last week some farmers reported land in excellent plowing condition, others that their fields were still dry. The atmosphere yes- terdsy was quite warm again. AN INSULT. TO THE WHITE ' RACE. Governor Allen, of Kansas, struck the fatal weakness, of tho Xii Klux in his speech at Whit Sulphur Spring when he tpoka of James Fitssinunons, first' American soldier to di in the Tool sector, whom tha Ku Klux klan condamna as lass than 100 par cent American because ha Catholic Governor Allen might have added that , strewn thickly among the crosses are six pointed stars, under which lie dead Jews, who died that America might be free. They, too, by the ruling of this invisible empire, are denied the protection of the flag which they protected .with their lives. Could anything mora shameful be con ceived in the imaginations of meat Yes, we think that there is one touicr sname. .Let it be illustrated I by a picture from the past noth- j injj heroic, nothing unusual, merely J' sketch that might have been duplicated a thousand times In a ., r . . " " I inousanQ places. Imagine a white, uuiww rwra unaer mooniigbt. a I road that traverses a broad rir on the distant side of which i are hieh hilla. Thera i 't. among the hUK Even few minntaa j climbs lexjly into the night, curi- o rockets, of red fire, and green, X' horn, on the fitful breese there comes now and than a sound like distant thun- I flaw Tk .t..v . . . 'V""la " W ana Ul sound is the grow! Of big "6er" soldiers of this republic "owing at bay an enemy who would destroy it Down the road , , , , . " " lin the moonlight cornea a big army to SUffocatmn with iien aouuera aroina nn to e.l weir places in the line. Tha rf,.. ot the truck, dressed in the olive drab and Steal helmet of the field f tha United SUte. army, u a oiacc man. nesently there is a sharp turn in the road, close by the blackened aheU of a house; and at ue turn, just off the road, some- Ileams white in the moon- llirfit it u . ' i wooaen crosses, six nr v v . died together in a field. The driver indicates them with a jerk of his thumb. "Shell caught one of onr atbtr night," he ex- - V--"TW"- . Lr7 - - J1r ot.' th-t I ""un- Su 'rht men. 7 7 .usu an a road five miles .behind the Hnni i. hard to conceive anything of less significance to the armv . living soldiers did not hesitate to die oejense or our peace and ease, wuld never, never look with in difference on the spot where a ngle one of them had his life blasted out One wonld like to be lieve that ground wet with our sol diers' blood thenceforward became to us hallowed ground, whether the Wood happened to be that of a private in the rear rank, or that of a general officer. One would like to believe that whoever stood resdy to lay down his life that America might live might claim without question the right to be called American. If we are a republic, that must be so. But if we are to be ruled by an empire, an invisible empire, then these six crosses are none fit ours. The men beneath them died for us, but they are none of ours. For they were negroes, fa the lordly language of the klucker, niggers, oftener than not damn niggers. Therefore they could not be Ameri cans. The Daily News believes as tngly as ,ny klucker in white supremacy. But it believes that the white men can maintain his supremacy in the broad light of day. If it thought that the white race had grown so feeble that it dared not assert its right to rule before all men und undertake to defend it boldly, in the face of all men; if it believed .that the white race had sunk so low that it could not rule save by hiding its face in an assassin's mask and atriking in the dark, then it would -abandon hope of the white race. The exist ence of the Ku Klux is an insult to the white race. It is an admission that we cannot defend ourselves except by a coward's weapons. And when that order preaches the poisonous doctrine that the negro is not entitled to the right of a fair trial in open court and to the equal protection of the laws, be- ue ne is not 100 per cent Ameri in, we Mink of thoae hMUA crosses in the moonlight by one of the rivers of France. And when officials of the government ally themselves with that order, nay when a judge on the bench charged with, the sacred administration of justice, will not deny that he is the head of that reptilian order, we think of those graves in France. And our impulse is not one of pity for the negroes, for the negroes have Vindicated themselves. Our fear is for the nation that threatens to abandon its own dead. God help a country that could be ao vilel "THAT WAY MADNESS LIES." The campsign of assassination now being carried on all over Eu rope is the most striking symptom of the madness that has overtaken that continent -Sporadically in Italy, with a dreadful regularity in Germany and Ireland, and oc casionally in other countries lead era of various parties have been murdered in cold blood, murdered for political tffect The president of Poland is the latest victim, but his murder is only an Incident in tha widespread campaign. Obviously, there Is Insanity In the very air when men, even fanatics, can argue themselves into the belief that good can ba worked through the bloody method of the assassin. ret to that pass has come Europe, most highly civilised of .the conti nents, Europe, long regarded as the bulwark of law and order in every quarter of the globe.' Nothing else offers' such powerful support to the assertion that the civilisation of Europe is disintegrating as this passivity in tha face of organised murder campaigns. ; The old Eu rope is indeed gone, blasted to pieces and burned up. The strong men who "would have smothered this lawless and crazy element are dead on tho battlefields. The weak la body and mind are left in charge of things, and they are run ning them feebly and cratily. no more conclusive argument against war as the "purifying ele ment' could be imagined than the state of Europe today, The war naa destroyed Aer strongest' and best, and turned her destiny over to tbose who were unfit to bear arms. Id consequence, her govern ments are unable to protect them selves against murder gangs; and the remnant of her able men is be ing swept away by the pistol and the dagger. . Yet there are those, not only in Europe, but Here also, who are eon. fidently looking forward to the next war. "That way madness lies." A KIND WORD FOR THE MOTORIST. The Goldsboro News has a kind word for the long-suffering motor ist, and pleads with the powers that be to have a little mercy. Savs tha News; The state blarbwar nnmlui.. I. supported by the elate tax on auto mobiles, known aa thrf license tax. and the tax oa re and oil. and thla ws interest on the atate bonds iaiued, for road construction, let there ia a aussestion that the lecialature ought to five the right to eountiea to nut a nwiii .. these aubjecta alao. Thia appears to be a narrow tit of the subject wntcn is based uoon the hjtiur k. automobile! are mostly fuiurl th.i people should be made to pay heavily If they wish them. But automobiles are no longer luxuries, they are necessities, and the various taxes al ready imposed are about as heavy- as they should be on anything that serves a. useful purpose. When the tax assessor cornea around he lists a man's automobile aa a part of bis property, upon which are paia. - He nays an annual llntnu .a the atate and to the city In which he najs. it ia true, however, that In some of the smaller towns no city license fs required. He psys an exceaslva price for ths raa and oil which he ueea, and. In some statea one cent a gallon of the cost of gas goes into the tax fund. This simply adds a cent to the pries of gasoline. There sre many excellent automo bile repair mea. but the country la overrun with a lot of sharks who know about aa much about the mechanism of a car aa a doctor doea about snoetng a horse. The car owner doesn't And these birds out until trley put his car on the "blink" and they have to have the work done over again. The law affords him no protection against these aharks unless he takes the matter Into court in the way of a civil suit. If a pedestrian or a child suddenly steps in front of a moving car with out warning and Is Injured, it Is al ways the driver who 1s at fault and who pays the bill, rubllc sentiment never concedes that it is possible for him to he in the right. The automobile is In grester use today thsn the horse and buggy, and motor vehlclea are rapidly displacing the wagon in commercial use. We hear no crying demand for placing a small tax on wagona and buggies, or horses or mules. And yet periodically some excel lent cltliens arlae and demand that the motorist be soaked aaaln. The car owner has been well plucked ss It la Ha should not be pared to the bone. Re should not; but he will stand a lot of plucking so long as given assurance that his feathers will be used with any degree of intelligence and economy in the building and maintenance of roads. His msin objection to the imposition of a speclsl county tax on his car and the gas he bums, however, should be, snd no doubt wjll be, that state construction and maintenance will thereby be put ih jeopardy. He knows that there is a. limit; and that beyond that limit he would have to leave his vehicle in the garage. The North Carolina motorist has seen county "maintenance" and he has seen state maintenance. And he is no fool; far from it, in fact ROAD NOTES. . State highway project No. '632, FouAMile siding (South Buffalo creek) to Gibsonville, 11.5 miles, 4-Topeka, is open not officially, but actually. The commission's detour signs are kept up because of the bsd condition at Qibsonville where the underpass is being constructed. The district engineers are figuring on fixing up the street through Gib sonville in passable Shape for the winter, after which fixing-up, de tour signs will be taken down. To be sure the road is only a base, and somewhat rough, but concrete base the wsy it is built at present is bet ter than much of the completed roadway of a few years ago. The same contractor has the Trolling-wood-Mebane road in Alamance, and on completion of the asphaltic top there will move his outfit to the Gibsonville road. In the final Stage of an asphalt road the workmen do not bother the traffic very much, GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS. nor vice versa; a piece of top is is. use a few hours after laying. Project 60V the Alamance road referred to above, Is within six working days of completion. If the force ever get six clear days, they'll finish up and get out of there, and if not they will not And the pres ent prospect is that they will be there "from now on," as the lifer told tha new arrival at the peni tentiary In response to a question aa to how long he bad. to serve. These two pieces complete all bard' surface highway from Thomasville to Mebana, it mile. Says the Kinston Free Press "The prospect of having the Wayne county link of the Central highway between Kinston .and Goldsboro completed and open to traffic early in January, will be very pleasing to hundreds of people who have to use the highway and who have for the past year or more been forced to long detours. ' With the completion-of this link, and the further construction of hard-sur faced stretches on the highway east of Kinston, the entire section is going to be drawn closer together, and it ought to be possible to put forth a much more united effort as a section than ever before." Thia ia Project 280, from the Lenoir-Wayne county-line to Golds boro, 10 miles, Topeka; and evi dently excellent progress was made up to the beginning of the wet weather, if the Free Press "Informa tion ia correct; for it was reported 50 per cent complete on November 25. Thia will give 33 miles com pleted hard surface, connected, from Goldsboro east on Route 10. Only meager reports have fil tered through as to the authoriza tion in Raleigh Friday of the Fort Barnwell to Jasper road in Craven county, 10 or 11 miles. Commis sioner Cameron waa reported saying that it will furnish employ ment for between 200 and 800 men; the idea ia to help the New Bern situation by providing this employ ment aothat menho lost jobs as result of the fire can go to work. First dispatches said a contract had been let, and work was to begin at once, but it appears that the ex penditure was simply authorized, and bids will be opened in January. At the same time there was author isation for construction of a 15 miles -section, soil type, between Jacksonville and the Jones county line, to.cost about $150,000. Grad ing ia a big job down there grid ing and draining. The Craven road to be of hard surface, character not deaignated, and ia to cost $300, 000. The completion of this section. with that of two other projects now under construction, will give more than 70 miles continuous hsrd sur face east of Goldsboro. The nnvt time the commission find an 'odd ouu.uuu ui some corner they snouia appropriate it for Croatan Haveloek link, and thus close the last gap in the Central highway be- 'ween atatesville and , salt water. The destroyer Bainbridge belied her class name by preserving, in stead of, destroying, 400lives when a French hospital ship took fire the other day, and submarine chaser 86 helped by picking up survivors from the water. The officers and of the American vessels, according me meagre reports "performed all manner of heroic acts" in effect ing the rescue. Well, that's tha fr.. dition of the navy; the pride that me country haa in it is largely based on the fact that it doesn't have to wait for war to show its fine quality. PUBLIC PULSE BB. POTEATS TESTIMONY. Editor of The Dally News: 1 Is no doubt a source of satiafac- L.n. V?..m,ny " Vake "' man that, llks himself, the 8tate Baptist convention haa had the privilege of Jour editorial of this morning con- Boa-nL5-D,r- POt'at "O- D"h" consclOuaiy, with the Intimation that .m" 0f re"K'os unity which swept the convention was aa tempo. r,tir. " nefr0 revival. Let ua hops vmi"." " tne cae of Goldsmith's mil" pr"lc,""r- hse "who came to I'.."m"ned to pra'r'" " will keep it up. hW" not the Scripture fulfilled? VBok which lr. Poteat held In araeJ.." ill " P,k" "COrd ItliL . "ia- 1 am h" v" of one .?.. ? ,ha wlldernsss, make ! wy of the 1'ord " An Vurth'r' "Bh'd the Lamb of Ood! And the two disciples heard i?.,P'"k,', "nd ,K''V 'ollowed Jesus." Vt BlUy ," testimony has unified tho Baptist denomination' annh not even the co-ordination of Wake For- t ana merealth could have done. A. R. WHITKHURHT. Chapel Hill. A REPLY TO SENEX. Editor of The Dally News: Your correspondent, Senex, ia very much In error In his article Ih re gard to the conditions and aspirations of ths cltliens of south Guilford. As I was born, raised, and now live on ths old Salisbury road I am cer tain that there Is such' a road' that now exlata. This road Is the old atage road leading from Hlllsboro to Salisbury, being practically a atralght road the entire distance through Ala mance, Oullford and Randolnh coun ties. This road leads out throuah Randleman, and not Ashboro. Stinking Quarter creek hi so runs through oar farm. I am also familiar with It, Its habits, Its scent. Its taste, Its noises and Ita feeling. No purer water exists In any stream In Ouil fOTd county than does In this stream, no colder can ba found thla aide of the mountalnf'than here: This stream haa never gone dry, and If thera la any condition which would . cause malaria It has never ninde itself known, for chills are unknown rn our neighborhood. Now let's get down te some fasts MONDAY, DECEMBER 18. to this location for a schoel. It msana something to this aeotloB of county. The looatton of tha eenterl of a community means mors than the J average oltlsen realises. K demands I the best Judgment and most serious I thought, to do thla Intelligently. A school win naturally take on ths reputation of ths Immediate location in regard to Its morals. Its ehajraetsr, Its outstanding features. . ow take for a location soma point. no matter where, between Bennett' Cross Roads and tha oross roada at Oaa Brothers' shoe, a distance of three mllea.. No road In the eounty that la not a hard surfaoa road la mora thickly settled. Thsra era 11 nouaea In .this distance of three mllea all built oa the road, all painted bat two. all occupied by ths owners, not a tenant In te entire dlstaribe. Horns oving, cam-working. . honest, pro. gresslve elttsens every one, and defy anyon to deny It. lly friend, Mr. Senex, even though he be an old man with long flowing whiskers and many year of expert-. .wive etna wiae rrom - nts exiensivs travels and moving from one seottoa or me country to another, yet doesa know much of this road, tha hand soma locations, or tha people who live along it. One thing more, out ft tne I votea oaat for tha consolidation of the school districts and lnsroased taxation In this township, It of these votea were caat by families living en this three miles of tha old. Salisbury roaa. Now Mr. Senex, I am grieved to speak the truth aa to your community mat surrounds your location. Oreene township is oppressed, bowed down. and laboring under a alnk, yes a not bed of rottenness that far axceeda that of the dead deer years ago along Stinking Quarter. Tha senter of thla stench is In sight of your location, bootleggers' headauartera" ara in leas than one mil of your location. now would that sound? Tou see tnera ara Quarters connected with both locations. I personally have aided tha sheriff, raid the briar thickets, spring branches and woods nsar your location and this fall four moonshine outfits were picked up n one day, leas than one mile from your proposed site. I bale thla. I hate to aav It.' but these Conditions exist and we people over here ara Indignant whan , we learn there Is a possibility of locating scnooi in a place ilka that. We wantclean surroundings, clean as sociates, high ideals, honsst princi ples, manly, law-abiding clttaenahip to surround the coming men and women of our community while they are in training to become leaders In future generations. I want tha board of education to coaalder this thoughtfully. 1 take mem to be men that at and for nm gresslve eltiienshlp, men who have heart that beats continual! v .for mgoer taenia, men wno know that the impressions made on a roona? mind re inoeiiDia ana will Influence that child all through lite. I'm not preju diced against your location but I'd rather see a boy Ignorant and boneat than an educated bootlegger. GRADz BOWMAN. Liberty. , SHEARS AND PASTE Military PHseaera. WW - . ... xuv Miiauon ot raoicai aronna for the release of political prisoners irom ieavenwbrth la dolna one anna thing.. It is turning the attention of ex-service men to the case ot the , military prisoners confined in that priaon, and to the fact that an impartial review of every aantenoe oi a soldier' to a prison term ahouM be had Immediately, and Is certainly more Important to the American justice than any general olemency or eiacaera, oojectors or traitors. mere ia no supposition In ths minds of any veteran that all of the 400 military prisoners should be turnea loose. In Tact, most voter. ana anow periectly well that some of those serving life sentences ahould stay there for life, and might well enough havaeen hanged. We aiso. know that some of tbem were tried hastily and sentenced exces sively, and that thair cases should nave tne most careful revtew, to the end that those wrongly or exces sively punlshsd may be. releaaed while they are yet young men? cap able of going ahead to uaeful Uvea. Not only ahould ths court martial evidence and findings of thase oases oe reviewed, but additional facta or testimony should be considered, rela tive to the attendant circumstances of the offenses. Those prisoners who have no frienda able to preaa their cases for review should have some sort of opportunity to submit, ar have gathsred and submitted for them, an; facta which ara pertinent but were not considered wben thay were tried. This review of ths case of military prisoners la now overdue. Remem bering that these men, whatever their offenses, wsre soldiers In tha uniform of their country, and that aome of them had excellent service records. It Is not unreasonabls to assert that that they ara entitled to aome con sideration beyond the quick oourse of military Justlce'and tha formal rs views hitherto glvsn to their cases. JThe Army haa not been tnolined to any Injustice In this matter. In faot, tha reviews In Judge Anaell'a time resulted In enormous raductlona of sentences. But tha matter has not been much pressed of late, and tha few remaining prisoners being mostly tha friendless fallows who have had no one to agitata their claims, It probably remains for some veterans' organisation to undsrtake the task ot working for a gancral review of all remaining, cases. Such a demand would be a godd answer to the radical propaganda for a ra leass of so-called political offenders. Tha Stars and Strlpea. Ga, Lovely Rasa. Ooflovely Ross Tell her that waatea her time and me, That now aha knows. When I resemble her to thee, , . Host sweet and fair aha seems to ba. 'fell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That h'adst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small Is tha worth 1 Of beauty from tha light retired: Bid her come forth. Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Thsn die that she Ths common fate of all things tare May read In thee; How amall a part of time they share That are so wondrous sweat and falrl Edmund Waller, In tha Mllwaukss Journal. Work, John Wanamaksr Is authority for this story by John O. Rockefeller, Jr.: "I sat one evening over my Shake- speare, when a sentence popped up that pusslsd mi, so I said- to my father, Bitting near: 'Father, what does this mean: "There Is a tlds in the.. affairs of men, which taken at tha flood, laada on to fortune." What kind of tide would that b, fatherr . "Tied down to business, son!" my father replied. Savannah Mornlna Newe. . 1922 I tI7 UA Tff Ts thai " a m w J J HWU MaU Once A Year! Ths Brltlah Island group of Ola- tan da Cunha lies In the far south Atlantic, almost midway between Cap Horn and the Cape , of Oood Hope and far removed from all ship routes, so that oftsn vesssls do pot put in once in a ysar. Its population was started by a British garrlaon and has been kept up through the addi tion ot shipwrecked sailors, Imported colored wives and by other world wanderers, f A year ago a call was made for a mlaalonary to go ta tha tslanda and waa anawered by Rev. Henry Martyn Rogers and his wife. An account of hia first Impressions, which were for warded to the Cape by the late Sir Erneat Shackleton's vessel. The Quest, Is published In tha London Times. At dawn, alx days aftsr leaving Caps Town, tha bedroom ataward ot tha ataamahlp Taeoma Mara knocked gently at my cabin door "Land In alght, sir.'' , It waa Trtatan da Cunha. to ba the horo,e of my wife and myaelt for the next two or three years, and In the wet dawn It stood out by Itself, a great bare rock with low clouds en shrouding It, and It looked lonely enough. But, keeping about a couple of mllea off shore, our vessel rounded Sandy Point and came In sight of ths little settlement called Edinburgh on the maps In honor ot the .Royal Duke who onoe visited It. The people, how aver, call It all Tristan only. Our alrsn Bounded a note of greeting, and aoon we could dlaoern men running and three boats of Islanders rowed awlftly ont to ua They came alongalds our lowered gangway and called out "Oood morn ing" In English and "Welcome to Tristan da Cunha," and asked to ba allowed aboard, but tha cautioua Jap anese captain would only allow up one from eaohaboat, and Tom Rogers, Bob Glass and Ham Bwaln, the latter the oldest man on tha Island, wsrs allowed up. They displayed polished horns, feather mats, sheepskins and mocca sins, and small apples and potatoes as their stock for trading, but there wsre only a few pasasngera and they could not do much, to their great disappointment, as ths arrival of a ship Is regarded as a fins opportunity for getting much-needed clothes and storssv Fortunately we were bringing let-' ters and some parcela of gifts, but Just now ths island men and I would notice here they ara big, strong fel lows like north ssa fishermen sre much In want of clothes, and they wear garments pattfhsd and msndsd to a degree; but worse stll, there Is no paint, canvas or nails to repair the boats on which they depend ao greatly. Tha Trlstanltes told ms there had been no boat for 14 months, and thia was tha first Japaneae boat which had ever visltsd ths Island, and I found them all vary kind and help ful, apd the entire population almost waa on ths beach waiting In the pouring rain to- welcome ua, so thera vats much handshaking. l-Ths Island man hslped the Japan ese sailors to land ths stores in their boata, but It waa aeveral hours before the oargo was all out, (id we were all tired out and hungry bsfore the ox-wagons, tiny affairs, had dragged the boxes up tha rough road' from Big Beach to the settlement. Until our bungalow was erected we staysd at Tom Rogers' house, and found him and hia wife moat kindly and eonaldsrata hosts, and everything possible waa dona for our comfort, Tha stock on tha Island ara cattle, aheep, dogs, pigs, geese, chickens and donkeya; goats and rabblta were once here and, would do well again, It is bslleved, but somehow have become extinct. The story of tha rat plague Is exaggerated; rata ara plentiful too plentiful but do not amount to a plagua at present I found the stock looking well, and wa were given an unlimited allowance of fresh milk, but It Is said stock have a rough time In tha winter, and many die from expoaura to wind and rain up among the hills. The population has never bsen so large aa now (nearly 140), but the people are not either mentally or morally deficient, aava In about three cases. However, there are 'many il llleratea, ss'has to bs expected. Mr. Hagen, another of tha Islanders, IT FW HUT f ft C flfl ss f jv UVJ J MJ MINDING gave tha biggest room in hia house for a church and schoolroom, and next day being Sunday I held two servlcea, at which tha whole Island was pres ent, lnoludtng Miss Betty Cotton, tha oldest inhabitant, aged 1. Betty la a daar old soul, rather tottery, but hav ing all her faculties, and quite a good conversationalist. Her father, who lived to ba very old. was a sailor In Nelson's fleet, and fought at Trafalgar. We found the Island Is not a bar ren rock at all. but has a, light vol canic soli, fertile td a - degree, and capable of cultivation, but the Island ers ara atook breeders and flahermen rather than agriculturists; still they can grow goo a vegetables and fruit. Apples and potatoes ara tha favored crops, but I have seen onions,' car rots, turnips and cabbages that would rousa envy In an English villager's hsarL The fish caught ara mackerel. live lingers, aoidiera and Cray fish. ' I am dreading the winter, aa I am told both meat and milk are, then short, and ths rule of large families ana sieaany Increasing population .uiui me aimcuitles. It seems ciear mat unless ws get a visit from a warship with aome supplies or more irequent malls or ahlps to trade wnn, uie position here will grow ui.rn-uu, ana tne home or South Afsl can government should coma to our At the moment paint and canvas for our boata, nails and man's work clothes, aa well aa .flour, for bread, soap, randies, cna, tea;- are unob tainable, though I have atored enough food for my wife and myself for eaverui montns; but after that I expect we ahall bee-ln to are, h..i. We are hoping atrongly that now there la a mlaalonary on tha Island there will at least be an annual mail irom . r,ngiana. ' .,.... "EAST," SAID A. B. SEE, With Two Other Great Mea Coald E.ad Strike Evil. ' He Alonto B. See. the elevatn. faoturer, who a few days ago wrote that women's eollegee ahould ba ournea down, got a whole nan in tha Monthly Bulletin of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New lorn in April when In a I.H.e t Darwin P. Klngslsy, president of tha cnamoer, ne ottered - ta nettle (ha wuoie coat strike. Tha oorreanoad. enoe betwben Mr. Sea and Mr. Kings- sa7 iuhuwi; ' My dear Mr. Klncslev: : , I think It waa Emerson who said. ine worm work has avsr been done by two or three". I believe Mr. Beecher nna m that the trouble with most men waa mat tney I lacked guts. . if I could have two nr thru mem. bers of ths Executive Committee of the New Tork Chamber of Commerce with guta, to work with m. - wa could soon have tha coal .int. on the way. to a proper endlna. It does seem stranae that I. a practical, hard-headed business man, anouio oe unable to find member! of the Executive Commute, nr ih. Chamber capable of understanding a fe)w aimple facts, which If rightly applied would make practically an ending of the atrika ovli which has so greatly cursed our country, ' :. T. "'J iroiy yours, alonzo n amis My dear Mr. See: . i I notice In your note of the inth the quotation from Emerson:' -, "The world's work has ever been done by two or three." I conclude from this letter, and others you have wrlttsn from time to time that you hs.ve.aot yet succeeded in finding the orhe two. , ' ' " . S The eaae with which you think vou could settle the coal strike and aolva tha strike problsm -generally, f pnly you could get two or three members of the Executive (Committee of ths Chamber of Commerce with guts, to Work with you, men who could. un derstand a few simple facts, 'reminds ms of the lady who called td see me this morning and solemnly announc ed that she. was the only. person In the world who knew how to settle he existing problems of civilisation. Slid If I would oqly see, her the wh! thing could he done qulokly. I am sorry I did not make a mem orandum of her address: I think she Tf ACm PP. aJatfJUir .4 iiuuv s-i- must be one ot the other two whom you soeV . , . ..DARWIN P. KINOSLET. . ' ,:-.'.. PrsstdsBt. . . v. THAT SONG..,, Oh, sacred aong divine. . , . How sweet thy flow! How thrills the soul , . To hear ay strains! , How full and free, v . 1 How trend, aabllme Thy swelling tones, Aa rolling onward O'er thoae peaceful hills -Of wondroua charm! No carnal discord mars Tha beauty of thy flbw, : ) But purest notes supreme Flow onward, . . Ever onward, upward ' -i. r .'. To richer, nobler heights -Beyond. . . , ,. Till universal regions sing . ,' , In eohd to thy luring stratna! james Monroe downum. Boone, N. C. . . ; ladlaa Pipe These ara the flowers for a mad t- bride At dusk, on the black earth,' under , .. black trees, . s ; Shs shall fill has torn,, white hands with these, . ., . - . Shs.shall be heard by all the country-, aide . ... . When aha comes singing to the wood's edge. Whiter than dogwood ahall 'flutter on the ledge Tha silver tatters of her bridal dress. Singing in a cracked voice a song of craslness, Down ths vague meadow, where her floating veil, . . Rests oa the mist, ahe ahall wander, till her wall Dles along the river In the mown hay. There they shall find her a break of daV. " ' With. eyes like the first whltairost,, with the tips Qf her tired fingers and tha droop f kf her lips Blackened like the flowers she hai atolan awav The flowers that were all one waxen want), Leaf, stem and cup, hut Could not last the night. Winifred Welles. In The Measure. sieaaaaeata. """'" Sometimes the angele go Searching They traverse the t reaching moun- taini. Th anil thm rnllle. mA - - -- aviutiaj SIUU. They never on earth would find them ' "' mntae we ao long nave known. For they never atop to decipher "r reooros in oronis and stone. They find tbe graves of Ood's children - By the monuments mhim-a Thuh ysars of struggle and tolling , .... iinnue mai are ouried thsra Of words that wsre fitly spoken, - s Of service devoted, true. ' We mortala may never see them, ' s messengers always da, ,! Clarence E. Plvnn. in k. tlon Herald. V. . ' "FATING QUESTS" AID NOBILITt'. "New Poor" Take la It Irk Fa Hoaaa rnny seaaea la Eaglaad. (From a London Letter to New Tork irioune.i The XPaylng guest" Is h.inin. country hoass ownsrs anions- the nsw.poor" to make both ends meat according to London nawanannra The- houss party aeaaan h.. ..... round again, with Ita autumnal pleas ures, Its shooting, hutina-. n,L., merry making and expenses'. For tha T who a neavy pedigree and a llghUbank balance tha large country establishment becomes svsry year an Increasingly difficult problem. .-. Many ara forced to rnana.. itk.,., the old family butler, tha older faml ly plate and' the oldest family wines, to keep their places open at all Others, as 4 despsrata ramedy, are Th.".! t,kJn "Piyln -iTa .J? .7 J '' how,v'' one Into with the tAot expected of a woman of m. ?.? -1 uPPressed until the wo-' I"'J7n 's neoessary to corns ' tentut Ths first step la taken with thi lnasrtlon of a discreetly al luring Advertisement in ih. limn nf a . - , The (arrangement l. .i'i? . satisfactory to ail n.w... ' T"' .... : V: Tk. U... .u. 11 r. ' au'omonnes corns bill ' : 'Ml ' - eg j""" 'saw KIKE.
Greensboro Daily News (Greensboro, N.C.)
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