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"Got my shad roes?" asked the
young man of the grocer's daughter,
who was waiting on trade.
"My name ain't Rose —It's Gladys,"
retorted Hie damsel; "and please re
member I'm Miss Smith ta you."
, Didn't Mean*lt
Nurse (to obstreperous young
charge) —Oh, Miss. Betty! Arid Just
after you've been kneeling and asking
God to make you a good girl.
Betty—Well, I didn't really want to
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Gyr^fenal
O'Whlrl —When I woke up this
morning I found all the bedclothes
wound tightly around me
O'Pndge—My, you must have slept
like a top.
Sure Sign
Dora —They say that Dick Is .going
wrong in his head. .
Doris—l haven't noticed It He pro
posed to me yesterday.
Dora —Ah, then it's true.
■lgnored
"Does your wife look her ageT"
"No, she overlooks It."
DESERVED ONLY A BUST
"Now they're proposing a statue to
the chap who Invented the balloon."
"I think a bnst is all he deserves."
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Would Be at Home
Prisoner—l have one thing to ask
of your honor. '
Judge—What Is it?
Prisoner —Will yon please have me
pat in my old cell? I never can sleep
In a strange bed.
Helping Father
' "Why does Mary always cuddle next
to the driver?"
"She's working for her father."
"Where's the connection?"
"You see, he's In the auto wrecking
business."—Auto Sparks.
GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY 2, 1926.
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THE
HAPPY HOME
By MARGARET BRUCE
- WNU Sarvlc*
The Mid-Day Sieata
In all the very hot countries, the en
tire population takes a "siesta" in the
middle of the day. It is a scheme
wtych the busy housewife may very
well adopt, especially durlng'the late
summer days when every effort seems
to be a burden. To keep'golng ail day
long often means an impatient, touchy
mother by dinner time, but a quiet
siesta, spent in complete
a lounging chair or hammock, even if
one doesn't sleep, means that the
warmest part of the day r passes her by.
During our vacation days we all idle
more or less, for we are relieved of
the housework while at a hotel or sum
mer resort and have long hours to sit
on the beach or swing beneath the
apple trees. When we come back, we
shouldn't plunge at once Into ail-day
continuous work, but try to carry the
vacation across into the following few
weeks until we feel like tackling a full
day's work again.
"I feel so lazy and guilty if I lie
around reading when there Is so much
to be done," protests the conscientious
housewife. But resting isn't laziness,
and the complete relaxation which you
get when lying down, or reclining, read
ing not too seriously, and perhaps dos
ing, is very different from "resting" by
sitting upright doing filet crochet or
some other handwork.
On some days, the hottest hour
comes around four o'clock in the after
noon, and if this is so, save your
siesta until then. But ordinarily a
good time to take' it is immediately
after luncheoh, before interruptions
occur and while the weariness trqm the
morning's work still holds on.
From the Bottom Up
Mrs. Jimmy looked across the break
fast table at heMiege lord. She was
sipping her coffee
~\ slowly and look-
MWif f Very g00c! looltlD B.
lßjd99wijl she mused prond-
HrHB ly, and wore his
vmvvct Yet, as she gazed.
\Yj she noticed that
 HHV M the fthirt he was
wearing. was one
he seemed to wear
Very often, and It
I WW was even getting a
bit worn looking
around the collar. She set down her
cup.
"Jimmy," she said, "why do you
wear the same shirts all the tlsfile?
You have a great drawer of them In
your chiffonier. Some of them I never
see you wear at all. But every other
week you have this same one on for a
couple of days. Why do you wear It
so often?"
Jimmy looked down at It vaguely.
"Why, I don't know," he said; "It's
always right on top when I open the
drawer."
That opened Mrs. eyes. She
herself put Jimmy's shirts away each
week when they came from the laun
dry, laying them in carefully In two
piles. It was doing, then. So the
next week she adopted a new scheme.
When the clean clothes came home,
she worked from the bottom instead
of the top. Jimmy's clean shirts were
placed not on top of the others, but
beneath them. The same with hla
handkerchiefs, the same with his "bee
veedees," as he spelled them. The
unused ones at the bottom began to
creep nearer the t«p. giving the older
ones a rest and getting each used in.
rotation.
Then she took the same method Into
her own realm. 3he put her fresh un
derwear and nightgowns away not on
top of the supply In the driwer but
underneath it Into the linen closet
she went, putting sheets, towels and
pillow cases at the bottom of the piles
instead of on tojf of rhem. A few
articles had beer jetting all thp wear
while others were growing yellow from
disuse.
Jimmy began tc look splffy In shirts
he had forgotten he had. "Men al
ways take the article nearest at hand,"
murmured Mrs. Jimmy, as she tucked
the well-worn pajamas at the bottom
and laid a new pair were they would
meet Jimmy's sleepy hand next time
be changed. '
(Copyright.)
Wild Poniaa of th« Bank*.
(Prepared by the National Geographic
Boclety. Washington, I>. C.)
WHILE many Southern states
are feeling the burden of a
huge cotton crop at low
prices, North Carolina, which
not only raises cottrt'n but has also
come to manufacture cottoif goods on
a large scale, can see the other side
of the picture.
)»ortli Carolina is passing through
9 renaissance. Due to her steadily in
tensifying si lift from cotton fields to
mill centers . and from once-idle
streams to throbbing dynamos, she has
suddenly rediscovered herself on the
threshold of industrial power.
The legendary North Carolinian
"who in the '6os called his
daughters Rosin, Tar and Turpentine,
would today be naming ,them after
cigarette brands,, furniture trademarks
and cotton-goods patterns.
Charlotte, situation between the big
hydroelectric developments along the
Catawba and Yadkin rivers,, is a
plexus of this new industrialism. In
the. last 25 years the number of tex
tile mills operating within a 100-mile
radius of that city has beenr increased
fivefold, with a present spindleage of
10,000,000.
An hour's ride beyond Charlotte Is
Gastonia, one of the largest textile
centers in the United States. Of Its
20,000 people, about three-fourths are
workers In the 42 mills whose tall
stacks cut the sky. Yet, in the town's
broad, tree-shaded streets, lined with
neat cottages on well-kept, flower
fringed plots, one feels no oppressive
sense of concentrated industry, but
rather the rent fulness of soigp model
suburb, widespread to sun, air and
surrounding countryside.
With mill workers' cottages rentable
at $3 a month, with water and electric
light free, and a mild climate, neces
sitating little fuel, which Is obtainable
at cost, it is not uncommon for moun
tain families to work at Gastonia long
enough to pay off their farm mort
gage and then return to the Hlue
Ridge. Gaston county contains 08
textile mills, which represent one
sixth of the state's total spindleage
and consume almost one-third of her
cotton crop. /
Winston-Salem's Factories.
Another center of importance In
North Carolina's new Industrialism Is
Winston-Salem. It has been designat
ed "the twin city" since Its component
towns were merged in 1913, but no
twins ever showed greater dissimilar
ity than old Salem and youthful Win
ston. Here one has the stately
Eighteenth century and the industrial
Twentieth century side by side, with
a mere street or so acting as the
hyphen.
Salem signifies that "peace" which
was sought by the |iers«'cu\ed Morav
ians who founded It in 1753. And that
"peace" has never forsaken old
Salem. Cross a few streets and one
is xi in id Winston's humming bee
hives of IndustrialUm, where 15,001)
wage-earners are turning out their
daily trainloads of manufactured to
bacco, furniture and textiles on a
scale that leads Uncle* Sam to rate
Winston-Salem as the Youth's second
industrial dtr.
A circle enclosing Winston-Salem
with the denim* center of Ureeusboro
and the furniture center of High Point
delimit* an Industrial patch 30 miles
across, representing an annual prod
ucts value of more, thun s.'soo.ootooo.
WinstAi-Salim's stamp-sticking ma
chines consume annually the most ex-
in the world —a matter
of ?100,000,000 worth of Uncle Sam's
familiar blue lmpjrlnta. That Is the
sura of her federal tobacco taxes,
which represent one-half of those paid
by North Carolina.
From the tobacco standpoint. North
Carolina's civic twins are really Win
ston and Durham. At' Durham the
first perfect**! cigarette-rolling ma
chine was used, and her fame for the
"makings'* dates back to the C:vii
war.
Durham finely symbolizes education
springing out of Industrialism, for It
Is Uie seat of Duke university, which
is d«4iljjwid by recent bequests to be
come of the country's greatest
centers' of learning. Social welfare
springing out of education Is as finely
symbolized by the nearby state uni
slty at Chapel Hill.
Land of the Sky.
, But all is not industrialism in North
Carolinti. In the west is Asheville.
the gateway to what North Carolinians
have well named the Land of the Sky.
Never was an altitude of a half mile
above sea level so unobvious. in all
but the tonic atmosphere. Set In a
vast bowl, Asheville Is encircled by
mountains whose 20 highest peaks top
all altitudes in the Eastern states.
It was on the Biltmore estate, near
Asheville. that, with the founding of
a forestry school, the first steps In
American forest conservation were
taken. Today there are established
in this region, for the protection of
watersheds and ha'rdwood reserves, the
Cherokee, Nantahala, Unaka and Pis
gab national forests. With a boundary
which encloses more than 1,700,000
acres, the government had acquired,
up to July, 1925, somewhat less than
a fourth of this area. In the Pisgah.
established In 1916 as a game pre
serve, native bear and deer roam,
trout streams are stocked, and herds
of bison and elk have been eraplanted
Surrounded by the inodlshness of
Asheville, one scarcely realizes that
only ."50 miles away mountaineers are .
living a ruggedly simple existence be
hind hapd-hewn timbers and on small
"switchback" furms. with revolution
ary looms and spinning-wheels along
side their chimney pieces of native
rock.
Th« Coastal Region.
A totally different part of the state
Is the coastal region with its low
lands. Its numerous sounds and chan
nels and Its off-shore Islands of sand —
"the Banks." For centuries wild
horses have been roaming the Banks,
and current tradition has It that they
are descended from Barbary ponies
wAlch were brought over by Sir Wal
ter Raleigh's colonists. From time to
time these "hanker ponies" are round
ed up arid driven Into corrals made of
timber from old wrecks. It is a scene
with a far Westprn tang, flying hoofs,
swinging lariats, and the flash of
branding Irons. After the branding
and calling «>ut, the likeliest animals
ar»* auctioned off. They bring now
only a bend A few years ago these
putative descendnnts of Italelgh's "lit
tle Barbary ponies" were bringing
from ?.V> to sl2" apiece.
On the ocean side of the Hatteras
banks one finds the greatest wreck
area on the Atlantic coast. Along the
beach are- theg»keleton« of wlut were'
rtnce ships, now blanched victims of
the sea and sand, their upstanding
ribs resembling flies of gravestones. ]
their forests of protruding spikes be- |
lng the grisly grass of the desert- |
like expanse. At one point there are j
14 wrecks within ICO yards.
Off the great Sjwfc of the Banks are
those dreaded quicksands, the Dla- j
mond sboal. Tlify are the more to '
be dreaded because »ff Hatteras, due*'j
to the enormous tonnage of steel hulls
embedded in the Diamond, there is a
magnetic deviation sometimes amount
ing to eight degrees.
The farther northward one follows
the Banks, the more remote and re
sonrceless seems the life of the peo
ple. Often It appears to be mere ex
istence, as of castaways who have
taken root on this two-mile width of |
sand bar, 40 miles off shore.
NO. 43.
Finger Printa Solve
Murder After Year*
Berlin.—Finger prints discov
ered nearly three and a half
years after Otto Seinicke left
them on a window frame in com
mitting a murder at Bad Oeyn
hausen proved sufficient to bring
the crime home to him when be
was arraigned at the present
term of court.
RoVvt Bicker, a young bath
attendant at the Oeynhansen
Spa, was shot and killed on July
6, 1923, by burglars who had
broken into the building he was
guarding. Suspected of the
crime, Seinicke, and a compan
ion, Heinrich Krneger, were ar
rested and tried but acquitted
because of insufficient evidence.
The police recently made a
new examination of the murder
dhamber, which bad been left
virtually untouched. High np on
a window frame an expert dis
covered finger prints, still dis
tinct, although evidently made a
long time before. Comparison
with those of Seinicke on the
police records showed they were
his. Rearrested and confronted
with the finger-print evidence,
Seinicke broke down and con
fessed.
CONVICTED SLAYER
DIFFICULT TO HOLD
Escape* Four Times From
Prisons in South.
Nashville. Tenn. —Jail officials here
' have a Jinx in the person o/ one Joto
Revlnsky, sentenced to 21 years la
| prison for killing and robbing Mae
Ooodwyn. a wealthy underworld
queen. ,
•ReTinsky just will not stay confine-!
no matter where he is placed". Fiw ten
years Tennessee authorities have been
trying to make John serve his term.
But. apparently, there isn't a jaU in
the Sooth that will hold him.
| It was ten years ago that the mur
der was committed and the man wus*
held for trial. The date for the trial
came, but John was not to be found. .
He had escape*! Nashville's best jafl.
Months later he was re-arrested, tried,
and sentenced.
While waiting to be taken to prison
he led a Jail break ami escaped again,
i Two years passed. Be was arrested
once more*3t? Alabama. Bat when
Tennessee police arrived foe him he
was gone, having sawed his way
through the Iron bars.
For seven years Revinstey roamed
> the country, making a wooden thumb
j to replace one shot off during a jail
break. Then he was caught in Sen
Francisco, Calif. Taking no chances,
police shackeled him hand and foot
and sent him direct to Nashville.
A few nights ago. while all was quiet
there, he earefUMy dug his way
through a stone wall and escaped with
| 13 other prisoners. All of these were
, recaptured except Revinsky and a aew
friend. Pete Berbero, bandit.
Uneasy Lie* Hangman's
Head, Diary Reveals
Bradford. England.—The visions of
a hangman do not make pleasant read
ing, as revealed In the notes of aa
executioner, James Berry of Brad
ford, who died some >ears ago. He
was credited with 134 executions* and
his weird experiences and sensations
are detailed fully tn a diary covering
several hundred pages.
Berry's most celebrated case and
most trying ordeal was that of John
Lee. Berry and an assistant, in
Exeter prison, tried in vain on four
occasions to hang Lee. Each time the
drop refused to act. and finally Lee
was reprieved
Of one execution Berry writes: **l
am sick at stomach, sick at heart. 1
am always like that after an execu
tion. I have had no sleep for two
nights. I never closed my eyes in Ox
ford Gaol, where the Execution took
place, all night long. I could not
sleep a wink last night, either. Time
and again—a hundred times, it seemed
—Just as I was about to drift into
siumberland, I saw my latest victim
before me."
Kidnaped Bride Returns
to of Age
San Francisco. —Interrupted six '
weeks ago when Mr. aud Mrs. Wil
liam A. Oliver of this city "kidnaped"
their daughter, Mrs. Jeahnette Ijiid
law, on the ground that she was too
young to be married without their
consent, a wedding banquet was re
sumed the other day with the original
guests In attendance. The daughter
was married to Clarence Laidlnw, but
six hours later was "kidnaped" from
the banquet After six weeks she be
came of age and rushed to join her
husband.