THE ALAMANCE GLEANER
VOL. LIV. ? GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY OCTOBER 25, 1928. NO. 38.
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WHAT'S GOING ON 1
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENTEVENTS
Smith's Trip Through Bor
der States and to Chicago
?Hoover at Boston.
By EDWARD W. RICHARD
POLITICALLY -speaking, the news
ef the week centered in AJ Smith's
tour of the border states, which car
ried him as tar as Sedalla, Mo.,
whence be passed up through north
ern Illinois to Chicago for a stop of
several days. The trip demonstrated
the personal popularity of the Demo
cratic candidate, for everywhere he
was greeted by wildly cheering
throngs. In Louisville he spoke main
ly on the tariff, and the Republicans
asserted that he "ditched" the tradi
tional dogma thereon in that speech.
Next day the governor paid a reverent
visit to the birthplace of Abraham
Lincoln at Hodgenville, Ky? and from
there passed on to St Louis, which
city gave him what was described as
the biggest and loudest ovation he
had received since his nomination. Be
made no set speech there, but moved
onward to Sedalla and there delivered
an address on the topic of "Coolldge
Economy." Be declared the Coolldge
administration was actually guilty of
willful waste, giving facts and figures
supposed to support this assertion,
and attacking the statements made
by Director of the Budget Lord and
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon.
Chicago came next on the Itinerary,
though when Smith's train passed
through Springfield he was induced to
' taik when a lond speaker on wheels
was brought alongside the rear plat
form on which he Was displaying him
self A tremendous and noisy crowd
welcomed him to Chicago, and after
a day of rest and work on his address
he made a tour of the city, appeared
at banquets abd, Friday night, spoke
to an enthusiastic crowd that filled
the One Hundred and Thirty-first In
fantry armory to bursting.
HERBERT Hoover's personal con
tribution of tbe week to the cam
paign was ills address In Boston,
where before 9,000 friendly listeners
In the city arena he told of the coun
try's economic prosperity for which
tbe Republican party claims the cred
it Continuance of tbe protective
tariff, he argued. Is necessary for tbe
continuance of this prosperity, and be
sought to refute Smith's assertions In
that connection. In replying to the
Democratic attempt to show that
changes in tariff would be made by
them that would hurt business or la
bor, Hoover said that eight months
ago every Democrat In tbe senate
voted for a resolution designed to re
duce the tariff. In Springfield and
other Massachusetts' cities through
which he passed Hoover made earn
est pleas that every citizen should
take an active Interest In the 1 "resi
dential campaign and that every Re
publican should loyally support his
party.
Senator Borah, big gun of tbe Re
publican-speaking battery, Invaded the
South last week and delivered two
rousing speeches at Salisbury and
Charlotte, N. O. In the former he
appealed especially to the women vot
ers to help defeat Smith and so pre
vent the overthrow of prohibition. In
Charlotte the senator defended at
length the record of Hoover as food
administrator during the war, assert
ing that he always showed himself to
be the friend of tbe farmer and was
ever vigilant to do the very best for
the protection of the- American pro-.
ducers. .Reviewing the agricultural
situation after the armistice, tbe sen
ator declared that Hoover opposed
the proposal of the agricultural ad
visory committee In 1918 to fix a mini
mum price for wheat of 82.48 a bush
el because it would not "be just to the
consumers." From North Carolina
Senator Borah moved Into Tennessee,
speaking at Chattanooga.
EXCEPT tor the stupid and hoerfah
behavior of the customs idHtlsl
detailed to Lakehnrst, the antra] of
the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin
and the reception accorded Its com
mander, crew and passegera, were all
Airplanes Croat Aid
to Alaska Map Makers
The work of mapping the Mind
?pots la Alaska baa bean aided mate
rially in the recant eanaon by air
planes, which the goraramaat workers
need for transporting men aad sup
plies Into tba unknown regions. This
was made known the other day at the
Interior deportment by 8. B. Ooppe.
geologist, end Gerald Huge raid, topo
graph Ir engineer, both mombeis of the
?UK of the geologies! sarray, who
. . a
that could be asked. Before going to
the hangars In New Jersey the huge
airship spent an boor circling over
New York city, and next day Dr.
Hugo Eckener and his men were re
ceived formally by the metropolis
with the nsoal accompaniments of
parade through streets Oiled with con
fetti and ticker tape, speeches at the
city hall and a banquet On Friday
Doctor Eckener was the guest of Pres
ident Coolldge at breakfast in the
White House.
Meanwhile the Injuries sustained by
the Zeppelin Just before reaching
America were being repaired and the
airship was being made ready for a
two days' tour of the Midwest which
would take It over Chicago, Cleveland,
Akron, Cincinnati and Detroit with
probable stop at the last named city,
which has a mooring mast
While in New York Doctor Eckener
announced tentative plans for the for
mation of a trans-Atlantic Zeppelin
mall and passenger service to be cap
italized for 914,000,4X10 and discussed
the details with several financiers. He
said to interviewers that he wanted
American capitalists to entrust the
$14,000,(XX) to him and his German
confreres. The sum would be nsed
to build four new Zeppelins, each big
ger than the Graf Zeppelin, and to
use them on regular all-year-round
voyages between Germany and an
American airport u -ar Washington or
Baltimore. If the money can be ob
tained Doctor Eckener said $8,000,000
would be spent on the four new gas
bags and $6,000,000 would be paid out',
for new hangars In Germany and the
United States. Two of the dirigibles
would be built In Germany and two
in America.
Dispatches from Buenos Aires said
the Argentine poet-office officials had
signed a contract with a Spanish
Transaerlal company for the carrying
of mall monthly between 8pain and
the Argentine, and the company
named la reported to have leased the
Graf Zeppelin for two years.
Several delegates to the convention
of the Investment Bankers' association
at Atlantic City started for an air
plane ride Thursday. The plane went
into a nose dive and crashed and W. O.
Cbanute, a banker of Denver and
grandson of Octave Cbanute, "the fa
ther of aviation,'' was killed. Seven
other men were Injured.
Baron von Hoenefeld, Who was fly
ing from Germany to Tokyo, (Dade a
forced landing In a suburb of the lat
ter city and his plane was badly
smashed. The baron and his two com
panions escaped unhurt. Tbey had
lost their way In a rainstorm.
NEW YORK'S bis sever scandal
reached Its climax with the con
viction of Maurice E. Connolly, vbo
resigned under Are as borough presi
dent of Queens last April, and Fred
erick Seely, who was design engineer
In the Queens' sewer bureau.' They
were found guilty by a Jury of con
spiring with the late John M. Phillips, 1
sewer pipe manufacturer, to defraud
the city in contracts for $29,000,000
public sewers. Connolly was given
the maximum sentence of one year In
prison and $900 fine. The evidence
In the trial Indicated that Phillips
grafted more than $10000,000 in ten
years. It Is expected a taxpayers'
suit will be started to recover from
Connolly and the Phillips estate the
money Illegally expended.
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ANOTHER interesting Instance of
fundamentalism In the southern
border states baa arisen. Charles
Smith of New lorlt, president of the
American Association for the Ad
vancement of Atheism, went down to
Arkansas to work against a proposed
anti-evolution law to be voted on In
the general election next month. He
was arrested In Little Bock on a
charge of distributing printed mate
rial "calculated to provoke a breach
of the peace" and was fined <28 and
costs, not being permitted to testify
In his own behslf because Be refused
to take the customary oath. Smith
decided to serve out bis One la prison
as s protest, he said, against the state
laws that prohibit atheists from tes
tifying la courts or holding public of
fice. ? .
Attorney general sabgent
ruled that the contract of Decem
ber 20, between the United State*
government and the .Sinclair Crude
' OH Porchaaiag company, for the enle
bn? jut retained to
from a mason of exploration la the
territory.
Tko geological enrrey haa been
wtrttaf Cor 30 years en the develop
ment of a map of Alaska aad aa the
boo been tonsaaitfl substantially In
setting pack trains Into the amna
taias and eat spate, the neihssa nsl
tattpa ""xhe'^Id'^rney*
?abnd three wuba to smks was pade
*g *snJ*jsJaei.
of the government's royalty oil la the
Salt Crock Held in Wyoaring was In
valid. Mr. Sargent baaed bia declalon
on two circumstances: First, that the
contract was not let In a manner re
quired by law, and, second, that the
secretary of the Interior did not have
legal power to sign a contract con
taining an option provision In favor
of the Sinclair OH Purchasing com
pany.
The original award to the Sinclair
concern granted a lease for five years
with option of renewal for another
five years. The option was renewed
February 20, 1928, by Hubert Work,
secretary of the. Interior, after con
sulting departmental counsel. Doctor
Work says this renewal was required
by the contract and that criticism of
his action Is entirely of campaign
origin."*
Commercial and municipal at"
tlvltles in the city of Ixxtx, Ro
land, were brought to a standstill by
a general strike enforced Id behalf of
striking textile workers. City em
ployees were forced to quit work,
street cars and taxis were stopped,
theaters were closed, and even .the
members of the municipal council,
most of them Socialists, closed their
desks. Printers were out only a few
hours, nud soldiers kept the telephone
exchanges open. Street riots pro
voked by Communist agitators were
numerous, and later the strike spread
to other cities.
PREMIER MUSSOLINI of Italy In
* a radio addren Informed the
farmer* of the country that he Intend
ed henceforth to devote the major re
construction efforts of Fascism to ag
riculture and that the government
would place billions of lire at their
disposal. Thousands of acres thai
have lain Idle since the days of the
old Romans are to be brought under
cultivation, and Irrigation and refor
estation are to receive much atten
tion. The duce then distributed about
185,000 In prises to grain growers.
Already Italy Is growing almost
enough wheat to support Its popula
tion.
For the first time since the Italian
kingdom was established In 1870 a
death sentence for murder was passed
and executed the other day In Rome
Capital punishment for certain de
grees of itturder was Introduced In
tbe new Fascist code, and Mlchele
Magglora. who murdered two Fascists
for political reasons only, was the
first victim.
STEPHEN BETHLEN, premier ot
Hungary, haa announced that the
people of that country will soon be
called on to rote for the selection ol
a king to sit on the throne that has
been vacant since the abdication ol
King Charles In 1018. Bethlen said
he was opposed to the choice of Arch
duke Otto, the sixteen-year-old son ol
Charles, and It appears that Archduke
Albert, son of the Hapsburg Archduke
Frederick, Is the leading contender.
Premier Mussolini of Italy baa let It
be known that he will oppose the se
lection of any Hapsburg for the Hun
garian throne.
\iriLLIAM EDWARD HICKMAN,
* * the youth who kidnaped and
murdered twelve-year-old Marlon
Parker, danfbter of a Los Ancelea
banker, paid for Ms crime with Ma
life on Friday. Ha was banged at San
Qaentin prison, all efforts to sare him
from the gallows baring tailed.
Hickman confessed to many other
crimes "to ease Ma conscience," and
after embracing the Roman Catholic
religion said that he was assured of '
salvation.
DEATHS of the week Included
thooe of Dofiftr Empreaa Merle
of Roaela, mother of the laat czar;
William J. Flynn, former chief of the
Halted Statee aeeret eerrlce, and Ben
jamin Strong, governor of the New
York Federal Reeerre bank.
DID 70a know that there were any
royallata In the Onlted Statee?
Wall, there are, for a meeting of the
"Royal let League of America" waa
called for Sunday In the city hall
aodltorinm of Dallaa, Texaa. Richard
Potta, aecretary-general, who loaned
the call, aald "the time hae come to
begin active propaganda for the coo
rervlon by orderly procaaeta of the
Halted Statea government Into a mon
archy."
? ?
Commercial plane* war* utilised
and Otted with pontoons to alight on
a mogntala lake, to take them Into
the mapping laboratory. Net until
August 90, whan a plane boa Anchor
age alighted on the lake near the
camp, did the government mapper*
know who had bean marinated Car the
Pi *alfloaty. Pack trains had to b*
need on the trip oat, aa no provision
had haan made Car Onaaring the
plan* tripe. after' the ?paaaan'a work,
dae to lack ft appropriation Car tMa I
|88>es?8B?BBOwooaeieinoog
1 HOW SHE |
I PLAYED 1
| CUPID 1
(ffl kr D. J Walsh. I
etui, I'm going to speod
1?? the money Uncle Bel lent me
1 J for thou ducky puiups in
Bollowey's window. I don't
believe there will be any prettier on
the campus, do you)"
Betty looked up swiftly from the
cake she was stirring, her eyes bewil
dered: "The campus." she repeated.
"What campus) Ob, May, surely
you're not counting on going?"
"Not counting) Indeed, I've been
thinking of the reunion for months.
You know, Betty Mnrshall, you Mid
you'd take me."
Betty stared at the flushed Indig
nant face beneath the mop of glossy
curia. "That was back In the winter
before dad broke his arm and before
Will got pneumonia. I don't see quite
bow It can be managed now, May. 1
shouldn't like to go unless our clothes
look right."
"1 have my sports suit. I've been
keeping It nice for this. With, thou
plain, expensive pumps and my little
felt hat, I'll look One."
The younger sister, just graduated
from high school, did. Indeed, look
pretty, even In her somewhat tumbled
pink apron. Youth and health and
a gay defiance toward trouble In sny
form beamed In her saucy eyes and
her mouth curved upward delightfully.
Betty looked much the same before
she bad taken the brunt of the family
reverses on her shoulders, and now.
when the financial situation was eas
ing up, she was looking brighter, ffu:
the winter had been a long pull.
Teaching gll day and being the fam
ily angel at odd hours had left ber
thin.
"It will mean a lot to me," mur
mured May, coaxlngly, "I shan't feel
so strange when I enter In the fall and
I may meet some of the instructors.'
Youll surely take me to the dean of
women, wont you)"
"It will do you good, Betty," clilmed
In Mrs. Marshall comfortably, a wom
an who had learned to take Inevitable
bumps of life with composure. "I
know you haven't much to wear, but
look nice In most anything, and it Isn't
as though you were going with a
beau."
Bay giggled at the old-fashioned
term for boy friend, but Betty colored.
It sounded as though she bad been
definitely placed upon the old maid's
shelf, and It hurt. Of course, she'd
been too busy looking after the family
to have any time for frivolity, but It
struck ber with an uncomfortable
thought Who had asked her to go to
any of the various small-town amuse
ments) No one.
"You wouldn't disappoint your lit
tle sister, would you, Betty) I've told
all the girls that we're going to your
university reunion. It won't matter so
mnch what you wear, because you are
through. I'm just beginning." '
May had no Intention of being cruel
when making this statement She
merely spoke as she thonght
They went to the nearby university
city In the runabout that had been
purchased second-band. Betty would
have preferred the train, but they
could drive In for the cost of one rail
road fare, and that decided the ques
tion.
As they approached the stately gray
buildings and saw the shining cars
parked In solid rows. May stirred rest
ively. "Our car does look funny, just
as you said It would. Suppose we
stop sround the corner."
The sisters strolled across the well
kept turf towards the huge umbrella
which sbelteggd Betty's class, the year
above jt In large figures. Betty dread
ed any chance encounters and scorned
herself for so doing. It was extreme
ly silly to care shoot her old suit.
She'd more than done her port In the
world In the year that bad Inter
vened, but at twenty-four one cares
more about a smart hat than what
lies under It?at such moments, at
least.
And most of the class were right
there, greeting ber with a casual cor
dially.
"Living near bare, Betty)" asked
Madge, turning to wave to a new ar
rival and scarcely listening to Betty's
low answer.
"Bio, Betta, where shall yon go this
summer) We're going across for a
month In Switzerland.'' Anne linked
arms la-the old fashion, then turned
to reply to a dark yoong man who de
manded ber attention.
May looked about eagerly dimpling
saucily when her sitter presented ber
to classmates, apparently enjoying ev
cry moment
Then across some benches, Betty
saw Frank Moore. Ber heart skipped
a beat then thumped riotously. They
had sat together In Bngllah four years
and the girl had woven some ynothfnl
dreams about the silent man who had
been her escort at many campus activ
ities. He looked a trifle older and had
improved {really. Be looked straight
Into Betty's rye*, smiled ?n<1 lifted Us
cap.
She forgot the well-worn stilt she
wore?forgot the shsbb; car parked
around the corner?and stood dream
In* the old dream. There was some
thing In the expression of his face
that told her what she wished to know
?Frank cared.
"What a good-looking man. Betty,
see. In the white flannels. He la smil
ing at ma," cried llay, flushing ador
ably.
"1 used to know him," answered the
other evenly. Frank had turned and
was walking In the opposite direction
with a gray-haired woman on his arm.
Betty never remembered just how
she got through that afternoon and
she vetoed May's request that they
stay for the slog.
"We've a long drive ahead of us,"
she Insisted; "we'd better start now.'
Betty, thinking of the welcome that
she felt sure had been In her betray
ing eyes for the man who had not
cared enough to walk a'few yards to
greet her, was warm with shame. Why
bad she not nodded coolly as she'd
seen those well-dressed, perfectly
poised girls do?
"Oh, driving?" an acquaintance ol
the previous year caught the words
and regarded Betty with a faint show
of Interest. "You might drop me at
my bouse If you like. What car do
you drive?"
May laughed and named the make.
"It's only a runabout; you'd crush
your dress," she observed. "Oh. what
a shrill whistle," she ended.
"Oh," said the beautifully gowned
one, "how quaint Fank Moore baa
a speedy eight 8un, all silver flttlngs
and fawn velvet 1 love to ride In
that I fancy he's looking for me
'By."
|n complete silence the slaters found
the little car and climbed In, then May
said: "I expect you know the man
she named. Her eyes had that canny
look, I've noticed, when girls want to
j hurt you."
"Yea, I know him. He was that
man yon mentioned."
At the moment when the reluctant
starter had been choked Into activity
Betty glanced op to scan the traffic
and met the radiant smile of Frank,
wlio had just hurried up He paused
long enough to drop a bill Into the
eager hand of a small boy, then held
nut his hand to Betty.
"I wasn't going to take any chances
of losing you In this jam; My Aunl
Cordellla felt faint from the heat and
I had to take her back to her friends,
who parked a block from here, so I
caught that boy and told him to keep
you In sight. Did yon hear that ear
splitting whistle he gave to attract my
attention?"
When Hetty bad presented blm to
her attentive sister, be sold:
"You are both going to dine with
me and well take In the sing. I've
some cousins here end we'll get s
table for the six of us."
"I've thought of yoa almost con
stantly, Betty," he whispered Inter as
they strolled behind the others. "I
went abroad last year and have not
been hack long. Aren't ydu going to
Invite uie out to your home?"
"Sonic boy friend, that Frank." said
May sleepily as they drove Into the
quiet town. "Think ynuH ever see
him again?"
"Yes, he's driving oot Sunday."
"Why didn't you tell me you knew
a rich man?"
"I didn't know It myselt I?I didn't
really think of that."
"Betty, I could shake you for be
Ing so Impractical,"* said the disgust
ed May. "Dldo't he have a car at col
lege?"
"Yea," Betty spoke dreamily. "I won
der If he remembered this old suit."
"No. I think be was as bemused ss
you are. You're a Una pair of babes
In the wood. 8uppoee I hadn't made
you go today? You might never have
met again. I really think yon ought
to get me a large box of nut-center
chocolates for playing Cupid so sue
cessfully."
When Booh* Mildew
The l.ll>rary of Congress aye (be'
If the mildew on book* I* still dump
?ponce It off wllh tlnegar or with
water containing eotne rtnegar. If the
mildew la dry. If can be wiped off
wlih a dry cloth. If Main* are left,
alcohol will probably remote them
The hooka ahoold then he placed In a
strong sunlight. In a current of dry
air. '
Important Ocean Fish
A innd dab la a reddish brown far
bot (Hlppoclossoldes plateasoldes) of
the drop water* of the North Atlantic
close I j related to tlie halibut - It la
useful for food, and la taken common
If on the coasts of Great Britain and
Scandlnarta and from Maine to Orecn
land. Two other species Ua* In '.be
North Parlflt
Scottish Amethysts
Amethyst, a variety of rock crystal,
occurs In maay parts of the highlands
of Scotland. Pine specimens have
been taken from Beoyrrsekle, near
Pitlochry. The amethyst la a violet
colored stone, bat a rare variety which
Is a delicate rose-plak la eoahsttaMe j
found. ?
? ? eo?n ?ws..e?,d*s?'r
Cha nur cf '
-? Cornwall
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On th? Cornish Coast
(Prepared by the National Geographic
Society. Washington. D. C.)
HE WHO has traveled the roada
through Cornwall. England'*
soullternmoat county, recalls
the vast moor*, dull, dun, and
bare, on which the only Interruption
to the eye's range la an occasional
ruined plthouse. through the gaps In
which one glimpses the blue sky; or
a tumbled heap of earth where once
Phoenician tin miners, perhaps, sought
the metal which a Cornish historian
once declared 'near as fyn as sylver."
.At long Intervals a cottage Is en
countered of dour gray granite, roofed
with granite, breastplated against the
driving rains with slate. In a granite
walled Inclosure, with never a shrub
or tree to vary the cold monotony.
But Cornwall has charm and It Is
a charm of enchantment. Its moors
are broken by hidden valleys, the ex
istence of which one does not suspect
until their Hps are reached, filled with
the greenest grass, from which great
trees tower. The hedges that rim In
the roada, worn down by centuries of
traffic, glow with the purple of fox
glove and the yellow of the funte. In
ao hour's drive one posses from cliffs
of a ravage, sheer hostility, at whose
feet break the most dangerous seas In
England, to smiling estuaries amid
rolling hills on which the green of
English oak alternate with glowing
fields.
History, and tradition play their
?parts In creating Cornwall's charm. It
was on Cornish shores that galleys
landed In search of tin long before the
Roman rule In England. luteal tradi
tion holds that Jewish traders gave
Its name to the little village of Man
sion?Bitter Zlon?which Is at least
as often called Market Jew by the
country people as by Its own name.
It Is a pity that archeologlsts laugh at
tbls fanciful etymology.
Offshore the Land of Lyonesae lies
sunken with Its 140 parish churches,
whose bell* the fishermen say, may
still be heard on days of onshore
storms.
Wreckers and Smugglers.
It Is not many years since wrecking
was an established Industry there, and
the parson's lame mare, with a ship's
lantern tied under her neck, was set
to hobble of an evening along the
sands, to toll bewildered shlpmen on
the rocks. Cottagers drop pins In tlie
holy wells and read their fortunes In
the bubbling of the disturbed waters
The county names are an ever
changing delight. Can there be a more
charming title for a church than 8t.
Jurt In Itoselaod? One crosses by
Slaughter bridge straight Into a remote
and furious past.
Almost every little sencoast town
has Its smugglers' cave with a well
authenticated history. From the Lix
ard the Spanish Armada was sighted
and alarm fires were lighted. During
Cornwall's all too intermittent spells
of prosperity, miners emerge from
workings ber.eatb the ses and climb
ladders pinned to gigantic cliffs, slag
tog as they mount Q-anges and
lemons and exotic palms grow In tbe
balmy air.
It was on the border of Cornwall
that girt Jan Rldd rode against tbe
Domes, and John Rldd Is still a wan
den In the very chprcb In wblcb Corns
Doom was ebot down at the altar.
Clovelly Is Just across the Um In De
von, and Clovelly Is one of tbe love
liest villages In England.
Cornwall furnished and still fi
nishes tbe best bard-rock miners In
the world- They despise coal mining,
do these men whose ancestors have
(Or generations searched JOr tin and
copper In mines that are at eoge
among tbe deepest and the moat mea
gerty equipped toffee Industry. Where
gold or silver or copper Is to be bor
rowed for nnder mountains, they are
to be found as leaders In their craft
Cornish People a Rale Apart
Formed of a union of tbe primitive
tribes sod tbe Brytbonlc race wblcb
gave Its name to Britain, nod only
slightly modified, according to students
of the race btatary. bp succeeding to
visions of Roman*, Saxon* and Nona
men, rbey kept their own language
until troll In tlx Eighteenth cent If.
They atill apeak of 'going to bg
land," at If It were a foreign couatry.
Cornwall la the aonthtreaternmaat
county of England. It la a great pro
montory. 73 mllea la length, aimarefi
again*! the aea with granite, slate. and
aerpentlne, and 45 mllea wide at Ma
greatest, where the Klver Tamar bare
It from Devon. It contains approx
imately 1,330 square miles and 300*
000 people.
Thanks to tha Atlantic ocean and
the Gulf stream on one lank of Ms
triangle, antTto the sheltered waters
of the English channel on the other.
Its climate la In great part so ex
traordinarily warm and equable that
enthusiasts refer to Its coast as tha
Cornish It triers.
It is true that snow seldom Bee. sad
It Is also a fact that In a comparison
of average mean temperatures the ad
vantage would be altogether In fhoer
of certain Cornish watering places as
again*! the wlater climate ef tha
Mediterranean coast.
Tet one should not take these aaaar
aocee altogether at their face vaJae.
The winds of Cornwall are so rough
that In the uplands the few email
bushes one sees are dwarfed and
twisted, and about l-ands End the wta
dowpanes are ground to opacity by tha
blowing sand.
Cornwall la an unchanging land.
.No doubt Dlodonm, who wrote of hla
visit to Cornwall In the time of J alius
Caesar, found Lands End just as It Is
today, save for a few excrescences ef
Inns and HfKthouses and lifeboat sta
tion*. The very name has sot been
disturbed, for I-ands End la the Celtic
Pen-von-l-ar, which literally means
"the end' of the earth." What la tha
name of the Longshlps lighthouse, but
tered by waves oo a rock nearby, hut
a translation of naves longae?"hag
ships") And does not the rock am
which It stand* suggest a Roman gal
ley to one of hot a little ImaglnatJoof
He who doable should not eome to
Cornwall. Yesterday see nil very near
at band.
Mines Mostly Abandoned.
The great central platcao of Corn
wall la of chief Interest ta the bad
neaa man and to the ireheotoglst.
There are found the many small towns
which depend on the copper and I la
mining Industries, an farming, or em
the great pit* from which day Is
taken, tome of which la sent to China
for the manufacture of porcelain. Far
the most part the copper and dm
mines have gone too deep to be profit
able. until some new Invention comes
to the reverie or prices rise out of nil
reason. To this cause I* due the pov
erty and depression which may ha
seen In so many places oo the moont
The Cornish man Is a bora gambler
In hard rock. When It became diffi
cult In attract outside capital, he ep
ganlxed bis own local concerns ta work
.mines. Many companies of adventur
ous miners, too, were formed to week
leasee on the share plan. Just aa
Cornish fiahermeo go share and share
alike In their boats.
The failure of the mines not only
bankrupted their owners, but drove
them Into other lands. One now seen
s pitiful soccesetoo of empty boosts
on the mooes fine, square, granite
bollt booses that will endure dm
weather for centuries?and. coma la
think of II. almost every CUralshamn
one meets away from home la a miner
by trade.
Npypnrt of Rngland la as rich In
prehistoric antiquities as. Cornwall,
and nowhere, ona may guess, la tha
study less satisfying to aa arcbeoiogM.
Of tlx DUoUroas Cornish crowm
about all thai can ha said In that
they date dam somewhere hntuenfi
the Fifth and Twelfth centuries, wbam
Cornwall was Christlaalaw) If lain
from Ireland, sis ay of trfihm, sccarfi.
lag to tradition. Rooted scran the ritiK ;
row aeas la atom* csfilua Bat owe
Cornish cross to pssdauMy fibs
other OnrnM cramm
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