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VOLUME XLVIII * LOUISBUBG, N. C? FRIDAY, OITIIBEr/^Si?T == NUMBER 88
? Gift of
Fate
By ALVAH JORDAN GARTH
ivopyright, 191?. by t h* W??t?rn N*w?
paper Union.)
"It's too bad!*' ?aid Lena Dawes to
lier husband. "Everything looks so
nice except the bare floors."
"Won't they be just the thing for
the dancing features of- our house
wanning?" questioned Nornntn Dawes.
"You see, I've got a good deal of
pride." h tided Lena, "and 1 want to
appear as cozy and comfy as "possible;
with so many of my old school chums
coming."
"Now, don't you get worrying,** con
soled Norman. "If any remarks are
made, just bluntly Inform the critics
that the high cost of living wouldn't
permit new furniture and rugs at the
same time.**
"Well, we two are happy and con
tented. anyway, so what does It mat
ter if some Ill-natured critic like Mrs.
Parmly inspects our belongings with
a magnifying glass, and says mean
things about our being threadbare and
shoddy, and all that? She called me
that once. Norman?but I'm not shod
dy. am I, dear?"
"You? Why, you're solid pure gold,
fry pet." cried Norman fervently, and
I.'**. j tried philosophically to subdue
I. " v In longings. Their little new
h- ? *m her Idol, and she wanted to
have is perfect as possible during
the house-warming function.
Fa:?' >? t ied to enforce a reminder
of that ivetod parlor rug. It was i
about noii!) when footsteps sounded In |
the hall, an ! there stood a thin, black
eyed man, dar c-sklnned and wearing a 1
fez ond a gaudy sash. He carried a
thick, folded fabric over his arm, and
suggested the foreigner and traveling i
peddler.
MOr\ir Kluva It Is. i.'dy," he said
In Melodiously appealing accents.
??They tell you at the Persian consulate
thai w!yt Oinur says is always true.
Rugs irn:. " ulate, lady?only the best.
Perhaps high In price, but they last
for gem rations, and for good, honest'
people tike you,, payments as yon
please. Your parlor? Wonderful lady,
but my sample exactly fits."
"No. no!" demurred Lena, lifting a
de" Urne hand as her visitor made
a movement as If to unroll and display
th<- ruu' l.e carried, but with a deft, ma
glclriiilike movement, he trave his bur
den a rwrling lUng. and it settled d??v. \
over the parlor floor without a wrinkle.
"Oli. she beauty!" Irrepresslbly en
thused I. na. and her sparkling eyes
rested with delight upon the marvel of
The exquisite colors, the unique pat
tern bh-ndings, the perfect harmony of
the roMiiy rug With draperies and wall
decoration seemed suddenly to trans
fun,; ... r..-? :l".% :i liinflv ...pp., f
Oninr KiuVa was an out to anare upon
Its ox vitalities when. chancing to
glance out Into the garden, through
the open window, ho gave a vivid start
and his eye? dilated. Lena suspected
some play-acting, but with an earnest
ness that was positively agitated, Omar
Kluva gasped out:
"Lady, the flower! The sacred sun
rose of Lathay! Here, so far from
home, In nn alien soil! Oh. lady, can
I see nearer? Can I purchase one of
the blooms at any price? It Is not for
myself, though I am overjoyed, but
for ray sick brother who, wearied and ill
in an unfriendly land, is pining for
something of his native country."
The quivering finger indicated a
high-flowering stalk, a rarity. Indeed,
which had grown from some seeds glv
?n to Norman by a foreign traveling
salesman, who had told him that It
was an Asiatic novelty. The blossoms
were largfc as a sunflower and, grow
ing In towerlike profusion, resembled
a cluster of rich ren roses.
The Impetuous visitor hurried from
the room into the garden. Somewhat
puzzled, Lena followed him. He
re^h?'?l the plant and regarded it with
eyes of ecstasy.
"Oh. lady!" he said, tremulously
fondling one of the blooms, "it will
bring home to poor Azlf, and Its seeds
will cure hK distemper."
"I will get scissors, and yon shall
have all the flowers ? you like," said
free-hearted I.ena. Rut when she re
turned. omar Kluva and one of the
bloom* had vanished. Normnn enme
home, to hear the strange story. He
was lost In ad mi ration of the rug.
Then on a csrd attached to Its under
side he traced the words. "Omar Kluva
and J'rot her. '22 River Street."
"We must hunt up thfS strange vis
itor of our{?, Lena," he said, and after
supper they sought the living place of
Omar Kluva. lie occupied two rooms
In a large tenement building, nnd he
salaamed to the ground as Lena pp
penred.
"See." he said, pointing to a courh
on which a inan. his prototype, [ay,
holding in his hand the sun rose
bloom. *TIe sleeps peacefully and'
with a Rinile on his face. A sight of
the flower alone made him better."
"You forgot to take a way your
ms?" began Lena, when Omar Kluva
made a gesture of extravagant dis
sent.
"All. lady! Like In a fairy story,
fate sent you the gift. It 1? yours,
with the love and gratitude of Omar
Kluva und his brother."
Witchcraft In History.
The Idea of witchcraft i? world-old
and appeared among primitive peoples.
In Europe woman was considered the
almost exclusive possessor of magical
powers, hut In India and Africa witch
craft fcud been known for yearf.
THIRD
RED CROSS
ROLL CALL
November 2 to 111 1919
Time to Re-Join
HIS WORD OF REAL WORTH
World Would Be Bettar If There Wert
More Like This Omsha Busi
ness Man.
An Omaha newspaper nnn has a
motor ear, remarks the World Hertild
of that city. Last spring he had It
painted. ITot long ago the surface be
gan to develop an amazing series of
cracks like fhe "crow's feet" about an 1
old man's eyes? The man greeted the
cfncks with amazement rapidly hecom
:ng disgust. Every time he looked at
the car hc^lost his appetite and his
good temper.
The other day the car was taken to
the paint shop. l;s owner was fully
prepared to hear that he had usod the
wrong kind of polish, that he had let
the car stand out in the sun. that any- ,
thing and everything had spoiled the :
paint except that the paint itself
was at fault.
The painter locK"d the car over.
"If you'll bring it in,'I'll do it over,"
he said. "The varnish -must have been
bad."
R' was all over in two minutes. The
man's faith in human nature jtmiped :
several hundred per cent. The sky
was clear: the whole world was set in
royirai.1'?
Here was a man who didn't dodge
responsibility, who tried no ' excuse,
who backed his work with his word
and made good his word.
Isn't it a pretty good policy?
ENDED WITH HONOR'S~tVEN
Rattlesnake and Pet Cat Staged Bat
tle Which Caused Death of
Both Combatants.
William Lessig, guteman at the Erie
railroad crossing east of Ramapo, N.
?T.. tells n story of a battle he saw
I between a rattlesnake and a pet cat.
j It ended fatally for Both.
Mr. Lessig saw a rattler about four
feet long going toward the river. He
picked up a club and was about to
start for It when, he declares, a cat
leaped out ahead of him and set upon
the snake.
The cat got a flue hold on the back
of the rattler's head. But the snake
fought desperately and got in a sting
which caused the cat to release Its
hold and crawl away.
In twenty minutes the cat's body
whs swollen almosr twice its size and
the poison Anally caused death.
The snake had been so severely
founded it was unable to And. cover
i and when a crow discovered It lying
in the open field it was too weak to
offer resistance and was soon swing
ing in the a<r as the bird made off
with It.
Loves His Melon.
Watermelons have been high In
priee this season, but "Uocle Joe"
Cannon has gone right ahead eating
them. It is a habit acquired by him
when he was a small boy in North
Carolina.
Consequently " the elghty-three-year
old statesman waits each year for the
arrival of the ^watermelon season, and
Just as soon as the ripe ones begin to
arrive I'ncle Joe may be seep sticking
a big chunk of something red Into his
mouth. Sometimes he goes at It "coon
fashion" and plays a soTo with his lips
on a long, red slice, throwing away
such implements as knives and forks.
Uncle Joe can tell when a water
melon thumps right and knows by the
color and general appearance whether
the melon Is sweet and Juicy or was
pulled too green.
Wis? Child.
A miserly landlord was going round
collecting his rents the other day. At
one house he was greatly interested in
a little girl who watched open-mouth
ed and open-eyed the business of pay
ing over the money and accepting the
receipts.
He pattcd^her on the head and
started to search his pockets, saying:
"I must see what I have got for you." j
After searching his pockets for some I
time he at last brought out from a re- J
mote corner a peppermint.
? As he handed It to the girl he said: I
"And now what will you do with I
ttint?"
Th?> little girl looked at It, then at
him, and replied: "Wash it."
English Women Buying Farm?.
Women in England are buying their
own farms or their own truck and gar*
den spaces in rather conspicuous num
bers. And this is nil nn outcome of
the tremendous worlc done by women
on the land during the war. The gen
eral feeling Is that there will not be
much room for the common female
farm laborer as time advances, but for I
the woman who has a little money and i
who looks upon farming as her pro- I
fesslon and her life work there is ex- j
cellent opportunity In this direction.
In the first place, on account of the
compact location of the garden spaces j
and the cities In England transporta- i
t Ion of foodstuff? Is easy. Then gar- 1
den truck and ;.?vers do grow abun- j
dantly and profusely there, and always
find reedy : . .rla-ts.
The ForgetfulParson. |
Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson tell?
an amusing story of an old West coun- i
try parson who had to hold two serv
ices, one In his own church and one
In *he church over the iiijor..
Oti arriving at the latter church he
got into the pulpit and said he was
awfully sorry, hut he had forcotten
to bring a mo*t admirable sermon
which he had* written.
"Luckily."* he eontinued, "as I came
across the moor, I remembered a beau
ful stoiT, which I will tell you in
pl:\<?? of the sern.on. Er-er-well, dash
It, I'tc forgotten that, too?"
1
The veritable mountain? of relief i
supplies turned out by the millions of j
chapter workers during: the war j
made the American Red Cross one of j
the biggest "manufacturing concerns"
In the world, with great warehouse
?pace at scores of strategic points all
around the globe.
One of the biggest distribution cen
ters was at Salonikl, Greece, and In
this picture Bulgarian prisoners of
war are seen there unloading a Red
Cross cargo of 2,800 boxes from a
French transport. At the right Is
seen one of the American Red Cross
camions, fleets of which wero used in
rushing relief to points where the suf
fering was greatest.
Medical Education in China.
The China medical board of tlie
Rockefeller foundation will soon kave
In operation In Pfklng a splendid In
stitution for ititfdical research and
teaching?the Peking Union Medical
college. A group of 15 buildings is In
course of construction. On account of
their green-tiled roofs the new build
ings have already acquired the name
of "the Green City." The college will
open In the autumn of 1910. A pre
paratory school was opened two years
ago. It Is expected that the whole
establishment. Including h new hospi
tal, will be running by the end of 1920.
The hoard plans to open another medi
cal Institution In Shanghai.?ScIentMlc
American.
Easy.
Fastidious Country Boarder?Oreat
Scott! Cnn't you do something to
keep the flies out of this dining ri-ora?
Farmer?Wal, yes, I could sot the
table In the kitchen.?Boston Kvenlug
Trauscrlpt.
WILSON'S WORDSr
CLEARUP DOUBT
CALIFORNIA THROWS OVER IT3
LEADER, JOHNSON, AND
((ALLIES TO LEAGUE.
WEST GIVES HIM OVATION
All OHubtful Features of Pact Are
Explained Away By President, and
Fornfer Doubters Hasten to Give
Him Their 8upport.
(By fl ^dependent News Bureau, form
erly Mi Civ mens News Bureau.)
Aboald President Wilson's Special i
Traln-HA continuous ovation along tlio I
Pacific coast and then on his eastward
"way bark toward the capital was given
to President Wilson as he came
toward the end of his month daylong
speaking tour in behalf of the League j
of Nations. California, particularly
the del?htful city of Los Angeles, went
wild in Its enthusiasm for him and his
advocacy of the League, and It was
in thatjbtate, perhaps, that he did his |
most Successful missionary work. |
Hiram Johnson, California's former :
governor, now her United States sena
tor, and considered by her as the most I
likely Republican candidate for the ;
presidency in 1920. had before the ar? j
rival of President Wilson, convinced |
a great number of citizens that the
League as at present formulated was
not a good thing. He had told them 1
that thel United States, because of it, j
would be drawn into every petty |
European quarrel; he arg\ied that we
would lose our sovereignty by Joining
with the European nations. He had
blamed the president for assenting to
the possession by Japan of the Penin
sula of Shan Tung in China.
BUREAU CHANGES NAME
The Mount Clemens News
Pureau, which has been furnishing
reports on President Wilson's tour
in behalf of the League of Nations
to 5,600 papers, has adopted o new
name and will hereafter be known
as The Independent News Bureau.
But Mr. Wilson, with clear logic and
with compelling eloquence, answered ;
to the entire satisfaction of Califor
nia's people every objection which!
Senator Johnson had made to the
League. And thousands of the state'3
citizgjxs deserted the Johnson stand
ard Immediately and rallied to the sup
port of the president. Mere than that '
they came forward and said. "We
were against you, Mr. President, but i
you have cleared "everything up. and
now we are with you heart and soul."
Still more than that, they let Senatoi'
Johnso^kno^^ha^the^^Wer^nc
w
proved of the speaking tour which he i
himself was making in opposition tc i
the League and so powerful was the i
volum^ of public opinion which reach-1
ed him, that- the senator almost im-1
mediately abandoned his tour. The
Shan Tung question, because of the I
anti-Japanese feeling which undoubted
ly exists along the Pacific coast wai
the most serious which** the president |
had to answer. He explained to the j
people that he had been powerless tc '
prevent the rich peninsula from^eing ,
given to Japan. England and Prance
through a secret treaty, had promised !
it to Japan for entering the war and |
remaining in it. That treaty had tc ?
be carried out Anyway it was not |
China that was losing Shan Tung, but |
Germany, which had seiaed the terri- !
tory from China in 1898 and held it j
ever since. Japan had promised, the
president explained, to return Shan
Tung as soon as the peace treaty was'
ratified and it was only through the j
ratification of the treaty with the!
League of Nations inclusion, that j
China could ever expect to get het,
former property back. And she surely J
would get it back, he declared, through j
the ratification of the League. There
fore, through the same instrumentality
no other nation could again prey upon
the "Great, patient, diligent, but help
less kingdom." As to our being drawn
into any European conflict. The pres
ident pointed out that no direct action
such as the sending of troops to any
part of the world fo maintain or re
store order could be taken by the
Council of the League without a unani- j
mous vote of the council members,'
therefore our vote could at once nega- j
tive any such proposition as sending
our soldiers where we did not want
them sent. Besides. Mr. Wilson argued, |
"If you have to quench a firo in Call- I
fornia you don't send for the flro de
partment of Utah." But/ he argued,
thcro probably never will be another
war, if t!ie League is established, for
thp members promise ejther to arlj
trate their difference and accept the
decision of the arbitrator, lay the dif
ferences lor discussion and publica
tion before the Council of the League
for a period of six month$, and then,
If possible, accept the council'? advice,
jhat failing,:they agree to Refrain from
wuir for a further period of three
months and nine months of "cooling
off," the president contended, would
prevent any armed conflict. Cheao clear
explanations satisfied every recallable
hearer and destroyed the TJugaboos"
which Senator Johnson and others had
raised against the League^ Through
rugged Nevada into Utah, the* Tan d of
Mormons, the president 6^spt to ftnd
that those fine pr-oplo vfr* heartily
with him for the Le*<u? a.n<5 a per
manency of peace.
Will You Be One
OF A Million W>rkers
lo Secure Members for
The American Red Gross
Volunteer NowAtYmr
Chapter Headquarters
Third Red Cross Roll Call
November 2-11
As far back as the first winter of
the war, the Itod Cross sent to Serbia
a'sanitary commission that ? effective
ly checked the scourge of typhus, but
after the United States entered the
conflict, the Red Cross was able, in
August, 1917, to send a full commis
sion that carried on extensive relief
operations among the suffering ref
ugees of the tortured nation. Hospi
tals were established, "the refugees fed,
clothed and given medical attention,
the army supplied with, much needed
dental treatment, farm machinery, and
seeds provided to help the Serbs re
deem their land to productivity, and,
not least, .measures undertaken for the
succor of the children. The terrible
condition into which these helpless vic
tims of the war had fallen is well
portrayed by this photograph of a
little Serbian girl wearing tho rags
and expression of hopeless dismay
that were all she possessed when the
Red Cross came.
Tub? May Strike Next.
Add to the strikes for higher wages
that of negro washerwomen of Louis
ville.
Aunt Katie (last name not known
,?via Matrons) was asked the other
dn\ i'' ? V could do a washing the
next day*
" 'Deed- no, chile/' was the reply.
"An' any more washings I do is goln'
to?cost yuh ten cents moah." she added.
Pressed for an explanation, Aunt
Knfio said that sh<**ftnd "seb'ral other
washer ladies are goln' on a picnic to
day and won't do no w a shin' for no
buddy.**
"Furdemoah, dls ten cents moah goes
all the time now. T>e street car men
Is gonnn git moah dan dat fer strlkin',
and so Is us," wmS her explanation.?
T.ouisvll'e Courier-Journal.
In the City Square of Treves, Ger
many, headquarters of the allied mili
tary forces, an ancient cross surmount
ed monument marks the city's center
of trudlc. For tills reason American
Red Cross officials converted It, as
shown by this picture, Into a directory
of all Red Cross activities In the city.
CLINIC HAS PROVED WORTH
Organization Established by Boston t
Firm Well Worthy of Imitation ?/
by Other Employers.
A pioneer medical clinic, established
15 year? ago to protect the health of
GOO employees, and gradually enlarged
and expanded until It now cares for a
lutal of 2.700?that Is the record proud
ly held today by a well-known Boston
firm. At the time of Its organization
the medical director was in charge of
the clinic in the capacity of director
and vl>itlng auise. Now the clinic is
In charge of'"a practicing physician and
surgeon, assisted by three full-time
graduate nurses.
During the Influenza epidemic of last
winter, over 350 employees were treat
ed per day, With only six deaths durlpg
the entire course of the dreaded dis
ease. All cases were given careful
Individual attention and, in instances
where. no ? family doctor, was: in at
tendance, immedltuo arrangement?
weri/ marie for medical ?'are. v* "
If Is i he polity of the. nurse? in the
clinic to. advise all employees with
whom they coiiie In contact to be in
sured*- ap activity, which the firm itself
handles through, an employees' organ
ization. The "purpose of such "advice
?Is to- secure" insurance for all em
ployees fri order* that they may receive
niiijjiniriihi iiiiirr mj in i iiVi Ulnm
This arrangement does not place a
premium upon the employees' being ill,
and at the same Ume the clinic co
operates in the matter of insurance;
A di'iitiri clinic Is In a formative
state *pnd, no doubt, will be established
In a short time. The plan and method
of admfnlstrntlon and organization Is
simply in the making, but it is safe to
say'that the dental clinic will be as effi
cient as the medical clinic.
The Modern Hospital, In describing
the'clinic, says that it has fully proved
its value in protecting the health of
the employees of this particular com
pany and merits the commendation
and. imitation of other mercantile and
industrial establishments.
SEEMINGLY NO AGE LIMIT
Applicants for Divorce Are by N?
Means Always in the Days of
Their Callow Youth.
There Is no age limit to divorce. In
Oregon a woman at the age of eighty
two years is suing for a decree from
her husband, who is a callow stripling
<4>f 'Seyeitty-one summers. This seems
to be another ease of to6 much mother
in-law, as the wife asserts that her
husband's love has been alienated and
undermined through the work of his
mother, who Is now nlnety-fdur years
old and who never did like her, any
how. They have been married some
ten years now, and the wife said that
when the husband took her money to
buy an auto for his mother and
wouldn't let his wife ride in it, she
knew that his love was dead. When
she remonstrated'the husband colcHy
Informed her that she could leave the
house. When wife said that the
home was her own and bought with
her own money the husband replied
that might, be so, but.be had tftought
fully had the deed recorde^in his own
name. Now she'has to appeal to the
courts. It Is rather* rough when a
bride of eighty-two"1 has to compete
with a nlnef.f-fonr-yeftr-oltf mother-in
law for the affections of her husband.