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CANOEIST KNIFES ENRAGED MOOSE Butts in While Animals Are En gaged in Fight and Then Has to Battle for Own Life. Uno Park, Ontario. —The story of a canoeist’s desperate fight in the water with an infuriated bull moose comes from the north. Dave Duke, a pros pector known the length and breadth of the mining country, is the hero. Duke was engaged with comrades in developing some claims atad had occa sion to paddle down the lake on which the party was camped. Hounding a point he came in sight of two bull Plunged the Knife Into the Animat. moose engaged in combat. He was able to paddle quite close to the scene of battle without arousing attention, and then he sounded the couching grunt of a moose to see what the ef fect would be. Both forgot their pri vate fight and charged through the shallow water for the canoe. Being unarmed, Duke started for open water with all speed, ©ne of the bulls gave up the chase, but the other came driving on, bent on the destruc tion of the Intruder. He was rapidly overtaking the canoe when Duke turned his canoe suddenly, evaded the oncoming animal, and as it surged past seized it by the long hair over the rear quarters. With the moose plunging violently to free itself Duke held fast with one hand while with the other he drew his clasp knife. He opened the blade with his teeth and plunged the full length of the blade into the animal's back several times, severing the spine. Then he righted his canoe and paddled back for help to obtain the ifieat. KILLS DOG WITH KICK; JAILED New York Man Is Sentenced to Prison Ten Days for Cruelty te Animal. New York. —John Pawlok of 349 West Forty-ninth street kicked a lit tle yellow dog to death a few days ago. Magistrate Jean Norris in Jefferson Market court fined Pawlok $25 or gave him the alternative of ten days in the workhouse. He chose the work house. The complainant was Mrs. Rose Maulonok of 348 West Forty-ninth street. She said she had the dog out walking and met Pawlok, who kicked the animal. The dog died two days later, she said. EGG FOILS TWO HOLDUP MEN Girl's Quick Throw Routs Pair of Yeggs, Who Left Dollar on Counter. Spokane, Wash.—One uncooked egg routed two hard-boiled ones when a holdup was attempted in a small gro cery store on the outskirts of this city. Miss Esther Olson, sixteen years gld, hurled the egg which won the day. Two men entered the little store, pfaced a dollar bill on the counter, and asked for a half dozen eggs. When the girl turned around, with an egg in each hand, she looked into the muzzle of a pistol. She hurled one of the eggs, and the robbers fled, leav ing the dollar on the counter. '■> ~ ? Undertaker on Way to Bury Girl Kills Her Baby Brother Watertown, Mass.—An under taker called to the home of !! George F. Breen to make ar • rangements for the burial of Lillian Breen, eight, drove his j automobile past his destination , and struck and fatally injured '' the dead girl’s baby brother, < George, two and one-balf years ■ r eld. The mdertaker was not blamed by either the police or 1 the family for the accident » NOW THE “DIRIGIBLE” BOMB Steered by Wireless, Its Possibilities Deadly Work Are Almost Beyond Calculation. A “dirigible bomb,” that can be steered toward the target by wireless after being let fall from an airplane, is the novel invention of Elmer A. Sperry of Brooklyn. Ordinarily, when bombs are dropped from aircraft,- the chances of a miss are great. The speed and altitude of the plane, or balloon, have to be taken into account, and the wind, also. Ob viously it would be of utmost advan tage if the path of descent of the gravity projectile could be changed at will while it was falling. The Sperry dirigible bomb carries a parachute, which, unfolding as it starts to drop, not only slows the rate of its descent, but incidentally serves as a “drag-rudder.” By tilting this drag rudder in one direction or another the bomb’s path of descent is controlled. As the projectile starts to fail, a sec ond and very tiny parachute is liber ated from the top of the bomb to sup port vertically a wire that serves the purpose of an antenna. It is by the help of this antenna that the man in the airplane is enabled so to operate the radio apparatus carried in his ma chine as to alter at will the angle of the drag-rudder. While the bomb is going down he circles about and steers it by radio. All he has to do to make the bomb turn this way or that is to turn a han dle connected with his radio sender In the desired direction. Thus the bomb is made to laud exactly where it will do the most good—meaning, of course, the most mischief. —Milwaukee Sentinel. TERM OF ARABIAN ORIGIN? As the Story Goes, the Expression, "Better Half” Comes to Us From the East. Strictly scientific searchers for the origin of the expression “better half,” denoting one’s wife, have decided that it was coined by Sidney in his “Ar cadia.” “Arcadia” was written in 1580. However, those less concerned with scientific accuracy claim that an an cient Arabian tale contains the real origin of the expression. This old story tells of a bedouin who was sen tenced because in the course of a blas phemous oath he had insulted the name or the honor of his chief. The Arab’s wife pleaded for clem ency, declaring that not her “whole husband had committed the of fense.” “Not your whole husband?” asked the sheik. “Nay,” she replied. “It was but the half of him. For am I not his other half, and I who have never offended thee should not be made to suffer for the sins of the other half, and the guilty half places Itself un der the protection of the better half.” The sheik, so the story runs, there upon pardoned the husband, being greatly pleased by the ingenuity of the wife. «* Bride's Thrift Wasted Dowry. Two daughters of a distinguished Vi enna family married in 1912. The younger girl wedded an officer and had to have the “caution money”, com pulsory to brides in the Austrian army. The mother gave her 100,000 crowns, which included the expense of her outfit The elder sister only needed her outfit, for which she got 20,000 crowns, while the rest .of her dowry—Bo,ooo crowns —was left with the mother, as was also the whole portion of the son. who had settled in Switzerland. Recently, says the New York World, the mother, a widow, wished to pay in full the portion of the two children to whom she still owed money. She sent 100,000 crowns to the son In Switzer land, who received 800 francs from the postoffiee for the total amount. His sister got 646 francs for the 80,000 crowns due her. The younger girl’s 100,000 crowns would have been worth 105,000 francs in 1912. A Nose for Trade. An Auburn (Mo.) merchant named Myers decided to quit business and offered to sell his stock to a born trad er of the neighborhood named Merri weather at what it invoiced, $1,900. “I won’t take it at that,” said Merri weather. “I’ll give you 25 cents for every article and package in the store.” Myers thought of his big line of slate and lead pencils worth a cent apiece and agreed. Two men were hired to help check up. Slate pencils, clothespins, packages of chewing gum and papers of pins were listed at 25 cents each, so were automobile tires, barrels of sugar and coffee. Am'egg was worth as much as a 50-yard bolt of cotton. The result was that Merri weather bought the stock for $1,866.25, or Just $33.75 less than, It invoiced.— Capper’s Weekly. Made Quite Sure. An enterprising company in the Sudan had decided to lay a railway into the wilds, and many blacks were employed In its construction. • One day the telegraph clerk at the nearest civilized spot received a tele gram from the negro foreman of the railway constructors: “White boss dead. Shall I bury him?” “Yes,” wired back the derk. “But first make sure that he is quite dead. Will send another white boss tomor row.” A few hours later another tele gram c*Tue from the foreman; “Bnried boss; Made sure he was quite dead. Hit him on the head with a shovel." 1 THE BRACELET j ;| By JANE GORDON (©, 1923, Western Newspaper Union.) Grant, sitting before the fire in the village inn, reflected pleashrably upon his adventurous afternoon. This, per haps because he had been forced to ride in a saddle instead of the cus tomary automobile. And because in the woodland path he had met a charming maid clad in a scarlet cape. Aunt Martha, the erratic and uncer tain, had sent him upon this errand to the far wood in search of an old house which she had seen advertised in the city paper. j She had made known her intention ! of leaving Grant her heir, j She wanted this Walden houne, she ■ explained, as a refuge from friends, both social and charitable. “I can go and come there as I please,” she told her favorite nephew, “and I hope, Grant, that you will find the place as promising as the adver ! tisement rends.” ■ Grant had found the Isolated coun ; try beautiful, even in the winter’s first | fall of snow. Then, as though in j answer to his wish for direction, • the young woman of the scarlet cape * appeared. She caipe to view from be ! hind an evergreen tree and the hood of her cape, falling .back, disclosed ! golden-brown hair, ruffled and wavy. The girl’s brown eyes, meeting his, were startled —wide like a child’s. But to Grant’s question she merely stretched forth a white arm to point the way, and before she had with drawn the arm into the fold of her cape his attention was attracted to a strange black bracelet that she wore. Flashing from Its center was a great white stone. Silently the girl hurried on. But j her Image stayed with him as he rode toward Walden house, and Grant had gone on smiling at the romance. An elderly woman gave him en trance to the house at the end of the wood. She was a friend of the new owner, she told him, occupying the place with her until such time as it should be sold. Grant decided, after a giew of the quaint, well-kept rooms, that the house would exactly suit his aunt. Returning In the early twilight of the winter afternoon he felt a thrill of anticipation at the possibility of a second vision of the woodland maid. And she had passed him again, re turning from her walk. Her arm waved a parting salute to him. Grant saw the flash of the black bracelet as the moon came to light the darkening way. “Walden house?” the innkeeper an swered his question—“Oh, yes, I know it well. The place cajne to the pres- j ent owner through a legacy. It’s quite j a story. Belonged to Miss Patience Walden long years ago. Patience had I a lover when she was young, and he gave her a bracelet —so they say—a queer black bracelet with a white stone In it. Then they quarreled Just before the wedding, and the lover mar ried another woman. Folks said it was because of the black betrothal brace let that he had given Patience. “As years passed Patience grew lonely and sent for a niece to come and live with her. Daisy Walden was a happy singing creature. I remember j her well. But one day when she was ' wearing the bracelet her aunt had i loaned her aa a treat —well, Daisy lost | It along the woodland path and that terrible old woman in her rage ac- j , cused her niece of stealing the trinket J —and Daisy was sent away. We read in the city papers later of her mar riage in the home of the relatives who had taken her In. “And still later, when Daisy had a little girl of her own, her tender heart forgave the lonely old woman in Wal- j den house, and she wrote a l<Her say- 1 Ing that she and the baby, Patience, i would come to her aunt for a visit, j But old Patience still hugged her spite and would have none of them. "Then, home came Jennie Wells, who I had been away since the time of her marriage many years before. And j when Jennie heard about old Patience ; and her long spite, Jennie told all in- [ nocently, of a bracelet she’d found be- j fore she went away and thought noth- ' ing of its value —it was somewhere j among trinkets —so she found it j and took it to Patience. j “In liar remorse Patience drew up a will leuving all she had to Daisy’s . young daughter—the black bracelet ( with the rest And 'only now Daisy ( Walden’s daughter comes on to claim J her legacy and to sell the property. j “But I,” added the innkeeper with an ominous shake of his head, “would ; rather not see that black bracelet of [ misfortune upon that sweet young < creature’s arm.” Grant rode again that night down the narrow path of the wood. An un* > controllable Impulse carried him there, < and though he was eagerly hoping, yet ; he was not expecting to see —her — ( there. At the crosspath she stood aa • though waiting—the elder woman of the big house was with her. HIS wood land maid smiled. j “We were on our way .to the Inn to | consult with you regarding Walden' < house, Mr. Dacre,” she said. It was when Grant’s Aunt Martha * was Installed In the house and young Patience had happily agreed to remain j as her companion that Grant again < saw the black bracelet upon the arm (j of his fiancee. She laughed at his {, glance of disapproving concern. ? “Why, dear,” said Patience, “this If *j my bracelet of good fortune. Had I i not cow* all this '-way to claim it II jshould I have found jrouJ” ' . J M&m mmsrmrn 'Dace J JBecames Scene of Honeymoon ' Does Homicide Run an Families? (Glamfs Castle, Scotland, where the Duke ©f York, second son of King George, and hfs LrTde v/tff' honeymoon. TMs Is the castle referred to In Shakespeare’s "Macbeth.” Eight hundred years age i Macbeth murdered Duncan, King of Scotland, In the room marked by the cross. His lineal dfeGcen- : f darrt seems to have Inherited the family weakness for she Is murdering husbands in grand opera o'today with remarkable success. Inset: Florence Macbeth, prfma donna soprano of the Chicago Opera Company, as Lucia, In the opera, "Lucia cH Lammermeen" > - —' —• —«***- —•-&» ■ | r - - -r- -| --- - I TOWN ELECTION. The regular biennial election of a Mayor and five Commissioners for the Town of Pittsboro, will be held on Tuesday, May Bth, 1923. The registration books will open for the registration of voters not hereto fore registered on Thursday, Aprl sth, 1923, and will remain open for the registration of said voters until Saturday, April 28th, 1923, at 9 o’- clock, p. m. j The registrar for said is E. E. Williams, and the said registra tion books will be open during the hours provided by law at the regular polling place for the town. The judges of election for the said election are W. L. Powell and Whalen Moore. The voting place for said election w 1 * 11 he pt the CVmrt House. This March 29th, 1923. DANIEL L. BELL, I May 4-R-C. Mayor Pro Tern. DIAMONDS We have formed Connections With a Large Diamond Impotrer We are Selling on 10 Per Cent Basis This arrangement gives you an opportunity of buying a Diamond at parctically the wholesale price J. P. COULTER CO. Jewelers, SANFORD, N. C. Income ' Property “INVESTIGATE Keen business men » financiei *s and the holders of trust BEFORE INVESTING.” un<^s appreciate the safety of a First Mortgage Bosd is sued by a reliable company. They know such bonds are backed by income yielding property. ALAMANCE SIX PER CENT ( GOLD BONDS. WRITE FORFREE BOOKLET offer the small as well as the large investor an opportun ity to put his surplus funds to work where an interest i yield of six per cent can be had with absolute; safety. Is sued in various denominations, fully secured by property, these bonds are a choice investment. 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