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CHOCOLATE PUNT ISTKATIVE
Hm Been Cultivated In Marty Countries,
But It Undoubtedly Orlglt
noted In America. I
' Tile chocolate plant ta a native of
America. When first Introduced into
Europe chocolate was used' only as a
luxury, hut It speedily advanced tn
popular esteem. It Is now ftflflMl
?fo r . ** oouatrlss far from Its original home.
The chocolate plant, as well as tea
Bd coffee, has been cultivated from
time Immemorial. Cbooolate as a beverage
rapidly made Its way la Europe,
beginning in Bpaln^j^lCT TWeaJfapft
The seeds of tm chocolate plant are
la pods. In jflp^artng the seeds tor
market tM" has been hut UUle
__ ohangOflnce early times. First the
"TWBhs are allowed to ferinent, and thus
they loss ths slight bitterness which
they possess when fresh. Then they
are carefully dried, and In this oondlr
tion they stand transparent In mannfactoring
the seeds or beans are roasted,
by which process the shell of the
seed becomes detachable from the kernel,
which Is the part used. Next the
roasted kernels are-ground. J
In early tines the Mexicans used the
flat stones on which their fmalze waa
ground for the grinding of the roasted
seeds of chocolate. Chocolate consists
of the roasted, shelled and ground
seeds, fewest chocolate Is the same
with the addition of sugar and flavoring
extracts. Cocoa consists of the
roasted and ground seeds from which
the oil has been removed. Experiments
have shown that If the seeds are rightly
treated from the first to the last
stage oV manufacture no objection can
he urged against the be vera go -produced
from them. It is of Importance
that these seeds should be grown and
selected with the greatest care and
should, after reaching the factory, receive
the most careful and skillful
treatment.?Harper's Weekly.
Profitable Bunko Soheme.
Among the extraordinary frauds'
-which have been perpetrated was one
Into operation by a compuny of
I ^kpehemec* who told a confiding public
^Bfeat many fortunes were to be made
| porting Into England compressed
I ^Bd grapes from Spain, Italy and
^nurhere, then saturating them wsth
Bb English water, and making w!aoJ
Vm them. It was stated in the pi os^Kctus
that dried grapes could be liu^^ported
at a much cheaper rate than
| wine, and that it was possible to produe?
an equal quantity of win? of
|T "V equal quality to that made abroad.
Sfe* T^earSand.i of pounds wer? subscribed
& the British public, who firmly belleved
In the idea until the scheme col^P<:
lapsed. ,
| Middle Verse of Bible.
The middle verso of th? Bible Is
the eighth yerse of the 118th Psalm.
The twenty-first Verse of the seventh
? chapter of Exra contains all the letters
of the alphabet except the letter
j. The longest verse Is'the ninth verse
of tho eighth chapter of Esther. The
-shortest verse le the ninth verse of
tin* eleventh chapter of St. John.
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<f-' ,PVY YOUR CimMTMAS HANDKERCHlKFS
HERE
J where you can choose from the largest
aud most^ attractive assortment
In tho city. Prices range from a
good pure linen handkerchief at 5c
V up to the more expensive kind that
[i are real hand made. Be sure to
J visit our Xmas Handkerchief booth.
J. K. HOYT.
FINK BOY.
J W. L Bnmner, the popular stewf
ard at Hotel Louise, U today receiving
the congratulations of hlf
friends upon the fact that he hi a
A VIHCTTNG MRS. ODKN.
Mrs. Travis Hooker, of Greenville,
'N. C.? Is the guest of Mrs. John
William Oden, on East Main street.
Unlimited Absorption.
! The capacity of the United States
for the absorption of objects of virtu
! (would seem to be unlimited. The valt
UQ o? American Imports of "this char
meter Increases yearly by leaps and
K- bounds. The latest figures for 1912
m show an increase of 60 per cent, upoh
those for 191L In 1910 objects of art
of the value of #22,000,000 were imi
, iported. The figures for 1911 ore #36,:000,000.
The distribution of the
^amount among the various European
countries is instructive, First comes
. (France, from which America takes
t (#17,000.000 worth: next England, win*
,'$16,000,000. There is a drop of over
1 ($18,000,000 to the $1,254,088 of Ger1
ixnany. The-efficacy of- the stringent
lltalian regulations Is shown by the
that only $740,692 worth comes
| Hfrom Italy?or pot quite so much as
I Bomea from Canada. The Imports of
j ^Hmodern works of art Into the United
| ft States In 1912 only reached the com*
| jparatively Insignificant total of $1,1042,038,
36 per cent less than the oor?T
responding figures lor the pnrlous
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CLEAN CLOTHES CLEANER
HBT - than any 'other cleaner deans
them clean. Wright's. , I
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HUMBLE "BIDDy^BES^
JH JME END. MORC PRBFTTABLB
THAN THE OSTRICH.
Figures Would SMffl to Show Thai
. Bird of Prized Plumage le Prims
Investment, but There Are
Drawback*.
No, she ta not one of the $10,000
biddies we sometimes read about, especially
when It \somea to laying eggs.
,8he .la any one of the several thousand
ostrich hens that may now be
found In some of our western states.
;Yeu can figure it out for yourself. An
.o:trlch hen, a "good" one, will lay J
-about 100 eggs a year, and each egg
; contains as much food-material as SO
.ordinary hen's eggs. That gives the
ostrich credit for furnishing egg-food j
amounting to 8,000 hen's eggs per >
Tear. . |
l But let's not all go Into the ostrich
business. Thero are several drawbacks.
One of tbdm is that it costs
twenty dollars a year to keejr an
ostrich, or thereabouts, and they do
not begin to lay until they are four
I years old. Then there is the first cost
?no little Item, ag aix-monthadld
chicks are worth $100 each, while
I birds old enough to begin laying cost I
| MOO a pair. Rather, they are held to
be worth that/as the ostrich breeders
. will seldom seir a bird at any price.
There Is also the Inconvenience of
; handling. The kick of an ostrich will
j discount any exercise of a male's hind I
legs about 100 per cent, and they are
Jj said to be far from sweet-tempered,
: especially during the plucking season.
Being eight feet tall, an ostrich that
got really out of patience at a person
: would be rather more difficult to
handle Whan a "mad" sitting hen, and
i most of us And the latter lady all we
J want to tackle. On the whole, per|
baps we would bo wiser to stick to the
j barnyard biddy for ordinary purposes,
" though tbo beauty of the arlstocratlo
Mr. Ostrich-should prove a great temptation
to desert our first love.
Then, too, the Lady of tho Plumes
Is. If-tJ^e truth were told, rather lazy.
She does not .even lay her eggs in
the U|**r her jnate has carefully prepared
for her half the time. She
loaves them scattered about Just as it
happens, and her patient consort has
to roll them into tho nest bimsel.\
Then, too, he gets most of the sitting
to do, as his proud wife refuses to do
nest duty except for a littfe while in 1
the daytime.
Incubators an uu*t~ C*?41
hatching the ostrich chicks, and then
there need be no family quarrels on
, (he subject. The IncubatorB used must .
| be peculiar in construction, as one of
, the eggs la five Inches long. Machines I
holding about fifty cgga aro generally |
employed.
| Hens as Barometers.
I A poultry raiser In Bohemia has produced
curious results by altering and >
alternating tho food given to his j
flocks. **
. It is known to many who have
| raised canaries for tho market that
Cayenne pepper put Into their food
| results' In a notable d.'fference in the j?
character and shade of their plumage,
giving the feathers a smoothness and
reddish tinge which adds very much
I to the sum for which the birds may
ordinarily be sold. If the same ingredient
be added to the diet, especially
of white hens which have been
, hatched from carefully selected eggs,
their feathers become pale rose, and '
they flush to a brilliant red when the
weathor la damp and a storm is approaching.
These hens thus become
writable barometers, and ths progreetfoa
ot aster from palo to brilliant Is
so a scarlet hen stalking ;
sheet (Be hemyard is regarded as earn
laid iiiplsf of a dam which sear .
he ss nraoh ee twelve hours distant?
n>ryer*i WeeHy
la Time e# Feeea.
? T*e new "hsasC or wlirnhe
man. at JTest Faint had never heard
a heavy siege fan fired. The first*
"You hat* nmr been dow thoa
on* of these guns was fired, ehr* ho
Inquired.
"No."
"No, sir," commented the flrst-clase
"Tee. eir. No, sir." replied the
"beast." *
*Um-m. It's liable to buBt your eardrums
for life. See here, don't tell
blm I told you, but go to the commandant
and ask hinr- for -." Tho uppor-clase
man was so solicitous that
ho whispered tho rest ofhls communication.
A few minutes later the raw cadet
I presented himself before the commandant.
j "Please, 6ir," he said, "I want somo
gun-cotton for my ears."?New York
Evening Post.
Ties Herself to a Man.
The motion-picture theater was well
filled the other afternoon when a stout
woman entered and wedged bdrself In
next to a slender man.? For a time
both appeared extremely Interested-in
the pictures. Then the woman noticed ,
that one of her shoe-laces was undone.
After something of a struggle she bent
over and finally succeeded In bringing
both the laces together. A few minutes
later the man arose as though to
start for the door. Down he went In
the aisle and the woman gave vent to
an exclamation. The audience turned
from the flickering to the ijeal catastrophe.
She had knotted her shoelace
with his. It was several minute*
.before the pair untangled and untied.
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WASHINGTON,
The appointments of the North
Carolina Conference of the M. IS
Church, South, were read Monday
by Bishop McCoy at Oxford. N. C..
where the conference has been ir
session for the past week. Preachens
well known In this .city "have been
assigned to the following places:
Tar River circuit. C. R. Canlpe; M.
T. Plyler. presiding elder Elisabeth
City district; J. E. Underwood,
presldtng elder New Bern district;
Oriental, E. C. Glenn; A. McCullan.
presiding elder Rockingham district;
Conference Missionary Evangelist,
L. L. Nash, R# C. Beaman, Hender-,
son; Warrenton circuit, R. H.jj
oroom; ij. a. Tconxpson, presiding
Blder Wilmington district; C. C.
Brothers, Montgomery circuit. The
following-le-the-appointments for
Washington district:
Washington District,' J. T. Olbbs,
presiding elder.
Aurora Circuit, W. E. Trotman.
Ayden Circuit. Daniel Lane. Jr.
Bath Circuit, C. E. Durham.
Bethel Circuit. H. E. Tripp.
Elm City, J. M. Ashby.
Parmvtlle Circuit, H. E. Lancc_
Fairfield. John P. Bross.
Frecmont Circuit. R. R. Grant.
Greenville?Jarvls Memorial, J.
M. Daniel.
Mattamuskeet Circuit, J. W. Autry.
McKcndree Circuit, W. J. Covington.
Mt. Ploasant Circuit, J. Lewis.
Nashville Circuit, J. L. Rumley.
Rocky Mount?First Church. C.
U Read; South Rocky Mount. Mar-;
vin and Clark street, B. Thomp-|
son.
t Stantonshurg Circuit, D. A. Fu-!
txell.
Spring Hope Circuit, B. F. Wat-*
eon. t?upr*y) ~ "'* - ? I
Swan Quartor Circuit, \V. T. j
Ph1pps_ i
Tarboro, L. D. Jones. j <
Vaaceboro'Clrcult. T. E. Wyche.
(supply.) I]
Washington. E. M. Snipes.
Wilson. M. Bffcdbhaw.
THEATER PARTY.
Mrs. John H. Small will give a j
theater party this evening at the]
1\. .v Thontor In honor of her house j
guests, Mrs. Foley and Mrs. LaMar, |
af.Washington^ 1>. C.
Greatest- of Problems.
Living, as we do, from day to day, J
we do not appreciate the great oscillations
of thought, unless some shining
moment marks them. Such a moment
la marked by Sir Oliver Lodge'a address,
before the British association, '
on immortality. Nearly two genera- '
tloaa ago, men of science discovered
the principle of evolution, and trlumpbwdy
pr??hlnl lk*t matnttl j
H'u.V-ZTL '
w.0?, of WMML J
The *M?t Of -# 1-fc? 1
on the conditions of .womb and child
wege-earnem deals with data obtained
from between 60,000 and 60,000 women
and girts In twenty-three different
manufacturing Industries. Half of
them are under twenty years of age
and a fourth twenty-Are or over. Oneeighth
of the group were married. Of
the 88,182 women eighteen years and
over for whom the facts as to age
and earnings wore gained, one-eighth
received under a week and twoflfths
under $6. Practically only onetenth
reached or passed |10.
They Had 8tud!ed English.
The editor at the Wisconsin experiment
station, desiring a complete reference
library of the resources of the I
Btate, sent a circular letter to the
horticultural, dairying and other agricultural
organizations of Wisconsin J
asking for copies of their "last reports."
Most of them cam? all right,
but one organization wrote: "Our
last report, we hope. Is not yet published,
but we take pleasure in sending
under separate cover a copy ol (
our latest report."
Predicts Another Flood.
Segundo Sanchez, a native of Panama,
la prophesying another Hoacbian j
flood and the destruction of humanity
By it, having apparently been unhinged
by the magnitude of the opera- ,
Hons .which joined the Atlantic and
the Pacific. He has. It la reported.
produced such an impression by his
exhortations that his followers have
built an ark and are engaged in collooting
animals, "two by two." for '
preservation when the deluge oomm.
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lr tonlfbt' anC Wednesday. No eh
C.. WBDNE8DAY AfTEHN OON. I
iraur
iintw
A machinis* from theMergenhaler
Lnotjrpe factory, of New
ITork, is now here engaged in
thoroughly overhauling the Daily
Sews machine and in-order to
dace it in firs*, class condition it
Md to be taken ap<rt. Since
the storm of September 3rd the
nachine has been badly handicapped.
We ask ouf readers
pardon for this issue bet expect
to greet them tomorrow in a
more presentable ap*ea ranee.
From now on we trust! noth'ng
infotseen will o' cor causing us
to render excuses. j
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SOCIAL XKW8f 1
Mrs. John K. Hoyt Sqarmingly
entertained at a luncheon yesterday
it 1 o'clock in honor of Mrs. Foley
and Mrs. La Mar, of Washington, D.
C., who are the guests of Mrs. John
H. Small. The color scheme was
Dink, being carried out handsomcly
In flowers and favors. The prizes
presented to the guests by Che hostess
wore pink. Mrs. Hoyt; always
entertain lavishly and on yesterday
she proved no exception. The occasion
was greatly enjoyed by the
large number presept. '<
On last evening Mrs. John G.
Blount entertained at bridge in
honor of Mrs .Folt*y and Mrs. LaMar.
The color scheme constated of
ill the Christmas colors an<$ favors.
[Jandsome prizes were presented to
the guests. Tho eui've evening was
cno of pleasure and Mrs. .Blount
sustained her graciouimess ds a host50S.
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We wnnt you to see hth<^e ^good
itrotxg'hand-niade shoes for boys?
the kind tlnit will give the very
belt of wear. We have these in lace
or button gun nietal. The best boys
ihoa offered in Washington for the
price. J. K. HOYT.
IMPORTS ITC PiUIMI! c-rnsitr*
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Peculiar Condition of Affairs Existing
In Brazil 'is Duo to Savage
Indians.
Street paving in the towns of the
Brazilian seaboard and of the Amazon
river region is not tho simple
matter It becomeB In this country.
Recauso of the lack of accessible quarries
trouijvhich paylng^materlal might
be obtained, it is necessary to import
cobblestones from Portugal for this
purpose. Stono quarries In the lower
Amazon basin are non-existent, and
the headwaters of this great river,
where it would doubtless he possible
to locate quarries?are not only practically
unexplored, bat are also guarded
by many tribes of hostile Indians.
No one has yet been found who
will brave these dancers for the sake
o despised cobblestone. Asphalt
w on?i on m await. Mo for poviac
&e th?i i mghtare of tropical cities he aha.
K'M'.MHi tat no tatr
* Fata. taMMtaaar tha moot* ta
ta? I til? t. (ho laraata ooor o<
trtaotl. Hoo almort oa tha xaator,
a* la tha chlta "rahbw port" at
BratlL :
Work and the Weather.
The restless days are here. All out.
door* Invites as and oar work becomes
s conscious effort and a bore. It is
the time when we are most In sympathy
with Jerome K. Jerome In hit
confession as follows: "I like work;
It fascinates me. I can fit and look ai
It for hours. I love to keep It by me;
the idea of getting rid of It nearly
breaks my boost."
Equalizing Things.
Two Irishmen arranged to fight a
duel with pistols. One of them waa
distinctively stout and when he saw
his lean adversary facing him ho
raised an objection.
"Bedad," he said, "I'm twice as big
a target as he is, so I ought to stand
twice as far away from him as ho Is
from mo."
"Be aiay now," replied his second.
"I'll soon put that right."
Taking a pioco of chalk from his
pocket he drew two lines down the
stout man's coat, leaving a space between.
"Now," he said, turning to the other
man, "flro away,.ye spalpeen, and
remember that any hits outside that
chalk line don't count"
fROl'SKUS PRESSED 12 l-2c A
,.leg. Seats free. Wright's.
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CRY OUR NEW CORNED HAMS?
They are nice. E. K Willis.
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BCEMBER 10. 1918.
EVIDENTLY JOHNNY WAS NO!
Barber's Customer Took 8omewhat
Astonishing Question Literal
and Thara Wu Trouble. , ***
Port Jervla had a big revival meeting.
and among the converted was a '
barber, who had been a bad actor In
his day. Once he put some home-made
sea fgam on a young man's-hair, which
turned the hair red, and the color
didn't come out for a year.
The barber confessed to this and
other crimes. It was a hard-won conversion,
and the evangelist was elated.
He saw a chance for passing religion
on to a host of Port Jervla cltlsens,
utilizing the barber shop as a
gateway.
Over In a corner of the revival hall
ha talked to the knight of the striped
pole.
"Now, Mr Scissors," said the evangelist,
"you have It In your power to
do great good In the world. You're a
man of Impressive personality, and by
reason of your position yop meet men i
In all walks of life.
"Instead of discussing baseball or
Ashing with a patron, why not say a :
I few words-calculated to turn htm Into!
vicauci yaiua s rveixiiuu eacn, as you'
have been reminded, that while he Is
large In life he muBt got ready for
the end, which comes to all men."
The barber thought that wag a fine
Idea, and pledged btnreelf. Tuen he
went back to his shop.
Little old Johnny Looselenf came In
from his day's work at the perfume
factory. Johnny was afraid of ghosts
and green horses and his wife. He
wanted his whiskers taken ofT.
The barber got through with the
lathering and half of the Bhave with
brief remarks about the fog and the i
' movement to fill up the abandoned I
i canal. Ho was Jusi poising the razor
J over the patron's throat when It oc-.
j currod to him to address a few words;
] of Inquiry to Looseleaf concerning the
; state of his soul. j,
j "Johnny." suld the barber slowly,^
I "are you prepared to die?"
The man In the chair openpd his j
I eyes and saw the razor, then the high'
. light In the eye of the other. !!
"What's that?" he shouted.
With which he did a lightning leap
from the chair, wrested the- razor,
ffom the barber and threw?that e?n-.
tleman through Uia own plate-glass
window,
San Francisco's Founder.
The two hundredth anniversary of [
tho birth of Father Francis J^Serm, !
liflrrounder of san T^anclnco. wtTToe '
1 celebrated in that city and by many j
Catholic societies throughout the ua- j
j tiou on November 24. Father Serra,!
| a Franciscan, was torn in the ?;ian- j
j lull island of Majorca, in tho Modi- :
j terrancan, November 24. 1713. He first i
went to Mexico, and reached the pal- i
I ace of the Mouti-iuir.as ou New Year's |
day, 1730. His tlr3t labors were among
the Indiana of the Sierra Ci*.rd:*.. He j
was afterward superior of a band of
prions In Lower California. :i; uo? i
(.pom; ai:lod the military exped: . .. wf 1
Galvez Into what Is now the f.aie c-f
California, and established the hrst i
? mission at San Diego. At t'. ,_ia |
the Declaration of lndi-; , . ..cq '
was bhing drafted in Philadelphia, .
Father Serra and the three priests accompanying
blm were, on Jur.o 7, '
1770, founding ir riMsblun thrvo thousand
miles away on the present site
of San Francisco, which was named
by them in honor of their order. He
i died on the 29th of August, 17S1, at
tho age of seventy-one.
8nlp?, Bird of Mystery. - Very
little la really known about the
snipe. That he la extremely Interesting,
both naturalists and sportsman
agree; that be la JStwWea. aobody
who has attempted to make the eHghteat
study oC his ware and habits wttl
dony. tor^ itto 0m wind. oaaaamt
; fed- toeth.w neither eaa let say why
be uniaee or why be foea, Myt a writer
In Country Life- On .a given bog
one may find plenty of snip* today,
and yet tomorrow hunt in vain tor a
single bird, and this even when no atmospheric
change has occurred. The
more one studies this bird the more
one realises how very little one really
knows about him. The snipe is
unique In his habit of drumming, or
bleating, as it is sometimes called.
The means by which the sound Is
produced Is one of the most discussed
subjects In ornithology.
FOR UNIFORM ROAD LAWS
ted State* If Premier Borden
Approve* the Idea.
Canada will be represented with the
United States In an endeavor to obtain
uniform laws pertaining to road
building, if the proposition meets the
approval of Premier Borden, according
to an announcement made at the '
American Road ocngress by A. W. I
Campbell, deputy minister of railways j
and canals for tho Canadian govern-!
ment. Mr. Campbell said that lie '
would use his. influence In urging tho '
premier to consent to the appointment;
i of a committee to confer with a com-'
mtttee representing tho American
Highway association and the American
Bar association to evolve a plan for
uniform road laws.
"I realize that in Canada, as well sb
throughout the United States, we have
40 varieties of road laws for every
province," said Mr. Campbell. "This
tends to retard real road work, and I
heartily Indorse any plan that would
bring abont (ractclally the same lawa
for both the United States and Canada
relative to good reads."
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BLOOD FEUD IN UPP.ER EGYPT
Natives Will Qo to Almost Any Length
In the Poolro to Wreak Pri
vat$^Vengeance.
A rem-.^ ance of an inno-1
.cent man being condemned to death
for murder and having bla innocence
proved almost at the foot of the gal-1
lows la reported from Upper Egypt, -I
A very rich lend owner was found
dead on hie doorstep. . An Inquiry was
opened and his two brothers accused
a certain Omran Mahmoud and hlB eon
of the crime, which they swore they
saw them commit.
The accused men declared their In-1
nocenoe, but, despite the desperate and
eloquent efforts of their advocate, Om-|
ran Mahmoud was sentenced to death
and his son to imprisonment for life,
and the date of the execution was
fixed.
The advocate sent in a petition for
the commutation of the death sentence
to the khedlve.
Time passed and he heard nothing
as to the fato of his petition. The day,
before that fixed for the execution the I
advocate determined to approach high- j
er quarters. Just as he was about to
proceed oa the errand two men were
shown Snto his office. They were the.
brothers of the murdered man.
They had come to confess to him
that their evidence had been false, and
that Oinrnn ?bltt 60n
were Innocent of the murder of their
brother. They had merely accused
them of tk? crime because they wanted
to keep tho authorities from suspecting:
the true murderer, on whom1
they Intended thcmeelves to take ven- i
geance.
, The real criminal wns at once ar-1
rested and on the eve of the execution '
On,ran Mahmoud and his son were advised
of what had happcaeJ.
This lncldfr.? ic illustrative of tho
lengths to which the native desire for
revenge will go. It Is, of course, not
unusual for on? man to accuse nnother
of a crime to avenge some long-uursrd
grudge, but It 1h surely unique for Innocent
men to bo accused of a murder
because the family of the murdered j
person wish to avenge their loss theai-!
selves orf the murderer.
?
Noisy Corret.
T71 on the hrii.hts of the Pacific
mout over the ccii.i.tK of ilallov's co:u-l
rt. For weeks flve-year-old Cobby hail
heard about It. On* nteht his faihroused
him frcui bleep, and 100k litiuj
la li s arms to see it.
- "Wah*>--up. +tobby4--wftln* up!" caWl j
his father. "Lcok, Liol/.y! Do you seoj
tno comet?"
Cobby lifted his h'.d and looked,1
r.a/clLr'iu.! f: w.j?V?
rcaivl iwi'i ib'? n: 1 .t i; .'.yet f.
U-rv: M-.j i";-> n.C.:i u.I'.w.l cf .1 .
oto In the perk h.v ilo'va in*;
thr- --Vtr -r and !c:d,r en mo the,
toi.t* liruv.n ur..y or a CTi
licbbva Bfirl; v*.\a on ]:! ?
eoiNirt chr: Ti>r.<l? hf u l.:t Ms h .. !. '
of a doiiU^y. licbLy 10.L tl i r ikoj
bouso._
"Moilior! ir.c^Ucr!" Fo shoctod.:
"Tbrro goes time cotn-.t as.aa!"?
Youth's Corapar.?o.
HAD THE DESIRED RESULT
Preacher** Parable Extremely Effective
In PHIIng the Depleted Ceffere
of the Church.
The collection* at the negro chnrch
tod been far from satisfactory, and
die pareon had racked hi* brain* to
tod a source to enlarge It. Finally
to kit upon a plan.
The following Sunday, at church, he
pot up and said: "Dreddaran, dare'*
bean a mo*' unfortuata occurrence
hare last night. A friend of mine ha*
told me that hla chicken* waa stolen
lag* night. Now, he'a done got his
suspicion* ob who done It, and he tells
ma that the guilty persona la In de
habit ob giving apartrgty at church.
Brudder Moaa, pass da put?.'*
Every one a?ve treely and watched!
hla neighbor to see what he would
give. The parson rubbed hi* band*
gleefully aa he counted the collection.'
"Bredderen." he said, "Ah want* to^
tnatiK you ror you mos' generous con-|
trlbutlon. As to de chicken stealing,
Ahll relieve you by tellln' you dat dat!
was a parable gotten up to' do bcnetit
ob religion."
Lammas Day In England.
Lammas, as August 1 Is popularly
called, was formerly our national fes
tlval. It remains an Important date
not only in Scotland, where this is a
quarter day, but in many parts ol
rural England, where tho pasture of
"Lammas lands" belongs after August
1 to all parishioners who drawl
smoke, not through pipes, but chimneys.
Tho word" "Lammas" is a coo
ruptlon of Loaf Mass, so-called because
on this day It was once customary to
present at church a loaf mado from
the new corn. Perhaps some relic of
this custom still lingers among Sua
sex farmers, who try to get a loaJ
baked from thn new wheat before the
end of Goodwood week. During the
eighteenth century the Dissenters ol
London kept high festival on Lammas
day to commemorate the death of
Queen Anne. If she had lived they
would have been deprived by th?
"Schism Bill" of the liberty of odo
attag their own children.?londo*
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SLAVERY OF COLONIAL UAYsi
More Than Half a Million Whltafll.
| Were Held In Bondage During ?
That Period. I
| Could we draw the curtain whklfl
conceals the life prehkitorlo
we ahould see that the servant pr^H
lem la aa old aa the human race.
deed. If !t were posalble for extrai^H
to meet, cave-dwellers and d'oizeafl^H
twentieth century sky-sera pert
doubtleaa converse aympailiotlcaltj^H
thla never-ending problem. Ita
ence la due to the univcraal deahfl
I man to use the strength of oChd^H
hla own proOt and pleasure?
changeable human
| During the colonial perlo^^^J
history, service was perform^J
main by two glasses?the ne^H
I and the Indentured white
| writes Prof. Marcus W. Jernegan^H
Harper a Magazine. The white
I ant. a aeml-slave, was more lmp|^H
in the seventh century than ev^H
! negro slave. In respect to both^H
I bers and economic significance.
tho mont pressing the
needs of the colonists was for a
tain and adequato supply of labor^H
was the white servants who snp^H
this demand and made possible
Id economic development, partlcul^H
of the middle and southern colonJi^l
In 1683 there were 12,000. of
fceniT-siaves In Virginia, coopoaffl
about one-sixth of the populatiC^|
while ncarlv two-thirds of the imnB
i grants to
eighteenth century were white se^H
ants. Every other colony made gr^H
is
Lthat more than half a million peraojH
J were of this class during tho colonl^H |
period.
WASTING TIME OVER DETAILS I
Writer Points Out Mistake Made byj
Many Men Who Occupy Executive
Positions. |
Many a In a high executive po|
Eitlou impairs his cillci-. ncy by trying!
to do work that a low priced suhordi-j
nale could accomplish Just as well.'
"Some tiKinagers are proud of calling'
tliemsclves manure of de tails wheuj
really the details have nearly mus-l
tered-them." cays a writer in .-". ftc.a. I
j "I rcmeiiilitr the treatu: - r x.S a bunk]
note company, who wr.j louvtr ua-'i
dertaklng to show h!s clerks ho v.- much! sB
belter he could do their work than . ^
th??y ror.td. One day the pre1'id or. t ot
the ?^ncern?'nck ULnuby the shoulder*/ "**"*
backed him into his private oClce,
rolled un armchair to the window, cud
said solemnly: Your Lu '.:. .ah.reirt
ofll-e hoars is to c't In ti.u* i.l..ur nr.d
think. That is what you ar-. j ..id icr
? o do it!'
Tie had th" r'lht f 1 "'cf <1 *
i?u, i/\n. i : ? ; . a t > pro; :
; his trail of iho-iskt ! i. I'
, br.ck ?:iJ for:h w. t . o .? . . lit.
lied trark. i>r>d hia ac.ivi.y
him anywhere."
n.ibcon on the rin?-.
A b:tbo?r. v h:: li r.-crt : t ;.m t*
b 1.o"? r.t I'na'.l.-y, V. or; -.:. < : . rt-.^lnnd,
*iivcf of t\ tov.:i on rt :? . . r^glit.
a.: I ::i tJ o cub k-\': r.l bCultrJ
w.-lla c.r;.l reached tho re >. c: houses."
: " i-cro It h:nl jo be slici. .The animal ,
had boon convoyed ca ih?> day of the
I escape from the barracks at Lichfield, X
the soldiers there parting with their. ^
regimental pet. which had traveled'
with them from Gibraltar. At the
show it was chained to the wall, but
I during the evening wrenched itself
free, and knocking an attendant down,
rushed into the street, which was filled
with people. A boy was severely biV
ten on the leg, and had to be takes*
to the hospital, and a woman and *
girl received lesser Injurlha. The anV
mal. after being followed by an exdt"
ad crowd, reached the roof ot a hang
and although It eagerly devoured the
fruit that waa thrown. It showed flghf
when Its capture waa attempted.
MM luvtlful THtaf. "
A newspaper recently Invited ltd
readers to state In a few words wbai
they considered the most beautiful
thing In the world.
The first prise waa awarded to the
I sender of tho answer: "Tho eyes of
| my mother."
I "Th? rtronm nf tUmt ?vuv i,??
to be Impossible." suggested an Imaginative
person, and this brought bins
second prize.
Tut tho most amusing thtng vaj
that which read: "The most beauti- ?
! ful thing in tho world is to see u
I man carrying his mother-in-la?
ac.oss a dangerous river without raak
' !ng any attempt to drop her In."
> Msw
Eistrn Customhouse.
Vni 'ue among public building* tn <
Ar.kcrira is the now customhouse *
which is being erected In Boston. It
is to bo a tower, 605 feel high, and In
d-^Ign Is virtually a monument to
crown the pyramidal skyline of tho
city. The old pyramidal shape of tha
city with the golden dome of tho
stniehouse at its apex has boon destroyed
by the building of BkyscraperaBoston's
building lawa now forbid tho
erection of private structures more
than 125 feet high, and the new customhouse
is designed to riae above it?
surroundings and form the dominating .. ,r.
feature in any view of the, city.?*
Popular Mechanics Magazine. ? *
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