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f . 'li r -v —.. i,iiiiiiiWw|| r TUB COURIER laMtfk fan Both Novo sad Gradation ISSUED WEEKLY PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN - omk ■■■■-— 12.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE - *■ ~ > —i—- ' m ftrtrTtr— North Cotolino, Thursday, Aogort 6, 1925 NUMBER 3t == . Sixteen-Year-Old Union Township Girl Is Victim of Attempted Criminal Assault Miss Mary little, Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Little of High Pine, Attacked. OCCURRED MONDAY A. M. Her Assailant A Young White Man and a Stranger in The ' Community. Miss Mary Little, 16-year-old dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Little who lire near High Pine church in Union township, this county, was the victim of an attempted criminal as sanlt on the part of an unidentified white man apparently about .twenty years of age Monday morning oi this week about 11 o’clock. The attempted assault occurred at the ddge of a field near a copse of woods not far fr6m an abandoned house several hundred yards from the Little resi dence. Miss. Little had been to a field to gather corn for dinner and was ' returning to the house singing and carrying a load of roasting ears in her arms when her assailant came out froih the woods and attacked her. She was knocked down and in the scuffle which followed was badly bruised and her.clothes practically torn off her body. She screamed sev eral times, but owing to the distance to the house could not make herself heard. She at length escaped from her assailant and ran home. v Only her mother and sisters were at home at the time, her father being employed at High Point and a brother, John Little, being away from home with a threshing crew. Some time af ter their fright was over the brother was sent for. Upon reaching home he came to Asheboro and gave the alarm. It was about 5 o’clock in the V afternoon, however; before news of the outrage reached the county offi cers. Sheriff Cranford immediately went to die scene and made efforts to get bloodhounds. Mr. W. C. York’s bloodhounds were at Eagle Springs where they had Been taken earlier in the afternoon in response to call from the Moore county officers. They were brought back to Asheboro about 11 o’clock Monday night and taken to the scene of the assault at High Pine., It had been 18 hours since the attempted assault and the trail was so cold that the hounds were unable to get track. Soon after the hounds were brought rain began to fill and it being im i to make any headway efforts doned. Officers continued search yesterday, but were un able to apprehend the criminal. Only a'meagre description is available. From all reports, Miss Little’s assail-1 ant is a stranger in the community, she never having seen him before. Hdwever, she states that she will be able to identify him. Aside from several bad bruises and the shock caused by the assault, Miss Little was not seriously injured. While considerable indignation over the outrage ja being expressed by the people of the community, there is no talk TJf^lynching should the criminal be apprehended, all seeming to be wil- j to let the law take care of the The Little’s are hard work ing, industrious citizens of the com munity and are held in high esteeem by the people of their community. Liberty School Faculty The faculty of liberty ldgh School is now complete as follows: D. C. Holt, principal; C. D. Kreigh, Markle, Ind., and Misses Sallie Tomlinson, of East Bend; Dorothy Lide, of Ma rion, and Christine Gordon, of Mon roe, high school; Misses Juanita ^Kearns, of Firmer, Carolyn McNairy, of Greensboro, route 5, and Myrtle Vickers, of Ambrose, Ga., upper grammar grades; Misses Aline Crow der, of Peachland; Doris Caldwell, of Dillon, S. Q., and Annie Hankins, of Roanoke, Va., intermediate grades; and Misses Maude Tickle, of Gibson ville; Anna C. Moore, of Rural Hall, and Rosa Elliott, of Durham, primary grades. Miss Thettte Smith, of Hamlet, will have charge of the mu sic department. ; In the death of Min Hester Patter son, of Julian, last week, the Randolph county Sunday school association ios* Jk most valuable and successful jeere tary who had sewed for the past three years. Miss Patterson was the daughter of Mrs. S. L. Pattern, and a sister of Miss Bessie Patterson,^ o* Julian. She had taught successfully and satisfactorily for six yean in the Liberty graded school. r,Kise Lollie Jones* of AshebOTOi who was at the last animal convention elected antotant secretary will s«rve until the convention at Fanner Au gust 18th and 19th. i ^ , .... STACEY W. BREWER NAMED * secretary n7& railroad _- _T— . A SPEND 40 FOR ROADS A statement made last week by Governor McLean estimated that North Carolina would spend on high way construction the next two years from forty to forty-five millions of dollars. “This is far in excess of any amount that has been'expended for any similar period in the past,” the Governor said in the statement. The Governor issued the statement as an answer to “tnte efforts on the part of a few persons in the State to cre ate the impression that constructive progress has been arrested" since he became Chief Executive. The Governor’s statement includes figures given him by State Highway Commissioner Frank Page upon re quest of the Governor. According to Mr. Page’s figlires, in the months of April, May an<J June this year con tracts were let for over a hundred thousand dollars worth of roads more than the same period last year. From January 1st, 1924, to August 1st, 1924, contracts were, awarded for road construction amounting to $7,245,000, and in the same period in 1925 con tracts were awarded for $13,627,919 of road building. ANDREW JACKSON DAVIDSON DIED MONDAY, AGED 61 YRS. Andrew Jackson Davidson, aged 61 years, died at the home of his niece, Mrs. Walter Cox, near West Bend, Monday. Mr. Davidson had been in poor health for more than a year from heart dropsy. The funeral ser vices were conducted by Rev. W. L. Gregory, pastor of the Friends church, it West Bend M. E. church Tuesday afternoon. The deceased is survived, by one brother, Everett Davidson, of 3perdl ' COUNT OF AUTOMOBILES SHOWS HEAVY TRAFFIC ON ROUTE 70 That traffic on ,Sfate Highway No. 70 is heavy is shown by a count of the car8 on the highway Saturday, July 29th. Jlr. E. B. Leach, of Seagrove, made acount of the cars passing over this route by Seagrove on that date anikfepert^ihat during the. day far1 « a. m, to 6 -p. nr., 1,10b automobi „ passed through Seagrove. This num ber included only through traffic and 414 not take Into count the local traf fic at Seagrove that day. Route 70 is one of the most impor tant highways in the State. Traffic is growing daily on this route. The improvement^ being made are making it one of the best highways in the State. When the highway is opened between Randleman and Greensboro a larger number Of people will use the routed Work on the route below Asheboro is progressing satisfactori ly. It is stated that the forces em ployed for hardsurfacing the road from Asheboro to the county home will come to town in about three weeks. The hardsurfacing, it is said, will be done on 75 first and then on 70, but whichever is done first will not delay the other for the reason that the grading has been done or will be done by that time and only the con crete will have to be poured. Those who have traveled that part of 70 which has been (pled are enthusiastic over this type of road and a great deal of satisfaction is felt by the people who use the road over this act on the part of the highway commis sion. CONVENTION WILL BE INTERESTING Will Be One ofJVlost Largely At tended Of Any Convention Meets 18th pud 19th. Officers of Randolph County Sun day School Association are of the opinion that one of the most interest ing and helpful, as veil as one of the most largely attended, Sunday School meetings ever held in the county will be the annual County Sunday School Convention at Concord Methodist Church, Concord, on Tuesday and Wednesday, August IS and 1* grams of the convention have been' mailed to all pastors and Sunday Sunday school superintendents in the county, with special invitations to at tend the convention themselves and nfting that they try to get all their Sunday school teachers and ofr Hears to attend. The Convention program includes addresses and conferences on prac tically all phases of the work of the modern Sunday School. In arranging the program the small Sunday school was given much attention. During the convention there will be question -'•-t '".ft concerning No Legal Killing Vivian Pierce, executive sec retary of the league which is campaigning to abolish the death penalty in every state. National * Headquarters are now open in New York and many national leaders have lined up in favor of the move. MRS. ROXANA C. RIDGE DIES AT HOME IN GREENSBORO Was Widow of Late W. J. Ridge Had Large Number of Relatives In Randolph County. Mrp. Roxana Catherine Ridge, aged 61 years, who died at her home in Greensboro last Friday morning fol lowing an illness of three months, was the widtfa of the late W. J. Ridge, a brother of our townsman, J. S. Ridge, and an aunt of Mrs. W. A. Coffin, of Asheboro. Mrs. Ridge wae a native of Montgomery county, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John F. Burk head. She was married in 1880 to Mr. Ridge and for the past 35 years has lived in Greensboro. Mrs. Ridge was a consistent mem ber of the West Market Street Meth odist church, Greensboro, and inter ested in all of its activities. -The,, fun eral was conducted Saturday after noon other late residence by Dr. S. B. Turrentine, president of Greens boro College, assisted by Rev. R. Mur phy Williams. Surviving are three children, Edney Ridge, Mrs. Wister Stockard and Mrs. Mabel Ridge Lay, all of Greensboro; three sisters, Mrs. M. F. Ridge, of Greensboro; Mrs- W. C. Lisk, of Mt. Gilead; and Mrs, J. H. Johnson, of Richmond, Va.j and one brother, W. M. Burkhead, of Charlotte. -=r-tr GOVERNOR McLEAN PAYS A HIGH TRIBUTE TO MR. BRYAN Governor Angus Wilton McLean paid the following high tribute to the memory of William Jennings Bryan; “He was one of the greatest preach ers of his time and I believe he will go down in history chiefly for that.. I believe he was a great moral force. I had great admiration foT him. While I did not always agree with him on political issues I admired the man. I had known him personally for a long time.” Marries 4000 Couples Kenneth F. Foscue, J. P., according to reports from Kinston, has married during the past 41 years more than 4,000 couples. He is now storting on his fifth thousand. His average has been about a hundred a year. GOVERNMENT CITES 64 ERRORS IN OIL CASE Takes Teapot Dome Oil Lease Case To Higher Court—Says Judge Erred Grossly. The Government Saturday filed its appeal in federal court in Wyoming in the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve case, citing 64 errors in conclusions set forth by the judge in dismissing the Government’s case in its suit for aimullment of the lease held by the Mammoth Oil Company, Harry F. Sinclair president. Fifty of the er rors involve the exclusion by the court of testimony and exhibits offered by the government and objected to by the defence and the objefctions upheld by the court, including the court’s refusal to compel Albert B, Fall’s son-in-law to testify. The evidence, the occlusion of which the petition for appeal asserts was erroneous, relates to certain Liberty bonds, which the government charges found their way from Harry F. Sin clair, president of the Mammoth Oil company, to Fall, then secretary of the interior, pursuant to collusion and fraud alleged in the^granting of the This testimony and these exhibits have to do with the purchase by the Continental Trading Company, Ltd., of Liberty bonds, which are shown later to have been in the possession of Fall or Everhart. The govern ment’s contention was that certain of the bonds passed into possession of Sinclair and went from Simdair to Fall or Everhart. Counsel for Decide To Purchase Only Ford and Dodge Trucks—Pass on Other Matters. The county hoard of education met in the office £f the county superin tendent of schools in the courthouse Monday in regular session and after transacting the routine of business ad journed to meet Again August 20th to consider the question of employing a welfare officer for the county and other matters that may come up for consideration. Among the details of school work passed on Monday were as follows: The committee for Coleridge school was selected, ehjMisting of C. H. Cav eness, J. M. Ellis and W. B. Moffitt.. Upon approval’of the Trinity school committee, W. G. Savage, of New Market township, will be permitted to send his children to Trinity school. It was ordered by the board that either an addition will be built to Payne's school house, in Liberty town ship, or a truck-will be provided to carry the children jn the higher grades to another school it being left to the choice, of the patrons as to which is tain school, in Union township. A local committee of the patrons of the Liberty echoes were empowered to buy electric fixtures for the new school building. In connection with the old Liberty school building, it was decided that the job of repairing the building will be let to the lowest bidder. The board UQBtt on record as agree ing to purchase in the future for school trades only Dodges and Fords. These will be purchased and put into use as demand, arises for track ser vice among the'schools of the county. North rock and p’Brien, architects, were employed to draw plans for the $28,000 when completed, TAKES IP DETAILS Heavy Court Docket Asheboro police court last week had the heaviest docket it has had in possibly two or three .years. Most of the cases, Vhiifh numbered two or three a d*?»MjjjH&Soturday, were for minor offences, COUNTY GETS A NEW MAIL ROUTE Effective Sept. 7th Star Route Will Give Service Prom High Point to Asheboro. . Asheboro will have a new star route mail service carried by motor trucks to High Point beginning September 7th. This is the announcement made by the postoffice department, which will receive bids until August 25th for carrying the mail on the route. A bond of $3,500 will be required. This announcement will be hailed with satisfaction by the people of Asheboro and the patrons of the of fices along the route to be traversed. Some time ago a petition signed by people ut this county and in High Point was presented to the depart ment asking for the establishment of this star -route. The postoffice de partment made an investigation of i dinedinst died rnsboro Sunday illness of seven [{cations of dis daughter of in. She was inty and has the merits of the proposed route and, according to the announcement, is convinced that the people of this county are entitled to the service. Since the taking off of two trains on the Southern railway operating be tween Asheboro and High Point, Asheboro and the points along the line have been handicapped in mail service. The new route wut: cover zs.t mnes. It will follow from Asheboro to High Point by Spero, Baridleman, and Sophia. A trip each way will be made daily, except Sunday, or twelve trips a week. Box delivery and Collection will not be required of the motor mail driver. Following is the schedule prescrib ed in the announcement: Leave Asheboro (daily except Sun day) at 10:10 a. m. and 4:10 p. m. and arrive in High Point 11:40 a. m. and 5:40 p. m. Leave High Point (daily except Sunday) at 8:80 a. jn. and 2:80 p. m. and arrive' at Asheboro 10:00 a. m. and 4 p. m. > mbs. Clara m. cunedinst DIED SUNDAY IN GUILFORD S. Cline id and REPORT MADE ON COLERIDGE ROAD \ Decide to Improve Old Route— Again Turn Down Trinity Road—Fix Tax Rate. The board of commissioners, all members being present, met in regu lar monthly session in the courthouse in Asheboro Monday. The commis sioners ordered 'that notice be served on the parties having*charge of the construction of State Highway No. 75 east of Ramseur, requiring them to at onee stop removing or interfering with, or damaging the road from Brown’s Cross Roads to Staley, and that the demand be made on said management that said road be placed in as good condition as it was before said road bed was removed. It was further ordered that unless said order be obeyed that the proper authorities be authorized to apply to the judge of the district for restraining order. A copy of this order was sent by the commissioners to the management of said work. On a question of motion to reopen the discussion of the Trinity-Archdale road, the motion was carried as fol lows: affirmative, J. F. White, T. H. Homaday and C. M. Loflin; negative, G. Elwood Stanton and J. C. Yow. Motion was. piade by T. H- Homaday and seconded by G. Ehrbod Stanton that the county pay one-third of the entire cost of the road and the ad joining property owners pay the other two-thirds. This motion was lost by a vote of three to two. J. F. White and T. H. Homaday voted for the mo tion and G. Elwood Stanton, J. C. Yow and C. M. Loflin against it. Upon certificate of Dr. T. L. Helms and other citizens of Randleman it was ordered that John Stalker, of Randleman township, be committed to thefc county home. It was ordered by the board that two trucks be sent to the Lassiter road to help topsoil same commencing at Tom’s Creek, the work to be done as soon as possible. The road supervisor was instructed to go as soon as possible to look over the road leading from the Daniel Bur row place toward Franklinville for the purpose of locating the best way for intersecting Highway No. 76. The commissioners voted to contin ue the appropriation for farm dem onstration work on the same basis as heretofore. i The board ordered (that $25 be giv en as the county’s half on the Sawyer Mine road to the Hoover Hull road. Mr. J. L. Briles is the supervisor of this work. V, • The present tax supervisor was in structed to complete the taxes and turn same over to the sheriff for col lection. The road force was instructed to go to the Newman Mill road in Level Cross township for the purpose of helping the citizens in topsoiling the road. The road supervisor was instructed to go to D. C. Glasgow’s and look over the road leading out from Highway No. 62 to the Millboro road, leaving E. L. York’s in Franklinville township. The sheriff was instructed to adver tise and sell land for delinquent taxes on Sept. 1st, 1925. It was ordered by the board that the order heretofore made by the board of county commissioners April 16, 1923, be rescinded as far as it af fects the Randolph County Fair As sociation and no further. This order, it will be recalled, was passed to pro hibit carnivals prohibited under the state law from operating in the coun ty. The commissioners instructed the clerk to the board to draw drafts in favor of the county board of education for funds for the construction of the Gray’s Chapel consolidated school un til further notice. , The commission appointed by the commissioners in regular session July 6, 1925, to inspect the two routes pro posed for the Coleridge road on July 10th reported to the board. These two routes were, first by way of the original Coleridge road and the sec ond by way of the Bell Cox place. . Only gne member of the . commis sioners reported for this inspection (Continued on page 4) Draw Jury List For September Term Court The county commissioners in regu lar session Monday drew the following Jury list fir the week’s term of crim inal court which convenes the first Monday in September. The list of jurors by townships follows: t Asheboro: H. C. Luther, Willie Hunt, W. C. Robbins, D. B. McCrary, L. H. Wright. Back Creek: R. K. Trotter. . Brower: R. G. Maness, James Brown. Cedar Grove: G. C. Boling, J., M Cooper, N. M. Lewallen, Frank Fos ter, A. P. Nance. . „ . Coleridge: E. F. Cox, H. A. Need ham, H. F. Brown, L. B. Gardner. Columbia: J. M. Kivett, M. W. Ed wards, Mike Reitxel, W. M. porsett. Franklinville: D. H. Allred, W. M. Wright, D. C. Glasgow, George C. Russell. Grant: M. J. Brown. - New Market: A. E. HiUterd,, J_D. Fariow, A. C. Chriecoe, J. W. Newby, Charles Brookshire. Providence: M. C. Gamer, A. M. PnK*i«m«n: w. E. Kennedy, H. T. Wall, H. T. Veriot, A. A. Grow. _ . Cancer Fame J. E. Barnard, wealthy London hatter, whose hobby is microscopic lenses, has won great fame in financing and making K possible for Dr. Gye to at last isolate the cancer germ—the first step toward finding a cure. * Neal Payne, Colored, Attacks Mother-in-Law Neal Pa^ne, colored man, is out under $200 bond for appearance af Superior court, on charge of assault with deadly weapon on his mother-in law, “Aunt” Dell Carr, aged about 85 yean. The assault occurred about 9 o’clock Sunday morning when, it is understood, Payne and his mother-in law got into an argument over whip ping one of Payne’s children. In the fight which followed, Payne is alleged to have used his pocket knife, inflict ing an ugly wound on “Aunt” Dell’s neck. A physician was called imme diately to dress the wound and stop the flow of blood. Had the cut been a little deeper, death would have en sued. Payne was arrested by Chief of Police C. W. Steed and was held * in jail without privilege of bond until the extent of the aged negro’s wounds could be ascertained. He was later released under bond. Death of Little Rebecca Lewallen Rachel Rebecca, the four and a half year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mack Lewallen died at their home in South Asheboro last Saturday follow ing an illness of only three days. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. W. H. Willis at West Bend M. E. church Sunday afternoon and inter ment made in the church cemetery. The parents, two brothers and two sisters survive. Heavy Auto Fatalities The number of deaths caused by. automobiles in 57 cities of the coun try in which figures have been com piled for the four weeks ending July 18th was 418. Automobile fatalities from January 1st, this year, to July 18th numbered 2,511. From New York, 501 deaths from automobiles have been reported since the first of the year. New Exposition Building High Point is to have another 10 story furniture exposition building. It is stated that plans have been drawn' for the construction of such a build ing and have been submitted to the contractor. It will be located on lot adjoining the present exposition build ing and will cost approximately $600, 00». Charles F. Finch, of Thomas ville, is the financier back of the project. It is planned to have the building ready by mid-summer, 1926. ' GRADED SCHOOL OPENS SEPT. 8TH Strong Faculty Has Been Select ed—11 Teachers from Ashe boro, 15 from County. Tuesday, September 8th, is the date ' set for the opening of the Asheboro graded school. This was the date de cided upon at a recent meeting of the school board. Mr. W. H, McMahan will again be superintendent of the schools. Of the faculty elected, 11 are from Asheboro, while in all 15 are from this county. The faculty of the colored school has not been com pleted. i ' . Following is the faculty for the graded school: :■ > Misses Louise Brooks, Maude Fox, Greensboro; Kate Bulla, Virginia Steed, Ava Wolff, Ruth Hadley, Don nie Lee Loflin, Bertha Presnell, Clar abel Morris, Frances Barker, Massa Lambeth, Mrs. Bessie Rice, Mrs. John T. Moffitt, of Asheboro; Mrs. Annie Spake, Shelby; Callie Vuncannftn, Asheboro, Route 2; Mechanic; Maude L Mrs. Joseph Newlan C. Boone, Perkin, S P. Mobley, Foun Misses Pauline Roberts, Bahama; Ru Honeycutt, Clayton; . Skttth C.; Adna Lamb, Guilford issiter, Erect; Mr. S. Daisy C.; NEGRO ASSAULTS A WHITE WOMAN Mrs. Sides, of Eagle Springs, Is Victim of Attack—Negro | Captured Tuesday. ^ $ Mr. C* S. Davis, of'Eagfe Springs, was in Asheboro Tuesday and brought news of the details of the criminal as sault on Mrs. J. W.. Sides by a negro by the name of John McMillan, which occurred near the Sides home at Eagle Springs Monday morning about 1# o’clock. Mrb. Sides ^as confronted by the negro while she was oit her |i way to a spring to get a bucket ef • water. The negro halted her with a gun and after beating her in the face with the gun threw her down and committed the assault. Mrs. Sides is a' woman about 5t years old and is the mother of eight children. The negro, identified as John McMillan, had been off the county roads only a few day after serving a sentence imposed when he was convicted of stealing a gun. Af ter getting off the roads he worked a day or so at the sandpits and Monday morning had secured a job with the Elberta Peach Company. He wee*: from his work at the peach orchard t» the Sides spring apparently for the purpose of committing the crime. Bloodhounds were taken from Ashe boro to the scene Monday afternoon and trailed the negro nearly to Pine hurst. There information was that a negro answering his description had gotten into an automobile and headed toward Raeford, McMillan’s Imiiwr home. Reports state he was captar ed in the woods near Raeford Tuesday. Dr. Robert Loft'm Visits State Dr. Robert Loftin, of Arkansas, is this week visiting bis settee, lisa. Duck Morgan, at Thomasvito, after a long period of absence from the State. He is a son of the late Wilfiua Loftin, of Jackson Hill, and in bis younger years taught school in David son county. Later he studied wedi cine and located in Arkansas. He at- \ tended old Trinity College, at Trinity, this county. REV. PAUL KENNFTT WILL PREACH IN ASHEBORO SUNDAY, | Rev. Paul Kennett will preach in the Methodist Protestant church in Asheboro Sunday morning at eleven o’clock. Rev. Kennett is a member at the faculty of the High Point College. ~‘s He is a graduate of Westminister Theological Seminary and is an able preacher. He has numerous friends and acquaintances who will be to know of his engagement in Ashe boro. * Late J. D. Millikan Had Relatives In Randolph Was Born and Reared in, Trinity Township—Moved West Many Years Ago. J. D. Millikan, who died recently i* Parsons, Kansas, at the age of 6* years, was bom and reared near old Trinity College in this county. He was the second son of Eleazer and Jtuth Carter Millikan. He moved West about forty years ago, living in Carthage, Mo., for twenty ye&ars, af ter which he moved to Parsons, Kans, where he resided the last eighteem years of his life, holding a position with the Y. M. C). A. He had been* back to North Carolina on visits_to relatives and friends in this county several times since he took up hi» residence in the West. Funeral services for the deceased weTe held from the First M. E. church of Parsons, Kans., of which he was a member, anil the body taken to Car thage, Mo., for-interment. He is survived by one brother, X. Ed Millikan, of Archdale, this county; two daughters, Mrs. Gertrude Rhoades, of Alhambra, Cal., and Ik Atta Steatson, of Parsons, Kans.; and one son, Ernest E.' Millikan, of Car thage, Mo.; also ten grandchildren. He was an uhcle of Mrs. Earle BullJk v of Asheboro, Route No. 2. BODY OF COMMONER BURIED IN ARLINGTON CEMETERY The body of William Jennings Bry an was laid to rest Friday in Arling ton national cemetery in Washington. A simple white wooden marker, plac ed at the head of the grave, notes that there lies William Jennings Bryan, colonel of infantry. As the service was said, the troops, only side arms, stood at rigid until the bugle notes had died away. There was no drumming of rifle fir* to pay last honors to the dead. Simple funeral services were^ in the auditorium of the New Avenue Presbyterian church the great commoner lay in death dud had worshipped in life. SOME OF THE BEST A writer in one of the best things to be The