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THE SUNDAY CITIZEN, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14, 1921. THRICE MEN WHO CAN TRAIN ANIMALS IN DEMAND, BUT "WINKIE" WEA VER GO VERNS ELEPHANT WITH A WINK y The subjugation and" education of animals continues to he one profes sion that is not overcrowded, and there fs plenty of room at the top for thqse that qualify, according to "Wink" Weaver, animal overseer of the Gentry Bros, show, which exhibit in Asheville Aug. 16. Weaver has the distinction of being the only known 'trainer that can govern a group of elephants by the wink of an eye. hence his nlck-nam. In speaking of his peculiar busi ness, Weaver claims a successful trainer must possess the following four qualifications at fche start: first, at least as much intelligence as the animal he seeks to educate; plenty of patience; kindness; perseverance; endowed with these characteristics, any average person can succeed in training any animal from a yellow dog to a hippopotamus. Weaver's first experience In train ing was with the college cat at Dart mouth, class '02; after his return home, he soon had' a troupe of felines that Jumped through hoops, walked on two feet and did other stunts. In the opinion of Weaver, an ele phant is the most Intelligent of all the so-called wild beasts, and they also have their peculiarities; for In stance, they will not allow stoves or steam pipes in their winter quarters; they are deathly afraid of a mouse, although they will battle a lion: they apparently never get tired and are always willing to work; they are pos sessed of more strength than any other animal and they are very fond of children, and strange as it may seem, their most common ailment Is colic. ENGINEERS RETURN I FROM MOUNTAIN TRIP Major Warren E. Hall and Lltit. Thorndyke Snvlllp Collect Valuable Data Concerning Watcrpower. i Warren E. Hall, district engineer U. 8. Geological survey, and JJeut. Thorndyke Sayville, of the X. C. Geo logical and Economic survey, are Just . back from an extended trip through ' the mountains west and north of Blowlnr Rock. They traveled in an ; automobile by way of Hlckorv, l,e- '. nolr. Blowing IWfk, Boone, Valley ! Cruces, Zlonville, Wartenville. Jpffer-' son, Weaver Ford, Ohid. North ' Wilkesboro. Lenoir again and back tn ' Asheville. The trip was made t0 in- vestigate water powers on Wilson's i Creek. Upper Watauga river. North ' Fork New river. South Fork New , river and upper Yadkin river. Many' splendid waterpower sites were visi- ' ted and much valuable information concerning the power was i ollected. ; These data will be published In ! water power bulletins by the uto I survey. j "The trip was a wonderful one and ! we saw country worth going hundreds i of miles to see." said Major Hall.' "Rut the roads are something which must be gone over tn nnilorsiitnil. The last 1 .i miles In Wilkes county . Is fine. Watauga and Ashe counties RED AND BLACK RUST j DAMAGED OVER THIRD! OF WHEAT CROP HERE County Farm Agent Kxplnlns Proper! Method of Wheat Planting for This Section. j That 35 per cent of the wheat crop' of Buncombe county was destroyed by red or black rust is the last eat I- i mate of C. .C. ProffUt. county farmj demonstration agent, and of James; Gray, district farm ngent. The, rust attacked the crop In many sections of the country just he-; fore maturing, but many farmers re-j port that their wheat was affected! some time ago. When the rust at tacks early in the season, it Is mani fested in the black fnriu. l-aier, , when the wheat Is maturing, the rust affectation is red. Th depends to some extent on the weather condi-- are truly numbered aiming the 'l.nst Counties' due solely tn l ick nf mads, yet prettier farms and mme pleasing scenery would be haul tn llml than in those two counties When a leal highway is opened up from the outer world people are Imiiml t.i lick to that part of the mount. tin.- ,,f N.nth i 'arolina." tions. JiiBcussmg the wheat situation In this country. Mr. Promtl made the following statement; "The wheat yield in Western North Carolina Is very little more than that of 49 years ago. The corn yield dur ing this period has been more than doubled. In Mew of this condition, it Is time that we were giwng more attention to the growing of wheat. "It has been a general farm prac tice in this section to sou wheat r.if corn land. The corn is nut harxested until about the i.-t of (irtubn- hasty and very poor seed bed Is pre pared and seed is sown without tak ing the time and trouble tn treat them for smut. The farmer who mows wheat late on a poor seed bed will al ways harvest a poor .ue'd "The proper way to grow whc.it is to pick good, fertile soil that i.- in clover, peas, or beans, break deep not later than August Jn and har row frequently until October n Tin- will gi.e a llrm seed bed w hn li has had opportunity to i.itih enough water to carry the crop mm ,i .1 spell. The best seed obtainable should be sowed, after treainient w iMi lornuilin to destroy the smut spores Seeding should always be done with a drill, and a plentiful distribution of acid phosphate. ' The aeiage yield id wheat In tin, section Is mi low per acre that n doe.-, nut pa. yet a few growers who I'-llnw these rules arc making line ieid.s and handsome prolits." UY YOUR iiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiM liiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiil :47AUTO SUPPLES HERE ' I X Gordon Scat Covers add a touch of distinction to your car. Easily attached. Sawyer Motor Company i Home of ojjqe Brothers Mtor Car 3 18-20 Church Street. LORD NORTHCLIFFE TELLS OF HOW LONDON DAILY MAIL GREW TO BE JOURNALISTIS SUCCESS (By Lord Northellffe.) Ae the sale of the Daily Mall spread In the provinces the provincial daily news papers began to attack It. It was great sport for us. and we enjoyed It thorough ly. The provincial attacks revealed fear. j and the fear betokened weakness. In re- I sponse to demands from the provinces we acquired such a quantity of machinery as ! enabled us to print the paper much more rapidly than any other Journal was pro duced at that time; then we engaged special trains and landed editions right and left all over the country amid a posi tive hurricane of newspaper abuse. In 1909 these developments culminated in the entirely novel project of producing the journal in replica each night two hun dred miles away in Manchester and en gaging a fresh set of special trains to take the paper farther northward. Newspaper warfare is very like trench warfare. Each party sees very little of the other. Both believe In gigantic enemy loeses! I remember saying to Mr. Kennedy Jones, at the time when the sale of The Daily Mall had reached slit hun dred thousand daily, "When will these people wake up to their position?" "In about five years," he replied. We were saved from competition for a long time by the. kind of wlseacreB who assume an air of solemnity and write for provincial Journals prompous paragraphs usually headed "London Letter." These wiseacres warded oft competition from us for five years by paragraphs stating that "despite the numerical success of The Daily Mail the financial lossea are be lieved to be tremendous." Others sug gested darkly that behind the enterprise j stood the inarterea company oi oouin Africa. Others again, that the whole fortune extracted from a prosperous per iodicals publishing business waa being poured Into the abyss of losses on the new dally. One of the sources of the Journal's euo cesa waa its free use of cables and firlvate wire. Turn back to any morn ng newspaper nf that time, with the ex ception of The Times and the Dally Tele graph. What does one find? An Immense police court report, occupying on some occaalona a whole page i and proceeding court by court; from Canada and the United States hardly anything, except by Reuter'a Agency; from Paris a great deal, because it was cheap, the system generally being to send early copies of Pari morning papers by the first train and aupplement them by a telegram at night, dishing the whole thing up in the form of a Paris letter; from Germany as a rule, extremely little, and from India hardly anything. Parliament was very fully reported, space being given to Toms, Dicks, and Harry whose views were of no Impor tance, and that despite the fact that a parliamentary commission In the house of commons had reported year before that th additional space demanded for re porters In the house of commons was not needed btcaivse It had been ascertained that the public did not read these long re porta. Some of the newspaper printed aj many as five or six long leading articles dally. ' No one knew why, but each did it became the other did. Sometimes they were written by able specialists and en tertaining essayist, but, as a rule, they wer produced either by general con tributors, like myself, whose views on Tany topio at the age of eighteen could not have been of much Importance, or by a ataff of good scholarly men who were expected to write on every possible topic and who did ao by the aid of the "Encyclopaedia Britanica" and other works of reerence., In many cases payment for these arti cle was humble Indeed. One particular ly august daily used to pay me two guineas for a long article and one guinea for a short one, probably more than the articles were worth, but cer tainly not enough to attract the talent ao highly rewarded at the bar. In the other professions, and In commerce. Those first Daily Mall days were strenu ous enough. In my oxn case I did not leave the office for UieTlrst two daya and night, and then went home and slept for twenty-four hours, and should probably have alept longer had not my household got alarmed at this mysteries somnol ence and had me awakened. But they were Joyous daya too; days when splendid bralna were being offered to tu from all dver the Empire, many, alas! gone, fal len in th war, some now paat the age of warrtor-ahlp. It would be Impossible in this history . of The Daily Mall to give a list of those who helped m in establishing this news paper. Editorially, almost from the be ginning, the dally responsibility and the reaponslblllty of Issuing ao many editions ot Tha Dally Mall has indeed been a great one has been In the hands of Mr. Thomas Marlowe. Wlly read, widely travelled,' Mr. Marlowe, who has been in the editorial chair long than any other London morning newspaper editor, has that mixture of English and Irish in him that gives both fores ant vivacity. Just on anecdote. Daring th Boer . war, early tn the morning, when a large number of papers had been printed, cam an announcement that th report of an alleged great success of tha British in South Africa, which had been issued to all newspapers by a news agency, was false. Every London editor was faced milh th earns atKXulty a taat-whlo confronted Mr. Marlowe. Th papers con. talnlng th falsi Intelligence bad been printed. Mr. Marlow was th only editor who - id what b did. H at one telephoned to the printing rooms that no copy what ever of The Dally Mail with that false telegram In it waa to leave the office. He Immediately began a new paper with a prominent contradiction of the false news that he guessed would be in every other Journal. The papers destroyed were worth a considers hie sum in money and the delay in the publication of the news paper was irritating to news agents throughout the whole country. But. as result, public confidence In newa In The Daily Mall was Intensified and letters of appreciation poured In from all part of the country. Of course contributors to The Dally I .Mall those who are with us need no re calling, for their names and work are before you every day. There Is one early star In our firma ment, George Steevens, known as G. W. Steevens and George Warrington Steevens beyond any queetlon one of ie most capable writers In newspapers since news papers began. It Is not true that The Dally Mall discovered George Steevens. George Steevens discovered himself, and If the discovery la to be ascribed to any one else It Is to Mr. Henry Cuet, who was for some time editor of a particular ly brilliant and outstanding Pali Mall Gazette. George, who became an Intimate and affectionate friend of mine, came to me bringing with him some articles on Turkey. Our little staff was then prac tically complete, and I said to him, as I always do to those who wish to work with me, "Tell me about yourself and wnat you can do. ueorge waa twenty six years of age, had been educated at the City of London School, and proceeded to Balllol as a scholar. He obtained a first In Mods, and Greats and a fellow ship at Pembroke. "Think I can do anything from tying' parcels downward," he said in his queer, shy. cynical way. "Shall we say leading articles, then?" I remarked. George knew a great deal about the navy, and pre ceded Mr. H. W. Wilson, author of "Iron clada in Action," our present naval ex pert, as our naval writer., His leading articles and notes were frankly bad. After two or three days he oame to see me and said, ' "What do you think of them?" "Feeble," I re plied. "I agree." he said. "Let me try something else." That something was a report of a horse show at, I think, Rich mond. It Is difficult to imagine that genulua could be shown In a report of a horse show, but genius was shown In that re port, and I at once aaw that here waa a man of extraordinary power of observa tion with an entirely new way of record ing what he had seen. After a little time in which he displayed all sorta of descriptive ability we sent him to the United States to writ of Bryan's cam paign for the presidency, and I still think that George Steevena's "Land of the Dol- I lar is the best descriptive book on the Americans, written though it was nearly twenty years. Steevens's account of the Nile cam paign and his South African waqarecord, cut short thought It was by death from enteric in Ladyamith, should be read by everyone commencing JotirnaUsm. He was one of a long serres of Dally Mall "Eye-Witnesses" In Germany, and the whole effect of his work, as well as that of twenty other writers on Germany, including myself, should have been auch as to arouse the nation. The most difficult development In the history of ThDaily Mall was tha estab lishment of the Continental edition, which is produced in Paria every day. 'or many years, Indeed since the allied occupation In 1814, the English abroad had had a dally newspaper known as Galignanl's Messenger. Gallgnanl'e in the 'eighties, for some reason that I cannot fathom, began to fall on evil days. It began to rint less and less telegraphed news from ondon, and more and more written cor respondence, so that It did not contain very much later news than that which was to be found In the London paper which at that time arrived In Pari be tween alx and seven In the evnlng. It was obvious that an opportunity of fered Itself to extend the Influence of The Dally Mall, nd so eventually, after the same sort of preparation that had taken place at the Inception of the London Bally Mail and the Manchester Dally Mall, and the northern issue - of The Dally Mall, we produced tha edition which is printed each night In the Rue du Sentler In Paris. It had the effect, of course, of at once obliterating the sales of English newapapers from London, for from Paris It radiates all over Eurooe. The radical and coalition Journals ob ject to the fact that The Times and Th Dally Mail are tha only two English news papers that are widely read on the con tinent. That Is not the fault of The Times and The Daily Mall. It is open to any one of these Journals to go to Pari and start an opposltino If It chooses. It must have been obvious to all of them that a newspaper that ar rived in many parte of Europe a whole day before the London newspapers, and contained th same news, must hold tb field. Of th ehangee in British Journalism wrought by the Daily Mall It la not for ma to speak. Thejr can be gathered by comparison, at any oubMe llbsarv of tha fll ..-aay .aw f ft -year gor-M On of th chief revolutions 1 th recognition of tha importance of woman In th world of business and literary ac tivity. Another 1 in th attention (Iven to agriculture and outdoor Ufa. Mrs. Anna Harris At the Emporium Beauty Parlor "-Hslg 01 7 Visit the Emporium Beauty Parlor Call 4166 for Appointment Hudson Seal Coat A most charming model of Hud son Seal which is not only beautiful to look at but its warmth is most comfortable in the dead of winter. This model is a 36 inch coat with handsome large cape collar, and wide cuffs. Regular price $550.00. Sale price $412.50 Nearseal Coats Beautiful 40 inch Nearseal Coat with 24 inch cape collar trimmed with Squirrel. This is one of tje most pleasing models we have this season. Regular price $400.00. Sale price $300.00 36 inch Coat of Nearseal, large collar and cuffs, plain. Regular price $150.00. Sale price $112.50 36 inch Coat of Nearseal with large O' possum collar trimming. Regular price $265.00. Sale price $198.75 August Safe of im Muskrat Coat One of the most popular Furs of the season and they are so good looking for both Sport and Street wear. This is a 36 inch coat with large collar and cuffs. Regular price $2 75.00. Sal'ePrice $206.25 Kit Coney Coats f A handsome 36 inch French Coney coat with large cape collar and deep cuffs. This is a most at tractive coat for outing wear and one that will furnish much warmth. Regular price $79.50. Sale price $59.65 A most attractive 36 inch model American Coney Coat with large collar and cuffs. This is a coat that will give much comfort and stand much hard wear. Regular' price $55.00. Sale price $41.25 A$3 Y Less Than Price Will Be Sept. 1st For Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Only " If you have been waiting through the fast season for lowered prices be fore investing in a new fur coat or fur piece, this is the time to make your investment. As you know, the Emporium is a new store with new merchandise at most moderate prices and this it our first season to offer furs. You will find our entire fur stock is brand new both in style and prices. There is no old stock to be found among our selections and no high prices that you have been used to paying for the past three years. Don't miss this opportunity to receive real quality and value. Dainty Chokers Jap Martin. Regular price $52.00. price . . $39.00 Stone Martin. Regular price $25.00. Sale MQ 7r price PlOlD Raccoon. Regular price $50.00. price . . $37.50 Mink. Regular price $60.00. It $45.00 Mink. Regular p.rice $39.00. price . . $29.25 Squirrel. Regular price $15.00. Sale d1 1 Of" price ... ...... PXlMfJ All Scarfs Reduced 257r BROWN FOX WOLF FITCH GRAY FOX O'POSSUM BLACK FOX STONE MARTIN LYNX POINTED FOX SQUIRREL Beautiful Capes Smart model mole-skin Cape. Regular price $90.00. Sale price $67.50 Handsome Plush Coats 253 Off A clever mode. 40 inch Plush Coat with pretty Fur trimmed collar and cuffs. Regular price $49.50. Sale price Beautiful Moleskin and Squirrel Combination. Regular price 4$140.00 Sale price , $37.15 $105.00 ' A beautiful 36 inch Plush Coat with large O'possum collar. Regular price $49.50. Sale $37.15 Clever combination of moleskin and Fox. Regular price $100.00. Sale price $75.00 A pretty belted model, 36 inch Plush Coat with fur trimmed collar and cuffs. Regular price $35.00. Sale price $26.25 A very dressy model of Nearseal and Fox. Regular price $95.00. Sale price $71.25 Handsome Plush Coats Fur Trimmed Plush Coats A beautiful model, good quality Plush ""tS O . beautiful 36 inch Plush Coat with large Coat, with large collar and deep cuffs. f 4fNw iVCZiCKia JVfIWi il 1 . O'possum collar. Regular price $45.00. Regular price $19.50. Sale price LfVflOll iLV'l PHI li II II III Sale price $14.65 Si-h ' $33J5 A heavy quality, 36 inch Plush Coat with fSimiSMMAXMASAmmmf A handsome quality 40 inch Plush Coat large collar and cuffs. Regular price $29.50. lr " ' with large fur collar and cuffs. Regular Sal price r Inin , price $50.00. Sale price $22 15 Where Smart Style Meet Moderate Price" jjy 50-
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