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Juv. January 22, 1923. il fl) CHURCHES- Reuniting of the Methodist Churches, After Separation 0 f 79 Years, is Now Ap proaching Reality. \[ .bin. 1!>. —Reuniting of :is* Episcopal Chimb and .list Episcopal Church, itni J!> years ago- upon : la very, approached real iy with' tlie committee of ~i io qonside** statemeWts I ~ bodies and to lay down .;,s ~t* a contract on which co , ii!*l be accomplished. This ~•■O.l a proposal by repre . . ilie northern body, and iiU r statement of the South •.vsetited at a joint session ite last night. The find ronimittee of ten will l>e die joint commission this . ,'if the commission express-- ,* hat title committee would ; iiie report a plan of tin* ;.‘sc.iTetL to the Methodist i Cium-h conference, dud to , s - -[-*!! church at a special con ic;! before the general eon «r * does not meet until an agreement would re • > r ‘sentation of the third !.e general • conference, the ■ . ' •cnj. ’imposed 1(5 years ago . (1. T second plan was re v years ago. i i <; ■!* !•) nd am Now Talking Brace. ' f"'\ ; c • . Jan. 10 (Capital News special. eommitree,c *ip- I'nited States Chamber ■ examine into the ament’s participation reported. A brief of ill minority reports has . i by the Washington offico i cr as a referendum, with | : ii\ldual ,and associate’ 12.-;; ’ the Chamber of Com- ! L'nited States, with the - c they place the question i y, ■ organizations to aseer— ; ia tit--’• >n three questions: (1) , no - the creation of a Federal' ; , • ; : Education with a Set?- 1 - h<j* President's Cabinet.! ,v ): >; i■ :* the Towner-Sterling i ' * you favor enlarging the ; : j; oil of Education? (3) j . « u-v.c- th principal, of Federal’ \ r.ration in the states on ' » :lie states appropriating ' - > those given by the j • -ament? - ■ committee consisted'of! . : . rs. The majority report.’ : , opposed by t a minority re ' and on? member of the nr. r submitted a separate. :• ~ . ; signing neither ma . , ~• .. py report. t rim referendum with the* ! * :• ((Vo reports are available • J inquirers. fronts the v’on/merce of the United r - v.-.! -idniton, I). C. vo( ng must, be d 112 by F !>th. after which the results b. - it'd and made availab e-to : • ib: ; rough a bulletin. x | ; - • . i i in banquet With Their Brides. j IV: Hm. iti.-i'ihvo brides of | '• n! i oectivciy. sat'lu-aufe tlieir | ■i - the annual 1 Confederate j ' • ' banquet held here today as a I 'G* neryl Robert E. Lee;. J T: *!* Mrs.* Richard Reeves.} c-> Wiis married four weeks ago. and j !•'!' ' r. Mrs. J. T. Ham-ock, whose! imß!iti'ui:;!i \ nttires came ten days j bit'-r. Mr. Reeves is SI and Mr. h . si. Until took part in the 1 members of a North'Car -1 ■•bh u:!'.;titry regiment. ATTENTION! PROGRESSIVE BOTTLERS!! , !iic‘«ims DOLLARS* t<> vor ! \n you -citing YOLK .SHAKE of 4he SOFT DRINK HI.'SI- It iiol.*Y<ut lift’d-it 0(1.01) POLA LEADER; That s v.lutl f ’HHiming • I'iihlic* Want and Demand. PARFAY (m.hi, is second to none. Will Repeat and give you a 11 'l. increasing voluinn of business. Exclusive Bottling ler ilaMe to Bottlers, il particulars and sample furnished upon request. A( l \'.Y! Someone is going to secure this valuable L* rauehise. .|! iT ILL Vor? DON'T DELAY. Write today. H -VRI AY COMPANY, Incorporated ' * « iniont B!tlg. Charlotte, N. C. •• • Li,. -■*..-....-.■..-..ir*-..-......... Horses - Mares - Mules ! ! " i 1;;l■■ eto arrive in our Stables hi Salisbury, N. C., I hursday, January 25, 1923 .!• ". .tin In davs only 125 head of Horses, Mares and ' _ Phis is one of the best selected lots of Horses and v* ■ vc ha\e had in a verv. long' while. 1 hese Horses Acs were bought during the holidays and were cheaper than they can be bought again this win iH'iiig, and we will give purchasers the benefit of •eduction. TERMS: CASH OR TIME E- nkel-Craig Live Stock Company SALISBURY, N. C, I WORK OF STATE LEGISLATURE. | Raleigh, Jan. 19.—(8y the Associat ed Press)— (Measures to restrict the I sale of drugs, medicines and poisons, I and to prohibit the use of public I garages as residences, and a new soli citor’s salary bill were introduced in j the Senate today. Other legislation put underway of statewide significance t would regulate the; storage and trans portation of gasoline and oils where 1 they ana* not controlled now, and pro . 'dde for the erection of buildings now , needed at the state prison farm. A memorial from., the Washington, ! North Carolina chamber of commerce r addressed to the Senate and House of I Representatives and read in both the bodies declared it was the sense of ; Liat organization, expressed in a public meeting, that the ship line bill sab . mitted to the GenerafL Assembly at . the request of Governor Cameron Morrisbn. should be defeated. The memorial stated that the Washington , Chamber of Commerce regarded the ! proposition as impracticable, a “viola tion of the American idea” of govern ment in its approach to ‘.‘paternalism.” and that the stand the chamber of j’ccmmerce understood that the sena j tors of its district, Harry ’Stubbs and 1 Johnston's and Representative L. C. Warren, were taking against the bill was commended. The drug bill, introduced in the Sen * ate by Senator DeLaney, of Mecklen ! burg't’ounty, is a measure emanating jffrom the State Pharmaceutical Asso nation, the Senator stated, and he de scribed it as “less drastic” in its pro j visions than the first hill drawn. The measure would prohibit, the sale of , drugs by general stores. The new solicitor’s salary hill was ! presented by Senators Woodson and , Yarser. It would fix the salary of a j solicitor at s4,t)bo-a year, with allow ances for actual hotel and traveling ' expenses while on duty with the crim inal courts, and make the payment of |-the salaries out of the state treasury. ; The bill goes to the conmiittee for consideration along with that intro i dic ed yesterday fixing a salary mini , mum of with the 1 allowances tip to a maximum of $3,000. and a fur ; ther allowance <»f SSO monthly for ex ; iienses^ By a Tesolution Introduced in both i houses, the General Assembly"exnress . ed appreciation for the life and char acter of General Robert E. Lee. and nd/otirned in honor of his memory, i The only new lulls of importance in i treduced m the House were presented •by Representative Turlington. <»f. Ire dell County. One would propose a ! constitutional aimuidment to provide ’ that by vote of th.m people tin* General ! Assembly Ite empowered to enact laws j-which would permit garnishment of i not more than 10 per cent, of the sal ary of workers for the payment of a . debt. | ■ I 1 Raleigh. Jan. 20 (By the Associat ed Press). —Increase of the judicial ’districts of North Carolina to 27. is the purpose of a bill introduced today in the Senate hv Senators DeLaney. Stubbs, Grady. Squires. Yarser and Sams. Favorable committee report on * the. bill w'fib-h would establish a par ! dons board and take the ijardoning •power out of the hands of the Gov ernor was made at today's session. J 'The judicial redistricting bill pro vides for 27 districts instead of the 20 of the present, and the preparation of two supplementary measures waits no on the passage of this bill, according to the sponsors of it. Proposed re-dis ‘ t rioting is in the interest of speeding ! up court trials and clearing up eon * gested dockets and calendars of tlie j state. If the General Assembly enacts the j bill introduced today. Netted j that the body then would be asked to divide the state into three circuits — I western, central and eastern —instead !of two circuits as now constituted. ■ Nine districts would be alloted to each circuit. No boundaries are sought be - be established in the bill now before the Senate. This part of tlie plan to redistrict also will he incorporated in • ■the supplementary measures. ’ The session of the Senate today was ; short and with little accomplishment. Announcement was made today that • the joint committee on investigation ! of the department pf labor and print ■ ing and its handling of contracts for 1 state printing will have its first meet -1 ing Tuesday night of next week at S ! o’clock. Public examination of witnesses on > proposed legislation to be conducted next week includes the hearing before the Senate railroad committee next Wednesday afternoon on the Menden hall hill to expedite the movement of . intra-state freight, and that 'of next Thursday afternoon on the bill which would revoke the franchise of the <’arolina-Tennessee water company. Representative Dougliton, of Alle plianey County, introduced the budget report in the House. It went t*> the appropriations cymmittee. Three bills came before the House. One by Ever ett, of Durham, would extend the pres ent law regarding secret political or ganizations to organizations which tried to control persons not members. Representative Turlington, of Ire dell, in a Statement to the House con cerning his constitutional amendmnet hill yesterday, said he wanted to put the matter of garnishment of wages Jiefore the people. He was opposed to such practices, he said, but he inti mated the constant pressure of the Merchants Vssociation and other bod ies kept the matter an open question and he wanted the people of the state to show the proponents of such legis lation what they thought of it, and he ventured R would he overwhelmingly defeated. lie himself, he said, would vote against it. MRS. COLLINS SATISFIED MARY KILLED I RAY SMITH Daughter in One End of Burke Jail and Mother in Other Accused of the. Crime. Morganton, Jan. 19. —On the eve of the hearing in the t ray Smith murder case there is still a conflict of stories. In a cell on the first fioor of the Burke county jail Mary t’ol- Lns sticks to her story she told yes terday that her mother came back after she started to G!en Alpin: on the afternoon of the tragedy and fired the shot which caused young Smith’s death. On the opposite side cf the jail and in an upstairs cel! Mrs. Rosa ie Coilins still bitterly and emphatically denies that sh“ had any idea cf who was responsible fur her nephew’s death until Mary’s alleged “confession” on Wednesday afternoon. Although she has not been allowed to talk to Mary since that afternoon she knows now that her daughter is tell ing that she is responsible -for the deed. It is a very uuusua' state of affairs and whether the hearings to moiT \v will throw any new light on the situation remains to he seen. It appears now that the mother will continue to hold to her position of absolute innocence and to br ak this down will be the daughter’s iesti tnony that as she was struggling with her cousin to ks ep clean her honor Mrs. Collins returned, they-hoard lnr kicking and ca ling at tiie door and that she ran away as Cray opened to admit her. She (i d not see the shoo - ing but heard the shot. sh > still con tends, and saw her mother running toward the bain. In letters which she wrote today to relatives with whom, the expects to find a home after iter release f »r which she confidently hopes, she says that tdie would never have told the first story but for her mother. To them she told that when Mrs. Col lins visited her on Wednesday she was almost forced to make the con fession that “they wanted me to make.” but that after she had thought >t out, site decided to tel* the truth. \Yestsrdav afternoon to a newspaper correspondent she smilingly said, “I'm quick, I know I am. Why I made u? that first tale *n about three minutes.” Late today the same correspondent visited 'Mrs. Collins to see d* by this time the story she might tell would corn spond with the swprn statement her daughter has made. She is a nervous high-strung woman and while she talked was several times on the point of becoming emotional. “God being my he per. I am as in nocent of Uray Smith’s murder as you are,” sh<' declared. “Somebody has scared Mary into telling tlim last tale and putting the blame on ms. TWO NEW -HOODED MEN HAVE BEEN IDENTTFEII) 11. E. Blankenship Says He Recognized Oliver Shipwith and Smith Steven son. Bastrop, La., Jan. 20 ( By the Asso ciated Press). —H. E. Blankenship tes tified today he. had identified a Ford truck hearing Lousiana license tag No. 74(557 as the truck he saw on August 24 in which Watt Daniel was a prisoner of hooded men. Blakensliip said two of the mas*ked men he recognized as Oliver Shipwith, youngest son of (’apt.. J. K. Shipwith., head of the Morehouse Parish Kit Klttx Khiu, and Smith Stevenson. .i Influenza Epilemie in Maryland. Baltimore... Jan 10. —Influenza in a mild form is virtually epidemic in Maryland, reports to tlie State Board of Health disclose. Five hundred and sixty-four cases were reported for the first IS days of January, as compared with 14.” eases for the entire, month last year, and state health officials estimated that less than 10 per cent, of the actual eases were reported. New Trial Granted R. F. Willingham. Macon, (fa., Jan. 10,—Richard F. Willingham, convicted last May in Bibb county superior court of larceny at trust of $1(53.475 from the Shippers Compress Company, and sentenced to serve 12 months at the state prison farm, this afternoon was granted a new trial by Judge H. A. Matthews, who heard tlie tase. The opening of the Erie Canal, which cheapened transportation with the Great Lakes and the Western States, was’ responsible for starting railroads in Massachusetts. In or der to protect itself commercially, commercial and industrial Massachu setts felt obliged to do something to offset the advantages New York gained by the completion of the Wlie, Canal, and for some time there was quite a sentiment for public ownership of rail roads. 9 THE CONCORD TIMES ;! NO ACTION YET B« j. ROBINSON PROPOSAL 3 I J | Secretary Hughes is Prepar- L* 1 ing More Data for the Sen s ate Concerning the Sena f tor’s Plan. t: * Washington, Jan. 20.—Additional information on the subject of Ameri _ can representation on the reparations t i commission and unofficial contact with , l that body through the services of Rol and W. Hoyden, is being prepared by .'Secretary Hughes for submission to . the Senate foreign relations cpmmit . tee. j The secretary's willingness to make a further report became known today after a conference between him and . Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, the I- * lmiriprtn of the committee, which de i cided yesterday to await additional , information before ttiking any action j oil the resolution of Senator Robin . son, democrat, of Arkansas, to au , tliorize full American representation ! on the commission. ! BOYD SMITH KILLED BY UNKNOWN PARTIES —— * This Verdict Rendered by Corner's , Jury After Full Investigation of the Death of Young Man. Hamlet, Jail. I!>.—Boyd Smith, for mer assistant cashier of a bank at Gibson, who was discovered shot to death in his home here January tb 1 near where his mother lay seriously wounded, was slain by some unknown ’person or persons* a coroner’s jury de > cided today. i The inquest which had been contin ued from the day of tilt* shooting in * order that Mrs. Virginia Smith, the mother, might he able to testify, was resumed tpdav. and her story was that at the breakfast* table she had heard a l noise jit the hack door, that her son went to investigate and the shooting followed. She did not know who shot her. she said, and added when she re covered slu* called the neighbors. Other testimony indicated that the young man's sweater had been pulled up before the pistol bullet had been tired through his heart, while it also was declared that the weapon with which tin* killing apparently was done contained one empty cartridge, an un discharged out*, and another which ap peared to have- been snapped on and failed to fire. What became of Jlu* other empty cartridges,-the jury could not find out. ' \ not working at the time of the tragedy. He had complained of being ill the night before, and again at iht* breakfast table, bis mother said. COTTON (J INNINGS Stale increased Its Colton Total, the Increase Being 8 Per Cent. Raleigh, X. (’., Jan. IS.—AYith an es tiinate of 530.410 bales of cotton gin ned in North Carolina prior to De cember 13. 1H22, only 22.000 hales* re main to-be ginned, if the government’s estimate of a crop of 852,000 hales for the state is correct, Frank Barker, of ill'* North Carolina and United States departments of agriculture, stated to night in announcing the ginnings by counties. The. six counties that ginned over 30.000 hales up to Deceml*cr J 3 are Johnston, 57.525; Robeson, 44.750; Halifax. 37.210: Cleveland. 3.V743: Nash ,“.4.124, and Edgecombe, 33,14(5. Robeson county for many years has led the state in cotton production, but Johnston now takes the lead, accord ing to the latest gures. gaining 1.3 per cent, over its last-year's ginnings. Halifax increased its yield approxi mately 20 per cent, and (advanced from fifth to third place. Ch vela nd. ''however, shows* an in crease of KHUN)'bales, *m* almost 40 per cent., in its gunnings, jumping from eighth tp fourth place. The ginnings of the state show an increase from 7(57,150. bales to 830,410, or eight per cent’., for the same per iods in 1021 and 1022.' HENS KNOC K PROPS OUT FROM UNDER EGG MARKET Prices in Chicago Less Than in Any January in Five Years. Chicago, Jan. I(s.—An open western winter and the. Uroduclive hen have knocked the props from under the egg market. iiie drop has been 15 cents a dozen wholesale, since January 1. Fresh eggs are now 34 cents. The storage aricle is 10 cents under this price. Speculators have been trapped and have lost huge sums. They are. scrambling out from .under as best: they can. Tin* packers report fresh eggs iii abundance and 20 cents a dozen cheaper than in any January for five years. The he.us are 45 to op days ahead of their schedule. The decline in price” is 27 per cent. - The packers say: * “The new crop is sflicieuMy large and so generally produced that noth ing short of severely cold weather or; or heavy snows. will now interrupt J production. The owners of the re-; majning storage eggs are now pressing thc.jr wares for sale at very moderate prices. “The poultry crop is tremendous, i This is a hjgiiiv desirable situation be- J cause it promises a large supply of (eggs for The coming season.” Foard of Optometry Meets. Raleigh. N. Jan. 10.—-The North. Carolina State Board of Examiners in Optometry was in session here Thurs day examining applicants for license to ‘practice optometry in this state. This is the regular seini-unual exami nation. Members of the board'a re L>r. F. G. Roberts, Charlotte, president: Dr. A. I*. Staley. High Poliit,; seoretprv-treas urer : Fred N. Day. Winston-Salem: Sam Levy. Charlotte, and A. G. Sping ler. Raleigh. The Only Way. Farmer d “That’s a fine lot of pigs your father’s got. How does he feed them?” Tenderfoot: “With cprn.” Farmer: “In the ear?” Tenderfoot: “No; in the mouth.” n THE SKYLINE ty SdisonJfanihall „ ©i9^-Littl^BroTjln€;Cbinpai\y (Continued From Our Last Issue) The night waj chill: she longed for the Comfort of the fir*. The actual labor of building it might take her mind from her fears for a while. Beside*. It might boa beacon light for Ben. She turned at once to the pile of kindling Ben had prepared. But before she could build a really satisfactory fire, one that would en dure the rain, she must cut fuel from some of the logs Ben had hewn down and dragged to the cave. She lighted a short piece of pitchy wood, intending to locate the heavy camp axe. Then, putting on her heavy coat—the same garment of lustrous fur which Ben had sent her back for the day of her abduction —she ven tured into the storm. The rain splashed in vain at her toreh. The pitch burned with a fierce flame. But her eyes sought in vain for the axe. Ben had taken itf= he had plhinly gone forth ufter fuel. Trees stood all (flfrout the little glade: he "Couldn’t have gone far. Holding her torch high she went to the edge of the glade and called into the gloom. Sh.e turned at once to the cave, and piling up her kindling, built a fire Just at the mouth of the cave. This fire would serve to keep her di rection and lead her back to the cavern. Then she hunted for pine knots taken from the scrub pines that grew in scattering clumps among the spruce, and which were laden with pitch. One of these knots she put in the Iron pan they lisckl for frying, then lighted it. Then she pushed into the timber. Holding her light high she began to encircle the glade clear to the barrier of the cliffs. With courage and strength such as she had not dreamed she pos sessed, she launched forward. But fatigue was breaking her now. The tree roots tripped her faltering feet, the branches clutched at her as she passed. It was hard to tell what territory she had searched, .or how far she had gone. The flickering light revealed a tree, freshly cut, its naked stump gleaming and its tall form lying prone. Yet beneath it the shadows were of strange, unearthly shape, and something showed stark white through the green foliage. Great branches stretched over it, like bars over a prison window. Her strength wilted and for an Instant she could only stand and gaze with fixed, unbelieving eyes. But almost at once the unquench able fires of her spirit blazed up anew. Instantly she w T as beside the form of her comrade and enemy, strug gling with the cruel limbs that pinned him to the earth. CHAPTER XV The Conspirators Disagree * , THE pine knots flickered feebly; and by their light she looked about for Ben’s axe. Her eyes rested on the broken gun first: then she saw the blade, shining in the rain, protruding from beneath a broken bough. She drew it out and swung it down. How and by what might she did not know, but almost at once the man’s body was free except for the tree trunk that wedged him against a dead log toward which he had « leaped for shelter. Seeing that she could not move < the tree itself, she thrust with all her power against the dead Jog be- i side which Ben lay. In a moment i she had rolled it aside. 1 One of his arms was broken; its , position indicated that. Some of his ribs were crushed too —what Internal i injuries he had that might end him i -COLLINS GIRL ADMITS MOTHER DID SHOOTING First Story Desperal? Effort to ShUV«I Parent, She Says.—But As sault Story True. (MorganJjin. 18.—A night’s meditation <JVer her “confession” yes terday afternoon that she kitted' Uray Smith in defense of her honor evidently caused Mary. Collins to de cide to tell the wJiole truth about the affair, and early this morning, having scut for Solicitor Huffman, sh<y admitted to him that the first story was toid in a desperate effouL to .shield her mother, Mrs. Rosalie Collins, who she now says shot Her | ; COUSin. r 1 Mrs. Collins, who is also in jail, ihas not been allowed to converse with her daughter, and although she knows of Mary’s taking all the blame upon herself in the story she told yester iday, she does not know the turn that !the affair has taken today, and still maintains her own innocence. Mary Collin’s story today is thut when mother, brother and uncle left for Glen Alpine soon after din ner on the day of the tragedy, she and Irene had started to the field to continue fodder pulling. With, “Wait a few minutes,” Uray Smith had de tained her while his sister went on 'to the field. Possibly thinking all the other members of the family were safely out of the way, after closing and latching the door, he began mak ing improper . proposals to. her, she says. When she refused to accede to \hi-( wishes he tried to force her. She declared that tt was then that she cut him, having succeeded in getting hold of his knife. Whether attracted by the girl’s cries or possibly led back by a mother’s intuition. Mrs. Collins returned. Mary says she saw her pass the window, and said, “there comes mamA.’’ that time hsre before the morning she did not know. She worked her shoulder under his body. Wrenching with all her line, young strength she lifted him upon h.-r shoulder; then, kneeling in the vines, she struggled for breutH. Theh thrusting with her arm she got on her feet. At the end of a hundred yards she stopped to rest, leading against a tree and still holding the beloved weight upon her shoulder. She plunged on, down toward the beacon light. She lunged on and laid her burden on her bed. Then she relaxed at his feet, breathing in sobbing gasps. But far distant though. Ben was and deep as he slept—just outside the dark portals of death itself— those sounds went down to him. He lay a long time, trying to under stand. On her knees beside him Beatrice .WRENCHING WITH ALL HER FINE YOUNG STRENGTH SHE LIFTED HIM UPON HER SHOUL DER? w saw the first flutter of his eyelids. In awe, rather than rapture, her arms crept around him, and she kissed his rain-wet brow. His eyes opened, looked wonderingly into hers. “The tree got me, didn’t it?’’ he asked. “Don’t try to talk,” she cautioned. “Yes—the tree fell on you. But you’re not going to die. You’re go ing to live, live—" He shook his head, the balf-smile flickering at his lips. “Let me talk, Beatrice,” he said. "It’s important —and I don’t think—l have much time.” Her eyes widened in horror. “You don’t mean—” “I’m going back in a minute —I can’t hardly keep awake,’’ he said. His voice, though feeble, was pre ternaturally clear. “I believe the tree got me—clear inside—but you must listen to every thing I say.” She nodded. In that eerie moment of suspense she knew she must hear what he had to tell her. “Don’t wait to see what happens to me, - ’ he went on. “Fll. either go out or I’ll live—you really can’t help me any. Where’s the rifle?” “The rifle was broken—when the tree fell.” “I knew it would be. I saw it coming. Beatrice—please, please don’t stay here, trying tb save me.” “Do you think I would go?” she cried. “You must. The food —is about gone. Take the pistol. There’s six shot or so —in the box. The rifle’s broken and we can’t get meat. It’s just—death—if you wait.” “And leave you here to die, as long as there’s a chance to save you?” the girl answered. “You couldn’t » mother was kicking on the door and ( Uray released her to go and unlatch the door. She ran away and did not see the kil ing. She heard the shot, and when she looked back as she was nearing the field she saw her mother running toward the straw stack where the gun was later found. Accounting for the blood on tin shirt, she says that, when she cm • Uray he grabbed the old shirt to staunch the blow ydf blood, and was holding it to his' throat when her mother came back. HUNDREDS DIE DAILY ~~ » i Epidemics Among Near East' Refugees Collecting Heavy Death Penalties. Athens. Jau. 2d (By the Associated Press). —The death list, as a result of the epidemics among the Near East, refugees in Greece now approaches J.- 000 a day. according to Dr. Mabel El liott. head of the American Women’s Hospitals, and medical director of re-j lief work. *There are now refugees in SOO dis-j ferent localities, and their number ex ceeds one-fifth of the total population,” she said. “Messages show that there is typhus in 31(5 places, while smallpox has brok en out in 04." .Fifty per cent, of all-the refugees are suffering severely from malnutri tion. exposure aud inadequate food, she said, and added that 1.000,000 ref ugees .must be provided with shelter, clothing and good. Ralph Brave* Resigns His Post on the New Fork Times. - Charlotte, Jau. 19. —Ralph Graves, I city editor of the New York Tin Yes, I has resigned his position, ami will! February 1 become assiciated w ith i Doubleday, Page and company, at j Garden City. Long Island. Mr. Graves j is a native of NoTth Carolina. ✓ j PAGE FIVE •in mmimimHiiiitiiiHmNinuiiHißiNiiHiiimimuiimimuiiFiumHMiauuiiuiuu* *-. get up to get water— or build a & fire —” He listened patiently, but shook §• his,head at the end. He struggled for breath, and she jf thought he had slipped back into un consciousnes. But in a moment the 51 faltering current of his speech be- U gan again. • |= “Take the pistol—and go,” he told 3 givfe up—and I don’t want to kill— § your father—any more. I renounce |0 it all! Ezram—forgive me—old Ez 0 that lay dead in the leaves.” 3 Unconsciousness welled high aboye f| him, and the lids dropped over his =y r eves. Arnb Ezram, watching high §| r and alar, and with infinite serenity || ? knowing at last the trife balance of . dll things one t with another, gave = i lvim his full forgiveness. ’ < The trail was long and steep Into 'W ? Back There for Jeffery Neilson and i his men. ' if j They had counted on slow travel, IP ; but the weeks grew into the months ii i before they even neared the obscure || heart of Back There where th©y § , thought Ben and Beatrice might be a hidden. §§ , The days passed, June and July. j§ ever they moved at a slower pace. §? y The food stores brought for the ij journey were rapidly depleted. -• ll , No experience of their individual f] lives hud ever presented such a daily fi ordeal of physical distress;'none had pf ( ever been so devastating to hope and jp spirit. Jeffery Neilson had almost forgot- 3 ten the issue of the claim by now. He had told the truth, those weary || weeks before, when he had wished H he had never seen it. His only || thought was of his daughter. Yet jp he dared not turn back. She might p yet live, held prisoner in some far-off Ml cave. At first all three agreed on this §j point: that they must not turn back 3 until either Ben was crushed under j their heels or they had made sure of 3 his death. f They were still partners in their j effort to rescue the girl and slay her H aoductorß otherwise they were at §j swords’ points. M If mental distress and physical dls- If comfort can constitute vengeance, |1 Cen was already avenged. One rainy, disagreeable morning, iff as they campqd beside the river near fn the mouth of a small creek,; affairs §| reached their crisis. They had §| caught and saddled the horses;' Ray 3 was pulling 4 tight the last hitch. ll Chan stood beside him, speaking in || an. undertone. When he had finished Ij Ray cursed explosively in the §| silence. Neilson turned. He seemed to §j sense impending development*, g "What now?” he asked. “I’m not going on, that’s what it || is,” Ray replied. “Neilson, it’s two If against one—if you want to go you j| can—but Ray and I are going back.” II " “You’re going back, eh—scared i out!” Neilson commented coldly. “I’m going back—and don’t say |f too much about being scared out, fi either.” gj “And you too, Chan? You’re ii against me, too?” . :r Chan cursed. “I’d gone a week ~ ago if it’d been me, “We know the g way home, at least.” ; The old man looked a long time §i into the river depths. “Then turn the horses around, you §| cowards,” he answered. “I can’t go M on alone." 5 For once neither Ray nor Chan § had outward resentment for the epi- §? thet. Secretly they realized that old H Neilson was to the wall at last, and ~ like a grizzly at bay, it was safer not §| to molest him. Chan went down to s the edge of the creek to water hi* §j saddle horse. t? But presently they heard him s curse, in inordinate and startled H amazement, as he gazed at some im 1 print in the mud of the shore. Clear and unmistakable in the mud | was the stale imprint of Ben’s canoe 1 as they had landed, and the tracks | of both the man ancLthe girl as they = had turned into the forest. The dawn that crept so gray and 1 mysterious over the frosty green of 1 spruce brought no hope to Beatrice, Ij sitting beside the unconscious form p of Ben in the cave fronting the f| glade. r . (Continued in Our Next Issue) 1 | DYNAMITE EXPLOSION WRECKS TWO BUILDINGS Fifteen Men Buried by Explosion, Two Being Seriously Injured. Corbin, Ky., Jan. 20.—An explosion apparently due. to dynamite wrecked a two-story boarding house here today and buried 15 men in the debris. M. M. Kills, of Seviersville, T<jnu., and I*. B. Keltner, of Pulaski, Tenn., were se riously hurt. The others escaped with scratches and bruises. The men were employed by the Louisville A Nashville railroad. Au thorities are working-on the theory I that the explosion was connected with the railway shopmen > strike. Hauiac With Gun Attacks 8 Women, Cleveland, 0., Jan. 1 search for a rum-crazed gunman, who for three days has caused a reign of ten-Qj; in the vicinity of Woodland avenue and East 55th street, ended tonight ith the arrest of the maniac I after be had shot and probably fataily j wounded Mrs. Carmel!a Coco. I During bis rampage the man at tacked eight women and shot h man when he *ent to the rescue of a family. Defeat at the hands of Mile. Leng len last summer has made '.»us. Mallory more eager than ever for another opportunity to try conclus ions with the great Suzanne. Kodfield Proctor, the. new governor I o&Vermont, is the third iuewl>er of hit family t«> be honored with the guber natorial chair, his father, the late'Sen ator Proctor, and his brother. Fletcher D. Proctor, having held thu office. j > One of tlie most treasured possi'- ; sions of the late King Oscar of Sweden | was the medal of the French Humane j Society. Be gained this distinction ;by his heroism in stopping a pair of | runaway horses in the streets of Paris. ■ ‘{ - ' * M
The Concord Times (Concord, N.C.)
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