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.
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; - • . 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.
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Horses - Mares - Mules
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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.
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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
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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.
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