I , . .iibu if. 1923
;\t * .
Mi* ' ot o* I”"'""
ItfSio
itchmaa, in Garage
„ 0 d Robbed Garage
•red Him to Leave
iVHEN°HE LEFT
edlhe Watchman
. Him From City.
Identified in Guil
,nty lad.
•iv -layer of A. W.
yvi,’ inik* r. was this moru
jeiititied a- the one-armed
-ai - ;!- 4 ’ and fnived W. R.
at.viii .tit. to give him the
, .ah register, and then
,oi::! i.ear AA’inston-Salem.
,j tv.-. . ;;s lie stood with
(i Yrawded eell corridor.
Wood was driven to
w, - i!i. property of A.
was later
If.\'a.. when its?- driver
. v., • and abandoned it.
\V,Mr. Melvin - made
T -day night lie went
j jjiid looked over prison
t;:>; held me up is not
f f ,riled tin' jailer.* It -o
V , M 1 was in his cell with
i i :F. This morning he
i:i front of the cells
Vby Melvin. "He is
a.- -ta.'tetm nt to the jail
i SBANDS
\i (.0 HACK ON SHIT
(,irl stowaways Have
> to Kind Their Mates.
Xov. 1.1.- —AVanted :
ibiiiern. aged IS. and
_'o years old. get one
lay they will have to re*
iv on the steamship Be
tiiis port. And their
i.'xing ina-seiilihe appeu*
* specified time limit are
the fact that the girls
hi re as stowaways,
ii pretty and both good
way u the Sescstris in
ilgtist. Ten days later
len from their place of
.v;-. «•••ain Keimor, master
;mt m in the ship's gal-
T;■ v exceptionally good
Hr-t arrival of tlie ship
i* lieu over to the imuii
|Hp: : r 1 ; !• ia' • And u iwj the <a*-
- g--ne f'••'lt T.a* tiny mist go
Gerinaii.v. or get American has-
Tlry-d.-n't want to go bacli to
BhKEEKKKS TICKETS
■ l(> I.K (II FKHLI) SOON
B*«nniiirnt I.f Ticket Sales Made by
K - • ■ l‘i. -The South* a -t-
A-'oeia:ion today an
:::at tfirst and third Tuos
in.ini:- during tin* period if
" Sent.-idi- next, homeseekers
de ha-:- oiie fare plus $2 for
trip x\• ■ 11 i<i in. authorized from
<>!:•. and Mississippi gaTe
de-rinations in south
parti*-- of live or more
♦iMvc'.ng on the same ticket,
t w-ul.l hear a limit of 21
'l it" of sale, anil would
-"'"i f'»r sritp-oVers.
IP SiK s <>Mf- HI RGLARS
'lAKIst, MANY ROBBERIES
i;.i Uerth n| (■uods Found Give
Hioi. ( f 0 several Robberies.
„.Nov. I(s.—Tlie recovery
I j. 1 A"• --t'den goods by the
! ' <• unity mar AVius
"ii a truck found
Ki j' ’ ' w '"ds. has given police
... ' die to the robbery of
• h silver & Company.
' v e i hat the find shows
I robber is responsible
■ ! "-d.irii.. her** and in this
■ 7 *'cir goods included much
I the local stors. and
1 v ‘ in Sparks Depart-
I linmiasville. it was stat
■ S r,M
I “ : <A K\< liANGK^NOTKD
I ,if i... , .
>itu al r'Baldwin oil German
y-nsPde far Decline.
12.—Further col
'.xchange to the new
' liy and recessions
*■ isj j 1,1 1 t'euch goverumeut
"'l■*' tool; place in to
■ response to I*re
cdiiiissioii b**for*. the
Cmi Great Britain
J*"’ sp y ‘ ' : ;te cutetrte ;f the
" tt . , ; natii.nj were allowed
11 much loader.
Tdls I-1 ■ -—r—
'iiat ...
V, - tAtr Sake of
I',shapes.
!! ' 1 -Alahiulrilion is
h N ) " ,i " n ' Kiri's ills, and
sti'l \va ! • i ' !r lo rotaiu lu ‘ r
Ti'.:,,. .... ■ Ul, ‘iat" R. Miller, a
:! huge following of
Tlie- nl ■ T »*lay.
'A the r j, lr . ". : *!ml they aren’t
"Tlmre is nothing
!?• uiujr.f* that they are
I ' ft** u,. "'hen I tell them
. Wo, ddn'r ~( ' Heavens, doctor,
~,, -' hi, \y ' 1 Jlll > ifton* weight for
. ii.)t... ' ! "’’Kht get hippy,’ or
' i ' a i*> thin i 6 V«. silt would lost
.! * u \ - “'hernaele Site-
L Rifled' J'*' eommittee
!r So ut i’ r~“ rl,e Cvorge E AA’ilson
Ri]i v j ' r ’ n >tr< ‘ Pt as the pla«-e
j tabernacle. About
3 ' r sc; e ... . ’ iu erecting the
- v -H be tempora?y.
IMPROVING EIROPEAN CONDI.
\ TIONS.
Manufacturers Record.
That Euiopeau farmers are raising the
biggest wheat crops they have ever pro
duced, that .they are less in debt than
ever before and that the farmers ot
( mitral Europe are eating more of good
wheat bread than in former years when
as tenant farmers, they eked out a scan tv
existence, should cause great rejoicing
.on the part of all our people. True it
i ie * ;spns the demand for our wheat but it
means larger prosperity for the war
I stricken people of Europe.
1-or years American farmers have been
urged to diversify tlieir crops and raise
their own foodstuffs as their sure road
|to larger prosperity. AVe should all re
| Joice that European farmers are follow
img this good advice. Moreover their de
! pi eemted currency has put a high prem
tum upon home products and stimulated
fheir agriculture and manufactures alike.
England being the. only marked excep
tion to this situation.
It is the universal testimony of re
turning travejprs that in France every
■ body is busy and optimistic. That eoun
jtix. hitherto a heavy wheat importer
i will this year produce nearly enough for
its entire needs. The crops in Germany
arc reported as unusually fine and the
out of debt. The depreciation
of marks has enabled German fuimera
and industrialists to pay off their in
debtedness though at the sacrifice of the
old middle classes who lived on their in
vestments. Italy is getting into better
*J lsl pe in industry and in agriculture am;
Eastern European farmers are making
substantial progress. Thu-e are all clire--
ing signs of the improvements under
way.
In noyjmi-t of i-hrope, unless per
chance in Ttussia. are conditions anything
tike as bad as they were in the South
from 1 SGT> to the end of Reconstruction
in INTO. This section endured poverty
and privations and negro misrule far and
rway beyond what Europe has known,
and nowhere in Europe except in a lim
ited area of France has the situation at
any time since the Armistice been as se
vere as in the fSouth for eleven years af
t.ei the Civil War. The tireless work,
the heroic courage under overwhelming
burdens, the uever-say die spirit which
saved the South and redeemed it from
the direst poverty to great prosperity
puts to shame the cringing whine of the
German people, and at the same time
suggests that Europe’s way back _o pros
perity is over the same rand of work and
hope and faith and dauntless courage,
over which the South traveled. Such »
spirit will mean a thousand times more
for Europe than anything which Ameri
ca could possibly do by moral force or
finance to hasten the return of European
prosperity. Every plea from Europe for
America to help to shape its goveerumeut
al affairs, or to settle its purely Euro-
Jpean policies, as well as every suggestion
at home that America must do these
things to save Europe from itself, is an
insult to Europe’s inherent qualities of
ability to right itself. The less we butt
in on European affairs now tlie greater
will be our service to Europe and to the
world.
Let us rejoice in every evidence of
Europe’s feed and finance and
save itself even if in so doing the de
mand for our food products is thereby
lessened. AAV are so big and so rich and
so blessed of H* aven. that we-can well
afford in a spirit of goodwill and the
Golden Rufe to hope that Europe can
keep on developing its farm products un
til all its people cau be well foil on home
raised stuff.
CHARTER GIVEN THE
CHIMNEY ROCK CO.
Authorized Capital Stock is $i2,«»00.000.
—Will Develop Chimney Rock Sec
tion.
'Raleigh. Xyv. If*.—' The Chimney Rock
Mountains Company, luc.. a development
com|>any with authorized capital stock
of $12..i00.000. lias been granted a char
ter by Secretary of State AAA N. Everett,
it was announced today. Incorporators
of the development company are M. O.
Dickers >n, Jr.. Rutherfordtou. X. C.;
E. O. Thomas, Forest City. G. 1». How
ard. Spindale: E. 11. Morsen. Chimney
Rock: F. E. Elmore and K. S. Tanner,
Spindale; J. H. Thomas and B. B. Dog
g*t. Forest City; M. 11. Biggs and T. F.
Oates, Rutherfordtou. The stock of
the company ,is divided 'into ,'120,000
shares of which $40,000 are preferred
with a par value of SIOO each; 100 man
agers preferred, with a par value of $->0
each, and 80.000 *• million without par
value. 'Each of the incorporators have
subscribed to 10 shares of managers
preferred sto*k. thus starting the com
pany with $.1,000 capital. The new cor
poration is authorized to establish a hy
dro-electric power plant in the vicinity
< f Chimney Rock and develop an exten
.-ive resort section. t
CURTAILMENT PROGRAM
TO TERMINATE MONDAY
Normal Supply of Hydro-Electric* Power
Will Re Available After Monday.
.Charlotte. Xov. 10.—The curtailment
program of the Southern Power Com
pany which wur several weeks has rc
qaired industrial plant-; in North Car
olina and South Carolina to operate on
a 5-day wqgk basis will b? terminated
-Monday when a normal supply of hydro
electric power will be available, it wa<
announced here today at the general of
fices of the company.
Monroe Hearing ‘Cyclone Mack.’
Monroe, Xov. 1.1-—The four weeks
tent meeting of Rev. B. F. McLendon.
"Cyclone Mack.” now in the‘first week's
swing, is going fine already. Big crowds
greet the long liaired evangelist twice a
day. uud lid i s »» a measure upon his
native heath, for here his orehears liv
ed. o
He confesses that he has always
wanted to hold a meeting in Monroe,
for it was one of the three places lie
wanted to shake up from the time he
quit the gambling table under a
miraculous epuversion that was brought
on by a cowboy evunjfflist and entered
the ministry- The other two places were
AA'adesboro aud Reunettsville, the later
his home town.
j Heavy Hues Imposed on Two Cabarrus
» Men.
Salisbury. Xov. 15. —A'un Hopkins and
C E Hopkins. Cabarrus county men,
were lined a total of $l5O in county court
today as a result of a wild ride down
I'ultoiTi Street AAVdnesday afternoon
j A'an was'fined SSO for driving a car
I while intoxicated, and the re«t of the
total was shared by ‘each of the men
for being disorderly aud for damaging
y.aothor car with which the collided.
MR. TROTTER SAYS
• THAT GOD HATES SIN
Flays Sin But Claims That God Loves
the Sinner Despite Transgressions.
Tuesday night at Kannapolis Mel
Trotter spoke to a full house, and several
young men came forward to decide for
a better life.
Trotter was at liis best aud flayed
sin. lie took for his text Isaiah 43:2(5,
“I am He that blotteth out thy trans
gressions for mine own sake, aud will
not remember thy sins.”
“God has his boaks in good order aud
He has our sin.* recorded. He knows
our acts; He knows our very thoughts.
sou can’t sin and get away with it.
God lias His eye on you. Got hates
sin and never excuses it. He loves
the sinner, and because Os His great love
H* has promised to blot out our sins with
His own hand. Mr. Trotter said :
'“First, our sins are blotted out from
God’s own book,”
He told of a boy in Chicago who had
murdered his 'own mother aud father,
and in telling his sweetheart about the
secret, the detectives had a dictaphone
hid in the room, and when it came
before the jury his own word was the
thing that convicted him.
“If a man can keep our word’s don’t
.you think God can keep our words?”
thundered Trotter.
“lour own words will convict you be
fore God: your own acts; your own
deed«. You will give account to God
for every idle word. Your secret sin.
your pet siu, your respectable sin, so
called. God knows them all, don’t you
forget it. Then is thtre hope? Yes.
thank God. He says I, even [am He
that will blot them out. ■ God has ad
ready punished sin in His own Son
and the very hand that wrote tlie sins
down will blot them out. The very
hand that was sinned against will blot
them out. “I. even lam He.’
“Second, how can He do it? Only
as we accept (he One who was punished
for us. John 3:1(5 tells us how, ‘For
God so loved the world that He gave His
only begoGen Son that whosoever be ;
lieveth on Him should not perish but
have everlasting life.’
‘‘Ten. too. it’s God’s hand that blots
out your sin. He didn’t pas.* tlie job
on to somebody else, but takes the re
sponsibility Himself, and ‘bore our sin
in Hie; own body on the tree.’ God’s
hand is just—yet in spite of the fact
that His justice demands punishment
and death, yet He did iu His mercy
forgive and let us go free. Beside all
this, God (he sinner for ‘His
•own name's sake.’ aud thank God
there’s no hard cases with Him. If
there’s a hard case in this house to
night. remember God far His own
name’s sake will forgive* There’s not
a sinner too hardened, no outcast too
far down in the city that God will not
forgive.”
At the close of the sermon many
responded to the invitation to received
Christ a*; their Savi >r.
The crowds are growing and the in
terest is already running high. Mr. Trot
ter does not usually give invitations so
early for people to come forward, but he
has already begun and are coining.
One of the greatest pieces of work is be
ing done in the schools. Fros. Sloaiu the
superintendent, has granted permission
to hold meetings with the students all
hours of the day, and Miss Bennett is do
ing a wonderful piece of work.. There
are 1800 children in the schools and ev-%
cry one is being readied with the Gos-
I*el.
The choir of (50 voices is doing splen
did work. They are singing special mu
sic every light. Mr. Hammontree’s voice
is holding up in an unusual way. Over
two hundred stayed for the AVorker’s
Class Thursday night which was con
ducted by Mr. Ileriuansen, the personal
worker and pianist of the party.
PULLMAN CAR DE LUXE
BEING BUILT FOR FORD
H»s Fine Office and Accommodations
For Retinue.
Chicago. Xov. 10. —The. most luxuri
ous private car in America is being built
in the Cullman car shops -for Henry
Ford, according to today’s Chicago
Tribune.
Tiled bathrooms. sumptuous bed
rooms, a drawing room equipped with
electrically operated phonographs, as
well as a broadcasting and receiving
radio set. aud an electrical kitchen are
some of the feature to bo iiista’led in the
car. the newspaper says.
A richly appinted office and accom
modations for secretaries aud the car’s
complement of servants are included in
the specifications, according to lhe
Tribune, j
NEGRO PREACHERS DIE
WHILE AT CONVENTION
Found in Bed aud Death is Believed
to Have Been Caused by Asphyxiation.
Wilmington, X. C., Xov. lti.—Rev. A'.
C. Richardson, of Rocky Mount, and
Rev. li. C. Merritt, of Magnolia, negro
preachers here attending a negro relig
ious *| invent ion. were found dead here
early today iu the same bed at the home
of Rev. G. I\ Games, negro, on Hmitii
{Seventh Street. Death, it was said,
was caused by asphyxiation.
Indications in the room in which they
were found were that they blew out a
gas light upon retiring last night, and
during the night were overcome by the
escaping fumes.
Coroner Allen, of New Hanover coun
ty, has summoned a jury and will hold ;
an inquest late today.
17,000.000 AUTOS BY
THE FIRST OF YEAR j
This Number WiH Include All Pleasure '
Cars and Trucks.—l4,ooo,ooo Now. j
AA’ashingtou. Xov. 1(5. —By January 1
the world will have in operation 17,000.-
000 automobiles, pleasures cars and
trucks, according jo an estimate today by
M. 11. Hoepli, chief of the automotive di
vision of the Commerce Department. Os j
that total, he said 14.000,000 will be run- 1
ning in the United States, or about one !
rest of tin.* world the proportion will be [
to every eight persons, whereas in the :
about one to 112 persons. The number!
of cars in operation is expected to show j
on January 1 an increase of 17 per cent, j
over the same date a year .ago.-
Parliament Dissaved.
London. Xov. R> (By the Associate*!
Press I.—King George, acting at the ad
vice of bis cabinet, this morning dis- j
solved Parliament iu preparation for the !
general election to be liffld December
(sth. Parliament on De
cember 20th.
THE CONCORD TIMES
GARAGE INO STORE
j AI MIDLAND BURNED
! DURING THE NIGHT
I . •
I
Both Buildings Were Prop
erty of Mr. P.* J. Hartsell,
Who Suffered Loss in Fire
of About SIO,OOO.
ANOTHER STORE
ALMOST BURNED
It is property of Mr. J. F. Sos
soman and Was Saved On
ly by Heroic Work.—Cars
Taken From the Garage.
A fire of undetermined origin destroy
ed the store and garage of Mr. P. J.
'Hartsell, at Midland. Friday night
about 2 o’clock. AA’hon the tire was
first discovered it had gained such head
way that it was impossible to check it.
Tlie garage, which is located about 38
feet from the store, caught from the
flames aud it also was completely burn
ed. By heroic work about $2,000 worth
of stock and cars were saved from the
garage. Nothing at all was saved from
the sto* k of merchandise, everything in
the store falling a victim to the blaze.
The store of Mr. J. F. Sossamou, lo
cated about 25 feet from the garage, was
saved from burning only by fast and fu
rious work of the citizens of Midland.
There is no water supply in Midland,
but bucket brigades -were formed aud
carried water from several wells, this
accounting for saving other buildings
near the scene of .the tire. There was
about S2. ( KH» insurance on the garag*
but none at all on the stock of merchan
dise carried by Mr. Hartsell, whose loss
is about SIO,OOO.
Mr. (’oilier, section foreman, who has
rooms at Mr. A\\ M. Morgan's, was the
first person to discover ilie tire, the light
through t!he window in his room causing
him to awake.
Mr. Donald F. AA'idenhouse entered the
burning’ garage and drove a truck out,'
and also was instrumental in saving
practically all of the other property that
was saved from the garage.
Concord High Defeats Mooresville High.
Before a large and interested crowd
of rooters, the Concord Hlfeh School boys
added another victory to their credit,
when they defeated the Mooresville High
School Friday, November 10th. at the
score of il to 0. The. local boys led
throughout the game. The Mporesville
boys put up a strong line of defense,
but it was of no avail. Tlie touchdown
came in the third quarter, while they
made a field goal in the quarter.
In the first quarter the hall *vas gener
ally in the Concord territory. After
three downs ,Sullivan mafic a place kick
making the score, 3-0. in the second
quarter the ball was generally midship
of the field. Many passes netted both
sides gains. After tw > downs for Con
cord Sullivafl. quarterback, made a run
of forty yards. After many passes and
end runs Concord was within ten yards
of a touchdown. Sullivan made the
touchdown through Bp!it formating.
For Concord Sullivan. Litaker. A’erble
and Cleaver played best ball, while the
rest of the players were on their toes
at all times. ,
For Mooresville. Stafford. B. Evans
Furgeson played the best ball.
Substitutes: For Concord: Fink for
Krider: Brown for Fink; Brown for
A’eirblo. Substitutes for Mooresville:
AI ills for llartness: Hager for McCon
nell.
The lineup: •
Concord Mooresville
Krider 1. e Hartuess
Hoover I.t. J. Boyd
Benfield 1. q Harrington
A’erble *• Stafford
Mclnnix r. g G. Evans
Kirk . . . .* r. t R. Boyd
Smart r. <«. ...... Frieze
Sullivan q. b Hager
Simpson ....... 1. h. b. .... FurgeSon
AA ideiihottse .... r. h. b McConnell
Litaker. f. b B. Evans
Episcopal Bishops Demand Peace Plan.
Dallas, Tex., Xuv. 15.—1 t is the "im
mediate and imperative duty” of the
I nited States government either .to
join the existing league of nations "in
to proceed immediately to organize some
other effective association or council of
nations.” the house of bishops of the
Protestant Episcopal chifrch, V. S. A.,
declared in a resolution adopted today.
The resolution requested President
Coolidge, Secretary Hughes and the
chairman of the foreign affairs com
mittee of the senate. t;> take steps for
the purpose of settling amicably all in
ternational disputes uii«l "thus save us
from the great danger of iTfiother world
war.”
Crime AA’ave Continues.
New York. Xov. 1(5. —New York’s lat
est crime wave continued today when
bandits smashed plate glass window in
th** fashionable Fifth Aveuutf shop of
Hickson. In**., and escaped in an auto
mobile with $50.(100 worth of furs.
The fur robbery which followed the
theft of a wagon load of silks from a liv
ery stable on AVest 2tsth street, took
place while four watchmen were in tin*
store, which is on the Avenue at 52nd
street. The „ thieves sent two ash cans
crashing through the windows. The
watchmen were unable to reach the
in time to get a description of either the
bandits of fheir car.
Pcinearq Takes Issue With Baldwin.
Paris. Xov. 1(5 (By the Associated
Press). —Premier Poincare took issue
with the Prime Minister of Great Brit
ain as to whom is to blame for the pres
ent Franco-British when he
rose unexpectedly to speak in the cham
ber of deputies .this afternoon during au
interpellation of foreign affairs.
-T can’t let* it he said thyt it is
our fault that an agfe°meut has not
been reached,” M. fyuueure declared. .
The records of the great bank of New
foundland show that the cod leave there
entirely, during two months every year,
Dec-ember and January.
ft (the isle of
iNSe" RETRIBUTION
fUffiS-lA EDISON MARSHALL
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R.W.SATTfRTieLO ® UTTL*, BROWN 8 COMPAMy, 19*3
WCTJMK3—ja—.tn I Imn —————Mi—
CEGIN HERE TODAY
Ned Cornet, his fiancee, Lenore
Hardenworth, and Bess Gilbert, a
seamstress, are shipwrecked and
they take refuge on an Island occu
pied solely by a man named Doonis
dorf and his Indian wife.
Doomsdorf takes Ned and the
girls prisoners and introduces them
to slavery. Lenore gains leniency
from her master through flattery,
but Bess and Ned defy the brute
and are made to work until they
fall unconscious.
Ned and Bess, with very little
help from Lenore, build a cabin and,
when it is completed, the master of
the island sends Ned and Bess on
different trapping routes. Lenore
remains with the squaw. When
Lenore is told of plans for an es
cape from the island she treacher
ously tells Doomsdorf. Bess and
Ned start to walk out on the ice.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
Instinctively Ned’s arms went
about her. pressing her close; and
tremulous with this ghost of happi
ness, the high-born strength of' wo
man's love surged through her again,
more compelling than ever before!
Once more her purpose flamed, wan
and dim at first, then slowly bright
ening until its ineffable beauty filled
her eyes with tears. more she
saw a course of action whereby Nted
might have a fighting chance for life.
Her first plan, denied her because of
Ned’s refusal to lead faster than she
could follow, had embodied her own
unhappy death from the simple
burning up of her life forces from
over-exertipn; but this that occurred
to her now was not so merciful. It
might easily preclude a fate that
was ten times worse than death. Yet
she was only glad that she had
thought of it. She suddenly lifted
her face, trying to the press
ing gloom and behold Ned’s.
“I want you to promise me some
thing, Ned,” she told him quietly.
He answered her clearly, from full
wakefulness. “What is it?"
“I want you to if
you see there’s no hope for me—-
that you’ll go on—without me. Sup
pose Doomsdorf almost overtook us—-
and you saw that be could seize me
—but you could escape—l want you
to promise that you won’t wait.”
“To run off and desert you—”
"Listen, Ned. Use your good
sense Say 1 was in a place where
I couldn’t get away, and you could.
Suppose we became separated some
how on the ice. and he should be
overtaking me. but you’d have a
good chance to go to safety. Oh,
you would go on. wouldn’t you?”
Her tone was one of infinite plead
ing. “Would there be any use of
your returning—and getting killed
yourself—when you couldn’t possi
bly save in®? Don’t you ~~ 2 the
thing to do 'would be to keep on—
with the hope of coming out at last
—and then getting up an expedition
to rescue me? Promise me xou won’t
destroy what little hope we have by
doing such a foolish thing as that—”
Wondering, mystified by her ear
nestness, half inclined to believe
that she was at the verge of delirium
from cold and exertion, hi-i arms
tightened about her and he gave her
his promise so that she might rest.
“6f course I’ll do the wise thing,”
he told her. “The only thing.’"
Her strong little arms responded to
the embrace, and slowly, joyously
she drew his face toward hers. “Then
kiss me. Ned," she told him. soberly
yet happily, as a child might beg a
kiss at bedtime. Her tove for him
welled in her heart. ■“! want you to
kiss me good night."
Slowly, with all the tenderness of
his ,noble manhood, he pressed his
lips to hers. "Good night, Bess,” he
told her simply. For an instant,
night and cold were forgotten. “Good
night, little girl."
Their lips met again, but now they
did not fall away so that be could
speak. There was no need for words.
His arm about her held her Ups to
his, and thus they lay, forgettinif'the
n
s
H
HIRAM JOHNSON FORMALLY
ANNOUNCES HIS CANDIDACY
Says Contest To Deride Figtit Between
Reactionaries and Progressives.
Chicago, Nov. 15.—Senator Hiram
M. Johnson, of California, tonight an
nounced ins candidacy for the Republi
can nomination for {’resident, declaring
"the ensuing contest will determine
whether the Republican party shall be the*
permanent instrument of miction or
whether it shall respond to present day
conditions and aspirations.”'
In tossing his hat into the Presidential
ring. Senator Johnson, declared for direct
Presidential preference primaries in all
the States, stressed the need today for a
"revitalized Republican party”' which
should he an instrument "neither of static
reaction nor destructive radicalism," and
expressed opposition to the League of
nations "and all its subsidiaries.”’
DANGEROUS NEGRO IS
ARRESTED IN CILIRLOTTE
Believe Man lias Robbed Four Homes
and Jewelry Store in Cl tar lotto Re
cently.
Charlotte. Nov. I(s.—Suspected of four
capital burglaries in Charlotte homes, and
the robbing of an uptown jewelry store
within three days, Tom Williams, negro,
who frequently has answered charges in
local courts, was arrested early today at
a railroad station after he had been
knocked down by a detective as the ne
gro drew an automatic pistol from his
pocket. (
The police officers said Williams neith
er admitted nor denied the charges pre
ferred against him.
A quantity of jewelry, clothing and
other articles tilling a small trunk were
br-ought to the police station a* was a
second pistol found on negro.
Albemarle Press: Mr. aad Mrs. A. B.
Hwariugeu and young son. of Concord,
were vititoys in town Monday.
wastes of ice about them, for the
moment secure from the cruel forces
that had hounded them so long. The
wind swept by unheard. The fine
snow drifted before it, as if it meant
to cover them and never yield them
up again, The dimmer stars faded
and vanished imp the recesses of
the sky.
The cold's scourge was impotent
now. The hour was like some> dream
of childhood: calm, wondrous, inef
fably sweet. The ghost of happiness
seemed no longer jusLjL shadow, For
the moment Bess’ fancy believed it
real. • *
Sleep drifted over Ned. {Still with
her lips on his. Cess listened till his
slow, quiet breathing told her that
he was no longer conscious. She
waited ar instant more, her arms
tremblinL as she pressed him close
as she cojild. t
“1 love you, Ned." she whispered.
“Whatever 1 do—it’s all for love of
you ”
Then, very softly so as not to
waken him, she flipped out of his
embrace and got to her fee t- She
GUARDING THEM WITH HTS
RIFLE,V* Hfe POINTED THEM
THEIR WAY.
started away straight north—at right
angles to the direction that fhey hud
gone before.
XXX
NED’S instincts had been trained
like the rest of him, and they
watched over him while he slepL
They aroused him from sleep as
soon as it was light enough to pick
his way over the rough ice that lay
in front, yet as if in realization of
his physical need of rest, not an in
stant sooner. He sprang up to find
the dawn, gray over the ice-bound
sea.
But the miracle of the morning,
even the possibility that Doomsdorf
had made time while he slept and
was now almost upon him did not
hold his thought an instant. His
mind could not reach beyond the
tragic fact that he was *Bess
was gone, vanished like a spirit that
had never been in the gray dawn.
Her last words swept through his
memory. They gave him the key:
his deductions followed swift and
sure by the process of remorseless
logic. In a single moment he knew
the dreadful truth: Bess had not
gone on in the expectation of Ned
overtaking her, thus saving ja few
moments of his precious time. She
had not gone east at all. She knew
the stars as well as he did: she would
have never, except by some secret
purpose, turned north instead of
east. He saw the truth all too plain.
She had chosen the direction that
would give Doomsdorf the longest
chase Sind take him farthest from
Ned’s traiU He couldn’t them
both. The morning light would
show him that his two fugitives bad
NORTH CAROLINA NEEDS
GREATER PUBLICITY
Editor Sliackeil Says the Real Purposeful
Publicity Has Not Yet jßecn Attempt
ed.
Eden ton. N. C.. Nov. I<>. —"While
freight rates oppose us ami our water
ways arc undevelop which would make
for a greater state, the real need of
North Carolina is greater publicity.'* an
swered It. ( r. Shack ell. editor of the
Eden ton News. • when asked what he
thought were North Carolina’s greatest
needs.
Mr. Shackell continued:
"Tliis stateinottt may be objected to by
our neighbors to the North, since they
say we have had our share and more
through nation-wide reference to good
roads development, and while this may be
assented to, the real purposeful publicity,
the kind which garners tin- aspiring ten
ant and landowner, has not yet been at
tempted.
“But that will cost a lot of money, is
the immediate cry we hear, and to this
again we agn-e. but oaks are not grown
without a seed, nor is enlarged business
attained without effort and ex|H*nditure.
The truth is our own people must lirst
be aroused to the knowledge that nothing
worth while is obtained until an expen
diture of money or services is first con
tributed.
"North Carolina has in her broad ar.d
productive acres all that California cui»
boast—and at that she boasts plenteous- 1
ly. but California made her people real
ize the one essential of first giving aud
then receiving, so we should not begrudge
her the popularity she has attained for
sbe has spent lavishly and is qnw gar
nering a right prolific* <fop tberetrom.
"When we watch the thouscuds of dor
mant acres in eastern Carolina that will
produce everything the heart can desire;
the garden spots that could be converf"
ed into country homes for the affluent;
the water that could be used fer
PAGE SEVEN
separated; and she tied reasoned
soundly to thinking that their enemy
would pursue her, rather than Ned.
His lust for her was too command
ing for him to take any other course.
While he pursued her, Ned would
have every chance to hurry on east
ward to the safety of Tzar Island.
Never for a moment did be even
consider going on and leaving her
to her fate. He could aid her,
and yet in one moment more be had
launched forth on her trail,
.than he had ever mushed before. He
had no inward battle, no sense of aao
riftce. There was not even a tempta
tion toi take the way of safety. In
these last months he had been lifted
far beyond the reach of any such
feeble voice as that.
He sped as fast as he could along
,the dim trail she had made. The
dawn, icy-breathed, soon outdistanced
him, permitting hihn to see Bess’
fleeing form before he bad scarcely
begun to overtake her. She was just
a dark shadow at first against the
stretching of white; but he
never lost sight of her after- that.
With the brightening dawn he saw
her ever more distinctly.
And in the middle distance, west
of both of them, he saw the huge,
dark form of Doomsdorf bearing
down upon her.
She had guessed right as to Dooms
dorf. Catching sight of her, he had
left their double trail to overtake
her. Hoping and believing that Ned
had taken his chance of safety and
was fleeing eastward, she was lead
ing his enemy ever farther and far
ther north, away from him.
He was a strong fhan, this Cornef ‘1
who had fought the North, but tee '
bitter, scalding tears shot into hia
eyes at the sight of that strange,
hopeless drama on the ice. But not
one of them was in self-pity. They
were all for the slight figure M the
girl, trying to save him, running so
hopelessly from the brute who was
even now upon her.
A moment later he saw her slip j
on the ice. and in dread silence.
Doomsdorf’s anna went about her.
Neither of them had apparently ob-,
served Ned. They only became
aware of him as his great shout,-half
in rage, half in defiance, reached ]
them across the ice. rY :
Even at the distan,C£ ’that sepo- j
rated them the ‘startled movement
of head revealed his un
utterable amazement. Doubtless he
thought that Ned was miles to the
east by now. The amazement gavd j
way to boundless triumph as Ned !
walked calmly toward him. Thep / j
while he held the girl pnone on tbe
ice with his great knee. # DopmsdorTs j
rifle made blue lightnip® the air.
Ned’s response 'vn<a to throw his
arms imedinter- - air in token
of complete He was
thinking cot- in per
fect control. > he must
not attempt now.. Only
death lay that uuv . at that range
Doomsdorf could shatter him life
less to the ice with one shot frolh the
heavy rifle. It wasn’t enough just to
die. thus taking a quick road out of
Doomsdorf’s power. Such a course
would not aid Bess. And to Bess he
owed his duty—to aid Bess, in every
way he could, was his last dream.
At first he had had to play the
cruel game for the sake of Lenore.
That obligation was past now; but it
had never, at its greatest, moved him
with one-half the ardor as this he
bore to Bess. He must hot go this
route to freedom, or any other, until
Bess could go with him. He must
not leave her in Doomsdorf’s power.
Doomsdorf watched him approach
in silence. The triumphant gloating
that Ned expected did not com? to
pass; evidently their brute master
was In too savage *a mood even for
this. “Walt where you are," he or
dered simply/ "or I’ll blow your bead
off. I’ll be ready for you in a min
ute.”
He bent, and with one motion
jerked Bess to her feet. Then In
silence, still guarding them with his
rifle, he pointed them their way—
back to his cabin on {lie island.
It was a long and Utter march
across that desolate ice. Except for
a share of his pemmieao that Dooms
dorf distributed, for expedience
rather than through any impulse of
mercy, _ Bess could have hardly
lasted.
(Continued in Our Next issue)
pleasure as wel as commerce, all for want
of people to occupy them, we wonder
wherein tin- people can be so thoughtless
to dwindle their valuable days and years
at the whim, of city excitement, when
homes, the foundation of every natioii,
could be established and a comfort- at
tained with but a fraction of the wear
ami tear produced on the human frame by
the incessant diu aud Hurry of city life.
"Going westward in the (fid North
State one is struck with the wonder of
production for the benefit of mankind.
\Ve know vve are great in textile output,
in tobacco, in minerals and in lumber,
but does much of the outside world, even
our other states, know this, uoi; will
they until we awake from our lethargy
aud show them that North Carolina has
tke*vherewjth to become the greatest in
the unio u in more respect# than a few.
"Were it possible, a state tax should
lx- placed upon every manufacture, and
other production, f<* tin- purpose of ad
vertising North Carolina t,o the world.
With the present volume of business
done in the state a very small tax would
raise a large amount of money to be
utilized by a commission of tbe biggest
publicists in the country by which means
the state would not only t*ik** her right
ful place among stales, but tin- return in
business expansion would be immediate.
"The greatest need for North Caroli
na today is more and systematic public
ity on the largest calc possible-”
Episcopal Bi-hops Hold Faith in Virgin
Birth.
Dallas. Tex., Xov. 14.—elu n vigorous
"reafifmatiou of faith” in the “virgin
birth of Christ and the ApoutteV.<>yed,"’
the House of Bishops of the Brotestant
Episcopal' Church tonight threw' down
the gauntlet to various churchmen, in
and out of the ministry, who have been
casting doubt upon literal interpreta
tions of these assertions.
A man is either a thinker or a thing
—he may take hie choice.