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 S ~ ' ** ■■! ■ i| ~T~ ” s'* £ ' ILLUSTRATED By 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.

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