WOODROW WILSON'S SPIRIT
DEPARTS FOR HOME ABOVE
Voyage to the Unknown Land
Began Last Sabbath Mont
Body, Broken and Racked, Quietly
Gives Up Last Spark of Life
wt Ma eaaah iW« Wa
Dr. Grayaon, Ms friend and
•ar PMkNt in this bulletin:
"M*. WOnon died at 11:15 o'elod
Us heart's action hsrssn feebler ant
>nd the heart muscle was m
that it refused to act an]
The end rsme peacefully.
"The remote cans as of death lie ii
Ma ill health which began
which began hi the early pari
week hot fid not reach aa actrU
nntil the early mom in* houri
1."
Last Friday the grim reaper hat
Ma way into the house aftei
the doorstops Mors thai
Satoday he hadi
sir
off the tides Of tM
clock. Saturday night he kneek
•d aa the chamber deer. A fsithf*
physician and a loyal wife stood witl
their hacks against it. At • o'elod
he rattled the knob and railed to tM
peaceful prostrate figure on the bed—
a u. i sat had, long and wide, a replies
of the bad in which Lincoln slept it
the White House, w'th a golden Amor
lean eagle and a tiny sflh Americar
lean flag J«*st over the headboard.
The watchers knew the battle wai
lost. At the portal of the door nM
open, the faithful negro servant hoe
ered. Ob the bed. sitting beside bet
husband, sustained with all the forti
tude and composure of s woasan fee
tog a crisis, was Mrs. Wilson, holding
bet wean her hands the wan, wit hew
right hand that had proved the per
Mightier than the sword. Near tM
loot of the bed was his eldest daugh
tor. Margaret resinned to the Merit
able. Close by, tears welling fiwa hit
eyes and wttrsfog down his cheeki
was Dr. Grayson, taking the messun
of the fluttering pulse, weaker am
fainter with each effort'
Death advanced and beckoned foi
the last time. The tired, worooui
man drew a long breath, there was a
slight flutter of the eyelid* sn almost
totpereeptibl' twitch of the nostril*.
Woodtftw Wilson's soul had drifts*
ont on the great dark tide that rum
around all the world.
What Eurooc Tlihtka of Es
President Wilson
London. Feb. 2.—Woodrow WUson'i
great fitrht for life and his smazini
vitality and fortitude continued to Im
featured in the English papers, whirl
published sympathetic appreciation oi
his life, ideals and achievementa.
The Sunday Express says:
"Woodrow Wilson la the (Teater
American sit. m Lincoln. He Is a fail
uee like Moaaa because ha was not a!
laved to lead Europe into the promts
«| laad. Bat to a hnpdrsd years hia
• torians will rate his failure as peace
maker higher than the aaceesa of an]
other furore of the great war.
"Mr. Wilson on his deathbed dwarf
Ms betrayers on. both sides of the At
isntie H. is more than a politician
v he is a seer. His blessin* of peso
will be the homage of history H<
failed aa Jeinm failed. The failure a
Iwh h Palestine fsrs the worfc
* Christianity: the failure of Wilson •
Versailles srfll |h» tne world th
Ha wtn rrwifWd by politiciana, bo
wfcen hia body, Hka John Brown's lia
.i-r
KX-PftlSIDKNT WOOOHOW WILSON
New Light is Given on Long
Illness of Our War President
PARALYTIC STROKE IN
Itl* CAUSE OF WILSON'S
DEATH
Forth* First Time Myrtmry
Surrounding Pmidwfi Cad
dition During Lorn* Illnas. W
Made Known—Had Not Suf
fered Stroke on Woetoni
Trip
Washington, Feb. S.—The reel
cause of Wood row Wilson's death wss
a stroke of paralysis which followed
his collapse in the late lusntr of
1*19. Like Warren G. Harding he
was stricken while oo a speaking trip
in the west
Up to the time of his collapse the
country thought him a normally heal
thy man. hot he was far from it He
entered the White Howe with a well
'leveloped atart toward Bright'* dis
ease which cause his physician* to
predict that he never would finish his
first term. Bat by careful devotion
to his doctor's orders he fought off
the malady was practically blind in
one eye from a retinal hemorrhage
which came while he was still in
Princeton university, bqt the country
never knew it. Years before he had
( suffered a thrombosis—s blood clot
In hi* arteries—but It was in one of
his legs and never developed any ser
ious trouble. TV same thing la his
brain later' on laid him lew and led to
his death.
By his own personal directions, the
exact nature of his fatal illness was
concealed from the world for stoaths
because he feared public knowledge
of H, while he was President, might
lead to a stock market panic, and pos
sibly far-reaching consequences to a
world then passing through the first
stages of pest-war reconstruction
Some of the details came out piece
meal and over a long period of tins*.
Others have not been hitherto pub
lished. It is appropriate, therefore,
to give them new that he Is ted
Pint laMrotlsa sf (Haass
' The first indication at serious ill
I tossher IS. ltl», whila the Preaitefs
special Ma was between Pueblo.
Colorado, and Wichita, Kanaka, com
ing eastward on tha rtturn part of
hi» speech-making trip. The inosns
ing (train upon bis physical iiiuwui 1
had bean growing daily, but bom of
hi* party suspactad the breaking print
wan near. There waa no truth in ro
mora that the President had bean in
coherent during acme of his last
speeches although it was tine that he
had displayed rr-at emotion which
was unusual for his Mannar of spank
ing.
When Mr. Wilson fin tabid spanking
at Pueblo that afternoon be was ex
hausted and covered with clanuny per
il piration. An examination by Dr.
Grayson, his physician, disclosed no
thing markedly wrong and he was pat
to hed. Mrs. Wilson remained up with
him as he complained of rsaUassnaaa.
Soon after midnight he complained of
feeling ill and Dr. Grayson found him
fh a state of nervous exhaustion, with;
i'- right side of his fare twitching, as <
it oftqp had done before when ha was
very tired and worn out.
Rut the physician was s la need and
hocked to note a drooling of saliva
from the corner of the President's
mouth and also s dropping of the fa
cial muscle* on the left side. Use- {
< gnixing Immediately that a stroke
of paralysis wan impending Dr. Gray
son warned Mr. Wilson of kia grave
condition; strongly suggested that he
cancel the jreainder of the tour and
immediately return to Waahington;
and in conclusion, that ha try and get
some sleep.
Rcarfr to GIt» Hi* Life
"I wont be able to ilcap it all. dot-!
tor. K you say I Mast cunl the trip,"
Mr Wilton replied "Em, If gMag
my own life would accaoipiiah this
object, 1 rUdly would ft*» it"
The physician quieted bit patiant
as baat boat ba could aad took stopa to I
rascal the issssladsi of Dm yiklst;
racatoMMito aad bring the Preaidant
to Washington. Mr. Wllaoo. yielding,
to the antrratiea of Mrs Wiiaoa. ac
quieacod and the facto were aaa—mad
to the country la an official stat»'
mant which said:
"President Wilson'* rood it ion is das,
tn overwork. The troohb dates back
o an attack of influenia last April
■n Paris from whiel* ha aavar fully.
I rot atsrad. The Praaidoot's actrrttie.
<w this trip have ovet-toxad Ma atoaa- ;
to the taak of liftinc the ]
to bad alone, oM Mm. Wilaon aed
Una ordaal th«
One* in hod the President
te regain Ma iiium mi
that ha felt alospy.
Dr. Grayson made • hurried
ination of pulae and heart and found
them very low. The tell-tale drool
ing of saliva from the l*ii sidsat's
m«uth and the twitching of the fare
waa thero again. They wrote their
own diagnoeis. Woodrow Wilaon had
heen paralysed on hia left aid*, and
lay in the shadow of death. With {he1
first movement of hia Hps ha ertradk:
ed a promiae from Dr. Crayaon aaa^
hia wffe. that Ma condition If aari
oos nut not become known.
Dr. Grayaon summoned from Phil
adelphia Dr. France* X, Dnmim, a
foremost specialist and one of the only
two A merit-* rt* ever received into the
Societe de Neurololg of Pari*, the
membership of which ia confined to
leaa than SO yt the world** foremost
III illllll etw> catted hi Rear Ad
mlra! I. R. Strtt of the navy medical
corpe. a diatingoiehed diagnoatician,
and Dr Sterling Huff in of this rty,
Mr*. Wilaon'* family phyaician.
Left SMe Affected
A two-hoar consultation developed
the arreement that Mr. .Wilson had
suffered what ia medically known aa
a cerebral thromblai*—a Mood dot
in one of the blood veaaela in the right
side of hia brain. Its effect was to
impair the motor nerrea of the left
aide aa well aa the seneitory nerves.
The physicians concluded there had
been no tesion bat that there waa dan
cer of one. If the clot were a hard
one and should be swept along hi the
Mood circulation to the heart and jaas
a valve the reaolt probably would be
death. If it were a soft clot there
was hope of absorbing It On that
slender hope the battle of life began
An official bulletin informed the coon
try of serious torn in the President's
condition bat did not disclose the
For the next week Mr. Wilson hover
ed between life and death. Every
thing that it was poaaible to do waa
done. The country finding foe the
first time that the President waa in
:lanirer of death fell into a gloom. It
was reported that Mr. Wilaon lay un
conscious for a week. Truth was that i
he never was unconscious at any time t
during that illness. It was reported
that he had become a maniac. Truth
<vaa that hia mind always waa active
»nd he constantly gar* directions to
thoee about him.
Kjiami Farmers Um Bwmtw
Mtrtmilt
Topeka. Jan. 81,—Waahincton coun
ty, Kinui. has mors fanxn who
j|etp on their operations
any other county in Um United States
iceordinc to information furaiahod by
Dm extension dirition at ths Iimh
State Agricultural Collags, «Uck k
unductiny a campaign to Mm ths
farmer* to nmthoir farms on bualiwaa
plana. Book* for kaapiag both farm
Chapman, farm maiw|MMt ipocial
i*t of the CoUags, an Mac out frn
la all farmers in ths State *W ask
for thosa.
John Helper, county farm agsnt,
tays lis Induced ltt fsMMM Is laatall
Wkkaeptnr aystams dwinc ItSS.
pnltkf a Voal Pi«4mn Asasete
tion tkmurk which thc^ flu to mar
ket thoaa eal»e* wkMI fe sat bars
ARCHITECTURALTRIUMPH
H OPENED TO PUBLIC
building is 24 bx. *0 feat aad
It occupiae • lot which cast 130.000,
which amount hapnens to ba tha sua
tha Bank of Mount Airy started with
■a capital stack 18 years ago. Tha cost
of tha corn plated building incladbif
vault, flsturea and lot. ia approxir
mutely lllf.,000.
Harry Barton, of Gr^Aoi*
Vjhe architect and designer and no
«maft portion af tha success of the
rompleted structure ia doa to tha pain
staking oversight of i 1 Lasenby.
of Salisbury, whoaa faithfulness in
tMTjrmf out tha plans and specifica
tions of the architect ia a nutter of
roatment on tha part of the bank offl
riala.
Tha colonial style of architecture,
with pleasing classical lines, is fol
lowed throughout. Both baauty and
durability are aa interwoven that acea
hence this structure will stand aa a
monument to present-day renins for
the substantial aad the harmonious.
The walls of the substructure to the
1st floor are of concrete and granite
-M inches thick. Above the first floor
the walls are 1? inches thick. Tha
roof support, and all sub-floors are
itf reinforced concrete, which insures
tha building of being aa near fire
proof as it is humanly poasible to
make it. Metal laths, underneath the
plaster of the interior, sheet copper
flashings on roof and widow facings
»re an added protection from fire.
Since the first floor and atezxanina
balconies have either marble or fire
proof composite floors, aad as there
is no wood used in tha building ex
rept window and door casings, doors
tnd the necessary furniture, a barrel
»f gasoline might be poured or the
main floor and a lighted match set
to it without producing a fire that
arouM do any injury whatever to the
Two plain Doric column* of Mount
Airy granite each weighing five ami
i half tons, flank the main entrance.
The floor of both loggia and vestibule
u well a* the floor of the main hank
nr room and the measaninr baleen*
in the rear are of Twimiw pink mar
>lr A 41- inch wainscoting of cloud
■H Vermont marble with an eiirht inch
•aseboard of Verde antique marble
•urrounda both veetibale and main
thanking room, and also the mezzanine
Salconiea. Paneled tide walla built
a pen metal latha and piaster -of-pans
Forma, and a drop beam ceiling with
>anel effect strike the eye with a con»
<:nation that is moat pleasing. Foot
area and several email Venetian chan
leliers, each with mam of nil it
itkta, produce an Utamteation aa
ileasin* as it U effective.
Mafcacaay and Marhle Ffcraitase
On entering the mala room, at the
eft ia the room for the bank's offl
ers, which ia psttttfomd off from the
itiblic lobby by meens of a law Mil
ne mad* of maihle. rarther on la
he cashier^ uuaatei. or bank fta
tire still, which la alee of Vermont
-louded marble with grill, work of
fwslhie ta the public, an t built-in
nsrhle cheek decks with half-inch
plate rtaas tope. AH ef the lakariae
mad finish, aa well aa the fumitwt
a ef amksgaay. the balk of the far
'
Inched by
door ia for m in the imt i
r»« omul wit)
the other, or in
Sank rWk should accidentally get ■
op in the vault, aa i
In that eaae ttrffn
nlaee before
main door should permit it being open
ed. It might be farther explained that
• he combination on all vaults
«d by time larks act somewhat
lar to an alarm dock. The
tion ran be worked only at the I
«et. and if a man happens to r»t
up in a vanlt and the
'.umed be can only wait until the 1
■•"me* around for the opening;
in part, this rear door.
People in thia section will
that it waa this mammoth vaatt that
required ten day's work by a Mock
and tackle rrew last sunimsi1 to snake
>t from the da pet to the bank building
only a half mile.
by a tiled stairway,
ond floor. Toilet
both male and female
r.Torided. So thin* has been
looked to nuke thia building
■ent as well as beautiful. But to I
of a hank building without a
something of the institution that ia to
inhabit it. ia like plating Hamlet with
Hamlet left oat. After all. the boild.
mg typifies the financial progress ft
this cfty am) this section and the Wa
tery of the Bank of Mount Airy, whiefc
it ia to house, rive* one an insight
into the wonderful financial
of this community during the
The Bank of Mount Airy was i
lied March 8.-1906, by W. i. Byerly
with a capital stock of **>.000. A ttt
tle later the capital stock was inrrnaa
ed to SSS.OQP. 3. H Prather was tha
institution's first pmidnL In IMS
the capital stock was ineraaaod to
$80,000. and two years ago the haak
declared a stock diridend of 150.000,
Nrinrinjr the capital stock up to $100,
000, where it stand* today. Fron *maB
hefrfautinirs this institution has »iws«
n IS year* until at the close of har
ness last Friday. February t. its total
if sources, inchidinr deposits, »mount
ed to the sum of ll.447.0SK.ll
The officers are as follow*: W. J.
Hverly. President; G. C. Welch aad
Edw. M. LiariDe. V,ce-Presidents;
F. P. Spanrer. Cashier, and W. W.
Christian Assistant Cashier. The di
rectors are: A. G. BmutL G. C
Welch'. W. G. Sydnor, P. M. Poors. T.
1. Smithwich, W I. Byprty, A. T.
West. J. D. Sarvsnt, H. L. Stons, I
W. Barhor. ft. 8. Scott, W. H Stdaa.
C. H. Haynes and P. P.
to IhU a staple ftoml sssitm tm
former Pr.sidsat WQassi was In aa
rordance with his wU. AHhoofb ft
restin* place in Aritaftos eMMtof
was offered the (feat World War
■kM^ p
of history, it was derided by Ma I
Iv that his remain* be |
floor of the Bethleh— r ha pel of tb*
mmmrngrn *
at «Mi