Start Trial of Eroiution Case
At Dayton, T<
of
hMi af the ati
TIm first day af tha
awiftly cm its way, brkrlnf into the
•pan in the courtroom Um flrat to-,
fri battl* to ha faught Monday, the
of inlalwlim of
hi regard to
wm started ta a xnall
way at tfca flrat aaaainti hat gained
win be bitterly contested before H la
•Ma mdnd for tha moment to peimit
•a selection of a Jury to preened.
With Httle effort, tha IS aaata In
Um Jury bos vara filled at tha after
Twelve of tha >0 prospective Juran
«xamln*d hirawi Jwwi in fact after
tabu pa«aad in tha wain without
questions from tha (tote.
Um defense propounded a number
af questions to each man but uaed
only two of Ha three peiawpliiiy ehal
langee. One objection waa made by
fte atato, the mart ruled four possl
Ma juror* incompetent and one waa
—iUmil on account of hia afa.
Um flrat move df tha day waa to
a grand jury and preset* a
bitl against the 2*-year-old
dI teacher. The Indti lm«nl re-,
May 28 waa conaidarad of
al legality on account of an
eight In elapaad time before the
ammmoni to the grand jury and tha
actual meeting of that body. Attor
ney General Al T. Stewart, aaylng
that it waa the deairr of all concern
ed to have a record that would bear
thorough inspection if the caae ranch
ad a Mr her court, presented a new
MB and the defendant was re-indict
ed in slmost the identical language
aaad in the first document.
A statement by Clarence Darrow.,
af cmmsel for the defense, showed
4m first issue at hand. Speaking on
tha expectation of the defanae to >
witnesses from a distance, he
I that the defense conaidarad scien
| competent within the caae
to explain what evolution ia, saying
drfensc counsel considered such wit
nesses competent on both sides.
Attorney General Stewart, reply
ing to Mr. Darrow*s announcement
Ant the defense would insist on in
toadurintr s< ientiata and Bible stu
dent* to give their views of the Ten
■aaai i law. said that the state would j
take the position that it waa not corn
patent to bring scientists into tha
caae to testify as to what the theory
af evolution is. or interpret the Bi
ble or "anything of that sort." The
preliminary skirmish ended the
dent <or the day, the sftcrnoon
aaaaion being devoted to selection of a
Jary.
■ ■i*- 111 m hi trie jury pnnei chiipo.
W. F. Rohinnon, wax accepted by the
•lair fnd Menu* with only • few
qaeetion* but Clarftiff Darrow want
an exhaustive examination of
<l» wound prospective juror. J. W.
BhcWr, and followed thin course with
others until the jury box wa* fill
si.
The defenae lawyer aaked the talia
■n if they knew anything of evo
lution. had diwusaed it, heard aer
or lecturea on the aubject and
nad of it in newapaperi or nuifi
He alao aaked •• to their
ch membership, their familiarity
the Bible and ideal, if any, aa
the conaistency of the theory of
•lutinn and the atory of Divine era.
aUm aa told in the Bible. The jury,
m completed, included nine farmers,
«e arhool teacher and farmer com
Maed, one fruit grower and one
^typing clerk.
Mich Tax oa Salooni May
Bring Pralutttion
▼era Crux. Jul; i-tW rt«t» ol
Vera Croc la on the verge of "going
I 4qr" without the wecoaaity of a pro
Mkition law, due to the high taxea
haliil on aaloona by the government.
Die aalnon keepera are thrwrton
lag to dose their akopa unloaa the
gvevrnmrnt lowers the tax, and com
plain farther that their receipt* are
tea than what they ahould ha because
aaloona are forced to close n*
Maw Tort. July U. Iw) R. Ml.
pal rhurrH hi tharg* *f Ik* Mil hi
the La* Che* taMi OlfrM of Jm
tha Island of Awihw, he raeently
• tare* *t*n* boulder on which M la
Ha tad that the head* of 11.111 Hula,
ttana Ha hwled thara.
Tha grave data* bark to the raw
IWf, whan tha Japanaae prartlraTty
wiped oat alt tha Christiana who M
been wdmlal to that faith by V*
man Catholic missionaries. Tha hr
*eripti«n mt thla pan talla that a,
Ml Chriatian* war* slain, beheaded
and borM, Thair heads vara hwlal
in graves aiany miles dUtant from
tha raat of thair bodie*. Only one
third of tha Chriatian hawb war*
l , - J I- 4LI. - * a «_■ M
WInM In I nil p>l IK1 Ulsr MBsna
Whan Dr. Ball made ln<p tries aa
to why tha head* wara beried hi
mm mllaa itletant from tha (itbar
parts of tha bodies, ha wu told.
"Whan tha Catholic prtesta yrtafbad
•boat the reaaireetfon. thay aaid that
Christians would riaa again. Fearing
that It might ha tnie, tha officiate of
tha persecuting JllMfun datamilnad
that thay would make it iaipnaaiMe
for thaw to riaa arain by »epa rating
different part* of tha budiaa of tha
ilaad Chriatian*. If thair haada wara
ha rind in ona township and othar part*
nf thair hodiaa In anotbar town*hip,
I hay concluded that tha raaunattlon
a a* than lmpo«*lhle."
OM Gh Battle
Danbury. July II.—In tk northern
part of Stokes county, th> Smitlrtown
wctiim it (iHi>| through mm* of tl«
■cm* of kilting* and figVing* of the
>>ld days. For wvrnl y»ir» the com
munity ha* lived peacefully, peaceful
law-biding citizens tending to tbeir
own boainess. Bat In a week" ime
resident* of famous Smith'owr sec
tion have taken to carrying their guns
snd no one la able to estimate what it
will mean.
Ona day of the past w-»k a b>> in
a drunken stupor drew hi* fun and
threatened to annihilate a whole fam
ily which resulted in hi* ihodtinf and
seriously wounding a neighbor: the
killer went to the Jail and the wound
ed to the hospital, and mm the whole
f Bmithtown threatens to take it up,
which may result in further killings.
In Rmlthtown a* well a* other parts
of the county, revenue officer* have
been busy of lata, striving to rut out
moonahinlng and transportation
Their labors have been rewarded, yet
have (a used much fighting and re-'
porting among the people there. In
one instance it la reported a man drew
a gun. pointed it in a fellows ribs and
threatened to kill him; by tome good
fortune the trivg^r was never pulled
and the man whose life wi* threaten
ed returned to hi* home, took hi*
vun and piatol and lay in ambush
side of the road, waiting for
that fellow to pome along. V*lng hi*
wisdom the other fellow returned «n
"ther route, thus preventing *no»V-r
Willing.
Year* ago Smithtown was fumed
for It* liquor and gunmen; it i* known
far and wide for alt this, and prob
ably In no other nection of the coun
•rv ha* more feud* existed among
the families, or rather rlana thev
would be called. It waa a dread field
for "revenue*," who valued their live*
when they went there. The good
road* and the automobile opened uo
these section* to the outride world,
wherea* heretofore It waa hardly
arreaaable.
The had impression that 'he word
Smithtown once bore to th» listener
•nd speaker, has through the past
few year* home a better imnressi—»:
moonshininr ha* dhniniahed to a min-1
imum. and iron carrying h«d shou«
named, bu« the minds of 'he neonle
have been deeply atirred bv the recent
"hooting. There may he more kH
ing*, and a warfare* r>sy result be
tween the different fart'on* there. As
one officer states: "TYi "•» wlQ he a
real battle and several killings "
shotgun
bv fhe
The "sawdust trail" to h-»».r soils
1* he in* hit he manv TirliH fa»-m-«"*
who are rraw*ng *oy bean* and oth
er Womea this season as. a result o'
activity on the part of county agento.
diet, with tlx pena port of
yam** «» mr
*lt tTW^' f*
ere <n«npiatntng of Indigestion. Evi
af
Mount A try has km
not be as w|>m>w to!
bio m*. Tliifey I
pn the tailor an or4w tor ■ pair of |
panto, the coat of whkrh will be
aiderabiy Mora than the Ja
pay. The tailor said on*
fifth* yards would umba a pair rfj
panto for himself, and tba price- of I
aiin« would ba in aaaafidance with tba ]
excess of tfat amount naadad far ma. I
A faw yaara ago. hafnra public auto
mobile linoa ware operating bar*. I
waa acruatowad to traral a eartabi
mountainous route by ona-boraa
caach. At ttrst tba ticket aeOer sold j
iw a ticket at tba regular prica, but |
protoetod on account of my weight. I
Tba nut time ba charged Ma the
prica of a ticket and a half, a praea
dant which might hava baan follow
ed till now had it not been that Buick
and Ford automobile* came to my
reacue. f now have the joke on my
Japanese frieada, in that one of the
auto companies aalla ma ticketo at re
duced price* when bought at the
Uwajima office. Moreover, I gat
thirty par cent dlacount on steam
boat ticketo. wheraaa many Japanese
weighing less than half aa much as I
'io pay full fare. But my weight af
fords more hallaat for the steamers
these times when cargo May be light.
But to go back to the disadvantage*
if good digestion and its reaultant
•beeity, the Jefferson Standard Life
lnauran«e Company is penalising me
to the extent of four hundred dollars
>n a twenty year life policy for twa
thousand dollars, because my weight
ta greater proportionately than my
height, largely the fault />f my neck
•n failing to lengthen out more in the
■ hap* of the obeliak in Central Park.
New York City, sailed "Cleopatra's
Needle." An official of the company
later remarked to me that tbey had
had unfortunate experience in insur
ing fat folks. I am glad that their
experience with me thua far has keen
otherwise. The name year a great
New York company insured me at
normal rates, allowing that heredity
had something t>y£*rith my tendency
to overweight^^r
A rain. make* mr very run
npiruoun here by contrast with that of
the Japaneae. An elderly couple
have lived in our gatekeeper'* house
ever dime we have been here. The
man weigh* about ninety-one pound*,
and hia wife weigh* lea* than eighty
five pound*. Both are robuat and'
wo-k hard, and I have never thought1
"* them a* being exceptionally *rilall.
' know of only one peraon in thia
hole Miction who outweigh* me.
Our work here ia fairly proaperou*. I
On the 7th inctant I baptized aeven \
"irli at Yo«hida whose training be-!
gan when very young, *ome of them
in the Chri»tian kindergarten. They j
are now member* of the Wealey En
deavor Society, which take* the place |
of the Epworth League in the Japan
Methodiat Church. We are to have
* pedal aervicea in all or aeven placea j
luring the remainder of the month, j
Rev. S. A. Stewart, a native North
Caroliniana, will accompany me to
rn ormy on a trip thirty mile* aouth of
here to con due* rvangeliatir aervicea.
Rev. J- Kugimiya. who wa* educated
at Trinity Collage. Durham, wilt nlao
aaalat me in meetinga thia month.
Uwajima, Japan. June 19, IMS.
J. W. FRANK
HaU Off to Art com!
It'a Haal Hatch** E(|>.
Yuma, Aria., July f.—While the
Middle Went think* temperature*
over the century mark are high,
southern Anxona hatchea chicken*
by Ha natural tieat—without either
incubator* or brood hen a.
A feed n'ore manager reported to
dav that three egg* which he left on
a ahetf three week* ago, cracked to
day and that three hoaky chicka
emerged. TW twpaiatuii ha* beet)
above 100 h4re (br many Agra.
Ik* rim of Dr. Harry
TW hurt ■«—I trial wmiW fa
ClmiMi 0„ in Nay, 1924. whan
la tha Ma, Charlas A.
a Prsshytartaa Mmtnahan af
York city, «u charged with having
aapraaaad himself at varimca with
the Westminister coafsastoa. TW
New York |imb>t«i> fUarid him,
hot the general assembly af tkr
church riwriW tha decision and pro
nowwred a verdict of —spswaiaa.
Dr. Richard Hahar Newton, a New
York Episcopalian af tha wan pertod
rat short rharyaf afabitt hia 'luwi
<hurchman»hlp" by demanding a for
mal trial. His demand waa Mat but
tha plaintiffa failed to appsar.
■ark la 1*7*
David Swine, °f Chicago Itft tha
Preabyterian faith to preach inde
pendently in tha "70s whan thos* .-it
tnir him for llWpd heresy refused to
abida by his acquittal at tha har>d« »f
th# Chicago prubylrry and threatar
Mr*. Sarah B. Con ft r, Sunday
School worker, waa ha lad hefor- tha
T rvabylcrian author)'ies in Si.r Pran
rl». :jiv>ut IB70.
Theologians to sarvive barmy pro
reading* and gain what rat reported
a* a firmer poaition were Horace
Rushnell, Congragationallat of Hart
ford. Coin., in 1M»; Prof Philip
Srhaaf. arhoar acquittal in tha Oar
man Reformed church In IS46 was
echoed for SB yean In the "Merscars
burg controversy;** Lyman Baechar.
father of Henry Ward Beer her, and
Presbytarian pastor in Cincinnati, in
IHSft; and Rev. Elbert Barnes, Pres
byterian of Philadelphia, 1M7.
The witchcraft delusion in Salem
village was the tragic climax of ron
traversialism, in colonial days when
1!< were hanged and one "pressed to
death" in 1M
iiriii j i/uirirr *■» IUTCVU IU IC
sign aa Ih* firnt president of Har
vard college in IBM alter he publicly
doubted validity of infant baptiam.
He waa aino indicted by a irrand jury
aa a heretic and sentenced to "a pub
lic admonition" and placed under
bond for (rood behavior.
Samuel Gorton, religionist. about
1640 waa virtually deported to Eng
land because of the unpoplarity of his
temperament'and views He return
ed to America under letter of safe
conduct issued by the Earl of War
wick to the Maaaachuaetta magis
trates. Gorton's trouble started in
Plymouth colony when he rane to the
defenae of his wife's servant who had
smiled in church. He suffered suc
cessive banishments from Plymouth,
Newport. Rhode Island and Boston
A ♦ct which adopted hii antinomial
ism survived him 100 years, records
ihow.
England was stirred in 1407 when
Master William Thorpe, priest, waa
"<->aaiiney of heresy" Se'ore Thomas
Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury
rud lord chancellor.
The first heretic of Christian
'lines was Simyn Magna, the magi,
rin, of 8umaria, according to the
writings of St. Alphonsus M. I.iguort.
Simon arms .cited In Acta of the Apos
tles as having attempted to boy the
secret oi the laying on of hands from
'he Apostles Peter and Paul The
s«Ie of hoty things afterward
became known as "simony."
A QUESTION OP SUFFICIENCY
Too seem troubled about your gar
dening proposition."
"Yea. I aa wondering whether f
can raiae rnowgh to lake rare of the
eiceptioaal appetite the outdoor ex
ercise will give asa."—Biatsn Tran
Border Cooperative Amo»
ation to Open on Auguat 4
under rovtf rropa.
"In the pnifllrth upkeep tad dm
•IMMiit of an MrtuH, cultivation
•lid cover crope Imv* not jwt rinlt
ad Dm attention wMrk they daaal II,'
«Ji C. D Matthews, fNtaor ef
Horticulture at RaU Collage. "Tkaa*
two pwiUni aheald aat ha mmUmI
«parately. M aheald go M ka
hand, aa the nlw af ana la fcpwlwt
upon tha other. 1
"C alteration tn ItaeH win hapraea
tha phyaieal enndWan af tha aa*.
aave moiatura needed by tha trMa.
and win encourage i hemh al activi
ties tn tha mil. Thaae reauKa art aa
' iired by Inrreaalng tha water-hold
ing tapatlty of (he utl, by rberking
-aw a i nn" «. ft 1m. — a — — «
I*™ ie^W^3Fi»^F i®eP| OTevCs
by haatening the dernmpoettina of ar
imnic matter. It muet be nm«mber
ed that an aO aoila the muietim pro
Meia ia important, and this year aa
parially hat H hoc cane a Itahhir far
ter. Growth of traea aad aiae ef fruit
have been reduced by lark of moiatar»
heraoee of poor cultivation. The ap
parent failure . to get reaolta from
fertiMsera in aome orrharda thia year
-an be traced to the low moiatura aup
ply aa mult of poor cultivation."
Prof. Matthews atataa that atoat
fruit growers know that cultivation
helpa to ronearea moiatura, yet it ia
a proven fact that continued cultiva
'ion borne oat much humua; there
fore, clean cultivation year after
year without the addition of huaiua
In aome form, ia ruinooa. Maintain
ing and increaaing the aupply of hu-1
mua can beat he accompliehed by Be
ing green manure cropa each aa cow
pt-aa, aoybeana, rye and clovera. Tbeae
ill have advantagea and each may be
need where the condition of the aoU
ind climate may dictate.
In the lower Piedmont, Sandhill*
and Coaatal Plains, aatiafactory re
aulta can be secured by planting aoy
beana aa a green manaring crop be
tween the trees during thr> Wat two
weeka of July. Succeae aritb the aoy
beana wiU depend on moisture condi
tions. However, If moisture condi
tiona become favorable. Prof. Mat
thew* statea that it will pay orchani
iata to plant aoybeana Several var
ieties may he uaed profitably he
-tktes, but the Undo win prove best
if planted at the rate of fifteen
rxiunda per anr At thia late date it
is probable that aoybeana will he the
heat crop to uae in increaaing the
humua aupply in th<» orrharda. In
Auguat and early September trimaon
clover or a combination of hairy vetch
and Abruzxi rye, ia re. »mmend<*d.
Telia How Poaauma Outwit
Bee* and Take Their Honey
Kinaton, July 11.—A. Z. Pollock,
of Trenton, report* having *cen "pos
sums outwit bee* in wild hive* near
that town. According to Pollock aev
eral of the animal* invaded the hive*
and were cha*ed away by the honey*
maker*. "The bee* aettled in (bit
number* on the opo**uiaa' tail*. Ap
parently they were clinging them, hat
a 'poaaum'* tail i* reputed to he with
out feeling," he stated. "The aniaial*
trotted off to *ome place in the
wood*. Shortly they returned with
out the bee*." It waa surmised that
the marsupial* managed to drown
the busier*. "Finally the hive* were
completely empty of beea, and the
'r.oaaum* robbed them undisturbed."
The chagrined bee* returned and
butsed angrily about the hivea, hot
the thieve* were gone by then.
Klondike Stock Form Paaae*
To Now Hoads
Elkin. JulV 11.—Thurmond Chat
ham, of Winstar-8alam ha* raaaolty
purchaaed from H. G. and R M Chat
ham the valuable Klondike far^i lo
cated on Highway M, three mile*
north of Elkin. Thi* farm conalata
of aevaral hundred acraa of the farm
ing and gnuiag land in weatem
North Carolina, and ia to be convert
ed Into a atock farm for raising pure
'■red cattle, aheep. hog* and pnaalhly
horaaa. Mr. Chatham haa ae cared as
maaagar for Klondike Fan* Ban ha
Pynm, an eapart stock breeder, and
'or the past several yaars aaeerintad
>n a almilar aapaclty with Leonard
Tufts at Phi i hiss at.
to the fart
f—ty
tkt put lint r«n in Uiia State bat
fail to declare to (Mr
they art boUiaf up
rotects all aMka.
Another aid to tbs promt lira ay
of new rwlwii is found by the
wewher cnnuiri ta the unqualified
statement of the tobacco association's
directors that no penalties will be
deducted from deliveries of the IW
crop to meet claims or dawaK far
the failure of maathers to daiisic to
bacco to the association dorinf paat
teasoas. (
The campaign of economy by which
the tobacco aaaoctatioa ia curtsling
expenses by several hundred
dollars in ruttmr down the
of employes and warehouses will eli
minate comparatively few of ita re
re inn* points in Sooth Carolina dur
ing the cotninir season. It is definite
ly known that the following co-op
erative warehouses will be open far
the season on Auguat 4: Andrews,
Ouuibnura. Conway, Darlington, DO
Ion, Fairbluff. Fairmont. H-mm*
way, Johnaonvilie, Kinstree. Lake
City, Lamar. Lnris. Lynchburg, Mar
ion, Nichols. Olanta, Pamlico, Ban»
tcr, Summervilie. Tabor. Timaiiw
viile. Whitevilie, Clarkton, Manning,
Florence, Mullins and Lumbarton.
Guilford Farmer. Want L*gia
Grvensboro, July 12.—A special
WMion of t*w legislature is desired
by Guilford pmpk in order to ham
'he country game law repealed, pro
vided the county commissioners will
not declare it must not be enforced.
Meeting hfff Saturday, 18 man,
two from aarh town*kip, wppriiw
'ation of more than 1,000 who Bat hi
a nuui meeting a wrek ace, asked the
rommiasioners not to enforce the law,
end in the event the commissioners
are not able to order it a dead letter
to petition Governor McLean to call
a special eeaaion in order to repeal K.
The law, passed at the last janlaa
of the general assembly, waa strictly
"local legislation." and the lenm,
practically all of whom are oppoaed
to it, datm that it was paaaed while
Sey were aot looking. for the bene
fit of a few boaters, with
provisions working hardships m
Jury to their crop.
Piekl* Factory Oeet A Hash
I
Wilmington. My It.—The
factory opened • ttm week* age hi
the huildiftg. <A the old tJherty
vaH site, aow is pot
are of five ears
it is stated by C. W. Well.
Of the local plant af the J.
Me Company, if Oak I
» hub establish id the pUat hare la .
to take r w«»r#a -f *m
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