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! fact -to be seri.uisly considered K pressed in pounds of cotton.
by the leaders in Ireland. It nature lias returned them a leu
must make their responsibility tarly waire for their labor. Com
i seem preater than ever. Nor pared to the average year, their
' can they overlook the way in e'Torts have been futile and bar
'which Lloyd tleorire's gesture of j ren of result. And that circum-
conciliation with Ireland has sol- stance, as soon as it is definitely
jidified English sentiment behind known, stimulates business
S,UcriptkB $2.00 Year in Advance ! h; TLhis is "-eluctantly admit- everywhere as nothing has been
; It was strikingly shown in the. more, hven th? cotton producer
! last session of Parliament before himself who has old cotton on
Entered Second CIm Matter April 'adjourning to Oct. IS. The j hand may tind himself smiling
8, i9U, atthePogt Office t Roanoke ; Prime Minister made a hopeful because nature has frowned. The
Rapid, North Carolina, under Act of but cautious statement about the producer who has no old cotton
TELEPHONE 570
March 3, 1879.
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addressed to the Herald Publishing Co.
Persons wishing return of rnsa, must in
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All cards of thanks, resolutions of re
w in as a result oi me great au
versity suffered by theorop find
Irish negotiations. All parties
instantly rallied in approval and
surnort of his position. Mr. As-; himself in a more w holesome
quith pledged him the hearty i business environment that may
backing of the Liberals. Mr. reflect advantageously upon his
Thomas declared that the Labor I own affairs.
Partv was in full sympathy with , it w m trpmi-mlouslv imnres-
.,H.cttc ..etc. Lloyd George as regards his Irish I sive exhibit of commercial and
the rate of ten cents per line, cash i . ,
must accompany article in all case, ex- j Policy. In the Lords there were jndustria paradox; but one old
cept where customer baa a regular ac-, but two dissenting voices. The e;;son stands out with new clear
ount No insertions ma de f( r le-s j Marquis of Salisbury objected. , !n,ss If th" planting and mark-
! very much in the tone of The etjR; 0f tnt, cot,ton crop could be
' London Morning Post, to the ! intelligently controlled, the cot
Governnient's "eating dirt" by ' ton planter would steadily profit,
i negotiating with "rebels. " The j jnstoan 0f rarely protiting-New
! Earl ofSelborneaffirmed that the York Times.
'Government's Irish policy was
Tliev ianlit-d for IVte. anj found
Mm win-re t lie hore had tiiron hlin.
His hia.l had stm. W a tona and he
iini'.ni('lous.
l ong before the eiMing tb act
law were convicted. Then F' bar
cHtne the haiuly man shout the Mart
plai e. where his create't saaJotloo
seemed U he to enjoy the IotIoj Ul
plne of Rodney and hi frontlaf
hrlde.
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.ene:Oh !. il;i-'k v.-l.i..s .'f I ire
I'tll.f Ite'll.ilH.
than L'fi cents.
Friday, September 9, 1921
Attaboy, Cotton!
, . ,, . wholly irrational, but this only
Twenty cent cotton is another . Q
, , . , . . i gave the Lord Chancellor, in re
glad symptom of returning nor- , . . .
. ;, I ply, the opportunity to point out
ma y ' j how completely the two peers
i
mentioned were "maroonee
They had no followers in Parlia
ment and none outside it.
There appears to be no doubt
that the latest reply of the Irish
leaders to Lloyd George is an ac
ceptance of his invitation to
further personal conferences.
That way lies at present the chief
hope of settlement. Across a
table, in private, negotiators are
not so apt to insist upon phrases
as they are when speaking in
; public. They can the more readi-
ly renounce the shadow in order
m. n.i ;i,-o 1 to eain the substance. Withsen-
West Virginia evidently feels
herself unequal to keeping the
Irish pace.
We've heard of Winter linger
ing in the lap of Spring but this
thing of Summer's crowding her
self into Fall's is the limit.
The postponement of the open
ing of the schools for a week
has been attended with little re
gret in the small boy circles.
Ruth Outwits a
Bandit Gang
By JOHN RENW1CK
Benjamin Franklin Versatile.
A la rue past of Benjamin Franklin 'a
repute. In the mind of the lijmu, li
flue to the fact that he received a had
nWk from a key at the end of a kits,
and found out that liirlitnlnt; nd flee
trh 'ty had s.uiirtlniii: In ri.:rinn. Al
a matter of fact, he Invunted tlia
harmonica, ml viva ted iiuvli?,! savins',
and heide his numerous acVevenwits
as a philosopher, puhlh Nt iil rn;r'-'''.
was the first to use III focal '.Ma.es. Hsj
had weak fje. and Invert it.tsu for
his uo at first; -hey Tare so
, s.ful that they soon teeunt
popular.
"Bravest Man on
the Force"
By FREDERICK CLARKE
have one consolation that is far
from intangible-they are able
to see what a pay envelope looks
like again.
In other words the League of
nations figure that they will let
us play or not as pleases our
fancy, but they won't let us top
the game.
tinient in Ireland itself now
what it is, and with the feeling
of a watching world what it is
known to be, the statesmen in
volved must be aware in advance
that they will be thought both
stupid and criminal it they do
not come to an agrement. New
York Times.
The increasingly frequent re
currence of deaths at grade
crossings would suggest the sub
stitution of the old stop, look and
listen sign with the skull and
cross bones symbol.
The Supreme Council of the
League of Nations is in session
again at Geneva causing quite
likely considerable pained sur
prise among those Republican
leaders who pronounced its de
mise months ago.
If the striking Raleigh printers
are not heckling the men who've
taken their jobs, why do they
object so seriously to an injunc
tion restraining them from the
exercise of a procedure which
they vehemently deny having
adopted.
THE PARADOX OF COTTON
Littleton is contemplating
bond issues aggregating 3140,
000.00, for the installation of
waterworks, sewerage, paved
streets and sidewalks and im
provements of the electric light
plant. Incidentally this com
munity is the largest in the State
of North Carolina that can boast
neither water-works nor sewerage.-
We lead in many things,
but we lag badly there.
A bull week on the New York
stock market "decidedly a bull
week." Many thousands of
business men read and study
closely the market review, sum
mary and speculation which ap
pears regularly every Monday in
the Daily News. It has been
months since that summary car
ried anything like as clear, de
finite declarations, either favor
able or unfavorable, as contained
in the story of yesterday.
Cotton market phenomena have
influenced the whole business
structure profoundly. Evidently
business itself has been uncon
scious of the power of the world
currents of cotton prices. The
combination of forces throughout
the continents suddenly create a
demand for cotton, and business
. .. . . ,r . "Well, I overheard two half-hreeds
reacts at once to the tonic effect, j ,Wn on , Tnvlr pln,e tMng enrly
there Will now "he Witnessed a I this moi-ninn, planning to Join two
Conflict Of forces peculiar to the ",h"r h,,(1 'hara.-ters. hide het ween
, . .. . here anil the railroad, and hold tin
cotton market itself, to the peo- ,;, slap, rl(.1(,h .,
pie of the region where cotton IS In a moment Ruth became alarmed,
produced. Vast quantities of it , within a quarter of an hour she and
are in storage, in the hands of
t. i-j-I. WVslfin NwjHapiT I'ni.'n )
"You had hotter 't out of here, If
J nil iloii't ant trouble."
"I've Lot something to tell you. If
you ilon'i unlit trouble yourself, you
had holler listen to me."
"What! Threatening ine, are yon?
Yninose, ,,r I'll quicken tip 'hat iIor
trot habit of yours considerably. Hit!"
and Martin I'.ajne made a run for Hie
doorstep where his ritle lay.
With a dejected air, hut unite
sprightly, ragged, limping Coyote I'ete
hastened his steps from off the ltayue
domain, lie had disappeared by the
time its proprietor turned around
ready to carry out his threat.
"Why. father, wasn't that rather
rude';" inquired his daughter. Until,
stepping through the doorway. She
w as preti v as a picture.
"Kudo!" repealed the ranchman
carelessly. "It's the only way to treat
such cattle as that. There Isn't a
worse loafer on the range. He's been
wire-cutter, raider, and Is a beggar
when he isn't on the verge of the ih
lirium tremens. It's all your fault,
his coming here. Y'ou encourage him
by giving liim a snack whenever he
takes the fancy to wander by. and now
he's making a regular station of It.
I'll be back before midnight. Kxpeet
your company about dark, don't you?"
"I think so; I hope so," replied
Ruth.
Before the evening was over she ex
peeled to welcome her lover, Rodney
Morse.
It nust have been half an hour later
when there eiiine a timid tap at the
door. Coyote I'ete, his threadbare cap
In his hand, stood on the step In an
humble attitude.
"Why, won't you cnnip In?" asked
Rulh In her usual cheerful, generous
way. "Y'ou look tired, and perhaps
hungry?" she Insinuated gently.
"Not this time. Miss," replied I'ete.
"You see your father don't welcome
me very heartily, and I don't wont to
Intrude. Rut you're the only critter
on the range ever takes time to give
me a bile when I need It, and I wanted
to do you folks a Rood turn, Your
father wouldn't listen to me after I'd
tramped twenty miles to give you
warning."
"A warning?" repeated Ruth vaguely.
"I understand your young man and
some friends are coming through on
the stage this evening."
"Why yes." replied Ruth slowly.
SENTIMENT ABOUT IRELAND
In the frank and weighty let
ter which General Smuts sent to
Mr. De VaWa before sailing for
South Africa he warned the Irish
leader that rejection of the Brit
ish offers would at once cut off
from Ireland the sympathy of
the outside world. Similar mes
sages have gone to Dublin from
Australia. It is well known that
the most influential Irish-Americans
have been writing and cab
ling De Valera to the same ef
fect The dispatches of opposite
tenor sent by the Irish remnant
here, now represented by Judge
Cohaan and John Devoy, only
served to emphasize the virtual
unanimity df feeling among the
sons and friends of Ireland in
the United States.
The whole is striking evidence
of what a great part public sen
timent plays in affairs of govern
ment This demonstrated solida
rity of opinion outside Ireland is
a fact perhaps the biggest!
large holders and small holders.
The cotton country banker now
comes in as an active factor. He
will counsel liquidation, and he is
the doctor. Will this tend to glut
the market and strangle the in
fant bull, or calf, movement?
Against the counsel of the
banker, against the circumstance
that many people own what was
once 40 cent cotton who also owe
money, and whose debts must be
liquidated before merchants can
realize on credits, must be placed
the stabilizing influence of cotton
owner psychology. Your cotton
holder is, under such conditions
as have developed in the past
month, a bull of the bulls. Has
he been holding his stock for 20
cents? He believes now that it
will go to 25 or 30, and is more
than likely to fix his selling point
above 20 cent. If he owes money,
he will yield to pressure to sell.
If he can at all manage to do so,
he will pursue a policy of optim
istic watchful waiting.
The smallest crop produced in
30 years. That means that thou
sands 'of men who have spent the
summer sweating in the cotton
fields have worked against cli
matic and other conditions of al
most unprecedented malignity.
I'ete hud arranged to outwit the ban
ilits. lie had been gone two hours
w hen the horse he had gone away with
came back riderless.
Instantly Ruth buckled a belt about
her slender waist, sprang to the saddle
and whs sonn on the trail. Ruth had
gone about twenty miles when at a
bend In the road she drew rein
promptly near some high hushes.
A flicker of light, like that of a
mulch, suddenly flaring in nulling some
heavy timbers Bhead, had attracted
her. attention. Ruth tied the horse
and began a detour of the vicinity.
Within five minutes, true danghler
of the frontier that te , she un
derstood the situation completely. She
had viewed four men smoking and re
clining in a natural hide-out. It
accmed that during some recent storm
a large tree had been bent over aud
hnlf uprooted by the force of the
wind.
Ruth crept cautiously around to the
spot where the top of the tree was
cnught. Her experienced eye told her
that this, once released, would shoot
buck to its original position with cat
apult force." For nearly an hour she
hacked and clipped.
Ii-rlp snap crash! I.Ike a strick
en giant rising from the dust, the.
great tree at last tore from Its fet
ters. There were shouts of dismay
and frantic yells of pain as the roots
sank hack Into place, shutting the
bnflled plotters into a prison.
Ruth ran out Into the road. The
stage coach came to a stop. Her
lover sprang out, and Ruth was aAt
closed In his loving arms. I
It did not take long for Ruth to ex
plain. Crushed and subdued, the out
laws were dragged out and secured.
Rtfjl had saved the passengers lDjury
and her lover the little fortia.e he ctir-
rid-srltiLfeim,
l. I9t, Wtra Nw Mf'tper I nlun )
The chief had sent for John HarrU
yan. .lohn knew why he was sum
moned, lie left the lire station under
the disapproving looks of his com
panions. Nobody spoke to him; thai
was far harder than if they had re
proached him. Reproaches are forgot
ten, but they had gion him the silence.
The old chief turned round at his
desk.
"Sit down, llarrigau," he said, glar
ing at him under his bushy eyebrows.
There was a tense silence, llarrigau
at upon the edge of his chair, linger
ing his cap.
"What's Ibis I hear about your be
ing a coward, John?" asked the chief,
jet so mildly that llarrigau took
courage to glance up at him.
"They say," said liethiiny mildly,
"that at the tire in YVinpolo street
last night yon hung back instead of
going up the ladder."
"Yes, sir," said .lohn and began
stammering out his excuses. It was
his tiist big tire, and the sight of
that Ihiming hell hud pnrahzed bis
limbs, although his heart was bruve
enough. He had only wanted some
one to lead him, some word of en
couragement to do heroic deeds. Rut
alone, he could not take the Initiative.
"John llarrigau," said Ilelhany.
"I've hovn on the force for seven and
thirty years. When I was a young
ster I was a coward. At my tirst tire
I hung back. Reci.use of that a wom
an died. I've never told anyone hut
you, H.irngan, because I've never met
another coward but you. .lohn," he
continued, "go hack to your company
and act like a man."
The liremen received (lie news of
his reinstatement badly.
llarrigau could endure their slloiii'e.
He knew ihat if only his chance
came, he could redeem himself. Hut
Mary Connor, his sweetheart, was
told of the affair by a rival. She
wrote him a curt little note of dis
missal. "I don't want to marry a
coward," she said. Soon he heard that
she was engaged to another.
And his chance never came. That
was the crown of his tragedy. He
was put on detail work, set to copy
ing documents in the sub-chief's office.
He was never allowed out again.
One day he walked into Ilethany's
office.
"Chief," he said, "I haven't hud my
chance. 1 have been doing a clerk's
job. Cive me my chance to show
that I'm a man."
Helhany looked at him, looked un
der his beetling eyebrows clear into
his heart.
"You'll have your chance now. Re
port hack for duty."
l-'or a whole year he had seen noth
ing of Mary. Somebody told him
that she was married.
1 1 rs chance did cuine, about three
months after his tiilk with Retlmny.
It was a little fire at tirst, but It
spread swiftly, and by the time thai
the call came to his company, from
the other end of the town, a whole
block of tenement buildings was
ablaze.
The hose was playing upon the ftre;
It might us well have been a child's
sciiiirtgun for all the effect it had.
Above him far above he saw white
faces of women at the windows. He
heard their cries faintly in his ears.
A ladder was being raised, llarri
gau sprang forward and begun to as
cend. He heard shouts beneath him.
The captain was ordering him down.
This was not for him ; he was a cow
ard and this was no coward's work.
He swung from the ladder to the
narrow coping, just out of the reach
of the flames. He did not dare look
down. Above him only one story
above, he saw those women's faces.
Even as he looked two disappeared.
They hud run back into the room,
seeking madly for an outlet. One, Im
mediately above, looked down. He
choked. It was Mary.
Now he had no more fear. In an
other moment he wus on the ledge by
Mary's side. He clasped her In his
arms.
They clung together on the ledge,
fire over and under them, one min
ute of life remained.
"Mary my love!" he whispered,
pressing his lips to her cold cheek.
She opened her ys. "John!" sh-i
answered, smiling.
"Y'ou are married, dearl"
"No, John. I was waiting," she
answered.
"For me?" he cried.
"To show that you were a man,
John. And you have shown me."
Shouts came to him. The men were
bracing ladders. An elongated snake
of wood crawled up the side of the
wall. The fieri tongues beneath wtre
quenched. John felt for the ladder
top with his feet and found It. He
placed his feet upon the topmost
rung, supposing Mary In his arms,
and fainted Id the arms of the man
who had climbed ta save him.
"Well dene, John Harrlgan," a
Tolce was rounnurinj far away. II
llatenea In amtaemenl. -AVhat was
Drew " Inference.
e ,.tvi! heard." -aid Mrs. lWon,
"that tl'eie Mi'i any n in litera
ture ai.d now I'm . onvmc d of it."
"l!or iiei'iliisMhe caller.
t r ' charlex never eem to
h.ve a,..,-,.. " "'
with the-.- ceu who make 1 ks.
New England True to Trad.tion. ,
A Red public health I
,..,, j New Hampshire, reports that '
,he i,d.,. M it. .he Red cr. cour.o J
of instruct in ""'"'"'' l'"" i
Oire of tic Sok" in her ,
i 1 1, v i;nre travels
unprecedented. ' " v ' !
pu.r considerable ar, a the ciin ,
being a lar-c .-i.e. Hcladmg eight .
tow lis.
It is the consensus ol opinion a. ....
New 1 ! -..'. I division I .1 u''"s
that In tlos county, at l-a-t. f"'
ture of the .Miieri.an ';"l '
assured because of the W -'ll'','
, 1 .l..,... these hisses New
Kngland stfjl Mcs p to Her ua-l !"'
j f recognizing and -1 ""'
that education can give U-'d ,""
Magazine.
Financial D.agos..
, the doctor know what you
had'"
He seemed to have a pM'y 'v"
rate Idea. He a-ke. for sl' "d
had $11."- Roston Transcript.
Faulty Bookketpmg.
She Yen interest me si ran -civ as
no man e-er has before.
He--.u sprang that "l; la8t
night.
vsiov (ih. was thi.t you?
Trett Loaded W.th Fru t.
Trees loaded with fruit are honl
down : the clouds vv lien . hai-ed ..It
fresh mm hang down near the ear'h;
cv.n so good men are not upl.t'ed
tl.toii-h pro-pel ity. Sin h is the n-it-
Smclhng Salts.
N oel'.nj - i s , he I . !' b
fti.; a f.-.v !ii...ps ;. o-'.imo
hoi te ill a ho! lie lll.d ...vel.l,g
wi-li od f !.,v, 1, h r. The . o-t. a.
in:: to I 'i.enu.e!:'al S. 1.11. e. is
u::il ihara.fT 'f t li'-ertil.-Th-ir- i s':.!,t. ml il .r...lu t is as go
trihat'i. j sou,.. .. the pio.oM now on stile
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