LENOIR, N. C.
LENOIR NEWSTOPIC, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1920
Page Three "
THE GARDEN LADY'S STORIES
(Written for tit United State School v Army Garden, Bureau of
. Education, Department of the Interior.)
THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF A RAINDROP
By Ethel Allen Murphy
The Garden Lady, Nancy, Jane voices chanting to a music that was
and Tommy Thoughtful had run up like the tinkling of little guitars or
on the back porch to get away from ukeleles
a sudden thunder shower that drove
them in from the garden. They sat Between the rain and the rainbow
looking out on the fresh greenness A magic secret lies
that began to sparkle with rubies
and diamonds under the beams of
late sunlight that broke through the
clouds.
"I heard a very pretty story last
summer in the Golden Girl's Gar-;
den," said the Garden Lady, "and
this rain reminds me of it." j
"Oh, please tell us!" cried Jane I
and the other United States School 1
Garden Army soldiers who clustered .
about the Garden Lady. j
"One late afternoon, just after a '
rainstorm, I was walking down the ,
grass path in the Golden Girl's Gar- j
den. I didn't mind getting my shoes
wet, for they are shoes that nothing '
hurts, and I do love the garden after
a rain. The sun had come out alter i
a good, long, not-too-hard rain, and
every flower and leaf was hung with
little rainbows. The grape arbor
looked as if it were especially grate
ful for the nice, soaking rain, and I
remember thinking how fine it was
that the rain had come, because if
the thirsty grapes had not gotten a
good drink just then I am afraid
there wouldn t have been any nice, drops.
quivering grape jelly, with its deli-1 " 'indeed, so many adventures
cious flavor and lovely purple lights nave , had that , can not remember
And, of course, everyone knows that when they beKan but part of tnem
there is nothing nicer than grape I conle back to me n0W) as i look int0
jelly on a bread-and-butter sandwich., your eyes Garden LadV( and what j
in the winter. .remember 1 will tell you if you will
"But how would the drouht have lt,nd me words You see a raindrop
ii m i yie BiP u muc wuuiu nut
iirtvrr ucc u any jciij , asncu i vuiutj j
inougntiui, wno, Deing a Doy, oian c
know as much as Nancy and Jane
about jelly making.
"Why," answered the Garden
T.adv. "ipIIv is made from fruit
juices that has acid and pectin in it. " 'I let myself shp from the blue
It is the pectin in the fruit juice, cradle into the other one, and found
which, when it is cooked with sugar myself in a little hollow pake among
and acid, gives, after cooling, just racks. about which fringy green
the right consistency to jelly." And things and bright nodding bluebells
the Garden Lady smiled mischievous- Krew- It was from a bluebell cradle
ly as she used the big word "con-sis-. that I haJ slipped int othe other blue
ten-cy," and added, "It is a great cradle in tothe hollow. There I
disappointment when. the jelly does foun(i many more like myself, all
not 'jell.' i shining and floating about. But
"You see, Tommv, when there is a darkness dropped down on us, and
drought it keeps the plant from stor- out of the darkness came a great
ing up the pectin in its fruits. And spluttering and splashing, as hun
no pectin, no jelly! But I started to dreds of little fairy creatures dressed
tell you about the story I heard. in s!ver leaped in among us, spread-
"I found myself looking down at a
golden squash bloom, which .had
very, very bright raindrop just hang
ing uii us tjue.
"Suddenly I heard the deep, mel-
low voice of my old friend "the Gal
lant Scarecrow. The Golden Girl
calls . him the Garden's Guardian
Knight. It seemed to me that he
had leaned over his pansy bed to call
me softly.
" 'The Speaking Hour has come.
Listen, Garden Lady!' he said.
"Then I heard millions of silvery
SENATOR WILLIAMS SCORES
DEFEAT OF THE TREATY
Declaration by United States Sen
atpr John Sharp Williams of Missis
sippi that defeat of the league of
nations "more than anything in my
life made me come nearer doubting
the cause of democracy, somtimes
almost in the providence of God
himself," enlivened a joint session of
the legislature in Jackson last Friday.
Senator Williams in his address said:
am just from Washington,
where I have listened ad nauseum to
the mso tconfused gabfest in the his
tory of the world since the maker
created it. I do not see how any
man who loves his country can look
with unconcern on what has just oc
curred. But the trouble is we don't
seem to know what we want to do
while the continent of Europe is in
chaos.
"There was a chance for the Unit
ed States to stand at the head of a
council of nations of the world; to
lead the universe in the pathways of
peace. The opportunity was rejected
and future historians will refer to the
last two years as the time of the
great conspiracy; that the history
will be discreditable to some, espe
cially in the American Congress.
America went to war not because it
wanted to, but because it was a ne
cessity. We preached to our boys at
home and in France that this war was
being fought that wars might be no
more. We looked on the suffering of
Belgium and Serbia and resolved
what we would do when it was over.
Then it finally was over and we have
done nothing. So far as we are
concerned it appears we are willing
to go back to 1914 before it all be-'
gan. The long-winded arguments in
the Senate were like fiddling as Rome i
burned; talking with the world in
chaos. Do you blame me for saying
that I would rather be a dog and
bay the moon than to spend one min
ute in the Senate after the expiration
of my term of office?
"The great conspiracy commenced
u when the President went to Ver
' sailles, and every time news came
from Versailles that the President
advocatd or opposed something ' the
consiprators opposed his plans. I call
them that because that is what they
are, no matter how high their station.
"Senator Lodge is the head of the
poison squad, and after the treaty
had been emasculated with reserva
tions that no Democrat could accept
he sought to blame the party for its
rejection. .
"Has any great institution founded
by our forefathers fallen down at the
time of stress and travail like the
Senate has fallen down?
"I believe there are now men glad
that the President is sick, perhaps
hope for his death. When McKinley
was shot down, when Garfield was
shot, was there a Democrat but ex
pressed sorrow? Has anyone seen
words of sympathy for the President
in any Republican paper! A great
man is sick, a great mind and a great
character, and they have whispered
'We've got him now.,
"Men sometimes disparage ideal
ists, but they are coarse-grained jack
asses who do so, and do it because
When the sun and the rain are meet
ing
Across the cloud skies.
Here in the heart of the Garden
A magic wonder wakes,
Hark to the voice of the raindrops
Before, the rainbow breaks!"
"Then out of the raindrop floated
an airy form. I can hardly tell you ;
anything about it, yet it seemed to
my inside eyes to be a very beauti- J
ful dream-figure, with deep blue eyes I
and soft floating hour that changed
every minute with gleaming lights
and rippling shadows, and its dress i
was soft and floated like mist full of
rainuow colors, me ngure seemea
to rise until it swayed gently just in
front of me, looking deep into my
eyes Then it began to speak in a
sweet, silvery voice like the voice of
a little brook in the quiet woods.
" 'This is the speaking hour, Gar
den Lady, as my friend, the Scare
crow, said, and I will tell you some
of the many adventures of the Rain
cannot speak in words.
'Out of a mist and darkness I
woke to find myself in a blue, blue
cradle that was swinging to and fro
I over what looked like another cadle
11 LI 1 - I
as ulue as uselI onlv preiuer.
out inngy sKiris as mey aancea
and skipped about. We all laughed
and took hold of hands just as the
raindrops did that fell in the shower
a ft'w minutes ago.
" 'Then suddenly were all joined
in one, yet separate, too, in a way;
and we went floating, flowing, out
and down down, crying out, sing
ing and laughing as we ran. We
were frightened a little, because we
didn't know where we were going.
And where do vou think we were go
ing Garden Lady?' "
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they arev coarse-grained, but the
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men's souls.
"If the Republicans elect the Pres
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do is to make explanations, but the
Democrats will enter the fight with
something definite. Let us do as St.
Paul said he had done: 'Fight the
gotod fight and keep the faith.' "
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12,068 IN GA;TONIA
The census bureau reports that
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population of 28,504, that being a
gain of 9,742, or 51.9 per cent, since
the census of 1910.
Gastonia is credited with 12,871,
an increase of 7,112, or 123.5 per
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BY RED CROSS CHAIRMAN
Henry P. Davison, chairman of the
League of Red Cross Societies,
sketched to a gathering of newspaper
correspondents a few days ago the
terrible conditions prevailing in cen
tral and eastern Europe.
"I have a telegram from Poland
today," said Mr. Davison, "telling me
there, are nearly 230,000 cases of ty
phus in that country itsefl. I think
one may say that for the most part
they are without anything like ade
quate attention. There is a lack of
doctors, of medical supplies and of
hospitals.
"A ship has just arrived at a Bal
tic part from Russia with 700 refu-
I gees, among them 15 generals and
many women. Numerous typhus
cases being aboard the ship, the ref
ugees were not allowed to land. They
had previously been refused permis
sion to disembark at other ports, and
three more ships similarly laden are
on the way. The Red Cross has been
trying to establish a 1,500-mile cor
don fro mthe Baltic to the Black sea
again pestilence. Further east this is
impossible with the present authority
and facilities of the Red Cross.
"In Montenegro four doctors are
trying to look after more than 420,
000 persons. Some countries, which
are quite rich and well to do, such as
Czechoslavakia, are in extreme want
of medical supplies. For them it is
no question of money, but of obtain
ing what they want and having it
transported.,
"The work of relief in central Eu
rope is of a magnitude too great for
the Red Cross league and must be
done by the aid of the allied govern
ments. If the governments will sup
ply the fundament.il elements food,
clothing and transport the Red
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the world for volunteer doctors and
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clothing and transport. That must
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The question is already being con-
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of nations. The letter of Arthur J.
Balfour, as president of the council,
appealing to the Red Cross league to
end the suffering of central and
eastern Europe, has been approved
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The score or more women, duly
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OF TURKISH PROBLEM
While the American mission under
Maj.-Gen. Harbord which investigat
ed conditions in the near east last
year did not recommend that the
United States accept a mandate over
the former Ottoman' empire, Gen.
Harbord in his report said some
power should accept a mandate as
the only solution of the Turkish
problem. j
Constantinople, he said, should be
included in the mandatory territory,
but he disapproved several mandato
ries for different portions of Turkey.
The much discussed report of the
mission was transmitted to the Sen
ate Saturday by President Wilson in
response to a second resolution of
request adopted several weeks ago
after the Senate had failed to hear
from the White House concerning its
first resolution adopted in Xoovem
ber. While estimates of the number of
troops required for a mandatory vary
from 25.000 to 200,000, Gen. Har
bord declared that in his judgment
59,000 would be needed for the first
year. The cost of the mandate was
estimated at $275,000,000 for the
first year, including $88,500,000 for
the army and navy, and $756,000,000
for the first five years.
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to
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after another application or two, your
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glossy,
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the result is kidney trouble, bladder
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