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Not merely for the purpose of giving Credit where credit is due, but for the purpose of stimulating other states to nut for the same kind of energy and bread vision which. have wrought such marvels in that state, we would empha sise some facts presented in the Char lotte Observer ns to what North Caro lina is doing. Two weeks ago we told the story of a $4,000,000 enterprise to build a great resort hotel and carry out kindred activities in Western Carolina. A few weeks before we told of the or ganisation of Western North Carolina,' Inc., to snend s'io,ooo a year on a five year publicity campaign with many other special features involved in its work. So fundamentally sound is the proposition that it has been able to se cure as president to give his. entire time to the work, Mr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, 1 one of the foremost geologists and high way builders in the whole South. The Ford Motor Company is planning to build its biggest Southern automobile assembling plant at Charlotte, which is merely an indication of how activity be gets activity, and how enterprise and en thusiastic work at home draw men and money from elsewhere. But the story in the Charlotte Ob-. server indicating some of the evidences of the educational progress of the state gives facts which we even more sug gestive of what is being done in North Carolina fhan aye the figures of ma terial progress. These facts are: “In 1900 expenditures for education in North Caroline amounted to less than a million dollars. ‘ In 1923 the expendi tures total $23,000,000. an Increase of more than 2flßper cent. The increase' , w*'iSLm *r jsj f«o 2A.X™ p" SnSmSffi®* FIRE-TONGUE BY SAX ROHMER LUSTRATEA BY R.W. SATTERFIELD. BEGIN HERE TODAY Sir Charles Abingdon engages Paul Harley, criminal Investigator, to find out why Sir Charles Is kept under surveillance by persons un known to him. Harley dines at the = Abingdon home. Sir Charles falls from his chair In a dying state. Abingdon’s last words are “NICoI Brlnn” and "Fire-Tongue.” Dr. McMurdoch pronounces death due to heart-failure. Harley claims Sir Charles was poisoned and calls on Nlcol Brinn to ask him the mean ing of “Fire-Tongue.” Brian ad mits th%t he learned Its meaning In India but refuses to divulge the secret. Paul investigates the life of Ormps Khan, very wealthy Oriental, with whom Phil Abingdon, daughter of Sir Charles, Is friendly. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "And outside mine,” declared the Inspector. “He hasn’t the most dis tant connection with anything crooked. It gave me a lot of trouble to And out what little I have found out. Briefly, all I have to tell you I is this? Ormuz Khun—who Is ap parently entitled to be addressed as ’his excellency’—ls a director of the Imperial Bank of Iran, and is asso ciated, too, with one of the Ottoman banks. I presume his nationality is Persian, but I can’t be sure of it. He periodically turns up in the va rious big capitals when international loans and that sort of thing are being negotiated. I understand that he has a flat somewhere in Paris, and the Service de Surete tells me that his name is good for several million francs over there. He ap pears to have a certain fondness for London during the spring and early summer months, and I am told he has a fine place in Surrey. He is at present living at Savoy Court." CHAPTER X His Excellency Ormuz Khan rTYHE city clocks were chiming the |J, hour of ten on the following L mortiing when a page from the Savoy approached the shop of Mr. Jarvis, bootmaker, which is situated at no great distance from the hotel. The Impudent face of the small boy wore an expression of serio-comic fright as he pushed open the door and entered the shop. Jarvis, the bootmaker, belonged to a rapidly disappearing class of British tradesmen. He truckled to no one, but took an artl9tlc pride In his o n handiwork, criticism from a layman merely provoking a scorn ful anger which had lost Jarvis many good customers. "Tea, sir,” Jarvis was saying to a patron, “it’s a welcome sight to sea 'a real Englishman? walk into my shop nowadays. London isn’t I London, sir, since the war, and the Strand will never be the Strand again.’’ He turned to his assistant, who stood beside him, bootjack in hand. “If he sends them back agajn,” he directed, “tell him to go to one of the French Arms in Regent 1 Street who cater to dainty ladies.” He positively snorted with indigna tion, while the page, listening, 1 whistled and looked down at the parcel which he carried. “An unwelcome customer, Jar | vis?” Inquired the voice of the man | in the fitting room. “Quite unwelcome,” said Jarvis. “I don't want him. I have more work than I know how to turn out. I wish he would go elsewhere. I wish—” He paused. He had seen the page hoy. The latter, having undone his parcel, was holding out a pair of elegant, fawn-colored shoes. “Great Moses!” breathed Jarvis. “He’s had the cheek to send them g back again!” g “His excellency—” began the page, 1 when Jarvis snatched the shoes from 3 his hand and hurled them to the ! other end of the shop. His white g beard positively bristled. B So positively ferocious was his 1 aspect that the boy. with upraised B arm, backed hastily out into the than a million dollars; in 1022 it was more ■thnn fifteen ami a half millions. “In 190 Q the value of school property in the state was slightly over a mil lion ; in 1022 it was more than $34,- 000.000. “In 1000 the average value of each schoolbouse was $150; in 1922 it was more than $45,000. “In 1000 the average monthly salary of enchers was less than $25: in 1022 it was more than $lO2, for white teach ers, while> the ealaries of colored tteaoh ers increased more than 300 per cent. “In 1000 there were 1100 log school houses in the state; in 1020 only 71. “In 1000, the average length of public school tetrm in the state was 73 days; it has been lengthened to 141 days. ' “In 1900, the total eligible school pop ulation was 657.943; it haß increased to 889.406, “The number of persona attending school almost doubled from 1900 to 1920. “In 1900, the enrollment In the schools was 60 per cent, of the total eligible school population; it had increased to .85 per cent, in 1922. I “In 1900, North Carolina had about •30 high schools; in 1923 the number had increased to 475. “In 1900. the high school enrollment was about 2,000; in 1923 it had in creased to more than 48,000. “In 1900, there were no public rural libraries in the state; in 1923 there are more than 4,800, the number having doubled in the last 18 years. , 1900 - tlre ***** appropriated SB,OOO for permanent improvements at its educational institutions during a two-yearj*riod; tie legislature of 1923 aTerioTof two yrarTTorTthT £ 000,000, on top Os a similar amount preprinted by the legislature of, 102 L street. Safety won: “Blimey!” ex i claimed the youth. “He’s the warm . goods, be la!” He paused for several moments. - staring in a kind of stupefied ad ) miration at the closed door of Mr. j Jarvis’ establishment. He Whistled again, softly, and then began to run 1 —for the formidable Mr. Jarvis sud- J denly opened the door. “HI, boy!” . he called to the page. The page heal ■ tated, glancing back doubtfully. | “Tell his excellency that 1 will send round ta about half an hour to re ! measure his foot.” The boy departed, grinning, and a little more than half an hour later a respectable-looking man presented himself at Savoy Court, inquiring ’ of the attendant near the elevator ' tor the apartments fit “his excel ’ lency,” followed by an unintelligible ; word which presumably represented ; “Ormuz Khan.” The visitor wore a well-brushed but threadbare tweed suit, although his soft collar was by 1 no means clean. He had a short, 1 reddish-brown beard, and very thick, curling hair of the same hue pro truded from beneath a bowler hat 1 which had seen long service. Like Mr. Jarvis, he wps bespec- A PRETTY GIRL WAS MANI CURING HIS EXCELLENCY’S NAILS. tacled, and his teeth were much dis colored and apparently broken In trout as is usual with cobblers. His hands, too, were toll-stained and his nails very black. He canted a card board box. He seemed to be ex-, tremely nervous, and this nervous ness palpably increased when the impudent page, who was standing in the lobby, giggled on hearing bis In quiry. , “Shut up, Chivers,” snapped the 1 hall porter. "Ring the bell.” He' glanced at the cobbler. “Second floor,” he said, tersely, and resumed his study of a newspaper which be bad been reading. , The representative of Mr. Jarvis was carried up to the second floor and the lift man, having Indicated at which door he should knock, de scended again. There was a short interval, and then the door was opened by a man who looked like a Hindu. He wore correct morning dress and through gold-rimmed pince-nez he stared In quiringly at the caller.- “Is his excellency at homer’ asked the latter. “I’m from Mr. Jarvis, the bootmaker.” “Ob!” said the other, smiling slightly. “Come in. What is your name?” “Parker, sir. From Mr. Jarvis.” As the door closed. Parker found himself lit a small lobby. Beside an umbrella rack a high-backed chair was .placed. “Sit down,” he was di rected. "I will tell his excellency that you are here.” A door was opened and closed propriation for the same period and pur poses Was $3,496,750. , “In 1000 the percentage of illiteracy in North Carolina was 20.4. It had been reduced in 1920 to 13.1, the per centage of tne white race being 7.2” Commenting on what it calls the amaz i ing educational progress during the pe riod of 23 years. The Observer says that “in some respects the progress of the last three years has been greater than that of all the previous twenty years combined,” and we venture the assertion that the progress of the future,will far exceed the progress already iuade. But in addition to this wonderful ed ucational progress The Observer might have turned, to the Blue Book of South ern Progress and found indications of the Remarkable advance in material ' things. In 1900 the capital invested in manu : faeturing in North Carolina was S6B,- j i 288.000. In 1920 it was $669,144,000.1 In 1000 the value of the manufactur-. ed products of North Carolina was $85,-1 ■ 274.000, and in 1920 the total was $943,- 1 808,000. „ In 1000 North Carolina cotton mills | used 190,000,000 pounds of cotton; in 1 1920 they consumed 449,000,000. In 1900 North Carolina produced 29,- 790,000 bushels of corn. In 1920 It produced 54,630,000 bushels. Perhaps no more striking illustration cf the material progress of the state could be given than a contrast of the i figures of its hanks and their resources, and deposits. \ , In 1900 the total resources of the na tional Banks of North Carolina was $15,- 362.000. In 1920 ft was $181,818,000. In 1900 the total deposits In national 1920 H Bte b '*£l»TO6Mo’ 7o0 ’ 000, Friday, December 2&, 1423 again, and Parker found himself alone. He twirled his bowler bat, which he held In his hand, and stared about the place vacantly. Once he began to whistle, but checked him* self and coughed nervously. Finally the Hindu gentleman reappeared, beckoning to him to enter. Parker stood up very quickly, and advanced, hat In bond. Crossing the room, the Hindu ' rapped upon an Inner door, opened it, and standing aside, “The man from the bootmaker,” he said, in a low voice. Parker advanced, peering about nira as ode unfamiliar with his sur rounding®. As he crossed the threshold the door was closed behind him, and he found himself In a superheated atmosphere heavy, with the perfume of hyacinths. He stood dumbly before a man who lolled back in a deep, cushioned chair and whose almond-shaped eyes, black as night, were set Immovably upon him. This man was appa rently young. He wore a rich, bro caded robe, trimmed with marten fur, and out of it his long ivory throat rose statuesquely. His com plexion was likewise of this uniform ivory color, and from his low smooth brow his hair was brushed hack In a series of glossy black waves. One long, slender hand lay upon a cushion placed on the chair inn, and a pretty girl was busily engaged In manicuring bis excellency’s nulla, Although the day held every promise of being uncomfortably hot, already a huge fire was burning to the grate. As Parker stood before him, the t languid, handsome Oriental did not stir a muscle, merely keeping the gaze of his strange, ptack eyed fixed ! upon the nervocs cobbler. The manicurist, after r.ne quick upward J glance, continued her work. But in ' this moment of detraction she bad hurt the ciltlcle of one of those deli* i, cate, slender fingers. Ormuz Khan withdrew his hand ) sharply from the cushion, glanced aside at the girl, and then, extending j his hand again, pashed her away from him. Because of her half. ' kneeling posture, Bhe almost fell, but 1 managed to recover herself by l clutching at the edge of a little table ! upon which the implements of her trade were spread. The table rocked and a bowl of water fell crashing on the carpet. His excellency spoka His voice was very musical. “Clumsy fool,” he said. “You have - hurt me. Go.” Parker fumbllngly began to re* move the lid of the cardboard box which he had brought with Mm. “I do not wish you to alter the shoes you have made,” said his ex cellency. “I instructed you to re* measure my foot in order that you « might moke a pair to fit" “Yes, sir.” said Parker. “Quite so, your excellency.” And he dropped the box and the shoes upon the floor. “just « .moment, sirT” From'kb'inner pocket he drew out i a large sheet of white paper, & pen cil. and a tape measure. “Will you place your foot upon this sheet Os paper, sir?” Dropping upon one knee, Parker removed the furred slipper from a slender, arched foot, bore, of the delicate color of Ivory, and as «nwii as a woman’s. , “Now, sir.” The ivory foot was placed upon ' the sheet of paper, and very clumsily Parker drew Its outline. He then took certain measurements and m»<V a number of notes with a stub of thick pencil. Whenever his none too clean hands touched Ormus Khan's ' delicate skin the Oriental perceptibly shuddered. Parker replaced paper, pencil, measure, and, packing up the re jected shoes, made for the door. “Oh, bootmaker!" came the musi cal voice. Parker turned. "Yes, sir?” v “They will be ready by Monday?” “If possible, your excellency.” “Otherwise. I shall not accept them.” In the outer room the courteous secretary awaited Parker, and there was apparently no one else In the place, for the Hindu conducted hhn to the lobby and opened the door. (Continued in Our Next Issue) mmammmmmmmmmammmrnmmm i be bodily transferred to any other state in the South, and the population of that state lifted over and dropped into North Caroling so as to five the Nortth Car olinians a full sweep, «'ie same marvel ous results would be accomplished. The North Carolina'people would turn a desert into a garden. They would dare to spend money for education and for other things because thtey have learen by experience that the expenditure of money for material and ■ educational progress is the wisest investment that a state can make. I Homs-Grown Orange Blossom. At a wedding at Bnildpn, near Brad ford, England, the orange blossom car ried by the bride, and worn on her gown was taken from a tree reared at her home from a pip of the first orange ■ eaten by her as a child. I _ I v Had an Engagement I Little Billy Is attending ktndergar- ( ; ten. As he was bidding me a loving I farewell he said, “Mother, I will be late coming home. I have to Uck a ’ fella." i r Hypnotism Long Practiced. Hypnotism has been known and practiced for ages, but the word hyp i notlsm was originated by Dr. James Braid of England, who gave public ex hibitions 1841. -v •pert and Ferocity. 'When a man wants to murder a ■ ll ■ 1 > • •• • ———
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