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MARRIED FOra ™® S ls E
Charlotte, June ID.—“Though her
yews were but a score and three, Rhe|
knows by heart from finish to stnif the
book of iniquity.”
When Robert W. Service wrote rthoee I
liars, he was in the wilds of the Yhikon,
but there was a prisoner in the !Char
lotte jail Thursday whose story, told be
tween sobs and jabs at tear-filled ' eyes,
might be summarised in these lines,
written of a wild woman of gold * rush,
days.
Twenty-three years of age and four
times married, twice divorced and once
divorcing and now the wife of a man 78
years of age—that is the ijnusunl
martial record of Rubie Wallacie. tiny
feminine bark on an ocean of woe, who
admits that “I am lucky to be alive,
after all my experiences.” I
la Given Prison Term.
Veteran of many police court hear
ings, this well-educated, mentally active
young woman faced Recorder Currie
and calmly pleaded her case Thursday
morning. After listening to her argu
ments. and eutreaties, the Citff Judge
imposed a sentence of from six to twelve
months in the Mecklenburg County
Hom'e for delinquent women, fixed her
bond at S2OO after he entered sin appeal,
and the officers led her away to a cell
in jail, when she was unafade to pro
duce the S2OO surety.
In the meantime, she is awaiting the
arrival from Columbia. S. of her
aged husband, “the kindest man in the
world.” F. P. Gibson, who telegraphed
hAr Wednesday night he would again
come to her rescue, reassured her of his
love and expressed his sorrow that she
is once more in the toils of tie law. Not
a chiding word was included in the mes
sage. replying to her telegram which ad
vised him she was arrested, charged
with stqaling a few articles from a room,
at a hotel here while in an. intoxicated
condition.
Tells of Lurid Career.
Lounging easily in her chair at police
headquarters, this young woman told
her story of a lurid c a rood extending
over a period of nine years, and it was
evident that her innocent nature now is
stratified by her wayward life. One
moment the good that remains within
her heart was reasserting ityself, as her
conversation indicated, and the next
moment the hardness that (has resulted
from the buffeting of the world came
uppermost. In a moment when she let
her mind turn to what the future might
have in store for her. she pitifully de
clared: “It’s only Christian people that
can help me save myself.”
In the meantime, she declared ve
hemently that “I won't go bade to the
Industrial Home.” Thrice before she
has been sent there, and thrice she has
run away, once with a eomimnion who
committed suicide a few days later at
Greensboro and provided that North
Carolina City with a five-day stirring
story of pathos and tragedy, while ar
rangements were being made by sympa
thetic men and women for the funeral
of one who left the world o»ty one
friend, a pauper mother in a Georgia
town.
Tragedy Is Met Early.
Bora “somewhere in Virginia” and
left an orphan at the age of three she
was adopted by a family at Statesville
for the members of which she professes
to have the deepest nffeetion, and. at
the age of fourteen, she was married the
first, time. This ceremony, which was re
garded as a happy event at the time,
proved to be the first real tragedy in
her life. Before their first child, a son.
wa/Mfeqtm strife had developed in their
home and soon after tLe birth of the
second child. both of whom are living,
she was sent away by her husband, then
a well-known professional man of that
town, after he had a fist-fight on the
street with a man whom the girl says
her first husband later learned was
fn'sely accused.
The next chapter in her life was writ
ten at Hickory, and tragedy tollowed
her there, where indiscretions of an
elderly man and a slip of a girl, plus the
consequences of her forging a cheek for
$250. resulted in her flight, which has
continued intermittently from town to
town, nnd from prison to prison. She
admitted, in a voice torn by the con
flict of the emotions of sorrow nnd re
sentmet, that almost half her time in the
past four years has been spent in prison
somewhere. After fleeing from Hickory
she went on the stage and appeared at
various times as a member of tabloid
vaudeville companies and other road
shows.
Marries Two Others.
In the meantime, she was twice again
married, her first husband having
divorced her and obtained custody of
the younger child. The second husbnnd
was a farmed. living near Asheville,
who, too. soon divorced her. The girl
sold her existence was as varied and
troubled as it was lurid during the next
year or two, and then she was married
to a soldier quartered at Fort Bragg,
nnr Fayetteville. She tired of life with
him and a divorce soon followed. In
the meantime, her fourth husband, a
man of some wealth, living near the
corner of College and Gates Streets, at
Columbia, fell victim to her wiles and
again she took the vows of wifehood.
This aged man “is simpjy .the best
husband in the world and, just worships
me,” she declared, with some show of
pride. When she was asked why she
was away dfeom home and drinking! at"£
hotel here, ?he syfd; ihei wad returning
to Colombia after vising her older hioy
at Statesville. In response to another
query, she said.it might be true, but She
had never attempted to analyze her
feelings and perhaps some of her wild
ness might have never occurred, had she
been more fortunate in her choice of
husbands.
This girl, who, at the age of fourteen,
was a pipe organist at a large church
and active in the affairs of that religious
institution, then began moralising, and
said: “Happiness cannot be bought,
neither have I been happy since my
schoolgirl days. I don't suppose I ever
will be happy, and the only hope I have
is that Christian people will help me
save myself. I’d like to be happy but I
don't seem to he aide to atop drinking
whisky r
She shuddered visibly as she remark
ed: “I am afraid, and I’ve go 4 to go
back to jait” '
Sommer makes some people stop miss
ing booze and start missing beer.
It to easy to see why skirts are
——
USE PENN'S COLUMN—IT PATS
THE BTATE UNIVERSITY
Is the Oldest State University to Ameri
..cat.—Charter Granted in 1789.
Chapel Hill, N. C„ June 19.—The Uni
versity of North Carolina, the oldest
State university in America, was pro
vided for in the first State Constitution.
Its charter was granted in 1789, and the
cornerstone of the first building was laid
in 1793. By 1795 students were admit
ted. Thus, the active lifi“ of the univer
sity began, but during the days of re
construction, from 1879 to 1875, its doors
were closed. Since 1875, although its
sailing has not always been smooth, the
University of 'North Carolina has been
on the upgrade.
The University campus of 48 acres and
approximately 550 acres of forest contig
uous to it were given by citizens of
Orange County, in Which the institution
is located. All the buildings put up for
112 years were given by friends of the
University. The first direct appropria
tion from the State, made by the Gener
al Assembly, was $50,000 for a chemistry.
building in 1905.
During the War Between the States
the University gave its best to the cause
of the Confederacy. In the days of re
construction following, it: was stripped of
its funds and much of its property and
equipment was destroyed.
During the first eighty years of its ex
istence, the University received no main
tenance money from the State. When it
was reopened, following five years of
idleness, in 1875, it had practically noth
ing but empty halls and meager contri
butions from loyal friends. The interest
from what was known as'the Land Script
Fund was turned over to it. This
amounted to about $7,500. But it was '
later withdrawn.
The General Assembly of ISSI made .
the State’s first maintenance apprnpria
tion—ss,ooo, to cover one year. ,
Little by little, the aunual upkeep fund
voted by the State was increased. For
more than u score of years, however, the
institution had to practice frugality to i
exist. However, it held its own.
free
SHmimy Crystal MbdngßowU
Made of heavy erfMai *W Suitable fee
gv mtdnyvnpoee. Bowie can be neetej
nnl«h»llnpimaiimlltii ife* L„ — tlr !
white enamel. Sturdily built.
Included hie wfch every
Seller* June Bride r '- AJ —» V~ Mb ,
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CONCORD FIjRNITURE CO.
, The Reliable Furniture Store
'"dRESSSENSATION 11
the Time FISHER’S The Place
They Arc Selling. See Them Today and Be Fitted I
Group A Group B Group C Group D I
»» • $2.74 K«H $9.74 and up 1
Maintenance appropriations, beginning
with the small sum above mentioned,
have steadily increased, until thvv now
approximately considerably more than a
half million a year. Students fees
amount to about $165,000 and the Uni
versity realizes about SSI,OOO from in
vested funds and about $52,000 from oth
er sources.
The General Assembly of 1923 voted a I
building fund of $1,050,000. and the Gen- J
eral Assembly of 1925 a building fund of I
SBOO,OOO.
There have recently been elected at the I
University three dormitories, accommo- j
dating 120 students, a new chemistry |
building and a women’s building. In nd- 1
dition. improvements have been made on (•
the water rthd heating systems. j
The attendance at the University of
North Carolina for the year 1922-23. not
including the summer i school, reached
2.000. The attendance last year approx
imated 2.500. During the session of 1917-
1918 the total was 855. The 1.000 mark
was passed during the session of 1918- i
. 1919, when the total attendance wac 1,-
156.
The first president of the University
was Joseph Caldwell, who served from
ISO 4 to 1835. His successors have been :■
David L. Swain—lß3s-1868.
Solomon 1’001—1869-1870.
University Closed—lß7o-1875.
Kemp P. Battle—lß76-1891.
George T. Winston—lß9l-1896.
Edwin A. Alderman—lß96-1900.,
Francis P. Venable—l9oo-1914.
Edwin Kidder Graham—l9l4-1918.
Harry W. Chase—lncumbent.
Persons coming to North Carolina
from other states are required to remain
citizens or residents, of this state for a |
year before they can vote. Formerly, j
the time required was two years. The
time was abbreviated by the popular rat-!
ification of an amendment to the State)
constitution in November, 1920.
Cloudoraft. iu the Sacramento Moun- ]
I tains of New Mexico, boasts the high
est golf course in the world—9,ooo feet j
' above the level of the sea.
THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
KKSH, NATION OF POTEAT
BTORT is BEING DENIED
Baptist Churoh "'paper Published in
Louisville Carries Story.—Carolina
Readers U psaU,",
Raleigh, June ' 18. —Raleigh trustees
of Wake Forest college put down as
wholly without 1 foundation an article
I appearing in the current issue <>t The
I Western Recorder, - big .Baptist weekly.!
Jof liOuisville. Kyi, to the effect that Dr.
(William Louis Pbteat had resigned the
| presidency of Wake Forest.
I ltev. l>r. Livingston Johnston, editor
of.The. Biblical Recorder, and Rev. Dr.
It. T. Vann, Associate educational direc
tor of the Baptist state convention, both
[trustees of Wake Forest, assured thht
i there was nothing whatever to the story
iu the Louisville paper.
It was assured the weekly had pick
ed up some newspaper reports of a
month or two ago that Dr. Poteat might
resign. It is edited by Dr. Victor Mas-
Iters, who was described by local Bnp-
os a, “strenuous’’ if not an “ex
treme?’ fundamentalist. The paper has
some circulation in ibis state, amt in
quiry had been’made by readers who„‘bnd
been, innde by readers who had been up
set by the Poteat story.
Modernism.
Ottawa. Kan.. Herald.
It was a wonderful wedding. The girl
was as sweet as any girl who ever lived,
but modern. As he walked up the aisle
on her father’s arm, her lips lightly
tilted at the corners with a happy smile,
she was a picture of modest beauty. Her
filmy wedding gown aud gossamer veil
flouted around her fair blonde head like
a halo. She was as nearly an angel as
i girls get to be in Ibis world. At the
' altar as she passed from her father, the
| man she had always loved, to the other
j man to whom she would devote the rest
jof her life, her dainty slipper touched n
j potted 1 illy * resting on the floor and
| turned it over. Smiling again, she turn
led to the dear old pastor waiting at the
j chancel nnd said: “That was a hell of
| a place to put a 1i11.v.”
SCOPES. THE EVOLUTIONIST. \
BELIEVES BIBLE INSPIRED
Facing Ttnaenn Trial, He States
Faith in Christianity.
Chattanooga. Tenn., June 10.— John
T. Scopes, Rhea county eacher. to be
tried July 10 at Dayton on a charge of '
teaching evolution in violation of a
State lnw. 'declared today in outlining
his position that, “I am a Christian and
I believe,the Bible is divinely inspired
and that Jesus Christ did exist.”
He added that at the same time man
had evolved from a lower order of ani
mal and that the story oftbe creation as
told in the Bible does not conflict with
science, jiointing out when God said He
created man ns Hin own image and
likeness He did not say in what material
form. • '.
The North Carolina College Commis
sion. created by the General Assembly of
i litoil. is composed of the Superintendent
of Public Instruction, chairman ex-of
ficio and fonr other members appointed
by the governor. Its functions are: To
prescribe and enforce rules relating to
the conferring of degrees by educational
institutions: ’to investigate financial
conditions, equipment, facilities and
standards of educational institutions ap
plying for authority to confer degrees,
and to grant licenses (» same when re
quirements are met; to revoke licenses
in failure to maintain standards, sub
ject to right of review by a judge of the
Superior Court.
No ad valorem taxes on real estate
or personal property for state purposes
are levied in North Carolina. That form
of taxation i's left with the counties.
Neither is it necessary to pay a poll tax
in order to vote in this state. A poll
tax, however, is levied.
Food experts say people eat less since
the war. That's fine. But they pay
more for it.
Germans are growing Hindenbnrg
mustaches. Which is what the women
get for electing him.
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