Wednesday, July 1, 1925
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■ A BIBLE THOUGHT 1
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THE TEMPORAL AND THE E
TERNAL: —All flesh ie grass, and all
the goodness is as the flower of the
feild:
18 THE worm turning?
Senator Borah does not carry the con
fidence of all of the u
eo»e» to politics, but there is no doubt of
his ability and bis familiarity with for
eign affairs. For that reason his views
on the Ghinese situation are to be taken
seriously. The Senator says the blame
“to the manner in which foreigners have
disregarded and bruited the Chinese in
terests.”
Senator Borah made his statement in
reply to criticisms made by the “Ameri
can Chamber of Commerce at Hankow”
with reference to former assertions of the
Senator. Mr. Borah says that this Cfcam
mer “is a part of the imperialistic com
bine which would oppress and exploit
the Chinese people and charge the result
of their offenses to some one else.” He
declares that they “are perfectly willing
to continue in connection with others
these exploitations and they care very
little if it drags the American people into
war and sacrifices thousands of our peo
ple. Anyone familiar with what has
been going on in China for the last ten
years and the manner in which foreigners
have disregarded and bruited the Chinese
interests, will have no doubt as to what
is the real cause of the trouble in China
at the present time. 80 far as I am
concerned, they are not going to hide
the cause of the troubles.”
Maybe after all China is really waking
to her possibilities. She has always been
considered as a lazy, worthless, lawless
country. Other nations have never .taken
her seriously. . Her rights have never
been taken seriously.
Generally speaking people do not un
derstand the trend of events in China for
they have never had enongh interest to
try to understand them. The present up
risings may change the country entire
ly, despite the fact that most of the agi
tation has been caused by Russion com
munists.
CATHLOICS INCREASING SLOWLY
NOW.
Many Protestants profess fear at
what they term the rapid growth of the
Catholic Church in the United States.
The idea sdems prevalent that the Cath
olic Church is growing more rapidly than
any other in the United States and many
persons, under this false impression, see
a growing danger for Protestant Church
’ es.
The Charlotte News finds statistics in
the official Catholic Director showing
that the gain in membership in 1025
was the lowest recorded in many years.
These figures show that the increase in
membership for the past year is 94,241,
as contrasted with the figure 208,904 re
corded for , the year previous. The sum
total of the Catholic population of the
United States up "to date is given as 18,-
654,028. This disparity it to be explain
ed partly by the report of seven of the
fourteen archdioceses that there has been
no gain In their membership, while New
Orleans reports a loss of nearly 24,000
< members. The other six report an in
crease. To offset this report, Is th' an
nouncement of the establishment-during
IL2BL with * body of cler„ In attend-
ance figured at 23,007 — an increase of
638 priests over the preceding year. There
is also n marked advance in the number
of parochial schools, now counted at
144, with an attendance of 2.088.624 stu
dents. There are five uew seminaries for
the education of priests, making up a list
of 120. and nn increase of clerical stu
dents of 2,Q17. swelling the total to 11,-
345. ,
FURTHER EVIDENCE OF THE
SOUTH’S PROGRESS.
No other agency, perhaps, is in better
position to know conditions in the South
than the Southern Railway, which has
been serving this section of the country
for many years. Therefore the annual
report of this transportation company,
showing the wonderful progress which
has been made in recent years, is of more
than UKiianl interest.
From 1004 to 1024 the tons of manu
factured products, including all less than
carload freight, handled by the Southern
increased from 5,820.828 to 12,201,753
tons, or 111 per cent.
During the same period the tons of
product of mines increased from 8.568,-
471 to 18,000.314 tons, or 110 per cent.,
nn interesting fact being that the coal
traffic despite the very large development
of hydro-electric power in the South.
The tonnage of products of forests in
creased from 3.607,174 to 7.785,&36, or
116 per cent.; products of agriculture
from 2450.732 to 4532.220. or 73 per
cent.; and products of animals from
285,844 to 431,334. or 51 per cent.
“A noteworthy feature of this exhibit,”
says the report, “is the evidence it af
fords of the South’s uniform development
along all lines of economic endeavor. More
and more every year southern factories
draw their raw materials from southern
farms, forests and mines.”
The report also calls attention to the
phenomenal development of the textile-in
dustry in the South and its' extension to
new fields in western North Carolina,
eastern Tennessee, and northern Georgia ;
the marked expansion of cement manufac
turing; and the healthy growth of the
southern iron and steel industry.
Growing Old.
Hickory Record.
Mr. Jim Wilson, formerly of Mor
ganton, drifted back into the scene of his
nativity several years ago and after a !
stay of a few days approached the late •
Mr. Rob Claywell with alarm written all |
over his face-, asking. “Look a-here! .
Where,are all the old men who used!
to be around Morganton?”
Mr. Claywell gave Mr. Wilson the
earefnl onoe-over and remarked, “Why.
Jim. we are the old men around here
now.” Mr. Wilson pondered over the .
statement long nnd seriously before he j
came to a complete realization of the
truth of the situation, and after a few
days he terminated th# .visit to his boy-,
hood home and has made, the remaining
ones shorter and shorter.
- Do a tittle thinking and you will re
call that when you were sixteen years
old the men; around town who were thir
ty seemed very old to you; the men fifty
seemed ancient; and the men around
sixty were cheating the grave. But
when yon reach one of those marks your
self it does not seem old at all and you
begin wondering where all the old men
have gone. But there seem to be more
ycung sports hanging around than ever
before in all history.
Proud Dad: “I never fail to kiss my
children goodnight. Do you?”
Plain Guy: “Believe me, I ain’t going
to lose all that sleep waitin’ up for
them.”
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DINNER STORIES
Diary of a Dub.
Monday—Went out to see Mamie to
night at 8; she sent me away at 8:10.
Tuesday—Called on Mamie again, but 1
she said I was as welcome as a reve-!
nooer inside the twelve-mile limit and j
shut door in my face.
Wednesday—Saw Mamie again ; gave
hej box of roses and she threw them in!
my face.
Thursday—Another fellow was at'
Mamie’s and at her suggestion he kicked J
me downstairs.
Friday—When I called tonight Mamie |
called police and had me arrested as a
nnisance.
Saturday—l may be doing Mamie an
injustice, but 1 don't believe she wants
me to call any more.
Never Shows an Increase.
It is to be understood that the pound
which is reported to be gaining rapidly
is the British pound, not the ibutcher's.
Within Gunshot.
A traveler riding over wild western
prairies a half century ago inquired of
a native: "Does Walter Halter live near
here?” ,
j “No,” was the reply.
| “Well, do you happen to know where
I could find him?”
i “No,” said the other.
I The traveler was puzzled. “Dear me.’’
he said, “I must have lost ‘m.v way.
Perhaps you can teli me where Mr. Wll-J
liam Bluff, familiarly known as 'Grizzly
! Bill.’ hangs out.”
! “I can. Right here. lam Grizzly
I Bill.”
“But.” expostulated the tenderfoot
traveler, “they told me that Halter lived
within gunshot of you.”
“ijl’ell,” said the other, “he did.”
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Girls Clothes Like Barbed Wire.
An old New York farmer attended a
big picnic at Binghamton 'and stayed
’ over to watch the dancing at nigh'. He
1 hadn't been out in the world much, and
Ihe was deeply impressed with the girl’s
clothes at that dance.
“Some of the ladies' clothes I see here,”
he said, “plumb puts me in mind of a
barbed wire fence.”
Somebody asked him why.
“Well,” said he, “it’s this way—they
appear to protect the property without
obstructin’ the view.”
Dodged the Wind-Up.
“A feller driving along in an old
! Hootin’ Nanny car last night with its
i lights out. ran into a mule that was lay
ing in the road in front of Hoot Holler’s
i house,” related Gap Johnson, of Rumpus
; Ridge. '“The durn mule started to get
!up just as the ear ran onto him and
I knocked him over. The driver of the
car gave a hoot of his horn /and a yell
from himself, and the mule laying on his
back began to kick, and squeal.
1 “Say. what are you trying to do with
I my mule?” yelled its owner, running out
jof his house.
1 “You better ask him what lie’s trying
| to do to me and my car,” the feller hol
>lered right back.
1 “Awl as I’d seed and hected, this muqh
and hadn't no dpsirp *t6'*ifiTx in a fight,
1 just went on and never did find out
the rest of it.”
Not So Niro After Washing.
Jane’s mistress recently had been ap
prised of Jane’s betrothal, an announce
ment shortly followed by the bad news
that the affair had been called off.
“Not going to marry that nice man,
after all?” queried her mistress. “Why,
I thought it was all settled?”
“So it was, mum,” sighed Jane, “but
the fact is, I saw him with a clean face
for the first time last night, and I can’t
• marry him! You’ve no idead how ugly
he is when he’s washed, mum!”
Published by arrangement with First National Pictures, I no,
and Wattsraon R. Rothacker.
CHAPTER Xlll—Continued
A wide, open space lay before
as—some hundreds of yards across
—all green tdrf and low bracken
growing to the very edge of the
cliff. Round this clearing there
was a semi-circle of trees with
curious hots built of foliage plied
one above the other among the
branches. A rookery, with eve-y
nest a little house, would best con
vey the Idea. The openings of
these huts and the branches of
the trees were thronged with %
dense mob of ape-people, whom
from their size I took to be the
females and infants of the tribe.
They formed the background of
the picture, and Were all looking
out with eager interest at the same
scene which fascinated and be
wildered us.
In the open, and near the edge
of the cliff, there had assembled a
crowd of sonie hundred of these
shaggy, red-haired creatures, many
of them off immense size, and all
of them horrible to look upon.
There was a certain discipline
among them, for none of them at
tempted to break the line which
had been, formed. In front there
stood a small group of Indians—
little, clean-limbed, red fellows,
whose skins glowed like polished
bronze In the strong sunlight. A
tall, thin white man was stand
ing beside them, his head bowed,
his arms folded, his whole attitude
expressive of his horror and de
jection. There was no mistaking
the angular form of Professor Sum
merlee:
in front of and around this de
jected group of prisoners were sev
eral ape-men, who watched them
closely and made all escape Im
possible. Then, right out from
all the others and close to the
edge of thfi cliff, were two figures,
so strange, and under other cir
cumstances SO: ludicrous, that they
absorbed my attention. The one
was our comrade, Professor Chal
lenger. The remains of his coat
still hung in strips from his
shoulders.' but his shirt had been
all torn out. and his great beard
merged itself In the black tangle
which covered' his mighty chest.
He had lost his hat, and his hair,
which had grown long in our wan
derings, was flying in wild disor
der. A single day seemed to have
changed him from the
ern civilization to the
most desperate savage *
of South America. Be- ‘ J
side him stood his mas- ! r
ter, the king of the ape- I
men. In all things he
was, as Lord John had
said, the very image of jk/f
our Professor, save that
his coloring was red in
stead of black. The same i
, short, broad figure, the | J
v im*
' mrijf IT
W\
f
same heavy shoulders, the same for
ward hang of the arms, the same
bristling beard merging itself in
the hairy chest. Only above the
eyebrows, where the sloping fore
head and low, curved skull of the
ape-man were in sharp contrast to
the broad brow and magnificent
cranium of the European, could
one see any marked difference. At
every other point the king was- an
absurd parody of the Professor.
All this, which takes me so long
to describe, impressed itself upon
me in a few seconds. Then we
had very different things to think
of, for an active drama was in
progress. Two of the ape-men had
seized one of the Indians out of
the group and dragged him for
ward to, the edge of the cliff. The
king raised his hand as a signal.
They caught the man by his leg
and arm, and awung him three
times backwards and forwards with
tremendous violence. Then, with
a frightful heave they shot the
poor wretch over the precipice.
With such force did they throw
him that he curved high In the
air before beglnalng to drop. ( As
be vanished from sight, the whole
assembly, except the guards, rush
ed forwarC to the edge es the preci
pice, and there was one long pause
of absolute silence, broken by a
mad yell erf delight They sprang
•bout, tossing their long, hairy
arms la the ala and howling with
exultation. Then they fait back
from the edge, farmed themselves
again Into line, and waited tor the
next victim.
This time It was Summerlee.
Two ot his guards caught him by
the wrists and pulled him bru
tally to the front. His thin figure
and long limbs struggled and flut
tered like a chicken being dragged
from a coop. Challenger had turn
ed to the king and waved bis hands
frantically before him. He was
pegging, pleading, imploring for his
comrade's life. The' ape-man push
ed him roughly aside and shook his
head. It was the last conscious
movement he was to make upon
earth. Lord John’s rifle cracked,
and the king sank down, a tangled
red sprawling thing, upon the
g-ound.
"Shoot into the thick of them!
Shoot! sonny, shoot!" cried my
companion.
There are strange red depths In
the soul of the most commonplace
man. I am tender-hearted by na
ture. and have found my eyes
moist many a time over the scream
of a wounded hare. Yet the blood
lust was on me now. I found my
self on my feet emptying one mag
azine. then the other, clicking open
tbe breech to re-load, snapping it
to again, while cheering and yell
ing with pure ferocity and Joy of
slaughter as I did so. With our
four guns the two of us made a
horrible havoc. Both the guards
who held Summerlee were down,
and he was staggering about like a
drunken man in his amazement, un
able to realize that he was a free
man. The dense mob of ape-men
ran about in bewilderment, mar
veling whence this storm of death
was coming or what it might mean.
They W’aved, gesticulated, scream
ed. and tripped up over those who
had fallen. Then, with a sudden
impulse, they all rushed in a howl
ing crowd to the trees for shelter,
leaving the ground behind them
spotted with their stricken com
rades. The prisoners were left
for the moment standing alone in
the middle of the clearing.
Challenger’s quick brain had
grasped the situation. He seized
the bewildered Summerlee by ths
arm. and they both ran towards
us. Two of their guards bounded
after them and fell to two bullets
f:om Lord John. We ran forward
! into the open to meet our friends,
ft
Y <3
fop
/ *
With a frightful heave, they shot
the poor wretch over the precipice
t.
and pressed a loaded rifle into
tbe hands of each. But Summerlee
was at the end ot his strength.
He could hardly totter. Already
tbe ape-men were recovering from
their panic. They were coming
through the brushwood and threat
ening to cut us off. Challenger
and I ran Summerlee along, one at
each of his elbows, while Lord
John covered our retreat, firing
again and again as savage heads
snarled at us out of the bushes.
For a mile or more the chattering
brutes were at our very heels.
Then the pursuit slackened, for
they learned our power and would
no longer face that unerring rill*.
When we had at last reached tha
camp, we looked back and found
ourselves alone.
So it seemed to us; and yet we
were mistaken. We had hardly
closed the thornbush door of our
zareba. clasped each other’s hands,
and thrown ourselves panting upon
tbe ground beside our spring, when
we heard a patter of feet and then
a gentle, plaintive crying from out/-
side our entrance. Lord Roxtot
rushed forward, rifle in hand, and
threw it open. There, prostrate
upon their faces, lay the little red
figures of the four surviving In
dians, trembling with fear ot u«
and yet imploring our protection
With an expressive sweep ot hit
hands one of them pointed to the
woods around them, and indicated
that they were full of danger.
Thep, darting forward, he threw
his arms round Lord John’s lego,
end rested his face upon them.
“By George!” cried our peer,
pulling at his moustache In groat
perplexity, “I say—whet the deuce
are we to do with these people T
Get up, Uttle cheppte, and take
/our face off my boots.” ‘
(To Be Continued)
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