PAGE SIX
Orphans’ Poverty Into Riches
J pMpalßy
r Wellington. Tex., Aug. 21. —Amid
f the squalor of a tiny shack on the
( broad plains of the Texas Panhandle,
1 an old white-haired grandmother once
I told two little orphan girls the ehild
| hood story of Cinderella.
With poverty on all sides, the little
I girls, Essie I.ee Barton. 0, and Jes
|. sie Barton. 4. never dreamed that
i some day they would suddenly have
E wealth and all that it buys thrust up
| on them, almost in the fairylike sash-
I ion of Cinderella.
I But a wealthy uncle back in North
i Carolina is making the Cinderella
I story come true for them. !
He is Ben I hike, son of Washing
| ton Duke, who made millions in to-,
j bacco. Ben Duke is a brother of .T.!
| B. Duke, who recently gave $40,000,-1
| 000 to a North Carolina college.
Recently Ben Duke said he intended j
t to make all his relatives rich before I
I his death. And he has just found |
rWhat: the World Is Doing
As Seen by Popular Mechanics Magazine
1 1300 ft-j
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j 1 '
ij: Height of Fntnre Skyscraper
I Fifteen Hundred Feet
Kki. How high can a skyscraper be built
i’ta conformity to the zoning laws and
I fee practicable from an engineering
MtHadpoint? A New York architect
I replies, 1,500 feet and presents a
liltetch of a lofty pinnacle in steel and
I ttone, a block square at the base,
Rftjtepped in” at successively higher
Salaries until it tapers into a needle-
I )ike point nearly twice the height of
|[|be Woolworth tower, as shown in
■pM illustration. Such a building, it
Hggaml, has been endorsed by engi
pMi and does not conflict with the
; E TAOWera such as this, it is pre
■Mjcted, will not be uncommon in
■■bie coming city. Harvey W. Cor-
Ktt, president of the New York ar
[ TIES MID- TRIBUNE PEW IDS. ILK GET RESULTS
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BY NEA SERVICE
that the two j>oor little orphan girls]
out on the Texas plains are distant
ly related to him by marriage.
So he has sent SI,OOO to Grandma
Simpson, who cares for the children,
to gather information about them and
to end their poverty.
More money is promised later.
Already Duke has sent SIO,OOO ench
to R. W. and James Duke, two second
cousins, who have ranches near here.
One grandmother of the orphans
who died at Wellington several years
ago. was Mrs. Sally Barton, was re
lated to Washington Duke by marriage
| and used to help him pick tobacco on
' Ills North Carolina plantation before
, he amassed his huge fortune,
j When the great emigration to the
west began, the Barton family and
| one branch of the Duke family resolv-
I ed to seek their fortunes in Texas.
I But while the Duke family was
[ making millions in North Carolina,
chitectnral league, declares that in
the metxopa&a of the future, the auto
mobile will have disappeared freon
the streets, the city will be half a mile
high, and traffic will be lwmdleH on
sliding platforms. Buildings Will have
terraces like hanging gardens adorn
ing the lower levels, and all construc
tion materials will be colored, to fit
the locality and to produce the mast
artistic effects.
* • •
Mind Keenest at Eight A- M.
Test with Students Show
Tests performed on 112 college
students by Dr. Donald Laird of Col
gate university, indicate that the av
erage mind does its best work at eight
o'clock in the morning and its poorest
at four o’clock in the afternoon.
Wednesday is the best day of the
week for keen mental accomplish
ment, and Saturday the worst. Nine
different tests were devised, including
problems in addition and subtraction,
memory exercises and a psychological
question, such as, “What is wrong
with this room?" The students had
been given previous examinations
which showed that their intelligence
was about equal, and were divided
into squads of sixteen each. For six
weeks they were put through the
trials at eight and ten o’clock in the
morning, one and four in the after
noon and eight, nine and ten pun.
So that they would not make spe
cial efforts on particular days and
thus destroy the value of the tests,
they were kept in the dark as to the
real purpose of the experiments. In
all, 4,704 test blanks were scored, 17,-
000 numbers added, 20,000 squared
and 63,000 subtracted in compiling
the results. Wednesday stood first
in five of the nine trials, with Tues
day second. ,
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How to Clean Floors before
Refinishing
Removing the finish from herd
wood floors by means of the scraper
or knife before refinishing is usually
J their relatives out west were having a
long, hard straggle for existence. Mis
fortune seemed to pile on misfortune,
and a few years ago the two little
Barton girls were left orphans.
Ben Duke has suggested that the
girls be put in oue of his orphan
homes in North Carolina, but Grandma
Simpson immediately wrote she would
not stand for that.
“I’ll raise them here in poverty and
give them a schooling myself before
I'll send them to a home,” she says.
Grnndman Simpson is not the chil
dren's "grandma” but they always
call her that because she has cared
for them since babyhood.
Above are Essie I.ee and Jessie
Barton, playing with two dolls and a
Ding Texas shotgun. Grandma Simp
son. who has caret! for them is at their
right. Below is the tiny shack which
is their present home.
a job dreaded by the amateur me
chanic. Meet of the work, however,
can be done a a well by means of paint
or varnish remover, m scrubbing brush
and a package of ordinary kitchen
cleaning powder. After applying the
varnish remover to a small section of
the floor, and allowing it time to
soften the finish thoroughly, wet the
brush moderately, dip it in the pow
der and scrub the floor vigorously.
Thai will remove all the old varnish
and leave a dean job. The section
deaned should then be wiped off with
dean water, and a new part of the
floor attacked.
* * •
Preventing Loss of Outboard
Motor
After hearing several motorboat en
thusiasts tell how they had lost their
small outboard motor while attempt
ing to transfer it from one boat to
another or from boat to dock, and also
coming very near losing his owb in
this way, a western motorboat user
devised a simple safeguard against
such a mischance. A 12-ft. length of
%-in. rope was fitted at both ends
with snap fasteners, one to be at
tached to an eyebolt on the gunwale
of the boat, and the other to the mo-
Ti x OUTBOARD MOTOR
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.J t FASTENED TO YT>SI
j
DETAIL OF SAFETY HOPE
tor through a bolt hole. Tbb rape is
left attached to the motor at all
times.
THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
This Glorious Land.
Editor *nnd Publisher.
Newspaper men who have their fin
gers on the pulse beats of national
business tell a remarkable story in
this issue of Editor and Publisher.
Our wonderful motherland again
yields flowing breasts to her children,
thrice richly blessed. This is not
prosperity, it is luxury when taken in
relation to the average material com
fort of the peoples of the, world.
Abundant crops, in instances exceed
ing the, yields of all previous time,
and with prices which compensate both
gfoiver and seller, are everywhere in
evidence. As the major portion of
our wealth springs directly from the
soil stimulated trading in every branch
of industry is ilready noted. Banking
conditions are excellent. Building i
statistics show remarkable develeop
ment across the country. Merchants
are stocking for a big Fall trade.
Newspaper lineage records indicate a
fresh flow of the very best quality of
business.
There is something humorous in the
message of one of our contributors
who tells of a local drouth damaging
to crops, but in his next breath re
veals that a new oil pool has been
brought in and all that is lost in u
crop failure is regained by a gush of
golden liquid mineral. How typical is
that story of this magnificent land!
These survey statements from the
States and Sister Canada ring the bell
for Autumn and Winter trade, and in
dicate as surely as that tomorrow’s
sun will rise that 102r> is to be one
of the banner success years of our
history. They should give new
strength to every willing worker in
the newspaper and advertising indus
try. So kind and indulgent a mother
as America richly deserves our grati
tude, in practical ti’frns of duty well
met.
The Übiquitous Mr. Borglum.
Raleigh Times.
Comes word that Gutzon Borglum,
who is reported to have selected a
cliff tiear Chimney Rock upon which
to carve the Confederate memorial
which he designed for Stone Moun
tain, also the face of Woodrow Wil
son. has engaged himself to grave
Washington and Lincoln side by side
on a mountain in South Dakota. We
heard some talk a little while since
that Mr. Borglum was going to Tur
key to confer with Ketnal Pasha in
regard to some mammoth monument
which the Turkish government desires
to have done.
What a pity the late Mr. Brown
ing's—it's Robert, husband of Mrs.
Elizabeth, not Daddy, the adopter of
Mary Louise, we are talking about
—Andrea del Sarto could not have
met Gutzon. “Ah." said Andrea,
“but a man's reach should exceed his
grasp, or what's a heaven for?” Mr.
Borglum has just about secured a
monopoly of all the stone mountains,
except the one near Atlanta and Gi
braltar. His friends of the press
have committed him to enough work
tot keep an ordinarly sculptor busy
for the next 2.10 years. He is the
outreaehingnest artist ever seen in
these parts.
We reckon it is all right, though.
Gutzon's is an expansive extensive
personality, and maybe lie can be in
two or three places at the same titme.
Anyhow, it need not trouble those of
us who are not going to sharpen his
chisel or hold his drill for him.
A pretty good idea, however, for
those who wish to see some sort of
memorial to the Confederacy carved
in stone would be to place their or
der for some Stone Mountain me
morial half-dollars.
The Furr Reunion.
On the 28th of August, 1025, the
Furr reunion will be held at the Wil
son Furr. place near the Teeter
bridge. Everybody is invited to come
and bring well filled baskets and en
joy the day. R. B. FURR.
The year 1025 seems iikeiy to bp
a record-breaking year for American
swimmers, both literally and figura
tively.
The first Davis cun series was
played just 25 years ago and was won
by the United States by a 5-0 score.
Hell Preside
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I When rural mail carrier* meet In
convention in Cleveland Aug. 14 to
light oat the question of becoming
affiliated with the American fhdera.
lion of Labor, A. P. Lang, preaident
of the organization will handle the
I gavel and see .that each speaker
I speaks in his turn. Lang's home la
tn PleeaantvlUe, 0., where he "cov
ers’' his routs each day. He is-op
posed to affiliation with the A. F. ol
L. He Is serving .his third term as
i prUnit of the association.
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. OUR NEW FALL SHOES ARE ARRIVING DAILY
We have decided to make one clean sweep of our broken lots of summer footwear regardless of price.
For Three Full Days—Saturday, Monday and Tuesday we have divided these shoes in three groups—
sl.9s - $2.95 $3.95
Now is the time to buy your Footwear for late summer and early Fall.
All White Slippers at One Price Children’s Shoes and Slippers at Men’s Oxfords at
$2.95 95c UP $2.45 up .
«
Be sure to come early before we sell your size. You will buy several pail* at the Price of One.
RUTH - KESLER SHOE STORE
Watch Our Windows For New Fall Footwear in the Prettiest Styles
RALEIGH NOT WORRIED
OVER EVOLUTION ISSUE
Iredell Appears to Be Hot Bed of
Agitation Over Theory in Old
North State.
Tom Bost in Greensboro News.
Raleigh, Aug. 20. —Zeb Turling
ton’s willingness to lead the tight
against evolution in the next gen
eral assembly calls to mind his vale
dictory at tlic last session when he
promised “never again.”
Colonel A. D. Watts was here the
day the Turlington interview came
from Iredell. Bill Moye, of the reve
nue department, deplored it and
Colonel Watts interrupted to ask:
"You don't think there is anything
wrong with him, do you?” Mr. Moye
did not think so, but he does not see
how evolution can help the Demo
cratic party.
Colonel Watts does not say wheth
er he has the long view or not. He
certainly does not think it would be
well ,for any political candidate iu
North Carolina to get anybody to
talk about his evolutionary views. It
is the colonel’s opinion that evolu
tion would beat anybody. Ami when
an idea comes out of Iredell one
feds that it must have been well
nursed by Colonel Watts.
For instance Jim Hartness is not
stopping at evolution. He denounces
it as bitterly as he abused the woman
suffragists. The scriptures are as cer
tainly against evolution as they were
against the wimmen. Mr. Hartness
wore out Genesis in the 1920 special
session opposing the suffrage for
women. He has undergone more than
evolution on that subject; he has had
a revolution.
But he goes further now. He op
poses evolution and proposes the
teaching of the Bible, that is to say,
putting into the state courses. In
Iredell, they read the book in the
morning. Mr. Hartness is very close
to Colonel Wntts and of course Mr.
Watts is closer to the ecclesiastical
authorities than anybody else is.
But Raleigh declines to get ex
cited over the championship of
Representative Turlington- If that
amiable gentleman doesn’t come
back, and he says he is not to re
turn, the pure in heart are going to
be without a spokesman.
STATE RANKS FOURTH
POWER DEVELOPED
North Caroline I sHoperseded Only
By New York. California and
Washington.
Washington, Aug. 20.—The de
partment of the interior, through
The Geological Survey, has just re
leased a report on the developed
water power of the United States in
1916- The total capacity of water
wheels installed in plants of 100
horse power or more, In March, 1925,
waa about 10,038,000 horsepower, an
increase of about 901,000 horse
power, or nearly 10 1-2 per cent
over the total capacity of water
plants in 1924 (9,087,000 horse
power plants in 1924 (9,067,000
horsepower).
Os this increase 99 per cent was
in electric public utility plants and
one per cent in manufacturing plant*.
New York continue* to lead the rest
of the states in the amount of de
veloped water power. The five leading
water power states in order of their
rank and the amount of developed
water power for each are New York,
1,713,561; California, 1,531,480;
Washingtin. 500,003; North Caro
lina. 534.000; Maine 470,027. North
Carolina has moved from fifth place
. in 1924 to fourth place in 1925.
Post and Flagg’s Ctotton Letter.
New Y'ork, Aug. 20.—According to
talk around the market some of the
bears are apprehensive that too much
confidence has been felt in an im
portant increase to be shown in crop
expeetacy by the report on Monday
as a result of the large additions
shown by some private authorities
to the figures of their own reports
for July. Those who hold that opm
Nearingth.Endof Hisßope
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ion have been covering rather freely
and this with demand from the
trade has proved sufficient to take
up the slack so far.
If, however, the report comes up
to bearish hopes by showing between
fourteen and one-quarter and four
teen and one-half shorts who have
covered will put out their contracts
again and at about the same time a
larger volume of hedging can be ex
pected which will be difficult for the
market to absorb- Based on official
and private advices it is difficult to
feel any real confidence that Texas
and Oklahoma will show the half
million gain in two weeks essential
to bring about such an increase and
furthermore it is doubtful if private
authorities have made enough allow
ance for the drought in parts ot the
eastern belt especially In the Pied
mont sections where the condition is
now becoming very acute. Private
Friday, August 21, 1925
authorities work out there crop fig
ures on their own interpretation of
the pars which may not agree with
the method used by the government.
There is also much doubt if the of
ficial acreage is at all accurate.
There is a wide opportunity for a
difference between the results reach
ed by the private invstigaiors and
those at whoch the government may
arrive. To accept a gain of million
bales after two weeks. during which
it . haw been intensely hot with little
rain requires an unusual degree of
optimism but that seems about what
short are looking forward to.
POST AND FLAGG.
Mrs Henrietta A. Jenkins of St.
Louis, is 9 yenrs old, is an enthusias
tic angler aud often travels tA dis
tant parts of the country ro indulge
in her favorite sport.