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GUARDING PRESIDENT NO I
EASY TASK.
The Pathfinder.
It is said that most presidents |
complain bitterly at first when they
find that a squad of secret service
men follow their footsteps day ami
night. Because of this Roosevelt and
Taft made several efforts to elude
them, and on one occasion Taft suc
ceeded by escaping through the back
window of the president's office in
the White House. But the law re
quires that the secret service men
guard the President and his family.
The president has no choice in the
matter. These men, however, make
themselves unobtrusive ami for this
reason the president soon regards
them as aids rather than body
guards.
One of the mnstt important rules of
the service is that the peace of the
president must be protected. Sugges
tion/ of attempts on his life and
other unpleasant matters have to be
kept from him. The general impres
sion that there is 'always somebody
hovering around to harm the presi
dent is widely exaggerated. Indeed,
there are very few persons, if any,
who go to Washington to actually
harm the president’s person. Al
though it is true that three residents
have been assassinated, observations
made at the White House have dis
close an almost universal position on
the part of the public to protect and
ease the life of our chief executive.
Most of the "nuts” who go to the
White House are harmless. They sim
ply go to the president with some
grievance and want him to help them
and they have no malice toward
him.
Guarding the 'president, however, 1
keeps the secret service operatives
busy. Thousands and thousands of
tourists are continually flocking to
the national eapital desirous of see
ing the president. Sometimes over
10,000 men. women and children are
admitted to the executive offices in
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[a single week and privileged to shake
the president's hand. Very few eal
| lers at the White House realize that
■they are observed from the time they
nter the White House grounds until
they leave. Besides they pass inspect
ion by four operatives from the time
they form in line until they leave the
executive offices.
Admission to tile White House is
by card, showing 'that some high ptt
. blie official sponsors the visitor. Po
lice officers stand at the main en
trance to see that those entering have
letters of introduction. But 'the real
work is done by the plain clothes
men. Otic near tile door observes each
person that enters. The biggest trou
; b’te with the visitors is their hands.
They do not know what to do with
them. Some shift their hat or coat
from one hand to the other, then (tut
their hands in their pockets. Since
the assassination of McKinley no
person with hands concealed Jjas been
admitted in the presence of any pre
sident. Visitors are surprised to be
asked to expose their hands, and of
ten they forget. By the time they
have moved down the line opposite
the second op, rative their hands are.
, back in their pockets or concealed
in .some other way. The request for
them to show their hands is renewed.
As a rule the second an! third
> j operatives repeat the inspection of
■ ] tic first. It is seldom neees»sary to
1 ask anyone to step out of line for
1 j more thorough examination. The
. {fourth operative stands in’ the nri
: j vate office within two feet of the
■ president. As each person approaches
‘ 'be chief executive the operative sat
isfies himself that no ham! is conceal
ed. He is near enough to the presi
dent and in a position to do anything
that might be ecessary.
I It is more difficult to guard the
' president ore the streets than when
at the White House. This is espccinl-
Ily tyie when he attends church be
j thousands gather about the edifice to
to get a glimpse of him. At such
times uniformed police patrol the
streets and detectives wander through
the crowds. Secret service men escort
the president and his family to
church, and once inside, they take
places of advantage unnoticed. Ad
mission to the church is by card only,
until the presidential party is seated.
Then all those outside are admitted
in groups of from 30 to 40 until the
church is filled. But they are all
closely observed by the secret serv
ice men before they are admitted.
M ben all the seats are filled annouce
nient is made to those who have not
been accommodated that because of
fire regulations they cannot be ad
mitted.
However, the secret service men
have the hardest to do when the pre
sident is away from Washington.
This is because of the strange sur
roundings and the great crowds that
collect to see him. Arrangements for
Jiis protection must be made far in
advance.
Cause For Separation.
Sl it 'ville Daily.
A Charlotte man who is concern
ed alxiut. the disapiiearanee of his
wife. v. ye he believes she left to pun
ish bin for drinking. As he makes
the suggest ion himself and there is no
intimation of any mistake as to his
drinking, it may be assumed that Tie
bail offended in that respect. But
the deserted husband cant ujnder
stand why his wife hasn't returned
or communicated with him. By in
ference again we are left to guess
that there had been some drinking
and that the lady was exasperated
on account thereof. But the husband
evidently expected that the /caving
would he gesture only, that his wife
couldn t have meant to go away and
stay. Possibly he has overestimated
the good lady's patience. It he had
offended the same way previously—
mid he leaves the impresion that he
has been guilty as he suggests- it
is possible that the wife may have
concluded that patience has ceased to
be a virtue. In any event while the
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husband may not know if; there are 1
not a few people who believe that,a
drinking husband, especially if be con
tines to repeat, deserves to have his
wife leave him. It was bad enough in -
the pre-prohibition days, when drink
ing was a custom and was overlook- ,
ed to some extent because it was a ,
custom ami because the manufacture' i
and sale of liquor was legalized, for
a wife to endure a drunken liusnand ;
or for anybody to have to be pester- I
ed with the exasperating nuisance of
a rinking man. But certainly now.
when liquor is outlawed and the ;
drinker is responsible for tile boot- .
logger business, nobody is call'd to .
exercise any special jiaticnce with
drinking people. They put themselves
beyond the pale aud they deserve nei- ,
ther sympathy nor consideration. Far
be it from us to interfere in anybody
domestic affairs, but as the Charlotte
man makes his trouble public he
should be told that any drinking man
deserves to have his wife leave him.
Bet's Keep History .Straight,
The Uplift.
Harry Deaton, editor of The
Mooresville Enterprise , noting the
presence in his city of the Jackson
Training School band, which gave a
concert, took occasion to say that a
collection would be taken to aid the
boys in further enlarging the equip
ment,-that the state was not expo ted
to furnish all these necessities after
giving tile original equipment.
The original equipment and the iA
spiraiiou of starting a band at the
Training School among the boys are
works alone of the Stonewall circle
of the Kings Daughters, of Concord.
They got behind the proposiiinn and
put up money for a twelve hundred
dollar equipment of . Conn’s best,
■ That s how the Jackson Training
■ School got a baud—the State Had
nothing to do with it.
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f Some Sensible Remarks 0
About Praying For Rain
Monroe Journal.
“There is one thing I can under
stand about praying for rain,” ob
served a man commenting on t'he
proclamation of the governor of South
Carolina asking the church people to
pray for rain on Sunday. '■
“What is it you do not under
hand ?" be was asked, [;
“Why they don’t begin to pray be
fore everything has already been
ruined.” . >
Come to think of it, that is a
puzzler. When crops have a pretty
fair start and .signs begin to Took dry,
•people will watch' the clouds and Sic
weather signs expectantly for a while.
Then they become anxious as they see
their prospects waning. Later, about
the titee the crops are gone or the
wells dried up, somebody will begin
to speak of praying for rain.
Maybe this is because man is prone
to rely upon himself as long as he
can. and then, when he feels that
there is no. hope, and then only, will
lie begin to seek a higher power.
Maybe, also, this is why prayers for
rain are sometimes apparently an
swered—it has just come time -to rain
anyway.
There is a story that on one occa
sion a congregation had assembled in
this county to pray for rain, and
among others to be called upon to"
lead in prayer was a matter of fact
old brother. He looked out the win
dow in a last sweeping glance and
remarked that it. was no use to pray
yet as the wind wasn't right. *
If there is anything certain in this
world it would appear to be that the :
weather cannot bo inflneneed by pray-;
er. That is simply not the way thaf
Oinniiiotenee works. Suppose that the
weather could be controlled by prayer.
What an endless muddle we would
have! When one neighborhood gener
ally Wonted rain tbVtyv would, be an
•4join{pgthat wanted dr? weath
ef.'or gneJrfab who teas growing only
corn, the “thirsty” plant, would waat
touch gain -while- the man who had i
a harvest "in the Held would want .a
dry spell. They would uever agree.
One man would Want only- a shower
while another would want a gulley
washer. Each oine would define just
the amount of rain lie wanted. In-i
deed, there is a story of a Union
county man who once prayCd for rhln
and directed the Lord to be careful
in sending it, as he only wanted a
gentle shower and no “toad strangler.”
Still, when we become very hard -
up u Jot of people.will, want to begin j,
playing foe l-aiti, yet it is a question ;
if any one really has any confidence'
that the prayer will be answered till j
"the wind gets right,” when -it would
rain anyhow.
Away back in the beginning primi
tive men thought that there were
many gods who presided over this
and that force of nature. They
thought that these gods could be
H. N. WOODSON DIES
IN SALISBURY HOME
Was One of City’s Most • Prominent
Citizens—Death is Caused By
Stroke of Paralysis.
Salisbury. Sept. 10.—H. N. Wood
son, prominent citizen. died this
afternoon at 2 o'clock, at bis home
on North Fulton street, death being
caused by a stroke of paralysis. Al
though he was 81 years old Mr.
Woodson'was as active us a. man
much youuger and was at his yffice
every day. This morning he was in
his usual good health und was pre
paring to go to his office when
stricken. He rallied later and was
much latter at noon but a second
stroke at 2 o'clock proved fatal.
Mr. Woodson was a native of
Rowan county and when lt> years
old joined a cavalry company and
fought through the entire war be
tween the slates. When it wus over
he refused to surrender and made his
way back home. He became an in
fluential citizen aud for many years
was register of deeds. In recent years
lie has been president of the First
National bank and held other places
of trust. Surviving is one daughter,
Mrs. Maria l’ayne, who has made her
home with him since the death of
Mrs. Woodson, three years ago, and
three sons, Wall er N. Woodson,
Ernest H. Woodson, and Dr. Char
les W. Woodson. " all of Salisbury.
The funeral will be held at 10 o'clock
Saturday morning from First Meth
od ist church, of which' he was a
member.
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Atlanta Weather Man Thinks Mer
eury Will Drop Below 90 Within
Next Few Days.
Atlanta. On., Sept. 10. —“We’ll be
sleeping under blankets by Sunday.'’
This was the comforting assur
ance given sweltering southern people
today by C. F. Von Herrman.
meteorologist in charge of the local
United States weather bureau.
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pleased and propitiated by prayer or
- other ceremony. Away before man
- came to the ide* of one supreme God
i who created and ruled over nature as
a whole in accordance with laws
which He had ordained for that pur
pose, men-did'not understand nature's,
laws aud were often much frightened ;
by their manifestations. Tffie habit
of propitiation was firmly fixed in
their minds. Maybe we have not
been able ffl fully outgrow this and
in time of distress hark back to
something In our natures that wbie
pers up this ancient hope.
The Desert of Sahara, as the school
children all know, is a huge track of
barren sand which since the advent
•of man upon earth has been taking
its toll of passing pilgrims. It is in
the track of commerce and trade
routes and no living thing' pan sub
sist upon it except sttch animals as
carry their own food. It is thus bar
ren because no rain has ever fallen
upon it. One time a man was con
tending that prayer for rain would
bo, and ofteu is, answered.
“Now,” asked one who did not so
believe, “suppose many good people
should assemble even to the number
of tens of thousands around the
whole fringe of this desert for the
. purpose of praying 'that rain might
fall upon it. And suppose they con
tinued to pray, aud pray earnestly
and sincerely, do you think that rajn
would fall upon the desert of Sahara,
and its barren waste be rescued to the
: use of cultivation so badly needed in
that country?' 1
“No," was the reply.
1 "Why not? Rain is certainly need
ed there and would do a , great ileal
of good ami be a blessing to millions
of people.” ' . • '
“Because,” was the answer of the -
man who believed in praying for rain,
“nature made, that a. Aesegf And- it
tooald be contrary toHaature fpr'ifc id
rain there.”
, “Exactly,” said the other v “That is
why prayer for rain is never answer- *
ed, because it is contrary to nature
for rain to fall until natural causes
produce rain.” -
But the other one could not see it
that way. His idea was at bottom
that it would be too hard for the Lord
to-produce raiu in Sahara, because it
had never rained there, but easy and
natural for him to produce it here
before nature was ready, because it
does rain here at times.
Tlie .usefpfi effect, of prayer lUppn
the human heart and ite uplifting ini’
fluence in human life cannot, it seems
to gs, be denied. But surely when we
were commanded to pray it wap not
means that we should expect Jehovah
to interfere with the laws of his uni
verse in order to please our fancies.
And so far as we can see there is
no evidence that lie has ever done so,
or ever will.
south, the mercury begau to loet its
hold on the higher altitudes and slip
buck to a more normal—position in
small red column. •
"Thai condition will be .‘prevalent
virtually all over the country.” said
Mr. Von Herrman, "and I b»dieve
after a day or two,we will have seen
the lost of tlie 'higher , than ninety’
temperature,” the forecaster said.
The temperature at noon in At
lanta was 92 degrees against 100 at
the same .hour yesterday.
For the next two or three days,
the mercury will continue to recede,
Mr. Von Herrman asserted, until it
hits a range from (12 degrees mini
mum 90 degrees maximum, whereas
for the past few weeks in most of the
south it ranged from 79 minimum to
102 maximum.
At the same time, Mr. Von Herr
man promised some relief from the
drought. Scattering thundershowers
in various parts of the south he said,
would tend to relieve this situation.
He predicted the drought would
really be broken this way instead of
by a general rain.
Lord Balfour had a had memory
for faces. He onre went into a Bond
street shop for a cup of tea.
On leaving he presented the wait
ress with a fairly substantial tip which
the girl acknowledged with a "Thank
you. Mr. Balfour.”
He looked up in surprise, regarding
the girl attentively for several sec
onds, and then asked her how she
had recognized him. '
“Oh,” she replied with a smile, "I
was parlor maid at your house for
seven years.”
That same evening in the house of
.commons a colleague of Mr. Balfour
started to chaff him about the inci
dent.
“Why on earth did you get to know •
about 4~V” asked the bewildered
statesman.
“Well,” was the reply, “I happened
to be sitting right opposite you at
the same table, only, of course you
didn't recognize me." \ '
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