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tegton and beyond.
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B TH OUG HTI
1 —FOR TODAY—I
H B&le Thoughts memorized, will prove *ll
, T>n . CC
The Untamed Tongue: —He that
kcepctli his mouth keepeth l>is life;
Mit he that oponetli wide his lips
shall have destruction. —Prov. 13 :3.
THE IMPORTANCE OF MILK.
Following tile recent publication of
the results of a survey and study
which showed that there is an aver
age of only one milk cow to lti fami
lies iu North Carolina, the State Board
of Health lias issued a comprehensive
..Statement on the importance of milk
as a food. ’ Milk." declares this state
ment at the outset, ‘‘is essential to
health, especially for children. With
out it there cannot be a citizenship
with a high degree of vitality. The
absence of it accounts in some part
for the high infant mortality in this
State.”
The statement goes into consider
able detail explaining why milk is the
perfect food and discusses the mat
ter of diet in general for children and
adults, emphasizing those articles of
diet that air most essential to supply
the body with the minerals, salts, etc.,
needed as well as those that supply
the proteins, carbohydrates and other
essential elements. In conclusion the
admonition is made: "For healthier
children, fewer baby deaths, and an
improvement, in the health of all the
people, North Carolina needs more
milk.”
No matter how much we talk about
the importance of dairy cattle the peo
ple in the State refuse to show enough
interest in the matter to purchase
more cattle. There is a good profit
in good cattle, to say nothing of the
health qualities in good milk, yet we
find our people showing an indiffer
ence that seems to grow with each
year. Most of the counties in the
State have less dairy cattle now than
they had a few years ago.
sliculd not only increase the
Humber of cattle we have, but like
wise we should improve on thfe
breed. It costs no more to feed a
thoroughbred than it does to feed a
scrub, yet the former gives much bet
ter returns ou the investment.
With a big carry-over from the
1925 cotton crop and prospects that
the 1920 crop will be a big one, farm
ers would be wise to plant less cotton
and keep more cows. There will be
u bigger profit iu the latter.
STATE PRISON PAYING DIVI
DEND.
For the first time iu six years' op
eration of the North Carolina’s State
prison resulted in a profit during the
calendar year 1925. This fact was es
tablished by the report of Charlotte
auditors who have just completed a
survey of the records.
The total net operating profits for
the State's prison as a whole fnr the
cai.ondur year , amount-to $42,548.31,
butiwhan tee : d to prison
ers upon their discharge for themselves
and their families iu commutation,
$24,449.88, Is subtracted, the profit is
reduced to $18,093.43. Strictly speak
ing that entire amount should not be
deducted, since a large port of that
commutation accrued during previous
years, but with the system of book
keeping now in use, there la no other I
I way to calculate. '
I But the feature of the entire report j
i is that the prison is now on a self- j
supporting basis for the first time since
December, 1920, the last time a re
port showing a surplus of income over
expenses was made. Not only that,
but the balance sheet of assets and
liabilities shows $2,748,353.55 worth
,of assets in excess of liabilities; a
gain of more than $600,000 over the
figure of 1924, which was $2,117,-
65726. That means that a large
amount was spent during the year
on permanent improvements to the
prison system and gives added signifi
cance to the net profit shown.
WAR ON ILLITERACY. j
William Allen White, the noted
i Kansas editor, heads a group of cru
-1 saders who are going to strive to wipe
out illiteracy in the United States be
tween now and 1930. These people
have made a careful survey of their i
field and here are some of the facts :
they find:
There are 10.000 who cannot read or
write in the City of Washington.
Philadelphia has nearly 60,000 il
literates.
New York City has enough to make
a city the size of Denver.
Pennsylvania has enough to popu
late two states the size of Wyoming.
Ohio has more native born white
illiterates that has the state of Miss
issippi.
There are many counties in the 1
T'nited States where twenty-five to
•thirty per cent., of the people are un
able to read and write and some coun
ties where forty to fifty per cent, of
the people are unable to read and
write and some counties where forty to i
fifty per cent, are illiterate.
Five million men and women in
this' country have completely missed
school. i •
A Libel Suit.
Statesville Daily.' ’■ ’■
A damage suit growing out of the
evolution discussion has been filed
in Cabarrus county. It is brought
by Rev. ,T. It. Pentuff. a Baptist
minister of Concord, against the
Raleigh Times company, J. A. Park,
publisher, and O. J. Coffin, editor.
The amount of damages asked by the
preacher as compensation for hurts
alleged to have been inflicted tfy edi
torial criticism in the Times, is $25,-
000. Rev. Mr. Pentuff was active,
down Raleigh way against evolution.
The Times had things to say about
him editorially that aggrieved
him.
But the suit is interesting aside
from the fact that it grows out of
tlie evolution discussion. Under the
libel laws in this State one who
feels injured by a newspaper publi
cation must first demand retraction.
Even if retraction, or correction, is
made the suit may go on, but the
burden is on the plaintiff to show
that he suffered actual injury on ac
count. of the publication, which the
retraction could not remedy. Usual
ly, however, if satisfactory retrac
tion is published there is rio suit.
But in this ease the Times refused
to publish a l-etraetiiion. Presum
ably the Times took the position
that there was nothing to retract.
In any event John Park and Os.
Coffin stood pat and the case will go
on trial some time in the near fu
ture, nothing intervening.
Is it the Girl or the money?
Constantinople, March 27.—The
Puritans of Turkey, alarmed at the
craze for modern dancing which is
sweeping the country, arc urging the
government to create a “dance mon
opoly.” They argue that only by the
government ownership can the pub
lic dance halls be safe places for the
Turkish girls, who have always been
bo carefully protected. Further they
argue that such a monopoly would
provide a large amount of revenue
for the government.
j STOP CATARRH! OPEN :
j NOSTRILS AND HEAD
I
f Says Cream Applied in Nos
l trils Relieves Head-Colds
at Once.
If your nostrils are clogged and your
head is stuffed and you can’t breathe
freely because of a cold or catarrh,
just get a small bottle of Ely’s Oream
Balm at any drug store. Apply a
little of this fragrant, antiseptic
cream into your nostrils and let it
penetrate through every air passage
of your head, soothing and healing
tlie. inflamed, swollen mucous mem
brane and you get instant relief.
Ah! How good it feels. Your nos
trils are open, your head is clear, no
more hawking, snuffling, blowing; no
more headache, dryness ot struggling
for breath. Ely’s Cream Balm is just
what sufferers from head colds and
catarrh need. It’s a delight.
TO PROTECT YOU
Cod-liver oil promotes
growth of body and bone m
children and is a strength-pro
tectingfood for grown people.
Scott's Emulsion
is cod-liver oil made into a
rich cream, k Wilds up
vigor and strength.
Take It for its health- >|
protecting benefits. -4aL
AT i*£«w2rsse TS
■Moots ft Bowne. Bloomfield, N.J. frit*
- INQUIRING INTO THE
•j SHOOTING OF MAN
Firing on Fleeing Man by Charlotte
j Policeman Being Investigated.
i Charlotte, March 29.—A vigorous
‘ inquiry into the shooting here Thurs
day night of A. A. Tarrant, alleged
■ rum-runner, by Charlotte policemen
will be demanded by relatives at
Greenwood, S. C., of the dangesously
wounded Charlotte man, according
I to authoritative information received
Monday.
Action is being taken at the South
Carolina city by Tarrant’s relatives
' preliminary to making a strong es
• fort to substantiate his claim that he
1 did not fire at the officers, who shot
, him in the back as he ran after being
j accosted in the Lockwood section
here.
J An cfficiai inquiry into the case
j was begun here Monday afternoon
!bv Solicitor John G. Carpenter, of
Gastonia, who announced at & o'clock
that he was investigating the affair
for the State of North Carlina. He
said that he had made “some prog
ress” in the short time he had been
engaged in the effort,
j Tarrant'*? physical condition was
i such throughout Friday, that newspa
per men were not permitted to see
him. The case entered a new phase
Saturday, after Tarrant was inter
viewed at the hospital, when ’he de
nied he fired at the officers, and added
that he was “running from disgrace’’
when he was shot in the back.
! Another phase was added to the
series of developments in the case
when Ferguson feclared Monday in a
telephonic conversation, that he never
• had said he knows the whereabouts of
j “the gun” whit'd three Charlotte po
-1 lice officers said was fired at them
Thursday night, when Tarrant, aged
24, was shot in the back and gravely
wounded.
Tarrant denied he fired at the of
ficers but admitted he had two gallons
of v.hiskey in his car.
! MOORE COUNTY RESORT
WILL BE MODERNIZED
, New York Interests Will Take Over
I Jackson Springs Ilctcl and Re
novate it.
Raleigh, March 27. Jackson
i Springs is to become an all year re
sort and a sanatorium will be add*'
ed when the plans a* announced here
today by Albert Mclxmghlin. of New
York, mature and the corporation
gets its working charter,
i The new organization will be
known as the Jackson Spring Hotel
corporation, which, taking over the
old hotel, will modernize it and run
it through the summer. Later it will
construct, a 250-room firepedof
which will run all the year, aim tne
[ old hotel building will be converted
, into the sanatorium. The new struc
ture will front on the lake and will
be on the beanty spot of Jackson
Springs.
The plan is to open the present
hotel between June 1 and 15. A nine
bole golf course, tennis courts and
other outdoor game grounds will be
provided.
Hello. Dr. Kellem.” came the ex
cited voice over the phone. “Come
at once, will you? My husband has
had another of his attacks."
“Why didn't you send for me' soon
er?” the doctor asked, half an hour
later. You should not have waited
till your husband was unconscious.”
I “Well,*’ replied the wife, “as long
as he had his senses he wouldn't let
me send for you.”
Vim
At your command—and
Let us prove that.
Modern science has brought mil
lions of people a new way to health
and vim.
The new way is a gland secre
tion—ox-gall. It stimulates the
liver, the largest gland in the body.
I Drugs and cathartics never have
done that, as all recent tests have
| proved.
I Torpid liver causes countless
troubles. It causes most of our
troubles, perhaps. Among them are
the following:
Indigestion Heart and
Constipation Kidney Troubles
: Impure Blood Bad Complexions
i High Blood Pressure Lack of Youth
Torpid liver means lack of bile.
Then germs breed and form toxins
in the intestines. Those poisons
permeate the system, and count
less ills result.
Now we know that our efforts to
correct them have been futile. The
drugs wc gave were useless. But a
liver secretion—ox-gall—brings the
desired effects.
That secretion is now embodied
in tablets, called Dioxol. Each tab
let contains 10 drops of purified ox
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Those Dioxol tablets are now
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beyond Delief.
We ask you to try them. One
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CHAPTER XXIX. (Continued)
She stopped him instantly.
“That’s splendid!” It was quite as
If she were complimenting him up
on some new triumph within his
profession. She reached over and
patted his hand and then pressed
It for a moment in her own. '"That’s
iplendid,” she repeated. “Now
rou’re at least a coward no longer.
You see I’ve got a funny mind, I
think. I like to know things. It
helps one make plans.”
“But, Jo—there’s much more to
say. It isn’t just like that—. Shall
l marry you? No. There’s more.”
“There really isn’t," she de
clared. “You explained quite ful
ly, without words, when you came
down from London that matters
were quite the same as ever. You’d
got on but I hadn't I was Just
the same jazz girl with the short
skirts and a lot of knees and a
good time brain. Not the kind of a
wife for the great creator of a
beautiful thing for future genera
tions to marvel at. Why tell me
all over again?"
He knew she was mocking him,
and he realized that he was help
less. A thousand things hung or
his lips. In her calm scrutiny of
him they jumbled. She reached
to him again and patted his sleeve
“We’ll have a drink over it all,
someday,” she said. "Meanwhile
I shall stop drinking all of my
cocktails to you. Now go along
into the house. You will find Yvon
oe in the reading room. I’m going
to have one of Teddy Donninster’a
horses saddled and ride ougr for
tea with Roddy Kenilworth at his
house.”
She gave him her hand and
smiled up at him. “You will not
be seeing much of me now until
the fete.” she said. "It is so near
ind 1 have so much to do. But
i shall want you to dance with me
hat night. By -then we shall have
both forgot today.”
She watched him until he disap
peared beyond some shrubbery that
:ut off the view of the house. Then
ihe turned toward the stables, but
iad not gone far when she stopped.
She stood for a moment looking
ibout her. When she saw that
tone of the workmen nor attend
mts were near, she crumpled onto
.he lawn, and lay, face buried in
:he grass, her shoulders shaking
xmvulsively.
CHAPTER XXX
Joanna’s Decision
A stable groom fumbled with his
Rip when Joanna had chosen her
•orse and sent to the house for
he rifling togs into which'she pro*
tosed to change in the stable dress
ng room. The 'man gazed dubi
msly down the Cap Martin slope
and estimated the thickening blan
;et of violet haze.
“It'll be coming up fast, Made
noiseile, after a while," he said;
'lt’s troublesome to ride through
fhen it gets too heavy. I shouldn’t
tdvise Mademoiselle to go top
ar.”
"Just along the sea road, to Mr.
Kenilworth's,” she informed him.
The lights there are never lost.'
The groom would have liked to
mice more insistent caution, but
ds mistress was abrupt with him.
there were times when the ser
ants at Villa Amette were afraid
4 their Mademoiselle Joanna. Til?
.Toom shook his head but decided
tot to venture a further protest. Ho
•effected ’hat, after all. she was
i good horsewoman and that a
,orse usually is dependable.
Kenilworth, whose villa nestled
rt the base of the hill, shut off
rom the majestic boulevard which
Wrts the shore by a dense hedge
t semi-tropical bush, met her, with
<is own groom, at his gate. She
tepped lightly from his hand to
he ground and tossed her bridle
e the man. “Just an hour, please,"
he commanded.
Kenilworth immediately ex
iressed dismay. “You haven't
traved the mist to give me but
•n hour! It will take me quite
hat long to get accustomed to the
ision of you among my things."
“Just an hour, Roddy,” she in
tsted, nodding to the groom who
iccepted her order as Anal and
ed the horse away. “You see I've
■tide plans for tbe evening, and f
•ustn't interfere with them. I shall
tave to get back to Amette and
hange.”
It was the first time Joanna bad
Tan ted Kenilworth a tete a tete
our “ In the midst of his things,"
a be expressed ft She had al
rays tpade a pretense of “being
fraid” of him, which, he custom
•rily retorted, was flattering but
firtrue. He assured her, at such
Imes, that she was one who
couldn't be afraid of anybody.
!e had desperately proposed
ftdy Weymouth as a cha. per
ns, hut with no success. ' Jo
an* asserted that she'd never
eaort to a chaperone—“in-
Sese days.” He was. then, pus
ted by the sudden whim
rhich brought her, uninvited, ami
trangely vibrant. He knew her
>ell enough to sense a purpose,
oatfna, he had discovered long
go, usually concealed a purpose
ehlnd whatever was unexpected of
«r. He had made a profession, al
eoet, of discovering those hidden
nrposeg and fathoming them.
“Confess to me," she challenged
4m when she had sealed In a
treat chair before the fog ire
■hick baffled the ♦ooi ’dampness'of
he increasing inlet outside, “you
re wondering why 1 came so un
xpectedly."
“That I wouldn't do," he declared
romptly. “If you have any other
••son than a sudden desire to
njoy my admirations without in-
terruptions, I don’t want to know
it. I am jealous of my vanity.”
“Then you shall be flattered,”
she returned gaily. “I am in the
mood for you. Someday there’s
got to be a battle between ns,
between you and me, Roddy. Let’s
have it now.”
He was on his feet in an Instant
and standing over her. She stopped
with her eyes, and held him half
bent down to her. She did not
stir, nor put up a hand; it was
just the indescribable something in
her eyes.
“No, not just now,” die said,
her lips shaping into the utmost
of their provocatlvenese. “You
mustn’t be too literal. But to
night, perhaps, or tomorrow night
—or when the moment arrives. But
S 3 soon as we can. I want to
know hqw I’m coming off.”
"Damn you! Are you playing with
me?"
“No. Roddy. I’ve never played.
Not since my money came. Some
day 1 want to play. After we’re
had our battle, perhaps. What r»haF
Uhe stopped with her eyes, and
held him half bent down to her.
we do first? Let's go through the
mist —to some place. Why not up
La Turble?”
"Tonight?”
“Tonight. That’s what 1 must
hurry home to change for. I shall
want to look very alluring.”
He straightened and looked down
at her coolly for a moment. She
did not flinch under his gaze, nor
did her lips uncurve. He turned
away and looked out a window,
tt was already darkening outside,
and the lights of Monte Carlo were
vague pin points.
“If we drive carefully we can
make it.” he concluded. “I’ll take
the wheel myself. You won’t bo
afraid to trust yourself with me,
shall you?”
“That's what I want to find out,
Roddy. So many people are skep
tical of me. I want to know If
they're right—or wrong."
He laughed. ”1 shan't ask you
to stay beyond the hour," he de
clared. “I’ll need some time alone
to try and figure you out. WUat’3
happened? Something has, I am
certain.”
“Nothing," she assured him.
"Nothing, that is. that wasn't ex
pected.”
A servant noriiiod them that
Mademoiselle’s mount had been
brought to the door before either
of them realized that the hour had
flown. She had induced Kenilworth
to tell her some of the histories
of the souvenirs which w.ere strewn
about the room in which their tea
had been served, and she was en
thusiastic about them.
When she went out to her horse
she found that the groom also had
brought a mount. Kenilworth nod
ded hip approval. Joanna begged
to be allowed to ride back to Am
ette alone, declaring her faith in
the lights along the sea boulevard
and her horse's instinct, but Kenil
worth was firm.
“I should take you along myself,”
lie explained, "but 1 shall want a
look at the car. It’s a stiff climb
to La Turble. I always want to
be satisfied about my brakes.”
At Villa Amette, Joanna found
Brandon awaiting her. “I have in
vited myself to dine,” he ex
plained, “and no one seems to
object Perhaps you will go along
for an hour or two at the Casino,
afterwards. There won’t be a crowd
and we can drop In for an act at
the theater. Yvonne seems to have
other plans for the evening.”
“And so have L” she told him
“I’m going up La Turble with. Rod
dy. He's often wanted me to go
up with him, and now I've prom
ised.”
’’Sorry.” She did not wait for
-he inevitable protest against
climbing the narrow, winding road
that ventured up the steep La Tur
hie mountain to the Isolated resort
above La Turble village, but
tripped on up the stairs. Brandon
looked after her. Even women who
were careless seldom went up
La Turbie to dine otr dance
at the famous roadhouse atop
the hill, unless iu groups. The
gayest of the hidden rendez
vous along the coast, it was,
In some respects, also the most
forbidding. One always went up
La Turble but one did not, custom
arily, talk about ft. After he had
stood for a time in deep reflection.
Brandon wept onto the Amette ver
anda and peered hut into-file damp
fog.! Accustomed as he was to the
Riviera he estimated the feel of
it to his nostrils and his Angers.
He appeared to gain, from his
qoucluaiong, seme definite satiefac
ttlon.
He summoned a servant and Ut
quired If Mademoiselle Coutani
was still occupied la her boudoir
The maid reported that her mis
trass was, and would not be down
for some little time. "You may
tell her," he ordered, “that I shall
not be staying to dine, if she won’)
mind.”
A half hour later, when he had
dismissed the Amette car which
had taken him back to Monts
Carlo, Brandon summoned his valel
and demanded that a suit of hear?
tweeds be raid out for him. When
the man had compiled his maste)
ordered:
“Go at once to the garage oi
the Italian in the Boulevard ds
Midi and ask for Antoine. If he ti
not at hand find out where h<
can be reached immediately. Whes
you have him say that I want him
to drive me as soon as he cas
be ready up the mountain. If h<
objects to the mist, tell him th«
thicker the fog the heavier hit
purse will be, and that much mor»
for his men. Be sure, however,
that it is Antoine himself you find.
Otherwise return quickly."
On her way to her own boudoir.
Joanna stopped at Yvonne's. She,
tco. It seemed, was particularly
painstaking at her evening's toil
ette. Her maids were flushed and
nervous under the temper of their
mistress. That they were having
difficulties in pleasing her was evi
dent from the litter of glittering
gowns angrily tossed Into heaps
on the chaise lounge, chairs and<
even, tables. For a brief instant
Joanna stood in the boudoir door,
beneath the curtains that shut off
Yvonne’s sitting room; jnst long
enough for her eyes to harden and
narrow. Then she announced
brightly that she would be going
out with Kenilworth and that she
hoped her running away would not
Interfere with any plans for the
evening Yvonne might have made.
Yvonne glanced at her sharply.
She concluded, however, that there
had been nothing hidden in Joan
na's tone. "J have no other plane
than a run Into the Casino, pep
baps,” she said. "Betty Weymouth
is having something or other to
night at her place, and I did prom
ise that you and I would drop in,
but that ts not important. If you
are running away by yourself I
shan’t trouble.”
Joanna went over to the other
woman and. stooping, lightly
brushed her cheek with her lips.
"Then I shan’t be seeing you till
tomorrow sometime. It will be
early, though, for I shan’t be able
to sleeop with tomorrow night so
close.” She stopped again at ths
door as she went out, to say, as
If It were an afterthought: “To
night I’m going up La Turbie—witti
Roddy. It will be great fun on
the mountain tonight."
Yvonne turned quickly, but the
girl had dropped the curtains be
hind heT. She waved both of her
maids away, when they bore down
upon her with Joanna's departure,
and sat quietly in a study. Pres
ently she looked up and into the
mirror before her. She examined
the reflection she saw there with
an intent, abstract scrutiny.
From her face her gaze wandered
to her throat, around which huns
her most magniflcqnt pearls, and
then to her gown—she had chosen
a thing of pink in orchid hues that
had come that day from her Paris
couturier's. She shook her head,
in response to her mental conclu
sions upon the ensemble the mir
ror reflected.
“You may take off the pearls,"
sbe commanded a maid, “and brine
me diamonds. A lot qf them. Ana
I shall not wear this gown after
all. It’s too innocuous. I’ve soma
thing in burgundy; bring that.” As
it to herself she added, in a mur
mur that neither maid could over
hear:
"Burgundy and diamonds. If I’m
not mistaken that will do the
trick.”
CHAPTER XXXI
The Challenge
Two oars crept upwards along
the tortuous road that climbed the
mountain. Kenilworth’s red road
ster, with tts master at the wheel
and Joanna settled snugly beside
him in the single seat, glided si
lently from the streets of Monte
Carlo, into the shrub-lined aventse
that narrowed gradually until it
became barely more than a path
sloping sharply toward the sum
mit of the hill. Ahead of them
Brandon, muffled In tweeds cov
ered by a black domino, sat beside
an evil, heavy-Jowled Monegasque
who steered a much larger car
than Kenilworth’s. The purple
mist, hued vaguely now that the
twilight had gone, blotted out the
lights of town and villa which, on
moonlight nights, make this road
up La Turbie one of the beautiful
drives of Europe.
"One who climbs the hill
night. Master, must have a steady
nerve and a purpose," said the
Monegasque who guided the car in
which Brandon rode.
"If the purpose is worthy of the
nerve, the effort Is worth while,’
Brandon returned. "One man’s ob
ject is a woman, another's may be
gold, t imagine your nerve would
not fail you in either case.”
When Antoine had made a turn
with a sureness and a knowledge
of the bank which stamped him
as familiar with the road hs fol
lowed, he observed; x
v "There aye few - wooden,- in your
world. Master, for whom I'd take
myself or my men into danger.
Your women are playthings.
That’s why we don’t let oar’s Imi
tate them,*’
(To be oontinued)
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