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" London, S W 1 , Aug. 16, 1935.
After an 8:45 breakfast at the hotel, went to the
old Caledonia market, which covers from 10 to 15
acres, part of which is sheltered and the other part
open. The marketplace was covered with tables, up
on which was spread everything imaginable?-some of
it things to eat and some things to wear, much of the
latter being second-hand, which gave some sections of
the market the appearance of a rummage sale. There
were also many new goods, as well as valuable car
pets, tapestries, and thousands of antiques of every
kind and description. There were many articles evi
dently from the home of people who have seen better
days on sale, doubtless to bring necessary food to the
home, If such a display was on sale in the United
States, the women would gather from the mountain^
to the sea to buy. Known as the Caledonia market,
it was, in former years, used to auction livestock.
Thousands of sellers were there, and buyers literally
covered the earth seeking goods.
Returned to the hotel for dinney and at 3 o'clock
..took a bus' for the National Museum of Fine Arts,
where I viewed many of the world's renowned |>ainl
ings. Got a good view of London and saw the peo
ple gathering in Victoria station to take trains, busses,
subways and street cars for their homes: and if you
have seen Broadway and Forty-Second Street ill New
York, don't think you have seen all the people in the
world, for there are 4,000,000 people who work in
London and live in adjoining boruughs, and the city
has ample facilities to move them and at low cost.
The average cost, for both street cars and busses,
seems to be about 2 pennies. The lines are owned
and operated by the city. The independently owned
taxuabs are as "high as those-in- America.
There is not so much abject poverty seen here, and
nearly everybody appears to be comfortably dressed
and cleaned up. Much building is going on in and
around the city. The English styles are very differ
ent from that of Americans, and I am not yet pre
pared to say which is the better.
Leave tomorrow at 10:15 for Dover to take a
steamer for Calais, France. ' ?
W. C. Manning.
Paris, France, Auk. 17, 1935.
Caught train at 10:50 from Victoria Station in
London for Dover. Had a nice 77-mile ride through
a farming country; every hill, except a few sandhills,
seemed to be solid rock or white sandstone. It was
a wheat and oats country, with sheep and cattle on
nearly every hillside: no mountains, but considerable
hills, and we pased through a half dozen tunnels. We
reached Dover at 12:55 and boarded a boat for Calais
immediately. We found the English Channel as quiet
as a small pond It was almost covered with steam
ships
Left Calais at 3:12 p. m. on the Nord train, land
ing in Paris at 6:20 after a ride of 160 miles. The
country from Calais to Paris is generally flat and al
most boggy, covered with very green grass and trees,
and, like England, a grain and grazing country. The
farmers did not stop work for Saturday evening, but
were hauling in and saving their crops. They do not
shock their wheat and oats as nicely as the British,
who make the shocks almost perfect, most of them in
the shape of houses so that it looks as if storm dam
act would be impossible.
Paris seems to be a much more modern city than
Loudon: the buildings are more up to date, and the
streets are nice and wide generally, a few of the prin
cipal ones at least 200 feet wide, with wide sidewalks
on each side and a narrow driveway beside the main
tbivtway. Did not go in a store in London, nor, as
yet, in Paris. Found the sidewalks here lined with
chairs and tables, with men and wothen drinking.
Following supper, I joined a party for a walk, and
we went about 7 blocks to the Arc d' Triomphe, where
the French unknown soldier it buried. It is far more
elaborate than the tomb of the unknown soldier in
England. A flare of light from a gas jet illuminated
the beautiful fresh flowers lying on the marble tomb.
dose early in the evening, but the
to walk the it rets in great numbers, both
day and night. ?
W. C. Manning
Paris, Sunday, Aug. IS.
After breakfast and a religious service at 8:45, we
left oa a sight-seeing bus for a tour of Paris leading
to Versailles, the place where the treaty of peace end
ing the World War was prepared and signed. Of
course, we remember Woodrow Wilson's part in for
mulatinj the tenm it the treaty.
The Versailles Palace is the largest in the world,
at one time housing 15,000 people. In two near-by
courts were located the stables of the kings, and 8,000
horses were kept there. It is now used by the French
Artillery,
The palace is the most interesting place in France
from a historical standpoint. It was first occupied by
Louis XIV, then b) Louis XY and Louis XVI; also
three queens have lived there. The paintings and
furniture are marvels of beauty and richness. The
palace is surrounded on two sides by flower gardens
more beautiful than any I have ever seen before.
There is quite a difference in the F'rench as com
pared with the English. The former glory in their
warriors, especially Napoleon, yet they tell you of
his defeat and banishment to St. Helena, while the
English seem mor< inclined to hide their failures and
boast of their glories.
A visit to the home of Napoleon is worth a great
deal. In addition to the work rooms of the great
general. we visited those that reflected much of his
family life. We saw the bed in which he slept and
that of Josephine, his first wife; also the bed in which
he died; his library now stands just as he left it, also
his dining room. There is less display of pomp and
glory in the home than in the palaces of the English
kings. One commendable thing was the steadfast love
of his first wife, Josephine, afterwards divorced. Evi
dently Napoleon never lost his respect for her, nor
did she lo^e her love for him. We were shown the
room in which she visited daily after his banishment
to the lonely St. Helena Island by the British. Na
poleon was evidently France's greatest man.
Our party, which is being conducted by the Ameri
can Express Company, is faring well. They give us
first-class fare at the best hotels. In Paris we are at
Hotel d' Iena, one of the best in the city. We also
get the best busses for our turs. The roads over here
are of the permanent type, generally very crooked,
as they also are in England.
W. C. Manninc.
At the Ebb oi Life
Elizabeth City Independent.
Youth and middle-age laugh at a little group of old
men who gather in Old Man Garrett's wheelwright
shop on Colonial Avenue every week-day morning and
afternoon. Youth and middle-age wonder at a pathet
ically small group of elderly men who meet every
morning for a brief prayer service in an upper room
of the Y. M. C. A. building.
1'resently youth and middle-age will grow old; and
then, suddenly, some day a realization will dawn upon
the one grown old that death has slowly but surely re
duced his once large company of friends to a patheti
cally small circle that is narrowing year by year.
Youth and midlde-age can make new acquaintances,
form new contacts, find new human interests from
day to day. But one grows old and it is too late to
find new friends, make new contacts, develop new in
terests. And the new generation is in a hurry and
has little time to pause and converse with an old
codger who speaks the language of another <fta and is
wedded to a homespun philosophy that is archaic to
our modern times. And so, when late in life a man
slows down and begins to reflect upon the few human
ties left to bind him to this uncertain life, his heart
hungers for companionship and he draws closer and
closer to the remaining few who understand him and
can sympathize with his point of view.
The few old men who gather in Old Man Garrett's
wheelwright shop in the morning and afternoons are
not subjects for youthful and middle-age mirth; nor
the few old men who haltingly climb th^Y. M .C. A.
steps every morning for a brief half hour of song and
prayer. They are hungry souls who see life and all
its former meanings slipping away from them, as the
shore slips away from a castaway on a raft drifting
toward an inscrutible horizon where the sun is going
down. .
?
Would Explode Old Theory
Exchange.
Scientists at Cornell University have been experi
menting with cod liver oil to determine its nutritive
values, and as a result of their efforts another old
theory is about to be exploded.
Long before Hector was a pup we were taught that
an abundant use of cod liver would make us big and
strong, and to that end we have gulped it down
whether we like it or not. Back yonder the medicos
either didn't know how to improve its taste or gloried
in seeing us make ugly faces. But when this medi
cine is not doctored up to a more pleasing taste, you
somehow get the feeling that something has been
put into it that hadn't ought to be there.
In their experiments ?t Cornell the professors gave
liberal doses of cod liver oil to goals and other ani
imals, but they did anything else but wax fat and
strong?they just took sick and died. While these
scientists declare that these findings have no direct
bearing on cod liver oil in human nutrition, they are
about ready to recommend a reconsideration of the
ancient idea that great gobs of the stuff is good for
what ails you. And without demanding further ex
periment, every youngster we know will say a hearty
and enthusiastic "iunen."
However, what pesters us most Is the fact that
?amebody didn't think this up some thirty-odd years
Sgo.
LEGAL NOTICESlLEGAL NOTICESLEGAL NOTICES>LEGAL NOTICES
SALE or VALUABLE FARM
PROPERTY
Under and by virtue of the au
thority conferred upon us in a deed
of trust executed Dy T. U. Rawls
and wife, Laddie Rawls, on the 23rd
day of January, 1023, and recorded
in Book T-2, page 407, we will, on
Saturday, the 28th day of Septem
ber, 1035, 12 o'clock noon, at* the
courthouse door in Martin County,
Williamston, N. C-, sell at public auc
tion for cash to the highest bidder
the following land, to wit:
All that certain tract or parcel of
land lying and being in Bear Oraas
Township, Martin County and State
of N C , containing 23 acres, more
or less, bounded On the NE by the
lands of Mc. G. Taylor, on the SE
by the lands of B F Peel, on the SW
b> the lands of Lena Mobley and
Martha Roberson, and on the NW
by the heirs of John Jones, and more
particularly described as follows, to
wit:
Beginning at a stake in Buck
Branch, thence N. 61* and 35' E.
B3 68 poles, thence S. 37 E. 50.08
poles to Buck Branch, thence along
the various courses of Buck Branch
to the beginning, as shown by a map
3f same made by Sylvester Peel, sur
veyor, on the 10th day of December,
1924. Also all that certain tract or}
parcel of land lying and being in
Bear Grass Township, Martin Coun-1
ty and State of N. C., containing 83.5i
acres, more or less, bounded on the
N. by the lands of Lena Mobley, on|
the fi. by the lands of S. H. Mobley
and Lena Mobley, on the S. by the
lands of A. B. Ayers, and on the!
W. by the lands of J. D. Bowen, and
more particularly described as fol
lows, to wit: Beginning where Buck
Branch crosses the Williamston and
Bear Grass road, thence S. 35 W.
75 poles, thence S. 35 1-2 W. 18
poles, S. 39 W. 25 poles, S. 46* and
35' W. 60 poles, S. 49 1-4 W. 10 poles.
N. 28 1-2 W. 101 poles, thence S.
76 3-4 E. 59.28 poles, N. 44 W. 12
pole*. N. 38 12 W II pole*, N. 34
1-4 W 14.U pole*. N. 29 1-1 V. S.32
poles to ? stump in Buck Branch,
ihene* along the various course* of
Buck Branch to the beginning, as
shown by a map of same made by
Sylvester Peel, surveyor, on the 10th
day of December, 1824.
This land is sold subject to all
unpaid taxes.
This sale is made by reason of
the failure of T. U Rawla and wife,
Liddie Bawls, to pay off and dis
charge the indebtedness secured by
said deed of trust.
A deposit of 10 per cent will be
required from the purchaser at the
sale.
This the Z3rd day dt August, 1823. I
INTERSTATE TRUSTEE
CORPORATION. '
*3 4tw Substituted Trustee.
Durham, N. C.
NOTICE OP SALE
Under and by virtue of an order
of the Superior Court, Martin Coun
ty, in an action entitled "Virginia
Ross vs. J. C. Ross. Guardian et al,"
entered at the June term special,
1833, and under and by virtue of the
authority contained in a deed of
trust dated 24th day of November,
1934, from Will Bryant and wife, of
record in the register of deeds' of
fice in book Q-2, page 203, the un
dersigned commissioner will, on the
1st day of October, 1935, at 12 o'
clock noon, at the courthouse door
Martin County offer for sale to the
highest bidder, for cash, the follow
ing described property:
Being all of lots numbers ten (10)
and eleven (11) and twelve (12) in
the land division of Everett and
Daniel, said map being of record in
book 1, page 428 of the public reg
istry of Martin County, said lot lo
cated on the southwest side of the
A. C. L. Railroad in the town of
Oak City, North Carolina.
This 31st day of August, 1935.
B. A. CRITCHER,
s3 4tw Commissioner
Zr*egte
*nn*y?u
sure
i
f THE BEER THAT MADE
MILWAUKEE FAMOUS
?n d
Distributors Williamston, N. C.
SALE or VALUABLE FARM
FBornrr
Under and by virtue of the au
thority conferred upon ui in a dead
if trust executed by L. D. Roebuck
tnd wife, Hannah Roebuck, an the
JOth day of March, 1B33, and record
ed in book 0-3, pace 535, we will
mi Saturday, the 23th day of Sep
tember, 1935, 13 o'clock noon, at the
xHirthouae door of Martin County,
Williamston, N. C., sell at public auc
tion, for cash, to the highest bidder
he following land, to wit:
All that certain tract or parcel of
land lying and being in Roberson
trille Township, Martin County, N.
2-, bounded on the N. by the lands
if Mrs. Jane Carson, the school lot
ind the national highway; on the
E by the lands of W. A. Nelson and
foe Bryan, on the S by the A. C. L.
Railroad and E. E. Powell, H. Ward,
E. C. Speight, and O. C. James, on
the W. by the lands of Church
~risp, N. O. VanNortwick, the pub
ic street and the school lot, contain
ng 58.75 acres, more or less, and
icing the same land deeded to Han
jal^Roebuci^j^J^^JJiielle^tnis^
tee, and more particularly described
as follows, to wit: Beginning at W
A. Nelson's comer tn the ditch
thence S 77 E. 11:50 eta, thence S.
5 W 180 eta., thence S 85 W 1M0
eta thence N. 3 1-8 W. 8.87 eta.
thence S 88 1-4 W. 13.10 eta, thetvne
N . ? 1-4 E. 5.25 eta. thenee S. 68
1-4 E 1.80 eta. thenee N. >3 E. 7
I eta., thence N. 48 W. 5.85 eta, thence
'N. 21 1-4 E. 11.87 eta, thence 8. 88
E. 280 eta, thence N. 81 1-4 E. 71
links, thence S. 88 E. 3 eta, thence
'21 1-4 E. 4.70 eta., thence 75 3-4 E
13.40 eta, thence S. 14 1-4 W. 34.10
chs.? to the beginning.
This land is sold subject to all un
paid taxes.
This sale is made by reason of the
failure of L. D. Roebuck and wife,
Hannah Roebuck, to pay off and dis
charge the indebtedness secured by
said deed of trust
A deposit of 10 per cent will be
required from the purchaser at the
sale.
This the 24th day of August, 1835.
INTERSTATE TRUSTEE
CORPORATION.
s3 4tw Substituted Trustee
Durham, N. C.
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