Did Snake Tempt
Eve, Or Did She
Tempt The Snake
Com Cracker Notes Marriage Of
Aged Couple And Comments On
Lore and Women.
Editor Star;
All of us have heard the shop
worn proverb that the course of
true love never runs smooth.
When young people decide to
take the fatal plunge the parents
object and when the old people
are again enthralled fn love’s
young dream their ehildren file
a vigorous protest. We learn
from your columns of a sportv
youngster of 92 and a giddy
maiden of 81 wheat harvests
that arc singing, “This is the
way I long have sought and
mourned because I found it not’
Taking their ages as prints facia
Pvitience—the Inference would he
that the dissenting voices came
from children; but It is learned that
the protest comes from parents of
interested parties. The mother < f
the groom said the prospective
bride was a giddy flapper, too full
of romance, and an unmitigated
flirt. In rebuttal, the mother of
the bride charged the groom with
being a gay otharlo, who was. more
over, a gluttonous man, a wlnebili
ber, a friend of republicans and sin
ners: and, worse than all—an adher
ent of A1 Smith. Who could blame
the old matron—"iprripely for the
political predelictioVO; 1|id/the vain
and dissolute party o%j|he second
part in the case? | Thd flI6f1ier of
the groom retaliated % charging
that a giddy young thing of 81 was
too young to know her own mind
and should wait until she arrived at
years of discretion. The old lady
further charged that the frivolous
damsel, at the tender age of 75,
was about to marry a lawyer, but
jilted him for an editor; and jilted
him in turn for a singing-school
teacher; who Jilted her. He borrow
ed $50 from the prospective bride to
buy a wedding ring; but departed
those coasts, taking the cash with
him. Later, he wrote her—“The
rose is red and the violets blue, you
get left and I left too." The groom
also had an affair of the heart at
the tender age of 82, A forliuie
teller, a phrenologist and a clair
voyant—all in the person of a star
eyed alluring damsel fair, fat and
forty; beguiled him into lending her
$500 for sixty days. Sixty days earn*
and went, moons waxed and waned
—dogs hcwled and bayed the moon;
but no more did he behold his in
amorlta, the pride and Joy of his
life or the $500. After five years, he
learned that she became No. 15 ,o
a Mormon missionary who had one,
leg, one eye, and one arm. She
wrote back that she had married
the apple of her eye and the dwK
log of her heart; thereby malting a
woman and something like two
thirds of « man happy.
But love laughs at locksmith,
bolts and bars, and 1 feel like
spreading my quaking hands upon
their heads and saying in my quav
ering, squeaking voice, “May heaven
bless you, ihy children.” I know how
it feels to have an aching heart and
lacerated feelings. Once l asked a
maiden, fair as the tratgiplautcd
angels in a Mohamedan paradise.an
ijrtportant question and her answer
was “no." I went to Casar, laid in
8 cargo of bugle paint, and dwin
dled into an unsightly bloat. For
tjfc.o years 1 ate but four meals a
day; but she snickered at my cala
mity and married a man with a
hump cn his back like a camel who
chewed hillside navy: and let (hr
wind blow through his long, scrag
gy, mud-colercd whiskers. For e
while I had such a poor opinion of
womankind that I didn't know
whether Eve tempted the Serpent
or the Serpent templed Eve. But in
six months I was as big a tool as
ever and a marvel of credulity. I
believed anything a pretty woman
tole me, and haven't entirely re
covered my reason. Poor old Adam
was a credulous simpleton and ms
descendants are like unto him.
CORN CRACKER
Brigham Young s
First Marriage
On Office Record
iBv International News Service)
[ Chardon, O.—Brtngham Young’s
i first marriage license in Geauga
! county and is on file in the office
1 of Probate Judge Charles 3. Ltn
hart.
In the beginning of the last cen
I tury the Mormons flourished in
Kirtland, near Chardon, where a
temple erected by them in stand
ing today in an erxellent state of
preservation.
Brigham Young journeyed to
1 Chardon and obtained his iicen.se to
take his first plunge into matri
monial seas. The license reads ac
curately, with strict attention to
punctuation and capitalization, as
follows:
“The state of Ohio, Geauga
county ss. Personally appeared
Brigham Young and made applica
tion for a marriage license for him -
self and Mary Ann Angel of town
ship of Kirtland in said county, and
made solemn oath that he, the said
Brigham Young is of age of twen
ty-one years,. and the said Mary
Ann Angel is of the age of eighteen
years: that they are both single,
and not nearer of kin than first
cousins, that he knows of no legal
impediment against their being
joined in marriage.
(Signed > Brigham Young or
Bricham Young.
Sworn to and subscribed this
10th day of February, 183*. Before
me. Ralph Cowles. Dt p. Clerk.'1
The signature is clearly not
“Brigham,'’ and it is not clear
whether it it.is Bricham or Bir
cham. Judge Behhart inclines 'o
the opinion that the first is the
spelling given.
It is interesting to note that Mr.
Young made solemn oath that
"they fire both single, and that ‘lie
knows of no legal impediment
against their being joined in mar
riage."
Helping Ex-Convicts.
Raleigh,—(INSJ—Pardon Com
missioner Edwin Bridges announced
today tliat he hoped to have an or
ganization completed at an early
date “for looking cut for cx-con
vlets."
Commissioner Bridges some time
ago launched a plan to get some oi
ganization in every county of the
state to appoint a committee to
steer released prisoners on the
right path.
He has received favorable replies
from about 50 of the organization:;.
He is mailing out letters to those
clubs which have not answered.
Hugh Uurbhi. 13, was caught hi
the ropes of a balloon at Frank
fort, Ind., carried 700 feet in the air.
afterwards alighting with the bal
loon in a tree with only minor
bruises.
Shelby
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PAUL WEBB & SON DRUG STORE
Officers Believe
Distilling Is Less
Says Mountain Counties of This
State Furnish Boone For
Scutii Carolina People.
Gaffney, S. C — Six distilleries
captured, approximately 2.600 gal
lons of “beer” were destroyed, and
three men were placed under char •
ges of violating the prohibition
laws as the result of the work of
the Cherokee county’s state con
stables during September, according
tn the monthly report made public
by George McCraw, senior constable
Mr. McCraw expressed the opinion
that the manufacture of whiskey
in Cherokee county has been great
ly reduced in recent months.
“The most of the liquor being
consumed here now is imported from
other counties and from the moun
tains of North Carolina,” he declar
ed.
He said the constables have exer
cised vigilance in searching for dis
tilleries and in apprehending viola
tors of the prohibition laws. As a
result of this activity, he believes,
distilling has become a distinctly
unhealthy business in Cherokee
county. In support of this theory he
! cited a recent visit made by the of
(fleers to the Kings Mountain battle
j ground sector, fcimerly a fertile ter
I rttr.ry for the operations of block
' adcro. Upon the last inspection of
I this area the officers failed to dis
I cover a distillery, whereas it has not
been so long ago when it was cus
; ternary for the constables to capture
two, three and sometimes more
i stills per week in the battleground
Oil SCI W19
j BE lEDiCl
Sinrla'r and Fall Case to Open On
Oeto&er 17 at Washington.
( barged With Conspiracy.
! (By Kenneth Clary, INC. Staff)
W ishlngtcn.—The stage is being
i set to try the second big conspiracy
1 case arising out of the naval oil re
I serve scandal
It is the trial of Harry F. Sin
] clair, multi-millionaire oil man, and
| ex-secretary of Interior .Albert B
i Fall. It opens on October 17 before
| Justice Frederick L. Siddons in Lhs
trlct of Columbia criminal court No.
two. The gria! was postponed from
last spring at the request of the
government counsel who are seeking
the return of important witnesses in
Europe No further delays are an
ticipated.
The first conspiracy trial result
ed in a defeat for the government
when a jury here feund -Fall and
Edward L Doheny. sr., not guiily
of defrauding the government in
the leasing of the Elk Hills, Cali
fornia, reserve.
The government however, won the
civil suit when the Supreme court
held that the lease was "tainted
with corruption” and ordered the
return of the property.
Sinclair and Fall are charged
with conspiracy in leasing the Tea
pot Dane. Wyoming, naval oil re
serve. It is alleged that the lease
was the outcome of a conspiracy to
iBvor Sinclair's bid, and that Fall
obtained from Sinclair on May .1,
1922 Liberty bonds worth $230,000.
Tire bonds were pnssed from a
"dummy” trading company set up
in Canada, the indictment reiates.
Two oil men H. M. Blackmer and
James E. O'Neil, who fled to Europe
are held by the government to be
key witnesses in tracing the bond
transaction. A subpoena has been
served on Blcckmer but O’Neil has
net been located by American
agents abroad. Under the net.
Walsh act, the government can
confiscate property up to $100,000
of Americans who refuse to return
from abroad to testify. Government
counsel threatened to invoice this
act against the missing men.
A spectacular trial is anticipated.
Cabinet members, past and present,
high government officials, and lead
ers in the oil industry are included
in the 78 subpoenas issued by the
government.
BAVARIAN ALPS POLICE
TRY TO SAVE EDLWEISS
(By Intel-national News Service)
Munich.—“Don’t pick all the
flowers,” say the mountain ponce
in the Bavarian Alps, who are
now waging a campaign to save
their edelweiss and other mountain
flowers against the many collectors.
The gendarmes, who are proud
of their pretty country. declare
they aren’t so stingy'but what they
will let people pluck a few blooms,
but the trouble is they aren't con
tent that is, most of them, until
they have cleared the whole rpoun -
tain-side of flowers.
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tractive.
Courteous and thorough treatment of each and
every patron.
Reasonar.re charge and the free adjustment of
your glasses.
These arc (he things that have made my opti
cal department a success.
DR. D. M. MORRISON
Optometrist. (Eye Specialist)
Located Downstairs — Webb Building.
TELEPHONE 585 — SHELBY, N. C.
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