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Loire and Slxshooters The executions take place Immed iately on the arrival. There to no further ceremony, only the execu tioner walks 'round the edifice car rying the dripping head, held high whilst his attendants cry Izaga. This was the second victim ex ecuted on account of the chiefs melancholy illness and as he was a powerful Nabob being brother to the king of all the river Enkomis these executions would continue until he had completely recovered. Before leaving Angola for the coast I received my mall from Liv erpool and reading this was a de lightful pastime. As the waterway Is wide and deep to the mouth of the river there was no need for sounding so that 1 had a delightful day. After my mother's letter the most Important was from a young college friend. We were always together at school and he felt lonely after my departure for Africa. He was born In Peru. South America. He was the son of an Englishman who wander stone had been broken to pieces, the grave had been opened and be ing only a few feet from the edge of the island was gradually being washed away. I removed this with what remained of T-to the cen tre of the Island but was surprised to find T——'s head had been re moved entirely, together with por tions of the gravestone, whtoh I put together but. I could not have un derstood the inscription on it if I had not had T-'s mother’s letter, which however proved a clue to his family and likewise his standing with his people who held a very prominent place amongst the Brit ish aristocracy. Vessels entering the river were forced to use the main channel which was deep at low tide and went close to the island on tire north side. This island was a good landmark for entering vessels and could easily be told as there were two tali decayed upas trees on it, in which a colony of huge vampires made their home. These trees were easily seen from a long distance “You've got to knok blacks; read their minds by looking into their eyes. That's how I picked my gunbearer, Renchero " ed to Peru .and had married an Inca chief's daughter and become the owner of a famous silver mine. He had died and had left a tremendous fortune to Little Peru, who was my best friend and always remained so. Besides hi* affectionate letter he had sent me two long six-shooters, especially made for big game shooting. By about noon we were at the seaside. And thanks to my good at tendant Renchoro we found a nice little village nestled In a large Plndo or plantation owned at one time by the father of Nina the goddess. On his death he had freed all his slaves who had married and formed quite a colony of peaceable natives. From T——’s Mother. The chief of these liberated slaves spoke English fairly well and show ed me a little casket or box Inlaid with mother of pearl which his mas ter had put in hlg care. On opening this I found two old faded tintypes. One was T— and the other was a lady that might be his mother. T-— was well clad and wore a hunting jacket and hunting leggings. The other photo was a bust and on her head was something that looked like a small ornament of Jewels. The face and the rest of the bust was so faded and indistinct I could make nothing of it. In the box I also round a letter from Tr—“-’s mother, a very affec tionate letter and she had begged h m to come home, etc. The, con ^ ■ tents of this letter I shall never di vulge for conscience sake. A small copybook, etc., told me that T—— had taught little Nina how to write, this I was pleased witjr, as Nina would have perhaps not have for gotten yet. This I found later was correct, as far as reading went, so that I could always smuggle In a short note to the goddess when I used to visit the temple to make a wish. It was cus tomary to make a visit by Isoga’s congregation. The suppliant gener ally had his wish granted if his present was sufficiently large to please the spirits, whom I found • easy to satisfy. The Grave Opened. I bought the casket and contents from the old slave for four bottles of trade rum. This old slave also pointed out to me the Island where his master was burled at the en trance to the Ogowe River. I visit ed this and easily found it. The Dr. D. M. Morrison OPTOMETRIST Office Days: Every Wednesday And Friday. Woolwerth Bid*. Shelby, N. t Eyes Scientifically Examined. Glasses Fitted, Lenses Dupli cated, Broken Frames Repaired. seaward and made splendid beacons but gave the Island an uncanny ap pearance. The Marriage Certificate. I also found T-—’a marriage cer tificate with his wife’s name. They were married at Princess Island and T—— had first met his wife In Madeira. They were legally married. The goddess had, I should say every right to whatever property or title would have been her father's, as her elder brother was killed In Northern Nigeria by a British pa trol who came up with Josef Car lella and his band of Morocco des ert thieves. This I proved to be true by the Nigerian Protectorate Border patrol. T-'s son had fought It out with the rest, as the law of nomads is no surrender. He was killed on the Lake Chad road. As I had made ally my prepara tions for my return up the Ogowe I left early next morning by the light of' the moon. At Angola I de spatched four men with my over land mail which went via Lake Azingo. Needless to say I hud writ ten a long letter to Little Peru, my bosom friend, telling him all about the goddess and who she really was. I also told him that foj; her sake I had determined to take away the large ruby and replace It by rfn imi tation. It- would be risky but I would chance it. He could sell it In Liv erpool or New York after he had It valued, and with the money real ized we could educate Nina whom I Intended to steal off later on. I drew a sketch of the precious stone and told him to have the imitation slightly pitted so as to show weath ering I must have the two Imitations by next mall if possible as I would make the attempt soon to change the true ruby for an imitation. Once I had it in my possession I would send it to him so he would have plenty of time to change it Into cash. I told Peru I thought the best market for the ruby was New York, U. S. A. I also gave him a good description of the English girl. In due course I received the two imi tations. Nina's Stepfather. On my next trip up the river I came to the lake country. The peo ple inhabiting these lakes are Gal was or, Eningas. The country is rul ed by small chiefs, many of whom I visited; they would invariably Trench Foot ■•war* Athlata’s Foot Why suffer from the queer skin ng: severe Itching of Kff' *“4 **•*• cracking, peeling skin, bllstsrs. Ringworm. Trench Foot or «and Itch, when you can avoid )n qulckiy heal your skin f- Nlaone Nlxoderm? Bused if“nou* English Hospital for ^ v,r,!i. ?y a leading Lon don skin specialist. Or. Nixon's Nix oderiQ ftet* with urmtsinir snepd h« aj^Ujfned for thif SnfculSi skin di®PH8o, Nlxoderm sruarnn teed rt mist stitch and mhckto h^ak‘# °r ““ °“aU SUTTEE S DRUG SI ORB. trot, out their wives and you were told to pick out one or more, and not to feel lonesome In his town. One morning I saw a huge bull elephant making directly for our aide of the river. His skin hung loose about his sides and legs which reminded one of mud colored over alls His ponderous and nodding head carried splendid large black Ivories whilst his large ears moved slowly keeping time with his leis urely stride. The Rascal Elephant The old rascal elephant was well known to the natives who dwelt on the Island he had paid them yearly visits from time out of mind, he was a night prowler and had killed many of the natives on his rounds and he always destroyed more than he could eat. This dangerous Pacy derme was called by the nickname of OJuga (which means hunger and starvation) producer of want and hunger. As he left the water he headed for the rocky-hlll-side quite close to us and commenced to climb up wards but gave me no chance for a sure kill. Up he went and as the hill was very steep he seemed to be climbing a ladder. He took his time but never stopped, he was a splen did climber. About one hundred fret above the water he trumpeted, his ears were up but he was tall on. As the path was small and dan gerous he had signalled ahead that he was coming and wanted a clear road. Suddenly he turned with ears still up. I fired. No result. I fired again with a rifle quickly handed to me by my boy who was good at the job and always behind me load ing up. Another shot behind the ear, no result. He quickened his pace and disappeared. I Jumped to the sandbank with my boy and as I pointed my rifle the rascal fell backward, the shots had taken ef fect. Celebration.” He was quite 200 feet high when he fell backwards, bringing what seemed the hill With him, down, down he came with a few tons of loosened rock and a cloud of dust with him and fell Into the river about ten yards from the canoe with his head on the sandbank and his huge body in the water. (To be continued) Scout Boys Receive Merit Advancement Court of Honor Held in Court House Fqr Last Time This Spring. ( Special to The Star.) The local court of honor mot at the court house May 4. This was the final court'of the spring. The next court win be held In early fall The scouts of the local court show a de crease In Interest. The members of the court were Mr. J. A. Propst Hugh Arrowood, Dale Kalter, R. W. Shoffner, Lindsey Dali and W. C. Abernethy. The following received advancement. Tenderfoot—Howard Caveny, Jas. Holcomb, Jack Baber, Carl May hew,. Second class—Alfred Bowman First class—Malcolm Wallace, Lee Turner, Robert Weathers. Agriculture—Flay Kale Clyde Ledbetter. Clarence Smith. Astronomy— Glenn M. Simmons. Book binding—Flay Kale, Arthur Nix James Eaker, Jack McKee Cement work—Glenn M. Sim mons Cotton farming—J. A. Propst First aid to animals—Ralph Kale C. B, Poston, Eugene Poston. Handicraft—Ben Jenkins jr.( Mar shal Ivester, Cecil Powell. Personal Health—Charles E. Ridge. plumbing—Glenn M. Simmons, Public health—Eugene Post' u, Ralph Kale. Radio—Glenn M. Simmons. Many a speaker thinks more about his speech after he makes it One way to please the public if to say nice things about the public Time passes rapidly for a bust man; only the loafer finds the houis long. i Personally, we don't know the an swer, but the nation can well af ford to put some thought on what will happen If the railroads are put out of business. SAMEPRIC 25 ounces for • 25c BAKINC POWDER lt*s double acting Use K C for fine texture and large volume in your bakings. MILLIONS OF POUNDS USID BY OUR <50Vt HeiMENT 4 Gardner Kept Hands Off Sales Tax Fight Except When Invited To Talk Ninth District Opposed Tax L'pon Little Man. Plan New Platform. (Greensboro News.) Raleigh.—Without luxuriating in the luxury tax, Governor Gardner sat back with satisfaction that he had kept hands off scrupulously in the contest which Is virtually at end. His excellency came into the fight only as an innocent bystander and by invitation of the general assem bly to speak his mind. The gossip about the capital had been for many years that the rich young ruler has ties in piedmont North Carolina which bind him to a pow erful industrial group now able to: dominate the tax thinking of the state. To make the thing balder, thej story went over the earth that Gov ernor’s big interest in Winston Salem stood between him and a per fect service to all the people. Just how it was figured out that Forsyth and Durham and Gaston and Meck lenburg and Cleveland and Guil ford residents are not folks is not now explained; but men who have appeared for those groups are called lobbyists and hirelings of the pre datory interests; men who represent the agrarian counties are patriots. And so his excellency stood between these two fires, whilst a third group sniped at him for not joining them against both of the other cabals. Attacked Born ideas. After days and weeks the gover nor appeared. To the utter conster nation of his critics he bounded upon both sales tax Ideas somewhat akin to the Rowan Dutchman watching two Republicans in that county fight, said in sentiment: “Between them two damned dawgs I ain't got no ruthers.” Between lux uary and general sales Mr. Gardner made no choice. He reprobated both as thoroughly unsound economical principles and gave as his opinion that they would not do the work. Winston-Salemites were sorely dis pleased. They had Joined the east ern North Carolina group and help ed them to put over the general sales tax later. When the easterners got the westerners thoroughly put, the battle was won. There would have been no form of sales tax writ ten by either house had the Forsyth trio stood up against the general sales tax. And had the counties out lying, not to mention the Republi can balance of power, stood against all kinds of sales tax, (the easterns had lost. But the situation now is novel. The western Republican Join ed the eastern Democrats. And the east pan shut its eyes and trade the west out of its birthright any day. None of which considerations Governor Gardner discusses or even appears to have in his mind. His satisfaction grows out of these facts: The 1928 Democratic state conven tion went out of its way to put down the sales tax. The 1930 state con vention Just as definitely declined even to consider such a revenue measure. Governor Gardner came into office on the platform of 1928 and the 1930 state convention was a dumb on sale stax as a frog in dog days. The platform on which he ran made no concession whatsoever to the sales tax and the platform in mid-term was equally opposed to this measure. By all the party shib boleths this measure had no place in state policy. The governor had ay. opinion on the subject, but he was dogmatic about it. Did Not Try To Beat It. The governor never has believed that he had power enough to beat tlie sales tax. He felt from the first that it would be adopted and he was without record on the issue un til he was prodded. Many persons At The Change H Critical Time la Every Woman’s Life. "During a critical time In my life I took Cardul for several months. I had hot flashes. I would sud denly get dizzy and seem blind. X would get faint and have no strength. My nerves were on edge. I would not sleep at night. "Cardul did won* ders for me. I rec ommend It to all women who are pass ing through the criti cal period of change. X have found it a fine medicine.”—tin. s*ttn Muiyky, Poplar Bluff, Mo, Cardul la a purely vege table medicine and con tains no dangerous drugs. B-tTf CARDUI Helps Women to Health I Tak* Ttodi I <M Oon*tr ISSl ford'* Bluk-Dru«M l pat I on, IiKtlfeatton, l told him that he could defeat both forms of It, If he tried; but he would not try. He did nothing to pass the MacLean bill and nothing to defeat It. He did oppose an eight months term two years ago when Mr. Mac Lean was favoring it without very great fervor for any sales tax, but the governor stood against the eight months term because the six months costs were so stupendous. As economist he has shown much greater wisdom than any member of the general assembly or any out sider has shown on the same sub ject. Now the governor really can lux uriate, if he wishes. He has a policy on his hands which he neither wel comed nor repelled. It came by a legislature which on the whole has been very good toward him. He is in position if its administration works the financial redemption of th9 state, to profit by it: if it falls it is still no responsibility of his. Effect On Politics. The ninth district in which the governor lives, was pretty solidly against the sales tax. Gaston, Meck lenburg, Burke, Lincoln and Cleve land stood out well. It is interesting to note in that connection that Con gressman Charles A. Jonas, Repub lican, now retired and interim dis trict attorney, vehemently opposes the sales tax. Chairman .Jim Duncan favors it. There are very few Demo crats in Raleigh who would give much for a Democrat's chances to take the ninth district in the 1932 election with the incubus of the sales tax In the bailiwick. A Prospective Platform But not all the Democrats down here are blue. While the accepted sales tax seems to be universally despised, Democrats believed they can use it to demagogic account. They think they can go in 1932 to the state convention and “where as the financial depression and ag ricultural stagnation caused by Hoo ver prosperity and a Republican administration have cost the state of North Carolina $83,000,000; and, * "Whereas, the lass of farm pro ducts have been so great as to make it impossible for our government to run on its revenues regularly deriv ed requiring a sales tax in this un precedented Republican panic, be it "Resolved, that the Democratic party in state convention assem bled approve the adoption of such a tax as a desperate emergency measure, and that we hereby pledga its repeal so soon as our state re covers from the awful blight of Re Your JVIother goes or I go... this ]VIinute f AN orphan—Flo called herself „ that evening we met in the city — strangers—lonely. After that tight—I lived for her passionate lips —lips that enticed me into marriage. Flo spent wildly— kept me broke —baby came—and Flo took pneumo nia. When my poor, old widowed mother told her house to pay our hills — she had to live with us. Two women—one roof—that’s when hell cut loose! Kind, noble — Ma did all the work — never complained. Flo sulked, nagged — even oursed Ma for kissing baby—for little things— for nothing at alt. Then Ma took neuralgia—couldn’t work. Flo kept growing nastier— UNTIt—that day Ma broke a pitcher —trivial thing—a molehill that flared into a mountain. "Get out — out of my home, you worthless bag”—Flo screamed and swinging on me— "This roof’s too small—she's got to go, Eddie—or out I go—this minute' 7 "Stop,” I roared. "You’re cruel as a snake.” Flo moved toward me —voluptuous arms circled my neck —“Ma’s sick,” I struggled oo, "No friends—no place to go — she'd diet Before you drive her out ’ — Flo’s lips sought mine—"I’ll see you— damn you—I’ll see you—you . . .” Which woman did Eddie choose? Did bis slavish desire for Flo tear in to shreds his sense of justice—send into the streets his aged mother who worked, sacrificed, fare aH to make them happy? Or did destiny force Eddie to drive from his home this wife who had made him so happy—had borne hie child — and whose embraces were •till an ecstacy be craved Tike dope ? You simply must read for yourself MY MOTHER AND MY WIFB —a helpless husband's own true story of bow bis wife end mother—loving him with equal fijfoeness—dragged his soul through hell and how he finally solved this terrible domestic tangle, the like of which has wrecked a million homes. Read MV MOTHBR AND MY WIFB and nearly a score of other astound ing real-life stories including titles* such as “Love After Marriage,” “No Man Can Do More,” “When Suioide Beckons” and “Love at the Iron Door” —all in June TRUK STORY MAGAZINE. Get your copy —read it today I •To tin Listenen-i* ea tk* TRUE STORY Radio Hour The stories Sited above will be broadcast, one each Friday night daring May. Statioa end hour: Colombia Broadcasting System. 9 F. M. Eastern Daylight Savings Time, and all other sones at corretpooding hoars. The Janeiteae ol TRUB STORY is now on sale at all newsstands. By getting your copy aad reading it ia advance, year enjoyment oil these stories when broadcast will be CeadjF increased. True Stor JB.OI T TODAY WHEREVER MAGAZINES ARE SOU; Bethlehem Section News Of The Week Birthday Celebration for J. P. Bla lock. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin How ell Have New Girl. (Special to The Star.) Bethlehem, May 5.—Sunday was a beautiful day and a large crowd attended Sunday school. At 3:00 o'clock the Grover high school com mencement sermon was preached at the Bethlehem church. The aid society met with Mrs. J I. Hope Saturday afternoon. Mr. Andrew Watterson entertain ed the senior class and friends at his home Saturday night. Every body had a good time. Mr. and Mrs. Hal Morris spent the week-end at Jackson Springs with Mr. Morris’s people. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Yarbro cele brated the birthday of her father, iMr J. P. Blalock Sunday. Those at tending the dinner were Mr. and Mrs. Blalock, Misses Plccola and Gladys Blalock. Mrs. Alvin Hord and little daughters, Katie Belle and Margaret. Mrs. Hord and children are spending this week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P Bla lock. The Bethlehem school closed last week with a successful year. The average attendance for the year was 86. Perfect attendance were eight. Mr. and Mrs G. H. Dixon and daughter, Grace, of Dallas, spent Sunday afternoon with friends and relatives. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Howell, April 29, a daughter Miss Sarah Pae Mass of Grover .-pent the week-end with Miss Ruby Watterson. Mr. and Mrs. Wade Huskln spent Sunday with Mrs. B. R. Moss of Kings Mountain. MULL’S CHAPEL PREACHING SERVICES ARE ANNOUNCED (Special to The Star.) We were glad to have a large crowd out at Sunday school Sunday. Our Sunday school IS going on nice ly. We are glad to report our B. Y. P. U. Is increasing. Preaching service as follows: Sat urday afternoon at 2 o’clock, May 9, by the pastor, Rev. R. R. Cook and on Sunday at 11 o’clock by Rev. Ed McDaniel. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Conner had as dinner guests Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Martin and family of Crowder Mountain. publicanism.” That is the platform which is in the making at this stage of devel opment. «. m m ! DO YOU WANT TO BUY OR SELL? I Use Classified Advertising In The Star. I 20,000 Readers and the Minimum Charge ■ for a Want Adv. is Only 25c. Phone 11. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ - ■ ' ■ ' ■ W Build With Brick DELIVERIES FROM PLANT TO JOB When in need of FACE OR COMMON BRICK write us, or phone 76m, Mt. Holly, N. C. 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