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PAGE THREE! "Uncle; Henry" 'Uses Unique "Bank" To Hide His Gold In 7Pf Where would you hide your treas ure! - Where' would you look for hidden, gold? , It U doubtful thai you could find ao aeeure a hiding place as did Henry Blanchard, eighty-year-old colored iarmer of Perquimans, and it' . a pwtty safe bet you would not have been able to find' the gold that "Uncle Henry" kept hidden for half A dosen years. 7 , Many strange and unusual hiding places hare been found for money. s It is interesting to leam of some places other titan the old teapot, the -: tin can and the sock. It takes imag : ination to devise a hiding place such ; as "Uncle Henry" found. Henry' - Blanchard was born in : slavery.. His master was the grand- ' father of J. C. Blanchard, of Hert ford, and there has always existed an attachment between the descend ants of his former owner and "Un cle Henry." When the firm of J- C. Blanchard & Company celebrated its one hundredth anniversary back in 1932, issuing an attractive descrip tive booklet, among the pictured faces of those associated with the Blanchard family appeared a very vvfine likeness of Henry Blanchard. ' Henry Blanchard is a highly re spected citizen. His word is good. His bond is good, too, for he has accumulated property. He is a sub stantial farmer, owning land and chattels, carrying on considerable business. That's not a bad record r a man who started from scratch e reconstruction period follow ing the Civil War. He earned his money by the sweat of his brow. And "Uncle Henry" has reared a 'family of eight children. . . He worked, vdid "Uncle Henry," but he did more than work; he saved. Saving got to be a habit Long af ter "Uncle Henry" had paid for the land he bought, and after he had added more acres to the original plot, he continued to exercise those IvfRts of thrift. Some years ago some money .cttme into the hands offline! Henry" which looked good. " It was gold. Later he acquired other coins of gold. Now, "Uncle Henry" believes in banks. He has always kept his mon ey in the bank. But somehow these gold coins were different. "Uncle Henry" felt that he could keep them safe. He didn't wish anybody to know he had this money, in the first place, he says. And he didn't know when he might need some money in a hurry, so he decided to keep it within sigatt Strolling in - the woods one day, along the edge of a swamp, "Uncle Henry" found an old cypress knee. He picked up the odd formation of root so familiar to the dweller in the lowlands, and right then he had an inspiration. The knee had a small hollow. Just the right kind of a hollow pocket in which to hide the golden io.'ns. The hollow was form ed so that the coins could be placed inside and pushed down out of sight. j5 So in that little old cypress knee, not much larger than his arm, "Uncle Henry" stored his gold. And where would you suppose he placed the queer treasurer chest? He was too smart to be seen taking any par ticular care of an old cypress knee. He just threw it under the grapevine! "Uncle Henry"- admits, however, that he put it in the corner nearest to the house, which made it only about a dozen steps from his back door, and he owns - that he ; often danced that way as he passed in and out. to make sure that the little old chunk of wood lay with a few other similar -looking pieces. Maybe his heart was in the cypress knee, be cause we are told that "Where your treasure is there will your heart be albo" In the half dozen years that the money lay there, though many" pass ed in and out the back door, ' dose enough almost to touch the treas ure chest that Nature had made, no- tody guessed what lay hidden under neath the grapevine. And then the order went, out that no lonsrer might gold monei be kept v in hidinr. All the gold coins must " hit riven un. and. so. reluctantlyk no doubt, "Uncle Henry? picked up1 the aM crnress knee and shook out the shining golden' coins, ' and placed them in a little bag nd brought them in to the bank 4n Hertford, ove hundred dollars in gold. roots from which . they have been sucking sap ever since. . Ia a few. weeks they will crawl up on trees, shed their skins, and change into adults with fully devel oped wings. : The locust is a form of July fly rather than a grasshopper, Dr. Metcalf said. , Usually they do little damage; occasionally (they injure young or chard trees which have been set out on new ground. These' trees may be protected by covering them with mosquito netting or tobacco cloth until the locusts disappear. The department of entomology at State College is anxious to get a complete record of this brood, and has asked that interested persons in the State keep a look-out for the in sects. The department will appreciate any reports received, also specimens that may be sent in, Dr. Metcalf stated. The locusts may be mailed safely in a strong pasteboard box. NEW HAMPSHIRE VISITORS ll-lCOI. JUUVUSiO JLU A linear This Snrinfi" ' the largest of the JT-year locust ' broods is due to swarm .over the eas tern United States this spring. V; , Millions of the winged Insects will fill the woods with their steady dron 'f ihg during the -latter part of May r,A tha firat of June, said Dr. Z. P. Metcalf t head of the .State t College entomology department.' - - ' -. , In North Carolina tney win ap- pear mostly in the mountain and Piedmont counties,, though the Srood has been recorded as , fat ; east as Wake County., (" 'T; ' ' 1 " t . Eggs of the Wood which will ' "emerge this yeai were laid in the, r sunimer of 1919. ' After hatching, i the grubs burrowed into the ground -and attached . themselves "to . tree Dr. Earl M. Sikes, of Dartmouth College, who is on vacation during the spring holidays, accompanied by Mrs. Sikes, visited Mrs. Sikes' moth er, Mrs. Herbert Newby, and her sister, Mrs. T. J. Nixon, Jr.. this week. Shelton White At Home .Sholton White, of Raleijrh. snent the week-end in Hertford, visitintr his mother, -Mrs. flt. T. White. TABLETS DISCLOSE DEEDS OF XERXES New Finds Tell How Persian Crushed a Revolt Chicago. Seven stone tablets, on which the great Persian Emperor Xerxes records for posterity the state of bis empire some, 2,420 years ago, have been discovered in. Iran (Persia) by excavators for the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. The tablets were found stored In s room of Xerxes' army garrison east of the Great Palace Terrace at Per sepoluv the Versailles" of ancient Persia, now being1 nnearthed and re stored by th Oriental institute. Three of the tablets bear inscriptions new to historians, listing for the first time the provinces Xerxes ruled, and more Important, relating Xerxes' suc cess in putting down enemies of the religion of Zoroaster after an uprising, hitherto unknown, which occurred In the early days of Xerxes' reign. Announcement of the find Is made by Dr. John A. Wilson, newly-appointed acting director of the Oriental insti tute nnd successor of the late Dr. James II. Breasted. Dr. Erich F. Schmidt, fleld director of the Iranian expedition, reported the discovery. Written in cuneiform characters In the Elamite, Babylonian and Old Per sian languages, the tablets apparently were made for use as "cornerstone" foundation deposits. As translated by Prof. Ernst Herzfeld the three "new" tablets read as follows: Translation of Tablets. 1. A great god Is Ahuramaeda who created the earth here, who created the heaven yonder, who created man kind, who created peace for men, who made Xerxes king, one king of a mnl tltude, one law-elver of a mnltifii'lo 2. I, Xerxes, "the great king, the king of kings, the king of the lands of many tribes, the king on this wide, far-stretching earth, the son of Darius the king, the Achaemenld, a Persian son of a Persian, an Aryan of Aryan lineage. 8. Sayeth Xerxes- the king: By the will of Ahuramazda, these are the lands beside Pars over which I was king; I rnled them; they brought mo tribute; what was ordered them by me they did; my law held them; Media, Elam. Arachosla, Zranga, Par thla,. Areta, Bactrla, Sogdia, Chor asmia. Babylonia, Assyria, the Sat tagydes, Sardls, Egypt, the Ionian that dwell in the Sea and those that dwell beyond the Sea, Gedrosia, Syria, Oan dara. the Indus-land, Cappadoda, the Dahae, the Amyrgian Sacae the0rth okorybanthlan Sata. the Macedonians, the-Akalrfaclya, the Punt, the Carlans, the Kush. 4. Sayeth Xerxes the king: When I became king, there were among those lands, which are written above, some who rebelled ; then, Ahuramazda helped me; by Ahuramazda's will, such a land I defeated, and to their place I re stored them; nnd among those lands were such where, before, the Dalvns were worshipped; then, by Ahuramaz da's will, of such temples of the Dal vns I sapped the foundations, and I ordained "the Dalvns shall not be wor shipped !" Worshipped Ahuramazda. Where the Daivas had been wor shipped, there I worshipped Ahurnmaz dn together with 'Utam the exalted. And there were other things which were done wrongfully, such I righted. This what I did, I did It all by the will of Ahuramazda. Ahuramazda helped me, until I had performed the work. Thou who art of an after age, If thou thlnkest, "I wish to be happy In life, and In death I wish to belong to 'Rtam," abide in those laws which Ahuramazda has established and wor ship Ahuramazda together with 'Rtam the exalted! The man that abides in the laws which Ahuramazda has estab lished and worships Ahuramazda to gether with 'Rtam the exalted, that one will be happy in life and will, in death, belong to 'Rtam. 5. Sayeth Xerxes the king: Ahura mazda shall guard me from the evil of my house and this land! It Is for this that I implore Ahnramazda, It is this that Ahuramazda shall grant me I Xerxes' empire, the greatest the world had seen up to that time, ex tended northeast to the region north east of modern Afghanistan, southwest through ancient Kush to the borders of modern Ethiopia, southeast to the Indus river In northwestern India, and northwest through most of Asia Minor. In the new Inscriptions Xerxes claims, on the west, "the Ionian that dwell In the sea and those that dwell beyond the sea." This Indicates that the tab lets were inscribed during the live years between Xerxes' accession In 480 B. C. and the battle of Salamls, 480 B. G, when the Persian attack on Greece ended In dismal failure. VISITING PARENTS Miss Gladys Hamrick, Home Dem onstration Agent of Perquimans, left Wednesday to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hamrick, at Kings Mountain. Miss Hamrick expects to return home on Sunday. SPRING SKIRT LENGTH. Spring skirts will hover about twelve inches from the ground. That means more shoe and stocking har mony, more planning of color notes and contrasts. Stamp Collectors Get Market in City Hall Brussels. The business of stamp collecting Is becoming so Important that the city of Antwerp has granted permission to collectors to use as a market one of the rooms of the Bourse de Commerce on Sunday from 10 a. m. until noon. This is said to be the first time a postage stamp mar ket has been officially Instituted In a city hall In Belgium. Antwerp is naturally the center of tne stamp collecting business In Bel glum, because of Its shipping Interests. Shipping offices receive correspondence from all parts of the world nnd rare stamps are comparatively common. Professional stamp collectors rnet the ships at Antwerp and coax sailors and others to barter their specimens of rare stamps for ready cash. COME SEE US! If you have never seen us shell SEED PEANUTS We invite you over next Saturday. 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