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r RANKS OFAGlIiGIfl LAUGHS FROM THE DAY'S NEWS! NATION IS GROWING Trends Means More Older Workers in Industry. UALSEY RAINES: 1 - j .-a ' ' t f tK R3TATO ?:l f CWT WE FIX 14."-"- 1 . . . - -1 . . . -s 'j . . , 1 well -er J.this LrrrvE PCfTOTQ SHORTAGE: 5END5 U i :"-Vr rtWlrJ!? " ' "What has hap psned so fab: n tA Washington of 1823, political titrmoifia in the air." " Peggy O'Neals, attrac tive young daughter of the owner . of the Franklin Inn, is a friend of An drew Jackson. But ahe ; dis regards the lat ter' advice in order to keep a secret ' tryst with a handsome . young palmist and mystic, Prof ha Boy fiunderland, , , r ' Chapter Four Peggy had never visited this part 1 of the city before, and the houses on McCpmb Street looked all alike; ' they were rather pretentious, with jutting brick, facades, lace-draped ' windows and potted plants. Masking her inner excitement with an as sumed calmness, Peggy walked up the steps of Number 25 and rang the bell. The door was opened by a hard-featured woman or middle ' years. '"'.' - - "What do you want?" she asked, starine at the eirl. "Why, I have an appointment at three o'clock," replied Peggy. "It's Willi f linowui uuuuvt iouui The woman gave her an odd and singularly unpleasant half-smile. Then she opened the door further and beckoned the way inside. Peggy was escorted through a dimly light ed alcove into a small room out fitted with several fortune-reading devices, and a number of colored wall prints. Then the woman ex cused herself, drawing the curtains behind her. In a few minutes a ser vant girl came in, bringing some tea and cakes. She seemed startled by something about Peggy's ap pearance and, in a hoarse whisper, asked her what she was doing there, , "I'm waiting for a gentleman," re plied Peggy. "You don't belong here!" urged the girl. "Get out as quick as you can." At that moment the front door bell rang, and the woman upstairs called out to the maid to answer. Peggy caught the sound of a mss- r fHi' 'lii wto'l p tnywbtrt without mi," tbreattntd SimdtrUmd. . , , .culine voice that sounded very 'familiar. Sheput her ear close to i the curtains. She was not mistaken. . It was John Randolph! , "I am here at the behest of the i United States Senate," Randolph .said coldly. "You have. Just twenty four hours to pack your bags and i leave the vicinity of the Capitol." "What have I done T" said the lady of the house evasively. "I ain't IbotherUt' none of the aobs.n , Tm not here to argue with you," ; retorted .Randolph. "Get out of tWeshlngton!" ' " :. Perrr. nytlfled by this dialogue, ' : .could not control her feelings any , tlonfer and Impulsively parted the kurtaim. Randolph stared at her as , .though thunderstruck, sad it was Jseveral moments before he oould .Ispnelr -? "What are you dolnr in this place, Margaret r be said, la biting, icy ,tones. " ' "Z. came here alone, to meet a ' gentleman," answered Peggy.-. ' "Who Is he?" asked Randolph, T cut tell you," said Peggy. ; "She Just wanted to have her fortune told," put in the propriet- - ; 'ress, but Randolph waved aside the f '.interruption, and turned again to I 'Peggy. s f 5 "My carriage Is outside," he said. ' ,"1 can take you home." . - 1 Tm not ready to go," said Peg : jgy. "Besides, John Randolph, this Site none of your business." ' ' RAndnlnh nroduced a small nis- tol from his pocket, as the woman who had admitted Peggy suppres sed a cry.. " "I will make it my business," he said grimly. Peggy stared at him and tnls i ume, uniiKe tne occasion in ; tne slave market, he was the' one Who exercised the stronger will-power. Slowly she moved to the- doorway, end, giving him her arm, Walked to the waiting carriage. ' Professor Sunderland.1' fortunate- lly for himself, had been- delayed In Keeping am tares o'ciock appoint ment by the hire f corner grog (hop specialising in Knglish ale. As the set there arrfaasr rocuriD with M codn Cuthoert, one drink led w ftdowier, and it. was with a sod iea srt, tv-t be d'wrerd Che hdme of a. k i-e was aoout to settle Ithites 9wt M ttV off, when aa I j&.t t ; t. tv- eyes. i - Tbs cejr- i r -i t a at ' M opposite -SH r'j CttthtMl . j Vxr; 1c' i i i ill mi ftsv 14 t 'AIIXIOUS TO SERVE YOU . . READ THE ADS Ion on the other's tace.r?ou toldj; me you-had an h engagement .witn: a lydy, but you wouldn't aay who,''a e shook his head. "Well, my tine ; He Borneo, she ain't for the likes o'i you." wv, , ,; s h.' I The carriage was -feomlngr from the dlreotion of McComb Street, and Sunderland suspected what had ; transpired. He wiped his brow as he considered the dilemma that would have confronted him had he been more prompt. Then he quickly thought of a way to handle the ait-1 uation from that point on. Lying: on her bed, on the verge 1 of tears, Peggy became aware of a : slight sound at the door. A note was ' being pushed underneath. Hurried-1 ly she picked it up, to read the fol- j lowing message: "JbTv conscience as a gentleman laesvous. Marriage, my beloved, is the one tender proof of my ajjec-. tion. I will await vow with a car-1 rifles in the black lane at eight ', tonight. Do not disappoint me." t During the hours that intervened before nightfall Peggy gave up all thought of responding to this secret i message. But when eight o'clock ar rived she could not resist the temp tation of turning back the curtains ! in. her room and peering out. Sun derland, as he had promised, was waiting with his carriage in the outer lane. He caught sight of her , and signalled that eho should open the window. ' "I'm con-y," Peggy called to him, v.rhen r.y.r, hsd done so. "This ia im possible." "I must see you, if only for a second," begged Sunderland. ' Peggy hesitated. Then she decided that it might be a courteous thins 1 to bid him good-by. At the lower ; stairs she hesitated again. No one , was about but of course it was safe! "Peggy, come with me," breathed , Sunderland, when she emerged. "You "won't be sorry." "Please!" she replied, pulling her hand away. "I must go right back." ; "You won't go anywhere without , me!" answered Sunderland, in a ' new and threatening tone. Roughly he seized the girl, who in point of physical strength was no 1 match for him. She was able to cry out only once, but It was enough to center the attention of Cree on ' what was happening. He had ob served the waiting vehicle before, ana now ne lum bered out from the servants' lodge toward ' the lane. There , was no time to spread the alarm. All he could do was ; rush at the in- ' truder. When Cree lunged at h 1 m Sunderland was forced to let go ! of Peggy. In fury he whipped 'f out a knife, but ' his thrust mis carried. Cree wrapped his powerful arms about him, and pinioned him until the two men lost their balance. As they ' toppled over, the knife dropped . from Sunder land's hand. He fell directly on it and received a bleeding rjajn. By now the commotion had . aroused t h o 3 a within tha i'na. " Andrew Jaolcson threw "open hi3 window, aad , Major O'Neale appeared with a lantern " at tha post - entrance. There was just time for Sunderland to make a bolt for his carriage, tck up the reins, and dash away lto the night. ' While those- behind comforted Peggy and held a council of war to determine what should be done, Sunderland brooded revenge. He reached a grog shop- la the central part of town and Invented a quick lie for the benefit of the patrone. A dangerous biack at the Franklin Inn had fallen on him treacherous ly and stabbed him.- He showed his wound, still bleeding. . J v.. The Professor became a center of sympathy. Lets drinkers, night-time marauders, and passing mechanles heard his tale and embellished it Oisgrseefu!! : The negro who had committed the assault must b -captured and burned. Zn a short time a spirit of mob frenzy had been aroused. Banding together, the mob marched on Franklin Inn. ? Wnen' toe rioters reached the gate of the tavern, they found it barred. Someone produced a log for a battering-ram. Amid wild shouts' they applied it The gate splintered, and the mob poured in. -: " - Peggy had been taken to her ' room, but when she heard the blood curdling yells . outside her .first thought was for Cree's safety. He had defended her; now they were seeking him. Seizing the only wea pon she could find, a fish-gid, she rushed to the slave quarters. Andrew Jackson, his eyes like raging flames, rushed from the front door brandishing two guns." John Randolph was not far behind him, and most of the other lodgers at the Inn, armed with sticks or whips, followed after. 7 By sheer weight of numbers the attackers hemmed In the defending unit Jackson and Randolph were towers of strength, but they were ' only two against a maddened horde. Some of the would-be lynchers pul- . ted Peggy out of the way and tried to beat down the locked door of the servants' building, others picked up r stones and began to throw them at the windows of the main building. ' There was no rescue force In pros- . peet for the defenders, and it seem ed likely they might be waging a ' " fosUut: tattle. rs :- mJ3rJSw j ' B Ll" it -1 m i niftnis ten fNai Week? x IWI CONtMMM tC -J( i. ' New York. Changes in the "age. distribution" of the population that are occurring as the immigrant por tion ages soon will present a "new challenge to American business management, Dr. Robert E. Chad dock, professor of statistics in Co lumbia university, asserted. Declaring that older persons are increasing numerically in propor-r tion to the rest of the population Dr. Chaddock estimated that the number of those over sixty-five years old, now about 6,500,000, will be trebled in fifty years. With the populatibn approaching a stationary level, he asserted, the general death rate soon will begin to rise. Burden of Aged Grows "The period of youth in our in dustrial organization is passing and our economic structure must be adapted to age changes," he wrote. "Institutions and agencies for the care of the aged, the burden of old age pensions and the costs of de pendency will increase rapidly. . "The increasing burden of the aged upon the productive workers need not affect adversely the stand ard of living, because the propor tion of persons in the productive ages, twenty to sixty-four, is not decreasing and the burden of sup port for the young dependent group is declining." Adaptation of the industrial struc ture to employ the ever increasing number of older workers, forty-five to sixty-four; will be necessary if the high American standard of liv ing is to be maintained, Dr. Chad dock declared., ptherwise, an in creasing number, may become semi dependent, he warned, thus increas ing the total burden of support rest ing upon the productive workers. Aged in Industry Due to the restriction of immi gration and to the aging of the foreign-born here, the percentage of those who immigrated to this country and are now over sixty-five is twice as great as that of the native Americans over sixty-five, Dr. Chaddock observed. The. net result of all population changes, he wrote, is a steadily de clining proportion of persons under twenty and a corresponding in crease of those over forty-five. There is little change in the propor tion of the productive group, twenty to forty-four, the survey noted. Discussing the sex composition of the population, Dr." Chaddock said, that the trend is toward numerical equality of the sexes among whites.' He noted that the proportion of people : twenty to sixty-four years old is much greater in the cities than in the country. In the rural districts the number of children hi proportion to the entire population was found greater than in the urban areas. Man, 60, Weds Girl, 22, Son Weds Her Sister Helmetta, N. J. William B. Til ton, sixty-year-old Gravel Hill farm er, married Julia Scott,; twenty-two, his housekeeper, as his son Ernest, twenty-four, married her sister, Ce lia, eighteen. , The ceremony was performed at the Holy Trinity Catholic church by the Rev. John Budziak., ' -j, The two sisters wore white satin veils, ' as - Tilton said they would, and. the grooms were slicked tip in their Sunday clothes just to please them. Vfe f , Tilton, who wanted a "quiet little wedding," one that wouldn't inter fere with his "business routine,1? found . traffic blocked by? crowd gathered in front of , thechurch when the party, arrived, v - Following the ceremony.Hhe twf couples left f or. Freehold,; twherf they planned a . wedding Jinner in a hotel before returning ;fo Tilton's ninety nine'- acre farm, where all four will live together. -y; y j . The. farmer saw no. reason why his age and that of his bride should Interfere with their happiness. He said: . ', f .c r . !Happiness in married life de pends on how much love one has for the other. Marriage is like business. ' You have to 'take a chance." r , . ' . . Uses First Pay Check , to Repay Relief Fund Pater son, N. J. Amir Hassman,' a forty-seven-year-old Arabian who believes, he said, that "a man who breaks promises soon breaks friendships,"- has started to make good a debt vt $29.10 to Paterson. . Several , months ' ago Hassman, who has been in this country six teen years, lost his job. At first he refused to take relief because, he ;said, it was against nte.yprincij- ?J, '.f'.s 1 f V ' Finally,' however, Hassman was convinced that at least ,he : shouli get enough so that he rc;.t-buy food. , So herrIsctantly e:."zi o Poormaster Jsres O'Gor x. L siating; he t-' A V.t2t -.-hic'i IVlive. he c.!ed a tl.E',) f wt ": fu)d"a)wai:e. "II Lve3 t t until two weeks ago wheat he tained a job at CS cents Ita hoic. Today he received his first pr7 check ' end . went Jmmeiiitcy rt 0'Gorman."lIe turned over $19 c his salary and promised t-.t tl j other $19.10 would be fortI...L:j within a few weeks. . POTATOES ARE . ALMOST AS ' - gF lfeL ' RARE AS MEN'S TEETW MM OSBi . ' ' " iWOW WAM ME ONLYMOPlNjl I M,.l)M , SV, I - ff . 7"- , : if I.- 11 -1 tf. -.Ay.' . v'TO tHNNER.MEAOOW5;' lliLvoo THE LOMM, WELL I'LL WANT A ' m GET COT ONE OF THE WANT THAT BASKET OFl LACGED LOAN Flowers From Bulbs . Jimson was relating his experience In India. e.r," ' "I was taking my usual morning dip when I spotted three gladiators mak- ling for me, so I had to swim for dear life!" ' "Ton mean navigators something like a crocodile?", interposed Johnson. "Well, what are gladiators?" "Gladiators? Why they're a sort of flower grown from bulbs." Pearson's Weekly. 500,000 Take Trailers on Their Vacation Trips Chicago. Five hundred thousand Americans annually take trailers on their vacations and 250,000 live in them the year around, according to Bert Vanderwarf, touring manager of the Chicago Motor club. "Touring authorities are now called upon to plan trips ranging from one month to twelve in length," Vander warf says. "Trailer manufacturers are having a hard time turning out trailers fast enough to meet the demand.?, PATRONIZE OUR. ADVERTISERS! 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K.::b 115 Increase Reported In -Farm Income For 1935 The gross income of North Caro lina farmers in 1935 was $305,122, 000.00, according to figures supplied Dean I. 0. Schaub, of State College, by the U. S. Department of Agricul ture. " - ,xt The figure includes : benefit pay ments distributed by the AAA and the value of commodities produced for consumption on the farm.' Cash; income from .' the sale of farm products amounted to $217, 475,000. AAA benefit payments of $12,293,000 swelled the total cash in come to $229,768,000. Farm commodities 1 consumed on the farm were conservatively valued at $75,854,000, the dean stated. By way of comparison, he said that the 1934 gross income was $299,075,000, of which , $219,279, was derived, from the Bale of crops and livestock and $17,314,000 ' from AAA payments. Products consumed at home were valued at $62,482,000. - For both Vars the " 'cash income ON DISPLAY SOON d quarter of a century of price field, the first showink of the New 1 irom tne sale oi iarm proaucw was based on returns from 78 crop and . n l , 1 j ' "..'Vi - 1 ia iivesiocK items. . The dean pointed out that although the AAA payments were considerawy larger in 1934 than in 1935, and thft. income from cash sales was some what larger, the value of commodi ties produced for home consumption rose from $62,482,000 in 1934 to $75, 354,000 in 1935. The greater value of home-consumed products in 1935 was more than enough to offset .the slight de crease in cash income, with, the re sult that the gross income ragreased by $6,047,000. ; w All this indicates the trend away from the production of cash crops and toward the production of those things needed on the farm and by the farm family, the dean stated. In other words, farmers are bal ancing their farmine nroerams and becoming more self-sufficient. f : To prevent pie crust from becom ing soggy, be sure the pie pan is warm before putting in; thai under crust. . , ,. '; Quality develoD- '( ' T ( Hcrtfcrd,Na"
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