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rAua iwu MR. LANE'S VIEW OF DEATH j Sumt Up Hi* Philosophy in the Word, "I Accept" (Washington Special to. the Phila delphia Public Ledger.) To some, of Franklin K. Lane's most intimate friends here there had come before bis aeam a rexnapuHnc i ? . * *V. naeseage, dictated by him in the hos pital in Rochester Minn., after the operatx>n -which preceded his deafh by only a f?w days. The message showed the former {secretary had undergone the opera tion with full consciousness and ac - ceptanee of the fact that he might not survive it. It tokl in detail of his sensations before, duru^ and after the operation, of which ne was fully conacoius, as the condition of his heart <would not permit the use of a general anaesthetic. The message , folllows in part: "It is Wednesday afternoon and I am now sitting up in bed talking to ray good friend Cotter. Until yester day I did not clearly visualize any V one thing, in this room and did not know that it had a window, except - that there was a place that noise , came throtigh. But I did know that it j had a yelfow oak door that stared at me with its great big square eye all day aiwt all nightv Last Friday, you see about 10 o'clock in the morning, . * 1 took the step that I should have taken, yes, years ago.. To dajf, XMmt tentatively, I crawled into a chair and ate my first mouthful of solidfood. But four days ago I ! maiilaged to shave myself and I am regarded as pHfcty spry.' | . Nearly Shot a* Reporter !& ; "I have seen death come to men in various ways, some rather novel i$> and Western. I once saw a man $ fciinged. And I have seen several men shot, and came very near going ' out that way myself two or three it&bes, 'but always the other fellow aimed poorlyT I was being shot at because I was a newspaper man, and I jSould have been shot at. There must be public concern in what is phvted, as well as its truth, to just / fy it. That is something that news papers should get, to know in this country. .'yfter the earthquake in Stih Francisco I saw walls topple oilt upon a* man. And I have hr.d more intimate glimpses still of the picturesque and of -the prosa*c ways by which men come to their taking ~ off. "But never before have I been' called upon to deliberately wa'k in 16 the valley of the shadow, And-, say what you will ,it is a great act. I have said during the last months of endless examination that , a man with little curiosity and* little hu _ mor, and a little money, who was not in too great pain, could enjoy him self studying the ways of doctors and nurses as he journeVed the inva-; lid's path. "It was however, made a flowery patlh for me, as much as any path could be in which a man suffered more humiliation and distress and thwarting and frustration, on the whole, than he did pain. "Rut here was a path the end of wh^ch I could not see. I was not compelled to tqjce it. My very latest doctor advised me against taking it. I could live sometime without taking it. It was a bet on the- high card with a chance to win; and I took it." Unable to Take Anaesthetic At this point occur details re jpreparauuiib lor wuts op eration, with a note of the fact that a general anaesthetic could not ba! applied on account of the patient's heart, -which, "had been cutting up some didoes," The" statement con tinues: * "For two days I had knowledge that thfe operation was to take place - at his time, and my nerves had not been just as good as they should have been. Those men who slept 12 0 hours* perfectly before being elec trocuted b*';~ evidently led inore tranquil lives than I have or have less concern as to the future. Ah, nopt I was to know the great secret! I For forty years I had been wonder-1, ing, wandering. Often I had said to, mvc?n t.Kat' T should summon to mv i mind -when this moment came some words that would <be somewhat a synthesis of my philosophy. Socrates said to those who stood by after he ^ ' J?iVft VmmIaaIp 'Ma AVll AQTI T2t>U, IU UilA UlC |iOMUVvn? aiv vtm vw??i 1 befall a good man, whether he he alive of dead.' I don't krwrtv how far from that we have gone in these 2, N 400 years. j "The apothegm, however, was not apposite to me, because it involved a declaration that I was a good man, SPRINGS FORESEES 1 BOOMING BUSINESS South ?*roKn* (Cotton Manufacture ] Says Bayers' Strike Must Soon Pass. Washington, May 24.?Col. Leroy Spring of Lancaster, S. C., a manu- * I factorer of ?otton goods, whale a vds- |r Hot tfc Was^ngftm, predicted an in- !. du atrial boom in the United States ^ just as soon-' as- international af- ^ fairs can Mfcht themselves. ^ "Just as soon as Europe is ^We to ( buy American goods, this, country ; wiH witness a great business (boom," { he said. "Naturally there is some j pessimism among some business men. But the fog will soon lift itelf. ^ We can not expect boom time busi ness when spender^ are inactive. About 50 per certt of European spenders are holding on to every- ^ tiling they have. . Onfly 85 percent of j American spenders are letting go lheir_ money. "In a way, we are confronted by a e buyers' strike. That is due partly 0 ibo unemploymeirt, and partly' be- ^ cause of Sigh prices demanded for * certain good by retail merchants 0 who have not reduced on the same r scale that the manufacturers and : jobbers reduced when it was 6b- | served that profits had to be &acj-i- j ficed. The wholesalers and jobibers 1 have taken their losses gracefully, but some retailers still hold out. Consequently, there is a cylinder, massing in that part of the engine The retailer must suffer loss along with the wholesaler and the jobber. "All these things, however, will right themselves. The South Ameri can markets have been 'redeeming features an a bad period. When Eur ope starts buying, things will get back wh??re they belong. No one knows just when that will happen. But the day when business will blossom under brighter skies is not far off." ' One person in every 2,000 in the United States is deaf. Rub-My-Titm kills infection. f 'and I don't know any one who has ca or\Aro/?iafo lli'mctfal'f And I had come to the conclusion that perhaps the best statement of my creed could be fitted into the words, " I accept," which to me meant that if in the law of nature my individual spirit was to go back into the great ocean of spirits my one duty was to conform. "Lead kindly light," was all the gospel I had. I accepted." , Ship and Sail under the Stars find Stripes to all parts of the world CHIPS with the Stars 1 O and Stripes blowing . from their masts are once, more sailing the seven seas. They are, by the Mer chant Marine Act, 1920, ultimately to be owned and operated privately by citizens of the United States." They are American ships, carrying passengers and, as President Harding has said, . . carrying our car goes in American bottoms to the marts of the world." fcCeep our splendid ships on the seven seas under the Stars and Stripes by sailing and shipping on them. . Free use of.' ^ Shipping Board films Use of Shipping Board motion' picture films, four reels, free on request or any mayor, pastor, post master, or organ&ation. SHIPS FOR SALE (To American (ilium enly) Steel stecmcTS both oil end coal burrcre. Abo wood a teamen wood 'hulfs and Ocean-gdjAa tun. Further Information may be ob tained by request. For sailings of passenger and freight ships to all parts of the world and all r+her information write U. S. Shipping Board WASHINGTON, D. C.. w c THREE ARRESTS FOL10W WRECK ingineer Joseph Temple, of Flor ' ,ence Killed?Negroes are Held Aufcuarta, Ga., Hay 21.?Three ne froee have "been arrested -by Rich nond county, Georgia, and Aiken] xnmty, South Carolina, authorities n connection with $he successful. at -empt to -wreck a main of the At antic Coast line, four miles from lere early this jbmrismgy l^e prison srs are Wi$ Waitta and B. Boyd for nerly section hands on the road, m4 Mose Williams previously bridge ceeper. The r^groes were awested as the resuH of a theory of officers that i diagrunled former enfcJbyee en ieavored flo WTfrcJc verrgtiattce on the ailroad because of his discharge from its service. The motive of rcV >ery is scouted. Engineer Joseph Temple of Flor ence, S. C.f was killed and a mail :le<rk and several passengera injurod vhen train No. 54, Atlantic Coast Jne train, which/left here at 2:40 / . r. ; A.** . 'clock this morning, Washington ound, was derailed early today on ?.i< i'i\4 U yv : H iKKHfiFiflfiHfiHBK 1 r the South Carolina side of the Sa vansih river, four milee from here. Train wreckers were re;ported to have loosened a'rail and. lifted it froosi the croestitjB, causing the de railment. Eoektefi tfafc <?gine and tender, tvro express cam left tlie tra-ck and rotecT down the <ihalk>w embankment Exj tress Meesan^fer E. E. Jor<k>n was Bl%]itly fcruwed, T. v A* *?-m v f > ??.-? ?* '? Fireman Char.be Jowie, negro, was paiiifully, though not pdfianxby hurt w)K;n ijngine. lh& t&siri W. fc.- Aufafoieife was shaken op when oik; truest of the maiJ ear left tite nnh. was Hairriett Demson, a negreaj, who wati thrown fOTwaxi iy ihe sudden stcrp of the passenger egp%,i^er in jOT??<3 were not serious. Darum whefrt; 'ihtrodtjcod here from Russia, in 1809, novr' produces a crop worth- $60,000,000 annually. ^ j. ih\f #.*?? *: ? A German engineer has devised an instrument which can? detect water and metal in the ground. 06B cum* Malarial Fever. I 3? VTi. . , .. - . raMCTMnfflamma fllH Every cloud has its i your load and carry on. is to go. Play the game, chair. If you need it bu If your business is ha advertising and "self-i see your printer. It's up to you. Let's Something scandalous, i us forward looking peop the last t en weeks. The engineer that pi who puts his hand on th( the steam. It is time foi to take a hitch in its troi time to ouit whispering^ poison gas and turn on t] There are two class* those who wait for thing who , make things happ* laraniaaiiaaBnnnnui I i 9111 "*v; PHONE 265 REASONABLE PRICES Calvert Building Vieria Street |jjyiarijHy| i"flj iS.onryfy; (f>* t. X I* t.uii llijjl'x vv -l. t. ,i - t.;.. - i '-r1 *>. I ' ^7 t;' ? r.*- ,',if'-'7 y;ff ? r-'-f f. J J. S i '?i -*' - v j. . J .'Ia': k v - - vp . *--? V v rEiiiEJEfiUi!JiLjarzrgfEJi!iajzizrziajz silver lining. Pick up The way to get going ' If you need it buy that y that suit. ,lf run down for want of especting" stationery, - wake upland get busy, sn't it, the way a lot of le have shriveled up for ills the hill is the fellow 3 throttle and turns on r all American business (isers and go to it. It's It's time to turn off the ho ofooiri 3S of men in business; * :s to happen and those m. ima^iraraninin^^ sraaSl