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l/ ^ SEMI- WEEKLY.^ ^ l. m. grist's sons, publishers. $ .t'amilg ttctrspaper: ,/or the promotion of the political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial ^Interests of the people. 7ER*^^orY.EpiviNcraT?*N0E ESTABLISHED 1855 YO UK,_S. C., TI' I'HDAY, OCTOBER 4,1931. 3STO. 79 VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs of More or Less Interest. i PICKED UP BY ENQUIRER REPORTERSj Stories Concerning Folks and Things,1 Some of Which You Know and Some You Don't Know?Condensed For Quick Reading. '"Can't you not ire a hij; difference in people in the Inst thirty days or .s" since cotton lias been around twenty cents a pound?" said a curbstone philosopher Saturday. "Most of them have a smile on their faces and an expression of, "Well, I can see daylight at last,' on their countenances. That is the way it looks to me and I've been studying people all my life." Business in Rock Hill. Kock Hill clothier was talking about business the other evening. "There is little doing," said he, "despite the k'ct that a good deal of cotton is being sold on this market. Trouble now in the clothing business is that the weather is too hot. People are not going to buy fall and winter clothing as long as the thermometer is around 80. Wish it would snow. Darned if that wouldn't bring business." Shy of the South. "Well, we have at last landed a car- ' nivnl for the York county fail*," said HocrcUtry Kewell of the Fair Association the other day. "And it has been a big job because it seems from what i I can learn that all carnivals are fight- 1 i?g shy of the south this fall because |; of crop conditions. The carnival wi i seemed, the Milter shows, has the re; utation of being one of the best and cleanest in the country." Baseball in Gastonia. The Columbia team of the South Atlantic League played "Pa I" Prim's All Stars three games of baseball in Gastonia last week and County' Treasurer H. E. Neil had to s?-e t\\ > | of the games. "They were pretty good games," raid Mr. Neil in the barber shop the other evening. "Columbia ' winning two out of the three. T!v> Gastonia fans turned out pretty good ior mo pnme. Great Fraternal Town. "Yorkvlllc," observed a well known ( South C'atolinini:, "is one of the i>< st ' ] fratcrnel towns in the state and in < proportion to population has more eit-J i/.i iis who are nr. ntbers of frat? mi- , ties than any town I know. Tin- a. o.sanitations of Masons, odd K<l-|| lows, .Jr. (>. I*. A. M. Woodmen of the | "World, and Mouse and all to'.d She;. 1 i must have a membership of at lea. t ; 700. And th:;t*isn't had out of a total of ; bout 3.000." The Lockhart Dridgc. 'The general pu'olie is aware that the lAX'kltart hridi; has l??;i mm pleiiii j.nd traffic ovet Hie bridp< is ' p'ekim: up in volume i ry day," sai l Mr. James I!. l?hkson, promim nt far nier of ISullock's C: t t k N". 1, w ho wir anions the \ isito. s in Yurkvi'le las' Sit unlay. "The is no doul?t that the ' bridge a hit; help ii the eontmimily.' Mr. Piekson well* in to say. "1 can'; say that hockhait has thus far Kaimd any trade from the York county si 1 on account of tie- bridge, or that V r!< eiiuuty towns, espei ially Sharon, has gained any tr. de from tlte I'nion eoii;ity side on aeeount of the l> i?U: . Hut a lot more ears are passing: down out i...i..... ii, W.tY 11] < ri liii ? iov u\. i " \ bridge was completed." Weather in the Mountains. "K|>* 'kin:; of pleas-anl weather," ' a, i "I'm m?! balk ia York eonr t> from Wayii'sville. N. C. and I wish I \\* it* tiara again. People in \\'a> nrsville l.avr b.-on sleeping !.:??' i blankets ever sin-T Aiignr' and then have been toasting their shins around tilt: lire so Ion:; that they have forgotten just when. Waynervil!" is higher than Aslieville and is. I think, tin' lit*: : delight Uil s;>"t in all ol western North Carolina. The town lias : population t.i : bout I'a.ntH) in summer and 2.000 in wiiil'T. Mo I o the tourists who tome there i,i sum- i niei* are from the si. ! of A la bam . In>t why Ala!> una | don't know but voii'll liisl inoie p. ople from Alaliam.t the e in Minuner than from any otliei st.'lt' it) UX* I Dion. I ISO SillllllM I' I ; n'.if.oii is {rotting out now tin I place >.- jo-din* down to tlx- S,t ? cl:t; a." Spurred Him to Pay. ' Do you Ivtiow," .said a well known well-to-do citizen of tlx- MiO.nnellsville neighborhood to View.-; and InH rvievs the ntlKr day. "that It is beeaiise of an editorial in The York-: vi!!e Ktni.uirer some ten or tuvlvi vi-:ir ; :i:r > that I ;:m free of nvsrl^ajv indebtedness today "I r? r.ionilMT the editorial," )'?j>lii <! Views a (I Interviews vi iy tmieli intircftc'l; "lull what di I it have to il v. itli yn:i?" "Just this." t'u yrntletnan explained. "In thai editorial it was state.-] that niol'tKttpes were eit.h'-l" IV i uil?i( ?l : ?!.... II . .... 1 I...I over -Hit; iivi i" iU-iim "I 1111.(11,1 m? .. l?y forielosutv. I owod a ? I deal of IHmi'v;.* sceili'il by leal 11 nioittiUKvs ard it put ill" to thinking a< I had not thought bi f<ii . i been nit (nnvilicrd that lite (ditorial v.; .; rifth!. s<< I Willi in after iho.st mo; !;.; ;; s and paid thorn. It took nio a i >r.;r timo but by hrrd work and y? od luok I stiocoedi d, and I have novor sine boon' ipiito so kroti about ini'UTiai'indoptrd i!ess thai might < veMually haw t > be sitth I 1?y foreclosure. iV<?, I ?lon't iman t say that I wohhl nut give a mortgage if the re were no ether way fur it; l?nt I <h> net consider a mortgage as liglit'y as I <!i<! previous to that time." WANDERER PAYS Chicago Murderer Goes to Death Ging-1 irg a Sor.g. Singing :i pnpulsv song, Call Wan-., dcrer, eonvieti d of tin; murder of his1 wife, her unborn I mi he and a "ragged stranger" whom he hired to si axe a fr.ke hold-up. was handed at the Cook county, Illinois, jail at 7.10 o'clock I'Yiday morning. Wanderer walked to the pa Hows. with firm step and, as he took his J place 0:1 the scaffold. repented a short prayer after a minister. Asked if he had anything to say, lie replied in the affirmative, and as a shrould was adjusted on his head I started the soup "<?h! I'a I. Why Don't J Volt Answer Me?" lie was singingj when the trap dropped. The chorus to the song Wanderer' chose is as follows: "The long night through, 1 wait for I you, "O Pal, why don't you answer me? ".My arms embrace an empty space, i *!? .? lw.M w*:i t/?nHni'lv J ili liir> 1.1.4k II4.IU .? "If yuu can h'.ar my prayer away up. tin fi\ "O Pal, why don': you answer me? Th crime for whicli Wanderer was hanged was the murder of his dupe in ! the fake hold-up. who rccent'y was identified as Edward J. Ryan. Wanderer also was convicted for the murrl< r of his bride of less than a year ind her unborn chi'd, but the jury in that case fixed punishment at 25 ytarsj imprisonment. Mrs. Wanderer and the "poor boob", were murdered in the hallway of the Wanderer apartment house in June. Il>20. Mrs. Wanderer's mother attra ted by tlie sh< t.s found iier daughter dying and Wanderer seated astride lie* body of the 'poor boob." methodically beating him with a pistol. Wanderer said the stranger had att? mpted a hold-up in the dark hallway ?d shot Mrs. Wanderer and that he n turn killed the hold-up man. I'o'ice praised him. Quict'y, howtver,. they traced the stranger's pistol in an effort to fix liis identity, the trail leading to Wan- j J set's cousin. The cousin admitted! lending the weapon to Wanderer the lay of the shooting. Afti r days of grilling W.i. d. r. r dgtv.l nfession. Tiring of family life, lie said. I:*had d rid d ti> get rid of itis wife and her t.xto-cl. d < !ii?<! so he could rettirn l.o the 'my, in which lie had held a lit lit' mint's cemmission during the war. lie hired Ryan to accost him tail Alts. Wanderer, explaining In v.nnitd to pay a joke mi Ins wife. When il?e v grant appro M in d. Wan- I ih ror i hoi both the "poor boob'' and i...wiii. 'I'll vagrant remained n iidiitiled tor many months and his 11* iii" was not known when Wainhrtr was senleina d to bo liangid. The < \ at on w ' ; postponed si v? *:* tines by healings and other It gal ni.im in ers, the las: f liling jrii'erdav win ii Covi-mor Sm ill refined .again t i act. BOBBED HAIR HEALTHY Ghent Hnirorl Go-Is Ncsrl Not Fear Becoming Bale!. \\ ,i- :! ' v one a|i, in\i:. or 11i?-; j i.-. <>; tin* pjv eat style. tlit ftt'-i main I!, t tl.t bobbed-haired teiil of 11 ?].j!, ? i| ii"t r hocnmini? I :?l?1. W: t. x I?r. It. II. IThs for the imp!' i'" i?ii that bobbed Iieir i< si|\ ran I lor than Ion; hair. Short I.:*ii i n In- niojo tlioroiu,lil> ;i.* il a.id (li i< il v. itii loss trouble. In no. -. wonioii who Ikivo "l?ol?s" niv me ; ; t to jfiv t!i? ii hair the care ii . 'ioiiM ro(-(5vf?ami so tlioy tiro I more apt to hav- healthier hair. Tiio y :iii- reason shouhl apply to nn n. \vi:o have worn short htiir lor ". ami it. would, wore it not for the ! :;t ! tl i > v i; r. The tiff tlerhy hat is Isrsi'v r sponsible foi* bnldtlCRM inon.r 'en. This b.-orins" it rwlti.l I.'i t iii illation of air tnroii:rh ilie h>ir .lie I luiamo ii pr-ss< < upon and ehoio ; the wins that supply blood to. few! and iioiiris.ii the scalp. if tin- \vonnn of today adopted the iitf ?!ei I y |.at i *i aili.it ion to hohhed 1 h i,- i.i' coii!'! expect lo become hald. too. The lair is greatly ir.ilm need by! 1 .'le's mil; r.i heal.h. IVitain diets.' tieh . . o.-r.na d and rye bread, an :.i io oeaiinrit Invariant trrowth of ;'i ?: ::i. .M. !?:iirr tho scalp with l! i i tips is c.Vcctivi in proiiiicini, a !i Jt!jmia.litinn of the hair. Men should wa ll their hail* once a w ? !< and women not more than one-* . :> tw . weeks. Any pure son p. rnc'i < . iile, i . s I i Me .-Imiild !? ? i "111. however, I > i in: c all tlit* snap s.n! mi! . I t. i v. ,iI. Tiiu'i i i.r a ? p i' cxreedins!> .'ii l<>: ii.iaiioo. So ire tin- yn!l;s n* three Iitaleil lip anil lli'xed l inn mi--hi v. i 'i a i>ii:t nr ? ?If" | inl ! wall P- r, ' usl.i rv nt' the hair v. .Ill a lonjr hria!I'I'lMisil of stifl"' i* :. .1 ?i - in winn IV, scalp. Inl not m scratch it. is a I a sent for 1inula?ins the hair. T! i i 'a l i:.-t *i iir<|tti-nt washir.v n! f i I ir t n<! Ii> <ii > lies: II hurt fi?ni":. 1 0,1. li i:: more likely to stim11*. : ri" ::Inti??n ?n?l kivl*H iim of llio i '1 :r tho hnir. :;ivl thus nv'Ko it more j h?jlihv. j RECORD IN WINNINGS Horses Trained by Joyner Have Earned Big Sum. \ TuniiQAtin uiiwwm trahufii /I I JIUU'jn.lLf II liiiiLiiu i limn i>i# I Left Home a; a Boy When Parents Frowned on Horses?Says Horses and People Much Alike. Cl.ni'k-K W lton in tho New York World. A .sm;.ll town buy stood on tile station platform watching the luat waves dancing oil the rails which marked with glistening lines of trackage the sure and speedy way into the outer world. He had grown tired of tlie uninteresting drone and restricted sameness of the town and longed to be a part of the proceedings somewhere well beyond the point where vision was iost in the midsummer haze. An express train whirred by, as if fully aware of both the commercial and social futility of even a motnentiary stop at so meager a settlement. When it had faded to a speck, the boy hurried home with set lips, packed his limited belongings nirti slipped away in the direction the train had gone, a stiange (motion surging within hiin as tile last chimney top disappeared fion. view. Tiie boy was Andrew Jackson Joyr.cr, and the town to which he waved gcodby one may find on the map of North Carolina if he patient'y hunts among the dots < f Halifax county. It is called Weldon. Drowsy it lies amid the dogwood, cypress and scrub oaK, serving the smalt needs of a mixed and unstarched commuhity whose personal prosperity may be fairly measured by the number of long-carcd jacks hoofing through the dust with wagons creaking with cotton and tobacco. Family Frowr.ed on Horses. ' \ Young Joy nor* 8 departure was due specifically to his love for horses. He * i ?.ith wanted actuany iu mvu uu auui<?i ?? *.. lithe limits and a sleek coat, such as he had seen at the Tar Heel fair on one .supremely joyous occasion. 1 do not look for any serious disagreement with the st.it'in nt that this ambition of a country boy was whole-, some enough and one that might well have been encouraged if for no other reason than that of contributing to the preservation of the balance of the popu'ation, which year after year shows a tendency toward tie urban. Hut in t'u case of young Jo;, ncr it was not to be. Within tin' family circle there had In n vigorous, outspoken disapproval. The e'd'T Joyncr. who was the country-side doctor, had put his foot down peremptorily on the idea and the woman of tin- household had raised her hatids, shocked at tl " mere thought of being scandalized by such an act of juvi nilc depravity. This tragic and almost disheartening early chapter in his life was recalled in reminiscent detail by .loyntr the other day as we stood together in the sunshine at J. nnk i track. The boy who forty-odd years ago had run nwav from home in order that he might become a horseman had just rounded out a record for achievement in his speeia' !i id which had given him rare distinction. lie had seen the one thousandth horse i>i" liis tmilliner flash under the wire a winni r in- tin* Highland Stakes event ami an enthusiastic and generous throng, i mI :-acinar opulent and speculative patrons of the turf, stable l?oys, jockeys and owners, pressed aiiout him to extend with pleasing informality their congratulations. Winnings Nearly Two Million Dollars. A s' 'tistieal sharp joined the group one who specialises on the financial phases of racing. An orderly eoiitmn head* d l>y the sign of the dollar was exhihited. It showed total winnings of the Joyncr saddled mounts of $1.7i?:,Oi;:i.7r.. probably the largest sum of money earned indirectly by one nriii in the field of training since racing began. When I asio d this veteran to tell me s >m thing about horses in general. !\e drew a penknife from his pocket and begin peeling minute shavings from a pencil. Half a i\ >y. n curled up and llnt> rod nvny in the breeze ar.d then he looked up through glasses saddled on his strong nose. "Well," he siid. "I guess horses and people are pretty much alike. I've found tliun so. S: nte hi ryes are better than some men and no horse is as bad as some nn n. I think that's a fair statem lit. The average horse can bo trusted to the limit, lie will go along doing bis work under all sorts of eon di lions from the time lie is a eo't until the end. with ;ip almost unbroken r?cnid for willingness and gentleness, Whole can you find a man or woman that wi.l do it?" I fell back upon the colloquial cnmmonp'ace. "Search me," by way of rep'y. "Yes." said Joynrr. "search you 01 mo or anyone and I lie result would Ik the f ame." .loyner's lirst J 1 > was as head boy for W. !'. I'.urcli, a back country mvnei who 'argdy coiitiucd his activities t< Hi" half-mile trunks at aj?rieiiittirai lair renins in his In me state. Never i jerkoy, lie seldom throws lips ever ti saddle. one day in a rnuiit-up of liis saving lie found that he had earned enousi nmney to buy a horse. A little mart I called Annie had taken his eye. H< J roiu'ht the ownT made dm :ii offei and got her. Soon thereafter the horse was entered for a race and won. We are told that there is a thrill i which comes but once in a lifctim \ I am wi'ling to accept without reservation as likely to be true Jack jfoyner's state ment that none that he ever experienced compared with the blood-tingling Sensation which he felt on that occasion. Little more than a stripling! and looking more the boy than man, he ! found himself surrounded by bearded planters ann miswimni'ous mwnsiuiK and acclaimed as one risen suddenly to sure eminence. If the governorship of ! either of tlie Carolinas or both had been offered him at that epochal moment in exchange for his status as a winner, he would have been ttmptod to spurn it as altogether too trivial and inconsequential for one of his large importance. Such is the enthusiasm of youth. The sweep of years since that day has brought silver to the Joyner temples and one might expect that general i sophistication ' and multiple successes had eliminated the ebullient element, but it hasn't. In the purc'y physical aspects of demonstration he may display fewer agi'e antics than in his youth, but vocally and with respect to the rhythm of his diversified exclamations he is a wonder. A Trainer Thirty-Seven Year3. Jovner has been a trainer for thirty j seven years. Not infrequently he has ; a shakedown in his training quarters and sleeps near his charges. He has never ceased to enjoy their companionship. It has always been his habit to talk sort of confidentially of his hopes I and fears to his horses and in a pecu; liar equine sense he believes that they "get" what he says. His cup of joy would overflow if they could but ta'k things over with him. A horse's viewpoint of a race in which he has taken part would be an invaluable addition to the literature of the turf. Joyncr saddled his first winner as a trainer in 1884 at Saratoga, when the likely 3-year-old filly Rosierre took the stakes. Since that time there has not been a race meet of consequence in which he has not figured. He has served the most important stables in the country and enjoyed the confidences and friendships of the leaders ; of the turf. His salary has a1 ways j been larger than a star baseball | player's, and his honorariums aggre gate a small tortunc in inemseives. ne made a record for himself on the English turf, where tmino<l the Whitney horses and won an amazing numinp ninnher of rn" About to depart, I ventured to ad-; ; dross a possibly impertinent leading ! question. "Do you," I asked, "ever carry a?ah I?rabbit's foot?" Joyncr laughed and tapped his hip j pocket. "One of the puarantecd kind," ho replied, "Southern graveyard, midnight, dark of tlie moon, colored man?yes, j I've pot one and it is perfectly regular." MISTRIAL FOR GOSNELL For Second Time the Jury Fails to Agreo Upon Verdict. I'ickens, Sept. 30.?A jury that deliberated 24 hours and 30 minutes failed here today to agree upon the innocensc or guilt of Jake Gosnell, charged with the murder of former Sheriff ilendrix Hector of Greenville county and for the second time the case resulted in a mistrial. Judge It. Withers .Mentniinger of Charleston ordered .'t mistrial in the case at 2.55 o'clock this afternoon after Foreman Bagwell informed him that an agreement was impossible. On motion of James J. Ca my, Jr.. nf counsel for the defensn, bond fixed at )>y Judge Memmingcr was granted to CJosnc.ll and the defendant was released from custjdy. Solicitor David XV. Smoak said lmin< diateiy after the trial had ended that (losnell would be tried again, fie was urab'e to announce whether his case would be called or not at the next term of the court of general sessions in Pickens county, which convenes in I February. (iosnell's bondsmen are: L. C.Thorni ley. W. II. Chastin, and It. E. Uruc;. ' Jake CJosnell, federal prohibition enforcement agent, shot and killed Sheriff liendrix Itector in Ilriscoe's garage i in (Jreer.vilie, July 4. 1 919. I lis ease was ' calYd for trial at the August term of the court of general sessions forCJrcen! ville county, but was transferred to the 1'nifed States court upon motion of the defense. Shortly afterward | Judge II. H. Watkins remanded it io [ the court pf general sessions and after being continued through several terms it came np for trial in May, 19-0, and resulted in a mistrial after tho case , had consumed seven days. (Josne'.i was released i^i $-1,000 bond at the eon lusion of the trial. On the ground that Carles Hector, brother of Sheriff liendrix Hector, had been elected sherift of the county, defense counsel re<|iic:-lcd a change of venue and the case was ordered tried in 1 hckens county. In addressing the jure after it came <?ut io report that agreement was impossible. Judge Memminger declared to the jurors that they ha.d failed 'n the | performance of their duty in rot I. reaching a verdict and also that the> " had failed in discharging the oldigai tion ??f Pickens county to CPvonville county and tiie .state. i ?Willie (after a much-needed and ,1 thorough scouring)?I told you not to J make me take a hath, mother. See | how that hole in my stocking shows 'l now. PARADISE OF THE PACIFIC Wonderful Country Is the Sandwich Islands. Dim enu mn nnmuTCiil nilllTP nilill OUIL rtliu ULLIUII11 UL ULimtllL No Poisonous Insects or Reptiles in the Jungles?Sugar and Pineapple the Principal Products?People Devoted Largely to Pleasure. "Hawaii, Territory of the United States, and most important strategically of the lands of the Pacific, is not alone intfresting because of its military and naval value to Uncle Sam,'' says a bulletin from Washington, D. ('., headquarters of the National '.loographic Society. "It is in many ways literally an island paradise. Scarcely anywhere else in the world may one roam through tropical jungles with never a thought of poisonous insects or snakes. Such creatures do not exist in those fair islands. Even poison Ivy and similar plants are unknown. And though in the edge of the tropics. Hawaii has a cooler temperature by ten degrees than any other land in the same latitudes. Moreover, one may change his climate at wili by a journey of a few miles; for the northeastern half of each island, swept by the trade winds, is rainy and heavily wooded, while just over the mountain ridge is a drierl warmer region. Islands Proteges of Boston. "In a way, the United States may well thank Boston and its daring traders and missionaries of the earlv ''ays for the fact thai Hawaii now lies the Siars and Stripes rather than the Tri-color or the British Union Jack. A Spanish navigator first discovered the islands in t1555 but his country laid no claim to them and they were practically forgotten. The British captain toos visutu uic Hawniian group in 1778 and named them the Sandwich Islands. Still the islands werepractically unknown. Then following the close cf the American Revolution, American ships liegan to sail the seven seas in growing1 numbers, and in 1780 the first ship flying the Stars and Stripes?from Boston-visited the Hawaiiians. It was the first of many from the same port, carrying traders, whalers and adventurers; and noon the natives had learned of the republic on tho continent to the east, and came to consider 'United States' and 'Boston' synonymous. "The Boston traders found each of the islands under a separate king, with two rival rulers on Hawaii, the largest of the islands. One of the latter obtained fire-arms and ammunition from the traders and got their assistance in building a 'navy.' With tliis American help he became 'the nf iim I'neifir.' eonouered the other islands, and as Kainehameha I, ruled over the consolidated kingdom. When Honolulu was Gayer Than 'Barbary Coast.' "The Americans found the Hawaiian trade a good thing. They sold the l.ing and his nobles everything from clothes and jewelry to billiard tables and steam yachts, and in return carted away shiploads ot' valuable sandalwood. Strong liquor was not forgotten among the imports, and in Honolulu among the naturally light-hearted natives the American sailors contributed to the creation of a gay Pacific resort, a sort of forerunner of Sax, Francisco's Barbary Coast of later decades. Desert era from American ships, in the delightful havpn of a barbarous paradise, helped to heighten the fame or the infamy of the Honolulu of those davs. The situation be came such that in 1820 President Monroe sent an agent to reside in Honolulu and look after American interests in regard to commerce and seamen. "A shipload of missionaries, also from Boston, arrived in the island in 1820 much to the disgust of the traders as well as those who had deserted the sea to tread Hawaii's primrose path. The complaint of the traders was that the missionaries taught the natives 'the value of things' and so made trading unprofitable. American ways and teachings at their best made i great impression on the more thoughtful Hawaiians and when they reshaped their government they made I the Ten Commandments the basis of their laws. Once Seized by British. ' More and more Americans Visited and settled in the islands and the liawaiians looked upon America as their best friend among: the nations. When pioneers from the United States were pushing1 west toward California just before the Mexican War which added that state to the Union, a British naval commander in the Pacific, realizing the strategic importance of the Hawaiian group, seized the islands. but his country promptly disavowed his act. After some difficulties with France over the islands in the 'forties the United States declared ' a sort of Monroe Doctrine toward them. As early as 1S51 the island government, fearing trouble with other j nations, provisionally ceded the is lands to the United States. Hut the cession was not accepted and niimorous efforts to become a part of the I United States were made in the fol! lowing half century. I "In 1SS7 the I'nited States obtain txl a concession for the use of Pearl Harbor for a coalinj station. When Queen I.illuokalani attempted to ah/ olish the constitution in 1893, the constitutional party led by American settlers, brought about a revolution and dethroned her. One of tije first acts of the provisional government was to apply for annexation to the United States. Germany was seizing island' right and left on the Pacific, and the Hawaiians wished to get under a shel toning wing. Politics in the United States delayed aetion and in the meantime the Republic of Hawaii was organized. Then in 1898, during the Spanish-American war, congress suddenly voted to make Hawaii American territory. Sixty Per Cent, of Population Asiatics "Though the Hawaiian Islands are known as 'the half-way house of the Pacific,' in reality the distance from San Francisco to Honolulu is only about half that from Honolulu to Australia, the Philippines or Japan. All the islands are of volcanic origin, but coral has grown on the shorea of many dioUU-rvnt/vl 101-0% Vm U UL LI I trill. A IIC Uiaill I ?bvu IU, * >. .W.U formed a rich soil which responds liberally to irrigation. Only Cuba and Java produce greater total crops of sugar and the per acre yield of Hawaii is the greatest in the world?four tons without irrigation and aix tons with. The sugar crop for the year ended June 30, 1920 was worth (78,500,000. 1 The pineapple crop, second in importance, was valued at $18,500,000. "One of the most interesting features in regard to Hawaii is the racla1 make-up of its population. The country had an all-Hawaiian population believed to number several hundred thousands when it first became well known to Americans. The diseases of civilization, including measles, killed off a large part of them in the years lollowing and in 1920 there were only 22,000 full blooded Hawaiians in the island and about 16,000 of mixed blood. The two groups constitute less than 15 per cent of the 255,912 people living in the islands in 1920. The Americans and northern Europeans made up about 10 ner cent., the Portuguese nr. proximately 9 1-2 and the Porto Rlcans and Spaniards about 2 1-2. The total Caucasian population was thus little more than 20 per cent, or only about one-fifth of the entire population. The Japanese population was 44 per cent and the Japanese, Chinese arid Filipino population together, over 60 per cent" NEW WHEAT ROUTE Western Canada Ships to England Through Panama Canal. When the digging of the Panama Canal was first advocated many arguments were advanced in favor of the _a 1 Unnr If gigantic enterprise, sciumus .. would change the currents of trade greatly to the advantage of both producer and consumer, relates the Detroit Free Press. These arguments have been, to a great extent, justified since the opening of the big cut, but one change in the drift .of transportation has resulted that advocates of the canal did not reckon with. Wheat grown on the western prairiee of Canada is making the early part of its eastward journey in a westerly direction. Canadian wheat is reaching Liverpool by way of the Panama Canal. The grain moves west to the Pacific terminal, is loaded on ocean going ships and proceeds around the southern extremity of North America on its way to Europe. It was feared that northern grain going so far south in the first few days of its Journey might suffer in quality, but the first cargo reached England in perfect condition. This re-routing of wheat promises to be of great value to Canadian grain growers, especially those who are extending the production of wheat j further west, and its advantages may offset, in part at least, the injury resulting from the shutting of Canadian wheat out of the United States markets by the new tariff. In tho past wheat in the prairie provinces had to be rushed from the thresher in order to catch tl^> fag end of the season of lake navigation or be held up all winter at the head of the lakes. By the new.route the movement may continue steadily all winter with great saving of storage charges and a shorter rail haul for a large part of the western crop. The Canadian government has built an elevator of 11 million bushels capacity at Vancouver and handlers of grain see a great future for the new route. ' . -4"^ NEW YORK HAS FLEAS They're Biting Savagely and Health Officials are up in Arms. New York City is flea-swept and tho health department is up in arms against the pests. Within the last week complaints have come from many sections of the city against ar. invasion by a species of the pulex irritant or an extinordinary variety of common, ordinary flea. Joseph I>onergan, chief sanitary inspector ot the health department, said an appeal would be issued to landlords and tenants of apartment houses and private dwellings generally for cooperation in a light on the hosts of fleas which, Lonorgan says, are biting savagely particularly in Greenwich Village and several East Side districts. Poets and painters, writers and sculptors have come out in strong protest. There is no inspiration in a nea. The pests, the health department thinks, are of alien extraction and crawled through the red tape of the new ruling for restricted immigration PUZZLE TO FRANCE Bearded Girls are Worrying tittt French Scientists. That the lose of man-power in France during the war has been responsible for what has been regarded, as the astonishing' production of "superfluous heir" upon the faces of French girls and women during the recent years, has been the truly amazing theory of somo French disputants whose opponents have said that the unusual number of more or less bewhlskered women has been due to charce. The theory is under consideration by the Academy of Medicine of Paris, says a Paris dispatch. It is natural that the problem should fascinate French scientists, for probably in no other civilized country does one see so many women with masculine facial adornments as in France. These feminine blemishes may be merely a "throwback" to the day when all mankind, without distinction of sex, developed whiskers in full measure. Or perhaps they may have originated at an even earlier day when (on the authority of one of the savants present at the meeting') the world war ruled by bearded fiercely mus tachcd women, whllo feeble, smootnfacea man crept about humbly and did the bidding of the hairy ladles. On the other hand, there are scientists like the pessimist Hofbauer, who declares that a beard on a woman is a fine sign, betokening the sex's gradual rise to a higher plane. Brandt indeed ca'ls the bearded women "the pioneer of future generations," and looks forward to that bright day when women, having won by evolution a complete hirsute outfit in other words luxuriant whiskers, as well as the vote, will at lost become the equal, not to say the master, of man. A French scientists, being gallant men, will have none of these gloomy GeC men theories. They regard "hlraufIsm," as they call this phenomenon, as a freak or accident, due generally to a pathological cause, but. also sometimes to mere absent-mindedness on the part of Mother Nature. On the whole they utterly reject the theo^ to do with maidens' bArds. Professor Achard of the Paris faculty. specialist on the subject, says It is an accident to which men also are subject, sometimes having whiskers long before the accepted age for . " growing them. Thsre have beaq vsfjr little bearded boys as well as whiskered young women?so let any 8cho penhauer who will cast the first having muj "Partial virilism,'" aa some of tlie' wise call it, may attack the fair sek at any period of life. It is not coflfflned, as many people suppose, to th? Autumn of a woman's life. No woman in other words, from the cradle to tfc^v grave, is wholly certain not to grow superfluous hair upon her face. One of Mr. Achard's most interesting cases is that .if a woman aged 71 who was under hi? care in the BeairJon hospital (Paris). She had a strong mustache, a square beard and bushy cye-hrows," and one can well understand his first surprise at finding ' a person of such "striking masculine appearance" in the women's ward. Thin was one of the cases which at first was laid to the war, but It was between her ninth and tenth years that beard grew. Early ii^ Hfe, because the other girls poked fun at her. ohe used to shave. But Inter she decided to make the best of it and let the entire face forest flourish at Its own sweet will. The woman who Is subject to these sad disfigurements has not even the satisfaction of thinking that she is thereby protected from baldness. In fact, by the irony of Nature, she Is normal to the frontal baldness usually peculiar to man. LAWYERS SHOULD KNOW The Bible and Shakespeare Says Former Bar Head. All candidates for admission to the bar should bo compelled to pass examinations on the Bible and the works of Shakespeare, In Ihe opinion of Danial W. Iddings. former president of the Ohio Bar association, says a Dayton, O., dispatch. Mr. Iddings has urged that all bar organizations Insist upon passage of such examinations as pre-requislto to the taking of the bar examination proper and recommends rico that candidates be quizzed on Blackstone's commentaries. "The source of all law really is the Bible while Shakespeare pointedly brings out the foibles of the law," declares Mr. Iddings. Blackstone's com* - - ?? ?u~..ij w. m K%? mentarics, ne say?, bhuuiu irou uj every lawyer at some time digdng his career, for "it must ever remain the greatest exposition of what the AngloSaxon law really is." "Such examinations would compel the readings and study of these great literary masterpieces," Mr. Iddings continues, "and certainly no man can read and understand the Bible without being benefitted morally, and the same is true, although In a lesser degree, of Shakespeare. The biggest duty of bar organizations is insisting upon early and universal action on this important subject." A Case for Operation.?' I hear George was operated on," said oqa I friend to another. "What did he have 7" ok 'Money." i .