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London Newspaper Teils of Strange Fate That Pursued Group BofFi in Life and Death. Ther iived at Ipswich In the reign fl of "William HI a family known as the "odd family," a most' appropriate liame, as the following facts prove, London Answers states: , Eve^r event, good, bad or .indiffer ent, came to that family in an odd year or an odd da, -tf the month, and every person was odd in manner or behavior or appearance. Even the letters of theis Christian names al . ways amounted to an odd number. The father and mother were Peter and Rahab; their seven -children (all hoys) bore the names of David, Eze kiel, James, Jonas? : Matthew, Roger and Solomon. The husband possessed only, one leg and his . wife only one arm; Solomon was blind in his left eye and Roger lost his right in an accMent; tfames had his left ear torn ? off in a quarrel. Matthew's left hand . had but three fingers. Jonas had a stump foot, David was . humpbacked and Ezekiel was 6 feet 2 . inches at the age of nineteen. Every, one of the children had red hair, not withstanding the fact that the father's ? hair was jet hlac? and the mother's .'' white. Strange at bi?tb, all died as sti angel y. The father fell into a deep sawpit end was killed, the wife died five days j after from starvation. Ezekiel enlist- ; ed, was wounded in 23 places, but re- i covered.' Roger, James, Jonas, David j and Matthew died, in 1713 in six dif ferent places on the same day; Soio 'mon and Ezekiel were drowned In the - Thames in 1723. RECALL LEGENDS OF HAWAII Two. Idols, Recently Unearthed, Bring to Memory Folklore Tales Almost Lost to-TWemory. Of the two old Hawaiian idols lately , y found concealed in the earth at Hook ' aupu, Paukukalo, one, a female iaol, is a faifly good state of preservation. The idol is supposed to be that of Ki ^hawahine, the Undine of Maui myths. /Her haunts are the springs at Pauku ; kale, the Kauaha pond, and the raatch ;\,}Tqss pools in the wooded glens 'Verbund Pilholo, Makawao. r. y The legends about her compare with '/those of the German fairy folklore, -'?$nd aronnd the charms of her person \ as she sits combing her wealth of % ; golden tresses at the edge of some /bathing pool is woven many a half-. ';\ forgotten Mauri folk tale. Is some of the latest, ones she is ' : reputed to have lured two haoles at different times on a merry chase only to see her disappear in one or another * of the deep, clear-water pools among the wooded glens of Pilholo. . One, a doctor, ended his aimless wanderings to her glenwood haunts by becoming a "paralytic, the other, a woodcutter, n?ver ceased to describe the charms of this "wonderful woman with tine gol den hair," always able to elude his em brace, but ever^ beckoning'him on to her lair among the vines and trees and pools and crags of the glens about - Pilholo.?Wailnku (H. L) Times. The Cynical Actress. The late Oscar Hammerstein be lieved that the actresses should lead a pure life. "Cynical, disillusioned actresses are do good." he once said at a dinner. *T remember an actress of mine some years ago who fell down, badly in a part I'd given her. '"Look here* I said the., morning after she fell down, 'all -^e^ critics" say you don't, show half enough emotion In the scenes; where your husband leaves you-euerer: to ^return.* " "The cynical, disillusioned Creature . gave_ a tart laugh. " *Oh, I don't, don't I? she sn eered.. 'Well, Took Here, Mr. Hammerstein?J. I've had six husbands leave me never to return, and I gu'?ss I know how much emotion ought to be shown in sdefc circumstances as well as any body/" Safe Light for Miners. Nowadays the up-to-date miner car- j rites a package of electricity about i with him while underground. It is a ; small storage battery attached to the back of his belt, and is connected by a cord with a lamp fastened to front of his cap. The lamp, provided with a reflector, throws quite a flood of light in front of the minor. But its chief advantage is absolute safety. In olden days miners (who must of course, hav<* light) carried about with tbem open-fiame lamps. These caused innumerable disastrous accidents through ignition of coal dust or gase*. Sir Humphry Davy's invention of a safety lamp whose flame was protected by a wire gauze saved an Immense number of lives. It is in common use today, but the electric mine lamp Is better and more convenient. ? Death Took Old and Young. During the war the London Times, either wittingly or unwittingly, pub- j listed innumerable items about the j very old men and women in tbe Brit- j fen empire who were dying off. Tbeir great a^e, their longevity, formed a melancholy contrast to The slaughter of youth then going on in Europe. Dur ing six months in 191S, 312 persons j over one hundred years old died in the British is!e<. but the figures of young tr.en who fell during that time before the guns of the enemy and who died srith fciflivnza mount ed toward a mil lion. Not one of the old, be it said fa passing, died from "tiu." j REVENGE TAKEN BY ANIMALS [ Stoiry on Record of Huge Mastiff Thjtt i Killea Thoughtless ?room at IFirst Opportunity. !'.'. ? " 1 I Careful observers have put on reo! I ord some very extraordinary instances ; of dogs and other animals which have remembered injuries put upon them,! and have eventually retaliated, says \ London Answers. There is a terrible story on record ! ; of a dog, a huge mastiff, kept as a j ! watchdog by a Staffordshire gentle- j 'man. The great brute was kept.' j chained io the stable yard, and during ! ; the very hot weather one of the j ; grooms, noticing the creature panting ! ! with heat, threw a bucket of cold wa- j j ter over him. A week later the dog was loose j j when the -same man entered the yard. -He sprang upor^ him and caugfct him j by the throat and killed him. A touching little episode happened a few.years ago,in a Worcester vil- ?? ! l?ge. A boy was the proud owner of ; ! a. very handsome pah* of fox terriers, ! j. named Mick and Jerry. Jerry went off j I one day into a wood near by and j ! tackled a badger, which killed him. j { Raymond, his master, went out to look j j for him, but could not find him. But I two days after Mick was found mourn-1 I ing over the dead body of his com-1 ! pan ion. j He was brought hack. One day he j ! did not return. His master searched j and found him laying dead, his teeth 1 in the throat of the badger, which ! was also killed. An amusing incident was that of an Indian elephant whose revenge on a j ne/w mahout whom he took a dislike to was rather funny. He picked him \ up and deposited him in the branches 1 of a thorn tree. ? ' j NO NEED FOR FURTHER TALK Argument Had Convinced Man That, Arctic Expedition Was Just the Place for Him. A middle-aged man, with what ap- j peared to be a load on his mind, visit-; ed the arctic steamer just before it j started on the expedition, and seemed ; greatly interested in what he saw. [ "Say," he said to the officer on deck,; Td like to go with you on this ex- j pedition of yours." "It's awfully cold up there," re- j marked the officer, discouragiDgly. "I don't care for that." "You have very little to eat, andj you might starve to death." "TJjat wouldn't be pleasant," ob- j served the visitor. "I should say not," returned the ! officer. "And you might be eaten by! your comrades." "And then," continued the officer, I "you wouldn't see your wife for three j years, and possibly longer. -You know 1 you can't take ber with you." "Oh!" returned the would-be ex>j pJorer, after a long pause, "then you I can put ray rrame down on your books. | Tour last argument captures me." ??????? f i Francs Seeks Mauritius. There is a movement in France to ask Great Britain for the return of Mauritius, the Beloved Isle of France, which was lost in 1810. It is contend ed that, in spite of being under Brit ish rule for over a hundred years, the island is still essentially French, and that the people desire union with their mother country. Great Britain has no particular rea son for keeping the island, says the j Newcastle Chronicle. It has no strar j tegic or economic importance, nor has it any sentimental associations, so far as Great Britain is concerned. For the French, on the other hand, it is the place to which many of their nobles emigrated, and is the island which j . Bernardin St. Pierre immortalized in j ..his idyl, "Paul and Virginia." The, Isl?nders gave proof of their) feeling for France by sending many j of their sons to fight in the French army* - Labor and Christenings. W. Wallace Alexander, associated with the Elklns estate and- a leading, 'light in the Orpheus club, at a camp fire gathering was humorously de scribing his troubles at a Pennsylvania coal mine which he was seeking to put \ on a paying basis. "The miners wore getting out coal two days a weok?the other Jive days wore devoted to christenings. F<?r every christening tin* whole! neighborhood took a day to prepare,' a day to celebrate and a day to re cover. Finally the problem was solved by hiring a brass band, arranging a pa rade and having all the christenings take place on the same magnificent, uproarious, welkin-ringing day. Who says; a business man has no | need for the creative imagination??j Philadelphia Public Ledger. -. I Powerful Lens of English Make. The most powerful lens used in aerial photography during the war, it is said, was made in Birmingham. Elng Isnd. It was 6% inches in diameter find had a focal lengrh of 30 inches. The power and clear definition of this lens were such that when used in an airplane it. gave good visibility and detailed information of whnt'was hap pening five miles below it. Ir is said that the photographer eould easily de tect the presence of barbed wire from j p height of three miles, and movements : of troops that had heon etTo?-tod under I cover of darkness were likewise trace i able by the experts. Birmingham man i ufaetnrrrs have been s<> sinv^sful In making lenses that they believe they can compete with Germany, which lias long had a monopoly of hi^h-grade manufactures of that kind. TAKE THREE DAYS'f3T%ED _ ? <f* An-.ian Couple Must Be Patient in ...e Matter of Tying the Mar riage Knot. In Armenia everybody has a good time at a wedding except the bride groom. First of all, the friends as semble, and an entertainment, with dancing, takes place. The bridegroom is expected to arrive when the enter tainment is at its height and it is considered good form for him to ap pear with his face covered with pow der to simulate pallor Induced by the solemnity of the occasion. Friends of the bridegroom then shave him pnb licly and fall upon him and strip him of all his clothes, after which lie is supplied with a new set of garments and completely dressed again. While they are performing the offices of valet to the groom the young me^t present are supposed to hold lighted candles in their right hands. The day aft er this opening marriage feust the bride rides to church, and the bridegroom walks.'' The priest who receives them in the porch reads a short sermon on their duties in the matrimonial state, and then the wed ding party proceeds to'the altar, whe^e the foreheads of the high contracting parties are bound together with gold chains. The weddingfestivities con tinue for at least three days after this, and the couple are Wtregarded as married until' the ceremonies ; have been concluded. The social ceiebra tion of the wedding is carried through' as conscientiously as the reli^ous part ' ? " * COULD NOT DiSLODGE^OCK Wnen Nature Placed Freak w? Berk shire Hills, She Evidently Put tt There *o Stay. The famous "balanced- rock" near Lnnesboro, Iffass., in the historic Berk shires, is one of the'strange sfghts of tl/is region -of hidden .mountain caves, snow-capped hills and fblk-lotjft that rivals fiction. This Tock, which weighs several tons, is apparently in a pre carious position on the sheer edge of another rocky ' formation beneath it One would think that a very slight push Indeed would dislodge It from its position. . "Balanced rock" la located on Con stitution hill, the, eminence named after "Constitution" Smith, who was Instrumental in ratifying the, Ameri can Constitution. An. old fanner of Lanesboro thought he could pull "bal anced rock" from its position ;bv har nessing up several pairs of oxen, at taching a chain to the'rock and hav ing the animals strain on the rock together. The experiment failed. The rock could be rocked back and forth, but could not be dislodged. The ice flow of the glacial, period is uelieved to have been responsible for placing the huge rock in its pres ent position. ? -:-? Alcohol From Molasses. Several large concerns are making alcohol from cheap molasses brought from the West Indies. This molasses, which is uneatable, Is known as "Mack strap." The Internal revenue chemists have been able, however,- to ferment it and to obtain not only al cohol but to so use the residue that they get glycerin. Four lots of "black strap'%of 1,000 gallons ea^h subjected to the uW'proc ess turned out a very excellent qual ity of glycerin. There are 1?0 gallons of this clear dynamite glycerin, as it is called,' now on exhibition In the treasury department2*implies of it treated with nitric acid by a well known firm of explosive makers; at the request of the government pro duced as good a nltro^glycerin ?s the market affords. \ Xltro-glycerin when Incorporated with pulp or other Inert substance becomes dynamite. Thus fcut "of the simple sweets of the sugar bowl comes forth the strength which will rend the rock. Large Market for Rabbit Skins. . There is a market for rabbit skins. Before the- recent war an enormous trade was carried on abroad. It is said that Great Britain and Ireland alone produced about thirty million skins an nually. Most rabbit skim? are sold in bales, by weight, the fur from them being used for felting purposes, and the skins for making glue. The war interrupted the importations from Eu ?ope end Australia to such an extent that the price ha* greatly increased. The better skins are sold by the dozen. When dressed they become the "cony" of the fur trade, often sold under fan ciful names. American breeders are raising all kinds of rabbits that pro duce the best "cony" of the fur shops. Saw Cuts Steel Billets. The largest of a number of power hacksaws In one of the British naval factories is stated to weigh three and one-half tons and is driven by a three horse power electric motor. It cuts through square billets of steel 2? inches thick. Even a cut like this does not wear out the blade, which is suitable for further work after tin cut has been made. This machine is estimated to reduce the expense oi sawing to one-sixth of the former cost. Japan's Leading Industry. Extraordinarily favorable business conditions in Japan and the conifh?e? withdrawal of the products of Euro pean nations from competition in tht markets of Asia and Australia made the year JIM7 an extremely prpfttahle one :'<*t the spinning industry and firmly fixed it as the leading manu facturing Industry of Japan. OFFERS EVERYBODY A CHANCE j Philanthropic Seattle Man Throw* Open Hall for Absolutely Free and Uninterrupted Speech. A philanthropic fight promoter?one i of the enterprising gentlemen who has j been in the habit of putting on a box j ing match every week or two?is much i annoyed at the spasmodic interference I of the officers of the law In his busi i ness affairs, and is proposing to throw j open his hall for ? weekly forum of i free arid uninterrupted speech, in j place of the boiing bouts, j "I want every guy that has anything j to say to come over and say ft." said j the promoter, according to the Seattle i Post-Intelligencer, "and I'll give him I ten minutes to spiel, and then he must j shut his trap. I don't care what he j is; any kind of a nut can come over j and say right out what is on his chest, j My luck has been so bad, and my j spirits so depressed, that I want a j laugh, and I believe a not gathering j of this kind would equal anything the j Orpheuni circuit or Pantages or the j best of them ever put on: You know, j nature keeps playing jokes on human j fry all the time; she mixes together j some queer patterns in heads, and a I lot of fellows can't help what they think; some have a hunch for one thing and some for another; I suppose j we could get a few startling facts on j anything from religion to chess in Lthese verbal tournaments. And it will j |?be absolutely free; I mtght pass the ! hat around at the close of tue enter | tairiment to sqriare me on the hall ; rent, but for the rest I wouldn't want j a cent to pay outside of the entertain- | roent I get out of it. As soon as I can pull a jazz band together to fit fn j with the speechmaking I will announce the details, and we will be sure in^for a summer's entertaroment, if \he sheriff don't close us up." HOfflESfCK FOR ARCTJC SNOWS No Affectation About the Longing for Far North That fs Experienced by Explorers. Tf you are of ordinary hf alth and 'strength, if you are young enough to be adaptable and independent enough to shake off the influence of books ; id belief, you can find good reason to he as content and comfortable In the North as anywhere on earth. If you remember that all of us who have spent more than a year **lfving on the country," are quite of the Eskimo opinion that no food on earth is better than caribou meat, and if you have any experience in your life ?s a hunter any where, you will realize that in the eve nings when we stt in these warm snow houses, feasting with keeti appetites on unlimited quantities of boiled ribs, we have all the creature comforts. What we lack, If we1 feel any lack at all, will he possibly the presence of friends far away, or the chance to hear opera or see the movies. At any rate, it is true that today in the movie in fested city I long for more snow house evenings after caribou hunts as T never in the North longed for clubs or concerts or orange groves. And this (is not peculiar to in# The men who I nave hunted with me are nearly all of the same mind?they are either in the North now, on the way back there by whaling ship, or eating their hearts out because they cannot go.?Vilhjal mur Stefansson in-Harper's Magazine. Probably Envious. "After a few months In other states, I was returning to Indianapolis," re mar! i a traveling salesman, "and I don't .ind teilmg you I was glad to be getting back home. As I sat down. ? beside the stranger I told him how good It was to be bade In the land of cornfields. "So we started to talk about the beauty spots of Mother Nature. It is nothing more than natural for any Hoosier to talk about his own state. And I had to ask him whether he had ever been in Brown county. "The stranger looked out of the car window a minute, saying softly to himself: *Brown county, Brown coun ty/ When he looked around at me again he said: >. "*Yes, I have been there. ThatV the place where the squirrels have to carry a lunch with them when they go across the county, is it not?"'?In dianapolis News. Flowers of Poland. According to an English newspaper correspondent who recently reported s journey he had made from Paris to the Polish capital, the most impressive spectacle that he saw was the mantle of blossoms, clustered profusely, which fringed the highways and byways' t about Warsaw. "All the wars of Po j land," he writes, "could not cheek the new life that came riding through her borders at the head of the advancim?: spring; sprays of lilac found place in } the gray caps of Polish lancers, tnhps j and chestnut leaves, tokens of the new j dawn, in the garb of peer and peasant, j Everywhere was spring yielding back a measure of her everlasting rights." But the flowers never took much notice of the war even "at the front." Runs Mews Stand Without Hands. There Is a boy running a news stanr^ in Union square, New York city, who has no hands. He opens and closes hi.*; stand, opens and folds his papers and" passes thcm out to customers without, delay or difficulty, and makes change like an expert. Lou Young is his name. He lost: both hands in an explosion when thir teen years old. but that handicap did not hinder him from going into busl* n?*s find making a^surcess of it. "The cripple who has spunk fa tj; SM**? an anyone else," ht ssya, LIBERIA IS REACHING OUT Tribes of That Country, It is Said, Art. Accepting ths Teachings of the (Missionaries. Plenyono Gbt Wolo, ? Liberlan or the Kru tribe, who graduated from Co lumbia university, says: j There never has been a scientific j census of Liberia, but the population j is estimated at from 2,000,000 to 3;0?O;-1 000, and not more than 15,000 are! Amerieo-Liberlans, the descendants bi j liberated slaves. The remainder be-! long to tribes which speak four differ- j ent languages and offer only nominal i submission .to the government Tb* j KruS elect their kings by the selection j of the most available man bf the royal' house; In the Jarroway tribe the king is an absolute monarch for the reign of six years, and is then put to death. Other tribes also follow different cus toms. The tribes do not acknowledge tht government oi Monrovia, because they j feel that it does not protect them. By } treaty the; United States government j is required to help the AmericO-Libe rians against the tribes, and in 1012 this country helped put down a rebel lion of the Kros. 1 The constitution of Liberia has a literacy test, which has heretofore ex cluded most of the natives from vot ing, as the central -government is un able to undertake their education. The j Girbas are being taught by Episcopal missionaries, and the Fulingos, who are Mohammedans, are also gaining the franchise. The Krus are very am bitious/and are also catching up. There' are more than 50 Liberians of the na tive tribes studying in the United States. , . . ... . j WHEN RAILROADS WERE NEW Engineers in Charge of Construction Work Had Ideas That Now Seem a Little Peculiar. Light on strange Ideas of pioneer railroad builders was thrown by Ed ward S. Jouett, general solicitor bf the L. & ST., in a talk before the Ro tary club at Louisville. "The frexington-Frankfort line," said he, "was built with Wngttudin'al stone sills capped with a strip of iron, and the numerous curves, which you hare all noted, are said to bare been pur posely introduced upon the theory that they were an advantage In enabling the conductor the more easily to see the rear of ids train. The coaches were two-story affairs?women and children below and men above?and the motive power was mules to the top of the hfll above Frankfort. Th* train was let down the hill into the city upon an incwne operated by a stationary engine. "You may he interested, In parting, to learn that with the exception of a. few- iriiles near Isew Orleans, which antedated It about a week, this line from Lexington to Frankfort Is the oldest railroad In the United States south of the Ohio and west of the Alleghenies. It was chartered to 1830 ?very early in railroad history, when we remember that the first railroad in the United States was br'It In 182?, and the first locomotive engine was operated to 1829;" Health and= Height Count Every flying man in the United States air service has to undergo a strict medical test periodically in or der that he may be classified In one bf four grades. "AA" men are the few who can stand air work at 'attitudes above 20,000 feet "A" men can stand the strain between 15,000 and 20,000 feet while the "B" class consists of pilots for duties - between 8,000 and 15,000 feet, and the "C" group Includes all airmen fit only for service between ground level and 8,000 feet It has been found that airmen of most robust physique cannot stand the sudden changes of air pressure entailed by diving , and rapid climbing -for any length ef time. Hence the frequent medical examinations, carried but by experts who have drawn up a care fully calculated standard of efficiency. She Old. She was A four-flusher, particularly as to her abilities in various sports. "Do you golf?'* he asked. "Oh, I love golf," she answered. "I play at least 36 holes twice a week.* "And how about tennis?' "I won the woman's championship In our state." "And do you swim?" "The best I ever did was a half mile straight away," she replied. Somewhat fatigued he changed to literature. "And how do you like Kip ling?" he asked. "I kipped an hour only yesterday," was hei- unblushing reply.?Journal of the American Medical Association. Large Offer for Map Haig Used. Offers up to $1,750 have been re ceived for the map used by Sir Doug las Haig in the direction of the Brit ish armies oh the western front Octo ber 8 and three following days, and sent to the lord provost of Glasgow's secretary for disposal in aid of the king's fund for disabled officers and men. The map eventually will be put up at auction. Collar Button Causes Divorce Suit An elusive collar button was respon sible for Andrew J. Etnmert abasing his wife, Angelint Emmert aceordinf to her testimony before a master hi chancery in suing for divorce. She' said when he dropped his collar but ton and she would not search for if he struck her. A divorce decree 1* ?ecommended. ? Pittsburgh Chronic!? Ttlegmpa. _._i_1 Campaign to Haise Fond For Episco pal College. : v . ?In a. .statement which he Issu? concerning the financial campai that is being waged by the J&tttfceri Episcopalians for their Church's uni-= versity at Sewanee, Tennessee, Wiek? Wambbldt, the genera! director of th< drive says: "This campaign has been one of the hardest fought battles in the an?\, nals of campaign- history;' but it 'IsV. undoubtedly j;oms to succeed/ "While for many months the. at-^ tempt to raise a fund to strengthen^ and develop this University was-re- I ceived with the same atdrtate that is g responsible for . the previous deef?ne*^ of the church's educational system, there is now a complete change of at- & titu.de. and this is due to the fact that zealous and. earnest leaders of: the 3g Episcopal Church in the South? have' J been able to make the seriousness' of : the situation clear to the ? Sov^^Hl-^ Episcopalians. And at this time tlxeret 5| is ? grim determination being ex- I pressed in practically all, of the South- 1 era dioceses that The Episcopal church M 1h the South shall not :be petittitted to suffer the reflection ;at nbt raising what is comparatively a modest , sum i for the support of a' much-needed unit in the life of the church, ' ; '""For a hundred years tlie Bp^co^? pal Church'in America iias perrii1&edf|| its educational system to weaken^. 1 through the loss of first one umt'ja/-ir| ter another, until today this church Owns and controls but three colleges, : out of a total of twenty-One %nickx:.-: the Church has founded. ani3-^r^Jsts'e, the University of the South, at Se wanee, is the. only educational inst?tu> M ti'on of higher learning left , to the Episcopal Church in the Southland. "The greatest obstacle tli&':~--ifa^ confronted this campaign," Mr. Wa'nt b'oldt continues, "is the feeling oh thVV'; part of many of the parishes ;th?t"any. money which they sendout of the' parish weakens them to tu.at.'eJtfenl" p;: Bishop Charles E. Woodcoctu ./Of ? ? Kentucky, in commenting on this par- / ticular point., says: "There is'.a; small 'ness of spirit .revealed in the "'brer- > whelming fear that if anything fcbes^ outside the parish, it wlH "cripple its 1^ own needs. Wh need .some great ^ challenge, some overpowering object :g to save us froth- thIs''cV^p^feg;'^eiit-; '-? tling fear." Bishop \Wdodcocfc;'.sbe^;;;i! on to say: "It is not Sewane"? but the Church of the South w^eir-will.' go on record in this campaign'.' The campaign report showsy?hkt ?the quota fdr the diocese of South Carolina, thro?gn a re^diusfmen^, : has been reduced f rom $T4 5,-00$..vie i $90,779, bf which $?4,279 . has "b^een , raised. This leaves a balance :'bjf S^V? 1500' yet to be SUbscrihbdr yfh?e\ihe j efforts of certain vint^r^?^p?^f^ j in behalf of the ca^mpai^n^- a d?Str edly disappointing, still -it is con^'ilent- : 1 ly expected that the church' ieadexi,-^ will not permit the camp^^n .to fjail " in this diocese, and that^j?s^? lastr; resort," any u hrai^d balance* wfft be .underwritten by strong: friend^^f tne I (university. J. Xelson Friersori,;- --bf;^ Columbia, is leading the Sew^nee campaign in South. Carolina, an^?^^ having the close co-operation.ojf T&?& shop Guerry, and the active assistance \ of Doctor T. P. Bailey, from :CHe Uni versity of the South. '?>, ? :;:T*0^ In commenting on the situation, Major General Leonard Wood, who is ? the general chairman of the Sewanefcl| campaign, says: ' *f "It is "squarely up to the' Eh>ise^patr'^ ians throughout the South to vigor- ?. ously support the Sewanee Ewdow- ' ment. If the church does not -sup port its own university, who can be expected to ?o so? . "Sewanee stands for splendid ideals: land sound AmeYkantsm. She is en titled to the support of those who send their sons to her. and -of the church she represents. "There' seems to be a certain- leth argy, and in?iffcreh?e in the matter of this enoVwnient. iJnlfess Jchurch men show an interest in this >wbrk the pnbHc cannot be expected to do so. Th,e time has come to demon strate that the church has at heart the interest of this representative in stitution and the best way to demon strafe it at this moment 1s to take i an active, and vigorous part in com j dieting the necessary endowment." Prominent church ' .leaders; -''es^itota I themselves as being thoroughly con fident that by the time the canVp%fcgn; [.closes on April 26th the, Epsicbpal church in the South will be working .as a single unit to not only preserve and properly maintain, their Untv'er isity at SeW?nee, but to rebuild their once magnificent religious education al system. j ? Good Tfc&ds 5IeetJftgi It has been " decided to hold four additional meetings next week *5i the interest of the , $2,500,000 bond .issue for ,a main highway' system of -roads kt the following places:* Concord School: Tuesday night, May 4th, at S p. m. Graham School, in Concord towh jship: Wednesday night,/May 5th, at ! S p. m. .. ? t Pleasant Grove School, in Shilph i tttwnship: Thursday night, May $th. 'at ? p:' m. '" ?. ' '?' 0^v.-'.-a-o ScLool: "Friday night. "Sfay | 7th.. at S p. m. ^. ! Selected speakers have been desig | nated" to talk at "these meetrhgS. The committee hopes that those who Tire opposed to the bond issue or who are considering the proposition -with open ?minds will be sure to attend these meetings as well as those who "are out and out in favor of the. bond issue. ?Fuli Gto'ry of Cti&ry ^????it' * Blooming bt tne cherry triees in pan occurred earlier this je?t ??in usual, otrtntr to ihe ?c^p?onally warm weather of the 'early :^nthi. The blossoms were out tn\great pro fusibh oh Sunday, Mach 3?i Tho higan sakura trees1 Is Uyeh? 1?rk werfe m full 'htbofe; the y^hliro-^a s^^c^ln^t^ fuU llotiescenc* bn Itprfl $ tJ^ Anni versary of the first-enujiferor of Japan. Everybody in Japan is enjoying the arborescence of ?^ringtlme.