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Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-02-08

There are a whole lot OF people in
this and every community who go
about pluming themselves upon their
family. their clothes, their social posi-
tion, their education, who sacrifice
their possible achievements for the
mere buster. The Pharisee is con
spicuous in modern life as he was In
olden times. OF this class are those
who make so much show and whose
names stand in the bad debt column
Of evebry merchant who gives them
credit. Then, too, there are the race
lovers" who are conspicuous by the
way they deride the efforts of the
struggling members Of the race. The
most illiterate negro Is one OF us and
may, according to his opportunity and
environment be doing a mans share
toward our advancement It is for
those OF us who are better qualified
to do our best and not be making in
vidious comparisons Take the negro
who finds all kinds OF excuses for not
giving his trade to colored merchants.
He is quick to resent any nsinuation
Of inferiority on his own part, but not
so with the race business man. It Is
time for us to climb down from pre-
tension and make good. Appearances
are something, but reality is more. II
we forget the one we will the more
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-02-08

securely lay hold of it by clinging
close to the other. In some instances,
like the Paris City Cleaning Works,
of which John R. Jackson is proprie.
tor, our business ventures receive the
great bulk of their patronage from
white people and have an established
place in the commerce of the city, but
usually, we have got to not only be
present at the christening, but have
also to help nurture them. Let us be
proud of the ventures that live with
or without us, but not forget to give
our prayers and help to the others.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-02-08
COMMONWEALTH GOOD
AS AMERICAN

TO Whom 1t May Concern:
1t has been said that the Common
wealth Life does not treat people as
well as the American did, but the
Commonwealth has certainly treated
me right. wouldn't drop my policy
for anything.
Yours truly,
(Signed) HANNAH MARSHALL,
1886 Corona st.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-02-08
ASPEN ITEMS.

Miss Louise Hale. who is visiting
her uncle, Floyd Hale, is very well
pleased with our mountain city and
may remain indefinitely
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-02-08

Mrs. George Robinson will spend
the summer in the East visiting
Cleveland, Cincinnati and other
points in Ohio.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-02-08

Mrs. H. Brown left Saturday for
Glenwood to spend short while Wis.,
iting her friend, Mrs. Kinney.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-02-08

Mr. George Kinney has gone to
Kansas City to visit friends and rela-
tives.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-02-08

Hannibal Brown entertained a few
friends at cards on Thursday even.
ing. All report a pleasant time.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-02-08

Mrs. Richard McGrew expects to
visit her daughter in st. Louis this
summer.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-02-08

II. Brown, Geo. Robinson and c. Z.
Jackson will take in the Exposition
in Virginia this summer.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-07

Colony might have been followed and
found long ago by the slips of the
White scuppernong grape, brought by
them from the mother vine" at Roa-
ncke, ana planted wherever they stop
ped.
Tile whites and the Croatans rested
for years at a place called Burnt
Lake. The whites. evidently thought
that messengers from the sea might
overtake them here. But none ever
came To-day, says Mr. Ford. u q
question Is asked the Croatan chron-
!clers concerning Virginia Dare. they
about Virginia Darr" there will be
an eager assent of yes yes; we know
Virginia Darr; she is our mother way
back" And then tho old tradition will
be revived of how the baby girl was
taken with the white men and wo-
men from lsand.Iof how she
grew into graceful maldcnhood on the
banks OF burnt Lake Cor Mattamus-
lSeetl; of how she went by the name
of white Doc" and married u young
Croatan brave. AS In the case OF Po-
cahontas, her descendants have grown
to be famous, Governor l4owrey Swain,
OF North Carolina, and Senator Hiram
r. Revels. OF Mississippi, claiming de-
seent from her a
In their route from Roanoke Island,
delineated by Mr. Ford, the Raleigh
Colony Is heard of in Sampson county,
North Carolina ana near Cape Hat
teras, the trail finally ending In Robe
son county, where, in 1923. English
settlers found light Indians on Lumber
River, with English habits OF life, who
claimed to he descendants of the Lost
Colony" In 1872 Henry Berry and
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James Lowrey, leading men or the
tribe, who had the same names as
their English forbcars. received land
grants from George II. In Robson
county a family of Dares reside, who
claim lsinship with the 'Whito Doc of
Roanoke"
The Creations or to-day as described
by Mr.. Ford, are rather uncommunicn
tive, But they still cultivate the white
scuppernong and dlstil Wine from the
grapes after the fashion taught them
by tho Roanoke Colonlsts, Tho ms
dian trail followed by Mr.. Ford is
known In Robson county as "the
great Lowrcy road the whites having
along with wine-distilling and this
road having been put in shape by
their Croatan chief, Henry Lowrey. In
speech, in their knowledge of archi-
lecture, in the fact that forty-one out
OF the ninety-ilve surnames or the Rn-
leigh Colony survive in the Croatan
tribal names of to-day, the evidence Is
considered indisputable by Mr.. Ford,
that the Colonists at Roanoke Island
were amalgamated With these Indians.
When the English settlers came to
Jamestown Island, 1t was reported 70
item that II part oftha Roanoke Island
settlers had gone northWArd among
Powhatans people, and that by PoW-
hatan's orders they wero put to death
about the tima that Jamestown Is
Hand WAS occupied by the English
ONLY seven were saved, four men, two
+ boys and s, young girl, and from these
We're descended the Hatteras Indians
found near Roanoke Island q century
lafterward. They claimed White am
/. tleEt ry
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shadow Of the great mother vine Of
the white scuppernong, grape, for
which Roanoke Island was famous
fade from his sight, he lost them ut
terly. he and the rest OF the world In
which they had hitherto lived and
moved, and had their being
The sandy low shores, fragrant with
the perfume Of the grape and tie
Wild rose, where had risen the houses
In which the Colonists had found
homes. We're filed with n pathetic
loneliness when Governor White, after
a prolonged and enforced absence, re-
turned inl 1891. He says:E''We let fall
cur grapnel neere the shore and sound
cd with d trumpet call, and after
wards many familiar English tunes Of
songs, and called to them friendly
tut we had no answer"
The next day when they landed they
found carved on tree, standing at
the brow of the sandy bank. the LETT
ters sc. r. o. 1t had been agreed
between Governor White and the Roa-
noke Colonists that, iffthey should be
cyertaken by misfortune or distress,
they would carye6Sa Roman cross
above the letters, indicating their
place OF residence. IL they We're COM
Portable and well situated, the cross
should be omitted. Therefore,, when
Governor White found n strongly in
closed fort or palisade, with the houses
iEsldeStaken down., and on a tree at
the entrance the word, "Croatoan'' en-
sgrayed, he rejoiced over 1t as g token
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TT HE first and most beautiful of
Anglo-Indian romances-thnt
81 of Pocahontas and John Smith
IA lis preceded in American ira
ditionai history by u tragic
,AEglo-Indian story, in which the fact
OF an Indian girl marrying, an English
man was reversed, for an article writ
ten by Alexander Hume Ford and Just
published in Appleton's July magazine,
purports to solve the mystery of RAJ
leigh's Lost Colony on Roanoke Is
land. and tells the story of the mar
riage Of Virginia Dare. the first Eng
lish child born on American soil, and
\ the granddaughter of John White, first
Colonial Governor, to a young Indian
brave OF tho Croatnn tribe.
For years the imagination Of men
md women In tho old and new world,
has dwelt upon the fate which befell
the adventurous band of ono hundred
men and seventeen women, left be-
hind on Roanoke island, when. Gov
K ernor White sailed FOR England In
4 August of 1857, moved to undertake
the voyage by the entreaties OF the
Colonists, who needed fresh supplies
end other necessaries from the Mother
Country.
From the moment when Governor
White stood on the deck of his ship
and watched the forms of those he left
! behind--among them his daughter.
Eleanor. her husband, Ananias Dare,
and their prattling infant, the little
Virginia. born and nursed In the
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Three hundred and twenty years
have gone by since the planting OF
the Colony, and three hundred and SIX
teen since Governor White paid his
last visit to the site, where an ADAM
doned fort and some letters on q tree
were all that remained to tell the
story of those he looked for in vain.
Mr.. Ford takes UP the history OF the
lest Colony at this point. Ho claims
that Governor White might have found
what he looked for In 1891, had he
sailed down Pamllco Sound and up the
Cape Fear River to Its headwaters.
lie also claims that the mystery Of
the disappearance Of the Colonists is
explained by the traditions OF the
Croatan Indians, many Of whom still
live In settlement near Fayette-
VILE, N. G.. According to II legend still
cNtant among this tribe, in the year
1887 Roanoke Island was only sepn-
rated from tho mainland by q marsh.
WhenFthe hunting season was through,
the Indians. who had met the Roanoke
Colony with kindness, made their
preparations to oyetlnland
The whites, drcadlng the approach
of winter and with it possible famine,
asked to 90 with the Indians and ro-
main under their projections, until they
Hand. Chief Mantoo, who had been
across the seas and seen good Queen
Bess, was willing to meet The desires
of the whites So tho Englishmen left
signs on the trees and, there being toe
many women and children for canoe
travel. they started on an overland
| march. i8.
AIs. Ford who has followed the In
lidian tran, declares that the Raieigl
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. ( ri r u . q
that his Daughter. with her family and
the other Colonists, were safe at Croa-
ten, the home of Manteo. a chief OF
the Indian tribe of that name, an In
dian who had visited England and
been made Lord Of the Island Of Roa-
noke and Dasamonguepec." who had
returned to Roanoke and been bap-
ltized Just a few days before the birth
oG Virginia Dare
Governor White made ready to sail
down the sound to Croaton and let
the Colonists know the causes OF his
delayed return and give them the assu-
rance that they were still held In the
interests aud affection of their Eng
lish friends, but storm baked his
intentions. When 1t was over, pro-
visions and water were scarce aboard
slip, so the Governor decided, as those
for whom he was seeking appeared to
be safe and comfortable, to sail for
ST. John, refit there, ana come back
under better circumstances to Roa-
nOke.
He never came back, and nothing
more is known about him. Raleigh
hid spent all of his fortune in his
colonization scheme, and had failed
at the last. But no begged the Colo
nists that were to be sent out by the
IiLOndon Company III 1907 to seek for
those who had gone before them. IN
| obedience to his wishes, indeed, the
little feet sailed under orders to arr
| Choir at Roanoke 1sland. but IT was
blown through the Virginia Capes and
was that eSColonists of 1907 were
settled at Jamestown Island. and the
| search for Raleigh's Colony was given
Y + d u
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Tn support of this tradition Is the
fact that Captain Newport and Captain
John Smith found Mt an indian Wiz
lage below Richmond, In 1907, n slen-
der boy about ten years of}age, who
had blue eyes and fair hair and was
supposed to have been the son OF some
member of tho Roanoke Colony.
Captain Francis Nelson. says Mr..
Ford, who LEFT Virginia IN 1908, took
back to London q chart on which he
marked at one inland place. Here res
tmalncth four men clothed. that CANA
from Roanoke to Ocanhawan (Which
Powhatan confrmed). An
Peccarecmek and Ochanahoen Con the
Neuso) tho people have houses built
with stone walls. the one story above
the other. so taught them by the Eng
lish who escaped tho slaughter at Roa-
ncke,"
To-day there are no moro historic
sites in the United States than James,
town and Roanoke Islands. a modest
monument marks the place where yir4
Einia Dare was born, and smaller
stones outline the location OF tho 1881
fort, The great scuppernong vine, un-s
der which she was Graded. Ia still In,
lusty growth, and Is said to cover an
acre.
The after home of the white Doe
OF Roanoke and tthe place of burial
have not yet boon revealed With GER
tainty to searehers after the truth OF
|,history. But her memory Is lndigsolu-2
hly linked with the island where she,
WAS born, and ii Is believed that her
blood to-day courses in the veins OF
MANY To WHOM she has transmitted tho
courage and the nobility OF her Anglo
SaXoa heritage. 4
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ny FRANK G.. CARPENTER
Sfax, Eastern Tunlsia
CROSS Afrira IN an atitonobj

II Sfax, Eastern Tunlsia-
tn a CROSS Africa in an automobile!
Il ~ Riding at breakneck speed
/ ~ through the deserts of East
3N y ern Tunisia! Dashing along
x a. on the back of yellow
Devil" through crowds of superstitious
Alohammedan Arabs! Soaring the peo-
,ple, routing the donkeys and ,camels
land turning the caravans into flying
Eordes Of men and beasts
These are among the features Of my
ljcurney from Sousse TO Sfax In an
Automobile. The distance is eighty
lmiles, and our speed was about fifteen
hniles an hour.
We came by train from Tunis to
Ecusee. The journey takes about six
hours, and the whole way Is along the
Mediterranean Sea. Sonsse Hes on the
Mediterranean, away off here on the
edge of North Africa It is an old city
of $4,000 Aohammednns. made UP Of
snow-white, flat-roofed buildings,
lcrowdcd together along streets SO mar
lrow that wheeled vehicles cannot pass
Through them. and surrounded by walls
thirty feet high. 1t is entered only by
great gates in the walls. and the
lscencs within are those of the Arabian
Nights" The men are dark skinned,
|wearinG turbans and gowns. and the
women. clad all in black, arc SO close
NY yelled that not even their eyes can
lbe seen.
a town of but few foreigners
Eousse has all the aspects OF the days
tpf Haroun al Raschid. Its streets re-
lsound with the tales of storytellcrs
= with the high thin voices Of Arab
seloolboys rs they sing out the Koran
they are trying to learn, and with the
lshrill cries of the Imans from the
Iminarets of the mosques as they call
i1he people to prayers.
1t is indeed the last place on earth
where one would expect to find an auto.
mobile II is one of the Oldest cities OF
the world. It was founded by the
,Fhoenicians $500 years ago. and was
in existence even before Carthage it.
self.iIt was an imperial Roman city
In the days of the Emperor Trajan, and
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under the Arabs. IT Was for a long time
the stronghold of pirates and corsairs.

On the y elbow Devil. tEl
wish could show you the scene OF
our departure. and the crowd that
gathered outside the walls to see the
DEVIL us l call 1T, lisa great golden
automobile which has just been
brought here from Paris to carry first.
class passengers from Sousse to Sfax.
It Is OF French make, shaped like an
old Concord coach, with three. seats on
the top, six inside. and one in front for
the chauffeur. Its motive power Is
gasolene, and on starting it groans
and puffs and blows. like the demon 1t
IS. sending chills of fear down the
backs OF the natives
Take scat with me on the top and
ride through the wild scenes Of North
eastern Africa. We are higher up than
the roofs OF those huts by the road
side. and away above the motley crowd
OF Arabs, watching the start Now the
yellow devil' is trembling; the chauf-
feur has turned the crank which lets
on the power! Now he blows his horn.
Honk! Honkl We are off.
Y Honk Honls! We are flying about
the high walls of Sousse, the men and
beasts in the road running to get out
of our way.
Honk! Honk! See those two black
objects who are almost under the
wheels: they are Arab women clad all
in Grape, 80 frightened thatet1eir wells
have fallen back and their scared
| brown faces appear.
IIonk! Honk! See that crowd of chill.
%dren scamper. One boy has lost his rec
| fez cap but he runs on and on.
| Honk! Honk. We are passing an en-.
/ campment Of Arab soldiers! The mer
/ are drying. their wash on the grass
and they wave their wet garments a
| US as we go by.
i Farming Scenes.
Now we have left the suburbs O
SousseF and are far out on the plains
4 We nre travelling through olive or
chards. They cover the country 70
4 miles. Sousse ma kes salad oil for ship
! ment to all the world; and it has beel
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shall stand;
When falls the Colosseum, Rome shall
fail. is
And when Rome falls, with 1t shall fall.
,yorI1
On the Site OF Old Thysdrus

the world"
On the Site OF Old Tllysdrus
doubt not the citizens of Northern
Africa thought the same Of ED ?jem,
But who can now tell us anything of
the people who sat in this mighty
playhouse? We know only that there
was q great town here In the time
of imperial Rome. It was called ,rllys-&z
Grus, and 1t must have been OF enor-e
nous size to have required theatre
like this. During the third century
it was one of the richest cities of :
Northern Africa, and the capital Of a
sthickly populated country. There We're
ether great cities nearby: about eight
miles away was one which had also
theatre. and WHICH still shows the
remains Of vast cisterns built for its
water supply
Thy sdrus remained great up to about
the time OF the Arab Invasion, but the
people about were then governed by a.
Berber queen known as Kahena. The
| country was so rich that 1t was att
tackled again and again, and Kal1ena,s
thinking the matter over, came to the
conclusion that the wealth Of her peo-i
/ pie was the cause OF the numerous
| ii,vasions, and that II they destroyed
| their cities her country would be let
| alone. She thereupons called her noun
| tain tribes together and ordered them
| to cut down the orchards and level the
! towns. Th!s was done all over tile
/ country, vast territories being reduced
from riches to poverty. It had, how
ever, the reverse effect OF what she
iinlended. The people who had lost
their property sided with the invad-
/ ers, and kahena was defeated. Her
last stand was made in the amphithea-5
tire of El-DJem,. and its battered walls
4 still show e5etfects of that siege.
4 Since then u has been robbed byj
the generations which followed. 1t
4 las been quarry for both Arabs and
4 Christians. and ofElate the French have
i uncovered its mosairs and carried them,
& Off to thei11nnseums. s To day they are
1 making 70 protect what is left.
l found 2@ the ruins shut off by
4 doors fences. and masons5
were - g and there repairing
4 the tS lie vandals. M
i North Africa.
4 81 Thc como when Northern
~ M. - I Z
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the top Of the automobile we can see
It stretching on and3ion for miles
through the desert, narrowing down to
a pin point In the distance. Tunisia and
Algeria have thousands OF miles Of
well-kept highways. and one could
travel from Morocco almost ito Tripoli
in an automobile. Our journey of
eighty miles Is everywhere equally
good. and, as dusk comes on, and we
fly along with the yellow DEVILS eyes
blazing forth their; acetylene flames.
we have no fears ofabursting tires nor
OF ruts which may cause a break
| down. 1t is pitch dark as we make our
way into Sfax,5 and pull up in front of
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s.. 7HE- NI1PHI7HElzRE -

1alls of fortified town. Nearer, VIZ
observe that they are q great amphi-
and closer still the walls
tower over us to the height Of q
twelve-story flat. One side OF the
amphitheatre has been torn away, but
the greater part still stands. ! climbed
up from gallery to gallery, and through
the arcades, where the men and wo-
men promenaded in the days of i'm
perial Rome while waiting for the
gladiatorial shows to begin in the
arena below. - 4! ~
The outlines OF the arena are plainly
marked They inclose an ellipse Of
almost an acre. and, according to my
PAGES, they actually measure about 200
feet long and It's feet wide.
The walls Of this mighty structure,
| the most of which still stand, are
100 feet high, and it Is said that they
We're one story higher but that the
ltop story has been torn away. There
are three galleries rising one ovec
are the cells where the wild animals
were kept and the rooms in which
the gladiators waited until called into
the arena to fight with beasts or MUIR
der the early Christians. This theatre
saw the massacre of thousands; 1T was
even more noted for It's lions than that
| of Rome, the wild beasts being brought
l
EI-Djem VS.. the Roman Colosseum,
It is said that the Colosseum at
Rome seated $1,000 spectators. FL
/ Diem was about three-auarters as
large, and is said to have seats for
10000. Looking at its galleries this
seems probably true. The building has
a ground floor of five or six acres,
and. with the galleries. 1t could have
accommodated an enormous number OF
\ people. l have seen as many as $4,000
men at one of our great national con-
vcntions. Fully that many We're seated
at Chicago when Garfield was nomi.
4 mated, and the seating capacity Of Ell.
Diem gag almost three times us large
The circumference of the amphitheatrt
here is only 200 feet less than tina
Il of the Colosseum, and its width ant
. breadth each measure as much within
loo feet. The Colosseum, as it exist:
Z to-day, is a little higher than El-Djem
but with the story Which was TORI
away added they would be Of abou
1.-the same height.
The Romans had an old saying which
2 read:
while stands the Colosseum. Rome
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a French hotel where we stay for the he

q French hotel, where we stay for the
night.
The Amphitllentrc of EI-Djem.
I wonder II you have ever heard of
El-Djem. 1t Is one Of the most wonder
full of all Roman ruins. and is surpass-
ed only in size by tho Colosseum at
Rome. mean the great amphitheatre
which. is situated OIL this road about
twenty miles from the sea. I saw it on
my way from Sousse$to Sfax.sIt stands
on plain, rising high above Its sur
rcundings.
From the top Of the automobile one
can see the ruins long before he comes
to them. At first they look like a
mighty bluff, o fertilization or. the