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Wilson, the comedian. Wilson sued
Collins for $5,375, which he said he
had paid him for two pictures rep
resented as original Mauves. Col
Inns retorted by suing Wilson for
$4,000 for false arrest and libel.
The case was settled out of court.
Two years later found Collins
back in the Ludlow Street jail. Sew
eral of his wealthy patrons who had
traded with him in the days of his
afluence were suing him for mis-
representations. In particular, John
N. Beckley, of Rochester, N. Y, OBJ
tanned a Judgment against him for
$4,000. Beckley had paid $500
for canvas represented to be by
Dupre. He got judgment for the
full amount and. costs.
To regain his freedom and settle
his obligations Collins had to let go
of Churleigh Hall. The Singmas-
ter property on Main Street, which
had been the Collinses' first home in
Stroudsburg, went also, two jumps
ahead of the sheriff The fine sta
bles, the horses, the pony and the
cart-all had vanished.
Probably Stroudsburg never ex-
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and service. Here and there were
other officers and private soldiers in
uniform, some of them Scared or
manned and one of them blinded.
Those were the best types in the
room. Others were clearly of for
eign origin, including many Jews and
Slavs, with rather sinister faces of a
kind 1 have often seen in revolution
ary gatherings in London and other
capitals of Europe. With them were
young women with black eyes star
ing moodily out Of dead white faces
and young men with long, uncombed
hair and neurasthenic eyes, rowing
restlessly, and sullen. in their gaze.
On a small wooden platform sat the
secretary of the society, a young man
also, smartly dressed, dapper, like d
clerk in bank, and with the sharp.
self-con6dent manner of com
merciaI traveller. He explained the
objects of the society and the prog
ress ne had to report.
Standing there at the back Of the
room, with my collar going limp in
the heat and the hot breath of the
people about me making me feel
sick and faint, I listened to the pro-
gram Of Clarte fer the reformation
Of life. 1t was nothing more or less
than the Bolshevism of Lenine trans
lated into French. It advocated the
abolition of private property, the
ruthless destruction of capitalism.
the control by the laboring masses
of all the sources and machinery of
wealth, the promotion of an ipterna-
tional fellowship among the work
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Lived a Simple Life

In their daily life at Stroudsburg
Mr., and Mrs. Collins lived simply.
They were both artists in way;
at least, they did pictures and gave
them to their friends. They enter
tained occasionally but never with
any ostentation. They contributed
literally to local charities and made
friends with their neighbors. Ere
quently Mr.. Collins went away on
trips-off Commissioning" was
the general impression.
They had no children until Mrs,
Collins adopted a daughter, Lillian.
She drove about town in pony
cart. All the children knew Lillian
and liked her.
And suddenly in the midst of all
this happiness and prosperity the
seventh son ink began to tell.
Bad investments, bad Judgment
in art values, whatever it was, there
came decline in the Collinses' for
tunes. Churleigh Hall was opened
to the public as Churleigh Inn. 1t
was rumored that Mrs. Collins had
started a beauty parlor on Fifth
Avenue opposite the Waldorf.
But this was only the beginning
of the bad luck that had stayed away
for so many years.
The daughter, Lillian, was killed
by bullet wound. 1t was first
reported as a suicide and later set
down as an accident.
Then Samuel Collins was arrested
in New York, charged with selling
spurious works of art to Francis
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DATTLES have been lost and
won and truces have been ar
ranged through treason and
strategy and the whins of generals,
out rarely because of any humani-
tartan motive. Yet out in the Near
East, where hatreds are bitterest
and cruelty is practiced in it's worst
,orms' Turkish army ceased bonn
oarding city held by the French,
Fhom 1t hated, to allow two Ameri-
raa girls to proceed unharmed on an
efrand of mercy to suffering group
u Armenians, whom the Turks de-
tested only trifie less bitterly than
they hated the French.
1t may have been humanitarian
deals or it may have been crafty
pohtlcs that prompted the Turkish
sc'lon. Their commander, replying
1ne request that the workers be
showed to pass thro- Ia the Turkish
"aes' gave as his reason the love and
saeetlon ne held for the American
people and the respect for the err
sahd Of mercy the relief workers
sought to embark on.
nut whatever the reason, cannon
ast had been bombarding the city
N
Alntab, Cilicia, for months ceased
u'ihg when Miss Anna K. McIn-
ssre' OF $40 Riverside Drive, men,
VI OF a prominent New York family,
so MISS Margaret Reed, of Boone,
.OWs, two workers of the Near East
a'el' accompanied by an American
fs Turkish merchant, the lat
two young sons and Turkish
Sssadarmes began their journey to
saiash, about seventy miles away,
sasfe the need Of their services was
Pressing.
mere We're no railroads. Aintab
a never had any rail connections,
~A'en would have been useless to the
s'y' even if they had existed, for
ae activities of the Turkish Ma
ssa s'aaiists In that part of the world
sa long ago interrupted all COM
4anlcation by rail.
oVer the mountains they went, on
s and horseback, along roads in
ss sss.ea by bandits, insured from at
80 go 0y Turkish safe conduct guar
4sses - which they carried.
-. lae trip was marked by hard
- ps' but both girls, after two years
~ seFvce in the Near East. were
sa accustomed to discomfort. Thew
s..a as been in the Syrian city Of Homs,
s,aSay between Damascus and
a.. ,a' when Near East Relief activ-
~ ss We're closed down. Adherents
s..s. ssince Feisal, King of the Arabs,
~ as that time creating disturb
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Collected for Morgan

AS an art connoisseur his advice
was sought on all sides. James
Pierpont Morgan is reported to have
employed him as an agent in collect
ing various work of art. He trav-
eled all over the world buying and
selling pictures that appealed to
him. Though he made bad invest
ments on occasions, his margin of
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ers of the world. Old stuff, the old
revolutionary dope" the old class
hatred and the old call to violence.
The company listened to it in silence.
except for the noise of their breath
ing. | watched the faces of the
young French soldiers, to whom all
THIS dangerous philosophy was new.
perhaps, but / could not guess the
effect it had upon them nor read
the riddle of those masklike faces
still bronzed with sun and wind as
when / had seen them under steel
helmets, staring across No Mans
Land from their trenches and listen
ing to the rush of shells which
threatened them with death. Z
thought back to bitter words had
heard from their lips in those davs,
their words of scorn for politicians,
protiteers, corrupt society, luxurious
women, old men who gained by the
death Of youth. Out of that bitter
ress, unjust very often, overehareed
with their resentment against the
fate which had THRUST them into the
bitches of death, End now inflamed
by the thought of a poor reward
for all their suffering. had come this
spirit of revolt, this desire for sweep
ing and violent change, expressed
IN the subversive gospel Of Ciarts.
A dangerous crowd, yet not
zig enough in numbers, not repre-
sentative enough Of French men
tality to be any real menace to ths
security Of the French governments
and state.
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daughter, Lillian. He built beau
tifuI new home and called it Collins
Court. Then came winding drives
and parkways. The place was near
ly completed before neighbors real
lied that the art connoisseur had
gone into the real estate business.
But the residential park went the
way of all his former enterprises.
No one seemed eager to buy real es-
tate from an art man. 1t was one of
those things that wasn't done.
Grass grew up in the roadways,
the gravel walks became mere foot
paths, the street signs tottered and
fell. Collins Court was ready for
the discard. An interested little
group of creditors formed a dim
background against the skyline.
Sam Collins disappeared, and no
one knew his address until his name
suddenly flashed into the headlines
of the New York papers. An octo-
genarian had tried to commit suicide
in a Broadway hotel. Ee had taken
ITO grains of sulphonal dissolved in
hot milk. AT the Bellevue Hospital
he gave the name of his wife, Mrs.
Samuel Collins, Stroudsburg, Pa, as
his ''best friend" He had $500 in
cash in his pocket.
AS soon as he recovered from the
drug poisoning Sam Collins went
back into obscurity.
lin in Gtro11dcIor1rr, tba ,,,a,,. o.,,d
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greater financial return for his ef-
forts. When still a young man he
was known throughout the country
IN the book trade as an authority on
rare editions. He supplied entire
libraries for wealthy families who
had more faith in his judgment than
in their own.
From book collecting he drifted
into the art business, in which he
ultimately made his greatest sue
cess. AS an importer of oil paint
ings and old jewelry he achieved the
proverbial fame and fortune. For
time it seemed as though he had left
the seventh son jinx back in the old
country.
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tear of being wife to a seventh son
proved too much of a strain for Mrs.
Collins. Friends arranged TO have
her taken in charge by the authori-
ties. Under an assumed name she
was admitted as a patient to- the
state hospital for the insane. She is
still there.
During a lapse of FIVE years there
were many changes in Stroudsburg.
Churleigh Hall became summer
hotel. The Singmaster place -four
ished as the home Of the Y. M. C. A.
Collins Court had many pretty
homes. The new owners had re-
moved the memorial archway. Only
the Older residents referred to the
art connoisseur. The youngsters
had forgotten.
A fortnight ago the landlady Of q
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Seventh Sons LII Luck Overlook Sam Collins at as
Apparently Beaten for Years, the
Superstition Relentlessly Claimed
Its Victim IN the End
: WIS NAME was Sam Collins

rYIS NAME was Sam Collins
and he was seventh son.
\ - If he had been the seventh
q. Of a seventh son his life story
~,ght have been SO different. He
night have been a soothsayer,
nadiur, wizard of the hidden
varId or even the President of a
South American republic, But none
4 these things happened to Sam
collins. He was plain seventh son.
though he made tremendous strides
tovard prosperity he could never
lodge the jinx of his unlucky num-
bsr In the family circle. He achieved
several fortunes; he had a beautiful
sife, daughter and a country es-
tste. he lost the fortunes; he lost
lis wife, the daughter and the coun-
nv estate. He died in the Newark
CITY Hospital without funds, with
sut friends, He was a seventh son,
To Quiet the Jinx
According to an old religious be-
lief, when there is no daughter born
besween the sixth and the seventh
sons the latter is doomed to a rough
Journey through the universe. What.
ever be touches he contaminates and
uoautes. He brings bad luck not
culy on himself but on his family
and friends. And so the custom
vas established of conducting a
funeral for the seventh son and
considering him dead.
That was the way they gave Sam
Collins his start in life.
Being the son of wealthy British
family he probably expected some
hing more in the way of a send-off.
But that was all he got-just a fu-
neral, silver-mounted coffin and q
decently elaborate headstone in the
family plot at the cemetery. They
disinherited him the same day that
they buried him and bid him good
by forever.
At eighteen Collins packed his
bad luck in q Gladstone bag and
set out for America. A country
that accepted the Jap, the Pole and
the Greek on equal terms might have
room for a seventh son.
A Good Start Here
His guess was about right. No
one suspected him of being even
third cousin to a seventh son. and
he discreetly restrained any impulse
to give the matter pnhicityahinself.
With a university education as
background he managed to get on
rather well for a stranger.
During the Civil War he served
as newspaper correspondent. He
might have continued in the writing
game after the war if a publishing
house had not offered him a posi-
tion that presented possibilities of
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profit on other pictures was SO great
that he accumulated an immense
fortune.
At the peak of his prosperity he
married Miss Clara Church, of
New York City, and went to strouds-
burg, Pa, to live the life of an aris-
tocratic country gentleman. From
that time on, whatever the state of
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clearinghouse in East Kinney
Street, Newark, found an old man
unconscious in his room. She didn't
even know the old mans name. He
had paid weeks rent in advance,
and that was all she required. The
remainder of his worldly wealth was
represented by 81 cents in cash and
pair of gold cuff links. The land
lady called an ambulance from the
city hospital.
The old man regained conscious
ness just before he died. He NUT
tered several incoherent phrases.
The attendants couldn't make out
what it was all about. 1t sounded
like seventh son-jinx of lifetime
j. P. Morgan-Stroudsburg."
Preparations were made to bury
the body in Potter's Field. But Just
On a chance one of the doctors got
Stroudsburg on the long distance.
Had they ever heard of man by the
name of Samuel Collins? Had uhey?
The only art connoisseur who ever
picked Stroudsburg as home town.
They buried him in the Strouds-
burg cemetery, next to the small
brick mausoleum that marks the
resting place of Lillian Collins. A
few gray-haired mourners stood by.
That was all.
A seventh son had passed on.
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of the United States, is the way most
people refer to him now, but he has
never furnished Stroudsburg with
half the thrills provided by the art
nnnnniscaur
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SAMUEL COLLINS IN the
~ days 20hea he 20as a pros
porous art collector

equipage of Mr.. Samuel Collins there
was barefooted boy who answered
to the name of Abe Palmer. A.
Mitchell Palmer, Attorney General
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Art Expert Who Once Acted as
Morgan's Agent and Won Wealth
Died Alone, a Pauper

pected to see the art connoisseur
again. There may have been a few
sighs of regret. Not many towns
could boast an art critic who kept
liveried servants.
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JN THE days of has pros
A perity Collins bujlt Cha1r-
leigh Hall, on the summit of
q hjlI at Stroudsbatrg, Pa.

his fortunes, he considered Strouds-
burg his home town.
Stroudsburg will never forget
Samuel Collins. He was-any of
the older residents tell the story
with flush of pride-the only bona
fide art connoisseur who ever settled
in Stroudsburg. And whatever else
may be said for art connoisseurs, in
cluding the difficulty of pronouncing
the word twice alike in the same day,
Stroudsburg maintains that they are
interesting persons to have around
the place. Whenever things grew
dull the town looked to Sam Collins,
and Sam Collins always made good.
Bad Luck Reappears
IN one breath he became the town
millionaire, the town aristocrat and
the town eccentric. He might have
retained all three of those titles up
to the very last, but he was, even in
Stroudsburg, a seventh son.
Up on gorgeous mountainsids
overlooking the town Collins built
long, rambling mansion and chris
tened it Churleigh Hall. With an
artificial lake, winding drives, rolling
lawns, a hanging garden and other
necessary appointments of lux
urious estateshe had the show place
of the Pocono Valley. His stables
had the finest equipment in the coun-
try. His horses were all thorough
breds. His liveried coachman and
footman created lasting impress
sion on the townsfolk
Among the group of awed young
sters who stared after the royal
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HIS father, beheving that
the seventh son brought
bad luck, drore him from
home and declared him dead
IN an effort to free the FAM
iIy of its hoodoo
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Back to Stroudsburg

Suddenly Sam Collins reappeared
in his old home town, He didn't
sneak in the back way, either. He
arrived at the main entrance, with
colors flying. He was the same old
aristocrat, behind a long black cigar.
He had the same dignifed bearing,
the cordial geniality of a great man.
Again he was Samuel Collins, sue
cessful art connoisseur.
He bought up half of South
Stroudsburg and planned an elabo-
rate residential park. He erected a
stone archway in memory of his
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-11-04
WANT HARVEY IN JACKSON.

Jackson, Tenn, Oct. 29.-W. j.
Harvey, of Canton, Ohio, former
president and manager of the Harvey
Steel Products Corporation, of this
city, has been arrested and brought
back to Jackson charged with larceny
and breach of trust. He was indicted
by the grand jury and will be tried
at the next term of criminal court.
His bond was fixed at $4,000.
The Harvey Steel Products Cor
poration is the old Southern Engine
& Boiler Works, which was establish
ed in Jackson in 1884. The sudden
cancelling of contracts after the ar
mistice forced a reorganization of the
company and Mr.. Harvey bought con-
trolling stock and was made president
He changed the name from Southern
Eng. & Boiler Works to Harvey Steel
Products Corporation. August, 1920,
Mr.. Harvey returned to Ohio and w.
H. Eason was appointed General
manager by the stockholders. The
company is now in the hands of a re-
ceiver and Mr.. Eason is in charge. 1t
is claimed that Mr.. Harvey misappro-
priated funds of the Harvey Steel
Products Corporation.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-11-04
GAS EXPELS RATTLERS.

Hushum, Wash, Oct. 29.-By using
mustard gas SO rattlers were routed
out of den and killed by ranchers
here this week.
For years huge pile of lava rock
has harbored numbers of these snakes
from which they could not be driven.
The Department of Agriculture final
ly suggested the use of some mustard
gas, which was furnished a party
made up of orchardists. The gas was
freed in porous formation through
$50 feet of garden hose, and within
so minutes, blinded and half dead,
rattlesnakes of all ages and sizes be-
gan wiggling themselves out of the
inferno.
As they came within reach of the
clubs held by farm hands they were
laid low. Many communities bothered
by venomous snakes are requesting
some of this chemical to rid other sec
tions of rattlers.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-11-04
BY MRS. B. E. TODD

Orators H. ]. Bolen, j. Sam Laws
and Ashley went to Buena Vista last
Friday night and INDUCED in lively
discussion with a trio of the Buena
Vista High School boys.
Toof Fronabarger was in Martin
Sunday attending to social affairs.
j. T. Flake and wife spent last
weekend near Trezevant on account
fthe death of the latters' grandfath-
err, George Johnson. The remains of
Mr.. Johnson, who was so years old,
were inferred in the Sellers burrying
ground, near Clarksburg, Sunday af-
ternoon.
Mrs. L. A. Moody was here last
Friday.
Ernest Francisco, of Huntingdon,
was here last weekend on social bust
ness.
T. L. Cunningham and wife, of Mt
Gilead were here Monday.
Pearson Moffitt and wife visited
his parents in your city the weekend
Will Rush and Sam Ringgold were
in your city Monday on business.
Mrs. Frank Crockett left last Fri
! day for Lenoir City to join her hus-
band, who has been there for several
weeks at work.
Tom Segraves and son, Martin, of
Farmville, were in Jackson last week
attending court.
L. A. Moody, aged SO years, died
last Tuesday night, Oct. 25th, at his
home near Yuma, after a two-week' S
illness of pneumonia. He leaves a
wife and six children. Funeral and
burial services were conducted the
next day, by Rev. T. NJ. Boyd, at New
Hope.
Oscar Hester and wife, of Farm
vile, were here Saturday.
Quite a number of his friends and
relatives from this place attended the
funeral and burial of L. A. Moody at
New Hope Wednesday
w. A. Hall and wife visited their
daughter, Mrs. joe Jarrett and fam
ily at Clarksburg, Sunday.
Contractor Kennon Smith and wife
spent Sunday with relatives in your
city.
Ethen Bolen and wife have moved
from their home near Yuma and will
reside on the farm of his brother, Ben
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-11-04
CEDAR GROVE.

Most schools in this community are
to open Mondey, Nov. 7.
John Hart and family moved to
Jackson last week.
The family of Troy Mullis have
taken rooms with l.. R. Newman and
wife.
d. M. Stanfill and family spent last
Saturday night with the family of Ell
mer Duck.
Lexie Scott, Odel Mooney and Chas.
Scott visited Hettie Duck Sunday.
Barney Duck is on the puny list.
Prof. J. w. Eason and wife vowed
to his school at Tucker House last
week.
We understand J. H. Duck and per-
haps J. G. Scott are erecting a Chin
ney for t. M. Austin on his farm near
Tucker School House.
H. W. Greasy and Tom Stanfill
were in Lexington Saturday.
Tom Stanfill is erecting two rat
proof barns on the Appleby farm.
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Bolen, est of town.
School opened at Cross Roads Mon
day with Prof. H. ]. Bolen as teacher.
The Wildersville Hardware Co., the
postoff;ce and Bank of Wildersville
vowed into their new quarters Mon
day.
Miss Vashti Orr, student in the
Henderson, County High School, spent
the weekend with home folk.
Ben Jarrett and mother, of Clarks-
burg, were here Monday.
The writer and husband with Mes
DANES j. L. Rust and w. ]. Breech-
cen, Of Clarksburg, visited in the Mt
Gilead community Sunday
Jesse Small and bride visited her
parents near Clarksburg, last week
end.
Miss Ruby Caldwell, of Hazel is
the guest of her sister, Mrs. E. L.
Hoffman, this week.
Homer Dowd, of Memphis, who was
recently discharged from the United
States Army, is visiting his parents
near Poplar Corner, this week.
Prof. w. T. McPeake and family
visited relatives in your city Saturday
and Sunday
Elder A. H. Graves, a Holiness
minister, of near Beacon, preached al
Union Cross Saturday night and Sun
| day.
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p. H. Jones and Mesdames Mamie
Jones and Pola Sanders, of Temple,
Oklahoma, were the guests of DIR. w.
|. Howell and family the first Of the
week
Miss Myrtle Woods returned last
Saturday from Savannah where she
has been working as telephone opera
tor for the past few weeks.
Mrs. j. H. Laws and little daughter
Virginia and Mrs. j. M. Laws, of Bro
ken Arrow, Okla, are Visiting rela-
tives on Route /.
Grover Lewis, of Savannah, was
here the first of the week on bust
ness.
Will Hall, Jackson, was the guest
of his sister, Mrs. w. B. Rush, the
first of the week.
c. F. Hoffman and wife visited rel
atives in Hazel, KY, last weekend.
The Winter term of school begun al
Long Sought, on Route l, Monday
Professors Joe Boswell and Luther
Adams are the teachers.
W. M. Houston, of Parsons, was
here the first of the week.
Merchant Ben II. Bolen and family
have moved to town and have taken
rooms with Eff Rush and wife.
A. b. Rainey, hustling farmer, of
near Yuma, was here Saturday on
business.
George Bolen was in your city Mon
day on business.
Bradley Fronaparger mas been on
the sick list since our last report.
N. N. Lunn, of Cross Roads, went
to Nashville last Thursday to return
with his daughter who had been con-
fined in hospital recovering from an
operation for appendicitis.
Henry and Keith Holiday were in
Huntingdon Sunday attending to So
cial business.
DR.. and Mrs. w. |. Howell desire to
thank their may friends for their
many favors and acts of kindness be-
slowed upon them since their misfor-
tune in the great fire here last May,
and now wish to announce that they
are at home to their friends in their
new residence near the ]. P. Parker
place.
Druggist Paul Parker, from your
city, was here Sunday to see his
father, j. p. Parker.