davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Little River news., 1922-06-21
FATHER AND FOUR
 CHILDREN. DROWN
Current of Swollen Stream Oyerturns Wagon in Midstream; Mother
 and Infant Escape. :

Bonneville, June 19.-A. A. Nichols, farmer, aged about 35, and three sons, Harris, II, Earl, 9, Eugene 5, and a daughter Emma, 3, were drowned about g o'clock last night when wag- on in which they were riding overturn- e6 while fording Petit creek near here. Mrs. Nichols and an infant in arms miraculously escaped, although both were in the water almost two hours before help reached them.
 All of the bodies were recovered yes- terday morning, after a searching par ty from Bonneville had dragged the stream for several hours near the scene of the accident. Funeral servi- ces were held this afternoon, the bod ies being placed in the same grave in Hopewell cemetery.
 The mother and baby are consider ably bruised but physicians believe both will survive.
 The accident occurred when Mir. Nichols attempted to cross the creek at Miles ford The family had spent
 Current Capsizes Wagon.
 The father Aoticed that the creek was up when he reached its banks last night, but decided that it could be forded. As a precaution be tied the wagon bed to the running gear to prevent it from floating away. When the wagon reached midstream, the strong current capsized it. throwing the entire family of seven into, the water. Mir. Nichols and four of the children immediately drowned.
 Mrs. Nichols clasped her small baby to her breast, and when they arose to the surface began battle for life. At one time she lost her grip on the child as they were washed down stream, but managed to clamp her knees around the baby's body and hold if in that position until she could again take it in her arms.
 An oyerhanging limb of tree brush ed across her face, and she seized the branch. Holding the baby in her teeth, she pulled shawl from around her shoulders and tied the child i'll the branches above the surface Of the water. Her frantic cries attracted a family two miles distant from the creek and she and the baby finally were rescued
 The family lived on the Charlie Eb- erts farm. about three miles south- east of Bonneville.
The Little River news., 1922-06-21
THREF BROTHERS DROWN
Are Caught in Stuck Hole" While
 Swimming Near Scranton.

Scranton, June 17-While swim mlre in the Arkansas river about two miles north of Scranton this afternoon three brothers, sons of Mrs. Ollie -Vaibe of this place, drowned and a fourth boy, Charley Wetzel, aged 15, had narrow escape from similar late when he went to their rescue.
 The victims of the tragedy were Lewis Walbe. aged 13; Herman Walbe aged II. and William Walbe, aged seven.
 The bodies of Lewis and William were recovered, while the body of Herman still was in the river late to- night. A searching party is dragging the river to recover it.
 The three Wafbe boys, with several others. went to the river shortly after noon. Lewis, the oldest of the three brothers, got into a suck hole," and Herman and William went to his res cue. They also got into the sack hole and the three went down together.
 The Wetzel boy, hearing the cries of the three brothers, swan out to the point where the drowning boys were struggling for their lives, but when he saw they were in the suck hole" he said he realized his efforts to render assistance would be futile, and he swan back to shore.
 The. boys are survived by their wid- owed mother, two brothers and two sisters.
The Little River news., 1922-06-21
MOB LAW CONDEMNED
Texas Grand Jury Also DisapprOyes of Ku Klux Organization.


 | ku Klux Organization.
 Texarkana, June 1S.-The Bowie county (Tex) Grand Jury, sitting at Boston, completed it's work and ad- journed Friday night after a session lasting two weeks. A total of 36 true bills was returned, S1 being felonies and five charging misdemeanors. The final report said, in part: we con- demn mob violence. whether by indi- |Eiduals or by organizations, for the mob which either with reconciliation Or under the heat of excitement and passion undertakes to execute the laws by punishing offenders even though the offenders are guilty, not Nonly violates the law itself but breeds Edisrespect for law. Laws are made for the protection of all citizens alike, and the same government which made the laws established tribunals in which the laws may be and should be executed, and We call upon all good citizens to assist in the enforcement of our laws ill the manner provided by law. We made a thorough investiga- tion of the Ku Klux Klan, but were not able to find out very much about
 them. Furthermore we investigated every whipping that came before us, but there was no evidence sufficient to find bill. We had number of the Ku Klux brought before us, some that claimed to be officers of the Klan, but got very little information. We find there has been considerable crime fcommitted by masked men whose identity We have been unable to learn. We do not endorse the Ku Klux Klan or any organization in the commits sion of crime"
 r The report also recited that it's in- Ivestigations show that no county or district official are members of the Klan.
The Little River news., 1922-06-21
M., D. & G. to Sell
 Thursday, June P

The Memphis, Dallas & Gulf Rail- way will sell to the highest bidder Thursday of this week. This is the third date set for the sale of the road. It is believed that this time the sale Will be made. A special train bear" irg officials from some other railroad went over the line Tuesday afternoon. The train was held here until 5:25 to meet the special coming sod:1 over the K. c. s. Who the party represent ed could not be learned further than that one of the party was vice presi- dent of the Orient.
The Little River news., 1922-06-21
Dead" Woman Sits
 Up In Her Coffin

New York, June 16-An hour after she had been prepared for burial to- day Mrs. Rebecca Senpz sat up in her coffin.
 Physicians summoned the woman's children and relatives this afternoon. and at o'clock, after she had suffer- ed paralytic stroke, she was pro- nounced dead Ice was packed about her body, and candles were lighted.
 Neighhors who came into console children were gathered about the cof fin, when the body stirred. Mrs. Senpz sat up and asked for a drink. Phy- sicians said tonight she would recov-
The Little River news., 1922-06-21
LOCAL TEACHERS AT CONWAY

Conway, June 19.-Teachers and prospective teachers in Arkansas, sev- en hundred in number, by enrolling for the summer term of the Arkansas State Normal, are fulfilling their pledge to prepare for more skilled service in the rooms of the better schools which the states citizenship in general promised in the present educational movement. Every re- source of the State Normal is at their command to secure that proficiency, so far as possible, which is so essen- tial to the pIoper training of child ren
 Summer study in it's infancy was largely a course of lectures. from which the student selected what he happened to want. Not so with the Normals summer session. Classwork is on regular schedule seven days of the week with enlarged staff of teach CTS and instructors on duty. The school staff to the the last member brides itself on the thorouShness of the work done.
 Little River county is represented by the following students here for the summer session.: Madie Couch, Og- den; Otho Wilkerson, Ashdown; Mary E. Rowe, Winthrop.
The Little River news., 1922-06-21
Ice Cream Social at Hicks.

There will be an ice cream social given at Hicks school lawn Friday, June 23rd, beginning at ' p. m Oar
 patrons and friends are invited to come and enjoy the evening with us. By T. J. Jones.
The New York herald., 1922-04-30

ushered into the stone paved room In
which the Prince receives his guests. and
there found awaiting her the mysterious
Bash Agha, the ruler OF the Sahara. She
was astonished to find gallant Arab. who
bowed before her with the grace OF an old
time knight, and who spoke English with
just a trace of accent. Prince Bash Agha
is true Arab, but also he Is a European
Gated at oxford, as have been many other
Arabian princes
Lady Dorothy, it may be presumed went
at once to her subject. The Prince was
much distressed.
They are there somewhere to the south, 4
he said. MY people have told me OF them.
They have told me, though, only what they
heard from their fathers and what their
fathers heard from their fathers. IL IS a
tradition of the desert. We all know there
is lost tribe out there and we have all
searched in vain to find them"
But" said Lady Dorothy, "the old Arab
in Tunis--he was sure that you knew"
The Prince laughed
Yes, we all know just where they are.
We know that they live in a oasis within
a one days ride across the sand from the
burial ground of the elephants"
But why" said Lady Dorothy, why is
it then that we cannot go at once--why
not find the burial ground OF the elephants
and then. as you say, ride but one day to
where the troglodytes are?"
That is just the difficulty" said the
Prince. no one knows where the ele-
plants go away to die"
The New York herald., 1922-04-30

away TO be distinct seems to be the recol-
lection of childhood sweetheart
She remembers nothing more. She does
not remember the boys face she does not
remember her people, she does not remem-
ber where these childhood days were spent
but somehow there Is the picture in her
mind Of great open spaces around circle
of trees and Of frequent sandstorms.
There is something strange about this
little girl and about her memories Lady
Dorothy hardly thinks 1t possible that
this child was brought out Of the
desert by the representative Of a for
gotten tribe, who found his way
straight to the sea and straight to the
village still populated by the civilized
descendants Of his people, his only mission
being to leave with them young child OF
his tribe. Still the story is told, and Lady
Dorothy must believe what the people tell
her. She talked with the young woman
and was so impressed by the vividness Of
her recolections that she al once went to
Africa, there to learn what there might be
The New York herald., 1922-04-30

Then Lady Dorothy learned one Of the
other legends of the desert. Some place.
this tradition runs. near q great oasis
which has never been found. there IL q
great stretch of sandswcpt ground where
the elephants. when they know they are
going 70 die, steal away 70 die alone.
apart from their fellows. That this II a
custom OF elephants has been thoroughly
established. They do not like 10 die near
other elephants They seem 10 have pre-
monition Of death, and amblo away %
some secret place where they tie down and
accept the end.
Natives Of the desert know many of these
secret burial grounds and Il a from them
that the natives obtain the ivory which
they sell 10 the caravans Prince Bash
Agha explained that the legend OF the
troglodytes included the tradition that II
one should find the largest ~ these burial
grounds he would end one days ride 70
the east the home OF the forgotten peoples
OF the Sahara.
Lady Dorothy returned 10 England. but
she did not forget And tho thought that
perhaps she could ride into the desert ana
locate these ancient peoples and perhaps
find among them the boy whom the little
girl az Chissay still remembered proved
too fascinating for her 10 put aside she
has decided that she will undertake the
mission.
Prince Bash Agha has promised that ne
will accompany Lady Dorothy when she
sets out from his castle at the oasis 81
Laghouat. lie VIII assign 10 her little
company Of the B At riders o. the trih~ u
Ouled Nail.
The New York herald., 1922-04-30

THERE is almost no one to whom
romance and adventure do not ap-
peal as kindred thrills Romance
we have always associated mostly with
the gallant knight errant who waits with
palpitating heart upon his lady fair. Ad-
venture, too, seems usually to be the pre-
rogative Of man. 1t is doubly interesting
then to witness romance and adventure
blended with young and beautiful woman
as their central figure, 1t is unique, too,
that bit Of science should be added to
give the romance and adventure even
something more OF interest.
Lady Dorothy Mills, the charming
daughter of the Earl of Oxford, who has
attracted considerable attention In the
past because of her unusual daring and
consequential experiences, has just an
nounced that she Is going to lead an expe-
dition of her own into the mysterious in
terror of the Great Sahara Desert Ger
tainly this is bound to be an adventure,
especially for such fragile young woman
as Lady Dorothy. whose mother, by the
way, was Miss Louise Corbin, the New
York heiress.
The romance Is found in the strange
story of young girl who lives in a little
known village in France and who hopes
that Lady Dorothy's expedition will result
In her reunion with a childhood sweetheart
who was lost to her many years ago and
whom she only dimly remembers.
Some time ago young Lady Dorothy was
travelling in France. She heard of an ex-
tremely interesting village called Chissay
In southern France where, she was told.
lived the descendants of an ancient. tribe
of troglodytes. The people OF the little set
tlement, 1t was explained to her. still lived
in quaint, ancient caves carved out of over
hanging rocks. About them lowered the
legend that hundreds of years ago their
ancestors had crossed the Mediterranean
and had settled In those same little caves.
They had come, tradition says, from the
interior of the Sahara, and we're part of
the lost descendants of great tribe,
which, even before the Pharaohs, main
tanned a small empire in the midst of the
desert.
Lady Dorothy at once visited the little
village, and there found a most interest
ing people indeed or course they we're
modern and, apart from their homes,
might have passed as ordinary peasants of
southern France. Still, in their strange
customs in their little caves and even in
their faces and mannerisms there was
distinct trace of an ancestry certainly not
common to their French neighbors. Ic
seemed to be generally believed that they
were the direct descendants of troglo-
dytes, and their clinging to their cave
homes seemed to indicate that there still
The New York herald., 1922-04-30

tribe or race Of the same ancestry as their
own
How this visitor knew where to find the
cave dwellers in France, why he came to
them and where he went when he left has
never been discovered He appeared late in
the afternoon of a summer day, his rough
dress showing that he had walked far. In
his arms he carried the little girl, who still
wore the ragged, roughly woven garments
of the desert tribe. He left her with one
Of the cave dwelling families, and after un-
successfully attempting to make himself
understood, disappeared alone after few
hours rest.
The girl grew up to young womanhood.
But all through her years there has clung
to her faint, indistinct memory of home
in the desert, of people, men, women and
children, who slept outdoors around her.
Standing out in her memory Is a vision OF
playmate, a boy of her own age, for
whom, II seems, even in that early age, she
had been set apart. To her now this
strange memory vision Of past too far
The New York herald., 1922-04-30

was much in common
between them and the
old time cave men.
1t was here that
Lady Dorothy ran
across the young
woman who lends the
romance to her forth
coming expedition into
the Sahara.
She was the adopt
ed daughter of one of
the cave dwelling fam
lilies. Lady Dorothy
had chosen the cave OF
the girls foster parents
for her own domicile
during her visit, and
in the little family cir
Gle heard the young
woman's story.
She had been brought
to the settlement TWEEN.
ty years ago, when she
was little more than
six years old. appar-
emily. The man who
brought her was a
strange, misshapen
creature who talked a
strange, gibbering dia.
lect, and yet who
seemed to be akin to
the cave people, and in
whose face there we're
those distinguishing
marks which at once
characterized him as
belonging to some
The New York herald., 1922-04-30

race OF people UT III TACT OIL any peoples
not generally known to the rest of the
world
In Algiers Lady Dorothy found many
traditions of the 'lost tribes" All the
Sheiks seemed to know that somewhere in
the great desert there lived handful of
people who were direct descendants of a
race that populated the desert centuries
and centuries ago. None knew where. Al
ways the Moors and the Arabs pointed far
to the south, and waved their hands in
great semicircle. and simply said, some
where there"
One old oracle in Tunis seemed to know
more of the legend than any one else.
With great pretense at imparting a tre-
mendous secret, he conided to Lady Doro-
thy that she would find the troglodytes
very easily IL she would appeal to a GER
tain Prince whose home was in the oasis
of Laghouat, just at the entrance to the
great desert waste This Prince, the old
Arab told the English girl, was the great
est of all Arabian rulers, that he himself
was a descendant from those who played
high part during the ancient grandeur OF
the Arab race.
1T is Bash Agha Djellou Mohammed ben
Lakdar your ladyship must go to see,"
said the old Arab. You will find him in
great castle with long rambling walls
against which from the south the sands OF
the desert blow. He is great Prince,
your ladyship. and rules the tribes that
ride before the monsoons. His people are
many and come from many oases that have
arrived since long before the days of Mo-
hammed. II Is from them he knows the
secrets Of the lost race, and If he is pleased
with your ladyship Prince Bash Agha will
toll you where these strange ones may be
found"
One may imagine with what delight Lady
Dorothy slipped a small bag of gold into
the old Arabs hands and with what haste
she assembled her caravan and rode TO the
south to the edge of the oasis OF Lag
houat. where waving palm trees hid the
long rambling stone walls of the Princes
castle. A whole story might be written OF
her reception there, of how the fast riding
Arabs came out to greet the caravan and
how they looked with awe upon the pretty
white face of the young English lady. But
that must remain another story Sufii-
cient to tell here that Lady DOROTHY was
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-15
CAUGHT ON THE FLY

The value of education in combat
ting alcoholism was discussed by Prof.
J. J. Hume of the University of To-
ronto. He said:
Prohibition is an attempt to restrain
the use OF harmful things. Anyone
who says he will never be in favor of
Prohibition is talking nonsense. The
ten commandments are mainly prohi-
bition. Are we to abolish the ten COM
mandments2 All law is prohbitory or
inhibitory of what the law forbids.
Do away with all prohibition and you
do away with all law"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-15

the high privilege of the Christian
church to set forth the facts--the awful,
horrible, selfish facts--in reference to
the liquor traffic and to throw all the
weight of its teachings and influence to
protect society from those who put the
qualification of appetite and covetous
ness above the common good?
The church has no more powerful
enemy in every land than this traffic.
Whatever may be the attitude of home
churches, the missionary workers in
all lands are a unit in their realiza-
ton of the opposition of this traffic to
the fundamental purpose of all Christian
missionary effort, and in their support
of measures to control and to finally pro-
hibit its destructive work.
There are still today in many lands
sections of the Christian church not only
do not come up to the help of the Lord
against the mighty, but which give a GER
tain amount of aid and comfort to the
enemy. 1t is absolutely necessary that
the educative process be carried on
among such churches until no really
honest, candid follower of Jesus can
doubt or fail to assert that the liquor
traffic must be classed as among those
works of the devil which the Master came
to destroy, that it is a corrupt tree
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-15
CLOSING ADDRESS IS PLEDGE OF @e~a
ALL FORCES To FIGHT TO THE END
Australian Need World of Broad Vision,
All Humanity, Says DIR. Hammond, Must Unite in War
fare Against Common Enemy of ALL

Ms" he continued, sin this hall tonight
have the world set in our hearts," Then,
alluding to the airshp and wireless
telegraphy, Mr.. Hammond emphasized
the TACT that as science advances, with
its numerous inventions, the world grows
smaller. The most distant peoples be-
come our ncighbors, and our only hope
is in the religion that creates world men.
Nor should it he forgotten that while
men and women may sit safely and
happily in Prohibition territory. their
children are being carried on a wave of
Prohibition prosperity to lands still
cursed with alcohol
Mr.. Hammond then paid his respects
to the brewers and distillers who were
transferring their nefarious operations
from The United States to Asia and
South America, and he concluded fine
passage of oratory with the remark that
mo self-respecting people can be content
to see other lands become the dumping
ground on which their discarded social
customs may flourish and bring blight.
We need world outlook and world
conscience, and there remains to he
done a world work" "The pagan" he
said, works for himself; the patriot,
for his country; and the Christian, like
his Master, aims to bring sunshine to
the whole world" .''
Mr.. Hammond related how he had
been led to devote himself to temper
Ianee work by the sad story o. n Aus
tralian father whose two[ rs lay in
drunkards' graves; and. he. made. an
imprisoned appeal to his hearers to do
their part in the great struggle against
the drink. traffic. In response to his
suggestion that those who were willing
to dedicate themselves to the fight
against alcoholism shonld stand in their
places, the immense audience rose en-
masse.
Mr.. Hammond concluded his address.
which had held his hearers spell-bound
by its numerous passages of oratoric-i
beauty, fervid appeal, and intense spirit
uality, with the observation that "ths
World League Against Alcoholism is a
new League of Nations, and union Of
all who love in the service of all who
suffer"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-15
clear as the sum, fair as the moon. and
terrible as an army with banners.
GOV. PINCHOT SENDS
GREETINGS TO TORONTO

The following telegram from the
governor-elect. OF Pennsylvania was
read at the banquet Saturday night:
"Dr. Harry M. Chalfant,
Toronto, Ontario.
Dear Mr.. Chalfant As you know
l am buster than a boy killing two
snakes and therefore can not possibly
be at the Toronto convention. Please
convey to the delegates my heartiest
congratulations on the progress al
ready achieved. Tell them not to be
deceived by the effort of the liquor in
terests to interpret the recent elections
i'll America as triumph of the vets.
1t is nothing of the kind. In my judg.
ment America is not only dry but is
steadily getting drier.
Clifford Pinchot."