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boys in their Sabbath clothes for the
occasion.
AS it was. people outside would have
seen those pictures and would have
laughed at Tangier Tancier is no
laughing matter. Is it any wonder
that this photographer fellow was
treated Il bit rough by the outraged.
insulted manhood of the island? The
island doesn't object 10 being photo
Graphed. Star representatives were
informed. 50 long as the pictures
showed it as q respectable community.
Wouldn't Washington be mad if a
photographer showed one of its dingi
est streets as representative Of the
Capital Of the United States?
After all. the difference between
Tangier and the rest of the world Is
one Of viewpoint. It's people are clean
Of body and mind, prosperous, happy.
picturesque and absolutely contented.
They are hOspitable and generous.
Their own civilization has made them
So Has any other civilization on
earth done SO much for its people,
they ask. Where else is there abSo-
lutte insurance of living happily and
dying happily?
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self. This consisted largely Of the
younger men and women.
1t was a hard dose for Tangier to
swallow. He began to set to work
to enlarge this liberal movement. He
began to talk base ball. He started
his fight for motion pictures, in case
anybody wanted to open q theater.
And, most revolutionary Of all, he
set to work with his own hands and
built a Jail. 1t stands on the beach
q big wooden box like a small garage
and with one steel cell inside. Hither-
to fines imposed by the mayor or the
magistrate had been the customary
form of punishment. Very serious Of
tenders were taken to Accomac, across
the bay, and locked up
Redman announced that any crimes
of violence would be punished by in
generation in his new Jail. At once
he began to receive threatening let
tiers. These went all the way from
warnings that the Jail would be
burned to notices that he would fol
low Connorton. Threatening letters
are popular sport on Tangier May
or Crockett gets one every now and
then. There is no handwriting expert
on the island Formerly they were
much more frequent--before Chief
Redman's Jail, curious monument to
a new liberalism, stood on the beach.
X X X X
ID EDMAN came to Tangier a
~ stranger, but during the year he
has spent there he has grown to love
the islanders.
They are the finest people in the
world" he says. They are becom-
ing educated to proper enforcement Of
laws by constituted officials and courts
rather than the old way OF enforcing
minor statutes without authority
For generations church and state on
Tangie1. have been more closely con-
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THRILLS IN THE SHIPS TOP.

4 VETERAN mariner tells of time
I n when he was a stoWaway and
was sent aloft to unfllrl the main
royal sail. He was just about 10 cast
off the gaskets. or lashings, that Sc
cured the fured canvas to the yard
when the royal brace was suddenly
let go from the. deck and the yard
swung from under him, and he was
thrown off.
Instinctively he threw out his arms.
His left hand came in contact with
the royal stay, and he was brought
up with a jerk. Making a desperate
clutch with the other hand. he man
aged to get another hold on the stay
and hung suspended in midair, 80
feet from the deck:
To get his legs around the stay was
an easy matter, and then he was able
to maintain his position in compare
tive security.
Wondering who could have been so
mad as to let go the rope. without
warning. he looked down There.
close TO the Delaying pin, with the
end of the brace still in one hand.
stood the chief mate looking up at
him. His face was as pale as
sheet, and there was horror and con-
triton stamped on every feature. He
was TOO much agitated to speak, but
his looks convinced the young fellow
that the act that had almost doomed
him TO terrible death had not been
inspired by any evil motive.
Now. on board a merchant vessel
in those days, ii was considered jus
tifabl for any man whose life had
been endangered by the clumsiness or
the neglect of another. no matter
how high his rank might be. to give
full expression t2 bis anger and indig.
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nation. In ordinary circumstances
the Young fellow should no doubt
have awaited himself Of that privilege,
but. seeing the mate so painfully
moved. he resolved-especially, since
no one else had witnessed the incident
to say nothing about it. Sliding
down the stay. he reached the deck
and resumed the work he had been
employed In.
When the watch was relieved the
! mate sent for him and. after ascer'
tanning that he could read and write
told him that he was to come to him
every day while he was taking the
sun" for he wished TO teach him
navigation. The young man gladly
accepted the invitation, and by the
time they reached Buenos Aires he
was able to take sights and keep a
dead reckoning.
When they had been in port about
week the mate. left the ship. but
before going he presented the lad
with a sextant and his nautical books
and, telling him he took a strong in.
terest in his future welfare begged
the youth to continue his studies.
Then. shaking hands, the mate walked
over the side. That was the last the
boy saw of him.
On their return, the COOK asked the
boy whether he knew why the mate
had been so kind to him. Yes. |
do" was the answer. but the lad
added Il do not care to talk about
the matter"
"Ah" said the cook. you think it
was because he threw you off the
main royal yard. and you said nothing
about it? But that was not all. Last
voyage he threw boy off in the
same way. and the poor lad was
dashed to pieces!"
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A record was established in laying
track on a line in New York near
Syracuse. when it became necessary
to replace about a mile of "56.pOund'
rails with "7O-pound" rails without
interference with the running time
Of the trains.
Nearly three-quarters of mile OF
56-pound rails were removed and re-
placed with the heavier rails in the
wonderfully short period of 81 min
utes and . seconds.
Before starting on the work the
new rails were laid beside the old
ones already bonded together. and
with the. spikes distributed at regular
intervals so that the least amount Of
time would be required 10 do the
work.
The feat was accomplished in much
less time than was thought possible.
and the cars were enabled to maintain
schedule time The removal Of a mile
of trackage did not interfere with the
opera ton Of the road in the slightest
degree.
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Where the children Of the island attend school

conference It reused such storm
around his head that he got a transfer.
The present pastor, Rev. r. Stricl1-
land. is a man of broad, progressive
views and fits in we'll with the new
humanity which Is surging over the
island. He has advocated no such
hereSy as buying new hymn books,
but he is an amateur photographer of
merit and an enthusiastic fisherman
who goes out every now and then for
a little chat with the salvage crews
working on the wreck Of the battle
ship Alabama in Tangier Sound.
The life of Tangier centers in its
church. 1t has been so since the days
of the Revolution, when one Josiah
Thomas, an itinerant evangelist. min
istered to scattered flocks on the
Chesapeake islands and attained no
small reputation as prophet. Col
iectiOnS are not taken in church, but
the collector is sent around to the
houses. Then the list of contributions,
with names, is read from the pulpit
the next Sabbath and there is q rather
stern rivalry as to who shall con
tribute most. Wealth on Tangier is
not measured in fine houses, fine au-
tomobiles. fine clothes or even fine
motor boats. 1t Is measured In con
ITlUllIlOIlS 10 Tie CnuTCH.
X X X
TANGIER is not without it's domi-
nant vice-a vice so prevalent that
the visitors wonder how the people
survive its degenerating effects. There
are eight stores of one sort or another
scattered down the long, narrow path
that serves for the main street. The
principal stock in trade. 1t seems, of
all these stores is "pop"--a very
cheap, distasteful kind Of pop
When the wild young bloods of the
start at the top of the street and work
their way down, drinking two or
three bottles of pop in each store.
BY the time they are through they
have consumed at least a dozen bot
ties. Two or three dozen in an eve
ming would not be unusual. The Tan
gierman never consumes less than
two bottles at sitting. This is Tan
gier's idea Of d wild, riotous, dissa-
pated life
1t might be we'll to state this pop
is absolutely, convincingly non-intoxi-
cating-as free from alcohol 1t would
seem. as the salt water itself. The
stomach of the amateur pop drinker
T0DelS dl IilOIt tIldIl Olle JULIE. IIou-
sands and thousan ds of cases of pop
are consumed in Tangier.
X
Jew ever leave the island. There
are occa sional Tangierians who
have broken away to Baltimore or
Norfolk, but they usually drift back
in time. Forty men. for instance,
served In the World War from the is
land. They saw the great degene-
rate cities of America and Europe.
Out Of this 40. four were lured by the
siren of twentieth-century life and
have migrated from Tangier. The
others returned and settled down as
crab and oyster flshers-disgusted and
sickened by the immortality of the
outside world.
And it is not difficult to understand
the lure Of this extremely pastoral
community There are few worries.
The Tangier fisherman is little con
cerned over the mounting cost of
living. The sound is bountiful. There
Is little concern for the future. He
b not Tx, >the farmer who must worry
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so aggressive as it was a few years
ago. The virus of modernism is in its
veins. Some day it may have mo-
ton picture theater.
That is, the town council, after a
long bitter fight, has so amended the
bylaws that one will be permitted to
open there--if some daring promoter
meets the approval of the citizenship.
True enough. the owner Will have
to watch his step, 1t was not without
praNerful deliberation that the council
took the momentous vote to permit
the life of this wicked world to be
depicted on the screen before its
Young people. Even the barest sug-
gestion of a rosy tinge placed on vice
would be attended by consequences
not easy 10 predict.
The fact remains that Tangier will
permit the showing of pictures-if
they are perfectly proper pictures.
with no tendency to make the young
people of this quaint fishing village
discontentsd with their ancestral lot.
1t is the opening wedge of the TWEEN
tieth century, hammered laboriously
into the hard grain of the eighteenth
century. and may mean the gradual
destination Of one of the most pic
turesque communities in the United
States.
For a century Tangier has made its
own laws. 1t has executed them in
accordance with its own code of
morals. II has stuck fast to the old,
loyalty. doggedly fighting heresies.
both of life and OF creed. There is
something heroic in the legend of
Tangier. with its single church. its
multitudes of children. its nt-lawn
graveyards and lis sun-bonneted
women.
The community sprang into news
naper headlines six years ago when
Roland Parks. IS years old. was shot
hy {. c. Connorton. chief of police.
who caught the youth out Of church
one Sabbath morning. rebelliously
putting on a cigarette in front Of his
fathers store while the music of
gospel HYMNS flOated over the island.
The story at that time was that
Tangier had a law compelling every
BODY to go to church. 1t wasn't quite
so stiff as that. the islanders say.
That is. the pastor didn't call the roll
cf the community every Sunday morn
ing and then send out the policeman
20 shoot everybody who didn't answer
70 his or her name. That would have
been denial of the right of free wor-
ship and unconstitutional
What the law really was. tbs Tan
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Metallic Sprayer.

1t was a Swiss inventor who de-
vised the remarkable process of ap-
plying n coating Of metal not only
TO another metal surface but to ar
ticles Of wood, plaster. cement.
leather. glass and even cloth This
process is entirely different from the
two metal-cOating processes in most
extensive use-electroplating and
dipping. \ thin wire composed of
the metal of which a coating is to be
applied is melted in the flame of an
oXyhydrogen blowpipe, and at the in
slant of melting is subjected to
powerful blast of compressed air. The
article 10 be coated is held in this air
blast a few inches away from the
flame. and the minute particles OF
metal coating can therefore he ap
piled TO such in1ammable materials
as paper. cloth and even ceIluloio
The spraying apparatus resembles a
pistol connected by small tubes with
reservoirs that supply oxygen. ny.
d3gen and compressed air.
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0ANGIER ISLANDERS are keep
ing tncir guns oiled.


ing ti4eIr guns oiled.
This ancient Virginia com
munitT. Zoo souls isolated on
a narrow strip Of sand and
oyster shells near the mouth of
Chesapeake Bay. is accustomed TO set
Ting things in its own way.
Lying almost under the shadow of
the great cities of the Atlantic coast
tfne-Washington Baltimore. Norfolk
and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Island has
retained all the simplicity which
rhara cterized It's life a century ago,
when the first fishermen built their
small. boX-nlle houses there. 1t is an
eighteenth century community. NV
ing strangely and defiantly in this
twentieth century of progress and dis
content
The curious part of il is that
Targier is sincere in its antiquity. 1t
lives the life of the past because that
IS the kind Of life il wants to live.
and not TO attract curiosity seekers.
Few go TO Tangier 70 absorb the at
p1osphere Of the seventeenth century
It wouldn't be healthy for the TWEEN
eisth century artist or antiquarian to
linxe~ long on the island. The only
person likely TO he accepted would be
one who Is himself child Of the past
The recent cFdb Wal IA ldlSIci
Sound with the residents Of the near
by Smiths Island has brought this
curious island once more into the
headlines. The inhabitants predict
that there viii be more shooting ana
that they will be obliged 10 take a
hand.
Here is a land almost completely
devoid OF all evidence of modernism.
There are no automobiles. telephones
telegraph or any other inventions mat
have made life more endurable for
people elsewhere. TanCier remains
faithful TO it's patron saint-one
Josiah Thomas. a Methodist evangelist.
who. early in the last century. used
10 GO about among the Chesapeake
islands in 4 rowhoat, spreading the
gospel The British invaders camped
on Tang!er before making their at
tack on Washington in 1912. The
legend has i that Thomas told them
exactly what would be the outcome
of that campaign and that Parken-
ham. the British commander. wanted
the Old man TO go hack 10 England
with him. where he could he exploited
as prophet.
But the village OF Tangter isn't
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through a long season over the out
come of his crop. Tomorrow, next
month, next year, the oysters and
crabs will be there-ready to be SCOOP
ed up by anybody with a fishing Ii
cenSe.
1t is life without struggle, with
out any obnoxious tOmOrrOwS The
only coming event which need con
Germ the Tangierman is death. He
wonders how anybody can endure life
outside, with its worries, its depend
ence on the favor of others, and its
Snawing uncertainty of salvation.
The houses are small, but snug and
cozy. They are kept neatly. The
little starved gardens are tended low
ingly. The patches Of grass are
closely trimmed. The women are
picturesque and beautiful in their
century-old costumeS-although of late
newer styles have been brought in
from Baltimore and Norfolk which
tend to ruin the symmetry Of the
picture.
Tangier's main street is barely 10
feet wide. There is no occasion for
good roads movement. for there are
no vehicles on the island The peo-
pie travel in motor boats on the in
frequent occasions when il is neces.
sary to travel
The curious custom prevails of
burying the dead Of the island in the
tiny front yards. Family loyalty is
fetch among the people. Thus
they live in constant contact with
their ancestors. And there is a big
Younger generation ready TO con
tinue this devotion to the memory Of
the crab fishers of today. OF the
population. Chief Redman estimates.
from 700 to 500 are children. There
is grade school for them Few will
ever have any ambition 10 go further.
They would be foolhardy. the older
people believe. ever to rebel against
the care-free life of the crab fisher.
y 4
TANGIER is extremely suspicious 1t
is not easy for the stranger to
win the confidence Of these fishermen.
The reason, they say, is that most
outsiders come there TO make fun Of
them. without any comprehension of
the fundamental reasons behind some
of their curious customs. They don't
want to be considered eccentric folks
nor are they. when their own outlook
on life is taken into consideration.
Most of their contacts with the out
side have been unfortunate. At the
time Of the unfortunate Parks shoot
ing newspa pers all over the United
States seemed TO be pointing black
fingers of merriment at Tangier and
crying Shame" Is aroused the fight
ing blood Of the islanders. If the
conditions of life changed they would
change their habits. But their lives
are very healthy and happy and their.
customs fit perfectly with those lives
The last newspaper photographer on
Tangier was run off the pier into the
sound and his broken camera hurled
into the water after him. Yet
this did not show any lack of hospi-
talNy to the poor fellow. isla nders
claim. He himself broke their code
of honor by taking pictures Of some
of their Outhouses and Of groups of
children in overalls. He didn't bother
to snap their handsome church or
some Of the better-looking houses. 1t
was all right to photograph the chill
dren. but the photoera pher certainty
should have notified their mothers,
who would have dressed the little
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nected, It is likely. than the church
ever expected or desired Liberal and
highly educated clergymen have been
assigned there by the Methodist con.
ference, only to find that the ideas OF
the islanders on morality went beyond
their own sternest conceptions. Thus
the ministers sometimes have been
placed in the peculiar predicament OF
fighting for a less rigorous moral code
than that of their parishioners-a
code which would allow more of the
iov and color of life. There was one
clergyman who made the fatal mis-
take of buying new hymn books for
the church---not new texts, but the
official gospel hymns approved by the
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Community of 1000 Again in Public
Eye Because of Bitter Grab War, Is Pre-
pared for Further Hostilities, but Prefers
Peaceful Methods of Founders-Motion
Picture May Become Opening Wedge of
the Twentieth Century-There Is also
a Base Ball Team to Furnish Unaccus-
toned Amusement - How a Single
Church Has Become Center of Social and
Religious Life-Collections, Made by
Unique Method, an Index to Wealth.
Smyrna times., 1926-03-03

Nearly $4,000 pullets and hens were
entered in the Delaware farm egg
laying contest last month according
to a report just made by H. s. Palmer
extension poultryman connected with
the extension service of the Univers-
ity of Delaware. This contest which
started last fall is being conducted
under the auspices of the extension
service of the university with the L.
S. Department of Agriculture and the
County Farm Bureau cooperating.
Mr.. Palmer's report for January in
part follows: Total number of farms
reporting, 159; total number of pull
let's, 32,932; average number eggs pei
pullet, ia; total number of hens
22,803; average number of eggs pei
hen, Ga; total hens and pullets mix
ed flocks) 18,342; average number OF
eggs per bird, 8.9. A study of the
report shows that the larger fiocks Of
400 and more birds in the flock haC
the best average egg production pc
bird.
Smyrna times., 1926-03-03
Genius Poorly Rewarded

The discovery of the correct posi-
tion and physiological function of the
heart, when announced by Andreas
Vesalius, the Belgian master of an
atOmy. was received on the one hand
with cold skepticism, and on the 9th
er with hot opposition. Slowly,
grudgingly, the worth of it was rec
ognized Reward, in proper measure,
was not given. But it provided the
stepping-sto enabling William Har-
vey to discover the circulation of the
blood
Vesalius was a native of Antwerp,
his period being 1514-1564. At four
teen he was a student of medicine in
Louvain; at twenty he was in Venice,
and the year following became public
demonstratOr at Padua. In Bologna
he gained a prOfessorship and in Pisa
a similar chair. At twenty-eight his
Incompatible treatise on human an
atOmy ppeared.-LOndon Graphic.
Smyrna times., 1926-03-03
Meant as "SIqr," at Author2

What might be called a readers
prize" was recently awarded a London
book collector under conditions of the
most perfect impartiality.
The reader in question. who is an
inveterate hunter for bargains in first
editions, had invested in an old copy
Of Paul and Virginia" which he was
attentively perusing. He read through
the book and. somewhere toward the
end, discovered that two pages were
stuck together. Separating them with
a penknife he found between them
several French bank notes totaling
5000 francs and the following note
penciled on the margin of the page {:
Earnest reader and friend Of this
book who hast read thus far, thou dost
merit this reward. From La Bull
garie, Sofia. TRANSLATED for the Kan
sas City Star.
Smyrna times., 1926-03-03
Each Crop Groups Better

Most of the cork we make use of
comes from Spain, although some
other countries of southern Europe or
northern Africa furnish some.
The first coat of bark to be re-
moved is known as "virgin" cork, and
Is too coarse to be of much use except
for tanning purposes. After the first
stripping, the operation is repeated
every eight or ten years, as the new
bark forms. and cork of an improved
quality is obtained each time. The
second "crOp" is good enough for max
ing life belts. insulating material and
the like. but is not sufficiently smooth
and elastic for the manufacture of
bottle shoppers, which are made from
the best grades of cork only.
A mature tree will yield about 1OO
to $50 pounds Of cork at each strip
ping.
Smyrna times., 1926-03-03
No Longer Satisfied
With Looker-On Role

Bobby, age five, sitting with majes-
ty in the BARRIERS chair, gazed with
scOrn upon his sister, age seven.
II asked for you to come with u.s."
he remarked haughtily, $50 you could
look at me while have my hair cut.
And you are not lOOkingw
Oh, but there was accusation, dire
reprOach in his youthful fury.
81 am tired of looking. l don't
want to look any more. I want my
own hair cut" shifted sister. 1T is
your turn to look at me-"
BObbys lip quivered. TraitOrOus,
jealous sister. Say, just wait
till he got her home. He'd pull her
hair.
It's happening all over the world IN
every age. in every walk of life. Sis
ter is tired of looking. e.