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largest attendance yet recorded. Fran
els G. Addison, jr., president of the
association, and w. w. Spaid. general
committee chairman, share this view.
They expect to keep John NJ. RiordOn.
head Of the hotel committee, decidedly
busy In completing the hotel arrange
mentS.
Work to Start on Bank Addition.
The work of tearing down the three
stores on f street, next to the Wash
ington Loan and Trust Co. building,
preparatory to the erection of a large
addition to the bank, will begin tomor-
row morning. The new structure will
occupy a 65-foot frontage. While de-
tailed plans have not been completed,
the annex will be the same height as
the parent building and of the same
type of architecture and material. 1t
will make a very imposing structure
one that will give further distinction
to that section of the city and at the
same time meet the banks urgent
need of more space.
Banker Proud of Virginia.
Victor B. Deyber must have made a
hit with Virginia bankers in his re-
cent address at Lynchburg. BY way
of greeting he said
My mother was a VirGinian. my
parents were married at Old st. Paul's
Church, Richmond, and it was by a
mere accident of business that my
parents left the State a few months
prior to my birth, and I have always
deeply regretted that / could not call
myself a native Nirginian. My grand
mother and parents sleep beneath the
hallOWed soil Of Ho1lyWOod Genet cry
and when my summons comes l hope
then to be gathered to my forefathers
and laid in the sacred soil of this
great old Commonwealth"
Unlisted Securities Prices.
Following are the bid and asked
prices Of local securities not listed
under Washington Stock Exchange
rules. the quotations being published
for the guidance of those dealing in
these issues;
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train Then. taking a piece of cloth
and beginning at their ankles. these
women wrap it around their bodies
with an upward coiling motion, tuck
ing the end in at the left of the bust
This gives the appearance of a decol-
lette gown without straps over the
shoulder. These stately women are
barefooted but particularly gay one
may occasionally be seen carrying
red silk umbrella. Green goggles
are also used to lend an air of dis
tinction. while the men carry canes
and wear discarded white collars
around their black necks. They feel
quite high hat" when able to wear
these cast-off adornments of the white
travellers.
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by the English government-that
means So for each wife A well paid
houseboy earns about So month. BY
the time a man has a real family
around him--say eight wives, 20 chill
dren and 80 grandchildren-he bears
himself with great dignity. He's head
of a prosperous household.
4 K = 4
NEXT in interest to the brides, Sen
ator Howell found unfailing won
derment at the wide variety of the
wild animals lie and Mrs. Howell
narrate many startling tales of their
narrow escapes: and tragic death of
others. along the course OF their trip
into the WiIds Of this country, in which
most surprising dangers ever Turk.
one moonlight night, while the Sen
ator and Mrs. Howell were taking a
stroll 1T Lake NNaSSa. where there
are only about half dozen white PEG
pie, they nearly walked into a hippo
Dotamus. Up out Of the shadows he
loomed then with Il terrifying snort,
he splashed into the lake. At Jinja
a hippo rose alongside the lake
steamer, grunted and disappeared be
meath the waves. The captain told
the American travellers that on the
preceding voyage he had seen a croCo-
die slide up to a water hole at this
same port and nip off a native woman
for breakfast An Englishwoman
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Falls and the Nile begins its 3 ,500-mile
course to the sea.
:: X :
SENATOR HOWELL found many Of
49, the native customs amazing for
example. a man Gan have as many
wives as he can pay for, the more he
has the more important he is in the
community. and the easier his life
becomes. Although the native labor is
rheap-20 cents or less a day-IahOr
Is becoming scarce, because the un-
married men only can be depended
NDOn. on account of the native
PAWS and customs regarding women.
Throughout Africa. he found. native
women are regarded as property. and
they are real assets. for they are work
erS.
4 girl is The chattel of her father,
And is usually found industriouSly
tailoring beside her mother. When
she marries. it is business trans
action between her father and the pro-
:~peCtiVe BRIDEGROOM. the p"ire for a
pretty girl being usually about 30
sheep. The deal being closed, she be
comes the property of her. husband
and is expected, besides performing
her huthold duties. to provide all fire
wood and to cultivate her Shamba,
that is. a garden OF about three acres.
Immediately a man acquires a wife.
he devotes his energies and resources
coward getting another, as the more
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Legislators Long Journey Abroad
Takes Him to Wild Regions of Africa
Told
Howell, on Mrs
BY WILL =, KENNEDY.

~ ARTLY TO humor an ambition,
- Whetted in hoyhood by contact
with the famous French natur-
4 alist, Paul Du Chaillu. to be-
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reach 80 are old women, mothers in
all probability of about - children,
only two or three of whom are living.
If they survive babyhOod, real test
Of endurance. girl babies have their
physical welfare carefully guarded.
Girl babies are the most welcome. for
as soon as they reach their teens they
can he sold as brides. The children
are reared in Il native hut with no
opening to free the smoke from fire
that never goes ont. AS result.
nearly all the native children have
sore eyes.
The standard of beauty for women
Senator Howell found to he unique in
his experience with the fair sex"
Some tribes do fancy work on the
body. while others cut the skin and
insert tiny pebble underneath the
surface-on the forehead. perhaps
often making u row OF pebbe-raised
bumps arranged in much the same
manner as civilized sister wears a
pearl heaGoand. or a native girl may
attract more attention by having her
pebble bumps on her stomach, or on
her cheeks.
Other tribes have a penChant for big
ears. and are very fastidiouS about the
earmarks Of their beauty. When the
girls are very young. wooden pegs are
inserted in perforations in the lobe of
the ear. From time to time the pegs
are enlarged until the hole is big
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enough to hold condensed milk can.
Bugle necklaces indicate TO the world
that "A girl betrOthed, and before the
wedding ceremony she is kept in the
hut and fed with choicest daintieS.
Her body is rubbed with oil until it
shines like satin. When the great
day arrives. the day of the wedding.
she is bedecked with many strands of
beads. Masked. wearing ankIetS and
wristlets of wool. she advances to
meet the bridegroom. Attending her
are two bridesmaids and members of
her family The bridegroom is accom-
panied by strengthening attendants
carrying spears and shields.
AFTER Wild and barbarous cere-
!mony, the bride is taken to her new
hut and introduced To the other wives.
who extend most cordial and sincere
welcome. When children are born,
the other wives treat them kindly as
their own and assist in caring for
them. The first wife is recognized
as the head of the feminine household,
African girls never work for the
whites. It is the boys who do the
housework for the European residents
and sojourners. The money they earn
pays the So a year hut tax demanded
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he has the easier is life. Moreover
he is aided and abetted by his other
wives, as each addition decreases the
pro rata of work TO be done. to say
nothing of the boost to the family
prestige. The wives are not jealous,
and work side by side, doing the daily
toll in the gardens, while the husbands
talk politics and war. However, as
the Europeans have practically ended
tribal warfare. African husbands are
now on yeritable Easy Street
1t is the duty of the husband to
furnish huts for the family-one for
each wife and one for himself. The
children and grown daughters live
with their mothers, and the grown
sons have a hut to themselves.
Sometimes a particularly ardent
swain. besides paying 20 to 40 goats
for his bride. tops off the bargain with
a castor-oil shine that covers her bare
body thrown in.
African weddings are big affairs.
and usually the whites are barred, but
Senator Howell managed to get a
look in" lie heard tales of wild
orgies lasting several days.
Girls are married, usually. about II
years of age, and by the time they
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July 20, 1865. and his wife died No
vembar -, 1868
Roger Brooke DD: second son of
Robert and Mary, was born at Bret
mock College England. September 20.
1857. and was Il boy OF IS years when
he landed in Maryland. lie married
Dorothy, daughter of Capt. James
Neale ard his wife. Anna Gill Neale
Roger brooke D died April 3. ZOO.
His eldes. son, Roger Brooke I2l. was
born April -. 1913. and on February
23, 1902, he married Eliza. third
daughter of Francis and Elizabeth
IIutchiuS
Roger Brooke t2) and Eliza had
two sons, both named Roger, but the
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Of Sir Thomas Forster of Northumber-
land. Thomas was q member of Par
Lament from 1904 to 1911. He died
September 10, 1912.
Robert Brooke, son of Thomas and
Susan, was born in London June 3.
1902. His first wife, whom he married
FebruarT 20, 1927, was Mary Baker
There we're children by thin marriage
and many of their descendants live in
southern Maryland and other parts
of the country. but lack of time space
and information forbid any attempt to
tell OF them. Robert Brooke's second
Wife, whom he married May II, 1885
was Mar Mainwaring. pronounced, |
am told Mannering, daughter of Roger
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AttILN to humOr an ambition,
- whetted in hoyhood by contact
with the famous French natur-
i alist, Paul Du Chaillu. to be-
come an explorer Of Darkest
Africa and more especially TO gather
first hand information regarding the
worlds shipping business and the part
ne United States should take in it
Senator Robert +. Howell of Nebraska 3,
pccompa MED by Mrs. Howell. made a
20. h00-mile trip, mostly on cargo boats,
and enjoyed many and varying thrills
While colleagues in Congress were
Dn ''tunkets." at Uncle Sans expense
10 the Philippines. Hawaii, through
The Panama Canal and in Alaska
Senator Howell dug deep into his own
pocket and suffered many trials on
his journey across the Atlantic,
through the Mediterranean, Adriatic
snd Red Sea, the Gulf of Alden. the
indian Ocean, into the heart of Africa,
through Mozambique Channel and
'Rround the Cape of Good Hope, back
10 the States.
They were literally broiled on the
Red Sea and the Gull of Alden; all but
swept from the deck in the teeth of
southwest monsoon in the Indian
Ocean: they visited the very center of
ihc centures-old ivory and slave trade,
scenes of the early PhOenician out
~
adorned SolomOn's Temple was pro
Nuced; where the PhoeniCians, Egypt
fans. persians. Arabs Turks and
portuguese successfully fought for and
eTpoted the slave trade. with kilwa
. Hs headquarters. for more. than 80
centuries; visited the reef at the en-
sran to MomboSa Harbor. on which
Nasco da CANA on his epochal voyage
10 the Indies nearly lost his life
Ihrough the treacherV of an Arab
pilot. Travelling inland from Nom
ioSa to Nairobi. the capital of kenya
colony, formerly British East Africa.
Tor about 100 miles, they proceeded
through an open-air menagerie UNI
matched anywhere in the world: saw
HhOrigineS in the ScantieSt attire, re-
Eplendent in silver, brass and iron
bracelets and ankletS, their ebony
Z bodies polished with castor oil paint;
beheld native handles out -EngliShing
the English in characteristic .swagger
with a cane: went to bed to keep
warm within so miles of the Equator;
JnarVeled at Mount Kenya. whose
glaciers are perennial. though immedi-
Htely under the Equator; and viewed
Ililimanjaro, 1920 feet, the highest
peak in Africa.
They thrilled at the answer to the
luzZle of the ancientS, Victoria
MAMA. the source of the Nile. which
has only one rival as the greatest
iresh-water lake in the world and
~ hose shore line exceeds the distance
from New York to San Francisco.
They stopped at the little outpost OF
Jinja. whose very name sounds of the
magic mystery of faroff places, on
Napoleon Gulf, at the northern end
of Victoria NyanZa, where the surplus
waters of the lake tumble over Ripon
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Brooke had eight sons. The Rambler's
correspondent is one of the Brooke
descendants. and says: Il believe half
the population of Maryland can claim
this honor and | have met some of
these same Brookes as far west as
Montana. Baker Brooke, The eldest
son Of Robert Brooke married Ann
Calvert. He was surveyor general of
the Province of Maryland and a mem
Der of the governors council. Roger
Erooke 1uney, Chief Justice of the
United States. and Charles Carroll Of
tarrollton were descendants of Robert
Brooke.
The sketch of the Brooke family
that follows was prepared for the
Rambler in 1922 by member of the
Brooke family and ! know that the
names and dates We're obtained from
carefully kept records.
Richard Brooke of Whitchurch
Hampshire. England married Eliza
beth TW!ne in 1862. lie died January
lG, 1913, and his wife May 20, 1899
There Oldest son, Thomas, was born
In 1860 and married Susan, daughter
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and Cicclia Proper Nainwaring. II is
more than probable that the name
Roger found in all the generations
following Robert Brooke was used
first when Mary MainWaring Brooke
gave he:' fathers name TO her second
son. Roger MainWarinE was dean Of
Worcester. bishop of 81. David's and
chaplain in ordinary to Charles | of
England. He died in 1868.
= * = >
y 1850 Robert Brooke sailed for
the Province of Maryland in his
own ship. bringing his wife. children
and 4 large retinue of servants, 40
persons in all. landing June - at Della
Brooke % miles above the mouth OF
the PatuVent River, in what is now
Calvert County. lie also brought a
pack of foXhounds whose descendants
can be found in many packs today.
y year before Robert Brooke left Eng
land ne had been commissioned by
Lord Baltimore as commander OF
Charles County and a member of the
Privy Council He was acting gov
eruor OF the province in 1862. He died
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who. seeking thrills, followed the Kon.
go to Victoria NNanza, alone except
for her native @pearsmen. and pro
n0unced the experience "beastly dun, "
found a final thrill at Kenya, a few
miles north Of Nairobi. where, alone,
she attacked a rhinoceros with a light
sporting rifle and was trampled to
death. Still more unfortunately, a
man who, with his Wife and child. hap.
pened to pass near the spot shortly
after this tragedy, met a similar fate
in attempting to divert the still in
furiated animal from Wrecking his
automobile.
At Tsavo the railroad was held up
for three weeks by man-eating lions
to whom % Indian coolies and scores
of natives fell victims. At night when
the living tents were brightly lighted
and crowded with coolies. the lions
would spring through the sloping
roofs ana make off with their victims
like cat with a mouse. AT Nairobi,
midway between the Indian Ocean
and Lake Victoria. on the very after.
noon Senator ard Mrs. Howell arrived
a proving leopard badly mauled a
native boy who was Caddying for a
ladies' fouTSome.
1t was while travelling westward
from MombaSa on the tri-Weekly mail
train that Senator Howell got his first
big surprise. He aWoke at the first
streaks Of dawn. and could dimply
see that they were passing over a
broad, rolling prairie dotted with
fiap-topped mimosa trees Here and
there contented herds were grazing
often quite close to the railroad
tracks. But as the short lived tropical
l., =
to see that the charming pastoral
landscape was in reality the most
marvellous rendezvous OF game that
can be found in the world today
antelope, zebras, gaZelles, within easy
gunShOt During the next half hour
he saw more game than he had ever
dreamed Of seeing in his life CRATES
slowly Stalked away on the right
There We're kongoni, an antelope about
the size of small elk; impala, a little
smaller but with beautifully striped
sides, and Wildebeests. Presently an
ostrich kept pace with the Senator
train for some distance. They passed
inuumerable Thompson and Grant
@aZelles. Now and then n jackal
would stink away behind bush, or
herd of zebra would loom upon the
horizon. This continued for nearly
I00 miles Veritable open-air men
a%erie. with Senator and Mrs Howell
inspecting it from a moving grand
stand
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SCARCELY less interesting we're
- the natives who naraded to the
station 10 see the train 90 IN, ,,,,Irb
as is the custom i'm snoa'l towns in
This country Clothes amono rho ma.
lives is still = matter of indifferanca'
and with bodies oil.polisbed fe1tered
with metal ornaments with sfret .hed
cars hune, heavy with enoropo,s nor.
dants and with Tho native dandiee
.sUincines their canes there paecad IN,
review before the senaioria + visitors
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:; = !; 4
AT kISEMT. Senator and Mrs
4 Howell walked nonchalantly across
the Equator to visit a native market
where the beef was butchered on the
ground while the traders waited
Here also naked black men and women
traded produce. While the Howelis
were forced to go to bed early after
nightfall to keep warm. the natives
seldom had more OF a wrap than
ragged bit of shawl, which
they clutched around their shivering
shoulders.
They found it a land of queer Gus
toms and strange people and animals
with thousands upon thousands Of
acres of uncultivated fertile land and
millions of natives TO work it--but it
is a forbidden land for Caucasians
1t is not a white mans country
Whites go there. but there comes a
day when small cut on ones hand
will not heal, and becomes a running
sore. Maybe he feels all right at night
and wakes up with a raging fever. He
takes 40 to 80 grains of quinine a day
to break the fever. Maybe he gets
it checked. but sooner or later comes
down with black water fever" which
seems to be a result of SUGGESTIONS of
fever and large doses of quinine.
which weakens the condition.
The black-water fever is 80 pen cent
fatal After a time, if you don't get
out. an indefnable depression takes
hold of you. The natives are immune
to the worst of these plagues-it is
their land. But they dread sickness
and death. When a member of the
family becomes 'gravely i'll. he is
taken far out on the hills and given
a pan of water. and a fire is kindled
Then he is left to die-perhaps de.
voured by the wild beasts.
But for these transient whites and
for the various astes-inha bited
Africa is dotted plentifully with golf
links and tennis courts. Once we
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Pocahontas star herald., 1926-08-05
CUT THE WEEDS

Property owners living within the
corporate limits of the City of Poca
hontas are hereby notified to cut the
weeds on all land belonging to them OF
see that their tenants do the work.
August is the month in which we
keep down next years weed crop by
killing the seed and roots. This is one
of our greatest health insurance poll
Kidding. the community Of nOxi'
Gus weeds-and every property owner
should feel himself liable for any sick
ness that might be tracable to his weed
patches.
If such should become necessary, the
city marshal will be given instruc.
tions to clean off your premises an
the charges will apply against yOnr
property.
Let's clean up!
City of Pocahontas,
BY W. L. Blankenship, Mayor,
e. NJ. Greer, Recorder.
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eligible to a seat in either house Of
the General Assembly; nor to any office
or trust or profit, until he shall have
accounted for and paid over all sums
for which he may be liable"
Therefore if he had been tried and
acquitted, which will never be, if the
indictment were dismissed against him,
or if he had never been indicted at all
he could not hold the sheriff's or any
office until he pays the large sums Of
money of which he is short. He knows
that and that is his reason for with
drawing from the race and in jump
ing on me and unjustly assailing me
is only screen and excuse.
hate to have to mention these
things but in justice to myself and my
friends l feel compelled to do so.
had no desire nor intention of
forcing him out of the race 1t was
none of my business 1t was unfOr-
tunate to me to become sick. This mis-
fortune might come to any one, even
| Mr.. Gullett.
In conclusion my friends / submit
that | have done my duty as your pros
ecuting attorney; that | am qualified (;
that | am entitled to promotion. l
do not believe that you will cast your
votes against me-a true, tried and
trusted servant-and for party whose
ability and inclinations to serve you
are wholly unknown to you. firmly
believe you will stay with one whom
you have known to have been true and
faithful through the past four years.
With these statements l submit my
claims into your hands and to your
cool, calm, candid and deliberate con-
sideration. ] am,
Yours to serve,
Oscar Il. Ellis,
/ Adv. Candidate for Chancery Judge
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Both remedies are packed In one carton and ~.
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VALLEY CHAPEL

Two sons of Luther Tyler have
malarial fever.
There has been a Sunday school or.
ganized at the McNeal house on the
Ravenden Spring road. Everybody
come.
Conner Tyler has been seriously III
with malarial fever but is thought to
be better.
Mr.. and Mrs Armstrong of Smith
vile, Mo-, are visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Carl Hall.
Mrs. Tom Wells visited Mrs. Geo.
Cock Saturday.
Wayman Claude attended singing
school at water Valley Saturday.
Marion Sinks ami fomily visited Mr.
and Mrs. TOm Hear Saturday and
Sunday at Ravenden.
Lola Claude visited Abigale Patter
Saturday and Sunday and attended
Sunday school at Cherry Ridge.
Mrs. Mabel Patten, who has been
visiting her mother, Mrs. Geo. Low
and her two children, Junior and Abb
gale, since July first. left for st.. Joe
last Wednesday to visit her grand
mother.
Rufe Tyler, Geo. Low and Homer
Lee Baker made a business trip to
Pocahontas Monday TO get shingles ia
cover the Valley Chapel school house.
Paris Curtis and Rufe Tyler and
family visited their mother, Mrs. Rosa
Tyler, Sunday.
Mrs. Call HackwOrth visited her
mother, Mrs. Jim Hughes, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Low visited at
Luther Tylers Sunday.
Uncle Bill Randles is on the sick
list.
Tom Bennett delivered sheep at
Water Valley Saturday.
Some dogs got into Tom Benefits
and Wayman Claudes sheep and kill
ed several last week.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-08-05
NOTICE

About two weeks ago l had black
mare mule 10 years old, IA IL hands
high, to stray away from my place
near Maynard. This mule has white
spot about two inches square In size
at the root of her tail which will assist
in her Identification. Anyone knowing
of the whereabouts Of this mule Will
do me great favor to notify me at
Maynard and a substantial reward Will
be paid for information leading to her
recovery F. r. Butler, Maynard,
Ark 52-1t