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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-12-15

Syracuse University professor de-
clares that because figures so often
lie, mathematics is a form of sin.
And that bears out our appraisal of
arithmetic. MANY years ago,
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-12-15

Happy marriages are usually the
result of careful planning by the
woman. (Which leaves the gap
down for someone to say that I'M.
happy marriages originate the same
Way.)
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-12-15

. Mr.. Roosevelt expects to be able
to cut out some nuisance taxes, as
a result of the liquor taxes, but
North Carolina has decided that
nuisance taxes are preferable to the
income from liquor.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-12-15

In advising his preachers to dis
card their automobiles we wonder if
Bishop Mouzon would himself be
to straddle old Dobbin to
get to his appointments.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-12-15

and the p%oultryman is unable to.
pedigreed stock, males nee
essarily must be selected on appear
ance alone. Dearstyne says.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-12-15

Many of us who criticized for
eign nations for getting all they
could out of Uncle Sam, are now
trying our hand at that game.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-12-15

many directions. When prices
have reached something like the
1926 figures, look for sterilization
OF the dollar at whatever level it
has then reached.
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flaming with satisfaction, having
combined business with pleasure in
persuading his editor to allow him
to do a special article upon the
winter antics Of the fortunate rich.
to be read by shivering stenogra-
piers and clerks clinging to straps
in the subway trains which pro-
PEELED them to their business Of
earning living.
He had obtained the press agent
job, he told Mary Lou, which was
to exploit an English revue, COM
ing to town in the early Spring.
He didn't, he confessed, grinning,
know much about specialized pub
licity, but he thought that he could
manage to see that the stars jewels
were stolen or her pet dog at
flicted with pneumonia. Anyway,
from what he had already learned,
publicity would come easily. One
Of the girls in the company had .
title, or she said she had; q iuvc-
nile lead was the disinherited son
Of q great shipbuilder, and one Of
the chorus or show girls had been
married to no less than three lords
not all at the same time.
"There was a woman once" ex-
planned Larry to Jenny, Mary Lou
and Travers, who married = cou-
pie Of dukes. They called her the
double duchess. How about this
one being = triple lady? Sounds
like q triple bromide, but maybe
it will catch ont"
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general that the Greeks beat the Per-
slams. Why? Well, chiefly because
it was the Greeks who wrote that
chapter in world history. The Per-
slams never got chance to tell their
side OF it. A few years hence, when
the cuneiform Inscriptions on these
ancient tablets have been deciphered,
we may have a different slant on
things.
It is pity that similar discoveries
cannot be made for other great con-
tests. 1t would be enlightening, for
instance, to have Carthaginian des-
cription of the great Punic wars; to
read of Cortez's conquest of Mexico in
the writings of an Aztec historian; to
get contemporary Indian rajah's &C.
count OF Britain's conquest Of India.
History is full Of might have
beens." Usually we take 1t for grant
ed that things happened for the best.
Looking at the losers story might, in
more instances than one, give us
reason to adopt new attitude.
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Mutual Understanding.
His conversation,
while with Lorrimer,
therefore,,
.urned for

His conversation, therefore,
while with Lorrimer, turned for
the most part upon the events
through which they, mutually, had
lived. And Lorrimer had to lis
ten, had to talk, and so came
gradually to unburden himself Of
much that had been fostering in
his mind, eating at the frayed
edges of his nerves, Sinking
through his thoughts, the dark,
starved rats Of unhealthy memory.
And thus, playing his part with
4 metaphorically bitten lip and
stiffened spine, Lorrimer came to
find laughter again in memories,
and pity and a healing loss Of
self.
After leaving Mac at the sani-
forum, the Lorrimers and Mary
Lou went on to Placid, where they
had two glorious weeks Of Winter
sport. Mary Lou had not bob
sledded, skated, skied and snow
shoed in high, glorious mountain
air since her childhood, when, for
a short time, she and her parents
had been at St. NORTH, in Switzer-
land.
At Placid, Jenny Wynne and her
elder brother and his wife Joined
them for the last week, and so Mrs.
Lorrimer, with wholly womanly
regard for lovers, invited Larry up
for the final weekend, and Larry
came, every red hair on his head
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gun to believe that the RECOGNITION
which she had fancied she saw in
ms eyes had been a Pigment Of her
overstlmulated i'm a gina ion. If
anything. things had been easier
Tor her since then. Lorrimer had
seemed light-hearted, interested in
matters other than herself. IN, Nc
Evan, in his own now Vigorous
routine, in the complicated run
ming of q big place like Westwood.
and was talking quite seriously of
going to work, of taking his nlace
in the office in New York which
ran his fathers estate-a complete
business OF renting, leasing and in
vesting in itself. He had talked it
over with DR.. Mathews and Math-
ews had agreed with one reserva-
ton.
Zine! The very best thing Won
can d." he had said. "But give
yourself until the Autumn. You
are in perfectly good health, as far
as I can judge, but I don't want
you to plunge into office work.
with all its combining conditions,
rush and general expenditure Of
energy, too soon. Give your
nerves a chance to get a padding
Of sound, firm flesh; get a few
more solid pounds on those big
bones of yours. Get lots of sleep
and exercise and by Fall we'll
have you fit to lick Dempsey in
his prime. And then I'll wash my
hands Of you medically and dis.
charge you as a patient, l hope,
for good"
Lorrimer had consented. He
was, in point Of fact, seriously
anxious to be with Mary Lou as
much as possible for a little while
longer, feeling. as he did, that the
resistance he laid to pride would
wear down and that By the time
Autumn came all misunderstand-
ings and withholdings would have
vanished between them and she
would come to keep her promise to
him. "And them" thought Lor.
rimer, exultant, an have every
thing-everythingy"
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Does q Deer Get Fat?

Would running about two miles
every morning before breakfast pre-
vent one fom gaining weight who Is
drinking a quart Of milk per day be-
sides regular meals?-d. I. NJ
Answer-Quite likely. A quart of
milk yields $50 calories. I don't know,
but I estimate you get about 8 miles
out Of q gallon, il your weight fully
equipped Is not over $50 pounds. SO
quart Of milk would only keep you
from losing weight under such q re-
gime.
Exophthalmic Goitre
Girl aged ~ years at one time had
exaphthalmic goitre but Is now ap-
parently in perfect health, tho some
what nervous. If she marries would
her children be likely to be normal
and healthy? CA. O. S.
ArSWer-There is no reason to think
that exophthalmic or other type Of
goitre is heritable. If the woman is
well enough to marry she is we'll
enough to bear children and her chill
dren are likely to be nomal and
healthy.
Down, Down, Down Where the Blood
Pressure Goes
I want to thank you for the Belly
Breathing exercise. do it every night
and morning. My blood pressure was
1913 when I started; now it is down to
1873. (Mrs. A. E. A.
Answer-Glad to send instructions
for Belly Breathing to any reader
who asks for 1t (no clipping) and in
closes a stamped envelope bearing his
address.
Copyright 1888, John F. Ollie co..
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Not Working Well

One of the emergency remedies
adopted by the last legislature was
that which reduced the penalty and
interest charges for non-payment of
taxes
With many citizens in desperate
straits and unable to pay, the legis-
lature felt itself obliged to take def
mite action. In addition to these re-
auctions it legalized the instalment
plan Of taxpaying.
Each measure is causing unlocked
for trouble.
The effect of the first is to seri-
ously reduce the amount of taxes
paid. A review of tax collections
everywhere proves the point. The
totals are down.
Some persons are delinquent be-
cause they haven't got and cannot
raise the money. Others have failed
to pay because 1t is cheaper not to
do so.
It may be that the legislature
thought those who could pay their
taxes, despite the dropping of the
enforcement provisions Of the law,
would continue to do so. If the law
makers had that slant they are being
disabused of it. No one likes to pay
taxes. Few have a sense Of civic duty
compelling enough to send them to
the treasurers office when others are
taking advantage of new laxity in the
laws.
Meanwhile the treasurers of North
Dakota sweat over the problem of
dividing instalment payments among
cities, villages, counties, school dis
tricts and the state. A lot of scratch
paper is being used up figuring these
appointments.
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An Incentive TO Win

He was in high spirits. Jenny
was kind, and, even if he didn't
know much about skiing and fell
ingloriously upon his nose and
stuck in snowbanks. long legs wav-
ing, her laughter was entirely
friendly and she took great pains
to instruct him in the various diff
cult sports. Also he was now writ
ing signed special articles for his
paper, and had sold the first Of a
series of short stories on newspa-
per life to q popular weekly and
expected to sell many more-and
his bank account had swelled
gorgeously.
He had always been ambitious,
but had never taken himself very
seriously. Mary Lou had been his
closest confidante, a pink and in
terested ear into which he was
wont to pour the varied colored
tales Of his experiences and hopes.
But in Jenny he had an incentive,
a spur to performance.
Her laughing ladyship kept her
own counsel. What Jenny thought
Of Larry and his opportunities, his
disarming impertinences, his obvi-
Gus enchantment, was nobody's
business but Jenny's. So her
friends watched the little comedy,
smiling, and no one interfered, not
even her very wise parents, who
had met Larry and liked him and
who, contrary to current ideas
about people Of means and posi-
ton, desired nothing more-nor
less-for their only daughter than
her happiness. So If Larry proved
to be her happiness she could have
him and they would make him
very welcome.
But Jenny said nothing. Only
her amber yellow curls danced
about her pointed face with in
creased vitality, it seemed, and her
eyes danced, too, and she was al
ternately serious and absurd, but
she remained kind TO her besotted
swain, which was more than she
usually did for one in his condi-
ton.
Mary Lou was not happy, but
Mary Lou was permitting herself
to drift. For one entirely dread
full moment, that Winters after
noon in the library when she and
Lorrimer had come in from skat-
ing and looked at the books to-
gether-and at each other-she
had been sickeningly afraid that
he had guessed the stark, wonder
full and yet terrible fact which she
had tried so hard to conceal.
But he had made no gesture
and said no word, and she hsd BE-
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|'MAKE-b[L|[VE? S 5zI5%iE.
Copydsh. 1880! BY Eaah RaIdwin

Travers Lorrimer. shell-shoc ked
war veteran and son of wealthy
Margaret Lorrimer. mistakes pref
y Mary Lou Thurston for Delight
hartford. whom he is supposed to
gave married in England. Mrs.
Lorrimer induces Mary Lou to
assume the role of Delight. of
whom no trace can be found.
Travers is told he must begin
again with friendship. His interest
N life IS renewed. No mention
IS made of his marriage until the
visit Of Larry Mitchell, Mary
Louis friend. Then Travers, be-
uevIng Larry is in love with Mary
Lou. reminds her she is his wife.
At Christmas Mary Lou, irrita ted
BY Travers' lack Of holiday spirit,
terms him selfish. Brought to his
senses. he joins his mother and
mary Lou in delivering gifts to
the needy. At the Veterans Hos
Pital Travers meets his old buddy.
Jimmy McEwau. and plans to help
aim. Travers gives Mary Lou
sapphire ring and speaks Of the
seal ring he gave her. Mary Lou
believes then that he really mar
Eied Delight. using 4 seal ring.
That night he kisses Mary Lou.
Kealizing she loves him and can
not go on pretending. Mary Lou
plans to leave. Later she changes
her mind. Mrs. Lor1imer remarks
the change in Mary Lou to DR..
"a athews, who tells her he believes
Mary Lou loves Travers. Mary
Lou coufides in Larry. Larry is
in love with Jenny Wyune. 4
friend Of the Lorrimers. Travers
calls Mary Lou Dearest" and she
rushes to her room in tears.
Travefs sends McEwau to 4 spleu-
did Lake Placid sauatorium.
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Barbs

Poet Edwin Markham, who wrote
The Man With the Hoe," has sued
In Chicago to collect a promised an
nutty, explaining that he needs the
money. Sounds like MIR. Markham is
now The Man With the Owe"
4
Somebody reveals that "Pecora"
means "sheep" in Italian, which
probably explains why he has
been shorn In Wall Street.
= : =
Why III this worry about the gold
clause, when we've always boasted
that our word Is a. good as our bond
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CHAPTER xxx.

NEUCH that he had forced to
M to the back Of his mind.
~ things which lay buried in
his subconscious mind, were, per-
force, dragged to the sunlight,
mulled over, discussed, commented
upon.
For Mac, invaded all these
years, by reason of his lameness
and the gassed lungs, had had lit
tie in the way of a future to look
forward to; had become reconciled
to q slow death, and lived, almost
exclusively, in his memory Of those
brief and action-crammed years,
into which he had packed, it
seemed, his entire life. Mac looked
backward-with clear, rather HUI
morous and quite unrestful eyes.
1T was a great war while it last
ed" Mac said.
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money" Practicing law again now,
there are two kinds Of cases she new
er takes-divorce and libel. 1T Is i'm
possible to get the truth In either
case," she gave as her prejudice.
Mrs. Willebrandt is q motor addict.
She prefers driving at night, when
there is less traffic Frequently
she drives clear up here after con-
cert or dinner in Washington, stays
q day or so and drives herself back
She will leave for Russia the
end of the month and Is going on q
freighter that will land her in Lenin-
grad She hates the pomp Of
first class steamers where you have
to dress for dinner every evening.
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Perfect Happiness.

If these dreams of his came true
he was perfectly right. Health
and work, home and friends. wife
and love; no man can have more.
and many have a good deal less.
The Lorrimer party returned to
Westwood House presently and
Lorrimer, with his increased in
terest in life in general and bust.
ness in particular, began to confer
with his mother over the routine
Of the place, and to see occasion-
ally, both in town and at home.
the manager of the Lorrimer es-
tate, John Kent. He and Mary
Lou read evenings, listened to the
radio-which had never, until re-
Gently, afforded him anything but
exasperation-and now and then
went to town for a matinee or an
evening play. He was an abso-
lutely different man from the man
who had come into the morning
room that day in early November.
In q sense, Mary Lou couldn't
understand it; the change was so
great and the time had been SO
short. She spoke to Mathews about
it and he laughed at her, in his
friendly fashion.
"But he wasn't ill, not really.''
said Mathews. Ellis Constitution
was perfectly sound. He needed
merely-an interest in life. That.
you have given him, my dear. And
the rest followed naturally. the
building up Of a rundown ph7,
sique and the healing of sSFs
nerves. He could have gone on "a
that other half-invalid state indefi-
nitely; we could do nothing; he
had to be taken out of himself. VOL
unfairly. He needed the will to
live, the will to be well. He'll not
backslide now, I think; but we
have to watch out a little. These
old fits Of depression, have you
noticed that they have bothered
him at all?"
mo. not recently. she told
him.
To Be Continued
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Where Historians Fail to
Plav Fair

A series OF crumbling clay tablets,
which were put into the Persian arch
ives at Persepolis "a centuries ago and
which were discovered there recently
by DR.. James Henry Breasted, Chica-
60 University's famous Archaeological,
may add brand-new chapter to one
of the most interesting parts Of an
Gent history.
These tablets, as far as they have
been deciphered. seem to give the Per-
sian version Of the famous invasion
Of Greece which came to disaster In
the battles Of Marathon and salamis.
We know all about those battles al
ready, Of course-from the Greek side
DR.. Breasted hopes now. however, to
get the Persians' side Of 1t too: to look
at the diverse face Of one Of the most
famous military campaigns In all his
tory.
Doing this may give us a new kind
of history; and, in the end, we may
get an entirely new idea Of that mo-
mentous struggle on the shores of the
Aegean 2zoo years ago.
History, which pretends to be i'm
partial, is pretty one-sided. Every
great struggle, like this between the
Greeks and the Persians. gets des-
cribed by the victors. The losers moi
only.lose the war, but they lose thei1
chance to present their case to poster.
ity.
We are all taught in school that il
was very fine thing for the race II
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Stumbling the London Guilds
Chicago Tribune)

Chicago Tribune)
Readers of The Tribune are again
indebted to Edmond Taylor for an
amusing sidelight of the London con-
ference. The delegates were invited
to the hospitality of the ancient COM
mercial guilds Of London which rev.
erently continue some of their medie-
val functions, including magnificent
eating and drinking at banouets
Nearly all the invited guests ignored
the invitations and only a few went
to the dinners. The Americans were
conspicuous among those who tossed
the invitations aside with no consid-
Grafton.
Mr.. Taylor says that the scandal is
big one in London. The guilds, now
representing the commercial wealth of
London, with the best stocked cellars.
and the best food obtainable in Eng
land, are the medieval associations Of
grocers, winners, SINNERS, butchers
and other purveyors. They have be-
come gorgeous in traditions and trap
pings and their members as merchant
princes take a back seat for nobody
when the feed bag is in question. TO
the delegates, and particularly it
seems to the Americans, the invita-
tons represented too much Of a come
Gown to be considered. They had
been to the kings garden party and
they had dined with MILFORD and been
received by nilady. After duke and
duchess 1t was too much to receive
an invitation to meet the green
grocer and break bread with the
butcher.
It happens that by this high hat
ting Of the commercial guilds the de-
linquent and discourteous guests not
only missed the best meal they could
have expected to get in England but
the American democrats missed a
chance Of giving little social recog-
milton to one Of their own origins.
It was to these worshipful guilds In
London that the founders Of the Mas
sachusetts Bay Colony, the Joint stock
stock company which was to become
q state. turned for financial support
when they needed it most. Among
those who offered 1t to them was
Richard Saltonstall Of none other
than the Worshipful Company Of
SINNERS.
The Americans would have been
closer home at one Of the guild ban
quets in the traditional joviality Of q
commercial r1AAnle than trAv v,nssit,I1,
could have been at the kings garden
party or at any Of the other parties to
which their hosts had invited them.
The membership Of the guilds now
represents q great deal Of Britain's
wealth and power, but the origins OF
1t are closer to the American concep-
ton Of authority than any power
which survives in the titled orders to
which the republican representatives
pay most respect. It appears that
they snubbed just the host they might
better have sat down with at meat.
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NERVE NURSES LOOK OUT
CATS OUT OF BAG

Fear Is a powerful emOClOn. IL can
kill. It can so weaken \ victim that
he becomes quite helpless. The bird
or rabbit charmed" by snake Is
paralyzed with fear. Fear is the cause
Of shock. Modern physicians and
surgeons take special precautions to
allay fear; they endeavor by every
means to insulate the patient against
impressions or associations which
arouse this instructive emotion. This
is the secret Of shockless surgery, and
Of the success physicians today have
in the non-Surgical treatment OF grave
illnesses like exophthalmic or toxic"
goitre.
Some one has called worry ID
luted fear" Anxiety may be defined
as chronic fear. And that's the whole
story of weak nerves or nervous
exhaustion" or "neurasthenia" or
whatever fancy name you please to
give your funny obsesSion.
Look out now-if you get mad and
climb up on your high horse and file
an indignant protest against my
hard-boiled teachings, you'll give your
game away. Wait till I expatiate
bit about the two classes of neuroticS.
Maybe you'll discover you can still
carry on your racket. Certainly you
can for all I care. shall state the
simple truth and you may take 1t or
leave it. Only please remember I'm
the teacher, and this course Is not
compulsory.
Now, then, all neurotics or indi-
viduals who pretend to have bad
nerves, are either dumb or dishonest.
There's no middle path. If you in
sist that exhausted nerves account for
your delinquency or valetudinarian-
ism, you must join one class or the
other.
Glass A neurotics, I am glad to be-
lieve, are in the majority. Some OF
them are just plain dumb, but prob
ably the most difficult to rescue are
the wiseacres, the knowing ones who,
having been thoroughly exploited by
some eminent nerve specialist In the
grand old days when nerve specialists
were the berries and got 'em, wish to
coast along the rest of the way on that
basis-these wiseacre neurotices get
away with it by insisting that ordi-
nary doctors do not understand the
nerves. A wiseacre neurotic never
consults an ordinary doctor If he can
possibly help it. II circumstances
compel him to have truck with an
ordinary doctor, the supercilious one
doesn't consult the doctor. No, In
deed, he merely permits the doctor to
minister to his immediate needs and
squelches him If he ventures to evince
any curiosity about what really ails
the patient.
Plain dumb neurotics are not bad
eggs at all, when you get to know
them. II find ad umb neurotic with
an I. @. of ten years or better, feel
quite Munyonisn-I think There Is
hope" It Is therefore to the dumb
neuroticS Of North America that de-
dictate these lessons on nerve weak
ness. II we can only make EN- un-
derstand we can bring 'em back to
normally. AS for the wiseacre neu-
rotics, no plain ordinary garden type
OF doctor-such as lean tell them
anything anyway. So here We may
as well consign them to whatever un-
happy end awaits them and make
more room for you with bad nerves to
draw up closer, for you must not miss
any Of this instruction. (The gist Of
these nervous expostulations will be