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is being pursued by bloodhounds,
and it is as good as ticket of leave.
He can lie down under the nearest
tree to pleasant dreams in the blest
assurance that he win never be
caught. 1t would not be surprising
to learn that cunning malefactors
bred bloodhounds and sold them to
the police, knowing them to be in
capable of trailing and pulling down
anything save dead bacon rinds and
pie crust. Our own notion is that
another breed of dog should be en-
ployed in this business-say the Ger
man dachshund. In all our reading
about dachshunds we have never
come upon an instance in which that
faithful friend Of man failed in its
duty. 1t has good nose and its
stream-line build gives it a great adj
vantage in the follow-through. Upon
coming up with its quarry it dis
sembles, like the late Arsene Lupine.
famous Paris detective; that is, It
uses cajolery rather than ferocity-
licking the face of the fugitive in ap-
parent friendliness and so masking
its connection with the police until
the too-confiding reprobate Is sur
rounded and nabbed. The dachshund
always gets its man.-Boston Eve
ming Transcript.
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Announcement that the national
government had modified 10000 un-
employed teachers this winter in a
drive on illiteracy revives interest
In census figures on illiterates, that
is to say, persons who cannot write
any language.
In 1880 the United States had A.
2S3,0O0 illiterates. or 4.3 per cent of
the population 10 years old and over.
That was large decline from the
G per cent who were classified as IL
literates when the census of 1920
was taken, but in Alabama four
years ago 1875 per cent of the inhabi-
tants more than 10 years old were
illiterate. In Louisiana they num-
bered 1875 per cent, in Mississippi
1871 per cent and in South Carolina
14.9 per cent. The high percentages
in the southern states were due
largely, of course, to the negro popu-
lation. Only % per cent of Mis-
souris Inhabitants could not write, a
reduction from 8 per cent in 1920.
and between the census counts our
negro population had increased
through migration from the South.
In New York four years ago the
number of illiterates was $4,000, or
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Is also banished. She, too, goes to
the south and makes a settlement.
Thus grows the colony Of Rhode
Island, dedicated to the principal
of freedom Of worship. So 1886 is to
see the planting of the seeds of lib
erty-of political liberty in Vir-
ginia and religious liberty in Rhode
Island-which are to bear fruit a
century and half later in the Con-
stitution of the United States of
America.
But Roger Williams and Anne
Hutchinson are not the only dissat-
isfied ones in Massachusetts, Bay
colony. Another is Thomas Hooker,
pastor of the church at Newton.
Looking to the south he sees "the
fruitfulness and commodiousness of
Connecticut" and because of "the
want of accommodation for their
cattle and the danger of having 1t
possessed by others, Dutch or Eng
lish," he tells the General Court Of
"the strong bent of their spirits to
remove thither." But the Court re-
fuses permission for him to take
his people and go.
In the meantime back in Eng
land a group of prominent Puritans,
including Lord Sage and Sele, Lord
Brooke, Sir Richard Saltonstall,
John Hampden and John Ppm.
alarmed at the increasing tyranny
Of Charles I, have planned to es-
tablish a refuge in America. Secur-
ing a grant of land south of Massa-
chusetts, they have appointed John
Winthrop, Jr., as governor of their
colony. In 1886 he is to build a
fort and call the place Saybrook
in honor of Lords Sage and Brooke.
The next year Hooker will take his
family and most of his congrega-
ton with him and migrate south.
Soon there will be other towns up
and down the Connecticut river val
ley and from these beginnings In
1885 will grow the colony and event
ually the state of Connecticut.
December 81, 1874. The sands In
the hourglass are slipping swiftly
away. The old year is dying. Soon
the new year of 1875 will be born.
And as it is born, there is also
born a son in the home Of French
goldsmith In Boston. Apollos Rivors
was his name when he landed on
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Results Achieved In
Drive on llliteracy

81 per cent. Illiterates constituted
3.5 per cent of the total inhabitants
in Massachusetts, 2.3 per cent In
Ohio, "a in Illinois and less than
per cent in Iowa, the smallest per-
centage in the country. Illiterates
in the white population In 1880 num-
bered 100000, decline from 4 per
cent In 10 years. Illiteracy among
negroes declined from 22.9 per cent
to 1853 per cent in the decade, leav-
ing a total of 1,514,000.
These figures. show that illiteracy
is decreasing at rather rapid rate
in all classes of the population and
in all parts of the country. But they
also show that the total number of
persons who cannot write is surpris-
ingly large for nation where educa-
ton is compulsory, fact which is
explained, of course, by immigration
and our negro population. And
among the young foreign born the
percentage of illiteracy is small,
though large among adults of this
class.
That large number of adults can
be taken out of this classification by
drive directed by the government
is not certain. But it will give work
to thousands Of unemployed teach
ers, whose plight is particularly dis
tressing, and it will surely give
some further momentum to the de-
cline in illiteracy.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
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this man who would be the first to
assassinate an American President.
That dark fame is to be reserved
for John Wilkes Booth who is to
succeed where Lawrence failed and
send Abraham Lincoln to mar
tyr's grave.
But if Death passes by the Chief
Executive in this first month of
1885, before the new year is scarce
ly half over it will knock at the
door of the chief justice of the Unit
ed States. 1t Is position which
he has held for "a years, the long
est in the history of that high trib-
unal. On July 6 in Philadelphia will
die John Marshall who had been in
fluential in bringing about the rati-
fication of the United States Con-
stitution and whose Interpretation
Of that document during his long
service on the supreme bench has
imprinted indelibly his name upon
the law Of our land. On July 8, the
exact anniversary of the day when
first the Liberty Bell proclaimed
liberty throughout all the land un-
to all the inhabitants thereof" the
body of John Marshall will be borne
to its last resting place. And as the
solemn cortege moves slowly
through the streets, the Liberty Bell
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"City of Brotherly Love" and lays
the foundation for the state of
Pennsylvania, and a full century is
to elapse before Gen. James Ogle-
thorpe is to found that haven of
refuge which will become Georgia.
Thus the picture as the old year
1884 dies. When the rising sun of
the new year 1886 casts it's beam
across the sun dial, it foreshadows
great events that are to come.
Down in Virginia the governing
council writes into its record this
laconic entry: ION the 2Sth. of
April, 1885, Sr. John Harvey thrust
out Of his government, and Capt.
John West acts as Governor till the
Kings pleasure is known" Thus is
chronicled a free peoples first re-
bellion, albeit an orderly one, and
as one historian says: TT points to
two facts: first, a spirit of indie
pendence and self-respect in the
young community; and, second, a
faculty of self-control which pre-
vented what was legally a rebellion
from degenerating into tumult and
anarchy" And, to follow through
.140 years later another Virginian is
TO declare passionately: "Give me
liberty or give me DEATH" and still
another is to pen these immortal
words: Resolved, That these
United Colonies are, and of right
ought to be, free and independent
States"
Up in New England "a cloud,
small as hand like Elijah's cloud,
Is spreading over the sky of Massa-
chusetts Bay. So small it was in
the bare overarching vault that
most people take no notice of it.
But Anne Hutchinson watches it
grow and spread, feeding ON the
parched plains of the sky. The
ministers and magistrates are blind
to this spreading portent. Secure In
their places, they do not sense the
tremulous hope that has seized the
people"
That tremulous hope is hope for
true freedom Of worship, because
the ecclesiastical hierarchy, these
ministers and magistrates, who left
England because they would not
conform to certain prescribed An
glican practices in turn will allow
not the slightest deviation from the
worship which they themselves Or
dained." sac
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Presidents. For their sons and
grandsons and great-grandsons
bearing the names of Henry Adams
and Charles Francis Adams, will be
statesmen and cabinet members,
makers Of history and recorders Of
history. One of them, Charles Fran
els, Jr., who will be born in 1885,
just 100 years after the birth of
the first Of the line, is to become
a general in the war fought to pre-
serve the Union which his great
grandfather had helped establish,
and another Charles Francis AID
ans in 1929 will enter the cabinet
of President Hoover as secretary
Of the navy which his great-great-
grandfather, John Adams, founded.
December 81, 1884. Tick-tock!
Tck-tock! Tick-tock! The last min
utes of the year 1884 are slipping
into eternity as the hands of the
clock move toward a straight up
right position on the dial One-two-
three four five ix-seven-eight-nine-
ten-eleven-the clock strikes twelyel
The year 1885 is ushered in.
In the White House at Washing
ton sits President Andrew Jackson,
"Old Hickory" placed there by the
votes Of the Western frontiersmen
and the common people" of all Sec
tons of the country. For the days
Of the virginia dynasty" and the
New England oligarchy" are done.
Democracy in America is at last
triumphant.
January 80. In the Capitol they
are holding the funeral of Congress
man Warren R. Davis of South Car
DINA. President Jackson leaves the
White House to attend. As he passes
through the rotunda, a man leaps
out with two pistols in his hands.
Pointing both at the President he
pulls the triggers. But neither is
discharged. Before he can try again,
he is seized and hustled away.
Later the man, Richard Lawrence,
is to be tried, found insane and
shut up In an asylum. For little
while his name Is on every Amer
leans lips but soon he Is forgotten
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Sextuplet Birth

Delving among Chinese annals, DR..
Berthold Laufer, curator of anthro-
pology at Field Museum of Natural
History, Chicago, has found no rec
ord of a quintuplet birth in that
country, but has discovered records
of two sextuplet births. In 1874, ac-
c0rding to the Chinese historians, a
woman in Kwang-p'ing fu, Chill
province, is said to have given birth
to six children at 6nce. In 1906 q
woman in village of Kwei-chou pro-
vince was reported as bearing six
sons, and mother and children all
lived.
Records of Chill province state
also that in 1927 a woman of Hokien
gave birth to seven girls at the same
time, but none of them survived.
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But there is one who dares to de-
viate in more ways than one-a
young Welshman named Roger Will
liams of Salem. He declares that
the state has no authority over the
consciences of men, that there
should be freedom of worship and
entire separation of church and
state.
Roger Williams is Americas first
dangerous radical" Massachusetts,
Bay in 1885 is no place for such
men. So the General Court orders
him to leave the colony but finally
allows him to remain until spring
If he will not "go about to draw
others to his opinions" He does not
go about, but he does welcome 9TH
ers to his house where he breaches
his radical" doctrines. So the Court
sends a constable to arrest Will
liams. He fees through the SHOWS
of winter to the hospitable wigwam
of Massasoit on Narragansett Bay.
There he is to remain until spring,
then go forth to found the colony
of Providence.
But there is still that other
dangerous radical" She has
formed Americas first woman's
club. She insists on criticizing the
preaching of the colony's ministers.
Out with her! So Anne Hutchinson
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are coming!" he shouts, as he
rouses "every Middlesex village and
farm" and his voice will come thun-
dering down through the years to
remind US how he rallied the pa
triots to the defense of those liber-
ties which were first demanded In
Virginia and in Rhode Island in
1886, hundred years before he
was born.
While little Paul Revere is just
learning to crawl about on the floor
of his fathers house in Boston,
a son Is born to a farmer living
near Braintree, Mass. The date is
October 10, 1875, and this little boy
Is also given his fathers name
John Adams. He is to go to Harvard
college, to become lawyer, and in
1865 to write for the Boston Ga
zette a series of essays denying the
right of the English Parliament to
impose taxation upon her American
colonies without their consent.
In ITS he is to attend the Con-
tinental Congress in Philadelphia
and there to propose as commander
of the army, raised to defend Amer
lean liberties, Virginian named
George Washington. And when an
other Virginian, named Richard
Henry Lee, offers the resolution that
"These United Colonies are, and of
right ought to be, free and indie
pendent States" and moves its adop-
ton, this same John Adams will
second the motion and will be APP
pointed a member of the committee
to draw up a Declaration of indie
pendence.
He will help write that immortal
document, he will sign it and when
at last the fight for liberty is won,
he will be one of the peace COM
missioners who sign the treaty of
peace that ends the Revolution and
he will become the first minister
of the new nation to the court Of
st. James. 1t will not fall to his lot
to be one of those who draw up the
Constitution for the new republic
but under its terms he will become
the first vice president of the Unit
ed States, which he helped estab-
lish, and it's second President. And
on July 4, 1926, exactly so years
to the day from the time he had
signed the Declaration Of Indepen-
dence, John Adams will die, his
great work ended.
But before the sands in his hour
glass have run out he will have
done other things, besides being a
Signer and Father of the Re-
public" to guarantee his immortal
ity. He will have given to the ma
ton a son, John Quincy Adams,
who is destined to be the sixth
President of the United States and
to be the only ex-President who ever
served his country in congress aft
er leaving the White House. Nor
win the Adams record of distin-
guished service to their country end
with the father and son who were
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u6uI.
True, the Spanish have been es-
tablished down in the Great South
west for nearly a hundred years and
st. Augustine in Florida is nearly
three-Quarters of a century old.
True, too, the French have been
sailing up and down the st. Law
renee for nearly century, but the
establishment of New France as
permanent colony is very recent.
AS for the other European ma
tons who have sought to plant out
posts in the New world-they are
newcomers indeed. For only two
decades have the Dutch been on
the Hudson with their New Neither
land, which is to become New York,
and for a much less time than that
have they extended their rule over
what is now New Jersey. -Four
years are to elapse before the
Swedes are to take hand in this
great international game of land
grabbing by establishing New Swe-
den in what is now Delaware, but
they are destined to lose 1t 20 years
later to the Dutch who will claim
a prior right to this land.
Down on the James river little
colony of Europeans has survived
starvation and Indian massacre for
a quarter of a century and up on
the ''stern and rock-bound coast" of
Massachusetts another colony Of
people, who speak the same tongue,
has endured even greater hardships
for more than a decade. And these
are the people who are to dominate
the North American continent at
last, for they speak the tongue of
Old England.
For New England Is to survive
when New France, New Netherland,
and New Spain are but memories.
From the two little settlements,
Plymouth and Boston, which, united,
will become eventually the state Of
Massachusetts,, have already stemmed
the settlements which are to grow
into the stat@s5 of Maine and New
Hampshire and two more will soon
have their origins there.
Lord Calvert has already erected
his cross at st. Mary's on the Ches-
apeake bay to found the colony in
which there is true religious free
dom and from which is to grow the
"Free State of Maryland" But
half century is still to pass before
William Penn realizes his dream, of
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the shores Of America. But when
he was married to Deborah HIGH
born, he Anglicized his name to
Paul Revere. And on January 1,
1735, when this little son Is born
to them, they give him the name
Of Paul Revere also.
Young Paul win grow up to fol-
low his fathers trade, to become
an expert goldsmith, an artist, a
dentist, In fact, very versatile
young man. But history win not re-
member him for his skill In any Of
those trades. Instead, 1t win remem-
Der him as the courier on a '.mid-
night ride" In IT'S. 1.-THE British
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BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON

1CEMBER 81, 1884. The
dying light of the win
try day is slanting
across the sun dial and
bringing to a close an
other year.
Except for a few
white settlements cling
ing precariously to the
edge of the wilderness,
North America is still
1.-The red mans CONT
nent."
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Presbyterian
Men In Session
May Meeting Of Club Has
Varied Program

The Men Of the PreshvteriaH
church assembled in the church
house on Seventh avenue east,
Tuesday evening for the regular
monthly meeting Of the organize
ton. Following the serving Of
supper by ladies of the congrega-
ton, President F. NJ. Waters pre-
sented f. T. Latt as program
chairman for the meeting.
DR.. ]. S. Brown lad charge Of
the music program and introduced
John Macintosh, bass soloist, Of
the Presbyterian church. and Miss
Mamie Perry, soprano Of the choir
of the First Baptist church. Mr..
Macintosh gave one number and
Miss Perry gave three selections.
DR.. /. T. Wilds gave the first
of a series of brief Institutional
periods which will deal with MAJ
tiers eff organization and other
facts relative to the church life.
Henry Atkin, OF the mer's
organization OF the Episcopal
church, was the speaker for the
meeting and presented careful
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NJ. LEILA PACE
LAID TO REST
Rites Held This Afternoon
by Revs. Melton and
Lewis at Refuge

Funeral services for the late NJ
Leila Pace, farmer of the Mllls
River section, who expired sud
denly Tuesday morning at the Of
flee of DR.. S. f. Greenwood III
Mills River, were held from the
Refuge Baptist church this after
noon at 2 80 o'clock by the ReYs.
M L. Lewis and n. A. Melton.
Acting as pallbearers were
RAYMOND Pace, Walter Marshall,
J. B. Stepp, George Pace, George
Hill and Earl Lincoln.
Serving as flower girls We've
Elma and Lucille Pace, Annie Fac
and Opal Corn, Matte Hill and
Birdie Lincoln.
The deceased had been a men,
Der of the Refuge church for Al
years.
He is survived by MS wife, who
was the former Miss Flora MAJ
shall, and the following children
Doran Pace. Sumter, s. c.; He:-
bert. Carl Glover, Misses Mile,
Della Mae and Frances Pace, all
of Hendersonville route l.
The following three sisters also
survive: Mrs. Minnie Osteen OF
Asheville; Mrs. Lydia yGuice, route
2, city, and Mrs. Lille Ward,
route /, city.
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PER)Ual
pnPnCPnPAr

Mrs. NJ. ]. Malanaphy, who has
been extended several courtesies
during her visit to her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. 4. W. Wheeler, left
this morning for Ridgewood, n.
j., to visit her sister, Mrs. H. H.
wilkinson. She viii return in
June, accompanied by Lieut.. Nal
anaphy, who is with the feet en-
route to New York from the west
coast via the Panama canal.
Miss Annie Weeks is visiting IN
Atlanta, Ga, for a few days.
Mrs. X. G. Morris left yester-
day for Washington to visit her
daughter, Mrs. E. J. Johnson, and
Mr.. Johnson, who is superintendent
of the school there.
Mrs. Bruce Drysdale and daugh-
ter, Betty Anne, left yesterday
with Mrs. NJ. ]. Malanaphy to
visit relatives in Philadelphia.
Mr.. E. f. Bennett, of Palm
Valley, Fla, and Mrs. J. B. LYDIA,
of High Point, are visiting their
brothers, Messrs. Foster and How
ard Bennett, and their families.
Miss Caroline Taylor has re-
turned to Columbia, S. c., after
short visit to Mrs. Thomas
Smyth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Mather,
of Cincinnati, o., announce the
birth of a son, Richard Tebeau
Mather, on Tuesday. May Is. The
message came to the baby's great
grandmother, Mrs. Rose T. Wheel
wright, from her son, DR.. A. c.
Tebeau.
Mr.. Mark Britain of Asheville,
is visiting his son, Mr.. Trig Brit
tain. and Mrs. Britain.
Misses Sue Garren and Janette
Mottsman returned today from
Asheville. They had given some
speciality song and dance num-
hers at the Battery Park hotel
during the Pioneer Pyramid Ag-
ency Celebration. They were &C.
companied by Miss Kate Dotson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Bruce
have taken an apartment in the
Ambassador.
Friends Of Mrs. Woodrow Shitle
will be sorry to learn that she is
quite i'll and was taken back to
the Mission hospital in Asheville
yesterday.
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FLIERS FORCED DOWN
BY BROKEN GAS LINE

Continued from page one.)
but still we had no idea of our
bearings.
after what seemed an endless
period of aimless flying, Sabelli
sighted land. We saw matched
cottages and Immediately recog-
nized it as Ireland. We continued
until over Moy, where we saw a
suitable field and landed.
AT one stage of the Journey,
Sabelli had to climb out of the
cockpit and pump gasoline into
the reserve tank to insure the
motors supply, as the main tank
feed line was choked.
During the entire flight we
did not sight a shiU of any de-
scription. The only land we saw
until Ireland was Harbor Grace.
! Newfoundland.
Pond paid high tribute to Sa-
belli's courage during the foggy
flight, which brought them thru
safely, even tho far from their
Rome goal.
Sabelli in an interview de.
scribed the fight for life as terri.