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SIOl'X CITY, LA, Mr. James Anthony is very sick in his room at the Howard hotel. Mrs. Williams, who has been stay ing with her sister, Mrs. Henry Robin son. on West Seventh street, has re turned to her home in Clinton, 111. Mr. Albert Williams, who has been employed as night janitor at the C. & N. W. depot for the past eight months, left last week for Chicago. Mrs. Hunter entertained the Willing Workers' club at the home of her daughters, Mrs. Lee Washington, on Main street, Tuesday. January 4, at 2 p. m. Attorney J. H. Redmond is very ill at his home. 709 West Seventh street. Miss Taylor of the Central Young Women’s Christian association met the young colored women at Malone A, M. E. church on Sunday last in an effort to organize a colored YT. W. C. A. She is being assisted in her efforts by the pastor. Rev. p. M. Lewis. The correspondent paid a visit Sun day to the plant of th^>Uberty Guinea Pig association. Mr. Albert Williams proprietor, has promised to give us his subscription for The Monitor, saying it was the best and cleanest paper he had ever seen published by our race. The choir, under the direction £,* Mrs. Mary Ward, is rendering excel lent music at the morning services of the Malone A. M. E. church. Mrs. Mary- Hartwell of Buxton, la. united with Malone A. M. E. church Sunday night. The attendance was good and the sermon excellent at Malone A. M. E church last Sunday. The collection was $31. The Willing Workers’ club, Mrs. E J. Curtis, president, and Mrs. Lizzie Tack, secretary, are preparing to give a centenary supper in the parlors of Malone A. M. E. church Thursday. January* 27. Supper will be served • from 4 to 7 p. m. Tickets HOc. Brother Jessie Boyd has been ap pointed leader of class No. 1. Mr. C. F. Williams, the former leader, is un able to attend to his duties. GRIND ISLAND. NEB. On December 2S, 1920, Victory chap ter No. 23. O. E. S.. held their election of officers for the ensuing year, and also initiated the worshipful master. New Year’s day Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gairy entertained at their beautiful home on West Second street In honor of Mr. Gairy’s birthday. The follow ing persons were present: Rev. and Mrs. L. S. Douglas, Mr. L. L. Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Trice and Mr. and Mrs. Bert Fears and children. Sunday, January 2. the Baptist Sun day school elected the following offi cers: Bert James, superintendent; Mrs A. George Davis, assistant super intendent; Miss Josephine Ratchiff, secretary; Miss Georgie Fears, assist ant secretary; Mrs. Frank North treasurer. The teachers are Mrs Booth. Mrs. B. James and Mrs. L. S. Douglas. Librarians. Masters Floyd Booth and Theodore North* The as sistant organist is Mrs. B. James. DANGER SIGNAL A blue pencil mark on your paper means your subscription is due and must be paid at once or your paper will be stopped. ■ be Kiss In Ancient Folklore. A story of Alexander the Great and a kiss forms one of the must uilling bits of history. An enemy of the king s Invented a novel plot to cause Alexan der's death, lie discovered a beuutiful young girl, who, like Ruppueini’s daughter in Hawthorne’s story, had been brought up ou deadly poison, and every one who came near her was killed by her deadly atmosphere. She was sent to the king s palace with in structions to do what would be called “varnping” today. Alexander saw and admired her extravagantly, but the shrewd Aristotle suspected treachery. Before he allowed the girl to approach the throne he sent for a criminal who bad been sentenced to death, and in structed him to kiss the girl in the presence of the king. He fell dead on tiffe ground, like one struck by light ning. The same story appears in folklore of India, and the early Christian monks made great use of It in their sermons, personifying the Christian as Alexander, conscience • ,i Aristotle, sin as the venomous girl, and the weak sinner as the criminal who was pun ished. Disagree Over Famous Vins. On Roanoke island, off the North Carolina coast, stands an ancient Scupperuoug vine. it is near the grave of Virginia Oare and the site of the "Lost Colony.” Nobody knows the age of that vine, but many nearby vines, which seeui more youthful by comparison, actually are known to be more than cme hundred years old. A regional contribution to Ameri can mythology credits Sir Walter Raleigh with having planted the vine where it now . stands, and further claims are that it is the original Scup pernong. Unimaginative Investigators, however, say that the original Scup peraong grew wild in Tyrrell county. North Carolina, along the Seupper noug river, well before 1760, and that from this county the species found ita way to Roanoke island. |HW8W)iMWWW»»W9»WWW8»(6 THE KIDNAPER I By JACK LAWTON. » (fc. 19'.1, Western Newspaper Unton.) Douglas reached the house at twi light. His brother had summoned him there, and he obeyed. Everyone obeyed when Robert ordered ; his dom inating spirit ruled them all. But In this errand Douglas wmwdrlven. by the unusual motive of pity, unusual where Robert was concerned. It was hard that, following closely on the death of his wife, his brother must lose, also, his child. For though Lily had not been taken by death, her loss seemed almost as final. Detectives, working faithfully, failed to find a clew as to the disappearance of Robert Hartell’s little girl. She had disappeared one evening, several weeks before, after her nurse had put her to bed for the night. The nurse, whonrRobert Hartell re tained, must *huve been sitting In an opposite room when the child was j taken, yet she had heard no sound, nor had any person entered the room. It was supposed 'that Lily had been re j moved through the window, and her j mouth muffled from outcry. Robert I Hartell was a wealthy man and the ; kidnaping was believed to be a scheme ! ; for money. Yet no demand for ran I soni had 'been receives!. The mysterl | ons case filled the papers and the fa j ther, wearied by It all, had gone In his j i car to an old rambling farm house 1 which had been his parents, and was | now his own—still kept that he or his ! family might spend summer days . ! there as It pleased thetr fancy, while for months, and sometimes years, the great bouse remained vacant save tpr the old married servants who bad known service there In years gone by. Robert had telephoned his brother that he was tired of the silent ntedita don which led nowhere, and Intended to start that night for New York. He Wished his brother during Ills absence to continue the search for his child, • and It was to consult with Robert that Douglas resignedly left Ills city office and made his way out to the lonely i house on the hill. Robert, discouraged, was more tacl | turn and disagreeable than ever, but the pity for him still filled Douglnr. heart and he realized that perhaps for the first time he was seeing beneath his brother’s thorny disposition a la tent tenderness. Suddenly, as he sat, a light shone from an opposite wing of the rambling building; then, plainly outlined in the far window, was a woman's slim fig ure. Even ns Douglas looked, the woman stooped to pick up in her arms j a small golden-lialred girl. The Utrle girl was Lily, of that he was sure— the fair hair, the tininess of her. At least he would learn at nice what the unknown woman was doing In the house which, hut an hour ago. his brother’s housekeeper had assured him was untenanted save by them selves. With his pocket searchlight he traversed the dark unfrequented halls, and as he paused at the end of the last one, before him, like a vision shown through the open door, stood a beauti ful young woman and a clinging child. The child wns Lily. In a moment lie had entered the room. The woman's face turned white and her arms : clasped the child closer. . “Who,” she asked breathlessly, “are you? Why do you come here?" “I am Douglas Hartell," he an swerer] promptly, “and I came to claim that little girl. She Is my brother's | child. You must know that. The pa i pars have been filled with the case of ! her kidnaping. I must return the question: Who are you and how do j you happen to he here?” Tiie girl considered her questioner, j her luminous eyes studying his face. : Then quietly she replied. *%” she said, “am the kidnaper. 1 stole the baby from her cot—through the balcony window—and I hid here 1 because I knew that It would be the | last jilace Robert Hartell would think of searching.” Douglas tried to speak; he came close to the culprit, as though forcibly to detain her; but the softness of her eyes was strangely disconcerting, while the child caressed lovingly tier Jailer. “You,” he stammered, “confess to me—” “To you,” the girl ensured calmly, ; “because I am going to ask you to help me in concealing Lily." Douglas stared. It was all an un believable dream, the old bare room, j the lovely unknown girl, her strange confession and the unexpected ending of his search. “Listen," she said eagerly, “I am I Jane Ware, the sister of your brother’s dead wife. You may have heard of > me. though I never saw you. “I came to the city to care for my sister before she died and I learned how that hard, soulless money making man had treated her. Slowly killing j with his exactions and Indifference. I And I promised her then that her baby j should never be under the same con | trol. So, when Robert Hartell refused to give Lily to me, I stole her. And Td do it again. Your old servants here have been brave enough to har bor us. They loved Lily’s mother, and they knew well her father. When Robert Hartell shall have his lesson, when he has learned how to be kind, then only will I give Lily back to him. You are not like your brother— somehow I know. Will you help me?” Douglas laid a caressing hand on the child's golden head, his other Jiand clasped the girl’s, arid as he looked Into her fpHr-filted eyes, his tone was very' tender. •1 will,” he saifi. I m I RITES OF MOUND BUILDERS How "Bundle Burials" and "Burials in the Flesh" Were Conducted by Ancient Race After an Indian mound has been Cleared and surveyed 11 is stripped of the surface sod und excavated by a series of trenches. One mound, says the Southern Workman, contained no less than 45 “bundle burials,’’ with two “burials In tbe flesh” above of later date. These “bundle” burials were disarticulated skeletons that had been taken down from trees and made into bundles. In each ‘'bundle,” as a rule, were the bones of from two to four Individuals. They were placed end to end, lengthways, north to south, and formed a layer some teu feet long and five feet wide. They were placed ou a carefully prepared bed of alternate layers of golden and bright-red sands, evidently of ceremonial import, and surrounded by several stone altars. On these, appropriate sacrifices were made to tbe dead; there were signs of tire all about. Some half-burned human bones in well-preserved oak charcoal were found near the top, in dicating that some poor captive had been burned at tbe stake to minister to the souls of the dead on their jour uey to the happy hunting grounds. In the t<>i ■ strata ware found two skel etons, both of them strongly fixed, with the knees drawn up to the chin. They were evidently of considerable age, but of later origin than tbe “bundle” burials. In fact, all the bones in tiiis group of mounds showed extreme signs of decomposition. It was necessary to “paint” them ail with a transfusing iluid tbe minute they were exposed to the pir. These two skeh'iu.i:’ imrc perhaps tin remains of people who bud died during the construction of tbe mounds and were given burial In the top of them. REALM OF DEATH ON EARTH Country in the Vicinity of Mount Vo. suvius Graphically Portrayed by Gifted Frenchwoman. The country ut the foot of Vesuvius is the most fertile and best, cultivated of the kingdom most favored by heaven In all Europe. The celebrate;! Lacrynsa Christ! vine flourishes beside land totally devastated by lava, us If nature here made si last effort and re solved to perish In her rh-h. st array. Ah you ascend you turn to gaze on Naples and on the fair land about It— the sea sparkles In the sun as If strewn with Jewels; but all the splen dors of creation are extinguished by degrees, as you enter the region Of ashes and smoke, that announce your approach to the voicuno. The iron waves of other years have traced large black furrows In the soil. At a ‘certain height birds are no long er seen; further on plants become very scarce; then even insects find no nour ishment, At last all life disappears; you enter the realm of death, and the Slain earth's dust slips beneath your unassured feet.—Madame De Ktuel. Armenia First Christian Nation. The Armenians are an Aryan race and probably emigrated from Europe Into Asia Minor centuries before the Christian era. Their language be longs to the Indo-European group of languages. Their king was converted to Christianity as early as 301 A. D., and Armenia then became the first Christian nation of the world. The Armenian civilization has been estab lished for centuries. The position of the country on the highway between Asia and Europe lias subjected it to Invasion and subjugation at various periods by the Assyrians. Modes, Greeks, Homans, Persians and Turks. From the Fourteenth century, to the late war, the greatest part of Armenia was under Turkisji rule. 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America’s Interest nrises from sympathy with an oppressed rnee that has for so long upheld Christian civilization in the Near East. Bayoneted Insect* There is in Cuba a curious grass, Cenehrus echlnatus, which bristles with tiny sharp-pointed spikelets upon which multitudes of Insects are im paled, by night as well as by day. The wings of the victims are pierced and entangled by the barbed spikes, so that most of them are unable to get away, and thus perish miserably. Even a large, luminous snapping beetle, which is so strong ami active that jt can with difficulty be held in the hand, falls a victim to these vege table bayonets. It lias been observed, however, that two species of Insects, a large bug, Oebalus, and an earwig, readily free themselves from the spikes. Minute Insects are not caught. The grass does not appear to derive any nourishment from its prey. It Is found elsewhere In the West Indies and in southern Florida. City Has Endowed Flagstaff. There is an endowed staff In the United States, that on the common at Lawrence* Mass. At the time of the Lawrence strike some years ago, when many indignities were shown to the American flag, there was held a flag parade of 40,0<j(t persons, each carrying a flag as a protest. A public spirited citizen, Joseph Sbattack, of fered to erect a flagstaff and to net< aside funds, the Interest on -which would buy flags for the staff. The city of Lawrence accepted the offer, and today on Its common Is one of the finest flugstuffs in the world. SCENE OF MAJESTIC BEAUTY Table Mountain, for Many Reasons, Is Superior to Any of the Earth’s Great Peaks. I have seen many flat-topped kopjes In Africa. 1 have seen the bare and golden Atlas range drop away into the golden sands o.’ Mogador, but 1 have never seen anything resembling I its mighty mass which is the dom inant, the royui fuct of the Cape Pe ninsula. . , . it is by virtue of its mass and the colossal buttressed Cliffs which form Us walls that Table mountain is majestic, us also by the abruptness of its rise from the visible seu-level. The height of inland moun tains Is a mutter uf faith raiiier than sight; hut this mountain, like Lina and the Peak of Teneriffe and others j whose roots are in the sea, announces its stature at once to the eye. it rises more immediately from liie sea than either of these, yet not so immedi ately as It appears to do when seen from the bay. it throw* out toward the ocean low spurs of mingled rock I and green bunks. In spring these grassy hanks are all set with flowers. Among them is u pretty while flower, about the size of u narcissus, though \ different in shape, of which 1 have seen a bouquet in England, many weeks after it laid been gathered at the Cape, standing in a vase without water and still quite fresh. ... —Marguret L. Woods. Sheep Shearing In Australia. Shearers in Austfhlin are paid by the number of sheep they shear, but the ranch lielpers are paid by the week. Averaging everything, from young wethers, which are hard, to old ewes, which are easy, a good man will shear about 90 to 100 sheep a day. The actual record Is 327 sheep shorn ( by a Queedkland shearer In nine hours. Ac.cl other big records have been made. But that was probably years back with the "blades,’’when the fleeces were five-pound and six-pound, and not nine pound and ten-pound, as they are te World’s Jute Comes From India. Of sub-tropical products India glvee i ns the whole of the world's Jute and I a large proportion of Its hemp. Home j 500,000 tons of Jute are exported an ] uually. Thirty years ago Indian Indi go was the world's standard blue, hut the vegetable dyes of India have been destroyed by the German aniline dyes and Ihe principal victim has been In digo. Y