Stamp Machine Gives Full Money’s Worth
Monroe’s Home I
to Be Restored
New York House Wherein Author
of “Doctrine” Died Rescued
From Junkman.
ENDED DAYS WITH DAUGHTER
American Scenic and Historic Society
Will Preserve Last Haven of
Fifth President of th*
United States.
Here lx n machine, now being lii*i*lled by the ¡«mt office department, which vends stamp* and give* the purchas­
er hl* full money's worth. Put a coin In th* slot and the stamps com* out at once.
Story Didn’t
Get Headline
ways. Is most Impressive of nil. These
gopurams, or gopura. which somewhat
correspond to the pylons of the Egyp­
tian temples, ore In themselves books
of mythology. The thousands of fig­
ures on their sloping sides picture
scenes from Hindu mythology.”
memorate* the reconciliation of their
chief god and goddess. The culminat­
ing feature of the celebration Is the
lighting by the priests of a beacon fire
on the summit of the hill, which can
be seen for many mile* throughout the
district.
”8o heavy Is the rush of pilgrim* to
see the blaze on the summit thnt strict
police control is needed throughout
the 48 hour* that the fire usually
burn*. Camphor and clarified butter
or ghee, brought a* offering* by the
pilgrim*, make up n large part of the
fuel. Tlie festival, which last* for
ten days, end* with this sacrificial
fire which commemorates the forgive­
ness of Parvati by Slvn and the re­
turn of light to a darkened world.
"The large Siva temple Is among the
most Interesting in South India, for
from the slo|>es of the sacred moun­
tain, which blushes red with the com­
ing of the morning sun, one can look
down upon this typical Dravidian tem­
ple nnd see how, with the Increasing
wealth of the shrine, successive courts
were added around the central manda-
pain. The outer wail, embellished by
four large gopurams or entrance gate-
Declare* None of HI* Wives or Off-
Spring Were Allowed to
-Talk Back."
“Tiruvannamallai” Is Name ol
Place Where News “Broke”
and That's Reason.
IS CHIEF PILGRIM CENTER
Scans of Recent Encounter Between
Indian Police and Mob of 10,000
Natlvea la Described by
Geographic Society.
Washington.—One recent encounter
between British Indian police and a
mob of lO.tXM) natives was not "played
up" in American newspaper headline*.
The name of the town where the .dis­
turbances occurred was—
Tiruvannamallai.
"This town is one of the chief pil­
grim centers of South India but is lit­
tle visited by European*.” explains n
bulletin from the Washington head­
quarters of the National Geographic
society. "This ostracism Is not be-
cnuae the occidental cannot pronounce
the name to ask his way. ns one wag
suggests.
Tiruvannamallai his 40
large chuttrains, or rest houses, while
the only provision for the foreigner Is
u small bungalow of two room*.
'Two great festivals every year nnd
n fair every Tuesday assure the gath­
ering number* of natives," the bul­
letin continues. "During the Kartlgnl
festival in November or December.
100,000 pilgrims visit the finely curved
temple or climb the 'Holy Eire Hili’
which gives the town it* name. At
such times cholera frequently takes n
heavy toll and for many years attempts
have licen made to Improve the water
supply.
A Cross Roads of Religion and Trad*.
"Four roads meet at Tlruvannainal-
iai, three of them crossing the alluvial
plain toward the north, south and east.
The fourth road carries a heavy traffic
over the Chengam Pass Into the Salem
district. Thus the town la not only a
famous religious center but nn impor­
tant entrepot of trade as well.
"South «root, the district In which
Tlrumvannamallal Is found, sweeps up
from the harborlesa Coromandel coast
fronting on the Bay of Bengal to the
Eastern Ghats, tho hills which mark
the fall Une between the plain nnd
the plateau, which drives south like a
wedge from tie Deccar and splits Mad­
ras Presidency into two widely dis­
similar regions. Great expanses of re­
served forests clothe these hills and
the sandalwood and teak found there
form some of the most Important as­
sets of the region. Leopards, small
bears, deer and wild hogs abound and
there are several favorite shooting
grounds near nt hand.
Wh*n th* 8un Went Out.
"But the main Interest In Tiruvan-
namnllai Is the lire festival, whose In­
ception recalls one of the famous leg­
ends connected with Hindu mythol­
ogy. Mdny nges ago, the legend run*.
Siva, the destroyer, and bls wife Par­
vati were wandering through Katlusn,
the Hindu paradise. It was the twi­
light hour nnd the flower garden In
which they strolled was filled with the
seductive perfumes of the East. In
a flirtatious moment Parvati playfully
covered the eyes of her lord with her
shapely hands and drew the godly
head to her bosom.
"The time quickly passed for these
two wnnderers In Elysium. But what
seemed but a moment to them was n
period of many years for the hapless
Inhabitants of the world whose sun
and moon had thus been darkened.
When Slvn realized the hardship which
his wife's coquetry had caused, he
sent her forth to do penance nt the
various holy places with which the
southern portion -f India Is dotted.
When she nt Inst reached Tiruvan-
namnllnl. the famous ‘Holy Eire Hili’
of South Arcot district, Slvn nppenred
nt the top of the Isolated peak, ns n
sign thnt his wife's thoughtlessness
wns forgiven.
"At the foot of the hill, Just outside
the chief town of the region, Iles the
fine temple of Tlruvnnnnmnllal. It Is
to this place thnt the pilgrims flock on
the occu Ion of the festivnl which com­
FATHER OF 28 BOSSES RANCH
Greensboro, N. C.—"Uncle Bob’
Austin, an old-time darky living near
here, is the father of 28 son* and
daughter*, 26 of whom are living. All
but »even having gone off to them­
selves. he has taken three other chil­
dren to rear.
Uncle Bob’* first wife bore him eight
children, the second, fourteen; the
third, still a husky young woman, six.
Austin is the tenant manager of a
farm. He eat* three square meal* a
dny and chews tobacco, but does not
■moke and doesn't allow smoking on
his premises.
No wife or child of his ever gave
him any "back talk" more than once,
he says. "If they gets uplty I soon
trims 'em,” he said with a chuckle. "In
my bouse dey must go my way."
Austin Is seventy-one years old and
wns born a slnve. He remembers
hiding meat in the woods when Sher­
man's army came through North Caro­
lina after its march through Georgia
to the sea.
New York.—In what used to be th*
parlor of an aged, ramshackle house
at 03 Prince street. New York, a brace
of Junk men the other day stooped
among little mounds of rag* and
bones and bottles, their hand* moving
In a wild fren»y of assortment. From
the celling hung flimsy chain* of dirt,
the walls were great face* pockmarked
by the plague of neglect. The floor
•eetned as the grimy palette of the
artist Time, who had painted the
place. In skillful completeness, with a
thick coat of dust. Against this single
motif, black, the Junk men worked
with fastidious care.
That front room wns clean and
cheery in 1830. It was of real beauty,
for, as the house was In a fashionable
•ectlon of New York, the reception of
persons high In social circles took
place there. And one day in that year
James Monroe, fifth President of the
United States, mounted the steps with
perhaps the thought well In tils mind
that here would be his last haven.
An Arrival Prepared for.
second floor and from the dormer win-.
dow hung the sign of a furrier. The I
restaurant man agreed to clean bls!
place and disappear for the day so the I
auxiliary could hold Its ceremony :
within.
V*r**til* Public Lif*.
When Mr. Monroe left his Virginia
home to live In New York he had I
ended a versatile public life.
At j
eighteen be left WlUluma college to ;
enter the revolutionary army of ’
George Washington, and rose to be ■
military commissioner of his home
state. He was elected to the assembly
of Virginia later; In time be became1
a member of congress, be was in the I
convention which considered the con­
stitution, and he was minister plenl-
potentlary to France.
On bls return Mr. Monroe was J
chosen governor of Virginia; then, as '
envoy extraordinary to France, he
negotiated the Louisiana purchase. [
After holding the ministerial position
in the British isles be entered as a
leading figure the negotiations for the
purchase of Florida from Spain. A
second term as governor of Virginia ' Ammemtale Wonder, the famous
and periods of duty in the secretary­ pigeon of the Agriculture department
ships of state and war preceded bls that ba* flown 4,350 miles in three
election twice as President.
year*, delivering a messaT» to Mr*.
Outstanding of the services of Mr. Harding at the White House announc­
Monroe was that which has come to ing the opening of the largest poultry
mean so much in the determination of show In the world, after having flown
American International relations. In from Madison Square Garden, New
the action of the scenic and historic York city.
society Is to be restored the final
refuge of the man whose chief claim ;
Cat Rings Burglar Alarm.
to perpetual glory was the declaration
that:
Reading, Pa.—Wild excitement pre­
"Neither entangling ourselves In vailed at the grocery store of Gerhart
the broils of Europe nor suffering any ' & Son, Robesonia merchants, early one
power of the world to Interfere with ' morning when a burglar alarm began
the affairs of the new, and attempt on ; to ring. It was found that a cat had
their (the European powers) part to I forced itself through a trapdoor con­
extend to any portion of this bcmi-, nected with the alarm, setting off the
sphere would be dangerous to our' gong. The bell rang until half the pop­
peace and safety and would be op-! ulation had gathered, with all kinds of
posed accordingly."
weapons, in front of the store.
One may Imagine how busy Mrs.
Samuel L. Gouverneur was as she di­
rected the servants to tidy the home ;
for her father, Mr. Monroe, observes
the Kansas City Times. He was sev- ;
enty-two year* old, and she realized
that It would be extremely nice for
her to make him as comfortable as
possible; he needed comfort; hl*
health was impaired, his fortune shat-'
tered, and he had been overwhelmed
only a twelvemonth before by the
death of his wife.
Tale of Trick* of Evil Spirit* Ex­
So, li that room where the Junk men
cite* People of Nova Scotian
labored with their choice bits of soiled
Community.
cloth and their smelly bottles only the
other day, the man who conceived the
Halifax, N. S.—While no broomstick
Monroe doctrine sat, almost a hundred riding hags of the traditional witch
years ago, nnd reviewed his career, or features have been seen hurtling across
read, or merely looked far and away. the face of the moon, there are any
In consummate Idleness. His death oc­ number of people in Nova Scotia who
curred in the daughter's home July 4, will take an oath that Imps of no good
1831.
intent are peopling the fair hills of
The old brick house is to be given Antigonlsh county.
a reverent bath and preserved by the
Alexander MacDonald, a farmer, has
American Scenic and Historic society. boarded up his valley home and fled
Day by day it has suffered under the with his family and chattels In the
lack of care; many a wrinkle has ap­ dead of winter. His neighbors say
peared In its stark countenance, and they have seen with their own eyes,
If such a thing ns a house can be and without the assistance of potable
rheumatic there is no doubt It has felt spirits, the manifestations of the Evil
many a cringe in its Joints. It was One.
once proud and pretty, for Mr.
So much credence Is being given to
Gouverneur was postmaster nine the tales of witches and imps that a
in England and France, and the Idea years, nnd it sheltered gatherings of
Halifax newspaper has assigned a
spread to other countries.
the elite. It is fitting that this for­ member of its staff to break his way
“Before a great while these local­ mer dwelling place of the author of
through the inland snows until he
ized and restricted exhibits expanded one of America's most persistently
reaches the MacDonald house and live
to include many industries, those of arising national policies should be res­
foreign lands ns well as their own. cued from oblivion among Jobbing there for two weeks.
MacDonald and his family awoke one
Soon canx the full-fledged world's houses and garages.
morning three weeks ago to find that
fairs, the first of which was held In
Un a front outside wall of the once their horses had been driven into a
London in 1851. Many have been held
since, both in America and Europe, colonial mansion Is a memorial tablet lather and returned to their stalls be­
of Mr. Monroe. It was unveiled April fore dawn. The cattle had been turned
Paris holding the palm for numbers.
“But at the root of the world fairs 28, 1905, by Gouverneur Hoes, then fif­ out of the barns In a driving snow­
or International expositions was the teen years old, a great-great-grandson, storm. The Ulis of the heifers had
idea of general education, and closely under the auspices of the women's been braided.
This was repeated the next morning
connected with it w-as the amusement auxiliary to the scenic and historic
group
which
sponsored
the
move.
The
and
the next. The third night, Mac­
aspect.
They served well ac occa­
sional more or less sugar-coated dem­ date marked the 147th anniversary of Donald says, the fire imps appeared. In
unexpected places Jets of flame would
onstrations of the progress of the the birth of the former President.
At the time there was a cheap res­ break out for no apparent reason. The
world, but they failed to measure up
to the efficiency standards of the mod­ taurant In the drawing room; a shoe following nights he called neighbors to
em distributor. Side by side with factory's machinery rattled on the see for themselves. They swore that
them had grown up special interna­
tional Industrial exhibits and sample
fairs, and by the outbreak of the
World war these had been forged into
modern agencies meeting Twentieth
century conditions. Now that all na­
tions are girding themselves for an
after-the-war scramble for trade such
fairs nre being held on all sides.
“Samples of almost every conceiv­
able manufactured product and ma­
chine are sent to some of these ex­
hibits, duty free, and orders are so­
licited from the buyers who gather
from various countries. Among the
fairs of this sort which have become
established Institutions nre those held
in London, Birmingham, Bordeaux,
Lyons, Brussels, Dresden, Leipzig,
Prague, Barcelona nnd Mllnn; nnd In
dozens of other cities it Is planned to
I
hold such exhibits annually.
'
Fair* That Go to the Peopl*.
j
“In meeting modern conditions not
only hnve fairs been placed on n sam­
ple basis nnd confined Inrgely to spe­
cialities, machines and manufactured
articles, but they are seeking out still
more efficient methods of renchlng
larger numbers of potential buyers.
Itnllnn manufacturers have adopted
the floating fair, fitting out a special
exhibit ship wblbh anchors for n time
In the various ports around the rim
of the Mediterranean from Port Said
to Marseilles.
French distributors
carried the Idea of n traveling fair
still further last year, sending an ex­
hibit train across Canada; nnd a
Czechoslovak train of a similar sort
hns Just finished n two months’ tour
through the Balkans and Poland. Per­
haps It Is not too extravagant a vision
to see the fair which hnd Its humble
beginning In some far off Asiatic oasis,
established In an ark of the air and
The state of Pennsylvania is to erect at Reading, Pa., this statue of Gen.
capable of carrying Its message of
progress and foreign culture to every David M. Gregg, federal cavalry leader In the Battle of Gettysburg. It Is the
work of Henry Augustus Lukeman.
little center of Industry and life.”
FARMER FOLK FLEE FROM “IMPS”
Many Fairs to
Be Held in 1922
Commercial Exhibitions Spring­
ing to Life After Discourage­
ment of War Years.
FAIRS THAT GO TO PEOPLE
Future May 8*e Fair E*tabll*h*d In
Ark of* Air Capable of Carrying
Meeeage ef Progreee and Cul­
ture to Remote Place*.
Washington.—"From Winnipeg to
Bio de Janeiro, and from Christiania
and Algiers to Singapore and Tokyo,
commercial fairs and exhibitions are
springing to life after the discourage­
ment of war years, and are playing an
increasingly Important part in mak­
ing nations acquainted with each other
and with the kinds of liven each
leads," says a bulletin from the Wash­
ington headquarters of the National
Geographic society. . The bulletin
points out thnt a greater number of
such expositions is scheduled for 1022
than those held In pre-war days In a
decode.
“Fairs have been important factors
In the Ilves of notions nnd in the evo­
lution of society Itself," continues the
bulletin. “But in order to survive they
have hod to go through some vital
changes. They probably started In the
dim day* ot prehistoric Asin ns sort of
Irregular markets held at relatively
long intervals; and during the Middle
Ages when transportation wns difficult
they were the chief agencies of Eu­
ropean trade.
A F*w Old Type* Survive.
“Where conditions have remained
relatively primitive the famous old
fairs have cjntlnued to function until
today.
The annual fair nt Nizhni
Novgorod continued largely to dom­
inate the commercial life of Russia
until the revolution, nnd even since
then the distribution of foodstuffs, te>
tiles and furs through this old gather­
ing place of traders hns been nn Im­
portant Item.
For centuries it hns
been the gigantic exchange counter
between vast areas ot Asia and Eu­
rope.
"In the portions of the world well
developed with highways, cnnnls, rail­
ways nnd ocean ports, both the locnl
and International fairs of the old type,
devoted largely to the distribution of
staple supplies, died out. But the fair
tden lived on. merely changing Its
form. Special Industries nnd groups
of Industries began holding expositions
HE IS A GREAT Fl.im
Statue of a Hero of Gettysburg
they saw fires leap from bare floors
and subside, or flare up from a tireless
stove and disappear.
In each case a bit of absorbent cot­
ton or highly inflammable calico was
found near the source of the fire, but
that only deepened the mystery. Where
bad the cotton and calico come from!
After a week MacDonald and his fam­
ily fled, taking up their home In Cale­
donia Mills.
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Nashville,
Tenn. — Asbury
Fields, convicted of the murder
of J. R. Pierce last summer, was
electrocuted tn the state prison
here.
Shortly after the death-deal-
ing shock had been given Fields,
his wife, small, demure and
pretty, entered an undertaker’s
shop and spent her last dollar
for a plain black coffin. She
had earned the money by hard
work In a hosiery mill, where
she had been employed since
Fields’ arrest.
“I don’t know that Asbury
wasn't guilty,” she said, “but
I couldn't bear to see hlnj
burled by charity.”
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Mountain Climber Ha* Thrilling Ex­
perience in Heavy Snow in
Washington.
Snoquolmle, Wash.—Stepping out ta
the edge of a snow-covered precipice
to point out some scenery to his wife
and little son, Howard Rupert, a sales­
man, disappeared into loose snow.
Mrs. Rupert quickly notified men
nearby, who looked in vain for several
hours for Rupert. They were about to
give up the search on account of dark­
ness when the missing man appeared.
He declared he had dropped into a
loose snowdrift and falling through
landed directly Into an unused log
chute to carry timber In summer to the
river far below.
Rupert said the chute was filled with
ice and that he tobogganed down Into
the valley at such a high rate of speed
he could not yell loud enough to he
heard. Loggers found he had taken a
ride of fully half a mile In the ice­
bound log chute. Rupert was unin­
jured, but was minus a large part of
his wearing apparel.
Saved by Holding Dog’s Tail.
H-esno. Cai.—Floyd Johnson and
Altan Self, both sixteen, lost in n
blizzard in the mountains, thirty miles
east of here, were led to safety by
holding to the tall of a dog, it was
learned today. A short time later a
rescue party found two other boys,
lost In the same blinding storm, lying
in the snow exhausted.
Frat* U** Mental Torture.
Providence, R. I.—Intellectual bar­
barity has replaced the traditional
physical punishment applied to fresh­
men fraternity candidates at Brown.
Now upper classmen are substituting
mental torture by methods learned In
psychological courses instead of by th*
time-honored custom of paddling.