The Farmer and Mechanic from Raleigh, North Carolina • Page 12

THE FARMER AND MECHANIC 12 11 5 vnnvr cvrian wnVTAN TN TLEVELAND WHOSE HUSBAND WAS LOST WITH TITANIC SY5ow AlfoCTTO mVcOMEMOTIIER. WRITES LETTER TO WIDOW OF JOHN JACOB ASTOR 1 5l vtimgmmS Syrian and sent it in an envelope addressed to Mrs. Astor at her Fifth avenue mansion. Here is the letter: Dear Mrs. Astor I sat In the same boat which saved you when the Titanic went down.

I also will soon have a baby. My husband, Nicholas, was drowned. All our money and things went down with him. I' am glad my baby will be here soon, because it will help me to forget my husband's death. I hope it will grow up big and strong, and yours will, too.

My baby will be born in a little room in Cleveland, where I am living with ray brother, Ellah. I thought I would write to you about this because your husband was drowned as well as mine and because you have had a baby, too, since the great i i (J if 4 hi- i it' i mmmmmw rescue liner Carpathia. Mrs. Astor tried to speak to the Syrian girl, but her language was incomprehensible to the grieving girl. When the letter reaches Mrs.

Astor she will require an interpreter to learn its contents. An occasional tear dropped on it from the girl's eyes as she wrote. Mrs. Nasrallah has the mysterious eyes of the Syrian desert. The pal olive of her skin is accentuated by her blue-black hair, which is parted looser ly back from her ears.

Her husband's cousin, S. Nasrallah, in New York, has endeavored to get a settlement from the White Star company, but has failed. Mrs. Nasrallah is patiently waiting some relief promised by the relief association of a New York newspaper. Mrs.

Nasal lah talks seldom of th. horrors of the night when the Titanic went down. HE PUTS BIS RELIGION TO TffilEST (Continued from Page Nine.) silks that rustle, and some in prints that have begun to fade, are a common human folk, and Charles Goodell is a common human sort of preacher, with the genius of sincerity, and the sublime art of simplicity. There was no word of his that a child might not have understood, and no truth of his teaching that was not worth reflecting up by the wisest of this world's savants. He scaled tho mountain heights but keept his feet upon the earth.

Every element of oratory was there. The man baa ism, rhythm, imagery but all are subdued, restrained, harmonized and blended." j. The world needs morn KTirh nrpiifh. tog and such preachers need world to give them a better hearingr. iTMera frosts mum OF DOLLARS every year to poultry and hog raisers.

Last year thousands of Hogo' and Poultry were saved from cholera and other flinraini during the hot weather by the bm of Ostfera hmsfivt Kaows over. Ghre it to them BowBixed wttfcr food it msvlstes tbo work-jon of the bowels, dia- with the TTaT' -wawHio 7- Poultry nd aaother for he, muj fa HowtoTmil to bo understood mnd gfrea freo to IWo flhMti-tod bMk. by oar rxn, whamiag hov to know and bow in Bones. Cattle, Poultry, together with otct 14 Oar twoteed raBdy for Ei Boae-. Sparln Spliato or any bony enUrgwenf.

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A-fBt WuW it Otbr Tnm. Cleveland, Sept. 28. The experience of Mrs. John Jacob Astor, who firave birth to a baby boy after her millionaire husband lost in the Titanic1 wreck last April, is being duplicated In Cleveland not in a mansion, but in a humble room in" the Syrian colony.

A pretty Syrian girl, who sat huddled against the youngr Astor bride in one of the rescuing lifeboats while her husband of two years was drowning somewhere in the waste of waters, will become a mother this month. Tlie girl Is Adele Naarallah, twority-one, now living with her brother. El-lah Hakeem. A few days ago she wrote a letter to Mrs. Astor, telling of the.

approach of the day when she also will bear a posthumous child. Her Letter to Mrs. Astor. Mrs. Nasrallah Is unable to speak English.

She wrote- the letter in ROCKY MOUNT TOBACCO SALES HAVE BEEN HEAVY Total For Past Week Will Amount to I More Than One1 Million Malcmg Four JUillion For Season, Rocky Mount Sept. 28. Despite the two days' rain, the sales of leaf to-, bacco for the past week have been very heavy, especially on Thursday and Friday, the two days' sales amounting to about 750000 pounds, while the sales for the week will amount to more than 1,100,000 pounds, making the grand total to date about 4,000,000 pounds. The offerings have shown some improvement over former weeks, there being a larger proportion of stalk tobaccos, including a good many wrappers, while the proportion of primings have grown lesa The market closed Friday with prices higher than ever, and very active. Much of the tobacco offered for sale this week has been very, soft, and in bad condition for marketing, and prices on such has necessarily been 'somewhat lower, though sellers seem to be highly satisfied with prices obtained.

CANT SELL WILLIAMS WHISKEY NEXT MONDAY Judge 'Bovd Extends Restraining Order Until After Furttier File Answer Wednesday. -Greensboro, Sept. 28. In the United States court, Judge Boyd has signed an order extending the injunction heretofore granted restraining lector Brown from selling the spirits belonging to N. Glenn Williams, stored in the government warehouse at Williams, until after a further hearing.

The whiskey had been advertised fof sale next Monday. District Attorney Holton Is given until next Wednesday to file answer to the complaint filed by Williams yesterday. BIG CATCH OF FISH. Fishermen at Beaufort Catch Over 1,000 Large Trout With Hook and Line. Beaufort, Sept.

28. S. R. Mathews, master mechanic of the Norfolk Southern, and his chief clerk, A. L.

Church, together with A. A. Dubois. manager of the Atlantic hotel, all of whom are now stopping at the Inlet Inn, caught today with hook and line over one thousand trout. Quantities of, trout are beinsr caueht off the Inlet Inn dock daily since the new channel has been dug in front of Beaufort Hook and line fishing was never better at Beaufort.

Iam twenty-one. I married Nicholas nearly three years ago. He used to have a tannery in Brazil. We were returning to the old country and had got as far as France when we learned that Turkey and Italy were fighting. We started back for New York on the Titanic.

Alas, that we did! This Is all that is necessary to let you know. Hoping you will live forever in my name. ADELE NASRALLAH. Torn Prom Husband. In the rushing: to and fro which ft olio wed the Titanic's collision with the iceberg Mrs.

Nasrallah was torn from the arms, of her husband and lifted into the lifeboat where crouched Mrs. Astor. The women sat huddled together for warmth during the hourg before they were picked up by the CAROLINIAN PLAYS WITH GEORGETOWN Marvin Ritch, Who Was Center Last Year for Carolina, Is Used Against Randolph-Macon. Washington, D. Sept.

28. Marvin L. Ritch, of Charlotte, who played center for Carolina last year, was used for the full game by Georgetown against Randolph-Macon this afternoon. Ritch is a student in the Georgetown law school. He was used at left tackle in the first half where he took the place of a regular, who was injured last week.

Kelly, a New York player, worked at center for the first half. Ritch replaced him in the second half. Although somewhat awkward in his defensive work at tackle because of his Inexperience in this position, th North Carolina boy showed up well. When he went in at center in the second, he demonstrated that he was the superior of Kelly, who had played this position in the first half and with whom he will have to rnmnpta fnr this position in the first string. His: passes were sure his defensive work here was all that could be asked.

Ritch has a good chance to face Virginia as a member of the Georgetown team, when he can seek "vengeance for. the defeat which he shared with the North Carolina team at the hands of Virginia last Thanksgiving day. JINX KILLER NEEDED i BADLY ON THIS FARM Almeria, Sept. 28. George Abbott, wealthy farmer, believes his ranch beset by a gigantic Its activity has resulted in the following near-fatalities, besides several minor accidents to the Abbott household in six Weeks: Elsie, oldest daughter, run over by automobile.

Evert, youngest son, crushed by falling pole. Abbott, badly hurt in runaway. Nellie, youngest daughter, dragged under arm crushed. Walter, oldest son, trampled by horse. Two hired men critically injured by horse kicksi Mrs.

Abbott, severely kicked, by a cow. Not a. thing happened to the family dog. Abbott says he will move to a new location. Middlesex, sion of the opened with its history.

Av Sept. The fall ses- Middlesex high Jchool the largest attendance in rered than have any previous ear. in WOMEN'S DRESS AGAIN CAUSE OF CRITICISM London Rector is Shocked by What He Calls Present Display of Sex. London, Sept. rector of Lee is shocked by what he describes as "the present display of sex" on the part of women and their "glaring and immodest exhibition of figure." Writing in a well known church paper, he says: The subjects on which we read in the papers in these days are enough to make our grandmothers, dear good old souls, turn in their graves.

thoughts and preached them before finding myself in the distinguished company of the Patriarch of Venice, who seems to be impressed with the lack of modesty, coyness and simplic ity, as evidenced in present day fash ions. In speaking of women of society and fashion, I make no attack on the traditional aristocracy of Eng land. England's ladies, true to type, may be left tQ own external in terpretation of sex dignity and taste. Long may our gracious Queen Mary maintain the present royal example in this resp'ect. "Thanks to the doubtful blessing of cheap finery, a dairymaid may bedeck hetself in the colors of a duchess without society being injured, but if she go further and imagine that the pres ent display of sex is a mark of good breeding, and imitates it, she loses self-respect and society is injured In deed.

It has ever been a pardonable and pleasing vanity for women to be fond of displaying a pretty gown, but this Dears no relation to tne present disregard of dress, and glaring ana immodest display of figures It is not to the advancement and worship of all that is best of beautiful in wom an that she should delight in setting prurient boys and unclean-minded men sniggering at her self -suggested out lines as she walks along the street." i Kinston, Sept. 27. Jeff Whitiker, son of Dr. R. A.

Whitaker, of this city, is expecting orders daily from the Export Leaf Tobacco company to go to China, where he will be employed in the clerical department of the company; Mr. Whitaker will be stationed in Shanghai, and is one of a number of young Carolinians being sent to foreign points this fall by the tobacco companies. He will remain in China probably about four years. The trip to the Orient willbe made via Seattle and the regular Pacific porta of call. Lots of married men spend their davs wondering i why the fool killer didnt get-them before it happened..