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FAYETTEVILLE NEWS, FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA.
Fayetteville News
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY.
Entered at Postoffice at Fayetteville,
Georgia, as second class
matter.
Subscriotion $1.00 Per Year
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Chauncey L. Foote Editor
D. B. Blalock Managing Editor
The horn of plenty has also a
little end. That’s what we’ve got hold
of now.
There is a vast difference between
the respect accorded a marine and a
submarine.
A horse is probably glad it Is the
horseless age when it notices some of
the drivers.
Speaking of optimism, there is con
siderable good cheer in a bag of roast
ed peanuts.
Restaurants might do well to take
down their old signs and advertise as
filling stations.
French premiers are in and out so
frequently they should be made to
punch a time clock.
If the farmer survives all of the con
ferences to be held over him there is
hope for his future.
Experts hint that the old-fashioned
battleship is chiefly important as
something to talk about.
Quite frequently a man who had
"lived In obscurity half his life” con
tinues that way to the end.
In order to prevent damage to the
safe, it’s much better these days to
leave the money on the counter.
A woman wants a divorce because
hubby spent his time at the movies.
Maybe he had no show at home.
“What Is so impressive as the even
ing hour?” asks a magazine writer.
How about the kilowatt hour?
Considering the present valu* of
rubles Russia must have a consider
able number of dollar-a-year mem
The reckless auto driver who races
with a train to a crossing usually
manages to make a dead beat of it.
A Perl of the Marquesan Paradise.
You ''can gauge Japan’s progress in
recent years by the number of places
slje is now being asked to get out of.
The Germans may bo ehort on
money, but they should be ready with
the explanations to be demunded of
them.
An astronomer says the north pole
is moving. Great guns I Will that
thing have to be discovered all over
again? .
Filipinos who desire further Inde
pendence do not succeed in giving any
precise idea of what they propose to
do with it.
No formal limitation of aircraft is
likely to find Uncle Sam as scantily
equipped in that line as he was during
the late war.
Thomas A. Edison has reiterated
so often that we sleep too much, every
time the stenographer hears it she
has to yawn.
Coffee was blamed for illness that
attacked a family, but an investigation
has proved that there were no ground*
for the charge.
An inventor has produced a noise
less organ. It is a day, too, when the
old-fashioned party organ is pretty
much that, also.
Slot machines were in use in the
year 27 B. C. If they gave a fellow
a chance to win, they wouldn’t have
lasted 1,949 years.
Why not put a newspaper para'
grapher on the reserve bank board?
This class usually understands the
great value of money.
Officially, of course, the weather
man wants to see his cold wave pre
dictions verified, but personally— well,
he has to buy coal, too.
The pessimist looks at the cost of
the battleship that is to be scrapped
and the optimist considers what will
be saved on maintenance.
Soviet Russia is hopefully seeking
to shut down on its Bolshevik propa
ganda with a view to exporting some
thing more useful and remunerative.
Whatever progress feminism may
have made, it is good form to post
pone bravely fainting until after sum
moning help—just as in the good old
days.
An educator takes a rap at the dic
tionary because it gives a word toe
many meanings. Our main objection
is on other grounds—it doesn’t always
agree with us as to proper spelling.
According to the census, there are
24,000,000 families in the country and
only 20.000,000 places of residence.
—That is right. About 4,000.000 fam
ilies are always on the road visiting
their in-laws.
(Prepared by the National Geographic
Society, Washington, D. C.)
What, in “the New Pacific" that the
Washington conference is believed to
have created, will be the future of
France’s islund possessions nearest to
the United States—the Marquesas? In
a few years these fertile, lovely is
lands, now left practically alone, may
be treated as a geographical clean
slate, for the natives are rapidly dying
off.
The Spanish navigator, Mendana,
first discovered the islands with their
towering black cliffs, and sailed
through a break into a wonderful bay,
once the crater of a huge volcano.
What must have been his amazement
is shared by the traveler today. With
in the bay, what a contrast! Where
once telluric fires burned, the luxuri
ant verdure of the tropics now over
runs the immense ampltheater in riot
ous profusion. It is as if nature in
repentant mood were pouring out her
gifts with unstinted hand to cover the
scars and desolation wrought by vol
canic fury.
Tree and vine, flower and shrub,
cover the abrupt, almost vertical sides
of the huge basin and clamber high
over ridge after ridge of the knife-
like hills; choke the deep ravines and
valleys with their prolific mass of
bloom and foliage, and, creeping in
rich abundance almost to the water’B
edge, climb the black basalt cliffs tow
ering over the bay, thus seeking to
soften their harsh, broken outlines be
neath a rank growth of vines and
mosses.
Great cascades, springing from the
living rock high on the mountain side,
leap over mighty precipices, gleaming
like strands of silver in the sunlight,
to be lost in the mysterious depths of
dark gorges far below. These waters
wind through dark, tortuous ravines
and form the racing stream that tum
bles swiftly between the twisting hills
Into the steep valley of Hanavave,
where it rushes over its rocky bed to
pass into the blue’waters of the quiet
bay.
Beyond the crescent of white sand
that lies between the cliffs, banyan,
mango, and breadfruit trees mingle
their brilliant foliage and blossoms
with the slender brown trunks and
waving frond of the pandanus and
coco palm.
Less than a century ago this forest
was thickly dotted with the brown
thatched huts of the Hanavavaus, each
upon its paepae or platform of stone
constructed without mortar or cement.
Thousands of these paepae, no longer
in use, cling to the vertical sides of val
leys and ravines In a state of perfect
preservation, the platform usually 20
by 30 or 40 feet, level and unbroken,
often walled up 10 or 15 feet on the
lower side.
Beautiful Women, Fierce Men.
To describe the dainty, graceful
Marquesanne as she unquestionably
was before Cook’s advent may lay the
describer open to the charge of exag
geration. But from Mendana to Ste
venson, with Melville for good meas
ure, her remarkable beauty wus a
source of surprise and admiration.
When women possess beautiful, lux
uriant hair, fine eyes, perfect teeth,
a slender, graceful form, a skin of vel
vet texture and unblemished surface,
and these physical attractions are
combined with a vivacity of spirit and
action* exaggeration becomes difficult;
and unless all chroniclers of the is
lands have for several centuries agreed
to deceive the world, such was the
Marquesanne; so she is today when
sickness has not diminished her charm.
The men were fierce, cruel cannibhls,
whose chief occupation, aside from the
indulgence of their amative proclivi
ties, was the killing of both men and
women of other tribes for gastronomic
purposes.
The all-powerful tapu was the "law
and the prophets" of the Marquesan.
Some of the tapus for the guid
ance of the women would probably in
cite a suffragette to spectacular wrath.
Without exception on any island, wom
en might not eat "long pig”; nor brown
pig, a delicacy much enjoyed by the
men folks in the absence of the longer
variety.
Nor dally with bonita or squid, the
two fishes most in favor with the
Marquesan palate.
Nor, except on special occasions, eat
fresh breadfruit, bananas, or coconut.
Nor could they go in canoes, a pro
vision to keep them from being cap
tured by enemies lurking outside the
bay.
And, a tapu savoring of Solomon In
its wisdom, women could not weep!
It would be a grave error to con
clude from the taboos mentioned that
the life of the Marquesan woman was
a hard one.
They Had No Agriculture.
Agriculture in any form was un
known. The natives took the bounti
ful variety of flora the islands provid
ed, but to assist nature in any way
by tilling or replanting never occurred
to them. Content with their gratifica
tion of the desires of the day, the
Marquesans took literally no thought
for the morrow.
The most favored intoxicant in the
Marquesas Is namu-ehl, or, as it is
more commonly known, koko. Ehl is
Marquesan for coconut, and it is from
the coco palm that tills most Insidious
and delectable of drinks is made. A
tall coco palm that has been wind
blown so that its plumy top leans far
out of the perpendicular, is chosen.
The buds, from which eventually fifty
or sixty nuts would be produced, grow
In a compact, oblong cluster near the
top of the palm. The native climbs
the tree and, using long strips of
bark or fiber, binds the cluster of
blossoms tightly round and round, until
the result resembles a huge, fat cigar
protruding from the fronds. Under
neath the point of this a bowl is sus
pended and the tip end of the wrap
ping sliced off.
After the second day it begins to
drip freely, but the end must be sliced
fresh every twenty-four hours to stim
ulate the flow. In this manner a tree
will furnish one or more gallons a day
for several weeks.
When fresh from the tree the bev
erage resembles a delicious lemonade,
with a flavor which would make the
fortune of a soft-drihk manufacturer
who could reproduce it. Fermentation
takes place speedily, however, and in
a few hours your soft drink has “hard
ened" into a vicious man-killer that
only a savage can go against with
impunity.
Captain Cook’s report placed the
Marquesas literally and figuratively
"on the map.” That was 145 years
ago, and since then the history of the
islands is the tragic story of a losing
fight by a race of savages against a
civilization represented in this Instance
by the whaler, the missionary, the
trader, the “blackbirder,” and finally
their conquest and subjugation by a
foreign power.
In 1842 Admiral Du Petlt-Thouars
took possession of the entire group in
the name of France, ostensibly to pro
tect the missionaries in their labors for
Christianity. Forts were built on sev
eral of the islands and troops installed
to enforce French authority.
The ensuing fifty years is a record
of desultory warfare between the
French soldiers und the Marquesan
warriors, in which the latter, always
at war with each other and poorly
armed, were constantly defeated; of
“blackbirders” from North and South
America, who raided the weakened
villages and sold the men and women
into slavery In far-off lands, and of
the frightful ravages of smallpox,
tuberculosis, leprosy, and other con
tagious.
In Memory of .
CORNELIA
NOVELLA BANKS.
In loving memorry of Novella Banks.
Cornelia Novela Banks, fiften years
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. G.
Banks, passed away Tuesday night,
'lay 16, at seven o’clock. She leaves
a father, mother, sLx sisters and five
brothers to mourn her loss, besides a
great host of relatives and friends,
But our loss is heavens’ gain.
Her body was laid to rest in the Anti
och cemetery May 17.
Rev. George Gary spoke words of
'consolation.
She was converted and joined the
Lisbon Baptist Church when about 13
years of age.
She was loved by all who knew her,
for to know her was to love her, and
her many friends miss the big smile
and hearty welcome that lalways greet
ed a visitor at her home.
Let us not. grieve, for she has only
gone on before us, and we, too, in a
short while, will all be going home;
and listen, dear ones:
"Eye hath not seen, ear hath not
heard, the things which God hath pre
pare dfor them that love Him.”
And. again:
“He that overcometh shall inherit all
things’’
Let us then be passing on, seeking
to do the will of our Master, and
some good day we’ll meet her over
there in the eternal city of God, for—
Just beyond the rolling river
Where the saved with Christ are dwell
ing,
Lies a bright and sunny land,
A happy, united band.
Just beyond the rolling river,
In that land so bright and fair,
We will dwell with Christ forever,
Over there,-yes, over there!
To the bereaved, we would say:
Grieve not, for little Novella is at
rest, and though she cannot come
back to us, we can go to her.
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for
they shall see God.
Written by
A Loving Cousin and Chum,
H. E. M.
Home Three and Half Miles Up.
Mr. W. Harcourt-Bath, In “Nature,"
says that to his personal knowledge
there is a house built at a greater al
titude thun the one mentioned by
Professor Bowman, who, in his work
Jn “The Andes in Southern Peru,” de
scribes a Peruvian dwelling built 17,*
100 feet up in the mountains. In the
Donkia pass, Tibet, says Mr. Harcourt-
Bath, there is a stone hovel, which is
occupied every summer by a Tibetan
outpost of four or five men. By ane
roid measurement it stands at a height
of 18.400 feet (three and a half miles).
The Solar System.
The astronomer, Copernicus, who
lived from 1473 to 1543, laid down as
the foundation of bis explanation of
the solar system that the sun was fixed
and that the earth and all the planets
moved around It. Kepler (1571-1630)
found that the planets moved In ellipses,
not circles, round the sun. Kepler de
duced three conclusions, respecting the
movements of the planets, known as
Kepler’s Three Laws, and Sir Isaac
Newton, (1642-1727) proved that they
are a consequence of a single universal
law of gravitation.
Phrase First Used by Seward.
"The Higher Law" was an expres
sion first used by the Hon. William
H. Seward (1S01-1872), in his speech
in the United States senate on March
11, 1850, on the question of admitting
California into the Union. As em
ployed by him on that occasion, the
phrase denoted a law higher than the
Constitution, viz., a law of God.”—
Exchange.
Hundreds erf Muscles.
The human body has been estimated
to contain some 446 muscles. The
actions of all these muscles are fully
understood and described, but there
are probably many other muscles and
compound actions of muscles which
have not yet been tabulated.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
UNITED STATES, FOR THE
NORTHERN 'DISTRICT
OF GEORGIA.
In re W. J. Sams, trading as W. J.
Sams & Son, Bankrupt.—No. 7905—
In Bankruptcy.
A petition for discharge having been,
filed in conformity with law by above-
named bankrupt, and the court having
ordered that the hearing upon said pe-
ittion be had on July 8th, 1922, at ten
o’clock a. m., at the United States dis
trict court room, in the city of Atlanta,
Georgia, notice is hereby given to all
creditors and other persons in interest
to appear at said time and place and
show cause, if any they have, why the
prayer of the bankrupt for discharge
should not be granted.
GEORGIA—FAYETTE COUNTY.
To All Whom It May Concern:
C, S. Graves, having applied for guar
dianship of the person and property
of Arte Henderson, minor child of Mrs.
Estell Henderson Holt, late of said
county, deceased, notice is (given that
said application will be heard at my
office at ten o’clock a. m., on the first
Monday in July next. This 31st day
of May, 1922.
J. G. ADAMS, Ordinary.
6-l-4t.
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nesdays of each week, returning to his
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