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...great six-foot yellow giant whom all, even mules and bulls, respect. It is rumored that he and his relatives the Batkins, who live up river in the Hehonee swamps, are of Indian descent. It is an Indian that Luther would like to be so that his daughter Sis could break the color line, go off to government school at the Tohannock Indian reservation. Semmes Maiden, a young lawyer from Battleburg, the State capital, capitalizes on this desire of Luther's, persuades him and his relatives to put in their claims as Hehonee Indians, along with the Tohannocks...
Pending the hearing of this burlesque claim Luther lives happily at home with Sis, works out for a poor white farmer, John Sprouse. John has chronic rheumatism which does not endear him to Sarah, his lusty-bodied wife. Her eyes roam to Luther's agile body in the fields, and there they stay. She tries to snare him, but he has the wit to stay away. Meanwhile John Sprouse's worthless brother Bengo debauches Sis, and, to forestall Luther's possible revenge, attacks him. Luther, broken-hearted about Sis, who can never pass for an Indian girl...
...days of racing off Newport ended the cruise. Twenty-two year old Elizabeth ("Sis") Hovey, sailing her father's Istalena, beat Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams (called "Chick" by fellow yachtsmen) in the Vanitie to win the Astor Cup for sloops; Rowe B. Metcalf's Sachem won the Astor Cup for schooners. Next day, in a fine fresh breeze, Weetamoe won the cup presented by King George V, beating Valiant by one second over the 30-mile triangular course...
Faculty. An amiable president is Duke's Dr. William Preston Few. Tall, lank, Vandyke-bearded, he waves cheerily to one & all as he strolls about his campus. Once an English professor, he became president of Trinity College in 1910. His campus nickname: "Sis." His fellow townsmen remember that when the children of Benjamin Newton Duke were young?Mary, and "Angy" (Angier), who fell from a yacht tender at Newport in 1923 and was drowned?Dr. Few used to ride with them in their ponycart. Like many another Duke official, he is a Rotarian. A friend of North Carolina's hard...
Introduced as the last resort of distracted librarians and disappointed the sis-scribblers, the Turnstile, though the only solution for a serious problem, has its more human aspects. Two hundred years hence, its humble metal may be the goal of souvenir-seekers, the present-day transatlantic aeroplane enthusiasts, who will fight for a chip of the swinging arms rubbed thin by the contact with many shrunken, scholarly paunches...