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ITALY'S TROOPS KEEP ON THE ALERT FOR TROUBLE For months the entrance of Italy Into the war has been expected. Her troops are all mobilised and large bodies of men have been sent to the Austrian frontier. A detaohment la here seen marching' through the streets of Genoa. AMERICAN STUDENTS SEND AMBULANCES TO THE WAR MlWillMMMMMMMBWMIIIBiMWWMMMWIIWMlMIIIIII ] II. I,. aatSS8M?8MIMWMWMMWMM?IMWMMMiBfc Herewith are shown two of the new Red Cross ambulances which were purchased with funds raised by the students at Yale and Harvard universities, and which are soon to be sent to Europe and used where they are most needed. Yale students raised funds to buy twelve of the machines and Harvard men Ave. v J ? ??~v?? SERVIAN PATROL ON RIVER SAVE a ? Servians patrolling the River Save near Belgrade, close to a bridge broken by the Austrian gun Are. KING OF ROUMANIA <? ; BmiiniiHuaiiniiniiniiniin New portrait of King Ferdinand of Routnanla. who. it la believed, will be compelled before long to enter the war on tbe aide of the allien. Tuberculoala Death Rate Lower. The whole tuberculoala crusade, In which children are so largely the bene ficiaries, would have been Impossible without the uae of rabbits and guinea pigo. By the use of tuberculin it Is now possible to make a diagnosis so early In life that a large portion of cases are cured. Humpbacked chil dren and permanent lameness from tu berculosis of the spine land hip joint are rapidly disappearing. In 20 years tbe death rate from tuberculosis In New York has been reduced about 40 per cent: In Boston OB per cent Study of tuberculosis In animals has proved also that the disease la not Inherited. - The Young Wife, "My wife got her recipes mtied, and all her hard cooking went fc noth ing" "How was that?" "8he tried to make chocolate fudge out of a formula for cleaning brass work." RUSSIAN OUTPOSTS IN POLAND j Russian outpost guard In Poland on observation duty perched on the top of a peasant? cottage WORK AND IMPROVE THE MIND Good Advice for Thou Who Would Make Success of Their Lsbors in the World. As long as you work for a man, give him your best If the conditions sur rounding your position are unpleasant, keep on tbe watch for another lob If you bare a definite Idea of the char acter of the work- yon like beat. It would be a good. Idea to advertise for M. But remeaiber,-we should first k ... serve an apprenticeship before we mar expect to take the retna to our own bands No man can serve himself i well, or his employer, as long as he la I dissatisfied Don't work for a man to whom yon cannot (Ire your beat; nor should you work for a man you cant respect. It vosr wages are not enough to allow you to live decently, search around for some other Una of endeavor Always be ready for promotion?this means you should learn your business root aad branch. Read good books; as you read, study?think?thought* are real live tbtnga. Fix good solid business ideas In your mind and something good will come to you Let this be your slogan, "Knowledge Is power." It Is within your province ,to gain the j necessary knowledge to put you at the head of a great Institution.?Fr<^ "Alms and Aspirations," by f. L. BrfF tain. Debts or gratitude are rarely paid, and only once In a great wbilt wttA , Interest.?Albany Journal. low REM OR MUG BILL AMENDED 80 THAT SACRAMENT AL WINES ARE UNDER,THE BAN ALSO. LATE STATE CAPITOL JEWS Reviiw of tho Latoot Now* Oathored Around tho Stato Capital That Will Bo of Intoraat to Our Raadara Ovor North Carolina. Raleigh. There was a Joint executive hearing and ultimata favorable report on the Thomas anti-jug bill of the State Anti Saloon League to prohibit the ship ment of Intoxicating liquors from any point without the Stato of North Caro lina to any point within said atate, and to prevent the delivery and re ceipt of any intoxicating liquors so shipped within said state." An especially remarkable amend ment was that of striking out sections 8 and 4 that provide for the act not to apply to shipments of wines for sacramental purposes "when received by any minister or otner duly author ised person of such church." Another amendment struck oat "or otherwise" in section 1 so as to make the section read "That It shall be on lawful for person, firm or corporation! or any agent, officer or employe there of. to Ship, transport, cerry or deliver U^ny manner or by any meant what soever. for hire 'or otherwise' stricken out here, any splrttous, vinous fer mented or malt liquors or Intoxicat ing bitters, from a point without this state to any person, firm or corpora tion, or agent, officer or emplqye there of. In this state," There were three-hours discussion of the bill by the Joint'committee be hind closed doors and In the end the Senate oommlttee withdraw, not hav ing the bill before it, and the house committee voted for the favorable re port as amended with two dissenting votes. Senate Passes Architect Bill. The senate passed by a vote of 32 to 8 the bill of Senator Chatham call | lug for the regulation of the practice of architecture and for the establish ment of a board of examiners for the same. The measure came up for pass age a few days ago. Then, after a long debate, and after Senator Speight had called tor the?roll call on the second reading, the vote show ed no quorum. It came up as unfinished business. Senator Muse began to address him self to the opposition of the bill when the chair ruled that the rcall for the previous question on the day before still held good and abut 05 debate on the maid question. He put the ques tion on the roll coH and twenty-two senators voted for the bill with duly eight against. Senator Hobgood took occasion to answer the objection of the monopo listic tendencies of the bill by the assertion that If It would create a trust or a monopoly It would be one of efficiency. To Amend Corrupt Practices. Senator Hobgood Introduced a bill to amend the corrupt practices act by prohibiting the payment by candidates and money for services other than clerical service, being designated to stop ward heelers from taking money for their votes on the pretext of ren dering servloe In the primary.. He also offered a bill to Incorporate the Baptist Education Bpard,. headquart ers at Durham, created by the last Baptist State Convention. Two Big Features in House. The House passed by a large ma jority the Seawell Insurance bill to give the State Commissioner qf Insur ance the power to raise or lower the fire Insurance rates after the manner of the law in Kansas, as recommended by the legislative investigation com mission, but defeated by a vote of 70 to 40 the bill of the State Department of Education and State Teachers As sembly to provide uniform examina tion and certification of public school teachers, the vote being on a motion to table. These were the two big features of the House proceedings. The passage of the Seawell bUl was without de bate having come over as unfinished business from the long discussion of the measure. The debate of the Sen ate bill for examination and certifica tion of teachers was long gn<^ spirited, wMh Chairman Mints of the Commit tee on Education leading the fight tor the Mil and his Wayne County col league. Representative Matt Allen, as one of the chief opponents, and Rep resentative Smith of Cleveland, for 20 years a teacher, ks another of the most vigorous opponents. Senate Bills Pass Finsl Reading. Amend the Warsaw town bond act; empower Jackson township, Nash county, borrow money for road pur poses; provide for resubmission of the question of bonds for the Greens boro Atlantic A Northern Railroad to aid in the construction; allow town ships In Swain county to Issue bonds; amend the South port poll tax act; amend the Caswell countyv turnpike and tolls road act; amend the road law of River township, WaTren coun ty; pro! iblt the use of dynamite In Bladen county streams. To Improve the' public roads of Mscon county; extend the time for the organization of tbe North State Railroad Company; authorise bonds for Charlotte Incinerator; amend the charter of Benson: amend the Lin coln county road taw; establish and regulate primaries In Newborn: vali date probates, deeds and certain other conveyances; fix fees of road supervisors In Martin county; abolish the office of treasurer In Washington county; allow officers and witnesses foil fees In Halifax county when de fendants are sent to the roads; repoal recorder's court law for Morgantea. I Tax Nswspapera Running Contaata. Following flaal approval of the three ' remaining sections of tbe revenue bill, tbf Houaa passed tbe blH on a?e ond roll-call reading and it took lta place on the calendar for haal read ing and paaaad. Speaker Wootea and Chairman Doughton. in charge of the bill for the Joint finance committee, agreed that tbe kill can go Immediate ly to the aenate without any engross ment, there being ao few ehangee In the bill In tbe passage through tbe bonae that engroaament can be dla penaed wttji. The houaa In committee of the whole adopted tie Mints amendment to aectlon 57 of tbe revenue bill changing the apeclal tax on newapaper circulation oontesta from 150 for week llea and 1150 for dalllea to flO for weeklies and 525 for dalllea; and vot ed down an amendment by Williams of Cabarrus designed to allow coun ties to tax Illuminating oil companies to addition to the state inspection tax. Other amendments gave the state treasurer 12.500 for enforcing collections of taxes and 16.000 Instead of $2,500 td the state auditor for en forcing the machinery act The vote on passage of the revenue blH was unanimous, except that Bryan of Wilkes. Republican, asked to be ex cused from voting on tbe ground that there were features of tbe bill that he could not eodorae. Endorse Ship Purchase Bill. A Joint resolution Introduced in the senate by Senator Ward and in the house by Representative Grier of Ire dell, passed both branches of tha Leg-' islature endorsing the Administration ship-purchaae bill that has been pend ing In the United States 8enate for some days under such strenuous con ditions. It passed the houae without opposition, but In the senate Senator McMichael pronounced the resolution a "slap in tbe face" for Congressman (Maude KHchln. Senator Ward de nied that anything of the sort was in tended, but Insisted that he and the North Carolina Legislature have th? right to differ with Congressmar Kitchln on any measure of public pol Icy. - Mr. McMlchael's vote was th? only one against the resolution In the -enate. Coopar Bill is Tabled. The Cooper bill from the Senate for the appointment of Cuthbert Martin as a member of the New Hanover County School Board In the place of J. O. Oit was laid before the house, which had already some days ago passed the Stacy bill reappointing J. O. Oarr on this board. Mr. Stacy moved that the Cooper bill He on the table and there was a unantmodis "aye" vote In sup port of the position of Mr. 8tacy In this New Hsnover contest. In which the outcome will be that Mr. Stacy will get his man, Mr. Carr. reappoint ed through the State Board of Educa tion in the omnibus Mil ? appointing county boards. Joint Session of Assembly. The members of the senate filed In at noon for the Joint session to elect 27 members of the board of trustees of the University of North Carolina. The session was presided over by Lieu tenant Governor Daughtridge and Capt. T. W. Mason. The list of nom' inees selected by the Joint committee Wednesday night and heretofore pub lished was read by Senator McLeod. The motion to adopt the nominations as the choice of the Joint session for the terms of office to be filled was made by Representative Bowie and this was seconded by Senator Ward. The vote of the senate was cast 3? for the nominees by the clerk of the senate. Mr. Self, and the vote of the house. 37 votes,, by Mr. Cobb, 'clerk of the honse. House Bills Pass Final Reading. Bills passed final reading as follows. Authorize road bonds in Yadkin county; pro'vide for bond issue by Roxboro; provide for stock-law elec tion in Pender county; provide for roads in certain Gates county town shtps; amend the Lenoir county road law; provide highway commission for Currituck county; incorporate Towns ville; relative to local improvements in municipalities; allow Duplin coun ty to vote on the stock low; authorize special tax in Jackson county; incor porate the City of Durham, change the charter and repeal all former amend ments and providing for managerial government; improve roads in Macon county; provldde for road improve ment la Kenansville township. Duplin county; amend the road law In Hoke county. House Bills Pass Final Reading. Bills passed third reading; chang ing boundary line of Fairfield school district, Hyde county; relative to election of comlseloners In Hertford county; retaltng to court reporter for the ninth Judicial dlatrtot; prohibiting hunting and. selling quail in Surry within certain terms of years; change boundary Une between Ashe and Wa tauga; providing for a pension fund for Wilmington police department; authorizing construction of road from Lynn to Tryon, Polk county; incor porate town ow Townsvllle. Many House Bills Pass Final Reading Create certain road districts lit Swain county; authorize road and bridge bonds in Madison county; per mit special tax In Transylvania coun ty; establish Mount Olive road dis trict; authorize bonds by Swain Quar ter; incorporate Durham and repeal all amendments, to charter; for the reitef of the sheriff and tax collector in Lincoln county; abolish the treas urer's office in Davidson county; elect auditor for Forsyth county; allow full fees in Forsyth where defendants are sent to the roads. Sevsral New Charters Issusd. . There was a charter for the North State Beach Development Company, Wrightsville Beach. The capital Is 1100,000, subscribed by J. I. Clayton, William Cialder and W. 6. Curtis. Other charters are for the Surry A Carroll County Telephone Co., Mount Airy, capital $10,000, subscribed by J. A. Test and ?Lher? tor maintaining telephone Hnes in Surry county. N. C? end Carroll county. Va.; the Humph reys-Faw (Inc.) Winston-Salem, cap ital 316,000 subscribed, for a general COB tract lug and engineering buninesa. ^ ---- - r-?- -- . = ? ? mPTJQPE | SOUTH CAROLINA'S EXECUTIVE Richard Irvine Manning, who has succeeded Cole Blease as governor of ' South Carolina, is a product of the state he now rule*, fie was born at Homesley Plantation, Sumter county, on August 15, 1868. His fsther died when he was only two years old and when be was a mere lad he assumed the responsibilities of the plantation. This gave blm lots of outdoor exer cise and he grew up a strong, healthy boy. He attended the primary schools, then was fer two years a student at the Kenmore university blgb school and later at the University of Vir ginia, which b# left in 1575 before completing his course of study. When twenty-two years old be started farm ing with three plows on poor, sandy, unimproved soil. In 1581 Mr. Man ning married Leila Bernard Mere dith, a daughter of Judge Meredith of Richmond. Por several years be hsd a bard struggle and then bad some success. In 1892 be was elected to the state legislature and In 1898 was cbosen a state senator. In 190C be was a candidate for governor tn tbe pri maries against sx-Governor Ansel, but was defeated. Since that time be bas beld no state offlce except that of trustee of Clemson college. Mr. Manning bas been president and treasurer of the Masonic Temple association, president of the Sumter Cotton Warehouse company, president of the Home Building and Loan association, president, of the Bank of Sumter and director of tbe Sumter. Telephone Manufacturing company. NEWSPAPER MAN HONORED ? , ?? When President Wilson named ? Louis P. Brownlow a commissioner of the District of Columbia, to suc ceed Frederick L. Slddons. be made a nomination that seemed to be wholly acceptable to everyone. Mr. Brownlow Is a newspaper man and a popular one. (for ten years he bss been a resident of Washington, sad In 1903 ha married there the daugh ter of Representative Thetus W. * 31ms of Tennessee. He has been \ Washington correspondent for south- ' era papers and a representative of the Haskln Syndicate. He la a mem ber of the Monday Evening club, the Cosmos club and the National Press club. Mr. Brownlow has been a con sistent Democrat a close student of politics snd has taken an active in terest In local affairs. He was born In Mlasoarl In' 1870 ^ una entered newspaper work when be HEdESLadflHIHIHfli w?* thirteen years old, starting on a country weekly paper, and be has been at newspaper work erer since His Brst dally newspsper experience was on the Nashville Banner at Nashville. Tenn., In 1900. Two years later be went to Louisville on the Courier-Journal, and in 1903 was made city edltor ol The Louisville Times. He went to Wash ington In February, 1904, as Washington correspondent of the Nasbvllle Banner and the Ixmlsvllle Post. After staying In Washington for a year Mr. Bit>wn1ow went to Padueah, Ky., to succeed Irvln Cobb as editor of the Padocah News-Democrat He re mained there a year and went back to Washington In 1905. He was corre spondent there for a number of southern papers snd In 1908 Joined the force or the Haskln Syndicate and still Is with that bureau. He has done much foreign travel for the syndicate, going around the world twice and making ten or twelve trips abroad. WOMAN IS ASSISTANT GOVERNOR ror me nnt lime m tne history of Colorado the executive of the state baa appointed a woman 'assistant governor." That la what Qot. George A. Carlaon haa done with Mrs. Carl son. On all measures affecting wom en and children that may reach the legislature or the governor In bis of ficial capacity Mrs. Carlson's conclu sions will be held paramount. Mrs. Carlson as "assistant gov ernor" will play no mere perfunctory part. She says she will spend maDy hours dally at the state capitol and will meet all women Interested In sociological questions and legislation of the humanitarian kind, especially ? as It may affect women and children. During Governor Carlson's term as district attorney for Weld, Boulder and Larimer counties Mrs. Carlson was bis assistant In that time she , _ studied law in her husband's office. i imiiue?iu? _ J It was well understood in northern Colorado thiit Governor Carlson owed much of his success as a lawyer and politician to Mrs. Carlson's advice and counsel. Mrs. Carlson, prior to her marriage, was a school teacher. Mrs. Carlson says that, "A woman who Is competent to be the mother of four ch'ildren Is competent to have a hand In the affairs of state. iwiuwswstatswiwstMtatwtitwii TO FILL BIG MAN'S SHOES "I've got a big man's shoes to All," said George Huddleston when Informed that he bad been elected to succeed. Oscar Underwood as rep resentative from the Ninth Alabama district And with this Idea in mind he at once set about fitting himself to fill those shoes so far as might be possible, i On December 7, the very day that the present session of con - gress opened, George Huddleston made bis appearance on the floor, and though his own term was not Jo be gin until March 4, he has been unre mitting In close Attention to every thing congress has done. The apprentice congressman from Alabama is known among those who were acquainted with him in Birming ham, his home, as a hard worker, a man of retiring disposition and sqlf made fortune. He Is about forty years old, a bachelor, and bis smoothly shavfd face carries lines of determl-. nation. Yet, In spite of his reputa tion for being self-effacing, It Is said that he knows more people "down home" whom he can call by their Drat names than any other man In his district. ? Huddlestoo Is not aa Alabamlan by birth. He came to Birmingham a porr young lawyer, but did not long remain either poor or unknown. He la also essentially a product of the "N(ew South." and there Is noth ing In his conventional mode of dress which would Indicate from which q jarter of the continent he halls. It la only when he speaks that the soft toaaa creep Into hie voice and Identity his
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