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
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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.
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SERVIAN PATROL ON RIVER SAVE
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Servians patrolling the River Save near Belgrade, close to a bridge
broken by the Austrian gun Are.
KING OF ROUMANIA
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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.
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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.
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| 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
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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.
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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