North Carolina Newspapers

" -7""-- - ;.-" -?,--. --'T'-Cv- y j v-;. --; (Uarplnia vvateliiBML 1 I: Yh-a - 4 . ''1 . :&-, si ; A Home Newspaper Published in the Interest of the Peopie and for Honesty in -Governmental Affairs. Vol; No: 21 Sausbury, N, O., Wednesday, May 8th, 1912. WM. H. CTfcWART, EDIT03 Lt "; ' ' ' ;- :MfS MINT SOON TD' 60. TAFT'S FINISH PREDICTED. COMPENSATION BILL DENOUNCED. , J TILLMAN ASKS FOR RE-ELLECTION. DESPERATE EFFORT TO SAVE LEVEES. A FOOLISH RESOLUTION. ALLENS HAD SUHS READY. u i COVERS tt ' s .if.- v.: . Cootress Likely to Oiseontlnua tfie Assay r W Office to Charlotte. ; j ThfC ChrlotU-88ay,offic9fc coidiajs to advice from Washiug ton, ; ji nearing tbe end of its ca reerfFor several yoars it has been'onthe varge 9f the pr cipioe tvith:Usa bbiitioD threatened and i s exiatenoe has merely been pro longed from time to tim, against the day of extiuotion. ThVMmV;ha8 -been a. mifet in oam only for the pat eighty jean Originally built about 1825desttoyed by fire five yeara later and then rebuilt in its prae ntforoi, the institution's chief value and interest is historic. The Mint was established here in response to a dmaud created by thediflcovefy of a score of gold mine in M.'cklei burg county, acme of which proved extremely productive. Ihia period, however UBtedbatafw yrs aud hen the gold industry languished the Mint was relegated to the position of assay office. For decades the institution was merely a pr ze poiitnal p!rm. paying a neat honarium, m re turn for which practically nq wok whatever was rt quired of the official in charge. Of latter years, the governinout, while threatening iti abolitiDU, has in creasingly thown a -disposition .to r.duce expeuses at least and about a year ago the offices were consoli dated so tht the title of assayer fell upon the chemist in charge of the work, Frank P. Drane, who has been in entire chaige since. Two Charlotte military com- Ka TTrrnnt'a Nest Rifle- men aud Battery A. Kield Artil- lrv. BBcured from the govern ment aeveraf months ago a lease of quarters ln tne ouuaiug indefinite pen jd .Before tlis was dona, the problem ofwbere t) locate the militia was causing the city administration consider able embarrassment. Through the efforts of citiaeus interested in the upbuilding of the militia the governmental permission was secured. 'Whatever the fate of the, assay offiae, therefore, the militia, its friends say, is firmly established.. ' : It has been proposed atd strong- lv uraed that in case the assay office is discontinued, the Mint should be converted ino a muse um . To what extent the success of the militia in securing quarters will change this aspect of the situ ation remains to ba seen, until it i..n'ha4:Urmin(d whether suffi- van - cient space for a museum will re main Charlotte Observer. Charlotte to Celebrate. Acontract was drawn Thursday tipulating that Thornwell An drews, son of F" H. Andrews of this city, will give six aeroplane flights in Cbarlotte during the .three days beginning May 20: Scretary C. M. Cress well of the .celebration committee states that the latter has decided to olose this contract with the Lindsey Hopkins Aviation Company of Atlanta. Two flights daily for three days are provided for. Confederate Veterans and cosses of H6nor. The United Daughters of the Confederacy have decided that no more crosses shall be presented to veterans after November 1, 1012. Any veteran entitled to a cross is requested to make application as toon as he poisibly can. v All or ders for crosses must be filed with the custodian at lnasfc three weeks before the day of bestowal. The 10th of Mav is the hexfc day for cross bestows Is. Hon. John S. Henderson, if called en at his offioe will cheerfully make out the blanks.' . Mrs. John S. Hbndkbson, Prest. R bert F. Hoke Chapter What Texsns Admire is hearty, vigorous life, aooording to Hugh Tallmsn, of San Anto nio. "We find," he writes,'.that Dr King's New Life Pills surely cut new life and energy into Person. Wife and I believe they are the best made." Excellent or it bmadb'v - liver or kidney troubles. 25 eti at all druggists, The Men Who Pushed Him Into the Now Putting on Breaks. Fight Washington, May 8. Mr. Washington, May 8, Senator Taft's managers, after taking Reed of "Missouri," resumirTg his deep thought, have decided that speech on the workman's compen there is just one way to get rid of, sation; bill in the ' Senate today, bim as a candidate and that is to denounced the measure , as the deadlock the convention. While Mr. Taft, with a rem. nant of oonfidenoe is lusily lam basting Colonel Roosevelt in Maryland, tomorrow, the gentle men whom be fancies are behind him will be bending all their strategy toward his elimination . The firm of Penrose, Root, Craue and Smoot are now firmly convinced that the president is no longer necessary. In faot they regard that his candidacy would be a positive danger to the party in view of his failure to win a de cisive victory in Massachusetts. Naturally they are not going to tell him so long as he can still aiie nis great omce tor draw cam- paign crowds with . is at it is more than likely that the 810 delegates still to be chosen to the convention will be so distributed as to make Mr. Taft's nomination Impossible. And this distribu tion will be with the connivance of the man who put Mr. Taft into the race and who, up to the Illi nois and Pennsylvania disasters, were doing their best to nominate him. i The only thing that fogs, this situation is the lack of a man to tske Mr. Taft's place in the race for the nomination. Senate BilSS $6,000,030 tO MiSSlSSiODi (-r Dinar fault I mm iiuu. . , Washington, May 2. Carrying $8 064.010. in addition to th an. propriations provided for by the House, the rivers and harbors ap- ' . mi propriationMU.aggregating $82,- ' ' ' T I 123 580, has been agreed to by the Senate eommittee on commerce and will be reported in a few days- The largest single- increase to the House measure was $2,600,- 000 for the Mississippi river. making $6,(00,000 for that water- way. L Among the appropriations as increased by the Senate oommittee aggregate: Inland waterway. Norfolk to Beaufort, N. C, for a dredge $200,000; Cape Lookout harbor of refuge, $300,000; Cape Fear river, $800,000 : The bill authorizes the appoint ment of a board of three engineer officers to examine Galveston har bor and channel, Texas City har bor and channel, and the Port Bollivar harbor and channel, near Gal veston with a view of seouriLg a depth of 35 feet ; the necessary cutting off of tends or widening of on annuls in the Sabine-Nachf z canal, Texas, anefchange of the route of the channel from Arkan sas Pass to Cavailo, so as to pass by the town of Port O'Connor, Texas Tne $6,000,000 for improving the Mississippi includes $4,000,- 000 to repair and build levees on account of the flood. When and Where to Use the Harrow. Get a smoothing harrow and use it. 1. Right behini the breaking plows. 2. If weeds start, or crust forms use it before the crops oome up. 8 Use it for the first two culti vations of toe corn and cotton after they come up. It will not ruin the stand if the land has been harrowed right behind the breaking plow and also before tbe crops came np. The Progres sive Farmer. Wash out old-sores, festering wands and ulcess with DARBY'S PROPHY LACTIC FLUID. It is a wonderful disinfectant and heal ing remedy. It heals up running sores of long standing that will not yield to an ordinary liniment, because it destroys poisonous germs, cleanses the sore of foul matter and helps nature tc repair the damaged flesh, Price 50 cts. per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Senator Reed Declared the Measure to bs f ReiQlutljnjri Legislation. - most revolutionary legislation an dertaken for 20 years. He said it would wipe out all oommon law rights as well a State statutes and acts of Con- gress. Mr. Reed asserted that the la bor organisation, as such,vhad had no opportunity to pass upon the merits of the pending bill, and took the position that no true frionrl of organized labor. BUCh SB himself, could afford to vote for it in iha &haano of their aoDtov- aj Senator Overman, interrupting, said that railroad , men who had oome to Washington to protest agftiDst the bill when it was be- fore the judioiary committee, had failed even to enter the com mittee room. He stated that one of these men said to him : 'I can't go in, I haye been working for the railroads 25 years and if I go in and make a protest I will lose my insurance and be expelled from my order." Mr. Rsed replied that this was evidence that the men had been corrupted by the railroads, hmh h said, would be saved many millions by the enactment of the broDosed law. He de olared that three out of four ot the executive heads of the railway - a, .,r, hd migrenresented the vrswav a. measure. Helos A Judge In Bad Fix - . . . ..'11 Justice Eli Cherry, of unns .miiis, Jenn ., was Ply ""J bad sore on his leg had named wo ootors and Jon resisted an remedies. "I thought it web a cancer, ne iroe. used Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and ... nnmnletelv cured." Cures burns,, be lis, ulcers, cuts bruises and piles. 25 cents at all drug gists. junior Order 59 Years Old. The Junior Order of United America Mechanics will be 59 years old on Friday. May 17tb, and the anniversary will be pret- n naiaWtMl JnlinB .8..u.L( aM n;n oa a. ivaruuwu.u. - in Salisbury Saturday and staled that the Gold Hill Council would nAlfthrnt.ft the occasion bv listen- ing to a sermon by Rev. R. L Forbis, paBtor of t he Methodist church. The rervice will be held in the Junior's Hall Friday even ing, at alout 7 80 o'clook. All who attend will be well repaid for their trouble. Everybody is in vited. JUNIOR SPEAKING AT CRE3 CENT. Crescent, May 6 There will be a public speaking in the hall cf the Crescent Counoil, No. 184, Jr. O. U. A. M. Saturday night, May 11, at.7:30 by J. W. Sechreast of Gilford Council No. 28, Higb Point, and C. B. Webb, of Wino na "Council, No. 18, Salisbury. They will address the publio on the principles of the Jr. O. U, A, M. Everybody invited, members of the Jr O. U- A. M , ladies and children are cordially invited. Sunday, May 12, at 1pm., Crescent Counoil, No. 184, will meet at the hall and go to Lower stone Cemetery to decorate the grave of their deceased brother. Burton Miller. Happy, The Demons Of the Swamp are mosquitos. As they sting thev put deadly malaria germs in the blocd. Then follow the icy chills and the fires of fever. The 15 years, and believe him perfect appetite flies and the strength ly honorable in all business fails : also malaria often paves transactions and financially able he way for deadly typhoid. But Eieotrio Bitters kill and oast out the malaria germs from the blood ; give you a fine appetite and renew your strength. ''After long suf- fering," wrote Wm. Fretwell, of Lucama, N. O., "three bottles drove all the malaria from my system, and I've had good health ever since." Best for all stomach, liver and kidney ills. 50 cts? at I all druggists. South Carolinian Wants to "Die in the Hariess."- Spartanburg, May -v 8. South Carolina newspapers hive received from Senator Tillman a commu nication addressed to thfifeople of the State in which he says in part: . ' V; : ' . : 'Twenty-two yearslago I asked you to eleot me to the office of Governor. You did- it after a very hot campaign, in which .1 spoke in every county of the State. Two yean later I asked for re eleotion. You gave me the office the second time by an over whelming vote. After four yearB of service in the Governor's office I asked you to send me to the Senate; and agam after a heated i - . campaign yon placed me in the office I now hold. I ."I haye held this offioe for nearly eighteen years and I am now asking you to reellect me to it aitnougn my neaitfi is broken and I am no longer the strong and vigorous man I once was. I have a ripe experience and thorough knowledge of the workings of the government and have many warm personal friend i in, the depart ments and in both ibranohes of Congress. "I oame to the Senate in a cloud of obloquy on aoconnt of newspaper abuse at home. I have fought my way in spite of it and have lived to see most of the news- PaPer me" press gallery my friends "I have, flattered no man and feared no man in debate and I have a strong desir to 'die in harness' for sentimental reasons only. "Owing to my poor health and in accordance with the advice of my physician, I shall not make any speeches during the canvass this , ummer,Xh rectorship has always been regarhed by me aa a sacred trust and if I knew you wanted me to surrender it. I would gladly lay it down, con scious that I had done my duty always to the best of my ability." Escapes An Auful Fate. A thousand tongues oou'd not express the gratitude of Mrs. J. B. Cox, of Joliet, 111 , for her won- derful deliverance from an awful fate "Typhoid pneumonia had left me with a dreadful pough, she writes. "Sometimes I had snob awfnl coughing spells I thought would die. I could get no help from doctor s treatment or other medicines till I used Dr. King's New Discovery. But I owe my life to this wonderful remedy for 1 scarcely cough at all now." Quick and safe, its the most reli able of all throat and June medi cines. Every bottle guaranteed, 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free at all druggists. U embers Refuse to Cut Their Own 6raf. Washington, May, 8.- The house of Representatives declined by an overwhelming majority to cut down the mileage allowance to members. During the debate on the economic programme upon which the house has entered, Rep resentative Page, of North Caro lina, introduced an amendment to tbe ending legislative bill to re duce the mileage fsom twenty cents a mile to five cents. Form er Speaker Cannon led the fight againct the reduction. On a viva voice there were very few 'ayes'' tor tne amendment but an abounding ohorus of "noes." How' This. We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hill's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENNEY & CO , Toledo, O. W.e, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last I to Carry out any obligations -made by his firm. Walding, Kinnan & I Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of I the system, lestimomals sent free. Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Situation his Become so Critical, College Stpden s Have Answered the Call for Help. , Baton Rcuge, La., May 8 Hundreds of citizens, rich and poor, worked all day and are working to-night side - by side with three hundred convicts and negroes in a desperatei effort to jjold the levees against the tor rential floods in the Mississippi creeping hourly towards the crest of the protective earth works about this city . When the situation became so critical this afternoon, every able- )odied man and boy joined the working force. .Five hundred cadets of the Louisiana State University responded to the call and joined with school boys, boy scouts and soldiers working eager ly to do their part in saving the evees. There are five points of fevtr- ish activity. An especial effort is being made 'to save tne city pumping station and water works plant and about a thousand per a . .1 sons cf every calling are assisting in building large mud boxes about this property. Jov. Jared X. banders spent all day superintending the : work- era. Simon Leblano of the Pon- chartrain levee board arrived hre on a Bpecial train with J50 ne- groes this afternoon. Hunter C. Leake, president of the board, came in shortly afterward with a hundred or more men. Large gangs are building levees in different parts of the city. Mayor Roux has ordered every -v . negro in Baton itooge, unem ployed, arrested and put to work on the levee, but they are few and extremely hard to find. With this desperate battle against the waters going, tne refugees are not neglected and I those, obmfng here are reoeiving I every atten tion . Two hundred J arrived today at Port Hudson, I where a concentration camp has been established. ) The waters from the Torras break are slowly SDreadine over the open country, taking in town after.town, becoming deeper every hour. The situation in this dis- trict was made more critical here I today by the break in the Moreau- ville levee of on the Bayou Des GlaizeB. The Teche country is being flooded by the Atchafalaya waters, which today had almost reached Breanx bridge j auction, on the Southern Pacific. Bayou Sara tonight is under from ten to fifteen feet of water and it had the appearanoe of the entire Mississippi river flowing through the town. The water has reashed the second floor of many houses and ten large houses were today seen floating away Only ths town of Bayou Sara and environs'are flooded by this break. Considerable excitement was .n.ni inri,v hv t,h rftofiint at the Governor's office of a message t.allinor of loss of lite from a hreak at Moiganza This, how ever, proved to be erroneous. New Orleans, May 8. Panicky conditions prevailed today throughout the flood-threatened territory along the Mississippi river from tbe Red river and Bay ou Des Glaises south to the gulf and in the ' territory already stricken conditions grow worse. The river- continued to rise rap idly at all points south of the Red river and throughout the day telegraph and telephone wires throughout the vast section west of the Mississippi river from the Red river and, Bayou Des Glaizes to the Gulf of Mexico were load ed with thousands of messages telling of threatened breaks in the levees and giving warning to the people to make preparations for any emergeticy. This Marganza levee was still holding tonight. At- telephone message tonight from Highland, just south of the big levee, stated there was considerable apprehen sion over the situation at that point. On the east side of the river, Man Who Made It Broke it After 25 Years. Peter Robideaux - has at last broken the resolution he made ' in 1887 to never reopen the store he then closed. It was the hardest thing Robideaux ever did to break that resolution, but his cattle were starving, while piled away in the back end of the big building ware bales of hay which would keep them alive. It took two days for Robideaux to break his resolution. When he oould stand the piteous lowing of the cattle no longer. He turned the rusty key ia the rusty old look, tumbled out the bales and looked tbe door again. Although it had been stored away 25 years the hay still was fit to eat. Rotideaux came to Wallace early in the sixties, ahead of tbe railroad, and took up a claim, afternrd irkinsj on the grade. Vheu h g.jt euuu'gh money he pe ;ed a little store. He pros ired, b ught land when it wa cheap, addnd to his stock and in :r4ased the size of his, store build tugs until, in 1880, he had the iares score oecween Kansas uijy r and Denver. Then came tbe drought, the hot winds aud bard times, aud Wal'.ace began to fade away unil it was ouly a ghost of its foimer self. Robideaux s trade dropped off steadily aud nnsiiy, one day in 1887, he sat from sunrise to sunset and not' a person crossed the threshold of his store. That night he looked the' store, turned his baok on the $25,000 stock of goods within and declared he never would set foot Uiside it again. And Robideaux kept that resolution. Costly harness aud saddles rotted away, clothing became nests of mothB, groceries dried up or became prey for worms, hardware ana" cutlery turned" to rust and stiirRoblaiWf kept his resolution. When he wanted .anything he bought it somewhere else. Often members f family tried to prevail upon nim to sen tne stock or use what part of it the family might need, but he never would, Robideaux was wealthy, owning large areas of land in this section, aad a big and well-stocked ranch northeast of Wallace. When he closed the store he retired to the ranch and has lived there since. Wallace, Kans., dispatch. miles north of Baton Rouge, the protection levee at Bayou Sara went out and tonight the town is under from. 8 to 15 feet of water. There was no loss ot life. Considerable alarm is felt for I v the peopl round Melville, in the AtchafaUya distriot, which is threatened by flood waters from every sido The last news reoei7- ed from tb re ton:ght stated there was slight prospect of being able to save all of the people in the territory south of Melville, because of a ? lack of boats and failure of the victims to reoeive earlier warning of the critical situation. The last train on the Texas & Pacific Railroad east of Melville was operated this afternoon and took out several hundred refugee As an indication of the serious ness of -the .situation -a telegrani was received here tonight from Jena, in LaSalle parish stating that meningitis had broken put among refugees there. The wheather bureau today .is sued a bulletin forecasting still higher river stages than those heretofore predicted; the ramB continue, little sunshine has greeted the people for weeks and no one can foretell what will be the final extent of the great dis aster, - f Careless About Appendicitis la Sails Many Sahsburyee?-a;ve stomach or bowel troaMbich is hkely to turn into.' appendi citis. If yon have constipation sour stomach'. or gas on the stomach, try simple ' buckthorn bark, glycerine, etdifc com- I pounded tn Adler-i-kaj sga new German appendioitu .remedy. McPherson & Co., states that A SINGLE DOSE .of this simple remedy relieves bowel or stomach 20 trouble almost INSTANTLY, Were Prepared to SnootOijBifore Trage dy if Virttict Hid Beet Afcifiif tiea? Wytheville, Va ., May 8 Com- " monwealth's witnesses in' the Floyd Allen case oontinued to tell i of the shooting1 up of Carroll ; ? oounCy court-house . .-, The prosecution ia iudeavoring to prove that Floyd Allen shot Commonwealth's Attorney Pos ter, and that he had his fellow " clansman conspired tor mntder - the court officers and jurors if he ? should be convigted of ths offense vi for which ha was about to be sentenced when ttie shooting be gan. The commonwealth at tempted to prove that a conspira- cy existed between ihe Aliens to shoot up the court if Floyd Allen, -then on trial, was convicted. :!? Evidence was given that Sidna Al len, Floyd's brother and Viotor, . Floyd's son, were preparing the day before the tragedy to carry ! this intention into effect and on- : ly the report of a disagreement of i the jury on that day prevented' the Allen clansmen from starting . tbe shooting then. Cyrus Phibbs, a civil ensrineer, testified that g;na ftna Victor Allen made preparations to begin shooting ' March 13. He said while thai jury was filing into their places that day to make their return af- ter deliberating on Floyd Allen's ease, he saw Sidna and Victor Al- len walk to the rear of the bar : and reach for their reTolrers. ' When reported that the-iury had failed to reach an agreement, the two men went back to their seats. - The day following, the jury, af- ter a further deliberatian, re- , turned a verdict of guilty and : the shooticg began. j George W. Edwards, testified he heard Floyd Allen threaten, to "knock a hole" in Carrol county oourt. On cross-examination he fo he waTnbt bnTriehdljr terma with Floyd Allen. Take Care of the Wsodlands. At a recent North Carolina for estry meeting Alston Grimes ex plained how he beoame interested in the better care of his timber. "A few years ago," he . said, "I was talking with a neighbor who had bought a tract of land eight years before for $500. In this tims by careful management he' had sold $3,500 worth of timber and still had his land, and it well timbered, too. His plan was to go over his woods eaoh year, mark the trees he wished cut, and have no other touohed, nor any un- I ( . necessary waste in getting at the marked tress." Mr. Grimes now follows the same policy, allows no hunters on his place to carry an axe, permits no night hunting, and has a written agreement with each tenant that five dollars will be charged for each acre of land the tenant allows to be burnt over. Mr. Grimes also has it under stood that a charge at the rate of five dollars per aore will be made for ditch banks, fence corners, and old fields that the tenants burn over. He is determined not only to save his timber but also to save the humus, the decaying vegetable matter, without which we can never make or kero our soils fertile. r These are most excellent ideas for other landlords. Try them. The Progressive Farmer . English Inquiry Into Sea Olsister. ' London, May , 8, The wreck commission investigating the Titanio disasters-was addressed morning by Attorney General BrtRufus Isaacs, who laid em- phasis upon the eyideDce that a speed of 21 knotiajnr hour ivaa. maintained after thewarnings of ice ahead were received, right: up to the moment of the collision. The forenoon session, was devoted to this- phase of the disaster. The inquiry is likely to extend over several weeks . , Technical detailed will figure largely in the i J 5 .