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V ' i . " A REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER DEVOTED. TO THE UPBUILDING OF AMERICAN HOMES AND AMERICAN INDUSTRIES, VOL. II. BURLINGTON N. C; SEPTEMBER 29, 1909. V-i.- NO. 20 i - . . ra fy r rrnrr EON COLLEGE NOTES. Special to The Dispatch. Elou College, N. C, -Sept. 25.: 1 909 . The opening thk ;year. has beeu gratifying "in many 'respects. There are students here frni ight states and new-.ones arrivingalnaost daily. The prospects are that this will be one of the most successful years ia the history "of the college. President Moffitt -has been very busy since the opening, in looking after the local J interests of the college, but he has had his eye" -ou the larger outside interest of the in stitution als3 during this time. Last spring he oegan , his campaign to raise a $5O,000'endownent fund fo'r the college, thepurpose being t use this money for larger and better equipments. This next week he will again enter into the campaign -loofc iDg to hc raising of Us is endowment, which is confidently expected and devoutly hoped will be. raised 'before the year hall have'.passed. The faculty this year hats been some what -changed and strengthened. Dr. R. 22. Randolph becomes Prb of Chemistry and Maderu Langua- ges, Prof. T. C. ' Amick ibeoomes Prin, sPrepiratorv Department. Miss Bessie 'Urpuehact head of the De-; partment of Expression. -Jvliss Lio- da Barnes assistant in piano and voice vin the music department AJ L. Lincoln instructor in the business department. Prof. N. E. Branock Avill epeod a year in study at the -Jehns . Hop kine (University. V. C. Pntchette, who has been instructor -i n the Sci ence Department for two years, re signs his position and enters the gra duate department in Doiversiy -of 2s. d. where-ke will study Commer cial Science Prof. P.4T. Kernodle is now at tie Grajoon Sulpbar Springs, but expects soon to eer the publishing busines&in Richmoud The new mnasium in the A neK of West Dormintory meets a hug felt need in the gaipment erf of the institution. Gyninastic atp pliauces will irom time to time be installed until we have one of the most up-to-date gyms iasthese part. The interest in atheletacs is at a high tension Just now. The pnas peets for basket baliare. . indeed bright, all the-old team iiaving re turned and among the FreshcuaB' class can be found many (prospective players of promise. Tennis, also, is being participated in with earnestand the prospects br.j a good tennis team are very brightJ The tennis clu last year .made a good ssho wing indeed in the contest with ether institutions aodeonfiden tly expects to better its ree$rd this year. Tlie aunual recital in the)epart- ment otf Expression will be given on Saturday Evening Sept. - 25 at 8 o'clock in the CJollege Auditorium, by Miss Bessie Usguahart Head of this DeBartroent. who will be assist- " ed by Misses Pitt and Barnesef fhe 3Iu-.ic Department. Items From tbe University. The Alasiance County Historical Club met in ihe Y. M. C. A. build ing Tuesday night, September, the twenty first at seven thirty o'clock, and elected officers for the ensuring term as follows; J. W. Lasley, President; W. It. CoDjer, Vice President; S. C Moser, Secretary Treasurer; A. C. JKimseyi Correspendent Secretary " Mr. Joe G. Walker spent a few days recently visiting his people at Graham, he reports a good time. Quite a large number of univer sity students attended the Bible study institute at Guilford College last week. It must have been a suc cess. All the boys who attended seemed to be pleased.". , c The chief peril of the students the past week has been clothing agents, they seem" to be unlimited in num ber and untiring iu their efforts to wake a sale. " The Tar Heel, the organ of the 1- diversity Athletic Association has agaiu made its apperance in. an en larged and improved form. It prom- to be one of the best ever pub- 3 best ever pub-La ition. - TEe; Passing of Governor Johnson. It is pleasing in this age of stren uous politics for -one - to h be able to turn aside from politics and ay tribute to one of opposing political tfs, though the tribute goes to Hve who is cold in deatu. It is with great pleasure that we - reproduce the ' following tribute to the late Governor Johnson, of Minnesota, from the Washington Herald. Infinite sorrow has been produc ed by the announcement of the death of Governor John A. Johnson, of Minnesota. - Unknown personally to the great mass of his countrymen, he never-; theless challenged their admiration by his manly, magnetic -qualities "and his sturdy Americanism. The story of his life contained a lesson worth studying by the youth ot the land a lesson of what ma be acebmpiish ed by pluck, perseverance, hoaesty, and hard work, re-enforced by labil ity and high aims. He came from the ranks of the lowly and was, therefore, essentially one of the peo ple. At twelve years the support ot a etrugglmg mother m a new country hewing out its destiny, he fought the battie for existence brave- ly and won success by deserving it. Generations ;past elevated Lincoln, the wood-chopper, and Garfield, the towpath boy, -to the Presidency, and furnished mcoy cases f achieve ment akin to -theirs, Jf oot so strik ing. Tbe (present generation made this washerwoman's sou the go vernor of a great State, and ,-caight lave placed him in higher station if he had lived. - -Therein boe finds proCf. that the possibilities of the past afe yet a purt oi twentieth century' life. even if the 'examples Lo appear to lessen in umber a the country grows in vears. Of his public r life nd.. achieve-, ments it isenough to say that i he: stood eeadnstlyfbr good gotten ment and honest politics. He ac complished reforms while governor that involved an unusual degree of what the East is wont to call radi calism, but-with it all displayed such' an 'even temperament, -such, a level- beaded oess, and such .a disposition to deal tairiy ' and squarely with the affairs of State that he escaped class ification with Bryan and La Foliette and other -statesmen working toward similar ends. It was the Eastfs friendly attitude toward him, based upon the qualities here meutiooed, that caused .distrust in ther quar ters and undoubtedly kept him froa Hopming lar.ger - as a Presidential quantity preceding the lat national election; but it is easy enough to see ow, in the light of events, that f3"enry Watterson was riht abso lutely right- ia his estimate of him as the most available and promising man his party could ofier as its &taadard bearer. v ixoveraor Jotoisou s passing is an the 4nore pathetie because of his cheerfulness to the last. He met death as he had met the struggles of his boyhood and youth, with a smile, a stout heart, and a spirit unafraid. A more pleasing or impressive epi sode in national history cannot be found A an the exchange of greet ings and -good will between the dy- ine governor aud the President of the nation on his triumhal tour an episode -revealing Ihe human character ia its most lovable form. - May the soul of the great Minn- esotan foeer be at peace!" ; Death of Mr. John Check. Greensboro Record, 23rd. ; - " Mr. John Cheek, who has been in bad health for some lime, died at his home on Railroad Avenue, near WeVt Lee yesterday afternoon. Fun eral services were conducted from the residence this afternoon, the in terment being at Green Hill at four o'clock. -. Deceased was a native of Alam ance county, coming here years ago to workfor the. then R& D. Rail road, where he remained for some years. He was a member of the city police 'force at one time. -He was r carpenter by trade; and for the past ten years has followed s it. He was genial man and. had-a number ot wam' memfe whd and .had. a number ot FIR8CT0MAN I8M01R Mary Frith Was - Likewise Some- What of Highwayman, in .. : ' . Her Way. . -.J. ,; Militate Monthly. . -. 'V.: ;,. " Mary Frith, better known as Moll Cutpurse, was a notable figure in old-time London life. She-had the reputation of being ' the first woman to smoke tobacco in England. The length of her days is a disputed point but it seems certain that she attain ed the age of over three-score years and ten. It is r asserted, that con stant smoking prolonged her life. A portrait representing ner in the" act of smoking forms the frontispiece of Middleton's comedy of the'-"Roar ing Girl." She also figures in, other piays oc tne perioa. - 1 f . I Mary was the daughter of a shoe maker living in the Barbican, and Malone gives 1584 as the date of her birth. She early took to wick-j ed ' ways and became a noted "high wayman. Among her familiar friends were the notorious CapL Hind and Richard Hannam. She was an expert swordsworaan. Single handed she robbed on Hounslow Heath Gen. Fairfax -of 200 gold jacobuses, shooting him through the arm and killing two of aiis horses on which his -servants were riding. For the offense she was -committed to Newgate, but on paying, the. general 2,000 pounds she obtained her lib erty. At one time Mary had 3,000 pounds of her own,-but by giving money on distresstd cavaliers she died comparatively poor. Her death took place in July 1659, and she was laid to rest in St. Bridget s. U)f Interest to Farmers and Their r - hamiKes - A representative of the Farmers Line Department of The Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Com pany .is in Burlington and will re- i . i i i i imam nere several ays, li'Oeing nis intention to visit various sections of the Country for the purpose of in teresting farmers and other rural residents in the matter of installing telephone in their homes. Under -the plan -of the Bell sys tem telephone service is furnished to farmers through the toll stations and exchanges of this-eempany at very low cost. "This plan contemplates that those. ioterested sn securieg tele phone serviee will -construct the line and connect with the Bell .eastern The line and the (telephone and ither equipsicnts are the ?property of the subscribers and the cost for service i very low, varing accord ing to the number of subscriber on the line, The value of telephone service In the country basJbeen thoroughly de monstrated and farmers in all tions of the South are taking ad vantage of this modern means of communication. jLt saves time and enables the farmers and his family to enjoy social enteteourse with neigh bors and friends with out the neces sity of leaving home. It is also of particular advantage to merchants and business menin the town by reason of placing the country resi dents in reach of them at all times. The details of the proposition will be fully explained by the represen tative of the Bell Company and there is every indication that he will meet with encouragment and suc cess in this county. Already Alamance County has over 100 Stations in connections on this propositions and many others proposed for connection during the Fall and Winter months. Congratulations to Mr.' and Mrs. Adolphus Cheek, a young stenegro- pher for the Metropolitan Life In surance Co.V arrived Mondry night. Mr. Cheek was all smiles Tuesday morning.,- Now . is their time to renew subscribe to the Dispatch. , or He. had been a sufferer from Bright' s disease for a long time, but give up his worK oniy aooiu, ; uvo uiux, tus bis work only about two months -rg 2 Altamahaw M I Items. ; : : 'Mrs Mattie Gilliam' died yester day and is to be buried today (Mon- ay;.M one ,was aoout ov years oia. .Uncle.. Alex. Walker has been right feeble.: Hope he will soon be but again. ; ::';. ' : VValter H. Durham is right sick with, bronchial troubles. : ; W. G. Matkins it in bd-again, he had some thing like a fit Sunday morning. - 1 : .- : . : JohnL. Boulden had the misfor tune to have his tobacco barn and packing house with all of his to bacco to be burnt last Wednesday night, except .about two hundred pounds, that he had carried out and pnt in another barn. Brother Boul din is a weakly man with five little children and he deserves help and thegod people will help him. The farmers are still busy har rowing and fixing wheat land. Un cle J. W, Fau ett says he has a field ot ten acres, known by the name of the'Hatchett field, where an old man by the name of Ned Hatchett lived in tue forties and fifties. He fol- lowed the trade by making reapers or hand cradles. It was said that he made a very good reaper of the kiud. In this field Rockingham t .Vl Mn 1 11 ana utiutora corners, ana aoout a quarter of a mile North", Alamance and Caswell corners, on a big white oak. It eems from' thequanity of scars on it every man that has pass ed has .given it a chop. Faucett harrowed this neld last week and he was in three counties in going around the field. But felt most at home when he was in the Alamance part. They say that Faucett can stand, in Guilford and kill a -squirrel, over in Rockingham. In ;the edge if thia field there is a lonely grave marked) with a plain rock, S. W. It is a lonesome grave with alP of the big Tines around it. But its where some another in Israel sleeps in a dream ' dae Result of the New Tarriff, A.n interesting statement is foond printed in that persistent opponen of the protective tariff . the New York Times, wbioh says that a big boom in low-priced American "jewe lry has beguat, ince the new tariff went into effect. Our contemporary adds: x"The factories making this grade of jewelry .are busier thin they have been in years and in many in stances, are operated night and -day in-order to meet Ihe demand wien is expected to incBease from now un til tne holiday season, l he new tariff makes a heavy increase in ra tes af duty onchean jewelry and es tablishes a new classification. These changes the New If-ork nianufastu- rers say, will enable them to over come he handicap eaused by the difference in the eost of labor here and abroad. The rate on cheap jewelry ranges from seventy-five to eighty-five per ceut, against sixty Per cent, under the old law," We are further, informed that heretofore these ornaments and vovelties have been coming to us fiom France, Bustria, and Germany. What bet ter evidence could we have that the protective tariff does protect Ameri can labor and strengthen American eadital? nrlington Tobacco Market. Mr. W, J. Martin of Winston, an old experienced tobacco buyer ar rived Friday. The warehousemen and his many friends are glad to see him. Tobacco being in good case dur ing the latter part of last week and the ground being to wet for farmers to plough no little amount was sold. Farmers receiving a good average. Early marketed tobacco hardly brought a fair average but during the past week or two prices have in creased wonderfully; and at present tobacco is bringing a good average. Both oftiie warehouses are giving excellent service and we feel that farmers living within reach are duty bound to sell their tobacco here and patronize their home market be cause they will receive as much or more lor .their tobacco and be at less expense and trouoie marketing it. We have, talked with farmers' who ua ve uiu wvyvuv u .u iiwjr I have sold tobacco elsewhere and they SAYINGS OF MRS. SOLOMON. ;i ;'.v-'-Xvi.rt :i ' .... .. K Being the Confessions of the. Seven Hundredth Wif eTranslated Helen Rowland. h Washington Herald. "-"V'-"-?'' Hear me, O daughter, : for men are like unto the soup of the hotel, which appeareth in many disguises, but is all of one stock. Yea, as to- ma to differeth from mulligatawny, and bouillion irom censomme, and consomme from bisque, so differ they in appearance and name only! Lo! impertinance is to be s.nubbed ? I I and freshness shall be despised, bnt who is to be feared like unto a man with the "possessive" manner? He fK oiik h Tica -Smith" i stupid but he that calleth thee "Lit-' tip Girl". ,nnot b resisted! ' tie Girl" cannot be resisted! Behold, how he helpeth thee over puddles, even when there are none. and lifteth thee across gutters as though thou hadst been Dresden china ! Mark how tenderly he wrap- peth his coat about thee aud button eth it down in front. Lo! thy glo ves and thy veil he putt eth in his own pockats with solicitious care Test .1 - i . .''' i ii :Vrr 'mi tney oe to ueavy ior tnee. newui not suffer thee to lift so much as a silk thread from the carpet! Yet, oe not ueceivea oy vain signal ror on tne morrow perua venture, ne - ..i shall have forgotten thy name! "r :i u manner is a cultivated thing, even as an English accent, which may be practiced until it hath become second-nature even a habit. -Yet it is pretty, .... v For every- woman longeth - to do the4clmging vine and yearneth to be taken are of. Go to! Though shej weigh a hundred and seventy, yet doth she pine to be called "Lit- tie One,'! though her years be forty jc ..i l . i . u and five yet doth tshe " thrill to be H;;i;o , - Then give the wise gallant the fruifof his labors and let his works praise him. La! if he is dangerous, yet is be a noVelty And worth the price? Let me say ot hirav" "What do woman see in him?" but they shall not be answered, r Matrons shall invite him to -dinner and-their husbands shall he -forced to receive him. Grandmothers shall delight lef a"d Burhugtol Sunday to their ; i- L i . ii i iilschools. . " i, ' in him and v "small sisters" shall greet him gladly. He f&ail-be trust ed in the cozy corners, alone, with the daughter of the house, and the best hammock shall be at his dispo sal." Verily, verily women shall follow him all the days of hi life, and at the appointed hour he shal marry a rich widow! Selah! Alamance Public School Teachers JQdeeting Called. To The Tkachers of Alamance Couisty: -GsEETrNG- This wil inform yoi that tlfe white Public School Teachers-of Alamance coun ty are hereby called to meet at the Court House in Graham" at 10:00 a. m. Saturday, October 2, 1909. This is an important meeting and every teacher and those expecting to teach are urged to be present Prof. J. A. Bivens, "Supervisor of Teacher Training" will be with us and deliver and address and give instructions regarding the "Reading Circle, a course of study, that er- ery teacher is expected to take. ' Other speakers are to be present and other- important subjects of school work discussed by them. Do not fail to attend this meeting. Wishing you much success in tte school work. 1 am, Very truly yours, p. h. Fleming; County Supt. of Pub. Instruction. Graham, N. C. Sept. 27, 1909 ; John Mason, a negro recently sentenced in Gaston Superior .court to five years for an attempt to com mit criminal assault on a member of bia own race, made a motion for a new trial which was overruled. No tice was given of an appeal to the Supreme court. The -crime v with which, the negro is charged was com- mitted,nearijoweii, in Vjaston coun - - - , ty, some time ago. , ; " ' A Self-made Man.v" 1 FhUadelphia Record.' T ' v ' " . : Judge Lovett worked 1 on ax farm )', so far away from' the financialjcen-'-ter of the country a Texas. Thirty x . five years ago he worked as a clerk in a stor in a railroad town at $10s a month and his board.' He became station agent . -in 'that' unimportant . Then he" was a clerk in a; . freight office- at ,-$40, studied law,; succeeded in his practice, and es-; ,: pecially in the legal business of rail- : roads; Perhaps not all men" attain sup- j cess who deserve it, but persons who pave reason w ku-w , ten us im u - , ?f ?t easy to find men capable of - i 1 A 11 . -J !l noiaing important posiuons m ousi . - :- rm.u''"" v? . some,lucK. inere raaye still in the freight office m Houston some , of e(lual Pity wlhodVnt 1 v have a chance, orlhinkshe did.not.v , But Lovett studid law while earn ing his living as a clerk. C He prized open a second door to success. - A man , now dead,' who .had attained ; th'e presidency of the "New .York ; Central Railroad, stuck to his clerk ship in the freight office and landed in a position of great honor and .u emolument. -Perhaps a third clerk - was equally competent, but did not get ahead. The chances are, how- ever, that he lacked push : rather : than opportunity. Success is gen- - erally deserved, and most ot those who deserve it attain it. R. F. D. No. 5. j, D. Pritchett, and Miss Ava Rogers attended servic- s at - Union Ridge Sunday.- Mrs. J. Walter Johnson has the sympathy of her many friends in the death of her monther, which occur- ed last Friday at her home near m : Quit9' a numberour peopie attend Pro8ubr;.,n t Om T?od4 ed the Presbyterian at Cross r . , - v V last week report a pleasant ti Roads 1 lime. Miss Daisy Wyatt . is spending J s , several weeks with her grandfather, : Li W. Johnston. . . . - Rev. Y. I. Chandler of Caswell. " spent Saturday night and - Sunday , ' his son John Chandler. . ' s : r " r . . $ W. L. Anderson and sister Misa . . Mamie spent Saturday and Sunday.- at their homxreturuing to Elon Col-v: H. F. D.N0. L . Miss Minnie Montgomery of Gib- tU sonville spent Saturday night and Sunday at home on No. 1.. " , Misses Minnie .and Mary - Lee -y Coble spent Sunday visiting Missi " Vida Isley of No. 10. J M rs. Dr. Crouse and family havd moved back to No. J " " ' Mrs L. J. Brambler of Greens- boro who have been, spendiiig some time on No. 1, i-eflirrted home Sat- , urday. r -x'x - . Miss Mertle" Nicholson left since ' our last Writing for Greensboro where she will en ter school at thp" Normal. . . , 1 - - Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Cheek and- son Ernest weut to Greensboro last- - Xhursday at attend , Mr. CheekV brothers funeral. " T. M. Sharp leftTast week for ' Raleigh to enter the school for the", .: blind. . - , Thanks to Jittle.Eula and Viola 'J Isley forscuperoongs, Georgia Isley neans, roasungyear, appJesandmo-, . r ases. - - - - v. F. J. Brower, who lives at Wil mington, a railway flagman,; aged f 20 years met with a serious accident at Lake Waccamaw, which resulted ' m; the . loss of a arm. Brower was riding on the cow-catcher. The train stopped suddenly and he was thrown : rom, the position, getting his 'arm erribly mangled, necessitating 'am putation. ' ' . "'1 , r There was a hot time at the meet- -" ing at the colored lodge building in Fayetteville last Tuesday, night-'- 1 Some one turned off the iiffht and A began to shoot up the building.' The 1 crowd became paniostricken men shouted and women ' screamed and - rushed to the street ' One . woman , had her face ''scorched ''y' the lire t ushwl oy the association. trom tne pistol. -A