North Carolina Newspapers

Mmtrni Charlotte 26 and 27 $4,000 in Purses for Races $4,000 in Premiums for Exhibitors ,500 for Free Attractions The Year’s Biggest Event Conducted on a Grander Scale Than Ever Before Grand Sensational Horse Races of th« fair ther» will excitin* races between the best horses in the Southern Racing Circuit. The purses are the largest given at any Fair in the state and insure a big field of horses, both trotters and runners. United States Marine Band Of Washington, D. C. one of the strongest musical organizations in the world has been engaged for this event and will give concerts in front of the grand stand Wednes day afternoon, Oct. 25th. • This splendid musical treat has been secured by the association at a great expense and is worth coming many miles to en.ioy. Do not miss it. Attractions I Big Flying Machine Exhibition By Aviator Hamilton The celebrated,Aviator, C, E. Hamilton, has been engaged to give exhi bition flights on a Curtiss Bi-PIane on Thursday and Friday, October 26th and 2(th. Th€ contract with Mr. Hamilton provides that he must remain in the air at. least thirty minutes and ascend to a height of not less than one thousand feet on each occasion. This will be a splendid exhibition of the wonderful machine that is the marvel of the century, it is free to all who attend the fair on these days. -rr.' Test Farm Exhibits One of the most interesting and in structive features of the Fair will be the exhibit made by the Test Farms of North Carolina. The exhibits will be of an instruc tive character and include 'farm pro ducts, soils and fertilizers and will be under the charge of several experts furnished by the state who w'ill ex plain the various features of the ex hibit and give information of great value and importance to farmers* There will be splendid exhibits of Live Stock, Poultry, Agricultural Products, Implements, Art and Domestic Products as well as exhibits made by leading merchants and manufacturers. The Midway will be high class in every sense and will fur- nish noise, fun and confusion to make the days and nights merry. The Grounds and Buildings will be Brilliantly Lighted and kept open until 12 o’clock every night. Don’t miss this big event. Come and bring your family to help celebrate the year’s Biggest Holidays. Fear That the Libei al Government Will Give Home Rule to h eland English Hotheads Would Re test Decree of 7heir own Government - Lloyd George Eavmg Trouble With His National Insurance Bill, hark Twain*s Courier Down on his Luck-Inventor Claims That Ocean Man be Crossed in Two Days—Government Instruction at Cost, (BY PHILLIP EVERETT.) London, Oct. 14.—Curious develop- lentB are taking place in Ireland ast now. A number of men in Ulster, '^bo are firmly convinced that the eople of the Emerald Isle aren ot t to govern themselves, and who ear that the present liberal govern- aent may be able to give home rule 3 Ireland, have determined to have , home rule of their own and to re- Ist, if necessary even with arms, the 5cal fovemment that may be estab- •hed at Dublin. So lo.val are these len to the king of England, that hey will refuse to recognize a law hat may be passed by the British •rllament and signed by that very Ing, and If it should be decided to end the king’s army and navy to ubdue them, these loyal hotheads of telfast have even now made it nown that the said army and navy will attack them at their peril.” No wonder Irishmen have always Ad a reputation for their keen ap- reclation of humor. In addition to his political critics Mr. Lloyd George has his own diffi culties with the doctors, friendly so cieties, and those who advocate the causf of the maimed and broken lives “wtich are excluded from the bill. It is t^ierefore not surprising to hear a rumor that he is about to recast his measure upon more generous lines,, so much so, it is said, that his polit ical appointments, the unionists, are planning to forestall him by the intro ducing an alternative bill of their own with all the defects of the govern ment scheme left out—not out of any sudden love of • the workingman, but as a bait for his vote at the next elections. “I never heard him make a joke, not even with his own family. He never madesOne with me. The nearest approach that he got to one was in a latter to ftbout th« uncertainty of his pUni. K« wrote *Ifs »re ts bad ai propbeti.'*’ "He was a great lifteaer. He would take it all in, and never say a word himself. Mark and Verey understood one an other thoroughly. Mark “discovered” Verey in Paris through the hall port er at the Hotel Norjnandy, who gave such a glowing account of Cerey that Mark determined to have him. “George, I fnust have this Verey,” he said. George could not leave his post to go and find him, so. Mark said he would put on Greorge’s apron and look after the door. Verey remained Mark Twain’s cou rier for many years. ENGLISH BOY’S ESCAPE FROM TIEER’S J National Insurance Bill. Mr. Lloyd George is not yet out ot le woods with his national insurance 111 which was greeted with so much dmiratlon by all parties, when it rst appeared. His difficulties seem tdeed to grow worse every day and r all the attacks that are made fainst his favorite measure the orst seem to come from the men lio profess to speak on the part f the working classes. The minister recently aaserted that ifl main point of the measure is tat It gives every worker nine pence , benefits for every four pence he lys in, but a socialist member of irliament now maintains that this not so and that Mr. Lloyd George ther does not know the finances of * own bill or is deliberately misrep- isenting them. The same member jenly accuses the chancellor of try- g to amend the bill so as to deprive le workers of thee ontrol of the in- irance scheme, which he originally *oml!5ed them. Mark Twain’s Courier. Joseph Verey, the messenger, who was Mark Twain’s courier, and made jnine tours with him, has fallen upon evil times, and is now living in Lon- I don in a Rowton house. He has come down in the world through the loss jof savings, which he invested in an Incandescent mantle business. His last engagement of any length, the "Star” states, was when he was employed at the royal palace, Madrid, to hatch pheasants for King Alfonso. He left London wltb, an English gamekeeper and 2,000 pheasants’ eggs, and in the Casa Real Del Cam- po, at the rear of the royal palace in Madrid, Verey and the gamekeeper hatched out the eggs with Spanish hens. King Alfonso and the queen mother one day visited the hatching place and talked to Verey about his trav els, and he told them stories of Mark Twain which kept their majes ties and the ladies of the court in constant laughter. Verey was also able to inform the queen mother that he had paid homage before three popes. When the engagement at the royal palace was finished Verey had to re turn to London. But, apart from the possession of a testimonial written on parchment in Spanish and bearing the seals and coats of arms of Spain, he had nothing very substantial to show for his foreign trip. Verey has, of course, an endless store of “recollections” of Mark Twain. Giving a few of these to a newspaper representative yesterday the famous courier said: "Mr. Clemens hardly every talked to anyone. Once I traveled from Cologne to Dresden with him, and he odly spoke about two worde to me. What I was instructed to do was to engage the other people in the compartment in conversation, and ask them about everything. Mr. Clem ens used to sit and listen. “He must have had a wonderful memory. He used to go to museums for hours. He would not say a word, but he would listen while I asked questions and engaged people in con versation. Cross Ocean In Two Days. Mr. John A. Corry, a Leeds shoe maker, who recently forsook the last for the study of aviation and gave a successful demonstrations with his aerial torpedo, worked by wireless apparatus, has now turned his at tention to’ propulsion, and asserts that by means of an invention, "the secret ot which he is not yet prepared to di- viilge, it will be possible for our big Atlantic liners to go from Liverpool to New York in under two days—con siderable less than half the time now occupied by the Mauretania. Mr. Corry has the utmost confi dence in his discovery, upon which he has been working almost day and night for the last six months, and he claims that the experiments conduct ed at home with a little model have been eminently successful. I am de termined now,” he declared today, “to place my patent before some large shipbuilding firm, or even be fore the admiralty itself, and for an adequate remuneration to show how the whole method of propulsion can be revolutionized.” Education of Messenger*. About 2,600 boy messengers engag ed in the postal service of London can now receive at cost government instruction in a number of subjects selected to fit them for better posi tions in the department. The scheme came into effect this week, and the session will continue until next May. Classes will be held during the same period every year. Each boy messenger In London will be able to receive, either in a public school or at special classes, conduct ed in some instances - on postoffice premises, four hours’ tutoring per week. An elaborate system has been drawn up dividing London into about thirty centres, and comprising ar rangements for attendance at the classes pi-eBcribed for each centre of all the lads who are, for the purpose of thep resent proposals ; attached to the centre. , ^ ‘ The total hours of attemjance for work, education and drill will not exceed llfty-fpur p^ week. Thus there will be ample opportunity for ambitious and eager youths to sup plement their clas^ instruction by home study. , ^ ^ The boys will be required to enter this examination at the age of sixteen and one-quarter years. Those who pass will, as far as possible, be awarded positions as letter carriers. CalcuttJI, Oct. 14.—Leo Lyons, an English boy, has had a miraculous es cape from death in a tiger’s jaws, ac cording to a story from Ragoon Bur ma. He, with two friends was out after deer at a village several miles from Knawbi Railway station, where they met a party of twenty Burmans and Shans, armed with spears and dabs. They asked Lyons to shoot a tiger they had entrapped in the jungle close by. He found the animal had escaped. One of the natives armed with a spear led the way, and as they entered the dense jungle the tiger stepped out in front of them. The guide fell down and then fled to the nearest trees. Lyons fired and hit the animal, which fell, but in a moment sprang up and leaped at him. Although partially dis ables with pieces of the chain trap around his neck and his right foreleg broken, the tiger managed to reach the lad and grasped his left leg in his mouth, crushing it badly amj at the same time tearing his rigifit knew and thigh with one'of his paws. Lyons fell upon the guide who had fainted, and the latter who was just coming round sprang to his'feet and staggered away. The tiger’s attention was at tracted by this and be relefised his prey and started after the other man. Failing to catch him it entered the jungle. The 'rest of the party then returned to Lyons and carried him to Thikkyl where his wounds Were dress ed. Next day he was taken to the general hospital, Rangoon Where he is recovering. The tiger was found dead next day in ^he jungle. IT waT found that the buaet had penetrated a vital part, • ' Unusual Number - ' rd •'* . • - • , Bioken Romance^ London, Ot. 14.—Is 1911 an un- ; lucky year for lovers? The^query sug- 'gested by the unusual number of so ciety engagements that have been bro ken off during this year. In the first three weeks of January five shattered romances \^re recorded in the social columns of the newspapers. After that ' epidemic and until September, when it ‘recrudesced” with increased virluence. There were no fewer than eight of those sinister announcements that “the marriage arranged between and will not take place,” and people are asking each other what it means. Of course the matches de clared “off” concern families of isom9 social distinction, who do not usually mix themselves up in breach bf prom- I ise cases, so that the reasons for so much blighting of young lives will never be generally known. Singleton—“And have you told her everything of your past life?” Kewly^ wed—“Everything? Great Scot! I’ve only been married two weeks. Give me time.” INTEREST OF EIIMOOS CASTLE London, Oct. 14.—^While the famous mantlepieces from Tatershall Castle are being shipped across the Atlantic to their new American owner, the con nection of the castle with the early history of America is recalled by the Boston (Lincolnshire) correspondent of the “Times” who writes: “The fact seems to have been overlooked that apart altogether from its English historical association Tatershall cas tle possesses a peculiar Interest for Americans. The castle was one of the county seats of Theophilus Clinton, fourth early of Lincoln, and was a centre meeting for the promoters of the Puritant, movement which culmi nated in the exodus of 1630 and fol lowing years and the founding of the Massachusetts settlements. To Tat- tershall Castle or to Sempringham Manor House, Lord Lincoln’s other seat, came for conference John Win- throp from Groton, in Suffolk. Roger Williams and John Cotton the Puritan vicar of the Lincolnshire Boston, af ter which the American Boston was named. To Tatershall Castle Cotton also used to retire as Lord Lincoln’s guest when broken in health under the heavy strain of his ministerial life at Boston church. Though Lord Lin coln himself did not go to North America, two of his sisters did—Susan who was married to John Humphrey, and Arbella the wife of Isaac Johnson who came into Lincolnshire from the neighboring county of Rutland. Thom as Dudley Lord Lincoln’s steward and confidential adviser and Simon Brad- street who succeeded him in that office —^both, like Winthrop, future gover nors of Massachusetts—were associat ed with this movement, as were also Richard Bellingham, the recorder of Boston (afterwards the Governor Bel lingham drawn by Hawthorne in “The Scarlet Letter’’), William Coddington of Alford and of Rhode Island, James Thomas Leverett, an alderman of Bos ton, and Atherton Rough, mayor of the town in 1628, who resigned office at tlie same time as their vicar and emi grated to. America. CoionaHon of King of Siam Will Rival In Splendou? That of Geo, V of England London, Oct. 14—The coronation of the new King of Siam, Maha Va Juavudt, according to letters from Bankok, promises to rival that of George V in splendour. It will last for eight days, and will include religi ous ceremonies, tlie public ascension of the throne by the King numerous page ant and processions , dinners to the Siamose Royal family and the State' guests, various balls and theatrical | performances and the presentation of', new colors to the various regious. The] whole city will be illuminated very elaborately medals will be struck tc commemorate the occasion and-^ a new coinage issued. Probably the celebrations will take place in January, but the exact dat? depends on the convenience of a num ber of European royalties who win attend the Dehli Durbar, and who the Siamese hope will take in Bankok on their way home. It is believed Frince Arthur of Connaught will represent King of England at the Coronation. Mummy of Egyptian Queen Found London, Oct. 14—The mummy of Queen Nefratri, wife of King Ramesesl and inother, of the Pharaohs, has been found in a musty auction room at Blackburn. Her Majesty’s rank and name were recognized by an expert dealer, who rescued her from an Ig- nomlnous fate. It appears that the royal mummy was stolen from an Egyptain temple by Arabs who strip ped a, away the wrappings to obtain the jeweU buried with the qu^en. ,. “Drowning mien cliitch at straws;” qfitoted thie Wise Guy. floating debt is also t poor life preserver,” added the Simple Mug. Nell—“Mr. Closefist is awfully mean. Tliey say he ^ver givee his wife anything.” Belle—“No, he won’t even give her grounds for divorce.” ■ —V ' ' Misery doesn’t love company on the principle of the more the merrier. Exoibitant Rents Foice Families to Camp in Parks-- To Vote Municipal Barracks Vienna Oct. 14—Some remarkable f the incidents in connection with the agi tation against exorbitant rents and the high prices of foods have followed the riots of Sunday of last weak. The lack of housing accomadtions has reached an extraordinary pitch and i>ersons with young children are unable -to obtain flats at almost any price. , A family blessed with several child ren camped out in the Graben recent ly and were found cooking their dinner with an oll-lamp on t]^e steps of the police that they intended to spend the night there, as they had been turned out of their lodging on account of their children. The father had in his pocket the quarters rent which he said the landtord had refused. It has now been decided to erect municipal barracks for the shelter of persons able to pay rent but unable to find accomodation. It is proposed to vote $100,000 for this purfpose. Agitation against the dearness of food continues and the railway men have threatened to strike. Englishman Killed in Wilds of Nigeria London, Oct. 14—The ^ngers of wild Nigeria to venturesome English men have been grimly illustrated by the murder of Mr. H. P; James, a Bri tish Rediceht Commissioner only 29 years of age, and .by the faij^ure of a British punitive expedition .. sent* to avenge his death. A cable message from Lagos states that the avengers have returned hope less of catching the murderous tribe. They captured only one njan implicpit- ed in the npiurder—but he cheated jus tice by dying of pneumonia. In the bush the punitive expedition found the body of Mr. James and also the remains of three of his native companions. Happily none of the bod ies had been mutilated, and the Com missioner himself must have been kill ed instantaneous, as the base of the skull had been shot away. Another bullet had also gone through the thigh. Mr. James, who; was visiting the southern border of the Forcados dis trict, left Fbrcadoa in a pteel canoe, towed by a steam launch, accompanied by four policemen and tw’enty beach boys. On the arrival at a town called Kuno, on the waterside, Mr. James asked the headman to accompany him to the next town Adagbabirdi. The head man without giving any leason . re fused. Accordingly, in the afternoon, Mr. James with six boys and two police started off in a canoe, followed in an other boat by two native chiefs. The interpreter, who barely escaped with his life, reports that he saw the headman, who had refused to accom pany the comniissioner, going ahead of the party in another canoe. In ft few minutes the canoes came along side Adagbabirdi, and a number of armed natives were seen to come out from behind their houses. The interprter stood up in the boat signalling to the people not to shooi, but without the least warning they opened fire at about twenty-five yards range. One of the police was first hit, and fell into the canoe injured, and then one of the beach boys Was shot, and fell overboard. “The District Ck>mmissioner,” says the interpreter, “was next hit on the right ear. He fell on me and I tried to support him when another shot struck him on the right side and he fell off the canoe into the water. “I also fell into the creek and swam under water, and as I came up to the surface for breath the n9,tives fired on' me. ‘ “By? this time the canoe was empty- I saw the second policeman fall into the water.” I know a dainty manicure; We are the best of friends. I call her Destiny because She always shapes our ends. It’s a good plan to forgive yo^^^ «n«my if he has the drop on you.