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K1 4r' My 1 FOX. .Y.TAYY MOUm AIRY, jVORTU CAROLINA, TJfUllSDA Y. JULY IS, 1012 JVO. 2 THE END OF THE DITCH FUED Loaning his arm on the top of a fence rail, Chun. llonbrlght stared across at the "sour pos ture." Tall tussocks of course coarse grass stood up here and there above the slimy surface. A ditch filled will stagnant water broadened at the lower edge of the pasture into a wWe pool that extended into the Wolverton meadow beyond. Rush am! sweet-flag had taken root in plaees; in others that were drier boneset and goldenrod grew thick. "That pasture is a d'wgrace to the farm," said Clem. "I should say it was P 'ejaculat ed his older half-brother, Jason, "And if there was any; such thing as justice in the courts of this state, we'd have had big damages from Hill Wolverton, for breach of contract." "Well," Clem remarked, Booth-In-glyt "he didn't get any dam ages, either." "It's a wonder!" Jason retort ed. "If it had Wen the same judge and jury that tried our ease against him, he probably would." CUia felt disposed to reply that the two trials seemed like a "stand-off" to him, but know ing his brother's strong prejudice, he wisely refrained from offering his opinion. "Say, Jase," he asked, instead, "if I turn that pasture, into a tillable field, will you give.me all I can raise on it the first seas on!" "I should say I would! I3ut, see here, Clem, you're not plan ning any knuckling to Bill Wol verton, are yout" "No. I'm just planning a little arguing. I don't mean to get you into it, directly or indirectly, Vo'i I emild ,hfl.v thfl eror. i Ive passed, my word, and! ke4p it. But if you're going to dicker with Wolverton, I don't want to know anything about it. I wouldn't touch him with a forty-foot pole; and I should tit ink you'd have too much pride to talk to him, after all that's happened." Clean had no respect for the pride that cuts off its nose to spite its face; but now wm the time, not to talk and argue, but to think and, plan. Ten years before, when, Clein had been too youngs to know or understand much about the dif ficulty, the quarrel between the Bonbrights and the Wolvertona had started over what was at first a mere misunderstanding. The Leads of the two houses had agreed orally to dig a ditch to gether, the outlet of which was to be in a creek on the Wolver ton farm. John Bonbright and )im sou Jason had dug their por tion a week earlier than had been agreed, and then had fallen out with Wolverton on the ques tion whether tile, as he suggest ed, or stone, capped with, plank, a the preferred, should be, used to enclose the runlet. As a result the Wolverton section was never dug, and both fields, were left ia worse condition than before. Wolverton, a noisy u geuersus man, with a hot and somewhat vindictive temper, had sued for damages -for the overflow of his land, and the trial justice had thrown his case out of court. The lionb rights, in turn, had sued for breach of contract, and The jury had returned a verdict vt no cause for action. Both parties to the suits had paid some rather heavy legal foes, and then Lad settled down to a state of sullen enmity. Jfrhn Bonbright died, and .Clem, I . th only child J a second mar- j rifige, was letf during his min-ia ritv as the ward of Lis half-l1 brother. His mother had did ' ears before. He had n U-rt r Is i n g , c L r t- ri u 1 a more teujper- sunciit and a more awtive mind' tl.au Lis brother. The two fr-!ai " routKmt U.e Jate suru quently disagreed, although wl-im,'r aT,1 the earl.v fidl. Vd doim to the point of p-u quarrel-i: :ng. While driviiiir to the e reamerv ! tJ.e r, t tn milk in cai: ifn'-A'.i' with a load ,f s. Cl.ia met his hor. "Good mon-ing. Mr. Yu- verton!' he cs!le-i, and Upped ( his horses. "Whv, hello, Clemmie!" the big tun tit said, heartily, for lit cherished no ill-will against tin hoy. "How's vour sorrel colt coming onT" "Fine as silk! You and I will have to give or take with those two colts gome 'day, "for they'd match up finely. By the way, I haven't noticed you looking over yours much lately." A frown passed across Wolver ton's face. "No,'.' he said. "Every time I go to the lack of the fa mi 1 have to paM that frog pond, and I don't enjov the looks of it." "That was peeisely the opening Clem had sought. "Suppose I dkl aw.y with that frog-iond some day when you were not looking," he suggested, "would you have any objections!" "Why I don't know. What's your scheme, Clenunie!" "Oh, I'd run it into the creek, where it belong;." "You'd ditch it across my land, I suppose you mean!" "Why, yes, if you didn't ab ject and weren't looking." Clem laughed so good humoredly as he said this that Wolverton half- smiled; hut the old grudge still rankled. "That would be play big right into Jase's hands," he said. "It would make his old sour pasture worth a hundred dollars an acre. No, I giwss not, Clemmie." "You wouldn't have any ob jection to benefiting me, would you!" "Not a bit!" "Nor yourself!" "Well, hardly." "Now sew here, Mr. Wolverton, I can have the whole of the first crop, and I think I can raise more than two hundred bushel of potatoes to the acre if that pasture is drained. professor Baker has told me just what to do; and you know as well as I do $wW4here ipjeslx. Ji .h&rd1 common sense in what h sug gests And a to its benefiting you, that's too plain to argue." The burly farmer slowly ' de scended from his wagon, stepped across the rond, and laid a huge hand on Clem's knee. "Now look here, Clemmie," he said, "you tell me right out just where Jase comes in on this. Did he have any hand, in the plan!" "He doesn't come in at all," said the boy, earnestly, although he had hard work to sujiprejw a smile. "He's dodging round the outskirts, refusing to look or listen. He says I haven't proper pride; but I got a promise of the crop from him. before he thought; and now he won't go back on his word. But he doean'1 want to know anything about what I'm doing." Wolverton laughed. "I guess I can go as far as that too," he said. "I won't look or litrten, either, Clemmie, and I don't want you to say another word to me about it." Climbing into he wagon, he clucked to the horses, but sud denly quLled up. "Mind you, Clenunie," he call ed Lack, "you've got a man's job ahead of you! Boys soanetinMJ get big ideas, and bite off more than they can chew. If you start that ditch you've got to finish it: I don't want it half dug and dropped. You'll find that clay stiff ar.d tough." "1 know what it is, Mr. Wol verton. 111 carrv it through if Ilie" ! "That's enough; we won't men tion it again." In a short titne Clem found by the blisters on his palms that Mr. Wolverton had made no mis-i take alwrut the nature of the j clay. .Sixteen rods is a long dis-! lance to cut a channel varungi " ieptn irotn three to lour aim; ,)dU JT. wpeeiaijy wnen mere, Ah,'r tasks to he doIM'- 811,1 i 1 lp work lias t0 ' Prtomuti ' . 1 'Al A - - 1 bioim aim w.nnoui a woru oi j ,!K-oiirair,-me!:t from anv on-. i Although Clean kept dojrgred'y ; Hione eiiaojea jinn to a.g the , lat five rojs. He vtwcj thai u V0Uj'1 K"'l pn-stn M it ii i - .... half-kilh-d him. When the w.atei !ieurh-:fi,m5,.v fi"Wwl off into the creek, s:iJ a h, nXi' raiu followed Continued to Page 5. THE FATE OF FOY CURLEE. his JjL&appcaiajice As Mucn a Mystery Today as Ever No Clue Since He Disappeared. Xtatcsvillc. Landmark. A little over three years have now elapsed since tho mysterious disappearance of Foy Curlee, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Curlee, of Statesvillc, and .the mystery is as far from solution as ever. In fact it deepens as the years go by because not the slightest cine has beeih found on, which tho ar ents of the boy and officers may base a more thorough investiga tion of lie case with the hope of solution. While the hope that he 'is alive and will some day return home is naturally entertained, tin., fear that he met with foul play daily haunts those to whom he is near and d.-nr. If he is alive and could know the con tinuous grief of his mother., he would surely return to her, and it is hoped that these lines may fall, under his eyes. It will be remembered that the loy, then 15 years of age, left the home of his parents in south Statesville ou the morning of June 22, PJO), and went to the plant of the btatesville Safe and Table Co., where he had been emrployed for some time. Having previously notified his foreman that he was going to change jobs, he called at the office of the company and secured what mon ey was due him, the amount be ing several dollars. A few min utes later he was seen near the factory talking to a group of negroes, but further than that the earth seems to have "swal lowed him up", so far as know ledge of his whereabouts goes. He was attired in his regular work clothes, had said nothing to hi parents about going away and when he failed to return home the search for him, which hdi never Tumd; wI3 tbi-guii iteports came that a bov answering his description board ed the Charlotte train at Barium and that a boy of similar de scription was seen walking up the Western railroad, but noth ing came of these rumors. In fact, there has ben no clue whatever which has amounted to anything. The theory that he met with foul play is strength ened by the fact that the boy had considerable money at the time. He had saved from his weekly earnings between $50 and $00 which Ije kept eihter in his room or in his pocket and as it was never found in his room it is assumed that he had it on hi person; and to this amount was added what he drew for work at the factory on the morn ing of his disappearance. Boy like, he often exhibited his purse of moony and it is said that he showed it to the group of neg roes with whom he was scm con versing the morning of his dis ajpearance. Foy was a rather backward and modest hoy and had never been away from home longer than a day at a time. His par ents say tiuit he was a good boy ; that be always gave his mother a part of his earnings, seemed unusually devoted to her, and that there wa no trouble in the hotne to cause him to want to leave it. Fatal Quarrel at Blowing Rock. Lenoir, July 15. Saturday af ternoon at Blowing Ro;k, two white men, Alonzo Ilartly and Ijcwis Treler -ut in the pool roam and engaged in a quarrel over some ice, Hartley accusing Trexk-r, who owns a cold drink irtaud, of taking ice fnnn his house. The mtu jia&sed some hot word and Hartley be-ane enrag ed and picked up a billiard eue btrikhig Trexler a heiivy blow a russ the head, felling him to the floor, from the effects of which the latter died in les-i than three hoars. Both men have Ion? been resident of this popular moun tain ivsort. It is underttHl that ii truey is ii! me nami oj u;e officials of the law. Texler was; at one time chief of police of the ) htlle town and ul";t 2 years feeble from tl.-- eff.-ets of ptir t '.J. He is survived by a wif. laVsia ,fyr jxTtuissiou to have WILLIAM LORIMER OUSTED BY SENATE. Vote Was Fifty-five to Twcwty eight in Favor cf Expulsicli. Washington, July M. Over turning the majority of its own committee, and reversing its vote of March 1, 11)11, the senate to day toojc away from William Lorimer his scat as junior sen ator from Illinois by a vote of 55 to 28. A member of the sen ate since June 18, PJOJ," Mr. Lorimer today was declared to have been the recipient of votes secured ly "corrupt methods and practices," and his election was held to have been invalid. Technically, Mr. Lorimer will pass out of the records of the senate as a member t-f that body notwithstanding his more thaii three years occupancy of his seat. Facing his associates with the declaration: "I am ready," Mr. Lorimer sat in the chamber and heard his fate decreed a the roll call showed the adoption of the resolution of Scaiator Luke Ltii, of Tennessee, the senate's youngest member. Exit of Lorimer. The man who for three days had held the senate to close at tention with his remarkable speech of defense and attack up on his enemies, rose wearily from his seat and passed back to a cloak room door. Senators and members of the house gath ered about him, granting his hand and patting him on the back. Outside the senate door as Mr. Lorimer stepped into the corridor, friends greeted him again, and & party of sister of charity pushed forward to ex press regret at his expulsion. At hi office later, when a physician had attended him, he said he would i4t laeve Washington be fore the first of next week. The surprise hut the leaders of the fight against him had not estimat cd ajjreater vote than 50 to 35. Lorimer gained only one of the men who voted against him Jiarcn j, rju, renaior Jones, of Washington; while he lost the vote of hi associate, Senator Cul lom, and of Senators Curtis, of Kansas; Briggs, of New Jersey; Simmons, of Noth Carolina, and Wstson, of West Virginia. Lorimer s fight for his own of ficial life began in the senate chamber early Thursday aftei noon. When he concluded his ek quent declaration that hei was not a coward, and "would not run in the face of certain defeat," at 2 o'clock this afternoon he had hell the floor for twelve hours with intermission, and roccesses to restore his strength. The moving character of Lori mer's appeal was admitted on ev ery hand, but it apparently swayed n15 votes, Instead of the pleading defense that had been erpeeted, it was throughout a ringing defiance to those who had opposed him, a declaration of his unfaltering belief in the purity of his election in Illinois, and a promise that he would net give up his fight w-ith his evic tion from the senate. WouldNot Resign. "It haw been suggested that I resign," he said, in his closing declaration. "He who is so" cow ardly as to run because defeat blares him in the face has no place in this bod v. Though vou all vote to turn me out; though every vote has been canvassed and is against one, 1 will not resign. My exit fnwu this b dy will not be from fear; it will not le because I am a coward. It will be bevaus' of the crime of the Cuited States." Oiiiv two incidents marked the few minutes between the term;-! nation of Lorimer's speech, and! the taking of the roli call which ! resulted in lis defeat. One waj tiie charge of Senator Dixuii. Colonel KitjNive!t's eamjaiirn: manager, "That the af fkla its Lor imer introduced to .ln;w attempt ed corruption of d -lgates to the f'hicaco etieiition were "malic ious and deliberate falsehoods.". The ot! ther was the request uf Sen-j "ilbuan, of South Carolina,; ate. r "J" the clerk rend a statement fma him. It was the affirmation of his belief in Lorimer's inijoveiiee, and a pathetic statement of his own feebleness. Tillman wept as it wart read, at. 1 other uieiuU rs of the senate exhibited deep feel ing. Statemont cf Tillman. "Since I was stricken, with paralysis thirty mctiths ao," sajj Tillman's statement, "I have thought often and seriously abouj death end the hereafter. That I am here at all is in some res pects a miracle, and I know I must go hence and meet the (real Judge face to face very soon. I cannot do otherwise than vote as my conscience dictates, and 1 Believe thr man is inno- cent ox tne cnarges hrougitf a gainst him." Senator Tillman expressed the hope that Mr. Lorimer would con secrate the remainder of his life to the purification of politim in Chicago and to the uplift of his fellow citizens in Illinois. "I believe if he dow bravely fight for a purer atxl better gov ernment in Illinois," he said, "Cod will strengthen his arm and he will return to the Rem- ate vindicated bv the people of that, great State." South African Wan Stockholm, July 15. South Af rica which heretofore played rather a modest art in the Olympics came to the center of its culmination yesterday, win ning the marathon race, the nisst important number on the Olym pic program. This might have been honor enough for a small nation, but South Africa also won second place by a secure lead, which was piling up the glory. The winner of the classical marathon was K. K. McArthur, a lull Transvaal noliewnapwho has Umrtt keen traded iJU.i ilar event. His compatriot, C. W. Oitshaw, came second in the stadium several hundred yards behind, and third to appear was the American, Oasten Strobina, of the South Paterson A. C. who put up a braver fight most of the runners, for his feet were skinned and bleeding and he was suffering great pain. He never lost his nerve though, and made a brave attempt at feeling hap py while h etraversed the stad ium track a furlong behind the second man at the end of the kill ing performance. The times as announced were Me Arthur, 2 hours, 36 minutes; Oitshow, 2 hours, 37 minutes, 52 seconds; Strobino, 2 hours, 38 minutes, 42 25 seconds. The Americans certainly gave a death blow to the theory that the ath lete of the United States are the bet at ccntest which require quiekneis n.ihtr than endurance. AsbeviUa Citizea Findr a Baby qfci His Porch. Asheville, July 15. Frank W. Poindexter, who lives at 176 Park avenue is the possessor of a lusty baby, which he found on his porch oa his return from Riverside Park last night, and which he is very anxious to find its parents. Mr. Poindcxter had been out to the park diiring the evenitig, and ou his return was attracted by the cries of an infant, seemingly from his own porch. He investi gated, and found a lusty infant, apparently about two weeks old in a basket on the jvorch. The poli-e department were notified, but so far have failed to find any clue to the parent None of the neighbors saw any one approach or leave the house. and the appearance of the baby is a puzle. Mr. Poindexter's fam-! trwa tJe ground she hung uneon ily cared for the infant "Wt night,! 'lous- -Irs K' th lsab-v and are awa:tuig further notice from the police department be fore attempting to dispose of ;t. If you have a housewife you can not reasonably hope to te healthy or beautiful by washing dishes, sweep lug and doing housework all day. j and craulinjt into bed dead tired at j nifht. You must Ret out into the i opn air and suutiKht. If you do this every day nd kp your Motnach ' which I have found an esee'.lent rem and bowels In :om1 ordT by taKins -dy." For all touia h. liver or kid Chamberlaln's Tb'ets when needed. ; ney troubW tlier tre UBeyuAled. you should beri me btth healthy and Only 25 ct at E. H. lienui Drug Luufal. For sale by All Dealers. Co. A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM That is What the Nomination of Gov. Wilson Meaxa. New York World. Xo political hoi brought about his (Cor. Wilson's nomination). No political machine- carried )ils candidacy to victory. No coterie of Wall Street financiers provid ed the money to finance hU cam paign. He lias no debt to pay to corrupt jolitics or to corrupt business. He was nominated by the irresistible force of publkj opinion, and by that alone. He stands In-fore the country a fre man. The American people have set out to regain possession of their government and Wood row Wilson was nominated for President be cause he embodies that issue. The bosses, and the . iultoerat who tried to prevent hw nomina tion were beaten by the power of the people, and the power that nominated him is the power that will elect him. With Woodrow Wilson as thj; Democratic candidate for Presi dent it makes no difference what Mr. Roosevelt does. It make no difference how many third parties he organizes. Progressive Demo crats ami progressive Republicans now have a candidate of their own. The contest between Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Taft is now a contest for the control of the Republican organization, and nothing more. The menace of a third term no longer hangs over the country. Tlie menace of per sonal government no longer threatens American institutions. The United States is not to b Mexicanued. It is to be re Americanized. It is because Governor Wilson represents this vital principle that the World so persistently urged his nomination. It is because Governor Wilson represents this W1!'' - within the party was forced to surrender. It is because Gover nor Wilson repersents this prin ciple that he will be triumphant ly elected in November. Such a man is imperatively, needed, and the American people, true to their traditions in every crisis, have again found him. Governor Wilson's nomination means that the rule of the boss is over. It means that the part nership between corrupt polities and corrupt business in national politics is forcibly dissolved. It means that the old regime of pr' -tection to Privilege and Pluto cracy is on the scaffold. It mean that the., old gods are dead. The United States is back to the benediction pronounced by Abraham Lincoln on the battle field of Gettysburg "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perfch from the earth." Tries to Save Child. New York, July 15. Mrs. Nel lie Kelly, 28 years of age, is dead and her two-year-old baby boy is ying in a hospital as the mtul of injuries sustained, when both Wf.x impaled today on efi iron picket fence as they fell from a fourth story window in their home in West Twelfth St. Mrs. Kelly fell im a futile at tempt to save her child which had crept to the window and lost its balance. The baby's head was caught between two of the iron pickets, his hand was imialed on another and he hung suspended by his ncek. The mother struck a few fcet away from him, the pickets ea tching1 her by shoulder and leg With her head onlv a few inches were ratiel to a hospital out tne mother died en the way. The child has a fractured skull end canaiot recover. The Trial of a Traveler. "I am a traveling s;i'.emma,"rite E. E. Youngs. E. Berkshire, Vt.. "and m often troubled wi'h ron- stipation and indue'ion t,n I be- pan to use Dr. Kitty's New Life rill.
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