THOUSAND ATTEND MUTING June W.-IHim thousand liuiwi of Surry sad adjoin hol.lm* a gnat mass in their own w ipwrtiw Kara today, listened with interest ami ratkuiaaa to • gnat addrea* by Oltoer 4. Seeds, head d the Tri-State To Aiiocllttew, tod tho rvfovts of of other general district nd county officials. The great cordiality and tenure res ehowa by tlx torn of idtitke MtkMiaaa of the of tobacco gmwoti who in their own Attorney J. T. Hendren, i of WtlMMM. repreaentativee of the asso front Sorry, Yadkin, Stoke*, nd Guilford counties, who cheering new* of the pro i of the »iga-up campaign* K. A. Freeman, ipiaHag far Sorry, declared the coonty organisation nam beted ZfiOO tobecce growers, while A. 8. Speer spoke for 760 or mote IHiwwi of Yadkin. 1. M. Callaway, of Guilford, the world's largest to bacco grower, pledged himself and 224 -out of his 2SS tenants ee Jignsrs of son and F. D. Williams, experts in Iks light aad dark Uef Interesting and tm the ■stlipfa of aad selling of tcbacoc. Following the i of Dietrict Director A. L. r. of the Twelfth district. J. B. MM 1.000 Quarts of Liquor Mi«d Norfolk, Vt, J mM 10.—Appro xi 1,000 quarts of Hqwr, valued than $10,004, ware mM by guards of the asrjr ysid to 4>; Is s raid on As nsval transport •Mm, under orders of Rear Admiral FUHy Andrew*, commandmsnt of the Norfolk nary yard. Offlsan and m art confined to thslr ship I Information cam* to Admiral An drews that a strong small of whisky was ivtdsat in cargo bshig imloadsd item the Sirsis on to bsrges slong •ids for shipment to the naval supply Station at lbs naval base. Waiting -until the barges had been loaded, Ad •Ural Andrews ^ordered s search of had the ship thoroughly isorchod by on board the the vessel Struts returned to Hampton the Wsst The wfciaky sosording to In i received from Adwtral As ! SCRAPS or PATCH BAR PRISON CELL Jmn L. AnafitU TbnifM Ha Wu Guilty but Jury Sajri LnhiftM, June 12.—Scrape oi paper prevented the conviction el Jnm L Armfleld, hie president oi the defunct Bank of ThiiiaeeHle for tfibeulement of funds Crow the hank. I These sera pa of paper nyrmrtid no tee left by Am'Md In place «( j 1142,000 that was taki n from the Bank nf Thnmusvllle, 120,000 of wtitrfc i was than to the credit of the Baptiet ' Orphanage at Thomaeville aa a de positor. These wraps stand foe an impoel.i* sum of atone jr when row pa red with the rota of the realm owned hjr the average North Carolinian, but they become nor* Imposing still when | hi fa nil with the total depoeiu of *32»ft00 carried Uy the TbomasvllW hank when It cloned Ita doors the twentieth day of laat Auguit. If Arm fie Id had known these acrape 1 of paper would iave him from a pris on term, no doubt he would have re mained la Aaaerka. He teemed to have believed, however, that scrape of paper, worthlaaa scrape moat of them. wouMat save his hide and so hit the grit to Mexico, where scrape of paper are laaa highly respected. The story ef these acnpa of paper famish a background for a story without parallel In banking aanals ta North Carolina. They rsproeeat Ike difference, according to the law of the land at Interpreted at Armflekfs trial, betwsn felonious tataat and lack Or Mill, in theae mi in n day« the psychology of tW situation mat be cnnslisM* TW stories of Arn phan children, the knock down Mi Ml out method. employed to gat Armflald Inak to his native heath, the wnitd expreaeiona of a lot of angry bank depositor*—all thase thine* luM contributed to a pnpalar conception of Am/laid at a devil In carnate with real horni. So was the feeling agates* ArmfleM be*e that the praeacutta doubted ita ability to cat a Jury that could hear the caae impartially. Maay men had to ba dietharged because af their admitted feeling against the defendant Bat it turned oat tha» iliaiflakl waant a devil at all. In all raapecte *e apfwaret* to be re.y much Ilka other men, and a very human eort af person. Thla disarmed mneh feeling at the trial in everybody's mind except Armfield'a. He was confident, so the local paper reports, that he would receive the maximum asatence af thirty yean in prison. 8a mneh surprised was ha at his acquittal that he actually reeoiled from the jury that freed him. He could not baUavw that they did not consider him a devil still. After all he was a mere saan. The Jury waa introduced to a miry maxe of legal technicalities by the ex pert attorneys far Armfield. His lawyers argued that since there was a note for every loan made to ArmflaM aad the companies representing him and every one properly entered span the hooka of the bamk, there could hare been aa fraudulent intent. Thar rang the tlai|(h on that ward, and moved for dismiaaal of the actios toe*. Judge Long refuted and let it go to the Jorjr. In Ma charge though he wu carcfnl to tall the Juror* that thay moat to eonrict Arufleld baUere that at the time the money waa taken from the bank there waa an Intent to defraud the bank. Enter the acrape of paper. The Stated attorney* argued that It ia that erery man intend* the natural conaequencee of hla acta. Many of the note* were unaecured by endova et* other than Amflatd or hit com paniea and thte cariliaanm they ar gned. constituted itHibi of fhmdu lent Intention*. F armor ml Pwtm Claiw Pilat Cow ^DwHhiMB, June 10 .--E. B Ooaort, THE NEGRO IN AMERICA CtMW Ckr— hliwitfan PmH AWwt Cibrtd Rm« Yuutba O mpaalM: When tkt Ant mm of the Urn ad State «m taken in 17M one In •vary five wm a aagru, or, to be met, IM ptr ml Two )wmi ago, when the fourteenth tow— wm taken, om person in every ton wm Mack. The facte ere iaterweting, for they »how that hi apite a# the well-known fecun dity of the black race It ia not increas ing « rapidly is this eoantry aa the white race la. The wMte pupil, of nxrie, hare added at III tan* to their number by immigration and other I tone through the offspring of tntmi granta, eheieas the cdond race haa had alBMMt no increane of that wrt But the pwtwi waa noticeable even before the great tide of immigration betas hi the forttoa. In the fifty yean between 17*0-1 MO the proper ton of whttoa in oor population roee from *0.7 per cent to M.2 per cant. In the half century between 1870 and lfN It went from M.2 to M.7 par cent; that la, it roae mora rapidly but not more atoadily than in the earlier period. There ia tome reason to think that the negroee were under enumerated in the laet eeneoa—Dr. Kelly Miller of Howard University feele certain of W; hot even with the rrviaed figures that he roggeet* the proportion of white* would he SM per cent. whereM in 1*10 it was only MA A still Mete i—rtrtli fact brought out by the census Is the gra dual shifting of the acgiu population fro* Sooth to North, The five statoe of Sooth Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Miaaiaaippi and Louiaiana, actually had thirty-eeren fewer Mack ptnw in lt#0 than they had in 1MI, The five itaUe of New York, Pennsylvania. Indiana, Ohio aad Illinois bad thrve hundred aad twenty *efh. With I 04 H, NMi • colored birth rate, which mwii| to | the cenaus authorities is not yet off - set, aa it h in the mm «f the race, Iif a gioatlj diminished rata. It eeeau muonahle to believe that the colored net wfll not thrive so wall to the colder cttowt* of the North and wader the confining condi tions of industrial life as it has thrived on the plantations of the Sooth; bat the northward drift la nn mietakable ft will take a long time to make the wider distribution of the nagvo socially aad poMtienllr appar ent. No doabt there always be more negroes In the 8ooth than to the Norih; bat Judge Tourgoe's predic tion of "eight blaek republics" to the 8outh la already diacreditad. The negro ia moving oat of the "Black Bolt" into a wider world. fa Fall Swtai im Dvtuua Durham, June 10.—J. B. recently appointed u district for co-operative Mifcitiif of wettern district, it wiViiif a tow of the entire district, perfecting his organization. Durham eoanty has at present • signup of about 70 per cewt of Ha farmer*. Meetings ars bring held throughout the county by local advocates of the system which art be ing attended by a large w—her of fmn. Plant art nnflwwy for another campaign to tecure tigna turts of tht farmers who bar* no* al ready signed tht co-opera tire market ing contracts. Two of the four local warehousee hare been turned over to the cooperative, and will be operated under the new eystem thia season. | Juno 10,—Tht packa of the local fox other hunter* in thit failed to "make a dent" hi the Mho of wily Reynard after a feat ttaeen of fox hunting, and the cleeed nattn here will not be ibtir.il Tht law la tlaatit. Whtrt foxtt are a nui they may be hunted at any an ttfll teadar MaCUME TO CONT1ST HAYMORC II PVflllAI IIMI IB 9VN99 rrt cincti ttfc MiCdr* I# Taka Lagal Actio* Dubwy lip i rrw. Jaly I. ■. A. HtGiin win coatoat the Mi iaatfam of R. L. Hijnm tor Um Rot ate in thin district. MaCalrt, mm PnM by NmW AiWw, of tarry, ' *h here today wiwln affWertU NfMinf Irroarulartttea la Um Btofeae primary N. Rarl Wad, tigtMer if Daeda of Mm, and (Mail 1mm. Member of the Rtobse Board of Dm- . ttona, Mad* affidavits that rtaht pre rMeta, to-wrt LamoatUb, BoyWe. WBaon'a Store, Motr, frane, Pltnty Knell, Cart Sandy Ridfa, aad Waat Sandy Ridge, rant in returaa un •worn to while up to tWa thae tba retains from Tiliay'i precinct bar* not bam raeaivrd at alt. All of wbkb la contrary to law, aad tba paaca and dignity of tba State. Whereupon, Mr. MaGuire, arhooe OOM Ination hinges upon tbiae or four votes, doclaraa be will take action to bar* the irregular return* thrown out on the iroond of pooefcie fraad. MaGuire haa retained Attorney ft W. Hall to r«prM«nt his mUraata here In the Matter. tog Obliterated St. Loots, J una 10.—Tin last of the flam mounds, which skirted the Mississippi Hwr in with St. I soil, •ad wMcn pn this «Ky the nW qoet, "The Mound City," is bate* levelled to maks way for mm iM ptaM. This last of tho old mounds, which sra soppossd to havs bosa boBt la prehistoric ttmss, Is sboot MO foot in Isagth sad shoot SO foot wide. Ths excavating fores* report that spaars, arrow hoods sad poswliarty aim| n fa^to to tV m^wC£ in«teo. ^st bava haoa tho sitae of homos of early 1 Louisiana. < When St Loals was foondod there 1 were 2T of thoss moands leading from 1 the little city oa what wws callod bjr 1 icisotists tho "second hank" of tho 1 river. They wars striking parts of ths landscaps in ths neighborhood » sad impressed visiters to ths place. c Whaa the dtjr becami a small town 1 ths miosdi caoasd it to ba callod tho I 'Monad Cltjr," although tho growth c if ths town has ohMtsratsd moot of 1 tho traoos of the artificial earth 1 works. -s I* PsWfcsrrj Crop is Now Bsimg Marketed Sanford, Jane 10.—Tho gathering ind shipping of ths dowberry crop Is well under way. Bala has interferred with ytstrtag and pockjag to aoaso as lant. It is now estimated that ap proximately ISO cars of barrios will to gathswd aad shipped from ths terry boh this seaaoa. Tha crop ihows aa Ineraase of shoot MO par sewforor tho crop of teat pear, aad h la reported that several handrsd ad Uttonal acres will ha planted to daw terries this fall. Ths crop this yaar • of aa exceptionally ftoo quality aad Ihoas that hare bosa shipped sold at rood prices. • . "Did that patent x>u*ht core rmtaM! "Mmj, mi Ob naili Ihtt waa wiappod immf the bottle iIm got two WN di» —Beaton Truacrtpt. TwtfaMBf to the toot of tnrth. And M Kidney PUb have atood the Mat la Mount Alrjr. No Mount Airy Ola cm by tMa twiee-tof Mra. J. C. Hartia, IN «. Mate St, iay»: "Doan'a Kidney Pllla cored Me Km yean ago of a bad caae of back tcbe. Mm I took Ooan'a, I twfal patoa la my toek ached aa I eoold hard* do >mwili I ea« Dom*i Kidney HOa rn.MMiafca ao Mffciy. I vat i baa of thaaa at tka Weat Drag Co., laow tka JoHae EMridga Drag Man) Mi whoa I lad tokM ataray bat* reh a a toot daal bettor. Oae box mcaaeooraadl STL-.-. id: "I nimiH Dom*. Kidaay Pllla aa highly aa I did befora*. Dom* M a» la goad health aad |M» L«et< MOTOR LICENSE FOR IMS that fear* be«u ri for run and fwn kf Wo. 1 went tor the r»»r i« THoa. B. Wilder, of k brother-in-law of Ugkwtjr >ioaer Frank Pift No. M aad 1g the jroar ♦3,000.000 On* tbouaaad ipecla] Ucenaet have aen ordered lor the State highway amaiaaion, numbered (m 1 to U>00. 1 Imp are duplkataa of the regular < tatee, except the letter H stenciled to M end. The flrat hundred will be i Md for aerrlee ear* and the Mill- ] if NO dtotiftvtod aaogf the main 1 inance and engineering can. In the 1 toe districts. Numbers fiw 100 to M will fe to the First District, 900 ' > 290 to the Second District, and so < Hide* Porck Fm AutoUta ayton, IV. J, haa a big front parch en la house, which Is oa Bingman's Md at a point where there i« a sharp ■ret, aad for many years he haa sat •ere to the evenings aad smoked his Ipe without anything happening to Ml But Monday ha was ha ring a kg into the porch aad wrecking one ad of it. The automobiiiat paid for the usage had went oa hit way aad the otaustor seat for a carpenter, who ■orfcod all night pKlig a new aad d the porch. The pttl ■■■>■> went St to have another smoke, bat ha had ardly tfltod Ms chair hack aad light d his pipe when saathtr wtwwMe une wMssing around the carve aad kidded. SIGN UP CLOSES AS HOUSES OTSM Cr*w«r« WW Wait WW U QUI—d to Dmpmmd mm Am ftalaigfc, Jmm 1$.—Tihm piwii wha wait and aaa |id to traat tk* «ak af thair IMS cnp to tka aitoi aaarahutaaaa airordlm to today* aa rmutv-MMnt frw Ralairh haadq*aart ti of ilia Titmi Ct««ir< C» opwa ti»a AaaaciaUoa. Th« ofairta* af tha aaad •avanty-flv. warahobiii af tka ana ctaUoa will Hit tka aad af tka ap portaaity wkitk farmars now km to •iffn ay thia rwr*! crop wttk tka ar f aniltd |IWWI» 8U tkauaaad aaw aiatm. thirty million pmm4» af titacri and aaa ha»« baan iddad within tkfaa moo tka to tka aaamiattnii which la aaw tka largaat c>-oparathra moilitlM to tka United -Stotoa. with nar TJjM fwwtri. Sevan! aaatvrn North Caraltoa rountiaa have now paaaad an to far cant sign-op and intenaa n alligator aaaociatioa to brtog tka avaraca alg» up to 75 par cant af tka tabaaea raiatd in aaatern North Caialiaa. THoasanda of faraaara from aix waatarn North Carolina iroaattoa tatharad at Klkin yaaterday to cata brata with Sorry county giwaa tka ■ign-op of ckiaa to M par east of tWr tobacco and weicoaM Othrar J. Saa*. axacativt nunafrr of tka aaaactolto* af tobacco n a warm. RECORD CROP IN VIR GINIA The wheat crop U om of tk« larfeet wen is 7Mrs ind aatforariy pit harvest in* will begin in TIm tobacco (wun hare practlesl y completed their task of iot the crop. This year than hat been a iio® of food from the beds to the nrtually the oaths crop aptliaally early htrrdt barring f« The crop of t aha ceo to at me. This to accounted for hi by the fact that the aw that that they raiae the 1 ooney they will (M. Last yeai ry was bat this year at least Oris Is being forfoMen and a Ik «*d erep la la riew. la Sooth Carolina the crop is so ad 'anced that "topping" will begin a a ftutolgtol. Interest in the fate of the 'pool" orgaatoetkm is still rith to have ha new plan works hi practice here to now a period of ww that it retake to he raiting hr the crop to