Men and Women WHO ARE IN The Dispatches w N view of the crusade against al fs| leged grafters iu public office, es I jicclul interest attaches to the case of United States Senator Johu Kulph Kurt on of Kansas. lie is rharged with using his influence us a tcuutor iu behalf of the Kialto ttrain uud Securities company of St. Louis. It is alleged that he intervened iu an Improper manner to prevent proceed ings being brought uguinst the coin puny by the postotilce department. He was tried and convicted on the charge, then procured u new trial and was again convicted. There is an unwritten rule of the senate that a member indicted for mal feasance in oiHce must not vote with his colleagues until his innocence is es tablished. When the question of admit ting New Mexico to statehood was up for consideration last winter Burton was in the Repub lican cloakroom, willing and anxious to vote against the SENATOR J. R. bui roil. admission or tue i present territory. lie stood there wait ing for the word. Sturdy Republican leaders like the late Senator I'latt of Connecticut and Senator Allison of Iowa knew that with Burton's vote to be had for the asking they could win. No power on earth could prevent Bur ton from walking into the senate cham ber and voting if he hud the nerve to brave the displeasure of the senate. They wanted the vote, but here was a senator under indictment who had been told to stay away from the sen ate chamber until his case was decid ed. It was agreed that the dignity of the senate must be upheld, that a sen ator under indictment could not vote until he was cleared, and the leaders who were against N'ew Mexico saw the bill to admit that territory passed, although the vote that would have beat en the project was within call. How ever, disagreement between senate and house resulted after all in defeating the plan to make a new state. Senator Thomas C. Piatt, who testi fied regarding campaign contributions from insurance companies before the Armstrong committee and is engaged in an effort to reorganize his purty in New York, appeared very infirm when he took the stand in the insurance in vestigation. When he had concluded his testimony he was assisted from the room by four men, and on leaving it sank wearily into a small chair. This was then lifted by the men, who in this way conveyed him to his carriage. Senator Piatt has a sense of humor that has often help ed him out of per plexing situations. In the course of ills career he has been appealed to by all kinds of persons for all kinds of favors. > ? ' I !???? 1 SENATOR T. C. PLATT. (111 one occasion he received a letter regarding a young army officer who had been denied promotion because ot some defect in his eyesight. His moth er wrote to Senator Piatt, asking for his assistance, closing her letter with the words, "I leave It all to you and the Lord." The senator forwarded this appeal to the secretary of war, saying in his own uote: "I have noticed that ween a matter is left to me and the Loul I am held responsible in case of failure. Therefore 1 beg that you will assist me." Representative William Peters Hep burn of Iowa is a veteran of the civil war and a veteran in politics, lie will shortly begin his tenth term in con gress, was born in Wellsville, ()., in 1N3.'I and was llrst elected to public of fice in 18T)<>. He participated in the convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln in 18t>0, and he made a gallant [ record on tin' Union side in the war ; which began soon after Lincoln's Inau j gnration. In the last congress Mr. llep burn, who was chair ... ,. i man or 1110 connnii teeon Interstate and foreign ooinnieroe, Introduced n bill in regard to regulation of railroail rates which was much criticised on the ground that It was Inadequate to effect the objects desired, lie was a member of the congressional tmrfv tli lit ri?r?f?utlv WILLIAM TETEHH HEPBURN. 1 *? - ? - -' ?? Visited the Philippines. At a banquet In Tokyo, Japan, he responded to the toast "Views of the American Congress on the Philippine Question," in the course of which he remarked that the congress was made up of "386 human beings and 00 senators;" consequently no one could foretell what their views would lie. Colonel Pete, ns the congressman is sometimes called, was once criticising the logic of a colleague, which remind ed him, he deelhred, of a certain su'r geon. "This surgeon," said he, "one Saturday afternoon performed lieforc a large class In a tine amphitheater some thirty swift operations. At the end, as he was washing his hands, young assistant tiptoed over to him and whispered in his ear: " 'In the Hlgglns cubc, sir, there np pears to have been some mistake.' ""A mistake in the IIIkkiiis cum? I thick not,' Mi ill the surgeon. " 'Yes.' the other insisted. 'Vou cut off Hlggins' wrong leg, sir.' ?' 'Oh, well. Unit is of no consequence.' ?aid the surgeon. 'We can cure the other one. so it comes to the same thing In the end!"" Rear Admiral Francis M. Ramsay, re tired, the presiding officer in the court martial of Midshipman Meriwether of the Annapolis Naval academy, served on the famous Sampson-Schley court of inquiry, lie knows something about such affairs as that in which Midship man Branch lost his life, as he was once superintendent of the Annapolis academy. The admiral was born near Washinston in 1S35 and entered the navy in 1850. He . i: .* i.. 4:? t mi v. on ui&iiui uuu in the civil war anil commanded the Choctaw at Haines' bluff in the engage ment in which that Ironclad was struck over fifty times. Rear Admiral Ram say succeeded Rear Admiral Sampson ns superintendent of the Naval acad emy, and it was during his ad minis REAR ADMIRAL F. M. RAMSAY. trillion lliut an investigation was or dered by congress in respect to 11 re port that a cadet named Strang had been killed by hazing. It was said that his tormentors rolled him down hill in a barrel which had spikes driv en through its sides It was proved that (lie cadet did not die from such a cause and that he had never been hazed. It was also during his admin istration that a rebellion among the cadets occurred. The insubordinate students were members of the first, or highest, elass, and their action rendered them liable to dismissal. ? They were confined on the prison ship Santee and deprived of all privileges until the re bellion was quelled. A curious fea ture of it was their allegation that they had rebelled because Rear Ad miral Ramsay had ordered all their heads shorn in order to get hair for the mortar used in building a new resi dence for the superintendent, but this was not the real reason for their action. Poultney Bigelow, who has recently published the fourth volume of his his tory of "The German Struggle For Lib erty," lias recently been in Munich in vestigating the famous Munich week ly Simplicissimus. This paper, edited by Thoma, the popular author, drama tist, poet and satir ISl, UIHUCS II IIS spe cial business to point out to the em peror how he is re garded by his peo ple. It hates war, ridicules the army's code of honor and the dueling fads of the students and ad vocates popular lib erty?all this with much brilliancy and freshness. Natural I CQfYHICNT l?08JY.I f ^JWCY J POULTNEY BIGE LOW. It it is lorDluaen Dy the police at Prussian railway station bookstalls, but the moment the train crosses the border into the next state all the passengers clamor for copies. Every page is submitted to expert legal talent in order to see how far it is safe to go and avoid arrest, but occa sionally Thoma goes to jail for the crime of leze majesty. Mr. Bigeiow is especially* interested in Simpliclssl mus. as he believes the kaiser to bo one of the most maligned men in Eu rope. His intimate knowledge of the kaiser's real self dates hack to the days of the Franco-Prussian war. when he was living with his tutor at Pots dam. and by reason of bis father's per sonal relations with the late Emperor Frederick was often invited to spend Ids holidays with the present emperor. TTe lias ever since been 011 terms of Intimacy witli the kaiser. At one time thoughtless people chaffed him con cerning this comradeship until lie be came tired and irritable at remarks of the kind. It culminated at a dinner in a New York club where one of the guests toid a story of personality. In tlie p ause which followed Mr. Bigeiow remarked: "You remind me of"? "Not tlio Emperor William." Inter rupted the facetious story teller. "Oh. no!" replied Mr. Bigeiow quiet ly. "The kaiser is a gentleman." Octave Thanet was once described as "the only female writer In America who is a humorist." In private life she is Miss Alice French, and she lives at Davenport, la. President Roosevelt is quite an admirer of her work. A Dav * i (infj\ ii, * uiu n< ] N 1111 i n k, re ecntly Journeyed to Washington to at tend n convention of business men. Jnst before lie went wltli oilier delegates to the White House to meet the president he told several of Ills fellows that he was going to test the much vaunted ability of Mr. Hoose ? OCTAVE THANET. t en to rfmemwr every one wnoiti ic hml over met. He had had two meet ings with the president, the Inst being two .rears ngo. At tlie reception he reached the pros ident, who, As lie grasped the colonel's hand, exclaimed: "Hello, colon"!! Glad to see you. How are all my old Mends otif. In Davenport, and especially how Is Miss French? You tell her I rend all she writes. Do you know, that woman knows as inueh about factories r.nd the machine business as a man." CORPORATION PROBLEM How Judge Peter S. Grosscup Would Solve It. PEOPLE MUST BE THE 0WNEB8 tt'cavo Jurist Kivura Artual Cos - tr.il l?>- Stockholders I ntlor Notlos ul Supervision?It*-u a rdk Too I'lMaaft tat Securities a* SalBrirnt ? Would luteraal labor. Judge I'eter S. (Jrosscup of the Unit ed Slates circuit court of appeals of Chicago believes he has found the so lution for the control of great corpora tions. He proposes a plan for their "is opieisation"?that is, their actual ? >utrol by stockholders?under the su Itervlsiou of the government. In an elaborately developed argument In the December number of the American Il lustrated Magazine, from which this summary of the article Is compiled l>y die Chicago News, he shows that cor porations are gradually not only ndding to their great holdings of property, but are practically owners of the immense wealth of the country. "The butcher of today," he says, "is a corporation. The loaf of bread as it comes to us 011 the table is almost ex clusively a corporation product. From whatever point of view, visual to the mind and eye, we may look at it, the domain of property, covered by the corporations, stands out as the great central raei 111 me muusirini me ux iue century that is just opened." Judge Grosscup does not hesitate to say frankly that the corporation of to day is not a safe held for the small in vestor. It is its tremendously complex organization that makes it particular ly unsafe, for, he says, there never was any need for the labyrinthian construc tions that seem to be the order, of the day?securities so overlying each other and often so involved that no one not an exjiert in buying a security can lo cate his claim. It is this state of af fairs?this fear of being bunkoed?that leads the small Investor to put his mon ey in a savings bank. Judge Grosscup points out the way whereby the corporations can be made not only safe, but so simple that the average investor can understand their organization and see clearly what he Is getting for his money when he invests. He also places corporations in their proper light. He shows how they are the creatures of the law?a line or two In the statute books?and then puts forward his "peopleization" plan. The conclusions arrived at by the Jurist are as follows: First.?The beginning of the way out is national incorporation. Second.?The new corporation must be constructed on simple lines. Two classes of securities ought in every case to be sufficient?the security that represents ac tual cash paid In or its equivalent in prop erty and the security that may be issued from time to time as the value of the property actually increases and to cover such increased value. The corporation that cannot be financially launched upon lines thus plainly put before the eye ought not to be launched at all, for here, as else where, mystery means not something es sential to success, but something open to uses other than the corporation's success. Third.?Provision should be made to in terest labor in ownership. The securities Issued on account of increased value should be issued only as the increase is shown, not by prediction or expectation, but by such experience as proves the fact, and provision should be made that such securities may be divided equitably be tween the capital Invested and the labor put in and expedients be adopted to en cour.-ige corporations formed on that ba sis. Fourth.?The corporation being trustee for its owners, the government must be given opportunity to exercise a constant watch that the trust is executed. Under supervision, something like the watch the government holds over the national banks, personal schemes would be reduced to a minimum. And. what is more, corporate activity would be lifted to a higher plane of personal and moral responsibility. Fifth.?Provision should be made for a government exchange, or a private ex change under government supervision, through which the securities of national corporations could be bought and sold. In this way would be drawn a distinctly visible line between the securities of na tional corporations and securities In cor porations that refuse to nationalize ? a line that would soon be understood as the boundary between corporations that were willing to be faithful trustees of the owners, faithful at the same time to their duties to the people, and corporations that had Inner and ulterior designs. My own opinion Is that this distinct differentiation of the national from the hybrid corpora tion would In time lead every corporation engaged In interstate commerce volun tarily to Incorporate under the national law. A Just plan of organization and su pervision being offered, the people would not long permit the bank and insurance accumulations to be absorbed in corpora tions that refused the plan. Throughout the article Judge Gross cup stands for Individualism. He shows the benefit which the country re ceived from the method of distributing lands in the west. Insurance Magnate's Anthem. My comp'ny, 'tis of thee. Sweet ir.lno of craft for me. Of thee I sln?T. Grnft for my eons and heirs, Graft for my friends and theirs, All that the plum tree bears To me you bring. I*et critics howl away. But here I'll calmly stay The winter through. Insurance laws are made But to be disobeyed. Come on, sons! Who's afraldT Pa stands by you. I Let premium payers fret; We've rot 'em In the net; They can't get loose. Tho golden eggs we'll store In our nests as before, And when they come no more We'll kill the goose. My comp'ny, 'tis for me And for my family That you are run. Will I resign? Well, say, Will cows quit eating hay? They can't pry me away. It's too much fun. Chicago Rocord-Herald. J ^ms3SBBBssm ^zagSM^r^, X The One That Made Greensboro Famous X | Greensboro Lilt lnsur?mc It's the business that counts, and there is no s >oret about the Greensboro Life Insurance G a1 Company's business. It was not secured by sentiment, nor by attempts to belittle the : * I I efforts of other oonpulei. It was the Income Indemnity policy that did the [work?the t * bestipolicy in the world. This is the verdict of our policy-holders, who are 'itnong the < # best business people in North Carolina. i ^ I > Not a Single Policy was Issued on the Life of any^Applicant X X Who was Ever Rejected by any Other Insurance Co. V V Directed'by financiers and insurance men of recognized ability, backed by the confidence O V of the people, and selling the best and most liberal insurance policies on the market, it ? V is no wonder that the Greensboro Life Leads Them All. ? x N. A. CARTER., Local Agent, x J SMITHFIELD, N. C. )( Hides - Wanted We want to buy a large lot of Hides and will pay the highest market price for them. We deal in Fancy Groceries and run a First Class Market. Beef, Pork and all kinds of Fresh Meats for sale. Call to see us. J. L. (81 J. D. Johnson, CLAYTON, - North Carolina. On September 1st /Vlr. Milton R. Stallings came to Smithfield to help me again this fall in selling Sewing Machines. We have the machines just from the factory and are ready to carry them out to you. Let us know at once if you want one. New Home and Domestic J. M. BEATY, Smithfield. N. C. I Bring your old | Metals, Rubbers, | I Rags, Etc. to | M. M. Gvilley | Fancy Grocer CLAYTON, ? ? N. C. | fbu/MF 1 L M s fiWijiM V^pHf9vv '^'ie Pa'nt y?u Put on tmlMJ / your house should be ]i3 ff J3 a ^ protecting film that decay out. Some mixtures, called paint, never do this, others do it some times, but The Sherwin-Williams Paint does it always. It is the best protection you can give your house. It does not powder, flake off or crack. It forms a tough, durable film that will last longest and look best. SOLD BY J. E. PAGE= General Wood and Blacksmith Shops and Planing Mills. Dealer in Wagon and Carriage Material. Builders' Material, Mill Supplies. Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Etc. | Undertaking a Specialty. Clayton, N. C. Fire! Fire!! Fire!!! Fire!!!! 1 c First the fire. Then the smoke, No Insurance? Then you are broke! Insure your property at once with Sam T. Honeycutt, Agent And you will be protected apaiust loss. ^ XCXCXCTirXCTCXCXCXCTirTCT::!:: YCT::T-:T!T: :yT t-t ???*???? ? jj The Furniture j ?j Thact Pleases Everybody | N I ' Wo carry the neatest, most attractive line of j; | Furniture to be found in Johnston county. I In Lounges, Settees and Couches we can't ? | be beat for quality and price. Wo make a ; f specialty of Carpets, Rugs and Matting, e Window Shades and Lace Curtains. The f best cheap chair in town. Call to see us. | | Smithfield Furniture Co., Smithfield. N. C. HnrriTirrt.nrr^x.ix; n;xt.T.;x:.