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HISTORY OF 1906 The World's Chief Events and Tendencies of a Year Outlined In Orderly Array Fcr Busy Readers Who Want to Be Well Informed. By EDWIN S. POTTER. Editor Universal News Analysis. Libera! Aspirations Sway Governments ol (KeCid World A survey of tlie various nationalities cliows a decided drift toward liberal Institutions and standards. ENGLA.NI> -To begin with, the elec tion of a new Itrltlsh parliament last January resulted in an overwhelming victory for the Liberal party, (qualified only by the sudden rise of a powerful labor party. Campbell-naunerman In Balfour's place organized a strong composite ministry of self mnde men. The parliament stood with 377 1.1her als, 130 Unionists, 83 Nationalists and CO Laborites When the king's speech frankly declared for a radical home rule policy in Ireland the opposition mustered only eighty-eight votes. A nonconformist education bill passed by the commons AITtlL 22 wus op posed by the lords. England set a big gest hattleehlp jsittern with the launching of the Dreadnought, I'EB. 10. a pattern which Germany, America, Russia, Japan and others were not alow to follow. FRANCE. ? Clement Armand Fal lleres was elected president JAN. 17. Troubles over the church Inventory began In February, and n coalition of Clericals cud Socialists defeated the Itouvler ministry in March, M. Harden oncoming pre m I e r. Troops were necessary to quell the serious mine strike riots lift er the fatal ex plosion at Conr riers, in which more than 1,000 men lost their lives. Here was felt the strong 11 n ? . ? I ..t M nu menccau, then M Clenrenceau. . - , , minister of the Interior, who successfully headed off a labor revolt when the General strike wan declared, MAY 1. In the succeed ing elections the government was sus tained, and on OCT. IS) Cletneneeau succeeded Sarrien as premier and brought Colonel Plcquart vindication by making him war minister. The con demnntion of Dreyfus had been finally annulled by the supreme court, JULY 12, and he had been restored to the army, with command of a division. Clemenceau's great crisis came. DEC. 11, when with firm hand he proceeded to execute the separation law, sending the poi>e's ambassador to the frontier and taking forcible possession of the church property. Passive resistance was urged by the church lenders. RUSSIA.?The czar announced ou Al'HIL 2-1 a constitution, the purpose Of which was to retain his control of the army and navy, to dcclure his right to dissolve the doumn and to give the upper house, or council of state, the right to pnss upon all legislation Thus circumscribed, the first Russian parliament was opened ut St. Peters t .iirr, VI A V 1,1 I.., * I i_ - ?'??? un iv.111 in jtcrsuu. i lie , Constitutional Democrats were Id n large majority, and there was a large peasant representation. A stroug ail dress demanding political amnesty, universal suffrage, laud for peasants and legislative Independence of the douma was adopted, but It was reject ea'J by I'remier Goremykiu. After talk dng i ontlnuously for two mouths and ?eleven days without tangible result the douma suddenly was dissolved by 'the czar Jl'LY 23. The repressive measures which had rbeeu used against the liberal classes by Minister of the Interior Durnovo were aiow intensified under the pre imnv?hlp of M. Stoiypln, thousands of ISf'tellectuals being banished to ,Siberia and many serious Hebrew massacres resulting, the worst of which were at Blalystok on JUNE 17 and at Siedlce on SEPT. 8. Repression was answer ed by terrorism and assassination, aud a series of peasant uprisings begin ning JULY 20 destroys^ many fine es tates and spoiled the crops. On JULY 30 in anticipation of the long expected general strike there be gan a number of bloody mutinies at Sveaborg. Finland, at Cronstadt, at Re val and on the Black sea. Mutinies also occurred frequently In the army, even the czar's guard regiment being affected. The bulk of the army and navy remained loyal, however, and these sporadic revolts were crushed with a stern hand. The general strike, too, proved ineffective. Famine is Rus sia's Winter guest. GERMANY.?Barring the costly colo nial war In southwest Africa, which caused the dissolution of the reichstag DEC. 13, the kaiser's people bad a busy and p: sperous year. The effect of the treaty s gued at Alweeiras, Spain, APRIL 7, providing a Joint lutcrun t.onal contr d in Morocco, was proof enough that the Anglo-French ailiauce ? ! could not Ignore Germany. A grandson to the kaiser was born JULY 4. SPAIN.?Two events within the Span ish realm commanded the attention of I the world. One was the International conference at Algeclrus The other was the bomb punctured wedding ceremo ny of King Alfonso and Princess Eua | ut Madrid MA I hi NOIiWAY.? At Norway's ancient cap ital. Trondhjem. JUNE 22. the newly elected King Haakon VII and Queen Ma ml were crowned 1'EliSI A.?The age-long hypnotic spell of absolutism which hud held back | progress lb Persia gave way at last be ! for? the Influence of Hussla's terrific ferment The leading merchants and mullahs voiced the aspiration for self government, and the shah convoked a representative assembly to be known as the bouse of Justice JAN. 24 and granted n constitution AUG. 15. SPANISH AMKItlCA. - President Pulmu of Cuba began his second term MAY 20, with the Island republic ap parently making good progress toward security, opposition of tbe defeated Liberals having subsided, but sudden ly. about the middle 6f August, a uutn Her of Liberal lenders were ar rested, and lien eral 1'lno fiuer ra bended ? J strong force of ' rebels In Piimr i del Itlo An of- I fer of amnesty " was rejected and martial law declared. Sever al fatal clashes occurred before A an armlsticcfl whs arrangisl S k? t( - 1' \rj mcnnra. AULl , . Pino Uuerra. and Hacon, sent by President Roosevelt, SKIT. 10. The abdication of Talma whan he found that tb? American government not disposed to Intervene In hit fuvor com pelled Taft to proclaim hlmaetf provl atonal governor, SKIT. 29, uud to call for sufficient naval und military sup port to overawe tho warring factious Later Taft was succeeded by Magoon. Panama and Colombia made a treaty of peace AUG. t. Since January Ven ezuela and Trance have ceased diplo matic relations. President Castro quit office, a sick man. All the South and Central American countries were repre sented at the pan-American congress nt Itlo de Janeiro In August. They fa vored a general arbitration convention to be enacted by The Hague conference and approved the Drago doctrine. JAPAN.?After gottlng her grip on the Chinese trade Japan condescended to open the door Into Manchuria in March, and the new world power of the orient was engaged In May In mak ing n new tariff law with retaliatory and protective features. A roost amaz ing feature of Japan's progress was the nationalizing of all her Industries. CHINA.?Even the Chinese pulse ap pears nt last to be throbbing with the common asplrutlon for individual ex pression under popular government, uud by the decree of the aged empress a commission of distinguished China men visited western uatlons and re turned to begin the creation of a con stitution for China. KONGO.?The Belgian management of the vast Kongo estate became an acute International Issue late In the year when the British government sug gested the possibility of Intervention In the name of humanity. Leopold's lobby at Washington was exposed, and the senate was expected to act on the Lodge resolution. Sl&tc and Federal Decisions Antagonize Trusts Missouri, whose attorney general was pressing eertnlu telling questlous upon officials of the Standard Oil com pany at New York In the first week of the year, was the state and St Louis the city In which the federal attorney general began formal proceedings, NOV. 15, to dissolve this same huge corporation with thinly veiled threats of criminal actlou against Its creator, Rockefeller, and his official associates. This suit was the culmination of the Investigations authorized by congress and conducted by Garfield and the com merce commission. The Garfield re port had brought with It the presi dent's official denunciation of the Stand ard's illegal practices. MAY 4. and the' challenge from the nation's chief was! boldly accepted by ttie Standard ottl ! clals in n statement denying the charges and rebuking the president. Hnt It remained for Ohio to take the brunt of the year's legal battle against the oil trust At Flmllny Id July a suit was started under the state anti trust law. and Jolm D. Rockefeller was summoned. Through counsel he plead-1 ed not guilt), and on OCT. 0 the state began u broadside ease against the \ Standard Oil Company of Ohio on the charge of conspiracy to restrain trade, all the officials being summoned. On OCT. 19 the Jury adjudged the com pauy guilty, and the sentence of $5,000 a day. retroactive, was Imposed by Judge Hanker. The case was appealed. The New York Central railroad was prosecuted for rebating to the sugar trust and fined $108,000, while the sugar trust was fined $108,000 for re ceiving the rebates. Trior to the oil prosecutions the big beef packers brought to trial at Chica go on criminal charges had gone scot free on the decision of Judge Ilum- j phrey, holding that they were Immune because their testimony had been given confidentially to Garfield. At Kansas City JUNE 12 four of the packers?Ar mour, Swift, Cudahy and Morris?were found guilty of accepting rebates from the Burlington. In nearly fill of the larger cities com- j blnutlons of ice companies were attack ed for conspiracy in forcing up prices, the most promptly successful prosecu tiou being against the five Toledo deal ; ers. who were not only fined but who began their Jail sentences, but later got , out on bond and appeuled. At Phila delphia the indicted Ice men got off with a nominal flue, but were warned against a second offense. District Attorney Jerome of New York reported that he could And noth ing on which to base a case agaiust the Mutual, but the New York Life was stlli under scrutluy, and the cases uguiust the liurukuins and Eldrldge of the Mutual lteserve came to trial in December, George Buruhain, Jr., being convicted of larceny. Supreme court decisions were: Holding it to be illegal for railroads to deal iu any commodities which they haul: that the railroads may select through routes; upholding the Michigan sd valorem rallroud tux; refusing Mis souri's appeal against the Chicago drainage canal; upholding the suspen sion of Chicago street gall way charters for ninety-nine years, but not the con- ( tract rights thereunder. Circuit courts nt St. Louis and Cin cinnati held that an Illegal trust could not collect bills by legal process. Iu February the arrest of President Moyer and Secretary Haywood of the Western Federation of Miners, togeth er with u member, Pettlbone, at Den ver, on the charge of having planned the murder of ex-Governor Stcuuen berg iu December, 1U05, and their hasty Imprisonment In Idaho without extruditlon formalities cuused wide spread resentment uniong labor and Socialist classes. Pending their trial a habeas corpus uppeul was curried up to the supreme court and there refused DEC. - Dumont and Peary Take Scientific Honors After centuries of dreaming and ex perimentation It was the privilege of the year 1000 to see man's first me chanical navigation of the air from a standing start in a screw propelled aeroplane. This was accomplished by M. Santos-Dumont at Paris, SEPT. 13, und in a later flight he won the $10,000 prize by flying over a kilometer from a stunding start. Lieutenant Lalim, an A morion n wr?n uternatlonal bal loon race from Tar s, OCT. 1. In popular estlma :lon no work of tlie .ear ranks higher ban that of Robert G. Peary, who car ai. ou.iitoa-iiumunt. r|,,f] (|1L, stars and stripes through the lonesome polar night to the eighty-seventh parallel and found a way to reach the pole next trip. Wellman got his big airship ready at Dane's Island, but deferred a start till next year. Unity was again the keynote of re ligious nnd philanthropic effort. On MAY 24 the union of the Presbyterian and Cumberland Presbyterian churches was completed, although a minority of the latter began a dissenting legal tight. Congregatlouallsts. Methodists and United Brethren planned a union. In Cnnada the merging spirit embraced all Protestant denominations. Two national gatherings, at Washing ton and at Philadelphia, were held in the Interest of uniform dlvOrcft laws. Mrs Parsons' book mentioning the idea of trial marriage in the distant future caused a great outcry of disapproval. State supervision of marriage was talked of The bureau of labor said the cost of living hail gone up nearly a third. In the ioug list of accidents and dis asters three of nature's convulsions stand out In calamitous relief?namely, the tiery upheaval of Vesuvius. APRIL 7. and the Pacific const iptaklngs which resulted In the tumbling down and burning of the greater portions of San Francisco, APRIL IT, and of Valparai so. Chile. AUG. Id. \ storm. SEPT. 27, swept the gulf coast, taking over 100 lives and doing a million's damage. Dentins choicest harvest Included Harper, educator' Wheeler, soldier; Curie, scientist: Schurx. reformer: An thony, suffragist: Ibsen, dramatist: Seddon. premier: Christian king of ( Denmark; Cragie. novelist; Martin, black pope. DR. BOUCHELLE Dr. L. B. Bouchello of Thomasville, Da., a physician well known In the South, is very enthusiastic over the cod liver oil preparation Vtnol. ' He says: "I have used Vinol In my fam ily and In my general practice with the most satisfactory results. It Is exceedingly beneficial to those afflict* ed with bronchial or pulmonary dis eases and to create strength." t The reason Vinol is so far superior ' to old fashioned cod liver 9 oil and I emulsions, is because it is a real cod liver preparation from which all thb useless oil has been eliminated.and 1 tonic Iron added. We ask every weak,} thinV run down, nervous and aged'person ? in town, and all those suffering * from chronic colds, coughs and weak lungs, to try Vinol on our guarantee. Hood Bros., Druggists. r A ^ Preachment < On PRINTING | f The man in business cannot be too careful about \ J the quality of his printed matter?It goes where he a cannot go?It is his silent representative?No house I k with a reputation founded on merit can afford to ? I be judged by printed matter not in harmony with jr L its business methods. This is not sentiment, it is | T logic. J ? Every now and then some little printed thing jf Y comes to your desk which makes a distinct im- L A pression?perhaps it is well written, well printed, $ j happily illustrated, tastefully put together?Per- 4 k haps it has distinctivness, individuality, character. 1 t All these things enter into the make-up of good 1 ? printing. And did it ever occur to you that this is f t the only kind of printing that pays? |> ^1 Our specialty is the creation of distinctive style in & k typography. If you are tired of the century-old (, v ideas, tired of experimenting, you are ready for our J E kind of printing?It costs no more than the other. f ^ We preach the gospel of good printing partly for p 5 art's sake, but more especially because good print- i 9 ing pays- J I BEATY, HOLT & LASSITER, \ ^ SMITHFIELD, ^ North Carolina | fln Negro vs. Caucasian. The differences of the brain and mental traits as fundamental conditions may be the primary cause of everything relating to the race question, other causes being secondary or merely symp toms resulting from the elemen tal conditions. If this be true, the remedy should be applied to the brain and mind of the negro. But is the condition hereditary, and fixed, or is it due to environ ment and alterable? Is it cap able of change or is it stable? Is the negro capable of mental de velopment in the same way as is the Caucasian? Time alone can answer these questians. Histo ry, investigations, experiments, and existing conditions indicate that traits are hereditary and stable, and that the negro is not capable of mental development in the same way that the Cau casian is. The remedy should be to develop the negro along the lines of natural inclination and fitness, which liues must be es tablished scientifically, not senti mentally .?From Robert Ben nett Bean's "The Training of the Negro" in the Century. It's a pleasure to tell our read ers about a Cough Cure like Dr. Shoop's. For years Dr. Shoop has fought against the use of Opium, Chloroform, or other un safe ingredients commonly found in Cough remedies. Dr. Shoop, it seems, has welcomed the Pure Food and Drug Law recently enacted, for he has worked along similar lines many years. For nearly 20 years Dr. Shoop's Cough Cure containers have had a warning printed on them against Opium and other narcotic poisons. He has thus made it possible for mothers to protect their children by simply insist ing on having Dr. Shoop's Cough Cure. Sold by Hood Bros. NOTICE OF LAND SALE. By virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain mortgage deed executed by Patience Daughtry, of Johnston County, State of North Carolina, dated January 1st, 1905, to J. H. Barnes, of Wilson County, State aforesaid, we will on Monday, the 28th day of January, 1907, at the Court House door in Johnston County, at 12 o'clock M, sell to the highest bidder for cash at public outcry, the follow ing described tract or parcel of land, lying and being in Boon Hill Township, Johnston Coun ty adjoining the lands of Daniel Woodard, Monroe Woodard and Pollie Wiggs, and more particu larly described as follows: Be ginning at a stake in the run of the Davis Mill Branch where the old tram road crosses said branch, and runs up the run of said branch Uj a pine, A. G. Woodard's corner, thence with said line North 43i West 29$ poles to a stake, thence South 46 West 28 8-10 poles to a sweet gum, thence North 34$ West 20 poles to a stake, thence South 63$ West 46$ poles to a stake in the old tram road, thence South with said to the beginning containing 47 2-3 acres more or less. This the 27th da? of Decem ber, 1906. J as. W. and Jno. T. Barnes, Executors, to the last will and testament of J. H. Barnes, Mort gagee, deceased. Barnes & Dickinson, Attys., Wilson, N. C. Dr. R. R. Holliday Dentist Office l'p Stairs over Commercial and Saving Bank Building. Office Hours 9 to 1 and 3 to 5. Will be at Four Oaks the 8rst VTed ncsday and Thursday in each month New: Shop! I I have taken charge of the New Blacksmith and Wood Shops near the Presbyte rian church and back of the store of the Smithfield Sup ply Company. I expect to make Carts, Wagons and Buggies. Repairing and horseshoeing a specialty. Thred years experience. I ask your patronage. A. H. PHELPS, i Smithfield, N. C. New Firm. We have associated our selves together to do busi ness under the firm name of J. J. Ferrell & Co. We shall occupy two stores, in cluding the one formerly used by Edgar Stallings. We expect to keep a full line of Dry Goods, Notions, Groceries, Fruits, and Con fectioneries, Christmas Goods in great variety. We Ask Your Patronage. J. J. FERRELL. T. R.CARROLL. H. POOL. CLAYTON. N. C. 25 per cent, discount on $11 suitrf. Austin-Stephenson Co., Smithfield.
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