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9? iOT 3v=- ' Timely and to the Point I Colonel John S. Mosby of Cavalry Feme ? The ] f Largest Clock In the I Whole World. 4?r s? ?~ if Congressman Sabath's Anti-dowry Idea?Colo- . nel William F. Stewart's ^ Case?John K. Tener. ??< V ^ COLONEL, JOHN S. MOSBY, the famous Con federate cavalry leader who Is now a member of the department of Jus tice at Washing ton, was reminded of the strenuous days of his career as a warrior when he went under the sur geon's knife a short time ago in a Wash ington hospital. The JOHN 8. MOSBT. operation caused anxiety among some of his friends in view of his age, sev enty-four years. Others, more hopeful, recalled his experience of ten years ago. At that time he was thrown from a buggy at Charlottesville, Va., where he had gone to witness the per formance of a play written by his son. His life was for a time despaired of. but when his former followers cele brated their annual reunion a few months later at the Eutaw House, in Baltimore, he sent them an encourag ing message from San Francisco, where he had gone to practice law It was on that occasion that a speaker who had served under General Stuart and had left the regular command to join Mosby's men spoke of the veteran as a daredevil who would "rank in his tory with men like Sumter, Pickens and Marion. Hancock would not ac cept his sword In surrender, but would have treated him as an outlaw, but Grant recognized him as a soldier." The Colgate clock in Jersey City, the largest in the world, which was start ed by the mayor of Jersey City with appropriate ceremonies on May 25, faces New York from the Jersey shore and is visible for many miles. It is a wonderful piece of mechanism, and its | HOUR HAND OF COLGATS CLOCK. regulation Involves seine Interesting problems. Heretofore the Westminster dials on the parliament buildings in IxH'don have held the record as to size abroad. They have diameters of twen ty-two and a half feet and an area"-of 398 feet each. In this country the Philadelphia city hall clock has dials measuring twenty-five feet across, the area of each dial being 490 square feet. The Colgate clock has dials each of which is thirty-eight feet across, and the area of each is 1,134 feet The minute hand is twenty feet long and with its counterpoise weighs nearly a third of a ton. The ponderous weight that moves the mechanism tips the scales at just a ton, and the whole clock weighs approximately six tons. Across the dial of the clock twenty men could stand shoulder to shoulder. The timepiece is lighted at night, and each hand is outlined with incandes cent lamps. Brilliant red lights mark each numeral, and an incandescent lamp indicates each minute mark. The latter are twenty-four inches apart, and as the tip of the hour hand must travel two feet every minute it jour neys about half a mile every day. The size of the hour hand may bp gauged by comparing its height in the picture with the figure of a man at the right. The Rev, John Long, pastor of the Parkside Presbyterian church, Brook lyn borough. New York city, is a pro nounced advocate of socialism. A Chris tian socialist brotherhood is one of the features of his church, and he has in augurated what he terms "a series of new style revival meetings." As to the question of his orthodoxy the Rev. Mr, I<on? recently said: "Orthodoxy In the Presbyterian church Is a theological term. It has nothing to do with sociology. As a Presbyterian minister I am free to preach any sociology I please short of plural marriage. As to the coming i meetings, I wish to say that the Chris tian church In the times of the ape? ties eared little for creeds and less for ritual." John K. Tener, who has been nom inated for congress by the Republicans of the Twenty-fourth Pennsylvania dis trict to succeed Ernest E. Acheson. was famous twenty years ago as a Na tional league base ball pitcher, lie is I now a millionaire [ banker of Charleroi, I Pa., and is grand eialted ruler of the Elks of North Amer ica. In the late eighties Mr. Tener was a pitcher for the Pittsburg Na tional team and lat er for that of Chi cago, and when A. G. Spalding took JOHN K. TENER. the All American team on a trip around the world Tener went along as one of the pitchers. Later on he helped form the ill fated ltrotherhood, and when it collapsed gave up baseball and, settling at Charlerol, made a for tune in coal lands. It seems the resolution Introduced In congress by Representative Sabatli of Illinois proposing to put a tax on titled foreigners coming over here for wives, or, rather, ou the dowries they take out of the country, has created some alarm abroad, where the Idea has been taken quite seriously by the press. It Is exjiected that there will be hus tling among the impoverished scions of princely houses and the inheritors of much incumbered dukedoms to get over here and pick out their wives be fore any such law takes effect. A London publication says: The fact that during the past genera tion foreign noblemen who have mar ried American women have caused$225, 000,000 of American money to go out ui uH' country uas suggested the possi bility to Mr. Adolpb J. Sabath, a mem ber of the Uuited States congress, of introducing a bill imposing a tax of 25 per cent on all dowries, gifts, set tlements or ad vances of money or ADOLPH J. SABATH. property iu consideration of marriages of citizens of the United States to for eigners. Mr. Sabatb was born in Bo hemia in ISliC, and when lie was fif teen he emigrated alone to the United States and settled in Chicago, where his total capital wgs less than If 11.50. He obtained work as a watch boy in a merchant's establishment and after working hours attended the public night school, in 18S7 he embarked in the real estate business and two years later commenced reading law. In 1802 he was admitted to the bar. It is an unusual controversy that has arisen over the case of Colonel William P. Stewart, who was "banished" to Port Grant, Ariz. The reason assigned for exiling the colonel to a desert fort was his alleged "contentiousness and impertinence" and his liability to get into quarrels and stir up trouble. lie has found a champion in Senator Isi dor Itayner of Maryland, who says thnt legal proceedings will be brought to compel the secretary of war to grant Colonel Stewart a court of in quiry under the articles of war. The senator declares he will follow the case up until President Itoosevelt is forced to grant a court martial or until, dying in his "prison," Stewart, as a martyr, shall arouse the people of the country to take vengeance. Colonel Stewart's retirement from the army was demanded by President Itoosevelt on the ground that "his ir ritability made his continuance in the army impossible." On his refusing to . i > ? ; -j COLOMBO WILLIAM P. STEWART. retire ho wns sent to the post in Ari zona called Fort Grant, a post where there is no command except a servant, i caretaker and a few government mules. Colonel Stewnrt was born In Rhode Island In 1H49. entered the United States army In 18W5 and grad uated from the artillery school In 1K71 since which time he has commanded artillery posts In different parts of the ?wintry TAFT'S BIRTHPLACE. Secretary of War Waa Not Born In a Log Cabin. ! Secretary Taft was not born In a : log cabin, like so many aspirants for tbe presidency In the past. As bis fu ller was a leading citizen of Cincinnati, tbe Taft home in that city was natural ly one of elegance and culture, and tbe secretary of today was accustomed to the refinements of such a home from youth up. Judge Taft was fat even as ' frV <1. fc ????t ,!>.: K/' -at. SECRETARY WTL11AU D. T\'T A?T> liiS BIRTHPLACE IN CISt ATI. a baby, ami a smile has always been i ready to part his lips. Bui. though ig \ and jolly, he has never been lnd ? it and lazy, for as a boy at school m l s a student at college he kept high ir> In his classes, and since he has be hi the public eye It has been renin- .1 that he has a wonderful eapaeii r hard work and transacting a nuiI ;uile of things In a comparatively short lime CHARLES P. TAFT. Brother of War Secreta-y, Who Has Financed Latter's Campaign. It Is often remarked as a coincidence that William H. Tuft, the secretary of war and the best known member of President Roosevelt's cabinet, should be the son of a man who was promi nent also as a cabinet umniher. His father, the late Judge Alphonso Tuft, held the identical post the son now holds and was also attorney general of the United States. All this was in the time of President (Iraut. Believers in heredity find a good deal of support for their theories in the history of the Taft j family. The late Alphonso Taft was ! noted both as a diplomat and as a Ju J rlst, and Secretary William II. Taft has won eminence upon the bench, while his <]ual!ties as a diplomat have caused I him to be spoken of as "the great pacif icator" anil have led to the suggestion that he should be called secretary of peace instead of sec retary of war. The elder Taft handed down to his sons a natural bent toward the legal profession and inculcated in them the idea that it was their duty as well as pleasure CHARLES P. TAFT. to attend Yale college. So It came about tbat the Taft brothers are Yale men and lawyers. Not all of tbem have stuck to the law as a profession, however. In fact, the only one of them In active practice now Is Henry W. Taft who Is a leading member of the bar of New York state. One of the younger brothers, Horace Dutton Taft, born In 1861, Is now an educator, though he studied law and was admitted to the bar. The eldest brother, Charles P. Taft, Is best known as an editor, although he has been lawyer and con gressman. He was born in Cincinnati in 1843 and, graduating from Yale In 1864, studied law at Columbia, taking his degree from that institution In 1866. I.ater he continued his studies at Heidelberg university, at Berlin and In Paris. He practiced law in Cincin nati from 18<>9 to 1871) and In that year bought the Cincinnati Times and a year later consolidated It with the Star. He served In congress from 181)5 to 1897 and was a presidential elector In 1904. He married Miss Annie Slnton Charles Taft is fourteen years older than his brother, the secretary of war, and uaturally had considerable to do with guiding the latter's footsteps as a young man In the paths which led to eminence In politics and In the legal profession. The elder brother had much to do with Judge Taft's decision to take the field for the presidential nom- 1 lnation also, and. being a man of [ means, he has spent money freely In I promoting the campaign of publicity ' undertaken to acquaint the country with Secretary Taft's qualities and achievements as a public servant. A Woman to Fear. A gentleman who was trying a horse with a view of making a purchase no ticed that after driving the animal three miles he pulled pretty hard, re quiring a steady rein and constant watching. "Do yon think this la Just the horse for a lady to drive?" he asked. "Well," answered the owner, "1 must say I shouldn't want to be the bnsband of the woman who could ftrlve that horao."?London Scraps. Olympic Laurels. The Great Games In the Sta dium it London In July Com memoration Medili?Ameri can Team and Its Prospects. IN the athletic world no event can compare in Interest this year with the Olympic games which are to be held in London in July. From nearly all the countries of the globe amateurs representing the muscle and endurance and skill of their respective nations will gather at the British capi tal to battle for the world supremacy in the wny the Greeks did in the days of their pristine vigor. When the Olympic games were established, some hundreds of years before the Christian era, the Greeks thought themselves the only people worth tnking into consider ation aud other nations only "barbari ans." Since that time a good many other nations have come to count for something, but the Greeks are still in many respects a great nation, as those who attended the Olympic games held at Athens In 1900 discovered. The United States will send a splen did team to contest with the other athletes in the various events Of this year's games. It will be made up largely of men from the colleges, in this respect being different from the team sent to Greece two years ago, for then the games were held at a time which made It difficult If not Impossi ble for college men to compete. July is a month when they can easily take part, being right in the middle of the usual college vacatlou. The games form part of the Anglo-French exposi tion which is being held in Loudon this summer and are to take place in a great stadium which has been erected for the purpose aud which cost $300, 000. It will hold 70,000 people aud will lie opened by King Edward VII. on July 13. The games begin the next day and continue until Jdly 23. There will be 105 events, the most popular of which will be the twenty-five mile Marathon race, which is to start in the king's palace nt Windsor and end at! OBVERSE AND REVERSE OF COMMEMORA TION MEDALS. tlie stadium. There would be 25,640 entries in the games If all the countries entitled to representation In each event sent men to till the allotted places. Ot course they will not Nevertheless the contestants will form a very large and distinguished looking lot of men. Great Britain will spend a great deal of money in entertaining the visitors. The medals uloue will cost $12,500. They are now on exhibition at the London Royal academy and are the work of the noted sculptor Bertram Maekennal. The prize medals are struck in gold, silver and bronze for first, second and third prizes respec tively and the commemoration medals in silver and bronze. The inscription on the obverse commemoration medal gives the name of Ells, where the an cient Greeks held their games and the places at which they have been held since their revival in 1896. The de sign represents a Greek runner return ing home from victory. The reverse of each medal designed for use on the occasion of the London Olympiad only. Is a beautiful figure of Fame, typifying the modern revival of the games. On this side are the words, "In Commem oration of the Olympic Games Held in Loudon, 1908." ? It is fortunate that the American Olympic committee has been able to secure the cream of the college talent, for the Ixindon meet, for it will make it certain that America will have even a stronger team than was sent to Athens two years ago. It will be par ticularly strong in field events. Star athletes will be furnished from all parts of the United States, and there is every reason to hope that they will bring back laurels of which their coun trymen may well be proud. A Knotty Point. "Mister," said Broncho Bob as the traveling man got off the railway train, "are you a lawyer?' "No." "Do you think there's a lawyer on board'/" "I don't think so. What is the trouble?" "Well, Crimson Gulch has been put tin' on some style lately, and it's get tin' us plumb confused What we want to find out is whether It's legal to lynch a man for steal In' an automobile the same as for steaiLa' a hoes."? Washington Star MRS. MAE WOOD. I Woman Who Claims That Sanator Thomas C- Piatt Mada tier His Wifa. Mrs. Mae Wood, who brought a suit for divorce against Senator Thoums C. I'latt of New York, found herself ijuli kly transferred from the position of |ilaintllT 'o that of n defendant by the aetlon of the court The Judge dls nihtscd her suit, and because of the sworn statements she had made In It s|)e was charged with perjury, remand ed for the consideration of the grand Jury and In default of bail waa com milted to Jail, tieitig released later Mrs Wood said that Senator I'latt i married tier at hlsthparttneuts In the j ?fil ' 1 i a BNAl'snOr OF MJ1S. MAK WOOD. Fifth Avi'iuu' liotol. Now York. Not. I), loot. mid she presented to the court ud alleged marriage certificate and a statement puri>ortl g to be au acknowl edgment h.v Seniiti r Piatt that she was his wiTe Tlu* aerator swore that this was fraudulent, that ho had never signed any such statement, had never married her or asked her to marry him and that tin- doruincnt pui^criing , to have Im'oii signed by him must have been obtained through typewriting the words it contained on a sheet of paper blank except for bis signature, which lie often gave to perso: desiring it us \ a souvenir. Senator Piatt's lirst wife died in 1001. and somewhat more than a year later, when he was about to be mar ried again, demand was made upon him. according to I he testimony of his son, Frank I!. Plait, for ?.">?( (K) in re turn for (' i'Mla le.lere alleged to have been written In him to \1 " Wood. The demand was made thriugh A II. Ilummel, the lawyer who recently served a term in prison and who Is now in Europe. The letters contained no promises of marriage, according to the testimony of the younger Mr. Piatt. nevertheless II was ed bed at tile time to pay $10,000 in the hope of get ting rid of the woman's claims. .Mrs. Wood formerly held a govern ment posit i< n at W e 'dugton, and as she is a lawyer she promises to cross examine Senator Piatt herself, if the court will permit, when her ease comes to trial. MRS. RUVH BRYAN LEAVITT. The Trlented Daughter of the Noted Democratic Statesman. The newspapers keep Will lam J. Bry an busy denying something or other about his daughter, Mrs. Ruth Bryan i - ? I . II?? . II . I 1 COS-v' i-r t. x A'^M ? - ? ' ' V MKS. ItUTH BRIAN LF.AVtTT. Lenvltt. The Democratic statesman cl'K'H not like this tendency of h cer tain class of papers to make free with his family affairs. lie does in t care what they say about him. hut he con siders that the rules of the (tame are violated when all sorts of yarns are In rented aliout members of his hou r hold, lie has had to deny one silly story to the effect that Mrs. Lenvltt was going to take the stump next fall against Mrs Nicholas Long worth. It appears that neither of these ladles is going into the lists as a political cam paigner. Then there was the report that Mi's. Lenvltt was going to get her self elected a dele; to to the l)en\"i cooventioti from Coh rado and rise It her sent ut the pto| er time and make a speech seconding her father's noiiilns tlon for president. It did not taki long to settle that fabrication Hut they keep eomlt g. Mrs Lenvltt re turned not long ngo from a visit abroad with her mother 'ooking very fresh and blooming. Her husband. William H. Learltt, new maintains a atndie In Pari*. ? A r 1 ; MM* | Grass, Flower, Field | jj and Garden Seed Jj I For allclassesof customers, ff 1 the large as well as the fi ? small buyer. We solicit 5 3 orders especially for large Q I amounts of Grass, Field & a 0 Garden Seeds on very small w | margin of profit. r 1 Summer Flowering Bulbs * 0 Tuberose ? H Diulias | Cunnas Q Gladiolas ft 1 In large and varied assortments, ? Ithe latest varieties and colors. ft Flower Pots and Jardiniers ft ? Always kept in stock at reason- $ 0 able prices. Call and examine ft ? our stock. 1 Clayton Drug | j Company j Ready For You Having bought the planing mills until recently run by Mr. J. E. Page, I am pre pared to serve the public in my line. Give me your orders for flooring, ceiling, mould ing, weather-boarding, man tels, window and door frames. :: School Desks a Specialty. John I.Barnes Clayton. N. C. I Sewing % | | Machines | I am agent in Johnston s & County for the s H ? K New Home Sewing ?< > Machtnes k | This is my nineteenth year d Ia selling them. If there are ? other machines as good I 2 do not know it. g I |3r?If you want a machine g write or let me know it. J. M. Beauty,'! t Smithfield, N. C. DR. G. /*. HOOD, Tbeascukbof Johnston Countt, Will be In his office at The Bank of Smithfield, every Saturday until 1:80 o'clock and every first Monday and Court Week. Parties having business with htm can get It attended to at. other times at The Bank of Smithfield. Screen Windows made to fit at. Cotter Stevens Co. Cotter Underwood Co. have three fine young mules for sale. Blacksmith Wood Shops Let me remind you that I am conductieg Blacksmith and Wood Shops at Four Oaks and am ready to do General Repairs on Carts, Wagons, Buggies, Etc. Horseshoeing Correctly Done Am fully prepared for repairing Buggies and such things. Call to see me. J. E. BOOKER, Four Oaks, N. C.
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