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N THE TRYON NEWS, TRYON, N. 0. MAY SELL BONDS BELOW PAR VALUE IMPORTANT OPINION HANDED DOWN BY, NORTH CAROLINA SUPREME COURT. A CASE FROM WAYNE COUNTY Suit Was Brought by The Citizens of Goldsboro to Restrain Council in Sale of Certain Bonds.. Raleich. Constitutionality of an act passed at the special session of te general assembly last August authorizing the sale ot bonds by municlpaltios, town- ' ships and school districts below par is upheld by the North Carolina supreme court in an opinion filed several days ago. QELEGATIOH FROM Recent Vote for Congressmen, The state board of canvassers has released the congressional vote 101 the 10 districts in the state. , The vote by districts follows: First Hallet S, .Ward, democrat. 21.414; Wheeler Martin, repuoiacan, 7,459; majority 13,1919. Second. Claude Kltohin, democrat. . r O I 20,890; W. O. Dixon, repuDiican, " jyjoVE MAY BE PRELIMINARY TO 367; majority n.oza. i Third :S. M. Brinston, . aemocrai, 21,457; R. L. Herring, republican, xo,- 347; majority, 11,386. Fourth E. W. Pou, democrat, m m m m M A A V - d 479; Parker, republican, n.vau; ma jority, 11,386. Fifth Charles M. Steadman, aemo- .iA Vll crat, 45,301; W. D. Mernu, repuii- can, 38,484; majority, 6,817. Sixth Homer. L. Lyon, democrat, 24,174; R. S. White, republican, 11, 040, majority, 13,134. Seventh W. C, Hammer, democrat, 37,071 ;W. H. Cox, republican, 32,784; majority, 4,287. Eighth R. L. Doughton, democrat, 32,934; J. I. Campbell, republican, 31, 556; majority, 1,428. Ninth A. L. Bulwinkle, democrat, 40,195; Jake Newell, republican, 35, 686; majority, 4,509. Tenth Zeb Weaver, democrat, 36,- 923; L. L. Jenkins, republican, 34,393; COMPLETE BREAK WITH THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. SORE OVER ACTION OF LEAGUE Argentine Withdrawal It the First Definite Break to Occur Between the League and Its Member. The case came up from Wayne majority, 2,530. county on appeal, citizens of Golds-1 The total vote cast in the state this Geneva. Honorario Puerredon, the Argentine foreign minister, handed to Paul Hymans, president of tfce league of -nations assembly, a letter announc ing that the Argentine delegation had ceased Hs participation in the league. Pwvrredon told the Asso- ItVMV " dated Press his action does not mean that Argentina has withdrawn from; the league of nations, but refused to say if the move was the preliminary to a final break between the league horo having sought to restrain the year is nearly double that of the last 1 and Argentina. e,T5 m. CONDENSED CLASSICS ' TESS OF THE- -D'URBERVILLES By THOMAS HARDY Condensation by Miss Ruth McCall, Winchester, Mass. ' cannot forgive the woman. All the rigid rule of his forbears, all the domination of an 'unjust social order grip him. Angel Clare, the prophet of emancipation, no longer exists. For several days they lead a formal, iso lated existence. Tess, whose sole wish Is to please her idol, acquiesces in his attitude, and after a first wild out burst at the Injustice, does nothing to exonerate herself, and her one chance for reinstatement Is blighted by the mocking witness of the vindictive por- SHOUT NOTES OF LNTERESTm Salisbury .rant, '" etlred business ' 7!nk W traits. No chaste-minded, unsophistl- f eriously ill from blood row' cn hand ser- sale of that city's improvement bonds campaign. Incomplete figures show in the sum of $10,000 on the allega- tnat a total of nearly 540,000 votes tion that act of the legislature au- nave already been accounted for. thorizing their sale at below par, was unconstitutional and void. An opinion was also handed down in a similar suit, being that of Pennington versus the town of Tarboro. In the Goldsboro case Associite Justice Allen writes the opinion and holds that in selling the bonds at 90 "We feel," said Senor Pueyrredon, "that there is nothing more to be ac complished In the assembly. It has refused to permit even discussion o! the amendment which Argentina con siders as fundamental to the league .4, ?.T.v.vi, i yc 4 Tt in. . , lowine the. ki . caiea peasant iuaiu buc, uul mc msi i . " w a rat. dregs of a decadent stock! A separa- Ult aPin Browa tion, temporarily at least, is decided vriU aays aSo upon, and while Clare ranges afar, Tess again creeps home. Joan, after the Spencer. Engineer c w nrst Ditter reproacnes lor me maa ais- sspen-cer, was badi i, ' xt obedience of her repeated Injunctions dIuz blew nt f ,w . ..m ien t has e revUed of secrecy, treats the affair with her gine, attached to train v ea' br critics and f.-ai fotnHsric liehtheartedness : but Snmnpr Pi. ...... ; ' Xo- 5 lpjh Firemen to Reduce Speed, Rfializin that excessive speed in rp-cTvnnriine- tn fire alarms by motor necessary to its successful existence. - "f" a - . I . i fire apparatus is both tempting and Senor Fueyrreaon saiu Argeuun dangerous, Insurance Commissioner would not resume her place in the as Young as proposed to Captain J. H. simbly until it .had passed the four Wood, of Asheville, president of the amendmen'ts he had proposed. These by virtue of an act of the legislature N(rth' aro iina Firemen's association, aim principally at securing compul- that he take the matter up witn tne sory arbitration by the mternaiionai, chiefs of all fire departments for the court of justice; the admission of ail the city's officials were within their rights, the sale was not usurious and the act Is constitutional since itwas passed to meet an emergency and is of limited duratkm and must 03 sus tained. ter. a-eatl' or ngljr, but fa always In- i evltable and or- tranlc. Yet bl own solitary, brooding, atrongrly colored mind dominates men aid landscape. Tbia la especially trne la his most famous novel, MTess." It is at once the moot tragically pitiful of Ms books, and. If deeply read, the moat hopeful, for the sorrows of Tess are due to atu pldltlea In our civilization which may be done away with. by JSrr detlrmir the , harsh, words-of the father in a to look upon the drunfeen moment oi excessive ances dark aide of life, tral pride causes a dignified departure Careful , readins ' lth the conciliatory donation of paaaionateiy1 true half ner means of subsistence and the to the realities of Intimation that she is rejoining her life. He depicts husband. Tli Jna!! Determined, however, to make no skill tlae struxffle . . . v ' of human beinB. appeal to Clare's family, Tess easily arainat fate the finds summer employment among the fate of an Inner farms hnt with th rnmtn? of win- n" ineTc-p! ter and too lavlsh contributions to' her able drcumatance. family's support, privation stares her He painta theae in the face. Day after day she wan- baoindotna- deFS 011 DntI1 Qt lenStb 0n the high, ture "wh i ch la chalky tablelands. In a great drab beautiful or ainis- field or desolation, she finds the mean- most arduous of tasks rendered 1113 colored firer o4 near by 'jumping Fayetteville.-A hu2e vom . plant for tbe manutacW!1 to-be used in minmr iWt "e. latest big industrial eaten-,. , br tie ettevwe CkS New Bern. Louis was shot and killed Steadman Oppossed to Blwe Laws. Washington, (Special). Represen tative Hannibal !L. Godwin is uncer tain whether the propsed bill to re strict commercial activity on the Sab bath will have his support ot not and Major Clhiarles M. Steadman, Fifth district membeT, is unqualifiedly op- cnine; posed to program. Other North -Caro linians hesitate to say whether the proposal will have their support or not. "Of course, I favor tHe proper obser vance of Sunday," Major Steadman purpose of concrete action. While assenting that fire depart ments should not be held to the same traffic restrictions as the public, Com missioner Young suggests to Presi- states and the selection of all mem bers of the council instead of only four as now. Argentina's withdrawal from the as sembly constituted the first definite "G OOD morning, Sir John." The bewilderment of a est, tenfold difficult by a churlish boor of an employer In all the rancor of an an cient grudge against her. In the sting ing, rain and the chilling snow she toils unceasingly, uncomplainingly, living wholly In the hope of her husband's re turn. Sonps that he loved she prac tices ; the sweet, gay notes contrasting sadly with her tragic Hps and great, sorrowing eyes. At length, distraught by the continued silence, she bravely decides to seek news of him from his parents, and walks the long, tremulous dent Wood, that the chiefs should lay breach . between the league and one out the routes for their apparatus of its members. various parts of the towns and cities. chosing the nearest and least used way and see that excessive speed is not used only such speed as gives the driver complete control of his ma- 3,898 Automobile Fatalities. Washington. A total of 3.S9S per sons were killed in automobile acci- dusty. threadbare oeddler miles to Emminster vicarage. Of rare thus addressed was speedily con- spiritual as well as physical endow- verted Into a majestic pride upon ments, she would have undoubtedly learning that he. John Durbeyfield received a welcome at the hands of the of Marlott was actuaVy a lineal de- benevolent old clergyman and his wife, scendant of the noble family of D'Ur- but an empty house reverberates to her berville. v knocking, and while she unobtrusively And no sooner had Joan, his hand- awaits their return from church, she some, shallow-minded wife, the easy- overhears a wayside conversation be going mother of his many children, tweon Angel's two exemplary brothers colored Fred B.Rowe, follows a f0 the , officer when he ate1 arrest the negro for finnS a revolt on the street. -r Kinston. Kinstoniana taw do-r take another tumble, 4 p-etVat ' drop which left poods in wan' ever shop in town not a preat deal higher in price than during tie tall o! 1&I5. Statesville Prof. D. zn Thomp- son, wno nas been superintendent of the Statesville graded srhoo'.s since their establishment twentv-nine jn ago, was struck and serwusly injured by an automobile. Rocky Mount. Bums received when a pot of boiliag cojee as ac cidently overturned at the home ot its parents resulted in the death ot Kenneth Bruce Coltrane, eight months old son of Mr. and Mrs. George E Coltrane. Wdnston-Salem. During a brief business trip to Winston. Salem Gover nor T. W. Bickett, advised eome of said.. "I do not, however, favor the L b k . to have that same passage of a Mil in which are incor- Organization, the Immortal Thirtieth poraxea provisions nitiuS wbu"s 1 "Divi&ioxi. reorganized in the National illegal and the publication of news naners on Sundav also illegal. I do not believe such a bill is necessary in behalf of morality.' therefrom, during last year, the cen sus bureau announced in a statement National Guard for Thirtieth. offerine suggestions for traffic im- North Carolina and its sister states provement. An automobile accident of Tennessee and South Carolina, jMth ratP of 14.1 out of everv 100.000 which furnished the machinery for of popuiation was reported in 1919, an breaking the Hindenburg line some lncreaSe over every year since 1915, when the death rate was 8.0 and ah Increase of 245 in the total number of-deaths over 1918. "Every year It becomes more and more dangerous for a person to walk the streets," the . census bureau's statement said. dents or died as a result of injuries hear(1 of her exaitei estate, than her that sends her homeward with rended his close friends that he has definitely romnntic soul began secretly to de vise a brilliant and fitting alliance for her beautiful young daughter. To which end Tess was artfully prevailed npon to seek work In a wealthy up- heart. .1 The voice of a 'ranter triumphant ly consigning a barnful of rustics to eternal damnation caused Tess to pause for a moment In a doorway, and Guard of the three states, and ready for another emergency whenever it may. come, according to an announce ment from the office of Adjutant Gen eral John Van B. Metts. Contributions for Relief. Contributions amounting t S14,- .22 were received by Henry A. Pagb, NorQh Car.olina Chairman, American Relief Commission, Aberdeen, N. C. This brings the total amount contri buted in North Carolina during No vember to $5,002.41. decided to locate in Raleigh at the close of his term as North Carolina'! chief executive. High Point. Several burjlariei have been committed in High Point during the past few weeks, but none has caused more comment thin tht one when $75 disappeared from the lockers of Desk Sergeant Ed Mungo, at local police headquartH. Belmont. A large and appreciative After a while back to ing redemption. Repulse after repulse! aumence greeted me prei- "Edward the Conqueror n wiau. start family of the same illustrious there on a platform of corn bags, in name. sanctimonious Side whiskers and semi- And so the Innocent child, whose clerical black, stood Alec D'Urberville. Single-minded desire was to mend the Animalism had yielded to fanaticism, broken fortunes of her family, became and the bold, roving eye now gleamed poultry keeper for the blind woman of with a ferocious righteousness. As she spurious title and ultimate prey for passed down the lane he came after her son, a dissolute wretch, young Alec ber, imploring forgiveness and offer- D'Urberville. Marlott came the disillusioned girl, failed to deter Alec, who persisted day Kellum Appointed Solicitor, Appointive lightning struck Woodas Kellum, lawyer with Wilmington aa his habitation, while he was sitting without the inner chamber of Execu tive -Offices and when he emerged from the shock, he found himself so llcitor in the Eighth Judicial district to succeed Homer L. Lyon. " i Prospective Vice Raids. Washington, (Special). Nothing further ."for publication has come ; from the International Reform Bureau regarding its plan to conduct a vice raid in Raleigh and Wilmington, Rev. Harry N. Pringle, who directed the drive in Norfolk, is aid to be here for the general conf fences next week, " but his staff -of detectives may be loosed upon the Tar Heel capital at any time. The program is Raleigh after Norfolk and on to Atlanta. Kitchen Again Taken III. Washington, (Special). Congress man Claude Kitchen, of North Caro lina, who suffered an attack of indi gestion soon after leaving the post of fice department" where he had been in conference with Postmaster Gen eral Burleson, is resting easily and there is no cause for alarm, according to Dr. Lewis Battle, also a Tar Heel. fn conversation with 'The correspon dent at his home. Dr. Battle said Reduction of Public Debt. Washington. Despite the increase of $112,646,571 in the public debt, dur ing November announced by the treas ury; officials of the department de clared that at the end of the year a reduction of $300,000,000 could be ex where she lived In a pray seclusion un til her weazened little baby's death. But after several bitter years of heart searching, 'Tess determined to leave home ogata this time to be by day, at first with a marriage license and holy words and then his former passion uncontrollably revived by Tess' compelling beauty, his new found religion dropped from him like Abbey college. dairymaid at Talbothays, a large, fertile n cloak, the convert disappeared and farm in the vallev of th fii-Ant rntrs all the arts of man and devil were em- . Raleigh. Celebration of the JEfc birthday of Comrade Cather of Mi con county, the oldest soldier in th Confederate home here, ysu held at the home. pected from the gross debt of $24,0S7.- And here, too, was a young man. the Pyed to ensnare the girl. And poor, 000,000 as It stood on September 30. Unemployment Not General. New York. Official reports from 45 there was not the slightest sign of states, representing 95 fler cent of the youngest son of a stern and zealous divine of the old school. Angel Clare had sadly disappointed his father, first by non-conformist views and then by sincere scruples against taking or- than her scorn of the man could real ize. Finally her father's death, result ing In the eviction of her family from another paralytic stroke. A Meeting of Commitee. The joint legislative committee ap pointed by the last general assembly to recomend a bill providing for work men's compensat'on will hold a spe cial session in the office of the state Insurance Commissioner Tuesday De cember 14, beginning promptly at eleven o'clock, when the committee hopes that .those who have sugges tions or views on the proposed legis lation will present them. nation's population, reveal a wide spread industrial depression, in 'spite of which no serious or general unem ployment has yet developed. State In Fourth Place. Despite disasters that have come t the North Carolina farmer in the de mTjrallzation' of prices, the state still retains its position of fourth from the top in the value of its agricultural products, and . but for these disasters would have been first, according to the annual report of the Commissioner, of -Agriculture submitted to the Board by Commissioner W. A. Graham. State Moves Too Quickly. Washington, (Special). North Car olina and Tennessee are moving too rapidly in their plans for Sunday ob servance for the radtoal reformers of Washington. The bill proposed by the North Carolina Methodist conference, nas excited Washington as nothing eise has done since General Robert E Lee threatened. during th Civil -war. Administrator Sails. New York Dr. Frederick P. Keppel sailed for France to take up his work as American administrator of the In ternational Chamber of Commerce. In a statement issued as he sailed. Dr. Keppel said the purpose of the cham ber; is to remove international friction from commerce. ders. So now, in process of becoming their home, precipitated Tess doom. gentleman farmer, he was specializing at various farms. Cultured, idealistic, sympathetic, he seemed to Tess a demi god, and though she had sworn her self to celibacy, the enforce! propin quity ripened into Jntlmacy and drifted hopeless Tess, grinding on under a be- Statesville The North i numbing strain, was In more danger Fox Huntfers assocwuw Statesviue on iuwu.-. for the purpose of effectin; a pe--r nent organization. Reidsville. Tobacco bresij local warehouses were qu the first three days of . tls Prices show very httle though it is thought some dium grades were slightly Hamlet. An exceeduiglj j occasion was a gathering d kot r.t the Methodists B at the church on when Rev. J- H. Buffalo pastor, was preset of silver. and as a last desperate reparation to her helpless mother and sisters, she yields, with a fatalistic calm, to the in evitable. To Sandborne. a gay watering place, a melancholy specter of a man, wasted into love. Together they went afield in ny illness and regret, comes In search the wondrous dewy dawns and the of nis lost bride, and In a fashionable warm summer afternoons found them boarding house Clare finds Tess and making butter and cheese in the cool, 'earns the agonizing truth. Just be- white dairy house. . The birds sang for yond the town she overtook him, her them and for them the stars shone and pyes wild and trancelike, her whole the whole verdant valley teeming with body as if bereft of soul and will. I richness and inopnsp. ratp n :t nrinr. have killed hlra. . . he taunted : ' o w v-v 1 Appointment of Col Williams. The secretary of war has appointed Armenia Becomes Soviet. London. Russian soviet troops cap ons vapors. - Tess specter loomed but vaguely now, until love's honest declaration Colonel Alexander E. Williams, quaf- tured Erivan, the Armenian capital, brought her to poignant realization ot termaster corps, to be assistant to the quartermaster general of the army with the Tank of brigadier general. and Armenia has declared itself a so viet republic, it is asserted in a wire less dispatch received from Moscow. Rapid Progress With Guard. The North Carolina national guavd is making satisfactory progress in re- Sinn Felti Proclamation. Belfast. The Sinn Fein has circu lated a proclamation throughout the her situation in this man-made world. But all withdrawals were overcome by Clare's gentle Insistence; all attempts at revelation were lightly thwarted. Finally, within a week of the wedding day which she had reluctantly set, her resolution took shape in writing a organization and three companies of west and south of Ireland declaring four-page confession is breathlessly infantry have been inspected by an officer of the regular army this month for federal recognition. that those guilty of "treasonable con spiracy" will be executed astraitors to the Irish republic. Seaboard Laying off Merv A 0 per cent cut among the Sea- McLean Is Again Recognized. Washington. President Wilson board employes at the general shops at again recognized the worth and abil- Portsmouth has been made according ity of a North Carolinian when he to information received here. Besides appointed Angus' Wilton .McLean, of and upon their final departure a white me reauocion ax ronsmouxn. mere wiu LiumDerton. assistant ecretarv of the I cock crows thH "An aftomnnn treasury, succeeding Jouett Shouse. thrust under his door. Ironically con cealed under the carpet it lies until Tess, with a sudden late Intuition on her wedding morn discovers its hiding place and tears it up. In a lumbering old relic of coach days (symbolic of an ancient D'UrberYille legend of crime) Tess and Angel are carried to church. bo a reduction of approximately 15 car repairmen from the car department. Only a few men of jMn classification will be thrown out of work at Raleigh Gigantic Wheat Pool. Winnipeg. Farmers of western crow and the dary folk shake their heads at the evil omen To the old farmhouse a derelict of an ancient D'Urberville mansion in tha brunt of the lay-off, being felt at Canada announced plans for a gigan- ready range of a model mill. Clare "Too drastic," the local reformers Hermitage, Va., a' small station be- say. Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts is for a Sun day between that of the Puritans and continental Europe. Bickett Goes to Philadelphia. Governor-and Mrs. T. W. Bickett, left tore tor Harrisburg, Pa., where the governor will moke the repons to the address of weloomte at th twelfth annual governor conference. From Harrisburg Governor Bickett -will go to Philadelphia whW h. wi be honor guest of the North Carolina ociety. He will make tho principal address. . Entertainment faatureY will include a recption ; given at h : xnansloa cf yond Richmond. The reason assigned for the laying off of the force is alack business. itic pool to force wheat prices up. The organization was said to have at tracted most of the farmers and farm organizations of the region. Gates at Road Crossings. Legislation seeking to force the railroads to install gates or watch with a sense of the practical and the romantic, takes his lovely bride: From the panelled wall outside hr door, two old D'Urberville portraits gleam evilly and Clare and Tess shiver as they trace a, subtle likeness to her own in the malignant yet noble features. Be Wilson.-Rer. N. S. OiHe I 1 X.J. v' ea, oi wasuius--: roj5i: Robeson county, - nuLn-ov" - . ruin oouna over - TV cs the: sum or jw ; hcC. .(tnrv ml u J V" anCB business wi me ... he called you by a foul name . . . I owed it to you and I owed it to myself. ... It .came to me as a shining light that I should get you .back that way." With a final realization of the im mensity of her love and the piteous prlght it had brought upon her, Clare held out tender, protecting arms, and for tne world and its retribution quite forgot November 24, ourJ M $622 T- A J j.1 J 1 mm Ac whlCh DT0U6" r or uve ua.v iuvy- ruuuuueu nia fdylllc state and on the sixth night Tess half . jestingly claimed sanctuary among the conspicuous ruins of the an cient pagan temple to the sun at Stone- henge. With the guardians of the law, against the silver horizon. In a grim, inexorable circle they waited until the sun's level rays, relentlessly reminis cent of a bygone sacrificial day, fell full upon another victim, and Tess, de serted bvthe coda, awoke. (DnletW she faced her captors. I am ready,- strpyed the building psy. J shP said. ' th Middlesex supM .vtiii J Si Vart general IT I for tobacco k zr 8 BW1 874 pounds whica an average of ' pounds. . Favefteville-Lowe' lLt' dawn came the Fayetteville cafes iw. looming dark action of the leading p3i ha scut prices oi predict nue 20 per cent. 11 mber.of rants m we Middlesex. Fire she said. Eight metallic strokes shiver the Bolshevism Behind It. New York. Bolehevtem lurks be hind proposed the Sundav bin Iavs I fore the pTtSwInv fiio ha v,t. hatcTXa X fude 'MHchell May declared, address! groom, his wife's hand cfasped ta Si 22?.Jf!S? ?v?e.1M?e 81 th Kings CouMy grand jury. fells the story, of his one aberration Of his 43 hours diss!nation with n To Grant Relief to Farmers.. I Scarlet Woman, and confidently craves regular session of tha general assem' bly which meets January 6 according to Walter, Murphy, of Salisbury, rep resentative elect from Rowan county, who spent the day here. The statement was made Incidental tion suggesting that the war finance corporation toe revived will be Intro. dUA4T 4t !h Washinjgton. A conwirrenl resolu- I her pardon, -which Tess Is only too de lighted to grant; and. with the first real 'gleam of hope, enfolds her own ead story. . k.. . r The wanton action of a man of ma turity the deceived Innocence of an Isnorant child J And yet, ' the - man morning air and from a nearby hiir a corns in this moO, FincKen ngure rivets involuntary eyes estlmatea i on the flagstaff of a sullen, cage of a by insurance. building. For Angel the prison where """Thirty xess is connnea nas at tnia ratal hour I Astievin- , a deadly and significant fascination, nual North Carols up the pole and flutters chill against slon was featured ec j the morning sky. t t Tess, more smned against than sin ning, has paid the great penalty. Copyright, 1919, by the Post Publishing Co. (The Boston Post). Copyright in the United Kingdom, the Dominions. Its Col onies and -dependencies, -under the copy right act. by the Post Publishing Co.. nr. George A- w nrofeseor of Oornei . gald to have ' la desperate oo J tion of the su e. be J UUiiUllIlE LUU I a Ilia . M I ovBwn, mbm., u. a. a. aii rignt re- i say, . , . -rAtA. m . . I .1 iv . rnl.r I ki wu. at I ui lru dv . nflrmiisum rtr dim i i- i.vitTi aju' .m r - - - , ij n i . . 1 nsneni .wiw uarper coil, an- i l :0Tfnae ou---thorlzed DubUehers. - , - py reveuu A ireuwu. -
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