The DURHAM RECORDER.
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ESTABLISHED 1820.
Entered as second class matter August
8, 1903, at the postofflce at Durham, N,
C, under the act of Congress pf March
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application.
many cases tne increase wiu
amount to two-thirds. This is
especially true in regard to city
property. If there be any doubt
as the' above statment let them
go to the tax books and ascertain
the price the property is listed
for and then add one-third and
make the owner an offer of that
amount for the property and see
how you will be turned down.
When the assessors have com-1
pleted their work we hope to be
able -to give some interesting
figures of valuations of property
in Durham, by showing the val
uation placed by the assessors
and the price that has been re
fused for the same property.
DURHAM, N. C June 14, 1907.
BIGBWAI SPEEDWAYS.
Mention has been made m
these columns of the reckless
way in which automobiles are
driven out on country roads near
town, and also in the city limits.
On some streets in town if is
dangerous for people to be in the
street at all especially children.
Those who have fast horses and
automobiles should have a track
for the purpose of speeding up
if they want to, and not use the
public thouroughfares for such
purposes and the city and county
authorities should see to it that
violaters of the law should be
punished to the fullest extent,
for no man has the right to en
danger the lives of others by
recklessness on his part
The county commissioners have
published the law regulating the
speed of automobiles and motor
cycles, and those who pay no
heed to such timely warning
should be made to feel the arm
of law. The following from the
Statesville Landmark expresses
well what should be the course
of the officers of the law:
In Asheville a few days ago a
bicycle rider ran over a boy and
seriously injured him. AtJ first
the injury was thought to be fa
tal The accident moved the
Citizen to remark that "public
streets were never intended for
speedways," a truth which is too
often overlooked in these days of
automobiles, smart traps and
fast horses. The laws which all
towns have prohibiting fast driv
ing, etc, should be rigidly en
forced. Drivers of fancy horses
automobiles are to often crimin
ally careless of the rights of
others and the lives and limbs of
innocent persons are often en
dangered by their recklessness.
Public streets are not speedways.
II horses want to be raced or
automobiles driven at high speed
they should be taken to race
tracks or somewhere other than
on the streets; and . people who
persist in this sort of racing
should be given a taste of the
law they will remember ever after.
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It i3 worthy of note that Trin
ity College secured a former
graduate and a North Carolinian
when they have a new chair
established at that institution.
It is too often the case that men
cnirTEU xni.
THE condemned youths heard the
next cell entered and their
comrade Carter roused from
t.1- l t . 1 . V. 1 Im
lis ucu. A ej Lueu raicu ui
their own door, It was flung open, and
there were Mr. Cope, the governor, and
a bevy of turnkeys Id the passage.
"Out with Itr gasped Creasey, on h!
knees. Tm respited, ain't IT I never
done it. sir. I never did. The king
wouldn't hang an innocent manT
"Get up and dress yourself," was the
reply. "You will hear the report up
stairs, all of you together. ' You. too,
Erichsen. Slip on your things."
Tom obeyed aud then lent a band to
Creasey. who hardly knew bis small
from other states are chosen to
fill such positions, and yet there clothes from his jacket and dung to
is a ereat crv that vouner men Tom as a child to its nurse.
leave the state for other places.
I'm innocent' he kept mumbling.
"That'll tu th mnrriererfl If tllPV let
Give the young men a chance at m awing. Didn't i ten you I was in
home and they will remain here, uocent. Erichsen? Haven't I said so
an aiong r ua, my uuwu, u vuty ic
While the city aldermen are
figuring on pure milk and other
things for the city, they should
at least see if some way other
than hauling dressed beef through
our streets uncovered could be
devised. It appeara that those
that sell meat would see to it
that their meat was protected
while being carried to the mar
ket, but they do not, and this
should be a matter for the city
aldermen to see about.
me swing!"
"They won't" whispered Tom. ' But
If they did, why, we've got to die some
time. It's an easy death, and there s
an end to it"
'But I don't want to die! I durm't
diet I don't deserve to die! Don't I
keep telling yer I never done-It?"
And the abject thing clung blubber
ing to Tom's arm as the turnkey who
was waiUng at the door conducted the
pair upstairs.
The upper day room, or cell ward, as
It was indifferently termed, was but
poorly lighted with candies, whose se-
Culliford! Then why is be doing it?
Cull! ford was paid. He paid him. But
why, again? See here, you Bassett
Both you and be disbelieve in me I
know it now but you are tired of your
Job, and he Is not Why not? I be
lieve you know! Then tell me, and let
us part friends once and for all. You
need bother your head no more about
me, only tell me what you must know."
"I know nothing."
"Theu what you suspect"
Bassett considered; had his private
conviction (that there was a woman
In itl on the tip of his -tongue, but ul
timately shook bis shrewd, cool bead.
There, was nothing to be gained by
speaking out A dying man'l gratitude
was nothing. And there might be
something to be lost At any rate the
safe side was the wise side, with that
bill not even properly drawn up, so
Tom and bis solicitor parted coldly for
the last time, and Tom tore up that
slip of writing which had been handed
to him at Marylebone. but relented
next moment and treasured the torn
pieces till the end.
And now at last his gallant spirit
surrendered itself to the apathy of
sheer despair, and the physical col
lapse which supervened was almost aa
complete as that of this brave but bro
ken heart A sudden outbreak of mor
bid appearances brought the aurgeon
la hot baste to clean the foul tongue,
to regulate the Irregular pulse, moisten
the parched skin and. ia a word, to
keep bis man well enough to die on
the following Tuesday. The good Mac-
murdo would as lief have given him
North Carolina mfmior wh,i
; Durham County August Term 1907
i J. F. White Company.
xaau Kfrhnla. Mabel Duke Notice.
Nichols, R. T. Olmsted
and I. E. Owens
The defendant, R.T. Olmsted, ahe
above named, will take notice that an
action entitled as above has been com
menced in the Superior Court of Dur
ham County to seU a tract of real estate
situated in said County and State and in
Mangum Township, being the same con
veyed by L. M Nichols and Adche .
Nichols, his wife, to R. T. Olmsted in a
mortgage executed on the nth day or
November, 1902, and recorded in Book
of Mortgages No. 24, p. 559. atbe office
'of the register of deeds lor jJurnaui
Connty, said tract of land containing 43
acres. The property was mortgaged to
R. T. Olmsted to secure a note of $ 100,00
on November J Jtb, i9v2, payable one
year from date and bearing 6 per cent
interest from date. The note secure!
by said mortgage having been assigned
by R. T. Olmsted to I. E. Ow ens and by
him assigned to plaintiff, this action is
for the purpose or obtaining an order to
sell the land described for the satisfac
tion of said indebtedness. The said de
fendant will further take notice that he
is required to appear ai the next term of
the Superior Court for Durham County,
to be held on the last Monday before the
first Monday in September, 1907, at tne
court house in Durham, N. C, and an
swer or demur to the complaint in said
action, or the plaintiff will apply to the
court for the relief demanded in said
complaint
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pulcbral rays added a pallor even to the I draft of deadly poison, but such bu-
whlte faces or. those dragged rrom 1 manlty would nave sent nimseir to tne
UF course we are not saying
one thing against the idea that
people should keep their prem
ises in good condition, but it does
seem tnat the people that own
vacant lots on Main street should
keep them in such shape that
they would not be a nuisance.
Whether it is unhealthy or not
it always looks bad to see a lot
of green water standing on va
cant property, we do not ex
pect to see anything done about
such places for the sanitary of
ficers are too busy looking after
the suburban property to see
such places.
TAI ASSESSMENT.
When one speaks of the quest
ion of tax valuations he is tread
ing on slippery ground, for there
is no question about which there
ia so much difference of opinion
with all opinions looking to the
same end-that is, lower taxes.
As a matter of fact the tax rate
is too high in Durham when one
considers the valuation of pro
perty. We see no good reason
for a man's property to be val
ned at one-half or two-thirds of
its real value and the tax rate
remain at a big figure, when if
the property was truly valued the
rate could be reduced.
The assessors for Durham are
on their rounds now, and we
have been told that all rorts of
schemes have been resorted to
by persons owding more than one
or two houses and lots, among
them being the fact Chat the per
son owning property learns in
some way when the assessors
will be around and make it their
business to accompany them and
point out the defects so that the
rate will not be increased. There
is not any real estate in Durham
that has not increased in value
at least one-third since the last
assessment was made, and in
We have no reason to advance
why the weather is as it is, but
all kinds of people that want
their name in the paper are tell
ing about how it wa3 when they
were boys one summer, and
those that would pose as prophets
are getting the best opportunity
of their lives to tell somebody
that the end of time is at hand,
and some are using the old say
ing that "you will not know win
ter from summer except by the
budding of the trees," and charg
ing it to the.Uipie. wish some
of them that are ready to claim
that the Bible says such things
would tell the chapter it 13 in for
we would like to read it in the
scriptures.
It is out of place to hear of
ficials of the government or any
body that has anything to do
with people that wear uniforms
complain because the uniform is
not honored, when as a matter
of fact the fellows seem to take
the uniform they are wearing as
license to do as they please, and
it usually pleases them to be ob
noxious to every body with whom
they come in contact. When
soldiers or others that wear uni
forms, honor themselves people
will have a greater regard for
them and consequently the uni
form will be honored. People
will not, and should not honor a
crank, and it makes no difference
what kind of clothes you put on
him.
1 IMMI
If some of the North Carolina
Democrats do not get out of the
way they are going to be run
down and an office thrust upon
them. Of couse there ia no De
mocrat who wants an office and
they are all doing their best to
keeplf rom having one thrust upon
them. -Tar HecL ,
their beds to bear their doom. The
number of the latter being new com
plete. all fourteen were ordered tol
kneel and Tom found himself between
Creasey and Carter at one end of the
line. Creasey still clung to his arm.
Carter knelt like a rock, with bis great
fingers clutched In front of him and
heavy drops falling 00 them from his
bended brow. This was all Tom saw
before the ordinary entered In bis gowi
and baited before bim first
'Mr. Erichsen," said be, with a com
passionate tremor, "the recorder has
this evening made bis report to the
king. I am very sorry to bare to la-
form you that If Is onfavorable."
Tom Inclined his bead. lie bad cher
ished no hotes.
The ordinary approached Carter.
"I am sorry to tell you It la all
(gainst you also," be continued. "As
for you, Creasey," and the latter tight
ened his grip on Tom's arm, "I am
happy to Inform you that your life It
spared, and I am very happy to In
form all the others that by the royal
mercy their lives are spared."
Creasey withdrew bis band from
Tom's arm and edged farther away on
bis knees. A deep sigh rose from a
dozen breasts; then as the chaplain
was about to offer up a prayer there
came a sudden crash at Tom's side,
and the wretched Carter was flounder
ing on the floor la convulsions. The
rest were hurried back to their cells,
and Creasey executed a breakdown
while Tom quietly undressed.
But that's all rlghtr cried the for
mer, stopping suddenly, "it's no more
'n I expected, 'cause, you see, I'm an
lnnocetitroan an alius was; that's why
yon never caught me showing the
white, Erk'bsen, though once or twice
you thought yon did. Jiggered If yon
wouldn't tlieve anythlnk. a mug like
you! why, I used to bilk you every
blooming night for fun! Not but what
I'm sorry it's all up with you, old
man; though It's a nice an' comfy
death, you told me so yourself, and
you know we're all got to die some
day! Besides, you done yours no
denying It but 1 never done mine at
all. so It's fair an' square enough, 70a
mutt admit:
The little cur was snoring la ten
minutes. He was removed to the
Transport side next morning. And
Tom, left In solitude, would bavt giv
en some days of the twelve remaining
to bsve bad bim back.
The execution was fixed for the 30th.
lie would never see another June.
Bassett came from day to day with
news of the petition. It was being
signed, but not as freely as st first
Bassetfs disappointment was patent to
the condemned man. The smart young
fellow was In fact beginning to weary
of bis uphill work and to think about
the bllL
So next day Tom asked Bassett
whether the noble anknown bad also
abandoned bono and effort
"Not be," said Bassett la a bait dis
gusted tone, "lie Is moving heaven
and earth; seeking private Interviews
with the homo secretary If not with
the king himself, tie's quite capable
of It A wonderful man when bo gets
ia idea into bis head!"
"Hut what pat this Idea Into bis
beadr
"Heaven knowsT
Tom looked the attorney through and
through and asked another question.
"VUl you tell bim bow much I should
like to see bim before I die-to thank
blmr
"I did, but be is too busy working
for you. He said that would do you
more good:
. "I see," said Tom sadly; "another
callows Instead. So the surgeon did
bis best for the poor doomed body, and
the chaplain did bis best for an Im
mortal soul still filled with bitter re
bellion -and rage. But this physician
was less successful, though not less
kind praying in bis chamber for the
poor Impenitent but yet doing what
In him lay to further such efforts as
were still being made for a reprieve.
Even on the last Sunday, when the
stern divine furnished that Incredible
barbarism, the condemned sermon, the
humane gentleman was upon the other
tack and In almost hourly communica
tion with Dalntree himself.
Tom could not guess at that The
last to enter, the first to leave, the
crowded chapel, he did so with the
sense of his Indignity hetvier upon
bim than at either Marylebone or the
Old Bailey. The very chapel had been
fllled with sightseers and be the
sight! He bad recognized the noble
earl who bad come to spy npon him
before the trial, and with him ladies.
And. to cap all the ordinary had men
tioned bim by name In the sermon.
taking the sixth commandment for bis
(Continued on third page.)
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J pots or specks floating or dancing hp for
tier eyes, nsygntwing distress or heavy
full fueling tftomsch, faint spells, drag
gins-downAfellng la lower abdominal or
ly startled or excited.
painful periods, with or with
prrn. is u tiering rrom
erano-ementa that should
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