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i i "f - w I Xii If mil fiim fif -cr "This Argus o'er the people's rights No soothingstrains of Maia's son 3? A A 0 Vno1. tpO.UU 3. XG3,r. Doth an eternal vigil keep ; Shall lull itshundred eyes to sleep." pD.UU d X tJdJL . VOL.. XXTI GrCXLTJSBOIJO, IN". C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1908. NO. 27 - , . . , . STATE CAPITOL DRY. Prohibition Sweeps Raleigh in Yesterdoy's Election. Every Voting Precinct in tlie City Gives an Emphatic Mefority Against the Dispensary. Raleigh News and Observer, Dec. 27. Prohibition prevails in Kaleigh and the doors of the dispensary' are closed, to no longer be the shame of Raleigh, which without it will flourish and progress and be an example to the State. - The "Voice of the People was heard in thunder tones in the result at the ballot box yesterday when by an official ma jority of 547, in reality 549, Raleigh voted for prohibition, there being cast in 1,313 votes in the city, of these 928 being for prohibition in the prohibi tion box, two for prohibition in the dispensary box, 381 for dispensary and two for saloons. Not one precinct in any ward in the city was carried by the dispensary torces. Early in the day these saw the handwriting on the wall, and while keeping up a fight in every ward, made this especially vigorous in one precinct with a hard fight all during the day to carry it, but as in all the others they failed. This was in the Second Divis ion of the Fourth Ward, the voting place being the city lot. At times the dis pensary iorces claimed that the vote was equally divided, but the tally of the prohibition workers showed that this was not correct. At 12:30 the pro hibition forces were eleven votes ahead, at 4 o'clock they were thirteen votes to the good and when the polls closed the prohibition majority was fourteen in the precinct in which the dispensary iorces had made their most desperate stand. The prohibition forces worked earn estly and quietly, as did the dispensary advocates, but there was no bitterness shown and the election passed oft quietly and in perfectly good feeling. The total registered vote ot the city is 1,982 and the returns show that 669 voters failed to exercise their privilege. The election being the day after Christ mas many people were out of the city on holiday trips, others had not paid their poll tax, and others again saw early in the day that the victory was with the prohibitionists and did not vote. Under all these circumstances the vote was a very large one, the pro hibitionists winning by about two and a half to one. Thus it every man who voted for the dispensary had voted twice the prohibitionists could still have been victorious by a good round majority. GONE OUT OF BUSINESS. The Raleigh Dispensary Did Not Open Its Doors This Morning at Its Op tion. Special to the Argus. Raleigh, Dec. 27. The dispensary, which was deleated at the polls yester day by 547 majority, did not open its doors today, its managers not taking advantage of the few days remaining in December, and besides, it is said that its stock was pretty well exhausted during the campaign. GREAT MEN OF NORTH CAR My Hair jd Extra Long Feed your hair ; nourish it ; give it something to live on. Then it will stop falling, and will grow long and heavy. Ayer's Hair Vigor is the only genuine hair-food you can buy. It gives new life to the hair-bulbs. You save what hair you have, and get more, too. And it keeps the scalp clean and healthy. -The best kind of a testimonial " Sold lor over sixty years." by J. O. Ayer Co., Lowell. Mass. AMU yers la aiinftoturer of f SARSAPARILLA. PILLS. CHERRY PECTORAL. Subscribe for theBARGUS.;R ANOTHER FATAL (PART IV.) Mil. Thoaus Dixon, Jr. Mr. Thomas Dixon does not properly come under the general heading "Great Men in North Carolina," but as he is a great Nort h Carolinian and one about whom I wish to write, I take the lib erty of changing the general heading to "Great Men of North Carolina." As people have not yet ceased to cuss Mr. Dixon for "The Traitor" people both north and south we deem it not an unseasonable time to write some thing for him of the nature of a de fence. If Mr. Dixon had never written the "One Woman" it is possible that he would have been judged more chari tably, but unfortunately he did write the "One Woman," which in truth is not worth the reading, and which may seem obseene in the eyes of the vulgar minded, who gave its author tho name of a scandal monger. We do not be lieve that the motive which' prompted the writing of the "One Woman" was anything but a good one. We think that it is a poor book, but can not see that the lesson taught by it is any worse than the dollar-and-a-half "ex poses" of New York society, which are so popular today. "The Leopard Spots"' is a great book, "The Traitor," his latest, is greater, but his second, "The Clans man," is the greatest of the three and in our opinion the greatest novel of our day. "It is not literary", say the critics. No, thank the Lord it isn't literary. And why is it not literary? In the first place because it was a good seller. That makes "hacks" mad. Then the author had something in his stomach when he wrota it besides dry toast and skimmed milk. An author must suffer want or hunger or some thing, or be a trirop, or go about with seedy clothes a id a vacant look, and not w rite anythh g tha i, cu r. be grasp ed until read six or seven times and then not without unexplainable ex planations, called editorial notes, con cocted by Andrew Lang or Hamilton Wright Maibe or Dr. White or some wild animal belonging to that species escaped from classic "Harvard," to be literary, notwithstanding the fact that Kipling had plenty to eat and good clothes and a home to go to at the time that "Morogli the man-monkey" was being precipitated upon a suffering public, Mr. Dixon lis not literary. And since he does not suit the professors by plagiarising Addison and Macaulay and Dick Steele and O. Goldsmith, we must call him popular and let our souls rejoice that he had as much gumption as Scott and Dickens who ignored every mechanical rule el rhetoric which permitted of good Eng lish. They are classical writers be cause they had nerve enough to start a school of their own, and the weak minded plagiarists of Addison and Macaulay began to plagiarize them. Who knows that Mr. Thomas Dixon, Jr., has not started a new school; he is not dead yet; perhaps he has. We know one thing: He has done inestimable good in the South. He has done more toward perpetuating those traditions of our forefathers than anyone else has dared to do. In the "Leopard Spots," "The Clansman"and "The Traitor" he has put before us history which, within less than a hun dred years time, will, according to con dition of affairs today, certainly repeat itself. Perhaps we seem pessimistic we are, but about this one question alone. From what we can gather, the average man is not pessimistic enough about it. Begin to dictate to your cook and see if we are not correct in our views. Dixon is more fearless than some writers, and hence he is not spoken of by them as a "conservative man." Dixon, they say, "is vile and violent" because he tells the plain unvarnished truth. Dixon exaggerates because that truth is horrible to think about. The truth about Dixon is that he is too sensible to be anything but popular in his style, too brave to clothe a true statement with circum locution, too dutilul to refrain from bearing a mes sage which he thinks that it if h js duty to bear. . - He is, in our opinion, the greatest writer in the South; the greatest novel isfin the country. BLYTHE MORRIS. A cleansing, eean, cooling, soothing, healing household remedy is DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve. For Burns, cuts, scratches, briuses, insect bites, and sore feet it is unequaled. Good for Piles. Beware of imitations Get Dewitt's. Its the best Sold by M. JS. Robinson fc Bro. WRECK. An Early Morning Collision on t!ie Pennsylvoniai Railroad. Three Kiiied Outright and Five Fatally Injured This Morning Near Camden, New Jersey. L (Special toj The Akgtjs.) Camden, N. J., Dec. 27. Three per sons were killed outright, five fatally injured and eighteen badly hurt in" a rear end collision between a Camden accomodation and an Atlantic City ex press train this morning on the Penn sylvania road. The cars then caught fire and as the flames crept near the imprisoned pas sengers, they cried piteously to be lib erated. The speedy response of the fire de partment prevented the flames from reaching the pinioned and helpless passengers. Many passengers, in wild panic, ran through the crowd calling the names of friends and relatives, while the cries of fright and prtn of the injured could be heard for several blocks. A heavy fog was partly responsible for the wreck. The great engine leaped into the rear car, through it into the air, crushed the timbers like match sticks and ploughed through the next car. At this hour only one of the dead has been identified, Theodore L. Webster NEWS FORECAST OF THE COMING WEEK. (By special wire to The Akgtjs.) Washington, D. C, Dec. 28. A total eclipse of the sun, visible principally in the South Seas region, will take place next Friday. The customary arrangements have been made for the President's public reception on new year's day at the White House. Secretary ot War William Hi Taft will attend the banquet of the Boston Merchants' Association Monday night and will make his first public address since returning from his around-the world journey. With Congress and the Supreme Court adjourned and most of the high public officials taking a holiday recess there will be little of importance dur ing the coming week under the head of politics and government. A large number of educational and learned societies will hold their an nual. meetings during the week, the most important being that of the Amer ican Association for the Advancement of Science at Chicago, which is ex pected to attract several thousand of the foremost scientists ot America. A number of new laws will become operative in various States with the beginning x of the new year. Chief among these are the State prohibition law in Georgia, a child labor law in Alabama, an anti-cigarette law in Ar kansas, a law to restrict the number of divorces in New Jersey, a marriage license law in New York, and new in surance laws in Wisconsin. sifesiion Stomach trouble is tool a symptom el sad not n mu m vui niimw. rrm minx ox vyspepsa, Baaxtborn. and Indigestion m real diseases, rH thar are symptoms only of a "tln speeue V.m .1 iVn nil. r rfYlYw .1m I iu this fact that first correctly led Dr. Shoo? I". m vws now very popular tnomacB Eemedr Dr. fihoop's Restorative. Going direct to tike itomach nerves, alone brought that aoecen oat that original and highly vital principle. n pku wsuua -"".f 'gumTTiiM were ever 10 ne nao. For stomach distress, bloating, biliooanefa, bad breath and sallow complexion, try Dr. Bhoop'l Eto rati ve Tablets or Liquid and see for your self what it can and will da. We tell and tt folly recommend Dr. Soop' Restorativa HlGGIflS DRUG CO. Notice of Dissolution of Partnership. ' Notice is hereby Riven that the partnership heretofore existing for the carrying: on of a mer cantile business in the city ot Cioldsboi o be tween and among Blount Stock, and Orby Winn' is this day dissolved. BThis 16th day of Dec. 1907. ORBY WINN." H OF CAPT. T. L. VAIL Was 0.18 of the Oldest Citizens cithe Coi;i!y anil a Man of Wonderful Csuutes While Active in Life Hi? Service as tcunty Commis sioner Extended Over a Period of SO Years, the Most of Which Time He Served as Chairman of The Be 3rd Active in Financial Affairs and One of The Wealthiest of The City's Oldest Inhabitants. Under the above heading the Char lotte Observer of yesterday contains the following tribute to a native Wayne county man, long a respected resident of Charlotte, the late venerable lather of M rs. W. R. Hollowell of this city: "After a lingering illness extending over several years, Capt. T. Li. Vail died last night at 10 o'clock at his home on Louise avenue, Piedmont Park. The funeral services will be con ducted this morning at 11 o'clock, the procession starting irom the home at 9 o'clock for Providence church, where the sorvices will be conducted and the interment made. Captain "Vail was one of the most influential and wealth iest citizens of the community, a man of integrity, uprightness and character. "Thomas Lodwink "Vail was born in Waj ne county September 29th, 1827. His father was Burners Whedbee "Vail, of Chowan county. His mother before her marriage was Miss Mary Sue Al ford, a daughter of Lodwink Allord and Mary Hall. Captain "V ail's people were from New England and of English extraction. He himself was 16 years of age when his father died, leaving him as the only support of his mother and sisters. These cares took him from school before his education was competed. Pnfossor Cowan, an Irish scholar of high standing, was his princi pal instructor. "In May, 1850, Captain Vail married Miss S. J. Person, of Greene county. He then moved to Columbus county, where he engaged, in the turpentine business, in which he was very success ful. In 1859 he returned to Greene county. While a resident of Columbus he was elected clerk of the Superior Court. "This office he held from August, 1853, to January, 1859. He received the Democratic nomination for Con gress in this district, but declined on account ot pressure of business. At the beginning of the civil war Captain Vail enlisted at once and was made first lieutenant of Company H, First North Carolina Cavalry. He was in active service, his first engagement be ing at the battle of Dranesville. He took part in the fight around Richmond and was with Stewart in his famous march around McClelland. Owing to ill health he resigned his commission. It was rheumatism with which he suffered. "In January, 1863, Captain Vail vis ted Mecklenburg county, where he purchased a tract of land from Mr. Mac Matthews. He made his home until 1872 in the country, when he moved to Charlotte and was made cashier of the Farmers' Savings Bank. This institu tion merged into the Traders' National Bank, with Mr. Vail as cashier. In 1883 it went into liquidation, -Mr. Vail settling up the business. "In 1868 Captain Vail was elected and eom missioned by Camby's military government as county commissioner for Mecklenburg county. During his long service, extending over nearly 30 years with one intermission, he was chairman of the Board of County Com missioners. Captain Vail was appoint ed by the governor to represent the State at a number of road congresses while he was chairman of the Board of County Commissioners. "Captain Vail's family consists of his wife, four daughters and a son. For nearly fifty years he has been a com municant of the Baptist church and he was a man of influence in the affairs of his church while aotive in life. Until a few years ago Captain Vail lived on East avenue and then he removed to a large plantation in the rear of Elizabeth College, where he has received the kindness and consideration in his de clining years from his faithful family. 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