THE GLEANER. IBSCID ETUT THDB8DAT. J. D. KERNODLE, Editor. 1.00 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE' The editor will not be responsible for Ttowt expressed by correspondents. ADVBHTIBING BATE8 Una square (1 In.) 1 time fl.CO, ' r each sub isaoant Insertion 50 canta. For more space and longer time, rates furnished on applica tion. Looal not'oes 10 ets. a line for first insertion ; subsequent insertions 6 cut. a Une Transient advertisements must be paid for In advance entered at tne PostolGce at Graham, N. 0., as second olass matter. GRAHAM, N. C, Dec. 30, 1909. Gripped in a Storm. Washington Letter. A Tidal Wave. Blizzard and Snow Storm Sweeps New England and the Coast, The Southern Educational Con ference opened in Charlotte Tuesday and closes todav. A large number of educators are in attendance. Ex-President Zelava has fled to Mexico. Affairs are yet in a serious condition in Nicaragua. The in surgents are not inclined to yield, fearing that there is treachery lurk ing in the overtures. President Taft, has been having considerable to say about govern ment economy, but reports come from Washington that indicate that the expense will be greater than un der Roosevelt's administration. Col. James Gordon has been ap pointed U. 8. Senator by Gov. Noel of Mississippi to succeed Senator A. J. McLaurin who died suddenly last week. Col. Gordon is a Con federate veteran. A reward of 110 000 was offered by the Federal authorities at close of the civil war for his capture dead or alive, it having been charged that he con spired with J. Wilkes Booth for the assassination of President Lincoln The suspicion arose from the fact that in the earlier years of the war Col. Gordon and Booth were inti mate friends. North Carolina News. Capt. and Mrs. A. J. Seagle, of Newton, celebrated their golden wedding Saturday, 18th. J. A. Eflrd, who died in Wins ton recently, left an estate valued at $35,000. The property goes to his wife and children with the ex ception of $5,000 bequeathed to the Lutheran orphanage at Salem, Vs.. Wm. Smith, colored, a Sonth- era railway employe who handles u the mails in Greensboro, has been arrested for systematically stealing from the mails and from the express company. A great - quantity of stolen goods, includ ing jewelry, furs, etc., was found . at his home. Stepping out of the house to mail a letter, and absent but a few moments, Dir. Phillips, of Washington. N. C, returned to find his wife lying face downward with her head in the fire, ber ... face burned to a crisp. The wo- " man was subject to vertigo and it is supposed she fell In the fire i during an attack. In Asheville Wednesday night an unknown negro cut the throat of Lloyd Morris, a young white man, with . a razor inflicting a dangerous wound. The negro was drunk and pushed Morris, and when the latter remonstrated the negro slashed him with a razor and escaped. A. W. Eatman, a telegraph operator at NewelTs, Mecklen- bury county, attempted to pull a ' tramp from under a train as the train was moving off. The tramp pulled harder than Eatman and the latter was pulled under the train and his foot crushed so that it had to be amputated, ' Mr. J. H. Pipkin, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Pamlico county, went duck hunting last Friday and failed to return home. Search was made for him but he was not found until Sunday, when his dead body was lound in a field Death is said to have resulted from heart failure. A dispatch from Kenansvllle says that the shipments of holly from Duplin county this season to the Northern markets have surpassed all previoos records. Tor two weeks car load after car 3 -aJ of this beautiful evergreen ! - pone from all stations along ,'.a CXt Line and. thousands of '.Lars have been brought into C 9 county. . - ' Baliaf U Six B D" 'reusing Kidney and 14 - rc-r I relieved in six hours If tlo "Xtw Griat Socth Av::.:CaX Kibxt Ccrx." It is a pr- ,t u Tp rise on account of its 1 1 ; r z V rom ptnee in relieving ii. . i .&uaer, Jndnprs and i-ale or female. Relieves cf water almoat ira . If y.-tu want quick r in th retnojy. i iVcg Co. in ia A Number of Parsons Dead Railroads Tied Up Shipping Fares Badly Worst In New York In Twenty Years. New York Dispatch, Deo. 27. The work of repairing the dam aire wroutrht bv the storm of the last two days was taken up today in half a dozen states. Millions of dollars damage has been done by the blizzard and tidal wave that have buffeted the east and the Atlantic coast. 17 persons to day are known to be dead in New York alone as the result of this, the worst storm of two decades Thousands of miles of railroads have been tied up and wire com munications throughout the affect ed region crippled. Gigantic efforts are being put. forth by every railroad and tele graph company to bring order out of chaos. Conditions are being slowly remedied. It is feared that the death list will mount considerally higher, as the details of the storm s effects arrive. Fresh reports of the havoc to day show that the storm is the worst that has been experienced since the New York blizzard of 1888. In New York City alone today 7,000 men are working with might and main to clear the streets of the banked snow. Many of these have been laboring constantly for 36 hours-. Trains, delayed from 2 to 12 hours, began arriving ear ly today ou the various lines en tering New York. The Pennsyl vania lines, as far as Washington ; the New York Central, and the New York, New Haven and Hart ford roads were the principal suf rererers, and at places traffic on these lines was practically aban doned during the storm, while all energy was devoted to clearing the right-of-way. As a result the trains were moving slowly. Reports received today from New England paint the storm as the worst of many years. Lives are reported lost in the 14-foot tidal wave which did immense damage. Many Massachusetts cities were in darkness last night. In Philadelphia the situation was almost as serious, all surface traffic being blocked and the steam road services demoralized 5,000 persons spent Saturday night in the Broad St. station, and last night the situation was almost as bad. In Greater New York today dozens of automobiles and taxi cabs were claimed by their owners and drivers who had been forced to abandon them in the streets, unable to plough through the snow-drifts. Hundreds of belat ed passengers today made their way into New York from hotels and farm houses in the outlying districts, where they had been forced to take refuge when the blizzard tied up all traffic. Throughout New York, New Jersey. Connecticut. Massachu setts, Pennsylvania and Maryland the full extent of the damage was sustained. From all sources stories of suffering and tremend ous loss came today in a steady stream. In tne Hudson river many ves sels at anchor have been dragged perilously near shore. . In Long Island Sound the situa tion is even worse, a record breaking tide having added to the storm's effects. Damages to scores of coasting vessels, big and little, were report ed today. The full force of the bllxzerd was felt along the coast. Ice caked ships from hundreds of miles to Lhetorth of New Tork to below Baltimore were forced to struggle to keep afloat and today limped into porta. In the tenement districts of New York suffering was especially in tense. Today every charitable organization in New York took up the task of alleviating the suf fering of the poor. Facilities for feeding the homeless were arrange ed as well as the distribution of clothing and other supplies. Many of the victims of the storm here were wayfarers who were struggling to make their way home. Exhausted, they fell and were overcome, to be found hours later, with life extinct. The New York Central's erack train, the Twentieth Century Limited, was 40 minutes late to day and roost of the other New York Central trains from the west were an hour or more behind time. The Pennsylvania's fast trains were for the most part delayed from two hours up. Washington, Dec. 28, 1909. . Congress has adjourned for a Christmas vacation after a brief and uneventful pre-holiday ses sion. But little legislation has been enacted and only one appro priation bill, that for the District of Columbia, has been passed. This appropriation is consider ably less than that for the past year and there is promise that the other appropriations will show a proportionate reduction. There is much talk of economy at the White House, at the Capi tol and in the departments, but in the national, as in family af fairs, an economical program is difficult and it will generally be found in the end that both the family and the nation have lived up to their income and all they can borrow. As was expected, there will be congressional investigation of what is now known as the Bal- linger-Pinchot feud. Mr. Ballin- ger has requested such an inves tigation in a formal letter to Sen ator Jones of the State of Wash ington, stating in his letter that the investigation should embrace the forest service, meaning Pin- chot, inasmuch as he (Ballinger) believes that the pernicious ac tivity of certain of its officers has been the source of inspiration of these charges. In an executive session of Sen ate, Senator Gore, the blind Sen ator from Oklahoma, offered i resolution providing for an inves tigation and directing that a com raittee of eight Senators, whom he named, with alike number, of members of the House, should conduct an investigation of the general Land Office and the For est Service with respect to stone, timber, coal and mineral lands and water power sites. The Sen ators named by Mr. Gore : Nelson of Minnesota; Dolliver of Iowa Lodge of Massachusetts; Bristow of Kansas; Root of New York Tillman of South Carolina; Stone of Missouri ; and Owen of Okla noma, if these Senators shall be appointed and a comparatively strong committee of the House shall be named to act with them, there can be no doubt of an in vestigation that will go to the bottom of this question, a ques tion of great interest to all the people ol the United States, con corning as it does all that re mains of the splendid natural re sources of the best endowed coun try on th'is planet. There is important significance in the news that became public this morning that the President will in a special message, after Christmas, indicate that no ne cessity exists for changing the Sherman-Anti-trust law dealing with combinations in restraint of trade. The President is counter marching on this proposition and taking a view of the question op posed to that of his predecessor. It is said that the President has been influenced in arriving at his new conclusion by the attitude manifested toward the law courts by Gompers, Mitchell and others, since their conv ictlon for con tempt of court. During the past few weeks the New York Custom House has at tracted almost as much attention as the Congress of the United States. Mr. Loeb, Roosevelt's late secretary, as Commissioner of Customs, has been a veritible bull in that china shop, overturn ing the scales of the sugar trust and ripping np steamer trunks and scattering the landing piers of the great steamers with Paris ian hats, lingerie, gowns, jewelry, hoisery, and other sacred stuff with his sacriligious horns. It is believed that the general publie regards smuggling by private per sons, especially if they are ladies, witn complacency, mere is a general feeling that every woman has a right to buy what she likes anywhere and that-it is an inter ference .with a natural right to make her pay for it a second time when she attempts to introduce it Into her own so-called free coun try, but Mr. Loeb, no doubt, has the law and dots on thousands of elegant globe trotters, who have long been in the habit of outfit ting themselves in Paris and London instead "of patriotically paying the higher prices in their home shops. There is no doubt that the custom House is the greatest of all monopolies in re straint of trade. If all countries would abolish their custom houses, their wax navies might not rust to the water's edge. You are liable to an attack of some form of Bowel Complaint and should provide yourself with the best known Remedy. Dr. Seth Arnold's Balsam. Warrant ed by Graham Drug Co. Value of Property and Tax Assess ment in the State. Ralcltrb Dispatch: That real estate, personal pro perty and corporation valnations for taxation in North Carolina aggregate $576,115,170, on which the State levy in taxes is $1,209, 841, with other general and local taxes that round up, $8,627,574 taxes paid by the people of the State, is the showing made by the State tax commission in its an nual report to Governor Kitchin This report does not include about $325,000 license taxes paid directly to the State Treasurer. The increase of total valuation of all property over last year is $744,857, in spite of a shrinkage in the valuation of personal prop erty amounting to $2,151,431. Increase in tax valuations since 1901 is $234,893,161, or 68 per cent. During the same time the increase in industrial corpora tions has been 133 per cent., public service corporation 90 per cent., and banks and building and loan associations 154 per cent. The commission declares at present the danger is toward un limited and unrestricted rates on property subject to the tax rates imposed for every purpose and often aggregating rates in special tax districts which, applied to properties listed at true valua tion, makes excessive and unjust taxation. The commission in forms the Governor that it ob serves with regret that the tax rate is not diminishing with the increase of assessments. The average rate now borne by all property in the State, not in cluding municipal taxation, is 1.105, and when municipal tax is added, using many large towns as examples, the rate is 2.20 to 2.41 per cent, of the assessed value of the property taxed. Cross or Christmas stamps the as sociation is adding to its meagre stoie of funds. There is not a vement anywhere which has a higher motive and that is doing more for the uplift of the race, and we are already beginning to see results from the efforts of this body of big hearted men. Five Years For Hiram Elliott in the Guilford Murder Case. Fighting Tuberculosis. Raleigh Evening-Timet. There is a war now in progress in 'the United States, the impor tance" and significance of which is realized by few people and the outcome of which is regarded in a listless and desultory manner. This war is a bloodless one and its object is not to kill but to make live. Tuberculosis, the scourge of the United States, the disease whose ravages are more to be feared than an invasion of a hostile army, and the disease which draws a larger toll of hu man life than any other in this country, is being rounded up and if the interest" of the people at large can be aroused, the near future will see consumption un der control and the average life of the American citizen length ened to a great extent. Tubercu losis is a preventable disease and The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuber culosis has undertaken a mighty task, which has tor its purpose the education of the American people to the fact that tuberculo sis can be prevented if not whol ly stamped out The association, organized in the spring of 1904, has grown until nearly every phy sician in the country has allied himself with the movement and laymen from every section are waking np to the dangers of disease which causes annually over 150,000 deaths in this coun try, and are joining the organiza tion to help fight the "Great White Plague." There are sev eral traveling exhibitions on the road and over 550,000 people have seen these exhibits. These go from state to state, putting before the ' people in the clearest and plainest way information which can tie gained from no other source except direct contact with the disease. In the sale of Red HtateevlllB Landmark. ' The case against Hiram Elliott and Dan Coble, charged with kill ing Simpson Coble in Guilford county a few weeks ago, was tried in Guilford Court last week, Coble was acquitted; Elliott was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. lhe murdered man was a son of Dan Coble and a brother-in-law of Elliott. The latter testified that his father-in-law had nothing to do with the killing and knew nothing of the trouble until afier- ward. Elliott said that Simpson Coble attacked him with a knife and he struck him in self-defence, inflicting injuries which caused his death. The killing was orutai. The murdered man was allowed to lie in a gully in dying condition for some time, Elliott making no effort to secure help for him. Under the circum stances it is ques tionable if jus tice has been done. Weak Throat-Weak Lungs Cold after cold; cough after cough! Troubled 'with this taWruKold habit? Better break it up. We have great confidence in AVer's Cherry Pectoral for this work. No medicine like it for weak throats and weak lungs. Ask your doctor for his opinion. He knows all about it. His approval is valuable. Follow his advice at all times. No alcohol in this cough medicine. j.c.AyerLo.,Loweii,Mm. Atwayskeepa good laxative in the bouse. TakeadosewhenourcoMmwe.ono is the best laxative for this? Ayer Pills. Ask your doctor his opinion. Let him decide. The hundreds of thousands who have used them will be glad to know that their combined pocket diary 1910 memorandum book and calendar lor 1910 1911 with other handy information is sued by C. A. Snow fc Co. of Washington, D. C., is ready and will be sent to any address on re ceipt of two cents postage. Write to C. A. Snow fc Co., Washing ton, D. C. How's This We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case oi uatarro tnat can not be cured by nsu'i lawrrn vure. . F.J. CHRNRTftOO-Prons.. Toledo, 0. We the undersigned, have knnwn w J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable In all business transac tions ana financially able to carry out any ouugiuuni uiiuv ujr toeir nrm. VArnran riw.i.JbUiBn. Wholesale Druggist. Toledo, Ohio Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Inteniallv acting dlreatljL.upon the blood and muoous surfaces of lltewyrtem. Prloe T.fo. per bottle. ouju uy an uiukibl. rnun iou per oovue. ivsuuiuuiuis iroe. Take Hall's Family Fills for constipation Scott's Emulsion is the original has been the standard for thirty-five years. There are thousands of so-called "just as good" Emulsions, but they are not they are simply imi tations which are never as good as the original They are like thin milk SCOTTS.is thick like a heavy cream. If you want it thin, do it yourself with water but dont buy it thin, fob sua if AUMDMan SCOTT A BOWK 40 had 8U MsoTerh United States Senator A. J McLaurin, of Mississippi, died suddenly Wednesday night at his home at Brandon, Miss. He was 61 years old and first began ser vice in the Senatein 1894. He was elected Governor of his State in 1895, re-elected to the Senate in 1900 and 1907. Timothy P. Sullivan, the "little Tim" of the Bowery and a power in metropolitan politics, died in New Tork Wednesday night. He had been a member of the Legis lature and acting mayor of New York. auljJN lu waited: Men or Women to work in Alamance coun ty Can easilymake $15 to 125 per week. Address "V," Drawer "A," Kaleign, M. U. At Magnolia, Ala., a few days ago a white man was killed and burned and a race war was immi nent for several days. Forty-two negroes have been arrested and placed in jaiL . We're sorry if yon have tried other medicines and they failed. As a last resort try Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. It's a sim ple remedy, bnt it's worked won ders, made millions well and hap py. Purifies the blood, makes flesh and muscles, cleanses your system. Graham Drug Co. The Federal grand jury in New York has indicted 27 dressmakers women and men in New York, Boston and Chicago, for smug gling goods. About aU of them have been arrested and released on bond. , WHAT IS JUSTICE? Br MAURICE MAITBRUMCK. and Dramatist PhUosopher 35 ITHTN- me there is more," runs the fine motto Inscribed on the beams and pediment of an old patrician man sion at Bruges, which every traveler visits. ' And so, too, might man exclaim, "Within me there is more" EVERY LAW OF MORALITY, every Intelligible mystery. There may be many others above and below us, but tf these are to remain forever unknown they become for us as If they did not exist, and, should their existence one day be revealed to ns, it can only be because they already are In us, ALREADY ARE OURS. ?' Within me there is more." and we are entitled to add perhaps, "1 have nothing to fear for what is within me." This much is at least certain that the one active, Inhabited region of the mystery of justice is to be found within ourselves. Other regions lack consistency. They are probably imaginary and must inevitably be deserted and sterile. They may have furnished mankind with illusions that served soma purpose, BUT NOT ALWAYS WITHOUT DOING HARM, and though we may scarcely be entitled to demand that all illusions should be destroyed, they should at least not be too manifestly opposed to our conception of the universe. Today we seek in all things the illusion of truth. It is not the last or perhaps the best or the only one possible, but it is the one which we at present regard as the most honorable AND THE MOST NECESSARY. 7 In the heart of every man there exists an admirable love of truth and justice, and, as we observe its incessant activity in the depths of our heart, as we watch it blending with all we think and feel and do, we shall quickly discover which are the things that throw light upon it and which those that plunge it in darkness, which are the things that guide it and which those that lead it astray) we shall learn what nourishes AND WHAT ATROPHIES, what attacks and what defends. , , '. Is justice no more than the human instinct of preservation and defense! Is it the purest product of our reason or rather to be regarded as composed of a number of those sentimental forces which so often are right, though direotly opposed to our reason forces that in themselves are a kind of unconscious, vaster reason, to which our conscious reason invariably accords its startled approval when it has reached the heights whence those kindly feelings long had beheld what itself was unable to see f '- 18 JU8TICH DEPENDENT ON INTELLECT OR RATHER ON CHARACTER? . ' All men love justice, but not with the same ardent, fierce, exclu sive love, nor have they all the same scruples, the same sensitiveness OB THE SAME DEEP CONVICTION. We meet people of highly developed instinct in whom the sense of what is just and unjust is infinitely less delicate, less clearly marked, than in others whose intellect would seem to be mediocre, for here a great part is played by that little known ill denned side of ourselves that we term the CHARACTER, and yet it ia difficult to tell how much more or less unconscious intellect must of necessity go with character 1 that is UNAFFECTEDLY honest The point is to increase within ourselves our DESIRE for justice, and it is certain that, at the start, our character is less directly influ enced by our desire for justice than is our intellect, the development ox wnich this desire in a huge measure controls, and the co-operation of the intellect, which recognizes and enoourages our Brood intention. is necessary for this to penetrate into and mold our character. That portion of our love of justice therefore WHICH DEPENDS ON OUR CHARACTER will benefit by its passage throturh the intel lect, for in proportion as the intellect rises and acquires enlightenment will it succeed in mastering, enlightening and transforming our minds. xiow shall we then increase and purify within ourselves the dedre for justice f '.".;-,"-'-.:.' We have some vague conception of the Ideal we would armroirA; but how changeable still and illusory is this ideal I II k Wmtmu! h all THAT IS STILL UNKNOWN" to ns in the universe, by all that we do not perceive or perceive completely, by all that w ouastLxn too superficially.' Y LEARN INQ TO KNOW OURSELVia. Y NOT ACVtMa'iiuni THIN, AND THEN ACTINO ONLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH ALL OUR OR SIRES, HAVING GREAT CARE ALWAYS THAT Wl fA MAT ikiJi tmm OUR NEIGHBOR. SHALL WE AT LAftT ill f M ftrUAUf laruatf Will Sell Untie Z7T aa waiiam. By order of the Buperlor rn manoaoouiity, North (Vron'J T,,0' ia, public outorr to tbe best b XT.',1 MUi hoase doov In Graham, JB 1Wer ,l"'e . SATURDAY, JAN. 29 i9l0 and others, containing D- M- WiE v ; -38 OF AN ACRE, more or less, upon witch i. a new four-roo dwelliS It b.?nf,,Sl,rMIell veyed by . If. alker ,.d .T'otW Amy Lemons, and is sold for rtt?,1,he Uu Terms: One-third of the 5','" down; tbeorhertwn.thi"e. p,1ce Inmon.. ments at three and six mon ths ln" notes ol purohaner oarrylii 8,' ,"e(;nrM uay sale, and title rese. ved tm tn""1 ,ra December 18, 1809. r"u'' WW for HEENaN HUQHrh n ' tda Leave Your Orders for COAL- OR WOOD AT fcLtui KIC LIGHT office - wi vi. canning ractory ior Prompt Service. 'bhnn 44 m m uuuc lltfaaa Respectfully, J. V. POMER0Y. North Carolina's Foremost Newspaper, The Charlotte Observer Every Day in the Year. CALDWELL ft TOMPKINS, Publisher!. J. P. CALDWELL, Editor. $8.00 Per Year. THE OBSERVER Receives the largest telo ered to any paper between Washington and Atlanta. and its special service is the J 4- 1 1 1 1 I . KictticsL ever nanuieu nv a North Carolina paper. The Sunday Observer Consists of 16 or more pages and is to a large extent made up ot original matter. sWSend for Sample Copies. Address, T6e Observer, Charlotte, N. C. v Pays until January 1st, 1911, v For iUDerieneed trviiAm iiaTA's wuue uj utsung sb m bottle of Dr. Seth Arnold's Bshuunt It cures illness caused by imnnra "wt auiu Bitumen enanges ol w climate. Warranted hr Onham .i. H poem for TJoday I ! President Taft Tuesday a week pardoned seven Federal prison ers, among the number two from North Carolina John Leonard and Charlie Williams, serving five years io the State prison. The amount involved was $643,000. leuesW St. iXOXt.X.am.. km m TW tow twrej ijatf Near Fresno, Cat, a farmer who became suddenly insane kill ed his wife and one child, wound ed three children and then killed himself by. jumping ia front of a train. lOIETfiSKlDnEYPlIlS Urn a Eight students were last week dismissed from Trinity College for hsxing. THE SIN OF OMISSION Br MiniNt E. Itnutir T knt tt thin ywi io, dear; rs im tun Tswvs w undone Whlcfc gtvM tn a bit of beartecb t tbe Mttlng of tbe na. ' tends word t ortottiM. 1b tatter 70a did not wttts. ' Tbe ttrwtt ytm mlfbt bare sent, dsauv Tbe aHane tm aalgbt bare ttftsd v ' Ont of a bratbors wmj; 'Tbe bit of h rfecua r M Toewere hunted tie aaoca t strt Tbe lawing toocb of tbe ooar; ' boiu maa winsome tone ' Tbat yen had no time nor thought toe, Wltb troobice enoegb ef yew own. Tbe BttJe acts of kindaooe, 8 easily oat ef mtnd; , Those ehuceo to be engoK Which orory mortal finds Tbey come tn night and Oenee, Eech chin. rqwoechfoJ wraith. 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