North Carolina Newspapers

A Home Newspaper Published in the Interest of the People and for Honesty in Governmental Affairs ' " - " - - - - - -j - 9 Vol. VII No. I. Salisbury N. o.. Wednesday, December 21st, 19(0. Wm, H. Stewart; Editor it f - P - - it- . CONGRESSIONAL RE-APPORTIONUENT. North Carolina Makes no Gains bat Mar Loose one or More. Washington, Dec. 20. Special. The unanimous reflection of Congressman Joseph E . Ransdell of Louisiana, to the-Exesideiicy of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, whose convention las week brought to the National Cap ital distinguished men in the bus iness, commercial and profession al life of the country, was a most deserved tribute to a man who has devoted many years of his" life to a study of the oomplex questions growing out of the improvement ot our water-ways. Mr. Ransdell Js next to the ranking member on the mi. i y side of the Rivers jand li 0 mmttee of the H' u -' ttiid U'iv.gfrongly urged f?r Ohair ihu ' of 0 mmitteo wUuu v.e fcl .U3e;v,8H8 i.ito the'. control ot tuV d-uiucrais. One thing lscartaiu Mr. Racfedell is thoroughly equipped or the place and Would be a worthy successor to Col . . Alexander the present Chairman, and to former Chair man Theodore J Burton who has been promoted to a ssat in the Senate. The seventh Convention of the National Rivers and Har bors Congress was the most suc cessful ever held by thir great body of water-way enthusiasts and the high standing of the delegates aided materially in getting' the river and harbor bill through tb House in record time. The announcement that some of the House leaders favored in the coming apportionment of repre sentatives among the states in such away as to hold the Hons membership to its present size, is meeting with considerable oppo- sitiorJ. Jividing the total popu- EiteaumteL stfttet 972, 206, by the;pfesen number of representatives. 891, would give 235,221 as the basis of population required for each representative. Such basis would cause the loss of members to- too many states to make it less than highly improb able that their delegations in the House would vote for it Repre sentative Crumpacker, chairman of the Census committee having the problem to solve, has been en tirely reticent on the subject. Representative Hay, of Virginia, the senior democrat of the com mute, whose state would be one of the losers on the proposition not to increase the size of the Hcuse, is more outspoken than the chair man. His guess is that the ap portionment figure will le about 211,500. The Hay figure, dividing the total population, would give a House of 433 members an in crease of 42. On that basis of apportionment New. York would gain 6, California andU Oklahoma 3 each; Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas and" Washing ton 2 each and 1 each would be gained by Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana Mich igan, Mississippi, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dako ta and Utah, One each would be Lest by Iowa, Maine, Missouri and Nebraska. Something Just as Good Can only be the case when it is another bottle of Dr. Bell's Pme- Tar-Honey. Every bottle the same. Look for the bell on the bottle. Big Fire at Faith. A considerable fire at Faith al most destroyed the stock of goods of the Globe Department Store and damaged the Junior Order hall, both being in the same building. Tne fire seems to have started in the store on the first floor from a box of saw dust that was under the stove, a live coal having fallen into it earlier in the day, and as was thought extin guished, but evidently it was not, so after the store was closed for the night the saw dust , continued to burn through the" box o the floor. There was no insurance on the building and only a small amount on the goods. The fire was discovered about 4 a, m Sat urday, and the citizens did some . fine work in putting it out. i DURHAM HAS SPLENDID LAW. 7-1- -e ' " ' Greatly Blessed but la Peryerse to Appre claiyt., Maj lt Become State-Wide. The recent decission of the Su preme Court in regard to: whiskey clubs, the modern term for our non-license paying . saloons, does not injure Durham, hence eh is VolliDg her eyes abTut awaiting a practical idea to flit acrosB her mind that will put her on a foot ing with Charlotte and Salisbury. The Herald laments as follows: "That Durham has'a "statutory enactment against the fkind of juggling with prohibition that has put Charlotte so effectively before the. world the past several days by reason of a supreme court decis ion wonderfully comforting to the anti-prohibitionists, appears to be the belief of not a few lawyers and laymen who have dug up that lo cal law. When Judge J. Crawford Biggs was in the general assembly, he introduced and carried through the body of which he was a mem ber, the .following enactment: 'That every person who shall -directly or indirectly keep or main tain by himself or by associating with others, or who; shall in any manner aid, assist or abet in keep ing or maintaining a club room or other place where intoxicating li quors are received or kept for bar ter or sale or for distribution or for division among, -the members of any club or association by any meauB, whatever, shall be. guilty of a misdemeanor." The expressions in the papers have been variedly interesting and caustic some of them having ov erruled; thesuprema court and pronounoecT'it a terriffio assault upon' state prohibition. , Papers knavK'tn he hnat.il a fcn aA.a nrn. hibition have concluded that it deals the knockout blow and have said so in their headlines. Th papirs dedicated to the cause of state-wide prohibition have re garded it just as strongly agaiust temperance as those who fought the bill so hard and the common understanding is that the supreme oourt has not helped prohibition. It has an important bearing upon the coming general assembly. That there will be a move to re open the prohibition question is pretty generally talked. A few days ago two well to do saloon men passing through the city ask ed: "How about the next legis lature? Pretty damned dry aint it? What's the chance to get any thing from them? How is Dur ham? Wet as hell aintit?" and kindered" questions. - They had been to Raleigh They admitted having been there to look over We appologiie to our readers for publishing the last paragraph, but hope that in doing bo it will serv? to remind good people what man ner of men are seeking to restore the open saloon in North Caroli na, and when advocating any sys tem to sell liquor just what a fine lot of vulgarians would be put in business, should the whiskey in terests succeed. With such men licensed to sell whiskey it is man ifest to all thinking people that it would have a very hurtful effect upon morality and good citizen ship. Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications, as they can not reach the diseased portion cf the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deaf ueaa is caused bv an inflamed con ditiotfof tne mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumb ling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can betaken out aad this tube restored to its nor mal condition, hearing will be de stroyed forever ; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condi tion of the mucous surface. v We will give One Hundred Dol- lars for: any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) Jthat cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., ' " Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. - Take Hall's ".Family Pills for jj constipation. TO OPEN IN JANUARY. Salisbury's Postal Saving Bank to be Ready for Business Soon. Washington," Deo. .18 Post master General Hitchoock stated tonight that everything will'be in readiness for 'the postal savings banks in the -various States ttnd territories. to receive deposits on January 3, the first working day of the new year. The task of drawing up regulations, for-oTs and instructions to postmasters and the general public, he'announced, has progressed to such an extent as to assure the beginning of op operations at the experimental offices. One experimental office will be opened in each State and territory with a view to make the first test of the service as thorough as pos sible under the limited appropria tion. The offices designated are all of the second class and in lo calities where the conditions are exceptionally favorable for the development of postal savings business. Several of the offices selected are in communities in habited by foreigu-born Ameri cans who are remitting annually considerable sums of money to their nativd countries by postal money orders. During the past few days the postmasters at the " twelve offices in the Rocky mountains and Pa cific coast States have been in Washington at the request of the Postmaster General for a confer ence. While here these4postmast ers were thoroughly instructed as to how the new system should be put in operation and how the business Bhould be conducted. Within the next sew days post masters from th&xemaiuing thirty mx officers: w ill convene in AVatb&i ington for a similar drilling.' Aming tEese offices are : Bessemer. Ala. ; Stuttgart, Ark., Key West, Fla.; Bruuswick, Ga. ; Middleboro, Ky. ; New Ibei ia, La. ; Gulf port, Miss. ; Salisbury, N. C. ; Gymou, Okla. ; Newberry, S. C; Johnson City, Tenn. ; Clifton Forge, Va., and Grafton, W. Va. - - - - m Saved From Awful Death. How an appalling calamity in his family was prevented is told by A. D McDonald, of Fayette viile, N. C , R. F. D. 5..8. ,4My had consumption,'' he writes, V'sfre- was very thin and pale, had no appetite and seemed to grew weaker every day, as ull emedies failed till Dr. King's New Discovery waB tried, and bo completely cured her, that she has wbfc been, troubled; with a cough si'ncft. Its the-best nedi cine I ever saw or heard of!" For coughs, oolds, lagrippe, asthma, croup hemorrhages, all bronchial troubles it has no equal, 50o, $1.00. Trfal bottle free. Guaran teed by All Druggists. m 9 Cabinet is Refused. Peking, Dec. 18 The throne has issued an edict refusing to create a constitutional cabinet in compliance with a memorial re cently presented by the National Assembly and also declining to accept the res.gnations of the grand councillors . The imperial Senate also adopted a resolution praying for the immediate creation of a cabinet and it was believed that the tnrcne bad decided to accede to this demand. This National Assembly will meet to morrow hen the whole subject will come up for discussion. Winter is intensifying the fam ine in the Yang-Tse-Kiaug. The authorities are endeavoring to suppress the sale of children, which has been so extensive aB to be estimated at over a million The majority of these are girls The roadways are dotted with starving and dead. The relief committee is now making appeal abroad for aid. It goes to the root of disease, strengthens and .invigorates. Its life given qualities are not con tained in any other remedy. Hollister's Rocky" Mountain . Tea has stood the severest test. For thirty years the surest remedy. Cornelison & Cook. ALDERMEN MEET. Some Things of Interest irttirub ic ing Discussed by our Officials. Thursday night the aldermen met in regular session.: Steps were taken to amend thj Charter of the city so as to enlarge the incorporate limits. Property hold ers outside the present liir its are getting the benefit of a la-g j por tion of the taxes now paid If; the limits are extended, these proper ty holders get the same po ice ad fire protection as those ic.'de, be side those who wish can have city water, gas and electric li&Lts. The deficiency in revenue, which Mr. Thompson gave as a retf .for k ly aa tariff reviBi0n upward Yet this extention is that the popdi-I the R6pnbiiCans appear to b un ture of the city is so near the. in- j afraid to nlac A tihifl ft(1(qThnal come as to be uncomfortab le.' An effort will be made to 1 ve the legislature pass.the act. Chairman McOanless of the street;committeereports that the Southern Railway Comjiiuy has proposed to build two new bridges at Fisher and Bank streets 'cross ings respectively. The railway company desireto raise tb- bridges three feet in order to -o away with the danger to employees who have to ride on top of the cars. Some of the property hold-! ers near the bridges have raised ? objections, but it wasr painted oat their patronage taken away from that it would be beneficial instead j them. of injurious. The company will j The vote on he ship subsidy bill submit plans at the next fneetipg, wm be close. Several progressive when definite action wtlle taken. : republicans will refuse to support A motion to sell theoicrusher te m6asuBe, the Prsident's rec plant owned by the city, was then i ommendatiou and implied threat taken up. It as deoided - to sell notwithstanding. tne same to tne nignest tpaer. Alderman McOanless uid the city ought to have a brn ;and stlies. The machiner Vs allow ed remain on the stjteel - wheu- nijfiwn all M&tUftsS and consequently will soon he worthless unless properl? hcueed . A stable for the horses is much needed, as the present one, which ia rented, is not as desirable as it should be. Dr. Meroney made a request for free license at the theater but was refused. A petition fcr a new Btreet in the. South ward was also refused. You Can Always Get The best cough medicine if you ask for Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey and look for the bell on the bot tle. Gauranteed to give satisfac tion. Sold everywnere. Chi lean Representative in Untied S'ates Fiplresuddenli. Washington Dpc. IS. Seuor Don Anibal Cruz, envoy extraordi- Bary and minister plenipotentiary from Chile'to the United States, was stricken with heart failure at 3:45 o'clock this morning and died a few minutes later. He had attended the banquet of the Amer cau Society for Judicial Settle ment of International Disputes last night and retired apparently in good health. When he was stricken physicians were hastily summoned, but the end came be fore they arrived. President Taft and Secretary Knox callad at the Chilean lega tion in the afternoon and offered Seuor Dm Alberto Yoacham, charge de affairs of the embassy, the use of an American battleship for transporting the body of the minister to Chile. President Taft and Secretary Knox expressed the hope that the body might be re turned to Chile under the Amen can nag, xms lniormation was cabled to the Chilean government by Senor Yoacham, who said to .night he expected an answer to morrow. Funeral services will be held at 11 o'clock Wednesday morning and the body will be temporarily interred. Banks On Sure Thing Now. "I'll nevr be without Dr King's New Life Pills again, writes A. Schingeck, 647 Elm St., Buffalo' N. Y. "They cured me of chronic constipation when all others failed." Unequalled -for Biliousness, Jaundice, Indigestion Headache, Chills; Malaria, Land Debility. 25o at All Druggists. $5,OQ,uOQ TO SHIP-OWNERS. President Taft's Administration Becoming Unpopular Even with Republicans, By Clyde H. Tavenner, special Washington correspondent to this newspaper. 7 Washington, Dec,. " 16.Tho Humphrey ship ulblidy. bill, which provides for ah annual gift of $5,000,000 from the treasury of the United States to million aire private shipowners, is to be jammed through this session of C ongress-j&t the special request of President Taft. Ship subsides are about aB un popular with our country general class legislation upon the statute books. Th8 stand-pat Republicans who were defeated for re-election hav& nothing to lose through votiDg for ship subsidy. Trie stand-pat republicans who were re-elected will vote for it to be consistent with past perform ancesf Be sides, Republicans votinigagainst measures recommended by" presi dent Taft lay themselves open to the charge of traitor, for which amj n addition thereto may bve The best that; can be said for a shipping subsidy is that it pro vides for the payment of public moneys directly b tobig privabe Interests en the assumption that f4ahe maritma- commerce of the United StattitSsdan that the puBliQjl) then 'J be . abl.4 to get the donations back indi rectly. But past experiments have proven that people have their own trouble getting it back, either directly or indirectly. Although it is not generally known, Uncle Sam now subsidizes a few mail steamship lines. Our heaviest subsidized line is between New York andEngland. If it is true, as eabsidistaasserfc, that trade follows eui Belies, why is it that our exports to the United Kingdom in the ten years be tween 1897 and 1907 increased but 25 per cent. while our, ex port? to mn-e countries to which we have no sub idized hue-l in creased from 105 to 4900 per cent? Two Unpopular; Appointments. The appointment of Judge Rob ert W. Archbald of Pennsylvania, and Ii terstate Commerce Com missioner Martin A. Knapp to the federal court of-commerce is satisfactory, to bigjnterests, par ticularly. Archbald, although the presi dent may not have knowu it, was once upon a time thesubjact of a scathing arraignment in a decis ion of the Pennsylvania supreme court, when.an enterprise floated by him, was denounced as a "fraud upon the public" and a "disregard of the requirements of buisness honesty." The suh was one brought in 1885 by Hill, Keiser & Co., in the L'ackavanua 'county court against Archbald and others, doing business as the Amity Coal Co., limited. The suit was carried to the state su preme court. Th? decision a gainst Archbald was written by the late Justice Williams. It de clares that the concern in which Archbald was one of four partners was an "empty shell1' and its business, c onducted on a fake capital of $25,000, a Alfraud upon the public." The nomination of Commis sioner Knapp is objected to on the ground that Knapp has shown himifilf t be strongly in favor of railroad privileges, and is there fore disqualified for service on a court which is to pass upon rail road questions. Close observers here at the capitol declare- there is nothing surprising about the appoint ments. The two nominees are of tne same temperament as the SHORT IN HIS ACCOUNTS. Mack Morgan has Left Home in Richfield Owing Companies About $10 000. Albemarlo, Dec. 13. Mack Morgan of Richfield,-thi3 county, who has been selling guauo for the Virginia- Carolina Chemical Company, the Navassa Guana Company, and possibly ' other smaller coucerns, is alleged to be short, in his accounts to an a mount aggregating $15,000 Mr. Morgan is said to hav-e soldt fifty carloads of fertilizer this fall and dollecied the proceeds. His whereabouts are unknown. . He has been agelit for the fer tilizer concerns at Richfield for five years and it was his cu&toai to make settlement on the 1st of December. Sometime ago, it is alleged, he conveyed .all of his property to his wife, who is still living at Richfield," and wheo settlement time came was miss ing. Winston-Slflem, -Dec. 17. An official of the Virginia Carolina Chemical Company, when ques tioned touight, expressed opinion that the shortage of Mack Morgan, would reach upwardf $10,000, owing to. several .leading compa nies. Last season's notes for sales were collected probably, and this season's fertilizer ebipoed hmTwas sold for cash be'ow the mftrkfit, nrices. Chirlotto Observ er - "A men who are most frequently re ceived at the White House, to wit: Aldrich, Hale, Stephenson, Guggenheim, Penrose. From tho first, the president's advisers have been men whose views wr not the views of the great mass cf the Amerciaur people. R"?pub iicans rlike LaFolMte who have i4;l,U3e to beenkept waitin'glntlxste--room so long, that they have left the executive mansion in disgust. Since the President :has relied upon the suggestions and advice of men unpopular with the peo ple, has rejected the advice and conLsel of Republicans popular with the people, the president should net be eurprised that his administration is failing to pjease the people. PROGRESSIVES DISAPPOINTED, When President Taft was con sidering who he would appoint to the supreme bench he gave the progressive Republicans a list .f men and asked them to investi-' gate their records and decline what their attitude would bo if he should noirinate thmf This tne progressives did, reporting i'av:r of some and asainstj others. Imagine their surprise when the president, announced his selec tions and it was fcund that neiti er of the two men appointed wefjp v , , , . , . , vn and contin inciuaea in any use wnicm'Tiaq been submitted to tnm. . BALLINGER SHOULD RESIGN. Are the services of Richard A. Ballinger, aB secretary of the' in terior department, worth the pr.ee the Taft administration is paying in keeping him in effice. This is a question that many Republicans are considering. Despite the ' vindication" of Mr. Ballingo-r by a partisan 'majority congres sional investigating comtnittee, the ft ct remains that the evidence discredited him as? a juLiic ee: vant. - Evjn the Republicans feel that ha has lose the confidence of the people and that his resigna tion would lift a load from the Taftnadministration, Wants To Help Some One.. For thirty years J. F. Boyer, of Fertile, Mo., needed help and couldn't find it . That's hy he wants to help some one mow . Suffering so long himself he ifeels for all in distress from Backache, Nervousness, Los 3 of Appetite Lassitude and K'duev disorders He shows that Electric Bitters w rk won lera for such troubles . "Five bottles," he writes whol ly cured me and now Iam well and hearty." It's alsopositively guaranteed for Liverf' Trouble b spepsia, Bl: od Disorder?, Fe-! male Complaints and Malaria I Try them. 50o at Ail Druggists, j SITUATION IN MEXICO. Reports That 1 he Republic js Tranquil Save For Disorder loSeerrere. Chihuahua, Mexico, Dec. 17 The wildesi'mmors are current to day and no doubti are exage rated in the absence of communication with the frontier. The rumors, as usual, relate to insurrecto suc cesses but there is no confirma ticn or any way of getting proof . The last authentic news came in over railroad lines -from San Antonyesterday. The operator said he could hear the booming of cannon, but could not see the . fighting, owing to the contour of the land. The firing was distant. The telegraph wire over the Mexico & Northwestern Railroad ia still down west of San Antonio and it is impossible to ascertain the true condition of affairs. 7 An official report yesterday stated that fighting at San Andres last Thursday was merely a skirmish. General Hernadez, commander of thi? military-zone, took virtual control of the Northwestern Rail road, tcday when for the first time in a month soldiers were put -aboard a train bound for the front. . The greatest difficulty waB experienced in, obtaining train crews. Americans who ordinari ly run the trains, declined flatly to take.fhe risk, despite the offer oi oonussB running as nigh as $1,000 gold. Mexicans who de clined ;he work yesterday are re ported to have been placed in jail. This measure procured na tive crews today. Four hundred soldiers were loaded into seven passenger coaches. There were also a car load of women and several stock cars, loaded with horses and mules. The soldiers it was stat ed will be used to guard the road . V in. order: that iilV&Z-'- "mo ved sTdw! vin area. " S Ihe move is the beginnings of a campaign by which President Diaz intends tG crush the revolu tion by Bheer weight of numbers. The train traveled in two sections, preceded Ly a hand car to test the trackj as the iusurrectx. a have declared that they will wreck the road if attemps are made to han dle government troop's. Great anixiety is felt for the safety of the train, which moved slowly. It was last reported about 30 miles west of here, Laredo, Texas, Dec. 18 With the exoeption of the Guerr i6 dis trict all of Mexico is tranquil to day, according to an official des patch from Enrique C.Cree , Mexi can Minister of Foreign rations, Tu a telegram to Migue1 E. Die oold, consul for Mexico at Liiedo, Minister CreellescribeB tb ! rout ing'" of the revolutionary forces hearPadernales several! d-i7s ago ues : So- Wiib, this r.ev(fj defeat it is probable that, the . balance i f the revolutionary forpes will 'orm in to scattered groups, whic : will be tenaciously pursued by i oral forces until subdued, prevails unaltered in eve ) Fed Peace v other part of the republic." In commenting. Consul I) 'bold suid: "The govermnt n oner getically pushing its -ca apaign rtgaiust the enemy ami fully able to cope with thd b..u ioa. In my opinion the allege evo lutionary movement is n v ef fectively stamped out. Of o urse there may be a minor gaeri"; war fare carried on for some u j; ; but the ultimate supremacy forces is undoubted." the Treatment of Warts. - Little in the London Practi tioner, states that the a mmon wart, as it occurs upon t skin, is most frequent in child n, and appears to follow a mik . .. 1 ir ritation. For local treat me 5 he suggests the following: O nart cf corrosive sublimate, w : h wen ty five parts of flex-rbie co W- ion, painted on the wart once -a Jay, When this measure fails, th" wart may bejemoved by electric; 1 or surgicarmeans . flake Up Your Own Mind When in the need "of u c nh medicine. If you buy Df. Bail's Pine-Tar-Honey we guarantee' you get the best. a.