North Carolina Newspapers

Ki mil H :. -Sjo- " TTTTY T) . . ' " " f . A Home Newspaper Published invthe Interest of thd Peopie and for Honesty m Governmental Affairs, Vou VII -- NO. 48. Salisbury N, C, Wednesday, November !5th, 1911. Wm. h. Stewart, Ed.tc3 v. 1 . TCCjSJIXDS OF CHINESE BUTCHERED. BENERAL MATTERS OF INTEREST. ;:r Unncordij la Mm History, ' : Whlmls Utsmre. Nankin; China, Nov . 10 Historic Nanking this evening is the shambles of ' the Manchu belcher. The sun set upSm 'a scene of : fire, rapine, desolation aia butchery unrecorded in mod em hiitory Touigbt 12,000 , . Manoha and tt: old-style eo'diers hold le Hill, where they are en- trenched, while ftpm beueath their stronghold they are driving before them ho.det of Chinese oat of J the city : tunoeent Ohiueee. Imtid gerythiug beh; nd them , are; fleiug, terrcritr token and destitute to shelter in the fields at the rear of the reform f oroes . ThV Utter, namboriDg between 20,000 and S),000, are impotent txeheok the slaughter or avenge the slain bejau?- of ;h-ir lack cf aetmauition . Th rev -lationists had delayed s fecund coiictrt(d attaok upon the Manchu9 - pend ing the arrival of ammanitioLi expected fro-aa s3hnghai. The Ifanohns tojk advantage .of tie ttoation. The rerolntisniats made a de termined effj't but did little shooting and there were few fa talities. The tnaiu body cf tb reformers remained iu camp thr e miles dietant from tLe city awaiting the arrival of ammuni tion. Reinforcem9i.it b are ale eoming from every directi n. They are raw and ragged re emits bat a battle promisos to be desperately fought. The foreigners aro lei g treat ed with th ntotost consideration When the irates wore opeued this - fi morning the people thronged to ward the oca ttry, eicti carryitg his b donffin it aud drivea by the Imperialists. 8(tm- afterwards the 1 carnage began. Since the night of November 8 when the first attack was made bv the revolutionists, the Tartar w general hss endeavor id t ) terror ise the inha'aianti by wholesale executions. Those who queuo had been cat off were beheadtd by the dozen, bat today when the order for a general slaughter was given, the whole native city was invaded by the Manchu' soldiers who ruthlessly massacred men, women aud children. The agfd, the yoaug and babies in arms were shown no mercy. Thousands of Chinese poured from the gates until at noon to day it was estimated that f ally 70,000 persons had escaped. Be fore nightfall 20.000 more, rep resenting evry class, the mer Chants, the geutry and coolies, bad gotten away. Mea awhile the Mauchns scoured the narrow streets of the city and the houses of wealthy merchants were sack ed. Any qujuelts8 victim waB beheaded immediately. - The or rreipondent of tb Asso ciated Pieis saw seveial women exiouted aud their children sta' ed and trainped uudr foot The order appeared to be that anvtne wearing auythius which suggested the white badge worn by t ie reformers must be killed forthwith. A white pocket hand- kerchief marked th? posiesor for death White sn, es, wnicn are worn by the Chinese as a sign of mourning were a signal for the Vxeoatiou of the wearer. TLe borror of the massacre cannot be deoribed. r: An attempt tonight to estimate the Lumber of innocent ecple apd nonobmbatants slain would e utile. 1 j The Chinese found wearing foreign clothing immediately , fell "a viotim on his advanced taste, 'bot foreigners were not molested, r Their protests against the massa fcree however were disiegarded -'and even laughed at. The cor- retpoudeuts of the Associated pfes worked throughout the day Hrlthin the cater walls of the city 'eight miles from the telegraph tat no with which .. tney com municated and to which they . ware ;DrmiUed access througn th courtesy of the railway cm biaU; Fires sprang up every- where and a large section of the Native city was burned. Tonight vr, i a. wWi lUanehn- dr.ven to bay. cor ner, d and glutted with blood, having despoiled the goods of no O0O inhabitants, watches the Naming city "from the height of r t-i cr;ii mnA anraita the mar- i- fpiyw - - Big Events Reduces" to Little Paragraphs - for the Readers of This Piper. Stories ajleged to have been current at Springfield, 111., that Emanuel A. Abrahams, a mem ber of the Legislature referred to as the "bell-wether" of the elec tion of U jited States Senator William Lorimer, had refused to vote for Lorim r for 12,500, but had done so when given 5 000, were related before the senatorial investigating committee Friday. The one hundred and eighth session of the Assooiate Reform ed Presbyterian Synod of the South convened at Troy Thurs day at 11 o'clook a. m. Ths opening sermon was preached by the retiring moderator, Rev. 0. S. Young, of Lancaster, S; 0., frcm text, James 5:21. White Oak Gray was selected as the next place ot meeting. Rev. J. H. Pressley of Statesv:lle was elected moderator for the next meeting. The Democratic State committee of New Jersey mt at Treuton Thursday and endorsed Qcv. Woodrow Wilson for the Demo. j cratio nomination for- President of the Unite j States. The com mittee deoided - to open and maintain permanent headquarters here to further Governor Wilson's nomination, A suo-oommmee wis appointed to prepare a state ment to the pnblio analysing the result of last Tuesday's election. The members of thfe State com mittee profess toj believe that the election was a victory for Governor Wihon aad his policies despite the fac thAt theHapubli cans rtaiued cofiftrol of the Sen ate aud captured the Assembly from the Democrats. Henry C. Beattie was placad in the penitentiary last week to await eletrv cation .pnless the Supreme court grants him a new trial, whioh is not probable. He occupies a room adjoining the electrocution room . There are fiftean American ves sels now in Chinese waters look ing after the welfare of the foreigners, and four more are on thpir wav there, accord iok to Secretary of the Navy Meyer. fhe Supply ship Supply is do to arrive at Shanghai tomorrow and the monitor Monterey, crnsiser Saratoga and gunboat Qairos are nnnnu for Chinese waters from the Phlllipines. Id adrizzling rain 10 000 per- sens, irom an ibcm 'ui w nation, Thursday assembled at the I.iuooln farm near Hodgen fille, Ky., to take part in the dedication of the granite temple which ' enshrines the cabin in whiah Abraham Lincoln was b ru 102 .years ago. The skies cleared, however, shortly before Presideut Taft was introduced as principal speaker of the day. After a day spent in travelling through Tennessee, President Taft left Fridiy af.ernoou, was driven fur 85 noiies over the battlefield of Chickamauga whei6 historians concede one of the Hoodiest oonfli ;ts of the civil war was fought. ffor more than two houtB the Tresident motored over the hills and througn tne valleys where General Bragg at thi head of the Confedeiate army aud Geueral Rosecraus on the Uuiou side foughtL48 .years ago with a loss of m ie than 85,000. With the - Prr-sid-ent rud former Oougrossman Grosvenor of O :io, who was lieutenant colonel of the E gbteenth -Regiment, Ohio, and whu is no-v a member of the Chicamacga National Park Com- misa nn. an d United Sta'es Sen ator Frazier of Tennessee. Burglars took ten thousand dollars in money and jiwelry from the bon e of Dr. B Terry sAmit.h a wnaHhv oollector or aut.O'ies at Hartford, Conn., early Friday m rnuig. In an attempted flight Sunday frro Passadpna to Long B.iach, offi-inllv to end his Atlantic- Pdc'fia journey. Aviator U. r offers met with the worst mis- Will me South Stmi tie Test? These jx! few mouths wi'I form a crucial period in the South history. V te for ; So-and-so becaase he has served long in the hens? or senate and so call help us 1 1 get bigger appropria tions 1" will be an oft-heard cry. Vote for 8c-and-so because h will gat ui pirt of the tariff graft 1 ' will be another. Vote for So-and so because he will try to get soma of the pension loot!"' will be another . Farmers of the south, there is death in the pot, and dishonor, tool Let ui yield to these siren voices, aud the south will not on ly lOBe pjwer ; it will lese its good name as well. Vote for the man whose record for character, cour age, high public semoe, and de votion to principle marks him at BLAOHEY TO fLYHEflE NOVEMBER 2 22 ! Oiphtlierla Antitoxin at Reasonable PJces. the worthiest man ; and let as have done forever with the selfish and I rai.i standards whioh would judge a cindidato's fitness by the Gvrtiss Compaq Oasignei Baring Bird man for Salisbury Af Ution There was joy in the SaliS" bury and Spencer- Railway office Monday morning -when 0 1 Worthington(feceived a wire from the Orirtiss Exhi bition Co., granting the re quest that' Lincoln; -Beachey be assigned to the? Salisbury meet. Although!' every one else connected with the big meet had expected the de signation of Stl Henry or Robinson as theblrdman for the meet here au&fcad con sidered the mau Bettled. Mr. Worthingt5tfould not give up. : .-5M "f-, r "St. Henry ana Robinson are spectacular flyers," said Mr. Worthington when he receiyed word c; that one of them- would be sent here, 'but I want Beachey. He is the greatest flyer yi the world. I would ratherhave him here alone than all the a m nn t .if 4ir -rlr harrol" I nrfc ha gets for his de-striot. 'Whether rest put tOgtherNow doiVt fu think I am belittling the the appropi,ation is cing north j j they orooiuUl8 hU!lr uuc "vy are all wonderful yers, and atives m wasnington emulate would please th, people any- the evampie of a b loombs who wnere. But frou the interest told the senators to abolish the shown in Salisbury I want to United States Mint at Dahlonega, f show that I appreciate their Ga. It was not needed, he da- endeavor to maKe tne meet a dared, and he was not going to support it merely becaase it brought money into his own state. "I am juit as mu;h opposed to an abuse in Georgia as I am to an abase is Nw York," he de clared. And in a great sreeoh in the United 3:ates S nate fifty years ago h made a declaration that .can net be too seriously con a ! : The annonnfifimflnt has inRt. been made by the director of the State Laboratory of Hy giene, - under the control of the State Board of Health? that diphtheria antifoxin will now be furnished to all legal residents of North Carolina atthe following prices: 1,000 units..... ..$0.50 8,000 units ..$1.35 5,000 units.. . ... ..$1.95 Formerly diphtheria anti toxin seemed to be under the control of a few manufac tnrers who were more inter ested in accumulatingf ortune of their own than they were in the public health, and hence the public was obliged to pay prices from 300 to 400 per cent higher than those) above quoted. Arrangements have just been made where by diphtheria antitoxin is now distributed from over a hundred different places throughout the State, and other distributing agencies are constantly being added. At present, fresh antitoxin may be secured by your family physician at the above prices, as he has already been provided with a list of the distributing agencies. According to Osier and other medical authorities no success. With a. determination to take nothing short of the de tailing of Beachey as final, Mr. Worthingtonjtired in an other lettergram to the New York office practically de manding Beachey V presence here, and his efforts were not in vain. Ever since Beachey began sidered in this day of publio rob- to fly his name has been be- bery through extravagant and in- fore the public as a birdman direct'tsxation. ' Hsaid: secona to none, yno sensa- "Whenever the system shall be f ion of msnas followed close , i . LI. I AD UCvu UVlUHVUy UIUIII) " win enter a n-iseraoie soramoie Qaf iui iMnMtL f a forw3swiwDswoo York papers rank him ahead bf all. Even the work of such aviators as Hoxsey, Johnston and Mosiaut are dulled in comparison. On the 27th of June, 1911, Beachey made what is down on the annals ot aviation as the greatest flight the world has ever seen, and probably ever will witness. JtLis won derful flight over the falls of Niagara, under the suspen sion bridge and through the gorge. When the papers an his intention ol making the flight people said cal appropriations, and that senator ii to be regarded 'the ablest representative of his state who can get for it the largest slice cf the treasury, from that day pui'lio honor and property are gene and ail tne states are disgraced and degraded." The Progressive Farmer. machine 125 feet into a ploughed field, half way between the two cities and within sight of his destination. Although nc bones were broken, K dgers was ren- "uuuocu dered unconscious. He was bad lv shaken, his face acrtched and wuuiu uovoi unacuuuipn uu auu uetB were uiauo ju torn, bis hands were burned iy his motor and he complains of severe pains in his side. His machine was completely wreck ed. The White House is occupied again. President Taft swung down from his private oar in the union station at Washington, Sunday morning at 6:45, exactly on time at the end of his 15 000 mile trip aud fifteen later the glass doors of emotive mansion opened for him . It was the President's first oall there since August 22 except ng only for a stop between trains two weeks ag ). Nw 'York's streets have be come so utterea witn carnage as herult of the street cleaners' strike that street oleaning Com missioner Edwards b gun the use of disinfectants Monday. Niagara and Buffalo that he would never come back alive, but he did and with flying colors. The fact that Beachey is to fly here will draw thousands to Salisbury, as his reputation as a flyer is worldwide. The prices of admission will remain the same, 50 cents with an extra charge of 25 cents for the grand stand. m mutes n0 extra charge will be made the Kx- for autos and carriages. 6REE1 UAMUR1IM1LJ4. STATE NEWS, items of Interest Gatneref Fren tie AtliB tlc to tbi Appalacblaas. A meeting of the executive committee of the North Carolina Farmers' Union was held at Greensboro Thursday night. The meeting was private, but it was said after the conference that ; a numl.er of important matters were. disouss9d iu the gathering. The farmers are" looking forward to the meeting of the State anion at Wils:n next month with in terest, It is announced that among the speakers will be R. D. N. Wilson of Mississippi, who .will explain the warehouse system and Pn&ident Charles S. Barrett of the national union. Wyat H. Wiggins, a prosperous farmer and a prominent citizen of Costs, N. 0., was killed instantly. Wednesday, when he was ?aogbt on th line-shaft of his gin. Mr. Wiggins was working near the gini ported from India. It requires a and in some manner his clothing; long season in whioh to ripen was caught in the shafting and hej seed, bat can be grown suocess was hurled to hi3 death before the; fully for soil improvement par machinery could be stopped. pses in most of the Piedmont and in all of the coastal planes section. It should be planted as What Caa bi Obtaiiea b toj Tit Velvet Beta. ' ) While it will not matax seed, in oar short season, the velvet bean has no equal aa a soil im prover. Think of plant, grow i n g a vine 75 feet long bearing leaves 4x8 inches with , three ' ol these leaves on every leaf; stall: and the leaf stalks set- thick 'cat the vine. What a mass ;c f vege table matter this would make plow down for soil improvement It is fabulous, the amount of green vegetation ;this plant will produce to the acre. The usual objection offered to the. use of this plant is that it, makes so much vine that a disc harrow can not be forced through it if grown where the land is in a fair state of cultivation. The velvet bean is not a native of the United States but was im- Thursday was the busiest day of the North Carolina Synod which convened at Charlotte, Tuesday, the pledging of 918,000 toward a desired endownment of deaths occur from diphtheria $50,000 f jr the Orphans' Home at when antitoxin is used in the early stages of the disease. In other cases the use of antitoxin reduces mortality rate to one sixth or one-eighth of the rate where no antitox in is used. It therefore ap pears that to secure the best results, antitoxin should be administered when the dis ease is first apparent. Severe sore throat should be regarded with strong sus picion, particularly if not improved after 24 to 30Tiours. soon as all danger of frost has passed as it is not all hardy. Some farmers find it good prac tice to let the frost get, the crop before plowing it under in order to reduce the bulk of vegetable matter to be turned under. It is also a good praotioe, in some cases, to let the vines lie on tbp loi. f arrant AartaM Ktuluitt WUlMfr IQQ Wm tributsd to the interest of th: them undw in the prmg prior to Barium Springs claims primacy: among the doings of the inital session. Reports abounding in significant fects and clear-out ad dresses presenting forcefully the. well-attended gatherings. A de-j ois on in favor of Raleigh as the place for the next synod was, reached in the late afternoon. Aj conoert by the musical faculty olj the Presbyterian Co' lege for women last night p-ived a delightful en- planting. The velvet bean runs high in nitrogen and potash. The num ber of tons that can be grown oa, acre is very great, but a fair aver age is about twenty. No let as see how much plant : I&tfcsti1'ti;1ftsa afternoon tru Bibetyei, Smutin wheat is easily and of. the Syha r .ISortlb cheaply controlled by treat- CaroUna cama to a clcae -and the ment with formalin. last itam in its rapiaiy reooraeu; One pound of formalin is history . found its place in the , dissolved in 45 gallons of effiioial minutes. water This may be sprayed over wheat spread on a cloth or on a tight floor. The grains should all be moisten ed by the liquid. The grains should then be covered so as to keen the gas among tho pal feature of the Catawba ceunty street fair Thursday. Mr. Craig was introduced by Mr. B. B. Blackwelder in an apprjpiate a nj . 1 I t t 1 m I grains. Alter covering, leave speecn, ana ne spoxe iorone uour it three hours before un- on the subject of eduoation. Mr, covering. oeea ireaieu in the morning may be shown in the afternoon. Experiments show that seed treatment with formalin make more vigoious plants than untreated seeds, pro vided the seed is smutty. Treating seed hastens germ ination if put into a moist seed bed. The grain should be treated just before seed ing. J. E. Payne, in The Progressive h armer. hap cf hit caresr, falling with bii Presbyterian Mtn Ed Joy Dinner. The third annual dinner for the men of the FirBt Presbyterian ohurch was served last Friday night on the second rl:or of the store room recently oocupied by the Globe Department Store. A number of tables were set by a. . 1 the good ladies of the cnurcn, which contained a tempting sup- Telling Miss Alma Lenox, with per, consisting of chicken salad, whom he was talking at her ham sandwiches ana conee borne that be would kill himself, William J. Dulaney, of Washing ton, ra., chief of police, placed a revolver so nis neaa ana sent a bullet through his brain last Af ter the luncheon loe oream and cake was served. About 200 Presbyteriai. men were present and enjoyed the supper im menaelv. Theo F. Kluttz was toastm aster. Dr. Byron Clark, Sow a Big Crop of Oats. Every circumstance favors the sowing of an unusually large area of oats in the Cotton Bolt this fall. The cotton fields will be ready for plowing at an early date. In some localities, timely rains, about the middle of Octo ber, have softeneof the ground; corn is high-priced, now selling in the writer's market at $1 per bushel; the hay crop of the United States is practically a failure ; and the recent decline in the pnoe of cotton disposes farm ers to reduce the acreage in cot ton in 1912. Prof . J F. Duggar, in The Progressive Farmer. tertainment. At 4a.' a'olookj feP,,wtt. wJRRW v.stfd nitrogen, 56 lbs, of phosphate.' and 229 lbs. of potash . We have only to multiply these figures by ten to get the plant food added trt thn ton Mr, fiaM flknnM A magnificent speech by Locke , . . , Craig of Asheville was the pnnoir I . v - . f" wu SUM I ABDD WJL vines to pieces with his sharp disc and plow them under he would add to the soil of his ten acre field, 2290 lbs. of nitrogen, and render available, 560 lbs. of phos phate, and 2280 lbs. of potash. This, yen will note,, is as, much nitrogen as you can get from about 290 tons of fresh cow ma nure or 55 tons of an 8-2-2 com mercial fertiliser. The phosphate found in this amount of green manure is equal to that found in 850 tons of fresh cow manure or in 8 12 tons of an 8-2-2 commer cial fertilizer. The potash, thae . rendered available is equal to ; that found in 812 tons of jftesh oow manure or in 87 tons of 822. The amount of nitrogen v thus snatched from the air and fed to the crop in the short space of on year is equal to that removed bv 200 bushels of corn, 800 basKele of oats, 150 bushels of wheat; or six 500 lb. bales of Cotton, per aore. Or, figuring on a ten , acre Craig was at his best and his speech was highly enjoyed. Notwithstand ing a heavy downpour of rain in the early part of the day a large crowd was present . The Acade my of Music wa9 crowded to the rear, many people standing during the address. In State vs. Noell, Rswan coun ty, the sentenoe of five years in the penitentiary for Mrs. Jauie Noell was affirmed by the Su preme Court, She was convicted for complication with her hus band in white slave traffic, the husband having been sentenced heretofore to fifteen years in a case that oreitid a sensation throughout the State. Despite threatening weather there was a tremendous crowd tor Friday night. He is survived by pastor of the churab, was master of ceremonies, xn&uu pHuunuou a wife and five children, who were asleep at home nearby. To join the American colony in Liberia, ten negro families left Muscagae, Okla. , Saturday. Bach family had a hundred dol lars each as the Liberian authori ties requ red that amoiu.t before a family can clear from Liverpool f r Liberia. The negroeB expect to farm. The man who starts out to meet trouble never gets half way. his duty well. Short talks were made by a nam1 er of men pres ent which were fine and' were very much enjoyed by their hearers. Starts Much Trouble. If all people knew that negleot of constipation would result in severe indigestion, yellow jaun dioe or virulent liver trouble they would soon take Dr. King's New Life Pills, and end it. It's the only safe way. Best for bilious ness. headache, dyspepsia, ohillss and debility. 25c at all druggist the Davidson tnere is as much plant tqod crowd on the I renaerea. available on this, ten acre tract as would be reinqyed from it by 2000 bu. of co.rn):8000 bu. of oats, 1500 bu. of iwfceit or sixty 590 lb. bales of cotton:' 'Not only so but the after effect of thie enormouB amount of vegetable matter plowed into and mixed with the soil will show for yeara to came. Bulletin by N. C. De- Once in Fifteen Years Thirty-five years, think of it, thirty-five years ago, when L. & M, Paint was first made known. It then needed time to prove its durable quality. It has done it now, and its large use is th rroof. Costs about $1 60 per gallon, because you make nearly one half more hy adding of a gallon of Linseed Oil to each gallon of p&int and you won't need to re paint for about 15 years . . Salisbury Supply & Commission Co. 'Write postal for ''Money Saver Price List No. 60.n Longman & Martinez, P. O. Box 1879, New York. T the opening of county fair. The streets was estimated at 10.000, whioh is a very conservative guess. Hon. Jeter C. Pritohard, of the Federal distriot court, was intro duced by Col. H. B. Varner. His subject was "Does the Wel fare of the Country and the Tcwn Depend Upon the Construction of Good Roads?" The fair ended Thursday with I partment of ; Agriculture the exercsses of educational day. The weather was as bad as it oould be and the crowd was oom paratively small. J. Y. Joyner made a gieat speech at the Opera H use and was heard by a large and attentive audienee. His speech made a fine lmpressior. Owing to bad weather the parade of school children was dispeKSd with, much to their disappointment. Mrs. Cornelia R. Holleman cel ebrated her 99th birthday. : at Raleigh Sunday at the . home of her neioa, Mrs N B Broughton. Though quite' feed le she has a clear mind and enjoys reading greatly. A Father's .Vangeaaae. woald have fallen on any ope who attacked the son of Peter Bondy, of South Rook wood, '-Mich., 'but he was powerless before" attacks of Kidney trouble, ; Docrtors could not help' hinY," he wiote, "so at last we gave iiin Elebtrio Bitters and he improved wbnaer fallv from taxihir six- bottI1i : Tt. Lthe best fKidney -mediciEe I ever saw." .Back4che. Tired feeling, Nervousness, Loss 6f Appetite,' warn of Kidney trouble tbatay end in dropsy i diabetes or Briht'a diseaae.; Beware: Take ,; taectrio BiUers and be safef Every bot tle guaranteed. 50o at all droi row. V K i.ii - "-n" '"mm " i.n-- Jf"