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THftOWS$ COLLECT?) A Home Newspaper Published in tHei -Interest of jthe Peopie and for Honesty in Governmental Affairs. VOL. IX NO. 32 Salisbury, 0i Wednesday, July 23rd, 1913. - ' s .' "IS; wm. h. St&wart, Editor I vi ""Op Tlie "Ri , - "V- I v. OVERHAUUXS OF THE - OBSAMIO LAW. Iiltlitiri d RtfiriiS&a Will Through la ttitfifiif Fen, To Rial Bible li Schools With twelve big things accom plished and uncommonly good hu mor marking itt olcse, the Consti tutional Commission ad j turned at midnight Thursday, aubmitting itt npcrl of all work accomplish ed, taye the Raleigh News and Ob eeiver. At soma of that body's labors in Morehead was given a few days go Modifications were made necessary in soma measures pre tented on their third reading and not a few propositions will hardly know themselves when they go be fore the general assembly. Bat one must feel that supnrb work has been done all the same, and politics has not appeared to oreep in even ouce. Mr. Bailey, representing Wake, road the report which was sent to Governor Craig Friday and made a tine plea for unity. Represen tative Page deolared h;mstl fdie satiafied with s .me of the measures aspssed, particularly the initia tive and referendum, whicn ha been greatly modified. It passed with the provision that eliminat ed ooustntioual amendments a the initiative of the people. At it went through, the measure eaa braces only bills and statutes. Mr. Page is au out and out ad vocate of the initiative and rtfer endum and wanted the best one possible. But he promised to be no trouble-maker. He was going to file his dii sent. Mr. Hay more looked more seriously at the mat t;r. lie declared that he holds himself not particularly bound as a minority party man to make good the work of a majority party man. The debate on the homestead exemption produced merriment alt the morning. The amend went ' looking to a redaction to $1,000 for married men and none at al) for tingle men, was lost . It was this assurance that rep resentative Haymore championed to passionately. Hr. Haymore's peroration pictured a steady ex odut from North Carolina to other States whioh have had the ma ehinery in operation so long that they have forgotten it. "Why, Mr. Speaker," the Sorry statesman shouted. "I wonder that this measure of such gigantic wisdom did not oome from Ohio, I am sorry that it didn't Nearly everything else that we have had hat been brought here from that State whioh has more turmoil in it than any other. But if the Leg islature in their gigsntio wisdom passes it, I shall have nothing to We are fixing a way to run North Carolina young men away. It's a gioss discrimination. Let it get out that North Carolina does not think enough of its young men, the State's best asset, and men will leave in droves if they knew there is no protection tor fuem wubu tuvy uuiuivBuavoi Senator A. D. Ivie, of Rocking ham, who spoke for the measure often, but finally voted against a change, interrupted to suggest that a man needn't leave the State to g6t the exemption, that he might remain and marry some good North Carolina woman. "He mrmA then have protection," the Senator said. That is all riarht." retorted Senator Ward, "but it takes two to make a bargain." "Ob, no; not with the distin guished Senator from R ckkg ham," Representative Haymore said, as he paid this devilish com pliment to the Democratic bach elor . Representative Wooten thought it well enough to reduoe the exem tion from $1,500 to $1,000 for married men, but agreed with Mr Bailey that there it no reason why a bachelor should be given a homestead exempticn from sale of bit property for debt. Senator Grant spoke strongly against the bachelor's one bless ins. "It it a diorimination that isn't defensible," Mr. Grant said, "The people are opposed to it and while it may in the past have done injary to tew people, it hat oeen a great protection to poor people who are honett but have had bad look. "Besides," Grant said," I can't tee why you would take away every protection from a baohelor. It is proposed now to panish him by giving him no immunity. Be ing a ; baohelor is punishment enough and I am opposed to in flicting him further." Messrs. Rouse. D. Y. Cooper and others briefly opposed it and the homestead amendment, so strongly ohampioned by the mer chants of the State, was lost again. The Bible may be read in the public schools, if the general as sembly upholds the aotionofthe oommiseijn and the people ratify the amendment. The Governor, Chief Justice Walter Clark and strong men in the commission, opposed this at not of sufficient moment just now to be brought into the commis sion's deliberations. They had especial regard for cituens who believe honestly in another Bible and another forth. Neither had objection to the religious cere mo nier, thought eaoh community ought to regulate such things to nit themselves. The amendment does not enforoe the reading of the Bible in the publio sohools. It doesn't contemplate any suoh thing. It does give the right to do so, howsver and it is in no wise an obligatory thing. The old question of taking the fines and forfeitures collected in municipalities and applying them to the sohoolt of suoh town, like wise the fines and forfeitures of the county courts for the county sohools, oame in for long debate. It looked as though thit woud win; strong arguments wsremaae for snoh division, the oomsUMioo being told that thit it the essence of local government, of segration of taxet and the application of such moneys nearest home. But she amendment wat voted down t will not be submitted, there fore. Bat the proposition to incorpo- rate a six-montns sonool term in the constitution, had unanimous endorsement. It had not sailed so smoothly in the former meet ings, but had no fight yesterday to make. Tnose who thought the law would be a nullity took the ground that unanimity would help and withdraw any opposition bafore made. The six months will now supersede, in declamation, the four months, first made a real ac complishment under Governor Ay ooo k. A full list of the propositions that the commission has reported to the Governor and the General Assembly in the form that they be submitted to the people for ratification . as part of the Con stitution is as follows: "Substitute the phrase ''War Between the States for the word "Rebellion." I "Forbidding the prohibition of the use of the Bible in the publio fcbools." "Increasing the compensation of the General Assembly." "Initiative and referendum." "Restriction local, private and special legislation." "Fixing the day for the in ausuration of the Governor." "To enable the General Atsem- bly to provide emergency judges and to restrict rotation of Super- ior Court judges. "Tft AnhlA the Uaneral Assem bly to provide an intermediate oonrt of appeals." To eliminate certain obsolete sections of the Constitution." To revise and reform the system of revenue and taxation." "To reauire general lawt for the chartering of corporations." "To require a six montbt pub lio school term." The Best ilediclne In the World. "My little girl had dysentery VATV bad. I thought she would dia. Chamberlain's Oolio, Chol era and Diarrhoea Remedy cured her. and I oan truthfully say that T think it is the best medicine in fcha world " writes Mrs. William ' Orvis. Glare, Mioh. For sale by all dealert. WHAT PRIEST PMUM SAID. Protesfiits Km No Charcb ail Kort CirillBltis An KorerUM LliutliM. Priest Phelam, editor of the Western Watchman, a Catholic paper published in 8t Louis, un der date of June 26, 1918, a ieoog nized authority among Catholict, the fellow who taid,"To hell with the constitution of the United States," hat arose and published the following cyploal specimen of Catholio ignorance and falthood; It very plainly indicates what would become of protestants and American institutions thould Catholioism he allowed. to get fur ther hold of publio affaire in this oouutry of freedom, free speech and enlightenment, established and maintained in spite of Oathol ocism by Protestants. Such re marks by Priest Phelan voices the sentiments of priests and Catho lics everywhere and will material ly aid in awakening and uniting Protestants to the necessity of de fense if not aggresion. Phelan laid ; "The church of God it it a per feot tcoiety and the can adopt her own methodt of preserving dis cipline. Bat Protestants do not believe in a cburoh of God .' They think that all sects are of human origin and all ohurohst man-made. They, therefore, have no right to inflict any punishment except cur tail men t of corporate privileges or expulsion. "But in the United 8tates, where all cburohes are equal be fore the law, and no oitiien can be made to suffer because of his religion, nothing can explain the action of those civio bodies in in flicting disabilities on Oathlios but the old anti-Catholio devil that abides in them . Protestants do not know the meaning. of civil and reliciowa liberty end W neverwilf. " "There may be another and a more serious reaton lor the ait- missal of those Oatholia teachers by the school board of Charlotte. North Carolina and Tennessee are the two most benighted, and at the same time, the two most Protestant States in the Union. 1 he men have neither religion nor morality. We were astounded a short time ago to learn from a prominet lady of North Carolina, who is a oonvert of tome years, that the men of that State are no torious libertines. She told us the wealthier clast of mala whites did little but drink whiskey on the sly and multiply mulattoes. God help poor girla who depend for their livelihood on these im moral wretches. We know a time in thit oity when promotion in the publio sohoolt went by favors that decency forbade cataloging. It may be that a similar ttate of af fairs obtains in Charlotte. If so, we can tee. if not a good reaton, at least a very strong motive for the action of the school board of that city. The ten man who qou'd publicly confess that they had os tracised from the schools of Char lotte two ladies on the tole ground that they were membert of the Catholic ohurch, have already fallen to the lowest depths of tur pitude and immorality. They have no ate for Catholict in the tchools or out of them, In their eyes a pure Catholio girl it a men ace to a religion that tint bravely that, it may believe still more bravely. It was always a disgraoe to belong to North Carolina, and I its unfortunate people used to pal Hate the ignominy by taying they lived near the Virginia line. The poor Tar Heels will now have to adi: and very far from Char lotte." This all goes to show that these iufalible priests lie, lie de liberately and mahoiously. For Cuts, Boras and Braises In every home there should be a box of Bucklen't Armoa Salve. ready to apply in every case ot burns, outs, wounds or scalds. J, H. Polanoo, Delvalle, Tex , R No. 2, writes: "Booklen'a Arnica Salve saved my little girl's out foot. No one believed it oould be oared." The world's best salve. Only 26c. Recommended I by all drugjiata. SUES F0(i$5,000. Mr. Con . Boofi? Iredell SUsdtr by Kowaa Mio. Alleges A special to' tbi Charlotte Ob server dated Stftt&Tille, July 18th, says " i Mra. Cora M"Boe of this coont? hat inititied suit in Ire dell Superior Oot against David M. Campbell a w althy farmer of Ro wan dootyf , for $5,000 damages for slander. The oase is expected to be Irisd at the term of court which T convenes two weeks henoe. The complains of the plaintiff whioh hat bestiilled in the clerk's office here, states that sometime prior to January 'several hundred dolltrt in gold jjWM stolen from the home of Mr. Jampbell ; that at the time of the disappearance of the money Mrs. Booe was mak ing her home with Mr. and Mrs Campbell, and that since that time Mr. Campbell has hot only aocused Mrs. Booe of taking the money, but hat made other ac cusations, statements being made in the presence of various persons on several occasions. The plain tiff further complains that her oharaoter was never before attack ed ; that prior to thit time the had never been charged with larceny and that Mr. Campbell's slanderoas statements have dam aged her to the extent of $5,000, judgement for whioh she asks. While the answer to the com plaint has not been filed, it is laid that Mr. Campbell claims that hit wife and Mrs. Booe were the only persons who kuew where he kept his money. The gold whioh was stolen was ttken from a hag and iron nuts substituted for the coins. Abie attorneys have been employed bv, both Mr. Campbell and Mra. BfOe. . .. . I I - s,! - ---- - r Litiira yiiistars' AssBcffllit fill i Mlitlnt. The Rowan County Lutheran Ministers' Association, oomposed of the Lutheran pastors in the oounty, held a meeting in Saint ohn's ohuroh in Salisbury Tues day morning oi last week and transacted considerable business . he prinoipal business was the elsotion of officers for the ensuing year which resulted as follows : President, Rev. Geo. H. Cox, D. D., of Christ Ohuroh, Spencer. Vice-President, Rev. M. M. Kinard, D. D., of St. John's ohuroh, Salisbury. Secretary, Rev. M. L. Kester, of Haven ohuroh, Salisbury. Two new members were enrolled, Rev. G. O. Ritohie, of Salem and Grace churches, in the oounty, and M, L. Kester, of Haven ohuroh, Chestnut Hill, Salisbuiy. One matter whioh reoeived at tention and met with approval was a resolution to bold a Luth eran reunion at tour different ohurohes on October 81st, Refor mation Day. The churches at which it was deoided to hold these oelebrations are Friedman's in Guilford oounty; St. John's in Salisbury ; Organ, in Rowan, and St. John's, in Cabarrus. The of ficers of the association were named as a committee to arrange a program for these reunfont, Bishop UcCef will Preside. Announcement has been made here by Rev. W. R Ware, presid ing elder of the Salisbury District, that Bishop J. H. McCoy will pre side at the annual session of the Distriot Conference at Mt. Pleas ant, Cabarrus County, when the conference oonvenes July 22 24. Bishop McCoy is favorite not only in North Carolina but throughout the Southern ohuroh . The fact that he will attend and preside at the gathering will insure a large attendance. Causes of Stomach Trouble. Sedentary habits, and lack of out door exercise, insufficient mattioation of food, constipation, a torpid liver, worry and anxiety, overeating, partaking of food and drink not suited to your age and occupation. Correct your habits and take Chamberlain's Tablets and you will toon be well again For tale by all dealert, STATE NEWS OF INTEREST. Important Efents Within our Borders Re duced to Pinngpls. Don Laws, editor of the Yellow Jacket, at Moravian Falls, Wilkes oounty, was strioken with paraly sis on the left side last Thursday morning. His condition it seri ous. The Randolph County grand jury last Friday morning re turned a true bill against Lurton English for the alleged murder of Jack Armstrong. English was arraigned in oourt and entered a plea of not guilty. The Albemarle Enterprise says : W. L. Mann is sending out letters this week to the representative men of the oounty urging, them to be present at the meeting here Saturday, July 26, for the pur pose of organizing a Stanly .County Fair Association. Ed. Clawson, the negro .alleged to have killed Jim Jeff rye, early Sunday morning was arrested 1 a police posse af Summerfie'd. Clawson is said to have admitted doing the deed, telling the police that another negro placed a knife in his hand and told him to cut ieffry's throat. Upon the oharge of keeping liquor on hand for sale, Wiley Blaok, who has figured in the. courts of Asheville,- oounty and State for the past few years, Thursday was convicted by a jury in the Superior Court. He was ordered plaoed in the oounty jail by Judge Frank Cartsr. Near Whitney, Stanley oounty, last week W. C. Parker, foreman for the H. B. Hardaway Company was attaoked by one of the negro laborers employed on the con tracting foroe and it is said he wat forced to thoot him in self defense; Five shots are said to have taken effect in the negro while he was cutting the foreman. A ooroner's jury investigated the oase and exonerated Mr. Parker. Dave Lester, of Spring Hope, died las Wednesday evening as a result ot a mule kioking him that morning. Mr. Lester was "snak ing" logs for J.J. Sanders. The mule's feet got out of the trices, when Mr. Lester whipped him to make him get baok in the traoes. The mule kioked with fatal effect. Mr . Lester was a young man and has only been married about a year. Elizabeth City, N. 0.. July 17. Bush, the five-year-old son of Wilson Turner, a farms? residing 4 miles from this oity, fell off a load of hay last Wednesday and was run over by one of the wheels of th9 cart. The little fellow bad been plaoed ou the top of the load of bay and was riding to the house. He fell under the wheel which ran over his abdomen, bad ly crushing him. The load of hay weighed about a thousand pounds. Clarence, son of T. A. McNeil, a young man about 17 yearB old, who lived near Purlear, Wilkes oounty, was accidentally killed last week by a team running away down Aoademy hill. The young man was bringing a load of tan bark to North Wilkesboro, and it ia thought he slipped off of the load and fell on the double tree and frightened the team, whhh trot bevond his oontrol. His head was orushed. Thomas Wright, a farmer about 40 years of age, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head with a pistol at his home near Cana in Davie oounty. He had gone into a baok room of his house and locked the door when members of his family heard the report of a pistol and rushed to the door. Finding the door lock ed, they went to a window and looked in and saw him lying on the floor dead. No cause is known for the suioide. The mill of J. H. Walker & Co., bankrupts, was sold by Re ceiver Humphreys Friday at pbu- lio auction, John N. Watt being the purchaser. The last bid wat $15,000. If the oourt confirms the tale the 24th of July, Mr. Watt will begin the operation of the plant immediately. The mill is equipped for grinding wheat and oorn, and there are lumber and tobacoo tox manufacturing plants in addition. There were bidders from several counties in Reidsville to attend the tale. During the heavy rain and hail storm which swept Davidson County Sunday af tern yon, light ning struok the barn of Louis F. Weaver and completely destroy ed it . A valuable mule was kill ed and a large amount of feed lost. The damage will exceed $1,000. Reports from the northern part of the county indi cate that tobacoo and corn have been severely damaged by the hail. The Methodist Colony Company whioh was organised last winter with a capitalization of $50,000 for the purppte of establishing a Summer home and Chautauqua at the edge of Blaok Mountain on the Asheville road, and for whioh over 500 acres of land was pur chased, held a drawing of lots on te property there Thursday. Vxmt 400 lots have already been laid off, as well as a large tract of laud to Le reserved for lakes, parks, hotel and auditorium. Two hundred and fifty of the 400 lots have been sold. Beulah Redmon, a girl less than 20 years of age, made an effort to commit suioide Thursday after noon by jumping from the bridge across the Frenoh Broad River in to the stream, a distanoe of 40 feet. However, she was resoued by passersby and wat taken to a looal hospital where it is reported that her condition is very serious. The young woman regained con sciousness a short time after baing plaoed ia the hospital.and was un willing to give any cause for her action She had attempted? to oommit suioide oh two previous occasions, it is laid. Governor Craig announced Fri day the appointment of oflhers and directors for the Atlantic & j North Carolina Railroad as fol lows: Directors; R. W. Taylor, Carteret; T. C Hyman, Craven; C. E . Foy, Craven ; H. H. Grain ger, Lenoir; John Sprague, Wake; E. E. Sutton, Lenoir; 0. S. Wes kett, Pamlico ; Frank Gough , Robeson County. President, H. H. Grainger, Lsnoir; secretary treasurer, T. W. Slooumb, Wayne ; State's proxy, F. W, Hargett, Onslow; inspector, Albert Roun- tree, Lenoir ; attorney, J. K. War ren, Jones; finance committee: E. W. Timberlake, Wake, and Staoy W. Wade, Carteret. Pleading guilty to two charges of murder in the second degree, Jack Burton, alias Jaok Berry, colored, oharged with killing two women of his race in a danoe ball in Asheville has just been tried and sentenced to serve a term of sixty years at hard labor in the 8tate penitentiary by Judge Frank Carter, presiding at the oriminal term of Superior court. There were two sentences of thirty yearB eaoh imposed by the conrt. In passing upon the oases, the oourt held that the trial dooket of the Superior oourt is quite congested with oriminal oases, and that the State of North Carolina would save money by accepting the plea. The people in the Newton Grove section seem to be very much elated over the ohancet for the Duiham and Southern railroad being built through that section to. Mount Oliva. It seemt that during the past few dayt they have had pretty direct informa tion from a representative of the oompany to that effect. It seems that it has been admitted by the oompany that the Newton Grove section it the finest, riohest and most progressive teotion of Samp son county, that it is level conn try and a direct line with long tangents" all the way from Dunn to Mount Olive as against sixteen miles of more traok and a hilly and swampy country through Clinton or from Clinton to Mount Olive. Born in August. 1877, a mule belonging to L. J . H. Mewborn, a OBBEB AMBISSAuDB HOME FROM MEXICO WIH 6o to Capital For Conference With Brjii tod Wilson. Washington, July 16. Preai- dent Wilson today, after an early oonrerence with Secretarv Brvan over the latest aspeots of the mm Mexican situation presented bv inquiries of foreign powers as to the attitude of the United States. ordered Ambassador . Henry Lane V a wuson at Mexico Oitv to nrocMd to Washington immediately for a oonrerence. Ambassador Wil ton will hurry North on either tne battleship Michigan or Louis iana from Vera Cruz, if any delay would be entailed by waiting for a commercial steamer. Offioials here believe that the almost total interruption of railroad traffic between Mexico Oitv and the United States will foroe the Ambassador to make his trip by water. He is not expected here before July 28 at the earliest. It is believed in official and diplomatic oiroles that an import ant announcement of the attitude of the United States in the pend ing situation will be made after the Ambassador's conference with the President and Seoretarv Brv an. The President's action today. oommg closely after the unofficial announcement that some of the foreign powers whioh already have reoognized the Huerta government were pressing for seme indication of this govern. ments attitude toward the con tinued disorders in Mexico, leads to that belief. Greene Oounty man, died several days ago. During his entire life of 85 years the hybrid was the property of Mr. Mewborn and two years ago, when he became too feeble- for work, the venerable beattrai retirtdto finish; hit ex istence in a i pasta, petted and pampered and free of care. The mule was known throughout the countryside, and years ago tne neighbors of Mr. Mewborn oeased to speculate upon the animal's demise, for it seemed that thers was little ohange in the faithful fellow's oondition until recently and his extreme age ceased to be a subject of curiosity. The International Bible Stud ents' Association whioh will hold daily sessions for a week in Ashe ville, held its first meeting Sun day afternoon with over a. thou sand registered delegates, repre senting nearly every State in the Union, in attendance. The features of the day's proceeding was an address by Pastor 0. T . Russell, the president of the as sociation. His subieot "Beyond the Grave" was direoted mainly along a line tending to show that there is no hell. He paid his re spects to the oreeds of th9 various denominations, deolariog that few ministers today can defend the oreed which they profess. There are quite a number of Negroes in the bunoh. While crossing the traok at the Nstional Cotton Mills, two miles above Lumberton, Friday morn ing, Mrs. Delia Blackburn, 65 years old, was struok by the first section of Ses board train No. 14, being injured so badly that she died an hoar later, The train was oomposed of Pullmans carry ing people from Birmingham and Atlanta to Wrightaville, and, al though running at high speed, was stopped by the time it ran half its length. The aged lady was wearing a sun-bonnet and started to cross the traok without looking up. The engineer sound ed his whistle in warning but wit nesses say Mrs. Blaokbnrn seemed to forget herself and stopped on track, when another step or two would have saved her. Where the accident ocoured trains can be seen for two or three miles in either way . The Kins of All Laxative For constipation, headaches, indigestion and dyspepsia, use Dr. King's New Life Pills. Paul Ma thulka, of Buffalo, N. Y., says they are the 'King of all laxa tives. 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