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A Home Newspaper Published in the Interest of the-Peopie and for Honesty, in Governmental Affairs.
VOL. IX NO. 42
Salisbury, N, O., Wednesday, October 1st, 1913.
Wm. H. Stewart, Editoh
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SPLENDID ill
PASSES
I. LITTMANN DIES BY HIS
OWN HAND.
Sallsburi Mourns the Sudden Death of I
Cultured, Honorable md Progressiva Man
About ten-thirty Saturday .night
the dead body of I. Littmann, a
manufacturer and ex-merchant of
Salisbury, was found on the
fourth flour of the observatory at
the fair grounds. The colored
folks had a dance in the main
building and the body was found
by John Jenkins and another
Negro accidentally. The discov
ery was made Known at once and
the motorman-conduotor of the
street oar on his firBt trip back to
Salisbury notified Qaptain Cauble
of the police force, who, aooom
panied by Sheriff MoEenzie and a
number of others, went out on the
next car and identified the body.
It was not moved until after
Coroner T. W Summersett had
decided an inquest unnecessary
He lay upon his back, feet cross
ed and seamed to have compos d
himself deliberately. His right
hand had dropped indifferently,
a 22-calibre pistol lay at his side
and a bullet hole was in his right
temple. This was enough to in
dicate that he had taken his own
life, but further evidence was
contained in a ealel letter, writ
ten in German, to his wife, found
iu his pocket. This, unopened,
was delivered to Mrs. Littmann,
enough of which, however, was
made public to confirm the cir
cumstantial evidence of death as
related above.
It has taken days for the public
to understand and believe that I.
Littmann really considered such a
step . He was a man of marked
intelligence, superior skill, highly
educated, well informed and uni
versally known to be. a sound,
minute reaioner, financially
Straight, of successful business
qualifications, and gentlemanly in
his conduot. All of which indi
cates how surprising, shocking
and Borrowful was the news of his
passing,
Mr. Littmann was 56 years old
and came to Salisbury in the
eighties, and he, with I. Liohten
steiD, bought the stock of goods
and business then oonduoted by
the late P. P. Meroney. After
remaining in the Meroney stand
for a short time the business was
moved to the corner of Main and
and In nes streets in the building
now occupied by John Young,
druggist. The firm of Littmann
& Lichtenstein was dissolved, Mr.
Littmann becoming the sole own
er. Selling out later Mr. Litt
mann built and conducted a cord
age mill near the Western rail
road and North Jackson Street.
Owing to some litigation as the
result of an injured employee this
mill was closed. Later, machinery
for the manufacture of lard and
butter trays was installed, bnt
this proved unprofitable and he
with Max Moses, a brother-in-law,
conducted a wholesale grocery es
tablishment. This was success
ful, but Mr. Moses returned to
Germany and Mr. Littmann soon
aw that he was unable to attend
to the business alone, sold it to
Simpson & Peaoook. Then after
a year's reouperation, machinery
for the manufacture of mosquito
bars and- novelties was installed
in the old factory and its opera
tion has been in progress for sev
eral months. But it seems the
work and worry of getting this
enterprise established had brought
on nervous troubles and insomnia.
11 1 .11 m m
ueverai mouia i oi cms 01 course
made matters worse and it seems
bis mind give way under the
strain. He hai been in a serious
oondition for several weeks and
his family were much worried
ovtr his condition, but he persist
ed in the performance of his du
ties till Saturday morning. He
left home as usual, went to the
mill, then to a near-by gro
cery store, then back to the
mill then it seens he walk
ed out past 1 (ha Ferd Brenner
AMI-CHOLERA SERUM.
A Preientitlu for Hog Cholera That May
be Hid for Cost.
Raleigh, Sept. 29 Special.
The North Caroliana Department
of Agriculture has for the past
three years prepared and distri
buted to the farmers of this State
anti-hog oholera serum at oost of
production.
This serum is used .as a pre
ventative for hog cholera, and if
injected before the hogs show any
signs of oholera, it will prevent
them from developing a . case of
oholera, even if they are exposed.
It is not claimed for this serum
that it will cure a case of oholera,
as it is a preventative and not a
ourative measure.
; We begun the preparation of
this serum in a very limited way
and have found that it has met
with uniformly good results. The
demand for it has continued to
increase until it was impossible
to meet the demand at the plant
where we first begun the work .
In ordder to be in position to
mtfet all demands made by the
farmers of this State for the
serum, we have built and equip
ped a large new serum plant
whioh will be used exclusively for
preparing anti-hog oholera serum.
For full information and
directions for using this serum,
apply to the North Oarolina De
partment of Agriculture, Raleigh,
N. 0.
Lumber Co., on the railroad.
Those who saw him say he walked
with his head down and seemed in
deep thought. . He was later seen
about the fair grounds during the
afternoon and as he had failed to
come home for dinner, an unusual
occurrence, a quiet searoh was in
stituted. Failing to come in for
supper the family was greatly
alarmed and the polioe were mak
ing diligent efforts to looate him.
When accidentally found his body
was oold and indicated that he
had been dead for six or eight
hours .
The funeral was held from the
residence at ten o'olook Monday
morning, Rabbi Egelson, of
Greensboro, officiating, and the
interment was in Ohesnut Hill
Cemetery, beside his son, James,
who died several years ago. The
funeral was largely attended and
the floral offerings were numerous
and beautiful, indicating the high
esteem in whioh he was held.
Mr. Littmann returned to the
Fatherland some twenty years odd
years ago to claim his bride, Miss
Laura Moses, who with a daugh
ter, Miss Minnie, and a son, Lee,
survive and have the sympathy of
a large oirole o! friends.
Max Moses, brother of Mrs.
Littmann, now in Germany, has
been requested to return here and
look after the Littmann interests.
Tie Real Towa Booster,
The Henderson Gold Leaf comes
to the bat and makes a hit by
saying, "The best way to help es
tablish a good reputation for your
town is to conduot an honest.
straightforward business in your
town and try to be a good oitisen
of the same." Now you are
shouti', brother. That's sense,
that is. A numher of men doing
that will make a good eommunity
no matter if no big mouth fellow
arises on the baok seat and makes
a noise about how everybody must
get busy and build up the town.
The man who minds his own busi
ness, the fellow who buckles down
to it and leaves the other man to
do the ssme is the one who counts
when it comes to building up the
community. This biggest job and
the hardest one is minding the
business of number one.Monroe
Enquirer.
Chronic Dyspepsia
The following unsolicited testi
monial should certainly be suffi
cient to give hope and oourage to
persons smioted with chronic dys
pepsia: "Ihave been a chronic dys
peptio for years, and of all the
medicine I have taken. Chanber
Iain's Tablets have done me more
good than anything else," says
W. G. Mattison, Ni. 7 Sherman
St., Hornellsviile, N. Y. For sale
by all dealers.
NORTH CAROLINA AT 6ETTYSBURS.
Repeit of the North Carolina Gettysburg
Battle 6jODtid Commission.
Raleigh, N. 0 July 14, 1918.
To the Governor .
Sir: The commissioners ap
pointed by your excellency under
joint resolution 51, public laws,
1918, respectfully make the fol
lowing report of their aotions and
proceedings:
In relays the members of the
commission, between June 19 and
July 8, 1918, visited Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania, and the fields
around the place upon which were
fought the great battles of July 1,
2 and 8, 1868. The commission
ers had no difficulty in identify
ing the several points and posi
tions on those battlefields where
North Carolina soldiers marched
and fought, and they are satisfied
after a careful examination and
inspection of the grounds, of of
ficial reports of those battles
made by officers, Union and Con
federate, and after the examina
tion of witnesaess who were par
ticipants, that North Carolina's
cla'ms th'at her troops bore the
brunt of the first day's battle and
suffered greater losses in killed
and wouDded in the three days'
battles than did the troops of any
other State ; that on the late eve
ning of July 2d, they pierced and
broke the Federal infantry lines
on Bast Cemetery Hill and cap
tured several pieces of artillery ;
and that they advanced as far, or
farther, than any other troops
engaged in Longstreet's assault on
the afternoon of the third day's
battle, are all well founded.
To mark by substantial tablets
the several positions of the Noith
Carolina troops which the com
missioners wish to emphasise, was
denied them by the Gettysburg
National Park Commission under
their regulations oonoerning the
location of tablets and monu
ments proposed to be erected on
the battlefield and the inscrip
tions on suph tablets and monu
ments. This deoiiion of the Get
tysburg National Park Commis
sion was not made on the ground
that North Carolina's claims are
not acourate and true. That
question was not considered.
The commissioners had gone to
Gettysburg with tablets of a tem
porary character already prepared
for the purposes above mentioned
to be substituted afterwards bv
more prominent ones of stone or
bronse. They carried with them
also other material and things
neoessary for the carrying out of
the above mentioned resolution.
There is appended the pamphlet
containing the regulations under
which the National commissioners
aoted in their refusal to allow the
North Carolina commissioners to
ereot the proposed tablets, and
your exoelleuoy's attention is
speoially directed to sections 15,
II. 17anl8.
The commissioners, feeling that
justioe to the North Carolina
troops and a proper regard for the
truth of history entitle them to
ereot these markers, propose to
make further efforts to have them
plaoed in proper positions on the
battlefield. With this end in
view they contemplate taking up
the matter with the Federal au
thorities and will prepare, to sup
port this request for memorials on
the ground, a full statement, ac
companied by maps, official re
ports, affidavits and other evi
dence of the part taken by North
Carolina troops in the battles
around Gettysburg,
The State's Commissioners in
vited Hon. Walter Clark, who
has done more to put into perma
nent form historical acoounts of
the numbers and deeds of our sol
diers than any other citisen of the
state, to join them at Gettysburg
for purposes of consultation.
They also employed C. B. Park as
artifioer and practical -helper on
the ground.
Several members of the com
mission attended the commemora
tion of the fiftieth anniversary of
the battles.
Respectfully submitted,
W. A. Montgomery,
ohairman.
R. D. W. Oonjjor,
secretary.
ISM p BEAST.
SHALL WE MAl ROOM FOR
HER IN SALISBURY?
The Papal System as Ijiajtarted bv. Priest
Riiera and titters.
The following conservative ar
ticlo, written bf
who resisted theS
a Protestant
assertions of
"alarmists," for
jars
was pub-
lished in the American Oitisen, of
East Orange, N. J under date of
Saturday, September, 27th. - It is
worth reading and is full of sound
logio that speaks for itself :
It is diffioolt.f or decent people to
aooept Priest Rivejra as a type of
the papal priesthood, but he is
undoubtedly a fairKillustration of
the many. '
We are often unwilling to ac
cept statements that are unpleas
ant, and to believe facts that
make us seem uncharitable. This
is a common error ahout the papal
question in Amerioa. We are
willingly blind to things whioh
we ought to see. I confess that I
have shared too much of this
easy-goiog view of papal methods,
for many years.
It is true that I have known
that the pope claimed to be the
"vice-regent" of God on this
earth, but what if he did? And
that he claimed to be in authority
over all governments and reli
gions, so that he was authorized
to overthrow and cast' them down
if he could marshal the forces.
But this looks like' wild oonceit.
I know that in these later years
he had proclaimed jumself infalli
ble! whioh was contradicted by
all popishjhistory. Jknew that he
claimed to be in authority to for
give sins as really as God and His
Son Jesus, and that he had au
thorized his cardinals, bishops
and priests to perform the same
service for their dupes; but I
could not think any of them were
taking themselves seriously in this
blasphemy. I knew that this set
of traitors were constantly plot
ting to overthrow the public
eohools and the higher education
of the nation. I knew that these
infallibles were a oloitered black
robed league, housed outside of
family relations with a multitude
of female victims in seolusion
from the knowledge of sooiety. I
had read of the confessional and
its vioes. I knew of these things,
yes, actually knew these for years,
and a hundred or a thousand other
things whioh were a logioal result
of all these facts ; but until late
years have not realised what is
behind all this combination for
evil.
Popery has been looked upon by
the multitude as a subdivision of
Christianity, a part oi Christ's
ohurch, with teaohings and meth
ods diverse from Protestantism,
yet having the same general ob
ject in view, the enlightenment of
the people, the salvation of the
race.
I had indulged the same view,
never have taken the pope and
priests very seriously, and so was
blind to the real import of all this.
Farther : years ago I heard the
Rev. J. G. White show up the in
iquities of the conf esaional ; I also
heard ex priest McNamara in the
nineties during the A. P. A. agita
tion, as be tried to arouse the
American public to reoognise the
gross immoralities of the priests
and their intrigues against our
schools and government,
I read Ohiniquy's books ; also
"Thirty Years in Hell," by ex
priest Fresenborg: Mrs. Shep
herd's book, she having been
in a convent in Bristol, Eng.;
"Maria .Monk," a terrible his
tory of her convent life in
Montreal; Baroness Von Zedwitz's
renunciation of-Rome, she having
been a wealthy lady from Ken
tuoky ; etc , and yet I have never
realized what is and has been and
will be involed in this papal ques
tion as I should, (and as all
should,) until now, and maybe
not now.
Priest Phelan and others and
"The Citizen" have knooked some
ROMAN
$10,000,000 TAX FOR EXPOSITION.
The State Treasin to hi Attacked b the
usual Ami of Promoters.
Raleigh, Sept. 28. Capt. Rus
sell Bellemy, of Wilmington; has
just had a satisfactory oonferenoe
with Governor Craig on the ques
tion of enoouragement and sap
port on the part of the State for
the proposed North Carolina
World's Exposition in eelebration
of the Panama Canal at Baldhead
Island at the mouth of the Cane
Fear River. The plans are on a
large scale.
Captain Bellamy proposes to
ask the State of North Carolina
to provide' $5,000,000 and the
counties of the State to raise as
much more and the exposition is
to open right after the other Pan
ama expositions, so as to draw
exhibits from them. After the
exposition the Federal Govern
ment is to be induoed to provide
on this beautiful island a perma
nent home for ex-presidents, boot
mer homes for the president, oabi-
net members and other eovern-
ment officials. A bill has been
prepared for introduction in the
special session of the Legislature
providing the $5,000,000 appro
priation and authorizing the
oounties to extend aid.
of the scales from my eyes, and
revealed some things to me.
Ex-priests Chiniquy, McNa
mara, Fresenborg, Crowley, Mrs.
Shepherd, Maria Monk, Baroness
Von Zedwig, reveal from an inside
view the terrible corruption con
nected with the confessional, the
nunneries and convents. Some of
these authors assert from inside
observation that 80 per cent, or
more of the priests and bishops
are- moral vultures, oommittinsr
the grossest crimes with the im
prisoned nuns. These writers
olaim that the priestly argument
to the innooent and modest nuns
and novices is that the priests can
commit no sin with the nuns, who
are "the bride of the ohurch."
Here you have them justifying all
sensualism in the name of their
religion.
Now comes Miss Roesel and as
serts, as a viotim of- Priest .Rivera
of Brooklyn, N. Y., that he led
her into sin by this same arsru-
ment, asserting that a child of
theirs would be "a ohild of the
Holy Ghost."
You say, "Is it possible?" Yesl
This is the Jesuit theory. I write
this artiole to get this point be
fore the readers of The Citizen.
You have a very recent
example
praotioe
celibate
in Priest Rivera of the
and teaohings of the
priests of Rome.
This outfit are sohooled to be
moral vultures by the "pastoral
theologies" of the oburoh, such as
Peter Dens, Liguori, and Kennck,
in preparation for the confes
sional. The instructions of these books
to the priests about the quesioning
of females at the confessional are
too revolting to read, too indecent
and immoral to think of, and yet
it is a oentral feature of papal
ohurch life. Probably no suoh vul
garity and rot oan be found in
print anywhere else in these mod
ern times. If what these standard
papal authors suggest and direct
in the examination of women and
girls at the confessional, are true :
and ex-bishops, priests and nuns
assert is praoticed, the papal con
f essional is the devil's Sodomio
master piece, of the agen for the
elimination of virtue and morali
ty, and the priesthood, from popes
down, are the most awful exhibit
possible of the "white slave" busi
ness among civilized-nations.
The very methods of housing
bachelor priests, superiors and
nuns is evidence of its crimes.
The drill of these priests for the
confessional in the putresoent
Latin books referred to above, the
terrible revelations of the many
ex priests and nuns, all show be
yond any doubt the corruptions of
this foreign vulture.
When the American people rub
their eyes open with suoh faots as
may be learned on every hand,
the blaok-f rooked vultures will be
arraigned before the
courts for
COTTON WHRACIOSE OR PINK BOLL
It Is i Wit Wiatktr Dlstisi ani Is
SpriKIar. Whit to do.
The spots on the boll grow to
about one-half as inch, are brown,
and covered at a certain stage
with a pinkish coating. Affeoted
bolls open prematurely, and the
lint rots or. is of inferior grade.
Wet weather favors the disease.
The loss sometimes reaohes 75 or
even 90 per cent, of the bolls.
It is a fungus disease, and for
tunately does not spread far dur
ing a season because the reproduc
tive spores in the pinkish masses
are sticky and depend largely on
spattering- water rather than on
wind for their dissemination. The
disease is carried over winter or
introduoed into new localities
chiefly through internally infected
seed that have developed in slight
ly affeoted bolls. No satisfactory
seed treatment is known. The
hfangus may remain alive on the
)ld stalks daring the winter; and
ootton should not be planted in
the same field the next year unless
it has been fall cr winter plowed
to bury stalks.
To avoid the disease, do not
plant contaminated seed. Safe
seed of any variety can be secured
from a moderately infected field
it it is picked separately from
stalks that have no diseased bolls
and that stand a few feet away
from ' affeoted stalks. If only a
small amount oan be secured,
plant it in a special seed plot from
whioh a large amount of clean
seed can be had the year follow
ing. Be careful to have gins well
oleaned if they hayj been used for
diseased ootton.
Fortunately the disease is rather
restricted as yet; but it is increas
ing at a dangerou' rate. It is first
brought into new localities in seed
grown elsewhere. Growers are
warned not to buy any ootton
seed for planting unless reliably
assured that it is6 free from dis
ease. Take immediate steps to
free your farm of this diseaie by
the seed selection method. Get
your neighbors to do the same.
Full information about this and
other important farm orop dis
eases is contained in Bulletin 182
of the North Carolina Department
of Agriculture, Raleigh, N. C.
Avoid Sedative Coach Medietas.
If you want to contribute di
rectly to the ooeurrenoe of capil
lary bronohitis and pneumonia
nse cough midioines that contain
oodme, morphine, heroin and oth
er sedatives when you have a
cough or cold. An expectorant
like Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
is what is needed. That cleans
out the culture beds or breeding
plaeee for the germs of pneumonia
and other germ diseases. That is
why pneumonia never results from
a oold when Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy is used; It has a world
wide reputation for its cures. It
oontams no morphine or other
sedative. For sale by all dealers .
their orimes . Nunneries and con
vents will be abolished, and the
innooent be released from sensual
slavery.
The day should dawn on us
soon when in the name of any re
ligion the priests of that religion
shall cease to debauoh its female
voteries, whether young or old .
Talk about Roman Catholicism
being "religion 1" Yesl It is the
grouping of the abominations of
paganism and heathenism of the
earlier times, without a show of
Christianity in the mixture.
Americans, open your eyes to
the faots that confront youl
Don't call Rome a "ohurch"
again I Ex-priest Fresenborg calls
her the "Old Roman Hag," and
if you read his book you will say
he is correct . M. 8. Htjbbill.
Helena, Okla.
A Marveloae Brcap
"My little boy had a marvelous
esoape," writes P. F. Bastiams of
Prince Albert. Cane of Good
Hope. "It ooourred in the mid
die of the night. He got a very
severe attack of oroup. As luck
would have it, I had a large bot
tle of Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy in the house. After following
the directions for an hour and
Itwentv minutes be was tnrougn
all danger." Sold by all dealers.
THE IHSPECTION OF MEAT.
THE PHYSICAL VALUATION OF
RAILROADS A GREAT TASK:
Tie Germans and Argenfiois ti Have Hand
some Akhassadoriai Residences
Washington, D. C, Sept. 29.
Speoia). Nothwithstanding that
he has been one the busiest
men in Washington since
Congress convened, Senator Rob
ert M. LaFollette has taken
time from his other work to
prepare for the October number of
National Waterways, the magazine
published by the National Rivers
and Harbors Congress, a most in
teresting and highly instructive
article on the "Physical Valuation
of Railroads," which Congress
authorized the Interstate Com
merce Commission to make at the
eearliest possible time. "The
magnitude of the work required
of the commission," says the sen
ator from Wisoonsin, "begins to
appear when it is realized that
there are 250,000 miles of railroad,
with all of the cuts and fills and.
grades and culverts and bridges to
be surveyed and appraised. Then
there is the rolling stock, the
50,000 passenger cars, the 60,000
locomotives in all the varying;
stages of depreciation and upwards
of 2,250,000 freight cars, grading
from the little wooden oars, placed
hn service in the early 'seventies.'
to the great steel oars of the pres
ent time. Three things belong to
the public at the hands of every
transportation company thafc
a franchise, and the government
owes it to the publio to secure
those three things, reasonable
rates, impartial rates and ade
quate services. On the other hand
it owes it to the railroad company
to see to it that it has a fair re
turn on the fair value of its prop
erty, no more and no less. Now
for the first time, the governments
putting itself in position to re
quire the railroad to discharge its
obligations in full measure. The
railroads, through more than half
century, have had more than.
their own. The people now, so
far as transportation rates and
servioes are concerned, are ooming
into their own."
But very few persons realize the
magnitude of the government
meat inspection service or the
olose scrutiny that is given all
meat slughtered. In the past sev
en years 877,000,000 animals were
inspected at slaughter houses and!
1,100,000 carcasses and 4,700,000
parts were condemned. Eight
billion pounds of prepared meat
were inspeoted and certified for
export. To do this work a force
of 2,400 veterinary inspectors has
been kept continuously at work at
792 slaughtering and packing es
tablishments in 227 cities and
towns. These men, through long
experience, can instantly detect
tuberculosis or other disease in a
caroass and can, by touoh and
smell, deteot abnormality in any
organ.
Several years ago the German
government bought a site for an
embassy building in Washington,
the land alone costing over $100,
000. Not content with the pres
ent ambassadorial residence.
plans have been adopted in Berlin
for a $500,000 structure to be
erected in the American capital in
the very near future. The govern
ment of Argentina appropriated
$800,000 to establish a fitting
home for its minister accredited
to the United States, and one of
the finest residences in Washing
ton has been purchased .
Eczema and Itching Cured.
The soothing, healing medica
tion in Dr. Hobson's Eczema
Ointment penetrates every tiny
pore of the skin, clears it of all
impurities, stops itching instant
ly. Dr. Hobson's Eczema Uint
ment is guaranteed to speedily
heal eczema? rashes, ringworm,
tetter and other unsightly erup
tions. Eczema Ointment is a
doctor's prescription, not an ex
periment. All druggists or by'
mail, 50o . - Pfeiffer Chemical Co.
Philadelphia and St. Louis.
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