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,4 ! S3 . h i j4 '4v f .4 4- ' n 4, ; - Si; j v i t I.' f - if ' 13be Cfflorrrfno Star. Founded In 1807. ' WILLIAM H. BERNARD. Owner and Editor. WILMINGTON, N. C. Catered as second-class . matter at postoffice at Wilmington, N, C., the Act of Congress of March C U7I. Tuesday, December 15, 1908, EVILS OF DIVORCE. The United States census bureau has compiled a report on divorces which should be of interest to all per sons in this country who are interest ed in the preservation of the sanctity of the marriage vow and who believe in making marriage the basis of home life. In this report are some figures and statistics which should cause to pause those who have been advocates In the past few years of the opening wider of the doors of the divorce courts. . According to this census report for the twenty years from 1887 to 1966, both inclusive, there were granted in ttie State of Illinois, which State head ed the list, 82,209 divorces. Ohio fol lowed with 63,982; then came Indiana with 60,721 in this class of States. In the Southern States Texas led with 2,655, followed by Kentucky and Ten nessee, with more than 30,000 each. We are glad to see that North Caro lina does not occupy a prominent po sition in this list of States. South Carolina stands at the foot with not a single divorce granted; for the laws of that State do not allow the secur ing of a divorce in that State. This stands to the honor of that State, though it would be to her greater hon or if she had more restrictive laws governing marriage within her bor ders. From these figures it will be seen that there is great need of improve ment of the law on divorce in most ev ery State in the Union. The marriage tie is too loosely held all over the' Union. We have long thought there should be uniform marriage and divorce laws lor all the States, though we have never been able to see how such could be brought about without an amendment to the Federal constitu tion. But then wouldn't ith be wort the trouble and expense of an amend ment to the constitution to have pres ent conditions changed. The family, the home is the basis of a republican form df government which is to be conduct ed on the plan on which ours was bas ed, and is supposed to be still conduct ed, and when family relations and liome life are ignored then we may expect the political life of the nation to be in danger. Preserve the sanc tity of the home and the Nation will be safe. Break that up and the Na tion will start on the downward road, and nothing can break up that home life quicker than the cheapening of marriage ties. If you want to preserve de Republic, keep the family hearth swept clean. i THE RIVERS AND HARBORS CON GRESS. When persons feel like criticising the action of the Rivers and Harbors Congress, which, met m Washington last wee!;, for its action in asking Congress to expend fifty million dol- lars a year for th next ten years for1 the deepening and otherwise improv ing in the interest of any one part of rs of this whole country, they must remember that this congress was no sectional body; that it was not work ing in the, interest of any one port of the country; that it did not represent any one class of the people of the na tion; but that K. was a veritable rep resentative body of the whole Amer ican Union, representing every section of the -country and every class of peo ple in the country. Furthermore they represented the tax payers of the country the men from whom must come the fifty millions a year Con- gress is asked to expend on these in ternal improvements. Those men thjbre assembled represented the tax payers from the Lakes to the Gulf and from the Atlantic to the Pacific who are willing to be taxed to the amount of fifty million dollars a year and to have their accumulations for years t come to be taxed to the sairie amount in orur to have tha Goverjh srent . undertake the waterways im provements which , they believe will add so 'much to the 'prosperity and W.th ofUe countrr in futu Representative "are' no more repro aentatfve of tha people than were the members of this Rivers and Harbors Congress. In fact' the latterl are with out ' ---doubt, .-more rintmi"atelSr acQQaint- d with, the needs; in;,a bsinesand .,'J--Jii - : l-Aiiiir: .Rented (to - are -p$&; SJS.fflSTSS1 me memDers or' congress. ;lr,JTor vua f I. ?; . , -reason, Vhen'tt.V preseSt tnttW eminent their , deliberate opinions as to' what the country needs In the way of government" aid to the industrial and commercial advancement ; of the countrv they should be given -that consideration which is due to them because of their intimate acquaintance with conditions and with what is need ed to improve those conditions and with what the people want. HEARST A CRIMINAL. During the recent campaign Wil liam Randolph Hearst tried to make a stir by reading a number of letters to other persons which he received know-, ing them to have been stolen from the letter files of the office of a corpora tion with headquarters in New York City. Hearst made no explanation as to how he got those letters. Every one who knew anything about the matter knew that the letters Hearst was reading when on the stump were either forgeries or, if original or cor rect copies of originals, were stolen from the men to whom they were written or from the letter, press books ox those who had written them. Hearst put on a bold face and, day after day, stood up before audiences of American voters and read to them garbled ex tracts from private letters which had come into his hands as results of con duct of men who under different cir cumstances would be how serving terms in prison for their acts of lar ceny. Still Hearst, because of his great wealth, can almost boast of his prowess in securing such 'letters pri vate property of others through means that could be nothing other than criminal. Many a man would have gone to prison for a much less offense than the one it is patent to all this millionaire and demagogue, Hearst, committed and publicly used for his supposed political advantage. It is a bad day for the country when any man, no matter how rich he is, feels that he can make, such public exhibit of his criminality without fear of prosecution. Taft comes South this week for his Winter sojourn. Irrespective of party affiliations all Southern people should wish that he finds his stay among us pleasant and profitable to him in the way of becoming better acquainted with our people. We , believe Jte will to the utmost of his ability act as the "President of the whole country" not using this as an empty phraze but in all earnestness and reality. Of course we do not expect him to turn Democrat even so far as the South is concerned but we do believe it is his intention to give the South, as forming an important part of the na tion, a fair showing and that he will try to his utmost to put aside all sec tional feeling. A Charlotte man says he was drugg ed and robbed of six hundred dollars in Washington. The man charged with the crime says he won the money in & crap game. Either way you put it, it does not look well for the Char lotte man. He would not hava been doped if he had not been keeping bad company or been where he had no business being. If that Panama canal money passed through tba channels the New York World says the records show that it did, a heap of folks will always believe some of it stuck on the way, no mat ter how vociferously President Roose velt denounces the editor of that pa per as a liar. It looks like Roosevelt is up against a pretty stiff proposition on that Pan ama canal mnatfAr with f.h two north- era papers. The New York World shows from the records that he is mistaken as to his facts In some of the statements he has made. CURRENT COMMENT. It was on December 9th, 1608, that John Milton was born. His tercen tennial birthday fell last Wednesday and was widely celebrated. His mil lennial birthday will fall December 9th, 2608, and if at that time, man is still a dweller upon the earth it will not be passed by forgotten. Char lotte Observer. President Schurmah, who wrote and spoke vigorously against, the. elec- I tinn nf 'Mr. Rrvan aaM a fw -nliriht aeo in a lecture at Mnnr.iair W. J- "Mr. Bryan has done more by example and by precept for purity of American politics than cny other man In the country." That will be the impartial judgment of history. News and Ob server, v.. --Nobody ever dies in Tombstone. unless -they brought it "with'm" or J fall into a 600- vertical shaft, or buy an automobile, or, "sass" their mother-in-law, 6r try to thaw out powder, or take cyanide of potassium for sugar, or ; start' 'off a county seat ;removal racket. Some die of old age, some old.: partners of Daniel Rootib "hut none have ever been khowa to d?e ZffitfSXSS&tg aoove-menuonea causes, 'and bcca-. stonallyaa' .abnormal tightness about the ; throat, : superinduced Jy a coll of manila roap,' or from ' a cold, caught through a hole made by a 45. Tomb stone (Ariz.) Epitaph. Until the question? whr. . . ' ., , i ' iiir . .. limWLM the .QonUS 01 rtaBritnitea , States frt tha eage.or tae ircumstaaees under hich S whom it was'paid the Government will not be able to silence the tongues of so-called 4scandalmongers"f or to allay the suspicions of many- disinterested Americans . who seek only - the truth Therefore Congress should order an investigation and determine finally the truth or falsity of charges which re flect upon the honor of the Govern ment of the United States. Baltimore dun. ,r. ; Instead of breaking the - solid JSputh wer had better maintain it as a rallying point ana nucleus tor -conser- n vatism and -real democracy. ; Instead or going, over to ine jtepuDucans we should bring the Republicans and the great Democratic masses of the coun try to us. In a movement of this kind Virginia can take . the lead. She has sons with the strength and brains and gifts, but under the influence of forty years of repression and following meekly the leadership of others they have become timid. Almost in 'any condition, and in any department of endeavor the bold policy is the best and the advantage always is with the attack. We would like to see some Virginians go right to the front and announce that the South intends to take charge of the Democratic party ana to invigorate it oacK to strengtn and, purpose. Richmond News Lead er. The Observer is astonished to find itself interrogated by an intelli gent and long-time reader as to its po sition on the tariff. Our correspon dent expresses its views on this sub pect exactly; the views it has al ways held, and many times reiterated; except that the correspondent is more liberal in his opinion in respect of free raw material than we are. Free raw material means that the manufac turer would get the material that goes into his product cheaper, which would simply enable him to get his material at a lower price without reducing in the least the price to the consumer of his finished product, permitting him to put the difference in his pock et. To say it once again: The Ob serve believes in a tariff for revenue. This necessarily means a tariff for protection. . This tariff should be equi tably adjusted, with a view to protec tion to all interests alike, as nearly as may be,, but in no case levied for the purpose of protection alone. Char lotte Observer. TWINKLINGS. Lady (on Pullman) Boy! Where are the porter's quarters on this train? Candy Kid In the passengers; pock ets yet, miss. Boston Transcript. "So Algernon is Agoing to devote himself lo poetry?" "Yes, but only after a season in the bank. I don't want the poor boy to die without even knowing what money feels like." Life. . " 'I wonder what the. President would have done at Pompeii when it rained hot ashes and molten lava." "Seized the occasion in all probability, to go for a nice walk." Louisville Courier-Journal. He Knew Teacher Yes, child- TV' J11 ho wa? brok,ut- all the; able-bodied men who could leave their families enlisted in the Army. Now, can any of you tell me whatHMtHo took them to the front? Bright Tiny (triumphantly) Locomotive? Tit Bits. "I would like to meet a man like the one Shakespeare mentions in "Two Gentlemen of Verona,' " said the trader who was short of Steel common at 34. "Who was that?" asked his friend. "I've forgotten his name, but they said 'his golden touch could sof ten steel.' " Boston News Bureau. "I hope you were a good little boy while at your aunt's and didn't tell any stories," said his mother. "Only the one you put me up to, jna." replied her young hopeful. "Why, what do you mean, child?" "When she asked me it. I'd like to have a second piece of cake I said. 'No, thank you; I'Ve had enough " Harpers Weekly. Tourist (after a long discussion with station master on the subject of catching a steamer) So you would advise me to come back by the Sun day night train in order to catch the boat on Monday morning? Station Master (Severely) 'A wud advise nae man tae profane the Sawbath; but a'll jist repeat if ye wait till the Mon day ye'U nae get the connection. Puck. BRILLIANT GULF WATERS. Streaks of Blue and Green seen in the Darkness. (Tampa Times.) A most remarloaible marine phenom ena was observed by the steamship Dover, Capt. Yon A. Carlson, as that vprspI stfiamfid to Tamoa from Mobile. When at a point 35 miles from Mobile light, at 7 o'clock on the. evening of !.S?M which alternated blue and green, the colors being so brilliant that the ves sel was lighted up as 4f she, was cover ed , with arc lights with coldred globes. A half- mile streak of dark water, and a blackness that settled like a pall over the ship' followed and a second streak of the same brilliant hued Wa ters was encountered. The second streak was about as wide as tfoQ first one, and when the ship nan out' of it the. same black waters and a night of exceptional blackness was also en countered. A. I. Montmollian' travel ing freight agent' of the line, was on board the vessel, and he and Chief En gineer -T. J. Cole fully substantiated Capt. Carlson's statement regarding the 'phenomelna. The Inaugural Committee on, Civic Organization has announced that the right of line in the parade of civic or gtatiii&tioifs on 'tiie 'day of President elect Taft's inauguration shall 1evgiT ento the membefg'-bf the claas ! of "78 of Yale University of which class Mr. Taft was a" member. : . . ' . ' Would "Mortgage the Farm. ' A farmer on Rural Route 2, Em pire;; G&, W. Ai Floyd by narner says : Bnckleas Arnica? Salve; " cured the two ; !worst ' sores I ever saw: ''one' on hand and one on my leg: It is worth -more than1 its'waiehtrin eold. 1 1 Would Imot Toewithoatnt'lf I had 'to mortgage the ; farm to 'et' itw.rOnly ? New ; York, Dec.-. 4.The . two-year dispute between the railroads and the makers ' of steel rails over; the quality and priceof fails has .Ixaen settled, and itWas announced today that' large rail orders would ; quickly be negotiated, One of these is for 160,000 tons, which the Pennsylvania1 Railroad will place. With, the embargo off, prders for from 300,000 to 400,000 tons of rails for de livery ; next spring probably will be given. This would involve the outlay of from $10,000,000 to $12,000,000. v The agitation over rails started from, the numerous train wrecks In 1906 and 1907 that were , traced to broken , and split" railsHThis naturally reflected on the quality of rails milled. The Penn- L sylvania Railroad was the leader in the agitation for better quality, and It was supported by the Harriman lines. Judge Gary, of the United States Steel Corporation has had endless confer ences in the last year, or mona' with the railroads, trying to determine the basis of equllization of quality and price. The adjustment continues the prioa at $28 a ton for standard sec tions, with the buyer promising to take discarded rails, or "seconds," as they are known in the trade, also at $28 a$ton. ' Lynchburg Special to Washington; Herald: There are many indications that by the new year the Southern Railway will resume active work upon the construction of the "cut-off" line around the city, over which nearly all J, of the traffic of tnis system is to pass when completed. Two immuense steel I bridges, one over the James river and the other over Blackwater creek, both of which ar3 in the city limits, wholly or in part, will give employment to an army of bridge-workers, - who will be employed as soon as the cement foun dations can be completed. The "cut off" means the erection of a passen ger station to cost $50,000 and a big viaduct to avoid a grade crossing. This will also cost $50,000. 1here will be two 'other smaller overhead street crossings on another steel brrdge, the latter having been completed" before the pania Gastoniai News : Tuesday a little thre2-year-old child of Mr. Thompson, living on the M. J. Kincaid plantation near Pleasant Ridge, had a narrow es cape. The little child and older broth er were out in the yard playing and the three-ytsjar-old fell Into the well that had been started last year and been abandoned at thirty feet depth. The other child went into, the house and the mother asked where the younger child was and the reply was "XXck -Poll intn n Vnla 1t Vio n-nnlm A The mother went to investigate and heard the screams of the child in the well thirty feet below. Help was hur riedly secured and a physician was sent for. When the little fellow was examined it was found that he was not much hurt. Two ribs were broken ynd a few little scratches. A HUMAN ENGINE, Without good fuel tho 20th Century Limited would travel little faster than a common yard ; engine. It takes good fuel to develop power, endurance and speed. Every ambitious man is anxious to push forward, to get ahead, yet many are coaling up" on food prepared with lard, regardless of the fact that lard is indi gestible .and really clogs up the system, just as poor coal clogs the grates with clinkers. Don't eat lard-soaked food; eat food prepared with COTTOLENE, a vegetable oil cooking fat, so pure, wholesome and easily digested that physicians recommend it even for inva lids. "COTTOLENE shortens your food. te01161 your life" and ou will travel lanner, s wilier ana easier on it tnan on rood prepared from the fat of the hog. STOP AND THINK! , Christmas Is Coming and you wilL probably need a new SUIT, HAT or some GENTS , FUR NISH I NG. We have them in the latest styles and lowest prices. We 4ont ask you to buy but only ask you to call and see for yourself. SUITS FROM .$8.00 TO $25.00 HATS FROM $1.00 TO $5.00 Children's Clothing also. Suits made to measure. Fit Guaranteed. U A 0(1 RT lfTIiVB IUI IS The Hatter and Clothier 24 NORTH FRONT STREET. dec 6tf The best Christmas pres ent is something for the home. The best thing for the home is an Edison Phonograph. Nothig; makes home so inviting and so ' popular as this great and versatile entertaimer. You have a choice of 'seven models. $12.50 to $60.6, ',V Btt 05 - Princess . Street. - . ....... . ". T ... i. WMSSSS 1 1 WMfflWC 1 If you wear Barry Shoes your slip, pers will last a great deal longer than they do now your feet will be so comfortable at night that you will have no reason for change. Your feet will always look well, too, for Barry Shoes are fashionable as well as comfortable. They are well made shoes manufactured by Un ion labor out of splendid materials. We want to show you these shoes and induce you to try them after that you will always ask for them. SOLOMON'S SHOE STORE Wilmington, N. C. The AITER-ALk-DAY, ItBIS &ABb 9TAMB8 K YZARA , TO GET ' 1 mi 1 ; 1 f 'i 11 1 " ' VTSTT TTSi WELL The cold weather will soon be here and you should be prepared for it by having suitable clothes. Come in look over I our magnificent showing of "fine clothes. "SBEiOUR PRICES We know you will be in terested. We won't urge you to buy we take pleas ure in. showing you such fine clothes. Latest styles, Nobbish pat ferns, perfect fitting and workmanship equal to that of the very best merchant tailors.. Our line of Neckwear is the prettiest ever shown in the city. I. U. Fleet Co. Southwest Corner Front ani ' Princess Streets. Phone 673. 0ur Comfort Shoes never fail to bring comfort to troubled feet. Two styles and two leathers, $4.00 . WE FIT THE FEET, Hewlett & Price lb MARKET STREET. A stinulaat at netbPi er aao therefore re WeaW. tkat JaBUrj V net far off- an d pnpply yoxrrslf w11 our siock of WINES AND LIQUOB UvsttilVcoEitlete 'M4 now aelliflf reduced prices.'" ?' GIESCHEN J BROS. Prop Oppeelte Union Depot f ' - ( . . :j . - . . , : ... ... t
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