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flnormna Star. Founded in 1867. WILLIAM H. BERNARD. Owner and Editor. WILMINGTON, N. C. Catrd as second-class matter at f poitofflce at Wilmington, N. C, eater the Act of Congress of March I 1179. Isn't it often as much tie fault of the lawyers and the parties to suits as it is lack of time of the courts that cases tare continued term after term? INTER-STATE COMMERCE IN LIQUORS. Tuesday, January 12, 1909. ROOSEVELT AND TILLMAN. The public would not be so ready to criticise the President for his con duct in the matter of having Senator Tillman shadowed if it were not known that there was personal enmi ty between the two men. The people (have not yet forgotten that several years ago the President, after having sent an invitation to the South Caro lina Senator to dine at the White ilouse subsequently withdrew the in vitation in a very offensive manner because of certain iconduct of the Senator on the floor, of the Senate of whicih the President did not approve That affair, our readers remember, was the cause of an unfortunate oc currence in connection with the pre sentation at Charleston of a sword to Major Jenkins, in which Lieutenant Governor Tillman, nephew of the Senator, fed the President out of the same spoon from which the latter had administered the bitter dose to his uncle. There has been "bad blood" between the President and the Senator ever since, which neither has attempted to iconceal. Roosevelt has bided (his time, evidently . determined to strike when occasion occurred. He thinks his time for revenge has come and he has struck and tried to strike to the death. Tillman may be guilty iand he may be perfectly innocent of any wrOng doing. That question has hothnig to do with the one we are discussing the djsplay of personal i , animosity on the part of the Presi dent in the manner in which he has conducted this matter. The public In another column we publish an ar ticle on the question of interstate commerce in liquors, a theme now be ing discussed all over the country and one of great interest to a great many people. The article contains a sum mary of the provisions of a bill on the subject which iSenator Knox drafted and which was t introduced by Mr. Clark of Wyoming, anLalso that Sen ator's views on the subject. Accord ing to Senator Knox Congress cannot prohibit inter-State traffic in this ar ticle without an amendment to the Constitution, but it has the power to regulate such traffic, for which pur pose his bill is introduced. It is hard ly necessary to remind our readers that Mr. Knox is regarded as one of the best lawyers in the country. He has been Attorney General xf the United States, is now a Senator and after March 4th will be Secretary of State. TWINKLINGS. The New York World Almanac and Encyclopedia for 1909 is just from tlie press. It is what its name implies an encyclopedia as well as an alma nac. It is axreal first class bodk of reference and is worthy of a place on the desk of every business arid liter ary man. Its Steven hundred pages contain facts and statistics on almost every conceivable subject. It is for sale at news stands at 25 cents 10 cents for postage if ordered from the publishers. Madge Miss Avoirdupois is tak ing horseback riding. Has she got off any fat? Dolly Yes, off the horse. Lippincott's. First 'Shopgirl Miss Blank Is go ing away. Second Shopgirl Is she leaving for good? First Shopgirl No; for better or worse. Brooklyn Life. "Who is that singing so dreadful ly out of tune?" "It is my wife. "Perhaps the accompanist plays out of tun??." "She is accompanying her self." Megendorfer Blaetter. "Goodness me! You don't say!' "It's trrfe as Gospel. I heard it from Mrs. Jones, and her cookTs fellow lives right next door to their washerwom an, so, you see, I get it direct." Browning's Magazine. "Of course," said the economist, "there are good corporations and bad ones." "Of course," answered Mr. Dus tin Stax. 'Now, what is your idea of a bad corporation?" "One that pays less than a 20 per cent dividend." Washington Star. The Columbia Record suggests that Senator Tillman introduce a resolu tion to impeach President Roosevelt. No doubt he would like to do so were he a member of the House, in which such proceedings would have to orig- inate. Taft seems to fight shy of that pro posed game of golf with Rockefeller, Wonder of he is afraid Roosevelt would put secret service men to shad owing him if he associated with the Standard Oil magnate? The members of the penitentiary needs .no further proof of this thanboard and tne Governor seem to be the conduct of the President in giving out for publication the reports of his detectives and shadowers before the report had reached the officials for whom they were intended and wihose duty it is to act upon them. Roose velt may be acting within the bounds of the duties of his office, but the pub lic will believe that he has been actu ated by personal spite and hatred to ward the man who has on the floor of the Senate so often criticised his conduct. AS OTHERS SEE US. the only persons in the State who en dorse the plan of the 'State charging the countries for the use of their own convicts. , The Charlotte Chronicle says no proposition that has ever besn sprung on the State has met with such a unanimous degree of opposition as the Mann proposition to make counties pay for vonvicts. A Bad Guess. John Hawtrey was one of England's famous whipping schoolmasters. At Eton in autumn the small boys used to buy chestnuts arid roast them in a shovel over the fire. One day a boy named F., who was a great favorite of Hawtrey's, had a lot of chestnuts and as a special favor was allowed to make use of the pupil room fire while the boys were all studying. Hawtrey was going in and out of the room while we were working, and on one occasion, coming in rather quietly, he caught sight of F. kneeling over the fire ar ranging his chestnuts. The boy's posi tion was irresistible to any lover of the art of chastisement. Not seeing his face and supposing it was one of the other boys stealing the chestnuts, John Hawtrey quietly took his cane from his desk and, creeping forward on tip toe, gave the wretched F. a most tre mendous whack. The boy jumped up with a yell, his hands clapped behind him. Then the tutor saw who he was and said, embracing him: "Oh, my poor boy! I am so sorry! I thought it was another boy stealing your chestnuts." We; of course, were all delighted and roared with laughter. London Graphic. CURRENT COMMENT. The Governor-etect of Arkansas, George W. Donaghey, is exhibiting great fastidiousness about the date of Litis inauguration. He says he will not be inducted into office on the 13th of the month or oiv ia Friday. Mr. Dona ghey is more sensitive than are most politicians, who are willing and anx ious to take an oath of office on any old day. New York Tribune. In the matter of "blind tigers" (Sa vannah is a good deal like Charleston, It is reported that our Georgia neigh' bor doesn't take kindly to prohibition. In fact, it is said that more whisibey is being sold and, consumed in Savan nah under the new regime than ever before m its historj. The people of the city that Oglethorpe founded are open and above board in their viola tion of the law, and manifest in vari ous ways tbir utter contempt for it. This is all wrong and dpes not speak well for the Georgia city. A law, e,ven though a bad one, should be obeyed. A community that allows it to be will fully broken does itself an untold in The papers all over the State, judg ing by their frequent references there to, are taking great interest in the happenings in this city in regard to prohibition. Here is another editorial comment of the Greensboro Record on the subject: "Wilmington is not as good as we gave her credit for being. It was stated the other day that her alder men were not going to license any near-bear saloons. They are not just going to let them sell without any license, though they are going to try to keep drug stores from selling Ja maica ginger." The Durham Sun a f&w days ago made the following comment on the rumor that effort would be 'made to secure some special legislation at the present session of the General Assem- my tor Wilmington, especially in re- jury and is undeserving of sympathy. gard'to the sale f liquors at the sum mer resorts on our beaches: "There is some talk at Wilmington of a possible application to the Legis lature for certain modifications of the State prohibition law in the , matter of serving intoxicants to guests at the summer coast and mountain ' resorts. Just now those in a position to know of any such contemplated action are not talking for publication. Wilming ton, "which has the lid screwded down pretty securely, would probably not sanction any deviation from a strict enforcement of the law, regardless of the. resorts."' INCREASE OF JUDICIAL DISTRCTS Greensboro sems to be t.he center of the movement among the lawyers of the State for an increase of Super rior Court Judges and judicial districts as means of relieving the conjested condition of the civil dockets in many of the counties. It is said that even with the establishment of Criminal Courts, thus relieving the Superior Courts of this business, there would not be time in the civil courts to at tend to the business with the present number of judges and districts. Some iJopituniK .xnat were tne lawyers to l who had no regard for law or for hn. be anore diligent in untilizing the time' man life. This gang held the whole Columbia Record Aside from kind words iand profes sions of love and affection for us, Mr. i art win add nothing to what the bouth already has. As a matter of fact, we do not know of anything that we want, either from Mr. Taft or his party. we prospered before the Re publican party was born. We were the envy of the North. And after the war, our first real progress recom menced when we were relieved of the Republican party and its carpetbag governments and principles. If Mr Taft will deal out impartial justice, as his oath of office requires, we shall be perfectly satisfied, and will feel that he has done his full duty by the boutn. Richmond Journal. The people of Obion county. Tennessee, must have ia pretty1 high average of manhood. This is shown by the verdict of the jury in the night rider cases. All the men charged with the murder of Captain Rankin, were found guilty and all but two will prob ably pay the penalty wUh their lives. Under ordinary circumstances there is nothing remarkable about a convic tion for murder, but the circumstances under which the men accused of the murder of Captain Ranken were tried were not ordinary. The accused were members, or charged with being' mem bers, of a gang of midnight marauders they now have allotted to the trial of civil cases: the dockets would not be so crowded. Apropos 'of this conten tion, the . Greensboro Record of Satur day in alluding to the term of court for, trial of ; civil . cases to begin in that city yesterday, says that Judge Long, who .will -preside, will find work to do, not pnly 'on the docket, but "work to do to get litigants to "enter the ring." jjurrounamg country in terror and numbered scores- if not hundreds of members. If the eight men on. trial are hanged or sent , to the penitentiary there will etill .be ten times as many others free, vengeful, unprincipled un merciful. Times-Union. Malaria Makes Pale Blood. The. Old Standard GROVE'S TASTE LESS CHILL TONIC, drives out ma laria . and builds ? up the system. For rrown people and children, 50c. Danton and the Organ Grinders. Paris t' has more than once made war on organ grinders. There, as here, they have their enemies and also their champions. The war, however, is an old one, and politicians had time to at tend to it even at the height of the revolution. No less a man than Danton then took the part of the musicians. "Citizens," he cried from the tribunal, "I hear that an attempt is being made to prevent the organ grinders of Bar bary from playingtheir tunes as usual. Do you think, then, that the streets of Paris are too gay? Have the people of Paris too many songs on their lips? One after another our liberties are be ing wrested from us. Leav us at least the liberty of listening to the or gans of Barbary, of hearing from them our favorite songs and refrains." Danton was guillotined for reasons with which this speech had nothing to do, but the oration containing these sentiments was the last that he had the opportunity of delivering as a member, of the convention. Westmin ster Gazette. The Voice of Fame. ' An American author of some note was passing a summer in New Hamp shire. One day he received word that a distinguished Englishman was visit ing in the country town and would like to call upon the author, of whom, he added in his note requesting an audi ence, he had heard. Somewhat flattered, the author won dered to himself who had spoken to the- distinguished Englishman about him. "Some Oxford dignitary doubtless," he reflected pleasantly, "or possibly some London publisher or critic' and he awaited the stranger's arrival with, interest. "So 'you na(2 heard of me," he ven tured after the usual greetings had been spoken. "Well, that is odd. Might 1 ask who" But his visitor interrupted him. "Oh, yes!" he said. "I heard all about you before I got here. The por ter on the Pullman f&d me that you were the very lhan to come to to ask about the best route to Niagara and what hotel I'd better stay at" Paying Visits In Australia. In Australia a month's vteit to a country house would be nothing. Two months three months six months as long as you like would not be consider ed too long, other things being equal. Nobody thinks of dates. To write and invite you from the 15th to the 30th would be rude. You are asked to stay as long as you like. Or else you ask yourself to stay as long as you like. Or even to face all the contingencies you neither ask nor are asked. You simply go. And. having arrived, you remain, for the one unfailing commodi ty of an 4ustraliah country house is welcome. Everything else may give out. If you stay long enough there is sure to be a tinie when there, are o servants, no milk, no vegetables, no meat but mutton, or even no water. but the thoughts of guests going away will never enter the minds of the host and hostess. Good nature, gayety, in formalitythese are the leading note? of life in every Australian country house. London Globe. INFANTS' SHOES 0 mi M a 8tiy D es Ss Co I ors AT PETElSOiail & I&ULFS NEXT TO MURCHISON BANK. Another Way Out of It. Nobody had ever had reason to ac cuse Abel Pond of beiug dishonest, but lie was as sharp a man in a bargain as could be found in the county. When the buikliug committee applied to him for a site for the new library he was ready to. sell them a desirable lot, but not at their price. "I couldn't feel to let it go under $G00," he said, with the mild obstinacy that characterized all his dealings with his fellow men. "It wouldn't be right." "You ought to be willing to contrib ute something for such an object," said the chairman of the committee, "if it's worth six hundred, why not let us have it for five hundred and call it you've given the other hundred?" "M'm no, I couldn't do that," said Mr. Pond, stroking his chin, "but 1 tell you what I will do. You give me seven hundred for it, and I'll make out a check for a hundred and hand it over to you, so's you can head the list of subscriptions with a good round sum and kind of wake up folks to their, duty." Youth's Companion. Plant Wood's Seeds For The Garden 6 Farm. Thirty years in business, with a steadily increasing trade every year until we have to-day one of the largest businesses in seeds in this country is the best of evidence as to Ihe Superior Quality of Wood's Seeds. We are headquarters for Grass and Clover Seeds, Seed Potatoes, Seed Oats, Cow Peas, Soja Beans and all Farm Seeds. Wood's Descriptive Catalog the most useful and valuable of Garden and. Farm seed Catalogs mailed free on request. T. 7. WOOD & SONS, Seedsmen, - Richmond, Va. LOSSES (J ALWAYS adjured PROMPTLY and SETTLED by us. We sell only FIRE PROTECTION that protedts. :: :: :: CLAYTON GILES & SON Successors to Willard & Giles Co. dec J RUMMY HERE W09 i A Real Apology. Q "When the late Joel Chandler Har ris was an editor here among us," said an Atlantan, "I called on him one day and found, him very willing to correct an error about me that crept into his columns. "We talked about newspaper contra dictions, public apologies and the like, and 'Uncle Remus' took down a scrap- book and read me an apology that was an apology indeed. It had happened he said, in a Transvaal paper. I'll nev er forget it I agreed with Mr. Har ris that it was the. finest specimen of the public apology and retraction ex tant. It said: "I, the undersigned, A. C. du Piessis. retract hereby everything I have .'said against the innocent Mr. G. P. ETezuiden hout. calling: myself an infamous liar and striking: my mouth with the exclamation: 'You mendacious mouth! Why do you lie s(T I declare, further, that I know noth ing against the character of Mr. G. P. Bezuidejihout. (I call myself, besides, a genuine liar of the first class. "A.C..DU PLESSIS." rvn Kl1BR7. Happy Prospe and rous Dy saving systematically. Deposit a little every pay-day in our Savings Bank, then next New Year's Day you will have risen a peg higher in your own estimation and in that of your friends. "yVe add 4 per cent, interest; compounded quarterly. Atlantic Trust S Banking Co. MATT J. HE YE I. Prealdeni. MILTON CALDER, Cashier. Southern Bids. Oppw Pofttofftc. jan 7 tf Brave Fire Ladies often receive severe burns, putting out fires, then, use Bucklen's Arnica Salve and forget them. It soon drives out pain. For Burns, Scalds, Wounds. Cuts and Bruises its earth's, greatest healer. yuicfciy cures Skin Eruptions, Old Sores, Boils, Ulcers, Felons; best Pile cure made. Relief is Instant. 25c at R. R, Bellamy. ... Dressed Turkeys, Geese, And Chickens. Fresh Eggs, Butter. Sliced Hams Raw or Boiled. -Breakfast Bacon: Bologna uw&r jruaaing, eouce, tierman Met worst, Genuine all Pork Sausage, Country Pig Pork, The finest Beet VEAL, LAMB and Mutton to be found In the CITY. POLITE ATTENTION and QUICK DELIVERY OUR MOTTO. HOP S r-uuK stalls, FRONT - STREET MARKET. PH0NE3 141 and 128 - dec 12 tf . Ed. Gulon." the Barber. to 121 Market street, where he will be pleased . to ae all iof nia oM tomers and many new ones. GOIOrj, The Barber. brought sunshine and prosperity. Every whistle and every ham- mer will soon be blowing and ringing over the entire country, and Geo. 0. Gaylord's Big Store - 7 ,-. . : is making preparations to nil your wants. Last year was not so bad after all, the hard times did not stop our growth nor blight our prospects. Goods are cheap, they are down to theJevel of the wants and demands of the working people. v"- For sale. 2,000 yards of Best Prints, slightly mis-printed In some places, worth 7 1-2 cents per yard, today 5c; 2,000 yards' of Check Ginghams at 5c per yard; 1,800 yards of x yard-wide Bleat-h- ing, good cloth and no dressing, worth 10c per yard, for 7c; 1,500 yards of Lonsdale Cambric in short lengths from one yard to ten yard pieces, worth 12 l-2c per yard, now 8 l-2c; 1,000 yards of Woolette Wash Goods, cloth that was made to sell for 10c per yard, a special price now of 6c. Tryon Sea Island Shirting Goods that were sold last season for 8 l-2c, now 6 l-2c per yard. One yard-wide Brown Shirting rat 5c per yard; 2,000 yards of heavy Hickory Chambry, 32 inches wide cloth that is worth 10c per yard, special price 7 l-2c. Full size Bleached Sheets, 2 1-2 yards long, for 39c each. Standard full size Pillow Cases made of mer cerized cloth, 36x42 inches at 10c. 10-4 Cotton Blankets at 23o each. A special price on all wool blankets, quilts and comforts. Men's heavy-weight fleeced lined Shirts and Pants at 39c eacn. Boys' Shirts and Pants, heavy-weight fleece lined at 25c eacn. Children's Union Suits, full size and good quality at 25c each. Ladies' Heavy-weight Vests and Pants at 25c each. Men tor Underwear for ladies and children, in children sizes from 25c to 50c each, and ladies size for 50c straight Our Ruby line of children's Union Suits that are easy to get on and fit perfectly are 39c to 69o each. Remember the big reduction in Ladies Cloaks, knocked down prices in Ladies' Hats, and the many thousands of other useful things that are sold by ' Big Dep artmmt Store. THE - : . - I & DAVIS 9"herii bypiqnal Bank Extends its greetings to its patrons, and wishes all a happy Ghristoas. W M I Now Is the Time lo Advertise in The SW t "A f f - 1 ... J ft - ' " If, - ft- - '( 4 - i r
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