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t - . .... . - ' Avi VtAAfco EJIiEUSHSD IN fflt HlLLSBOitO, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1907. NEW SERIES-VOL. XXVI. No. 10. (Qarrsed S-: ? We have on hand iust now a remnant Af mon'c n4 Kawc' ritiir. -,-i . .... . J. Ss. ah'UKG E.OW, President. Desires an account To new enterprises jve will be glad to extend such accommodations as is consistent with conservative banking We claim to be the Fnancial Bureau of Information for Orange County, and will gladly furnish information FOUR PER CENT. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. poC,tc CD THE N. C. LEGISLATURE Carolina Legislature Meets and Gets Down to Business. Tlit' session began at- 1 o'clock, Rev. McXeely DuBose, of St. Mary's school, offering prayer. Senator Daniel, of Halifax, at the suggestion )f the secretary of State offered a resolution for a joint session in the aall of the house to open and an nounce the vote for election of cor poration commissioners at the elec :ioa in November, the law requiring ;liat this be done on the first Tuesday the legislative session. The . reso .ution was adopted and the house no tified, but a few minutes later Sena :or Daniel stated that he had learn id that the corporation commission iras a part of the judiciary branch of :lie government and he asked Lee, to .viihciraw his resolution, th3 -request Jains granted. Favorable reports were made on Dills allowing Elizabeth City to issue ionds; to allow Brunswick to issue bonds; to prevent usury and extor tion ; to define the time . in which a :aveat may be entered to a will; unending the law regarding appeals sy defendants in summary proceed ings in ejectment cases ; in regard .to hat ministers may perform the mar liage ceremony; to fix salaries of Jommissioners of Guilford. Bills were ratified increasing the number of commissioners of Iredell and changing the name of the Sa m Academy. To Celebrate Lee's Birthday: A message came over from the house concurring in the senate . reso lution as to a joint session to an nounce the result of the election for wrporation comissioner. Senator Oaniel announced that he had been .jow informed that there was a con jct of laws in regard to this mat ter and that a joint session was cen tered to be neeessarj-. The house ?ave notice of its concurrence in the senate resolution to celebrate Lee's airthday and to invite General Hoke ;0 be the guest of honor at the legis lative reception as senate members to 'iUS committee Reinhardt and Maun- Bills Introduced. Ihe following bills and resolu tions were introduced: By Seaweli: o create the county of Lee out of Portions of Moore and Chatham. by Webb: To fix the salaries of -tain State officers and provide for Ml awisianx attorney general. This Dl'OVlilpc --o c.I . inr c Mm aa.itxi.y Ul VU,VVV TOT ffor5 $4'000 for the treasur S3ftA? T f?,r the secretary of State; St ,fo.Y tbe attorney general, the utter being authorized to appoint mpetent and capable lawyer in nt. attorney general to aid fif, the State and its of tZin 7 offices which may be re Pvili , v the, attorney general, as ded by the revisal, such assist t to receive $1,800; $3,000 for the ?otl-a'-ldltor5 WOO to insurance intention f 7f lo lue. suPer" 500 tn i pubhc 1Rstruetion; $2, P'm f c,orPoration commissioners; euUn-o rl,he commissioner of a?ri ofli i saIaries are-in Heu 5d ,iSfi nes- and fees now receiv ccnlth?re ls t0 be no other com- ' than as above provided. licir"?- i resolutions were put ,J5 urd and final renM oc tl. t. on final readicg as fol r fix the compensation of the "'issionr-e .a 01 county com 1,511 rend-rtGc? 6 paSSa?e of his (luylcen, blU authorizing.any ,1,1" IAm i read uvu KJU a third Suhjf.Pce upon the ealenrlnr house airaLf ln feting with the Ceed to til t ,and ,the senate pro- 011 the return &A?f the house- V eturn of the members of the !nf..V5 rS Ihir sty,e nor ?mish. wc cannot seU it at a prof it. But there are those amonfi us who would like to buy something cheap, and at the same time serviceable? to last the balance ortho thES IZIm? to-f i?1? lot will appeal. The price will not be considered. We must leil t",?ndi -bB uy f a sTied W SO Ps.1 5nt of cost. Remember this! The . . &wv mai, with every man, woman that the bill relating to the time a caveat may be entered to a will was recommended to be passed by the Mate Bar Association. On motion the bill was re-committed to the -judiciary committee. The reading of bills on their third and final reading was resumed. , . Anti-Lobbying Bill. lhe bill introduced by Mr. Biskett was the first one considered on its second reading. This bill requires all parties employed-to promote or de teat legislation to enter their names on a register in the office of the sec retary of State, stating the source ot employment, the specific work to be done, and whether or not a cor poration, and if so the address of the principle of the offices. Mr Galloway, of Greene, moved to amend by substituting in place oi this act," should be in force upon its adoption by inserting 10 days af ter its adjournment. This was agreed to. Joint Session to Canvass Vote. . At 12 o'clock the approach of the senate was announced. Ascending the speaker's stand Lieutenant Gov ernor Winston announced that in ac cordance with law the joint bodies would proceed to canvass and an- for State officers. Roll call showin the presence of 45 senators and 115 representatives, President Winston declared a quorum was present and be body would proceed to canvass the returns He appointed Senators Howard, of Edgecomb, and Cartel ot burry, tellers on the part of the senate. Speaker Justice named Ret resentative Doughton, of Alleghany, and Harshaw, of Caldwell, tellers on the part of the house. DonSxton on the part of tellers, made a report showing that Franklin McNeill had received 123,372 votes and R M Douglas had received 77,017 votes for' corporation commissioner and that McNeill was duly elected, this resUl being answered by the president, ihe joint session was dissolved, the senators returning at 12:05 o'clock B1II3 Introduced. Bills were introduced as follows: By Laughmghouse : To provide for payment of penitentiary bonds. By Vestal (resolution) : To obtain information regarding the number of insane persons in jails and county homes in the State. By Stevens: To require political candidates to furnish lists of ex penses, and to prevent corporations from contributing campaign funds. Bills Pass Third Reading. The following bills passed third reading: To make indictable assault upon an innocent woman. To so amend the Watts law that an election can be held on prohibit tion on the same footing as one oii dispensary or saloons. To authorize a trial judge in cases of felonious assault, to exclude all persons except those directly inter ested from the court room during trial. To give justice of the peace juris diction of cruelty to animals. At Wednesday's session but little was accomplished besides the intro duction of new bills." The work of the committees was also unimportant. Senate. Among the Senate bills favorably reported were : To allow judges in trial of cases of felonious assault and attempted felonious assault to exclude from the court rooms persons not connected with the case. To allow county commissioners to force clerks of court , to increase bonds. .. To make indictable attempted as sault upon an -innocent woman; un favorable reported, the law already covers this matter. There was also an unfavorable report on the bill amending the law as to requirments before granting license to attorneys, another bill of the same character be ing before the Legislateure with a 'Mo E X C.:-Wehh.'r. 58 DruAn iuts or onoss will P. C COLLI fUS. Cashier. and child in Orange Countv lavorable report. A third unfavor able report was on the bill to define and punish battery by lawyers, and yet another on the one requiring sheriffs to keep a record of processes for services and to have an official seal. Favorable reports were made on bills: To prevent the exposure and sale of indecent pictures and prohibiting indecent shows and to prevent the usury and extortion on mortgages on household goods, etc. To secure the pensioners the amounts allowed $hem by pension boards. To compel water companies to sup ply wholesome drinking water. To prohibit the collection of a sum in excess of the regular fare from passengers who for reasonable cause do not have tickets. There was a report without preju dice on the bill prescribing the man ner in which passengers should enter and leave trains. It was stated that nearly all the raiway bills went over until next Thursday. House. The House under the new rule met at 10 :30 and as no minister was pres ent there was no prayer. Several petitions were introduced for the re peal of the homestead law, the sup pression of Mormonism and the abo lition of saloons in Morganton. Among the bills introduced were the following: To enlarge the powers of the State board of pharmacy. By Horton: To separate white and colored persons on street railways. By Preston : To encourage immigra tion. - By Galloway: To prevent the waiv ing of . bills of indictment. By Mangum: To amend the Re vival as to delays' in transporting freight, also requiring railway com panies to furnish freight cars. By Hampton : To amend the revisal regarding the clerk of Currituck court. By Price: To extend the pension law to certain ex-Confederate soldiers By Laughinghouse : For the relief of prisoners in jail in Pitt awaitino trial. By Buchanan: To regulate pay of witnesses .and jurors in Moore. By Mauney:" To authorize the cor poration commission to require rail ways to install more passenger trains and make connections. . Reformatory Bill. Just before the close of the session Mr. Preston, of Mecklenburg, asked leave and was allowed to introduce out of order a bill providing for a re formatory and manuel training school for criminals and wayward children. Three hundred copies of this bill was ordered printed. Morganton to Be Dry. A bill that caused considerable dis cussion was enacted on Thursday, tbis being the measure to prohibit the sale of liquor, beer or wine in Morganton. Morton, opposing the bill said he understood Morganton had voted under the Watts law and that the people there had said they preferred saloons. The present pro position is that the other part of'the county shall vote Morganton dry, al though the Watt's law gives the Mor ganton people the right to vote on the question every two years if they so desire. The Democratic party is pledged and committed " throiigli tn.6 Watts "and the Ward laws to the plan of local self government and not to go any further in these matters. Av ery, of Burke, said the people of his county demanded this law, and that he had petitions signed by 1,200 of them asking for it, there not being a single petition against it. The matter was the one issue in the late cam paign, candidates of both political parties demanding it. If the bill were defeated it would mean his .po litical and professional' death in Burke. . He declared he absolutely be lieved the people in the country ha'd aiso dc sacrificed. a right to say what they wanted, when the saloons in Morganton were poisoning and distressing the most remote townships in the county. Blount, of Washington, and Gibbs, of Swain, spoke in advocacy of the bill, Gibbs saying he was a Republi can, but could tell the House posi tively that if this bill were not pass ed, Burke would go Republican two years hence. Owens, Republican, from Sampson, favored the bill. Bow man, Republican, of Henderson, elo quently and strongly supported the bill, saying that his county was cor rupted by barrooms inMarion and he hoped to see all such places closed and put out of business. Upon a roll call vote only two noes were giv en against the bill. Friday va; a particularly dull d?y :n ihe Legislature in both branches. There was no session Saturday, the Lcdy having adjourned out of re q.ect for the memory of General R. 1j Lee. A large number of the mem bers went home. Jail Delivery at Americns. Americus, Ga., Special. Americus had a wholesale jail delivery, when eight negro prisoners sawed theii way -to liberty and escaped. Evident ly a key was provided by which they unlocked the door guarding the rows of steel cages. Three other prisoners in the same cells declined to leave, and these gave the alarm two hours after the eight criminals had depart ed through a barred window, cutting the steel bars. Two of the escaping prisoners 'were under long sentences for felonies while six were, in for mis demeanors. Agrees to Inter-Change of Mileage. - New Orlenas, Special. The state ment that the Southern Railway has agreed to interchange mileage" with other systems in the South, including the territory east of the Mississippi and south of the Orio rivers, " was made by F. W. Crandall, chairman of the national railroad committee of the Travelers' Protective Associa tion. Reductions in the deposit re quired on mileage books by the Southwestern Passenger Asociation wore also announced. Negro Killed by Officer . .Ludowici, Ga., Special. William McDuffie, g, negrq, arrested here for disorderly conduct, attacked Deputy Marshal Delk and a citizen deputiz ed by the officer. McDuffie secured the revolver of one of the men and struck him down. He then ran, ex changing shots with his pursuers and slightly wounding a citizen named Gordon. A shot struck McDuffie in the head and killed him. Battleships Are Needed. Washington, Special. President Roosevelt has written a letter to Chairman Foss, of the naval affairs committee, urging that an appropria tion should be made at once for two first-class battleships of the maximum batteries all of 12-inch guns. The letter states that in addition to the battleships provided for last year of the Dreadnought class, another should be provided for this year without fail. The President also urges the building of torpedo b uixv destroyers. Secretary Root Leaves for Canada. Washington, Special. Secretary Root , left Washington for Ottawa, Canada, where lie will arrive about nood Friday to be the guest of Eearl Grey, the Governor General. Mi. Root was accompanied only by his wife and daughter. Patterson Inaugurated Governor. Nashville, Tenn., Special. Malcolm B. Patterson, of Memphis, was on Thursday inaugurated Governor of Tennessee. The largest size of fine paper ia known as "antiquarian." The sheets are 53x31 Inches. ! . CHAS. A- SCOTT, V ice-President. THE PULPiT. A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV..RA1MUNDQ DE OVIES. - '.. Y Subject: The True Religion. K -. T .J Birmingham, Ala. The following Impressive discourse entitled "The True Religion" was preached in St. Andrew's Sunday morning by the Rev. Raimundo de Ovies. His text was: St. Luke xxi., 3: "Of a truth I say unto you that this poor widow, hath cast in more than they all." Mr. de Ovies said: Because relig ion is a feeling, an intuition, an emo tion, many well meaning people mis take other emotions and feelings for this one "divine stirring of the heart." There are some minds that can never be led to believe that religion must become an ordinary, common place and everyday matter with the true Christian. Thsy look for some remarkable display of feeling, some thing beyond and above the daily and hourly emotions of life, in order that they may feel certain of "having re ligion." In other words, they look for romance, not commonplace. "What!" we can hear them cry, 'do you mean to say that when some powerful and eloquent preacher has stirred our hearts and made us real ize the depth of degradation in which we have been living, until we turn with disgust from our past life, make unnumbered good resolutions and feel good all over, that we have not got religion? What more would you command? There is only one thing which we could ask, and yet what a difficult test, "keep the feeling alive." No man is a Christian whs must be converted and baptized once a year. Religion is for a lifetime, not a day, or a week, or even a month or two. There is nothing more decep tive than the enthusiasm resulting from magnetic, eloquent preaching. The politician, the lawyer, even the infidel, all exercise thi3 compelling power over an audience, and in no case does it give religion. Religion comes into the heart from no man, it comes from God Himself. It is true, indeed, that God uses human means, but when a soul is truly con verted religious enthusiasm wells from the heart in a deep, quiet stream, not in the bubbling, efferves cent spring of some momentary exal tation. Such periods of excitement do seem to lift us outside the ordinary routine of life, and they have in them a touch of the romantic. But what really is romance, after all? It is merely the commonplace viewed from a distance. If any incident which excites our fancy and appears to be romantic were taken from the pages of one of our thrilling novels and introduced into our own lives we should look upon it as trouble, and what a deal of grumbling there would be. Don't you see that this is true, and is not a romantic novel, simply the story of difficulties and trials overcome? There is this difference between a book and life: in a book petty details are left out and the ex citing events crowded together, one upon another. In life the petty de tails are all retained, and (in many cases) the thrilling passages omitted. When some of us sigh in our youth for stirring scenes and a part to play cn life's stage, which hall be full of thrilling adventures, such as we have read about in our favorite books, do we ever think about disaster to our selves, and does the story not end happily? Yes, we all desire romance, but no trouble or hardship ever en ters into the bargain. . They are in separable in the real business of life. So we see that Christianity is ro mantic only in the true sense. It means trials and obstacles to be over come. The very first requirement of ro mance is courage, and here romance and Christianity agree. No coward was ever a Christian. There is no greater mistake in the world than to suppose that a Christian must be a milksop, a poor, meek, wishy-washy J creature, without stamina and with- ( out manhood. Among the heroes of 1 history none were greater, none more glorious and godlike than the Chris tian martyrs. They were not sup ported by ambition, by the praise of men, nor the fear of ridicule, but calmly and with eyes that saw, with out flinching, their doom, died for a nJT e.a 1Ittle' you who look wit ?mi' "po? CteWlw life, and flTi iS me Draver course, to JSiSf8?7 With tne stream- give unbridled way to base passions ?nd weaknesses In our human avoid the finger of sn by To Sing the swelling ranks of the scoffers aI the degraded, or that other path, to take the side of the minority, to bat-SS-.Kf8'-8?' to acknowledge the """""aiu "a nonor and freedom of S;2?fnceT .Whoever conquers his besetting sin is man indeed True religion, then, is "brave as veil as steadfast, but above all it ia steadfast, it does not demand great sermons, it finds "sermons in stones." It does not ask for great deeds to do. wCOv,nnnted ith lts opportunities! Wno shall say what things are small Newton saw gravitation in the fallina of an apple, and Galileo, watching the lamp of a great cathedral vibrating i.rom tne movements of passing vehi cles gave to the world the division of time by means of the pendulum Greatness lay in the minds of those two men who could grasp opportu- So it is not the outward circum stance but the heart which makes things great or small. There are abundant opportunities for our be coming heroic Christians. Oh, u we would only grasp them. We miss so much in this life, romance and ' beauty, and all because we lack cour age to do our duty. Duty is an ugly word at first, yet within it lie all the best things of life. It is under the spell of that wicked fairy, the world, but it be come3 beautiful if we embrace it Recall that story of your childhood "Beauty and the Beast." You re' member how ugly the beast appeared to poor beauty. Still, for the sake ot her father's life she embraced it, when, lo, a miracle, before her stands' a handsome prince. So it is with life, duty, the daily task, the coia-j monplace routine, when undertaken in the spirit of Christian faith takesj the form of that dear dream that lies' in the heart of us all. j Who would imagine anything he roic in the act of that poor widow;! when she cast into an almsbox'herj two mites of copper? It took the1 gracious mind of Christ Jesus to point out to the world the beauty of! that insignificant deed. Yes, and as5 long as the world shall last and whilei the gospel is preached to erring man-' kind, the greatness of a poor woman's' heart, shall point out to the world a' lesson of beauty and heroism that shall never-die. , Tar Heel Brevities. At Buckhead, a few miles west of Fayetteville, Henderson Edwards, after striking his wife on the head- with a bludgeon stnp.k a knifA i his throat repeatedly deliberately wounding himself mortallv and dv- mg after hours sf suffering. There was trouble between his wife and himself and he said that he "was tired of all it." Farmers and Others in Mecklen burg county are circulating a peti- uu.u io me legislature to have a tar put upon all dJs, this tax to go to the school fund. Mayor J. C. Steele, of Statesvilie, who last Monday tendered his resig nation to the board of town alder men, has, at the request of the alder men, withdrawn his resignation. The High Point Savings Bank and Trust Company has asked for an amendment to its charter, allowing the company to do general, loan, real estate- and investment and insurance agency business as well as in the commercial and savings banking busi ness. Half -Breed Tries Suicide. Wilmington, Special. William Jacohson, a West India half-breed negro, who says that he was lately shipwrecked and came here to aefr ai(i from the British vice consul. who was insulting when in a drunken condition in the consul 's.. office and was sent to the roads for 30 days for disorderly conduct, made an unsuc cessful attempt to commit suicide by hanging himself with a rope torn ' from the hammock in a cell at the po lice station,'
Orange County Observer (Hillsborough, N.C.)
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