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In New read mm Dailies saiid CIrcu U .-i-v-v ;".r -, 3 (Ut GOVERNOR THE ETERNAL CONFLICT That is-Raging Betweerithe School Room and the Bar Room. That is the Reason for the Election in May. . ... - . i - ' - 1 JBy HOAT. J. JARVIS. .There is an eternal conflict between i the schoolroom rand the bar room.". The schoolroom, makes men, the bar room destroys them. The schoolroom take the child and train him to a .useful life.5 The barroom takes the boy and trains him to a life of wrong doing. The schoolroom, fills the home with bright happy; boys and girls.. The bar room, fills it " with Ignorant , aimless, lawless, inmates. The 'school-house Alls the. pulpit - with . educated, -.- eloquent ministers of the: Gospel and the, pews hvlth godly men and women. The still house, fillsthe . Jails and' the peniteh tta rleswlth ; criminals and murderers. The schoolroom sends men to the Legislature.'-to the-bench and the execu tive office. The barroom- sends,; them to the scaffold. and to heU The school room 'gives to: the- community an intel ligent,' - thrifty: enterprising, - refined manhood and womanhood., The bar room gives to it a1 thriftless, lawless, Ignorant, worthless citlsenship. The "schoolroom carries ' light and know ledge into the heme and the commun ity, v The barroom1 carries darkness and sorrow and ; death into the home And the 'community. The .c;TOOlroom in to htrher ad1 better things. The bar rooror Jeaas to" r lower, -ana- uer things. -The schoolroom -stands lorthe good, the barroom t for the, bad. V y . -.The people" that multiply and re plenish .the schoolrooms. and , destroy the 'barrooms are. building i for their - posterity : a future - that s will grow to mnltinW- and reolenlsbthe .school room and utterly destroy .theJast trail of -the barroom. The people or Xiortn Carolina have made wonderful: strides in 'the last few years in; multiplying tha schoolrooms and' in destroyinsrthe barrooms, but the final conflict is- Just before-them. On the 2th..f .May. 1 1 0 S v .the final battle is to be fought. Shall. th,e schoolroom or the barroom ' ? on that day every citizen ; i i . rid with the schoolroom -or. the - MM - mi.f He must stand for.theavork 4 I Fahooltoom orthe work, of the : . There is no middle ground. ; . ..- fect.ionis tdbe "a State ; elec- ' . .... r th ln. 1tiva1u1 anneals 'to b '" Ixtn in every section. The cry : ;jtk' .' itrong, great noble citizenship "'?- r e 'friends. of-ihe schoolroom .-. -1 J a wWa - nAKlA tl(anmn j-i: i-tlon' from" 'tHe. curse L Of 1IIMIK. v"""' ness. This cry ' hould 1 o uJR?id 5answerd by every loverof men.' no matter ;where ,Ws . a j' , hew 1 ; North Carolina is divided '-: : nties ana' towns-ana townsmps. i . alt.tnik th RtAtft.ThS rood section should -be the aim of V e?i, H:" v : city or town hav: rid- them . . e -. f the curse of the whiskey : -, y. s id have found peace and profit , 1 ey should bo at the ballot box ic lay oi election and rote to con fer a similafblesslng upon their fellow cltfsens Ip every other section., : ' .The time was when the different sec tions.of the state were separated 'from each other. by long distance, and-time. To" go from: one extreme -to the other was a, long, tiresome Journey, and but few attempted it. -Now it is easy and enjoyable, and the - men. of the east and the men of the;"- west : often- meet and ' shake :Mnds. r The - .time was when ft tooVa long time-to get the new - from Currituck to Cherokee, f rom Wilmington 'to Asheville. ? Now the ciUseh ot these once remote com : muniues can converse with each otner as if they Mved by- the- side of 'each ther. The railroad, the telegraph and the teteplione hav annihilated space arid Umeu and made us one people In all bur aspirations, plans and purposes, to become, a great people and a great Stated The peopre. of one county can- not be indifferent 1 to the welfare v of the people in another county. Hence, I can tonndently appeal to the friends ' of the sc poolroom and the enemies of the barroom in every section of the State to be at the ballot box on the 2th.'day of May, and vote "against the manufacture and sale of intoxi cating liquors in North Carolina.- I use .the term barroom ' to represent every means' for the sale and trade In 11 tuor and I earnestly appeal to the peo ple to put ran end to thls trade no matter under what, name i or f guise; it , may be carried on." -',':'-?- A favorite argument with those who want - to stand with the barroom; . but wh o . try to sjte some excuse for d o ing so is that prohibition does not pro hibit Oh. they say. if prohibition real ly prohibited they would vote for it . This argument Is not sincere. Those M ho use ; it , do so because they are Ashamed to stand for . the barroom with all. Its horrors and evils without' some cloak to hide behind. If they ure sincere why do they not say the warns thing .about other prohibition laws? We have had a law against stealing which has been on our statute - books for ages and yet some men steal. Our statutes are. full of prohibition laws, which are violated by some one almost every day. "Do we hear those men say these, do noj prohibit and therefore let them be repealed? Nay. verily. It is onlv when It is proposed to prohibit by law something of the wreck and ruin" produced by, the sale of whiskey that we hear the cry that prohibition does not prohibit. I now propose, very' briefly, to jhow that prohibition does prohibit not ab solutely, but largely and beneficially. In the first1 place I remark' that no human law I perfect in' Its construc tion or execution. . W have to take . all law with Mts human limitations, but the law which prohibits the manu facture and sale of intoxicating li quor CAN BE. MADE as efficient as any other Uw If the people so will.it in the next place I remark that we are all more or less creatures of habit If we have the habit of going to bed at nine; o'clock... when nine o'clock comes a sleepy feelinx creeps upon us. If we get in the habit of getting up at six. o'clock when six o'clock comes we become wakefuL if twelve o'clock be . our dinner nour. when noon comes hunjer comes with It Men even con tract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco and when the habit gets . a . good hold upon them they are never .: sctL3fl3flcer)t-whea .thtv have a wad JARVIS of the stuff in their mouth. So.withl drinking. . It is largely a habit. The man who "has the habit wants ;. his drink at, the usual hour. The man who is free , from the habit does not -want it. Now anything that iends to get men out of the habit; is neiptui. As yau make It more - and ' more diffi cult toget llQuor you more and more get. men out of the habit f using it. If men can't get it they can't use . and if thev sret out .of the' habit of using it they soon cease to want it. And I submit that promoiuon maaes ix au flcult, if not inpos3ibIe,for that very class of men . to get whiskey, who can ill. afford to -waste their hard earn ings and scanty means in , something that 'can do them no good. . After, all. the;eTect'veness of prohibition, like all other, Drohlbitory laws, depends, upon the local authorities If we havo sheriffa and constables and police and magistrates. who' are In sympathy with blind tigers,. the blind tigers will flour ish... If these officers, are at enmity with the blind tigers and in full sym pathy with a rigid enforcement of the law, the blind tiger will soon seek oth er-fields .for nls; devilish operations. Hence the necessity 'for a great big majority for prohibition. Let us make It so large that; the officers of the law will know tnat tne people are in ear nest, and. that " they meant! to see . the law : enforced. ,; Let-us make it so big that the' wretch who would engage In the rTllcit, manufacture r sale of liquor wil know that there is no hiding place for hi m in North Carolina and that if tim would .engage in this wicked busi ness,. he must,go.beyondher borders. a . 2.. j v". ' .: r&ir. Dooley on Ilard lmes y. ' "Mr. ; Dooley" discusses Hard Times for the . February. number' of the American Magazine; : -i -. Lord Macauley says that the high est miracles of genius is :t0 make the imaginings or one . mind become the personal recollections of another. - " In the following passages --"Mr.. Dooley" certainly accomplishes this feat . It takes us back to other 'panics, and shows how" we 'all pulled: .through ."If . hard times ome ve'Il niver no tice 'iliinV iTha's - one : . good thing about th ataUon- in - life t whicK we have been -called and locked up with out ball. our peeryoda iy hard times are broken now an' thin be more hard times. v Just as soon, as we begin to tlre'iv hard, times, with too much work..;wa have worse hard times with less work: .v . "..'V i, . . ! ; 'What diff-rence does' it make to ye how far. ye move forward. If Ivry thing 'else, moves forward ahead. iv ye ? . Now. as thin, , ye are willow-th'-wtsp ; .iv good A-xe begin- to . retreat - chasin th' groceries. they come back.' tmtthere's niver a day whin ye can reachout an seize thim. . Th' dinner pal) U always full, but not full IV angel cake. Don't ye be .throubled boi th' r end " iv .prosperity.- Ye- have nawthinVto fear frm hardrtlmes that ye? haven't suffered durin'th; peeryod so , charmingly . described '.in the Thanksglrin Day i proclamations. -f haven't seen ye flitting by this estab lishment in. no autymobill br clucking to a 4 teamjlv . bax trotters On th lake shore dhrive. or Comin' home frm th' opry in anellcthric cab an handin ye'er i ur overcoat ' an ;. plug hat an1 cane to the: futman at th. dure an' dhroppln'i heavily .-into a t plush lounge wnue-ui' DUiier.asKea vo. wud n nim in ' mint, 'juleps 1 or: chamDasrne. while ye'er wife wlnt up stairs an', got on harnessed from .ber . dlmon tyary,. be rnakln: Blgnaia to a Frjrtnch, lady nireu 'guara : ner ; joou ar iv her hair. I, ain't seen ye often with ye'er wife, which' in : a . mark ;i v -great prosperity. out i haven't seen re with annv othr lady, an that pushes ye back among " s iiuiuuujufyun ciaas rajram.-.,v: i won't stand ye'er compiainin' if hard ximes- comes because yd! .have naw vu.u ' j wuiDniii iv.- i ve oeen through manny peoryodsj Iv hard times; -most iv thim I caused mesllf with me neefaryous vote. Two panics rnsnr , mh v i a I i caused , be votln' ; , again th tariff that; -makes ye'er wasjes almost enough higher to jay fr th' increased cost iv ye'er pants. At dther times xn-couninry was; Drought to. roon be th .fear in high circles that I was iww v w. Yw in , in" tariff - again, in ;Urhteeti ninety-two I managed to land me vote fr a sound. consarvltiv man. , that had r niver shook his list at neuponi uorgan nave in th way ; lr inuns2v in eiguieen n inety-three hard tlmea -begun, j ,An' I cuddent see, anny ; diff-rence ' In ye. ..Ye were tnrown oui iv employment more often. nut ye .woraea less. . ye rot less mony,' but corn beef was .tin tints a pouna. , . An- mere ye are," XntL RESENT INTERPEIIEXCE. Nortli CaroUna Will Give a SoUr plei. us mow to tre national Liquor . Dealers' Association. I uupi'.n journal. - . Several liquor dealers- of! the State met In Wilmington Monday! to perfect a State organization of the liquor deal. Itl. n,cn; cng in conceit with The National Liquor Dealers' ' Association, "will furnish campaign literature and speakers to flrht att nrnh!Ktin i the coming election. May 2th. Uquor "'Z m iMuisDury, ' Winston. Rocky Mount and othier towns were present'"- y f . . ' chler Campaign argument f of the liquor, dealers wil! be.r rit tha.t .Vu.w.hv.u nvi promoit: and a that tht loMnn .111 - Ji IZlJi tZ' t ".j... " necT. pres ent prohibition territory in c.. 121 ?r,Ven ?..noVP:Wblt then wmz a Buoni Xjiquor Deal ers-Assocjauon ds concerned. Th. fact that they will furnish money, li quor, literature and orators for the campaign A the best evidence th prptilbitlon does c prohibit and that fciaie proniDiuon: win .ine more pro. hlbit the liquor trade In the State. - Second-i; If the great majority of the, people in tne state i want State prohlbitionv as the election ? will- fully demonstrate. .. why will not every sec tion of theHtate (whether wet- or -dry now" oe aneciea iuk oy tne. election and State prohibition prevail. ; If tha Legislature wisely? left 4 prohibi tion to a vote or the peo regardless of any political differences, have not the people a right to settle the ques tion of j3tate prohibition by their votes? And who shall question their right to do. so? Shall a National Liq uor Dealers' Association outside the State question the right of the people or North Carolina to vote tneir etate for prohibition and yet argue that prohibition does not prohibit? When did worth Carolina give to the: National Liquor Dealers' Associa tion the right to say whether its Leg islature should submit a State; prohi bition law to its own people and yet reserve theiright to prohibition terri tory .now satisfactory to its people? This campaign will be simply the Na tional Liquor Dealers' Association s campaign. The Wllmlnnton Messen ger, which la fighting State prohibi tion states that "th State i Liquor Dealers' Association which It Is under stood will become affiliated with The National Association with the purpose of fighting against th.e present prohi bition movement in North Carolina" practically admits as muchand tne people of the State will see to it that The Nstlonal Liquor Dealers Associa tion gets a solar plexus May 26th, 1908. i MUSIC IN Til Kill BONKS. Wilson Takes Three Prises at Ye 'Olde Tyme Fyddlers Convention. (Special to News and Observer.) Wilson, N. C.. Feb. 14. ---Notwith standing the inclement ' weather -which had nothing to do with the casethe auditorium at the Lyceum was well filled last evening to listen at the old tunes of ye olden times in the days of auld lang syne." At eight-thirty the curtain was rung . up and revealed more than a dozen of the artists "of the. rosin and the, bow" all sawing away for dear life to the tune of "Mississippi Saw yer.":: v:. . .After the opening prelude. the fol lowing genJJemen were called on and acted as judges and awarded the prises to the winners An the contests: Dr. , C. E. Moore, Jesse M. Taylor and John ' R. Haines. V Mr.: Jesse M. Taylor, of Wilson, was called on to render the , first numbers -those old familiar airs "Home, Sweet Home" and "Dixie' Mr. Tay lor was not : a contestant but Just played with the boys, for the: love he had for his old Instrument and to re mind him of by-gone days. vf r .The next numbers were , sweetly played by- Mr. W. It Paschal 1, " of Pikevtlle. "Jenny Lynd Polka, "Black Jack" and "Dixie" were his favorites. y v"-:;-'.t -v 'j f; f ": .,:-.. The banjo was to take its part too and Mr., Clayton IV Wiggs;: of " Pike ville:.. ;waa JLhe , performer and well he did bis - part, v The tunes he- played were "Coon ' Joint, : fHump-backed Mule" and Arkansaw Traveler. . Mr x H. M. Barnea. (of Goldsboro, then Sweetly "played three . Improvised numbers he wasj accompanied by. banjo and guitar. . - Mr. ,W.- L. Branch, of. near Golds boro, then took his seat and faced the audience and! he was loth to leave so fully enthused he became j with what he could do with - ."The Arkansaw Traveler" and bis love for "Sugariin the Gourd." The a dancing stunt was on by Wiggs brothers, off Fremont .Next came popular John A. Clark, of '..-Wilson ' The - ovation he received wu hearty, and . this "king , of. the banjo" brought ou t everything there mrmm In thl, nnniilm- fnatramant. Then Mr; ' Clark - was prevailed on to playone more - number He was ac companied: by the ' venerable Mr.- W. C Hill, of Rutherford College, who up to thia time had been playing second fiddle. Right here the old gentleman showed that music ' Wth charms to soothe." - etc. -r - - ' - j ,Dr. J,'- M. Packs, of Seven Springs, came next . The doctor was not a contestant - had he been he would have been a price-winner. Sweetly he played "Fortr Tears Ago," nd "Nel lie Gray with banjo's accompani ment. i : t '' : ' Then came "Mr. llwbert Wiggs, of Plkeville, who played so well before "Sweet Belle," "Turkey In the Straw" and wound 'up with ah entire new version of "The Mocking Bird." He was accompanied with ban'o and guitar. ; - ' I Frank Farmer then danced to tre mendous enchores. - ; Nathan Harnett, of Pik'evllle. great ly t rendered fAunt Kate, Can't You Come Out to Night r -Then the 'grandest sweetest and soul-stlrrlns; strains were brought from the violin brj Mr. W. C. Hill of Ruth erford ' College. . He closed with Twinkle, Twinkle. Little Star." F Then again such music as is seldom listened to was by Messrs. Whltaker and HU1. - : : v ' ' -! The performance was then conclud ed by all handa playing I "Auld Lang Syne," "Dixie" and "Old Mollle Hare." j . Then the prise - winners were an nounced: s v Violin W. R. Paschal, first; Hert ford Wiggs, ! second; H. M. Barnes, third; W. L. Branch, booby. Banjo Nathan Barnett first: John A. Clark,' second, s . Dancing Herbert Woodard (and he has - not his j equal tiny where) first; Frank H. Farmer, second: Clayton It. Wiggs, third. ! THIRD TERM APPLE SEEDS. One I run. two I don't. . Three I ort of wait. Four I look around a bit And five I hesitate; j 8li I swear I never- will. Seven I sight "We'll see! Eight I flirt behind my fan. And nine; I'm all at sea : Ten I fetch: my running shoei Just to; trv the fit Eleven I see I can't refuse. And twelve I find I'm It! Thirteen $o limbo rivals relegates, And all the rest are little delegates. i William Wallace Whitlock. in. N. T. Sun. I'-.. ' ! Trained To It Baltimore American. ) !"Mr. Jones by never Interrupts one. and he is the best; listener I ever met" t'"No wonder; he's- -been married three times." t - t Dysr How 1s At that - Neurich no longer brass about his ancestors?, .. i Ryer He has probably found out Who they were. -Brooklyn Life.. CHEAP HOMES FOR THE POOR 'Wizard' Edison Perfects Plan for Moulded Houso CHEAP ELECTRIC AUTO 1 3Ictlod of 1 tonic Con Inventor Says strbctkm Means Red uctionl In Cost to $100 a Room Solves Prob lem of Slums and "tiftes -1 . liulct Dog Chanced (New York Special to Washington When, after forty-eighf hours' steady work, Thomas - A. - Edison emerged from his laboratory! in 'West Orange, ut 6:30 o'clock Frld4y evening to go to supper In his near-by villa; he said to a reporter: j , j "At lat I have? solved the .problem pf decent existence for the poor man and to the rich, too, I can hold out a- glad message. I - "The cast bywhlch the cost of-cet ment houses will be reduced., many times, ' U completed. ; The dangerless electric auto going ; a hundred ; miles without recharge at twenty imlles per hour, If you like, is an accomplished ; "The boys ara always afraid I over-; work myself. I kept 'at this , since Wednesday morning at 8 o'clock; working until 6:30 Thursday evening And returning an hour Utter Ho con4 timie. until , o'clock! this A mornings Then l slept an hour, had breakfast and set- to work again un.U dinner time. ; - .-. j -i- Problems Now Are Solved. "But what matters it? . The prob lems that, confronted me for the last two yeai or . longer j are no longer problems. In the palm! of Iray hand I hold the iron cement cast jnecessary j cheapen the building . of -cement houses to such n' extent thai the very! roorest tan afford a - roof over his head. 3o much for the min In -the ditch-:.;- : r w :v. - ;v; I ' . : j "A strange coincidence. Even as I achieve the highest arabition of my jire, tnat to neip in" u3rntroaaen: "brother I tread - with heavy? steps oa the- corns of the richest ' man. in : the world" . :" ; Here Mr. Edison smiled . bi-oadly. "Unless Rockefeller," he Continued "goes in heavily 4 for ' coal tl ; mean-, buys up coal mines right and left he will lose u great part of his enormous income, - for the days of the '.benzine buggy are numbered. Before I leave for the South with my family In a few weeks, . my new electric storage bat tery, which 1 1 rounded up : this after-; noon,, will be: ready for . trial, and there is no doubt that it will be a complete suocess l' "By the time I come back the fac tories will have turned out a hundred of them, suitable for raping,! ordinary carriage use, and trucking. Then good-by, benzine good-by to high priced chaff eurs. . ; j s ralace for Poor Man. -"But this is not the Invention on which I particularly pride myself.- The proudest moment of my life; occurred a few hours ago, when I put the fin ishing touches to the Iron past 'that makes the cement house so much talk ed about in reality the poor man's palace. . .. j "In this respect most extraordinary hopes. have been realized. I; built, my Own cement . factories even my new garage behind the homestead with wooden molds that became useless af ter being once employed. The wood en mold Tiiade the cement house as ex pensive as, or. mOre expensive than. the ordinary structure. ' .The iron mold, now an accomplished j fact en ables m to build a tweive-rqom, two family house as fireproof bank vault at the . .rate of as any iioo a room, including- foundations,, roof. electric w iring, bath tubs, and every' thing e"se. . . ' ; "Electricity helped me to solve the cement mold problem. I iwent to work with plaster casts, placing them in a rubber moid. - "After they were dry and set I coat' ed - them with a conducting 'material, put them in a bath, and plated 'them. This . theory I worked out several months afro, but many a sleepless night i spent before- the first iron mould was , finished. Cliance for Under Dog' ' . ' - "Everybody Is working for the . mil lionalre for his pleasure, hisj business advantages, his follies.. I myjself have worked for him a good deal, i Then-it struck mo that I must give the under dog a chance. The under dog is a do laraely because he lives like one. in filthy tenements or In cottages as unsanitary and loathsome as; the ten ements. - - :: - "To make the poor man a man who respects himself. I calculated fwe must furnish Mm with a decent home. De cent housewives bring up i children healthy ln body and mind- ai new so ciety, as it were. i i "My cement houses will be he mak ing of It but mind, I have io financial ends In view with them. I will turn over the Iron casts to a company at cost price, and. in June next they will commence building, at 1 Spring Lake, between Newark anof Bloomfleld. "Besides the casts, two for each form, one inside, one: outside, the builder needs only some small der ricks and the necessary i concrete sand. I expect even to have cement; window frames. My former - views i on the building have somewhat changed since the first puDiicauon oi me piana . I mean to re-enforce ithe cement roof and floors and staircases with: iron. . "Practically xne enanis or imy ce ment 'Queen Anne cottages; should not pay more than 15 per month; $11 nr month for a tWO-familV hous. Don't you think that will end the con gestion in the tenement districts of New Tork ahd of the smaller, cities and towns as well? , s - ; Saves Ills Fire Insurance. . i. "The cement house tenant aves, be, sides rent his fire Insurance; and if he buys the house he does it with the understanding that' it is. just as good fifty' or 10Q years from now i as when he got- it. As to the : Insurance ques tion, my cement factories carry no outside Insurance, thereby cheating the trust We ; have", had only one small fire in one of Ih mm htiddino- an it out without bothering the fire de- lianmeni. v aj a , maiur or fact. ; the owner of a cement .Iioum ' wnuM Hn well to keep out the fire department ii a , - .. no maiier now pig tne Diaze looks.' It Will not Injure the house, only - the Inflammable contents, and the fire de partment- with i Its' oceans of w&ir. would domqre damage than, the fire itself. . i. .;- ;.. ;,.; . . ?. 1 t "As to the new electric atorare bat tery. Just completed. It will supply the largest touring car. with-po wee for; a 100-mile trio on a. alnsrlA charr. If the proprietor Is a. space-eater, he can make twenty - miles per hour if he SSI A ' i "Any power house in the world .can recharge . my auto batteries. As sraraea hnv nrw o-a onll n ttr maie mn In future they will supply power, but any oiner electric agency and an arc light wlr will do just as well. ; "Hen.eeI--saVth.at tha battarv iuat completed will .revolutionize the "auto justness, ana reure gasoline, as a mo- live power. ; we have come back to coal, from which we started. ; w Will s.utoists favor the new power? Of course, thev j will. - because " It is cheaper snd It eliminates danger to a large extent,. No more bucking autos, no spark ' cojl ; getting .out . of ; adjust ment no disordered carbureter In fu ture." ' . j .' KIX YEAIIS IN THIS ' PEN. "Lawyer Thompson Convicted ' of Murder In Second Degree Ban ner Who Shot Cline Was ex' Legislator Randall Still , f. i , . ' in Aehevllle. sy - v . -i'lr'--; ',-:r' : : -i - Yv -"" ; (Spe.cial to .News and Observer.) : i Asheville. N. : ;C, Feb. ,14. John Randall, the Madison county man ac cused of the 'murder of hie wife, . who was brought to Asheville last evening by Sheriff Cole,, for safe-keeping, is still in ; the' .Buncombe .county Jail where he will remain until the Jiext term 'of Superior, court for ' Madison county. The I original plan of Sher iff; Cole to take Randall to Waynes vllle today in order to-get him furth er! away from . Madison was . aban doned., the jail' hers,:- the officers con sider, being perfectly safe. Randall is feeling a good bit easier since being brought to - Asheville. He has been made fully aware 'of the feeling against him in Madison and while ap parently indifferent to the crime feels safer in shviilecs ' t' '..'-. - . ."Lawyer, Thompson a negro,Vwaa this afternoon convicted of murder in the , escond degree and I sentenced . to theState prison for a term of six years. Thompson , wast charged with the- 'murder.of another ; negro, "Wal lace1 Gardner; in ,a saloon here a night or two before the prohibition election. I The tragedy . at filk Park.. Mitch ell county, Wednesday, when A. . H. Cllne, t was shot and. instantly killed by j Luther M. Banner, crea ted consid erable comment j here ; among friends and, acquaintances of Banner. A gen tleman here today; from. Mitchell said that Banner t shot Cllne with a shot gun loaded with Jbuckshot .and that the victim's head i was practically blown off. Banner st ne time' repre sented Mitchell county in teh Legis lature.' THOSE ' REPUBLICAN CLUBS. Some Reasons Why the Ethiopian, Can - Not or WIU Not Change His Spots. ; ? (Greensboro Record.) , But can ;ttie Republican party In this State be rehabilitated? We think, not. It could' be done in several ways, tut It is going to take a ground swellto do It for .the reason that; the men in control in this. State- eVe- not want it done. . It is the same old story the dl vision of the offices that stands In the way. With thousands ot recruits from the Democratic party composed of men of brains, honesty and character, what would become of the men now at tlie helm in this State? These jf entry see this and will not stand .for it.- v I In the year of our Lord. 1876. a former -well known Democrat in this very, town bolted. and joined . the Re publicans. The - men of brains In the party welcomed him. but the fellows who had been . at the swill . tub , for years gave hint 1 the cold f shoulders they abused the men who were killing tne ; ratted, calf , and - Kept it up, reai;y maklhg an lESuejout of .it so that the Democratic majority in this " county was BOO - more than it had ever been, to the great astonishment "of - the Democrats themselves, .but not .to: the Republican, iwho remarked that they knew, what they were 'doing, all - th time.. . j v - - ; - . It can be further, mentioned as ,ta fact borne out by ancient history, that back in the seventies, and, eighties the effort at endorsing an Independent was likewise an abject failure. A most -tlmable man? and citizen, a life-long Democrat came out once for register of deeds, but? what the party' did for him ! was a plenty. He was defeated by' 1,200, whlM the regular Republi cans were snowed under only by from four to six hundred. f v : . The only way. to do Is for these Re publican clubs to organize and d? the votins;: the first than .that is put up for an office' will kick r the whole buck it of milk over, The old-time Repub lican In this State Is not going to brook any Interference J with his ' inalienable right to hold office ' t . ! WAS CRAZED WITn LIQUOIt t - j ... . V- -v: Young Man A'ttacked Hls Mother With Knife and Killed Ills . Bro - ther, who Came to Her Defense.. - , - ! " .'. . - 4 : -t.-.v.' "-- ''' :; - ..-' ! j (By the Associated Press.) ! Parkersburg. W. Va-. Febv 14. j Crazed with drink, Marshall Splll man,' Of Pennsboro. near here, today 'attacked his $ mother - with a 'knife. Whn his . brother J ohn came to ; her rescue SpUlman seized a. double bit ted axeand made a wild lunge at him and cut off one of his legs and' other wise maimed him so badly that he will i , .V ''' 'A-ija'lioosevelt. - 1 .1 (Norfolk " Virginian-Pilot) ;- -: ' The Governor otZ Illinois- meets the jcharge of "horrors" in State institu tions! with 'the retort: "infamous He." jThis t is altogether ; the Rooseveltlan style and but furnishes fresh illustra tion of the widening effects of lofty example DEN LACY, JIl ; WRITES ON ' . bSFOR9iUNInsiTY:UEn3; How a Dhsrcccd Stcdf at UniycrsityPrccg Terrors to The current issue of the Davidson i College Magazine appearing a few days ago contains among several articles of interest A Letter : From - Oxford be ing; extracts . from personal letters to his friends here written by B; R.Lacy, Jr., of Raleigh, who -is in. England' on one of the 'Rhodes scholarships. ' ' His friends' very properly" thought that these comments and remarks on uni versity, l'fe. In the old country and the' descriptions of certain 'customs and actors were 'of such . general interest and given in such a. clever way. as. to warrant a wider perusal than could be given to a private letter. ' Every reader of the magazine Is Irlad that the magazine 'has been privileged , to print' what it has lie Is very popu lar in Raleigh and his friends here and at Davidson College will enjoy his ob servations. The following are 'a few of his' paragraphs : ' -' - ' Embraces- Twenty Collegea. "There are perhaps fifty ; or sixty thousand people in Oxford .the Uni versity, of course being the principal thlnr here. ; It is composed of twenty colleges, situated in different parts .of the town, each In ten minutes walk of any other. t in pur .college, we live, have our athletics, and pur ..tutors. For lectures we go to any of the other colleges, and have our exams rn the same building and are under the con trol, of the university .authorities. It Is a ' hard system to explain, but a beautiful .one irv many of its workings. The colleges almost .without exception are old and look as though they were crumbling away; my own building, for example, was built, about a hundred years before Columbus was ever heard of. .Each college has several things of, peculiar interest .. i' w . , Well Kept Grounds. - -"Almost all have i the prettiest gar dens Imaginable. --: well kept ,up, . the grass as smooth .as -a- floor. In our own -garden we havea small lake with - beautiful swans and ducks; and seats all alons; the. edge where one can sit and read, or else well! no. he can't either unless he Is an unusually lucky-dog , All of the gardens are fenced In with high: stone, walls, with iron spikes . on top of them ; to . keep the' fellows fronv . climbing over at night, ' There seems to be no eartblv way a .fellow.-could gpt !a or c-.-t if the gates were closed.-si J -t f c r 3 they. are. " Hr"we - are lac let l it every nlsht at .9 : 3 0.' ' IC one- is out ana comes In after this bour.it costs him a threepence, : and ' after 11 ; it costs him a sixpence. 'If you .are so unlucky-as to come in after 12 ou .are expelled: ' : r- ' ' .' . -: ' . - "Your.' breakfast is served in .your roonx, Tou can order practically any thing that . you desire. This is one of the great times to do the hospitable stunts. Tou may ask several boys out to breakfast with you. The morning Is supposed to -be taken up in' work. ; .Given to Athletics. ', -- - "All' Englishmen engage -to some kind , of athletic work:. Every college has athletic fields that make our best American : ones look sick. ; They are perfectly smooth with soft green turf everywhere. Rowing is the great est . of Oxford sports . and no end Of money and time Is spent on it ! "I ; have been lucky enough " to get on the "Rugby" . team., but it lis so different from four i game that il. am still trying to get the science of it. I do" not recall that I, am on. the 'var sity team, no American has ever. been, and I suppose it will be a Ions; time before he , ever wins, such an honor. "After athletics, ending about :30 we have ' tea. Like most Americans; I -had to learn to drink.. It-but-now I must say I like it very much. Usually after tea we talk for an hour or so, then perhaps do- a jllttle r;work and go : to dinner at- 7w .' ' 'Unless belonging to the Church of England, we can get out of going to chapel or religious exercises on' the ground of religious scruples, but 1 no -one can have - scruples about goingt to dinner, so we have to go , four times a week for three: years in .order to get a de gree. As a matter of. fact I usually Overdo, the thing and go several times. !,., I J. Proctors Are GurdsU'.L:r'', ''-' .."If . we go. out after dark we must have on,a cap and gown. - -This Is. in order that, the proctors can catch up with us if we do any damage. . And now I cmust tell" you about the proc tors. The , town authorities have no power -over, us unless the University turns us over to them. So ' to keep the boys in order there are two "dons" or professors ' appointed - to look after the University students. Each of the proctors sallies : forth at ' night in" his robe of office, ' accompanied by- two 'bull-dogs. ; These same bull-dogs are, one; an ex-prlze fighter,' the other ' a sprinter, If you f are wanted by the proctor he i sends the 'bulldogs,' and they nab you. . It is no use running from them for. then they double the fine. .. . . 1 ,-.-. v "Now If you are unlucky enough to be out without cap and gown and he catches you. he takes your name and the name of your college, tells you to report at : his 'office the next morn ing, and then relieves you of five shil lings or. $1.25. If It happens that you are . drunk . and .trying to kill one of the policemen or something of that sort he will either, fine .you a few pounds, or, send you down. But If you have seen a good-looking ' girl on the streets who Is beneath you so cially, ' and you should happen to be talking or walking with ' her, you are fined about S25 the first time, v it it happens again down you go. . A Peculiar incident. v Last week a very peculiar thing happened here, peculiar, to us who are not acauainted with the customs. A man, at ' one of ' the other colleges, got ona liig spree and came down town. He happened to be not only a good student but a good athlete as welL -Oft his way down town he took a fancy to the furs around the ladles' necks, so he snatched off two or three. The police here are the largest most dignified fellows I have ever seen. They all have to be over six" feet high. Up to one of these the man went and pre sented the furs to him, but as he was slow in accepting the gift he twisted them around his neck and then knocked him down. Oh his way up town, he knocked dowrl on or two others wfo8"tried to etoy him, but-he $7cs iir.!arcicd ,Fr6zi tho . Evil :toccrs.' ;V , : " ;J was finally landed..; Now the custom. He was. called uo.. berore the vice chancellor and was expelled for this terra. wis xnenas then had. h in fu neral. As he was. leavinc.. all ordered caba and. In a. alnor fnnMat KmA...i. they,, proceeded down io Oe Station. aud iwcmium so tonfj mat cign- n policemen came oow.v jo bid th rentleman. a-ond-hva . mm " - - "V m wa w v es slon. It Is said; that the feLow got in a nearse ana roae to uie crjot calmly; Buiu&injc ciKiireiie. wniis.o long, line of mourners followed hid.' - '" "All of mv letlar -nW.. taken up-with fun, so Chct ao. doubt you will say, as I did, ;T7h3r; j does u ; work come in? ...-0"Te.am,,iitf worit here?' They do. ; .1 2 iujrm done I very tittle else since tl9 tJsagan.", i Facts . . About t.Iw" FL-iv- ICnsurancss , (Boston. Jarinirt. ". ' . ' - ' The savings arik of vMciiex-Gov. Douglas is j president,- 'iko People's bank .of. Brockton,, is .lo ia the first to try the savings insurcnia jrjw which the Legislature passed la si yoar ThLa law-is' dlrectlv th pirj i--- :k ..k llc-splrited work of Lovilc. Grande is. wno proposed Jt arter s, c-ul study -of both the Insurance anC lHi savin xs bank. field3, and who ' oi-x laed th savings Insurance league cui J.j basis of his campaign of educ'ciu ' ' "The; law,. In brief, rcr.v.I i ra-rirjs banks 'to ."establish Ins ur;.:i 2 depart ments for the benefit of - iiijors and to.. issue policies for ."net -. lire than 1500. excludlnar' profit- -"a.:-..- f-tvi and to make' annuity, con tr?cs nnt t exceed, izut). a year. . The . r.-emiurns are to be raid either at at other designated placrr. " '.."Lere ar to be no asrenta or coliecto.i nu lum that makes for sconom-. T.tt rrof.ti may accrue in tne savings, cartment over and above a stated srinlus are to be divided equitably an 0:15 .ar.nult- ants and f policyholder?. yj r months .premiums have c pail a policy becomes . nonforfeit-.lli. T benf Zclzr- ,-cni -r th! ec. ' re. :-nti r ! t f" te.. T'r :-r; v-- guaranty funu...an-i thf r ;-. r -vision .'tor "a grneral iu:".r --(.vi In case .the c!:r an of - "i.'ti: become-extraordinary. TT'iV actjl cf trustees, which v. ill bsvc j t i pervls.Ion of the ta.vir.r ir.?a;?xzs. I iness.. .'has been -appointed i-t -5 -Guild, and the state r.Cra.v. H. Hunter, is getting hie ! ip.blX) ' shape. This is no easy U sX sine! t law is an absolute . r,oveljy l-Tth. country, but we read Urn lr. Hun ter is "begrinning to sea earl!. int." lie thinks that the Eroclctcn work will b under way in a ctiori iime, and he feels confident that. ,"ir ell goes well the guaranty fund provided by rresi- years and a sufficient reserve estab lish ea to settle ail ccatti claims and pay .all annuities. . . j , . So Massachusetts becomes the pi -neer in . a field that promises much good to the worklngman. For the main purpose of this new r law. '.is to alve the workinrmnn an onrx-vrtunifv to provide for himself and his famii.r and at the same time not feel 'the burden'- of such a . provision.-' From the. first the project . hce - had -'the hearty Indorsement of Joth cap'.lil : and labor. "'Such a plan as the on in ouestlon." savs Mr. DouT-bjt "h!" torprove. if successfully ccrtled out. mat me oegx conaiuon.of tno. vorlter can be brought about under f.-hit s are leased to call, the canitr.ur Item, ahd that. It is foolish tc or . to overturn, society, as at ircr c'; in stituted .for, the purpose-", or.- j2ii schemes the results of wh'T. ja could foretell." . And .Mv. . makes another valuable pc-. American spirit " he- says - ''.r. that provision .for the worKV. future be ; made througrhhi - -: forts to .secure .a .wage .iut large to. leave a .surplus .apli.c v. such .a , purpose,", meaning: tit-. ment of moderate .premium! . . the, .development, on hi? .. strength of character and xt . . .which. shall induce, him voluntas to apply it" prganUed laborha. corned the' law. .in fact, its Ih.i. . much to secure it3 pas?asr th the Legislature. ; f f;j- . ."" " ACCIDIINTAL SIIOOT j o C Mr. Albert "Stewart . Shot uju" j ai usual Circumstance?. - Dunn, - x. a.s Feb. ' 1 5.MiV 'SJjvrti Stewart s and wife - who's live a .:i a tr two out of Dunn. Were WednitdfC handling- a small SJ-callbre pisto1. Ilru Stewart had the pistol and h?C coc::o ed it but could not 1st tbe bemmo down. Mr. Stewart togkr'thc v3-.pon from 'his wife's hand.to avcri r.:i accident- but somehow In lotting tic hammer down himself a cartr!-"! wr. exploded, the ball striking Mrr.. Ctoo- art in the forehead and vr.:..-.!.w c;i ugly scalp wound, two or thro j nch? Ions. , Mra . Stewart was vsii .nfich excited and believed that rhs hr.C.trea faUIly wounded Her firci l.. ;- t 'as the protection of her hucb-.i.d J she hastily called for pencil r.r.t. n ' ?r and wrote a slimed statement st it: r -that the shooting was en'J.'-ly tc dental, and that her husbcac v 1 to blame. Afterwards c. r h 3 . was )sent for and gave hla oIul the wound while quita f inf. ' not be serious. . T dreamed last nij'.it," vi,t "thut t was in r was Just full of the lovsl! -"But." - Interrupted 3 hastily, "that was oaly dear- Tes.I-knew it w up. voecause. you c Philadelphia Press. ,5;.R(i;,;vir ; ; - to- - "Winter rules : r mouth shut ar i
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