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Chatham Utrorb. &hc Chatham Bccorb. H. A. LONDON, Editor and Proprfatoi. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 Pr Year. Strtot&v 5n Advance. RATES OF ADVERTISING, One aqasr, on insertion One square, two insertions One iqaue, one month 81.00 1.60 2.50 1 For Larger Advertise ments Liberal Con tracts will be made. VOL. XXIX. PITT&BORQ, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. 0., THURSDAY, PC I OBER 18, 1906 NO, 10. THREE DEATHS IN dl . m - - fatal Collision Near Winnsboro South Carolina THREE DIE AT THEIR POSTS r&st Freight and a Light Engine From Charlotte Collide on a Curve and Three Trainmen Meet Instant Death A Colored Fireman Fatally Hurt Wreck Alleged to be Due Failure of an Operator to Deliver Orders Though the Young Man Denies Responsibility Trains Only Slightly Delayed by the Accident. Colombia. S. C., Special. A fast freight and light engine came together near Winnsboro Sunday morning on the Southern in a head-on collision. The dead are: 1. M. Dixon, white, conductor on engine. Jas. T. MePhereou, Jr., white, fire man on engine. Henry I'ilc, engineer on light en gine. The injured are: James G. P,riee, white, engineer on freight. Charles 1), Weir, white brakeman n freight. Henry Gates, colored, fireman on freight. "Will, die. Orders Never Delivered. Through . freight No. 74, north bound, carrying a load of lumber and ther goods, left Columbia on time Sunday morning at 2:10. Orders were iriven by the dispatcher here show ing that extra engine No. 1620, southbound, had the right of way of J he track to Winnsboro. The order was never delivered to the crew of the freight train. The operator at the Blanding street station of the South ern gave the .conductor and engineer f the freight two other orders and obtained their signatures, but he, for some reason, failed to transmit this one. His name is Boliek and he is a young man just in his 20th year. Kills an Entire Family. Houston, Mo., Special. Barney Parsons, a farmer, his wife and three children, were murdered Friday near Lickington, Mo. A farmer named Hamilton lias been arrested charged with the murder and is said to have confessed. Parsons had sold his farm and crops to Hamilton, and it is alleged that the men quarreled over the terms of the sale. , Parsons and family set out from their former home i n a covered wagon bound for Mis found 'shot to death and the mother and three fhildrfii had bo :n clubb-d to death. Joda Hamilton, the alleged murderer, is i-i the' Houston Jail, strongly guarded lo prevent lynching. He is said to have made a complete .I'ession. CRUSHED TO DEATH BY FREIGHT TRAIN. Little Girl, with Foot Caught in Cat tla Guard, Crushed to Dath by Train While Sis Year Old 0m-. pjiiion Vain y T Jed to Stjp TraJii La Crosse, Wis.. Special. Stand ing helpless with her foot caught in a cattle;; mud at Indian Hill cross ing, seven-year-old Mimie Hunt watched the on lushing train which killed her while Dagna Sentad, her six-year-old companion vainly tried io signnl the engineer. Sitting upon a brake wheel on top of the" train was John Hunt, thegirls father, a brakeman', unconscious that his child was being ground to death beneath the wheels. The iirls were returning from school v.li! n the Hunt child's foot became. -a:rrht. Terrorists Executed. Lodz, Russian Poland, By Cable-j-Anotlicr Terrorist, condemned to death by ihe drumhead courtmar tial, was executed here. The general strike is in full swing. There is no traffic in the streets, no papers were published and strong detachments of troops are guading the main thor oughfares. Police searches have re--sulted in a great number of arrests. $200,000 Incendiary Fire. Chariot totown, P. E. I., Special More than 50 buildings were destroy ed by a (ire which ruined one fourth of the town of Summerside, the cap ital of Prince county. The total loss is estimated at $200,000, with insur ance of only about $50,000. A path three hundred feet in width and near ly a mile long was burned through the town. The buildings destroyed included the court house, jail, electric light station, postoffice, four hotels and two churches, besides the railway station and many dwellings. It is believed that the fire was of incen diary origin. Ead Croatan Killed. -Lumberton, NC, Special Andrew Oxendiue, a Croatan, was killed Sun day afternoon by John Locklear, alho a Croatan. The killing took place about 11 miles from Lumberton, neai Buie, this county. Locklear came U Baker, at times a deputy sheriff, sur rendered to Sheriff McLeod and was lodged in jail. Locklear employed an attorney and will not talk. Convocation Held in Charlotte. Charlotte, Special. The opening session of the convocation of Char lotte was held in St. Peters Episcopal church with Bishop J. B. Cheshire presiding, the meeting being largely of a missionary nature. Thursday night the Bishop presided at the eon-' firmation service of a large class of those offering themselves for member ship in the church. The convocation has drawn a very large number of in fluential ehurch members here, and the sessions have been instructive and in teresting. The ministers and visitors are being handsomely entertained and it is believed that much good will re sult from the meeting. Fridays ses sion'was partly taken up with reports. The sermon of the day was deliver ed by Dr. F. J. Murdoch ctf Salisbury. The convocation went out to the Thompson Orphanage shortly after-: noon, and visited the children and the management as .they wire; at J work. Every member who was of' the party express himself or herself in the high est terms of delight and satisfaction upon seeing with their own eyes the' excellent way in which the Orphanage is being conducted; the happy faces of the children, and the air of cheer fulness and good will that prevaded everything. ' The entire session of the afternoon was taken up with a continuation of the general subject of Missions. The report of Mr. C. E. Frick, treasurer of 'the Convocation, -was also submitted. The report covering a period of a year showed that in October, 1905, there was $42963 in the treasury, and since then $1,253.23 had been received. A vote of thanks was expressed for the efficient ser vices of Mr. Frick. Southbound Railway Asured. Winston-Salem, Special. The sur veyors have completed their work of locating the line for the Southbound Railway between this city dnd Wades boro. Four resident engineers will be located along the line at once to make the necessary arrangements for bids from contractors. The only de lay in pushing the construction work is in rights of way, which are be ing secured as rapidly as possible. When owners of land demand exorbi tant prices condemnation proceedings are being instituted. The building of the Southbound is assured. Want Total Prohibition. Fayetteville, Special. The Cumber land County Medical Society met and took the very important action of formulating a petition to the eLgisla ture to repeal section 4 of the Cum beland prohibition law which permits druggists to sell whiskey and other spirituous liquor on a physician's prescription. Three Negro Children Perish in Burning Home. Columbia, S. C, Special. A spe cial to The State from Fort Mill says : Three negro children were burned to death Thursday afternoon in a fire which consumed a house on Mn J. M. Spratt's plantation near town. The negro parents locked the children in the house when they went to their day's work, and the children probably started the fire Negro Fatally Injured in a Crap Game. Elizabeth r City, Special. The steamer Alma had on board when she arrived here a negro by the name of Halsey, who was shot in a "crap" row at Eastlake. Halsey, at the point of a pistol, held up another negro and robbed him. The other negro in turn secured a shotgun and emptied its contents in Halsey, who died within a half hour after he was landed here. The negro who did the shooting has not yet been arrested. Negro Fatally Injured in a Crap Game. ' Elizabeth City, Special. The steamer Alma had on board Avhen she arrived here a negro by the name of Halsey, who was shot in a "crap" row at Eastlake. Halsey, at the point of a pistol, held up another negro and robbed him. The other negro in turn secured a shotgun and emptied its contents in Halsey, who died within a half hour after he was landed here. The negro who did the shooting has not yet been arrested. A HOG TONIC. To keep hogs thrifty keep constant ly before the pigs charcoal, wood ashes, and aslo use the preparation recommended by the government as a preventative for hog cholera and swine plague;- This is made as fol lows: : Wood charcoal, 1 lb.; sulphur, 1 lb.; sodium chloride, 2 lbs.; sodium bi carbonate, 2 lbs.; sodium hyposul phite, 2 lbs.; sodium sulphate, 1 lb.; antimony sulphide, 1 lb. MLc these drugs thoroughly ana give a tablespoonful at a dose for each 200 pounds of weight once a day. Also keep a box containing charcoal, and, if . possible, wood ashes, where the pigs can have access to it at all times. It is " a good deal - easier and more satisfactory to prevent disease than to undertake to cure it after it has made its appearance. The hog is about as unsatisfactory an animal to treat as we know of, but if it Is kept under proper sanitary conditions ana fed the right ' kind of feed it is not likely to become diseased. Rural" Magazine. DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERACY Bethel Bugle Calls the Meeting to . OrderGen. Julian S. Carr Deliv ers an' Address of Welcome Con siderable Interest in the Report of the President, Mrs. H. A. London. Durham,, Special. The tenth an- nual session of. the North Carolina Division United Daughters of- the Confederacy, came to an end with a brilliant reception given at Hotel Carolina by General and Mrs. Julian S. Carr, this being complimentary to the visiting Daughters and the hos tesses and . hosts who are looking af ter them ; while they are in the city. It was a' fitting close for a-session of patriotic women which was the most important meeting of the Daughters of the Confederacy ever held in the j The session was largely attended. There were delegates here from all parts of the State, and at the meet ings and the reception there were a large number of people present. , Promptly at 10 o'clock the assem bly call . was sounded, the bugle used being one that was. used in the first Bethel fight. The call was sounded by . Mr. T. Ed. Ckeek, and immediate ly, the tenth annual session was on. The bugle, as 'heretofore stated, is the property of Mr. R.. T. Howerton, of this city, who was a member of Company C. Third Virginia Cavalry. He has kept the bugle as a precious memento of that dreadful day. On calling the convention to order, which was done by . Mrs. Henry A. London, of Pittsboro, was followed by a musical selection,' ' ' Our ' South land," this being followed by prayer offered by Rev. T. A. Smoot, pastor of Main Street Methodist church. General Julian S. Carr, himself a prominent veteran 'and at the head of the North -Carolina Division of United Veterans, delivered the ad dress of welcome to the ladies, which was both patrioiic and eloquent. The hearty welcome extended by General Carr was supplemented by an address by Mrs. M. H. Jones, president of the local chapter the Julian S. Carr Chapter. To these hearty welcomes Mrs. II. A. London, the president, responded in behalf of the State organization. She appreciated, for herself and all her sisters,- the hearty welcome ex tended to them. After the response of. Mrs. London there was music, at which "Caro lina," was rendered, and then fol lowed the benediction, for this part of the exercises. Immediately after the adjournment of the preliminary meeting there was a business session. The principal feature of this ses sion was the annual address of the president, Mrs. Henry A. London, in which she reviewed the work done during the year, the new chapters established and a general outline of what the United Daughters of the Confederacy in this State are today. Tar Heel Topics. The corporation commission gave out the bank statement up to the close of business September 4th. Loans and discounts amount to $31. "02.452.32; invested trust assets, $lj 346,718; State North Carolina bonds, $142,489; national bank notes and other notes, silver coin, gold, cash items, demand loans and due from other banks amount to $9,S11,774. The amount of capital stock is $6, 209,451 ; the surplus $1,264,963 ; the undivided profits, $1,339,899; depos its subject to cheek, $25,556,50S: the deposits in trusty $1,576,644. ' The 'total resources and liabilities each amount to $45,802,461. The resources a year ago were $35,900,024, so that there has been air increase during the year of $9,900,000, a very fine showing indeed. A charter is granted the Weldon Live-Stock Company, capital stock $50,000, J. S. Aliened others stock holders. ..-..t The Governor offers $100 reward for Oscar Gaddy who murdered Fore man Eubanks, employed on the work of double-tracking the Southern Rail way in Davidson county. The 'con tracting company which employed Eubanks offers $150 reward. Charters are granted the Combina tion Lock Company, of Durham, to manufacture locks, safes, etc., capital stock : $50,000, L. W.i Grissom and others stockholders; the Fayetteville Ice & Manufacturing Company is 'authorized to increase its capital stock to $50,000. John F. Harrison is its president. The Governor appoints the follow ing game wardens under the Audu bon laws: W. A. Carter, Nash coun ey; N. W. Haynes, Edgecombe; J. T. Badhanj, Johnson; J.' A. Mc Freeland, Cumberland; R. O. Rid dick, Gates; J. S. Turner, Halifax. Bold Diamond Theft in Asheville. Asheville, Special. A bold dia mond robbery recently occurred at one of Asheville 's principal hotels. Miss Mabel Underwood of Louisiana was the victim of the theft, and at the same" time another young woman lost through the operations of the robber a goodly sum in cash. The matter has been reported to the po lice, but thus far no clue that might lead to the discovery of the robber has been discovered. SMUGGLERS OF CHINESE, CAUGHT, TELL SECRETS The Frolic Seized at Providence After Landing Foreigners, MANY IN PROFITABLE TRADE Officials at Some Torts "Fixed," Pris oners Say Eighteen of the Forty-two Chinamen Arrested Dis covered by Accident. ." . -; i Providence, It. I. The schooner Frolic, for which the coast guards and revenue Cutters 'from - Eastport, Me., to Cape Hatteras i have been keeping' vigil for two weeks, came up' the Boston' Harbor and landed twenty-seven members of her smug gled Chinamen ashore in broad day light, and none of the authorities knew it until eighteen of the China men were captured. ; A laborer at the coal pockets, Earl Rush, stumbled ' onto two sleeping Orientals on the wharf. Soon eigh teen Chinamen and three Americans who were engaged in the smuggling were under arrest, and from the lat ter the immigration authorities ob tained more information about the smuggling of Cheese into the United States than their secret agents had been able to learn by months of in vestigating. : '4 ' : Many interesting details of the il legal business were disclosed, verify ing the suspicion of the authorities that it has been carried on for a long period with great profit. The usual route was by way of Newfoundland and New England ports, and the as sertion was made by one of the smugjr'ers that the authorities at landing pi"?ss in the United States were "fixed." Sometimes, it was said, Chinese were taken from Mexico and West Indian ports to Canada and then brought into., the country through New England ports. John C. Lehnemann, of Boston; who is a prisoners told, the police that he usually managed the landing of the Chinese after his brother James had seen them safely off from Cana dian ports. When Rush, the coal pocket em ploye, stumbled over the men asleep on the wharf and discovered that they were Chinamen,' he was about to eject them from the premises, he says, when some one on the schooner cried out: "Don't bother those fel lows; I will look after them." Rush than informed the vpolice, and the Chinese were captured." The only persons on board when th authorities reached the boat were two sailors who were sleeping in the forecastle- The -vessel was confiscat ed by the Government officials, and the sailors were arrested and brought ashore. They gave their names as Edward Junkins, of South Boston, and William A. Duncan, of Somer ville. -The Frolic had every appearance of having " undergone exceedingly heavy weather. Hef bowsprit had been carried awayIt is believed ty the officers that the break of the bow sprit made it precarious to "remain longer at sea, and that the com mander of the yacht decided to make a bold dash for port; KILLED IN HER SCHOOL. Rejected Lover of Teacher Then Shoots Himself. Cleveland, Ohio. In the presence of sixty pupils, in the South Euclid school, Harry Smith, twenty-five years old, shot and killed Miss Mary Shepard, a teacher, twenty-two years old. Cornered behind the barn in the rear of his home, in Warrens ville, two hours later, Smith shot himself through the head, dying in stantly. Four Cleveland - policemen, with drawn revolvers and under cover of eight armed farmers, were about to rush on young Smith when he ended his life. Disappointment in love is said to have been the motive for the murder. Smith, who was a fourth cousin of Miss Shepard,' had wooed her for some time, and recently was rejected. FATAL TRIP OVER HUSBAND. Wife, With Baby in Arms, Fails to See Him Kneeling in Prayer. , . . '-ft Waukomis, Okla. Philip Spronse and his wife spent the evening with friends and returning home prepared to retire. With the baby in her arm Mrs. Sprouse p. passing through the darkened sleeping room did not see her husband kneeling in prayer at the bedside. She stumbled over his feet and, in trying t6 save the bab from injury, struck her head against a washstand, breaking her neck and dying almost instantly. ? The child fell from ' her arms and was so" se verely hurt it may not recover. LITTLE GIRL MURDERED. Negro Seen Running Just-Before the Body Was Found. Monessen, Pa. The body of Anna Kunpak, eight years old, was foand with the throat cut in a field near here. She left home early in the evening to bring a cow and did not return. After an all-night search the body was found in a lonely spot, partly covered with leaves. Upon approach ing, the searchers saw a negro run ning through a piece of woods near by." , Killed at Grade Crossing. Confused at a grade crossing In Sterbenville, Ohio, Mrs. Lester Clarke and William Confer were struclc by a Panhandle train and killed. Jail Breaker Killed. In a desperate attempt to break jail at Macon, Mo., William O'Brien, accused of highway robbery, was shot and killed by Sheriff Graves' thirteen-year-oU son, Milton. . , . I1W DOLliS GONE, CUBAN FIRM STOPS J. M. Ceballos & Co.'s Havana Agent, Manuel Silveira, Missing, FLED ON HIS OWN STEAMER Liabilities of Spanish-American Bank ers Fron $3,000,000 to $4,000, 000 Firm Interested in Many Enterprises in Cuba.'' New York City. Just as the Uni ted States Government has succeeded In. restoring a semblance, of political order , in the Island of Cuba financial troubles of the t most serious charac ter have been- thrust upon the un happy Pearl of the Antilles by the disappearance, which was announced, of Manuel Silveira, of Silveira & Co., one of the largest firms of bankers and merchants in Havana, and the failure of the Silveira associates in this .city, J. M. Ceballos & Co.. per haps the largest concern doing a mer cantile and banking business between the United States and Spain and Spanish America. These two firms have been extremely active in devel oping railroads, sugar plantations and other important enterprises in Cuba and Porto Rico, and the ramifications of their business in those islands are extensive. Ceballos & Co. are a firm of more than fifty years' standing, and its failure will be for. more than $4,000,000 at the lowest estimate made. The explanation of the immediate cause of the Ceballos failure sounds like the plot of a "sensational" novel. Manuel Silveira, head of the Cuban house of that name, who has been for several years the Cuban repre sentative of Ceballos & Co., for months withheld funds he should have forwarded- to the New York firm, it is said. On October 2 he took more than $1,000,000 belonging to Ceballos & Co., runs the story told by William Nelson Cromwell, who has taken charge of the firm's affairs. Crom well says Silveira boarded a cattle steamer belonging to him- and sailed with his wife and children. As yet absolutely nothing is known as to his destination, though cable messages have been sent to practi cally every port In-the world in an attempt to intercept him. "Ceballos & Co. had no premoni tion of this conduct of their agent," said Cromwell, "and, confronted with this large loss and the deprivation of their current resources I have deemed it just to all having relations with them that the firm should make a general assignment without prefer ence, in order to insure equality to all and opportunity for examination of the firm's affairs in connection with these unexpected and amazing developments. Under the extraor dinary conditions mentioned, and the suddenness of the disaster which has fallen upon the firm of Ceballos & Co., it is impracticable at the mo ment to make an intelligent state ment of the assets and liabilities. In a general wav the liabilities are be tween $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. William V. Rowe, of my firm, has been appointed assignee, and I am acting as counsel for the assignee." PACKERS FORCED TO OBEY. Building of Nelson Morris ( & Co. Closed by Chicago Police. Chicago. Building Commissioner Rartzen compelled Nelson Morris & Co. to agree to carry out his orders for changes at that packing plant. The Commissioner had ordered that certain changes be made In twenty eight buildings connected with the plant, in order to conform to the building ordinances, but was in formed that no changes had been made. Mr. Bartzen directed that a force of inspectors and police be at once sent to the stockyards to close all buildings in which violations of the law were discovered. The first places visited by this force were the butterine factory and the tin shop. Policemen were stationed at the dooi-s of both buildings and ordered to keep all persons out. Employes inside were not molested, but all of those who had left at the lunch hour were turned away when they tried to return. The policemen said that they would remain at the doors until fire escapes ordered by the Building Commission er were placed on both structures. The managers of the firm capitulated after this policy had been enforced for an hour, and agreed to obey or ders. The guards were then with drawn. N CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH. Parents at Port! and. Me., SnYe Three Other? Limn Explodes. 1 . Portland, Me. Three of the seven children in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Vanier, at No. 21 Middle street, were burned to death in a fire caused by the explosion of a lamp which had been 'accidentally over turned. The dead are Armand, Henry and Leo "Vanier, fourteen, eight and six years old, respectively. The parents saved three others, Joseph, aged ten; Arthur, aged two, and an infant, from death by a nar row margin. . The seventh child did not live at home. The fire was easily extinguished before great damage was done to the house. Raised $1,000,000 For Missions. It was announced at the Haystack Jubilee of the American Board of Foreign Missions at North Adams, Mffss., that $1,000,000 was raised last year, and that the board was out of debt. Newfoundlanders Enraged. Newfoundlanders were enraged by the fisheries modus vivendi signed by the British Govern Trent, the Catholic prlirate calling it a betrayal of the colony's rights. , FvlAMY CHINESE SMUGGLED IN i x Immigration Authorities Studying the System". Newfoundland and Canada the. Places From Which Chinamen Are Sent Across the Border Big Traffic. Washington, D. C. Newfoundland as a base of operations for smug gling Chinese into the United States, in violation of the immigration laws, is to have the special attention of the immigration authorities, in view of the capture of the Chinamen brought into Providence on the schooner Frolic the other day. For several months past the immi gration officials have had reason to believe that smugglers of Chinese were unusually busy at that point, and that the Asiatics were being brought there on the theory that t.hev could thus be sneaked into the United States with greater ease than elsewhere, since the American offi eials along the Canadian land border have proved themselves so vigilant and since Canada has made the head tax on every Chinaman brought into that country $500. Commissioner-General Sargent re gards the capture of the Chinamen as an important piece of work, and is prepared to direct a most rigid in vestigation of the circumstances in connection with their smuggling in. Though the bureau has" had long ex perience with the "ways that are dark" of the Chinese in their at tempts to get into the United States without proper authorization, and has intercepted many of them both on the Northern a nd Southern' bor ders in all sorts of : disguises, the re cent .attempt of bringing them in on a yacht to New "England ports is re garded as one of the most daring ef forts to circumvent the law ever made. The department is anxious to de termine whether the expedition of the Frolic is part of a well organized sys tem by which -Newfoundland is used as a centre of activities for shipping Chinamen into the United States in large numbers, and if so to prevent any future efforts of the kind. Most of the attempts to smuggle in Chi nese have been made on the Pacific coast of Canada, where the officials had great, trouble" in breaking up the trade, but succeeded in doing so by alertness on the part of thevagents and by an .arrangement with the steamship companies which requires that Chinese brought to Vancouver destined for the United States must be brought under bond and deliv ered to immigration officers at the ports of entry. . There is reason to believe that the Chinamen on the Frolic were brought from Liverpool across the Atlantic instead of by the Pacific route, and in this case it Is believed an arrangement may be dis closed whereby regular shipments are being made to Newfoundland with smugglers operating from that point as a source of supply. BRIDE CHIEF IX A TRAGEDY. ler- Shoots Dying Husband and Kills I self "to End It All." Liberty, Mo. Wedded only five days, Jesse Webb, son of a wealthy farmer near here, lies dying with a bullet wound through his breast, and his bride is dead with a shot through her heart. The tragedy was wrought by a pistol in the hands of the young woman herself. ' The couple resolved to die together after a physician told Webb he was hopelessly stricken with tuberculosis. In an ante-mortem statement the young man said: "Nellie icried and told me she could not live without me, and I told her I thought it would be better to end it all." For a minute the bride seemed dazed by the suggestion. "But suddenly her face cleared," ran the bridegroom's statement, "and she' said, 'It is the better way, Jesse. I cannot bear to see you die slowly, and we'll both die together.' " Webb wanted to take the pistol, but his wife insisted on firing the shots. They were together in the parlor of the new , farmstead which was a wedding present from the young man's father. Mrs. Webb held the revolver close to her' husband's left breast, but the bullet was de flected by a bone from the heart. The moment the man struck the floor Mrs. Webb killed herself. In falling her body upset a table, which was spread with wedding gifts of sil ver, and cut glass. The shots were heard by men passing the house in a buggy, and rushing in they found the bride dead and the bridegroom dying. The doctors say Webb cannot recover. 1 FIGHT ENDS IN DEATH PLUNGE. Quarreling Youths Fall Four Stories From Open Window. Cleveland, Ohio. While engaged in a scuffle two young men fell krom tne fourth story of the Lake Shore Railroad office building, and, clutched in each, other's arms, were hurled to their death on the pavement. The dead men were J. V. Bunts, aged thirty, and Harry Wilfred, aged seventeen years. Both were clerks in the employ of the Lake Shore Rail road. They renewed an old quarrel over a girl and while fighting tumbled through the open window. During their fall, in which their bodies ere hurled over and over again, neither Of the men relaxed the death-like grasp he had maintained from the beginning of the scuffle. General Amnesty in Cuba. Charles E. Magoon, late Governor of the Panama canal zone, who will succeed Mr. Taft as Provisional' Gov ernor of Cuba, Mrs. Taft and Mrs. Bacon have arrived at Havana. Gov ernor Taft made public a proclama tion of amnesty to all Cuban rebeis and those connected with the move ment against the Government. .Ma rines have bean withdrawn froui Cienfuegos owing to -the appearance of.yelljs:.e-Yx. tuera..,- News and Notes. The World's Conference of the W. C. T. U.v including representatives from more than thirty countries, will meet iu Boston, Mass., October 17 25. General Funston is to' be superced ed in the chief military command iu Cuba by Gen. J. Franklin Bell, anJ will leave Havana with Taft nexj Saturday. Proverbs and Phrases. , The produce of the best of heads is often defeated by the best of hearts Health is the most admirable mani festation of right living. Humboldt. A good heart breaks bad fortune. Prom the Spanish. . The. way to heaven is by weaping cross. From the German. If you pull one pig by the tail, all the rest will squeal. From the Dutch Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. From the Italian. To be commended by those who might blame without fear gives great pleasure. Agesilaus. , He who does what he likes, does not what he oughti From the Sapn ish. Constant complaints never get pity. From the German; He who is a .donkey and believes himself a deer finds oat his mistake at the leaping of the ditch. From the Italian. That folly of old age which is call ed dortage is peculiar to "silly old men, not to age itself. Cicero. Reflections of a Bachelor. Men dislike to blame themselves for their own faults, so they blame women for theirs. A man's conscience troubles him less than the fear of being 'caught at it. So. 42-KM. INTERESTING CONTEST. Heavy Cost of Unpaid Postage. One of the most curious contests ever before the public was conducted by many thousand persons under the offer of the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd.. of Battle Creek, 'Mich., for prizes of 31 boxes of gold and 300 greenbacks, to those making the most words out of the letters Y-I-O-Grape-Nuts. The contest was started In Febru ary, 1906, and it was arranged to have the prizes awarded on Apr. 30, 1906. - When the public announcement appeared many persons began to form the words from these letters, sometimes the whole family being occupied evenings, a combination of amusement and education. After , a while the lists began to come in to the Postum Office, and be fore long the volume grew until it required wagons to carry the mail. Many of - the contestants were thoughtless enough to send their lists with insufficient postage and for a period it cost the. Company from twenty-five to fifty-eight and sixty dollars a day to pay the unpaid post age. Young ladies, generally those who had graduated from the high school, were employed to examine these lists and count the correct words. Web ster's Dictionary was the standard, and each list was very carefully cor rected, except those which fell below 8000, for it soon became clear that nothing below that could win. Some of the lists required the work of a young lady for a solid week on each Individual list. The work was done very carefully and accurately, but the Company had no idea, at the time the offer was made, that the people would respond so generally, and they were compelled to fill every available space In the offices with these young lady examiners, and notwithstanding they worked steadily, it was impossi ble to complete the examination until Sept. 29, over six mtaths after the prizes should have been awarded. This delay caused a great many inquiries and naturally created some dissatisfaction. It has been thought best to make this report In practi cally all of the newspapers in the United States and many of the raaga sines in order to make clear to the people the conditions of the contest. Many lists contained . enormous numbers of word3 which, under the rules, had to be eliminated. Peg ger" would count, "Peggers" would not, Some lists contained over 50, 000 words, the great majority of which were cut out. The largest lists were checked over two and in some cases three times to insure ac- curacy The $100.00 gold prize was won by L. D. Reese, 122 7-15 th St,, Denver, Colo., with 9941 correct words. The highest-$10.00 gold prize went to S. K. Fraser, Lincoln, Pa., with 8921 correct words. A complete list of the 331 winners with their home addresses win be sent to any contestant enquiring on a postal card. Be sure and give name and address clearly. . This contest has cost the Co many J thousand dollars, and probably has not been a profitable advertisement, nevertheless, perhaps some who had never before tried Grape-Nuts food have been interested in the contest, and from trial of the food have been shown Its wonderful rebuilding pow ers. It teaches in a 'practical manner that scientifically gathered food ele ments can be selected from the field grains which nature will use for re building the nerve centres and brain in a way that is unmistakable tQ users of Grape-Nuts. "There's a reason."
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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Oct. 18, 1906, edition 1
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