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If I! US' A LONDON Ct-S OF SUBSCRIPTION: 1 cj 50 Per "fear ctSICTLV IN ADVANCE i - - I n Ay JAJJ VOL. XXXII. PITTSBORO. CHATHAM COUNTY. N. C WEDNESDAY, JULY 13. I9ie NO. 48? TEbe dbatbam "Recoil). RATES OF ADVERTISING: Om Square, one taertioa One Square two Ineertloas... One Square, ene motn..M.... 1 For Larger Advertise ments Liberal Contracts will be made. P0L1IICSJN HIM rjesidsnt to Spellbind in In ''diaiia For Beveridge. m B OPPOSING BEVERIDGE sevc-ii ri' j "& PresiABat Tali Insofar as the Tariff Lav; Figures. JOHN W. KERN. Of Indiana. r4r E.iy, N. Y. Albert Bever ly . .". . T riinoii states sfiwiui "um j."- :.-t-"; JiiV iiww w . - "v'crVaui. came down iroin Saga-- Kiii vith a promise from Theo ""n,,, m rif-livpr a canioaism '!eecli in llis nSht for re-election to ...tj-r la'I biUliiiiii. uui lit- icu, it u:o colonel to inas.e cuuiuuuce ii the proposed campaign ;r. roulke, and -ur. Swirt came l-.uest r.:e to go to Indiana and " in i..t.:oii of Senator Bever "l ;;:-?i:.?4 them that I would. L aaucd that he had agreed to e oiuy one speech for tne sena a far as is now known he ::..;--:e only one. The time and i id- tins speech has not been i';.cs e vciio have followed tne po ;:cai coherences at Oyster Bay rCe T:.touore Roosevelt s return, :i.r :ue ociitf that he has been reding nis v a cuuuuuio iu ms at titude" toward the administration ana ie insurgents, but tntse moments ir; consiuciod the most important ei devtioped. Senator Beveridge is "aKi-g uio ngnt ior re-eieciion as aj ;aturgeiu. iie is opposed by Jonu ,V. Kirn, v,ho ran witn Bryan in the i-i campaign. In his ngut the senator is placing Lself ttiuarely against Presiaeni Tart, iiisoiar as tne tarm law ngures. I:e law which the president has de ifided as tiie "beat tariU measure " is denounced without equivoca tion by the senator and the same rt juGhtan state convention which in ccrses Beveridge ior another term virtually repuaiated the law. In tne senate Beveridge fought the ' bill to tie last, and then voted against it. It is pointed out, however, that lrita tins exception .President Malt s-d the senator from Indiana have bsea p tilling together as far as admin ismtioTi policies are concerned. irttiianapons, Ina. John W. Kern, rVi'inci-arjc canriirlatp for Alhprt. .1 Eeveridge's seat in the United States senate, ana the democratic candidate lar ice president at the last national election, said that he had received a private communication from New Ycrk that Colonel Tnodore Kooseveu vouid speak in mdiana on ilr. Bever- itigs's oenalf. He ueciined to state waeciier he would answer Colonel Koosevelt on the stump. CROP OUTLOOK IS BAD. Tco Wet or Too Dry Has Wrought Untofci Damage. Louisville, Ky. With cloudbursts ana droutns spotting the Kentucky ap and a great overplus of rain in Tennessee and soutnern Indiana, tte crop situation for nearly two hun dred miles north, east, south and west of Louisville has reacned an acute stage. Too wet or too dry weather has not only cut the product oi the truck gardens and -aiail irui tarms a full oO per cent, but na. wrought untold damage to the staples -ecru, wheat and tobacco. Except ing corn anu in some favored local ities tonacco, the time for replanting nearly passed with no prospects icr reeuperaiJlm in these croDS. Clover, hay, potatoes, etc.. are rot- .uig in tae fields. Some Kentucky counties have not been visited by a S'joa rain since May 1. On the ountsi aad, Northern Kentucky, Tennessee sutl southern Indiana were visited oy general neavy rains for seven succes sive days which, in some sections, were veritable cloudbursts. The gen eral crop situation in consequence tf most discouraging in many Jfcars. iiaific delays have been num erous, but trunk lines thus far have managed to get their trains through without general tie-ups. Nashviiie, Tenn. Reports have reached here from nortn Alabama i the serious situation in the farm IE6 districts on account of the con wiufcl rains. The damage to the cotton crop especially is causing serious appre-fie-sion. Some cotton fields will Have 10 be abandoned on account oi l-e rains. Oats have been cut and are rotting in the field. In t1 county and other sections i ruiddle Tennessee wheat is SDrout 1E m tne shocks. UNPRECEDENTED SITUATION. Three Vacancies cn Supreme Bench. Democrat May Ee Named. Washington, D. C The death of the chief justice occurred just at the time when many important cases were to be passed upon. Among these were the dissolution proceedings under the Sherman anti-trust act against the Standard Oil company, the tobacco corporations and the corporation tax cases, involving the question of the constitutionality of the lav?. All had been set for reargument, the Standard Oil and the tobacco cases for Nov. 14. Hearings of these will oe postponed again until the senate confirms the new chief justice. The death of the chief justice re sults in an almost unprecedented oc currence as to vacancies on the bench. Should Justice Moody 'accept the terms of special legislation enact ed by congress this summer and re tire on full pay, three vacancies in the court will exist when court recon venes next October. Gov. Hughes of New York already has been nominat ed by the president to succeed Jus tice Brewer. He is expected to take the oath of office in October. The way has been prepared for the re tirjement cf Justice Moody. The death of the chief justice calls for the selection of still another mem ber. With three vacancies, the seri ious illness and death of another member of the court would bring the wrork of the court absolutely to a standstill, six justices constituting a quorum necessary for the transaction of business. Politically, the death of Chief Jus tice Fuller will have an important significance. Chief Justice Fuller was a life-long democrat. First as demo cratic editor he was elected to of fice as a democrat, was a delegate to several national conventions, and finally was appointed to the bench as a democrat. All the precedents call for the appointment of a chief justice of the same political party as the president. FOR CONTROL OF CONGRESS. Both Parties Will Have Headquar ters in East and West. Washington, D. C. In waging their warfare for control of the next con gress, both the republican and demo cratic campaign committees will have headquarters in the east and west, where will be done the work of di recting and sending out literature and spellbinders. The democrats will be active in three places Washington, Chicago and St. Louis. Under the di rection of Representative , Lloyd, of Missouri, the far west and the south west will be handled through the St. Louis office, while the interests of the middle west and the northwest will be looked after from Chicago. Representative McKinley of Illinois, the republican chairman, expects to open headquarters in Chicago and New York. The republican commit tee will work with and through the League of Republican Clubs organized during the last campaign by John Hayes Hammond. 50,000 PERSONS ON STRIKE. Garment and Cloak Makers of New York City Quit. , York City. Fifty thousand garment and cload-maker's, of whom e'6tt taousand are women, walked talked out at the call of the Interna t;onai Ladies' Garment Workers' Un-'&n- which demands an eight-hour ay. an increase in wages and a guar tee that contractors stand behind -contractors for wage payments. bo fight thus far is purely local, out officers of the union said that if l"-e employers attempted to sublet ce!r work in ether cities.notaCIy Chi cago or Philadelphia and Cleveland, we union would,, call a strike there also. Ccloael Mosby Loses Job. Wa3hington Q c. -Colonel John S. i0s jy, who distinguished himself in Confederate cause in the Civil " m the early part of President wsevelt's administration was ap- tited a special attorney in the de rtment of justice, has lost his gov- rnaent position. The reason there .t r na3 not been made known, but tJls understood that old age was "r .iCkief cause for tlie dismissal, ti YJ .sl Mosby is 73 years old, al- '4Jsa his friends say he is still en- f-3tic and active. WOMAN AERONAUT INJURED1 Baroness de ia Roche' Fails Fifty Meters to Earth. Bethany Plain, Rheims Baroness de la Roche, the first French woman aeroplanist, was fatally injured here by falling from a height of fifty me tere. The Bareness de la Roche had flown around the field once at a height of eighty meters when sudden ly she appeared to become frightened and confused at the approach of two other aeroplanisas. She started to descend, but while still fifty meters from the ground lost control of the machine. The aeroplane turned over and fell like a log. The baroness' legs and arms were broken. At the hospital it was at first thought her skull was fractured, but later this was found not to be the case, and there is a chance for the baroness' recovery. X INDIAN COTTON CROP. 4,502,000 Bales of Cotton Grown in India Past Year. Washington, D. C. The East In dian cotton crop for the agricultural year 1909-10 wil be 4,502,000 bales, an increase of 911,000 bales over last year's yield, according to the final memorandum of the East Indian gov ernment, submitted to the state de partment. The total area under cotton in all territories of East India this year is 20,227,000 acres, a net increase of 228,000 acres over last year. This area is about 60 per cent of the area plant ed in the United States, which, ac cording to the last government report was estimated at 33,196,000 acres. Fine Georgia Cora. Commerce, Ga. In the beginning of the year Commerce made a purse of $700 to be offered in premiums to Jackson, Banks, Franklin and Madi son counties for the best acre In corn. One hundred and sixty-two farmers entered, and there are now in this section that many acres of the finest corn that has ever been seen in this section of the state. Many people who have traveled through the state of Kansas when earn was in its prime say they have never seen such fine corn in that state as is naw growing here. ANTI-SALOON DEFECTIVE LYNCHED BY OHIO MO LynclaiEg Fellows Day o! Rioting In Newark, Ohio. JAIL DOORS BATTERED DOWN Killing of a Salcon Keeper, Whose Place Was Raided Ey "2ry" Detectives, Angered the Populace. Newark, Ohio. Carl Etherington, 22 years old, employed by the State Anti-Saloon League as a blind tiger raider, was lynched here, following a day of almost continuous rioting. The heavy aoors oi me -L.Vcit.mg count jail were battered down, and Etnei ington was dragged from his cell. He was shot, kicked and Druised before the street was reached, and the finish followed quickly. Etherington confessed he killed William Howard, proprietor of tiij "Last Chance" restaurant, and for mer chief of police, in a raid of al leged '"speak easies" in a raiding scui lie and narrowly escaped lynching at that time. When news from the hos pital that Howard had died passed ever the city, the fury of the mob took definite form. Large battering rams were direct ed against the doors of the jail, and the deputies were powerless. The doors fell after nearly an hour's at tack. Crying piteously, Etherington, a curly-headed Kentuckian, who has been serving as a strike-breaker since fce was released from marine service three months ago, was dragged forth. '"I didn't mean to do it," he wailed. His cries fell upon deaf ears. Fearing that the mob spirit would not be satisfied by one victim, Sher iff Linke immediately asked Adjutant General Weybrecht for troops to pro tect six other "dry raiders" held at the city prison, In another section of the town. A hurried guard was thrown out in their defense. The mob, after the first taste of blood, seemed quiet. Howard, it is Tsaid, did not resist tlie detectives when they entered his places on the outskirts of Newark; he, it is said, put his arms about Etherington, whereupon the boy fired a bullet into Howard's head. It is claimed that Etherington re cently came here as a strike-breaker and the ill-feeling cans0'! iy this in tensified the fo! , occurence. As Ethenngica mounted the block ready for the swing he was acied to make a speech. "I want to warn all young fellows not to try to make a living the way I have done by strike-breaking and taking jobs like this," he declared. "I wouldn't be here now " The swing of the rope cut him short. He hung there for an hour, while the crowd quietly left. After the first excite ment tbere was no disorder. At the finish there were hundreds of women and children around, all anxious to accomplish his death. No member of the mob was masked and no attempt was made to conceal their identity. SENATOR BEVERIDGE, Of Indiana. W. P. BR0WNL0W DEAD. Tennessee Representative for Seven Terms in Succession, Dies. Johnson City, Tenn. Congressman Walter Preston Brownlow died here of bright's disease. Mr. Brownlow was 60 years old. He represented the first Tennessee dis trict seven terms in succession, and had been nominated for another term. He made a record surpassing all otner congressmen from the south in point of achievements in the way of appro priations for his district. His death will result in a state of political con fusion, and a struggle is looked for between the Brownlow and Evans re publican factions. Mr. Brownlow weaves a widow and five children. Walter Preston Brownlow was bora in Abingdon, Va., and had just pass ed his sixtieth year. Starting at the age of 10 years to earn his own way, he was without schooling. 1 In his youth he was a tinner and later in life became a locomotive en gineer on the old East Tennessee, Vir &. i and Georgia Railway. His first worK in the newspaper field was as a reporter on the old Knoxville Whig and Chronicle, his uncle, William G. Brownlow, being editor of that paper. In 1876 he purchased The Jonesboro Herald and Tribune and had owned hat property ever since. He was vice republican nominee for United tes senator. In 1908 he was elect t i member of the national congres-EiOii-t committee. His initial term as congi;sman was in the fifty-fifth congress, and he was elected seven times in succession. DAN SULLY IN TROUBLE. The Former "Cotton King" Must Pay Fine of $3,800. White Plains, N. Y. Daniel Sully, long known as the "cotton king," was declared in contempt of court oy Jus tice Mills, of the state supreme court and ordered to pay a fine of 3,i0o and $10 costs The case grew, out of Sully's fail ure several years ago, when William Marmon Black, a judgment creditor, obtained a court order restraining Sully from paying out any money un til the suit of Black had been settled. Black contended that Sully had com mitted contempt in paying 4,600 to his (Sully's wife after the order had been issued. Balloon to Cross Atlantic. New York City Walter Wellman and Melvin Vaniman will attempt next fall to cross the Atlantic ocean in the dirigible balloon America, which was built for the Wellman Po lar expedition, and has twice been tested in voyages over the Arctic ocean, north of Spitzenbergen. The attempt will be made solely on the responsibility of the aeronauts, but the New York Times, the Chicago Record-Herald and the ondon Daily Telegraph will buy the news of the expedition, which will be transmitted by wireless from the airship. 5 v't'""- wmmmlm '-.MS SEP ADVICE TO FARMERS. Ten 1-jigs Which Should Be cn the Farm During July. (1). Lay-oy all crops in the right way with level and shallow cultivation.- The old ridging, root-cutting methods have cost tne south millions of dollars. Don't lay-by too soon, and be sure to plant peas between corn rows as far as practicable. (2.) Don't let your stubble land loaf. Put them to growing cowpeas or soy beans as quickly as possible now. (3.) Haul up graiu. or tnresh just as soon as it becomes dry enough. If straw is stacked outside, put it up so that it will keep dry and sound. (4.) If you have a permanent meadow, take care of the hay crop. Don t cut tco much at a time, and don't delay cutting until the seed have ripened and the stems become hard and dry. (5.) Clean up the weed patches about the barn and feed lots, and along the roadsides, ditches and ter races. The mower, scythe and mat tock will do their very best work along this line these hot days. 16.) Look after the hogs. To thrive now they must have pure water, plan ty of feed, clean quarters and shade. Filth to eat or to live in is a great promoter of cholera and other dis eases. (7.) Keep the garden going and eat less meat ana more fruit ana vegetables. Arrange to have fresh vegetables all through the fall and winter as far as possible, and canned or preserved were fresh can not be had. (8.) See that there are screens to the doors and windows to keep out disease carrying flies, ' and at least one cool, snaaed place about tae house where the nousekeeper tiua cuudren can go to rest. (9.) Take an occasional half -day's, or uay's outing, and give your' wife and children the same privilege." Eat a picnic dinner now and then, and let the "women folks" get a rest from the hot work in the kitchen. The nreless cooxer will be a godsend to your wife now. (10.) After the crops are lain-by, give your time to stirring up your neighbors about things that will help the neighborhood. Get a Farmers' Institute and an Institute for Farm Women; start some plan for better roads;'' get up a petition for rural mail delivery, and for farm demon stration work, if you haven't them al ready; see if you can't get a rural telephone system; if your school is poor, agitate local taxation or consol idation districts, and see if you can not get more good newspapers and farmers' bulletins into the homes of your neighbors. Raleigh (N. C.) Pro gressive Farmer and Gazette.' HIT TO DE HUCHjf GISIAT10N Many Important Bills to Come Up at Next Session cl Congress. PROGRAM IS ALREADY PREPARED forest Reserves, Merchant Marine, Regulating Injunctions and Federal Incorporation of Railroads Await Action. Washington, D. C. It became known that before going to Beverly President Taft insisted that all left over business be taken up early in the next session of congress. The program already prepared is as fol lows : To create the Appalachian and the White mountain forest reserve; to build up the merchant marine by a system of ship subsidies; to regulate the granting of injunction; the per mit the federal incorporation of rail roads and other common carriers; to regulate the issues of stocks and bonds of transportation companies ; the enactment of additional conserva tion measures,' eight bills remaining without action; to establish a bureau of public health; to encourage the study of agriculture and the mechan ical arts, for which an appropriation of $10,000,000 is proposed; a iorm oi civil government for Alaska; modi fication of the Sherman anti-trust act; codification of the postal laws and re organization of the postal system; a plan for the retirement .of civil serv ice employees and to expedite legisla tion in the federal courts. NEW CHRISTIANITY. New Religion Places History Above the Revealed Word. Chicago, III Members of the Uni versity of Chicago divinity school faculty have defined and formulated the characteristics of a new Chris tianity. These professors who have been widely attacked for their high er criticism and who for years have regretted the niismterprtitation of their beliefs note the arrival of a new type of religion. ' In an anonymous editorial in a re ligious publication, responsibility for which is accepted by the editors, the university authorities point to the coming of the "new Christianity as a type of faith which shall result in the releasing of men's minds from the bonds of tradition and creed," accept the results of scientific study of the world and deal in every day works more than in theological subtleties. The religion is described as "scien tific, ethical, practical and altruistic." After stating the necessity of sci- Ientific study, the author of the edi torial proceeds: "If there be a controversy between Genesis and geology the new Chris tianity will stand with geology. The record left in the strata of the earth can not be impugned by a poet of pre scientinc age, even though that poet be also a prophet of a highr concep tion of God than had before his day prevailed. In conformity to the same principle the new. Christianity will ac cept the assured results of historical investigation into the records of an cient times. Religion has its rights, but so also has history, nd one of these is that it be studied ljy histor ical methods." RAILROAD BLOCK SYSTEMS. CASHIER AND $22,000 MISSING Official of Virginia Bank Disappeared With Funds. Clintwood, Va. Cash to the amount of $15,000 and $7,000 worth of un signed treasury certificates have dis appeared from the vaults of the Citi zens' National bank, of this place, and a reward of $1,000 has been of fered by the officers of the institu tion for the arrest of Walter C. D. Sutherland, cashier of the bank. When the bank" vault, whose time dock had been set, for ninety-six hours, was opened tuTr the fourth of July holiday, the officials riscover of July holiday, the officials discover a note saying, "Gone to the tall tim bers." The name of the missing cashier, it is said, was signed to it. TO PREVENT LAB0RTR0UBLE Cedar Rapids the First City to Adopt N-ew Peace Program. Cedar Rapids, la. The formation of a plan to prevent all local labor troubles was announced. Labor lead ers and representative of the em ployers' association ' have agreed to submit all disputes to a board of ar bitration. Employees will continue to work pending the decision of the board, whose rulings shall be fiaal. This is the first city in ' the United States to adopt this program. Income Tax Fails. Baton Rouge, La. The Louisiana general assembly, after a session of sixty days, adjourned. One of the most important matters considered during the session was the proposed federal income tax amendment. Al though securing ratification in the house, it failed in the senate. Ticker Service Resumed. New York City. As suddenly as the wire service to brokerage offices in New York state cities was sus pended, so suddenly was It resumed again in them, and with no more ex planation by the Western Union Tele graph Company" for the second change than for the first. Population oi Fitzgerald, Ga. Washington, D. C. The census buwfcau gave out the following figures on population of counties in Texas: Fisher, 12,598; Medina, 13,415; Milam, 36,780; Red River, 2S,564j also the city of Fitzgerald, Ga., 5,795. Carnegie's Cousin Dies a Pauper. Oakland, Caf Mrs. Diana Green, second cousin of Andrew Carnegie, died in poverty at the county infirm ary of Alameda. She had been re ceiving an allowance of $25 monthly from the steel magnate. , AEROPLANNE RACE RULES." For Chicago to New York Contest. Prize Will Be $25,000. Chicago, N. Y. Rules and regula tions to govern the proposed $25,000 aeroplane race from Chicago to New York were made public here. The contest is to begin at Chicago on October 8, with not less than three entrants, who must have previous records of sustained fights of an hour or more. Adverse weather may delay the start until October 15. The time lim it of the race is seven days, the con testants being allowed to make as many stops as their discretion will countenance. All must start on the same day, the intervals between their taking flight to be considered in de termining the winner. The winner must make the flight before any flight of the same or great er distance has been made in any part of the coutnry. Mills Close For Repaies. Chattanooga, Tenn. The Davis ho siery mills at Avondale, employing about 400 operatives, have closed down for two weeks. The reason given is that the machinery is badly in need of repairs. The mills oper ated by "this company at South Pitts burg, Winchester and Nashville.Tenn., and Fort Payne, Ala., closed down at the same time. 17 Whiskies Killed Man. New York City. Peter Smith', a husky young worker in Newark, N. J., drank seventeen jiggers of whis key in succession, thereby winning a bet of $1. As he pocketed the money he fell to the floor unconscious and died soon after, while being taken to a hospital. Bonds Worth $400,000 Missing. New York City. The grand jury and District Attorney Whitman are investigating the theft of $400,000 worth of railroad bonds from the safe deposit vaults of the Carnegie Trust Company. The missing bonds are reported to have been securities of the -Southern Railway. Peabody School Site Selected. Nashville, Tenn. At an adjourned meeting of the board of trustees of the George Peabody School for Teach ers, recently endowed with a million dollars, by the trustees of the Pea body Education Fund, Wickliffe Rose was elected president of the school. It was decided to locate the institu tion on the site of the old Roger Wil liams University, a negro school, just southwest of the Vanderbilt Univer sity campus. No steps were taken in the matter of erection of buildings. 1 2.CC0.1 Miles of Track of Southern Railway is Equipped With Safety Appliance. Atlanta, Ga. The bulletin just is sued by the Interstate Commerco commission, giving the mileage of railways in the United States operat ed by the block system on January 1, 1910, shows that two thousand and eighty miles, of track on the Southern railway, constituting thirty percent of the entire mileage of the system, is now equipped with this safety ap pliance. Included in this are the en tire main line from Washington to Atlanta and on to Birmingham, the line from Bristol to Chattanooga, that from Chattanooga to Atlanta and Macon, and other important sections. In the entire United States there are only seven railway systems with" a greater mileage so' operated than has the Southern. No other railway in the south operates anything like so large a mileage with the biocK sys tem. The system in use on the Southern railway is what is known as the "telegraph block." Suitable sema phone signals are erected at intervals of about five miles along the road to guide the engineman in the control of his train. The space between these signals is called a block and two pas senger trains are under no circum stances permitted in a single ' block at the same time. The working of this system may be best explained by taking two block stations, Gainesville, Ga.," and Oak wood, Ga., for example. A train ap proaches Gainesville bound for At lanta. The operator at Gainesville asks the operator at Oakwood if he can have the block for the approach ing train. If there are no trains between Gainesville and Oakwood the operator gives the required permission and both operators make a record ofthe time, train number, etc. The opera tor at Gainesville then clears the sig nal by pulling it down to an angle of about sixty degrees below horizon tal, after the train comes in sight. That is called "clearing" the signal and is done after the train comes into sight to assure the engineer that the signal is cleared for him and he will not proceed into the block unless he sees it go "clear." This assures him that he is not taking a signal given a preceding train. As soon as the train passes the signal the operator returns the signal to a horizontal po sition, this indicates danger, stop, and it remains in this position as long as the train is in the block. It will be noted that two men, one at each end of the block, must co-operate to al low a train to enter, this provides a check which effectually prevents mis takes, it being unlikely that two men would make the same mistake at the same time. To install this system has necessi tated the employment of a large num ber of additional telegraph operators and the expenditure of a large amount of money for line wire sig nals, etc., but the officials of the Southern railway believe that the ex penditure is warranted because of the safety it affords their patrons from accidents due to collisions. Washington News. In a laudible effort to encourage the investment of American capital in Porto Rico and diversify the indus tries of that territory, the bureau of insular affairs has issued a statement presenting in alluring terms the pos sibilities of growing, manufacturing and exporting cocoanuts and their by-products. It is said the nut thrives better there than anywhere else In the West Indies; that the trees grow wild along the sandy coast, requiring no care and thrive where other trees would die. A tree produces one hun dred nuts per year, sold on the trea at 1 cent each, or when gathered at $18 to $20 per one thousand, and they sell at a profit of more than 100 per cent in New York. The postoffice department has noti fied United States Senator LeR.py Percy that the installation of about seventy-five new rural free delivery routes in Mississippi, for which appli cations were approved some time agw, will be immediately commenced. On the success of a speech-making tour of the south, which Senator Aid rich will make early in the fall, will depend the decision as to whether a bill for the reform of the currency system will be introduced in congress at the next session. This trip has been decided upon by President Taft and Senator Aldrich. Senator Aid rich's western tour was not regarded as successful in bringing about a final verdict. If sentiment in the south proves to be favorable to a central bank, it is probable that a currency reform bill will be intro duced next January, thus giving Sen ator Aldrich an opportunity to start the bill on the ways of congress be fore his retirement on March 4. Meyer B. Newman of Washington, who, according' to his wife's suit for limited divorce, was charged with having taken but one bath in nearly a year and with having supplied apple pie and five cents worth of crackers for their honeymotn supper, was or dered to pay Mrs. Newman alimOny of -$60 per month. In open court New man entered a deniarl, declaring that he frequently bathed except in cold weather. The census bureau announced the following reports of population: Law ton City, Okla., 7,788; Bledsoe county, Tennessee, 6,329. The following coun ties in Texas: Hardin, 12,947; Marion, 10,472; Mills, 9,694; Titus, 16,422; Tom Green, 17,882; and the following cities of Texas: San Antonio, 10,321, and Abilene City, 9,204. Consul Alger .of Mazatla", Mexico, sounds a not of warning against the purchase of farms in Mexico, as sug gested by a flood of advertisemenls in this country. The consul says: "Any man not accustomed to the la bor, the climate and the language would be hopelessly lost when meet ing entirely new and strange condi tions, such as actually exi3t, neverthe less, colonization and land companies are inducing settlers to realize all they possess in the United States to take up small farms of from one to two hundred acres here, assuring them that they will have comforta ble iomes and soon become rich." NORTH CAROLINA EVENTS Life in the Land of the Long Leaf Pine Judge Pritchard's Advice to Negroes. Advocating the industrial education yi the negro in the belief it would prove of infinite rvalue to the marals of the colored race and the return of the negro to the farm as a solution largely of the question of the present high cost of living. United States Judge Jeter C. Pritchard, of Ashe ville, made the opening address of the summer course of the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua for the colored race at Durham. Stating that this school filled a much-needed want, Judge. Pritchard declared that the colored teacher was essentially the leader of his race, and it Was through him that his people might most effectively be reached. Only full justice here and elsewhere, he said, could be don the negro by remembering that he had come fresh from slavery, where de pendence upon masters had rendered him ambitionless without education "The colored man is a citizen of the country," he continued, "and while he enjoys all the rights and immunities of citizenship, he must rely upon himself if he woull ac complish the best things in our cit izenship. I am thankful to say that there has never been a time since emancipation when a majority of the white people of the South were not friendly to the negro, so far as hia welfare as a citizen is concemed." Judge Pritchard advised the colored people to seek the farms, where, he said, one found less racial antagon ism in the rural districts. Hi3 con fident belief was that no class of men was being better treated than the farmers and he declared if they would go back to the farm they would eliminate much of the criminal ele ment that cursed the entire race. Noble and Lasting Nye Memorial. The Bill Nye memorial committee appointed at the recent meeting of the North Carolina Press Association to formulate plans for a State memorial to the humorist, met at Salisbury and decided that the proposed mem orial shall take the form of a build ing at the Stonewall Jackson train ing school to be known as the Bill Nye building. The, building shall cost, when furnished and equipped, not less than $5,000 and shall be turned over to the trustees of the in stitution as a permanent monument to the lamented humorist. The committee elected John M. Julian, editor of The Salisbury Post, treasurer and added Col. A. H. Boy den of Salisbury to its personnel. The committee also designated the fol lowing North Carolina dailies to re ceive subscriptions to the fuad for the memorial: Charlotte Observer, Asheville . Citizen, Salisbury Post, Raleigh News and Observer and "Wilmington Star. An earnest and active -campaign for raising funds to erect the memorial will be begun at once. Members of the committe pres ent were: James H. Caine, Asheville Citizen, chairman; John M. Julian, Salisbury Post; R. M. Phillips, Greensboro News; Col. A. H. Boyden, Salisbury, and R. W. Vincent, Char lotte Observer; Reduces Freight Bates. " The interstate commerce commis sion has ordered a reduction in through freight rates to Winston Salem and Durham, from Roanoke and Lynchburg, Va. It amounts to about D cents per 100 pounds on class freight, and from 4 to 8 cents a hun dred pounds on hay, grain and pack ing house products. New Bank. The Clay County bank has recent ly been opened at Hayesville "with Capt. Aid en P. Howell of Waynes ville as cashier. Wilson Solicitor Tor Twelfth District The twelfth judicial convention at Gastonia nominated George W. Wil son of Gaston county for the solicitor ship over the three other candidates, Smith and Shannonhouse of Mecklen burg, and Childs of Lincoln. The deadlock .was broken on the 840th ballot, when Cleveland and Lincoln counties combined. Park at Old Boone Homestead. There is every probability that the Boone Memorial Association will es tablish a big and permanent park at the old Boone homestead in Davidson county, where the recent big celebra tion was held and where the monu ment to Daniel Boone was unveiled. Mr. H. Clay Grubb has proffered a valuable tract of land adjoining the Boone Association's tract to the asso ciation and other lands will be ten dered for the purpose of converting the place into a great Bocne park that will command national attention. A Bloody Murderer. Stealthily approaching his victim from the rear, J. B. Allison, aged 45, a former janitor at the city hall, fired five shots into the body cf F. M. McGhee, driver of the patrol wagon at Asheville, every bullet taking ef- feet. After his victim had fallen," Allison beat out the former's brains with a ten-pound hanmmer. Allison surrendered. He has a previous re cord cf having' killed two women.
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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