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THE CHATHAM RECORD rL A. LONDON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 Per Year Strictly in Advance VOL. XXXIV. PITTS30RO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. NOVEMBER 29, 1911. NO. 16. THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square, one . Insertion $1.00 One Square, two insertions tUBO One Square, one month $250 For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts wifl be made. i . , . . . i ' ' 11 i i. i . . , . i i H bi ii r 1 1 1 BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY IN MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. VVORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED v Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest From All Partr of World. Southern. Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., went to his death in Richmond, Va., the self confessed murderer of his young wife, although the confession was not made public until four hours after he had paid the toll exacted hy the law. He maintained to the end the remarkable nerve he had exhibited since he was first accused of killing his wife on the lonely Midlothian turnpike last July. . Criticisms and remedial recommen dations, ranging from mild to radical, were presented to the Interstate com merce commission at the opening in New York of a series of hearings to be held throughout the country in in vestigation of the express business. The magniture of this business was brought out by Attorney Frank Lyon, counsel for the commission, who said that the combination express compa nies operate more than two hundred and seventy thousand miles of rail way and do business through 31,328 stations. He placed the cost of oper ating the express plants at $27,000, OC'O, the operating net income at $10, (00,000, or a fraction over 38 per cent. c plant valuation. A lukewarm reception of the an nouncement that New York bankers are ready to advance $50,000,000 to farmers on a cotton-holding plan, was accorded to interviews by cotton men in several of Texas' leading citizens. While some of the favored object, nearly all expressed doubts about the possibility of making arrangements that would suit any considerable part of the cotton producers. Cotton mid dlemen generally said the projecl would not be accepted. A movement was started in Rock Hill, S. C was started to see what can be done by way of a concrete example in two local townships to ward instituting a campaign through out the cotton belt to have farmers personally seen by men in automo biles to get their pledges for holding cotton and reducing acreage on the plan outlined by the Farmers' union. A man in a machine who started in to . cover two townships reports every farmer seen, signing. He expects tc complete his work in three days, af ter which the Rock Hill plan is to call upon business men and farmers to join in similar work in every coun ty and township in the South. The pledge is to reduce acreage by one third and hold present cotton till Sep tember for 13 cents. New York bankers who have been ..conferring ro the last few days with representatives of the governors' con ference and Southern cotton congress, announced that they had raised a fund of $50,000,000 to be placed im mediately in the cotton belt states for the purpose of handling the cot ton crop of 1911 and enabling grow ers to participate in any rise in th. market. The plan proposes to aa vance the grower $25. per bale upor his cotton, based on the market valu at the time of the loan. No interes. will be paid upon the loan, the only charge being $1 a bale, which is re garded as a legitimate minimum charge for expense of grading and handling. The cotton is not held noi taken from the channels of trade, but is placed at the best advantage. The grower is given the right to des ignate the day of sale prior to Jan uary 1, 1913, and will participate in any advance in price to the extent of three-fourths of the rise of th General. Two of the three men charged with complicity in the tarring of Miss Mary Chamberlain, a school teacher of Lin coln Center, Kan., John Schmidt anc Sherrill Clark, were found guilty oi assault and battery by a jury, while A. X. Simms, the third defendant was acquitted. The jury was out foi nearly thirty hours. Sentence was deferred to permit attorneys to ar gue for a new trial. The court im posed sentences of one year each in jail, the extreme penalty, on four con fessed assailants of Miss Chamber lain. The Daughters of the Revolution were left $150,000 in the will of H. V. Washington of Macon, Ga. Chinese officials confirm the report that a massacre of foreigners, as well as Manchus, has occurred at Sian-Fu. The legations believe that the report will prove true. There were forty foreigners in Sian-Fu. The president of the Domingo re public, General Ramon Careres, has been assissinated. The president was set upon by a small band and killed while riding in his coach on a. public road. So far, nothing has developed to indicate a rising. The Vanderbilt University football team are the acknowledged champions of the South this year. William J. Cummins, the former Tennessee promoter and recent direct ing heard of the Carr,egie Trust comp any, was found guilty in New York of the theft of $140,000 from the Nineteenth Ward bank. Charles W. Morse, the New Yoi banker, who has been in the Atlanta peniteniary for many months, left that place, not as a free man, but to go to the army hospital at. Fort Mo Pherson. The orders from Washing ton did not state the length of time Morse would be kept in the Fort Mc Pherson hospital. It is said that the former banker is incurably afflicted with Bright's disease and it is for this reason his transfer is permitted. Lady Constance Lytton and Lady Sybil Smith, both prominent in the English suffrage movement, were sen tenced ' .respectively, to a fortnight and a week in jail at the Bow street police court, for smashing windows during the demonstration. Mrs. Mary Leigh, who had been several times previously convicted and whom the police describe as the "most trouble some suffragette," was sentenced to two months in jail and told that if she was, again convicted she would be sentenced to hard labor. As a part of the campaign to in crease the physical welfare of the people of Towa, Dr. Margaret Vaupel Clark of Waterloo has been selected by the club women of Iowa to visit Europe to learn how to rear more perfect babies. Doctor Clark will sail from New York and will spend a year in the study. "Perfect baby con tests are to be arranged throughout the state during the coming year, and mothers in each part of the state given instruction on how best to car for their babies. With but one dissenting vote the American Bankers' Association in session at New Orleans, gave its un qualified support to the proposed Al drich plan for the reform of the mon etary system of the United States. Congress was urged to deal with the proposition as an economic question outside the domain of party politics. Confidence was expressed that "the high purposes actuating the national monetary commission assure the working out of the details in accord ance with the sound principles stated in the plan, in such a manner as to gain the confidence and support of all classes." Detroit was unanimous ly chosen on the first ballot as the convention city. Reports received by Commissioner of Agriculture Reuben F. Kolb from practically every county of Alabama and from various sources in each county, show that Alabama's cotton yield this year will exceed the yield of last year by 168,200 bales. The sta tistics include the crop up to Novem ber 10 and are to be included in a bulletin which the department of ag riculture expects to publish within the next ten days, showing the pro duction of counties. Following another arbitrary in crease in the price of butter to 33 cents per pound, wholesale, Assistant United States District Attorney vVelch began presenting evidence before a Chicago master in chancery to show that the Chicago Butter and Egg board is ajxust and should therefore be dissolved. This board, the gov ernment insists, not only dictates the price which the consumer must pay for his butter, but also the price the wholesalers shall pay for the product The English suffragettes fared bad ly at the hands of the LoneV - c They had threatened to force their way into the house of comment and make a protest against the prim ;n ister's refusal to pledge the povpri ment to a bill giving equal suffrage to both sexes, but they f?.'led even to reach the entrance to parliament. Thwarted by the police, 220 women and three men beirn: arree:! ni lib erated on bail, the sifriettes re sorted to smashing windows. Alfred Merritt of Duluth, Minn., the first president of the Duluth, Missabe and Northern railroad, who styled himself a "lumber-pacl;," unacquaint ed with the methods of the ""money trust," told the house steel trust in vestigating committee that through loans of iess ban $l,oO0,0Uu iroui juuu D.- Rockefeller, he hail lost his hold ings in the Missabe iron mines, and the railroad properties now owned by the United States steel company estimated to be $700,000,000. Walter Wyman, surgeon general of the United States public health and marine hospital service, died at Prov idence hospital in Washington afte; an illness of several months. The danger mark in the use of stee rails has been reached, declared In spector Belknap, of the interstate commerce commission, in a report He urged scientific investigation into rail defects which e causing a multi plying number of jcidents, he says. The report was based cn the action of the wreck of a Grand Army of the Republic special train near Manches ter, N. Y., last August, when 29 per son's were killed. The rail that caus ed the wreck was defective, but the defects were of such nature that once placed the rail would not disclose them. Unusual stir prevailed early around the supreme court of the United States because of the expected at tempt of 'attorneys for indicated Chicago beef packers to procure a stay of their trial for alleged criminal violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. Repeated reports that the legal controversy would shift from Chicago to Washington were responsible for the excitement. When the court met the indicted packers had no standing before that tribunal. The packers stood indicted in the United States district, court at Chicago- TO VOTE ON ISSUE OF $50,000 BONDS DURHAM ALDERMEN ORDER ELECTION FOR SCHOOL IM PROVEMENT BONDS. SCHOOLS GROWING RAPIDLY Are In a Congested Condition and Makes It Impossible to Take Care of Children A Fierce Campaign Will Be Waged. Raleigh. 'A special from Durham states that the board of alderman have ordered an election for an issue of $50,000 bonds for school improve ments, and it takes place January 16, 1912.' This action was provided for at the last general assembly, when a law was passed authorizing an issue not to exceed $50,000 The city schools have grown verp rapidly the last three years and there Is now such a congestion as makes almost impossi ble taking care of the children. In one school there are three rooms that have 250 pupils regularly in them, and It furnishes just three places for teachers. This makes it next to Im possible for anything to be done In the shape of individual attention, and all other rooms are crowded. There will be waged a fierce cam paign for the bonds and it will take all the eloquence that all the advo cates have to carry the election. There are two or three precincts that are dreadfully opposed to bonds. They don't care what the measure is; they favor killing the issue. It was one of these that gave a 3 to 1 ma jority against the Farm-Life School. In the fitness of things it was recog nized as the most illiterate, ignorant and unprogressive spot in the city. The schools have been pretty gen erally free from the attacks of dema gogues, most people having no inter est in them that carries the election against all odds. There is no denying the fact that if the election is carried that taxes will be slightly raised, but the progressive people do not oppose the bond issue for that reason. HUNGRY FOR GOOD ROADS Lee County People Have Started An . Earnest Campaign For Better Highways. Sanford. Lee county has a cam paign on in earnest for good roads. Association has been working along educational lines as a large portion of the voters in rural sections have been opposed to anything that would Increase taxes, and on account of the increased valuation of farm prop erty last year it was thought best to go slow and not force an election for the $100,000 bond issue until such time as it could be j carried without a doubt. The good road advocates feel that the time has arrived. Peti tions are being circulated for presen tation to the county commissioners at their December meeting, calling the election on the second Tuesday in January so as to be ready to begin road work in early spring, Good work was accomplished a few days ago at L'ee court house when a joint meeting was held. The fore noon was taken up by the Farmers' Union state president, Dr. H. Q. Alex ander, of Charlotte, addressing the farmers along lines which the union stood for, and showing them how they could better their conditions, some of these were by educative co operation and voting for the road issue of good roads. At the afternoon meeting addresses were made by Messrs. A. A. F. Sea well, D. E. Mclver and J. F. Bow ers and Dr. Alexander on good roads. These addresses were all timely and well received. Dr. Alexander spoke with telling effect as knowing where of he spoke, coming from 'Mecklen burg county where good roads are no longer an experiment but a par of the government. Aurora Fair Was A Success. The fair at Aurora was the biggest sort of success, and about 5,000 peo ple attended the exhibition. While there was probably not quite as much of the products of the county on ex hibtion as last year, the quality was better and they appeared more attract ive than ever befote. They comprise specimens of all the various crops indigenous to the soil of this section as well as afl kinds of live stock, poul try and the like. The best of order prevailed. Governor Kitchin arrived on the special train provided, and the procession which was formed, led by the marshals to escort him was a fine one there was the band, beautiful floats representing various industries and businesses, gaily decorated. New Railroad Projects. A well-attended meeting of mem bers of the chamber of commerce of Greensboro was held in the assem bly room. The meeting was called for general purposes but the principal matters discussed were the new rail road projects for Greensboro. The proposition of the promoters of the Randlph & Cumberland promoters their consideration. The registration books are now open for the purpose of voting on a, bond issue on De cember 12, the bonds to be issued by six townships of the county through which the proposed line will pass. Water Question At Albemarle. The question of a sufficient water supply is one that is at present puz zling the city fathers of Albemarle more than any other question, which has ever come up for consideration. The prsent supply is furnished by the Albemarle Water Works Company, which is owned by private parties, and this company can hardly furnish enough for general purposes with ab solutely no protection against fire. More than a year ago the city voted bonds for water, but up to the present the city aldermen have failed to take any definite steps towards giving Al bemarle an adequate water supply. Some talk in favor of a well, other piping water from the old abandonee gold mine on Lowder Mountain and some piping from Long Creek, a dis tance of two miles. There is no question of doubt but that either of these plans would furnish an ample supply for the present needs of the town, but as the boosters claim that Albemarle will have 15,000 people in 1920, it is thought wise to build for the future, so as to avoid a water famine such as Charlotte experienced the past summer. Went To Sumptuous "Feed." Governor Kitchin and a number of state officials and justices of the su preme court were among the special guests for a sumptuous "feed" given by the Raleigh Lodge of Elks No. 735, in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the organization of the lodge which has grown greatly and has provided itself wit ha splendid home on Salis bury street that is admirably appoint ed for lodge purposes and is proving self-sustaining. Mr. Caldwell Has Passed Away. Death as peaceful as was the life brought to a close descended upon Mr. Joseph Pearson Caldwell, many years editor of the Charlotte Obser ver, who died at the home of Dr. John McCampbell, superintendent s of the state hospital at Morganton, where Mr. Caldwell had been since he suffer ed a second stroke of paralysis in June, 1909. He reached the end of life's journey in his 59th year, having been born in Statesville, N. C, June 16, 1853. He was laid to rest with impressive services. Big Railroad Property Involved. Big railroad property in North Carolina is said to be involved in a deal which rumor has it is on be tween the Pennyslvania Railroad by which the Pennsylavnia Railroad is to buy the Coast Line. This would give the Pennsylvania a most valuable piece of railroad property and the rumor of the proposed purchase is strengthened by the information that the Pennsylvania Railroad is about to make a bond issue of $100,000,000, while it is known that the condition of the road is not such as to call for the expenditure of any such sum. White Man Shot by Unknown Negro. A white man by the name of Bel vin was shot by an unknown negro near the Standard Oil tanks at Ral eigh. Although no definite informa tion was available from police head quarters, it is said that Belvin, with two other white men, had some words with some negroes, one of whom shot Belvin, though not seriously. Three Flights At Salisbury. Three flights in a Curtiss biplant were made successfully by Lincoln Beachey in Salisbury. A large crowd witnessed the flights with great in terest and the bird man proved him self king of the air. Some Definite Action Is Taken. At last some definite action has been taken in the matter of the leng-dreamed-of, much talked-of, and much longed-for street car connection be tween Durham and Chapel Hill. Mr. J. W. Murry, president of the Pied mont Traction Company, of Burling ton, has been to Chapel Hill and met a committee of the representative business men of the town. The pur pose of his coming and of the meet ing was to investigate the resources of the town and the readiness of its citizens to aid in the road building. Glad Deals Have Been Put Through. For a month or more the Troy folks have discussed the probability of some railroad company taking over the Durham & Charlotte and the Asheboro & Aberdeen interests, and the ultimate completion of a railroad from here to ' Charlotte. They are glad the deals have been put through if it means that the connecting link is made between here and Charlotte in the near future. The Troy folks have neve,r had any complaint to of for in regard to the treatment ac corded them by this road. Fleeced Farmers With Bogus Checks. John M. Ring, a cattle dealer living In Grayson county, Va., has skipped the country with money variously es timated at from $5,000 to $20,000, which he is said to have secured on bogus checks given in payment for cattle bought from the farmers in Sparta section. His plan seems to have bfen to give checks in return for the cattle he bought and date it from ten to twenty days ahead. He bought extensively in Grayson, Ashe, and Alleghany counties. The farmerf are out several thousand dollars. THE REBELS HAVE BEGUN THE ATTACK THE ANCIENT CAPITAL OF THE CHINESE EMPIRE HAS BEEN BOMBARDED. GENERAL WONG AMONG SlAIN Imperialists Make a -Sortie But Are Driven Back Within the Walls The Fall of the City is Destined Object of Seizure Shown. .Nanking. After more than half a century of silence the hills overlook ing the walled city of Nanking, the ancient capital of China, swarm with rebellious forces eager for its occupa tion and determined to take the strong hold where the Manchus are making their last stand south of the Yangtse. From the Tiger Hill fort for sev eral hours big guns spoke repeatedly, while further up, along the northeast ern range from the top of Purple mountain, overlooking the Ming Tombs for a 15-mile semi-circle west ward to the Yangtse, smaller forts scattered shells into every section of tho city. So far as it is known the casualty list is not large. General Wong, second in command of defend ers, is among those killed. During the earlier part of the day, the Imperialists attempted a sortie against the attacking forces, with a view to recapturing their positions and guns but were driven back in Side the walls with considerable losses. The Tiger Hill batteries, meanwhile, were pounding shells into Lion Hill. They succeeded in silenc ing the batteries there which, it is sus pected, were of little value. The object of the first seizure of Tiger Hill was shown by the early appearance of four cruisers, and later in the day of other warships. In the evening a dozen torpedo boat destroy ers and cruisers were lying menacing ly near the city. Doubtless they will quickly reduce the lower section and drive the defenders to the south. The viceroy of Nanking and the Tar tar general, in fear of General Chang, the Imperialist commander, have tak en refuge in the Japanese consulate, Stephenson Will Not Lose Seat. Washington. With the declaration that no instances of vote-buying were discovered but with words of censure for the use of large sums of money in his campaign the Senate committee which investigated the election of United States Senator Isaac Stephen sou is expected to report shortly after the opening of Congress. Senator Stephenson, according to a well-founded report here, will be declared fully entitled to his seat. Fowler Forces to Descend. Fort Wrorth, Tex. Aviator Fowler had a trying experience when his en gine broke down in midair and he was forced to descend in the midst of a drove of steers. He was in sight of Fort Worth when the accident occurred. It took dexterious manage ment to avoid alighting in the midst of the stampeded cattle. The descent of the aviator was about a mile from Iona station. The aeroplane was drag ged into Iona, where it was safely housed. They Many Patch Up Peace. Mexico City. President Madero has sent to Oaxaca a special commissioner to effect if possible a reconcilation be tween the disgruntled state and cen tral government. ' Reports from Oax aca state that the commissioner, Car los Trejo Y. Lordo de Tejada was rudely received by a hooting popu lace but that Governor Juarez in a speech to the people urged them not to interfere with his work since peace, after all, wa3 the thing most greatly desired. The central government has not altered its position of not assist ing the Governor in the adjustment of disputes growing out of the appoint ment of an unpopular jefe "politico but at the national palace confidence is expressed in the ability of the gov ernment to settle the controversy. Smuggling Chinese. Chicago. Four Chinese, believed to have been smuggled into the United States, were found here secreted in a box car on the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad. Secret service operatives of the Department of Jus tice, who made a number of arrests on charges of Chinese smuggling, found the Celestials. The find was at the same place where a week ago Emil Hegenbeck was shot by a railroad watchman as he apparently was trying to break into a freight car. The car was found to contain two Chinese. Morse Is Out Of Prison. Atlanta, Ga. Charles W. Mor3e, the New York banker, exchanged his bare cell at . the Federal prison here for a more commodious ward in the army hospital at Fort McPherson by order of Attorney General Wickersham, who recently made a special visit to Atlan ta to investigate the condition of Mr. Morse. The transfer was made early in the morning, Morse making the trip of several miles in an ambulance, accompanied by Major Baker, chief surgeon at the fort. He stood the triD verv well. Trio of Wool I ; -tr) . fill I. xuvl- " V-ini mnif'r- ii ll il ii i i i i i ill l ' ' ' - ' iJftk '' I . T. Photographed by Underwood & Underwood, N, Wool will be very , much in evidence in stylish out-door raiment this year. Here Is an attractive coat, made of frieze or soft Vienna, with ice wool knitted scarf and rough wool hat, trimmed with flowers mado of woolen yarn. This represents real warmth, and is thoroughly appropriate, for all out-door recreation. LINEN COSTUME. Putty-colored linen Is used for the smart costume we illustrate herd. The skirt has a panel front and back, and at sides is trimmed with two shaped straps with a button in each point. Tho coat fastens below bust with one pointed strap; the large turn-over collar is strapped on' the outer edge with black and putty-colored striped linen. Hat of putty-colored straw, trimmed with a black feather mount. Materials required for the dress: Five yards forty-two inches wide, fourteen buttons, one-eighth yard stripe twenty-seven inches wide. Latest Sweater. ' The latest thing In sweaters are first cousins to the fuzzy wuzzy tam-o'-shanters that abounded some five years back. They look like goats and camels, for "they are wild and :hey are woolly," with a sheen and a long beard nap, all combed out smooth and shiny until one buys them, then they will probably gather up in lumps, but they will continue to be just as warm and comfortable and much soft er than the regular worsted ones. STORY OF JAPANESE GOWNS Interesting Facts Concerning the' Origin, of Garments Worn In the Island Empire. Nearly every woman nowadays cherishes a ' Japanese gown for house wear without realizing how interest ing a garment it Is. The sleeves them selves have a curious history. ; From the middle of the sixteenth century they began to increase in length, and, especially those for young ladies, have extended till now they are from three to four feet. This style, known as furlsode, became very fashionable. . The width of the obi, or sash, has also varied, at first from two and a half to three and a half Inches, and to six, seven, eight and nine inches. It is interesting to note that our own new fashions In sleeves and sashes originated among the common people of Japan, and from them were finally adopted by the upper classes.' The young ladles of the Samuri class were the first to follow the popular styles In this respect, and the higher classes began to follow suit, until now these fashions prevail everywhere. It is only from about the middleof the seventh century that the women of the lower classes began to wear the long haori, or overcoat, at present so common among all classes of both' sexes. This garment was originally a duster worn by men to protect their clothes when outdoors, and was then called dofuku, or traveling coat. Finally they came to be worn in doors, and the women adopted the garment. The upper classes in time followed the same custom, and now the haori Is an Indispensable part of the clothing to be worn on formal oc casions, even in summer. NEWEST IDEAS IN GIRDLES Chic Kerchiefs. Very small handkerchiefs of color d silk with a hemstitched border are sold to wear in the breast pocket of one's rough morning coat The color scheme of the costume can be car ried out by this small touch In a most effective manner, and the idea has been taken up by the Americans who are now in Paris. Many Materials for Choice and Design Is Altogether a Matter for the Individual. The newest girdles are made ot rope, bead, metal, fabric and chenille. The latter are particularly well liked, as are also those made of pierced metal pieces run with ribbon and ob tainable In assorted colors. There are also those nsade of colored pyroxy lin, ribbon laced. . These pyroxylin girdles, while extremely light In weight, have an effect similar to the heavier metal ones. Another of this class of girdle Is the heavy linked chain or metal rope, made In either gilt, silver or oxidized. Due to the great popularity of eord girdles, there have been manufactured special ornamental pins in plain and chased effects, also set with colored stones, intended for use as a fastening for the girdles in place of a knot, be ing both practical and ornamental, and at the same time eliminating the knot tying wear on the girdle. In the Dining Room. Plates should be heated before they are sent to the table. An entire meal, prepared with great care, can be spoiled by the use of cold plates. Do not reach across another person's plate. IS something beyond your cov er is desired, ask the servant or, the person nearest to pass it. When a second portion if being served place the knife and fork to the right of tho plate with th encs rest ing on the butter plat. ',