Vol XXVIII.
Newton, N. Thursday January 17, 1907.
No. 38
GOV. GLENN'S MESSAGE
'
Important
Extract Covering Most
Recommendations
No subject will come before
you at this session fraught with
more vital interest to the State
than the devising of a proper
scheme for ascertaining the true
value of all the property m the
State, to the end that individual
or county, by proper taxation,
shall bear bis or its part of the
State's burden, and that there
be no false valuation or unjust
"discrimination.
The Constitution, Art. V. Sec.
3, provides that "laws shall be
passed taxing by a uniform rule
all moneys, credits, etc., and
also all real and personal proper
ty according to its true value in
money," and yet this simple but
vital provision is universally
violated both in the assessments
not being uniform, nor according
to their true value, While im
possible to devise any scheme of
taxation that shall fall equally on
all, still the nearer we can ap
proach to requiring all to value
their property according to its
true worth, just so much the
nearer we come to fulfilling the
constitutional demand for uni
formity. This subjact, there
fore, requires your deepest
thought and most careful exami
nation; and if the session should
end with your having accom
plished nothijg else but setting
this troublesome question on a
fair basis, you still will have
earned the plaudit, "Well done,
f iithful servants. ''
The assessed value of alt
property in the State is $461,-;V-!0,
U)S.82; but in my judgment,
if personal property was fairly
given in, and really justly as
s'jsscd, and railroads and other
corporations fairly taxed, its
actual value woutd be a billion
dollars, enabling us to have a
much lower rate than at present,
and still have a much larger
revenue to meet all the growing
needs of the State.
(A fair valuation and & low rate
are what are necessary to get
more people and outside capital,
while a high rate and low valua
tion frighten away both the
home3eeker and investor.
Bv reading the report of the
Auditor you will see that forty
live counties out of the ninety
seven receive more from the
State than they pay taxes to it,
and while we might expect such
a condition from a very few weak
counties, still when we see the
same thing done by large and
prosperous counties, we know it
is because they have put an
unfair and too low value on their
property, and are therefore
perpetrating a wrong on the
State and the other counties.
The wrong is accomplished by
the assessors in some counties
valuing realty at 80, 85, 90 and
95 per cent of its money value,
while the assessors in other
counties, where land is equally
fertile and valuable, assess it at
33 1-3. 40, 50 and CO per cent
This is a palpable violation of the
Constitution, and is unfair both
to the individual tax-payer: or
county, that thus pays more
than tax-payers in other coun
ties, where estimated. The
Commission should likewise be
required, and given full power to
regulate and establish rates for
all telephone systems, and com
pel different telephone lines, for
reasonable conpensation, to make ;
arrangements for transmitting
messages from other lines over
their own lines. Also in every
way needful, to control and
regulate steamboat lines, tele
graph lines, and express compa
nies. I recommend that you care
fully go over with the Commis
sion every law siready passed,
and make such amendments as
may be needed to give more
power and greater efficacy to the
Commission's work.
repeat: Give the Corporation
Commission full power to act,
and then require them to act;
for a Commission without pjwer,
or that has the power and does
not act. is worse than no Com
mission, EDUCATION.
Our state in the last five years
has made rapid strides in
educating both the brains and
hands of our youth, and every
boy or girl in the State with
pluck and energy can get all the
knowledge neeeded to make them
usetul citizens,
Much, however, still remains
to be done, and we should double
our energies in order that all
classes and races be educated in
the manner bsst suited to fitly
prepire them for that station in.
life in which God
has placed
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them. L feel very
muca use i
saying, in unqualified language,
that the time is ripe for
compulsory education, making
children between certain ages go
to school, whether thsy or their
parents desire it or not; for a
parent has no more right to
dwarf his child's mind than his
body, and every child should
have the right to get the
knowledge that might make a
giant, instead of uneducated,
being left an ignorant pigmy.
STATE INSTITUTIONS.
Our State institutions are in
plendid condition. 1 doubt if
any State, with our population
and wealth, begins to have such
facilities for educating its youth
or caring for its unfortunate.
The one need is the growing
demands for larger equipment,
for to-day every institution is
filled to overflowing and still
more room is demanded to
properly care for those seeking
admittance. I respectfully refer
you to the various reports sent
in by the heads of these institu
tions, to the end that you may
see the great work for education
and humanity that each is doing,
and then be able to intelligently
consider their urgent needs,
REFORMATORY AND REFORM,
Youthful criminals should not
be confined with old and vicious
effenders, for "such association
hardens their natures and
lessons the chances of ever
reclaiming them, I will, there
fore, throw no obstacle in the
way of establishing some kind of
a reformatory or home for young
offenders, provided you Dfind it
expedient and the State can now
afford it.
At the last session of the
General Assembly, in order to
protect youthful criminals all I
could, I sent a special message,
and got the Legislature to pass
a law allowing me to grant a
conditional pardon, or rather
pardon on parole. Under this
authority, I have taken several
young criminals out of prison
and got them good homes where
they are being properly trained.
Under this parole, if the criminal
remains of good behayior, he Is
free; if he violates his parole, he
is returned to prison. The law
has worked well, and with the
tielp of good people in securing
suitable homes, 1 believe
I can
boys
reclaim the wayward
without cost to the State.
Therefore, as this is a matter
of grave importance and no
mistake should be made, and as
for the present 1 can by parole
pardons provide homes for
youthful criminals, would it not
be wise for you to appoint or
have the Governor appoint a
committee of wise and humane
men to take the whole matter
into consideration and report to
the next Legislature if a reform
atory ' is absolutely needed, and
if so, to recommend the kind
most suitable for such criminals,
and then with all necessary
information before, them, there
will be slight chance of there
being any mistake made?
STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE IN
SANE. !
Article XI, Section 10, of the
Constitution, thus reads; "The
General Assembly may provide
that all the indigent deaf mutes,
blind, and insane of the State
shall be cared for at the charge
of the State."
Indignent persons are those
destitute of the means of subsis
tence and under this provision
may be cared for. Other citizens
of the State, who are not
indigent, but who have property
and by taxation help to bear the
State's burdens, are also often
insane, and they and their people
desire that they should be treat
ed in their own State, and not be
compelled to go elsewhere of ten
far away from home and loved
ones. Therefore, in my opinion,
the General Assemble should
proyide not only suitable and
sufficient hospitals for the indi
gent insane, but for ail giving,
of course, under the law, the
preference to the indigent, and
requiring non-indigent to pay
enough to reimburse the State
for its actual expense in caring
for them.
The insane are not only indi
gent and non-indigent,from the
standpoint of wealth, but are
also curable and incurable,
harmless and dangerous, as well
as those who are epileptics and
idiots. Humanity demands that
'he State should take care of all
these classes, except the harm-
I . m . -
less laiots, and for these strnncr
laws should be enacted, requir
ing their counties to properly
care for them, unless provided
for by their own people. It is a
fatal mistake not to care for the
epileptics, foroften they are the
most dangerous of all classes.
Hundreds of these unfortunate
persons are incurable: but this
does not lessen the legal and
moral obligation to provide for
them. There are others who
with proper treatment and good
surrounding can be cured and
return restored in mind to home
and fairoly.
The State can afford to take all
insane persons out of the com
mon juls and county homes and
properly treat them in hospitals
provided for ihai purpose, and
God will not bless or allow a
State to prosper that neglects to
care for his afflicted. I send
you the reports from all the
hospitals, and ask jour careful
consideration of their requests.
The State Hospital at Morgan
ton will ask for an additional
building to. furnish room for
hundreds asking admittance, and
for an increase in its yearly
allowance,
The Central Hospital at Raleigh
will ask for more buildings and a
larger appropriation. It has an
option on 1,150 acres of landj
adjoining it property, at 155,000. j
This land is well wooded and'
watered, and these advantages!
alone would nearly pay for it.j
The land could also be cultivated '
to advantages by the inmates,
ana would be well suited for the
colony system of treating the
insane, now so much in use.
The last Legislature appropriat
ed money for a new building, but
failed to give funds to furnish or
maintain it. It was completed,
and one hundred ard twenty
patients could be cared for if it
was furnished. It was an emer
gency, and listening to the wail
of the unfortunates, the Council
of State borrowed the money to
furnish the building and now
ask you to pay the amount bor
rowed. The Hospital at Goldsboro for
the colored also had to get 15,000
under an emergency, and we
had to supply it, in order to avoid
a heavy loss, and to help relieve
the demand for room We hope
our action will be approved, as it
would have been inhuman not to
have granted the relief.
As to these Hospitials, I would
make the broad suggestion that
you send for their Superinten
dents and find out what is requir
ed to put them in condition to
receive all now applying for
admittance, or who may apply in
the next few years, and then do
what is right for their proper
support.
ROOSEVELT AND GENERAL LEE.
President Will Send Letter to Dautfi.
ters of the Confederacy.
To The Morning Star.
Washington, Jan. 9. President
Roosevelt to-day was asked to
attend the Robert E. Lee
Memorial meeting to be held
in this city on the 19th instant,
under the auspices of the
association of the Confederate
Veterans and the Daughters of
the Confederacy, This will be
the centeuial anniversary of the
birth of General Lee and is to be
generally celebrated throughout
the South. The President will
not be able to attend the meeting
but promised to send a letter.
The committee which called on
him included General Marcus J,
Wright, of Tennessee; Thomas
Nelson Page, Washington, D. C:
Judge Charles B. Howrey, of the
Court of Claims; Mrs. Walsh, of
Mississippi, and Mrs. Young, of
Arkansas.
MAY LIVE 100 YEAR3.
The chancps for living a full century
areeicellf nt in tin case of Mrs. Jennie
Duncan, of Uaycesyille, Me., now 70
years old. She writes; "Electric Biltera
cured me of Chronic Dyspepsia of 20
YP.ra standinc:. and made me feel as
well and strong as a young girl' Elec-
trie Bitters cure Stoac and Liver dis
j eases, Blood disorders. General Debility
and bodily weakness. Sold on a guar
ianteeatT, R. Abernethy's drug store.
Price only 50c.
C3ASTOHIA.
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Gen, Jackson's Grear Fight.
charlotte Chronicle.
New Orleans yesterday cele
brated the ninety-second anni
versary of the whipping of the
British by Andrew Jackson.
That was a great fight, but the
school children of the present
day learn practically nothing
about it. It is summed up in
one paragraph by The Picayune,
which says: 'The battle began
about 7 o'clock in the morning
and continued about twenty five
minutes. The British force
placed at about 12,000 men,
commanded by Sir Eiward
Pakenham, with Generals Keane,
Gibbs and Lambert as subordi
nates, attempted to take Jack
son 's works by assault, but was
so frightfully slaughtered thai
after 2.500 men had fallen, killed
and wounded, Generals Paken
ham and Gibbs were killed and
Keane wounded the attack was
abandoned and the survivors
were glad to get away to their
ships, Jackson's force was
about 6.000 men and his loss in
the battle was 8 killed and 15
wounded." The news of this
battle did not reach Washington
until February 4, following. If
anybody bad suggested to Andy
that he send a wireless message
of the victory, he would have
been knocked down for his pains.
A Noble Offer.
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shortness of breath and heart
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loss of appetite, heartburn,
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R, P. Freeza's Drug Store.
London to ShangHai on Land.
London, Jan 9. A bill was
deposited to-day to incorporate
the Channel Tunnel Company
and to authorize the construc
tion of works which will form
part of the scheme intended to
connect England with France by
means of a railway under the
English Channel, Powers are
sought to execute such work
up to the three mile limit, and it
is proposed that a new company
shall hereafter be registered for
the prupose of carrying cut the
entire project. It is estimated
that the scheme will involve a
total outlay of $80,000,000. It is
intended to raise half that
amount in this country and the
remainder is promised by France
as soon as the scheme shall have
received Parliamentary sanction
here, A li mated liability com
pany was registered here to-day
with a capital of $40,000,000.
Two parallel tunnels will be con
structed, the total length under
the sea being 25 miles, and with
the land approaches on each side,
SO miles. Careful calculations
show that in the first year after
the opening of tee
"Caldover
Tube," as it will
be called,
1.300.000 passengers will be
conveyed through the tunnels,
and the gross receipts from all
sources of traffiic in the same
period are put at 57,600,000.
Liberal estimates made by
French and English engineers fix
the annual expense at $2,000,000,
leaving a net profit of $5,700,000.
When the trunk line now in
course of construction through
Greece, has been completed, the
opening of the channel tunnel will
shorten the mail route to India
by 36 hours and it will be possi
ble to travel from London to
Shanghai without having to step
on a ships' deck.
Can Send Voice by Mail.
New York, Jan. 9. Amuse
ment arcades throughout the
country are to be equipped with
a new device into which anyone
can talk or sing and immediately
hear lr voico reproduced.
The bp trains r M-ii is to be
used for this pinos is known
as the Poulson telegraphone, a
machine that makes a perfect;
reproduction of the human voice,
instrumental mu5;c or any other
sound and also f-.fi'vYU conversa
tions carried oa ver telephone
wires.
In tho mrcinrs to hi placed
ia the arcanjs thy records are
made on a c ircular sheet of thin:
steel by a
magnetic neefiie.
A nvnno t '
-jo warns to near x i.
- - - A f
ms voice aounas use taiss or
I
rounds like talks
sing into a transmitter attached
to the recording magnets He
then places a receiver to his ear
and at once the nnique experi
ence of hearing the sound of his
own voice reproduced without
any of the buzzing that usually
mars "talking machines," If he
desires he can secure the disK
upon which his voice has been
recorded and take it home in his
pocket.
If you want to send a vocal
letter to a distance, talk into the
nearest telegraphone, receive the
record and mail it in the
ordinary way. The recipient
places it in another telegraphone
or takes it to one of the arcades
and hears his correspondent's
voice. He can then wipe out the
record with a magnet and send
his reply upon the same disc.
The telegraphone will also be
used for reproducing popular
songs and ma sic. The records
mad by the phonograph which
his heretofore been the only
device for resordirjg sound have
always been too mechanical to be
entirely satisfactory. Moreover,
a phonograph record of a song
which is very popular is soon
worn out. The telegraphone
records, however, being made
by the action of localizad mag
netism oa steel wire or disk,
reproduce sounds as clearly as
from human throat, and can be
userf thousands of times.
Weak Lungs
Need VINOL
its cod liver oil elements heal
and strengthen the lungs
Many people inherit weak lungs
which are likely to be attacked
by consumption. So also are
lungs weakened by disease or by
a stubborn hacking cough.
Vinol, which is a real cod liver
preparation with all the useless
oil eliminated and tonic iron
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and gives one the power to throw
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We ask every person suffering
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R, ABERNETHY, Druggist.
Tillman is in a hole on this
Brownsville question. The
record is pulled on to prove that
he himself treated white militia
of South Carolina as, summarily
as Roosevelt did tnose negro
companies. Surely he cannot
persist in condemning Roosevelt
for following his examnle.
Columbia'Record.
Mothers who give thfir chilc'rn Ken
nedy's Laxative Cough Syrup isvariably
indorse it Children like it because the
tast is so pleasant. Contains Honey
and Tar. it is tha original Laxative
Cough Syrup and ia unrivaled for the
efief of croup. D.-ivea the cold out
though the bawels. Conforms to the
Kational Pure Food and Drug Law.
oSld by T. R. Abmethy & R. P. Freeze
A boy in school is worth a
dozen in the poolroom. Charlotte
News.
Now the Baltimore Sun is urg
ing Maryland to secure farmers
after ahe South Carolina plan,
The movement is spreadiig,
Charlotte Chronicle.
The Fanner And The Vermin.
J. C. McNeill in Charlstte 01serrer.
A farmer threw the almanac ji
which he had been reading into
the chimney jim and addressed
his wife thus; "The coons,
squirrels, crows and woodpeck
ers have eaten almost all my
corn on the stalk; the rabbit
nave a n onsy tne skeletons cr
my coiUr.i leaves: the
possums,
miaks, and weasels maraud my
Lhenhouse: the fox fattens
upon
my geese: moles hive peeled the
roots of my young fruit trees: all
the harness in my bam bss boen
gnawed by rats; tho weevils h,'v
bored the heart out of every grain
of ray earnered corn: my sheep
are da.iiy destroyed by
dogs.
t ! How are we to get along? It is a
burden that Providence has put
upon us that we must support ail
these denizens of the- wild woods
and use what is left for our
se'ves." That very night the vermin
held a convention, the minutes of
which, recorded on a sheep skin
with a crow quill, ran as follows;
It was the sense of the meeting j
that Providence is against us in
our struggla for existence. Thi3
territory is ours by right of
immemorial occupancy, and yet
the farmer who has seen fit to
claim the soil has set traps and
deadfalls against our lives. He
invades cur fastnesses with a
gun and shoots us at -sight. He
has barns and barnyards, he has
distributed poisons, cleverly
disguised, that when we forage
we may partake thereof and die.
He has in league with him such
traitors to us as the cat. We
have done nothing to offend him.
On the contrary, we have made it
our studyato avoid him and fly at
his approach. We know not how
to placate him, inasmuch as he
will admit of no truce for parley.
There is no action we can take
that will ameliorate our condition
and therefore we can but resolve
to bear up under our hardships
as beat we may."
It is difficult for either of
complainants to appreciate
merits of the other's cause.
two
the
Report on Cotton Ginninjr
Washington, Jin- 9. The
Census Bureau to-day issued a
report on cotton ginning, show-
j ing that up to January 1 there
jwere 28,399 active ginneries in
'operation and that 11.759,944
bales were ginned, compared
Jwith 9,725,420 bales for 1905.
! Round bales were counted as
-half bales- By States, the num-
ber of ginners in operation are
jgiven as follows:
j States. Bales.
Alabama 1,199,740
Arkansas 732,201
Florida 59,030
Georgia 1,572,701
, Indian Ter. 350,353
J Kentucky 1,362
Louisiana S36,646
Mississippi 1,288,697
Missouri 38,441
North Carolina 572,143
Oklahoma 349,677
South Carolina 868,328
Tennessee 242,419
Texas 3,626,169
Virginia 12,907
The number of sea island brles
included is 54,168. The sea is
land cotton for 1906, distributed
by States, is: Florida, 23,144:
Georgia, 23,590, and South Caro
lina, 7,428.
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Mamma Howard, why do you
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You have plenty of them. Little
Howard I know, That't why I
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We sell Shears, Scisors, Razors, Knives and
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have you never reformed? Wl j
I reeform every morning,
New York Times.
Willie Gee! Do they let yn
;s?oto svrell parties? Gracie
I Lots ol 'em I'm catting societ' r
and societer every day. Chica. o
Tribune.
"It costs a lot to send an ex
pedition to the Nort Pole." svl
the scientist. "OL, I den't
know,'' answered Mr. Camrc.r,
"not so moch more than io go to
some of the other summer
resorts." Washington Star.
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