~ - . y~-r t J ^ _ Int?rv?ntion^ pp ' _ Worries 1 WMtfafton. JW>. IT^WIOi Q>*? shadow of poeslble Mexican interven- , tiom hovering over Congress, general leg Mat! re activity In both houses* has | ?>?? araeMeallr U a standstill- Nh immediate need to take up the ques tiou of warlike moves a&alnnt Moxtco la aaitcipated.bet both houses of I'oogreas are prepared to receive the v ' V, Issu* should it be thrust upon them in the remaining days of the Taft ~ greaa cornea Into, being March 4. It has been determined that there will be no more general legislation I of an important nature before adjournment One more problem was handed over to the new admlhlatration last week, when the house Judiciary committee decided to take no dential term resolution. This had gin of one rote and promised a heated controversy had the Judiciary Committee given the house a chance to eoaalder it. Uoet of other debated questions also have been lirted out of this Congrees by the events or last week and the remaining time will be devoted r to appropriation bills andminor ieg-. islatloa. An attempt in both houses tp repass Che "literacy teat" immigration ^hijl over President Taft'a veto will mark the opening of the week and the friends of ' the measure In the senate and house express confidence that It will receive a two-thirds majority sad become a law, notwithstanding the President's disapproval. Of puses sis iontTs , school term * : To the Dally News: Just few thoughts on the present r statue of affairs in. our State and. ? county. Why do we need a six months -. JxAcstjgUS. compulsory attendance | when the farmer is already' over*faied and no labor, is to be had on?the farm? Hpur long can the farmer go to school* six months in the year? We QUI loom vno uigu com ui uring, -when what la the matter is simply that we can not get labor An Ohr farms, and prices are bound to-hdT ranee. If we are to be compelled to send our children to school six months in the year, then let the 8tate ? hnoha s?fl jjflttVlfc T the State has gone crasy orer edfl cation. We can not all get our living by being educated; there has got to ?? IOM on? lirft tn till tb? Mil I am awfully afraid that education will yet oanse the overthrow of this government? Tie great cry for education is simply that some one want# a Job. We are paying taxes enough now for a tea months school, but more than one-half of the school funds go to superintendents and other officers, and never get- to the children. We hear (hat two men In this neighbor* hoAJ Ull llfUWl 1 twiluuu Im f months school and .compulsory attendance, when neither one of them has any children to attend school, r The petition was not presented to any one but those two gentlemen. There la no sentiment in our vicinity for a six months school nor for compulsory attendance. The farmers cannot spare their children to attend the present school terms. -Now, .when every boy gets to be a bookkeeper or railroad clerk or postNoffice clerk or to hold some other good position, I would like to know who la going to feed the greedy gang that wants a living. We. are now -?- over-burdsn^fl with Just such labor as education furnishes, and I fear the worst has not yet cbme. We are' always seeing a young boy In out ' neighborhood, as fast as he becomes of age, go off Xo hunt some soft Job. And I want to warn the people now that he time will come when the Hnnm i?*n not bo fed. RvSTV dSV. we m? tillable land bale* vacated for lack of labor, etui farm produce ! Hfev Vase In proportion to the population than It waa twenty roam ago. Now we are panned to our limits, and It * eeeme there la to be an increase of tanas for aeboola and reada and Ube things? Under the present road law. It takes all the money to pay the boasts . ee, and very little coee for the road. i There la 11 miles of road In my B neighborhood that has had Dht one B" day'e work with drs hands sines It went So taxation, and I know that I ] V. - ' ' twt'.t * - ' . W __ _ 't* Congressmen. ' " ?? Rome. Feb. 17.?Count Bont de annulment gf Ua religious marriage with Anna Ooold. now the wife of his cousin, the poke de Talleyrand, who accompanied her to her sister's wedding In New York recently. Count dd Caste 1 lane Is employing e lever so extraordinary that Rome is amazed, and is making promises so remarkable to the Vatican to. attain his wish thst they most be relstcd in neater umini. ??;~? That the Count is a special envoy from the Chinese Republic to the Vatican is the oonstant and wide report both in religious and lay circles, here, and the Count makes no effort to deny it. As such the Count, it is said, stands ready to negotiate with the Holy See a convention, that would five great privileges to Catho11c missionaries in China and so facilitate the conversion to Catholicism of millions of Chinese. But even more remarkable almost fantastic, ts the 'explanation of De Castellaae'a appearance at the Vatican as the Chinese Republic's representative. Several years ago, or so the story rnns, the Count became interested in an impoverished young Chinaman who was studying at tho Sorbonne In Paris. The student sought apposition that would enable Wm to support blmpclf antl at lis same time allow him to pursue his studies. Y The yonngr Oriental was very talented and very proad. and De Castellans engaged him aa his private secretary, a position be Ailed until he dm mimM ninin inib puor iiuueui wan bod? oiuor than Sun Tat Sen, who did more than any man to incite the revolution in China ana who wis tne republic's /provisional ^President. He has never ceased to correspond wit# Count Boat de Caetellyje. When his once secretary rose to power the Count sained from the grateful 8un Yat Sen his special mission to the Vatican that be might be able to offer a superb quid pro quo in the annulment of his marriage. However strange is this seemingly well-founded report, it is certain that Count Bonl visited Cardinal Merry i)fl VbI on Tursdny and again on Friday and on both occasions had a long conversation with the Papal Secretary of 8tate. . ^ Back of De Caatellane's Attempt to annul his marriage, it is said, is bis desire to marry a wealthy American woman whose exact identity is shrouded in mystery, although Roman society hints that there t$ * coincident in the . fact that the Count's stay In Rome last year coincided with that of J. P. Morgan. ' * , MRS. LILLIAN DUDLEY DEAD. Yesterday the funeral of Mrs. Lillian L. Dudley took place from Warel chapel ohurch. | Mrs. Dudley .died very suddenly Friday afternoon at about 7 o'clock from congestion at her home on East Fifth street. Mrs. Dudley was the daughter of Captain W. A. Parris, and was bora three miles .north df Monroe. She is surrlved by her husband, Mr. J. T. Dudley, sad by heffaiher, her mother, four sisters, three brother*, and two children, one of whom is an infant hot five days old. Mrs. Dudley was a devoted member of the Methodist church, and sh6 frill be sorely mourned by all who tobw her. DfC A. K. Tayloe has returned from Norfolk, where he has been on business ; . the communltiee in the road boundary bare paid 940 poll tax for the work, saying nothing of the tax on personal proportjin And we hope that Messrs. 9tuddert and Rodman will not halp to paaa a Statewide stock law, as they bath pledged themselves not to do before the election. Thli le whet I think of the preaoat etete of affaire in our Bute and Bat Nero Addled while Rome burned. " . ' J.. A. BOCK. Olleed, N. c. 4-t* t'r ,- T JLto'.' - ";-k't"? : . -.L'-.-i . Weal SETTLED Wuhinstoi. Feb. IT.?Sir BdKnfti'i rogBrdiDf the Punam? Canal tolls question practically and at least Is expected to reach WhflHaglnn this weak It is understood that this last note by no means sett Ms the controversy, nor does it contain assurance of ad acceptance of the American proposition to exchange ratifications of the pending general arbitration treaty under the terma of which the Issue might be referred to the' spectal ctrrtmlsalon ofstx members proposed to be created by that convenMnn ?T1 charming young ladies ektemut auction Miss Olive Burbank. Miss Mae Ayprs. Miss Mary Simmons Jones, and Miss Jnlla Mayo entertained at awetloh bridge at the home of Mlw Burbank last Friday afternoon from 3 till 6, an account of which delightful function had to be held over from Saturday's paper for lack of apace. The affair was essentiality a valentine party. the dining-room being I decorated in pink and white hearts. I which hung fctffh the chandelier of I pink cryaan the mums, and were festooned ore/the entire room. In the middle of the dining-room table was a luce?cantar-piece. ^aad a shnwnr {bouquet of pink and white rarna1 ttOww On the tnhln hili hnw diahaa filled with staffed dates and salted peanuts had been placed. The valentine ache me was carried out in the parlor, which was decorated *trh red hfffrti. Poffiff plants- were scattered about in profusion. Delicious refreshments in two courses were served most graciously by JlMs 8y6Tlfa fTrTFBn" an3~Mlss Evelyn Jones. Those present.. besides the four charging hostesses, were: Miss Adeline Mayo, Miss Linda Moore, Mies Lee Banks. Miss Mary Clyde Hassell. Miss Annie Cox, Miss Mary Cowell, Miss Winnie Nicholson, Miss Llszie Hill, Miss Francis Lacy, Mrs. George Hackney, Mrs. Cecil Fisher of Norfolk, Mrs. Dan Taylor of Scotland Neck, Mrs. Lewis Mann, Mrs. Edward Mallison. Mrs. Norwood Simmons. Mrs.? Joh?r-Graha?, "STrw" Claude Carrow, Mrs. Harry McMullan, Mrs. Edward Matthews, Mrs. Percivat Richmond, Mrs. A. M. Dumay. WILL MAKE HEADQARTERS IN WASBINCTON. The Consolidated Talking Machine Co. of Chicago has stationed Mr. F. n^jyjwuaj^w^niBiionjj^n^ej^ reaentalJve of &e conlpanyTor this territory. Mr. end Mrs, Upjohn here arrived In the city,'end consider this place their home henceforth. Mise Eloiae Davenport, who has been visiting Miss Maud Fa^x, returned to her home at Plnetownthli afternoon. "Thrift I; \ _ i.. * iuta. - Z * Means of Your ooat of living is one o r problem of every housewife ' dollar you spend should be a course you want to "thrive." ' One of the greatest/helps t Dally News every evening. It C for those who would thrive. i The advertisements tell yon a big saving and household ual coet; and where you will fl Read The Daily News dose! night and get the messages of ate sending te their custom or % Mm iSOVSA. MONDAY A?|?CRNOON. ? ] Iher: fair ?r?d W Philadelphia., Pa., Feb. 17.?Enthttstaattc cnjwtta grested the ?ur- t gottes which frrtved here early last i night bound from New Tork to t Washington. Footsore and streaked i with the rlnst ol-J?ss|t-?dsi she- 4 eight women, under command of i "General** Rosalie >G. Jones, march- 1 *d up Market street to the local sufT- < rage headquarters in a lane cleared I by a police escort. Hundreds of 1 sympathizers met "the army" on the t roads between Burlington and Camden and escorted them here. j ^SKcol ; The First Section of the county teachers' association met Saturday in the Washington graded school, where Superintendent W. L. Vaughan. conducted a discussion of Part Three of a book treating of reading in the public schools. Tlio meeting was conducted as nearly as possible as if those present woro in t an actual class room. ( The teachers of the county have , recently beep divided Into three sec- ^ ltions. the first comprising flhooowin- _ Ity, Washington. and one-half of Long Acre Township. The eefond division Includes of Rlchmong Township. It moets Friday of this week in the Aurora school. The third sectlon Is composed of Bath. fjantcgo. and one half of Lang Acre Township. It meets at 10 o'clock next Saturday in the Waschlngton grade# school building. All of these meetings are conducted by the superintendent. TANGO CAPTIVATES PAR1B. L Paris, Feb. 17.?The Tango craze has reached such a pitch here that a Princess Murat, Mme. Jean de Reszke, and a royal Princess, who keeps pacognlto for the present, has arranged to place a sumptuous mansion In the Champs ElyBees at the disposi tlon of a young and fashionable teacher of the Tango for him to give I a course of w*?ns to the smart set during the season. Tickets In three colors will be issued: Blue for women of the most exclusive society circle, pink for othcourse will be opened by a brilliant i fete, which will be one of the events i of the season. All the principal Par- I is dandles will make a point of being' present, notably Pierre Lafltte, the well-known publisher, who has shown himself of late one of the i most agile guests at Mme. Adolphe Brisson'a Tango parties. CHILDREN OF REVOLUTION MEET SATURDAY. , The Col. James Bonner Society'of . tfrt; Children nf th? -Acmrlriin Hevolution of Aurora, N. C.. will celebrate Washington's Birthday with appropriate exercises in the auditorium of the Aurora Graded School building Saturday, February 22, 1913, at 8 p. m. The public Is cordially invited. Admission Is free. LOTTIB HALE BOVNFR. President. s The Best * | Thriving" i your biggest problems. it is toe , rhe value you receive for every i matter of serious thought, for of 1 I 0 thrift la the reading of The a pages are filled with suggestions where you can buy fine furniture 1 article* at much below their usnd clothes that are real bargains. y and constantly; read It every thrift that the best storekeepers i each day. ? ?e? AILY ' 1 S BHU A RY 17. ltll. armer rnsjmm mm New York. Fob. 17?The crisis In ho controversy between the eastern Wirorcnr Oielr ttnoen rhlch lvt week narrowed down to he method of arbitration to be employed to settle the differences beweeu them, m capecteil teutonowr ; rhen represent at Ires of both sides tare agreed to meet J udge Knapp. >f the Commerco Court, and G. W.W. tanger,, acting commissioner of la>or. the federal mediators. In a final tffort to arert a strike. "We are waiting for Ju^e Knapp ind Mr. Hanger to announce, that aws. to secure arbitration," Presllent W. 8. Garter, of tha Brother" lood of Locomotive Firemen and Enrlnemen, said tonight. "This means hat nothing will be done by us until omorrow." F YOU WOULD SMILE THEN DON'T SPEED A New York, Feb. 17.?Those who ravel along Automobile Row have ?ften wondered why A. L. McMurtry, T? C. Matlock. Joe Josephs. Larry lardy, Harry Caldwoll and "Art" uderricdon so seldom are reen to " mile. The answer is simple, according toj he London Standard, which claims1 hat people who travel at high speed j lease to ratter-nran article oa_thls lucstion It says: "Chauffeurs, motor-omnibus drivers, taxlcab drivers, underground aiiway officials, locomotive engli?re, -motor-cytltsts, tmftnsrf1" cyclats?In fact, all whose occupation n life keeps them traveling at a ipeed of more than ten miles an lour, "have forgotten or lost the lablt of smiliug. This is another evllence of national hablta changing inder our eyes, and It Is to -be thelubject of a scientific paper, which *111 shortly be read before a Junior philosophical body which is being 'ormed to dlscuBB the ever-changing! endencioa of mankind and their possible Influences for good or ill. "8mlllng, it will be advanced. Is ncoinpatlble with speed. Rapid moIon sets the facial muscles rigid; It fire* a thrill which deadens the risb'e faculties. The effect Is lrreslstble; it applies to a'l humanity, and it Is a natural impulse which sets the muscles of the face when the body Is moving at a high speed?an impulse irhlch Is beyond our control. apIAt) TO KtjM GIRL PRODIGY MKETS TKST8. Boston, Feb. 17.?A number of tests made by Prof. Hugo Munsterberg of Harvard, Dr. Hyslop of Columbia, Dr. Henry w. Hopkins, and Braehj. at lllfc taerjul ?t?te of piulah Miller, the ten-year-old girl of Warren, R. 1., who accurately locates and describes hidden tl^rgs. are describe sd In The Boston American today. Dr. Hopkins makes an affidavit in which he says: "I began the test of turning the (tone of my ring Inside my hand, putting my hand In my pocket. When Beulah came in from another room I asked her what I had in my left band. She readily said, 'A diamond.' E then put my hand In my right pocket, acid asked her what I had h my right hand. She said 'Purse,' which was correct. I took a coin In mjLright hand, while it was still In my pocket and said: 'Beulah, what bare I lh my right hand now?' She land, 'Quarter.' I'said: 'Now, Beulah, if you vrlll tell me the figures Mi the coin It la yours.' 8he answered '1-9-0-8,' and the quarter was Hers. I then opened the case of my watch and looked at the number of the movement, closed the case, and put !> watch back In my pocket. I asked Beulah If she could tell me the anmher of the watch movement. 8he ?M, *6-8-4-9-8-4 ' These were the .etual flgnrea." from bla pocket, had. holding It concealed. asked bit the time. Her re*?1, was* ace .irate. Mlas Meed Pane has gone,to spend a few daps with Mlseee Klolse and " 'opeh Davenport of Plnetown. LECTURE NEV ' ' .. J i*.J ? ?) ' ^^MIES Washington. Feb. 15.?"Uncle Jqe" Cnnnpn. veteran legislator and f o r m srSpe a ke ro f the House of Rep^ reeentaOves. was the guest of honor last night at a farewell banquet given by public men with whom he has The affair was unique, even in this city of banquets, for It was the last chapter but one In the passing of % man who has served thirty-eight years in Congress. The dinner was also non-partisan. At least 500 guests,' comprising members of the Senate and House, Cabinet officials, members oftbe dlplomatlc corps and Washington newshonor to "Undo Joe." Democrats and Republicans broke bread together and politcal differences were forgotten In paying tribute to one of the most picturesque figures in contemporaneous political life. Tbe dinner was In charge of a uon-partlsan committee of twenty members of the House. At Its headwas Representative Humphreys, of Mississippi, of Pennsylvania, a Republican, was vice chairman. The movement for a farewell dinner to tho former Speaker was Inaugurated several weeks ago when & number of Democrats and Republicans gathered In the office of Mr iiuuipurtryH una suin^u u suoiitnp- i tion list. Tbe response was Imme- [ diate and the list of prospective din-1 em had grown steadily .since that! time. Ab the hour for the dinner approached \t became apparent that ? the attendance would be a genuine! tribute to the old Republican war-1 horse and that It would tax tbe ea-; pacity of the big dining room. Joseph G. Cannon will be ceventyeight years old In May. He say* he will never seek public office again; that he 1b "going back to Danville to" help the young men whose fathers helped him In former years." - "On Mtnrb 4- l3c*t -b*r wltt- - have | served nineteen terms as a member' of the House. He was out 'or two years-?the Fifty-second Congress- but otherwise his tenure of office has been continuous. According to tbe number of years of actual service, "Uncle Joe" stands head high over any other member of Congress. His nearest rival is Senator Shelby M? Cullom, of Illinois, who also retires on March 4. Senator Cullom entered the Senate in 1883, and has therefuie btcu a ineiiibci ft? thirty yssrwi SULTAN TO BK PEACEMAKER. Washington, Feb. 17.?The aid of the Sultan of Turkey in insuring pease in at least a part of the Philip-, pines is to be sought by Major John P. Flnley, U. 8. A., who left here today for Constantinople. Major Kinley goes as a special representative I of the-United States as well as Min-! lster Plenipotentiary from the 600.000 Mahammedan thrlhesmen in the Philippines. He will attempt to get the Qui tan as leadei of the M. 17.?Mrs. Catherine Waugh McColloch. suffra- ? Cist and Justice of the Peace, made - ' an Impromptu speech In favor of * f 2 women for the ministry in the First Congregational church bore last uttlll'. Wm. MrTUllorir arow inim the pew where she was seated in the . * congregation. after Dr. O. 8. Davis, president of the Chicago Tbeologicnf Seminary, had'deplored the fact that . good material for the nilnlfry is scarce. He had said that the ordinary church cannot afford to pay a salary sudlclcnt to support a high pnster. and his family, and the" ?-?-J8| -result Is that only men of limited aludnmeuf cm be had. 3 "Why dod't you get women U> preach?" asked Mrs. McCulloch. Alter Dr. Davis bad answered tliat the question of ordaining women as ministers had often been discussed. Mrs. McCulioch said: "You should seek the women as you do the men. There are many firl? in college-who are more rjp.-?:? - ? able than men to take up preaching. They couid do better oeeause they could live cheaper and they would not be burdened with families. Woman would be at the height of h*;r in-"" fluonce in this Held. because the church is not only a place for spiritual _u glife!L_but_also_a_s^ta I j^entre_ __J| pnd a toning pla?*o for the morn! life of the community." MKTHOIMST i'HI RCKJfKRVH KM. Unusually largr and attentive c-x* grqgatians attended the Metbn lisl church yesterday The morning rub- ^, ject was, "The Gospel of the Kiuadom." and the pastor earnestly -W tressed the cause of mission^ One new mnne'r was*^nnounced The . ' J \ Sunday school bed a pood ee-sloa,thc numbers present being 212. The evening discourse was based 4Mfc~Luke-$;-38, "Gtww and U ahaJL-Uw-. . .? ..?j given unto you. etc." Giving was urged us h divinely appointed cure ? for selfishness. Give as God has * prosper? tir* you. This afternoon -?M the aid society of the M. E. church, will meet with Mrs. F. J. Woolard. on R Main street at 4 o'clock. , SIDE SPLITTING FADCE A! LYRIC TONIGHT * 1 j "Guest and Waiter," is the name !or the star attraction billed for the Lyric tonight. The comedians comprising the team which gives this ridiculous farce come exceedingly Avell I recommended, and have a long ree ord of pleased audiences left behind them in their tour. , The title alone of this skit is suggestive of infinite possibilities for mirth. If you feel the need of a good, healthful, hearty laugh, then come out to the l.vrip mnighr? " Wins BOYHOOB LOYE 111 OLD nee Baltimore, Feb. 17. Not wishing to occupy a large chicken farm a: Egft Harbor. N. J., alone, George Theis, a widower, sixty-five year* old, came to this city for a bride, after corresponding with a sweetheart . xj of his childhood days. Mrs. Dora Quent, who had been a widow. for twenty years. Mr. Theis popped the question about three weeks tygo, alBo setting forth that he had purchased ^ his proposal was accepted. The byldegorom has two grown children and the now Mrs. Theift. who Is AftyMwo years old, has three children. A Fire-Cent Magazine and*a FiveCent Joke Book Free. Buy next Sunday's New York World aiyl get the Big Magazine.with Ha twenty-four pages fn color and groups of good stories. Also the complete Joke Book, which Is also given with the Sunday Worlfrr No ^ other New York newspaper has such a magazine, and the WorldJoke Book is the only thing of its l^nd. OOTTOH MAKKKT Lint Cotton, ISc. . Ved Cotton, 4 1-Ic. j ^Cotton Seed, 118.09. r '