.V
Randolph Bulletin
Published Weekly.
ASHEBORO, N. C.
Eggs can become so cheap as tc
arouse suspicion.
The harem skirt has displaced the
hobble skirt, and it bids fair to become
popular.
Radium is being boosted for heating
purposes, and there is no telling how
high its price will go.
Men do not mind how much women
mimic their clothes so long as they
remain womanly in action.
Seattle is to have a 41-story build
ing. It wants something Tacoma car
see and put in its pipe and smoke.
Chicago is becoming excited be
cause so, many of its marriageable
young men go west. But can you
blamo them?
Jail sentences for women smug
glers seem hard, especially when the,
women smugglers can better afford
money than time.
An American, has just paid $500,00(1
for one of Rembrandt's paintings. In
emphasizing the artistic temperament
that is going some.
Germany's rapid increase in popula
tion leads us to believe that the storls
continues to be more popular there
than the military bird.
A theatrical manager says there are
no pretty girls in New York. We can
afford to pity the poor metropolis.
There are no ugly ones here.
In spite of the fact that a prisoner
In a Washington jail earned $12,000
while behind the bars, we still hol3
that jail is a good place to avoid.
The government has ruled that the
trousers of an official cannot be pressed
at public expense. We look for more
baggy trousers in office henceforth.
A domestic In 52 years of service
saved $32,000. It would be interesting
to know how much her employer
able to accumulate in the same pe
riod. The news that the kaiser has in.
creased his string of motors cars to
thirty causes one to suspect that Wil
liam intends to go some in the near
future.
Another college professor has come
to the front with ajplan to regulate.
SSSP1 W ixsiCTias become of the
old fashioned professor who taught
in school?
The news that radium is to be the
future competitor of coal as a heat pro
ducer inspires the coal dealers with
considerable confidence in boosting
their prices.
The auto truck may be commercial,
but it is also humanitarian, as any
one will witness who has seen the
struggles of an underfed horse with an
overloaded wagon.
There is no more delightful reading
than the story of a romance in real
life that ends happily; no more dis
tressing reading than such a story
that ends the other way.
One of the aviators recently went
up several hundred feet in the dark.
He probably had an idea that it
wouldn't hurt any more to fall in the
dark than In the daylight.
An eastern club woman who claims
to have investigated, reports that men
love fluffy girls. Perhaps they do, but
they generally want the girls to get
along with their own fluffs.
The New Hampshire legislators are
trying to stop eavesdroppers on party
telephone lines, and they may become
so foolhardy as to ask congress tc
request postmasters not to read postal
cards.
New York doctors are preparing tc
diagnose disease by studying the pa
tient's dreams. The phantasmagoria
caused by an injudicious mixture oi
lobster Newberg and mince pie would
Indicate defective judgment, or we
have eaten things in vain.
A New England sea captain died aa
the result of being jabbed with a hat
pin worn by a Boston woman. What
an irony of fate it was that after fac
ing death on the waters for many
years he should be impaled on the
point of effeminate fashion.
A Brooklyn widow who advertised
that she was a good cook of both
plain and fancy dishes, and wanted a
husband, got 145 proposals. This
looks as if the cynical clubwoman's
recipe of making a happy home by
"feeding the brute" is near the mascu
line ideal of wedded romance.
One of the Johns Hopkins professors
announces that poverty will be abol
ished. It will not be possible, how
ever, to get everybody to be pleased
on account of the abolition of pover
ty unless work can be abolished alonri
with it.
A man in a Massachusetts town was
arrested for kneeling on the sidewalh
and offering prayers. The magistrate
before whom he was brought decided
It is no crime to pray in the streets.
The executors of the law certainly
have some queer ideas of wrongdoin
riMELY TAR HEEL TALK
NEWS NOTING THE PROGRESS OF
A MIGHTY STATE.
Asheville. One and a half miles of
the Black Mountain railroad has been
graded and crossties are being laid.
Thomasville. Southern Power com
pany interests have taken over the
light and power plant of this town.
Southern Pines. A number of
strangers are in town looking for lo
cations for fruit and cotton farms,
some coming from as far away as
Iowa.
Fayetteville. Arrangements were
made here for an aviation exhibition
to be given April 8 by Lincoln Beachy,
aviator. Beachy is now conducting an
aviation school in PinehursL
Murphy. The town has sold Its
$25,000 issue of bonds to build an up-to-date
system of water works. The
township is preparing for a $100,000
bond issue for road improvements.
Shelby. Cleveland farmers are be
coming aroused over the farm-life
schools provided for by the last legis
lature and an effort will be made to
secure one of the ten provided for in
the bill.
Alta Pass. The Appalachian high
way will be built from Linville to Alta
Pass, a distance of 2 miles, by a com
pany which has secured a charter for
that purpose. Prof. Joseph Hyde
Pratt is one of the leading movers
in the enterprise.
Charlotte. Captain James O. Walk
er of the Charlotte drum corps and
the Arab patrol, arranged to have a
special train carry the members of his
two organizations to Rochester, N. Y.,
for the great events on July 11, 12
and 13.
Greensboro. Charles A. Sisson,
center fielder of the Columbus team
of the South Atlantic league, and Miss
Louise Sergeant, daughter of a prom
inent and wealthy manufacturer of
this city, were married here. Sisson's
home is at Grand Rapids, Mich.
Charlotte. Gen. Julian S. Carr, ol
Durham, notified the president of
Biddle University of his acceptance
of the invitation recently tendered to
deliver the annual address at the
commencement of the university June
7. General Carr is one of the fore
most citizens in the state.
Greensboro. Mrs. Ulysses Q.
Thompson, recovering from an attack
of fever, was allowed to read news
paper accounts of the New York fire.
She commented upon the fate of the
girls and arose from her bed and
plunged through a second story win
dow. She is suffering with a fractured
hip and other bruises, none of a seri
ous nature.
Decatur, Ala. The body of the
young man who was mysteriously
killed here was identified as that of
William N. Parker, not Parks, as at
first thought, and were sent to his
father, J. S. Parker, Concord. He
was identified by a missing toe and
tattoo marks on the body.
Southern Pines. A movement is
on foot to rebuild the hotel at Lake
view recently destroyed by fire.
Charlotte. There is net thought to
be anything involved in the differ
ences between state insurance com
missioner Young and the Order of
Owls, which will hazard the organiza
tion of the order in Charlotte or
throughout the state.
High Point. Negotiations which
have been going on for several months
between the representatives of the
Southern Car company of this city and
outside capitalists, for the reorganiza
tion of this plant, have at last been
successfully consummated. Among the
new outside stockholders are Messrs
J. B. Duke, W. G. Brokaw, Abraham
Cook and R. W. Morrison, the latter
two gentlemen having been associat
ed with the St. Louis Car company for
years and being practical men. The
capital stock, it is said, will be raised
over $100,000 more to make this plant
the largest of its kind in the East.
Nashville. A verdict of $2,090.25,
with interest from January, 1908, was
found against' the Carolina college,
Maxton, in the superior court, -Stout
& Denton, architests of Rockj
Mount, balance due of 2 per cent., al
leged cost of buildings. The Caro
lina college did not fight the verdict,
and paid no attention to the case.
Shelby. The special election in N
o.
9 township on the question of voting
an additional tax for good roads fail
ed to carry by 34 votes. The township
is the third richest in the county
Washington. Congressman Gudger
thinks he will oppose the ratification
of the reciprocity treaty when it
comes up because it places a burden
on the farmer by reducing the cost
of what he produces while not mak
ing what he buys any cheaper.
Asheville. Judge Pritchard declin
ed to grant W. V. Moss his liberty as
prayed for in habeas corpus proceed
ings heard before him a few days ago
at Asheville. Moss will be obliged to
remain in jail until the June term of
United States district court. '
IS
SENATOR IN NEW YORK
INSURGENT DEMOCRATS CAP1TU
' LATE AND VOTE FOR SU-
PREME COURT JUSTICE.
VICTORY FOR TAMMANY HALL
O'Gorman's Election Brings to
Close Protracted Struggle In
New York.
O'GORMAN WILL SUPPORT
PROGRESSIVE POLICIES.
TJex ctanAa fnv immediate down-
ward revision of the tariff; rec-
iproclty with Canada, the par-
' ccels post, fortification of the
Panama canal, direct election of
United States senators and the
Federal income tax. He favors $
rigid economy in government
expenditures and is opposed to
all special "privileges and private
monopoly; to the new national-
ism and to the centralizing ten-
dencies of the Republican party.
Albany, N. Y. Supreme Court Jus
tice James Aloysius O'Gorman (Dem.)
of New York City, was elected United
States senator by the legislature af
ter the most protracted struggle over
this position ever held in the Empire
State. -
On the final ballot, the sixty-fourth,
he received 112 votes to 80 cast for
Chauncey M. Depw, whose term ex
pired March 4.
At the close of a day of almost con
tinuous, negotiations the Insurgents
capitulated and Justice O'Gorman was
elected. A few minutes before the bal-
- x i. t it rvi S
iul was casL justice u uurmau s res
ignation from the bench" was filed at
the office of the secretary of state,
as a constitutional provision would
have prohibited his election while
holding the office of justice of the su
preme court.
James A. O'Gorman has long been
one of the most prominent members
of Tammany Hall. He has been one
of the foremost orators for thirty
years, having established his reputa
tion as a public speaker in its in-;
terests, when, at the age of 21, his
eloquence was credited with having!
saved a doubtful assembly district
Mr. O'Gorman . was born on the low
O'GORMAN
CHOSEN
.1
May 5, 186U
He is the son of TAom
as and Ellen O'Gorman, and married
Anne M. Leslie in this city on Jan
uary 2, 1884. They have nine chil
dren, seven daughters and two sons
EARTHQUAKE IN ARKANSAS
Buildings in Little Rock Were Shaken
Perceptibly.
Little Rock, Ark. Little Rock was
shaken by an earthquake.
Mirrors were shaken from walls,
desks and chairs in offices rolled
about and windows clattered.
A near panic occurred in the South
western Telegraph and Telephone
building.
H. F. Alciator, section director of
the weather bureau, whose offices are
located on the tenth floor of the
Southern Trust building, reoprted con
siderable sway in that building. The
union railroad station, built of very
heavy concrete and stone, was rocked
perceptibly. Pine Bluff, Dumas and
Wilmar also reported a shaving expe
rienced shocks.
No serious damage has so far been
reported.
At Monticello practically every
house was affected by the shock.
Plastering was knocked from the
walls of the county court house and
several people narrowly esccaped in
jury from the falling mortar. The
high school was considerably damag-j
1 A 1 ' 1 t W
ea, tne plastering oemg torn rroni
the walls. In one residence the plas
ter was stripped from the walls.
At Fcrdyce windows in many busi
ness houses were broken by the
shock.
Memphis, Tenn. The local weath
er bureau reported two slight earth
tremors. The vibrations were very
slight.
$300,000 Birtnday Gift.
Chicago, 111. Dr. D. K. Pearson ot
Hinsdale, 111., will celebrate his 91st
birthday April 14 by the. distribution
of $300,000 to schools and religious
organizations. This will make his
total distributions of recent years
nearly five million dollars, most of
which has been given to small col
leges. The gifts are termed by Doc
tor Pearson as "debts," and in most
cases are fulfillment of his pledges
ro different bodies of certain sums
when they should have collected oth
er stipulated amounts.
$12,000 Paid Kidnapers.
Las Vegas, N. M. Two masked
m-u forced entrance into the home
i A. T. Rogers, a lawyer, and com
clled Mrs. Rogers to surrender her
r o-y ear-old baoy. The kidnapers
.eft a note for Mr. Rogers' demanding
?12,000 in cash if the parents wanted
their baby back alive. The money
v,as paid and the child recovered.
One of the kidnapers was partially
identified as Dennis Hart, a notorious
postoffice and bank robbers, who re
cently broke jail at Albuquerque,
New Mexico. ,;
er west side oi New York CItyyjsJfi2ftoi.vi10u -without foundation, though
TWO NEW LEADERS OF CONGRESS
CHAMP CLARK
Congressman Prom Ninth District of
Missouri.
When congress met in special session Tuesday, April 4, two new par
ty leaders were found in the place of Speaker Joseph G. Cannon and
Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island. They were Congressman
and Speaker Champ Clark of Missouri and Senator Boies Penrose of
Pennsylvania,, who succeeded Aldrich as chairman of the finance com
mittee. This position carries with It the leadership in the upper house.
Penrose, a Republican, will undoubtedly endeavor to line up the con
6ervatlve forces in the senate to oppose any radical tariff provisions
that the Democratic house may pass. There will be very interesting
battles between the Democratic lower house and the Republican upper
house, and the brunt of them will fall on Penrose and Clark.
PIE IN MEXICO IS IN SIGHT
TENTATIVE PEACE PROPOSALS
HAVE BEEN MADE AND ACT
ED ON BY GOVERNMENT. .
Mexico's Executive Will Retire
Such Action Will Bring Peace
His Country.
If
San Antonio, Texas. Explanation
of recent governmental changes at the
City of Mexico; the recall of Senor
Limantour from Paris; the arrival of
Francisco I. Madero, Sr., and his son,
Gustavo, at the city; the departure of
Mr. de la Barra from the ministerial
mansion at Washington for his new
position at the Mexican capital all
were explained in interviews witn
Don Francisco and Don Gustavo.
Tentative , peace proposals have
been made and on the administration
side have been acted upon. In the
view of Don Francisco peace is as
sured if not within ten days, then at
the furthest, .within a month.
Mexico City. The report that Pres
iiont niai win rflsisn is regarded as
(UVUb a - J
the date of such action' is contingent
upon the re-establishment of peace.
WEEVIL FRIGHTENS ALABAMA
Cotton Seed From Infected Districts
Have Been Sent Into the State.
Montgomery, Ala. So alarming
has become the indiscriminate ship
ment of cotton seed and cotton seed
meal into Alabama from districts in
fected with the boll weevil that State
Commissioner of Agriculture R. F
Kolb has called a special meeting o
the state board of horticulture to as
semble in Montgomery to adopt dras
tic measures for the enforcement ot
the state laws on this subject
fnmmifcsionar Kolb declares that
tha ontton industry of Alabama is
being imperiled by irregularities aiJ
over the state and the shipment ot
objectionable products is especially
large from Mississippi. Heavy penal
ties are provided for such violations
Sixty Babies for Texas.
New York. A dimpled brigade of
blue and brown-eyed babies will leave
here on a long journey to homes and
mothers. Sixty little foundlings will
the triD to fill vacant cribs in
as many homos in Texas and Okla
noma. Two sisters of charity, an to
vestigator and four nurses from the
Vnrlr foundline hospital will
have charge of the cooing cargo.
New Counterfeit $10 Note.
Washington. A new counterfeit
ten-dollar United States note, a pho
tographic production of the Buffalo
note, not very cleverly executed, was
announced by the secret service.
is of the 1901 series, bearing the por
traits of Lewis and Clark, the back
of the note being reddish brown in
stead of green.
China Satisfies Russia.
St. Petersburg, Russia, The Rus
sian foreign office has telegraphed the
Russian minister at Pekin that Chi
na's reply to Russia's ultimatum is
satisfactory. China's reply is an In
volved attempt to prove that she fully
acquiesced in Russia's demands in her
replies to previous Russian notes, and
that if any matters were not specifi
cally mentioned it was because .it had
been taken for granted taat they were
in accordance with the treaty rights
which China never questioned.
Tennessee Bank Robbed.
Carthage, Tenn. After blowing the
Bank of Lancaster, at Lancaster, this
county, exchanging volleys with the
cashier, W. T. Simpson, and shooting
up his home, four robbers executeu
their departure, on a freight train,
carrying with them approximately $3,
000 in money. The robbers, before
beginning operations, cut all wire
ronimuncation with the outside
world. The cashier was unhurt, but
a hat for which no claimant could be
found in the village was found per
forated with bullets.
BOIES PENROSE.
U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania.
WAVE OF COLOR HYSTERIA
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People Meets
In New York.
Boston, Mass. -A survey of the
work that is being, done by the Na
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People was given at
the annual conference of the associa
tion here by Oswald Garrison Villard,
a Now York newspaper publisher, who
chairman of the executive commit
tee of the association.
Mr. Villard in the beginning of his
ddress stated that the association
was organized because the 'situation
of the negro in the United States
called for a strong militant organiza
tion to defend his rights and forward
hi3 causes."
Continuing the speaker said:
"There can be no doubt that a wave
of color hysteria is sweeping over the
country. The road of the aspiring
colored man or woman becomes more
and more difficult; he is abused for
his low associations. Let him seek to
rise above them, and what happens?
Despite the fact that he has for years
been told that if he acquires property
and buys himself a house, all will be
well with him and his family, lr he
deos so In a section of a city whether
it be New York, Seattle, Baltimore
or Richmond, in which he may as
sure to his children good associations,
pure air and clean streets, he is as
sailed as if his presence there meant
the bringing in of a taint worse than
leprosy, and the laws are invoked
against him.
"In Southern cities, the public libra
ries are closed in the face of the col
ored man who would make himself a
useful, law-abiding and valuable citi
zen. His wife may be ill and desire
the aid of Northern surgeons; if so
she must travel in a day coach, and
berth, and by the son of Abraham
Lincoln even though it may cost her
her life as it did in one case of
which we know.
"The Labor Unionists; some Social
ists, even some Jews, who ought, in
all conscience, to realize what oppres
sion means and the wickedness of at
tempts to hold down a race, would
withhold a helping hand to the color
ed man and thereby mock the teach
ings of Christianity.
CHANGES IN POSTAL SERVICE
Postmaster General Reorganizing the
Railway Mail Service.
Washington. Drastic action was
taken by Postmaster General Hitch
cock in effecting a reorganization of
the railway mail service. A round
dozen of changes of the most import
ant offices In the service were made
by Mr. Hitchcock as a result of a
long and careful investigation and
thorough consideration.
While signing the necessary orders
for the change, Mr. Hitchcock said:
"The investigation which was con
ducted so long and so carefully indi
cated clearly that the action which 1
have taken was absolutely necessary.
World Peace a Dream.
Berlin, Germany. Discussing the
proposed extension of international
arbitration in the reichstag, Chancel
lor Von Bethmann-Hollwegg classed
universal arbitration and universal
disarmament as ideals impossible ot
realization. "The nations, including
Germany," said the chancellor, "have
been talking disarmament since the
first Hague conference, but neither in
Germany nor elsewhere has a practi
cal plan been proposed. Any confer
ence on this subject is bound to be
fruitless."
Farm Implement Combine.
Moline,- 111. A merger of 22 plow
manufacturing companies into one
corporation with a capitalization of
$50,000,000 was announced at the of
fices of Deere & Co. The name of the
consolidation will be Deere & Co., and
its headquarters will be here. The
concerns which comprise the new
ccmpany are located in Moline, East
Moline, Syracuse, N. Y.; Ottumwa,
Iowa; Welland, Ont.; Fort Smith,
Ark., and Minnepaolis, Minn. Tne
scope of the industry will include the
manufacture of all farm implements
PEACE PACT URGED
ON ENGLISH WORLD
ARBITRATION MOVEMENT BE
TWEEN ENGLAND AND
AMERICA EULOGU1ZED.
ENGLISH BIBLE'S BIRTHDAY
Meeting to Celebrate Tercentenary of;
t
King James' Version of the
Bible.
London, England. At a great meet
ing of churchmen and statesmen in
Albert Hall to celebrate the tercente
nary of the revision of the English
translation of the Bible by a commis-i
sion which completed the so-called!
King James version in 1611, Premier
Asquith and Whiteiaw Reid, theAmer-,
ican ambassador, who were the prin-,
cipal speakers, seized the opportunity5
to eulcgize the arbitration movement.
Suffragettes interfered with the pro
ceedings, and when the prime minis-,
ter began they unfurled banners bear
ing the inscription: "Votes for wom
en." The banners were torn up after
a free fight. In his address Mr. As
quith said;
"The English Bible belongs not only
tc the subjects of King George, but
to the whole English-speaking world.
One of the truths which has been
slowly realized, and which now I be
lieve is firmly rooted in the faith of
Christian men and women on both
HE FAVORS PEACE PACT.
WHITELAW REID.
Ambassador to England.
sides of the Atlantic is that war be- (
tween English-speaking people would
be not only a crime against civiliza
tion, but an unforgivable breach oi
these few commandments which are
enshrined in the New Testament, on
which nations have been bred.
"There surely could not be a more
worthy, a more appropriate, a more
splendid monument of this tercente
nary year than it should witness the
sealing of a solemn pact between us,
which would put an end once for all
to the hideous and unthinkable pos
sibilities of fratricidal strife."
Speaking of how the Bible furnished
the strongest and most indestructible
bond for present practical unity in the
aims and aspirations of the English
speaking family, Ambassador Reid
Reid said:
"While that community of aims and
aspirations endures, starting as it
dees from our common possession and
use of this book, and supported by the
same language, the same common law,
the same parliamentary institutions,
the same civil rights and "largely the
same blood, it is the greatest single
guarantee for the peace and progress
of the world.
"In fact,", continued the speaker,
"from the men and from the peoples
nurtured on the precepts of this book,
and mainly , on this version, came the
recent statesmanlike proposal of th
president of the United States and the
inspiring response of King George,
through Sir Edward Grey, which prom
Ise to make war as a settlement oi
any dispute henceforth before any
English-speaking people impossible
Washington. Felicitations on the
Bible tercentenary ceremonies at Lon
don were expressed in a message sent
through .Ambassador Reid by Presi
dent Taft.
Children Jump for Their Lives.
Dcmocest, Ga. Four hundred chil
dren, mostly in the primary grades
leaped from the windows of the HiL
school building at Piedmont college
and were saved from death when fir
was discovered eating its way through
me structure. More than a score o:.
children were injured, but none fatal
ly, owing to the short distance they
jumped. When the alarm was sound
cd the flames, had gained such head
way that panic reigned, pupils anc
teachers alike piling headlong front
the windows.
New York Capitol Badly Damaged.
Albany, N. Y. Fire-swept, smoke
stained and water-drenched, New Yori
state's magnificent 527,000,000 capitoi
stands a partial wreck by flames thai,
started in the assembly library, burn
ed away the entire west wing and did
damages estimated at $7,000,000 be
fore the fire was declared under con
trol, after raging more than fouL
hoars. Five million dollars probablj
cctld repair the damage done by fire
but money cannot restore the histori
cal records which were the pride o"
its state library.