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COURIER Ghe COURIER Lands in Both Newa and Circulation. 15he COURIER Advertising Column Bring Results. ISSUED WEEKLY PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR VOL. XXXVI ASHEBORO, N. C, JULY 27, 1911 No. 30 THE V WASHINGTON LET TER Embalmed Bsef Packers Against Dr. Wi'ey Taft Against Great Food Fxpers Easy Money for Steel Trust By Clyde H. Tavennor, RDJcial Wa ghlngton Corraap judeut of T&a Oourier. ,an.. J . Washington, Ja'y 20. A remark able series of facts which have come to light within the last twenty-four hours indicts tint packers of em balmed beef are the influences that have beea principally behind the plot to havo Dr. II. W. Wiley ousted from public service, Minuf Acturers of smtnlnnd beef are at p eaeat, by virtue of a i ordr issued by taodjpjri,uiJut of a maul - ' ture, permitted to usa . baaz oate of soda in whatever quantities they may desire., Dr. Wileynott dhly op posed the issuance of his order, maintaining that the preservati ve is decidedly harmful in its effects upon the human system but has worked untiringly to educate toe people to the danger lurkiug in packed meats in which benzoate is used. The result is that several' states ,have passed legislation abso lutely forbidding the' use of the drag in any quantity whatsoever. "'Therefore Dr. Wiley has become a standing menace to the embalmed beef industry. "This man Wiley has got to go," was the edict that ' went out from the embalmed meat manufacturers. When Dr. Wiley held that benzo 'ate of soda was harmful to the hu man system, the packers appealed to the Remssen referee board, especial ly packed with friends of the food Uopers, which board very promptly and obligingly reversed Dr. Wiley. The board held that benzoate of soda in small quantities, specified as five-tenths of, one gram per day, was not injurious to healthy persons. . But when the order was issued legalizing the use of benzoate, no limitation whatsoever was made as to the amount of the drug the pack ers might 'use. Remarkable circumstances attend. Jr the issuing of the order .netting down the bars to the food dopeis. The order was issued on March 3, 1909, and was put into circulation March 4, the day Presi dent went 1 Jnto office. It was Signed by George R. Cortelyou, Os car, S. Straus and James Wilson, three cabinet officers, aa required by law. Of the three men, two were to ,. retire from office the next day and actually retired befora the scope of their order became known. This order giving government sanction to the use of the . product of benzoic acid meant that we were going back 5000 years, for benzoin or its products had not been used in " the preservation of flesh since the ' Egyptians stopped embalming their dead. Chemist Floyd W. Robinson, one of Dr. Wiley s prominent assistants, recently appeared as a witns against benzoate in an action brought by the s:ate of Indiana to prevent the sale of foods coptaining benzoate, and before Dr. Wiley had a chancy to intervene Robinsons dis missal "for the good of the service" followed. N ... Find the influence that was power ful enough to have the three cabinet officers issue the order legalizing the doping of foods," say Dr. Wiley's ,',friendf, "and ou will lear the . identity of the men who have ever since been piulting to have Dr. Wiley ous ed." Taft Against Wiley ' '"x Since Taft has been in the White House he has invariably i opposed Dr. Wiley instead of having co-oper- ated with him in the interests ot pure foojl. II In his uecision against Dr. Wile, II in' the interests of adulterated whit- key, the President reversed the find ings of ex President Roosevelt, former Attorney Generol Bonaparte, Chief Government "Chemist Pr. II. W. Wiley,' Secretary of Agriculture Wilso;, the Rmssen board, , the nited States rharmacopoeia. the nternal re venue. bureau of the treas ury, the standards adopted by twen- fcy-six states, ntteen 01 tne united States courts, and President Taft's father, the former attorney general )f the United States. . I ncri initiating Evidence Disappear! Following th mysterious disap- earance of the "Dick to Dick" let- jfectrom tae Dies or tne interior ue- lull set of Controller bay maps have also disappeared from the files of the War department. tames Jordan Returns from Richmond Tu .'Mgh News & Observer of Tuesday Ms week has the follow ing about v Randolph's promi nent citizenb. Rev. James Jordan, a Baptist mi nister of prominence, has stopped ( ff ou bio return from Richmond, Va., to his home in Franklinsville, N. 0., and is spending some time witb relatives in town. Though he is in his eightv-fourth year, he trav els unattended. Having spent sixty-odd years in the active ministry, and having rear- ea two lamuips oi ennureu wno are now domiciled in vauoos States from i UiKM.'e, iutm io iVxs, he is "uatur- ally regarded as a patriarch, and for one of his age, is - physically well preservsd, and Btroug in mind also. Born and reared at Troy, N. C, when most of his life has been pass ed, he moved to Rando'pb. county some fifteen year3 ago, where he still resides and is the subject of kindly interest among many friend and well wishers. Mr. Jordan now occupies the pul pit b it seldom, tie still, however, does much preaching in the homes which he visits, aud he expects to continue this to the end or his pil grimage. Summer School at Asheboro. Because of an apparent demand for such I will-teach a summer school of one month or more begin ning next Monday, July 31. The school will be conducted in the graded school building and will be primarily for the benifit of thosa students who failed to be promoted from last year's class. For ' terms, eto., which will be moderate, call at the school building Saturday morn ing previous to the opening of school. - . . Ol V. Woosley. P. D. Gold Jr., of Raleigh, has been elected secretary of the North Carolina Audubon Society to suceed Prof. T. Gilbert Pearson, who has resigned to become secretary of the National Audubon Society with headquarters at New York. The maps in question were seen not only by M. F. Abbot, but by Delegate Wickersham of Alaska, Gifford Pinchot and by Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson. Yet Major J. B. Cavanaugh of the War department testified before the Gra ham committee that the maps are not in the files now. It is believed by members of the committee that the Ryan conspira tors as soon as the present exposure was threatened took means to have moved from the government files all incriminating evidence. "The files have been tampered with. This is obvious, and in fact, the only conclusion this committee ciu reach in the face of the evidence at hand,", said Chairman Graham. ''It would seem that the files are not to be relied upon to give us the truth." "Altering records is a serious of fense and this committee wiJQ, go to the bottom of it." Dr. Wiley' Offense Doctor Wiley took one-third of the time of a first class man instead of all the time ol a third class man. That is the actual "offense" for which the great friend of the people is beii.g hamed by the Taft admin istration. The Same Old Cradle Howl That "the reduction of sugar du ties would ruin the domestic prudue. tion of cane sugar and that free sugar' would auuiuilate both the cane aid beet 6iig:ir industries of tije country" is the cry from th U luB'y lunged infant--the Sugar Trust. lu the name of the small growers and producers the Trust is whining and, pulling for a high tariff-for protection. With protection the small, independent interest has 'tae happy prospect cf being absorbed, annihilated, wiped out, as soon ita the tariff-anccored ir faut is ready to emit? it j go-between Easy Monev for Steel Trust - " That the United States Steel Cor poration forces independent steel concerns to pay exorbitant prices for hauling or over its roads is a point that the Steel Trust Committee of Inquiry will investigate. The com mittee is informed that the trust roads charge enough for hauling one load of ore for an independent com. pany to pay for tranaporting two loads of its own. COUNTY SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION. Rev. A- G. Dixon to Address the Convention Speaker Comes We i Prepared. The-Committee Program for the Ccunty Sutdty School Convention to be held in Asheboro, August 17ch and 18 ;h, have secured Rev. A. G. Dixuu, of High Point, as one of the speakers. Mr. Dixon attended the International Convention in San Francisco in June,' and is, therefore, particularly wll fitted for Bervice, not only in this convention, but in his woi k for the cause in the State Association and his own denomina tion. The Committee is unusually fortunate in securing his services. The Executive Committee of tin Association again urges the necessity of appointing delegates from the several schools at once, and Bending thei' names to Miss , Berta Ellison, the County S cretry, vyhos address is .tranklinville. superintendents and Township and County Officers whoexp.c; to attend should also send their names to her in order that homes may be provided for them. It is urged that the pledges made last year by the several townships oe collected and sent to Miss Ellison at once, that the report of the Treasur er may be completed by the Meeting of the Convention. D.:. J- R. Brown Dead Dr. John It. Brown, a brother of the late Henry Clay Brown, died in a sanitarium in Kanoxville, Tennes see, after having been in declining health probably from overwork for more than a year. Dr. Brown was 56 years of age. While a native of Randolph county, most of ' his boyhood was spent in Chatham county. Several years ago, Dr. Brown came within one vote of being elected Superintendent of the -Central In sane Hospital of North Carolina. He was for many1 ytars assist nt superintendent of the Central In diana Hospital for the Insane, and later assistant superintendent of the Eastern Hospital for Insane at Knoxville. He ftvas a gradmte of Trinity College and the Indiana University of Medicine, and was a sptcialist in nervous diseases and in. stinty. Dr. Krown is survived by one brother, Hun. J. M. Brown, o Al. t'enurle, N. C, and one sister, Mrs. Euma Woodman, of Raleigh. W dow of Revolutionary Soldier. Mrs. Mary Trawick Proctor, a native of Wake County, North (Carolina, now livina in Bartow Countv. Georeria. is 111 years of age. She has lived in three centuries, undr the administra tions of all . the presidents ex cept Washington. Her husband to whom she was married at the age of 19 was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and ths War of lolz; he has been Hpnd manv vears. Mrs. Proctor lives alone with her daughter, Miss Mary Proctor a woman ninety years ot age and two great great-grand children, all that are lett ot six genera tions. The family is very poor, subsisting on a small pension. Mrs. Proctor receives for her husband's service in the War of 1812 supplemedted by the pro fits derived from a small cotton and garden patch tended by the asred daughter, who never tires in her feeble efforts to serve her more feeble mother A movement has been started in Atlanta to raise f und3 that will be sufficient to care for the two old women the- rest of their lives. Avb!ack bear has recently been seen in the wocl3 near Granite Quarry, Rowan County. Institute Lecturers . The man and women who lecture before the Farmers, and Women's Institutes this summer will be better prepared for their work than ever before. They come rrom the recent Normal Institute in Raleigh which was presided over by rrof. S. B Heiges, of Virginia, one of the best institute men in the county and Mrs. Henrietta C. Calvin,! of ludi ana, who stands in the front rank as a, teacher of home economics and institute women. A SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS Hickory is to have a fair this fall. Governor Hoke Smith, of Georgia, has been elected United States Sen ator to succeed Joseph M. Terrell. John A. Vickers, a well known Durham man committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor last Sunday. A case of Asiatic cholera was discov ered last week in Bellevue hospital, New xork. Toe victim, a bpanish sailor was taken to quarantine. While attompting to cross a rail, road track at Laurel Hill, Mr. J. T. Lockey, of Wadesboro, was instant ly killed last Sunday morning. Senator F. M. Simmons has ac cepted an invitation to address the National Good Roads Association at Chicago in September. Mrs. Wiljiatn F. Jones, of Win ston Salem, had both arms and her nose broken by falling down stairs last ibursday. Dr.' Louis Booker, of Charlottes vale, va., has been appunted assis tant resident physician at the State Tuberculosis Hospital at Montrose. In Reems Creek Township, Bun combe county thiTi are 15 persons past 80 yeitrs of age. Seven years ago there were 21. 1 . From now on Caldwell County will supply free of charge to people not able to pay anti-toxin for the prevention and cure of diphtheria. According to the census report, the cotton growing center of the United States in 1910 was three miles south of Vaiden, Carroll county, Asiatic cholera has reached Bog ton. One woman is dead, her child ren detained at the quarantine, sta. tion, and two foreign Bailors thought to have the disease are somewhere in the city their exact whereabouts unknown. The greater Charlotte Club in vites all boards o: trade and com mercial organiz itions to meet in Charlotte September 12, for the purpose of urging the "Back Home" movement. "Dr." I. H. Adkisson, an aged man of Greensboro, who sells patent medicines is in jtil at that place charged with criminal assault on Clemmie Smith, a sixteen year old girl. An act of Congress last February authorized the erection at Guilford Battle Ground of a $30,COO monu ment to General Nathaniel Greene, theriAmerican commander at the battle of ' Guilford Courthouse in the Revolutionary War. Mrs. Kathryn Keough.Conrac'-Fuller-Harkness, who was born in Greensboro and lived there during girlhood was recently married the fourth time to Louis G. Meyer, of New York, a millionaire asphalt contractor. Mr. S. 0. Frostick, of Maxton, was killed by a freight train at that place last Friday. Mr. Frostick 'Was the father of the S. A. L. agent at that place. He was Bomewhat deaf and probably did not hear the train approaching. He was a highly re spected citizen. About four o'clock last Friday morning, Mis3e3 Lucy and Mary Lee Shine, of Rocky Mount, saw a negro cnwl through the window into their sleeping room. The young ladies screamed and the negro fled. A si?, ter of theird hurried in and fired a pistol shot after the fleeing figure. - Cephus, the 13-yfwr-"!d son of Mr, and Mrs. J. D. L ine, of Surry county, committed suicide by shoot ing himself one diy last week,bec;uiee his father punished him , for not working in the fHd wh?n the biiy claimed to not feel well. Thomas Castor, a young x white man of Concord, attempted suicide last Sunday by taking four table s containing 30 ' grains of bichlo ride of mercury, and is in a critical condition. The young mm was de spondent from heavy drinking. He has a wife and five children. Little Brown the six year old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. t J. E. Fesper man of S'atesville was instantly kill ed last Thursday by being crushed under .the wheels of a threshing ma chine. The child was visiting her grand-parents in the country, and seeing others riding on the tongue of a passing thresher attempted to join them but fell backward under the wheel her head being crushed. Reunion of the B'ue and Gray. One of the most unique as well as investing and touching incidents in history was the celebration last week of the fiftieth anniversary or Bull Run or the first batile 0 Manassas. The peace jnhilre and reunion of tht battle-scai r a vet erans of two armies once opposed to each other began on bunday, July 16, with a sermon by Rv. H.N. Oauden, chaplain of the ll 'use of Representatives, who labt Lis Bight while serving in the Union army, and lasted during the week, the crowning feature coming on Friday, exactly fifty years after the battle. Jit 9 o'clock in the morning the aged veterans, who wore the gray in the well nigh invincible army of the South from one side, and tiie gray haired men, who in uniforms of blue, were at.last victors, from the other side marched across the historic bat t'tfiald until they met and clasped each other's hands . in brotherly friendship. The event was wit nessed by Eix thousand people, in cluding many prominent persons. At the Henry House, th3 centre of the battlefield, an address of wel come was made bv Col. Edmond Berkley, of the Eighth Virginia reg iment aud responded to by G?orge W. Gordon, Grand Commander of the United Confederate Veterans, and Gen. John E. Gilman, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. Ech veteran was then presetted with a badge, the gift of Col. R. M Tb.omr.son. A luncheon or "love feast" followtd the return from Bull Run to Manasst-B, and in the even ing the jubilee anthem, composed by Mrs. Mary Speed Mercer, of Elm City, N. C was sung by 48 young ladies representing the 48 states. This is the chorus of the anthem: "America, all hail to thee, Thanks be to God who made us free, North, South, East, West, hand clasped in hand, United we, thy children, stand," During the evening addresses were also made by President Taft and Governor Mann, of Virginia. Committees from the Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confederate Veterans planned the Jubilee Reunion. During the week "The Blue and the Gray nnd Tn -ir Sons," a national organiz itiou, tas perfected. At the battle of Bull Run, J .ly" 21, 1861, the Confederates un-Jer Johnson won a decisive victory over the Federals under McDowll. It was here that T. J. Jackson woo the immortal name of "Stonewall.1 In August, 1862, when Lt Longstreet were opposed to other at Manasss. the tidu ol tory turned to the Federa's. , and uch vic- Burgess Cox. On Sunday, July 2l Mr. Walter Burgess and Miss, Maine Cox were married at the home of the bride's mother, Mis. Jennie Cox near Ram seur. OJy a few intimate friends of the contracting parties were present. The bride was becomingly gowned in white. ' The attendants were Mr. Dean Thompson with Miss Alma Cox, Mr. Ernest Yolk with Msss Maud Burgess, Mr. Grady l'arks with Miss Allene Cox. and Mr. Wes ley Thompson wiiu Miss Myrtle Burgaae. Ine beautiful and useful presents attested the high esteem in which the couple are held. Mr. Burnets is a sou of Mr. a; d Mrs. N. M. Bureress, while i.is bride is the daughter of Mrs. Jennie Cox. ' The .beot wishes of a h.S'. if ineiH.s go with them through life Mr. aad Mrs. iiurges.; wui n-jiue ou lliniseur Route 1. Dies at age cf H9 PrsciciHa Hill, a colored vouan ol near Strieby, diep July 13, at an extreme age. There is sid- to be good evidence that she was 119 years or age. beveral sons and daughters Eurvive.some of whom are nearing their eightieth birthdays. She was never a slave having been of class of colored people knowu as the "free before the Civil war. Woman's Mission Society -The Woman's Missionary Society of the Piedmont Baptist Association met in A6heboro yesterday. An interesting program was carried out. f Reciprocity Bill Passed- The Bill for Reciprocity with Canada without amendment passed the Senate last Saturday by a vote of 53 to 27, The voe on the bill was as follows: Republicans against the bill: Borah and Hevburn, Idaho; Bou rne. Oregon; Bristow and Curtis, Kansas; Burnham, New Hamp shire: ClaDD and Nelson, Minne sota; Clark and Warren. ing: Crawford and Gam South Dakota; Cummins Kenyon. Iowa: Dixon, Montana Gronna and McCumber, North Dakota; LaFollette, Wisconsin Lippett, Rhode Island, Lorimer, Illinois; Oliver, Pennsylvania; Page. Vermont; Smith, Michi gan; Smoot, Utah. Democrats against: Bailey, Texas; Clarke, Arkansas; Sim mons, North Carolina. Republicans for the bill: Bradley, Kentucky; Brandegee, McLean, Connecticut Briggs, New Jersey; Brown, Nebraska; Burton, Ohio; Crane and Lodge,, Massachusetts, Collom, Illinois; Guggenheim, Colorado; Jones and Poindexter, Washington; Nixon, Nevada; Penrose, Penn sylvania; Perkins and Works, California; Richardson, Dela ware; Root, New York; Stephen son. Wisconsin; Townsend, Michigan; Wetmore, Rhode Is land. Democrats for: Bacon, Georgia; Bankhead and Johnston Alabama; Bryan and Fletcher, Florida; Chamberlain, Oregon; Chiiionand Watson, West Vir ginia; Culterson, Texas; Davis, Arkansas; Foster, Louisiana; George, and Owen, Oklahoma;, FJitchcock, Nebraska; Johnson,. Maine; Kern and Shively. In diana; Martin and Swanson. Virginia; Martin, New Jersey; Myers, Montana, Newlands, Nevada: O'Gorman. New York:: Overman, NorthCarolina; Payn ter, Kentucky; Pomerene, Ohio; Ti i i rj. tut: n ji. xveeu ana otone, missouri; orniui, Maryland ; Smithr - South t'aro--lina, Taylor, Tennessee; Wil liams, Mississippi- The Canadian Parlaiment has. not yet acted on the matter. Deaths. Mr. Angus Shaw, a prominent citizen of Maxton and a Confede rate veteran died last Monday. Mrs- Mary E. Cowan, aged 67 years, died at her home in Salis bury last Monday, also, Mrs. Fannie Marable widow of the late J. S- Marable, formely of Salisbury, died at her home in Richmond, Va , last week. Will Glenn, the sev enteen year old son of Mr. and Mrs- J. B. Smith, of Lexington, died last Sunday. Children's and Old Folks Day at JNew ialem- At New talem church next Sunday there wil be a hildrens Day service in the morning and in the afternoon an Old Folks Day service- -A special program is being prepared for the Chil dren's exercises and they prom ise to be of interest.' The afttrnoon will 1 p p-ivpn over to the older folks. Ad dresses will be made by promin ent men- Everybody is invited to bring their dinner and enjoy the occasion. Romantic Marriage Dr. i?. E. Duiiii;i-3 i.nu MiS iKuth Jii;;i..!i;, i.,ta ot U :iurr .- n . I!.;i ifi i Nhuiw Ua i-'iiiiiv oi '-,'. 4irK in kt.ew uiij l : i j . rit-te. uut.I t'.j youce hi. iti, were i. l'u v. 'Uule tiji 1' rivi'd m ii'"gt ; the groom pro cured a lictiidt', aial jrrcceded to tho hou.e of his father, wrere the Rev. Dr. O'Kelly soon arrived and performed the ceremony. The two young people had left Mt. Gilead at the same t me Miss Ingram leaving the impression that she was going ta Clayton for a house party and Dr. Douglass ostensibly leaving for his summer vacation. The bride is an attractive young woman, the daughter of Dr. C. B. ingram, of Mt. Gilead, while her usbandis a son of Hon. W. 0. Douglass, of Raleigh. He is en gaged in the practic of his rtrofes , sion at Mt.' Gilead. wyom- We. C v..