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DAILY EDITION. WEEKLY EDITION. DITION. : J .00 per Annum, in Advance, .oo for 6 Months, in Advance .oo for 3 Months, In Advance-. $1.00 per Annum , In Advance. OLD SERIES VOL LXXI NO. 3,996. FAYETTEVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1907. . NEW SERTES-VOL. XXIIINO. 2,373. jlJL inj it 11 m y mm m b mMi A Hard Debt to Pay. . "I owe a debt of gratitude that can never be paid," writes G. S. Clark, tt Westfleld, Iowa, "for my rescue from death, by Dr. King's New. Discovery. Both lungs were so seriously affected that death seemed Imminent, when 1 : commenced taking , New Discovery. The ominous dry, hacking cough quit before the first bottle was used, and two more bottles made, a complete cure." Nothing has even equalled New Discovery for coughs, colds and all throat and lung complaints. Guaran teed by B. E. Sedberry & Sons, drug glsts. 60cen,ts and $1.00,' Trial bottle free. " . -. ... v. Don't neglect your stomach. At the first Indication of trouble take some thing that will help It along In Its work of digesting the food you eat. Kodol For Indigestion and Dyspepsia will do this. Bold by Armfield & Green Wood. ' i . ( : 1 Pneumonia Follows a Cold, but never follows the use of Foley's Honey and Tar. It stops the cough, heals and strengthens the lungs and prevents pneumonia, , McDuffie , Drug Btore (O. U. Bonders, Prop.) PROFESSIONAL CARDS. Q.K. NIMOCKS, - Attorney and Cowucllor-at-law. . Booms 1 and 8 K. of P. Building. . ; riYIITSTILLI, - . . ., c. . 'Phone 229 - - H. McD. Robinson. John U. Shaw. ' . (Notary Public) - , - ' ROBINSON & SHAW, Attorneys-at-Law, Offices on second floor National Bank of Fayetteville., H. S. AVERITT, Attorney-at-Law, (Notary Public). Office 125 Donaldson Btreet, Fayetteville, N. O. V. C. BULLARD, Attorney, and' Counsellor at Law, .' Notary Public, Surveyor, Office K. of P. Building, FAYEITEVXLLE, N. 0. DR. WM. S. JORDAN, . Physician and Surgeon. 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TwSfLVSi Cum mlp dlmx b.lr tjjlka. 4 ausjiJaaiS I KvrrbU, N ALL c?u',Talt5:(1-. wmiyniofunttuttfmi. hit ina hWnpmint ftioHot MiKW. I Writ, or onto, to WM fT"r 1 in IV HA8TEN THE I88UE, -i i A Washington telegram says: '"The Supreme Court of the United States to-day granted the petition ot Edward T. ' Toung, Attorney-General ot Minnesota, tor a writ bringing the contempt proceedings against Mr. Toung In connection with the enforce ment ot the Railroad Rate law ot that State to that court for review and en larged the scope of the order so as to permit of bis admission to ball. He Is now under sentence by Judge Loch ren, ot the Federal Court, on the charge of Instituting a proceeding In the Minnesota State courts In the face of a prohibition .of the Federal Court. The action of ihe Supreme Court will bring the entire subject before jthat court. The Important question of the respective Jurisdictions of the State and Federal Courts In cases In which State railroad legislation Is Involved, which has arisen In many States, nota bly In North Carolina, will necessaiilv be considered In this suit, and it maj prove to be a test case along new lines." , . . ' This Is a highly Important stage In the vital fight which Is on now between despotism and democracy. ne may await the Supreme Court's decision with comparative equanimity, provid ed onl? the decision be clear-cut and free from evasion or incompleteness. . If .the court decides In favor of dem ocracy, the Revolution set In motion by. the Chicago convention of 1896 will have scored a substantial, possibly a decisive victory. If the court decides in favor of despotism (centralization), the end of the court Itself Is near. CURRENT COMMENT. The Raleigh News arid Observer, re ferring to the President's Thanksgiv ing Proclamation, which we print else where, wittily remarks: . "If Mr. Bry an, were not so outspoken in his opin ions concerning the Federal courts, he might properly apply for an in junction against the political brigan dage of T. Roosevelt Mr. Bryan's theories have been appropriated for the good of the country. But when the President in bis Thanksgiving proclamation lays violent hands on 'The Average man It Is time for somebody to invoke the doctrine of 'vested rights.'" A PLENTY OF MONEY FOR EVIL PURPOSES, BUT NONE FOR GOOD. Raleigh News and Observer. , J. Plerpont Morgan put fifteen mil lion dollars In Wall street In one day and yet they say he cannot borrow money to continue doublo tracking the Southern Railway. If he will squeeze out the water from stocks and bonds, he will find It easier to bor row. ORIGIN OF THE FIR8T ELEVEN -, .AMENDMENTS. The origin of the first eleven Amendments to the Federal Consti tution is not as well known as it might be. But the Centennial Cele bration in Fayetteville of the adoption of the federal constitution in 1789 it was at the old "State House," which stood where the "Market House" has been standing since shortly after the Ore "of 1831 the Centennial Celebra tion In Fayetteville helped the world to recall what a prominent part North Car olina had In securing the adoption of that, "bill of rights" the first ten Amendments. The orlKin of the Eleventh Amend ment Is the subject of a very Interest ing article by the Atlanta Journal, which we append. The Journal sus pects that mttny 'lawyers are ignorant -ot the origin of this Important Amend ment. No doubt that is true of the post-bellum .lawyer, but what the Journal -so . Interestingly epitomizes now was drummed Into the noddles of all the boys at Chapel Hill "before the war,", who took the International and constitutional law course under "Old Bunc" ot blessed memory. ; ; The Journal says: . Origin of the. Eleventh Amendment The history of the Eleventh Amend ment to the Constitution of the United States and how It came to be adopted Is probably known to very few people. We Buspeot that are some possibly many-rof the lawyers who are .not familiar with the origin of this Impor tant Amendment and the fact that It was virtually created by he State -if Qeorgia. .- : " T Almost Immediately after the adop tion of the Federal Constitution by the States the 8upreme Court ot the United State manifested a determina tion to amume greater powers than were. Intended to Jie granted" by- the 8tates. The principles of State sov ereignty bad been Jealously guarded, and It was thought preserved, by the express terms and provisions of , the Constitution. But ' the ' adoption of this instrument was scarcely complete before directly opposed constructions were placed upon the instrument by tho8who constituted the rival politi cal parties. Scarcely more than half a dozen years after the adoption ot the Constitution had , elapsed before It was found necessary - to add the Eleventh". Amendment ten Amend-' ments having already been suggested and added at the instance of the sev eral States. .'. -v '' - The adoption ot .the Eleventh Amendment grew out of a suit insti tuted agalnBt the State of Georgia by a cltlien of another State in tho United State Supreme Court Geor gia deolined to recognize the liability to suit in the Federal court and denied the authority of the Federal Supreme Court to take Jurisdiction In such matters. 1 In consequence of this re fusal, Judgment by default was ren dered against the State, but this Judg ment was Ignored and no effort was ever made to enforce It As a conse quence of this assumption by the Unit ed States Supreme Court, of Jurisdic tion over sovereign States In contro versies between a citizen and a State, the Eleventh Amendment te the Con stltulon was. proposed and subsequent ly adopted.:.;'; j '-;(-v' '. The' provision ot the Constitution under which the litigation arose Is as follows: -v, " " "Toe Judicial power of the Unite! StntOii shall extend to all cases In law tnd equity arising under the Con stitution . , . . to controversies between two or more States between a State and citizens of, another State," etc. "v ' ..; . ---!,.-,. . ; Under this provision, Chlsholm, ex ecutor, brought suit against the State of Oeogia In the Supreme Court of the United States at theAugust term, 1792, The United States marshal served a eopy of the suit on Edward Telfair, governor, and Thomas P. Carnes, at torney general. Georgia declined to defend or otherwise take cognizance cf the suit. At the February term, 1794, Judgment by default was rendered against the State, but the Judgment was never enforced. This proceeding Is elaborately discussed by Judge Ban ning, of the Supreme court ot Georgia. In the case of Padleford, Fay ft Com pany vs. the mayor and aldermen of the city of Savannah, In the four teenth volume of tho Georgia Supreme court reports. ' The case begins on page 438 of that volume, but particu lar reference to the Georgia- case Is found on page 478. TM dtacusslon Is very lengthy and exhaustive on the subject of the power of "Federal and State courts, respectively. It goes ful ly Into the history of the adoption of the Federal Constitution, to show the limits of Federal authority, as fixed by the States In framing tho Consti tution ' and the construction placed upon that Instrument by both Federal and State authorities at the time of, and previous to, Its adoption. Iu dis cussing the refusal of Georgia to rec ognize the Jurisdiction of the United States Supreme court and the Judg ment rendered by that court, Judge Bennlng says: "Georgia treated the court with con tempt In respect to this case. Her po sition was that the court had no juris diction of her as a party. Georgia maintained that the words, "The Judi cial power of the United States shall extend to ' controversies between a State and cltlzenB of another State." were not to be construed to extend to controversies In which the State might be DEFENDANT, but only to those in which the State might be plaintiff. ... In this : position, Georgia triumphed. Nothing was Jono with the Judgment which was obtain ed by default in 1794 until after the Amendment had been adopted In 1 798. when the case was swept from the records.!' Discussing the character of the Eleventh Amendment Judge Bennlng says: "The language of it is peculiar. The Judicial power of the Unted States shall not be CONSTRUED to extend to any suit in law or equity commenc ed or prosecuted against one of the United States, etc. It Is an Amend ment, not to alter the Constitution, but to keep unaltered. ... It is a rebuke to the Supreme court for dar ing to change the Constitution under pretense of construing it; fu'- daring to hold the Constitution was not to be STRICTLY construed eren In tbwwwe of REMEDIAL powers which it dele gate." It will repay anybody to read the case from which we have quoted, from beginning to end. It Is tho moRt powerful and unanswerable presenta tion ot the limits of the Jurisdiction of the Federal and State courts that has ever come under pur observation... Georgia maintained that the Federal Constitution was tb""be construed" strictly and that the Federal court con tained no powers that were not ex pressly given to it by the States: that the right of a citizen to sue a State was not. expressly given, and, there fore, did not exist In this position she was sustained by practically every other State in the Union, beginning with Massachusetts, which had forced the Tenth Amendment, providing that all powers not expressly delegated to the United States are resrved to the States respectively, etc., and extend ing through New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and indeed all the States. The position taken by Georgia denying the Jurisdiction of the United States Supreme Court and refusing assent to the construction placed by that court upon the Federal Constitution, aroused such a general demand for a more definite limitation of the powers of the Federal judiciary that In 1758 the Eleventh Amendment was adopt ed. This Amendment in terms declares that the judical power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit In law or equity against one of the United States by citizens of an other State or by citizens or subjects of any foreign State. Georgia may, therefore, be said to be the creator of the Eleventh Amendment To be sure, her action was in line with the con struction placed upon the Constitution by the other States of the Union, and no doubt the Eleventh Amendment would have come in time, any way, but its adoption in 1798, a few. years after the adoption of the Constitution, was the Immediate result of Georgia's resistance. The Eleventh Amendment has for more than a hundred years been the bulwark of State protection against Federal aggression. It has protected Georgia against suit for the collec tion of her repudiated bonds, and sav ed every State - in the Union from what in the early days Of the Constitu tion promised to lead to the assump tion of unlimited Jurisdiction by the Federal courts over States, as well as Individuals. ; " ,. , .'. : 'Another case discussed by Judge Bennlng was that of Worcester ft Butler against Georgia, reported In 6th Peters, page 515. The question was whether the act to establish the judicial courts of the United States which gave the United State 8uprsme Court the power of revising and revers ing judgments and decrees' of State courts : was constitutional. : Worcos ter and Butler were tried and convict ed In Gwinnett Superior court A writ of error was issued from the United State Supreme Court, on the application of the defendants. The Georgia Judge refused to recognize the right to issue the writ Chief Jus tloe Marshall, ot the United State Su preme court, delivering the opinion, said It was "too clear for controversy that the act of Congress by which this court Is constituted, has given It the "power, and, of course, imposed on It the duty ot exercising Jurisdiction in this case." The Judgment of the Su perior court of Gwtnnett county was reversed and annulled and a special mandate was ordered to go from tho United States Supreme Court to the Superior court to carry the Judgment Into execution.' "Georgia refused to recognize the mandate ot the Supreme court upon the ground that the act of Congress "Was unconstitutional, and she kept the defendanta In the peni tentiary. . 1 ' ;.Vj " In two other cases, those of Tassel's and Graves, involving life and death, Georgia deolined to recognise the au thority of the United States Supreme court In each ot these cases the Su preme court had Issued writs of error on the atinllcation or tne ueienaanc. No attention was paid to them. "As the case was ' not " reported,'"- aays Judge Bennlng, "it Is to be presumed that these writs never cot back to the Supreme Court." "And," he adds, with almost a touch of humor, "it is certain that Georgia bung the applicants for the writs." Thereupon, the Georgia Legislature passed resolu: tlons of a drastic nature In reference to both the Tassels and the Graves cases. requesting and enjoining the governor to disregard every mandate from the chief Justice or any associate justice of the- Supreme Court of the United States tor the purpose ot arresting the execution, of any of the criminal laws of this State. ' ' ' In this view ot the powers and limi tations of the Federal courts over the States and her insistence upon a strict construction of the Federal Constitu tion, Georgia was sustained and sup ported by every State In the Union up to the time when the abolition of slavery became the great Issue and changed the views of the north. The effort to enlarge the powers of the Federal judiciary wag the work of those who sought by Judicial construc tion to give far greater powers to the general government than were ever in tended to be granted by the Statesy It would be difficult to find more In teresting reading than the case that we have cited in the 14th Georgia report THE 80UTH'8 PLACE IN 'HISTORY. Atlanta Journal. Mr. S. S. Williams, of the University of South Carolina, Is preparing a mon ograph on the subject, "What Place In History Will the Confederate States Finally Hold?" and In anticipation of his work he has been gathering a con census of opinion of this interesting question, to which the Journal is In vited to contribute. Preliminary to any satisfactory re ply to such a question It would first be necessary to ask who is to write the history. - In all the world's great events In which bitterness and passion have been aroused contemporary wit nesses, In the eyes of prosperity, have discredited one another, until the ask, line Jesting Pilate, "What is truth?" and will not stay for an answer. When Gibbon was about to address himself to the task of describing the decline and fall of the Roman empire, an acci dent on a broken bridge In his neigh borhood brought out so many varied and conflicting versions as to how the affair had occurred, that he asked himself In bewilderment how he was ever to winnow the truth from the musty annals ot two thousand years ago, if eye witnesses could not agree as to the circumstances of a simple accident which occurred -but a few hours before. Caesar and Napolean are deml-gods or monsters, according to the partiality ot historians. The English Reformation becomes an or- gie of blood and heresy when 'viewed by Llngard or Cobbett. It is almost too much for the South to hope that the time will ever con when complete and universal Justtcp will be done to her institutions, her motives and her heroism In the hour of trial, and yet it is conceivable that at some distant day, when the last of the participants has passed away and time has completely obliterated all sectional animosities, an Impartial an nalist seeking the original sources ot information for himself, may write the record oT the South, based on estab lished facts, which will be generally accepted as truth. If such time should ever come tne South has nothing to fear. She knows in her own heart that the story, as it has been recorded by her own histo rians, is the, truth, but time alone can vindicate her version and win for it a general acceptance. Detraction itself no longer attempts to deny the heroism and endurance of the men and women of the South dur ing four years' struggle. History re cords no parallel for the unequal con flict prolonged over such a period, the self-containment of the South practi cally pitted against the resources ot the world. Gladstone marvelled at the work of Jefferson Davis, who he said, had In a short time created "an army and a navy, and what was better, had created a nation." The lofty character and military genius of Lee have been conceded by every civilized country of the world. The great point of divergence, even among men who have sought to be honest with themselves, has always been motives which Inspired the South to take up arms. In the serener at mosphere of the present day the truth Is gradually breaking in upon those who are willing to listen and learn, and they are discovering that no great er calumny was ever uttered against a humane and chlvalric people than to say the civil war was fought for the purpose of perpetuating slavery. Imparial students ot history realize and concede that the South was con tending for a theory of government which lay closest to the hearts of all the Amercan people during the for mative period ot the republic. It was the very essence ot democracy, in its best and broadest sense. It was the right of local self-government The South espoused no new doctrine. On the contrary, it was the South which kept the very ark of the covenant when lambltlous politicians had per verted theTHlginal-purpose of the fa thers and had read into the constitu tion meanings which were new and strange. One needs only to 'read the debates In the various state conventions ot the original states, called to consider the the ratification of the constitution, to learn that the one apprehension in the minds oKall was that the sovereignty of the states might not be preserved. By every means in their power they safeguarded' the rights of the states, before giving their , consent to the organic law, and Massachusetts, among other- states,-' especially In structed her representatives In con gress to take advantage of every occa sion to secure states rights. The State of New York, in ratifying tho constitution, specifically declared that her citizens might, whenever they saw fit resume the powers which had been delegated to the general government Evidence showing that this was the spirit of the.tlmes-'the "will of the makers" of the constitution as express ed at the time it was made might be gathered from a thousand sources. -. Slavery was but an Incident of the great conflict. The baslo Issue was the tight of local self-government and the extinction of the Southern Confed eracy has no more affected that right than martial law In a mining town has overthrown the constitutional right of habeas corpus. It. may be conceded that secession has been settled for ever, and the desire tor It has long since passed away. '-'.' . .. But the right of state sovereignty is as vital to-day. as it ever was, and every hour Is vldlcating the conten tion ot the "South ot forty odd years ago. ' It Is a right Inherent In democ racy. It Is not peculiar to the. South. U is a charcteriatlo of every federated government under the sun. . The Indi vidual states of the commonwealth of Australia, with their conflicting and diversified Interests, are contending for the principle to-day In a manner which reads like a chapter from our own history, and western Australia has announced It Intention to secede. There the question is not complicated by a slavery race. It is simply a de mand of pure democracy for the logi cal right of local self-government. The centralization of power, under whatever administrative form, cannot fall and has never yet failed to culmi nate in tyranny and oppression, and In the perpetuation of autocracy. It was so when Augustus Caesar swept aside the last vestige of the republic and be came the first of the emperors of Rome. It was so when the republican Bonaparte chose to "wade through slaughter to a 'throne." This tenden cy, unchecked, will always reach Its logical conclusion. There are menaces to the govern ment to-day, when the oligarchy of wealth, too often sustained by a com plaisant Judiciary, la seeking to sub vert the principles of democracy. These are perils which need to be watched .with . unsleeping vigilance. The sheet anchor of our Institutions Is the south's sustained contention foi the very theory -of government for which the Confederate slates once stood. Though extinguished, the Con federacy did not live in vain. Its des tines were guided by men whoso in telligence and Integrity challenged the admiration of the world. It was free from selfishness and corruption. It was upheld by a love of freedom and equality. It was a final protest sga'nst the perveraion of that form ot government whlca had been devised by the patriot fathers when liberty and Justice were living facts. Its grandeur, its pathos, its patriotism have given it a unique place in the annuls of recorded time, and the can dor of the future must recognize the truth of its epitaph -"No nation rose so white, so fair: None fell so pure of crime." THE PRESIDENT'S THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION. Once again the season of the year has come when, In accordance with the custom of our forefathers for gen erations past, the President appoints a day as the especial occasion for all our people to give praise and thanks giving to God. During the past year we have been free from famine, from pestilence, from war. We are at peace with all the rest of mankind. Our natural re sources are at least as great as those, ot any other nation. We believe that In ability to develop and take advan tage of these resources the average man of this nation stands at least 'as high as the average man of any oth er. Nowhere else In the world is there such an opportunity for a free people to develop to the fullest ex tent all its powers of body, of mind, and of that which stands above both body and mind, character. Much has been given us from on high and much will rightly be expect ed of us in return. Into our care the ten talents have been entrusted; and we are to he pardoned neither If we squander or waste them, nor if we hide them In a napkin; for they must be fruitful in our hands. Ever through out the ages, at all times and among all peoples, prosperity has been fraught with danger, and it behooves us to beseech the Giver of all things that we may not fall Into love of ease and luxury; that we may not lose our sense of moral responsibility ; that we may not forget our duty to God and to our neighbor. A great Democracy like ours, a De mocracy based upon the principles of orderly liberty can be perpetuated only If In the heart of the ordinary citizens there dwells a keen sense of righteousness and justice. We should earnestly pray that this spirit . of righteousness and justice may grow ever greater in the hearts of all of us, and that our souls may be inclined evermore both toward the virtues that tell for gentleness and tenderness, for loving kindness and forbearance one with another, and -toward those no less necessary virtues that make our manliness and rugged hardlhool for without these qualities neither nation nor individual can rise to the level of greatness. ' Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roose velt, President of the United States, do set apart Thursday, the 28th day of November, as a day of general thanks giving and prayer, and on that day I recommend that the people shall cease from their daily work, and, in their home or in their churches meet devoutly to thank the Almighty for the many and great blessings they have received in the past, and to pray that they may be given strength so to order their lives as to deserve a con tinuation of these blessings in the fu ture. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of theUnited States to be affixed. (Seal.) Done at the city of Washington the twenty-fifth day of October, In the year of our Lord oue thousand nine hundred and seven and of the Inde pendence of the United States the on hundred and thirty-second. (Signed.) THEODORE ROOSEVELT, - By the President: Elthu Root, Secretary of State. THE CONFERENCE OF GOV ERNORS. Governor -Glenn, bo the telegrams Inform us, has gone to Atlanta to at tend the conference there, called by Governor Smith, to consider the rail way question. The.' purpose of the conference, as outlined by the Atlanta Journal, understood to be Governor Smith's spokesman, 1b to be commend ed. ' Says the Journal: . ' It has now been definitely arranged that Governor Comer, of Alabama; Governor. Glenn, ot North Carolina, and possibly Governor Swanson, of Virginia, will meet with Governor Hoke Smith, ot Georgia, In this city on Friday tor the purpose ot discus sing the present attitude of the rail roads towards the states In question. It Is conceded that this .will be one of the most . Important conferences ever called tor the purpose of settling the existing differences- with the rail roads. The position of the transporta tion companies In these various states Is much the same and it is obviously necessary that some united and harmo nious action should be taken by these states in order to safeguard the Inter ests of the people and to protect the authority ot the Individual states. . The men who are taking the lead in this great crusade cannot afford to sit by supinely and see the power ot the federal Judiciary extended to a point where It practically nullifies the action of the state legislatures and railroad commissions, and at the same time, whatever action Is taken by the states affected should be uniform and harmo nious. . Out of these deliberations on the part of the three or four governors who have stood most manfully in the breach should come a settled policy which will ultimately result in the es tablishment of the authority of the states to regulate their own affairs. Nor is this all. We have previously suggested that It would be a good idea for the railroad commissions of tne various states to meet In conference and discuss a uniform course of action. In such union there would be strength. There Would be nothing binding In such an agreement, except upon the consciences ot the individual confer ees, but it would bring out a definite line of action with which to meet the encroachments of the federal judici ary and at the same lme compel the railroads to obey the laws of the individ ual states. While each state would be acting Independently in the orders and regulations Issued through its railroad commission, those regulations would be uniform and one of the loudest com plaints of the railroads that against varied and unsystematized regulations would be silenced. We expect very salutary results from this conference of the southern governors, and we trust that arrange ments will be made for a joint meet ing, some time In the future, of the railroad commissions of the states. It Is a movement which the railroads themselves should be the first to en dorse and support. ROOSEVELT THE 80URCE OF ALL EVIL. Here Is the funniest thing concern ing the President which has found ltb way into print. Even when he Is right, the mere fact that he Is causes trouble according to a press dispatch from Pittsburg, which says: Fraak Haffield, a boy naturalist of Perry street, Alleghaney, disagreed with President Roosevelt's theory on the ground squirrels, but on investiga tion found that the head of the nation was right. This annoyed the 15-year-old student of natural history that he took a drink and may die in conse quence. The Haffield boy, who has studied much natural history, protest ed vigorously some time ago on read ing that Mr. Roosevelt said the chip munk, or ground squirrel, hibernated. He asserted that he had met the little animal in the depth of winter, and yes terday he started out to disprove the theory of Mr. Roosevelt. He visited all the haunts of the chipmunk within miles of the city, but could not find one. The boy went home In tears, and later went out to join some larger boys, who had a quart of whisky. He drowned his sorows In whisky and was soon senseless. He was later hurried to the Alleghaney general hospital in a patrol wagon, where the physicians worked over him most of the night. He was taken to his home to-day where he lies in a critical condition. MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE. The Salisbury Post says: "A coroner's jury at Greensboro yes terday fixed the blame for the wreck of No. 34, in which five persons were killed, upon Brakeman H. C. Leonard, and" Mr. Leonard was ordared placed under immediate arrest. Mrs. Leonard has gone to Greensboro and furnished bond for her son." The Post quotes a Greensboro tele gram as follows: "The wreck of Southern Railway train No. 34, which collided head-on with southbound freght train No. 83, by running into an open switch on the night of October 17, at Rudd, was In vestigated by Coroner J. P. Turner and Jury of six. ' The inquest was be hind closed doors and four witnesses were examined. They were Engineer Sanders and Conductor Davidson, of the freight, and Brakeman H. C. Leon ard, also of the freight, who disap peared and walked from Rudd to his home at Spencer. The other witness was C. D. Benbow, who was a passen ger on No. 34. After deliberating two or three hours the coroner's jury reached a verdict, placing the respon sibility for the wreck upon Brakeman Leonard, who admitted in his testi mony that he left the switch unlocked. The verdict also called the soclicitor's attention to the fact that the freight train crew had been on duty over 23 hours. Upon affidavit of Coroner Tur ner a warrant was Issued by 'Squire D. H. Collins, charging Leonard with criminal negligence, resulting in the death of Mrs. Jane Thomas, D. Allen Bryant and others. Leonard was ar rested and will be held in the custody of a guard until his mother arrives from Spencer to-morrow and gives his bond of $1,000." Now why did not the jury indict the officials of the railway, who have been proved to have used the road's money for corrupt purposes instead of using It to shorten the hours of labor for their employes? The officials who are responsible for a system which keeps men on duty for 23 hours In the position of train crew men, should be jailed. This Jury must have been hypno tized. The New Pure Food and Drug law. We are pleased to announce that Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs, colds and lung troubles Is not affected by the National Pure Food and Drug law as It contains no opiates or other harmful drugs, and we recommend It as a safe remedy for children and adults. McDuffie Drug Store (O. O. Souders, Prop.) David Parker, of Fayette, N. Y., who lost a foot at Gettysburg, writes: "Elec tric Bitters have done me more good than any medicine I ever took. For several years I had stomach trouble, and paid out much money for medicine to little purpose, until I began taking Electric Bitters. I would not take $500 for what they have done for me." Grand tonic for the aged and for fe male weaknesses. Great alterative add body builder; best of all for lame back and weak kidneys. Guaranteed by B. E. Sedberry ft Sons, druggists. 50 cents. ' , . DeWltt'LlttteEarly- Rlsers-ar good for any. one who needs a pill 8old by Armfield ft Greenwood. We have secured the agenoy for Orlno Laxative Fruit Syrup, the new laxative that makes the liver lively, purifies the breath, cures headache and regulates the digestive orians. Cures ehronlo constipation. Ask us about It McDuffie Drug Store (O. O, Souders, Prop.) Proud of Fayetteville. ' i Hoxte, Oct. 25th, 1907. i Mr. E. J. Hale, , '. ' Fayetteville, N. C. ' - Dear Sir: ' , . ' ; ' . ; Herewith $1.00 to be applied on my subscription to the Observer. ; Proud of her history and with a love for her akin to that of a child for a parent, I am willing to be one out of a sufficient number to contribute $5.00 to a fund sufficient to employ my old and beloved preceptor, Mr, Harry Myrover to write and publish In the Observer a history of Fayette ville with photographs of some of the old landmarks such as the marknt house. Liberty Point, Hay Street Meth odist church, the old Merchants Mill, old gun house, 'the Fountain Head" spring house from which flowed the water through the "pump logs" and wooden pumps that supplied the town, McKethan's carriage factory, and the old mill (if still standing) at "Mimm's pond, Lutterloh's corner, the Brick row and Myrover's corner and the Donaldson Academy buildings. If such an illustrated history ot the dear old town, dwelling on the inci dents particularly connected with the commencement of the war and its close, I believe the "dispersed abroad" would quickly respond to his idea, if their attention was called to It. I will never forget the home of my birth, the scenes of my youth are still fresh in my memory. I think I know every spot in the grand old municipal ity from the Cape Fear river to the little brick store built by John Davis on Haymount, from Massey's Hill on the south to Harrington's Hill on the north. I even hear, at least I imagine I hear the ringing of the market bell morning, noon and evening. In 1856, on the side of Mallett's pond, in an humble "shack," I came smiling into this good old world of ours and the health and strength giv en me then, has been with me in the 30 odd years I have been away from there. "Looking Backward" through those years I see many faces once familiar and friendly to me, some dead and othefs still on this side, among them: John C. Haigh, Captain Dangerfield, John D. Williams, H. and E. J. Lilly, J. C. Thompson, Capt. J. B. Smith and others, including Dr. Floyd, H. Wha ley, W. W. Cole, W. C. Troy, I. C. Bond, J. G. Oehrl, J. W. Atkinson, Col. Broadfoot and hosts of those people whom I love as though they were In timate relatives. Let the Observer continue 'to come. It reaches here every Saturday morn ing and all dailies we take, such as the St. Louis Republic. Globe-Demo-rrat, Memphis Comercial and Arkan sas Democrat are laid aside, until the 'news from home" has been read. You may consider me a life-subscriber. Yours truly, JOHN S. GIBSON. TRIMMING THE DOU TO THE IMPERIAL MEASURE. The Imperialists in Russia have granted election for a representative assembly three times now. The first was summarily d1 olved because it was too represent -e. , The grade of the electors was iid, and the sec ond was less representative, but there were still too many patriots In It in fact, the patriots still outnumbered the imperialists; and the second Dou ma was dissolved. At last the imper ialists, have succeeded, by a still fur ther tightening of the electoral strings, In getting a Douma to suit them; the patriots are in the minority! The so called constitutional government is launched, therefore, and we shall see how long It will be able to smother the fires of revolution, which are certain to burst forth again measured In vol ume and celerity of action by the op pression of the new government. The character of the new body Is In dicated by the following dispatch from St. Petersburg: A large number of the princes, counts, barons and other members of the titled aristocracy have been chos en members, but in the number of men of political experience is small, only a score of former members of the Douma passing, amoilg them being M. Chelnokoff, secretary of the Constitu tional Democrats in the second Dou ma. The Octoberlst member, Nikolai A. Khonlyakoff, who was a member of the Council of Empire, probably will be a candidate for President of the Cham ber, aa also will be the Reactionaries Puriskevich and Krupensky, the Anti Semite Klepoffsky, Bishop Evolglus and Count Bobrlnsky. The notorious Pavel Alexandrovltch Krushevan, the anti-Semite of Kls cheneff, was not elected, but Prince Urasoff II, Count Brobrinsky and Prince Shakhoffskoi, prominent lead ers In the big landowners' organization and supporters of the League of the Russian People, were successful. Oth er prominent persons elected include Baron Tleflenhausen, Prince Volkou sky ex-Governor LodygenBky, of Tula, and six German barons of the Baltic provinces, including Baron Hans Ros, en, a relative of the Ambassador to the United States, and Baron Voelker 8am, a kinsman of the late Rear-Ad-mlral Voelkersam, who was killed In the battle of the Sea of Japan. M. C. Helnokoff was the only Con stitutional Democrat elected, and tew of the leaders of that party will pass In the later elections, which Include the city strongholds. The Constitutional Democratic or gan' Retch will concede the defeat of the party to-morrow, saying that there Is not the slightest room tor hope for the selection of a progressive Douma, in the Constitutional Democratic sense of ihe word. ,. If you feel run down, fagged out: take Hamster's Rocky Mountain Tea, the greatest restorative known; pure ly vegetable,, no alcohol or mineral poison. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. D. B. Sedberry'a Bon. " . FAYETTEVILLE MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS Strictly First-class Work. Call at my yard or write for prices. Respectfully, - i E. I. BEMSBUHG, Proprietor, ' . Fayetteville, N. O Onion Sets, Big Boston Lettuce, Dwarf Essex Rape, Cabbage Seeds. D. R. IIORNE & SONS Dutch Bulb? for Autumn Planting. We have just received a nice varie ty. Call before the assortment is broken. A. J. COOK & CO. ORUGGI8T8 AND PHARMACISTS Next P. O. 'Phone 141. DrugsMedicines. Our Goods are Pure We solicit your trade Our Goods are Fresh Our Stock is Complete Our Delivery is Fast because If you want what you want when you want it, come here. KING DRUG CO. po (McDuffie Drug Store.) FAIR WEEK CANDY We have just received for this week's trade a nice assortment of GUTH'S Chocolates, Chocolate.-, and Bon-Bons, Almonds, Mints, Etc., Etc. SPECIAL: Chocolate Maraschino Cherries. B. E. SEDBERRY'S SON Palace Pharmacy. FAIR DANCES. Roses, Carnations, Violets. Place Your Order With Us MacKethan&Co.. Druggists. 'Phons 331. Visitors are cordially invited . to make Our Store Headquarters during the Fait ' We Can Supply Your Wants. " Armfield & Greenwood, Hotel LaFayette Bid 'Phone It.
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