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. V : ' ' f - .V 3 t- ? Endeavor - Achievemen t Germany Fast Outstripping Both England and United States in Industrial Field. By Dr. C if. 1 saaras MERICAN hustle is putUng its blight upon everything that really deserves to be called substantial American progress. .We have recently been informed by one who has had excep tional opportunity to acquaint himself with the facts that with all the crowding and prodding - that, distinguish , the Amertcaahoolroom, there is less to show for it than is secured1 by the more-steady and composed discipline of . German instruction. .. " , . , A German is, never in a hurry, but he does as mucn as American, and does it better and more thoroughly and with less wrench io 'himself and-to other people. We call him phlegmatic, which means, if properly understood, that he Is to such a degree master of himself that he can cover a. great deal of ground without: going all to pieces in the process. And whatever flings we have made at German inertness, we are all prepared to say that Germany is s'till to a considerable extent the world's schoolmaster in all matters of profound thought, that Germany is rapidly overtaking Eng land and , America in the field of industrial competition, and when it comes to l Question Of military ventns smri nrnara.t1rm fiormanv would Quite likely be able .to whip all the rest of Europe. But the, most serious feature of frenzied American activity is not that we are not doing as good and solid work as woujd be accomplished were our ac tivity of a less wearing and distracting kind, but that it leaves the minds of the' people in that .tumultuous condition that tends to render them insensible to any influence except such as emanate from the field of material interest and ambition. ' This is not a season when men are deeply meditating, it is not a season when men are praying. And that is not simply because they are in too much of a hurry to think or pray, but because their strain and distraction destroy , their capacity for reflection and devotion; and material results, all our country through, are being purchased at the expense of physical exhaustion, Intellec tual confusion, moral debilify and spiritual sterility. . " . Everybody' deprecates this condition of things, but "everybody, or almost everybody, gives way to it. We have acquired tbe habit of being in a hurry. It has become a kind of second nature with us to do as much as we can do naturally and then to add another stint to it and to, hold our watch in our : hands while we are doing it. The shortening of the time by one hour for : i Tunning 'a steamer from New York to Queenstown sends a thrill through the .entire body, of what we call modern civilization. ' Civilization is one of the severest diseases from which the race is suffer ' ing. And the" irrationality of the situation is evdenced by the fact that the feeling-of. the people geneally is that the present pace is a pace that kills and the severer the tension the less there is to show for it in the way of comfort and satisfaction. In point ' of hustle and nervous 'perturbation, Heaven - -were to be like "New York or almost any American city except, perhaps, Phil ? adelphia--we should pray to be sent somewhere else. , It is not work, even hard work, that puts people out of sympathy with the , things that are finest and best. Work rationally indulged in is a means of grace, but frenzy is a kind of interior cataclysm that knocks everything out - of place and involves men in unintelligible and unproductive confusion. Chris tians, in particular, ought to set the example of reserving to themselves suf ficient leisure and maintaining in their souls and atmosphere of quiet to ena ble them to come often into fellowship with God. . The -spirit of the times is in these respects bad. You know It. The en ' forced and nervous pressure" is disastrous so far as relates to what is best in life and finest In the individual soul. Christianity rose in successful revolt ' against' Paganism. Now the temper of today's spirit in all this matter of nervous hustle and conscienceless rush is pagan, as truly so as though It were being practised in old Borneo or Madagascar. ' And It is for the church, ' and' for Christians and for you to .lead off in an old-fashioned apostolic revolt against' this' despotism of pagan frenzy and to settle down into that rational mode of life whose very quietness shall carry In it something of the spirit of Jesus'. Young at Seventy Segment of American Literature. By Ferris HE annals of American poetry are a remarkable record of - longevity. .. The poets of our first rank, barring tragic Poe, have lived to an honored and benignant old age. Thomas Bailey Aldrioh was no exception in tne calendar of years, yet even- at three score and ten it was hard to think of age .and him together.. Blond, erect, ruddy, alert, he seemed at seventy untouched by mortality. More than Lowell even, he was theperennial boy And to his biographer, curiously inquiring into the vanished days of that long singularly for- -Hunate life,, the image that overlays all others is that of "Tom Bailey," the bad "boy, who was yet "not such a very bad boy." , The exquisite lyric poet, the In - Imitable story-writer, the accomplished editor, the witty," urbane man of let ters," all take in -the mind a' coloring of sincerity and soundness, or mischief . and -mlrth, from thai. Portsmouth boyhood which makes his whole life seem ' ., not only its fulfilment, but In strange. sense fts "prolongation. .""". " tl - It is, then, with a certain surprise that' one becomes" aware of the wide T-? segment' of American literature that his life, touched. And it is precisely in 4this that one prime interest of his letters lies. Through them, as through the candid eyes -of Tom Bailey, we .watch the flow and ebb of the literary tides of J'iaore' than half a century. From the Century. . it m at Thrift By Ramsey Benson. t,. -. .-; ... .. . , HRIFT was discovered by a Scotchman whose'name h&9 not come dowr to us. The modern tendency Is to forgive him, on the assumption that he could not possibly know what he did. :;- '-; ... Thrift was ' brought over to this country -in the May - flower, which gives it a certain claim upon our respect. The cavaliers of Carolus Rex. were making it hot in England for thrift, sobriety, decency and alj the rest of that merry crew, ana max is wny mese were seeKing a nome in the New Worlds They left unstained -what there they; found, to wit, freedom to wor ship God without having to. dig up for incense and costly vestments. . In. a kingdom power derives from prescrrption, but in a democracy from thrift. The men who run things with s make no denial that thrift has. put them' where they are, with a trifle of judicious speculation, from time to time, as the opportunity has offered. . Thrift dominates our national councils. Witness our $400,000,000 navy, staving off a" $500,000,000 war, and leaving us $100,000,000 ahead, not to speaK of , the moral; iiplift.. v;v ".' V.- : '1 '" - ; . Thrift is what the New England theologians really mean when they speak 'of saving grace.' Faith, hbpe and oharity are graces, but they are not so very aaving, especially: charity the , greatest of these". From Life. ; : A Modest 'Costume. You know those thick double veils . 'similar to' a Turkish, woman's that . , they have been wearing in Newport thi3 summer? Well, they say in New port, that the other day an extremely pretty girl appeared in a very daring sheath skirt. . !t , Her father, took her to task about It . -'"r:"5- ' "" "- ' "Don't you think," he said,' "that the skirt you wore this afternoon is most immodest?" "But papa," said she, "I wear 'one V fh y" yubla veils with it." Washington Star- Parkh urst Wlr M .... ft M 1 Creenstet at :;-'" -Bulb-Loving Squirrels. ' The gardeners at the Capitol Park at ' Harrisburg, are experiencing their annual guard mount over the newly planted bulbs to prevent wholesale de struction by the squirrels.. The squir rels are very fond of the hyacinth, tulip and . daffodil bulbs and lose no opportunity to dig them up and gnaw them. ; Comparatively little damage is done,, however, by the squirrels be cause the fiovter . beds are watched closely by the gardeners ; and police.'; After the winter, mulch is spread on; the beds there will be little trouble. Philadelphia Record. I MRJILIMAN'S REPLY Gives- President Few a Prods ; of the Pitchfork. HE DEMANDS AN INVESTIGATION Wanted to Buy Land lapA Held Un lawfully Exposed the Wrong and the Fraud Is Not Guilty of. Crime. In addressing the Senate Monday Mr. Tillman -t arose to a question of personal priTilegeuWaring that ; for the first time in the history of this' ?overmheht, " so far as he had been able to Iearn,a, member of the Seriate .fes'd been brought to ) the bar ,"wof public. opinion before the Senate itself tblje judged under indictment by no' lss a person than the President of the United-States. The manner of doing it, he said, and the animous and zeal displayed by tlie Chief Executive were fcorthy of consideration. The Senator limited his scathing of the President being warned by his physician against overexertion. He said : "One of the truest and best senti ments in English literature is this from Tennyson : ' Soiling another will never make one's self clean.' "Later on in this session it is my purpose to devote some time to bring ing Theodore Roosevelt ' face to face with his true self and let- the people the United States see what charac ter of man they have been so bowed down to. For the present I content myself, with applying to him this quo tation from Spencer's 'Fair Queen:' " 'He rages throughout the whole world, neither is-there any that can restrain him. Of late he has grown especially presumptuous and pestilent, barking at and biting all alike wheth er they be blameworthy or innocent. None are free from his attacks. He spares neither the learned wit nor the gentle post, but rends and tears without regard . of person, reason or time.'" "In my public work here," said Senator Tillman, "I have not hesi tated to criticise and comment on the official actions and utterances of Pres ident Roosevelt and I have doubtless aven him good cause to seek revenge. I was not aware that those darts of mine had quivered in the Executive hide and stung him so. but the eager ness and intensity with which he has presented his case against me, his making a precedent, when none has existed before, his taking from the committee to which he has forwarded them the papers and giving them to the press before that committee had considered them, indicates tbat Theo dore Roosevelt enjovs to the limit the feeling of getting even with Ben Till man and lavs on the "Big Stick' with the keenest relish, doubtless believ ing that the 'Pitchfork' has gone out of business." He declared that the President was was an adept afadvertising and bad used the press with more skill than any man in American politics. "Another probable reafon for his great haste," said the South Carolina Senator, "was" that he sought to dis tract attention from the action of'fae House of Representatives on Friday in laying part of his message on the table, by the sensational accusation against a man who has had long ser vice in the Senate. "First, he promotes me to member ship in the Ananias Club, and chargres in effect that I have deliberately lied to the Senate. "Second he charges; that I have exerted mv official, influence and work as a Senator .for my personal benefit alone to secure the passage of a reso lution and to press the Department of Justice to bring suit against the Corporation which holds so much of ithe public domain. in the "West and will not sell it to settlers under the terms of their grants .from, the gov ernment- . ' i . : He has perpared his indictment with consummate ability -and skill. He is even cunning in the apparently innocent pretense that ' in making a search through the secret service for one kind of malefactor he has run down another and the case of that one, of such, serious importance, that his sense of official obligation com pelled him to prompt ' action: Mark you, he has been, in the possession of all the facts in this case since July last, and men will be curious to know why, if his real was honest, he did not make them known then." . . , , As to the Oregon land affair the Senator says: "It will be noted that I accused Dorr in the Senate of being a swindler, and asked. the Postoffice Department to issue a fraud order against him. , Dorr declared - in his circular: 'So sure is Senator Tillman of our success that he has subscribed and paid the necessary fees for a quarter section' for himself and ten other quarter section for ten of his nearest relatives.' ' Dorr's declaration that I had paid the fees is an' abso lute falsehood and the postoffice in spectors, while they searchejd the jrer cords for entiries at CoquiUfr and not ed - that Reeder & Watkins "had filed 'several hundred applications' no where, mentioned, that any "bad ' been filed in my name or "for me. There fore, the falsehood is proven on Dorr, and yet the President declared 'the assault which Senator Tillman made upon" MK Dorr was, according to the report of the inspector, a wanton as sault made to cover up Senator 1 ill man's own transactions.' "Now about the lying: My letter of February 15th,. of which the Presi dent secured a photographic copy, antedates py four day my statement in the Senate that I had not bought any land or undertaken to buy " any, and the President considers this posi tive proof of falsehood. I did not say I had not considered the rjurcliase cf land; I did not say I had not con templated the purchase of lar.d, be cause I had done both. In my con versation "with the Attorney Genera in regard to the resolution which I introduced, and which he himself pre pared after we had . talked over the whole' situation, I distinctly remember telling him that my interest in the matter had been first aroused by my desire to purchase some of the timber" land and that my coming to him was due to the fact that I discovered, up on investigation, that I could not buy it, vthrough any agency whatsoever; that 1 could not buy it even by law suit, because I was advised by very able lawyers in the West, among thenr the Hon, George Turner, of Washing ton, that in attacking the holders of those land grants no one would have any standing in court " except the grantor, the government itself. I was perhaps disingenuous, but a moment's thought will convince any honest minded man that as I had not signed -any papers, 'had not paid any' money,' had taken nobody's receipt, the usual processes by which one .undertakes' to. bny land j L was ipeaking accurate ly and not falsely; Y Everything hinges on '.the meaning of the- word 'under taken' and my use of it. Did I mean to conceal the fact tbat I was anxious to buy some of tb landf NolTat all.; Did I mean to attack Dorr as a swin dler when I myself was wgaged in a dishonest and dishonorable' transac tion? That is what the President would have people believe. Can I be justly charged with falsehood when if I had told the Senate of the entire transaction it would have made no difference whatever while I would have been charged with intruding my private affairs into a public discus sion T Just what law did I break T What wrong did I do or contemplate? I never expected, and could not un der the terms of the law, as I con strued it, get more than seven quar ter sections for myself and family, one for my private secretary and one for Mr. Lee, making nine in all. This, in the aggregate, would mean that I would obtain through my activity here, as the President's charge is. nine quarter sections, of 1,440 acres at a cost of $4,500. Will the Presi dent undertake to say that I have lost my right to buy land because I am a Senator? Can the President deny that niy activity secured the passage of the resolution instructing the At torney General to bring suit for the recovery of this land for the use of actual settlers? If Harriman and others like him are made to disgorge by reason of these suits shall tile fact tbat I was endeavoring to buy a little pittance of the land be- used as the basis of a charge of being a liar and a corrupt Senator to be disgraced?" After relating a long drawn out consideration of certain men connect ed with the situation through which he abandoned the hope of obtaining the land he said : -v. "Dorr, of whom I had never heard before," he said, "was evidently pushing his scheme of getting suckers to invest and using my name, as I have indicated, without authority; because I had not paid any fees to him or written to him or filed any ap plications. I, therefore, felt it incum bent on me to expose the swindle in the Senate, which I did on February 19th, end asked the postoffice author ities to issue a fraud order. I press ed the passage of the joint resolution in the Senate" and on April 30th it be came a law. March ISth I was taken ill and on May 16th, after a partial recuperation, I sailed for Europe, re turning: October 21st. v "I have not attempted to deecive anybody; I have not told any false hoods; I have not broken any law; I have not been guilty of any immoral conduct. I had ihe right to pur chase the land if I could, but my judgment told merit was unsafe as an investment. I would like to get some of it j-et. "In conclusion, Mr. President, I court the most searching investiga tion. Nay, I demand it. : I declare most emphaticallv - I have never souebt to conceal my efforts to buy land." HOW IT CAME ABOUT. . To bring this whole matter before the public eye at once let it be noted that Senator Tillman some time ago urged that ' certain land grants in Oregon had been forfeited by lack of compliance with terms of the grant and urge that they be sold. Before looking into the matter he concluded to makean investment himself. When certain investigations were being made by the secret service men this was discovered. In the late troubles between the President and Congress about the secret service appropria tions which the President wanted re stored to former sufficiency and the charges by Congress that the secret service department was becoming of fensively active, the President used strong language ' which Congress looked upon as reflections on that, body and demanded of the President instances to justify his 'language. While disavowing anv intention of iscourtesy he' complied so far as to give names that "furnished the basis of his language. Thus the cast of Senator Tillman became a part of the justfication of the President. It seems that the - Senator's case was stumbled upon while making cer tain other investigations. It is also stated, that certain parties wbowere offended - with . ' Senator " " Tillman 's uiging the sale of this Oregon land resorted to this method of revenge to put the President in "possession of the facts of Senator Tillman's ourpbse to acmxire some of this land. ' ' '; To add "to the complication Post master Barns has sent 'ISeriaTor ' Till man a bill of $16.00 for post age for a typewriter that the Senator had franked from Trenton," S. C, to Wash ington.1 it being claimed that be had no right to send it under the frank ing privilege. Tbe Senator refuses to pay the bill on the ground that it is the government's typewriter, that he was using in the interest of the public and that it was the custom so to do, be having never heard of any rule promulgated against it. Had it been his own private affair he would have expressed or freighted it. Senator Tillman has been accredit ed with rigid honesty as" is President Roosevelt, the former fierv to the term of "pitdhfork" and the latter impul sive to an unusual" degree, '-- Witbal ''he public will most probably pass no judgment until further developments. LEGISLATURE MEETS , ----. North Carolina Lawmakers Now in Session JUDGE GRAHAM MADE SPEAKER Legislators Assemble and Organize Gov. Glenn's Message Read in Per son. -' ' Raleigh, Special. The General As semb&inet, on Wednesday, noon, when the, nominations made in caucus Tues day night were confirmed by electTonu Francis D. Winston presided in the ing principal, clerk, presided m - the House. Chief Justice Walter Clark administered the oath of office. With' the completion' of the organi--zation Governor Glenn was notified of the readiness of the Assembly to receive his messasre and on Thurs day morning when he appeared .be fore" the joint session of the assem bly and read the message in person. On the third ballot and by a vote of 43 to 36 the Democratic caucus of the House Tuesday night -selected ex Judge Augustus W. Graham, of Gran ville, Speaker of the House, over Mr. W. C. Dowd, of Mecklenburg. On motion Judge Graham's nomination was also made unanimous. Just forty-nine years ago Judge Graham's father was elected Speaker of, the House by the first caucus held in the new hall of the new Capitol. The nomination of other officers for the House resulted as follows: Prin cipal clerk, T. G. Cobb, of Morgan ton; reading clerk, R. M. Phillips, of Lee county; Engrossing clerk, M. D. Kinsland, Waynesville ; sergeant-at-arms, George L. Kilpatrick, Lenoir. The caucus of the Democratic mem bers of the Senate resulted in the se lection of Whitehead Kluttz, of Salis bury, for president provtem. He had no opposition. Other officers chosen were : Principal clerk, A. J. Maxwell, of Craven county; reading clerk, Mark Squires, of Lenoir; engrossing clerk, W. E. Hooks, of Greenville ; ser-geant-at-arms. R. E. Staley, of Wilk esboro ; assistant, Nick Dobey, of Ral eigh, Senator J. A. "Long, of Person, was made chairman of the Senate caucus and J. L. Barham, of Wayne county, secretarv. A joint resolution was offered in the House by Perry, of Vance, ex tending profound sympathy . to the King and . Queen of Italy and their subjects and appropriating $5,000 for the relief of the sufferers of the earth quake. This was referred to the com mittee on finance to be approved. The Senate on Friday pass ed two separate bills increas ing" the salarg of the governor from $4,000 to $6,000 and the Com missioner of Labor and Printing to $2,500. There was no opposition to the bills along party lines. Senator Emple of New Hanover, favored $7,500 for the Governor's salary. Representative Morton of New Hanover, had his protest filed on the journal in opposition to the Gover nor's reading his message in person. Speaker Graham is remarkable for the number of bid Confederate, chiefly from the Home, that, he employs as laborers about the Senate chamber. He is himself a veteran. The Legislative committee fixed up on 1 p. m. next Tuesday for inaugu rating Governor Kitchen. The Wood men of the World band, of Concord, has been selected for the occasion. The cadets of the A. and M. College are named to participate. The day was largely consumed in committee work, after a short session in which committees were named,. No Increase in GoTernor's Salary. - In the Senate a bill was introduced relating to supernumerary judge, pro viding one who shall be available for special terms and to supply for any Superior Court judge who is sick. The bill that passed the Senate in creasing the Governor's salary from $4,000 to $6,000 came over on Satur day and in .the regular order of pro ceedure was referred by the Speaker to the committee on salaries and fees. . Both the Speaker and the chairman of the committee on rules, Mr. Dowd, seemed inclined to look with disfavor upon the practice of suspending rules and considering bills before they have been to committees.. In the Senate , Monday morning Mr. Whitehead Kluttz, of Rowan, intro duced Ja bill providing for the, crea tion of a State highway commission; the objeoi and purpose of 'which shall be "to instruct, assist and co-operate in the building and improvement of the public roads of the State." The plan followed and outlined in the bill is that which has been so successful ly carried out in various States, those drafting the measure having investi gated the " situation at great length. Copies of the bill hare been sent to practically all of the heads of the country road-building forces and en gineers' throughout' the State and others 'and. nothing but "approval ' and commendation has been expressed with regard tb it. The sentiment of those members of the . Assembly who have investigated Us provisions is al together favorable, the only issue problematical "as. to its ratification' in. full is that relating to the amount to be appropriated by the State.'" Section 22 reads as, follow: "The sum of $150,000 annually; is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appro priated, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act." A session Monday of fifteen minutes for the Senate and less than an hour for the House was characterized most ly by the merest routine. In the House Representatives "sat up - and took notice" v-when Representative Underwood moved the withdrawal of the Senate bill' for the increasing the Governor's salary from the committee on salaries and fees, where it was tied np, in order that it might be put upos its readings withouf waiting for final committee action. The vote on re- ft .v . . i. e - - ; i- calling the bill was" taken- and th'e Speaker declared ; that " the , noes seeinetP, have; it." Z-Thereupon a division was-called and straigtway fifty-nine members stood np as against recall to thirty-nine for recall. - Later the committee reported . . unfavorably upon the bilL The 'force of the argu ment was that evenjf it passed now it eould not be available for this term of office, being after the first of Janu ary, which seems to be implied by the constitution as the Governor's legiti mate beginning of official term. A message was received from the Governor transmitting the complete list of pardons and commutations granted by bim . during the past two years. ' 'Amang various ' bills in the house re:.. W - Harshaw , r (by request) Prevent persons from hiring horses on false representations. ... - . Green Amend Sec. 2040 Revisal, making tugboats and other vessels' liable for supplies furnished them in home ports.' A resolution by Mr. Underwood to send two delegates from the House to the. meeting of the North Carolina As sociation for the Prevention of Tuber culosis at Charlotte Jajuiary.I2th and 13th was adopted, tl was "requested that Dr. Gordon be one. . ALL ARE INDICTED Pittsburg's Councilmen Accused of Accepting Bribes. Pittsburg, Pa., Special. The seven louncilment accused of accepting bribes and conspiring to secure bribes ind the two former bankers accused f giving bribes, all of whom were ar STrested two weeks " ago upon com plaint of the Voters' League were in dicted late Monday by a grand jury Impaneled Monday morning. True bills were found as follows: T. O. Atkinson, select councilman, bribery md accepting bribes. William Brand, president of common council, bribery ind accepting bribes and conspiracy. John F. Klein, common councilman, bribery and accepting bribes and con ipiracy. Jospeh C. Wasson, common councilman, bribery and accepting bribes and conspiracy. Jacob Soffel, ommon councilman, bribery and ac Jepting bribes. Hugh Ferguson, com mon councilman, bribery and accept ing bribes. W. W. Ramsey, former president of German National Bank, sffering and giving bribes. A. A. Vil sack, former cashier of same bank, of fering and giving bribes. All of a& :used ' gave bond after their arrest, ind these bonds will stand nntil the eourt hearing. There is every indica tion that these hearings will be held Umost 'immediately. BIr. Taft Will Eat 'Possum and 'Taters in Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga.. Special One hundred D 'possums with the usal accompany nent of sweet potatoes, will grace the banquet table of the Atlanta :hamber of commerce on January 15th, when President-elect Taft will be the guest of honor. When a dele ration of prominent Atlantians called lpon Mr. Taft a few days ago in Au fasta to arrange the details of his risit to this city the spokesman court ously ast6I the next occupant of the White House if he had any sugges tions to offer relative to the prepara tion of the banquet. "Just one," he imilingly replied, 'I have had a life time longing to taste 'possum and' ta ters. Mytvisit to the South would be incomplete unless this wish is realiz d." Relief For Earthquake Sufferers. New York, Special. Laden with twenty'-five tons of clothing and more than thirteen tons of provisions with irhich to elothe and feed the starving md half-naked survivors of the Cala bria and Sicily earthquake and carry ing homeward over 300 Italians of all liases, most of whom are hurrying to4from Norfolk through Roanoke, Va., 3ie scene where their loved ones hav been killed, maimed or rendered des titute," the steamship Hamburg, of the Hamburg-American line sailed Tues Jay for Genoa and Naples. Most of the provisions destined for the Italian tufferers were donated by V Nathan Straus from the stock of a local -firm f which he is a member. No Trouble With Honduras is Antic '....;- ipated. ? . Mobile. Ala., Special. Ernesto Fotes, Honduras consul .at Mobile, referring to the publication of a prob able Central American conflict said Monday that all these reports are not ible for their want", of varaeity. . He laid that peace in these countries if in assured fact, and that the neutral ity of Honduras is maintained by -the treaties of Washington; and in conse quence, Honduras today has only a normal number of regular soldiers. Alligators Raised Like Pigs. Since the alligators are getting icarce on our Southern coasts and their value is being better known there are ' at least . three" alligator farms fa this country and there; '.-may be more, since each one of the" three has made a success of the industry. They are situated in Arkansas, FlorT la and California. They are raised md Iratciered like pigs. Wilbur Wright Smashes All Aero plano Records. Lemans, France, By Cable..-Wilbur Wright, the American aerbplanist, beat all previous aeroplane . records here Thursday with a magnificent flight that lasted fqr two hours, anc nine minutes. He covered officially-a distance of 73 miles, but as a matter of fact, counting the wide curves, he made over 90 - miles. Mr. Wright's feat was the more remarkable because of the intense cold. After breaking the record Mr. Wright went " aloft 9 ain with Mw Barthou as a passen Ber. --v - . Bavaria's chief manufacturing cen ter is Nuremberg which, with the ad- Joining city of Furth, now has a pop ' nlation of nearly 400,000 -;- " - lit tiTWS IN BRIEF Items of Interest Gathered By - Wire end . Cchle GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAV "Lire Items Covering Events of More or Less Interest at Home nfl Abroad. ' Washington, N. C, had a $20,000 blaze Friday morning. The. .United States leads the world in the production of lead. The eleven-year-old son of Wm. Tillman, of Chathani County,, commit , ted suicide with a gun last week,, because his father punished him. Six Tennessee night riders have been convicted of murder in the first degree and two in the second degree, with jury penalty of 20 years imprisonment, all for the murder of Capt. Rankin. Sberiffv'an Ptft, of Pensaeola, has bud to stop street cars from running; on Sunday to conform to the law. The Virginia Portland Cement Co. has started up .in full force again, with 500 hands and hopes to double its force soon. Hampton, Va., voted on Wednes day to issue $100,000 in bonds for city purposes. An address from the . people of Spottsylvania, Va., will be issued soon, calling on the people of the na tion to unite in erecting a grand mon ument at Bloody Angle, in honor of Gens. R. E. Lee and U. S. Grant. Hon. John S, Henderson, receiver, announces that - affairs at Whitney, N. .C, will soon be straightened rat and work will begin on the great electric power plant. The American Battle Fleet, as soon as it came , out of the Suez canal, tendered its services ,to Italian au thorities to aid at Scicily but were declined because not needed. , Hon. Bert M. Fernald was inaugu rated Thursday as governor of the State- of Georgia. .' Hon. Oben S. Draper took his seat as Governor of . Massachusetts on Thursday. The inaugural assembly was unprecedented. The North Carolina Legislature has increased the salary of the Governor from $4,000 to $6,000. The annual income of the late "Sugar King" Claus Speckles is $275,000 per month. Pending the probate of the will the widow is to, have $4,000 per month. , Dr. Roseburgh of the Jefferson Med ical College, Philadelphia, has made a wonderful discovery about tuber culosis germs, and hopes soon that an anti-toxine will be in use to which the dread disease will yield. The South Carolina Penitentiary shows a net balance of $29495.19 for 190S over 1907, after losing about $15,000 by flood and making perma nent improvements to the extent of nearly $11,000. Half starved dogs in the stricken cities of Italy are dangerous to the crippled, and they eat the dead like hyenas. . The next meeting of the Cotton Manufacturing Association will be held in Richmond, Va., on the 4th Tuesday, in May. A head-on collision occurred on the Southern at Canegie Tuesday, in which five persons were hurt, one of them probably fatally. A late pitched battle between vig ilantes from Mexican ranches near the California lipe and a party of stock thieves resulted in the killing of the four thieves. The Virginian Railroad is now open 320 miles. James Treanor, a printer, was burned "to. death with the loss by fire of Central Hotel, Covington, Tenn on Tuesday. A score of others made narrow, escapes. Senor Castro Venezuela's deposed ruler, is fast recovering from an operation, which he has undergone in Berlin, and has promise of health. Congress has appropriated $800, 000 to the earthquake suerers in Italy.' . . A semi-annual dividend of 3 1-2 per cent on North Carolina Railroad stock vWas declared at Greensboro on Tuesday. A sanatorium for ;consumptiyes has been opened at Red Springs, a Vir ginia mountain - summer resort. C. F. King, famous in finance, was convicted of larceny in Boston. He gave bail of $35,000, and came out of jail, but soon one of the sureties surrendered him to custody again. He is in jail. . A convention of the Virginia and Carolina Hotel Association convened at the Jefferson. Richmond, Va., on Wednesday. Congressmen will be limited this season to 10,000 packages of vege table seeds to send to their consti tuents instea&.-of 12,5000 as before 500 packages of flower seeds are still allowed ' to each. The Brownsville trouble which ba been: so naueh agitated, has cost $15, 000, and the end is not yet. It is reported that Geo. E. Milton, of the Knoxville Sentinel, has pi"" chased the Chattanooga News con sideration, $175,000. Fire which raged for five days ij the steamer Texas, while ' on j maiden voyage, has been extingi" and the Texas is ready for repa to try it again. There are 811 midshipmen at & United States Naval Academy Anapolis, Md. " , at Richmond,. Va., on Monday 1 jxiuiuer. . The dismembered body of Rev. M. Carmichael, of Columbus, was iouna on ncuuwj . ing sioves iu w u