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A REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF AMERICAN HOMES AND AMERICAN INDUSTRIES. BURLINGTON. N. C,f DECEMBER 231908. VOL. I. NO. 32. f t WASHINGTON LETTER. From our Regular Correspondent. Washington, Dec 19. Congress has adjourned its short but tumul tuous ante-holiday session. The President's message, in which Con gress was severely taken to task for circumscribing the activities of the detective bureau, aroused the legis' Iative body the second day of the session. Since that time the Presi dent has been sending a continuous stream of messages to the Capitol. A caricaturist in one of the daily papers had a half-page picture, giv ing a birdseye view of Pennsylvania Avenue filled with wagons at full speed bulging with enormous mes sages from the White House to the legislative branch of . the govern ment and there was no more exag geration in the picture than in most cancatuaes. The final days ot the Roosevelt administration will surely sustain the reputation for strenuous- ness and there will be no political or social rest until alter the fourth of March. The last message of the President is one recommending a change of. Government for the District of Columbia. As is pretty well known, the elective franchise is unknown in the District The government here is by three commissioners appointed "By the President. The three-head ed concern has proved very unsatis factory to many substantial burgh ers doing business or living here. They, .do not want representative government with an unrestricted ballot to every male resident of twenty-one years of age. That would let in the colored population of ninety thousand (the largest colored population, by the way, of any city in the world). Negro sufferage was tried here mure than thirty years ago when the District had a govern or, a legislature and a representa tive in Congnss. But all the same Washington is not satisfied with its triumvirate government. The Presi dent knows it and he has recom mended to Congress a change in the form of government for the District of Colombia and should his lecom meridation fe adopted, Washington will have single governor. The President first calls attention to the rapid increase of population in the Rational Capital, which he says has recently greatly altered social conditions necessitating changes in the machinery of its ad ministration. He suggests that a single executive head would increase efficiency, fix responsibihy and eli minate delays and uncertainties such as exist under the present sys- tin . v-i i i tern, vy netuer congress win pay 'any closer attention to the Presi dent's recommendations with refer ence to the District of Jolumbia than it has to his many other recent recommendations, is a problemati cal question. The President-elect made a hasty and unexpected visit to the Capital one day this week, but left the same evening for his temporary southern home at Augusta, Ga. It is said that he came in answer to a request of President Roosevelt, who wished to consult him particularly with re ference to his proposed trip to the Isthmus ot Panama for purposes'of canal inspection, At the White House it was decided that the trip should be made in two cruisers of the Navy and that Mr. Tail will be fet sail trom Charleston on January the 27th. It will be remembered that when President Roosevelt went to the Panama Canal, another ship conveyed the one which bore him and the same precautions for the safety of the President-elect will be taken. It has been fonnd that there is no provision in law for a success or to President-elect should he die before his inauguration. The dis tinguished civil engineers Alfred Noble of the Pennsylvania Railroad and Frederick P. Sterans of Boston, will accompany Judge Taft and consult and advise with him with reference to the condition of the canal especially as relates to the foundations of the Catun dam. It is knewn this morning that S?nator Knox uf Pennsylvania, has been offered the premiership of the Taft cabinet and has signified his willingness to accept. Mr. Knox. it will be remembered, was Attorney-General during President Mc Kinley's Administration and also for a short time under President Roosevelt' He has been for four years Senator troni Pennsylvania. He is looked upon as a great lawyer not brilliant, but well read and safe. He is a man of considerable wealth, supposed to be in the mil- Jionaire class, and owns one of the finest residences in Washington ad- joining the home of Senator Hale, of Maine, on "K" street near the corner ot Sixteenth. The house was built hv Mrs. Georere Washington Childs and bought by Senator Knox four or five years ago. ' An executive order has been signed by the President prescribing & physical test for the officers and men of the Marine Corps, lhey will be required to walk fifty miles in three days or in twenty hours actual marching time and they must do this at least once in two years. A feature of the walk "is that dur ing one of the marching periods the officers will be required to double quick at intervals as follows; two hundred yards with a half minute's rest; then three hundred yards with one minutes rest; then complete the test in a two hundred yards dash, making in all seven hundred yards on the double quick with one and one-half minutes rest This is what comes of having.a President who can outwalk, out-run, out-box, out ride and do many other outre physi cal things that fat and phlegmatic officers, whether in the naval, mili tary, or marine services, have long ceased to do. HOW TO JJSE WEALTH.. Charles L Freer Gift to Nation a Typical Example. Philadelphia Public Ledger. Robert Louis Stevenson -used to say that the two uses of wealth were a yacht and a string quartet Most people will agree that there are less commendable employments. than these for the rich man's mill ions. But many would widen the category of purchasable blessings to include works of the creative imagi nation in the form of paintings and other artistic objects. Many rich men seud their mon ey in feeding the five physical sen ses and starve their souls. They scarcely look beyond the body's need one inch into the infinite. The ruling passion strong in life is the accumulation of the dollars, and they have no higher intellectual in terest or spiritcal aspiration. Such men are to be commiserated. But often, in such cases, ignorance is bliss. They do not realize that they are missing the best life has to give, inasmuch as they are unawate that life is more than meat and the body more than raiment Bunyan has a telling picture of a man who rakes together the sticks and stones and rubbish, not once looking up to behold the golden crown above his head proffered by the hand of an angel. He is a type of the man who devotes his life to the accumulation of material things, unmindful of the fact that he must one day "slough the dross of earth," and that there is, beyond the grave, no unsufruct ot his worldly estate.' The man of means who spends his money with discriminrtion upon works of art is to be commended as unreservedly as the wealthy volupt uary is to be commiserated. He remembers that Vthe best things any mortal hath are those that every mortal shares." .He does not mere ly board his accumulated treasures of art, but as far as practicable, he allows these who really care about such things as he has to see them. The community no more altruistic benefactor than the man who gives to the public for their perpetual en joyment and inspiration such a col lection ot pictures as that . wnicn Charles L. Freer has recently given the nation, to be housed m a build ing especially erected at AVashing ton. President Roosevelt was right when he he said it was the most generous gift hat has been made by any individual to the United States. LAWS OF MAN AND GOD AGAINST IT The Shame of Raleigh Tqe Red Light District Rendezvous of, Criminals. News and Observer. ' The tragic death of Elbert Smith, the voung traveling ban of Richmond, Va., in Raleigh's rendez vous of criminals on the night of November 14th, should . sound the death knell of the city's shame and horror, the Red Light District The existence of those crime-producing houses is against the laws of God and man; their location and their evil works are known to all men and to the police of this city; their erad ication is demanded by the people, and the laws require that they be stamped out N o excuse can be giv en by the authorities for permiting them to continue except they may sav such institutions of lust are nec essary evils. They advauce the fur ther objection to driving them out that it is extremely difficult to se cure evidence sufficient to convict The legislature of 1907 enacted a law that clothes the court with pow ef sufficient for exterminate efery hell hole in the city. Had it not been for East Raleigh, Smith would in all probability have been alive today. He was married and a beautiful young woman mourns the untimely death of her husband. The lure of the red light, the thirst for strong drink bore him to his doom, as they have carried many another, and will continue to curse aud blight so long as the city gov ernment will permit them to con duct that hellish traffic Perhaps the most serious prob lem that confronts the State today is the increase ot crime. Never before have the criminal dockets been so terribly .heavy in certain jxmntie A great black cloud hangs over the city of Raleigh and the county of Wake. The startling number of shocking crimes in North Carolina's capital city and county has been commented upon not only" by court officers, but has been the ghastly subject oi countless conversations. liaveiing men have spread our shame throughout thi and other States. Outrage upon outrage has been perpetrated, and in most in stances a bad woman has been at the bottom ef it all. The moral citizenry of the city demand the extermination of these hell holes. They are an octopus with long stretching tendrils, suffi ciently lengthy to encircle the form of every mother's sorf in the city. There is no end to the danger inher ent in the devilish institution. There is no abomination more to be dread ed, none so fraught with evil and damnation. These houses destroy character and assasinate conscience; they take from the heart the capaci ty to appreciate purity and virtue and take from the heart the capacity to appreciate purity aud virtue and take from the mind its faculty for discriminating between right and wrong. They are wholly evil with no good thing in them. Their pur pose is to entice men; their object to make money. Such denizens are society's basest parasites, corrupting and damning more lives and ruining more homes than any other agency ef evil in the world. They are more blighting than a plague, more terri ble than a devastating fire. No young man in the city is safe so long as the authorities, city and county, permit these strongholds of the Devil to exist in Raleigh. , It is with the authorities to tear these hellish structures down, to put the shameless law-breakers in prison cells or drive them from the , city. If th.ey say they cannot do it, there are men just as goed who say they can. If the official will not do it, then it is high time to get rid of such officers and swear in men who will keep their oaths aud enforce the law". The sentiment of people of Raleigh is strong against that infa mous section known as East Raleigh. Its subtle influence have caused des olation in so many homes that unless the authorities act these are people wuo may acr. tnemseives; tnen woe to somebody. The hour has arriv- eawnen the -authorities must act It is up to them. They have the knowledge of the houses, even of the names of all the women ofthat curs edsection, and they have the power of the courts hehind them. Above all else the people require of them at this hour that they shall do" their duty, as the law directs and as they have sworn to do, and their duty is to erase "East Raleierh" from the map of the city. .. If they do this, they will have the support and com mendation of the citizens; if they refuse, they will suffer the indigna tion, of an aroused and outraged public. CARVING THE TURKEY. Some Suggestion as to How to Do It Right. , Ohio State Journal. The turkey is not usually carved in a scientific manner, but it should be, for the carving is a; very impor tant part of the feast. There are many carvers who actually dull the appetite, they go at the work so clumsy. But there are others, who whet the appetite make the mouth water and the eyes shine as they run the keen knife through the savory muscles and along the bone. Don t let anybody carve the turkey.! It is the work of a genius. The customary method of laying the turkey on its back, plunging the fork down into its white breast, and then sawing heavily into the ligaments and joints, is all wrong Carving a turkey is not a struggle, it i it . is a aeed oi grace, which is as happily done as the prestidigator does his little trick on the stage no turmou, no contusion, no worrying with conditions. There is no scrap ing of bone, no digging frantically into a loint. it is an as gentle as gathering a bunch of lillies. You lay the turkey on the side, raise the leg and second joint with a fork, and sever them from the body with a slip of the knife; then the witig the same way. It is all done without a ruffle or a shuffle. There is no fierce glare in the car ver's face. He is as tranquil as the eventide. Turn the turkey on its back, cut down the thin slices of the breast, then turn up the other, side and repeat Why, it's actually beautiful the way it is done; and then how much the action is entitled to a treatment in whieh grace and skill abound. When sitting down to the turkey don't get a haggler to carve it. Let him look on and first learn how to carve, f REUBEN BARBEE ISJSCHARGEO Holt Murder Mystery in Durham Dark as Ever. Durham, N. C, Dec. 21. To night after a lengthy hearing, May or Graham discharged Reuben Bar- bee of the charge of killing Engi neer Holt. The evidence was not sufficient to hold in the face of the alibi that the defendant established. This leaves the Holt murder as dark as it was the moment after it was reported to the officers on the morn ing he was killed. The discharge of Barbee leaves the officers absolu tely in the dark. There is now no clue. The case of Reuben Barbee con sumed all the afternoon, the trial being before the mayor. The case began at 1:20 o'clock and it was near dark when the adjournment was taken until tonight. Barbee stood charged with the murder of Engineer J. A. Holt at the coal shute on the early morning of December 3rd. His reliance was to prove an alibi, but the State thought that it would establish a complete case. Barbee swore he was at home all of that night. ' Mrs. Wm. H.- Taft spoke to a representative gathering of Southern ladies at the home of Mrs. B. Frank Mebane at Spray last Thursday MINORITY IN CONGRESS. Its Usefulness Threatened bp Divs- sion on Protection. Charleston News 'and Conrier.- The historic attitude of the Dem ocrats toward the tariff for reduc tion of the duties as well as revision of them was restated at Denver, as usual, but there may well be anxiety lest an inclination on the part of in- di vid ual members of Congress to re gard it as a local issue and to look out for the peculiar advantage of their particular constituents will be harder to restrain even than it has been heretofore. On a great issue such as this the party ot the opoo- sition ought to be closely knit and thoroughly organized. It is already clear that the ' American consumer has few friends before the Ways and Means Committee of the House and . that pearly every man who has tar iff testimony to present has an ax to grind. That protective schedules, how ever they may benefit a special in dustry, means a higher cost of liv ing and harder times to the whole mass of American people is a thought that has been completely ignored t-ince the Democratic party began to J i a 'a n "t ' pi scaiier us nre unaer ine direction oi Mr. Bryan in 1896, bnt if it should transpire. that the American consum er finds the Democratic minority in Congress is bis degendable friend at this time, it is reasonably certain tnat tnis same consumer will come to his senses and vote his friend in to power at a later day. I . However, the Democrats are at present a disheartened ho3t. All ot them in Congress are in the plight of the member celebrated by Tom Watson they do not know .''where they're at" and if they should be held together and whipped, into shape for work that counts for the 6eneral welfare of the nation, espe cially m regard to to tarifir revision, we shall be greatl; but very .agree ably, disappointed. BETTERING JURY SYSTEM. Chicago Reformers Begin by Pro viding Comforts for Jurors. Chicago Record-Herald. The "dedication" Saturday even ing of the Jitw jury rooms on the top floor of the criminal Court Building amounts to "a report of progress m connection witn a most . . useful and imperative reform. Better housing and some comfort a !! a . J a " j 1 lor jurors win tena4to overcome me repugnance of so many of our most competent and conscientious citizens to the exercise of the highest of all priviledges participation in the administration of law and justice. The hardships to which jurors have been subjected, like those frequents ly r inflicted on "detained" witnesses, guilty of nothing save accidental knowledge of some offense, have re flected deep discredit on our legal machinerv. It was high time for a change when the Industrial Club took the matter up. - But the effect of better housing on the service itself will be rather indirect. The club proposes to deal directly with the question of im proving the quality of jury service. That will improve overhauling of laws and established practices. It affects the drawing of names, the scope of the exemption clauses in the statutes, the examinations of talesmen, the . amount f service reasonably to be exacted of the average man of affairs, aud so on. It is necessary to divorce absolutely the idea of jury service from the fied notions of spoilsmen aand cheap politicians as to "patronage" possi- i 1 . 1 1 i ' Ti I- n Dilities in inat line, .lu la ueuesssai to get rid oi proiessionai jurors, loafers, rnd hangers-on. It is not j impossible to obtain representative juries, juries of requisite intelligence aud conscientiousness to render ver dicts on the merits and the testi mony. The Industrial Club is seeking to insure suchjuries by removing the conditions which for decades have made, for determination and perversion of the true principle in jury trials. SHAD PROTECTION Tfl vnnTH nnni m 1 U 11U11 1 11 UllllUlilllll Mr. Geo- M. Bowers, United otates ncn commissioner has the tot-. lo wing to say that should be of great interest to every lover of the shad family of the finny, tribes , The disappearance of the sturgeon - ironi neariy every east coast river, Mr, Bowers states, : "shows how greed and indifference may in a single generation, destroy a valuable fishery." - - , North Carolina stands out as the only State in which the bureau , stands out in the cultivation of shad; '; where the general decline of this' fishery has been arrested. "The immediate effect of sensible protective measures in the State," says the commissioner shows the re- s suits that may be expected from sim ilar legislation for the various im- portant streams, like the Potomac, ti. ft which the shad has been persistent ly destroyed year after year without anv recard for the fntnri 1 - T - Three Couples Married. . - . On Sunday , Dec, 13th, 1908, at the Reformed parsonage here .the kioiiowing marriages were solemnized v I X" . I 1 - . . . " 1 - r . uy jmjv. j. u. narew, viz: ivir ' Lemvell Quails, of West Burling- ton and Miss Cora E.' Rich, of tbe . Mt. Hermon community: Mr. Al- bert Whitesell, of the St Marks , neighborhood and Miss Sallie Keck,' of near Alamance Mills, and" Mr. Walter Cook and Miss Sal Ha Oohlp ' both of Haw River. X All these young people are" de -servedly popular among .their many mends and the young men are to be congratulated especially in win- ' ning such brides. Best wishes to thm all for future welfare. ?. News Over the State ; The Grand Jury of Guilford coun- ' ty last week passed a resolution re commending and advising that here- n. .11 . i l i l ' . alter ail executions De made oy elec tricity in the State Penitentiary at ' Raleigh. There is a rumor prevalent that; Wm. H. Taft will be invited to come from Augusta, Ga , and speak . to the legislature of North Carolina, which convenes in Raleigh early in, .January. - - a wuiie imam; supposed to De on-' ly a few hours old was, found one uay last week in the woods near Cool Springs, two miles north of Lenoir. It was wrapped in an old shirt, and it is thought was placed there to die. ;"" ..,....' Lea H. Battle ex-cashier of the City National Bank of Greensboro ; which went defunct about a year- ago has oeen indicted in forty counts for embezzlement, by a Federal l grand iury at at Charlotte last week. Mrs. Emma Taylor, wife of 4Mr. W. A. Taylor, of Edgecombe county luuLiuayaiieruooo coinminea SUlClue IT J ' !l 3 1 at the State. Hospital -in Raleigh by uaugiug ueistju wim a lorn sneet suspended from the top of 1 the.door. of her room. Deputy Sheriff Fred Bunion of " fadisnn nniintv. wKn xrm a alart a ., lumber inspector of that county committed suicide last Sunday after- " noon by shooting himself through the temple in the presence of - his two year old child. Judge Thomas B; PurnellJudge. of the United States District Court , tor Eastern District of North Caro- Hun died at his hnrriA in T?.n1irh Taf Saturday morning after a protracted illness of cancer of the kidneys and liver. Aged 63 years. u onn j. xjumsaen an inventor oi L Baleigh, shot and r probably fatally - wounded Henry, 1. Kuyden in Hev 1 York last: Saturday. Suvden is a , mining stock broker, who it is claim-:: . rl war trvincr in df.istt Lnmsdpn'ft ' .