A REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF AMERICAN HOMES AND AMERICAN INDUSTRIES.
VOL. II.
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BURLINGTON. N. C, MAY19, 1909.
NO. 1
WASHINGTON LETTER
From our Regular CJorrespondeixt.f
Washington, May 15.In spite
o&the fact that a new tariff Jaw is'
under consideration and will notjgo
to tha President; for several. weeks',
and although such " a: situation is
generally accompanied ' by anxiety
in industrial circle, yet the' cheering
new comes from all parts of the
country that business ia picking up
and that there is a most substantial
increase in all lines of. activity.
In the first place "government re
ceipts from customs duties continue
satisfactory and the large imports of
manufactures material show that
there is no waiting for the new tariff
as would be the case if duties were
to be very materially lowered. This
shows, to that the people are pur
chasing on a large and substantial
scale and that stocks of all kinds are
low. The railroad business is on
the increase,' which is also reflected
by the upward trend of the stock
market. There has been an ad
vance in the price, of steel products,
and in manv cases an increase in
wages.
Building operations have been at
high water mark all thabpnng, and
' will no doubt continue so during the
Summer. Bank clearings are Hear
ing the high figures of the period
preceding the panic andr collections
are reported as good. The crop
outlook is excellent, and mere is
every prospect of a splendid busi
ness revival following the enactment
of the tariff.
All this is due to the confidence
which the people have in. Republi
can legislation and the administra
tion of President Taft. Every cor
poration, every manufactures, every
merchant, feels that his business will
not be unjustly interfered with if he
obeys the law, and that no laws will
be asked for or enacted that will
cripple honest business. While the
tarriff bill reported by Senator Aid
rich is-assailed in certain, quarters,
it is believed it will receive almost
the entire Republican vote, and
while some charges will be made in
conference, vet the bill will go to
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the President a thoroughly protec
tive measure-and receive his signa
ture. The tariff will have been revised
on the lines laid down in the last
Republican platforms Some duties
will be lowered, some increased, and
many left as they are, but all with
a view to give the American produ
cer the protection needed to equal
the difference between the home and
foreign cost of production with a
reasonable profit.
The American market, the best
in the world is to be protected and
its advantages preserved .for the
American oroducer. This belief
gives confidence to all classes, and
that is why a speedy return to Pros
perity is asured. This Drosperity will
continue if the Republican party is
continued in power, and that it will
be is not doubted.
President Taft continues to en
dear himself to all classes of people.
His appearance and speech at jl re
cent dinner tended him by the busi
ness men of Washington brought him
near to the people of the District of
Columbia than has been the case
with any previous President His
trips to Petersburg, Va., and to
Charlotte, N. C. will increase bis
popularity in the South, and so far
there is nothing but praise fromv
evry part of the country.
h is doubtful if there will be
'pucb business done in the House
tjUthe tariff bill ia passed by the
Senate, and little new legislation .is
looked for at the extra session,
ext winter, however, in response
to the President's recommendations,
"uu may be attempted and some
Pew and far reaching laws affecting
Werstate commerce and labor enact
JP; If this is satisfactorily accomp-
llsned and the expected prosperity
comes, the next House elected next
will have a largely inci
publican majority, insuring Mr.
, . 1 a friendly Congress throughout
term.
hue the Democrats are, as usual
King wild predictions that' they
Will eWf iU. ,
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-v-i a iuu iwr iiy iu ,iue utii
0lle and the next Piesident, still
BILLION-DOLLAR
RAILWAY COMPANY
V f
ic Consolidation Now Said to !
Be Harriman Plan.
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Chicago' Record-Herald.
Abilliori-dollar corportion is the
latest project from' the bain ofE. 'H.
'Harriman," planned with a view to
sonsohdating and-lidifying the vast
railroad mileage represented by the
.New York Central lines. A dozen
or more of the most eninent corpora
tion lawyers m New York in Chic
ago, tJincmati, Cleveland, ana rui-
ialo ar now working on the problem
of this great corporation, which
Harriman hopes to make the crown
ing effort of his railroad and finan
cial career.
The legal men in the Harriman
employ have been told to discover a
way in which the more than 12,000
miles of railroad uuder the control
of the New York Central, and re
presenting a capitalization of. nearly
$ 1,000,000,000, may be made over
into a homogenous entity with a
central management, with one trea
sury and with one purpose to enable
it to assume the most commanding
position in the transportation world.
"Find the way," is the command
which has eone forth from the
Harriman camp, and if the way be
found there will soon be born v the
greatest and most powerful railroad
and financial corporation this or any
other county has known.
Th following are the main lines
of road which will be embraced in
the consolidation:
New York Central and Hudsou
River, Dnnkirk; Allegheny Valley
and Pittsburg, Fulton Chain Rail-
way, Little Fall9 and Dolgeville,
Raquette Lake Railway, Rutland
Railway, Toronto, Hamilton, and
Buffalo: Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern, Cleveland, Cincinnati,
Chicago and St Louis system; Lake
Erie, Alliance and Wheeling; Chi
cago lndina. -and Southern; Lake
Erie and Western; Northern Ohio,
Lpittsburg and Lake Erie, Michigan
Central, Canada Southern, Railway
Chicago, Kalamazoo, and Sagiuaw;
Indian Harbor Belt, West Shore,
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anci letroit ana jnanevoix.
These railroads have a combin
ed mileage of about 1 2,000, and
they form the world. The Penn
sylvania, which is under one mana
gement, incorporated as the Penns
ylvania Company, has about 11,000
miles of road.
The securities outstanding and is
sued by the New York Central lines
aggregate is round numbers $512,
000,000, and the compauy owns
stocks and bonds in other corpora
tions aggregating approximately
$153,000,000. The total outpnt
of securities represented by the
lines owned and controlled by lease
or by stock ownership aggregate ap
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proximately $997,000,000.
In the organization ofa controll
ing and security holding company
it is expected that Mr Harriman
will fellow somewhat the plan un
der which the Pennsylvania has be
come the greatest railway organiza
tion in th world, in so far as opera
ting a financial aspects -are concern
ed.
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they do not believe it, and thousands
particularly hroughout the South,
are about ready to join the party of
progress and attainment. Today
the Democratic party is divided in
to so many factions that as a party
it could hardly formulate a plat
form. True some great public ques
tion or policy might arise upon
which it could unite, but none is in
sight If Mr. Bryan should again
be nominated, as he will, no doubt,
try to be, he will lose more than
one Southern State, and every West
ern tate which he carried last
year. So the young men as they
become first voters .join the Repub
lican party and the free traders are
becoming protectionists..
The condition gives confidence in
business circles and is the basis and
foundation for every optimistic view
lookiner - to the future srlorv - and
i - - o v -
J greatness, wealth and power of our
I country,
SAYINGS OF MRS. SOLOMON.
Being the Confessions of the Seven
Hundredth WifeTranslated
Helen Rowland. !"
Washington Herald. . . .
My daughter, these are the pro
verbs of, thy mother, the married
woman. ': .
To know men and their round
about ways; to perceive the ,diner
ence between near-lovemaking and
a real proposal; to distinguish kisses
the kiss of love from the kiss of
long practice, and all kisses from
the kisses of graft. lo give sub
tility to the debutante, and to the
wife a little "useful knowledge. . . v
The understanding of man is the
beginning of an allowance; but the
foolish shall earn their own living
and dwell in a studio apartment.
They shall feed upon spaghetti and
club sandwiches and weak tea sea
soned with condensed milk.
Go to tne kitten, thou suffragette;
consider her ways and be wise,
which, having no opinions, sleepeth
UDon a down pillow and getteth the
cream off the jug without working
for it
For a husband is better than
a government position, and more
profitable than school teaching. Lo,
men do not despise a grafter from
her husband.
Yea, if a man is the producer,
shall not a woman be the consumer?
For this is reciprocity; and - the
more she consumeth the more she
getteth. --Then, let every wife be a
walking advertisement of her hus
band's income, for a wife that look
eth like ready money is as good as
much credit
Heed my instruction, for love is
a gilded cage to which any woman
can entice the bird, but matrimony
is the door which only a clever dam
sel sbutteth' behind- him." ' There
fore, mark the difference between
the foolish and the wise. '
For she that flirteth with the eye
that will not behave shall cause
ha oc, but she that talketh too much
shall give a man mal de . mer. As
a erreen uersimmon to the . roof of
the mouth, so is a woman that tel
leth a man her "past"
AH th ways of a man are "just
right" in the eyes of a wise damsel,
but the foolish woman saith " I told
you soP
I charge thee a good temper is
rather to be chosen than good shoul
ders, and a tender manner than
curling hair.
Yet, 1xast- not of what thou art
going to marry, for thou knowest
not what the market shall bring
forth, and she that starteth out to
win an Adonis, perad venture shall
fone day gladly wed tub. ;
Verily, verily, oozy corners are
deceitful, and pink teas are vain,
but a man that proposeth by letter
is a bird in the band.
Lo, a proposal deferred " maketh
the heart sick: yet when it cometh
it shalled be so garbled that thou
shalt not recognise it Bat do not
tura it down, for, as the , whirl wind
passeth so are old maids -.no more,
yet the bachelor girl endureth for
ever. . ft mm
I ben be up and doing, tor it is
never too late to mend; but a time
cometh when it shall be too late to
marry, and ye shall cry unto your-
! selves. "Mv mother told me sol
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Bill Nye's Editorial.
Bill Barlow, the editor of Bill
Barlow's Budget, is one f the most
unique figures in American Joural-
ism. To a few-of his friends he con
fided the first humorous paragraph
of. his former editorial associate,
Bill Nye. There had been a rail-
road accident. The locomotive was
lost in the river, two. passengers
cars were destroyed, the express car
was smashed, but no one had been
fatally hurt. This is the way Bill
Nye described it: v x'
"For upward of 20 years re
pairs have been repeatedly promis
ed -the old South Bridge, HopiDg
against hope, and waiting until dis
tracted, the old bridge became dis-
! couraged at last, and -.yesterday just
s. ' v .
laid down? in the gorge with; a" pas
senger; train.
VOHEN IN CIVIC LIFE
How "They Helped Kalamazoo's J
Street: Cleaning Department. j
Mabel Potter Daggett, in the Delineator, j
Kalamazoo is a city of only about
30,000 fnhabitants, in mauy re
spects it has attained to such cor
rect civic deportment as indicates
careful bringing up by ' hand by the
improvement league that Rev. Caro
line Bartlett Crane organized. It
is the vital needs of the heart ..and
lives of the community that are
reached. .
The league looked on the streets
of Kalamazoo and saw -that they
were not hygienically swept. How
should men know how to sweep,
anyway? . The men of the. city
govemirient said that they were
cleaning the streets ' as the. streets
always had been cleaned, and it must
be right But the women said. No,
that they would show them. The
city council was asked to give over
to the league six- blocks of the main
street for a period of three months,
together with the appropriation ex
panded on this strip of pavement
The plan was agreed to. Then
it became noised abroad that the
woman of Kalamazoo were going to
conduct this demonstration of right
street cleaning. And the yellowest
journals of Chicago, the near-by
metropolis, began to focus the train
ed machinery of their all-searching
staffs on the little town.
The women grew nervous in this
glare of thr limelight if publicity,
but under Mrs. Crane's direc
tion the arrangements progressed.
It was Col. Wanng's New York
system that was to.: be introduced.
The "white wings" were uniformed
and all equipped with new brooms
and little carts. Then, at the ele v-
entb -Jiour the, women who liad been
assigned in squads of two to act as
inspectors of the work, one - after
another rang: Bev.K Mrs. Crane's
trout-door bell. With- one Accord
they began to make excuses. There
were'-' sick babies and : unexpected
guests,1 and the ever-usf ul-husband-
who refuses- to allow-it.
i&3o. ithat , the . league that really
cleaned the streets was mostly Mrs.
Crane.ij At, first appalled by the
prospect, she nevertheless stood to
her guns when all but one of her
faithful lieutenants hand fled. The
yellow ; cameras got . hi r, but
at the end of three months she had
her jrfwardV fTheJ city; adopted
the system; for she had done for $5
what had previously cost $S.39 a
day, and she had proven that sweep
ing by hand was better than the
machine sweeping that sent clouds
of dust and disease into the housed.
To complete this demonstration of
neatness in municipal housekeeping
methods, the league purchased and
placed on the stjreet corners gatvan-
izd-iron cans for the "reception of
waste paper and refuse. And they
enlisted the efforts of the children
to keep the street! from litter by
organizing' in the schools junior
civic improvements leagues, with a
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uauge uwunug x win ucip.
I Faming and Railroads.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Kail roads are constructed for
commercial purposes and made to
pass through sections of the country
tnat promise zuiure pusinets. xuey
form the basis of industrial develop
ment Without transportation fa
cilities the farming, communities
would not become prosperous. Many
of the products of" diversified agri
culture pay profits when the fields
of supply are located within the ten
mile limit of a transportation stat-
ion.
The railroads become the
nioneers in developing . the natural
resources. They establish the
spirit of co-operation between pro
ducers and 'carriers and enable the
growers to get their, products on the
best markets, at the the right time
and in proper condition. .
There is a demand, for more in
formation on how to succeed on
small farms. Men and women read
of wonderful crops beinsr taken
from orchards, gardens and vine
yards of 'small t diuiensions, ;! and
doubt the truthfulness of the stories.
piANY skeletons found.
Skull With , Yejlow Hair Dug Up
by Workmen.
St Louis, May 13. Was St.
Charles the site of some ancient
burying ground? Has it been the
scene of a great battle between war-.
ring factions of the Mound Build
ers? Or, in more modern days, has
some editor of the Arizona "Kicker"
type used its friendly bosom to con
ceal the bodies of his detractors?
These questions and others simi
lar are agitating the citizens of the
Missouri River town, since the dis
covery of three skeletons in an ; ex
cavation on Tompkins Street re
cently. In ali these bones make
sixteen separate ossean relics of
former days, which have been dis
covered in St Charles.
Not long ago workmen excavat
ing along the river front discovered
a bone which was thought at first
to be a portion of the framework of
some premstonc animal. About
that time a St Charles County
farmer happened along, bit oft a
piece of the bone and munched it as
a connoisseuer tastes wine. He said
he was an expert bone-taster, and
declared the discovery part of a hu
man skeleton. ? ;
Yesterday workman who were
shaving down the side wf a hill to
make a place for a sidewalk found
the skeleton of a woman. A '
strands of yellow hair still clung
about the skull. The bones welre
in fair preservation, but evideotiy;
bad lain in the ground a long time
The color of the hair precludes
the probability of it being an In
dian's skeleton. It is considered
remotely possible that the wife or
daughter of some pioneer may have
been buried there..,. But' there are
no records of any cemetery in J his
part 6t the town since St. Uharles
has been the abode of civilized ha
man. beings. , :
-.Of course, there can be but specu
lation as to the history of the skele
ton with the yellow hair. The
aborigines of America are supposed
w nave oeen a aarK people, aicnougn
lighter m color; perhaps, than the
Indians. ; tFrom this there are'peo-
pie in St. Charles who argue ' thd
yellow-haired ekull may ,be a? relic
of a race even antedating the Mound
Builders. 1 '
The disco very tof a skeleton !or
two more or less, in St .(Charles is
a matter of such .ordinary i moment
rne locar papers scarcely menuon u.
When the foundations for the Kob-
erts Johnson. &lrland shoe factory;
were being laid bones were dug up
every: hour or so.
Laborers., have come to expect
something of the kiud. A foreman
of a work gang rates his men 4 by
the number ot human bones they
are able to dig up in a week. The
man who discovers a whole skeleton
is rated as Al, while he who finds
only a fragment is classed lower.
Whenever a force of men starts
to work upon a big excavation a
barrel is kept at a convenient place.
Into this are thrown all human
bones picked up. When the work
is finished the. contents of the barrel
are buried in one grave.
The workmen leave it to the in
dividual to assemble his personal
fragments on Resurrection Day. i
In such a barrel have been plac
ed the skeletons found in the ex
cavations on Tompkins Street. The
skull with the red hair tops the
heap. These and such other bones
as may be found, will be interred
when the work is finished.
Tbey have seen old farms abandon
ed because the land did not produce
sufficient income to. offer induce
ments for the young- men to remain
on the land and attemp to keep up
with the requirements of ; the Vage.
They have noted the failure of
many apparently industrious fariiil
ies in harvesting success from large
tracts of land. ; Now come the stories
of wealth and independence -being
attained through the cultivation of
one-tenth the area ot . former suc
cessful farms. , The people want to
see the old object-lessons,-and v the
railroad company is doing the prop
er thing when it proposes to operate
I small experimentai. farms. -4a.
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Disnop uaiioway . iiies from rnen
monia, Mississippi's Foremost '
Churchman and. Best,
- Known Publicists.
Jacksoi; Miss., May 12. Bishop j
Charles B. Galloway, of the Me-
thodist Episcopal Church South, -"
Mississippi's most distinguished di
vine and the best-known publicist. .
who for thp Inst. 9,0 vpars IipM ranlr x"
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among, the greatest pulpit orators of
America, died at his residence in
this city, today after an illness ot .
several days with a mild form? of
pneumonia, complicated with heart
trouble. .
The, Bishop was taken, ill last
Friday eri route from Nashville.
where he had attended the annual
session oi ine vjoiiege- oi isisnops.
No alarm over his ondition was ?
felt until Monday night, when pneu
monia develped in one lung. The '
patient grew worse rapidly. ( Dur-
inc tliA final 19 hours hp wna nn.
0 r
conscious. - -
The funeral will take place
Thursbay afternoon from- the First
Methodist Church, followed by in
termen fc at GTeen wood Cemetery.
Bishop Warren A. Candler, of
Georgikywill conduct the services.
Orders have been issued for all de
partments of the federal, state,
county and municipal governments'
to remain closed tomorrow, and
Mayor Crowder has fssued a pro-
clamation urginging the business
people to close for the day. . x ' v
GILL SHARPE FIRES
A PARTING SHOT
Mr. Editor:
Please find space for a few words
in. your paper. . .
Now what I want to say is this:
My friends wanted to run 'me' for
Alderman but that ring up " town
would not snbmit to that Now X
want to say right here that if 1 was
an alderman 1 could use' more com
mon sense than has been used for
the past four years. The board
which has just gone has decidedly
used less judgment ' than any set of
men that, I have sever heard - of.
They must have used their educa
tion instead of good judgment That
engine lying over there at power v
bouse in the junk pile- is some of
their education instead of good-
judgmen. "
Now, another thing, one of the
old board who served four years 9&
aiderman and we don't know of him
ever wanting any work done on the
streets until the new board 'went in.
then be was the first man to ask the
board to work the street by his
bouse. Another thing, 1 have been
before the board time after time to
hear, where the money .has gone.
They promised to give me an item
ized statement an
nave never
heard of it any rool
-1 happened
-that $7,000
to see in the pa
went to the graded :
Jland $4,000
iant, and the
to the electric light
balance to incidental .funds. ' Now.
where is the balance of the $26,000?
Now this is a matter7 of business.
v ; Now here is a little joke, but it
is true: I once heard of a man
who killed two hogs and hung them
up to dry, over night, and the next
morning his neighbor came over and
he said, one of my hog9 was stolen
last night, and a Republican stole
it, too. His neighbor ask him how
he knew a Republican d;d it, aud .
he said if if bad been a Democrat
he would have stoleri them both.
Yours truly,
G. A. SHARPE.
. The Nashville Ppblishing Com
pany, which i to publish a news
paper, and do a geiieral publishing
and printing business, was incorpor-
a Leu vixouuay wiin an authorized
capital stock . of $10,000. The'
company-; will 'commence business
with:$3,000. M. W Liucke and
others,' of Nash ville, iecp',porators.
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