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A REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF AMERICAN HOMES AND AMERICAN INDUSTRIES
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TURLINGTON. N. C, h JULY ;14, 1909.
NO. 9
WASHINGTON : LETTER.
From our KeffulaiCorTespondent. i
Washington, KJuIyA 10th. in
terest in the tariff bill will now, be
centered on its progress in confer
ence. It is probable that two - or
three weeks at least will be consum
ed in this vorkfand itdoes not seem
likelv now that Congress will -,ad-
ioiirn before Angest 1st. 'As ' the
amended bill passed by the Senate
VV1H l,e changed most materially
it U useless to comment upon the"
various scedules until the conference
bill is reported and passed by both
Houses and sent to the Presi-
dent. As finally passed by the Sen
ate the rates seem tobe. about mid
wav between those passed by the
House and the present Dingley law
and the completed bill adopted in
conference will certainly show a
considerable reduction over the rates
of the law now in operation. While
these reductions will not meet the
wishes of the so-called progressives
and revisionists throughout the
country, yet they will be substantial
enough to meet the expectation to
all fair-minded people. While if it
is true that the Republican platform
did not call for a revision down
ward, yet it is a fact that the Presi
dent in his speeches before election
and other Republican leaders made
such promises and those pledges
will be kept.
There seems to be no reason why
the President should not sign what
ever bill may be sent to Him, and
there does not seerrrto be any doubt
that he will do so.
The joint resolutijn providing for
the submission to the States of an
income tax constitution amendment
which was agreed to by a unanim
ous vote in the Senate has also been
adopted by the House, although
there is considerable doubt if three
fourths of the States will concur in
this amendment, the number neces
sary for its adoption.
The maximum and minimum
features of the tariff bill will proba
bly remain as amended in the Senate
and the aministrative features of the
tariff bill will probably remain a
amended in the Senate and the ad
ministrative features of the new bill
will be stronger than in any pre
vious tarirf law we have ever had.
As regards a Customs Court in
spite of the great opposition made
in seems likely that such a tribunal
will be provided for. The power
given to the President to appoint
experts to enable him to properly
carry out the maximum and mini
mum features will probably do away I
with any further thought ot a tariff
commission, an amendment to this
effect have been voted down in the
Senate.
There is so much variance of
opinion as to what the new bill will
produce in revenue that it is impos
sible to predict with and accuracy
the lesult until the completed sche
dules are known. Even then the re-
venue will depend not s much upon
toe rates as upon the condition of
that the new tariff will produce suf
ficiant reveuue to meet the expendi
tures. In this connection it can be
noted that the dificit for the vear
just closed under ninety millions of
uars, in spite of the predictions
5e months ago that it wou d
lcn trom one hundred and twenty
jt0 one huudred and forty millions
J hilars. Several times the Dre-
lction has been made in these let-
that the deficit would be under
pety millions, while others were
""ning that it would reach the
figures stated. But these
iPhtv ...Ml- 1
o-v u'ue munons do not reDre-
t the trim k.,.,nA r.,7T
""vufl Kfl LUIS IS LVr yjHUiik
f alitures, for which bonds have
;Q authorizpd. 1p i vi n or trno no.
tat l . . v.
"factory
Condif-inna nf tK Tvet fieool
vn country, but of foreign
has been also reflected in
HatiDg to our foreign
n'it, u- year, uur ex-
aili;. '4Vt ilfn off some hundred
hi"!:
mr imports .will ex-
' " ,v ht v.-ar bv aliout one
hundred millions ofdollars, making
our balance of trade- the smallest
fjr many years. This shows, how
ever, that while business conditions
in this country have been far below
normal, yet m our increased pur
chase to the extent of one hundred
million, ,we have Jbeen much better
off than the countries abroad. In
fact one item of imports shows that
we have increased our purchase of
diamonds to extent of over ten mil
lions, in spite of the fact thatour
purchasing power has been greatly
decreased because of the idleness of
millions. Of course it is not the
wage earners of the country who
buy diamonds, yet it is the "product
of these wa'ge earners who provide
the profits for those who do indulge
in luxuries. It is very evident then
that the so-called panic of 1907 has
almost wholly 'spent itself and that
as soon as the-tariff law has been
signed by the President, there will
be a resumption of business, which
it is expected, will equal or exceed
that preceding the depression of two
years ago. -
The predictions made in the ear
ly part of the present session by the
Democrats' who thought that the
Republican party was going: to be!
so rendered asunder, as to lose the
election next year and in 1912 have
ceased entirely, and the 'Democratic
leaders are most solicitous as to
what sort of a showing they can
make by their party, which is more
divided than at any time in its his
tory. . -
It is now confidently believed that
the Republican majority in the next
House will be considerably larger
than in the present, and it is also
fully believed that Mr. Taft will be
elected to suoeed himself by a larger
popular and electoral vote than he
received in 1908.
On the Divorce Evil.
Baltimore American.
Former Justice Brown, of the
United States Supreme Court, in his
address, at Old Point Comfort, on
the divorce evil, presented a picture
not new, but, neverl heless, distress
ing. ' The view that the correction
of the condition lies at the : altar
rather than in the courts, that it is
one for the correction ot sentiment
rather than for the state, it will be
agreed with by many persons. He
seeo and points out the radical de
fects of the heterogeneous legislation
govering the subject of divorce and
marriage and advocates uniform
procedure. Nevertheless in the last
analysis the reduction of divorces
depends upon the reduction of the
marriage contracted upon a moment s
whim. The publishing of 'banns at
least a week before the wedding and
the' strict censorship of youthful
marriages would go . far toward cor
recting loose public opinion and bad
practice.
It is almost incredible that in th;s
mm a i a -
country bigamy may be cloaked.
Yet the speaker showed this to be
he case as a-result of lack of uni
formity of law. A man may have
wives in two states and yet not be
subject to prosecution for bigamous
practice. The method by which this
condition exists is well worth pon
dering, and the American people
should regard it as disgraceful.
The enactment of a federal divorce
law is impracticable from a constitu
tional standpoint, and the concerted
move on the parf of the states is no
less so. Ttie only means for secur
ing the correction of the evil of in
discriminate divorce is for the law
yers to take the lead in framing and
having passed by the various legis
latures identical divorce statutes.
This would be a slow and tedious
process, but after such laws had been
enacted by several of- the states the
impulse to follow an established
lead would result in their rapid
adoption by many others. Tue in
fluence of one of those strange waves
ot sentiment, jivhich when set going
usually"carry "their object to attain
ment, could be counted upon for aid.
Here, then; is a suggestion Tfrom-a
distinguished authority " that f such
bodies as the Maryland ' State Bar
Association might well, consider
within the range of their usefulness
io' adopt am? further. "
A PIONEER IN LIBERTY
AND MANUFACTURING
Alamanee County Rich in History
' -A Pioneer in the Temper
ance Movement.
John A. Oates, Editor of the
Fayetteville Index, gives the fol
lowing historical facts in last weeks
issue of his paper in connection with
a recent visiuto our county;
Last-week I was in Alamance
county-y-one of the very bestin everyl
way m; .North ; Carolina. It -was a
pioneer m liberty and ; a pioneer in
cotton manufacturing. -It was in this
county on may 16, 1771. that the
Battle of Alamance was fought, be-?
tween the Regulars and'Governor
Tryon and his troops. The Regula
tors, weary of the heavy oppressions
of British rule and being treated
with contempt when theyj appealed
for a hearing, armed themselves and
this battle fought five years before
the Declaration of Independence.
The ammunition of the Regulators
gave out and they were routed by
the Governor's troops, a number of
them being captured and hung.
It is well that the battlefield is
marked- by a monument. North
Carolina knows how to make history
but she has been slow to write it
and commemorate it. This comes,
I am sure, from the reserve of our
people and lack of desire to blow
their own horn. Yet, there is a cer
tain patriotic obligation that is due
both to the history makers and to
the generations to come after. North
Carolina history written by North
Carolinians is a good slogan for us.
- And Alamance, too, was a pioneer
in cotton manufacturing. The Holts,
Williamsons, and others of Alam
ance have conferred a permanent
benefit on th is State. For genera
tions they have made cotton cloth
there ana shipped it to all parts of
the world. They used to run wag
ons regularly to Fayetteville and
from here ship cotton goods direct
to Philadelphia and New York by
water.
When, the okL Haigh store was
torn down on the property where
The Index building now stands let
ters were found, from Alamance
Mills, written to Mr. Haigh 75
years ago, consigning plans through
him to the North. Today at Gra
ham, Burlington, Swepsonville, Haw
Kiver, Saxapahaw and other places
and great cotton mills are working
their, thousands and sending their
goods to Africa, China and the ides
of the sea. -
The occasion of " my visit was to
speak at the 77th anniversary of the
founding of the Pleasant Hill Tem
perance Society, now the oldest in
North Carolina, if not the SouthT
It has not missed an annual -meeting
during this entire time. They
unveiled a tabel to the memory of
these faithful men and women. It
was a bronze, set in a hug native
rock. Mr. Stout, who joined the
Society in 1832, was present and
unveiled the tablet. He is now 99
yeara of age. Among tie members
of this Society have been Hon. John
Long, member of Congress, and
Hon. Joseph M. Dixon, now Sena
tor From Montana. Mr. Dixon was
born and reared in that . neighbor
hood, on the bank of Dixon's mill
pond.
That section is rich in history.
The home where I was eutertained
so hospitably by Miss Eula Dixon
has been in the family for 150 years
and the farm is one ot the most fer
tile I saw anywhere, though much
of it has been continuously in cul
tivation during all these yea$s.
It is a great Quaker set&ement,
old Cane Creek meeting house be
ing on this plantation. The third
.church building has been erected on
the same spot. Many of our people
do not fully appreciate the glorious
part the Quakers have played in the
struggle for civil liberty. Andwhen
we remember that George Fox the
preacher, Elizabeth Fry, the nurse,
William )Penn the poineer, Dalton
and - Yonng the "scientists, " John
Bright the English stateman, and
WTnftier the' poet1 were Quakers, we
catf better understand i the quality
and "temper of 'these sturdyfolk.
It was on the Dixon plantation,
in iact m the-home of Simon Dixoo
; the great-grandfather of Miss Eula
jixou, mat Corn wall is made hi
heaclqudrter3 after the disastrous
battle; of Guilford Court House.
This battle was ; fought on March
lotn, 1 and on the niht of
Ma.-ch 22nd he, pn his way to Wil
mington, halted his worn and dis
couraged army on the Dixon farm,
wbere they remained for several
days, plundering, killing and mal
treating the. people. Cornwallis
drove the ' Dixon tamilyfather.
mother and children out in the
severe cold, and they had to take
refuge in an old outhousp. The old
grandmother of the family forgot
her pipe and went back for it. The
guards would not let her pass. She
pushed them aside and went up to
Cornwallis himselt and told him she
bad come after her pipe and she was
going to have it. She got it.
The British drove in a number of
fine beeves and dressed them on the
seats of Cane Creek Church. They
took possession of the old mill nnrl
tried to grind wheat and corn, but
the miller had let the rocks together
and gotten out of the way. So they
got no corn bread and biscuits from
the Dixon mill. The chair in which
Cornwallis sat isnow in possession
of Miss Dixon. -There are many in
teresting bits of history in connec
tion with his march through that
section. It was near sunset for Corh-
wallfytjfbr tfie following October at
Yorktown he had to hand bis sword
to George Washington and retire
from American shores. .
North Carolina is 'rich in history
that is history. It should be gather
ed by the State and put in perman
ent form.
Farmers Institutes. '
Raleigh, N. July 5.
Editor Dispatch:
Dear Sir: r
As promised in my letter to you
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some timexsiDce when 1 cave vou
the names of places at which we
hope to hold Farmers Institutes
this summer, I now give you the
dates for these - institutes in your
county as follows:
Mebane, Tuesday, July 20: Gib
son ville, Wednesday, July 21.
I shall thank you very much for
giving publicity to these and urging
your people to attend.
There is to my mind, a bright
future for agriculture in North Car
olina, but it will be necessary for
many of our farmers to supplant
many of their antiquated methods
and adopt more rational ones, such
as have been proven to be better.
Please suggest that your people,
both men and women, attending the
institutes take notebooks and pen
cils.
Thanking you in advance for
your efforts in behalf of, the Farm
ers Institutes, I am,
Yours very Iruly,
T. B. PARKER, !
Director of Farmers Institutes.
The Southern Railway will fur
nish two cars for the Institute party,
one of which wilLcontain improved
farming implements, and the other
to be used by the women of the in
stitute party for demonstrating their
domestic " science work. We are
hoping for a goed turn out of both
men and women at these poiuts.
T. B. P..
Box Social at Reformed Church
From seven to ten thirty Satur
day evening at the Reformed Church
a box aoeial was given by the-"La -
A id Society- A large crowd
was present and a'umber of pretty
boxes sold, whichitought -Thclud-ing
the refreshments,' something
over $28.00: Three music classes
were present: The Gibson ville, El
mira Chapel, and Carolina, which
sang a number of beautiful selec
tions. The box sale: was of a jovial
nature Mr. Ed;r Hanford acting as
auctioneer. . tSut the part we enjoy
ed most was when the time came to
open the boxes. ; :' Of course the
girls had them well - decorated oh
the outside , and judging from the
ones we saw well fiilled inside. We
only trust another occasion like this
kvill follow i n the near, future, r-x-
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THE ESKIMOS KILL
THEIR AGED INVALIDS
The Antique Custom Still Prevails
Among Eskimos of Northern
4 Alaska.
That the custom "among the Eski
mos of kingHiopeless invalids and
the aed to whom life has become a
burden, is not yet altogether aband
oned is proved by at least two cases
during the present ear.
The last case has just been report
ed from the Colville River country.
An aged man name Tillemut was
the willing victim of this custom
that runs back thousands of years in
to the dim, legendary history prthe
race. Tillemut for years had car
ried more than his share of tuber
culosis. The wonderful vitality of
these people enable them to resist
this disease for years, sometimes for
half a century. , But it was telling
on this old man. ie lav on his
bunk and caughed miserably. He
kne that he would never . be well
again, oo he called his children
around him and told tliem tluit he
wanted to die. He reached for the
old Hudson Bay rifle that he had
carried since his- boy hood, ;cocked it,
and handed it to his oldest son, tellt
mg the boy to put him out of mis-
ery. Uut the boy had been told by
the white people somewhere that it
was a sin to kill in this way and he
refused to grant his farther's last re
quest. Then the aged Tillemut took
the rusted weapon, and placing the
muzzle in his mouth, pulled the trig
ger with his toe.
On the Russian Diomede, an is
land in Bering Strait, another old
Eskimo met death in a somewhat
similar way. In "this, case, however
the sons obeyed the father implicity.
It was ihe real old; Eskimo death.
There was no shooting. The igloo
is a very large old, with the roof
supported in the middle - by a stout
beam. To this beam the boys fas-
tend a strong rope of walrus skin,
with a noose at the end of it. The
old father was helped to the edge of
the bunk upon which he was lying,
and . the noose put in place. From
this bunk he swung- off and was
soon dead from strangulation
It must not be thought that these
people are cruel. No more affection
ate people can be found anywhere
han the Eskimos. Blows are sel
dom struck; harsh words rarelv ut-
mf
tered. But until quite recently the
ending of hopeless suffering by sui
cide or by killing the patient was
the universal rule all over the Eski
mo world. To kill a friend who
was in hopeless and helpless-, pain
was considered an act of kindness
and mercy, just as civilized men
consider it an act of mercy, to cut
short the death agonies of dumb
animals with well-directed bullets.
R. F.D. No. 1.
Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Elder were
visitors on the route Sunday.
Masters Marris and ' Willard
Clapp of tiibsoo ville spent Suuday
with their grandparents xtlr. and
Mrs W. V. Montgomery.
Messrs Elder, Sharpe Cheek and
Anthomy spent Monday in Graham
in the interest of our new gradtd
school.
It is expected that work will
commence on a bridge on the new
road near D. M. Elders this week.
. Miss Ethel I 'Montgomery spent
the first of the week in Gibson ville.
Mrs. D. A. Hun ton continues
quite ill also Mrs. J. A. Ixy is on
the sick list this week. '
Mr. and Mrs. J. F
spent Sunday visiting
Home wood
Mr. J. A.
gryan's family.
Miss Myrtle Moser, spent' last
week visiting her. sister Mrs. D. ".M.
Garrett near Mabane.
Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Coble of
West Durham spent last Thursday
with Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Loy. ' - ;
Miss Jennie Vaughn of Burling
ton spent lastweek visiting Mrs.,B
H. WaddelL r
' Vegetables fruit and etc. have
been abundently giveny the carrier
for the, last week or two. r
We spent our. 4th. in Charlotte
attending the -carriers State Associa
tion." There wero about a bundled
carries there and to say we had. a
tjme of our lite would be - putting it t
wildly besides the good vve, received.
Ve kope that all the carriers - willJL
attend at Raleigh next July, - ' -
v' Death of Mrs. Nees.
Rev. J. D. Andrew was called to
Mt. Hope Reformed church in Guil
ford County last Monday to conduct
the funeral of T Alrs. Polly Royal
Nees who died on Sunday July 1 l th ''
at the age of 80 years. Mrs. Nees
was the hrst' member confirmed in
that church which was built in 18-
47. Her husband Mr. Christopher
Nees died last A'pjril-at the age. of
91 years. They were both very
faithful members of the church al
ways attending service while able.
They leave two sons and two
daughters and a -large number of
grand children. : 1
Death of an Infant.
John Sidney Jones, the little son
of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Jones died
in the home of his parents on Askew
street July 9th 1909 aged 3 mbnths
and 9 days. He" had never been.
very well and the hot summer seem
ed too severe for him The funeral
was conducted in the home on the
lQth, by Revs. J. D. Andrew and
E. M. Snipes and the body laid to
rest in Browu's Chapel grave yard
just west of town. - ' " -
"Likfe lillies freed from storing of earth
Tki pure one has immortal birth: -
In heaven's garden Nit shall bloom
And yon shall know, its s weet perfume
For but one season was be lentj
As lillies for a season sent:
For pure, true thoughts the lily's giren;
ine empty cradle speaks of heaven"
Township St S. invention
The annual meeting of the Sun-.
day" School Convention of Burling-
ion i owusuip win oe neip in ine
Baptist Church on the 4th Sunday '
evening July 25th at 2:30 p. m.
All Sunday Schools are requested to
seud repreientatives. Everybody
is invited. -. .. . .
W. M. Cates, Pres.
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Mysteries of the Law.
New York World. .
Fred Warner, ex-member of the
St. Louis House of Delegates, has "
again been indicted for bribery and
will be placed on trial. His previ-?
ous conviction was reversed by the
Supreme Court of Missouri because
the indictment read "against the
dignity and peace of state," whereas "
it should have been 4the state."
Such is the importance of the article -
in law. - ''The" is printed in the new
indictment in heavy black type7"sa v
the defendant's rights are properly -protected
Incidentally1 theState
pays for an extra trial.
Times change and sometimes the
law changes with tbem. Sometimes f
it does not. About four hundred '
y3ars ago one Home was tried tor
falsely charging that 'Sir Thomas
Holt hath taken a cleaver and strick
en his cook upon the head, so that
one side of the head fell upon one
shoulder and the other upon the
other shoulder' It was solemnly' N
adjudged that this was, insufficient,
foT it was not stated that the cook
was dead, "the cook's death, after
splitting of his head, being matter
of inference only," and the law. re
quiring a positive statement of fact.
About the same time a learned Eng
lish jurist held that it was not slan- -,
der to call a clergman a fool, where
as it Would be to apply such an :
epithet to a lawyer, "for a clergy
man's qualities are rather of the heart
than the head, whereas the qualities t
of a lawyer are rather of the head
than of the heart, and one may be a
fool and still a good clergyman." , -
Market Day.'
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The Ladies Aid Society of the
Baptist church will have a "Mar
ket Day" on Saturday July 17th
in the store of IL L. & S. F.
Spoon. Tnings ou sale- will be
J ressed chickens, cake, bread, pic-
vies, etc. The ladies' of the city .
ire invited to come and biiy their-
Sundays dinner, ready ' prepared. " .
Don't forget the date,; Saturdar
July. 17th, I9t09, SpW.V Store. J
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