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RALEIGH, N. C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4. 1909.
No. 43
EDITORIAL BRIEFS
Professor Coon Is getting a lot of
free advertising whether his conten
tion Is right or wrong.
Home of the oil' clerks should get
hold of the State's anti-trust law and
put It in working order.
Even the eaders In England have
prown tired of "free trade," and are
asklcj,' for pome protection.
Governor Glenn's Memphis speech
will hardly be commended by the law
and order league of that city.
While Tammany elected its mayor,
its hands have been taken off the
purse-string and New York Is safe.
We feel sure that Wilmington will
do the State honor in her entertain
ment of President T
day.
iext Tues-
If the Durham Ald . i defer
granting license to the a ists In
that town much longer
r drug
stores will miss all of the (.
trade.
mas
A cotton man once said: "Cotton
is a fool." However that may be,
you must give it credit for knowing
how to stay on top.
If Mr. Davis doesn't stop intimat
ing that the Democratic officials in
certain sections are Incompetent they
will read him out of the party.
Several papers are making inquir
ies as to who owns the air. Can't say
for sure, but when the campaign
starts up next year you will think
the Democratic politicians own it all.
The manufacturers claim that cof
fins are much too cheap In proportion
to other things, and yet certain peo
ple refuse to take advantage of the
great bargains now offered In that
line.
When there is a job in sight it
seems that there are very few Demo
crats who did not support Mr. Kltch
in. Wonder who caused him all that
trouble at the Charloito convention,
anyway.
If Mr. Rockefeller wants to spend
a million dollars with us, why should
any one down here object? An extra
million in circulation In the South
would help considerably, even If It
didn't capture the hook-worm.
According to a statement Issued by
Mr. R. L. Davis, many of the officials
in this State are aiding and abetting
lawlessness. Isn't this a terrible ar
raignment of Democratic "good gov
ernment" in North Carolina?
There are already several Demo
cratic candidates to succeed Solicitor
Robinson in the Eighth Judicial Dis
trict and Solicitor Robinson hasn't
even resigned. Even a rumor of a
vacancy causes the Democratic poli
ticians to get busy.
Senator Flint, of California, says
he will not be a candidate, as he is
too poor to hold the position. The
chances are, that some one else can
be found In California who will be
willing to make the "sacrifice" in or
der to show their patriotism.
The Durham Herald says if the
tariff reformers in the Republican
party wanted to get out there is no
where for them to go. That is very
true, but we don't believe they have
any desire to get out. But while the
question is up, don't you think the
"protection Democrats" could im
prove their condition by seeking a
more congenial and progressive
party?
The Durham Herald says it Is at
least to the credit of the Democratic
party that it has not trotted out a
candidate for the United States Su
preme Court bench. The Herald man
has slipped up this time, for the dis
patch sent out from Washington an
nouncing Judee Peckham's death
also mentioned three Democratic pos
sibilities for his successor. Don't
think for a moment that the Demo
cratlc politicians will get lost when
there Is a job in sight.
At Oxford last Saturday, with m
presslve ceremonies, the beautifu
Confederate monument, erected In
honor of the men of Granville who
gave their lives in battle for the
"Lost Cause," was . formally unveil
ed. Governor Kitchln delivering the
principal address. Granville County
is justly proud of Its fine record In
having sent three hnndred more men
than the County had voters to the
front during the civil war, mora than
DECIDED AGAINST FEDERATION
LEADERS.
Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison lose
Case in Contempt Proceedings
May Appeal.
The District of Columbia Court of
Appeals Tuesday rendered a decision
against Samuel Gompers, John Mitch
ell and Frank Morrison, the Federa
tion of Labor leaders, who were
charged with contempt of court
Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison
were sentenced by Justice Wright, of
the district supreme court on Decem
ber 23, 1908, to serve terms of 12, 9,
and 6 months, respectively, in the
district jail for contempt of court In
violating an Injunction in the Bucks
Stove and Range case. James W.
Vancleave is president of the com
pany. The court enjoined the de
fendants from printing In the "un
fair list" and the "We Don't Patron
ize" list of the Federationist, the of
ficial publication of the American
Federation of Labor, the name of the
Bucks Stove and Range Company,
and they were also prohibited from
criticising the company in speeches.
The court considered that the In
junction was violated and the sen
tence followed. An appeal was im
mediately taken to the district court
of appeals. Tuesday's decision fol
lowed. The defendants will now,
doubtless, appeal to the Supreme
Court of the United States.
SHERIFF AND OTHERS TO BE
SENTENCED.
Supreme Court of United States Re
fuses New Hearing to Sheriff Shipp
and Others of Chattanooga Will
Be Sentenced November 15th.
Washington, D. C, Nov. 1. The
unusual procedlngs of an arraign
ment for sentence at the bar of the
Supreme Court.of the United States
will be witnessed two weeks from to
day, in accordance with an announce
ment made to-day in the cases of Jos.
H. Shipp, of Chattanooga, Tenn., and
five co-defendants, charged with con
tempt. The court to-day denied mo
tions for a rehearing of the cases.
The cases originated in the courts
deciding in March, 1906, to consider
the appeal of a negro named Ed.
Johnson from a verdict of the Ten
nessee courts holding him guilty and
sentencing him to be hanged on a
charge of criminal assault. The night
after the determination of the Su
preme Court to review the proceed
ings In the case was wired to Chatta
nooga, where Johnson was confined
in jail, a number of people stormed
the jail and took him out and lynch
ed him.
The court was much Incensed over
the lynching, and at his Instance the
Attorney-General Instituted proceed
ings against Shipp, who was the sher
iff, and the jailer and 25 others
supposed to have been Implicat
ed in the lynching. Many of the ac
cused were exonerated and In the
end only six were found guilty. These
were Sheriff Shipp, his deputy, Jere
miah Gibson, who was the jailer, Lu
ther Williams, Wick Nolan, Henry
Padgett, and Williams Mayes, resi
dents of Chattanooga.
The finding of the court was an
nounced in May, just before the close
of the last term of court, but all the
defendants entered motions for a re
hearing, which had the effect of post
poning action until the present term.
The court to-day, through Chief
Justice Fuller, announced its denial
of the motions, the Chief Justice stat
ing at the same time that decision to
have the defendants appear on No
vember 15th to receive sentence.
The court has the discretion to
either fine or Imprison the men or to
nflict both penalties and no Intlma
tion has been given as to what course
may be pursued.
LEGISLATURE MAY CALL HALT
f High Fees of Greensboro Doctors
Shall Be Exacted and Are Made
General.
The Wadesboro Messenger and In
telllgencer blazes the way for what
promises to become a subject of keen
nterest and discussion, as follows:
"We see-In an exchange that the
Greensboro physicians have adopted
the following fee bill: For day visits,
$2.00; for night visits, $4.00; for
obsteric cases, $50. We do not know
whether these prices are really charg
ed by Greensboro doctors or not.
but If M they are. It Is nothing less
than an outrage. Any man in ordi
nary circumstances would be serious
ly crippled by paying such charges if
he were so unfortunate as to have a
case of sickness In his family extend
ing over several weeks. The doctors
have to procure State license to prac
tlce their profession, - and if such
charges as these reported - from
Greensboro get to be the rule. It wil
then be in order for the Legislature
to pass a law ' fixing the fees they
shall be permitted to charge."
Southern Railway Will Put on Many
New and Handsome Cars.
The Southern Railway has placed
an order for a large number of hand
some cars which will be put in serv
Ice over Its system as soon as they
can be built and delivered.
Several are already in service, in
the State, and it is said that an or
der is with the Pullman Car Company
for 75 of these cars to be used in
North Carolina, principally on tha
section of the road between Golds-
IN CRESCENT CITY
President Taft Addresses Na
tional Waterways Conven
tion at New Orleans
HE FAVORS A BOND ISSUE
Our Popular President Spends Three
Days Among the Creoles and Cap
tares the Love of the Women and
the Admiration of the Men of
Louisiana Tells Them They May
Command Him When They Decide
Exactly What They Want.
New Orleans, La.. Not. 1. Presi
dent Taft spent Saturday and Sunday
In New Orleans and this immediate
vicinity.
In his formal address here the
President reiterated his previous dec
larations In favor of bond issues to
consummate the great inland water
ways projects.
With President Taft declaring him
self squarely In favor of a bond is
sue for the development of the' coun
try's. Inland waterways and the Gov
ernors of twenty States voicing as
surances . of their hearty sympathy
with the movement for such improve
ment, the first day of the Lakes to
the Gulf Deep Waterways Convention
was characterized by much enthusi
asm. It was nightfall when the last
of the Governors had been heard, and
the convention hall was emptied of
the hundreds of delegates.
Owing to the fact that much of the
morning program had to be moved
forward on account of several hours'
delay in the opening of the conven
tion, the address of GIfford Pinch ot,
Chief Forester of the United States,
was postponed until Monday. , j
At Monday's session Secretary of
War Dickinson and many members of
the large Congressional delegation In
attendance made brief addresses, i
At a smoker given the waterways!
delegates, Speaker Cannon presided.
The President declared that no!
progress had been made in river nav- j
gation in this country In the last;
brty or forty-five years. The water
ways of this country, Mr. Taft de
clared, must be used eventually to
carry the bulk of heavy merchan
dise. The President's declaration that he
favored the Issuance of bonds for car
rying out the Ohio River improve
ment as one of the approved projects
of Inland waterways called out a
burst of applause. The Ohio River
mprovement will cost $6,000,000.
Mr. Taft said he also fayored bonds
or an oiner improvements, luciua-
ng the Mississippi, Just as soon as a
feasible project can be decided upon
and can be shown to be necessary
and Justifiable. The Ohio River gives
the bulk of business to the Mississip
pi, the President declared, and every
mportant tributary tends to Increase
the value of the great highway to the
gulf.
"It Is now up to your, gentlemen,"
he said, "to decide what you want,
what it will cost, how long It will
take and what the results will be.
Once that Is done, you can command.
not ask.
He paid a compliment to the wo
men of New Orleans and predicted
that if the delegates to the conven
tion remained here two or three days
they would forget that there was
such a thing as a river.
President Taft thoroughly enjoyed
his four and a half nights and five
days on the Mississippi River. And,
although he has learned much of the
difficulty that must be encountered In
attempting to control that powerful
waterways, he seemedto-day to he
Just as enthusiaslUcittrln the be
lief that the Mississippi can be made
to recognize a channel deep enough
to handle all of the, commerce that
can be assigned to it.
SENATOR SMITH ON COTTON.
Staple Bound to Reach Famine Prices
Why Mills Are Shutting Down.
Florence, S. C. Nov. 1. United
States Senator E. D.Smlth is In re
ceipt of a letter from Statistician R.
B. Neal, with advance sheets of a cir
cular to he sent out showing that
after a trip over the South the most
careful estimates of the cotton crop
this year indicates a possible crop
of 10,520,000, agreeing with a re
cent estimate recently issued. If the
Government condition report .con
firms private advices, cotton will bo
bound to reach famine prices. Speak
ing of the recent curtailment of pro
duction "by the "mills, the Senator
said:
"The curtailment of the mills is
not because of the high price for the
staple, nor depressing in the price of
tho goods, but because the spinner?
see that there is not to be cotton
enough to keep the mills busy until
the next crop," and a shutting down
is inevitable. They make a conveni
ence of necessity now In the hope
such action will depress cotton, while
they buy greedily wherever they can.
despite their agreement."
Still They Scramble.
Durham Herald.
The solid torship in this dlstric
does not pay what it once did, bu
the Democrats still seem to think it
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.
Mr. T. L. Moore wil issue the Lex
ington Leader this week and the
paper will be published as a Demo
cratic weekly.
Governor Kitchln has appointed
Mr. S. M. Gattis, of Hlllsboro, to suc
ceed Mr. Jones Fuller as Solicitor in
the Ninth Judicial district
The North Carolina State Corpora
tion Commission orders a new union
passenger station at Statesville. and
also orders the Southern Railway to
provide a better passenger service be
tween Sanford and Greensboro. It is
probable that a mixed train will be
put on for this purpose.
The plan recently inaugurated In
Raleigh and Greensboro of "running
'em out to (the town of no
where, it is inferred)," is now being
adopted in Durham. Last week the
local justice sentenced four "work
less women" (white) to the "roads"
(so say the dispatches) for thirty
days each.
State Treasurer Lacy says that the
sheriffs are not paying in money as
well as they did last yeaT. and that
the demands upon him for funds are
pressing. He says the sheriffs did
not receive the tax books as early
this year as usual, and this may ac
count, in part, for the slowness In
making settlements with him.
The trial at Ashevllle ot the Black
Mountain constable, Watklns, who
killed Bunting of Wilmington and
nearly killed Collins of Hlllsboro
some three months ago. took up
nearly all of last week, and on Mon
day (after the jury had been out
two days) a mistrial was ordered.
The Jury is said to have been evenly
divided for and against conviction.
Hon. James Bryce, Ambassador
for Great Britain to the United
States, and one of the greatest of
English statesmen and diplomats,
will today (Thursday) deliver two
addresses in Raleigh one at the an
nual meeting of the State Historical
Association and one before the Na
tional Convention of farmers of the
United States now in session in Ral
eigh.
Francis V. Barrer, one of Salis
bury's best known citizens, dropped
dead In his home Friday last. Re
turning from his work to dinner, he
eft the dining-room and was later
found In a dying-condition by mem
bers of the family. Death Is said to
have resulted from heart failure and
acute indigetsion. He was fifty-six
years old and Is survived by a widow,
one daughter and two brothers.
In the last issue of this paper it
was stated that Albert ipock, or
New Bern, had been tried in the Fed
eral Court In that city for aiding at
a blockade distillery and sentenced to
the Atlanta penitentiary for two
years. This was a mistake. There
was no charge against Mr. Albert
pock. The reporter cheerfully makes
this correction and sorry that a slm-
larity in names caused this mistake.
The reporter is Informed that the
person tried and sentenced was Ar
thur Ipock.
The five-year-old son of Mr. Wll
lam Fields met with a strange and
sad death last week, says the Hllls
boro Recorder. He was playing In
a pile of seed cotton. Digging a hole
n it. he entered and the cotton fell
n on him. smothering him. A sad
death it was truly, but it can hardly
be called a strange one, for at this
time of the year fatalities from such
cause are distressingly frequent. The
papers have already chronicled two
or three such deaths In this State
since the cotton harvest began.
A special from Wadesboro, N. C,
says: The all absorbing topic
throughout the country districts of
Anson County just at this time is the
Patrick Carnival," announced as the
Farmers' . Encampment and Educa
tional Fair, a carnival of fun, pleas
ure and inforatmlon, to begin at
Wadesboro on Wednesday, Novem
ber 10th and after three days in the
county seat, two weeks to be spent
in the townships of the county. Col-
J. T. Patrick, who Is at the head of
this - movement gives the credit for
the genesis of the idea to Mrs. James
G. Boylin, a woman deeply Interest
ed .in the betterment of the intel
lectual and social conditions of the
people, and especially of the country
people.
The casket containing the ashes of
Mrs. Jlargaret Howell 'Jefferson Da
vis Hayes, daughter of the President
of the Southern Confederacy, was de
posited in the Davis section in Holly
wood Cemetery at Richmond, Va.,
last Friday, "after services at St.
Paul's Episcopal Church, which was
the church attended by Mr. Davis and
his family during the War Between
the States. The services was simply
that of the Episcopal Church,- and
were conducted by Rev. R. W. For
syth, rector of St. Paul's Church, as
sisted by Rev. L. R. Mason, rector of
Grace Episcopal Church; Rev. John
Moncure. of the Episcopal Church;
Rev. G. C Kelly, pastor of Broad
Street Methodist Episcopal Church;
Rev. George W. McDanlel, pastor of
the First Baptist Church; Rev. J
Calvin Stewart, of the Presbyterian
Church of the Covenant, and Rev. J.
J. Gravatt, rector of the Episcopal
Church ot the Holy Trinity.
BILKINSJN JAPAN
The Moit Interesting of
The Old-New
Countries.
"EASTERN YANKEEDOOM
When Commodore Perry Did Mis
sionary Work General Descrip
tion of the Country One of the
Thickly Populated Countries of the
Earth The Gigantic Mountains
and the Tiiiy Farms.
(Corrospendence of The Caucasian
Enterprise. )
Tokio, Japan, Oct. 21. I am now
in the midst ov probably the most in
teresting ov the old-new countries,
for Japan hez a record not a his
tory that dates far back. Her real
history only started about" the year
1854. Hit wuz then, if I am not
mistaken az to the year, that Com
modore Perry sailed Into cne ov the
Japanese ports with a detachment ov
American warships an' gave the Jap
anese government a jolt that aroused
hit from a long, long sleep. Up to
that time the Japanese had been
very much like their Chinese nabors
two thousand years behind the
times. The people ov the Western
States, California, for Instance, wuz
anxious to trade with Japan. But
the Japanese finally closed their
ports to awl foreigners. Hit wuz
then that the United States govern
ment got busy. Commodore Perry
wuz ordered to Japan with several
warships. Az Japan had no navy
there wuz no prospect ov a naval
flte, though they mite hev put up a
weak fite on land. When Commodore
Perry arrived at Tokohoma he sent
hiz respects to the Mikado ov Japan.
A few hours later he sent another
document to the effect that onless
the Mikado opened the seaports ov
Japan to American trade within the
next twenty-four hours he'd shell the
city and destroy hit. Hit iz natur
ally to be supposed that the Mikado
called his advisers together an they
quickly decided that the only thing
to do wuz to open the seaports. And
they did. Since that time Japan an'
the United States hev bin jlst like
old friends. I do not think that
there iz much in the rumors ov war
between the two countries the ru
mors that hev bin afloat durin' the
past two or three years. Japan bad
better stop now while her reputation
iz gude. America iz a different prop
osition from China or Russia.
The term Japan really means a
collection, I am told, hence the name
ov the country iz applied to the four
large islands an' the many small ones
which comprise the country. These
islands air near each other an1 He in
the form ov a crescent, curving to
ward the north. I say four islands,
and that lz the number of large ones.
But the Japanese flag floats over six
hundred islands in awl. Most ov
them air Inhabited, though some ov
them air very small. This cluster
ov islands lz somewhat like our own
island possessions, the Philippine Is
lands, which air sed to number about
fourteen hundred in awl, and they
air not far from Japan, lying south
west ov Japan. Japan awlso owns
Korea, a small penincula extendln'
down from Southern Russia. This
bit ov country, a valuable slice, wuz
secured a few years ago when Japan
established a protectorate over the
Koreans. This wuz the real cause ov
the war between Japan and Russia. I
I am glad Japan got Korea.
The real problem In Japan lz to
feed forthy-seven millions ov people
from such a small area ov land. But
the Japanese long since solved that
az they do other problems. They
live on rice an' other food mostly
rice. Surrounded az she lz by water;
water teeming with fish, the other
end of the .food problem the meat
end iz awlso solved. Pork, bacon,
beef, mutton, and similar meats air
hardly known on the average Jap
anese table. Rice an fish, two ov
the best articles ov food, no matter
whar you live, gives them life, brain,
health. Ov course they hev much In
the way or . fruits and vegetables
which they raise on the tiny fields.
Most ov this land iz cultivated with
out the help ov horses or mules,
hence the family with neither horses,
cattle nor. hogs to feed does not have
to lay up great barns or cribs ov feed
for man an beast az we do In Ameri
ca, an' az iz the case In most ov the
other sparsely settled countries ov
the world. To make this plainer to
you, dear reader, if the United States
had . fifty people livln here to every
one livln there now, our country
would still not be az densely popu
lated az Japan lz today. But fer the
fact that Japan iz especially adapted
to rice growin an that the sur
roundin water iz fairly alive with
fish, japan could not be what she iz.
Remember that. .
The total land area ov Japan iz a
little less than one hundred and six
ty thousand square miles an more
than half or this lz on the island ov
Honehlu. The coast line iz broken
by numerous bays, most or them be
ing deep water, furnishing a great
number or splendid harbors. . The
principal cities are Tokohoma, Osa
ka, Kobe, XagasL .Kagoshlma an
Hokodate. Tokio is located inland.
(Con tinned en Page t.) .
BUSTED AND INDICTED.
Hard Lack Comes to Onslow Cotton
Futar Gamblers Ttmmgb High
Prices.
A special from New Bern says:
"Considerable comment has been
made over the finding ot bills In Ons
low County by the grand Jury against
certain citizens snd merchants fer
dealing In cotton futures. The situ
ation was reported here some weeks
sgo and Is about as follows. Certain
merchants and farmers In the spring
sold to Wilmington and Norfolk deal
ers cotton for October, November and
December delivery, certain amounts
of cotton at prices ranging from 10
to 121 and 11 cents and the amounts
varying from 50 to 500 bales. Wheth
er any money was advanced on the
trade was not given out; at any rate,
the high price of cotton has made the
delivery thus far impossible to 'a num
ber. A few nights ago the writer
was on a train in front of a well
known traveling salesman who had
spent the day in Jacksonville. He re
peated the situation and said that go
ing to a store during the day, he ask
ed for the proprietor and was told
that he was down at the cotton plat
form, trying to buy 600 bales of cot
ton for 10 cents while the others
were giving 13 cents, and that he had
to get the whole amount. Just how
the matter is to be settled remains
to be seen, but if the contracts are
enforced, many of the - small mer
chants who have the contracts will
go. to the wall."
SANDERS WAS ACQUITTED.
Man Tried for Alleged Murder of
Mayor Newberry of Newport His
Brother Also Set Free.
Beaufort, N. C, Nov. 2. Jack San
ders, the alleged slayer of Mayor
Newberry, of Newport, whose pro
tracted trial created a sensation In
this section, is again a free man. the
Jury having returned a verdict of
"not guilty."
Solicitor Abernethy consume!
more than four hours time and the
charge of the judge, which was writ
ten, took over an hour in the read
ing. Mr. Abernethy's address was
clear, forcible and left no point un
touched which might affect the minds
of the Jurymen.
After the discharge of Jack San
ders this term of court was at an
end.
The question arose as to the dis
charge of his brother, Frank, charged
with being an accessory to the mur
der. It was settled by a writ of ha-beas-corpus
which Judge Ouion heard
and to which Solicitor Abernethy as
sented, whereupon the order 'of dis
charge was entered upon the writ
ths t both men go free. -
This ends the case. " '
Alamance Mills Curtail.
A Burlington. N. C. special says
that at a meeting of all the cotton
mills of Alamance county It was
unanimously resolved to curtail pro
duction to the extent of -two days In
each week, equalling one-third time
until February 1. 1910. The mills
we're driven to this action on account
of the great disparity now existing
between the price of raw cotton and
the finished product of the mills, with
a view to bringing the price of their
product nearer to a level with the
price of raw cotton.
At this meeting every mill In the
county was ' represented,' embracing
143,732 spindles and 3,516 looms.
covering every spindle and' loom la
the county of Alamance.
This action was further, taken In
concert with a resolution previously
passed by the North Carolina Cotton
Manufacturers' Association urging
curtailment as the only solution of
the present perplexing situation.
This curtailment agreed upon is to
take effect Immediately.
Cotton Growers and "Protection.'
Greensboro News.
Cotton from India is being shipped
to Southern mills at something like
three cents a pound less than the
price our own staple is bringing on
the local market. If Ihls thing keeps
up the cotton farmers may be ex
pected to soon line up for protection.
Need 'Smaller and Bitter Papers.
High Point Enterprise. .
The Journalistic need of the fu
ture is a reform in the direction of
smaller and better newspapers. Of
the large ncmber of northern papers
that are now being dumped out at
the different railway stations in the
South, a goodly number are abso
lutely unfit to go Into the homes on
account of the exaggeration of un
savory news stories that are compil
ed from the ' four corners of the
earth. There are large numbers oi
these yellow journals, many of them
twenty to thirty-six pages, called
"Sunday editions," whose news mat
ter is neither eleetically chosen nor
carefully edited. Mr. Roosevelt was
right when he demanded a reform of
the yellow Journalism in the North.
He was also- right when he recom
mended the discontinuance of their
silly colored supplements. Today
Southern children are being brought
up on these iniqultious colored sup
nlements and in nine cases out of
ten they represent the cheapest .trav
esties of real fun.
No Sabbath, no worship; no wor
ship, no religion; no religion, no
morals; no morals then pan dsn on-
inm Crawford Johnsnn
FARMERSCONGRESS
National Convention of Agri
culturists Begins In
Raleigh Today.
GREAT MEN OF THE NATION
An Outline of the Proceeding and
Program" Bet for the Next Three
Days Two Thoosaad Delegate
Eipected to participate National
President Be&etuui Cameron, of
Raleigh, Predicts Moet SuccestraJ
Occasion.
Beginning to-day, after this lwo
of The Caucasian goes to prts, the
twenty-ninth annual convention of
the Farmers' National Congress be
gins its sessions In the city of Ra
leigh, with Col. Beneban Cameron.
one of North Carolina's most eminent
agriculturists, anjd a Raleigh man at
present, presiding over the delibera
tions ot the convetnion, ss the Presi
dent of the National organization.
Next week this paper will give a
succinct account ot the proceedings
and work accomplished during the
next three days by the Farmers' Con
gress. The sessions of the Convention are
being held in the spacious PulUn Au
ditorium ot the North Carolina Col
lege of Agriculture and Mechanical
Arts, and the program Includes on
day devoted to a visit to Durham to
Inspect the tobacco manufacturing in
dustry; to Greensboro to Inspect the
cotton mill Industry In th great
weave room ot the Cone Mills and to
visit Guilford Battle Ground. An
Invitation has also been extended th
Congress to visit the drainage district
of North Carolina along the Plae-
town cut off ot the Norfolk and
Southern Railway, to attend a corn-
growing contest exhibit and barbecue
at Washington and to be present at
a drainage convention at New Bern.
Many able and distinguished speak
ers- have consented to aldrss the
Congress. There will be in attend
ance four Governors, Hon. W. W.
Kitchln. of North Carolina; Claud
Swanson, of Virginia; Governor Pat
terson, of Tennessee, and Oovernor
Sanders, of Louisiana. All of ths
gentlemen have given more than th
ordinary amount ot thought to prob-
ems of importance to th producing
classes problems which It is the dis
tinctive province of the Congress to
consider and vaiuabl suggestions
from them are expctl.
-- Among the speakers will be Hon.
Lfe4-;3. Overman, United States Sen
ator from .North Carolina; Dr. E. A.
Alderman, President of the Cnlvar-
tttf ot Virginia; Dr. J. A. Holmes, a
Division Chief of the National Geo
logical Survey; Prof. W. F. Massey."
the well-known agricultural coileg
worker and newspaper corrp on-l
ent; Clarence H. Poe, one of the lead
ing agricultural editors ot the South;
Congressman J. . Small, Dr. S. A.
Knapp, of the Unled States Depart
ment of Agriculture In charge of
Southern farm management investi
gations; Maj. W. A. Graham. North
Carolina Commissioner of Agricul
ture; R. H. Edmonds, editor of the
Manufacturers' Record of Baltimore;
Chief Justice Walter Clarke; Gilbert
Pearson, State Secretary of the Audu
bon Society; Dr. Joseph-Hyde Pratt,
LState Geologist. In addition several
of the professors of .the A. and M.
College of North Carolina will speak.
' Women's Interest In the program
will be represented by three speak
ers Mrs. J. o, cuaningaam, or
North Carolina; Mrs. Alice E. Whlta
ker, of Washington, D. C.'and Mrs.
W. N.'Hutt". of North Carolina. Mrs.
Cunningham is a graceful writer and
an author of prominence. Mrs. Whlt
aker is a domestic-science writer and
teacher of long experience,. anl Js a
prominent Massachusetts club woman,-
Mrs. Hutt Is a popular Institute
lecturer of th North Carolina De
partment of Agriculture.
One session of the Congress will be
devdted to business election of of
ficers and discussion of resolutions.
Opportunity will be given to question
the speakers, ard a question box will
be provided. At some time during
the meetings there will be a roll-call
of States, when'sdme one from each
State will be given ten minutes to
discuss some matter affecting the ag
ricultural interest of the country.
MR, JOHN
8. KENNEDY
AWAY.
PASSES
The -Man With the Cash" Dies of
Whooping Cough.
New York. Nor. 1. John S- Ken
nedy, for years a famous Wall 8treet
figure and known as the "Man With
the Cash, died at his home here to
day of whooping cough. He left a
fortune estimate 1 at a hundred mil
lion, the larger part of which was in
cash distributed among the banks of
the city.
He always had from fifty- to seventy-five
millions in the bank, and dur
ing the recent panle- Morgan. Hill
and other great' financiers, and even
the United States, had -to- call upon
him for ready cash.
Mother and Four Children Burned to
Death. "
Mrs. William Harlow and four of
her children were burned to death in
their home near PltUburg, Pa.. Tues
day morning. .
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