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s 6 mm X ."State Library y 1 - ; ilia's sou "" """r --' . L.J-r-'' "This Argus o'er the people's rights Doth an eternal vigil keep ; --'No soothingstrains ofMaia $1.00 a Year. Shall -lull itshumlred eyes to sleep." $1.00 a Year. UOLDSBOKO,jN. C., EDKESDATiCAY 26 , 1909. VOL. XXIV U CT Jrr. iffin .-. Is I I 1 NS is I II 1 II II II II I I V 15 I A 'i PIKEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RoundsJJp Its First Year Flattering Success. Its Commencement Exercises el Two Days Largely Attended Dr. Dixon the Orator le Pre dicts Great Thlais For the Schiol Editor Argus: The first year of the Pikeville High School came to a close Friday, on which day and the day pre vious the commencement exercises were held. Despite the inclement weather of Thursday night, a large crowd was present to enjoy a very creditably rendered program and to hear the ad dress of Dr. B. F. Dixon, State Audi itor, who was introduced by County Superintendent E. T. Atkinson in a few happy remarks prefaced by a talk on the aims of the Pikeville school. Dr. - Dixon, in matchless oratory, pointed out the glories and advantages of country life'and made a most elo quent plea for education gained.in the spirit of personal sacrifice. His speech was powerful and that it made a strong appeal to the audience was shown by tjie spontaneous applause with which it was frequently inter rupted. " ' Dr. Dixon was especially laudatory of the Pikeville High School, of what it has already achieved, and of its op portunities for. future development. He said it should be the leading coun try high school of the State, and that he expected nothing less of it among such a people as these Pikeville .peo ple, who by their already splendid ac-! complishments in one year the first j year of the school had proved them-j selves capable of doing greater things' and worthy of the highest success. He also complimented the faculty of the school, as evidenced in the pro gram so admirably executed by the student body, and was peculiarly ear nest and felicitous in his words of commendation of the principal, Mr. A. ytaine Freeman, upon whom devolved the weighty responsibility of launch ing the school and shaping its course and maintaining its standards. A very happy feature of Thursday evening's exercises was the presence snirlt of nroeress and patriotic liberality in donating the ay so in his ads to the Iocs ) news fine four-acre school site rendered it PaDer edltor' to "Jf representatives in possible for Pikeville to secure the Congress etc. The Senate seems to ltv hieh school aooronriation. a 8aner vlew of tne Proposition, judg- ' . ... . Friday morning a recital was given j i I V.-.T Vio mucin flaoa nnrl in the after-I - - -- " I noon the school team defeated the I Goldsboro High School by the score o 19 to 2, after overcoming the boys from Fremont the day before by al most as wide a margin. The school building could xt ibe odate the .crowds that gin to accommi came to witness the final exercises Friday night, many driving rom a long distance, and all were generous enough to manifest their appreciation of the "varied program by frequent ap plause. ' Pikeville, N. C, May 24. . ; A, JVOMAN'S BETTERMENT. This Association Is Called on to Meet May 28th. The officers and the executive com mittee of the Woman's Betterment As sociation, of Wayne County, are called to meet May 28th at 12:30 p. m. in Superintendent Atkinson's' office for the purpose of awarding the prizes which have been offered for this school year., - " L j. MRS. H. A. OVERMAN, President Pro Tem. MISS JULIA E. HOWELL, Recording Secretary. MAIL CARRIERS TO MEET. Annual Gathering of Eastern Carolina Association Next Monday, The Eastern North Carolina District! Association of Rural Mail Carriers will hold its annual meeting in the wive' Tomnio in Wilmlyieton next Monday, May 31 and it is expected that there will be a large attendance! of mail carriers in the territory em - braced in the association. The open inz session will be held at ten o'clock. At the business session officers fori onenin? vfiftr will be elected, and I delegates selected for the meeting of the State association which will be held In Charlotte July 5th and 6th. A summer, if not vetoed. The Senate feature of the gathering will be the usually takes its time, even on a mat social .session which will , follow the ter of such vital importance to "the business meeting. AH carriers of the! country. Mr. Taft's action on this bill, eastern Dart of the State are cordially invited to attend the meeting whether they , are members of the association . j-wJ or not THE PAYNE TARIFF HILL. Viewed by a Dry Goods Merchant of : Vast Experience. . " Dear-Sir: It is quite sufficient to say that there is probably not a dry goods merchant in the United' States, be he a " protectionist or free trader. Republican or "Democrat, who would have believed .that the proposed tariff bill now under consideration, would take the form of radically increased duties on such staples: as hosiery, gloves, etc:, without single appar ent reduction on any' one of the great staples so largely distributed through dry goods and department stores. Spe cial Washington dispatches in the daily papers have kept you informed on the progress of this Payne tariff bill, and at this writing the bill lias passed the house with no modifica tions of the arbitrary advances which have been made -on the lines firsl mentioned in spite of protest and ar gument. "Ve have , met men of the strongest orotectionist belief who frankly express that they never ex pected the result which seems to be .n sight. Eliminating entirely any po litical consideration, we are- astounded by the developments. We" are not dis cussing the iron or oil schedules, but only those lines of direct interest to this trade. ... - It is a fearful task to try to un ravel -the complexities of the Payne tariff bill. Political and local consid erations entirely seem to govern our lawmakers in framing up a tariff bill, which should be purely a broad busi ness proposition. I ne pieage or a tariff revision downward has been broken, and in the most open and barefaced fashion. The revised tariff at the present stage Increases the burdens - of the consumer, and, 'to the same extent, those of the dealer. The most in volved method of computation in as certaining taxable values under the various schedules has been adopted. In the lower grades of hosiery and gloves, the duties proposed are large ly prohibitive, instead of providing for increased revenue, the new duties are put so high as fro practically prohibit the importation of pertain lines of these goods, and strange to relate, thej lower priced lines of merchandise, used almost entirely by people of small or moderate means, are made to carry the largest percentage, of in creased tax. We deem it the duty of every dry goods merchant to put himself square ly on record on this question. Jf he believes that the duty should be re vised in a proper and equitable man ner, with a just measure of protection to the laboring interests in our own country, and to stop there, he should ine by the modified schedules pre- 1UB uf " . , . sented in the Senate, but the interests v t ' iV,4 lmi V,1V, Hoa mill nnt c L i""" awa "6uc' give up without. a fight, and interest ing developments may be looked for The character of the arguments put forth on the part of interested politi cians each man clamoring for the neatest measure of high tariff for his particular pex lnauspry -is a yi y ex cellent example of how a tariff bill should not be framed- The merchant, trader and consumer seem to be the last persons whose interests are con sidered in the discussion; they have no lobby In "Washington, they have no campaign funds to contribute, but they must stand by helplessly and see this monstrous wrong inflicted on this country under the guise of a revised tariff. It has been generally true that on all previous tariff bills the action of the Senate has been to advance all the schedules previously decided upon in the House. There seems to be no avenue of escape from the monstrous- ly heavy duties proposed on many of the most important lines that go into the dry goods stores, except through a veto of this hill by the President, We are not going into details on the proposed schedules of dufy in this letter; space would not permit, and the -trade and daily press is keeping you fully-informed on this subject. We wish to state that in our humble judgment, the American people are being betrayed and led to slaughter We do not believe that either the do mestic hosiery, gloves, woolen or cot- ton industry expected or needs the tremendous prohibitive duties, which I are proposed under the Payne bill I The complications of maximum and I minimum duties by Which merchan dise ostensibly assessed at a lower 1 rate, actually pays a -higher one re- - J quire the most careful study for prop 1 er analysis. You will hear plenty of this tariff discussion during the. next few months. We doubt very much wheth er the bill will be signed before mid provided it does not suffer material change in the hands of the Senate, will be a supreme test of his courage jand good faith with the American peo ple,v and we believe he wilL meet it bravely. The thraldom. of the politi cian is over the land, and every busi ness interest must suffer until this tariff matter is out of the way. The raising of revenue for the needs of the country is a business and fiscal prop osition; it has about as 7 much real merit as a political proposition as" the color of our banknotes. Some day, perhaps in the dim and distant future, the business men of America will awaken, to their responsibilities and send more honest and intelligent mer chants, 'manufacturers, anti business men to Congress and "upset the pre ponderance of lightweight politicians who now make p'jfr laws. DOINGS AT NATIONAL CAPITAL. Washington, D. C., May- 22. The most important happenings in the Na tional Capital Saturday were as fol lows : Senator Aldrich failed in his effort to have the Senate name a day for a final vote on the tariff bill, Senators Daniel and Simmons both .raising ob jections when the chairman of the finance committee suggested June 2 as the date, j v , Two battleships or either five tor pedo boat destroyers or one modern repair ship are provided for in the navy department's building program for the fiscal yearv ending June 30, 1911, it. was officially, announced. By presidential proclamation about not studying a profession for he does 700,000 acres of government lands in not postpone his life, but lives al Montana, Jdaho and Washington are ready. He has not one chance, but a to be opened up for settlement and entry. Charges against the government at torneys conducting the prosecution of the Oklahoma land fraud cases werej received at the Department of Jus-j tice by Attorney General Wickersham, subsequently announced that no nac tion would be taken in regard to them until the cases in which .the attorneys were engaged have been disposed of. The day' gessipn of the Senate re solved itself into a talk feast, in which j Senators Bailey, McCumber. ; Elkins, Scott, Burton, Hale and Clapp par ticipated. The lumber schedule was under discussion for the greater part! of the time, but no vote was taken on any subjecjt. Mulcidc in St. Louis. St. Louis Post-Dispatch,. During the year ending March 31, 1909, 210 persons committed suicide in St. Louis. Of these, 151 were males and 59 females, 70 were single, 106 married, 21 widows or widowers, the rest unclassified Pfily four negroes I the expenditure of many million dol killed themselves, and of the iwhite j lars and instead of concealing their persons 144 were born in the United j States, 47 in Germany and Austria, j and 11 in Ireland. The decade of age between 20 and 30 numbers 51 sui- cides, between 30 and 40, 35; between 40 and 60, 48, The numbers decline j beyond this age. j According to statistics covering the I decade 1895 to 1905, San Francisco confessed 52-2 suicides annually perl 100,000 of the population; Hoboken, 30.2; St. Louis, 27.4; Oakland, 24.9; Chicago, 22.7; New York (Manhattan I and Bronx), 22.2; Milwaukee, 21.8; Newark, 21.6; Cincinnati, 20.6; Indian apolig, 17,g, The average of 50 cities was 17.8, The figures discourage all attempts to .generalize a chief or controlling cause of the suicide impulse. W?hy does San Francisco rpeort two and a half times as many suicides as New York? We may legitimately believe that the diff erense is due to diverse conditions, but among the seething mass of influences which, in all large cities, bear upon the individuals, who can pick those which prompt self-de-J struction? - . - The most we can -say is that the! cause of suicide is in conditions and I that inspired the movement to have j support of the lumbermen s conten not in human nature. Given healthy,! my father's head placed on the silver Jtion that the duties on dressed lumber natural conditions and men and worn- en would grow, live and pass away, healthily and naturally, free from morbid cravings or impulses. In other! words, the responsibility is upon .soci ety itself.. If there is slime in the so cial thought and policy, there must be slime in individual character. FOR GREATER GOLDSBORO. Here's a Pointer For the Younger Men of the" City Who Propose to Abide. V " " " f . . The yvumington star oi yesteraay s issue has the following item' that should be suggestive of a policy for the younger men of Goldsboro, who propose to make this city their abid- ing place-their home: 'The Greater Wilmington Club will be formed Tuesday night at a meeting of citizens who are deeply interested in the material growth of Wilmington The club will start out most auspi ciously, having as its charter mem bers more than 200 of the prominent and public-spirited .citizens of the city, who believe that great things can be achieved for Wilmington through an organization of its business men all working for the same purpose, a Greater Wilmington." - j ' Why not a Greater Goldsboro Club?'ml0 4tdw KEF TO SUCCESS. Do the Thing Next Ton, and Do It the - ' Best Yob fan. - " The young man who starts out 1n life with the right kind of stuff in him will solve life's problem correctly though be may reach ie end-of his course before the -combination 'yields, unfolds itself. It is not as the world eounts success that real success is to be measured. It is achieved by doing the duties that fall' to yOur lot as they come up to you. Here is a little extract from Emer son In point, and we publish it for what it is worth: ij "If our young men miscarry in their first enterprises, they lose' all heart. If the young merchant fails, men say he is ruined. If the finest genius studies at one pf our colleges, and Is not installed in- an Office within one year afterward in the cities or sub urbs of Boston or New York, it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right in being disheartened and in complaining the rest of his life. "A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or "Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams.it, farms it, peddles,, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in suc cessive years, and always, like a cat, falls on his feet, is worth a -hundred of these, city dolls. He walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame in hundred chances." Ralph Waldo Em erson. . A WISE P0WCY. The Interborough Rapid Transit Com. pany Taking the Public Into Their Confidence. - The use of publicity the taking of the public into their confidence by the management of large corporations either as a weapon of defense against attack, or an effective aid i negotia tions which they may have with ad ministrative bodies .and legislative au thorities, either national, state or mu nicipal, is steadily gaining ground. A rather notable iastanees-of ' this has just been furnished" by an appeal, which the management of the liter- borbugh Rapid. Transit Company (The Subway), of New York,-printed in the newspapers in regard to the problems presented by the "Subway" as it now exists. The company wanted, to make improvements which would involve plans, took instead the course pf pah: lishing big advertisements in the datly papers in New York showing just what they intended to do and what they would ask as concession on the part of the publip In forme? times. he expending pf this amount of - money WQllld have meant a big thing for the political bosses in New York, but theSubway company seems to-have wisely pre, ferred the course of laying its appeal directly before the people. DAVIS' DAUGHTER SPEAKS. Father's Head on SilTf r Service Token of a Reunited Nation. Colorado Springs, May 16. Regard ing criticisms of the adornment of the battleship Mississippi's silver ser vice with her father's portrait, Mrs. I Margaret Howell Hayes said today: . Jefferson . Davis "We had no part in this matter, I and I accept the tribute to my father's memory as a splendid evidence of a! reunited North and South.". .1 'Naturally, I appreciate the spirit service, the more so because it. came as a tribute from his own State. Nor have I had any intimation Jhat there was opposition to it." . V &. A LAWYER ASSAULTED. Man Arrested For "Blind Tigering Hurt! Lawyer. Smithfleld, N, C May 2."MoreJ J men who have been blind tigering J have been arrested. t This, time Detec- I tive Thompson, acting upon the legal I advice-of Attorney-O.. A. Barbour of Clayton, arrested John Hudson, ot I Benson, and the detective was carry J mg Hudson t9 gmithfield. ? While on I the train Hudson made a murderous J assault upon the attorney and hurt his nose and eye, not seriously, but! j Very painfully, thus adding the crime Qf assault to the charge of selling! iiqUor unlawfully. PIANO TUNING. - E. T.PERKS. ' Office, St James Hotel. Phone calls will be answered prompt ly and satisfaction guaranteed. ADMINISTRATION'S POSITION ON ; ANTI-TRUST LAW.V Difference Between the Policies of the Taft and the Roosevelt Administra tion Pointed Ont by ; Wickersham, At a dinner fn New York given in his honor Attorney General Wicker sham made some significant and inter esting statements in regard to the plans of the present administration. He pointed out the need for a differ ence between the policies of the Taft and the Roosevelt - administrations. The methods which were necessary to awaken the business community to a recognition of the vitality of certain laws, ' Mr. Wickersham maintained, were no longer necessary,- for what has been' done has made its impres sion upon the whole business world. Men in all walks of life, no matter how powerful they were. now. realize that they must give some attention and full obedience . to the country's Llaws. ,This would have been, impossi ble without some of the prosecutions that were begun during Mr. Roose velt's term of. office;- The present ad ministration, he said, would not hesi tate to prosecute where it was need ed, and would withdraw suits and dis miss prosecutions when there was an indication of an intention to otjey the law, - - The Attorney General said that he was well aware of the uncertainty existing as to the present scope and meaning of the Sherman Anti-Trust law, which so closely touched all the business activity of the country, and he would be the last t authorise the institution g criminal proceeding against men who without intent to v'olate the law have nevertheless act ed in technical contravention of its possible construction. It is to be hoped, Mr. Wickersham added, that the Supreme Court Will at an early day authoritatively define the full scope and effect of the anti-trust law, and that if a construction should be given- to it by that court as far reach Jng as spme pf the 3udses of the Court of Appeals in the New York circuit gave in the tobacco case, Con gress may so amend the act as to ex cept from its provisions the ordinary agreements which are the necessary result of healthy business conditions. while still 'effectively prohibiting the creation of those far-reaPhiRf monop olies which are believed to be incom patible with the wholesome growth and progress of the republic. Of interest was the attorney gener al's announcement that the matter Is under consideration by the present administration with a YeW Ufeffiit tins to the next Congress proposed amendments t the law. This state ment of the head of the Department of Justice was evidently made with deliberation, and the business inter ests of the country will welcome a change of the drastic force of the Sherman law to meet modern trade conditions, . THE LUMBER TARIFF. It Is Still Holding American Lumber men on the Anxious Bench. Nashville, Tenn., May 24. Satisfied that there is no danger of rough lum ber being placed on the free list, rep resentatives of the Industry at Wash iJif Ion have turned their attention to d.vsied lumber, says The Southern i Ciberman, and every effort will be made to prevent the abolition of the present differential duties on that ar ticle, ranging from fifty cents to $1.50 per thousand feet and which have been in existence for a number of years and are still favored by ; the. House and Senate tariff , committees A committee of the "National Lum her Manufacturers Association has recently filed with Congress a brief In should be retained. The brief gives a history of the lumber industry : and shows how the Georgian Bay saw- J mills, of Canada, have developed. The question of lake freight rates is dealt with, and it is shown that the Cana dian mills referred to can compete with American producers in the great Eastern and Middle West sections of the United States. 1 ' ? ; - Senator Crane, of Massachusetts!, Senator Aldrich's chief lieutenant, is j authority., for the statement that the J lumber schedule will be held up until the last in the'x consideration of the I tariff bill, because it can command a - 1 number of Democratic -votes. In this way, it Is believed, Aldrich will man ! age: to pull ; through Ms bill in good J shape. IS g l U: The action of the Senate in voting a J duty on Iron ore is regarded as fore casting an ample' tariff on lumber. The lumber and ore advocates formed a practical alliance some time ago, Wilson, N.' C . May 22. On appli cation of W. C.Mayo,'general man ager of : Mayo Bros. Hardware Com pany, 8. A. Woodward was today ap pointed receiver-by - Judge -Allen. C C. Daniels,? of the law firm of Daniels & Swindell, went to Henderson and secured the order appointing the re ceiver. 'J THERE ARE OTHERS. Senator Johnston Criticises Charlotte "7 Utterances of Taft. Washington, May 24. Senator Jo seph F. Johnston has returned from Charlotte, , N, 0, where he attended the Mecklenburg Independence cele bration and visited the scenes of his childhood, , the senator having been born within eighteen miles of Char lotte. s - A '4 oam me senator this afternoon: "I heard President, Taft's excellent speech in which he commended the idea .of. a strong opposition party as likely to put the dominant party in a state upon its mettle and good beha vior. There s- no doubt that this would work well and work best In I states where the dominant party has not been conducting itself as a decent party should do. t "Nobody has heard of the dominant party in any Southern state seriously misbehaving. Obviously if the domi nant party needs correction anywhere it is not in the South. Letnhe Presi dent "use his good offices and very powerful influence for the regenera tion of the Republican party along thesa righteous lines . In states where it has Jbeen longest intrenched In pow er, such as Rhode Island, upon whose statesmen the trusts depend for cham pionship and salavation; in Delaware, whose dominant party habitually pur chases retention pf newer, and in Pennsylvania, where prominent mem bers of the dominant party have been convicted of robbing the state. There are other fields for this admirable missionary work of the President else where north of the Potomac and Ohio rivers, and there Is no doubt that the whole country will agree that the sooner It is begun the better for the nation." Revised North Carolina canlsm. Repnbli. New Bern Journal. It was hardly necessary for Presi dent Taft to make his Charlotte visit and his speech to further corroborate his Southern political stand, which the nomination of Judge Connor has made go. prominent. In the Judge Connor appointment there is considerable talk, and reit erated talk, among Democrats that so far as affecting the State Democratic vote, it will be null and void. There fore Democrats are at present laugh ing over the political discomfiture of those Republicans who are taking so hard this Republican appointment of a Democrat. This unusual appoint ment, from a political viewpoint, can not at present be estimated in its later effects. If Democrats may hope for political jobs under President Taft, there must be in the nature of the case that human leaning towards the party which can, and possibly may, dispense political gifts, and no per son, nor whatever his political faith, but who may come under the blan- dishment which an office possibility offers." It is not that one or two or six appointments of Democrats to of fice by the President may disrupt the Democratic party, but that it has some effect is beyond dispute. Coming to the Republicans in North Carolina, this appointment and the President's reiteration-of his position towards the South, there is a decided division of opinion of the results to follow such a policy. On the old order of things, it overthrows the hard and fast rule of strict party appointments, This change, says one side, means the break of the party machine, which holds in control all the lines of polltl- cal action, that has brought the North Carolina Republican State vote up to a total of 115.0Q0. While the other side will say that it is a eood thine to make the office-holding crowd know that its word is not final, that one may be a Republican and yet not have to be a member of the "inner circle." Take it from any. viewpoint,, there must be a revision in North Carolina Republicanism, and this revious is likely to mean that there will be more Republicans than offices this being the worst as hitherto insinuated by Dem ocrats, which further means that the Democratic party m'ust look to Its fences.'' Georgia Cotton Mill Man Dies in New York City. New York, May 24. Walter Han- eon, son or j. jr. Hanson, oi tne 51dd Manufacturing Company of Macon, Ga., one of the largest cotton mills in the South, died of acute indigestion at the Hotel Belmont In this city yes terday. Mr. Hanson came to. New York recently on a business trip and was accompanied " by his wife, r The body will be taken to Macon tomor row. ' " ' ' j . Mrs. Geo,, A. Norwood, Jr., is visit ing relatives in Greenville, S. C. OASTOHIA. ni tkr a9 J,lB u,d m Haw Always BwSf I 'IB MIIU iuo nam nmaja -"a - I " TAKEN U.NDER ADVISEMENT. No Decision in the Night Riders' ; '" " ' Case. . -' Jackson, Tenn., May 24. After R. A. ' Pierce, counsel for theight men con- victed at Union City for participating.' in the murder of Capt. Quentin Ran kin at Walnut Log, whose tragic death last fall shocked the country, ' had concluded his argument before' the State Supreme Court, to which the case had been appealed, the announce ment was made from the bench late today that the . case would" be taken" under advisement by the court and an opinion rendered within two weeks. Mr. Pierce's argument was largely devoted to errors which he claims were made by the lower court. He also insisted than an alibi had been. conclusively proven for the men. . Mr. Pierce made a strong appeal for a reversal of the verdict of the lower court, and claimed that no proof had been shown that the convicted men were guilty of the crime of' which they stand convicted. Attorney-General Cates argued for a sustaining opinion from the court. He reviewed the case and laid special stress upon the efforts of Bud Morrisi to establish an alibi. Th court room was filled to over- i flowing. - SECRETARY DICKINSON BACK. Did Not Leave His Berth During the Voyage and Therefore His Trip of Inspection Was Fruitless. Washington, D. C, May '24. Weak from the effects of his illness which compelled him to cut short bis trip. Secretary of War Dickinson stepped ashore from the government yacht Mayflower here today after a tour of inspection of the Panama canal. Un cil yesterday Mr. Dickinson had not ieft his berth since the Mayflower left Havana. He assured the waiting re porters that he would be all right as. soon as he had regained his lost strength. Mr. Dickinson expressed pleasure at the progress being made In the construction of the Panama canal, but when asked regarding conditions iu Cuba, the Mayflower having touched there on the return trip from the ca nal zone, he laughingly replied: 'I only saw Cuba through a port hole." ' The trip to Havana was made in consonance with President Taft's policy of having the members of his .abinet become personally familiar ..villi the various projects under their direction. SERIOUS IN GEORGIA. Railroad Firemen's Strike Situation Has Tied Up All Trains u Georgia Railroad. Atlanta, Ga., May 24. Gov. Hoke rinuth today called upon the officials' of the Georgia Railroad and officers of the Firmen's organization to name i.uree citizens each to act as an arbi tration committee in an effort to bring about a settlement of the strike. It is expected that this committee will be named at once. Augusta, Ga., May 24. The Georgia Railroad is completely tied up today, 't'he management is not trying to move trains, simply announcing that it has the men, the means and the equip- meat to proceed and will do so when the state announces that it is ready to protect its property and employes, The strikers are standing pat. They assert that they have not been and will not be, parties to any violence. Sympathizers with the strikers, it is sefout, have done all the hurt that has been done. SPECIALISTS TO EXAMINE EARLY. Shall the North Carolinian Be Detain ed or Go Free? Washington, D. C," May 24. Spe cialists in leprosy will examine John Early, the North Carolinian, who has been confined as a leper since last summer. A noted skin specialist re cently examined Early and said he did not have leprosy. The examination this . afternoon is to make final deci sion as to whether Early will be de tained or allowed to go free. Dr. Woodard, District of Columbia health officer, said today he was sure the for mer diagnosis was correct. TODAY'S COTTON MARKET. ' Liverpool Futures. Open. Cloa 4.68 4.74 4.66 J April-May .... .... 4.66 May-June .. .. 4.70 June-July ..' .. .. .. 4.66 : New York Futures. May 11.27 11.25 July .. .. .. .. .j.. im 10.97 11.03 October ........ 10.72 - 10.82 Receipts of all ports, 13,538 bales. 7 Local spots, 11. r I . r 6 l I J