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Beautiful Wedding is St. Ste
phen's Episcopal Church
Wednesday Night.
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A Popular Son of Wilson Wins One of
Goldsboro's Most Charming and
Favorite Daughters Leave
on Tour to the North.
No more lovely nor more impressive
marriage has ever been solemnized in
tbis city than was that of Dr. Kmchen
Carl Moore and Miss Leila Foster
Privett in St. Stephen's Episcopal
Church Wednesday night at eight
o'clock.
The always beautiful little church
was entrancingly so last night in its
profuse yet artistic decorations of
potted plants, green asparagus and
white and yellow chrysanthemums,
and in its briliancy of electric lights
and altar candles twinkling like stars
of hope and promise amid the bloom
ing flowers of happiness and the per
ennial green of love.
A representative congregation of
Goldsboro's people thronged the
church to its utmost, for the fair
young bride is a universal favorite
w ith them, and interest in" her wed
ding and her happiness was the im
pulse that brought them to witness
the linking of her life with that of his
who is to be one with her "two souls
with but a single thought; two hearts
that beat as one," thro' all the coming
years.
While the congregation waited and
just as the families of the contracting
parties were seated Mrs. Ehrlich E.
Smith sang in her sweetest tones
"Because God Made Thee Mine."
After the arrival of the immediate
relatives of the bride and groom, who
were given seats beyond the ribbons,
the bride's intimate friends, elegantly
attired, preceded the bridal party, as
follows: Misses, Blanch King with R.
D. Parrot, Lizzie Higgs of Greenville
with Jake Meyerburg, Louisa Slocumb
with Paul Borden, Kate Isler with
Tom O'Berry, Hattie Dewey with
.Street Munroe, Alice Aycock of Ral
eigh with Dr. Oscar Hooks of Wilson,
Josephine Wrenn of Norfolk, Va., with
Frank Daniels, Miss Etheridgeof Nor
folk, Va., with Kennon Borden, Sophie
Jenkins with Frank Creech, Diana
Whitfield with Leslie Lane, Emma
Finlayson with Ben Witherington,
Clare Porter with Frank Castex, Jr.,
Jennie Ormond with Edwin B. Lee,
Annie Lee Davis with Robert Powell,
Mary Lane with Dr. W. P. Exum, Jr.,
Lydia Winslow with Will Ormond
Jessie Brothers with Raton Slaugh
ter, Rosa Powell with Dewey Slocumb,
Elsie Dortch with Leslie Yelverton,
Then came the bridal party, led by
Messrs. G. W. Stanton, of Wilson, and
V. K. Wlnstead, brother-in-law of the
.r?de. as honorary ushers, and the
foilowing ushers: Messrs. John Gor
ham and Frank Freeman, and Dr. Paul
Lane and Dr. Henry Best, of Wilson.
Then came the bridesmaids, as fol
lows: Misses, Mary Moore and LeMay
Dewey; Elsie Moore and Vivian Woo-
ten, all gowned in white -messaline
with pearl and silver trimmings and
large black hats, carrying bouquets of
large yellow chrysanthemums.
The lovely maid of honor, Miss Lu
cia Privett, sister of the bride, gowned
in yellow messaline, with gold trim
mings and large black hat, carrying
bouquet of bride's roses, walked alone
followed by the angelic little ring
bearer. Lucile Stanton, of Wilson, in
white accordion plaited silk.
The approach of the. long array of
bridal attendants and bridesmaids up
t.Vfi aisle to the chancel where t it-
waiting minister, Rev. J. Gilmer Bus
kie stood gowned in white, was inde
scribafcly beautiful and impressive.
Here the betrotnal preceding the mar
rlae ceremony was spoken and then
tbo bride and firoom followed the
minister to the altar, where the mar
riage vows were given and the sacra
mental service completed.
The organ was presided over by
Miss Georgia Lee, under whose dex
trous touch the inspiring notes of the
wedding march were given all the en
trancing expression of which they are
capable, both in processional and re
cessional. v
The lovely bride was attired in
cream moire, with real lace and pearl
triTniminErs. and her bridal veil was
caught by a diamond and pearl brooch,
a eift of the groom. She carried
white Bible, from which hung a
Bhower bouquet of lilies of the valley,
and was given away by her brother,
Mr. Doyle B. Privett,
The groom's best man was Mr. Jack
N. Milner, of New York. -
Immediately after the ceremony
the bridal party - repaired to the
bride's home, just opposite the church,
where an informal reception was held
and cordial congratulations and good
wishes exchanged, until the hour ar-
rived for the happy young couple to
take the 9:50' train for an extended
bridal trip north, after which they
will return to the groom's home in
Wilson, where he enjoys a lucrative
and growing practice, as the result
of his professional ability and de
served popularity.
The substantial esteem in which
both the bride and groom are held by
their hosts of friends, was happily
manifest in the galaxy of beautiful
presents, in silver, cut glass, china,
and other costly and useful articles
with which they were remembered.
INLAND WATERWAY MEETING.
Business Sessions of the Convention to
claim of priority in favor of the Na
Continue Two Days. I. . Mn owv wwh
Corpus Christi, Tex., Oct. 21. With
several hundred delegates in attend-
ance, coming from numerous cities
thwns nf Louisiana and Texas, the
fifth annual convention of the Inter-
state Inland Waterway League was
opened here today. The aim of the
gathering is to promote the construe-
tion. as a national enterprise, of a
channel nine feet deep and 100 feet in I
width across an important section of I
Louisiana and Texas to connect the
Mississippi river with the Gulf of
iexico. The business sessions of the
convention are to continue two days geographer of the United States Geo
and addresses will be delivered cov- logical Survey, vice-president of the
ering every phase of the subject by National Geographic Society and one
men familiar with the problems the I
undertaking presents. President Taft
lias accepted an invitation to come to I
Corpus Christi from his brother's I
ranch and deliver an address to the
delegates tomorrow morning.
Today's forenoon meeting was giv-
en over lareeiy to welcoming me
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uests and organization. Roy Miller, I
ecretary of the Corpus Christi Com- I
mercial Club, welcomed the delegates, 1
for whom response was made by Hon. j
Henri L. Gueydan, vice-president of
the organization. The exchange of of terrestrial magnetism of the Car
greetings was followed by the address negie Institute; Rear Admiral Colby
of the president, C. S. E. Holland, of m. Chester, known for many years as
Victoria, Tex. I
This afternoon, following reports I
from the standing committees, the I
convention listened to an address by
Secretary of War Dickinson. Other
addresses were delivered as follows:
Need of Coast Waterway Improve
ments," Congressman John N. Gar
ner .Transportation and Freight
Cnarees " Laeut.-Joi. Lansing in.
Leach, U. S. Corps of Engineers;
Rate Influences of Water Routes of
Trail spoliation," Congressman James
L. Slayden ; "Appropriations Alone
Will Not Establish a System of Water
Transportation," Congressman Rufus
Hardy.
Covernor Campbell of Texas, ex-
Governor Blanchard of Louisiana and
i.lgar C. Ellis, of Kansas City, are
scheduled as speakers at tonight's ses
sion of the convention.
WANT TO HOLD AMERICAN TRADE.
German Potash Syndicate Negotiating
With American Fertilizer Cos.
Berlin, Oct. 2L- A committee head
ed by Herr Schudekupe, manger of
the export department of the German
potash syndicate, left for New York
today for the purpose of negotiating;
direct with the American fertilizer
companies in the hope that something
may be done to save part of the
American market for the syndicate's
products.
The syndicate has up to the present
time controlled the potash business of
the world, inasmuch as Germany has
a monopoly of these salts, and It is
now in danger of losing the whole
American market, amounting to 60
per cent, of the export trade, valued
at $7,000,000, either to the German
mines outside the syndicate or to
members of the syndicate who con
tracted heavily with American fertil
izing companies while the syndicate
was temporarily dissolved the early
part of July.
GINTER BLAZES THE WAY.
First Step In Woman Suffrage In the
South.
Richmond, Va., Oct. 20. The people
of Gmter Park, the most fashionable
and the wealthiest suburb of Rich-
mond, have formally extended the suf-
frage to women.
At a meeting held last night of thewere: President', Mrs. Annie Witten
Citizens' Association, the governing
body, of the suburb, a constitution
and by-laws were adopted, one provi -
sion of which is v that "all males and
females, white and over , twenty-one
years of age, owning property and liv
Ing in Ginter Park, and subscribing
to the constitution and by-laws have
a right to, vote.
The Richmond suburb is , the first
community in the South "to take this
advanced step.
Woman on the Jury.-.: ,
Los Angeles, Oct. 19. -For the first
time in California a woman was today
sworn in to serve as a juror. Mrs.
Johanna Engel, of Santa' Monica, had
the honor in taking' her place ". In the
Jury box of the Superior Court of Los
Angeles county :- "
WILL HOLD COOK'S RECORDS.
"Sorry,w Says University of Copenha
gen, "But We Must See Them First-'
- Copenhagen, Oct. 20. The Universi
ty of Copenhagen has declined to fore
go its privilege to the first examina
tion of the north, pole records of Dr.
Cook. The authorities of the univer
sity cabled today to the National Geo
graphic Society at Washington as fol
lows
"Sorry. University not able to com
ply with your request.'
Dr. Cook had promised to first sub
mit his records to the faculty of the
university here, but on October 15 the
university was requested to waive its
sought an early determination or me
controversy which has arisen as the
result of Commander Peary's charge
that Dr. Cook did not discover the
north pole.
Polar Dispute Adjudicators,
Washington, D. C, Oct. 20. An
even dozen members of world-wide
standing constitute the rsearch com
mittee of the National Geographic So
;ety, which is to pass on the merits
Gf the north polar controversy. The
chairman is Henry Gannett, the chief
Qf the founders of that organization
m 1888. He is the author of topo
graphic surveying books, statistical
atlases of the tenth and eleventh cen
suses, the dictionary oi aitituaes ana
other books of government reports on
geography, magnetic declinations, etc.
The other members are O. P. Aus-
tin, chief of the government bureau of
statistics and secretary of the Nation-
al Geographic Society, and author of
books on territorial expansion and
other works ; Dr. L. A Bauer, director
one of the best navigators in the naval
service ; Frederick V. Coville, botanist
0f the Department of Agriculture ; Dr.
J. Howard Gore, formerly professor of
mathematics in George Washington
University; Gilbert H. Grosvenor, ed
itor of the National Geographic Maga
zine; C. Willard Hayes, chief geologist
of . the United Stajtes eQologicar Sur
vey; If red J. Henry, professor of me
teorology in the United States Weath-
er Bureau; W. H. Holmes, chief of the
I bureau of ethnology; Dr. C. Hart Mer-
I riam, chief of the United States Bio-
I logical Survey, and Dr. O. H. Tittman,
one of the founders of the National
Geographic Society.
W. C. T. U. AT OMAHA.
From Every Part of the Country Dele.
gates Hare Poflred Into the City.
Omaha, Neb., Oct. 21. Throngs of
white-ribboned women on the streets
and in the railroad stations, hotels and
cthei public places today gave evi
clence of the fact that, the national
convention of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union is at hand. From
every part of the country the dele
gates have been pouring into the city
during the past twenty-four hours,
and by the time the opening prayer
is said tomorrow, one of the largest
gathering at any national convention
in years is expected to be on hand.
Several receptions were held in dif
ferent parts of the city today, and
there was general activity among the
delegates in anticipation of the open
ing of the convention. The official
board held a meeting to complete the
preparation of the annual reports and
to put the finishing touches to the
convention program. The sessions of
the convention will continue through
next Wednesday night. On the pro
gram as speakers are many of the
foremost women temperance workers
in the country. Several public men
of prominense and a number of noted
divines will also be heard during the
week.
The present convention marks the
close of the thirty-fifth year of the
well-known organization. Though lo
cal and section organizations had ex-
isted for some years previous, the
national W. C. T. U. was given birth
at a convention held in Cleveland in
I November, 1874. The first officers
myer, of Philadelphia; corresponding
secretary, Miss Frances E. Willard, of
1 Chicago; recording secretary,' Mrs
Mary C. Johnson, of New , York; as
I sistant recording secretary, Mrs
- 1 Mary T. Burt, of .New York; treasur
er, Mrs. W. A Ingham, of Cleveland.
I The announced purposes of the or
I ganization were "to educate the young
to form better public sentiment, to re-
I form the drinking classes, and to se
cure the abolition of the liquor traffic,
j -The Federal government should be
1 able ; to find nobler tasks than the
poisoning of prairie dogs." The official
poisoner claims to have killed 750,000
prairie dogs in the last eight months
: BMlngate is the chief element of
New York politics at present.
PRICHARD SIGHS ORDER
Seabord Will Return to Us
Own November 4.
Action Taken at Instance of Counsel
for Railway and Continental Trust
Company, of New York, Who
Asked for Receivership.
Asheville, N. C, Oct. 18. Judge J. C.
Pritchard today signed a decree to the
effect that the Seaboard Air Line re
ceivership will end November 4, when
it will be turned over to the railway
company in accordance with the plan
of reorganization which has been ap
proved by the stockholders.
Hon. Leigh R. Watts, general coun
sel for the Seaboard Air Line, and
James F. Wright, assistant general
counsel, of Portsmouth, Va., appeared
before Judge Pritchard . this evening
for the railway company, , and James
Brown, of the firm sot Burnett &
Cutchins, of New York, appeared for
the Continental Trust Company, of
New York. 1,
it was upon tnet compiamt oi tne
continental Trust vomPany that tne
Seaboard Air Line, On January 2, 1908,
was placed by Judge Pritchard in the
hands of S. Davies ,W,ar field, R. Lan
caster Williams and E. C. Duncan as
receivers. The receivership will have
lasted twenty-two months when it
ends. ?-
This action mean& much for the de
velopment of the property and that
section of the country through which
it operates.
It is stated that the Seaboard Air
Line receivership has been one of the
most successful in the United States;
that the bonded indebtedness has been
reduced, the debts reduced, the road
improved, expenses cut down and also
money made for the road.
MOSQUITOES RUINED GREECE.
Spartan Courage and Athenian Pa-
triotism Were Powerless.
When in the - freight of autumn I
days some mosquito buzzes about your I scorn for the shams and sinister poli
head and you strike at it viciously J cies of life that gave him a touch of
with open palm, have you ever paused
to think what rum and death that
tiny insect has wrought in the world's
history?
Bearing germs of fever and sick- f
ness across land and sea, the mosqui-1
to is now charged wtih depopulating I
citiest devastating countries, and even I
wiping out a whole civilization. I
"What!" you will. say. "This tiny I
insect that I will kill between my fin- J
gers responsible for the overthrow of J
civilization?" Even so, according
to the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Listen to what Sir James Crichton-
Browne, an eminent English scientist,
says in his recent book, "Parsimony in
Nutrition."
Wars drained Greece and moral lax
ity enfeebled her, but it was, it now
seems clear, the insignificant mosqui-
to that compassed her ruin. Mr. W. H.
S. Jones and Mr. G. G. Ellett have
shown that it is In the highest degree
probable that the deterioration of the
Greeks in the fourth century before
Christ, their abandonment of belief in
religion, a future life and the value
of patriotism, was brought about by dence, his business relations, and fam
the introduction and spreading among Uy connections gave him personal
them of malaria, for the diffusion of touch with almost every community in
which the configuration of the country
affords special facilities."
The mosquito was Introduced Into
Greece, we are told, by ships sailing
from Egypt. " Since the insept was as
numerous as Sahara sands in Nilotic
marshes from the times when the
Sphinx was young, the mosquito's first
voyage across the Mediterranean must
have been accidental. This, it would
seem, adds the last touch to the irony
ot fate.
MR. KOPE ELIAS STRICKEN.
Asheville, N. C.; Oct. 19. His many
friends in Asheville and Western
North Carolina will learn with sorrow
that Kope Elias, of Macon county,
while visiting his son, Dr. L. W. Ellas,
at" Biltmore, last night suffered a
stroke of paralysis.
The entire right side was paral-
yzed and for a. time it was feared that
the patient, could not recover. Today,
however, it is stated that Mr. Elias is
improved, that-he is regaining con-
sciousness and that strong" hope is
now entertained for recovery. He was
removed to the Biltmore ' Hospital for
treatment. '
Mr. Elias suffered the stroke about
nine o'clock last night. He was with
his "son at Biltmore and saying that
he was. feeling a bit bad and would
retire, went or rather started to his
room Shortly afterwards - Dr. Ellas,
going up the stairs in the dark, stum
bled .over his father," who had suffered
the stroke after reaching the top of
the steps and fallen unconscious on
I the floor. : ."
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GEORGE A. NORWOOD.
A Comprehensive Tribute to a Good
Man Gone.
The Baptist Courier, of Greenville,
S. C, the home of the deceased, con
tains . the following comprehensive
tribute to the memory of the late fa
ther of our esteemed townsman, Mr.
George A. Norwood, Jr., which we
copy from the current issue of that
paper:
George Alexander Norwood died at
his home in Greenville, S. C, Septem
ber 18, 1909. Born at Hartsville, Oc
tober 23, 1831, he had almost reached
his seventy-eighth anniversary. His
father, Joseph Norwood, was connect
ed with the early settlers of the old
Cheraw district, and was a descendant
of an English family that emigrated
to Virginia in 1648. His mother, Sa
rah Mcintosh Norwood, was connected
with a noted Scotch family that came
to this country about 1746, settling in
the Cheraw district, now Darlington
county. He was a lineal descendant
of Rev. Philip James, the first pastor
of Welsh Neck .Baptist Church, estab-
lisned in 1738 &nd &lgo Qf his gucces,
sor and contemporary, Rev. Joshua
Edwards. He grew up at Hartsville,
where he attended school, also attend
ing Auld's Academy at Society Hill,
before groins: to Furman Universitv
T,rv rn
er education. His college days over,
he married a daughter of Rev. Sam
uel B. Wilkins, Mary Louisa, at Leav
ensworth, March 28, 1858, and settled
down as a planter. He was a faith
ful Confederate soldier, though Union
man. A few years after the Civil War
he became a merchant at Effingham,
then a cotton factor in Charleston for
eleven years, and the last twenty-five
years of his life he was a banker in
Marion and Greenville. He is sur
vived by his wife and nine children,
his death being the first to occur in
the family circle, and his sister, Mrs.
A L. Williams, a saintly widow, now
the only survivor of her father's fam
ily. He was recognized as a man of ir
reproachable character, diligent and
successful in business. In every re-
lation of life he was honest, direct,
frank, firm. He loved righteousness,
and could neither be bribed nor driv
en into a course that he thought to
be wrong. He had a noble spirit of
grandeur. If he withstood vigorously
what-he thought wrong, he also stood
as a stalwart for what he conceived to
be right, whatever peril or loss might
come through loyalty to principle. If
he sometimes seemed too severe in
dealing with the injustices of society
and individuals, it was due to his
sense of honor and fairness and his
whole investment of himself in his
work. He impressed all who knew
him as being the soul of integrity. His
life was one of striking simplicity and
sincerity.
George A, Norwood was a worker, a
man of will and action. He admired
all honest toilers. He did a strong
man's work, though he had a weak
body. He kept himself to his tasks
up to the very last. His work was a
j matter of intense personal interest,
not mere drudgery. He served his day
and generation with no ordinary intel
ligence and fidelity, never seeking for
himself positions of ease or prefer
ment.
He was a conspicuous figure in the
state. His changed places of resi-
the state. He had a remarkable mem
ory for names and family relations
He converted the front of his bank
into a reception room, where he great
ly enjoyed meeting and talking with
I friends in the afternoons and at leis-
I Ure periods during business hours,
I He was a wise and. sympathetic
I giver. He helped many young peo-
pie to go to college, others he helped
to get a start in business, and others
in need. He followed his own ideas
in giving to education and missions
with a liberality known to but few!
He sometimes gave for several years
I consecutively and liberally to the sup-
j port of four or five pastors at the same
time in different parts of the state.
I His giving was done so unostenta-
I tiously that in many cases not even
I the beneficiaries knew the source of
their help,
He was a man of faith in God. He
I believed the Word of God. He believed
I in the providence of God. He traced
J back his prosperity to divine favor,
and looked forward to God's promises
for the life to come. His faith was
striking for its implicitness in times
when so many "waver and hesitate in
I their beliefs. He was received into
J the fellowship of Antioch Baptist
Church, Darlington county, about
1 1862, being baptized by his father-in
law, Rev. S. B. Wilkins. Removing
I afterwards to Effingham, he was or
dained a' deacon in Elim Church,
- where Dr. Luther Rice,"" a great co-
j worker with Adoniram Judson,
I preached his last sermon. In Charles
I ton, Marion ' and Greenville he used
the office pf deacon well and gained
for himself a good standing in the
churches. He served as a trustee of
Furman. University and Greenville Fe
male College for a number of years,
and was active in denominational
work in other ways. If in the last
years of his life he was not formally
co-operative in denominational work
with the "same interest as in earlier
years, he was none the less vitally
interested and active in the Kingdom
of God.
He was a patriarch. He loved his
home and family. He was seldom seen
at clubs or social gatherings, where
he could not take his wife. He culti
vated pure speech and clean life.
There was a native - element of au
thority in his character that made' him
a tower of strength and secured har
mony and obedience in the family. He
kept up family worship through a long
life, overcoming hindrances that
would have eliminated the practice,
had he been less resolute in purpose.
In his last family prayer, just a few
days before his end, his mind wavered
from bodily weakness, and he prayed
over and over in his customary words,
"for all near and dear by the ties of
nature" a pathetic illustration of his
life-long devotion to his home and
loved ones.
He finished his lifework as the night
settled down the last day of the week,
Saturday. As the shadows deepened
into the darkness of death, once more
his entire family gathered about him
and he sank into untroubled sleep like
the peaceful passing of a summer day.
It was a scene to inspire the prayer
born in many hearts, "Let me die the
death of the righteous, and let my
last end be like his." He left an im
perishable legacy of lofty character
and noble service linked with faith
in God. For years to come many will
say of him truly, "He being dead yet
peaketh."
$1,100 DIAMOND IS GLASS TO HIM.
Wears Mrs. Edison's Gem Six Years
Before Learning Truth.
New York, Oct. 21. One day six
years ago Robert McCarthy, who lives
at No. 52 Mount Vernon avenue, Or
ange, N. J., was with a picnic party in
Llewellyn Park, near there, where
Thomas A Edison has his residence,
when he picked up what he thought
was a diamond . , .ring. Jtiis rrienas
chaffed him about it, calling it a piece
of glass, but the stone, glass or not,
as a brilliant one, and McCarthy,
who was fond of going to masquerade
parties and other social functions, in
variably wore it around his scarf,
never dreaming it was anything but
glass.
He was chatting with a friend the
other day when the latter caught
sight of the stone, looked at it closely
and asked young McCarthy how he
managed to afford such a luxury.
"Oh, it's only a bit of glass," re
plied McCarthy.
"Is it?" said the other. "Come with
me and we'll find out."
They went to a jeweller, who said
the stone was worth $1,100. McCarthy
became uneasy, despite the lapse of
years, and remembering that he had
picked up the ring near a driveway
leading to Glenmont, the home of Mr
Edison, he decided to call there. Mrs.
Edison received him and immediately
recognized the jewel as her own, al
though she had never expected to re
cover it. .
JOHN CALLAHAN PASSES.
Washington, D. C, Oct. 19. John
Callaghan, vice-president and general
manager of the Norfolk & Washing
ton Steamship Company and a leading
citizen of Washington, died today at
his residence in this city. Mr. Calla
han practically was the founder of the
Norfolk and Washington line, and was
known widely in steamboat and trans
portation circles. His sons Daniel J,
Callahan, assitant general manager.
and William H. Callaghan, general
passenger agent, and his wife survive
him.
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IS ID IT.
Lady Frmis Cook Is Gun
fling For Toft.
Will Call the President's Attention to
the Fourteenth Amendment, Which
Says Only Idiots, the Insane and
ConTicts May Not Vote.
New York, Oct. 18. Lady Frances
Cook, better known in this country as
Tennessee Claflin, who arrived here
today by the White Star liner Celtic,
says that she is ready, if need be. to
spend $1,000,000, all her fortune, to
win votes for women. She will place
the money, she says, with New York
bankers.
"I am going right to Taft," Lady
Cook continued, "to see if I can't get
him to do what Lincoln did, but by
peaceable measures. I shall call the
President's attention to the fourteenth
amendment of the constitution. The
constitution says that only idiots, the
insane and convicts may not vote, and
want to know if that bars women.
"King Edward at heart sympathizes
with us and so did his mother, Queen
Victoria, before him."
STRANGE PAINTINGS FQUND
IN AN OLD INDIAN CAVE
o One Able to Decipher Many Pic
tures on Walls of Cavern Found ,
in Washington.
Spokane, Wash., Oct. 20. The old
Indian cave recently discovered about
two miles from Cliffs, Wash., has been
visited by many persons during the
last few weeks. There are a large
uuiuber of Indian paintings on the in
terior walls of the cave, but so far no
one seeing them has been able to de-
lpher any meaning.
The cave has a sand floor, which
seems very strange, as it is in one of
ne highest cliffs, which is practically
ill rock in the surroundinfi-R. Th
and must have been carried there.
where it forms a level floor. Some
of the visitors have dug into this floor.
loping to find some hidden treasures.
but so far nothing has been reported.
although holes more than three feet
deep have been dug into the sand.
The cave is large enough to make
uelter for two hundred and fifty to
three hundred persons standing, and
no doubt was a valuable asset to the
Indian tribe that made it.
I 'art of the cave appears to be of1 a
natural cavity made by the disintegra
ted lava rock, while a good portion of
it must have been worked out in a
crude way by human hands one thous-
.nd cr more years ago.
There is still another wonder that
I roduces thought for study as to its
irobable use, and that is a window
i-arved through the cliff rocks about
fifteen rods from the cave. This.
voudow is about a foot wide by three
ieet in height.
Standing on the cliff in which this
.v:ndow and cave are located many
miles of the surrounding country can
!e seen at a glance. From the window
t!i rough the cliff one can look over a
targe flat of about one hundred acres
two hundred or more feet lower down,
lying between the river and the cliffs.
ITS GKEATEST ACHIEVEMENT.
Raleigh News and Observer.
Visitors from other states attending
the State Fair declared yesterday that
it was the most extraordinary agri
cultural fair ever held in the South.
For several years the management
of the fair have directed their ener
gies and efforts toward achieving what
inspired the organizers of the North
Carolina Agricultural Society in es
tablishing the State Fair forty-nine
years ago. The agricultural depart
ment is a veritable exposition. Never
before in the history of any Southern
fair have the displays in field crops
approached those which may be seen
in the agricultural building. Notable
in this excellent department are ex
hibits from Haywood, Cumberland,
Chatham and Wake counties, which
excel other county exhibits.
The poultry displays have eclipsed
all previous' exhibitions of land and
water fowl ever held in the South.
The number and variety of birds on
exhibit overshadow any previous poul
try show known in the Southern
states. The quality and character of
the exhibits in this department ate
noticeable at first glance.
In the agricultural machinery ex
hibits about five times the usual space
Is taken and ail manner of farm im
plements and other labor saving and
economic devices are displayed.
Second to neither of the foregoing
departments is the livestock exhibit.
This also transcends all previous suc
cesses, and ' in this department is
enough to entertain all' the breeders
of livestock in horses, cattle, sheep
and swine many days.
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