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A bluo mark here means that the sub scriber to this copy of The News is behind on subscription. Please make a payment us soon as convenient. 1 ! 1 C3- v - AWAY MOUXT AIRY, A'uRTll CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2,1011 JVO. J'J MR. IIAESHELL'S DILE'EIA: ' Playing to the Galleries he C.t r Humpty-Dumpty Fall. The following taken from The Raleigh News and Observer, of aft'-r declaring his belief in free the 28th inst., will 'make interest 1 txt-books for the public schools, ,. . . .denied free school-books to the ing reading for the voters and n(l(1 . nf SlIrpv. mm. . .. tax-payers of Surry County : "During the last campaign the Republicans made a promise to . the people that, if elected, they would require the State to buy all text-books and furnish then; free of charge to all the children j who attended the public schools. I The Democrats told the peoph j frankly that this would increase! their taxes two million dollars, and that, as at present the st Ik I fund afforded onlv four months' school in most of the districts in the State, it was wiser to us.' all the taxes the people would V" on themselves to extend ;:, school term ratljer than b:iy school books. The people si to think the Democratic pr p tion more sensible. "Early in the session, Mr. M: r uhfill if Sstirpi' oitriul n..i,l a hill for the State to buy all schoH i books. Of it and the subsequent! procedure The Mount Airy Nrv, :;. citL'.en in the township having published in Marshall's count;.! been indicted on charges of sell- " ''lion. S. E. Marshall has in-i 1D? h te and Judge Blair al troduced a bill in the Legislature! read' bMin be?uu the ask to furnish the books to all child-1 disfranchising them ren in the free schools without j As a result residents of Jeffer cost to the children. So earn-! son today took up with attorneys est was he in presenting the mat , the question of how thev will ter before the committee tha, they reported favorably on the. bill, but it is to apply only to Surry county. And the cost is; to come from the general county! fund and not from the school J fund. Unless Mr. Marshall back : tracks and has the bill kill -. I inis may mean a special tax levyjiiate, shows that this is the only e ii tfL--f viiol-r. iaumnk'm i n.A-V V ...... fc t in, npnn p own ineir eves. neu neoDle onen & iellOW piays lO tne gauenca i i i. a.. n :..' i it don t always bring trie ap- plause. There are those who are! so uncharitable as to charge i that introducing that bill was on ly a move to get something to talk about and abuse a Demo cratic Legislature in after uiy. The tables turned and unless Senator Haymore kills the bill when it goes to the Senate, Sur ry will have free school books in the future." "The sequel came yesterday in the House when' the most inter esting and amusing session was held over Mr. Marshal's bill. II wanted the free school books if the State Treasury would iay the bill, but didn't want it if thr!t. Surry tax-payers had to pay the; bill. Surry county gets over $:.-! 000 now out of the State Treas ury to keep its public schools going four months in the year Vhis over $2,000 used in Surry is raid by Wake, Guilford, M , ; UUii burg, Durham and other big conn tics. They do not protest agali.st hclnincr to carrv out the const i-. tutional requirement of Surry, but their tax-payers would draw the l.ne at t.eing taxe.i n , cr to buy books for the school child- ren in Surry. it .viia 4Tum .,, .. Marsliall didn't want tree oooks Hon M hia yote to his for the children of Surry if thoifather for jj.10 IIe 8aia 1h, j1H(1 cost was to be met by Surry tax- nQ othpr intl.po8t in the ,.i0(.tion payers and yet he did not wishiaml otherwise would not have to be guilty of saying that isvote(1 bill was one introduced for male-, ' ing political capital, lie was in a cloe place and he squirmed and wired in and out until the House wbb in an uproar. First, he wanted the text-books bouiht and naid for out of the State educational funds. That was voted down, for that fund is for; State of Vera Lruz, is in danger all the counties alike and not for; of meeting the same fate as be one. Next he wished to escape' fell the famous Dos Pocas well, the dilemma of either voting fori which was consumed by fire in or killing his bill by the motion July, 1909, according to a report to refer it back to the Kduei-;from Tampico today. The well, tional Committee so it could die j which has a flow variously es withont being strangled to death j timated from 75,000 to 100,000 by his own hand. But that meth 1 barrels a day, has never been un o'd of dodging the issue was de-Jder control. Oil has ovcrflow nied b'nn. Hi begged and en- cd the earthen reservoirs that treated the House to do some- were hastily constructed and has thint ro be could escane direct emptied into a small river. This responsibility for either killu'g his bill or voting for it. Thej House was obdurate and be was ------ r - ---- plainly told that be must ass'-ju' the responsibility. Finally, v. it!; a wry face, the Honorable Sam uel bad to march up to rack and "tote bis own load" and so, when be could not find even a 1 out. of which to crawl, the motion to apply the deadly dose to his bill by mov ing "to indefinitely postpone," anl his motion prevailed. The Honorable Samuel thus. own motion and vote. lie was anxious to get free hcIioo! books for Surry if he could force other counties to pay for them, but when he was offered them by letting Surry tax-payers for the school books for the children of Surry he only free session, 'Playing trying to hole didn killed the first and text-book bill of the to the galleries and put Democrats in a t succeed. . TOWNSHIP 13 LEFT OUT A VOTER. WITII- 7cr Five Years Ho Election Can Es Had, Because cf Traud. West Union, Ohio, Dec. 30. For the next five years JeflVr- . A V ' I. . 1 son lownsnip, one oi tne most Populous of Adams county, will be without a voter, every voting provide for their township af fairs until it will again be pos sible for them to vote. The situ ation, the attorneys say, has never had a parallel anywhere in the 1'mted States. Although the canvass of the J ,15 'indictments returned up to ;iiis ueen lmueieu. iu is ucir; -u ii. i i ti , inai severjn oiner lun iitwiijri v.in be left in the same predicament. Ministers Among Indicted. Others, at least, will be left with so few voters that it will be impossible to conduct town ship affairs or find enough eli gible voters to serve as township trustees. Judge Plair is expect ed later to arrange some form of government for such townships uutil the periods of disfranchise ment he is imposing have ex pired. Two more ministers today were added to list of members ( f their profession who have been indicted for selling their otes. Evidence showed that received $5 each for their votes. Judge Blair, however, lias announced that he will permit them to confess in private and their names will not be divulged. '"'e main purpose of his inves ' ation, be declares, was t o make possible n betterment of 'he moral conditions of the coun ty, and to make public the names mpli (,atod woul(, only lo8S ho (le. d thpir f fop d()inp d t mQgt Among the others brought be- Judire Blair otday was a Great Lake of Oil Now Sea of Flame. Mexico City, Jan. 20. An oil gusher recently brought in by the Pearson interest at Potreros Del Liana in the Tux nail district. ... over! low is said to nave hecoine k'nited a mile froia the mouth of the well. Oil experts say that if the report is true there is im minent danger of the fire being communicated to the gusher. The product of the well is said to have formed a lake nearly five mileg wide. little hoi he made THE CLOSING YEAR. j 12.CC3 Suicide Victims. The suicide record for t!)10 in America shows l'J.flOS victims as compared -with 10,2: 50 in l:H)! of these 8,2o2 were males and 4,:J."G females. Physicians head the list of professional men, there being 51 as compared to 27 in 11)00. Public Gifts Reach $142,854,538. In the year 1910 Americans mail;- public gifts of $142,85-1,338. Andrew Carnegie, with gifts of $20,894,323 for D. Rockefeller, with $16,039,000 comes next; Mrs Russcl Sage with $3,888,150 is third and .T. Pierpont Morgan with $1,140,000 is fourth and last in the million dollar class. Loss cf Life in Disasters. Th: less cf life in genend dis asters in America this ear is giveii as foll-nvs: Drowning, .", 112; fires, 3,502; mines, 1,001; storms, 2i!."; explosions, 051; lightning, 1 J'J ; asphyxiation, 159; elevators, 118; electrical, lt9. Losses by Fire Heavy. Fire losses in 1910 in this country and Canada the compila tion says, will approximate $222, 000,000 as compared with $191.- 000,000 in 1909. The total nearly $20,000,000 is credited to forest fires in Wisconsin, Idaho, Mon tana and Washington. 3,520 Rail Fatalities. Railroad fatalities during the year are credited with having killed 3,520 and injured 21,856 persons. The most serious single disaster of the list was that of February 28, 1910, in which 118 persons perished when trains were wrecked by a snow slide on Monta Embezzlements Total $25,000,000. Embezzlements during the year totaled about $23,000,000 as com pared with $8,000,000 in 1009, with banks the sufferers to the extent of about $15,000. 104 Persons Legally Executed. Other data in the compilation shows that 104 persons were le gally executed during the year of whom fifty were white, fifty three negroes and one Indian. Thirtv-nine of these executions were in northern and sixty-seven in southern states. Seventy-four Lyncbings. Seventy-four lyncbings occurr ed during the year as against eighty-seven last year. Of the total there wen nine white and G5 negroes, three of the latter neing women. There was but one lynching north of the Ohio river. That was in Ohio. The South 's Wonderful Growth. Leslie's. The South no longer carries all its eggs in one basket. Corn, rice and fruits of the various sorts are beeing raised there to an extent undreamed of half a dozen years ago. Reside the cot ton plantation the cotton mill is being erected. Although Massa chusetts still excels in making finer grades of cotton fabrics, the entire mill consumption of cot ton now is as great in the South as it is in the North. Immi grants from Europe are at last beginning to turn toward the South. Northern settlers and capital are, more and more ever)' year, drifting toward the States below the Potomac and the Ohio The current of farmers seeking cheap lands, which has been crossing into Canada in large vol ume in the past few years, is moving toward Oklahoma, Texas Louisiana and more easterly States along the Gulf Coast now. De Pew, the South 'g statistician FACTS ABOUT and publicist of long ago, whol ,no w Wharton, Guilford coun prcdictcd an immense expansion;. of bis region as a result f the! ' (,-M:n fl tu the removal of the slavery incubus, ought to have lived half a n- t Mr y later. Sonic choice prizes industrial, social and political are to be won in the Sooth in th" coming time. Subscribe for THE NEWS. FARMERS Reports of Officers at the An nual Meeting of the Directors of the Farmers' Mutual. The annual meeting of the di rector of the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Association met in their offices, Ilolleman Pudd ing in Raleigh January 12 p. m., with the following gentlemen present, representing their differ ent branches: Alamance branch, by C. C. Thompson and J. E. King. Catawba and Durke branch, by M. A. Abernethy. Cleveland branch, not repre sented. Forsyth and Stokes branch, not represented. fJranville county branch by G. L. Aden. Guilford branch, by Jno. W. Wharton. I Creciie county branch, by L. ; J. 1 1. Mewborn. ( Iredell and Alexander branch. by M. I. Moose. Johnston countv branch, bv C. V. Kirby. Lenoir county branch, by Os car Hardy. Lincoln county branch, not rep resented. Martin county branch, not rep resented. Northampton, Hertford and Rertie branch, by Albert Vann. Orange county branch, by S y Andrews. xtt county branch, not repre sent, Rlt -vond and Scotland branch by L. McKennon. Random countv branch, bv S. S. Cox s U. S. Hayes. Sampson and Duplin branch, by A. J. Johnson. Surry county branch, by I. W. Reece. Vance county branch, by Jas. ' uWayli'e.'TotSPpi;rD?a A. Sasser. Wae county branch, by A. C. Green. All the representatives pre sented good reports from and es pecially good was that of the Central branch, which had placed on the books over $800,000.00 in surance and paid all losses that were due. Total number of policy-holders in North Carolina 14,409. Insurance in force $12,271,838. Losses out of this vast amount of business only amounting to $19,743. Total Sinking Fund $17,303.76, distributed among the different branches to meet losses promptly as they occur. President Ilroughton made a splendid address, offering sever al suggestions for the improve ment of the different branches also for creating a Sinking Fund that would eventually meet all losses, without calling for fur ther payments from the policy holders. This feature, he show ed, had beer worked success fully in other States by similar mutual companies. A. K. Lindsey's report with reference to the condition of the State association also made good showing. The date of annual meeting was changed from two o'clock to seven o clock, the day remain ing as at present, the second day in January. This, the eleventh annual meet ing, seemed to be the most suc cessful of the association. The following officers were el ected for the ensuing year N. H. Proughton, president; T. B. Parker, vice-president; A K. S. Lindsay, fecretary and treasurer Executive Committee: N. IV Proughton, chairman, Raleigh; T. P.. Parker. Wake county; D A. Sasser, county; Al- bert Vju'ii, Northampton county ; James Anus, Vance county; Os car Hardy, Lenoir county. Finance Committee: G. L. Al len, Granville county; C. C. Tli.imnson Al.ini.'ilice countv : , . f ' f,rtv .j. siim,y iH,j , , , i :. lhf i-.f. MEETING OF THE f MTJTUAL. fcrcnt branches, n irsolution was ; holding bis fish well and su-ceci-passed nvooomnding that cached in hauling it ashore. Mojk branch collect 75c per hundred! g'miery shot the mmko aiu. s.--with each application, instead of j urcd bus fish, be says. 0c ns heretofore. Lvery branch was urged to see that their Sink- ing Fund was increased so tbtj each policyholder would feel that! hi la w.juM he met promptly - when due. other busim ss oc-i l .1 : l..! in ,:.,-,-,, ut.jour ,e,i i.,. iiiet-i on nit; M-i-onn luesuay in i January. ; Lost Money Replaced. Greenville, S. C, Jan. 2'). During the early cotton season last fall Mr. J. F. Leopard, a! Greenville countv farmer brought a load of seed cotton to 8,1 'P launching and naval ac the plant of the South Carolina : tmtJ'- Cotton Oil Company to be gin-j Thee figures show that every ned. In the load of cotton Mr.!m,lw ,lavs fro,n r',h- to Dec. 1, Leopard had placed the sum of;tt new dreadnought will take the one hundred and thirtv-odd dol-ln'ater sm V-t of the globe, lars in bank notes anil one $10, 1,1 0,,1,lr w,)r,K thirty-six dread firold piece. The cotton was nn-' n"?'S will be launched this loaded, and not until the staple hadbeen run through the ciri did Mr. Leopard think of where h" hal placed bi.s money; and vpori examination of the waste th r. was found here and there a i-hr- i of bank note paper, but of cours no trace of the gold. The loss fell heavily upon Mr Leopard, and when someor s !" gested that he gather what lu could of the remnants to be found in the waste, he followe 1 the advice and forwarded the package by express to the Trcai ury Department at Washingv-n with affidavits and properly certified account of the circum stf""v ii.. waiting several months the farrati .as yesterday over joyed to get a government check for $114, with the explanation that the shreds had been pieced together to an extent represent ing this amount. , Stick to the Newspaper. Raleigh Times. Last week 150 business men pf Kansas City held a banquet and the subject of advertising llobirison, a well- known bu man of Topeka Kansas, who gfhas 150,000 tonage building and them this kind of advice about advertising, and it is so good that it will bear repeating here : "If you merchants want ad vertising go the plants that have built your city the newspapers. They advertise you more than the little 6x6 ad. you place in one corner of them can pay for. They sometimes say nice things, about vou, and often they say! things about you which are not nice. The newspapers are the best advertisement a city or a group of business men possesses. The business world is coming to realize the truth of thes" statements more each day. A city is known by its newspapers because they reflect the business social, and intellectual life of community. The business men today who are succeeding are the ones are using the newspapers. not once a month or once a week. .1., .. : vrn T 1 will every uoy in iuc ,u-ai. i is the constant lick that makes business and the man who strikes a lick and then waits until the iron cools will never accomplish much in the world of business. You cannot do business ami vou cannot reach the people in any way as effectively and as cheap ly as in the newspapers. One Way to Catch Fish. L. S. Montgomery, of thee Montgomery (West Va.) News, is somewhat of a fisherman, accord ing to Associated Press reports printed during the past summer. Here is a new fish story and he accompanies its telling with an affidavit, and exhibits the skin of a huge water moccasin as part of the proof. Montgomery wont fishing in Greenbrierr River re cently and one of his flies was nabbed by a water moccasin. The Bnake, says the editor, broke the line in bis struggles and started across the river with the line, tw flies and leaders. Another of the flies in turn was seized by a five-pound bass, which the snake succeeded in bringing to land af tr nn excitint? struirtrle. Wh o Montgomery cros-ed the river the' snake, one end of the line in his mouth and his tail wrapped so cundv around a tree root, was Subscribe for THI NEWS. BUILD 70 DHEADN0 UI2GT- Nations of World Will ITeirl; Double Number Afloat in 1311 U,n,bm, Jan. lO. While th" press of the world is shoutiru: for peace and Senator Root and his colleagues are working out n plan to spend Andrew Carnegie'a $10,000,000 peace fund, figure:: obtained from the British naval authorities today show that 1911 ' Wl11 break all records for battle- year, or only two less than the total number already afloat. In addition to this, innumerable cruiiers. torpedo boats, destroy - f rs, sir'mariiies. etc will be g powers, will send into the la. m lie,! bv ;;!! th - b Cf at Prlt.:in abr:e sixtv-one saiill craft water. Of the dreadnoughts, Great Pi-itaiu lears with eleven to be launched this Feb. 1. the 32,500 ton Thn.dercr will 1-ave sliPs at Plaekwall and from then on there will be a regular succession of big splashes. Germany comes second in na val aci vity ami will launch sev en dreadnoughts during the year. The United States will launch three, in addition to the Arkan sas, which slipped down the ways Saturday; Russia four, France two. Argentina two, Chile two, tfapan two, and Italy, Austria and Spain one. Altogether, it is stated, seven ty dreadnoughts and cruisers with a tonage of over 1,500,000 and valued at more than $700, (X 0,000, are now under construc tion throngV-' he world. Great Unr "' 'W- .r&ring ImpletiA Germany Uo.OOO fitting out. France is building 46,000 tons and fitting out 110,000 and the United States is building 80,000 tons and fit ting out 70,000 tons. Such is Life. Terill Love Holliday in Febru ary Smart Set. Life is what enables the baby to kick his feet about in infancy, and what he kicks more about during his adult days. Generally life begins with a spuall, and it often continues spually to the end. There are four modes of life: bachelor, a fast life; spinsterhood, a slow life; matrimonial life, which is suspended animation; and the Reno electric life, a spicy O Hl.it T SkWY TOCAl Af 1 f t11 O I 11 C9 curreljtg of the marrU?d am, . , . , The buttertly lite is the gay one, but it is too short, the tor toise life is longer, but is too slow; and if you try to strike a safe and sane gait in the mid dle of tho road, you get run over by some joy rider going the pace that kills such as you. Life is the most necessary thing in the world you simply cannot live without it. It is as uncertain and difficult to control as dynamite or a woman. Too much life will land you in jail, and too little in a coffin. High life is dangerous, as one's aeroplane may have a f 4 brain storm" at any minute or alti tude, ami there is no longer much enjoyment in low life on account of the settlement work ers and slumming parties. Ap parently the only escape from bourgeois dullness is to marry as often as possible; and there is always danger of falling in love with vour wife and settling down to a duck-pond placidity. If vou are lacking in life you are teimed a "dead one; if en dowed with real life and ginger, you arc dubbed "too fresh." Verily, life is a picture puzzle, and there are always too many pieces or not quae cnougn. . This Is An Eay Tet. Shako Allen's Fi)t -Kane !n on Bhoo and not in the other, and notice the deference. Just the thing to use when rubbers or ovethoe3 be come necessary, and your shoe eecai to pinch. Sold Everywhere, 25 tents. IHm't accent any substitute. Sam Pl. FKKK. AdlresB, Allen S. Cha nted, Le Uoy, N. Y. .
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