North Carolina Newspapers

A Hue mark here means that the sun criber to th's cory of The News is bc- hind on subscription. Please make a pay meat as saon as c n- . v anient. She IT izr, wVOKrz carolma, Thursday.: February g, wis. AVYXT JV(. .31 You Can Win Grand Prize Get Busy and Make the fin al Lap in the Race Win. There remains only one day in which to work for the many fine prkes to bo given in the News popularity voting contest and it behooves all contestants to get busy securing votes. The. News has arranged a hip bonus offer, which will lie pood to and including the final day, which is Feb. 7th, which is as fol lows: For every seven yearly now suhsriTitions We will tfive 8,000 extra votfs. making a total ofj 12,200. votes. Pot every seven renewal sub scriptions, 6,000 extra votes mak king a total of 9,.r00. For every' seven back iiiW,rip tions, 4,000" extra votes making a total of 6,800. For every 3 five-year subscrip tions, 25,000 extra votes mak ing a total of 40,000 votes. For every 2 twenty-year sub scriptions, 75,000 extra votes, making a total of 135,000 votes. Tlie three five-year subscrip tions must be for either 1, 2 or 3 parties and the two twenty-year for either 1 or 2 parties. For every bunch of forty (-10) merchants coupons, that are brought to the office of the Pub lisher and counted, an addition al bonus of 1,000 votes will be a1 "owed, making a total of 2,00. vote.. These coupons may be collect ed from any and all merchants who are in the contest. The followir.fr merchants give coupons: F. M. Poore, Earp's 5 and 10 ct. Store. AV. ffi, aUwitfcJSq, W. W. Burke, ' C. E. Lundy, Peoples Drug Co. R- II. Leonard, Frank Howard, Following Is n list of parties who have been nonninated. They are authorized to accept money for the News and receipt there for: Miss Ola Ward 184,1)25. Miss Mallie Thacker .. 132,025 Miss Maud Sparger, .. 120,100 Miss Annie Miller 115,975 Miss Johnnie M. Huberts, llO.CdO Miss Mary Johnson, . . 42,125 Miss Gertrude Recce, .. 'Jfi.MU Miss Nellie Havmore, .. 2.3,400 Miss Nina York 14,200 Miss Annie Folger, .. .. 13,(575 Miss Irene Hunker.. .. 11,400 Miss Lillie Hemmings, . . 8,450 Miss Katherine Willis, .. 3,100 Miss Nannie Watson,.. .. 2,425 Miss Isahell Saunders, .. .. 550 Miss Grace Hundley,.. .. 525 Held for Ranscm. Washington. Jan. 14. The kidua.ptpiug and holding of Amer icans for ransom continues to bo a favorite means for the raising of a Mexican rebel war fund. Tile latest victim is Hubert Ward, now a prisoner in a camp about! 18 miles from Chihuahua City, Consul Letcher -ays Mr. Wnrdj was seized by eight, armed men at Parrel Thur-day night and hurried into the mountain.-. A; ransom of 5,000 Mexican dollars is demanded for his release. The Consul at Durango reports rebel activity in the north and ea-t. of San Luis and .states that six bridges on the International Hail road between Durangc and Tor iron were burned by rebels on Thursday. As improved conditions in. Vera Cruz make it uiiinv, - in for the gunboat Wheelirg to remain there any longer, the vessel was todav ordered to Mo bile. Ala. Old Age. Old ape us it comes in the order ly process of nature is a beautiful and maJcHtic tiling. It stands for experience, knowledge, wisdom, coun sel. That Id old ape as it should be, hut old aue as it often means piKir , digestion, torpid bowels, a kIukkIxU liver and a general feeling of 111 health, despondency and misery. This In almost every instance is ' wholly unnecessary. One of ("ham-; berlaln'a Tablets taken Immediately after sujper will Improve the dlgea-j t Ion, tone up the liver and regulate , the bowels. That feeling of dea- j pondeney will give way to one of j hope and good ibeer. For sale by! All Dealers. I PUBLIC ROADS ARE PUBLIC NECESSITIES. By Joseph Hyde Pratt, State Geologist. For many years the decision, of the Supreme Court of North Car olina have held that public roads are public necessities, and for this reason county official have the right and power to borrow money either directly or on) the bonds of the county for the purpose of cotwitructirg public roads in the county. These decisions of the Supreme Court have had very salutary effect upon the sale of bonds; and in many instances county bonds have been sold as bearing 4Va per cent, interest, and even at this rate have brought a premium. The benefits to be derived from the construction of public roads in any county are not confined to that comity, but very benefic ial results extend to adjoining counties; and, in fact, are of direct value and, benefit to the State, as a whole. Puidk' roads are the common property of all of the people of the State, and all have the right and privilege to use them, regardless of what couiiity may have piid for their construction. It is, therefore, very essential, if the best results are to be obtained in road work, to make the unit of this work as large as possible. At the present time- it does not seem advisable for the State to he the unit, and. therefore, the n xt unit in size would be the county ; and every pn-caution .should be taken, in raising revenue for the construc tion and maintenance of public roads, for the county to be the unit. There are many reasons why the county should be the unit in road construction, and not the township: First: If revenue for the con struction of the roads Is obtain l3Ty Aioaid"5ssue,"the cottuty is able to issue its bonds at a much cheaper rate of interest than, the township, and there is also a readier market for county than township bonds. Second : County bonds are more apt to bring a premium than townhip bonds, and thus a great er amount eain be realized by tiieir sale. Third: With the county as, a init, one road commission wo'jld have supervision of all the roads in the county; while, with the township as a unit, various com missions would haw charge of the roads in the separate town ships. Fourth: I-ss equipment is ne cessary for earning on the road work with the comity as a unit than when equipment has to lo provided for each township. This is true even when the townships try to combine in Inning their road equipment; and there is very ant to be friction between the dii'iVreut town-hip, authorities in regard to the- use of jointly purchased equipment. Fifth: The chain-gang Is much more easily and economically handbd whin tie county is the unit. With the township as a unit, even when there is a chain gang maintained in the county, then i- constant friction between tin various townships as to the use of this chain gang; or else it i- u-ed one war in one town-hip and the n-xt year in another ami to the detriment of the roads iu each. j f j Sixth: The county can alT.nl to employ a coinp. t -1 it lioad Su H 'I'iiitc 1 1 1 1 1 j 1 1 . W here it Would be ,i..)'Ovm!i!c for each township to employ mii h a man. This is also tin of the Super :-ii:g IIo.ol l'.n snm or. N 'Vel.th : Perhaps the greate-t objection to an .subdivision be. i!g the unit, ect-pt the county. 1- the fact that if townships begin to issue bol.d- 1" .' th.ir road const ruction, and build roads in thev town-hips (and it is prac tically alwa.vs the richer town ships which Mart a bojid is-nei it will mean that these richer township ( usually urban town ships) will get a system of good roads and the balance of the county will not be able to get roads for many years, or even g'ioiatio!if to come, without .some outside help. The outly ing tiAV!Lshixi of a ounty help to build up aial iitorea.se the wealth of the business centers; and it is only right and just that these lat ter townships should join with the others in a general comity j system for building and main taining the roods ini the county. Not only do thi? rural townships need the roads, but it is of ad vantage to the urbani townships to have good roads built through all the townships of the comity, inasmuch as such a system of good roads will greatly tikorea.se the trade between one section f the county with a not h or. I am therefore very strongly in favor of the County Unit for ralsitig revenue for road work and of a county organization which shall ha.ve charge of the construction and rn ai rut e nance of roads. And whenever the ques tion of raising revenue for road work by a bond issue is taken up, I would earnestly urge that the people of the county be giv en an opportunity to express themselves by a vote as to whether or tn tthey want a Coun ty liond Issue. Then, if the county turns down the bond issue. I believe it us only right and just for progressive townships to Issue lomln if thev wish. But give the county the opportunity of is suing bonds b: fore any township in that county undertakes the is suance of bonds for public roads. Mr. Wilson Expected to Cut Out Seme of the Shew and Ex pense. Washington Dispatch to Haiti more Sun. While President-elect' Wils 1 has taken no one in Washington into his confidence regarding the changes in White House etiquette and domestic management which mark each new administration, it is very dfinittly understood in military circles that the fird and, from a social point of view, one i f the greatest changes will be a reduction in the large staff of army and navy aides now a dorning each social occasion at the Kxecutiv- Mansion , . Twelve officers in uniform, representing the army, navy and the marine corps, are novo as signed to White House duty, the number having been increased first by former President Roos evelt and again by President Taft Those peaceful warriors are all popular socially and much in de mand for dance or dinner parties. Tin order b;icl; to the ship, or the regiment, which is expected when tho newadjninistratioiir gets down to working order, is already casting its shadow over the younger portion of society. Not only will the White House lose seine if its charm, but the Dol phin, the Mayflower and the Sylph, all yachts devoted to the us- of the Chief Executive, and, incidentally, as a setting for many small and .smart dinners and dances, are said to be re garded as unduly extravagant bv the incoming President. Peace Negotiations Broken. London DisjMitch, 2;th. The peace negotiations which reached a deadhok over the ces sion of Adriauople, dan. G, were finally broken tday by a note which the plenipotentiaries ot the Jialkan allies presented to liechad Pasha, head of the Turk ish delegation. Notwithstanding this rupture there are still optimists in the dipluuatio world who have a presumption that the war may he avt ided either through fresh proposals that Turkey is report ed to he including in the note to lie deliwrisl to the powers ti moi iov. or to the fall if Adriauople bel'oiv activities can be began again at the Tchatalja lines. A majority of the Balkan del egates refuse to admit the like lihood of either contingency, be lleviig that the life of the "Young Turk" government de pend upon the resumption of war even though the allies were willing to postpone the conflict. The plan of the allied govern ments, so far as the plenipoten tiaries are informed, is to con centrate their forces on Adriau ople immediately after the ex piratiou of the prescribed four days, If the surrender of that fortress does not occur in the meantime. z Don't You Believe It. Some say that chronic constipation caonot be cured. Don't you believe It. Chamberlain'! Tablets have cured other why not you. Give them a trial. They coet ouly a 25c. For sale by AU Dealers. MAMMOTH SHIP WILL SAIL IN MAY. The Imperatcr, the Largest Steamer in the World, Seen to Make Her Maiden Voyage. Berlin, Jan. 21). Within less than four months the largest and most wonderful ship in the world will make her appearance in New York harlor. The Hamburg Amerieaii Company's new liner Imrperafer will sail otn the fircrt trip from Hamburg on Wednes day, May 7th, and should arrive nt the American seaport one week later. While nothing seems to be im pwsible with shibuilders, there are many ibold enough to pro phesy that, so far as size and luxury are concerned, the Im perator will be the last word in the building of merchant ships. In both tonnage and size, the new vessel surpasses the giant Olym pic of the White Star Line and her ill-fated sister ship, the Ti tanic. The Imperator has a length uf 'MM) feet, and when complete and fully laden, will displace 50,(KX) tons. The term, "floating hotel," often applied to such ships when it Is desired to emphasize their Inilk. would convey, in the case of' the Imperator an impression far short of the truth. The combined capacity of the largest three hotels in New York scar cely exceeds 4.1NX) guests, while the Imperator will carry .r,000 passengers and will have nearly lXX) persons in her crew. Her dock will have the beam of Broadway at its widest part !( feet. She will have eleven decks above the water line, equal to the height of many of the largest apartment houses. Will so much space available, features are possible that have nevr be fore introduced. The suites and cabins are to hf v 4Hwc rtesiga. jod f i 1 1 iratrs - m-tWiy rteidgp. nd JTdttjnii lid to the rooms in theTme eqrial to tne romis vx tne xmest hotels of Europe or America, and families will be able to cross the Atlantic in almost the same privacy as in their own homes. There are to be many dining rooms, the principal one of which will be in the Ismis XIV style, and will seat more than G"0 persons. Among other luxuries, the lm perator has been fitted with three electric elevators, a winter garden, summer houses, a theatre, gymnasium, Ritz restaurant, "cot tage" cafe, ballroom, telephones, swimming bath, and tennis courts. The swimming bath is a copy of one unearthed at Pompeii, with mosaic pavements, replicas ' of those discovered at Treves. According to the announcement if the Hamburg-American Com pany, the new vessel will insure her passejigers against the ter rors of soasiokness. This happy condition is to be brought about by the installation of the Frahn docks on board the monster, device that reduces the motion of a ship to a minim mm. The Imperator will not be a fast boat, being built more f t solid comfort than great sc Her time acro-s the Atlantic will bo in the neighborhood of seven days. She will bo equipped with internal eoiuoustioii etig'iies t.WO 1, '( horsepower Die.Sel lliot ors. and will u-'e oil as fuel. The most, pow.ri'ul Mare ire apparatus ever set up at sea wd bo installed, the uinusual hek'1,! of her ma.-ts making it poss.l to receive or transmit me-sige-across the broad expan.se of Atlantic ocean. It is ex po -1 o that the Imperator will a!was be in direct communication with either Europe or Ameriea. Violence in Kentucky. Hopkiusville, Ky., dan. dl-t. Violence which has been thivattti.- etl for -erne time iii central Iwu-j tuekv as the result of the tobacco! ooiitrovcisy is rcpoittd to have broken out at Cobb, near I'rince town, whore a band of men last night burned a box car contain ing about 7,(KN) jK)iiiiils of tobac co consigned to the American Snuff company ut Clarksville, Teim. There has been, some fear of an outbreak at Hopkiusville, where growers and buyers are in con ference. Differences among grow ers as to when and at what price they tihould sell their holdings are the basia of the controversy. , DIRECT TAXES UPON PE0- PLE OF COUNTRY. Income Tax Amendment Has Been Formally Ratified. Washington, Fob. 3. Direct taxes upon the incomes of citi zens of the United States, wheth er derived from idle capital or from the conduct of business, were made possible today by the ratification of the 16th amend ment to the federal constitution. I Maw a re, Wyoming and New Mexico, indorsing the income tax amendment through their respc tive legislatures completed a list of 38 states that have approved it, two more than tlw? three fourths necessary for its final adoption. Leaders in Congress predicted tonight that through this au thorization the law which will hi Kissed to levy the tax upon A merican iiK'omes, will be intro duced as soon as the extra ses sion! opens. Its exact terms have ix tbeen deculed ujnn, but it is believed, will exempt all itroom below $4,(HH) or .f-'i.OlK), and will provide a tax of ou per oent umi the majority of personal income that do i run to an excessive figure. Informal notices of the fin adaption of the new amend mej.t was given to the senate by Si a tor Brown, of Nebraska, w introduced the resolution in l',( upon which the proposal for an income tax was submitted to the states. Drafting of the bill to put the tax in effect, it Is ex pected, will fal to the lot of Ke prt sejitatn e Hull, of Tennessee, a mem:!- - of the house ways and means committee, whu drew the excise bill proposed last year by the Democratic, house of re presentatives,!) ut which did not become law. The income tax will be design ed to supplaut the present cor poration tax ami will apply to .the i'u-irnes of . imlivi'tu fjrms and corKrationn. Realize $100,000,000 Revenue. In a statement tonight Uepre seiitative Hull declared he favor ed the new tax an integral part of the financial s stem if the Unittd States to remain in full force without regard to the char acter of tariff bills that Con gress may enact from time to trine. One feature, which it is be lieved Will be included ill the law, will be provision fir "col lecting at the source" of an in come. This feature, now in iqer atiou in Kuglai'd, would require firms to cert if to amounts they pay to individuals In salaries i fees or pay the tax direct to the governmi-iit . It is believed th -would remove much complaint that might be nunle if the gov ernment had to investigate ev ery citizen's income and wouh pr-vent evasion of the law. The annual amount that ti government may realize under the income tax is estimated by Dnmocratie leaders in Congress approximately $ltM),(NKI,tHK). Th'f would include the ifMD.. (HKI.INKI collecto.1 under the pres-j cut corpirat ion tax. Twenty Judges and on Circuit Decided Upon. K.Jeivh. dan. :U. The house ceiiiuiiltee i ii public service cor porations, with only about half the lliemlier.s present. Voted to re-1 port witln ut prejudice Stewart'sj bill to re p lire railroads to pull ni.leatre on trains nod that inter- j , . . i i , i i na!!'e,il.;o m:.eai;e e ga u lor tin- families of the put'ehns-rs. or if not to make tin- local nt" two cents a mile. Tin- vote was a t.e. Senator Thorne's bill to pro vide a home for needy wives and widows was reported favorably h the'senatc committee on jH-iisions. The bill carries an appropriation of $(),(MM) for establishment and .',IHNI a war for maintenance. The daughter of the Confeder acy were represented, several sK'cohcs being made. The com mittee vote was unanimous. Bills to reHrt -0 judges and one circuit instead of 1G judges was the outcome of the meeting of the joint committee on courts and judicial districts. The meet ing whs lively. Chief .Justice Clark spoke by special invitation and advocated three district and 24 ja.lges. United SUUi Senators Elected Tuesday. Kight United State Senators were elected Tuesday in eight different States of the Union. Six of the number are Democrats and two IiVpuMioans. Three are now meinbeis of the national uj per house ami were) reelected. The five nw Senator are: William II. Thompson, Democrat of Kansas; William IIugln-H, IV mocrat, of New Jersey; Judge W. M. Kavaiiaugh, DeiiMcrat, of Arkansas; Representative Morris Sheppard, Democrat, of Texas, and Key I'ittman, Democrat ol Nevada. Representative Sheppard of Texas was elected both to fill out the unexpired term of Joseph W. Bailey, ending March 4, and for the full nix-year term com mem'u.g .at that time. He will succeed Colonel R. M. Johnston, who was Appoint by (Jovernor Coluitt at the time Senator Bail ey resigned, pending action by the Texas Legislature. Judge Kavaitaugh of Arkansas will servo only until March 4, the un expired term of the late Jeff Davis. J. N. Heiskell was ap pointed to the place by (Jover nor Donaghey, pending the Leg islature", meeting. All of the other Senators were elected for full term. Senators who were re-elected for full terms were: A. B. Fall of New Mexico, Francis E. War ren of Wyoming, and Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina. Senators Fall and Warren are Republ loans, while Senator Till man Is a Democrat. Democrats Will Control Senate. With the election of Willard Saulsbury as United States Sen ator from Delaware the Demo cratic strength in' the next Sen ate has swung from the precar ioiiH figure of 48 or exactly one- Vluajorifv TTt Mr. Saulsbury 's election, ad ded to thu victory recently se cured in Tennessee, assures) the Dmocratic party aUsolute control of the Senate after March 4th. 'Hie vote uf Vk-e President Mar shall wuld have been the de ciding factor in any event, but the addition of another Demo cratic vote to the cohtmn gives the party loaders what they be lieve to he a safe margin for tariff and legislative action. Contests still exist in the Leg islatures of New Hampshire, West Virginia and Illinois, with a total of four Senators to be elected, about wh-o political af filiations doubt now exists. A victory in any one of these States would so materially strengthen the Democratic, party that the Senate would be completely re moved from the element of un certainty. The attitude of the Progress ives and the Progressive Repub licans upon tariff matters is a yet unknown, but the margin of .strength promised to the Demo crats makis it unnecessary, it is bclievtd, to count upon any combinations with the Progres sives. Saulsbury, elected from Del aware, succeeds Richardson, Re publican. W. H. Thonipsf.ii, De mocrat, is elected in Kansas to succeed Curtis, Republican, d . Kobinson, Democrat, has been elceted Senator from Arkan-a-for the term beginning .March I His election w'JI make iieces,sar ' a special election f-r !ovcrnor. Wilscn Will Wear A Silk Hat At Inauguration. Trenton, N. J., Jan. :V President-elect Wilson eXpec's to be gin work on his inaugural ad dnss in a few days. Asked if he had iii.iL- any furtiur plans for his iuuiLuration. fa- replied t - t he hal dt child ti wear a silk hat win. ii nv.ewiig the inaugural parad. '"I suppo-e I'll have to con cede that much to eustcm,"' he said. The only time he ever felt uncomfortable as governor of New Jersey, he said, was the day he wore a silk hat and sat on a horse reviewing state troops. He ha worn a felt hat on ev erv occasion since then. Do you want a doll or doll car riage! See them at Earp'.