North Carolina Newspapers

A tin mark life means that the sub cnf-er to this copy of The Is'envi is be lt nul o.i suhsc ri ption . Please make a pay ment M soon as convenient. 0 fOL. XXXIII MOUJfl AIRY, WORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. APRIL 17, 1913. WO. 34 POSTMASTER GENERAL BURLESON EXPECTS TO REORGANIZE SERVICE Maj Swap Poatmajitert For In stance Resident cf New York Could be Made Postmaster t CSroonjboro. Vashiitgtr 11, April 10. Post ma.st.eT General Iiurlcson has de termined to effect the. jnost radi col re-organization of the osfnl service ever proponed in the his tory of tlw civil reform of this country, The plan upon which bp is at work? is distinguished by these feature: all postmasters shall le placed under the civil ; service and required to pas an examination for admission, re trtHm and promotion, Postmas ter Khali be appointed ami transferred without regard to lo cality w that, for example, a resi dent of New York could be ni'xle postmaster at Grecnsbopi ami a j resident of Greetihsoro could be; made postmaster at San Francisco The iMHtmaster MUTnl has reac-he! the conclusion that oli tics is a blight on tho jxwtal .ser vice; that postniasiers are ap- j pouiled as a reward for polittcal services anl not for their fitness i,, tj dwcliarge the duties of the office. xz Won't Spring Plan at Once. Mr. Iliirleson, however, does not ox pec t to spring this comprehen- M 1 11 1 in I nil fF r 4 k. (ill tT t Llloi) I In ' ' oegin in it iinMirwi, " i w a (Itmonstration ot " w ideas, lie wiu iegm nw rauieai i change by holding exammat k.iw j '"'."w p iiu.Mvrs " were placed under the civil ser-,tl, h-e by FreskU-nt Tai't. Those who iass the examuiation will lie retailed and th.kse who do not will be removed. This examina tion will be open to outsiders also nd an eligible lt of fourth class pastmastcrs will be JW" abjy i,w Spain and France and tMearv tcdav will do little to ..r jind vujtes wUl U:WW IrrniiJoVin!,).11 1()U4 t(f.p nernliy )xW Vu.v. thi. vs in the Mksissipi. "?..',,',,, , . I that the political strike is innThiserevass.se will 'release the tV'S r;, 'Url7mfV ? iliMe. The lMgimn movement j ilood waters of tho Arkansas in the atmointmcnt of fourtn class - 1 - 1 . . .. lxistmasters to experiment with . " . .v ; ... i lhe jiroiKteition of ignoring geo graphical coiusiderations. ANTiere 'Ver a vacancy occurs the man at the top of the eligible list will be apiointed regardless of the fact that he docs uot reside in lbc coiiuniuiity affected. If this scheme works well Mr. Burleson will ask1 (Congress to enact legis lation placing first, second and thinl cliuss postmaslens under sim ilar regulations and subject to as signment without regard to lo cality. Mrs. Pankhurst is Critically El. London, April 12. Completely exhausted by starvation and un able to stand, Mrs. Funnel ine I'ankh'urst was released from llol loway jail today after serving nine days of a three year sentence for instigating a bomb attack on Lloyd-George's country home. Jrihe bad not eaten during , her confineniiuit and was not forcibly fl. .She was taken' to a private hospital, under ticket of leave. The plan Is that as soon us she is well she will be jailed again, re leased if she tries the Ii linger strike, then re-arrested and so n, until her full sentence lias been served. Examination of Mrs. I'ankhur.st at the private hospital revealed that she is m a critical condition. tfhe is greatly weakened by lack ' of food ami her years. Gov. Vance's Law Office to be Moved. at mi t4t mi 11 ;.snewue, .vpni u.-ine smau j 1: 1. t 1, 1 . i iMiiiiiuK Miiu'it smiiiB im n iui uiiinmi oruers nave neeii piacei m Spruce stnvt, and which was used as a law office- by .Zebulon B. Vance during the time that North Carolina's illustrious -war governor was a member of the local, bar will be moved to the Buiu'(nbe courthouse lawn, if the i.ilau9 of the local board of aldermen mature. The building belongs to the Smith estate and the manager of the estate has Agreed to give the building to the city if it will move it from its pn-semt location. The alder men have instructed the city at torney to take the nt-ce-ssary legal stips and it is expected that the building will be moved within the very near future. BELGIUM IN THROES 07 SUFFRAGE FIGHT. Manhocd in Desperate Effort to Break Shacklef That Bind Them. llrussels, April 'J, Tlw? first firtip L'.-ive in preparation for a great "fetter 0 Hrke to en-force the grant of manhood suffrage in I'' I?!ii'ii was made today by t!t, jtt'i.diiur lit y th country tt many c-lridrrr: ol the .J0O,000 or HT.OOO ,kt who -will lay down tin ir took ot Monday, Apr. II. at tin- fiililiii; of the Social ist p:.rty. It is expected that the trail. service will cease or be rratly impeded after Sunday ant the w!vc and daubers of bun died of w irkiiieai with the little ones of their own families or those of neighbors are crossing the frontiers on every truin plae i;i the non combatants, as it were in safety in neutral States. Of f,.r f ,rovisional homes abpad ! ),..(, arr-;Ved this week nt the' ,-,. f i ixmi daily aiwl the dtn tt-j eomrnittee of tins strike has: reeeivH 11,000 offers thus far, f)O(H) from France. 4.(XK) from! H(,l!ard aiwl l.(HM) from (iermanv. Tn,de has itK-rea5.'l in all kinds preserved ftMnU, beans, rice ami tlour ami the sajes or mum-1 1.1 1 O 1 1 ii:ating oils and caudles liave j ripjilcd. Tool cf Socialists. The st riku has beeJi decided on the Heljpiun Socialist jrfirty as the last desperate measure to ; I'el- ,n,,k,. the (ven.iiient irive ;,,, .. vti.m kF i. him vt n? ,1(W iu vrM.tv,.m u success or j nin-success wil tK of eolisMiiietie ! ' . . . . . - . t. Uor)d at large, for if itj ' u ,v;ti (l1.10,Lstrate the jra(.tieabilitv of 'political weapon .f the strike as ition. rrevious d-. t... . .... .i 4 '. i ed from wouomic, strikes ' have ;,...,. illt. r:l;ire i.nt.i. .... .1. . '1 i'ieni-n w imve i"-o i4uini with extraordinary skill and eare:;ti(ll ,,f that state and then inav the workers are deteimijiM and ! pxt,,1;1 1H f!tr a Jurtheast Ixnils full of faith in the justice of ' 1!4Ili,i j,ut - sr(m, expTts claim tlu-ir cause, tlie resources nt their . uisjKsai are consuierawe, roin in monev and kind and thev have the prnn'tica.l though unofficial supiort of the Liltcrals, none the less vigorous from bosng indinet. The proprietor of tlw; Liberal newspaper The Petit Bleu has promised formally to pay $20,000 a week into the strike fund as long as tlie movement lasts ami the strikers assert they can hold out for six weeks. Dynastic Crisis. Many Belgians believe that this strike will prove a turning point iu the history of Belgium; that it will result hit jolitical changes of incalculable importance and sojne even predict a revolution the: separation of the Walloon and Hciiiihh provinces or a dynastic anl many 1Hrsonj( i0 lloul,t, have crisis. I he GovenMiwrt facial ,H,W Hp.ulatkig- ipon the reas with thus serious probh-m, mean-(LH f()P UJ t,xitK.e To lWP a ecozwnue catiustroihe for an iii-sajff phrase, tl.cv have ' been dastrial country ike lMgiuni has, Infllt, t( .rat(.h th(ir hoiwL Rn;j occupied itself ehielly in making wo,1(,.r wu pilt thp xt)Wy jn thc nirangemenis 10 repress .H-sonier, which the Socialists deride asif they are determined tlie Strike s. all !e peaceful. The Socialist chiefs, Kmile Vandervelde it'ii! Edoiiard Aji- seele, aft'iian that anv violenec which may occur will be provok fld bv the Om-eruiunt and not bv them It is understool that all the gendarmes are to be called upon, as well as the civil guard and several classes of troops mobiliz- l ed, to guard the railroads and; assure the public, service. Large 1 t 1 1 1 J- tig land and Germany so as to ensure a constant sujily of fuel for the State railroads. Tlie ri-jiioncy dew reported by Mr. Bry mary cau of the movement was (an, of Traphill, N. C, is prob tlie dt feat of the Liberal and So-1 ably of bisect origin, eialist condition in the Parliamen-j "When bes gather honey dew tary elections of 1912. The So-! .ei.iJLst (ingress soeeiallv snm- mned June :J0 of that vear. de- clbd to make use of a general strike if all other means of ob taining iuaaiho(Kl suffrage failed. Before resorting to tliat measuiv, a general suffrace bill was intro duced into Parliament by the Socialists aid sunortcd by the Liberals. This was refused all consideration by the clerical ma jority and a general strike was voted for April 14th. THOUSANDS OF ACRES FARM LANDS FLOODED. Week's Ravages of Mississippi Took Heavy Tell Through Por tion cf Great Valley. Memphis, Term., April I2tth. More than 1,000,000 acres of farm anil timlwr land ha brii flooded, a ncorw or more of small towns have been tctnjorarily de MpuIat4il ami thorna! rcmlcr l hnnelM a a pun It of the wcfkfs ravage of the Mississippi river through the central jortion of the great valley. Tonight the center of the fight against the flood had shifted to joints south of Memphis, but constant 'work for general days yet is necessary be fore the levees on the iw rth eastern Arkansas shore are out of danger. From Cairo to Memphis the worst is believed to be over. Ite- ginning with a fall of three tenths of a foot at Cairo, reports to the otfficv of District Forester Kmery show a total leep-nse in the stage of four-tenths at Hick- 'man and a half a foot at Luxora. While thoe in charge cf the St. t ra nets levee lKard are eixeour- aged by these renorts thev believe that the crisis at Osceola ami 1 ... l . . 4 . t 1 A 1 4. iu.ira nas not pas-seti aaui mai thwe towns will not bft considpxl entirely out of danger for three or four days. At Meirphis the river stood at 4'MY.) at 7 o'clock tonight, a fall of two-tenths sirce tha s:i,iue hour this morning. The rwedirg1 waters are bringing a iiitaiire of relief to the ixrth si. i,;. ...i i. ,.4 M.VpraMav, ago. Ut.uxx. M,,nt.bi- ttu. river bs 1 ......... made no great strides toward flood conditions. At IIeJJia the stage late todav was .r."1.7, sia- tionarv. At Viek.slnarg a rise of six-tenths was recorded river ov r the southeastern sec- xlvrv -w t t,noKu fl,)(Xl water iu the Arkaasas river to spread over any great area. He-port frun Mississippi state that all the lines of ombanlcment on 'he eastern aide of the river are in excellent condition. With the beguiling of next wiek the government relief fore e here, under command of Major Nomioyle, will move on down the river following the center of ac tivity. The Origin of Hcney Dew It is Not Good for Bees. Wilkesboro Patriot. The great quantity of honey low that lias -Wen observed in all parts of thi county this l.onev d.,w- ls .s to it. vnlue ,ai ;,. 1, ,-...,. c.,,,,., fin w. M r. T f llrvun ..f , Traphill, this county, who Iuls an j exuauMve colony of bees, wrote the Patriot a letter telling about the copious showers of honey dew that had fallen in that sec tion. We sent the letter to the Department of Agriculture at Washington and following Is the reply received : "Honey dew is usally of in sect origin, being seep ted bv plant lice, scale insects and leaf hoppers. There are a few plants which secrete a arweet substance, often called honey dew, fro-an 1 . 1 .1 .1 m glands ouLsiiie 1 lie 1 lowers. 1 ne and store it, the name honey dew hojiey is usually civen to the pnsluct. It is of inferior qual ity and should not be sold as honey. It is often tlie source of considerable loss in winter if the bes eat it and are unable to fly in bad weather. It is therefore desirable tliat it all be taken away from them before tlie cold est weatber comes. I fear Mr. Bryan will be disappointed at tlie product on more eareful examination." WILL PROSECUTE DEXTER GOAD. Allen Sympathizers Have Not Changed Their Plans. Hichmond News Leader: Tlie rogram 0 the Alien sym pathizers is saw! to be unchanged as regards- their intention to at tempt to prosecute Dexter (load, clerk of the circuit court of Car roll county at Hillsville. who lias been charged with com mit t irg Ierqury at the trials of the cdarw men in Wytheville. As printeil in The New Leafier several days ago Attorney Louw O. Wende'n burg, of Iliclnnond, at tho ropiest if the sympathizers here, prepar ed a statement in which he ex pressed the Wlief that a good ease could le made out against (5al, if the sympathizers d-sired to prosecute the matter further. This statement he forwarded to L. L. Sherer, who, in turn, hand ed it to others. It is understood that this doeument is at, present in Hoa noko in the office of Attorney H. II. Willis, who was counsel for Claude Allen, and who was very active in all of the proceedings before Governor Mann, the su preme court of appeals of Virgin ia and the supreme court of the I'nited States in an effort to save the lives of the doomed father and sou, more particularlv the life (f Claude. It was said by certain sym ivithier today that the "arred f (ioa 1 inight be looked for within the next two weeks and that a prosecution of the court clerk! would most certainly follow in the event of his indictment. It is said that the Allen eases will 1 made a political Issue during the eomii g elections in (southwestern Virginia ai d that the prosecution rif Clerk Dexter (load, should such a proceeding in reality re sult, will be conducted with vigor. Koaivkt Times, 1'lth:- Mr. Willis, vf the 'firm of Ifairston, llariston & Willis, prin cipal attorneys for the Aliens in their long fight for life, admitted today that he has in his posses sion the document prepared ,by Attorney L, O. Wcndeiiburg, of Hu'kmond, but said he had been so busy with other matters since it came into bis hands that he had been unable to lock it over carefully, and was not prepand to comment on the case at this time. Who Will Fly First Across the Atlantic? New York, April 14. Can the Atlanta! be crossed ir a hydro aeroplane in seventy-two consecu tive hours? Aviation experts hep' are discussing this proposit ion, seriously since a London pa jht offered a prize of $oO,(KX) for the aviator who first succeeded in doing it Most opinions concur with that expressed by Captain S. F. (Wy, an Kngl'ush aviator, who says with in ten years men will bo flying over the Atlantic and think noth ing much of it. He hai entered the contest and is phuining a machine to be ready in a year with which-- ho thinks h ecau make the Attempt. The great dif ficulty, experts say, is to con struct a hydroaeroplane which will le powerful enough to carry fuel for the entire rtip without a stop, thus doing away with the necessity of a supply ship. .Some ccatend the trip could be made in twenty hours in one straight flight, provided tthe aeroplane went high enough and was fav ored by tlie. wind. At any rate, speculation as to flight across the Atlantic is rife throughout tin land in aviation circles, and it is a subject which keenly interests the general reader. Will Cap tain Cody Ik? the first to fly over the sea? Kills Woman in Hospital audi Then Commits Suicide. Goldsboro, April 14. Mrs. May Carter Lomax, confined in a hos pital by an automobile accident, was killed by Cleveland Prince, a Wayne county farmer, wluo thet committed suicide. Prince-called at the hospital and was shown to tlie patient's room. Attend ants heard tlie shot, and discover ed the tragedy. Prince was with Mrs. Lomax ami others in the automobile accident. The alleg ed cause of the killing and sui cide was jealousy. SENSATIONAL fTCRY i OF MADERO S MURDERL Hundreds cf Mexicans Know True Facts, Eayj Martia Ovi edo, But Are All aid to Tell. New Orb ans, La . April 12. A ior.al svorv of the manner in hich PnVib j.t M adept and V'ke-IVtsideiit Pino Wuarez, of Mexi-i, sere put to death and of how tin rinalef who did the assassin' wcrk on the direct or der of th"ir superior, were like wise slain i'i at effort to conceal the evidence of the major crime, was brought here today by Mar tia Oyiedo. former' private secre tary to .'.'re;dfnt Madero, who escaped from Mexico City ail later joined the constitutionalist forces of Governor Carranza, of Coahuda. 'I'nswlent Madero died almost immediately after he wan shot," said Oviedo, "but th Vice-Presi-diut dkl not die fnm the effn-ts of the shots. The shock of the pUtol bullets revivtsl him from his stupor ail he trud to ra'we Irmself to look at his murderer. Immediately he was seized about the throat and strangled to death, his tongue protruding frcm his mouth. Marks on bis body I'ave physical evidence in corrob oration of the detailed story which was secured from persons who were but a few feet away when the murders were committed." He declared that hundreds f 244,XK),(XM) to $2.'().(MK),(K), cal people in Mexico City knew the j dilating the taxable wealthy of true faets cine-rnit!g the . killing i the Nation (omitting savings and of Madero and Pino Suarez. but I other se,ssioiia under - '.i'M)) even Mexicans who have escaped at about forty-eight b'dli n 1 do--from the country fear to te'ljlars. This .should bring in about what they know localise it would : $2:J!.(H),(MK), and incomes sluAdd mean the pnmpt executicn f j yiebl another 12,.V,(H'(f. If.-rr relatives whom President HuertaUin Gwinner, f the Deiitscbe it holdirg prisoners with the con-1 Bank, esit mates the National stant threat of death hovering j wealth at sevci ty-five bllliors of over thi in. ' J dollars, which leaves the work- "Not even Americans and other ing masses of the country, v wno foreigners irt Mexico dare express! esosp the war l?vy, with a dirni themsjelves , truthfully on such bined fortulfe of twent.v-ssvVn quest ior.s." be uddeil, "for the billion dojisrs. -a little mop? than fear f the confiscation or de- struction of their projerty, or, perhaks, a worn fate. Scons of per pie have ln-en put to death riidit in the capital since the be ginniti of the Iluerta era of mis rule and, in many instances, the colotssal crime which bpnight the death penalty upon them con sisted solely in their lack of sympathy with a government founded upon treachery and as fuissinatiou of iersonal aiul ioliti cal liberty." Alleged Illicit Distiller Comet in and Gives Bond. St at csv ill Landmark. Isaac Hash, a young fanner of Union Grove township, against whom a warrant was issued some tune ago, charging him with ill icit distilling, called at the of fice 4 Sheriff Deaton Friday am! gave $T00 bond for his appearauc at tho .next term of Superior Court. Hash said he had found that it was useless to try to evade the law; that he realized he was. in the wrong and had decid ed to pjead guilty when 'his case comes to'trial. 'Hie officers had made several efforts to arrest iviwu, ion ne itiwHYH gave nicm 1 the "dodge." Keceiitlv .Sheriff 1. 1.- 1 ... 41..... Deatou sent Hash word that he ! didn't intend to give him a' thane,? to work a crop this svas- ai unless he submitted to arrest ! and pave bond. Ratdi answered' the sheriff through a; friend to' the effect that it was imperative' that he should work, a crop this' Winnipeg,. Man., April 12. Tha year and rather than be moht- j Cajudian Pacific railway annouue. cd by the officers he would ar-j"d today that it would begin con range the bond, and he kept his j struction shortly of tho longest word. ' tunnel in America. The tunnel Kadi was a partner with Grov- er Mitchell, the young man who was captured at a still in north Iredell several months ago and re ceived) a sentence to one vear on 1 the roads at the bust term of J court. The young men's, excuse for bbn-kadiilg is that their fath-j ers made liquor ngularly in tlie ; davs before it w-as prohibited bvjthe Alps. law ami that they and their co lle are just now beirg forced to recognize the authority of the law which forb'hls that it be made Tlie father of Hash Ls now in dicted in the Federal court for distilling and it is believed that he, like his son, will plead guilty. GERMANY'S GREAT WAR TAX The Most Remarkable Income) Tax of Modern Times. Berlin Correspondence New York Post. "Tho centenary of the, "politi- ' cal uprlsirg- and new birth of 1 russia aul uermany call up memories of selfless patriotism, of unexampled selfsacrifice." Thi sentence is taken from the bill authorizing the Government to levy on the wealth of Germany, a "single extraordinary war con tribution" of one-half of one per cent upon private fortunes and of two per ceiit ujKin incomes of 12,.j00 and upwards, the recipi ent of which are without tax able capital. Fortunes, if .they may be so called, of less than $2,000 will escape. Any amounts abone this limit are to be drawn upon without regard to circum stances. A widow living1 on the . interest of a few thousand dol lars, and there are many such, will willy nilly afford an exam ple of self fleas patriotism, while a successful lawyer or doctor, who has not taken the trouble to save, and earns a little lews than .tl2,o00, will go unscathed. The German way levy, perhaps the m est remarkable politico- II r . . financial measure of modern Times, deserves a little closer study. The Government promis es to raise bv means of it from one-third J the total. For Hi economists the; result of the tax should provide inter-' estii'ir clue t the distribution of wealth in a modem State. The levy Ls to be faid in two annual ' instalments. The compulsory re turns of property and income for income-tax will provide the basis of assessment. There is, of course, an infinite amount of ly ing am! concealment in connec tion with income-tax wherever it exists, ami to encourage back sliders who would like to be patriotic, but are afraid of th consequences, a plenary indul getice for past signs of omission Ls promised to all who now tell the truth about their worldly po- SSeSHioIlS. The whole of the yield of the levy will be absorbed by the. mil itary increases, but much more will be needed before the War Office Ls glutted. One hundred and thirty-six thousand officers ami men are to be added to ths peace strength of the Army. Fifty-two million dollars will be spent on new fortresses on the Kussiau fpmtier and another fifty-seven millions on barracks and other buildings. These things m etui a permanent annual increas of -the War Office appropriation hv from iM5,000,000 to -flT'-O.- HM). The maximum annual cost will not be reached until the financial year 11)16. For the next three financial vears. 1913-15. the recurrinir exiKMiditiires will total $'j.S.2o0,000. ' Will Build Longest Tunnel. "'d' "u'lt through Kicking Horse Pa.vs. in the Hockv moun tains, will be sixteen miles long and will cost $14,000,000. it will take seven years, it is estimated to build it. The great hole through the mountain will be four miles lunger than the fanous -Simplou tunnel through re Darby'B Prophylactic Fluid In the house and In the stable. It 1 a good for animal flesh as it U for the human body. It he&U sorea. cut. raBKed wounds, colic, dyaentery galls, rhafs,. ratifies, dUtemper, bota and worma. Ther la bikrdly any limit to Its usefulnesa about the hoa. Prlo 50 eta. per b'tie. Sold by All Drufcliu.