0L. XXXIV
MOUm AIRY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. JULY 10, 1913.
JVO. 2
NATIONAL PENSION FOR
CONFEDERATES.
Such Likely to te Result cf
GtttysbuTeunion Tar Heel
Claim Fixl
Hatflefield, Vtyshurg, IV,
Inly 5. The rcfreat from Get
tysburg started' this morning
when General Julian S. Carr gave
nrdors to tin 1,21.') North Carolina
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veterans to break camp. Oolite a
mimer (if the old .soldierN left
last night; me of tin .in went to
Philadelphia and New York and
Home to Washington. Each and
veiy one is happy; happy be-
cause they canine to this histori-
cat spot ami happy reeause tney
received the heartiest welcome
rviu- gm-ii -m m jmi-rn iw. wmin.
iwo tilings are alm..t certain
to result t pom the reunion hcsiuea
uw seining or the controcrs
Jx'twren the .states. In the rwar
future North Carolina in going to
nave a monument neinting m
the valor of her men who died
Here, ami also ot those who were
joriunate enougn to eM-np'; no,
Beeoiut, hut in no wise- least, uie
mue.ri uimva oi jh-hnrmiihk v.on-he UKirj, and the greatest indi
federate soldiers and movement ' vMnal coiut ri-lnitif n cf .tl8.fir.9f0
to have tlfem cared for in United I was ,na r t( thf (.0nv(.tor of .;
rtatit soldiers homos nas receiv- toms in New York more than -t-d
a start that is almost sure to j decade ago by an unknown ner
result in the government doing
omet.iung to care lor uomeoerate
jm well a.s the I nnm men wheji
they "become disabled.
Governor (Vx. of Ohio, in a
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riTiii ui rni- .M.i wi run ii a i i ems eiKJS nis ennTrvmytieii an
camp hwe last n'ght d-eelared j onymonsly, but if he sigiw his
that, the tune had long since past
Vhen the United States govern-1
inent should take care of dLsabl
-d Confederate soldiers.
"There are seven Uniteii StaHes
hohlien' hfMiiesin. Ohio" declared
ffiovernor Cox. "We do net need
4h.Hii all, and I am in favor of
4iirnii!,g one of thnn over to
J'Jckrth Carolina at once. No men
in the bwtory of the world's hat
tit? ever fought hanler'than did
vthe.mn who wore the gray; thry
Ierve m much as any other
inen who fought in the war be
tween the statV, and I am ready
9mvw to have it don."
Colonel A. II. Hoyden, of iSal
ishury, said the .speech of Gov
ernor Cixx was one of In-sit he had
ever heard. Colonel Hoyden, aa
iH'fn' (uve knows, ban always btien
willing anri reaily to luelp the
Confederate soldier, and the de
claration of Governor Cox struck
tt nesponsive cord m tlw' heart of
every man who heard him speak.
Colowl fJeorge MciConill. of
the 24th Michigan regiment, "tine
Iron brigade," startled an audi-
vnce ol 8(HH 2, 000 or :5.(KK) v4
irans Thursday night when he de-
dared that he hoped to see the
time come when "The Star Spaji
grlod Hamier" would be sung to
the tune of "Dixie"
" 'Dixie' is the most popular
song 1 ever heard," said the Mich
igna tman. "It gets more genu
iine enthusias'tie applause thaji
ny other song, and I for one
nvill welcome the time when the
Jiaitonal air shall be sung to the
tune of 'Dixie.' "
Going a step further. Colonel
MeiConnell said that although th 1
fight of the Roosevelt Rough
Riders at San Juan hill was
mere boys' play as compared with
the battle of Gettysburg, that
jRoosevelt had received more pnb
iie'rty for this little battle than
was given the combined forces of
ihe north and south duriii'g Hie dents involving desecratiojis of na
entire jeriod of the M-ar between ! tional fhtgs which markil ecle
the states. "Aihl yet," he said. J brat ions yesterday are expected
"'two jer cent of the men eneag- to f.rm the h-iibjei't of complaints
; riTeri ir ':!"
ui!t- in-it- ni n-i 1.1 wwui n .'a n-i
a-ent were sn'issing, after the three;
d.v,-eV fight." j
( yrus ii. wnisen. oj insron- involving the tramplmsr of an
HaliMii was in gremt demand for . American flag at a Hrktish par
sp'eeehes. Ever since he ciiniclHile, probably cannot be made the
Aieiv the old vetearns have de- basis of an official jrotest be-maiidi-d
that he make a -peeli eau.se the inteniatieiial law does
vlieiiecr be is seen in a crowd. 1 not guarantee protection i f flairs
Ajiil he takes a keen ikehirht in
lalkinur to the "b.is." as h cal's
iln' oio ei. illelal lillll. lings. i
Judge Walter Clark, Judges' In the Tucson. Ar'i7.., incident,!
iA. W. Graham and W. J. Peele. ! however, where the flair over the!
of Raleigh, who have been here iMexicin consulate was t'rn down
iunog the week looking alter the .state departimmt probablv
the work given thetn in seeurinur h ill feel obige.l to reiiest the
data as to where the North Car-'local authorities to make a pro
lina troops foncht. Vlicve the per aiology ai-1 amends to the
liave ample proof tlhat the Tar1, Mexican consul, if that can be
Heel troof went furthest in j 'done withou tinvolving any of
Viekett's famous eharire. and ; ficial recognition i f the Iluerta
fcv.ihn they g,t hack hme thy in-j yvvernment. which apjiears to be
tend to make public the infimia- the gnsit apprehension of the stat
tiim seeuml. j di-partm.mt at this juncture.
Fewer Penitents "Conscience"
Stricken Ihan in Yean.
Washington, July 6. Fewer
pen. tents, tt tired by the ".Still
wnall voice" confessed and ur
rendered "conscience money " to
t ln Federal government during
tlw fiscal year lUl.'I tlian for
.many years. The "coiWcionctf
fund" received during the 12
nornls ended June -50 totahd
only 2..S14.41, the lowest amount
'
frUln. 1 . M H and cm parable with h
Jim) year average of $4,1100.
- That flim jiS t,li o only official
index to scruples, but no treasury
(,fri,,-ial attoiii'pts to explain the
decrease- in restitution of money
received from the government L;
traud or error
During the .past 100 years the
, government has received consei-
t.IK.(. contributions aggregating
n.-arly a half million dollars, the
, exact figures up to June .'() but
lMiiif 4.'4,31.'i.G;.
The remarkable fund was es
taMMicd durinir President Mad-
ison a adminis! ration in 1 SI 1
hen, the first contribution of ."
wat m.,.,Ved. The largest amoun
CVer received in one ynr wns $3h,-
wu p,tt,iy U1 defrauded
the government of tariff duties
Treasury officials surround the
frii wth a certain degree of
j saerednesN. Usual I v the peni
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' nanne his Secret is hx-ked in tin
.archives of the irovernirnf-nt T i
the oiM place in the federal es
tablislmnent where a eoftfrife sin
ner may make confession and a-
mends without the slightest dan
ger of prosecution.
Burch Station in This
Wants Agrent.
County
Wasliington, July 5. A peti
tion, was I Bed today with t hi in
terstate commerce eommissian by
(Charles W. Doekery and oDiers
against Southern Railway com
pany seeking an order requiring
the defendant company to build
and maintain a station and an
agent at Hurch, on the Wilkes
horo branch of the Southern. It
is alleged in the petition thbit the
revenue, amounting to several
thousand dollars anmually, deriv
ed by the company from'this sta
tion, i amply sufficivnt to war-
ratit the company in granting the
relief prayed for; that the com
pany has refused, though often
requested mini petitioned, to "pro
vide a station and agent, and that
there is no place for the demos it
of frieght or the accommodation
of passengers, or any facilities
reasonably sufficient to accom
modate ant serve the needs and
demiands of the public; that the
failure of the company to pro
vide the neeessairy' facilities is a
discrimination aganst this olcal
ity. Wliilp apparently the case is
not of great importcriK'e, it is en
tirely possible, that it will ;!l
eisively settle the mooted ques
tion of the power and authority
of the conumisNion to cnvpel car
iriers to irovide station facilities
at a point within a state.
Flag- Desecrations.
Washington. Julv 5. Two Iikm-
, "VS. nmnrn' xTlshJ
so mr iHHiun.g nas necn neatsl
from them.
The affair at Winnineir. Mann..
oi a foreism eountrv
except
nvbere thev
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WAS NEORO TEACHER HAM
ILTON MURDERED?
Once Was Valet to Frenchman
Who is Reported to Have Left
eLgacy.
firecnuboro New, 4th.
The ImhIv of Hamilton Clark.
negro A. & M, crlli'irc pro-
IfNHOr
who
at
found dt-ad with
ljl Ptol hole through his heart in
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lount Ary eilneslay mornng
as.sed through tin- city yesterday
arxl was put on tran No. :t(i to
be oarml to the home of the sis
ter of the deceased in Washing
ton. One of the professors of
tln college accompanied the body
to its destination.
Though most of the available
evidence in the case still points
to ihe decision of the coroner's
jury at Mount Airy that the man
committed suicide as the most
probable explanation if Ids
death, there has grown up some
.strong doubt in the mind of
those who kjii'W the nojrro pro
fessor and some suspicion of foul
play has arisne anion? the author
ities of the college.
Whatever was the cause of his
death, it is the universal opinion
the the legacy which the deceas
ed thought that he would receive
on the first of July, whether real
or imagined, had much to do with
his death.
There are two conflicting the
ories. On holds that the matter
of the legacy was a hallucination
of tilu mind of the negro, that he
had somehow Income obsessed!
with the queer delusion that lie
was to receive iflUl.(MK) from a
white U'liefactor, which gift he
thought would come to him on
the first of July, and that wlwu
the. first came no legacy was re
ceived, he left hurriedly for Mt.
Airy and killed himself heeause
of the depression resultant niwn
the destruction of his cherished
delusion.
The other suspicion which has
arisen ia theminds of some of
hi friends is to the effect that
there may have been something to
the legacy actually', and that
some interested person lured mm
to Mt. Airy and killed him to
get him out of the way. Same of
the professors of the college slate
that they have seen papers be
longing t the deceased, which
bear out his strange tale about
the legacy.
it was hu story that he onee
serv?tt as va.'t-t Im a r) r;cn
Frertchiua-j 'ti the city oi Wash
ingitn, ami that this nan left
lain a Wacy of $101,000, to take
effect on July 1, 1913. President
Dudley declares that the manner
of Clark! clearly showed, the ef-
lect of association with some one
of the French nationality hid ex
cessive jnoliteneas, and his vivac
ious inaiuier of speech.
It is further asserted by Presi
dent Dudlev that Clark was never
known ot be tucianuholy, that he
never drank, or smoked, and that
lie was never known to have a
revolver. These facts with the
addiitonal fact that the shot was
fired Tuendav night and the oth
er occupants of the house seem
not ot have heard it and not to
have found the Indy until the
following morning, are thought!
by wune to cast a shadi w of sus
picion ujhui the conjtH'ture that
tli death was causi'd by suicide.
Jlowever, this conjecture still
stands as the most probable, in
the face of tin evidence to hand,
until further information can he
secured.
PubUc School Examination.
IXrhe examination for the white
I teachers of the nuUio schools of
Surry County will be held at Dob
in i in r rioay, .July
K and llth .PJl.i; and for color-,
ed teachers, on the 12 Sa unlay.
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n.-i- wi-u ui iniiiu i.nai pri
vate examinations
are not given
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idered f, ..a ott.,.r.. tt ..:
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. upt. oi rv-n.is. y,
Rheumatitm Quickly Cured.
orThou
well known resilient of Newton la
I gave aim a bottle of Chamber,
Iain's Liniment which he api.lied to
illtZiT waso""' Forronic!
muscular rheumatini you will find10
nothlnu belter than Chamberlain's1
Uniment. , Sold by All Dealer. j
ONE MAN BUILDING RAIL
ROAD IN KANSAS.
Wlwro It is doto or Why He is
Building It He Won't Tell He
Works all Alone.
Dodge City, Kan., July 6. In
the spring of 1908 a fanner in th
Spring Creek Valley in Hodge
man county was ivppn adied by
an old Germon. a stranger, who
a.skl to buy a srtip of land
cross art of his farm. Surprk
eil at tlie request, the fanner
questioned the old German arxl
tinally burned the land was want
ed lor a railroad right of wav.
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i ne dinner coum not nelieve
that his visitor was the represen
tative ot a railway companv and
bus beliof was justified by tin
tnuik admission of the stranger
that tie was not backed bv anv
company. He wanted the lain
tir his owif use, he siiid. lie was
to be the sole railroad builder.
Hi at was the wav Rudolph
pieyer started on his railroad con
strumon. liis queer enterprise
provokl no end of comment a-
mong the fanners in the neighbor
bond, but comment did not in
terest this hard working, uneirtn-
munieativc Teuton m the le.xst
Men sail five vears ago that hi
would soon quit his quixotic cam
paign to throw up a grade aoross
a broken prairie country when
some of the fills had to lie seven
ty feet.
Hut hudolph Meyer is still
workiiug. Men believed that
when he exhausted his supply of
money and his appearance dxl
not indicate that he had 'much
he would have to quit work be
cause of hick) of right of way to
work on. Hut he has always had
the cash rewdv to pav for the
next strip of land, no matter how
much the onvner asked for it.
i r t i
-sieyer nas worked live ve.irs
now and Has hardlv five miles of
road grade to show for his toil.
A little mnle team and a single
scraper comprise h compete out
fit. With it he works all day
when the weather is fine. When
the ground is frozen or soaked
M'ith water he whiles away his
tiime in his ilttle cook shack,
which is always stationed near
the part of the grade he is at
work' on.
The work of Rudolph Mever
lias been the topic of keen specu
lation among railroad men in
western Kansas. What induced
him to undertake a job of that
kind? Who furnishes funds for
carrying on the work! What
route does he intend to follow?
AVhat railroad is interested in the
project? Is he crazy? These are
the questions that have been dis
cussed over and over again the
last five years.
And' Rudol4i Meyer is the last
man in the world to throw light
on the puzzle. The questions
have been put to Meyer on dif
ferent occasions, but they mk"ht
as well have been withheld so far
as eliciting' information is con
cerned. No cross-examiner has
yet managed to extract from the
old gtader any information that
hniOiints to anything. And no in
formation has been dug up from
any other source. It is a pecul
iar project carried out in a pe
culiar manner by a peculiar man.
A party of visitors to the scene
of the strange railroad grade re
cently found the lonesome cook
shack of the grader huddled dowi
in a vallev between two hitrh hil's
(rWering above it was hte grade
of 70 feet, hauled. into place a
scraper full at. a time by the pa
tient labor of the old worker
li nd his mules.
Stretching away to the north
east toward Jetmore are the few
miles of grade which Mever has
to smw for tW five vpar ff
work. All lhe (,irt in t'hp ,p
AVJW kuiUh1 ,,v Mev wlU
and dumps the scraper. He is!
tll(1 workman, the hostl.
r, the j
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ternrise that should have the ser -
vice of a hiirh grade engineer and
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APV(ir nevf.r 0yj,M.ts Xn talking; en, a Geneva lawyer, ami a spleii-
to visitor;. He seems 1o enjoy jib I shot, will sail for New York
a. iiini nii i none hi.k tooijiii .HifU.-! 10 laKe pari 111 UiC
dofwn on his little e;min to fiml l!mn P. rrv r r. -n iont
manaires to worn- out an j
extremely indefinite answer to
nil niiestinps Thn vUit.tm uni.
M h he M-pened
art a ra',lroad grade there.
Oh, I just picked out an easy
place to build one," Meyer repli-
d.
Where waa he going! Meyer
bad no objection to telling. Just
oin over onto the flats; but
lt.fe liii.ln't fiiii...l ..4l,
X)l(in tjiat
Just ahead of where he is work
ing another fill rnrst be built up
find just beyond that is a dis
couraging raise w here a cut must
le made through the high hill.
AVhen a Visitor pointed to these
Meyer merely observed that fur
ther on it was level.
When it was suggested that the
Haute Fe, which has a branch to
Jetmore and might like to have a
line up the valley of the Pawnee,
might be interested in a line there
he said. "Well I guess the Saute
Fe is ali right in some ways; I
don't know -much about 'em."
He said he'had not had much
experience in building grad., but
finally remembered that he had
helped build a little grade for the
ante Fe. Meyer admitted that
his plan is to cross the Hodge
man county line about six miles
further south than Jetmore, and
Ire thought it would be a good
place to start a town near the
county line.
Some- of the people sav the
tenns of the deeds are that un
less traiiw are running over the
grades within six years after the
doeds are executed the land shal
revert baek t the original own
crs. If that is true Mever will
have to hurry. Hut it is preftv
hard to get accurate informatii n
when the only man who knows
won't tell.
It is the right of way that may
cause a hitch in Che work at hist
Meyer has almost completed the
work on the right of way he has.
and has tried to buy some more.
The owners of the land wanted
have so far refused to sell ami
hote in that wav to force the
builder to show his hand. Any
way they have deemed to hold
up the work for a while.
But Rudolph Meyer does not
appear to worry. He thinks Tic
knows a wav in which difficul
ties of htat kind can be avoided
After 20 Years Leaves Pulpit to
Practice Law.
Griffin, Ga., July 5. With the
loop-the-loop jump Dr. Dent At
kinson, who for more than "JO
years has been a Presbyterian
Ininister, aJid for some years re
cently has been in Chautauqua
work, while here in connection
with the Chautauqua recentlv
closed quit that field of work,
laid aside the ministerial robes,
withdrew from the Republican
party to tihe Democratic and took
an. examination for admission to
the bar of Georgia and was ad
mitted by Judge Robert T. Dan
niel, of the Flint River circuit.
Dr. Atkinson is an Englishman
by birth, but has been in this
country ;15 years. He holds a
I'h. D. degree from Che Univer
sity of Illinois, as well as a
liploma from Harvard. He has
taken a three years' course in
law training in Ohio Northern
university and Chicago university
For years lie has traveled, going
around the world.
Hit purpose is to loeate in
Atlanta next September to einter
actively into practice before a '
the courts. Dr. Atkinson savs
his specialty in practice will hi
either criminal law or corpora
tion. World's Leading1 Marksmen Head
ing for United States.
New York, July The hid
ing marksmen of the world are
already heading for the United
States in order to jwrticipate in
the international shooting tour-
imment at ( mj Perry, Ohio '
September, 1-!). One of the most j
fonnidable teams is that which;
win rciireM'iu ri nenauii. u
was
at first thought that tin
entry would have to be canceled,
1 . I. 1
IVei.
overcome, a team of the best
Swiss marksman under the cap-
LThe team is' the best that
pwitzeriaisl can send, ami the
j wagering there is three to one
(that it will win. Out of the six-
teen hfternational meetings d,
ing the last deeaib- Swntzerla
ir
nd has won fifteen times, and was
second once by only a few points.
ei,-,I)lu momentary auicuues uavng
Repeated Picfcett's Charge.
Gettysburg, Pa., Dispatch, Unl.
A haiulfu! of men in gray re
enacted today the charge of
Pickett across the field of Get
tyslsirg. Up the slojie of Cem
etery Ridlge, where death kept
tp with them in T:, lf0 vet
erans of the Virginia regiments
of that immortal brigade made
their slow parade. Under the
brow of this ridge in the Hloody
Angle, where the Phiablephia
brigade stood that day, was a
handful in blue scarcely larger,
waiting to meet the onslaught of
gM-aei'. There were no flashing
saibrcw, no belching guns, only
eyes that dlnimtxl fast and kind
ly fae-m' behind the stone wall
that marks the angle. At the end
in place of wound or prison or
death, were handshake, speeches
and mingling cheers.
The veteran in gray marchod
for a quarter of a mile over the.
gnumU that they traversed dur
ing the charge. They came up
the slope in column of fours, ir
regularly but responsive, to the
comnwiiids of Major W. W. P.ent-
ley, of the 24th Virginia. Ahead
of them marched a band and well
down the column wan a faded
Confederate flag, its red fold
pierced with many holes and its
shaft colored with the sweat of
many a man who died that it
might, fly high in the last desper
ate effort to pierce the Unioai
lines, lis progress was slow and
painful, for the timothy in the
field! was high and its plowed
surfaee was not easy for world
weary feet. Up to the very edge
of the stone wall, coverd now
with tangled vin and shaded by
trees, they marched iai tTTe hot
sun, while the luid played "Dix
ie." 1 here they stood for half n
hour while their comrades in blue
peered across at them.
. The blue line formed behind th
walls. Ooverhead floated a faded
standard of the second army
corps. Behind them were the
statues of the Philadelphia' bri
gade and the fourth U. S. A. bat
tery, where General Armrteau
died.
As the mm in grav forme! in
a long line facing the wall, the
start and bam and the flag of
the second con were crosse(l in
amity; the rtans and stripes ws
unfurled amd the crowd that came
to watch burnt into cheer. Re
presentative J. Hampton Moore
of Pennsylvania made a long
speech amd Major HentJey answer
ed him on behalf of the South.
The veterans jji gray were given
a medal provided by John Wan
amaker. They crowded over the
stone wall, shook hands and the
charge was over.
What Ambassadors May Do.
Ambassadors have curious priv
ileges. Mast people know that
they and their households are
safe from arrest, and embassy be
ing considered a'- geographical
part of the ambassador's own
country. Hut there are. many less
well known. The ambassador is
the only person about a court
who has the right to turn his
pack on the sovereign at the end
of an interview. And he alwavs
exercises it, turning to bow after
walking three paces. This, of
course, refers to state occasions.
This worked out rather funny
in Queen Victoria's time. To
turn one's back' on a lady would
be rude; to retire backward
would be to resign a privilege, so
the ambassadors always pom prom
ied bv edgim; sidewavs toward
the door like a crab.
Another privilege of ambassa-
dors is the riirht of havinuf both
leaves of the folding doors
thrown open when beinv ushertd
into the royal jre.senee. No one
else can claim this privilege.
Another highly prized privilege
of the ambassadyr one that sov
ereigns must often regret is that
of Wing able to demand an inter
view with the sovereign whrneV'-r
it ehoo-s. at any hour of the
day i.r night.
The sword is the ambass.idrs
emblem if honor. It is a lorg
rapi.-r wit'i a blunt-l point. One
great diplomatist the late Lord
Dufferin nsetl to say that th
only practical usg be rver found
f r it ws. to joke fires with ar?
file bills on.