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AJ*Y. MOBTH CAROLINA, FOR PAYMENT BY 1M7 Washington, D«c. 10 funding of th •Urveii bilMaa dollar d»i»t ow*d 0i« United IIMM by foreign govern v rita tote obligation* maturing not toUr than June If, 1M7, and soaring ia jr**t at a rate of not Uaa than b p«r c#nl would bv mthoftstd und#r he fuiding MM aa finally approved I by th* acnate finance commit Chairman Pa then and other provision* written In to the bo uaa bill had been agreed to by Secretary Malta*, who attended Ik* committee eeaaion, and the Demo en tic member* of the committee. He added that the rewritten bill would ha reported to the senate on Monday and called up Tnaeday by Senator ranking Republican on the Intereat on the new obligatioaai would be paid aeai-annually and the | minimum rate which would be yar mitted under the bill—five per cent— la the rate on the axiating obligation*, moat of which are In the form of the no tea of the foreign power*. Under another amendment approv-' ed by the committee four of the five member* of the commiMion which i* to conduct the funding negotiation* would have to be confirmed by the aenate. The proviaion making the aacretary of the treaaury chairman of the coatmiasion waa retained. x All of the change* in the houae maaaurr, it waa explained, were in iiaa with thoae proposed by Senator Simmon*, of North Carolina, making Democrat on the finance committee. The kouae bill left to the comma*too the question* of the maturity da toe of uh* obligation* and the amount of in tereat to be paid, aad proposed aaaate confirmation of only inch msasbars of the commission a* war* not caMnat No part of either the principal or interact of any of th* debt* ooaid ho The bond* of on* government could not be accepted in payment of the| debt* of another government. Th* authority of th* com mi »* ion ex pire* in thro* year* after th* paaaag* ct th* act and th* commission shall main annual report to Oongrrc*. auch report* to b* included in the regular annua] report made by the secretary of the treasury. The total owed to th* United State* principal and interact, by th* foreign nation*, i* |llfS?.«.'>ai 22S including >#4,246,361 in principal ar.d Intereat, from R<T»ia. Short Courae for Ftriiri Kalcigh, N. C. Dm. 8.—Beginning with January 19 there will be give* at State Collet* turn two-week* abort cooraee in Agriculture, one in General Agriculture aad the other in Cotton grading. Darn C. B. Will lama aaya ttae two couraee thia year have bean ■i<e »o that they will deal with the practical prabl—« of the fam. Those who take the work will be offered an opportunity to loam both by doing tiling* aa wall aa studying under the guidance of competent inat The course in General Agriculture will deal mainly with aoil fertility, field and garden napa livestock, poultry, crap and Mveatock cornea have been arranged to ceaae at a alack time In ffcna work aa that farmara may experieroe no difficulty on thia aooount la getting away from heaaa. The college makaa ao charge for tuition, the only expense necessary to Incur being railroad fare, room and beard. Farmer* from all MrtUua of the State ahould plan now to take on* of theae couraea at State Ooliege, Thoae wka bare taken aimilar couraoa In the past have been una tin ting in their es praaaloni of the value aa * have been to them. A aaaouat ef time apaut In preparation tor Ufa work la any piufeaalon la at> i the part ei Washington, Dec. 10. nwri than 100 wen p*«s«tii*d today U the mmmitie* by Senator Wateon, prat, Gvurgla, who ask»d that they be brought here to taatlfy in tba Invest I ••stfnn of Ma charge* that AMarlaan soldiers Had been put to death In Krar.cs without th<- right of trial by omrt martial. Thar* waa intimation aa ta haw many an Km Itat would ha summoned, the committee ex plaining that H would sift through tha nam** nest weak. Assurance, howrvar, waa given Senator Wat eon that every person would ha railed if ha believed thay ware preparA ta give testimony War lag an tha charge*. Compared with the turbulent meet ing yeeterday tha seeeion was es trrmely tame. Senator Wataon, the only witaaaa, read eatraata fram many letter* in which soldier* declar ed they knew of number* of illegal •ucitioM, One aoMiar wrote that on a tran*port taking him to Franc* 14 men were thrown overboard and drowned, for no apparent reason. The (ieogiar Senator ^wdertook to show. and Indeed, announced that he would prove that the war depart ment lint of II execution* did not tn rliide alt of the men illegally hanged or shot to death by order of superior officer*. A picture of what seemed to be a gallow* In Prance, on which a rope waa being hooked around the neck of a condemned (oldier. with sev eral officer* standing on the platform and eeorea on the ground below waa given to the committee by tha eeoat or, who testified tha» it waa taken by a colonel, now In the service. The officer's name waa not revealed, nor that of hia son who handed It to tha senator last night, aa the taatimony showed. * Senator Wataon ata^d ha desired to return the picture tonight. bat by direction of Senator ghkida, Demo lyMMJi dance. if tha mm who Mh ft eouid not ha b«4 to Colonel Waltar E. Betbsl. saeieUnt tha committee obuhud tha Hat of 11 lejrel executions, waa instructed to chock over tha Wataon ltot and see tf any were the aaao. At the outaet of tha hearing, after praaantation of a letter from Aasiet ant Secretary Roosevelt, of tha navy department, denying he had first hand knowledge of the killing of a soldier by an officer and tha aubao quent transfer of the officer to an other command, 8enator Wataon ex plained that uae of Mr. Booaevelt** name waa due to a blander. Tha latter, ia fact, ha itated waa written by Coloaol William HayWard, United State# district attorney of New York, and a former officsr overaena. Running through hia long type, written record of tha aamaa of pros pective ultasssus, with a word or tm aa to what each would probably tasti ly, Beta tor Wataon i topped occaaion ally to interject tone observations. Tha ehargaa, ha declared, had hiewi a Batter of public or national con cent, and for that raaaon he wanted to conduct tha caaa hi hia own way. Quoting fM hia latter to Chairman Brandegea, tha Georgia aerator aaid it waa no nrpriN to him that the American legion, "composed princip ally of the officer* who organized thsussslvss ia Paris to perpetuate mUitariaan in this country, should Tha commander of • legion post at Weeteine, Okla., the ssaator said, had sent Mm tha name of a man ready to taatify that SI Americans war* eae cutad la Prance without trial An other eetdier wrote that mora than •00 had been Illegally killed ia Prance. "Did theae man tell you why tha soldiers wars killed?" Senator Bran "In each caaa of ruthleee killing," tha asastor replied, "it was stated that man ware shot down kscsnsi they wan fagged and unable to walk." Mr. Brandegea auggested that a soldier could be shot without trial tar desertion in tha face of tha enemy, and Colonel Bethel said that thsre was ae written law for the battlefield that the raise of the bat^efleU re quired summary action. \ /WNhta two mllss of ths highest peak, Mt Imsai. |_ are halted. IWy now have te fM on ths last twn miles of ths Idga. Bin awn wtB he for the ellmtag party. DESPERADO IS SLAIN BY MAN HE HELPED ESCAPE AtImmm OH' it; After Tmr Gm| Out, (My to Din Utile Rock. Ark., Doc. Tom daughter, d»»per»do. cams to the and | "t ht» long mint of rriou tonight in the futMHn of the Sal In* c/.unly hill.. He «u .hot from behind by m* of the whit* Mm whom ha lod to I liberty from the iUU penitentiary j [ this Morning. Not only to Slaughter dead, but ana of tha five negro** who ftoJ tha prl»-1 on with htei ta tha apactacular mifi thto Morning to djriag In tha b.lto b*. •14a tha bandit*a bady, whila tha white companion who ehot Mm down from bahlad and tha throe othar negroes ara in custody. Tha mm who killed Slaughter to i. C. Howard, who was aarving a thraa-year tern for forgery. Howard, irrarfcg to a itata—i ha made at tha jail In 'Mton lata to night, had baan biding hia tun* to turn up Slaughter. "I laft with hlM with tha intention of killing him tba firat chance 1 got," ha ix quoted aa saying. Slaughter, who waa one of tha Moat daring of desperadoes in tha history! of the southwest, waa hunted down after directing a apectacular -scape n tha early morning houra from tha Arkansas state priaon, which ba rulad Ilka a czar for fiva hours. Slaughter summoned a guard, feign ing iilneas, and whan offorad an extra blanket to warm him in hia daath call ha covered the guard with a gun, dis armed Um, than canvasaod the prison, liaarming and jailing tha guards aa he Mat them. Before leaving tha priaon Slaughter want to tha adjacent home of the warden and arouaed him from hia bad and forced the warden and kto family to return to tha priaon. whan they were locked In tha calls. It ww believed Slaughter and the tftk negro to beHeved to ho dead, killed, officers say, by Slaughter or on* of the Men with btap, after being wounded In a gun battle staged hi tha main a treat of Benton, Saline county seat, early today. la pursuit of the desperadoes ware many poaaea, including two from Hot 8prings, one from Malvern and an other from Denton, while »heriffa and other officers within a wide radiua were on the watch and in communica tion. The officer* believe on* negro waa killed becauae tha car in which tha flight from tha Little Rock priaon waa ataged contained a blood-soaked sweater worn by Charles Jonea, the negro racaivad at tha priaon only yeeterday. The roar aeat of the car waa covered with blood. One of the many bullet ho lea in the back waa waist high to a man. Inaide the car waa found a loaded revolver, and part of tha grip of an other revolver, taken from Warden Dempaey of the penitentiary. The car waa found 13 Mllea north of Benton, wher* tha bandita abandoned it when atopped by an open ditch on the highway Into which they wore forced by the Man who Mred upon I hem at Ban ton. ' FmI Probably the n>o*t extraordinary cbackar board to tba world wa» con • tree tad at 8t Loonaida, la I Bnctond. to IM1. It waa Mad* of aolVd block* of i mU, tbrao foot tkiek, and it* *arfaoo| covorad on *r*a of W foot Tfe* pioco* war* Moved by bilk*1 froM rod*. Making tb* gam* of' for pkyoieol a* wall a* Mental A choc bar board pr**»nt to Bt*-, at tk* koickt of Mo fMo toj ■aid to bar* boo* tk* moot coot. thto« of tto ktod *r*r Mad*. TK* iqoarw^woro ooMpoaod of gold and, •ihror aad to laid upon an abony bai Thoro won twany-fcur rWk—a twelve of gold and tvdro of otfoor. In tk* eontor of oacbgold ptooo Fa* « rakf, wkOo oMk of tko othror pi Ctty CtoMborUa1! CmkhMdy tko Mothort fivarht V entwm K>r nam, croup Itot' otkor harmful drac*. M.tfc.dUt to BmOd ■ Churmk SI Stortoa A ape«t*l from New York eeyas Unique among the wurM'a greeteat hurrhes will he that mm to to toilv, by First MitMWI Cytacvptl Ctor. ~ in CMcaga's faaiuua dawntowa "loop" . I ml rift. It Will I ipi'M Sl< • Saaahins ttoa of ikyimptr ud tto wim» t tonal church building, ami ttoa will Mrvt a utilitarian aa well aa reli gious purposes. With nich a Jwnx for church actlviUea, Chisago, says tha Herald and Examiner, "will mm tm aa fawwi to 1 ta raHgtoas wwtoi, fur strangere and tranaients aa Load oa, with IU City Temple, ar Boetoa with Ha T>inl Temple." Tto chnth will record tto fact that First Methodlat church haa never abandon - <d Ha erigtoal aHa atoca Chicago wa t • straggling village. In thia conn-<t ton tto New York I Christian Advocata (Methodist) re eaHa that Bishop Waogh wrote to Ma diary to Argaat 1*40: "Tto M'.thodist meeting hoaaa I are! (site of tha pro pas sd 'cathedra)') ia{ small, l-at there was apparently as to- ! telllgant sudience prrsent. This place did not meet my expecta tion altogether. It had njt tha boal ness air which I expected. Never tha leas, it Is a growing place and will to time be a city of soma note." Tha proposed building wig to wenty-one stories high with offices' ccupylng the space not given to a' Huge auditorium on tha street level snd church headquarters above. Rising from the roof of the 2d0 foot building Will he a spire 140 faet UtL Great chimes to the spire—t large enough it la said, to dominate the roar of loop traffic—will saoMaon worshipers to tto "cathedral" on Sundays and mark the hours on weak daps with religious mnaic. Accord ing to an article to tto Chicago Poet: "The Cathedral will to French-Ga thic to style and American to geaeral * true tore, combining the grace of the mediaeval churches with tto utility of tto modern office building. Stone or "Much af the ir round ftoor will to used as church proper. Opening an the Clark street side will to an audi torium, rellgioua in deeign, capable of seating 000 persons. A balcony with seate for 400 will use part of the ftceond floor. "As much of the street level as is not occupied by the church will be «ivea over to stores. Back of the auditorium on the Washington atreat front will be the entrance to the office building. Rabbi'* People Held up. Washington, Nov. 29.—Th« father, mother ami two sisters of Rabbi K. Smulin, of Winston-Salem are being held at Ellis Inland. New York, on the ground that Poland's quota of immigrant admiaaiona to the United State* has been exhausted. It waa leaned at Kepreaentatlve Stedaan** office her* today. Unless the ruling la modified or re versed it i* feared they May be re turned to Warsaw, Poland, fraaa Stedman has Interceded with the mm thorHie*, having wired the oommla eioner of immigration at New Tack today for the statae of the eaee and paper* pertaining to h in an effort to have the family rsleaaed. Por several month* Representative Stedmaa baa bean endeavoring to have tMe family brought to Am arise. He has been acting at the instance of the aea and brother of Babbl 8muHn. The first trouble arose soase time back when the father and mother. Benja min ani Bather Sbumwits, were granted paaaport* and th* daughters, Dusha, 16, and Huda, 16. wars denied tbem. Th* parents, of eaaraa, mid not come without their rhUdf). After month* of delay ail waa pro perty arranged far the family ot fear to eome to America. Now they arc beign held becauae Poland's quota of admiaaiona, aa spoiled in th* law, ha* b**n exhausted.' Rabbi Bmaiia is In New York itrng g>ing with th* problam In an effort to have Me family relm**d that th*y may *nfoy with him th* p*ace and eomforta of the country of wMeh he ie a naturalised cittern. Say Win*tow Wanlwwn Will bn Open Nnxt Snnaon Winotea-Halem. Dec. 10.—The rans or current that the leaf tehaceo Ware honeee here would not b* open naxt fall for the aaie of leaf tebaeo* i* In a statement tanned the warehanae men any they will open their ham* eest year aa aanal and «*nduct sale* a* they have In th* pte REPUBLICANS IN MOOD TO ACCEPT ADVICE Smtor MmmInvited to Praonmt Hi. AmMwM to Waahbigton, Der HV-Th* IU pubiicuna of the Senate fins dm com mittee IN not now nnr so Um; about running It over the Democrat* of the committee an tbey vm Defer* the extra seeeion ndjounwvl. They found out the Demunatic vote* rein forced by tko rotoe of the pM|rn«h>« Republican* of Iho agricultural biwc "••Id n» thing* around them and mi now tbey am aaktng tKa Dome "rata to com Into their meeting* and uy what they want TMa is tho can* m the matter of tba foralgn Ml refund ing Mil. Whan It wa* ftamt In cNwIttat that knocked ant an anrndnrat of. farad by Senator Walah, of lfaaaa rhoaotta, without any ada, and Sana tor Simmon* told thaw that nrhlla ha had an nmendment ha would offer tl from tha floor and not hava It sand bagged in tba commit*** meeting. Tha committee moot* today and H ha» inforaad Sana tor Simmons that not alona win It accept hia amend ment, but that It will agree to aom* otber feature* amending tha bin which are tba offering* of the agri cultural bloc. The Simmona amrnd ment rtre* no discretionary power to Secretory of the Trej*ury Mellon in the maUer of bonda, bat lay* down the tew and toll* him to follow ft. On thi* lino Senator Pat Harrtoon, of Mississippi, mad* a fine tpeeth thi* wrek attacking tha leadership of tha Republican party, a part of that •peecb lending! "When la your international fund ing bill? Hare a few waaka ago tha House pnaaad it, and the Senate com ntittei brought it out, giving grant and inexcusable power* to the 9»r* isry of tha Tr*aauri, a* that ha might .. mpromtae, might caacei, might «!■ 1/ |'l .000Si' foreign government*. But pun bare halted on that. Why? It te because you know that the country mould not ■und for the kind of bill that your »tee ring committee ir nursed and which waa reported out of the finnnoe roramitUe. The Republicans who are eatoring 'o .the negro vote* in the Stotaa where -be negroes hold tha "balance of lower" now propoee to preaa the anti 'ynching bill offered in the House by Kepreeentotivu Dyer, of Miuouri. Today the Houae rules committee *ot rd to give a privileged atatu* to that bill and the probability ia that it will be called up next week. The bill pnto « penalty of $10,000 on tha county in vhich a lynching take* place, setting h* case for trial la a Federal court, he penalty to bo recovered by the icraon lynched, the amount of the ♦ward to be made a lien on the pro oerty of tha county for the $10,000 'o be raieed by a special tax levy, .hia tax to bo called for by mandamua proceeding* to compel the county -o mm ia* toner* to levy the tax. If lynching party gnePfroot one county to another then the two oountiea an held Jointly liable for the penalty The penalty is arbitrarily fixed no matter how strong ar* tha effort* of the State or County to prevent lynch ing, law abiding citizens to be mulcted »f their money because of the net* of law violator*. Commwn Ward may speak in opposition to the bill when K pU to the floor of the Homo and ho will ihow how, wijwt audi » maun ia to North Carolina, firing tha facta aa to tha dilifenc* of Stato and Co«u>ty suthoritieo in proven tia* lynching, of trial, and convicttone in lyachta* rases and of military being ordsrsd out to pro tact tha partial eought to be lynched. Ha ia af th* opinio* that the biU will paee the Bouee, bat that it will strike • ana* hi tha Sonata. He say* that it is a mean re that Re publican will (m baaaaae of tta political vale to them hcaaeh atatea aa Ohio, Indiana, niinois and Mia. souri, aad if la theae atatea M per coat af tha negro vote would ho dial it nefroea woo Id veto Deasocratk the Republicans would ho dafOatod. Ha holdo ths measars la Jwt aaother at tempt af tha RepabHeaaa to slap at the loath. Haw ' ■'* -if ik. »«t i, u w neat election the have mi escelleat ehaaea of the aaat houae," aald Jm* J. roua of Detroit, former of tha bMNcntk mtttaa during Ha anjority nlga la Dorenu* la ana of tha -rate la Ma la oat of poMtka aaya aaa be la I have aa to wtai tha ■aid tha Detroit aaa" I aa far Waat aa tha Pacific talked with a«, politician*, ate., and I fta4 a aantlaMat toi favor of tha party. Tha failure of tha to comet tha tariff rrlla will Kara a gnat bearing oa tha aaat aiaetlooa The Republican* rritlciaed tha Deam eratie tariff, bat they hava done nothing to correct tha wrong* alleged to hava been comm ttod by tha new m.ttority party, tha Republic ana then «eWee believe they will loee not Uaa (Jf i aixty member* la the next eiee on." About tha only thine congraaa M during the aeaalon juat ended waa to appropriate over half a million W Ian to thvmeelree for mileage. Uader the preaent law, and there never have been enough member* gf the Houee and Senate with tuffleiaat backbone to do away with thia form of graft, there la allowed each or aad mgrnaman forty eat mile to travel to aad fma hia Maay of theee coogri aamn aad ton do apt go hone at all, thoaa who do go pat Into their i * * af dollar* whtfb la reata per mile, which make* a total af *0 canto which they taha away flan the people thia year. From Wild Gran to IadUn Com Nature is sometime* alow, but al way* sure. Nature, aided in Amerlea by the crude culture methode of the Indiana, Deeded we do not know bow many canturiaa to produce our maiae from the wild gr**s, teoainte. On the other hand, that maficLan of plants, Mr. Luther Burbank, haa produced from it perfect eara of corn in eigh teen years. The Indiana found teoainte covering our plaina. It bora tiny eara with two rowa of email kernele like com. Hm coba were frod two to four inches lone, thinner than a lead pencil, with each (rain incased In a sheath. Discovering that the were god to eat, the cultivate the plant Since they al waya aavad the beat keraela for i the teoeinte eara gradually longer and bigger round to aa to' care of the extra rowa of kernels, h time the sheathe dkspp eared. Such, the botaniata believed, waa the history of our maiae. Mr. Burbank made hia experiment in order to taat the theory. Starting in IMS, ha gradually-developed the teoainte plant with Ma miniate* flat oeb and taw rowa of kernels lata a plant with a round cab rows of large, fat fcemeia. At the eod of a few yaara he foe ad an oeoe sional kernel that had its huak, or aheath. lie ksenils, and In a . the husks had entirety dV appeared. At the sod of Or eight year ha had prsduwd ears ef earn. Though the eatw la oat equal the aupariar America, they In every J f.<und ** at W f « eta*. LZk' waa 1ft 14 eeMe a .
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