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COJTEST BETWEEH POLITICAL GIUTS
Hon. Loch: Craig Will Uphold The
Tenets of Democracy.
The Greatest Campaign Event That Ever
Happened In KlBton . Will Attract
Thousands Here Next Monday Itauee of
' The Campalsm to be Amicably DUcoeaed
-Special Raih-ond Bate. '
Monday next will be the biggest day In
Ktnsloo's political history. .
. Here lb Klnston on that day Senator
inter i;. rriicnara ana . oeuaiweu-us
Locke Craig jwjlt begin their mighty
straggle to win the heart ftnd the iotee
of the men of .North Carolina
Senator Pritehard la the moat famous
republican in the atate, and thousand
will flock to see and hear him but of mere
curiosity; Be ia the prealdent'a faetotom
curiosity; He H the prealdent'a laowram
and U auppoaed to, be conducting the
campaign along Jlnea laid out at Oyster
Bav. Be la a masmetlo man and will be
gnat drawing card. : But with all hla
magnetlani fnd with the" Influence pt the
national,!, administration back of Urn,
dempQratp are conflden that he has un
dertaken a task that win put an end to
hla political power in the, state.
Pritehard' opponent, the champion
damocraeY. la Bon. Locke Craig,, a man
thoroughly grounded In the political
history and situation of the country and
master of ereiy detoU,'6! ?1 . P"0
lina politics, wth thia or;. a founda
tion be Is equipped with a fund of.force-
fol eloquence and logic that win meei ail
assaults of the' enemy and .carry coiv
vfrtlnn tn avnrr donbtlnv heart. ;
. It will be' a battle between polltfcal
and oratorical iriants such as men seldom
have opportunity to eee .and hear, and
aa this will be their Only meeting' In this
part of the atate. and arrangements are
being made, lor Pcla .rayroaa laree,
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neat fomc&aia and, republican auch
a waa never aeen In thia city,' and the
crowd will be enormous, i J
II the weather 1 propitious: cn ; ipeax
lng will take place from a platform In
the court house square, and should it be
stormy the debate will beheld Inside.
Ndannonuoemen has let been made
ot the hot; pnt, it -wiu proDapyf Degm
I0000' ??
before speaking. The exact time will be
announced aa aoon aa learned. V
' THE WRITERS.
i'-.i.,,-'-' ' ' ":rt i T . i .1 it . . ? V, "J
Emlle Zola did not learn to read until
he waa eight year: old, and la a self
educated, man. his mother being Indif
ferent as to whether or not he attended
school.
Hamlin Garland has a genuine In
dian topee at Eagle's Nest camp, Ore
gon, I1L It was made for the anthor
by Cheyenne women and is eighteen
feet in diameter, ' '
Ella Wheeler Wilcox bas challenged
John A. Joyce of Washington to prove
that she did not Write the' poem "Soli
tude" and will give blm. $5,000 if he
succeeds. "Colonel" Joyce claims the
authorship. -
Budyard Kipling, according to Bur
mese natives, made bad breaks in his
"Road to Mandalay"; poem by. Speak
ing of flying fishes playing where no
flying fish is ever' seen and by de
scribing the sea as east of the Moul
mein pagoda, whereas it is due west.
LAW POINTS.
One who has purchased In good fait!)
without aclual notice mortgaged chat
tels from a mortgageor In possession Is
held. In Dean versus Cushman (Maine.
63 L. R. A. SOO). not to be liable for
conversion without demand or refusal.
That the Impulse to steai Is inspired
Dy avarice or greed Is held, in state
versus McCullough (Iowa, 55 I R. A.
378). not to preclude the defense of in
sanity If the will power is weakened
to such an extent as to leave the af
f icted one powerless to control the im
pulse, ii:e courts nave ueciuea in.it wtere
mortpnped property is purcLase-1 et a
foreclosure by tbe mortsae arl p..: i
for an increased price suret-s c:i r '-
secun 1 ty the niortjrn?e are int :;
tied tj I.ave tbe proceeds of tl:e l,...t;T
!y on any deficiency !.:a n
CURRENT COMMENT; .
The aunstroke crop seeing to be a fail
ure this year.--Toledo Bee. ' T "v
Cuba la finding out that It la mighty
expensive ' to keep house, Toledo
Blade.' ' ' "
Verily ' the war Is over. Arrange
menta are being made for' a World's
fair ' at Johannesburg. Minneapolis
Tunes.' " -
There Is a great deal of advantage
In being a member of royalty. It en
titles a man to the distinction of rac
ing yachts with an American million-W.-Washington
Star. , ' ' " .
Hiding in an automobile going at a
milt H mlndte oh1 country" roads ls. a
new Way to' commit suicide, but is too
expeoslv lever to become the favorite
method. Louisville Post , ' " ' -;
TnT time , pjust Inevitably come,' If
Canada1 persists In her role of spoiled
chlld whefa Great Britain will find the
turning1 down' of Canada the' only al
ternative A tb" war with 'the United
StateaWashmgtoii Post' Vtr: ; 5
'finsaia' will not take' her troops out
of Manchuria because the country la
nheanesa causea ier to
tnj wbole country to prevent the
Chlt'esfe taking anything Portland
uiieMu wiiu VUiueB rouuera, , hub-
(Ore.) JoutnaL
' THRONE LIGHTS..,
'The thlnese emperor 1s having" bulit
for blm a new palace at Paotlngfu to
contain 600 rooms, t v ,!
!The Munich Geographical society
has Just elected Princess Theresa of
Bavaria an honorary member ;for her'
achievements In the line of exploration
and travel 'The princess was born in
1850. '-.,.,. j ' i ' . " ' ,
Xoung King1 Alfonso of Spain wants
a Paris ballet at Madrid.- HO is said to
regard classical dances as ther highest
of allithe theatrical arts and bb re-'
quested' JH. Gallhardi director? of tbe
Paris Opera, ten bring to Madrid the
best corps de ballet In Paris. ;i .
'The king of Uganda Is not six yeard
old. His . namet la Dandl Chus tor iu
Enrilsh -f Da vid ;tana.'Chhateliife w
name 'which bas been borne for many
years by Uganda kmgsi He is an in-1
teaigent jirue; reupw,, nnougo? ratner
telllgent little; fellow, though ' rather
At present his "saiary't from the- Brit
ish government is $3,500 a year, v ;.-
CHU RCH - AN D CLE RQY.
Every fhurch ln' Washington, tnd.",'
has been provided with telephonic con
nectiona. and people are1 able to listen
.to sermon while at home.
The Rev. StephSO O. Betiton' Of Pall
hary of the-board tof manager of the
aiissioiinry society 'or- me uexnouisr
Episcopal church.
The Rev. Dr.' 8. E. Young, pastor of
the Second Presbyterian church of
"Pittsburg, - has organised religious
services for each' of the parks of the
city.i On n late Sunday 80,000 people. It
la estimated, were In attendance,
The Rev.' Walter" B. Calley of Bop-
ton, who has been made general secre
tary of th Baptist Young People's Uh
ion of America, ' will' establish head
quarters In Chicago. He Is a Crorer
graduate, and his first pastorate was
In Bethlehem, Pa.
PERT PERSONALS.
Many sins are laid at Morgan's door.
but no one has yet accused him of tail
ing tod much. Baltimore American
Alfred Austin ls accused of playing
the Bute. ' Perhaps that is the reason
his poetry trills instead of thrills.
Washlcgton Post j -
Carrie Chapman Cart says that nine-
tenths of the criminals are men. Thlii
is mild. She might have said, that
nine-tenths of the men are criminals.
THE WEELim.ES AT
THE BENEFIT'S
WILL BE6EHERAL
ILL HELP THE LAKTERI CARIIYAL
It WiU ImproYB Tb Little Ones And
" ' Male Them Ambitious
Will Train Them to Promptness and
4 Obedience and Their Work will Help to
t Perpetuate the" Pabllo Library, Which
' W1U Fid Tbelr latelleoa' ta Tears to
Come. Cow ttTtrlm the tiSterns.
- One of the greatest pleasures of child
hood la to "dress up and make believe;"
and the little f olka who are taktrig - part
In the lantern carnival like the Idea of
pretending, for a lew hctira that they
are th characters about whom they have
heard and read all their ;Ilve.t: v':' 'H
1 know It takea aome sacrifice on the
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and the money they apend will be used
to keen ui) th library, which 14 Intended
to benefit these children, who see only
the fun In it now.
We do not ask the mothers to go to
any great expanse, the : rery eheapeat
mutflrlftl is to be used for the costumes
W do not want the littiechlldren dressed
In the long'' trails; but In the fainfliar
styles bf the' Mother Goose, and other
nursery books .
Some of the little ; Ones ,hare been
drilled two weeks and it is too fcad to
hive them drop out ndfr, because It la
hard to mpplythfeir places, and then- we
hive depended on them and taken pains
to1 drill them, and If we oould get others
id take their places the same work Would
I have to be done all 6ver? Fleasd do not
let the children atbp ho W
H tat verybody try to make the carnl;
vai a success aaa is win b ymtmuiv
the'ehUdren and benefit the town.' Tt at 1
way! beneflW chfldreil to be' trained lor
ese pWeislOda, forth
the sacrifice to aee them enjoy themselves.
P6 not fall aehtnebfl(iren to tU the
nWraala and 'don't maM ' tUm aidp.
Wis Intend to have it all over as quickly
as possible. We expect the weather to
tie just warm enough to suit an outdoor
festiraftaajihl ls tobe by the ftlme he
ltarha kn fln(Jaiiaiid rbaflT for hie
and we want all the Indians, all the
and little girls to meet at the hour ap-
pointed f6r tnem'to'driU. Il ls a part of
a' ihUd' education to teach it to keep a I
Wromlse or anaDDointment.andit should
never be allowed 'to thinti that it la nbi
ka resnonalbla about such thinsrs aa an
adult la, 8ome of na have to sacrifice a
m w . I
great deal, to teach the children, and I
believe the children appreciate it.
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Editor Fbeb Press: Please say to
the ladles who have undertaken to deco
rate the lanterns, that they are expected
to use their own taste in arranging the
colors. They may use any colors that
will show well when lighted, any trans
parent picture that is appropriate and
any original idea that will vary the ad
vertisement and suit the business !adv4r-
tised. About slxtyof these lanterns have
been distributed this morning. The tops
are to be covered with paste board or
wrapping paper bo that it may be tied at
one end aod held by a string at the other
two corners in Order to light the candles,
For a bilious attack take Chsmberltn's
Stomach and Liver Tablets and a quick
cure is certain. ; h or sale by J. h,. Hood.
VIENNA ARSENAL
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part oi tne mowers wu
people, but it is' narmfess amusement; it
does not cost at much W k circus ticket.
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k .i I MISS MAUDB ADAMS. y 1 v
America's theatergoers tenet eseeedintrlT the f ailnre of the health of Maude Adam,
probably (Jw nat popular ol eo state Morites. . Mis Adams bas com to Fiom in
searob of health and all of her f ntare engagements have been eanoelea. It is believe
that her breakdown will be only temporary, c ' .
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Items About People
iWhoXome and fro
Mr. W. Ck Slaughter went to Goldsboro
this morning, Rt,', ,,,. UH tt f,,.it'
Mr. E.; W. Biuell, ' of Goldsboro, spent
today lp lnston.
Miss Lucy Harvey returned from a visit
to Goidsboro yesterday.';
Ttfr. T. WTLynch returnid Ironfabusl
iwta Up to Kswl Vbrk yefcterday: . I
Uessr;j.ftfihManorGeoi hi KDpat-
rlck.went to Iew Berq hl m,qrnlng; ; j
Mr., Julia French went to Jaspen
Craven cou'nyktb visit her sgn yesterday, J
Mr. vi., a. Vf ooven, 01 w arsaw, was ui
trains. ' ' 1
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Ira.
a A. Kornegay, jof .Goldsboro
morning to tisk ai Mrs. a. r.
.'.Mre." Fannie' Richardson, of Dover,
came up thia morhlng to visit friends t
this place.
Mr. W. T. Hnntor returned from
visit to her parents at South Washlng
,,'n VMAra. ' . ' '
f a w-rf .......
, r-fln H Allan wltnrnad from Lhm
bsrton yesterday afternoon, where hs
had been to preside at Robeson court,
Mrs, M. E. Rogers came from Apex
yesterday afternoon,' and will spend the
winter with her son, Mr. J. J. Rogers,
Mrs. B. C. Bailey went to Morehead
City yesterday afternoon to ; visit her
brother-in-law. Dr. Mclntyre, who is very
slfk.
Miss Lucy Brook returned yesterday
afternoon, and will teach In the Elnston
graded ecbool, which commences iiext
! Monday.
Mr. E. L.' Miller and wife of Seneca
Kansas, came yesterday afternoon,, and
will visit at Dr. A. B. Millet's, and
Dr. H. O. Ilyatt's for some time. . ,
RESACA.
' Sept. 15th..
Misses Ada and Cella Mawxell left tc
day or Raleigh, where they go to at
tend school. .
Mr. Willie Mawxell leaves tomorrow
for hfs home In Atlanta, Ga. - r-
M ins Lola Worley ol Pink 11111 was
visiting friends In this community Satur
day.' r:;r-i',:-
The nicnic at Hebron last Friday was
largely attended and enjoyed oy ail.
Mr. and Mrs. J R. Smith visited rel
atives In Jones county Saturday.
Independent Ticket la Jones.
The so-called "independents held a
connty convention in Jones county Mon
day and nominated a ticket. The per
sonnel of the ticket shows In Jones, as
everywhere else, that It Is the same old
repul f trtjand not1 independents"
aa tbey ciil t?.ems-lves. There were on
tie t'cltt it puL'icans, popuh'sts and
reruL&ia.
f otiisc h Trouble.
"I have 1 atm'-lled with my tom-
ch f'Tti i . -t f ! "r years," va 1. L.
Heach, r.f ( r ."oclr l'r.n, L etT:"...-lit
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. ' Sent to Jail.
Calvin Clement wa remanded to Jail
la default of bond for Ihis appearance at
tha nets term of th SuDerlor court, be
tng tried before Mayo? Webb thia niorn-lng-
on si tat warrant charging him
with manalabgutef, In that bt was
grossly negligent In handling th pistol
In Tnompson room the bfter day and
that he did unlawfully point a pistol at
ThomDsohand another maid Inthe ro&n)
The statute of North Carolina make It
a misdemeanor' td 5 pcftht ' ptttol at
another, whether' It la loaded to not;
Clement i laid 'against; ; evidence
arising to show nialice and Intent on bis
Prt ; . ,
Miss Eva Aldrtdoe. wnd hsi been visit
ing relatives and friend, returned to her
horn laat Huaaay at urenuai. v. :
Mr. Rov Brown and sister, Mies Elvie,
srent the evening with Mia Lula John
son last Sunday. , .ar! vr
't Miss Rachel Brown, who had been visit
ing her uncle, Mr. Ed. Corle,, returned to
her hdme last Thursday. ' '
Mr. J. C. Kennedy spent the evening
with Mr. Elgine Brown last Sundays '
s Weareorry to ay that ther are a
few on the sick list tills week , , u ,,
. . Grettlag Baady. , , ,
- A number of the business men are put
ting a new dress" on their store fronts.
Among the number are A. Schultt, who
has completely remodeled the whole
front of hi store; painting it? white ex
cept th columns, which are painted with
silver and trimmed with gold. ElDsteln
Bros, are giving the front of their big
Store a new drees,1 which nraatly fm
p roves the appearance, and J. M. Stephen.
son, who Is also painting the front of his
sfiore and generally Improving tbe in
terior. These Improvements add greatly
to the appearance of these business
houms. and will surely bring large re
turns for the outlay, v :
, Short Locals.
Cotton sold at 8.today. .
Subscribers to the telephone system
will please add the following to their
list: No. 188, J. R. BaiP residence; No,
180, E. B. Whitehurst's market; No. 190,
T. E. Roberts & Cf steminery; No. 182,
Central market. !
There wa a large sea turtle on the ex'
preM car going west this morning that
attracted considerable attention , from
tne bystanders, it was alive but per
fectly helpless, as It was on Its back and
could not turn over. The turtle would
probably ' weigh a hundred and fifty
pounds, and was on Its way to tbe
northern markets.' ' ' ' ' "
; Oir Mental Tralta.
To our parents, says an expert, we
are Indebted for half our mental traits;
to pur grandparents, one-fourth; to our
great-grandparents, one-eighth, aod so
forta. . ;
Thn Philadelphia Mint.
Before a burglar could tunnel into
the money vaults of ttse Philadelphia
mint be would have to pierce a solid
rock so full of veins of water that the
Smallest opening Is immediately flood
ed. The gold vaults are of steel seven
inches thick, and the silver la pro
tected by one Inch of steeL
Cork.
All the cork used in the" world in a
year wel-'as Just over 1.000 tons. It
cor.ics from France. Spain. Portugal.
Italy ar.l north Africa.
FRESH FACTS III
A FEW LINES
Items of Interest to Male and Female :
Two little storks have been -hatched
at Kew gardens. , ; : v .
. The champion wrestler of Webb City,
Mc, ia a blind man. ;
: Pittsburg ablp more than 12,000,000
ton of coal annually.
n The gross tonnage of Pittsburg prod
ucts exceed 46,000,000. ; . ,
Licenses have been taken out for
1,250,000 bicycles In Franca.
Tugboat owners on (he Rhine hive
combined to raise towage rates. '
There- are- now some six European
In tbe Buddhist priesthood In Burma.
: Deep sea water for study la procured
by meana of specially prepared bot
tle. : v-i, ' S ;''
India rubber and gutta percha tree
have been discovered In German New
Guinea. i .j.---
A calf with two tongues 1a now in
the possession of a farmer at Boasert,
north Wales.
In, the United Kingdom last year
4,627 persona were killed while at work
and 107,290 others Injured. : .',
In London 10,400 laborers on the av
erage find employment : dally at the
docks and principal wharfs. . ,
Tbe processes now in use for collect-
lng tin from the waste of sheet tin by
electrolysis Is comparatively costly. .
Leeds, England, possesses a factory
chimney modeled on the beautiful cam
panile designed by Giotto at Florence.
' Instruction In the art of reading rail
tray time tablea Ja now being given to
hla pupils by a schoolmaster In Silesia.
One Australian - syndicate has of -fered
General De Wet 260 weekly and
expenses for a lecturing tour lmAns
tralla. ' u ,. ..
. . Seattle's export to 'Japan'' are now ,:
about 15,000,000 per anfaum, which Is
eleven,, time what they were six years..
t Four tona la tbe weight of a twenty
foot grampus which baa been captured
by the crew of an Irish fishing boat off
Kin sale. ; M
v Gaelic la the only language spoken
by 9.442 InhabltanU of Galway, 2,458
Of whom are between three and eight
een year of age. . - ,t
: Cheap aoft gooda made In Belgium
and Switzerland are rapidly . ousting
Manchester (England) fabrics from the
Mozambique market ,,.-. -
Three hundred and fifteen shoals In
various parts of the world were de
clared dangerous ;to navigation last
year by British admiralty eurveyora.
J Dumfries has Just revived the sn- ;
dent system of shooting for the Siller
gun presented to the trades of tbe
town by King James VI. of Scotland.
Between 7.000 and 8,000 packages of
home grown 'figs are now being dis
patched, every week from Worthing, ..
which la the center of: the English fig
growing Industry. ' j . ; - .--Germany
: furnishes more than one'
fourth of the foreign born Immigration
to this country, 25.8 per cent; Ireland ia .
next with 15.6 per cent, and England
follows with 8.1 per cent ...
Notices of dismissal have been served
on the colliers in the Bochum and ;
Dortmund districts, Westphalia, where
It has been decided to restrict the out
put of coal.
Lectures on tbe editing and publish-,
lng of newspapers will be given at the -High
School For Journalists, which Is
to be opened in tbe autumn at the Cnl-.
versity of Bern.
.' The spirits monopoly bas been ex
tended throughout the greater part of
central Asia and the northern Cau
casua All efforts to Introduce local
option in European Russia have failed.-'
In its upper reaches the river Rhone
has risen a yard in one day. In the
Yaud canton the snakes which have
been ousted from their holes by the :
floods are so numerous as to constitute
a plague.
The commission appointed to reap
portion Oklahoma has announced the
total population of the territory to be
600,000, with one representative for
every 22,000 people and one senator for
very 43,000. c-.l -:; .,'
. : ' The great advantages that have ac- .
crued to California cities from using "
oil to lay the dust instead of water
are being recognized by many cities,
and especially in those in which the
supply of water la rather limited.-
An "armored waistcoat; price, 32
shillings; carriage paid," has been in
vented by a French tradesman at
CbarIeviHe,-who recommends It espe
cially for the use of embassadors and .
members of parliament. , journalists
and others exposed to danger.
II le life Saved r-T Ch-.ni- '' (ollt,
I iiolra and l;rr m-a i.run-.l-.
"B. L. r ver, a w '1 know n cm r r r f
town, cvs be ti-'-v.-pfi...- '-
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