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.OVETilAW'S r.;iu!D CLEAR NOW This Is the Problem Facing the Defence DINT GIVEN BP JEROME 1 'A Brief Preliminary Cross-Examiua- i tion of Dr. Evans Yesterday After 5 noon Indicates Tliat the District ' ', ' Attorney Will Make it as Warm us Possible for the Defence. v ' ' (By the Associated Press.) ' New York, Feb. 19. The defense in ) the Thaw case having practically con cluded its attempt to prove that Hany ' Thaw was insane at the time he killed Stanford White, now faces the problem ot proving that this insanity was of a temporary nature and that he has re ' covered from it. Mr. Hartrldge of Thaw's counsel announced yesterday . that Dr. Graeme M. Hammond and Dr. Smith K. Jelliffe, both noted alienists will be placed on the stand today after Dr. Evans' testimony has been con cluded . Neither of these experts has ' been mentioned as having seen Thaw immediately after his incarceration in ' the TornbS and it is therefore believed ' that they will be called for tho pur-i(- pose of showing that Thaw is now sane. Neither D. Britton D. Evans no: Dr. Charles G. Wagner has stated . ' whether or not he believed Thaw to be . sane now, although Dr. Evans testi fied that there was a noticeable im provement In his condition after his first three visits to the Tombs. . If there is time after the alienists : have finished, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw will " be called and will continue her testi- , mony reciting the stories which her husband told her regarding the ui.u:' girls, who he believed, had suffered at tho hands of White as she told him she had suffered. These are the girls for whom Thaw provided a fund in the codicil to his will which was read in evidence yesterday. This fund, con trary to the stories which have here tofore been printed about it, provides money not for the support or tnese girls, but to assist them to obtain le gal redress from the man Thaw be- .. lleved had wronged them. The names of the girls, which are ! mentioned in the document were not read yesterday and will not be disclosed ' by Evelyn when she testifies, but Dis trict Attorney Jerome has them, and it Is understood has seen all the girls re ferred to and has obtained from them their stories. That he will attempt to put any of these stories before the Jury there la little probability, but he .( can perhaps use them is his cross- ex malnatton of Evelyn Thaw. The proceedings late yesterday after noon gave hint of what is to come when Mr. Jerome begins his cross ex aminations. He made a brief preli minary cross-examination of Dr. Evans ' and plainly showed that when he goes into the general cross-examination of the experts it will be very searching. Mr. Jerome and Dr. Evans are not on friendly L.vis and the clash between them will be interesting. On the other hand it was shown that Mr. Delmas will do everything in his power to pro . tect his witnesses from Mr. Jerome s -.. sarcasm and will not leave them to . their own resources as his predecessor, - Mr, Gleason, did Dr. Wiley of Pitts- burg, the first witness called by the defense. DATF FOR BRYAN'S TOUR OF VERMONT " St. .Tohnsburv. Vt.. Feb. 19. The ?dates for William J. Bryan's Vermont tour have just been anonnced by Ar ; thur II. Gleason, tho Vermont mem J ber of the executive committee of the ' New England democratic progressive .'.'league. Four speeches will bo made by Mr. Bryan in this state. On the 'afternoon of April 15 the Nebraskan . will speak' in Burlington, and in the evening at Barro. Two more ad- T"neu nil m-i 1 1 ho mala rtn thn fnllmu. ting day one in the afternoon at "Whlto River Junction and the other sit St. Johnsbury in tho evening. SyPHKIl DISMISSED , FOB EMBEZZLEMENT, Washington, Feb. 19. Assistant Paymaster kW. P. Sypher, U. S. N., has been dismissed from the navy on account of technical embezzlement. ' Sypher .was tried at the navy yard in this city on the charge of being un able to account for $1,300 of funds entrusted to him. The board con victed him and the matter has been before the navy for some time for review;; The law in cases of this kind Is mandatory, requiring dismissal on conviction. , Advice to the Aged. . As brings raflrmflies, such as stag. r"h bowels, weak kidneys and bfcstV u and TORPID UVER. - , : MM fills JIM: have a specific effect on these ortrsns stimulating the bowels, causing then to perform their statural functions M la youth and ( te the kidneys, bladder and LIVE. They at adapted to old and young. , ,., lx Nature's Way Is Best. The function strengthening and tissus building plan of treating chronic, lingett big and obstinate ease of disease as par sued by Dr. Pierost, is following alter Nature's plan of restoring health. He ases natural remedies, that Is extracts from aattve medicinal roots. 8 re pared by processes wrought out by le expenditure of much time and money, without the use of alcohol, and by skillful combination in just the right proportions. Used as Ingredients of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Black Cherry bark. Queen's root. Golden Seal root. Blood root and Stone root, specially exert their influence in cases of lung, bronchial and throat troubles, and tins "Discov eby" is. therefore, a sovereign remedy (or bronchitis, laryngitis, chronic coughs, catarrh and kindred ailments. The above native roots also have the strongest possible endorsement from the leading medical writers, of all the several schools of practice, for the cure not only of tho diseases named nbovo but also fur indigestion, torpor of liver, or bilious ness, obstinate constipation, kidney and bladder troubles and catarrh, no matter where located You don't have to take Dr. Pierce's say-so al jne as to this; what ho claims for his " Discovery " is backed up by tho writings of tho most eminent men in tho medical profession. A request by postal card or letter, addressed to Dr. K. V. Pierce, Ilutlalo, N. Y.. for a littlo book of extracts from eminent medical au thorities endorsing tho ingredients of his medicines, will bring a little book free that is worthy of your attention if needing a good, safe, reliable remedy of known comiKiKitlon for the cure of almost any old chronic, or lingering malady. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con stipation. One littlo "Pellet " is a gentle laxative, and two a mild cathartic. Tho most valuable book for both men and women Is Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Ad viser. A splendid lOOtj-pago volume with engravings and colored plates. A copy, paper-covered, will be sent to anyone sending 21 tfents 'n one-cent stamps, to pay the cost of mailing only, to Dr. R. V. Pierce. Ituffalo. N. Y. Cloth-bound. 31 stamps. Watts Law for Scotland Neck (Continued from First Page.) hill puts Scotland Neck under tho Watts law. Mr. Hankins, chairman of the com niitteo on counties, cities and towns, that had considered tho bill, ex plained that there was really no re port on the bill, every motion as to It having been defeated. He had voted against it because he thought from tho evidence that there was ! peace now, and the election would stir up strifo and turmoil. Mr. Neal of Halifax followed with a speech for tho bill. He declared the matter had been agreed, but that a delegation had come here and en tirely ignored the representatives. As to the public sentiment, he him self had received an ovation when he was in Scotland Neck last Saturday. If the people of the country were al lowed to vote, they would vote against prohibition in this case. As for the election, he and the other residents of Scotland Neck would an swer with their lives for good order. Ho himself was one of the old guard, perhaps the only survivor who had carried the elections in Halifax from 1876 to the last amendment. The facts in this case show that there is no peace now. Mr. Kitchln of Halifax, author of the bill, went fully into the whole matter. Ho regretted exceedingly that a personal attack had been made upon him. It had been said that if the thing came to an election he would steal tho election. "And the man who made the prin cipal charges against me is tho only democrat, so far as I know, in Hali fax county," said Mr. Kitchln, "who walked up to a ballot box and voted for i. negro." Mr. Dowd: "Is that man now the treasurer of Halifax county?" Mr. Kitchln: "Ho is." Mr. Dowd: "Did you vote for him?" Mr. Kitchin: "I did. I would vote for anything tho democratic primary would put up." Mr. Kitchin went on to say that ono of tho men best informed on the subject was sitting beside Mr. Dowd on tho floor of the house, and if he should state anything incorrectly he desired to be interrupted. A man sitting by Ir. Dowd started to ask permission to speak, but Mr. Dowd checked him, and the speaker promptly announced that no one but a member could be on the floor of tho houso save by its invitation. He directed tho gentleman beside Mr. Dowd to withdraw to the lobby. He did so, and Mr. Dowd moved to a rear seat so that he could communi cate with, the gentleman sitting right behind him in the lobby. As to the sentiment, Mr. Kitchin declared that there was no public sentiment in Scotland Neck for pro hibition. Ho told of. a man who had been charged with running a blind tiger, and tho attorney of the anti- saloon league appeared to defend him as a private attorney. Mr. Kitchin told the attorney it would be a great mistake for him to defend this man, and had gone with him to the presi dent and secretary of the anti-saloon league and told them the blind tiger could be easily convicted if not de fended; that he nor any member of his firm would defend him, and there would be no one to do so unless this attorney for the league did. Then the attorney said to the league offi cers that he had told them about this, but now he had accepted his fee and was going to defend the- man. .. Mr.' Kitchin told ot the two peti tions that had come up, and Mid several- gentlemen on the other side had? with himself, gone over the two petitions, and, after purging them of any names that ought not to be there cue EALEian evening found that tha one fo the pill tad a majority pf six. Those gentlemen then had confessed themselves beaten, and spoke as thongh the matter was settled, and Mr. Kitchln had so con sidered it i J . But, after that, a delegation had come here to fight It out further. Mr. Dowd: "Are you aware that those gentlemen deny that they con fessed themselves beaten?" Mr. Kitchln: "If they do deny it, it is untrue. Then the young member from Hali fax spoke of the way in which the delegation had ignored Mr. Neal and himself when they came here to lobby against the bill, which in the first place had been an agreement reached by both Bides long before this legis lature met. It had been said, Mr. Kitchln de clared, that these men hud not been jablo to find him. But ho had mot the chief of them and shaken hands with him and told him lie would be at tho hotel to see them. He had vaited there three-quarters of an hour and they had not appeared. Mr. Kitchin went into much de tail as to the agreement over this matter. He spoko with much warmth ;it times. Mr. Douglass spoke next, saying the question whether there was a majority on one side or the other did not bother him a bit. Then he went on to say that this would ho a back ward step, while the democratic plat form hud said there should lie no backward slop on the matter of tem perance. He went on to score the dispensary, saying it was no cure for Mind tigers. Tho blind tiger talk was a bugaboo of the saloon men. Mr. Ehringhaus called the atten tion of Mr. Douglass to the fact that the democratic platforpi said nowhere anything about taking a backward :-,tep In tho matter of temperance. The plank ir the platform relating to temperanco was read, showing that it merely declared for a continuance of the Watts and Ward acts and con gratulated tho people upon the benefi cent effect of the temperance legisla tion enacted by tho democratic party. Mr. Ehringhaus added that the only place where he had seen the "backward step" mentioned was in tho News and Observer, but that paper did seom to bo tho democratic platform for some gentlemen, Mr. Ehringhaus smilingly said. Mr. Douglass held, however, that the trend of the platform declara tions were toward temperance, and procesded with a vigorous temperance npeecn. Mr. Boyd of Haywood said Mr. Douelass ought to purge Wake of liquor. Mr. Douglass: "I have just intro duced a bill to get liquor out of Hay wood, and If you will introduce a bill doing the same for Wake I will try to get it passed." Mr. Boyd: "You have some repre sentatives in your county who can run it, If you can't." Mr. Douglass: "I thank you for the compliment, even if I don't return it as you so uncivilly put it. I thought you had some regard for legislative courtesy, but you seem to have for gotten it when you get on tbe liquor subject. I think the people of my county are better qualified to judge who shall bo their representatives than tho gentleman from Haywood." It appeared a little later that Mr. Douglass thought the bill was to let tho peoplo vote on prohibition or dis pensary. Mr. Kitchin corrected this idea, and said tho bill was to put Scotland Neck under the Watts law and let the people vote on anything they wanted. Mr. Douglass then wont on to tell how horrible it would be to have a voto on saloons. Mr. Stevens: "Your position seems to he that the people have a right to vote if they vote your way, and not if they don't vote your way." (Ap plause. ) Mr. Douglass: "That's as near right as the gentleman from Union generally gets on these subjects." Mr. Dowd of Mecklenburg next got the floor and read from the demo cratic platform to show what it said on the subject of temperance, calli attention to a comma between thl congratulation of the people on the temperanco legislation and the refer ence to the Watts and Ward laws, and made the point that several special acts had been passed since the Watts act and before the platform was enunciated. : -; Mr. Dowd went Into the; history of the matter to show that there was a sentiment, .for prohibition, and also that the agreement had been held" to by the other side. He requested the Halifax members to correct him when ever wrong as to facts, and was con stantly interrupted by Mr. Kitchin as to facts. Finally Mr. Dowd declared that he held In his hand a petition from a ma-, jority of the citizens of Scotland Neck asking that this matter be not. submit ted to a vote of the people. . , Mr. Kitchln got up with a bundle of letters in his hand and said he had expected this. He held some thirty or forty letters, he said, from signers of that petition, stating that they had signed It without understanding it and did not intend to ask that there be no vote. x, ' j:f:k-Mr':r-':-' V Mr. Dowd then Bald lie had in ad dition a petition' front 218 women of Scotland Neck against atl election. ' There was a warm little colloquy between Mr. Dowd and Mr, Grant, the latter taking the 'ground that ' Mr. Dowd's position Was Inconsistent with that in regard to 'the town' ot Wind sor. TUESDAY,1 FE from lobbies aoj gallery showed the interest In the matter. r- . . ' Mr. Dowd said the situation was entirely " : in Windsor. IB" Scotland Neck the salootj men had voted (or prohibition in otder to let the people have it and getjtlred of It, " ' ti Mr, . Galloway) of : Greens followed Mr. Dowd with si speech on the demor cratlc doctrine, of, government. . He thought this noise was getting very far away from the fundamental doc trines. It seemed to be admitted that the majority of the people of Scotland Neck were asking for a vote, and this house should welcome the opportuni ty to give them that they wanted A great deal! of fanaticism tad come into the land. It was not known before the war. "It came," said Mr. Galloway, "like hog cholera and 'chicken 'cholera." i Koars of laughter.) f"Jt was a migration, to this country troih New England. It landed with, the, Pilgrim Fathers on Plymouth Rock,, and I for ono wish the Plymouth Rock had landed on the Pilgrim Fathers. They prayed to God, fell on their knees and then on tho aborigines. The;, were pious, and no men could be pious but them selves. When man says ho Is not for prohibition, they say at once ho ji i for everything immoral and irreli - gious. ReliglouB fanaticism is the South Dakota for the resolutions worst form of alj despotism. A flea ; passed by this legislature, and stat knows when to stop hopping, but the j ing that his father had' been born religious fanatic never Mops. Why, j near Wlnston'Salem In this state, in some places there is a law pre-j There was a message from the cor Fcribing how much liquor a man can i poratlon commission, but It being so keep in his house. If !: than one gallon, woe unto 11 1 lived in that county I lainly ask, tor an occashu!, lias more I hat man! hould cer I furlough to hell!" I Tho czar of Russia, the shah of Persia, the sultan of Turkey or the st.ltan of Sulu, would not put a thing in this way on) hlg people when they did not wantIt, Prohibition Mohammedan doctrine. That was the only religion i'ctualjy prescribed prohibition. that Wo : had the Jewish and the Christian re- Johnston of Caswell, Johnson of ligion, and now they were trying to Johnston, Jones of Johnston, Julian, put Mohammedanism on us. Keoner, Kennedy, Kitchin, .KooncO, The gentleman from Wake had , Laughinghouse, Lockhart, McDaniel, raid tho supreme court of tho United McRackan, Mangum, Manning, Mid States had declared the selling of i yette, Morgan, Morton, Murphy, Neal, liquor to be per se wroiiK. He would I Park, Parker, Parsons, Pitt, Preston, bet ten to one there was not a man j Pritchard, Rector, Rodwell,' Rose, on that bench' but took occasionally i Royster, Sharpe, Simpson, Stevens, some per so wrong. The question was called at the conclusion of Mr:; Galloway's speech. The bill was passed on second read ing by a vote of $4 to 29. Mr. Dowd Withdrew objection to third reading, and it was passed and ordered engrossed and sent to the senate. .V'-p, Messages. A message was! received from the governor transmitting a letter of . . . No matterhow V ; ASK OUR AGENT TO TEL YOU ABOUT IT i, (. . . . " v w t-: .-rr &.; :.:':,:'; '. -.v. You get first class Insurance and certain Protection when you buy : t-r . : a fire insurance policy from the oldest home company. NED WE REPEATTHE WARiNINO, THERE IS DANGERlN tDEUY ? ; ; , BliUAKaJ sv,.;-f- ,.v- : . M-i v -'v' Affi" :V-s,f ;,-' .'rtyV'r:i??t f. -v - :",v 'f;lf4-,,;s V' ':,V;VAr;.s.v-;' "4 '-dA form of corresponded 1 ' in a hurry and carried by a boy in sleep ? : - ; ; ' thaps a TELEGRAM! ", -'-r. -.. -A ' ' ' ' '.- -' - ? "V';sv vl V--y ' -,v.',',:-i-.'.F-.',!.: Whan $ou to ike newly married couple, just tell ihtm to use good flour , - " thaps PATAPSCO! j 'W ! thanks from Governor SA H.'Elrod of lata, it, with another message from the governor, was - deferred ' for con sideration, not being read. i The Vote. The voto on the Scotland Neck bill was as follows: Ayes: Messrs. Bailey, BIckett, Boyd, Byrd, Carter, Coleman, Cowles, Cox, Crawford, Davidson of Chero- was a keo, Davis ot Hyde, Doughton, Ehr inghaus, Foushec, Gallert, Galloway of Greene, Gaston, Gordon, Grant, Griffin, Hampton, Hanes, Harris, Taylor of Brunswick, Taylor of Vance, Vann, Vestal, Washington, Weaver, Wells, Williams, Winborne. Noes: Messrs. A very, Bowman, Bryant, Burnett, Candler, Davidson of Iredell, Dllling, Douglass, Dowd, Eddlus, Edgerton, Galloway of Tran sylvania, Gibbs, Gillam, Grler, Han kins, Harshaw, Hollowell, London, McLean, McNeill, McRae, Mlal, Mull, Pickett, Price of Rockingham. Pugh. Turlington, Wood. ACX. WEBB, Vice-Pres. great the conflagration, every one would be paid. ; ..a. ,,l,1 i-m ; Stmm onto RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA. ESTABLISHED 1869 1 1 !&1 '0s ence sen a person -, i TELEPHONE COMPANY eTTnTDfa rTTAT'P'Ir"D!:!nttt,ve 18 calmly t0 resign themselves DJiOUXtJliO tfllAXfcA JiJt. tQ tha situation, hoping that the gov- i -.1 ' i r'j-' :, ' I eminent can ar ran ere with the Amerl- Charters were granted today to the following corporations: ".'-' . The Granvlllo Telephone Comany. Oxford; authorized Capital stock, $50,000, but can organize and begin business with-$.1,000. Incorporators are: W. C. Currln, S. H. Jones, R. T. Crltcher and others. Object is to! construct and maintain a telephone company. Nelson-Cooper Lumber and Furni- nTTKn onTi.th nnv,wf! capital stock, $60 000, with prMlege of beginning business with f.ep0 Incorporators are: P. L Cooper. M shares; F. W. Nelson 22; W. A. Thompson, 5; and P. Nelson, 10. Ob- jeet is to engage in a general lumber and furniture business. NEW THEATER FOR CITY OP DANVILLE. A new playhouse Is to bo erected in the city fit Danville by Mr. S. A. Schloss, tho well known theatrical manager and lessee of the Academy of Music In this city. He has secured tho site where the 'old theatre was lo cated and the new playhouse is to be erected at a cost of not less than $25, 000, work to begin by the first of April and to be finished not later than Jan uary 1, 1908. The seating capacity of the opra house is to be about twelve hundred. The plans are being drawn by a Char lotto architect. G. P. PROOF r V-. .. r - . . .. ,ii , rf ' i i , - - " ' - ' ifl! : f I 1! I It J 1.0 on , J r f , ' . v . ' f , r- -'-'---ll win kMiitu i.m Jan Reads : Amendment ; to Exclusion Act The Strongest Dissatisfaction Great ed . Among the Interested Parties . 3 in the Sunrise Kingdom Japanese 1 Wire to Roosevelt. .' . By the Associated Press.) Toklo. Feb. AV. (Afttmoon) Tho of- flclal text of President : Roosevelt's i amendment of the exclusion bill has been published. ;"n ;-; tH,,;t : - x, As expected it has created the strong est dissatisfaction ( among the inter- ested parties,1 although the movement of procedure have ot yet assumod a definite shape, ' '-t - .,- ; 1 The Japanese residents of the Ha waiian Island have telegraphed Presi dent Roosevelt and the Hawaiian re presentative in tbe houso indicating tho . seriousness of the injury which will be . caused to their rights and interests by this legislation. ' The leaders - of (opinions here are aware however, that ; under tho circumstances the only alter- can authorities to reduce the sacrlflce in ( the Interest of Japanese emigrants to minimum. -, They rcgTct the new law lost the Ban Francisco people glorying in their suc cess should usKunio an overwhelming attitude . . . : ' - ' ' News of this kind would tend to in jure Japanese susceptibilities which President Roosevelt has been specially careful to avoid. , , Malaria Cause. Ioss of Appetite, 0Jd standard c Ton,c and buUd8 tt 8tem gol(, R y , B , ONE TRIVIAL CASE IN THE POLICE COURT TODAY.' One lono offender confronted Police Justice Badger this morning and ho was charged with no worse crlmo than having struck at a man, did not hit him, but only made an effort to do so, which In law made him guilty of an assault. His name was Elmore Gill and he struck at Hubert Edwards. Judgment was suspended upon ' pay ment of the cost. I RUB IT IN! 9 what you have to do with Penn 'Liniment. You will obtain full satisfaction for your "pains" which will cease. Price Ec. jat all druggists. FOLK, Sec-Trees. Policies- of our policies s . 't 5 on account of residence, it bad been , The applause that came at times :v-Mi"