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'--. . V"' V- f 1 flouivtam Scout Published Wtskly 1AYLQRSV1LLE, .-. North Carolina ' ' "Starr the fly" to much the batter slogan. Erery baaeball team ta a pennant winner jut now. : Women will wear mailer bate, bat hate are not sold by the square foot : ; New York's aprlng cleaning will coat $28,000. It will be dirt cheap at that' Announcement of the centenary ot the allk hat reminds us that the good die young. - - No man need be devoid of pride . when he can press his own trousers r successfully. , Even a person without much other culture may point proudly to his ap pendicitis scar. - . A California man Is breeding striped rats, but what kind of liquor he Is using Is not stated. There are no new names to call the umpire, of course, but then there, are always new umpires. No wonder the man who gave his . wife thirty hats failed to win her love, considering the styles. : The simplified spelling board Is go ing right on simplifying words that refuse to be simplified. There Is reason to think that those : Zeppelin airships are dangerous con trivances to those on board. 50,000 ' OFFICES GEOFFREY O'HARA FOB DEMOCRATS PROVIDED THEY, CAN WIN COMPETITIVE EXAMINA TIONS. .- IN TATEMENT OF BURLESON Tart's Fourth-Class Postal Order Amended by President Wilson. - Is Washington. All fourth-class post- masterships, except those paying less than (180 a year, were thrown open to competitive examinations by an or der issued by President Wilson. These positions are retained in the classified service, but about 60,000 incumbents who were "covered" into the classified service by executive orders of previous administrations, will have to meet all comers in competitive examinations to hold their positions with civil service protection. In a statement making this order public, Postmaster General Burleson announced that it was the purpose of President Wilson and himself to ex tend the classified service to include presidential postmasters of the second and third-class, probably within a year. This may require legislation Dy congress, he said. His plan, which will be laid before the president, would I JAPANESE AGAINST ANTI-ALIEN i ' '. MURDERER OF IG MRS. WILLIAM C. STORY., GEOEGE SLAYS SELF IALEKO SCHINAS, WHO ASSA68I- . NATEO,THE -KING 0F GREECE SUICIDES. LEAPS FROM DIZZY HEIGHT I King's Assasaln Was Being Held In I the. Police Station In the Cap , ital of Greece- . S Athens, Greece. Alekq Schlnas, wtfb I I assassinated King George of Greece, i on March 19 at Salonlkl, committed suicide -by .'flinging himself out of al window of the police station fn that city. Schlnas was a native of the town of Volo, Thessaly. He killed the king by I firing point blank into his back while he was walking along the streets of Sa-1 lonlki accompanied by an aide. acninas gave as an explanation oil the crime that in 1911 he had applied I fu a. j I hddjouiuw m kliu mug a viuhw I w nwi nmu Bran ppoimca l u-j. v j-i , "j wyiww kn instructor or native Indian musle In the bureau of 'f-r v wf Indlsn affairs at Washington, D, C. JAPAN TO HAKE PROTEST A few days ago the doctors examin- led Schlnas and announced that he I I was dying of tuberculosis. Our respect for China is conslder- ably enhanced by the Information that the Chinese do not eat chop suey. , ' Archaeologists announce that Egypt fought a money trust 4,000 years ago. And look at what happened to Egypt! There be those who maintain that it is cheaper to treat yourself to grape fruit every day than to pay doctor bills. Egypt had graft scandals, a Bertll lon system and lots of other things, including gestures that cannot be Imi tated.' : The suggestion has been made to have the man given away, too, at ' weddings. If coyly done, it will be a triumph. 7 It may be true that music makes hair grow on bald heads, despite the fact- that Richard Wagner wore a 'skullcap. V As for rabbits, turtles, guinea pigs, . etc. Inoculation with some form of - germ seems to be the badge of all the tribe. provide for a qualification test for in cumbents and applicants "in keeping with the importance of the offices." Under President Taft's order of Oc tober 15, 1912, fourth.class postmast ers were divided Into, two classes. Class "A," those drawing more than $500, and Class "B," those drawing less than $500. Competitive examina tions were prescribed for future appll cations for Class "A" appointments, LAND LAW PASSED CALIFORNIA. BY Diplomats Think It Has Put United States in Delicate ; Position. Washington. The Japanese embas sy was supplied by 'the state depart ment with a copy of the alien land- WOMEN AREREFUSED BALLOT Measure to Extend Suffrage in Great Britain Beaten by 47 Votes. London: The fate of the woman's shffrage bill was sealed by the votes of more than fifty Irish nationalists, i who voted against it. The bill, where- b yit was sought to enfranchise 6,- 000,000 women, was rejected by a ma jority of 47; the vote stood 266 to 219. Whether there Is any chance that V h . . ; t J f j - h frit Mrs. William Cummlngs Story Is the new president of the Daughters of the American Revolution.1 She was elected on. the third ballot after a spirited contest. the present parliament will pass a mil nr vviia iimirAn n nr i v mnv rxr while the Class "B" PnwfJ owning bill passed by the California doubted. Possibly the nationalists legislature and the ambassador will I fear that If they allow a woman's employ the time between now and sec- franchise bill to pass the second HONTENEGREOBEYS POWERS KING NICHOLAS AND GENERALS HAVE DECIDED TO EVACUATE SCUTARI. be filed upon recommendations of post- office inspectors. The order leaves only the offices T,r,0 . w.aHm(m I M ..,, ,A . ; . paying $180 or less to be fllled upon in preparIng a tormal protest against struggle, which would not unlikely iu0FUvw.o thA ITlftftRlirP I onrl n laoM.iflnn r,erlomont t.n. nuiea auu io6uiuuu i 6u.c.u nnnmntlir tha omhnaav has tin hniw tr.r hmo, -lo Mil . 1. that any word President Wilson may Furthermore, the debate proved that Montenegro's Cabinet Resigns as Protest Against Giving Up the Fortress. Cettings. A - royal . decress sum mons a special meeting in the Skup- stina to deal , with the diffi cult foreign situation. King Nicholas be worked out and announced by the "V his generals into a coun- administration of the new order will! civil service commission as soon as possible. will influence Governor Johnson to has done the cause great harm as Z. Vu- !J. , so the only object of the protest will conciliation bill of last session was re FOREST RESERVE BOUGHT Mn to acquaint the American people jected by only a small majority corn- Latest Purchase 93,000 Acres in Vir ginia, Tennessee and N. C. Washington. Approximately 93,000 acres of mountain land In Virginia, .Therefore, the prospec of a peaceful solution is brighter. with the Japanese contention and. if pared with the Dickinson bill .under T" 7 ""f l" ! Lokio x i mmLii t, ... ., . London news agency says that the hrm Af thl JitalZ Montenegrin cabinet vhhwu va. uu evvuiuvu vuuMWk OUU1C UJCaOUl O Ul V3111.1 CtUUlllOClUClltV IU to nullify the action of the California women, have passed the second read legislature. Mng, although they never survived sub- Thfl amhnaev nrlll molra Irnnwn thn I XTitK PoriHna onil Trr00f I vmUUou; " auun.v nuvnu uv avqucill DtUgCS, ZrlZZJl' ot ,ts Protest ln a diplomatic v iik ill ih. wan auui u vcu ivi vu uuaw I x i . n . v. . i v ... , . uolB io oecreiary Bryan. is wen FflnD ucu : .DC nuv,PTcn . J'l J" . . I tUII IIIUIV n 1 1 L. UVI1IIUI LU I itaiuiu uiiuiowi ul wai lias Ul- by the national forest reserve com mission. This will make almost 600,- oas resigned as a protest against the policy of evacuat ing Scutari. The occupation of Albania by Austria and Italy is becoming more and more probable each day. It is reported that i understood that to settle the question I no matter what may be the point of ready ordered an expedition to be pre- 000 acres bought by the government objectIon wlll require the actlon of the Police Inspectors of New York Con- Pared- The prospect is regarded with A dispatch . says "lobsters are have state protection." Tls well protect some lobsters for proper an nihilation. An actress advises girls to wear hat i pinless hats to make a bit with men. The advice is so shrewd as to be fair ly dlabolloaL . Wife of a. millionaire eloped with a butcher. Probably had extravagant tastes and wanted meat three or four times a day. An eastern woman claims she would rather be very thin than otherwise. At least she takes a broad outlook ol the situation. ' . According to . a Chicago professor, clothes are worn primarily for orna ment. Then how does he account for the derby hat' r - , u is announced tnat a new ; Velasquez portrait has been discov- : ered in London. But it Is not announc ed who painted it. : jn China tne breaking of a cup means an oath of brotherhood. In an American restaurant it means one from the proprietor. ' What has become of the old-fash- i loned man who used to write to the newspapers to say that "woman's sphere Is at home"? :v Boston college gicla propose organ izing, a chain of don't wed clubs, but say . the membership will be limited. 'Limited .to girls over Bixty. New fork. It la reported, has an overabundance of apartment houses and confidence: game workers. Sort ol too many flats and sharps, as it Were. ' 'There must be a lot of poor shots - In the old world. ' Dispatch says that eight out of every ten noblemen who come to America to Inveigle heiresses In marriages, fall as fortune hunters. A funeral cortege was arrested for excepting the speed limit In Spokane recently. How hard it is to lose the 1. 1 ern habit of ' "hustling!" ' , . sou ula Is contagious, says a late Ileal report Quite so, especially cri tls bcvy of the bouse begins to ' er i tls slightest symptoms., woman on separation 1. is to have $70,000 ! -s and a country ' t a 1-1 rf r ud to date for the Appalachian and White mountains forest reservation. United States courts, and much con sideration must be given to the pro vided of Conspiracy. New York. James P. Thompson, the greatest uneasiness ln Austria and Russia, owing to the possible effect The largest of the group of tracte Le(lure t0 be followed Jn arranglng for James E. Hussey, John J. Murtha and nth S T PPulat,ons' RusB,a wl couiyr8 ,o.,u a . a judicial test of the California law. Dennis Sweeney, the four demented po- :;7Jh nHB viWima. the it " W " Jr. Secretary Bryan to de- lice Inspectors, charged with a con " " ,T j. ,,f lermine wnemer me unuea states spiracy to obstruct justice, were con purchase vnaJ lgarnt-BhaU become a party to victed by a jury ln the supreme court. . J xT. : a sult ot this character, in the cepac ia mo x-uiuuiw . lty of an intervenor. OX 01 IraClS, IUU1111UK 0,ouv auca iu Frederick and Shenandoah counties, use the utmost pressure to prevent such operations. Russia will aJso, according to a reliable statement pub lished in Sofia, undertake the role of Only 38 minutes wer TtoSl" betWeen Swvla jurors to reach their verdict that the defendants were guilty of a mlsde- Virginia, and Hardy coun.y. West W REBELS CAPTURE AN ARMY Stt Lfl Mexico City.-Assurs were given ainia. was approved, about half of which adjoin lands already bought In the Nantahala purchase area ln Macon county, North Carolina, 31 tracts,, containing 6,465 acres, was Huerta's General and 700 Coldiers Are tua .rort ,- end of the week the defensive atti- Taken by Rebels. El Pasco, Tex.The rebel commit u vuu "'. tee received verification of the report diet The crowd approved filling out tracts previously I Qenenl Tncy Mben hafl 1 & dtgturbi tude thus far maintalnect by the gov ernment will be abandoned and that within thirty days anything - having purchased there. U. S. Mail Boat Sinks. Jacksonville, Fla. The The accused officials stood outward ly unmoved as they heard the ver- Trucy Aubert had sur- caused a disturbance, shuffling chairs "m k-v'T" ",cuc'u ",""u" rendered to the Carrazana insurgents and feet until attendants checked theLfc , ', ... . "-u uii T.mna.. hinof T .rortn Tn, -m, J rifmrrtor Th. T,nnnAr v. hai, ttere w,u 'emaln the task of running LIVE.. STATE; IEiS NORTH CAROLINA POSTMASTER8 ' NEXT ' IN THE PIE-LINE OVERMAN BUy ':' NOMINATIONS TO SENATE Introduce Four Bills and Withdraws Opposition to Charles P. Nelll, Who le Confirmed Secures Pardon ot a F. Van Horn of Burke County. Raleigh. A special from Washing ton etates that President Wilson baa forwarded to the senate the first nom ination of North Carolina postmasters, naming L. B. Hale at FayettevUle and Russell A. Strickland at Elm City, Mr. Hale's nomination was recommended by Congressman Godwin, for whom he acted as secretary until a few- week ago." Mr. Strickland was recom mended for appointment by Congress man Kltchin. . Representative Webb called upon upon Attorney General McReynolds and secured the pardon of D. F. Van Horn of Burke county, who was sen tenced to -two years' Imprisonment at Atlanta and to pay a fine of $500 for "moonshining." Van Horn has al ready Berved one year. His applica tion for pardon was endorsed by the trial judge and district attorney. He will le freed immediately. Senator Overman introduced a bill to appoint Frederick H. Lemly, ol Winston-Salem, a passed assistant paymaster on the active list of the United States navy. iHe attempted last session to secure the reinstate ment of Lemly, who resigned about a year ago, and had the bill passed through the. senate but It was held up in the house naval affairs commit tee, although favorably recommended by the navy department. He also In troduced a bill for a term of the dis trict court for the eastern district of North Carolina, to be held at Wilson on the first Mondays in April and October, v Senator Overman and Cnogressman Doughton recommended the appoint ment of W. D. Pethel as postmaster at Spencer. . . Changes In New Hanover. Wilmington. Several laws passed by the last legislature which makes changes of an Interesting nature In the New Hanover county government became effective recently. One law abolishes the free system of remun eration for county officials and places them on salaries. Another abolishes the office of treasurer and creates the office of auditor, the present- treasu rer becoming the auditor and also as suming all the duties that have per tained to the treasurer's office as well as the duties of the new posl km. A third bill abolishes the office of the clerk of the recorder's court and consolidates this court with the superior court lnasfar as the. clerk ship Is concerned.' 'Another measure which will be effective the 7th of May consolidates the boards of health of the county and city. . down isolated bands. I varlflftaHnn was hpnuvht tn tha hnpifi. I nerifcrpoa onri Afro hefner ramanilorl I United Lv MoW Solvnrinr rlnmov nMhn .hi. fnr oantonpn warA ratiirnail tn tho) erta an the War minister, (resident Hu- General' States mail boat Laporte, a gasoline who fiava hn thB ... celli,. f.ollnafil ftnnoiincd that . . Mondragon, as weU as their counBel- launcn wnicn carries mail 10 uie oi. der of Aubert anij 700 federal troops, tiflcate of reasonable doubt will be Johns river towns, sank while off Ar-I lington. The boat was overloaded with tnelr commander. General Jones Inez a chance to go free on bail pending ef- J Qf .?h?1 "t andJ the, rebel mails ana parcels poi umitei ubbiubb Sn,.,r nrt hl 1a,thf fnllnwora frnm tnrta tn nhtnin a. new trial r"" " " ""- some cargo and went down in 19 feet of water, 200 feet off shore. Five per sons aboard were rescued ln a ding hey. A sack for Fulton, Fla., was not recovered. old Casas Grandes, Mexico, are being urged to accept formally the consti tutionalist revolution. This practical- tically harmless. 25 Persona Wounded' In Rioti Syracuse, N. Y. Determined efforts Samuel Gompers' Sentenced Affirmed. Washington. Contempt of court ly would place the revolutionists ln are being made here to settle the Jud" P .art BnZri PrnnmS. control of the territory along the Mex- strike of building laborers which de- $ ZtcheTand lS SorrK ... I ' v I TOIVVCU DCI IOD VI IllVO 1U WU1U1 rhnln vlnlnlA . J i . A. Mrs-Longstreeti-osesrier umce. jaurez. So far the mutineers, who twenty-flve persons, nme of them po- the nBnrk B-n Washington. Representative Thorn, number 250, merely have displayed re- licemen. were wounded. The strikers 5, . .a .i411.86 as M. Bell's nomination of A. S. Hardy, sentment of their leaders ordering met with Sessare Sconfettl, Italian court of anneal .but th inton,. editor of the Gainesville Eagle, to be them to proceed to .Chihuahua City, consular agent at Rochester, who came Snoaad wer hi t . nnatTnntr nt OalneRville. was turned nn JnRtrnrHnnn frnm Hcnoroi Afin o imposed were, held to have been to) 5" .Tn Pr;Mnt w( nn . in R.wn 7 n7 tn . l ;i VTr r". ""TT " "l-"J':- severe, so the court reduced Gom """" - t"" .a"-' wo iu wan uu uits euipiuers wun a nm nontonno frnm nna - ma. th name of Mrs. H. W. J. Ham. widow hfiHavn that thnv nnn will annont thn ' pers sentence from one year to thirty - - I v f t lj W ui ci uit,a uvilii liio nas.li uiMiiiii.H. J J w J al i 1 1 . of "Snollygoster" Ham, to succeed Mrs. revolutionary plan. Th eontraeton. Huva lntfii thtr "B''. uu ,UBt.'ru w-wa na Helen D. Longstreet. The rejection of General Salazar and his men retreat-1 willingness to arbitrate.- Ordpr was Mr. Bell's nominee has caused the live- ed to New Casas Grandes, the railway restored with the first negotiations for nest interest nere. town, witn tne mutiners l a settlement school omidren in fern. I soiaier is Killed at Post I Slaver of Wife Jailed for Lifa New uneans. several nunared pan-1 Atlanta, ua. jonn uaiivan, a Span-1 ' Rome Ga. I W Williams (O-vpht. lc-stncken scnool cnuoren ned irom isn war veteran ana a private in Com- old slaver of his wife Mrs Hpni-wtn the Amesville school building in a pany L of the Seventeenth United Williams, was sentenced to life Impris blindlng rainstorm when lightning States infantry, stationed at Fort Mc- onment at the state farm. The jury siruuic au uu mun ueiuugiiiK 10 me riieiuuu, was bu uun. auu instantly I brlnelne a verdict of eulltv with Texas Oil company and set fire to the killed by a Central of Georgia local recommendation to mercy after ten more man z.uuu.uuu gallons 01 cruae in-Douna passenger irain in iront or I minutes dsllhpration Th Aotanaa' oil which It contained. There was no I the army post. Gallivan was a little nlea of inaanltv and th nf wn explosion, but the flames burst forth deaf and, when he crossed the track, I Hams were the contributing factors to in an instant and enormous volumes of (evidently failed to hear the train I the leniency the defense's sttnrnov black smoke ascended to a .height of coming. When it hit him, he was hurl- admitting In his soeech before court more man a tnousana ieet. a nan- ea iuiiy ten yurus away, rracticany that the crime was so "unprovoked aozen ower large on tanxs near oy every poiie in ins pouy was oroxen. He that no sane man wnuld have com were endangered Dy tne neat. ' I struck on nis neaa, DreaKing nls neck, muted It" New Day Dawning, SSys Daniels. Canada Girl Sponsor for U. S. Warship New Orleans. The address of Sec- Ran Francisco. Cal. When tha n Sheriff Shot While Killing Slaver. Vienna. Ga. Two men are dead and K , irn iimruiiiv wiiiiiiiiHii hr a rnniiirn .. . . . l of two pistol battles near here. The 7, A 7 Ti ' BUDmanne WTao Doal was flint nnnonninr wan htwn iwr board of trade her was interpreted as launched at the Union Iron works, an Blow and P. P. Sangester, the latter indicating that he favored the resump- American naval tradition was shatter- being killed. When Sheriff Bennett tlon of active operations at the New led. For the first time ln the country's and his deputies cornered Blow he Orleans naval station and at other sta-1 history a United States warshln was opened Are, shooting the sheriff ln the tions which wer ordered dismantled by christened by a subject of a foreign siomacn. i ne omcor auiea maw as l iormer secretary jueyer. i tie aeciarea l country. . , Miss Leslie Jean Meakin, be fell. The scene of the shooting I that he would not tavor closing per-1 who stood sponsor for the new craft! was near Pllklngton's distillery, this manently any naval station of die was born ln Montreal and is a subject county. Blow and Sangster were farm- country even If Its operation meant of King George. Miss Meakin Is a era p-1 f'-fcbors. Bad blood had ex- the payment of only a small Interest on niece of John A. McGregor, sunerin- l ' ' : l c i Ce- for some time, the moty tTested. tendent of the Iron works. ' - , Morrison should merely be fined SSOir each. The lower court sentenced Mitchell to nine months and Morrison to six. . Women Charged by Mounted Men. London. Wild scenes of disorder occurred at the demonstration in Traf alager square under the auspices of the free speech defense committee. The police tried to prevent speeches from the Whitehall side of the Plinth of the Nelson column and only the In tervention of James Kair Hardle, so cialist and independent labor member of the house of commons, who was chairman ot the meeting, prevented a serious rio.t. As It was, tne disorders, many times culminating in fisticuffs between the crowd and the police. ' - Disastrous Fire at LaGrange. Kinston. Only by using dynamite was the fire which swept the business section of LaGrange stopped, after having resulted in damage estimated at $150,000. The town has no water works and the volunteer firemen could do little. Kinston, the closest neigh boring town, was appealed to, but the engine of the department was out of commission and no assistance could be given. The flames started in a small restaurant from the explosion of a gasoline tank and rapidly spread Have Not Given Up Fight. GKarlotte. 'The refusal of the management of the railroads to offer a basis of adjustment of freight rates which will afford relief to the ship pers of the state does not mean that the business men will give up their endeavors toward securing this re lief is the position of the shippers who went to Raleigh recently to. at tend the rate conference between the governor, the members of the special freight rate commission and the off! clals ot the railroads. Good Roads in Halifax. Scotland Neck.-The benefits of the splendid roads . built by ' the county convicts was demostrated when a gen tleman came to town driving a pair of mules to a wagon, after some fer tilizer. . His route - was over the Im proved roads, and r loading 4,000 pounds of guano he started, out The " team carried the load with apparent ease, whereas, heretofore a few hun dred pounds would have been difficult to carry. This is a splendid lesson in- , favor of good roads in this and other counties. Chief Prison- Clerk Defaults. Jackson, Miss. Lawrence Verger. clerk of the board of prison trustees, was arrested charged -with being a defaulter In the sum of $14,627. Yerger Is said to have acknowledged to Gov ernor Brewer that he was short ln his accounts. An affidavit was ' filed agalns Yerger by Attorney General Ross A. Collins, alleging Yerger had. by making erasure and otherwise de facing his books, covered up receipts that had been turned into the prison office and appropriate t' e monpv to his own use. Business Men to Confer Soon. -Charlotte. A conference of ship, pers will be held at the office of the Greater Charlotte Club soon-at whlcb time plans for continuing the move ment for an adequate adjustment of freight, rates for North Carolina bus iness people will .be made. This meet ing Is being called by Mr. Clarence O. Kuester, of the Charlotte Shippers and Manufacturers' Association. . Repres ents tire shippers In a large number of towns were written personal letters f t0 t , r-tj necflB'i"y ct ir f
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