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! The Eenic IMIsg VqL I Statesville, N. C., Saturday Evening, February 27 1909. No42 Tl-f ' Okn I .1MI) NOT LIKE THE IIOADS ! fl rmRPn u-mrov ninr Pr -rkf-v-nrJ-i -nxc ' 1 " -If '. Some Points miNHi lWXT TESTIMONY GETS IX V. v(ci u.iy's Session Proved the. Best m Far For the Coopers and Sharp :ui(l :it t Fie ejtose Their Case Was Mairriiiliy Sterngthened Defense i !;. Testimony .Denying That Ci:rin;;; k Was jn an' "Ugly Humor" :.: r Vert l et's, avIio Loaned t :'.: m;( k 5is Gun, Identifies tho V.Vaj oil and Also the Scabbard in earmark's. Overcoat ;-.(. Nashville,' .Tenn. . Feb. 2C.-The r.ih';l! May of actual testimony in the Coum-i Slutrp trial for the slaying of torpor I'll i ted. States Senator Ed- war.! . . i aiiiiaciv was marked by !'ii;;iiry and bitter argument bc uv en opposing counsel and . closed .itii a doc id o;I advantage for thede i'ene. - At the same- time an inter- r. w l-oij:t v.ai decided by Jai!u( Hart. Tho defense early in its case in (i:iei' 'offered .proof that Colonel 'no i, v was told by Edward Craig, whom the colonel had sent to see ;-ouator .Carmacki - that' Carmack was in an "ugly .humor. 7 The defense's caso was based really, upon this one cvpti.rion for Colonel Cooper and Ruhin both testiled that they armed themselves because they, were led to helieve from the remark that Senator Cainiaok might assault the'elder Cooper. : '. - To.lay Tie state offered to prove by woof, the defense's own witnesses, -Major .Vertrees and Assistant ' State Insurance Commissioner T. Leigh Thonipton, that Senator Carmack v. as not in an ugly humor but laugh ed at the idea of Trouble. - - Ti e defense fought the admission ' of this testimony with more vim and bitterness than has characterized any argument since the trial began Learned counsel offered two reasons why it should be excluded. First, Hat tho state could cross-examine only on such matter as had been pme over in direct examination. The? com -i promptly rejected this theorw Xoxt the defense argued that unless all iho conversation of witnesses, wiili Ca-rmack as well as their obser vation of his maner and appearance j had been communicated to the d- fendants, the testimony was inadmis sible. . . : " - In the-question of Major -Vertrees testimony Judge Hart excluded the jury and permitted the state to ex amine the major for the court's ben efit. He admitted al lthat the-state ?aid he would, that Carmack laugb o;l at the idea of trouble, said he had iVno nothin gto prove it and that lie wanted a revolver simply to sat hu'y. bis friends. Then counsel on ! o;h sidesargued and the court held with the defense. ' Later hi the day when T. Leigh Thompson was on the stand almost the same question arose and the ar gument began anew. Judge Hart said he would render his decision to morrow but intimated that unless the state had discovered some new Muthoririos to support its contention, would rule out the testimony. Colonel Cooper reisumed tl;e stand when coutr opened and saidf' ''I wish to make one statement. -xiy testimony yesterday as io help- his an old soldier wit hmoney, as I a 1 it in the stenographer s trah- script ..this morning, was misunder-: stonti and I am afraid it is my fault, j 1 ocured $1,050 ilfrom my farm. I ; :vc only $50 of it to the' 'old "sol- ! dier. but evidcntlyvcry one thought ; l aid $1,050. r-That's all.' j Cooper was then excused. After 1 iiprae " delay, waiting for a witness ho aid not arrive Lieutenant M. B. fTuhcr. V, S. A, who found the re- VOlver roip fipmnol-'c Imlv TTDS ' - V. I A V 4.4. X. 14 V. IV "- railed by the defense lie said he had just left the club -a block away from the tragedy before the killing and .saw a crowd. He approached and found Senator Carmcak lying in the gutter, face down. His right hand was-extended and the revolver as eight inches from the hand. Witness picked up the revolver and hroke 'it. It contained four loaded shells and two empty ones. It was ' a 3S-ealibre hammerless. On cross-examination Pilcher said he had no means of knowing how Negro Told Judge Long Tliat lie Lid Not Want to go to the Roads hat Preferred the Penitentiarv. ' The following from the Greens boro Record relates a very - abusing Incidentjn Judge ' Long's court in that city: 'Will Jones, a negro, was convict ed thismorning in court for an as sault with a deadly weapon and -was sentenced by Judge . Long to three years on the county roads. After being .placed back-in the 'cage' in the court room, he asked permission to speak to the judge. It was grant ed and he faced his honor, remark- n i Jedge, I heap ruther so to de penitentiary for five years dan to.de county roads fur three years - won't you please, sjr, change de sentence to de pehT ' '' ; '"But the juge -"declined. lie told Will the roads of Guilford needed his labor. Wfll has evidently 'been there' before and don't like the com pany he has tb keep. BBlEF LOCAL ITE3IS. A "slick article' with a stand on the square at the First National Bankv is doing "the honest populace out of many quarters todav, bv sel ing them a magnifying, glass and a little instrument-. that enables one to see behind themselves. Fred Abernaithy of Oak Fored, who is in the Pasteur Institute for treatment for a' mad dog bite, is get ting along nicely. Dr. Sharpen says his condition isjnot serious. The Coco-Cola Company have rented the building, formerly occu plied by the Morrison Produce and Provison Co., and are getting in shape to start up a bottling estab lishment at oncel The Daughters of the Con.federc.cy will meetTwith Mrs. W. H. H . Cowles on east Front street Mondav after noon at 4 o'clock. Services vill be conducted at St. PhilTTps -cnap'el- at 10 a. m., and 1 p. m. Services wrill be conducted at the Trinity "EpIsj-'OPal -clxurcli tumOlTO V. at 11 a . m. and 4 p. m. r Mr. Roger Sloan of near Sweet Home- this ; county, was taken to Lon he will underso an operation ior - appendicitis. . ' Private Homer W. Mason, who has been in charge of the local recruiting station, will e' Transferred to a post" in Florida by his own request. 4--- Edtor t. M. George, of the El Lin Tinies, is in the city today.- lie came up yesterday to attend the fun eral of Dr. W. P. Clferta ST'deve land. Mr George will be "remem bered by a large number of the Statesville citizens as lfe was prin cipal of the school here 22 years ago, and pertiaps the tact that he was editor-of the -old "prohibition TJanner, pubTlshed here ai that time, will re call him to the memory of others. The prohibition movement, at that timlTwas very unpopular all over the country, and its advocates were abused immeTcifully. Mr. George as well asTa-Tew others of the faithful have just reason 'now, in these days of sweeping reform, to feel proud of; their, unbroken record of service in the caule. " ' ,"' SOUTIIEILX SELLS BIG : 6 BOND ISSUE TO MORGAN J? 10,000,000 Short Term Notes to he Taken up AViti Proceeds of Sale of $21,00000. New York, Feb; 26. The Southern Railway Company sold to a" syndicate headed by J. P. Morgan & Company 521, 000, 000 of general development 4 per cent, bonds' the proceeds from which will be used to take up $16,- nno 000 short term 'notes of the company maturing in April. ,,r long it had been since the revolver had heen fired. j . sergeant Meaows of the .Nash ville police force, was tlie next wit- : nCss. He. went to Fort's infirmary ' nnrl PTti fW3in Patrolman Vaughan C) two revolvers one, Robin's 32 an tomalic Colt, and the one found by Pilcher. Later herecived. liivuiv'" - from Serceant Reid a nickel-plated revolver which had not been fired f and which was said to have been taken from Col. Duncan Cooper. On cross-examination he could no positively identify the guns. He had turnea them over. to the lieuten ant of police at the station and ont the next day took them to the clerk of the crimnal court, Vernon Sharp brother of John Sharp One Become Enraged at the Other and Calls Her -Very Vile Epithetes, Accompanied by Some Licks. Two colored women, Rachel Pat terson and Lavlny Barringer, were before, Mayor Grier yesterday morn ing for an affray night beiore last.. Laviny vas taxed with a sniall fine and costs all amounting to $o.30 and Rachel was ' discharged. ft seems that Radiel accused Lavihy of having told some tales about her which were not ; true, and meeting her j at th bridge on Center-street between .the iruty and the depot they proceeded to have it out with her. No damage of any, consequences was done, buf. ttlhv wrro hmilorl tin in t It r.f fnf ! causing a disturbance. IS- ' i School Closing. The Bethlehem school in Shiloh township will close on March ICth ith exercises by the scholars. The teacher, Mr. R L. Leon has -spared no pains in arranging the program, arid the public attend. is cordially inv ted to FOUGI1T FOR SILK STOCi LINGS. women J ireatrcgoers 3Iade ;i iar- f;iin Sale .Look Tame. About 1,000 women stai'ted aJ small sized riotj in the lobbies of the Garden Theatre tonight the cause being a distribution of slk stockings to every womanj who bought a jticket for the hundreth performance Of Mr. Henry II Dixey in llary Janets Pa." .- Mr. Dixey's last words in 'Mary Jane's Pa," are much worth figh There is nothing so i ting for in this world i - i i as love,'' and every woman in the house "nfaTTe - the'j mental addition, "and silk stockings," for the curtain had not begun to come down before the whole feminine half of the" audi ence was on its way toward the box office. Talk about your bargain i : - ! i sale crushes! jTalk j about your weaker sex. The ushers were swept awav" like chaff as the crowd made j i : i for' the doors. With fire in their eyes and silk siociuzsga o 'nthjsir orcein, the woinen fought it out. As each one reached the j box office and presented her bard she shouted out the size she wanted" and sot a box. Most of them cci lied me for S's. "My size is 6V but give 9, thev are for a friend of mine,' was a common request.' One woman who had" lost her hat her and coat in the skirmish, begged husbfiha To lake her place in the fine She; knew she was goin to faint "Not for a million silk stockih gs,' wa&theanswer. Climate Changing. Philadelphia Record. I It is idle for the weather bureau to compile records of j temperature and snowfall calculated to prove that within moderate limits of vari ation from year to year there is no chaHge in climate. 'Everyhopy" remember when" there was sleigh ing ! ci Thanksgiving Day, and, of course, that proves, there used to be two feet of snow on the groiind from November till March or April. I t we know mat aoesn l - uapyeu uu south of Maine, 'and there you have conclusive evidence that the winters are getting milder. Therev is an old record-in Chester county of g, winter about 1728 when there was very ittle snow they plowed throughj on their way to school .much. betjtv than they can remember, and they can remember the bar"e ground they walked over without effort. The man whose'TJoyhood w;as spent in Miine or Vermont, and who is now li mg cr' in Philadelphia jor (Baltimore, x'p-or York, knows very wen - - 1 . - it that there is no -such snow! nowdays as there used to be in the days when he lived oh the Farm, j That is (on- elusive evidence hat the climatfe is changing. AGED FARMER A SUICIDE Frank Ronithan, ICO Years Old, Fa-, ads ther of Murderer of John E Puts End to His Life rated With His Wife; -Had Sepa- Winston-Salem Feb. 26 Frame Donithan. a farmer 60 years committed suicide at his home near j Siloam by cutting his "throat with his hoeket knife. He land his tdfe separated several months ago, the old man lived aldpe. He the father of Nat Donithanr serving a 30-year sentence in now I the penitentiary 'for killing John Ends near Siloam a year ago. jii o ' I '--I-" 1- New York city has 200 woman's clubs. 3tuny Important Subjects Are Dish . t cussea Another Meeting This i evening. ' Messrs. J. P. Campbell and C. R . Hudson conducted a meeting of the Cuunfy Agents engaged in the Farm ers' Co-opejfitive . Demonstration work in tre court house yesterday auernocn at i 1:30 o'clock. Manv important subjects vere discussed ainong them (being the following subjects: Preparation of the seed bed, fertilizers commercial and home mkde method of cultivation, seed selection, rotaition of crops, forage I I : crops, winter cover crops, pastures. rdens, fruifj poultry and co-opera tion among tlb farmers. Mr. E. B. Bpykin, cotton expert of the National department of Agricul ture met with them, and aided in the discussion. Another meeting was held in the court house last night at 7:30 o'clock; Tr. Seaman A. Knapp, of Washington;' who was to liaye been here was unable to attend. A public meeting was held this moring at 11 o'clock in uie court house for teachers, farmers, and omers wno are! interesteu. The fol was follovved: bite rThe Progessive lowlirg prograni Prof. L. O. W Teacher F. Campbell -Agriculture in the! Public Schools. : r - I E. B . Boy kin Plant Breeding. C. R. Hudson Demonstration Wdtlc in Relation to. Cord Growing in North Carolina. V: PRETTiT STUDENT ELOPES. Wcls N orth C a'rolina Hoy Instead' i 1 1 'l of Graduating. Charlottesville, Va., Feb. 25. A romance at Rawlings Institute, a well jknown girls' school of this city, hasome tcf light through the mar riagejof Miss Mat tie Walker, a pret ty student, to Harry Morse of Ral igK,j N. C. The wedding took place in Washington, r.nd was a profound secret so far a:; Miss Walker's friends 'were concerned.! Miss Walker I was to have taken herl degree this year, but cup'd o v eisi! iSTn h & ft eilre f err-; C2a ccrmf ed honor. Packing her trunk and leav- ing the institute staff under the im going home for a pression she was vacation, she met Mr. Morse, and the two journeyed to the capital city, wnere the! ceremony was per- formed. The bride has been at the institute for five official position finishing touches 3'ears, and had an while putting the on her education. $2,0q0,000 Loss; jin Fire in Chicago. Chicago, Feb. 26. The twelve- story inson chant warehouse bf the Albert Dick-- Company; large seed mer- s, was burned this morning. The fire started from an explosion of dust gas; Two score fire companies fought urning walls fell the blaze. Theb and i killed is "believed that six men are The contents of! the buildings, cov are estimated at loss has not yet efing two blocks 2,000,000. The been (estimated. Bodenhamer AYi 1 Plead insanity. Feb 26. Gaith r, who robbed the Winston-SalemJ er C. Forsy Bodenhame he Bank and Trust Company, at Kernersville oh February 8th, of $2,250 and who was : arrested in Washington waived preliminary ex amination and was brought to jail here last night. in default of $2,000 bond from i ' Bodenharder stole money the bank wbile the cashier was at dirner. He either had a key to the dcor o rentered the bank through a window. Eodenhamer is alleged to be a kleptomaniac and that in sanity will be the plea of defense! hear John Johnsing gone ter wo'k.'j' "Yes. He hid ter do, it.. His wife done die las' week. Detroit Free ress. There was a little man WTio had a little jag, And all did when the got vell wr,' hrrv- '! - 1 T .. t; brag ; brag! A turkey buztaj rd near Fries Mill, N. J., having seized a pig two crows pursued the thief two miles, forcing the buzzard to. (drop the pig, which was restored to its owner; but a few . J .-. ..!!.., ,. .v.... minutes later the Dim maae aiiutuei unsuccessful attempt to seize the porker. The United States consumes &u,- OOO.obo pounds IdfTea annually. - George. Young, Colored, Suffers a Painful But Not Serious Injury. .George Young, colored, the fire man en Capt. Rowland's train be tween Charlotte and Taylorsville suffered a very painful, but not seri ous injury at the depot in this city yesterday. He was, standing on the tender of his engine, preparatory to filling the cistern of his engine with water from one of the stand pipes on the 'yard, and as the engine was moving; along, one of the stand pipes struck tiimton-the hip and side, knocking him off the tender. Dr. T. E. Ahuerson, the railroad surgeon was called to attend him, and stated that while the wo'tTEius were not seri ous, they were very painful and it was only good luck That he: was not struck in the stomach,' as it would have been" much worse. ' The Apologist. If any one should ask me what I considered the very, weakest thing in the world I would say an average girl hroAght up by a strong-minded mother, with "accomplishments'' and no knowledge Of life. And then 1 would take it all back and try j again. Because, you see, theg irl might develop unsuspected stamina laTer in life when the mother died and !the bank roll vanished. It is tad to (condemn a felloe-creature .1 i to unending imebcility. I The very weakest thing on second thought, happens to be the Apologist-I that is, the .person wbo is everlastingly bobing un with an t i- . absolutely! good excuse for not doing things. It is well to admit that there are a lew Qownrigut lmpossibie tilings in life. But they are really few. i 1 To start out with the idea that vou re an- exception is a nerfectly fine way to myite. ueteat. Tiie lndiviciu- al who wins is the one who reasons 'Well, if iany one else on earth can do it. I can!'' , ' - . And in case no one else has eve. tried that j particular stunt, so much the better! You've a chance to es tablish a precedent and any law- OXXTixD-ti. for that matter, can tell you prece- i dents are very important things. Self-pity is a serious weakness in any character. It grows on or-p rapidly. Selfishness is the root of pelf-pity and the two together for mental sogginess. It is easy, pitifully "easy, to sit down and weep with one's self and nourish "a gfouch against the whole world. I But wThile we are moping, and sending regrets to ourself, somebodv of tougherj fiber is carrying off tho desired plums. - No matter how plausible the ev planation of failure, ' it never really explains. It doesn't do much good to tell why the bare fact is enough Footnotes to failure are entirely un necessary. - Remember those two specious ex cuses formulated in the Garden of Eden day? i.nd c oin'g duty until this very man tempted me.'' said "The wd Adam. "The sernent tempted me. ex claimed Eve. ; And the j serpent having accom plished what ; it iet out to do, made no sort of Excuse at all. "I'm. diiferent from other people it's temperament, you know,'' is the modern Excuse for every manner of weakness and wrong-doing, from pure ; shiftlessness to bigamy and bank robbery. And "I never had a chance,' runs a close second. Don't you value character and the fellowship of the strong place the your own incapacity on blame for heredity.' ot environment, still less nnnn othprs with whom vour mens bound up. Make no excuse. . j- The strong make their own "chance" in life, they are not sub ject to "teinperament" disturbances5 because they control instead of being controlled by their desires. We have been thousands of years : learning this lesson,: The Apologist I 5 in-nrs rast out of Eden. -Jessie I AO m ! M." Parlon ! The Hotel Iredell barber shop was : POid today at noon at pnDiic auction at the court house door. Mr. Stamie Hollanu-'w'as-fne purchaser, paying $130 for the entire outfit. I ! . MO - ; Miss fimma Carson, of Sparta Aleghaney county, is in the city, a . est. of Mrs. S. B. Miller at her home on West End Avenue. i i m m Engineer's Brave Deed 1111 SOUNDS ALMOST LIKE A NOVEL. Cool-jIIeaded Coast Line Engin(r( Crawls Down TTpon tlie Cow-Catch-er of His Fast Moving Engine and ..Snatches Small Child From tho TrackNo One on the Train but His Fireman lvnoir nt v .. A HlC J1 (I I t Act Fireman was the Tirst Per-, son to Tell It Engineer Says He Did not Want any Publicity in the Matter. Heroism as is pictured by the hovel, the like of which is seldom seen, was that displayed by Engineer ' George Bailey Monday morning af a ljoint one mile south of Jamesville, on the Crunch' line of the Atlantic Coast Line from this, city to Ply mouth, ifts act of heroism saved tjhe life of a child at the peril of his own, and "many a person has been styled a hero who did not endanger his-own safety half so much as did LLa-act of the engineer.- Moncfay morning he was the engi neer in charge of passenger train No. C 5-bound for this city, and his train was running. about 25 miles an hour, when, i troiinded a curve and he noticed not a hundred yards yards ahead, a colored child, too fyqung to be? aware of its impend ing danger, playing on the track. Tljie engineer knew that to apply einergency; brakes would imperil the lhjes of very passenger on the train, for the tax on the track Would most likely result in a derailment so he cut 04 the steam frm his engine and made a dash for the running board and from this to a positon on the cow-catcher of the train and as the engine reached the child playing on tb track he caught its dress and pulled the child upon the engine frpm its impending danger and saved The engineer carried the child into I tne cab of the engine and again'ap piied the stearn to the iron horse be foie a stop had been made and with out the knowlege of other members of the train crew other than the fire man, who saw the brave act. i The remainder of the passengers having . heard the blowing of the whistle and the slowing down thought thatjsome , cow or other animal had been sight ed upon fne track, and that the whistle had: served its purpose and thalt the engine had moved on. The child was taken to Jamesville. from where it was sent home. The inci dent was not told by Engineer Bailey but, his fireman was the first to re late the happening. The engineer was. questioned regarding the hap pnning and he confessed that such, was the case, u'ut he desired no pub licity and said, "It was to kill the , child, throw the train from the track, or else take the course I did, and I jus : did it. '' Rocky Mount Record. o $500,000 BLAZE IX COLUMBUS. Fire Which Started From Two Ex- plosions , Doe's Much Damage. Columbus, O., Feb. 26 Fire, which started with two explosions just before 3 o'clock this morning, destroyed a four-story building at West Spring street and spread al- , mok instantly to a five-story brick building occupied Sy'the Tracy-Well3 Company, extending from the point of 'origin to Front street and de stroyed that and its "contents, caus ing! a total loss conservatively esti mated at SoUU.UUU. -1 4-0 A Little Boy's Baby Prayer. Dear God I need you awful bad, I don't know what to do; Myl pappa's cross, my mama's sick; ".' I haint no friend but you; Them keerless angels went ana brung Stid of theb oy I ast, Aweenchy, teenchy baby girl, I don't see how they dast " ' Say, God, I wisht you'd take her back ; She's just as good as new; Wcin't no one know she's second hand, Bu: 'epin me and you; An' pick a" -boy, dear God, yourself The nicest in your fold; But "please don't choose him quite sa young, - I'd like him five years 01a. LippincottS, , ' j ,
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