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NEW BERN CRAVEN COUNTY. N. C. TUESDAY FEBRUARY 7, 1911 FIRST SECTION 33rd.? YEAK CKG1I0T . KEEP LOCKERS GAII FORCE All HIT SALE IHCODE TAX , E No. 90 PREDICTS SAD CALAMITY " AT WIL50II GRAVEII TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION XTRA SESSION OF HEAR BEER , THE TRUSTS Carolina Legislature 'Considers Anti Monopoly Meas- X?-Ttru T4.-ti 9- t. Ml VI IT money. AUliCltWjlUg 0HKUU' J- es Jtfade - on This Subject In 'i"- ' Legislature; i Raleigh. N. C. Feby. 4, The Koonee bill for i legislative comolfssion- to be named to investigate tbe conduct of ' fire insurance companies in this Stite received Friday night an unfavorable ' rJ6Tt fronT the " Heuse - committee on - Propositions and Grievances, of which Sir. Kooace is the chairman The vote Was 6 to 10. Mr.: Koonce served' notice tnit he will file a minority report. The hearing waa long and spirit sd, Commiseloher of "insurance . R.t N Young waa invited before the commis , jn and made it clear that while he did ' not consider an Investigation ai in any , : way needed but that if the committee and the legislature thought differently .w friiuiu uiw uvartt'ijr ciliicr iuiu tile work, giving . whatever assistance he .could. Hi talk and queitiona. and an swers covered the whole, scope of the Tnatter involved; - '. Chairman Ko )nce srarn'd members Of the committee opposing his bill, that he Intends to make the fight for his life n the floor of the House, to win out - with his minority favorable report. The sweeping provisions of Senator Brown's bill now pending in the Senate aie attracting wWe attention especially s by the children of the Stale. - The pro ? visions in full are; J'That any. corpora r tion, club, association or person ho shall directly or induectly keep or maiii lam vy linen uruimseii ur uy . jKmoviu- ' tion with o' hers, or whaahall in aiy . manner aid, assist or abet in keepting ; or maintaining a club room or other place where intoxicating liquors are received of kept tt be drunk or forbar- terof sale or distributing or for divis : ion or nse amon? . the members of any " club or asjo iationby any means what- ever, or where the members are allow ' ed to keep intoxicating liquors in lok 4 era or in storage devices of any kind. .k.ll v., I , a a, m MoHumAAn.i. That this act shall be in furces from and af- j ter July 1st. 19lL',r ' ; - ' TV T5 ... . T A An nuunvj ui i:Ht:Bt:uuiiivrB fjanscu vij . nnai reading Dy vote oi ai to au out 10 . husband and wife on 'eqlal footing for . . divorce on Biblical grounds. A single fcyt will iAnaf it.nfji mum fnr divorce . from husband as well as wife. Protests Lodged Against 'The Coffee f - Trust. 'f Washington, Feb. 3 -The existence of an alleged coffee trust has been call ed to the atteption of the Department of Justice.' It ia charged1 that the mir keting of Brazilian e iffee is entirely in .. tha hands, of a committee conlr l itis " the majlret and is planning an advance x of fous cents a poutid The ataUmeni to the Department decfaiea the com mittee is preparing to maiket 79,000. pounds of beans at an additional profit of s3.000.000. ' WILLIAMS' KIDNEY PILLS Have you neglected your Kidneys? , Have yoo overworked your nervous sys tern and caused trouble with your kid neys and bladder! Have you pains in loins, side, back, groins and bladder? Have you a flabby appearance of the face, especially under the eyes 7 Too fre quent a desire to pass urine 7 If so, Wil liams' Kidney Pills will cure you-at Druggist, Price 60c. - Williams' M'f'g f' Co., Props., Cleveland O. -: ' J In the Legislative Halls. " Raleigh, Feb. 2J. The House voted down 24 to SI the Turlington billtopro- tect insurers in tire insurance eompa Dies not licensed to. do bminws in this state by enabling them (o serve sum mons in esse of disagreement as to loss es and rf quiring that policies; for such companies shall be reported totheStste - Commissioner of Insurance and a tax of five per cent paid on premiums, it waa defeated on the ground that the State law already make it a trlsde ; neanor tot any agent to repretenY an ' . nnlicenied company In this Bute. . Tbe Senate by a vote of 20 to 8 paw ed the bill creating Hoke county out of r nortlons of Camberlsnd end Robeson, ' ...... l M-AartkA atint tA LhA tiOllflA without fngrossment. This wss done after an amendment offered by Senator, r-vH RihMnn. had Iwen voted down, the amendment providing for a change of boundary of Hoke county so as to in .i...i- i mh. RrlHirn and Red Snrino-s townships. I"' Several local bills passed their read- Ings and seven of this character were ratifled. Bil's relating to Judges' ex- penses and salaty and the service' of aummons were re-ruferred. . . Eontor Martin, of Huncombe, offered 1 joint resolution thanking the state of NbraHka for refusing to accept as a g'ft ih i repudiated bonds of North Car olina. 1' ' ' T ti lions from numbers of people in .... . i Darts of the state were rcccivea pro- tr firi salnst near beer, and citizens 1 n only imni inn snipment r .. , r fui t 1 i'-it.-.L Reports From Various States Are . ,., , - Favorable. Washington. Feb. 2 -Before the ad journment or several Statfljegislatures now in session the number ofStatea to ratify the amendment to the Federal constitution providing for an income tax probab'y-will, he consideration-J creased. Senator" Noma Brown, to whom s crraited tne tiuinorsmp oi ine ... ... .. . . ... amendment, said to-day: . "I am confident that there will be a unanimous verdict in favor of the in come tax amendment among the States, have written to the proper ofGcers of every State, calling thrir atlenticnto the proposed amendment and pointing out the reasons for its adoption prompt ly.' I have heard from every one o! them, and upon their replies I base my expectation that not one will withhold ratification. " . ' . .- The plan has met with general pop ular approvul in all sections of the United States, and I think the verdict of the people will before many years be reflected by the State Leg slaturcs and he amendment will be added to the Federal Constitution, The United States Government will I think," before many years elapse bedeirving a big revenue for taxes on incomes." Rheumatism Relieved in Six Hours Dr. Detchon's relief for Rheumatism usually relieves severest cases in a few hours. - Its action upon the- system is remarkable and effective, It removes at once the cause and the disease quick ly disappears. First dose greatly bene fits. 75c and $1.00. Sold by Bradham Drug Co. Bound Over to Court. Yesterday morning Charles E. Bray, the young white man from Pamlico Co. who is charged with! jobbing the post office at Callison. PamliC3 county, was Driven a hearing before United States Commissioner C. B. Hill After hearing the evidenc i in the case C immissioner Hill founi probable cause and bound the defendant over to ths next term ot the Unite I States District Court under a bond of I2&0.00 which he gave and was released from custody, Bray enter ed the office at that place several weeks ago with a skeleton key and stole sev eral dollari worth of postage stamps which he proceeded to sell to some of his fr.ends at a greatly reduced price. When the robbery was discovered the father of Bray paid the postmaster for tbe stolen stamps and endeavored to stop proceedings, this however proved t be fruitless and the young man was arrested ard placed in jail. Postofflce Makes Good Showing," MS Postmaster Basnight 'has completed his report of the receipts of the New tern office for the put month. 1 he report is of most interesting nature. It hows that there has been steady In crease in the bjsiness of te local pos' offlci fnr the mmth of January 1911, over the same period for the proceeding year. InJanuirv 1910 thcreceipta at the New Bern Postofflce amounted to $2,248,68 for the mehth which o -eluded at midnsght Tuesday, the re ceipts amounted to the gratifying total of $2,591,97. Thee Agues .how an in crease for January 1911 over thU of the same month during 1910, of $343.39. The first quarter of. every year, com posed of the months of January. Feb ruary and March is slways a good pet' iod in the business of the local office, Tbe fact that January, the first portion of the quarter, has already gone so far ahead of , the same month last year, augurs well for a record breaking per iod -when the present quarter has reached its conclusion. 1 The Greatest Calamity Kver Happened - In New Bern. Colonel A. A. Monsch walking down Middle street in his long tall coat, five women got weak in their knees snd ' t ... al-awtr klinl SIAU. T aimed. BIX WOllt, ma siiuxs, eri men butted their hesds against the telegraph poles rubber necking at' his long tail coat They were all humed to the hospitals, Herbert K.' Land and( - ' Johnny rarxer ana HiUgen. dwm... heloed Dick them up and they said 1 am sorry that your leng-coat tall has 1 caused so much trouble" and all that were hurt the last thing' they aid. ! "For Heavens Sake give uaZEPHO that' Is the only thing will help us.','. Sold i by Mcwniougn o nunwr on Atlanta, G - Mall Cose. - The evening mails for eat and west i i -1.. a. Ia (liU Tii ml 4-r.R counu ir'" .' " P. m, insieaa oi u.uu , ox , ' - , .. '-. Postmaster, . MayNot be 1 Necessary-Theory That Taft Expects It. Cannon is Believed to Know. Washington, Feb 3-Speculatfon on an extra session ha taken torn with the boosters working on three direct lines of argument which they asserted, supported the movement, First and foremost was the action of President Taft in cancell ng his engage ments for his ..projected Southern trip in March on account of "anticipaed pressure of business." Extra session advocates declared that the President would have no "pre88U,'e; of business" after Mareh 4, unless he contemplated calling an extra session. Speaker Cannon's declaration that there will be no action orrthe Canadian reciprocity agreement this session fur nished another angle for extra session argument. The declaration of Senator Brown in tre .Senate that unless the Lorimer rase, the Sulloway Pension1 bill, the popular election of Senators and the .Tariff Board bill are acted on by that body an extra ""session will be fore d, whs the thiid argument quoted for an extra session. Any two or three Senators, by fili bustering against a single appropria tion bill, c nil 1 en'orce the call of an extra session to pass the measure. Finnish Grammar. Finnish grammar Is of n difficulty absolutely repulsive. None of the oth er languages of the same croup Is h;ilf so hard. Hungarian nny. even Turk ish, despite the veXnt ions initial I in-, pediment of the Arabic nlplialict-ls easy ffi comparison. Tim syniaxH tit once provoktngly elaborate and pur plexlngly obscure. It possesses fift'vn distinct cases end twenty-four 1i!Tim entloted Infinitive forms; but, on the other hand, there Is no real distinction between nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, Infinitives and participle, so that the student must not be star tled by finding Infinitives resailnrly de ellnert 'Jlke nouns pud nouns taking upon them degrees of comparison like adjectives. Bradstreet's Weekly Trade Report, Richmond, Va., Feb. 3. Bradstreet's today will say for Richmond and vicini ity: Trade conditions have a more fa vorabU aspect as the Spring season ap proaches.' Travelers are out with their Sprinz samples and a fair volume of or ders are being receive1!). Wholesalers of dry goods are receiving satisfactory or ders and anticipate active filling in or ders. Shoe dealers are fairly active. Manufacturers of trunks and bags re port active ordering. Stock of countr.v merchants is regarded a much duple ted and from this source dealers anticl pate an increased business, with tre coming of spring. Lumber is quiet and buildiig operations are inactive. Drugs, chemica's and fertilizer are inactive. Retail trae is quiet and the usual spring rediictioi sales are notified. Collec tions are fair. ' N ' Satisfied Khr. "Pardon me." said the linughty lndy on a marketing expedition, "but are these ecus fresh lind?" "Absolutely, mnflam," replied tbe grocer promptly. "The furmcr I pur chnsed those eggs from won't allow his bens to lay them nny other way. . Norfolk-Southern to Durham. Durham, Feb. 4. A.rnceting of the business men of the city i-i announced for an early date, which time a propo sition and an in vita' ion will be extend' ed to the-Norfolk-Southern Railway to project its line from' Raleigh to Dur hsm, thus getting into competition with the other roads thatare coming (n here now. ' Though no official touch has been giv en to the story from any of the road'i constituted authorities. It ianeverthe less declared here that the Norfolk Southorn would like to come here and the business men woufd welcome. The schedule to Morfolk over that road beats them nil in some points, and it would be quite as good from this point as from sny other. The talk of te Sea board's main line coming t) Durham baa died out and though hopa isn't gone, there has nothing happened within the pMt ye4r lo jUHtifv the faith that this . r08(J wiI com, nor 0n tne contrary, n.rf hears nothinir aliout it. The second prono,itin to extend the Norfolk end Weitern to some point on the hew South bound has likewlso received litlie boost- tnough itia njerjtood that the business men are to take It up serious- ; y The Norfolk-Siuthero matter ap ly. The Norfolk-Siuthero matter peara to have the biggest possibilities. ' ' Poison Bottltt. To avoid mistake with poison bot tles, says the Woman's Homo Com panion, run common plus upward through the corks, allowing tho point to protect beyond them. Sucb bottles will not be picked up by mistake even in the dark. - .-. . Law Will be Effective After June . the 1st of This Year. Vote 91 to 7. i Raleigh, Feb. 3, The House passed the substitute Kent bill to prohibit the sale of near beer, beerihe andclher like drinks in North CuroUaa, thi amend- nent by the author of the bill substitu ting "or" for'and in the second par agraph excepting medical preparations so it shall read "or which are manu factured and sold as medicines and not as beerages." The second reading vote was by roll call and 'stood 91 tg 7. On final reading the bill was amended by Kellum to make the bill effective June 1st, instead of March 1st, -this amendment being adopted. Kellum urged this amendment be cause in all fairness the State, counties cities and towns should carry out the contracts they made with these people when they took their money for licen ses. The amendment was adopted 59 to 42. The House passed the Quickel to amend the hours of labor. La of 1907, making both railroad company and em ployes guilty of a misdemeanor for an mploye working over sixteen ftp Jrs, an amendment being to relieve the- em ploye of the misdemeanor charge bo the employe of the injured working over time can l ave a standing in court for image suits in view of the Suprem. Court ruling in Lloyd vs. Southern Rulway. The bill for providing-an annex for he wives and widows of Confederate ter ana at the Soldiers' Home has tt favorable report from the Pensions committee and was referred to the Ap propriations committee si me it carries $5,000 special appropriation and $2,500 maintenance. TThe Battle bill to allow cities and towns to amend, charters at will foi commission or other form of govern- me tcame from the Judiciary commit tee with a favorable report and in view of its exceptional interest EDO copies were ordered printed. 1 'he House committee voted 13 to 3 to report favorably the bill creating Hoke county which has already passed the Senate. The Senate committee voted 12 to 2 to report favorably the Avery county production out of Mitchell, Caldwell and WaTauga. NOTICE. Mr. Hyman Hacker, of this city on the 25th of January made a general as signment for the benefit of creditors, without any freforences, naming the undersigned as trustee, who will for ten daya take an inventory of the property of said Hacker and file same as required by law. All creditors .will file their claims with Clerk of court of Craven county as provide by law This 26th of sanuary 1911. SJLIPMAN, Trustee. Plan to Meet in This City. A plan is on foot by IheJNobles of the Mystic Shrine, who live in this section of the State to have a meeting of the Arab Patrol in New Bern immediately after the sessions of the Grand Com- mandnry) which will convene in Wilson s tme time in Ma. The shrines of the Etst have secured considerable "Fresh Meal" to carry across the "hot sands of the Desert" and are anxio'n to get a meeting down this way. It looks as if thev will be succesiful.-KinstoD Free Press. WORLD'S FAMOUS DYSPEPSIA -PRESCRIPTION It Drives Away Stomach Distress In a ' Few Miuues, Stops , . . . Heartburn and Belching '.. . If you have anything the matter with your stomach you ought to know right now that MI-0 NA tonarh 'ableta are guaranteed by Umdharn Drug Co , to cure indigestion or any sickness csused by Irdigestien. suehta (he following.or money back: Sir It hnadnche. billiousress. dizziness. nervousness, sour stomach, ferments - tion of food, . belching 'of gas. heavy feeling at pit of stomach, vomiting of pregnancy, sickness csused by over in dulgence the night before, v If yoofneals don't digest but lie like s lump of lead In your stomach; If you have foul breaih and loss of appetite, the chances are that a few MI-0 NA tablets will put your stomach-'in fine shape In short order. If you or sny of your fsmily suffer from stomach trouble of any kind get a 50 cent box ot MI-O-NA stomach tab lets at once. Druggists everywhere and ilrsilham Drug Co. sell MI O-NA on money back pi iO. ' Serious Shooting Affair There Late Yesterday Afternoon. The facts of a serious shooting affair at VV ilson late yesterday afternoon was received at this office last night by long distance telephone, Deputy Sheriff George Mumford was killed and Chief of Police Glover lies in the hospital at the point of death. 1 - . . ..The shooting was done by a negro named Louis Wet who had broken in to a store and stolen goods. The of ficers were attempting to arrest the negro whon he opened fire on them with a Colt automatic revolver. The Sheriff was shot seven times and the Chief of Police twice. After the shooting the negro made his escape and at last report he had not been captured, although every effort to apprehend the desperador was being made. SPHERICITY OF THE EARTH. "Parallax" Bet Against It, and He Lest ' His Wager. The Htralghtest canal In the world Is ' In England and runs from Erlth, in Cambridgeshire, ' to Denvers Sluice, twenty-two miles away. It was here that years ago a decisive experiment was conducted to prove the sphericity of the earth. At that time, says "Hlgh wavs and Byways In Cambridgeshire;" a deluded gentleman, who called him self "Parallax," was obsessed with the notion that the globe was a fiat disk and used to go lecturing with great vlj,'or on the subject. After these lec tures he Invited questions, none of which was uble to shake his belief. . When nsUed, for example, "Why does the hull of a ship disappear below tbe horizon while the masts remain vis ible?" he would answer, "Because the lowest stratum of air Is the densest mid therefore soonest conceals object? seen through It." Finally he showed Ids whole hearted licllef In his absurd views by laying a heavy wager that no one would disprove them. The stakes were deposited In the hunds of judges, and the trial, under agreed conditions, took place upon the New river, as part of the eannl Is called. Three boats were moored three miles apart, each proviilud with a erosstree of : equal height. If the earth was spherical the control cross would appear above tbe other to nn observer looking through a telescope leveled from the erosstree of the boat nt either end; If It'was flat he would see both the other erosstree as one. "Parallax" declared that he did see them so, but the Judges unani mously decided against him, and the poor man lost his money. Murderer StlU at Large. A telephone message yesterday after- oon from Wilson, stated that the ne- iro who shot two officers at that plsce Friday afternoon and who later escaped was still at large. Every available av enue of escape from that town ia being close! v euarded and it is more than probable that he w!l be captured. Mr. Henry Whitehurst, of this city, was in Wil ton- on the afternoon of the tragedy and he informed the writer yesterday that the excitement was intense and that It the murderer was1 aoDrehended and fell into the hands of the people he r l . 1 I. .1 L - 1 I I . OUia uouuuess ue lynciieu. . . LAYING BRICKS."""" Haw Scientific Methods Raised the Standard of a Day's Work, There' are now eminent consulting piiiriiieci'R who are engaged by Indus trial heads to study their establish inents from top to bottom with a view to finding by scientific study the niet&- oils of working, accounting and nan dllng bilxir which will Improve on the old traditional habits. Some extraorai narv results have been attained. What scientific management means is ad inliahlv illustrated by the story ot bricklaying, ns told by sa expert. Ordinarily a brick mason makes eighteen dlfTereut sets of motions In laving n single brick. He bends over. In the tirst nluce, to pick up one brick. and In lifting it hajlfts ten pounds of brick and about a hundred pounds of brick mason the upper part of his own body. In laying 1,000 bricks In a day's wnik he lifts 100,000 pounds of brick mnHon. This wss an obvious waste, of labor. So a common laborer was hired to put the bricks where the masons would not have to stoop for them.' Another thing is that when a mason picks up a handmade, brick whlehMs alwn'ys a little thicker at one side than on the other, be tosses the brick un. turning It over until his J touch tells him which side is the top ( before, he puts It In place In the walL The cure for this was to have all tbe bricks piled top up. before they were brought to the masons. Then, further, every one has seen the mason top his l,rlrlr IM-snil Hmp t 0ftl it ItltO the i nfortar more waote of time. Tbe cure ...' -' - was to 'make tbe mortar thinner, so that tho wolstbt of the brick would set tle it Into tbe right position. This was scientific management "motion study." It raised the day's work for the"aver- nge brick mason from 1,000 up to 2,700 bricks a-dny and in Individual cases to much higher figures. The mason made only six motions jvnero he used to mnke eighteen. American Review of Kevlews. Met at Griffin Auditorium Yes terday Morning. Good . Attendance. The regular monthly meeting of the Craven County Teachers' Association was held yesterday at the Griffin Mem orial Hall, graded school building. Sunt. Mosrr of Dover, president of the association presided. About forty teachers,-answered the roll eall. Classes from the 2nd and 4th, grades of the New Bern Graded School were present and gave exhibitions of work done in those grades. Misses L'lette Hanff and Nina Bas- night made talks using their classes for demonstration. A general discussion of-nwthods of teaching arithmetic was entered into by tbe county teachers. Supt Ragsdale was not present being detained at his home in Greenville, he telephoned his regrets and promised to be present at next meeting, first Sat urday of Mareh. . I. W. Mattocks Dead. Mr, Ed, W. Mattocks, of Swansboro, Onslow eounty, N. C., died at his home on Jan. 23d, 1911. He was a familiar figure on the streets, being one of the oldest citizens of the town, he has been confined to his home for the past few years, his health being very feeble, still he was able to be up and around at times, he was not confined to his room more than aWek before Ms death. He was faithful to attend to his. church du ties as long as he was able, and at one time was an active member. He leaves a widow and one son and many rela cives. We shall miss him, for he had a habit for years of going to our home to get the day's papers, and we can hear his slow, easy step coming in to get the news. He was a great reader, and al though his health failed, him eyesight was comparatively good,, and this ws& a great comfort to him in his old age. kMay God eomfort the bereaved widow in her lonely hours, and may the thought that she did what she could to make him comfortable in his old age be a con eolation to her. We know he is at rest K. P.M. ¬ ' DEADLY MINE GASES. Their Action Upon the Flam of the Safety Lamp. The safety lamp, a heavy metal lan tern shaped object with a circular globe of heavy plate glass, is the only light other than electricity that can be safely carried into a gaseous- mine. The lamps are lit before they are taken into the mine and, In addition, are securely locked, that no accident or ignorant Intention may expose the open flame to the gases of th, mine Orer " a small sooty yellow ' mm which gives a light less bright than that of aa ordinary candle are two wire gause cou.es fitting snugly inside the hesvy globe, and It Is through these cones that tbe flame draws the air which supports It. The presence of blsck damp, or ci.xn dioxide, can easily be detected. If not by its odor, by the action of the flame, which grows dim and, if the black damp exists in any quantity, is finally extinguished. White damp, "the highly explosive gas which is most feared, has, on tbe other hand, a totally different effect In the presence of this gas the flams of the safety lamp becomes pointed, and as the gas grows stronger the flame seems to separate from tbe wick snd an almost invisible blue cone forme beneath It If the miner con tlnues to advance Into tbe white damp he will pass through a line In which there are nine parts of air to one part eST (the explosive mixture), and the lamp will Instantly register this ex plosive condition by a sudden crack ling inside the gause and the extln gulsblng of the flame. Were it an open lamn the explosion ignited by the flame would sweep throughout the en tire workings, carrying death and de struction before tt, but by the con struction of the safety lamp the ex plosion confines Itself to the limited area within the gauze -cones, and Un less the lamn Is moved suddenly and tbe flame is dragged through the gause at the Instant that the explosion oc curs within the globe it will not ex tend beyond tbe gauze. Atlantic, Will Remove Friction. Washington, D. C. February 6th.- Secretary Nagel has issued aa order which is intended to remove snv fric tion betwen tho United States and the Chinese government over tbe detention oi merchants, stpaenta, trsveiers and others not subject to the exclusion laws, who often arrive with incomplete or otherwise faulty credentials, and neces sarily are detained at tho immigration stations. ' In the future any Chinese of the claso entitled to entry whose credentials are not satisfactory may be realised on a bond of $2,000 pending an investigation. Cneaklng ot ieelrablo aelghtbors fcooda ot oonrstre all le&ire to Ur a Cir '-r-t. -fc,1.;B. ure. Raleigh, N. C. Fev. 6-Bills of State . interest were introduced in the. Senate Saturday. One of them by Senator B.g- gett.- of Harnett, to define and prohibit monopolies, or trusts, in restraint of trade. The bill authorizes the Govern or to draw a warrant on the- State ' Treasurer for $1,000 to be used . by soli-v citors and the Attorney General in con ducting Drosecutions. Auother is by Senator Hobgood, of Guilford, relating to (taxations' of corporations owning ' stock in other corporations. Senator Boyden, of Rowan, intro- duced a bill amending' section 4036 of the revisal of 1905 relating to the coun ties in the Seventii, Eighth snd Ninth Congressional districts by taking Alex ander out of the Eighth and putting it in the Ninth, and by takinj"Union out of the .Seventh and putting it in the Eighth,: President Newland added Senator Boyden to the Committee on Congressional Apportionment. Among me most notaoie Dins receiv ed from the House were those relating to divorce; to investment of capital of insurance companies; to protect the publie from contracting diseases in barber shops, repealing the law mak ing it a misdemeanor for a railroad employee to work ever sixteen hours a day. Also the bill taxing dogs, bache lors and justices of the peace in Hen derson county, which was placed upon the calendar and pasted second reading and was warmly debated, being finally referred to the Committee on Proposi tions and Grievances. The discussion of the measure caused much laughter. Unfavorable report! weru made on the bills to protect defendants in State courts and prevent exposure of evidence taken before coroners: to incorporate he North Carolina Detective Associa tion; and the final action was deferred on a number of bill of general interest. WANTED To exchange a new ham merless double barrel gun $40 grade for bird dog. Apply by letter box 228 New Bern, N. C. Governor Offers Heward. Saturday morning Governor W. W. Kitchin offered a reward of $250 for the capture of Louis Weat and "Stet- son." the. two negros who killed Depu ty Sheriff ueorge Mumford and seri-, ously wounded chief ot Police A. O. Glover, of Wilson. These negroes seem to have been going from town to town committing robberies and other crimes, snd upon the attempt on the part of the Wilson officers to arrest them, they shot down both, tho deputy sheriff fly ing almost instantly. ' TO CURE a COLD IN ONE DAY :.Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. GROVE'S signs ture is on each box. 25c. School News of the Week. The new term began Monday and 33 new pupils entered.. The enrollment last term waa 824 as compared with 801 -for the same term one year ago. The total enrollment thia year slresdy 857 as compared with 810 for the whole of last year, i .. . At the. close of the first term this year there were promoted 586 impils and 239 were .''left over" largely on account of absences or removal, In oth er words 70.8 per cent were promoted, One year ego out of 770 enrolled 628 were promoted and 242 left over, giv tng 68.6 per cent promoted as agsinst 70.8 per cent this year. 4 The next number of the Lyceum Course will be the Metropolitsa Grand Concert Covon Feb. 25th. This should be the best number on the program as It is the roost expensive, costing 6225,00 for the one night The company has taken part fn many of the music festi vals held throughout the country and has a high reputation. It is composed of Mrs. Frederick Martin Baeio, Mr. J- Hombird DuffyTenor, Mme Luelle ChelsoS Ohrmao Soprano, Miss Adah Cembali Hussey Contralto, Miss Susie FordPianist The first grsde has been running an attendance contest for several weeks. I this week the boys won, , Several of the grades are very large this term and crowded. There are 3 sections of several grades yet the 4 sections are needed but as every room in the,buildlngs is used, little can be done. The 8th grade had nearly 60 In It and is now divided into 2 sections, with Afferent rooms so no tiom would Ahe'hiJJ large number ot pupils. The J!, 8A and 43 gradea each have an enrollment of over GO. Tr.e Adv. first grade h an enrollment if about 7u but comes in two sections, one f, i (9 to 11 and the other from 11:30 to 2 p. ra. I