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r SGuESSlIL TACKLE TARIFF Direct Popular Election of United States Senator! Will Also Be ' j'.: .Brought Up. II EHWOOD IIS IF SOUTH ISTRUE T mi. F 0(1 STEEL BILL HEALTH WORTH PHOTECTiriB sir.ir.ioos 5 III UriDERlVOQDWIIlS by FRANCIS PERIST ELLIOTT XVY?&Yr 9 ST 4a3&3fT?fJlJL COMMty - all. And a- big, velvety petal that dropped from one of the crimson roses : just seemed . brown beside then. - i - I was wondering whether the little ' spider was curious about the Jolly red color there below him. And just then' Jenkins' hand went out and swept at the little thread. The spider dropped . and shot Into a fold of the pajamas. -"1 say! Look out!" I exclaimed as . Jenkins made another clutch. "Don't"" mash the beast on tho silk; you'll ruin , it the silk, I mean!" . j TThere it goes, sir!" said Jenkins eagerly. "Over by your hand." "No; by Jove; he's gone into a leg of the pajamas! . Here, shake him out gently novrt" ' ; j Jenkins lifted the garment gingerly . came forth. ' "Why don't you look in the leg,". I aid, "and see If you can see It?". ! Jenkins : peered down one of tho. , silken tubes and forthwith dropped It with a yell. Ho j-impod back. ' "Look out, sir, he cried excitedly; ' "ilnn't tnnrh 'em! Thpr' n tArantnln In there big as a sand crab, and it's llve.M I, backed nervously from the crum pled crimson pile on the floor. - Crimson T ' r ; : Of course, I knew it was crimson; it must be the Shadow of the table there that made tho things so dark black. In fact. . But my mind was on 1 the tarantula;, and I v. as thinking that It must have been wrapped with the pajamas. Yet I could not understand how this could be. considering how tightly the tilings .hud been rolled. i Anyhow, it was there; and Jenkins "Look, sir! You can see It moving under the silk!" By Jove, so you could! And the thing seemed nearly as big as a rat It was making for tho end of the leg, I climbed upon a chair. ' -Qet a club," I exclaimed, "and mash the thing as it comes out!" - . Jenkins rushed ont and returned, with brassle. -v-..rr j- - "Careful now," I warned from the, chair. "Don't to and bit tho dashed thing before it gets out, and make a devil of a mess on the silk! ' There It is It's out! No, no not yet! Wait, ' until It gets its whole body outl There now; he's drawing out his last beast- It Iabv Nownow let drive!' - t And he did, and seemed to hit tho Nest Instant I waa blinking under the thing squarely. -. dazzling electrolier. . I knelt on the chair and craned "Here, I say! Shut oft that light!" over, while Jenkins bUU held the stick 1 remonstrated, half blinded, tightly at the point where the thing ' 1 near a swift rush across the had struck. 1 rugs, and the next thing I knew I waa "Get him?" I queried. "Where is -roughly Jerked from out my chair; it?" - - v v, . strong fingers clutched my throat and ' . That's It, sir." said Jenkins in an 1 mJrBe" 'larln tot MShU Odd voice. "It ain't here." . , na Dut resolute face. "Why. dash jt, I saw you strike the ' "Jen-Jenkins!" I tried to gasp, hut beast, right where you're holding that onjy ' vaf canw- . ... jjlyj, I was so taken unawares, I knew it "Mr. Llghtnut, slr"-JenkIna spoke -.mU8t be ome daaheddream. , Per - :a ,j v., haps another minute, and I would me queerly "will you look under the -end of this stick and see if you see What I see?" . i I climbed down and examined cau tiously., "Why, by Jove, It's the little wi der I" I exclaimed, surprised. - "Exactly, sir; what's left." Jenkins took a deep breath. ; "Thankou, Blr It's a great relief," he sighed. "Ehr - '1 mean, sir, I'm glad I ain't the only one who thought he saw that other. It's some comfort" . , Jenkins spoke gloomily. : , "Thought you saw?". I repeated. ' . But Jenkins only shook his head as he gathered tip the remains of the plder and consigned them to a cue- nidor. . ' ' .s 1 I "You mean say, what the devil do you mean?'1 1 asked sharply.. -. , ' , Jenkins straightened with air re spectful but solemn.," "Mr. Llghtnut sir," he began grave ly, "there's a party lectures on the street corner every night at nine on the fearful consequences of 'the drink habit, and passes atound blank pledges to be signed. I'm going to get one first chance; and if you will accept It sir meaning bo offense 1 ' would be proud to got you, one, too." - I stared at him aghast , ; "Oh, I say, now," I murmured faint ly, "you don't think It waa that, do you?" . ' ?' 1 Jenkins, face was eloquent enough. "I'm through, sir," he said sadly. "When it comes to seeing things like that He lifted his eyes. "No more lor me, sir; my belief la, It's a warn ing yes, sir, that's what, a warn ing." . . I collapsed Into a chair. v . ! "By Jove, Jenkins!" I said, trying to go a feeble smllo. "I never felt so fit for a corking stiff highball in my life never!" I took a screw on my glass and studied him curlouMly. ' "And I say, you know-better take one yourself!" I eddod. CHAPTER III. I Don the Pajamas. "By Jove, Jenkins, they fit like a dream!" , I twiBted before the glass and sur vey d the pajamas with much satls tacUun. ahey Jookoii U rlxht from every point. Moreover, with all Their easy looseness, there waa not an Inch, too much- They had a comfortable, personal JeeL, - - - . , -" "Lucky thing they weren't made originally for some whale like Jack Billinge-r-eh, Jenkins?" I commented musingly.' Behind his hand Jenkins Indulged In what is vulgarly known aa a snicker. Mr. Billings, air, he couldn't get one shoulder In em, much less a h'h leg," he chuckled, "They'd be In ribbons, air!" I yawned sleepily, and Jenkins In stantly sobered to attention. He held his finger over the light switch as I punched a pillow and rolled over on the mattress. ., "All right," I said; "push the Jolly thing out". And with a click dark ness fell about me. "Good night, air," came Jenkins' voice softly. "Night," I murmured faintly and I was off. x ' - Sometime, hours later, I awoke, and with a devilish yearning for a smoke. It often takes me that way in the night I climbed out In the blackness and found my way Into the other room. I remembered exactly where I bad drop ped my cigarette case when we were fooling with the pajamas by the table, and I found it without difficulty. .: In the act -of stooping for It, my hand clutched the edge of the table and I felt a spot yield under the pressure of my thumb. It was the button controlling tho bell to Jen kins' room. "Lucky thing he sleeps like a Jolly porpoise," I reflected. I pushed a wicker arm-chair Into I the moonlight and breeze by a win dow, and pulling a flame to a cigarette, leaned back, feeling Jolly comfy. For the breeze was ripping and delicious, l and the delicate silk of tho pajamas flowed in Httle wavelets slljtbe way ; Crom my heels to my neck. ' ' I was just about dropping off, when I heard some -one hurrying along the private hall leading from the back. Jenkins himself popped Into the room. "Did you ring, sirT" he Inquired, and advanced quickly. : And then, before I could think about It to reply, he halted suddenly, almost pitching forward. Then, with a kind wheezy howl, he sprang to the wau. wake up. But he gripped mo tighter and shook me like a rag. "Bay, who are you?" he hissed. "How did rchi get Ik here?" And then, of course, I knew that ho wae crazy. Whether he was crazy In a dream or crazy with me awake, I couldn't guess. It made very little difference, anyhow, for I knew that la another minute I should be either dream dead or real dead; and dash me If I could see any odds worth toss ing for in either, you know. v ' But I don't belong to tho athletic club quite for nothing, and have man- He Sprang to the Wall. aged to pick up a few tricks, you know. So with the decision to chuck the dream theory, I shot my leg for ward with a mix-up and. twist that made Jenkins loosen his clutch and tagger backward. "What's the matter with your 1 gasped, advancing toward'hlm. "Are you trying to murder, met" But 1 was so hoarse, the only word that came out plainly was "murder," Jenkins uttered a bowl. "Help, Mr. Llghtnut! Murder!" - , "You old fool!" I cried, exasperated. "Come herel" Ha was coming. He seized a light chair and swung it behind his head. Then he ruabad me with a shqut. "Oh, Mr. Llghtnut!" "Oone clfuir rjf Jain i.uJ.1" waa P (CXi.lL;uei en T&z 2) Early and Very Incomplete Re turns From Presidential Prim- . ary Elections Show A Sub stantial Lead for Him. V i Jacktonville, FU May 1. Returns from the Presidential preference prim ary held fa thie State yesterday with Woodrow Wilson and OecarUedecwaod as the only participants, were meagre at midnight. Tew precints had been re ported complete, but . thee and tho vote of other precincts as far as count ed indicated that Underwo d was lead ins; by a' fair majority. The Florlla Times-Union, in its early editions, claimed the State for Underwood by a majority of about 7,000 ; . ; The ballot in todays primary was more than two feet in length and in addition to the Presidential candidates, carried the names of delegates and State of ficials from Governor down, who ire to be elected. Tests in counting the bal lots showed that it takes four to sii minutea.to count one vote. Anything like complete returns of tfcA. vote ar no expected until late Wednes lay night or Thursday, V , ' - . , " In the contest for Governor indica tions are that Park Thrammel ano Cromwell Gibbons are running a close race. " Tr Tampa, Fla., May l.-The Tribune say: At 9 o clock, the ount in the Presidential preference primary in th- city shows nearly 3 to 6 for Underwood over Wilson. Partial returns from some of the smaller precincts in South Florid indicate a substantial - msjorlt) fcr Underwood. " Jacksonville, Fla., May 1 Rain yestercay r.sult d in light voting in th Presidential pieference primary in thi State. The polls throughout the State clored at 6:30 o'clock and owing to tht com p irated la lot teturns will be slow cemirgin. Hexdquarter facials for Wilson and Unrierwood, the n'y Presi dential candidates wht se names appear ed on -the ballot, are claiming the Stab for their respective candidates. - Tampa, Flu., May 1. Incomplete re tJrns from eight enunttee i ti lt- SoULt) "n III'.. Florida give Underwood 2,116; 'A ils.ti 957. Key WeH, Fla., May 1. About 1,800 votes were cart in Monron ounty in th' Presidential primaiy, At midnight tin- count stood: Underwood 836; Wilson 48. . . : ' Orlando, Fla., May 1 -Only one foutth of the vote in thi. city ii prim ary had been completed at midnight, the figures standing 'Jn lerwojd 72; Wilon 54. . Scattering leturna from thi (Oear ge) county indicate a majority for Underwood. Bucks Stoves and Ranges that bake better bread with least fuel. ' J. S. Basnight Hdw. Co:vTtV::C';: f Under Serlona Charge. ' . Eugene Walker, rolored was arrested testeiday morning by Chief 6T Poliece Lupton on a warrant charging bim With a criminal ansult upon Lena Pay too, colored. He wa taken before the Mayor yesterday afte'noon but waived preliminary harjng and was bound over to the June terra of Superior Court without bond. If the deft ndant is pro ven guilty be will either go to the elec trie chair c r to the peonitenlury for a long term. Car Inspector to Receive $2,500 from Railroad Company. Raleigh, April 30. The jury ' in the rase of J. A. Tant brought in a verJicl. to day against the Norfolk-Southern Railway Company for $2,500 damages after being out since 6 o'clock yester day for alleged injuries sustained while Tant waa serving as car inspector. - An engine and flat car et ashed into a pass enger car in which he was it work and he was thrown against a sat in such a way ss to permanently injure him about the base of the spine. ., PILES CUI ED IN TO 14 DAYS i Your druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching. Blind, Bleedingor Pro trading Pileain 6 to 14 days. . 60c. Will Sue Town of follocksvlll v ; Several Citizens. , and Several weeks ego Pet way Pickett; colored was arrestH and placed In jail at Pollocksville. He claimed that the jail wss in a very unsanitary condition and that he was not given euounh cov ering to protert him from the cold and that his pdj ileal and mental anguish waa very great. ., Pickett has therefore filed euit sgainst the town of Pollocks ville and Meters. T. A. Bell. Harry Brvan, Wads lienders and M. J. Laary for damages In the sum of $3,000 from each of the defmtlxnts. The gentle men named awiftei in making the ar rest sni lacing tht pluintiH in j&IL Washington, April 29. Tariff discus sion In the Senate will begin this week, after prolonged hearings in the finance committee, over tho various Democra- ttejfieasoree, sent over by tho Rouse. Senator Cummlna of Iowa, wilt Intro- Mute, tomorrow tho bill which he has drafted to make a sharp' reduction in the iron and steel schedule of tho trriff law". He Will speak on it Wednesday. Democrats and soma of the progressive Republicans expect they may reach some common ground on the basis of tt.ii bill, with a view to forcing revision legblatkra through the Senate. Sena tor Simmons of North Carolina is in charge of the House bill and expects to call it up Tuesday. ; Tomorrow, the poetoffice appropria tion, bill, one of the heaviest of the sup ply measures, probably will be passed in the Bouse. , The bill for direct ooDuiar elec' ion of United States Senators, already peered uy (he House but amended in the Sen ate to provide for Federal supervision may be brought up in the House tomor row on a motion of the House conferees to accept the Senate amendment This, ! adopted would mean the enactment of, thiiaw. ; The conferees had been deadlocked on tho Senate amendment for months. TheSenate committee on commerce tnd toe House committee on merchant marine are . considering measures de igned to ensure the safety of ocean traffic, in the light of the Titanic dis aster. The Senate committee, prob ably this week, will recommend a bill to fcqu're two wireless telegraph oper i tors on all ocean passenger crafts of more than 5,000 tons. Many measure affecting regulation of ocaan traffic have been introduced in both houses tnd pre sure is being brought to bear rrom outside to expedite legislation to remedy the conditions disclosed by the titanic disaster, ' . The rivers and harbors aooroDriation bitlaicended from iU House fsa will be ready to report to the Senate prob ably this week. - - Water Coolers from $1 50 to $4.50 at Basnight Hdw. Co., Phone 99. Relief Ship Sent to Mexico. San Francisco, CaL, April 29. The ransport Buford, under orders to sail a relief ship for Americana in dis- treeaon the west coast of Mexico, re ceived supplementary orders this even ing io sail at nine o'cluea tonight. She ear: iea 40 enlisted men as a guard. , It is understood that the Buford will put in at San Diego for a convoy. Al though no official confirmation of this informal assurance could be had, it is supper ted by a dispatch from San Die go that two of the torpedeboat de stroyer, in port there, would sail under sealed orders within 24 hours. . LESS LATENT Operator on Lonely Island Asks Burgeon Ship Hundreds of 'Miles Away How to Am is. putate and Then Per- ' forms Operation , oo Injured OH '' . Laborer, ' New YorV, April 80 How a laborer oo Swan Island, a lonely wireless sta tioo In the Gulf, sustained a cruihed foot; how the wireless operator on the island eommunieatrd with a. ship 450 miles away, raised the surgeon and got him to explain tho proper way to am putate; then how the operator's associ ate performed the Operation w a story told by the manager of big shipping concern today. New Orleans physi cians described it as "surgery by wire-' On Swan Island is a wireless station, oaa of the links in the United Fruit chain to the troplea. When a laborer hurt his foot io a tram ear accldent,the wireless operator concluded an opera tion waa imperative. There were no medical books'at hand; and no one at the iUtlon had hacked at a fellow be ing. Then- the operator had an "In quloitlon." He called a fellow crafts man peeking 450 miles below into the Caribbean Sea. The situation waa x plained to tHe ship's phynic'an, and de tail by !, .-. I, he exj.!uined Just how the amputation should be handled. After the arte: k Lad been tieJ and the wound dressed, the patient recovered bis strength and told the operator he want ed to express L'.s tL&r.ks. At the last accoouts ho was fcUl. x well. SURGERY 1 Northern Democrats Beady to Sup port Alabamian. By May 8th Underwood Will Have 84 Southern Delegates. Washington, April 80 -The Under wood campaign headquarters have re ceived numerous reports indicating that by May 8th, when three more Southern statee have held their presidential pri maries, the Underwood column will stand like this: ' i Alabama 24, Florida 12, Georgia 28, Missippi 20. Total 84. Reports from North Carolina are al most as encouraging, and if Mr. Under wood carries that state he will go into the convention with southern delegates numbering over 100. Should the south put forward its candidate backed with 100 delegates, the democrats of the north and west will accept him. Mr. Bryan will at cept him, or bo chargeable with the basest ingratitude. If the south was tiling to go down in defeat three times with Mr. Bryan, even Bryan must forget his selfishness and be wil ling to go forward to victory wiih the new leader, who has won his spurs in sixteen years of conflict. Mail Order Houses. Don't undersell me for same quality goods. Tell us your wants. Note prices. No freight charges. No risk whatever. Try us on Paint. Wo sell L. & M. Paint It's thick. Must add Oil, end then you have tho best pure Lead, Zinc and Linseed Oil Paint made, and it's cost is only about $1.67 per gallon. Call on Gaskill Hardwore& Mill Sup ply Co., New Bern, N. C. evolutionary Conditions Improve. Washington. April 29. -The revolu tionary conditions, which caused the dispatch of foreign troops to . North China, have shown such general im provement. American ' Minister yCat boon at Peking reports that a redaction of the marine guard can safely be un dertaken. "Two companies will be with drawn within a few days. Sldna Allen Seen. Mount Airy, N. C, May lst.-Sidna Allen, one of the two uncaptured Hills- ville outlaws, was seen yesterday after noon in the mountains near Fancy Gap by Dr. Thomas B. Ashby of this place, who was at the home of Charles Webb there. Both Ashby and Webb, who know Sidna Allen well, say there is no doubt aa to tho indenity of the outlaw. He emerged from the woods . near Webb's home, but when he spied -he men. he disappeared. ' " Investigation failed to disclose where he went. A poereof detectives is now on the fria', REPORT OF THS COJJDITIOX OF THE ., BANK OF D0TEB it Dover, In the State of Horth Care Una, at tho Close of Business, April 18th, 1912. RESOURCES v. Loans and discounts $ 20,967 88 Overdrafts, secured n(1 in- . secured 1,658 68 Banking houses, 1,004 05 Furniture and fixtures 1,018 91 2,022 96 Duo from banks '- and bank . era 4,160 41 Cash items 709 00 Gold eoin 85 00 Silver coin. Including all ml- , nor coin currency , v 75 07 National bank notes and oth or U. S. note 1 . 1,810 00 Total (30,980 00 r , ' LIABILITIES. Capital stock .. .. .. .. .ttJKHMM Undivided profits, less cur rent expenses and taxes paid , ; Time Certificates of Deposit . Deposits tubject to check 2,887 10 5,665 00 17,427 90 Tout ": ' i : 130,980 00 STATE) OF NORTH CAROBJNA S3: CRAVBN COUNTY. I, W. H. Caton, Cashier of the a bore-named bank, do solemnly swear that tho above statement la true to tho best ot my knowledge and to ilet - ' W. H.' CATON . ":.v' v- - Cashier. Correct Attest: ; R: A. RICHARDSON, , ' J. K. B1DDLE, Q. V. RICHARDSON, y " ; Directors. Subectibttd and sworn to before me this 27th day of April 1912. ' W. A. WILSON. Notary PuUIc. l!j Comm'iiion expires April 2, 1314. State Board of Health Urge Peo ple To Look Out For Their Spring Sanitation. Raleigh. April 29. Special. Th North Carolina State Board of Health are urging the people to look after their spring sanitation saying that spring time is pre-eminently the "cleaning up season," Every home-, has aecumula- tions or rubbish and filth which were no useful purpose. On the other hand, they may aerve directly or indirectly to promote disease. Remember, you will have no flies this summer unless your Immediate surroundings furnish U em breeding places. Put np your fly and mosquito screens early. See that they are all fly-tight and mocquito proof. In cleaning up don't forgot the mos quito. He is a tiny pest to say the least, but bis bite may give you malarial chills and fevers that will last you weeks and months. " They breed along he edge of stagnant water, in pools, ponds, tin cans, broken crockery, bar rels, tin spouting, etc. Destroy or re move tbe tin cans and other vessels, re piir the spouting and drain the swamps and pools. If for any reason any stag nant water cannot be drained, pour coal oil on the surface at the rate of one half pint per hundred square feet. Carefully screen every door and window with fine tereen. A wire screen having twelve meibes to the inch will keep flies out, but to successfully exclude mosquitoes use a screm having eigh teen meshes to the inch. Good health and comfort for the cummer are the re gard for such timely vigilance and dili gence in cleaning up, while disease and possibly death may be the punishment for the slothful. Died. Miss Julia C. Irvin aged 72 years 9 months at tho residence of Mr. John C. Hill No. .71 Hancock St, Tbe Fun eral services will be held at Christ Church at 4 p. in. this afternoon eon auciea oy me Kev. a. r . nosxe. in interment will bo made fn Cedar Grove cemetery. - , The Shop That's Different Takes the Cake. Senator Simmons wss talking about a boom. "1 congratulated him upon bis boom" said the Senator laughing, and ha ap peared astonished that I knew anything of it. But I told bim that I bad a keen nose for booms, even for little ones. 1 explained that I was like the New Bern Urchin.' ; : . "A New Bern urchin used to call on a certain old lady every Saturday after noon, and she would give bim a piece o cocoanut layer cake. But one Saturday as she expected company for tea, she decided not to cut the cake, and there fore none waa offered to the urchin. "He said plaintively, as the time came for him to go: "I beleive I smell cocoanut layer eaker" ' " ., '' 'The old laby laughed, went to the cupboard, and cut bim a very tiny slice. Wh n she gave it to him, he thanked her and said: "But it seems strange that I could smelt such a little piece, doesn't it," Detroit Free Press, Sunday April 28. Must rubll&n Idltor'i and Stockhold er's Manes. Washington, May L The perfected poetoffice appropriation bill as agmd upon, contained several now features of legislation advocated by tho Demo crate, One was an abrogation of the rule, described by Democrats aa a "gag" rule which prevented Federal employes in tho postal service- from complaining to Congress of their treat ment. '. The bill also contains a provision which would compel newspapers, ma gacineo and other periodicals to publish tho names of their managing editors and stockholders who own stock valued at more than 1550. ; The Morgue Ship Dockp. Hslifax, April 8a -While the church bells tolled the cable ship Mackay-Ben- aett steamed Into the harbor wlthf lags at half mast bearing the bodies of the victims of the Titanic disaster at 9 o' clock. J. M. Ragadale, tho American consul general led the Americans on the pier. The coffins bearing the dead Were piled on the deck. ' , " President off For South. "Washington, May 1. President Taft has returned irom his Massachusetts csn po'sn trip, but Lis stay here will be brief X is scheduled to lesve tha after- ponn for f avannah. Tie Ttt ; I r.t v.il v: 'irtrft3daUer.l t'' r--.ora!l s for t.s lt il"::.r Ar- Tar Heel Senator Makes First As sault In Senate on Republican Policy of Protection; Di gest of Speech. Washington.D. C. May l.-The first assault in the Senate on tbe Republican policy of protection was begun yester day afternoon, .'When Senator Sim mons, for the members of the Finance Committee opened the debate on the Underwood steel bill, which forces tbe steel trust into competition with the foreign steel manufacturers. Senator Simmons said the whole sub ject resolved itself into the question of whether or not iron and steel could be manufactured in , the United States as cheap as abroad, He declared it bis opinion that it could be manufactured even cheaper, despite low wage rate abroad. . ' " ' . . . v: .. He quoted from a statement made in 1899 by Charles S. Guthrie, prsident of the American Steel Hoop Gompany, in which Mr. Guthrie is credited with sty- ing that his combany was able to under- markets: .'.. . Senator Oliver interrupted with the statement that conditions in 1899 were vastly different from what , they are now. " A lively debate followed this inter ruption which was taken -by the official reporter of the Senate as follows: v Mr. Simmons "They are a great deal better for the American manu facturer now than they then were, 1 im agine. Mr. Oliver "They are not anything . like as good for the American manu- . factnrer, in 1899 the labor cast in America was lower than it was ever be fore or ever has been since." - Mr. Simmons "That was at least two years after the Dingley law went into effect, and I bave been told that that law worked an immediate trans formation to the industries of this coun try." Mr. Oliver "That law' undoubtedly worked a very great transformation, ' and it brought about a very great io- ..; crease in tbe prosperity of the country and in the wages of the working peo ple, but in 1898 and 189P the business isd not quite recovered and was jutt beginning to recover from four years depression." Mr. Simmons "Do I understand the position of the Senator to be that it now costs more to produce iron and rteel than it ever did before?" Mr, Oliver "Oh, no, I do not say hat it costs more than it ever did be fore, but it costs more than it did at anytime since the manufacturer of teel has expanded. The labor cost to day is very much greater than it was io 1899." " ' , Mr. Simmons "Is that the result of increasi g wages?" - ' Mr. Oliver "Yes, an, increase. I think I heard Judge Gary state before he Senate Interstate Commerce Com mittee that the steel corporation since its organization, had advanced wages, I think, by about 80 per cent," Senator Simmons here took up the . -ost of producing pig iron in the United States and abroad and attempted to how that the cost In tha Birmingham district is $1.02 a ton, which he claimed is below the lowest , cost in Germany and but 10 cents per ton above the low est eoet in England. - , ; Lawn Mowers " '.'Philadel phia," synonym of quality. Price from $3.75 to $20.00. Basnight Hdw. " Co., , 67 S. Front St. The Alien Trial In Progress, 41 ' A" ' ' twaaSJBaieaBS) " ''''' Wythevile,' April 30. -The town waa in gala attre today during the Allan, trial with meting picture . show, street carnival, revival to entertain thousands of visitors. There was no sign of dis order th nigh there was armed detect ives on guard. Judge Walter R. Sap les is presiding. The chit f witness for the state is Dexter Goad, clerk of Hillsville court. , , 5 The court was quick in getting down t action today. Judee Staples made no opening statement but commanded opening proceedings. J.' C. Wysor, senoir counsel for the state announced Floyd Allen to be tried Gut oo the charge of killing com non-wealth at torney William M. Foster Allen has five lawyers to represent him. Tte Shop Tht's Deferent. Steamer Sinks; Seventy rive Drown. Constantinople, April 30. Tl e steamer Texas bdorr'rg to Ilia I" '- jt-Jaoud Ca?t of noun. Z I e rsims. i: is v, .1 t' S line An',H strti! k mine '.T t j I, or y a tni.i v. i..a st-ypt. - I I