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,' !.!U- No. 73 NLW ISLRN, N. C LRIDA'Y, DECEMBER 13, WlSECOND SECTION 35 YEAR PUBLIC SCHOOLS COOD SHAPE Superintendent . Brlnson So Re y - -, porta After Tour of In spectlon. AVERAGE ATTENDANCE LARGE New Bern School Could Not Have More Inviting Prospect, , , Mr. Craven Says. .A, matter of much interest locally a well an as over the entire county is the excellent condition-of thf? public ' school in this county.: During the - past few,, weeks S. Brinson, :.-who has all heite- schools, under his supervi sion, ha visited many' of the schools and inspected the work being done in ,. them, ; , In every instance he lias been greatly impressed by what he found and of course-greatly encouraged. Although Craven county has not as targe a number of schools and pupils as some other counties 4n the State it ranks among the. leaders with those whose records show ..- they; have accomplished good work. Some Sections are sparsely settl ed and id. these it is often necessary for the: pupil to travel several, miles each day in order to reach the school. Investigation ., shows, however, -that the average attendance at even these schools during the present term has been better than ever before. - In the New Bern . school of which Prof HV B. Craven is in charge,' the enrollment is larger and the attendance better considering the fact that there has been much sickness in the city during 'the past few months than ever before and in speaking of the prospects Prof. Craven says that 'he is sure that they could not be more encouraging. ,;, Several -districts have voted on a special school tax since last term and in these the length of the term has been increased, thus giving the pupils an opportunity of receiving several weeks more of the schools. more of instruction than has formerly been the case since the. establishment '.! Those -who are interested most in the development of Craven county's educational institutions are looking forward with much interest to the time when the work on the proposed Farm Ufe School will be started. Prof. J. E. Turlington, who has. been selected to take, charge of this school, is now in Georgia, a .member of the faculty of r . t 1 r . .i e ' one oi mat state s, famous colleges. His contract- with them expires . next February and he will come direct to Craven county and will supervise the work of erecting . the school. Plans for this instifution will be drawn by' a State architect and will be in readiness by the time Prof. Turlington arrives to that htere will be no further delay. It is 4he intention of the trustees of the school to have it ready for Opening by the beginning of the next term. PAIR DEAD It VACANT HOUSE Woman Murdered, Man A Suicide, "Declares Coroner. .: Swartswood, N. J., Dec. 10. The bodies of Mrs. Barbara Rapkc, of New ark, and Ludwig Palmer, of South Orange the woman murdered and the nian a filicide, according to the coroner .were found in an unoccuuied cottage on the.,, shore of . Swartswood Lake thref days after the couple left their home.' '- - v The woman lay dead in the kitchen , with a bullet wound in the temple. The man's body, also with a bullet in the head, lay in another room, beside him an other revolver, loaded , was on a table. fainter, a contractor, was married. Mr Rapke was a widow with two children. . They had been acquainted about a year, according to the police. CARBON A TB OF LIME - sl . . . .ilir.' ; vf , " "1 j;f 5tA Cfl457v'v - f CVy - raus- . i INTO Qf " ; ichly Soluble Forms V . .ftop Fertilizers j C. L. SPENCER1 DEALER IN- ; r4.0 fitly, vxwiiit watO) ANTJ ALL KINDS OF FEED. A " v . m.tv SEED , A AhV r.lSlI OrCSrS Given JX)Wef Middle Street, NAVY RliCRLITS WANTED L3ort Made to Rope iu Vounft Men Out of Employment. Washington, D.C., Dec. 10. During the past few, months Uncle Sam has found it a. rather hard matter to secure recruits for the navy. The demand for seamen has been much largerthan the supply. Although advertisements have been inserted in newspapers ami ! magazines all over the country a com paratively small number of answers have been received. . Recently the government has established a clipping bureau at Washington and at this place thousands of newspapers are read each day and great care is taken to'read the want ad. Whenever an advertisement is found in which the advertise? wants a poai- lion, his-name is, clipped out and the recruiting office at once writes a letter to him-, telling of the advantages of navy life and offering every, induce ment to get him to join. .. So great has become the ru?ed for recruits that papers from all .over the United States are' being subscribed for and several thous and of these are read every day. In a report recently sent out by this bureau they stated that on an average one hundred thousand letters have been sent out each week since the bureau started. Of this number more than one thousand come to North Carolina. TALKS ON DRESS Speaker Pleads For Less Ostenta tion on Part of Women. Chicago, Dec. 10. Gov. Chase S. Osborn of Michigan, a newspaper man, preached a sermon here Sunday, front the pulpit of his friend, the Rev. Myron E. Adams of the First Baptist Church. The Governor took for his theme a plea for less ostentation on the part of women church members. He suggested a uniform church dress that would be plain and inexpensive and would not frighten away poor women who now stayed away from church because they could not compete in dress with pros perous women. "I've often wished that Protestant churches in this country would follow the habit I have observed in Spain and in South America among Catholic church-goers," he said. "There it is the custom of women to dress in plai n black for church. " I wich that our women would do so and then the poor would come." PREPARE FOR PARCELS POST Postofflce Will Be Ready for It When Installed. Postmaster Basnight and his corps of assistants are getting everything in readiness in the local office for the Parcels Post Law which goes into effect on January I, 1913. Assistant-Postmaster Hewitt stated yesterday that the local office had not received Complete instructions regard ing this new law and were unable to give out any definite information about it. The country will be divided into zones and a map of these different zones will be placed in a public place in the office. Persons who send pack ages by this pew rate will be compelled to bring them to the office, the carriers not being allowed to collect them. In addition to this stamps which are to be used exclusively for this purpose must be affixed to each package. . At some of the large offices it will be necessary to equip the carriers with extra pouches or add to the number of carrier but fhi will hnrdly be the case in' New:. Bern, ' The majority of the carriers will,-doubtless, be engaged .in New Bern.. The majority of puckages .will doubtless be consigned .to patrons on the rural routes, ' ; WINS THE HONORS FROM , - Burned or -Oxide of Lime bx $75.00 per acre in a sixteen year anA nrAvpri hpvnnd mipRt-inn that It ' 'superior fertilizing ingrediant. ' d' j.-' n mi I... !:.:., I ... heads the list of fertilizing limes. For f 1,11 5nfor.ro,k,n write at once CASOLI'JJ COAST LIME CO. . New Bern, N. C. - Dmn Hrtminir uittuj iiviumj) HIGH GRADE CORN MEAL. rn r VT7 PDTrif VfSTt QATT? LU lilh. 1 lUUW UK AL,L. CarelUl Attention. - NeW Bern, N. C MOT BUT II' .WITH-HUSBAfED If She Does Daughter of Dr. Mc- Cill Will be Almost Cut Off By Will. LEAVES VERY LARGE FORTUNE There Had Long Been 111, Feeling Between Him and Hid Son-ln-Law. New York, Dev." lO.The will of Dr. John D. McGill, which was proved yesterday before Surrogate John P. . Egan, of Hudson County, provides that his daughter , Mrs. Eleanor Acheson J Carr, -is. to receive the income from .three-fifths of the estate as lung as she remains separated from tier hus- band, Lieut. William It. Carr, h young United States army surgeon. Dr. McGill's estate it worth -several hundred thousand and possibly S 1 .00!), 000. "The relations of my daughter, Mrs. Eleanor Acheson Carr, with her husband must be ihobe of .1 complete stranger, ' says the will. "Should my daughter elect to live again with this man Carr the trustees of this will shall pay her only 81,200 annually, with no reversii a to her husband for anv children she may have." . The will further provides that if Mrs. Carr should have any children by her present husband, from whom she has been separated for some time, the chil dren are to receive $100 each and no more. If Mrs. Carr should marry another man she is to receive one-half the income of the estate. Dr. McGill's daughter eloped and married Lieut. Carr in March 1000. He is a son of Dr. William P. Carr, of Washington. Last June young Mrs. Carr sued for a divorce in Washington. The case was dismissed becauses she had not been a resident of the District two years. In opposing the wife's complaint Leiut Carr blamed his father-in-law for his marital tinhappiness. He said Dr. McGill had challenged him to fight a duel. That was denied by the doctor. HOLD UP NOMINATIONS Seantor Simmons Co-operating With Other Senate Democrats. Washington, D. C. Dec. 11. Senator Simmons said last night that he i co-operating with other Democratic Senators in the matter of holding up Presidents Taft's nominations in the Senate, but whether an agreement wa reached or not, t here' would be no con firmations made for North Carolina positions, that he could hold up. Ihe Senator said in a number of cases the commission of postmasters had expired a year ago, and that holding up confirmation for a few months longer, wpuld not inconven ience anyone, unless it be the Repub lican officeholders. As the matter of withholding confirmations is a matter of "Senatorial courtesy," it is safe to say the North Carolina positions will be filled by President Wilson. . i A rumor has been going the rounds here that Senator Simmons would hot look with favor upon recommendations for postmasters made by Representa tive Claude Kitchin. It is learned that Mr. Kitchin will be treated with the same consideration in matters of this kind as other Congressmen from the State. , " . 'JIM CROW" LAW APPLIES Negroes Can't Ride on Sleeping . Curs in Mississippi. Jackson, Miss., December 10. The Supreme Court of Mississippi to day decided that the so-called "Jim Crow" law' applies in this State to through sleeping cars as well as day coaches. JhU decision wa handed down in the suit of - Miss, Pearl Mtfrris',, who was recently given a ' veridvt - against the Alabama and Vicksburg Railroad' for $15,000 because its employes re fused to eject three negroes from a sleeping car in which she was riding. The court held that the $15,000 dam ages was ; excessive, but , suggested a verdict of $2,000. t The couit's decision ssys that if negroes are to ride in slee ing cars in Missippi they must be fur nished separate cars., ' , PROFESSORSHIP FOR TAFT Likely Not To Practice law In Cincinnati as Predicted.; V i New York, Dec, It. President Taft will not go to Cinnclnati and practice law when he leaves the White House, but has arr"ed to accept a professor ship in the Yale I aw. School. This statement is made authoritatively by a close friend of Taft, who says he is acquainted with the President's plans, The Informant stated Sat President 7 Taft will accept the Kent professorship ' of law, which has been unfilled since the death of Edward J. PKclps in 1900. phe,P8 appointed to the professor- ship in 1881, ami although he became ' minister to Great Briiian by appoint- - i , i . loot mnl ol resioent vieveiana in iooof rc(ainod it unlil hi dcath. The pr0. fessorship covers lectures in both con- stituti9nal and International Uw. ' FROM MRfBRADHAM e for Good Roads Under Certain Conditions. Editor Journal: . " Yoi'irjeditorial id ariichs-on first page of your issue) of the th inst. possibly conveys 'a I wrong t impression of the action of the, representatives of the Farmers' Unidit, in regard to an issue of bonds for j;oad improvement. If you had been present, probably yot would have nut a,, different construc tion upon the action of the delegates. 1 was told that the meeting was for the purpose of asking special legislation authorizing an issiic of bonds for the permanent improvement-1" of Craven County's in-tin roads, but" in view of the fact that we kivr such a Statute, passed by the - Legislature of 1905, it was dppmed , unneceittya' "4o ' ask for further legislation.' ; t' , You state tha I'opjiosfd the move ment for a bond :jiisiie. On the con trary, I favor it uider proper condi tions, but think it unnecessary, as is explained below, r Mistakes are fre!u',-nt' in road build ing and all work of this nature should be permanent. Guilford County built several miles of water -bound macadam road from the proceeds of a bond issue of srveral hundred thousand dollars ind last winter the surface froze and there is remedy only in resurfacing, which in no wise prevents the road from freezing again from base to sitrface. (The Nation.il Cemetery raod on Georje street is of the water bound Macadam type and it is a failure. Buncombe County is trying sand and clay ; it is to be inferred that its Macadam is unsatisfactory. Macadam roads are almost prohibitive here on accountwof price of stone and, gravel, which is right at hand in some sections and which coasts $2. .10 per cubic yard- delivered here and would be to haul from one to five miles, m.iking this type road cost S5.000 per mile. Q The sand-clay rpa'd has been un satisfactory in this: section, I think this is due to the 'high water level, making drainage difficult, and to the quality of sand and clay. Roads built entirely of soil, Mich as Neuse road b:- yond the A. & N. C. crossina and Beaufort road., have stood the. weather and wear well. This soil abounds in our County, and by its use may be nude into good roads where drainage can be had. The sand hills will need special treatment. ; Bituminous-' Maciflajn,. that is the rockYroad with suitable waterproof adhesive binder, rightly constructed, is the nearest approach to permanency. This is seen on East Front Street, but the cost will run from $7,000. to $8,000 per mile. This is prohibitive, at pre sent . If the rock can be left out, using' sand and binder the- cost will not exceed $1,000 per mils for finished road, a saving of seven hi ndred thous and dollars in constructing 100 miles of road. The surface of all Bituminous roads, is composed of sand, very fine gravel or stone and binder, then why will binder not unite with sand alone? This very theory is now being tried on cuse road and if it works to our satisfaction, the Main roads of our County can be built from a levy of fifty cents each year for four years, giving us two hundred miles of un improved roads without a bond issue, which always carries with it a sinking fund and the interest, which in the case of an issue of $200,000 would annually amount to one half of the fifty cents suggested. The interest of a bond issue amounts to more than the principal in thirty years. Just figure this1 it is amazing ! Federal aid to- Counties for the per manent construction of R, F. D. roads is about to be offered us. State aid will, no doubt, be forthcoming, when the next Legislature convenes; in the meantime it will be the aim of the Board of Commissioners to get the roads in condition to admit of permanent im provement by raising the base or bv proper drainage. This is necessary lief ore any road can . be built. ' The lateral -roods will receive attention by the orgi'.nialiorr of ,a maintenance force, acting under the .supervision of a cometent engineer or some intelli gent road supervisor. The above was, in substance, my remarks before the Farmers' Union, on Saturday, at the Court House, when called upon by President Whitford, and I was told, further action was deferred for the present, pending Federal 'and State aid to good road. ' - - ' - Yery respectfully, V v D. BRA DM AM. New Bern, Dec. il,( tOU. ' MAROONED' IN GRAVEYARD. ' , Sterling, III., Dec, 11. -Ralph Hitch, of Morrison, III., stricken with small, pox, has been consigned to a house in the middle of a cemetery here and supplied with groceries. Nq one could be found to ottend Hitch and hewas left alone among the tombs, to make his struggles for life. There is no isolation hospital here and when the jiature of Hitch s illness became known a I . . -L J n.Miy conn wn-umuc iur v1"" w- put hIm. The gardener's ool hut in the middle of the cemetery was thejjn your own locality only available place. j Adv, DESCRIBES TRIP nr aiimni ur Special , ; Writer For New York . World Tells of Twlrler's Outing. NEW TITLE FOR G. A. NICOLI Reporter Also a Little Fanciful In Describing Natural Sce nery Around Havelock. In an illustrated article in Sunday's New York World a special writer for the World tells of the recent hunting trip to this section made by Christy Matthewkon, the noted baseball player, sometime ago. Barring such little inaccuracies as referring to George A. Nicoll as a railroad president and ascribing high clilfs, rocks and crags to the Havelock vicinity, the arncle is no doubt a truthful portrayal of about what happened while "Matty" was down this way for a bit of sport. The opening paragraphs follow: Where the hunting horn echoes over vast stretches of a low, open country wild and swampy and tangled with masses of greenbrier and smilax lies Camp Bryan in a preserve that is flung out over Carteret and Craven and a part of Jones Counties, near the central coast of North Carolina. There are few human beings in its wide limits, but its woods, thickets and lakes teem with wild life1 bear, deer, duck, geese, big bass and alligators. The openings are picturesquely called pocosins, where tough gallberry bushes grow so thick that a hunter must cut his way through Here and there in these spaces are small pine and bayjrees. On the edge of this tract is the village of Havelock. The railroad station agent has time enough to fol low the news of the ouside world, and like many longing souls in remote places his mind is most occupied in leisure moments by the struggles of the club in the two big baseball leagues. Many such men know more about the game and the statistics of the players than the New Yorkers who crowd into the Brush Stadium on summer days. They hungrily read every scrap about Matthewson and Marquard and Joe Wood and all the rest of the diamond stars. Matthewson is back from the wilds and brimful with picturesque stories of adventure jn the North Carolina jungles stories that breathe the free life of the open air, hardship and ad venture. "We had a wondeful time," said Matthewson. "That preserve is. a wilderness filled with name. Tom Keller, who is a 33d degree baseball fan here and one of the wealthy men who maintain Camp Bryan, was the host of a party that included Frank Stevens, the son of the Polo Grounds caterer, Police-Lieutenant George Schoenick, Prof. John Henry Larkin of Columbia University, Walter A Bass, Charles Dodd and. other well known New Yorkers. George A. Nicoll, who is a railroad president in North Carolina and deeply interested in Lamp uryan, was also with us. It is estimated that there are 3,000 deer in the preserve, as well as hundreds of bears. There are five large lakes, including the noted Mallard marsh where thousands of geecse, snipe and ducks feed. There are creatures of the wild for 100 miles around. The reference to the rocks and crags of Havelock is made in connection with a description of the capture of an eagle. TO STUDY NORMAL SCHOOLS Maryland Commission Leaves for This State. Baltimore, Dec. 10. To observe the normal school development of the southern States, the members of the Maryland State Normal School Com mission left last night for North Caro lina Normal, School, at Greenville, of which Robert Wright, formerly principal of the Eastern High School, this city, is president. The commission will also inspect the Western Normal and Industrial School, at Greensboro. Here they will find another Baltimorean, Herbert E.Austin professor of science, who formerly filled the same position at the Maryland State Normal. The commission ex pects to return Thursday night. .In the party are Congressman Linthi- eum. State Superintendent "Stephens and Assirtant Superintendent Purdum, Senators Benson and Goslin and Miss Sarah E. Richmond, principal of the normal school. k-- : ' . DR. H. M. BONNER, of New Bern, will be In Fort ' Barnwell Wednesday, Dec, 18th. at kft-W. R. Sauls', and Thursday, Dec. 19th in Duvcf at Dr. S. j. Hawe's office for treatment of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. ' If you are in need of treatment and want glasses fitted to fiiur eyes it will pay you to rewember the - date and place. Dr. Bonner is a specialist in this line and it is seldom you have a chance to be treated by a specialist Dec. 10 Jt. ic nn ltliil ILHJUII PULITZER ESTATE TOO LOW State Official Declares It Under valued By Millions. . New York, Dec. 10. Surrogate John P. Cohalan rejected the transfer tax on the estate of Joseph Pulitzer, declar ing that securities held by the estate had "been grossly yndervalued, pos. sibiliy to the extent of several millions of dollars." William Law Stout, who represented the State Controller as special counsel, was admonished by the Surrogate to take steps to pro tect the State's interest in the new hearing. The Surrogate's rejection of the re port was based chiefly on the appraisal of Mr. Ptdlitzi-r's newspaper holdings The total value of Mr. Pulitzer's estate was fixed at SIS, 525,1 16. He held all but 10 shares of the Press Publishing Company, which controlled the Morn ing, Evening and Sunday World. His $1,490 shares were appraised .U Sj,()I6, 155, which made the total value of those papers S3, 080,955. His inierest n the Pulitzer Publishing Company which controlled the St. Louis Post Dispatch, was appraised at SI, I 15,717. According to the statements made on behalf of the estate by its counsel, the average net profit of the papers for four years were S536,5SO for the New York papers and S4()S,157 for the St. Louis papers. WANTS THEM BABES ALWAYS Strange Case of Purposely Arrested Development. Cleveland, Dec. 18. In a little kitchen at her home Mrs. Maud Thol has battled with an effort to keep Time from touching her babies. Around her feet crept three children, two, three and four vears old. Victims f a strange code her ingenuity devised to prevent them from advancing be yond the cradle, they laughed, 'kicked their feet and waved their handsas ohe crooned over them. The eldest boy did not creep faster or with greater ease than the younger ones. He is barely larger than the average child of two ears and appa rently has not advanced intellectually beyond the cradle- To further defeat their development the mother has never fed them anything except baby food. What lay bey-md the door, through which a stranger never passed, they hud no idea. Neighbors say the woman never took her children away. Wccasiontlly in the hot summer, they say, she would wheel them out in the darkness, but ilways guarded them closely from the gaze of any person. "She had a strange desire to always. keep them babies," Deputy Sheriff Stanley Sobczak said. "The four-year-old boy cannot talk or :;?.". He is not as large as my youn; :ei, -..hi is only eighteen months old." Several days agi. '.Vii.l.im James, clerk of the Probate ' oun. di overed. the plight of the chT iren ..'.u' invest- galed. lie continued the investigation until he made sure the children were not imbeciles. James .and Zobzak went to the house, arrested the woman and tcok her to the City Hospital. The children will be placed in an in fant institution. VIOLATED GAME LAWS. Robert Stokes, white, of Maple Cypress was given a heraing before Justice of the Peace S. R. Street yester day afternoon on a warrant sworn out by George B. Waters, game warden of Craven county, charging him with violating the game laws by shooting ipiail out of season. The evidence in the case wasverv conclusive and the justice I on lid the defendant, guilty ind placed a line of lv. o dollars and the cost of the case on him. The ollense was committed about three weeks ago. Going to JiaBuild ? .ysj.v TOLSON LUMBER & HFQ. CO FOR EVERYTHING )ffice and Factory 129 E.Front St. New Bern N C We call your attention to Farm Implements fi The John Deere Low Down Manure Spreader needs g no introduction All you need is to see it. ' a , Our line of Seed Drills, "Ontario," ' Buckeye" and "Pennsylvania," never fail to make friends. uur niie 01 oi.aifc gutters cunaisuuK iu uic uuunuccic - ""Avery," JICASE and "Southbend" from which to make your selection can't fail to please you, and then Our Prices are made to suit YOU. Your, orders will be carefully at attended to. Phone 98. , . J. C. Whitty & Co. xxxxxx joooootooccxx nrAni nrir nimv. ULnULUuTt UILLI IN SENATE FIGHT West Virginia Legislature Not Elect Successor To Watson.' May BITTER G. O. P. FIGHT IS ON In Such Event Strategic Posi tion of Democrats Would Be Better. Washington, Dec. 19. On account of the bitter fight between Republican aspirants in West Virginia "for the United States Senatorship there is a strong possibility that the Legislature of that State will fail to elect a successor to Senator Clarence G. Watson, Demo- erat, who retires March 4. In this event the Republican strength in the next Senate will be cut one vote," which will place the Democrats in a oeiier strategic position. Aot counting West Virginia, the Republicans will have only 13 votes unless they are able to kci one or two more from Illinois and Tennessee. It is believed the Bull Moose hold the balance of power and can prevent a caucus nomination. I he Republicans. ounting Hull Moosers and Regulars, have 11 on a joint ballot. The principal aspirants are former" Senator Davis Elkins, Governor Daw son, William Seymour Edwards, both of whom are Hull Moosers; Isaac Mann, Judge Showaltcr, former Senator Scott, fromcr Representative Hubbard and Judge Mason. Judge Nathan B. Goff, of Clarksburg, is spoken of as a com promise candidate. West Virginia Democrats in Wash ington declare that there is no chance whatever for a Bull Moose Democratic alliance by which a Progressive Demo crat can be elected to the Senate. They assert that some of them believe the Legislature will be deadlocked and no Senator will be elected. REPUDIATES HIS STORY Declares There Was No Plot to Murder Rosenthal. New York, Dec. 11. "Bridgie" Webber, one of the four informers whose testimony convicted Charles Becker and the four gunmen of the murder of Herman Rosenthal, returned from Havana yesterday and issued a statement repudiating in many respects the story he told on the witness stand. He said there was no plot to murder Rosenthal. On the contrary, he said, the gunmen went to the Hotel Metro pole to frighten the gambler, but two of them got drunk, and the fatal shoot ing resulted. Frank Moss, assistant district attor ney, who conducted Webber's exami nation on the stand, said he was amazed at Webber's statement. "This is the first time I have ever heard of such a story," said Moss. "If he had said before the trial he did not know of any plot, of course we would not have called him as a witness." Jack Rose, at his home in Queens oorough, said that Webber fied when he asserted that there .was -no plot to kill Rosenthal, and that the murder was done on the spur of the moment because two of the men we.e drunk. SAYS REPORT IS UNTRUE. Superintendent Walker of this divi sion of the Norfolk Southern is author ity for the statement that there is nothing in the report that New Bern will lose the office of the superintendent of the division on which it is located. THEN SEE our complete line of v J-