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. - ' ' I - . i- - . rOKf 'V SECOND SECTION PAGES 7 to 10 10 --PASES L TWO sections; LARGEST CIRCULATION IN WILMINGTON VOL. XXII. NO. 328. L WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA; FRID AY, DECEMBER 8, !l 91 6. PRICE FIVE CENTS WlLMING' M I IDTItS DF THIS Bucto v:; .p- , ; : nn r Tnu flrTrn x - . ; ir V , i , . Cl, I I f . -liii i 1 1 H mi: in UK s -w, of tq:;tn, itoto linn" . ' 4i-. Theme of The Hour Discussed By Former President Taft In Raleigh, aECTRIFIEDA FINE AUDIENCE. Yarborough Hotel the Scene of Another Notable Event Yes terday Afternoon Judge Hoke the Introducer. Raleisli, . C., December 7. "God always looks after children, drunken men and the United States," William Howard Taft said yesterday afternoon as he closed a wonderfully taking speech of twenty-five minutes upon ihe duties of the United States after the war. The former president's paraphrase of an ancient proverb was ju-.t one of i lie many happy things wIia'.; he siii! in ihe luncheon given by- the Chamber of Comemrce at the Yar borough. IIo talked weighty things with great power but irrepressib'y (hinkled when he digressed to the humorous sides of the tragedies that, like the seas, surround the insular United States. The Chamber of Commerce twice this week has had at its luncheon the leaders of two great parties. Wil liam Jennings Bryan spoke Monday afternoon under the same auspices and Judge Taft, who is now teaching law at Yale, .was invited as special guest when he came to speak to the makers of history and literature. He broke his visit, to the State by stop ping in Raleigh, going from this city io ChapeL Hill, where he speaks again.- Thf dining-room of the Yarborough was crowded again yesterday after noon when the former President en tered after a brTef reception in the lobby. He had been the central at traction of the association and his speech at the Meredith College aud loriimi easily overcame any popular objection to his politics. The Gov ernor last night presented him in strikingly happy terms and today Jus tice W. A. Hoke, of the Supreme Court, introduced him anew. The presence of the "Professor" for one whole day has done his good memory a good turn. . The Demo crats, who appear to have most rea son for recalling him with pleasure, have done the honors with decided credit. The Republicans as a whole gave him the go-by. It was expect ed. Everybody not only recalls what he came to Greensboro and told them nearly ten years " ago, but the recollection of what he "off icially did in the appointment of certain Demo cratic statesmen, abides even more keenly. But National Committeeman Carl Duncan, who was embarrassed most by the happenings of those days, bowed it least. He not only enter tained the ex-President yesterday afternoon but drove him to Chapel Hill and turned him over to the uni versity where he spoke last night. -Mr. Taft has been highly entertained. The Chamber of Commerce, whose functions have extended to every fbing from local mercantile work to bringing the world's champions to lown, has felt set up and has been ffiuch complimented upon its latest bis things in bringing Taft and Bryan here. Eight years ago when the two ran for president the county showed but little preference, tie country districts voting for Taft and the city overcoming them with Bryan. But little difference was shown in the reception this week. Each was graciously entertained. Hoke Makes"a Hit. Judge Hoke threatened to break up the oratoricals. He is the speaking Pst man on the bench anyway, and uhen he warmed to Taft the natives shuffled in good and hearty approval. To my mind he has never done a Jner thing than, after filling with function the highest office within ,hp gift of the people, he voluntarily turned from all fields of self-seeking hich lay so invitingly before him jnd dedicated, his splendid powers, 's ripened experience and trained intelligence to the aid of his fellow- countrymen in solving the problems 7 cnie before them for decision. "And he never did a braver thing j101" a better one than when he se lf,cted for his special field of activ- 'y and usefulness a professorship in ' 'aw school of one of our prominent Jjni varsities, for there is not in sthe lr' p of the suns a more exacting or )meiiigPnt audience than a body of ; j'udents at an American University, iWf IS or teymen, nor one of more 'Ptive o rpermanently responsive le principles of truth and right-J Washington, D. C, Dec. . The Rumanian capital, Bucharest, which figuers sp largely in the news of the day, struggles in its history far hack into the past. The historians declare that it was originally a fortress erect ed on the site of the Daco-Roman Thyanus to command the approaches to Tirgovishtea, at one time the capi tal of Wallachia. But tradition has it that it was built by the semi-mythical Radti Negru, who is supposed to have flourished during the closing years of the thirteenth century and the early years of the fourteenth. Radu Negru was the first Wallachian prince, and4t is a pointf honor with all Rumanian cities, with any claim to antiquity, to hail him as their foun der. However founded, Bucharest be came in time the summer residence of the court, and in 1595 it leaped suddenly into prominence by reason of an occurrence common enough in that part of the world in those days it was burned by Ihe Quirks. It was, however, restored again, grew greatly in size and prosperity and, in the year 1698, ' was 'chosen by Prince Constantine Brancovan for his capital. During the next century Bucharest' was in the center of the great strug gle carried on at that time between Russia, Austria and Turkey for pre dominance. In turjri the city was in possession of all fhreer In the first half of the following century its for tunes were equally varied. In 1828 i vas occupied by the, Russians, who, die following year, njjwte' it "oyer to the Prince of. Waachja. t . Xt was again held by the Russians in. 1853-4. On their departure, an Austrian gar rison took possession "and kept It un til the early part of 1857. Its status remained uncertain until 1861, when, on the declaration of the union of Wallachia and Moldavia, Prince Cuza, the first ruler of the united provinces, proclaimed Bucharest his capital. Bucharest is essentially a modern town. Although Oriental in external appearance, it has of late years as sumed more and more the aspect of have styled it "the city of enjoyment' from the fact that it is the residence during a .part of the year of the mag istrates and great landholders of the principalities ,and is noted for its gaiety. The city lies on a wampy plain traversed from northeast to south west by the Dimovitza river. To the west and southwest, it is sheltered by a low range of hills, but on all other sides the land stretches across marshjand lowland away to the sky line, to where the great central Wal lachian plain sweeps down to the Brack Sea. . Bucharest has a multitude of gar dens and a multitude of turrets and gilded cupolas, which lend to the city a decided picturesqueness in which, otherwise, it might be lacking by rea son of its essentially modern charac ter. In the matter of avenues and eousness that Mr. Taft exemplifies and so impressively teaches.? Judge Hoke told the story of Agassiz's life at Harvard, his declin ation of great position at the hands of Napoleon with the celebrated, "I have no time to make money." The story was humanly interesting. As Agassiz was going through the Adi rondack mountains the villagers turn ed out and the blacksmith with al manac picture of Agassiz found him from among Lowell, Emerson and others. Finally they caught Agassiz, lifted him on their shoulders, and said, "Come ahead, boys, this is him," and lifted the scientist upon their shoulders. "We won't try that, on Mr. Taft," the judge said, in a perfect roar. But the judge was -gratified to present him and to have him "among friends who are glad to hare him here and appreciate and admire him for what he has done, for what he is and for what is his high and noble ptrpose to do in the service of his fellow men." No trouble for the audience to leap. Mr. Taft came up smiling and said that he would lack every element of what makes a man if he did not ap preciate the tribute. "I have been in places where Republicans are more numerous than h.ere, he said, "with out being treated as w.elf. "What After the War?" was Mr. Taft's subject, .which .he handled with such consummate, skill. At din ner it was but slightly possible to catch his rapid fire thoughts. "God has been good to us," he said, showing how the United States leads An wealth, in the means of makin.g wealth, in everything that makes a Nation powerful, yet the nation has not taken its part in the responsibility that these gifts impose. "God always takes care of chil dren, drunken men and the United States,' again he said, and again the crowd applauded this heartfelt sally. Its climax was at the close Of his story of the world effort to bring about and safeguard peace. The country's duty to the world was man ifest ".' " boulevards it bears ra striking resem blance to Paris.' The three main bou levards skirt the left ""bank of the Dimbovitza, while the Elizabeth bou levard, named., in. honor of the late queen, and thV famous Calea Victo riei, or "Avenue of Victory," which commemorates the Rumanian suc cesses at Plevna, ''run out, east and weist, respectively, and meet a- broad road which practically encircles the One of the most striking buildings in the Rumanian capital is the cathe dral, or .'metropolitan church, which was commenced in 1856. Built in the formof a Greek cross, surrounded by a broad cloister, it has three towers, and standing as it does on high ground, it overlooks- the whole of Bucharest and commands a view of the distant Carpathians. Bucharest is. an important commer cial - center, having a population of about . 150,000 and covers an area of four by three miles. While it has been compared to Paris in the mat ter of its magnificent thoroughfares and imposing public buildings, there are many features which render it totally unlike the French capital of any other purely western city. The brightly colored costumes of the gypsies and Rumans, the Russian coachmen or sleigh drivers, and the curious cry of the peddler lend to everything the unmistakable air of the East, so common in the Balkans.' '. . THIS DATE IN HISTORY. One Hundred Years Ago Today. 1816 August Belmont, founder of the great New York banking house which bears his name, born in Rhein ish Prussia. Died in New York city, November 24, 1890. Seventy-five Years Ago Today. 1841 Thomas R. Bard, U. S. Sena tor from California, 1900-5, born at Chambersburg, Pa. Died at Huen eme, Cal., March 5, 1915. Fifty Years Ago Today. 1866 Jgp.e inyited all Catholic biafibps.to Rome to celebrate the eighteenth centenary of the martyr dom of Peter "and Paul. Twenty-five1 Years Ago Today. 1891 DUr. Welti resigned the presidency of the Swiss republic. DAILY BIRTHDAY PARTY. Admiral Henry T. Mayo, U. S. N., commander of the . Atlantic fleet, born at Burlington, Vt., 60 years ago today. William Cardinal O'Connell, of Boston, one of the three American members of the Sacred College, born at Lowell, Mass., 57 years ago today. Brig.-Gen. William M. Black, re cently appointed chief of engineers of the United States army, born in Pennsylvania, 61 years ago today. William Pitt Kellogg, former Unit ed States Senator and one-time gov ernor of Louisiana, born at Orwell, Vt. 86 years ago today. James P. Austin, infielder of the St. Louis American League baseball team, born at Swansea, Wales, 34 years ago today. ' Hot Supper Rolls ten cents a dozen Farris Bakery. Advt. 12-7-3t II IHI H tl II n H H n 11 U ILBUIJJ Beauty is Liver Deep Good health, cheerful disposition, clear com plexion depend upon an active liver. Popular since Grand ma was a girl. Keep your liver right and most of your troubles 0 P Will never happen. nnnnnng I m ail- m :s i New York, Dec. 7. Richard Cro and his Indian Princess bride are in t home to escape the horrors of the.Eu Croker had changed a great deal si trimmed beard that had adorned his f and his mustache was so close as to b said he expected to remain in this c said that suffering -is very widesprea pal reason for coming to the United of war. r THEATRICAL GOSSIP FROM NEW YORK CITY New York,, Dec. 8. Miss Laurette Taylor, who had not been seen in New York since the close Of "Peg o' My Heart" nearly three years ago, tonight concludes the second week of her en gagement at the Globe in "The Harp of Life" one of the several new palsy written for her husband, Jr. Hartley Manners. That Mme. Bernhardt is still the "Divine Sarah" in the minds of the playgoers has been evidenced this week by the large . crowds that have filled the Empire theatre for the fare well engagement of the famous French tragedienne. Apparently age cannot wither nor physical disabili ties destroy the genius that so long ago crowned her as the world's great est actress. Supported by a capable company, Mme. Bernhardt is appear ing in a series of acts from "Camille" and other of the plays that were in cluded in her repertoire when at the height of her career. The present week has made few im portant additions ,to the list of cur rent attractions, but .with the, approach of the Christmas holidays quite a num ber of new plays are to be expected. Included among the new productions on the way are "Give and Take," by John Howard Lawson; "Marjory Daw," by George D. Parker; "Play things," by George Scarborough and Vincent S. Lawrence, and "Oh, Imo gen," by Harry James Smith, with Marie Hordstrom in the leading role. ' Rufus Steele has been successful in combining three distinct but not div ergent features in a new picture play called "The Eagle's Wing." The piece has to do with national prepared ness, but less from the bellicose stand point than from that of industrial or ganization in behalf of national de fense. The dramatic side deals with a border raid, which rouses a senator (who with his family is caught in the uprising) to urge adequate protection against possible invasion. A scheme for organizing the nation's industries receives support in the senate and cabinet. This so, far from involving a boom for munition workers tends to a division and distribution of the work of preparation among a number of peace industries, which in the event of emergency can be made prompt use of for the protection of the country in manufacturing things es sential to war. The film gives graphic pictures of a number of these indus tries, including motor vehicle factor ies, electrical works and even large dairying concerns' which have been or can be promptly converted into factor ies for the supply of army and navy needs. " - Scheduled for release by the Selig ker, former head of Tammany Hall, he United States today, having come ropean war. It was noticed that Mr. nee his last trip here. The well ace for many years was entirely gone e almost unobservable. Mr. Croker ountry for at least three years. He d in Ireland, and gave as his princi States a desire to escape the horrors company next week are "The Pur chase Price," a stirring drama with Robyn Adair and Virginia Kirtley in the leading roles, and "Twisted Trails" a three-reel Western thriller featuring Tom Mix, Eugenie Besserer, Bessie Eyton and Al. W. Filson. William Fox's feature release for next week will be "The Love Thief," a drama carrying a call of the heart, with the priucipal characters portray ed by Gretchen. Hartman and Alan Hale. Having completed "Twisted Trails," Tom Mix, one of the most prolific pro ducers of heart throbs, is now well under way with another Western drama entitled "The Golden Thought ' which is said to be a very pretty story concerning the life of a young man, who as a child was instilled by his mother with the dying "golden thought:" The story contains a num ber of moments of suspense, heart throbs aplenty, and Tom Mix In the role of Tom Perry is give an excel lent acting part. He is supported by Victoria Forde as the owner of a western saloon and dance hall, and by Eugenie Besserer, Lily Clark, Barn ey Furey and little Lillian Wade. The famous players Lasky Corpor ation announces that it has bought the screen rights of "The Dummy," by Harvey O'Higgins and Miss Harriet Forde; "Freckles," by Mrs. Gene Start ton Porter; "Mrs. Leffingwell's Boots," by Augustus Thomas, and "The Wit ness for the Defense," "by A. E. W. Mason.' HEAD STUFFED FROM :: CATARRH OR A COLD ;: t Sayg Cream Applied in Nostrils! J J Opens Air Passages Right Up. l Instant relief no waiting. Your clogged nostrils open right up; the air passages of your head clear and you can br,eathe freely. No more hawking, snuffling, blowing, headache, dryness. No struggling for breath at night; your cold or catarrh disappears. Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm from your druggist now. Apply a little of this fragrant, antiseptic, healing cream in your nostrils. It pen etrates through every air passage of the head, soothes the inflamed or swol len mucous membrane and relief cbmes instantly. " : It's just fine. Don't stay stuffed-lip with a cold or nasty catarrh. FIDELITY GIVES AN EASY CONSCIENCE. The other evening it was my fortune, or misfortune I am not sure Just which to visit one of the large cabarets In New York City. When we alighted at the door a uniformed attendant came forward and immediately ushered our party to a table situated in a rather choice location." Soon the music struck up and as a young man and a young woman arose to dance to its catchy strains, I found myself watching the girl curiously. As the dance finished they returned to their seats and at once resumed the conversation which the music had interrupted. Naturally, I was forced to enter the talk at my own table, . and for this reason I was only able to gather a word from them here and there. The young girl was apparently another man's wife, and her companion a supposed friend of the husband. As they continued to talk I gathered enough information to make sure that my surmise was correct. The husband had hpen .The girl was doubtful as to the conventionality of her conduct, and the escort a a wt v 3 4-a "V. .u i i i i i ... . occmcu io ue urging ner mat everything was all right. Mother, who was beside me, soon noticed the couple also, and from her expression I knew all her thoughts. Of course, it was possible that the husband would hear of their evening's pleasure and be glad. Perhaps there was nothing clandestine about their outing. If this was so, however, the girl should have had no cause fOr;. anxiety. Yet from her attitude now and then it was to be supposed that her conscience was not altogether clear. Somehow for days afterwards this sweet bud of a girl was in my thoughts. No matter how I tried I couldn't forget her. How much better off she would have been at home that evening entertain ing some girl friends or reading some Improving' book. How much less com promising it would have been. married life there 18 Perhaps no more attractive quality to possess than fidelity. People who have a character in which fidelity is strong will seldom become compromised by appearance of evil. Fidelity gives an easy conscience. PRIVATE MONOPOLY AT FAULT Such Charged Responsible For The Present High Cost of Living. . r Glucagon -peck- 8. Pirater jmonop oly of the land and the railroads and of transportation, marketing, ware house, slaughtering 4and cold storage facilities, is responsible for the high cost of living, said Frederick C Howe, Commissioner of Immigration of the Port of New York, in an ad dress yesterday to the National Con ference on Marketing and Farm Credits. Mr. Howe's subject was "The People and the Land; the Prob lem That Confronts Us." Declaring that the high cost of living has be come a problem to the people of America as well as to the warring na tions of Europe and that the solution hinges on the relation- of the people to the land, he said, in part: "The immigration problem is con nected with the land and is the big gest thing to be solved before the people because all wealth comes from the land. As long as there was land in abundance, under the homestead act, there was no serious immigra tion problem, but now. that the land is all owned the immigration situa tion has returned and now there is an industrial problem also. The gov ernment must turn to the land ques tion, to agriculture, to insuring just treatment for farmer and consumer alike. "Some means must be found for opening the land to those who wish to produce wealth on it. There are only thirty persons to the square mile in the United States and a billion could live in America comfortably if the boundless resources of the conti nent were opene.d. The first step in constructive immigration is that adopted in Western Canada in en couraging farm improvements, houses and growing crops by placing MUCH The extra fine quality of Valier's Dainty Flour not only makes whiter, lighter and finer look 1 &&f ing baking; but it makes Valier's Dainty Flour is made of finest flavored wheat; mined by special Blow process, which saves all of the hno flavor; then sifted through silk to make its texture extra fine. It inuattiy flour and gives inatitf results ia batfiotf. Have your grocer send you Valrer s Dauity next time you ceeu uour. The Corbett Co., WholeU DuVibutors, Wilminton ... taxes on the land alone. This would break up the colossal estates into which many Western States are .di vided. More than two hundred mil i lion of the eight hundred million. acres ready for cultivation in the ; United States , are owned by less than fifty thousand persons. Millions of peop. could be furnished homes and profitable employment if the hand of speculation and , monopoly were re moved. "I believe the government should f provide rtmdy-mafle 'fafxns rtj people of small means. This is the policy Denmark has adopted and 90 per cent, of her farmers own their farmsj The government there : supplies all but ten per cent, of the capital and this the farmers furnish. "Transportation should be a public -service and the government should own and control it in order to distrib ute immigrants and others to the ' land. Such service shoulu not be a private profit. Marketing is now un certain and the farmer' Is so despoil ed by monopoly charges that he be- , comes discouraged .and often bank rupt." In closing Mr Howe said the prob lem of distribution was to get people ' ' back to the land under bearable con- , ditions. "Unless a big constructive program is worked out," he said, "i espect to . see agriculture become less profitable and employ fewer people. Farmers and their sons will be driven to the cities as has been the case in Eng land. I expect to see the cost of liv ing rise until the government under takes to get the people back to the land." Woman's Peace Party to Meet. , Washington, D. C, Dec. 8. Many j delegates are arriving in Washington ,, -; to attend the second annual meeting of jthe National Woman's Peace Party, , of which Miss Jane Adanls, of Chicago, . is president The regular sessions of the conference will begin tomorrow and continue over Sunday. ; , Hot Supper Rolls ten cents a dozen Farris Bakery. Advt. 1 2-7-3 1 , - Manufactured FrOfl -UCTE0 WINTER W?AT OF BEST QUALITY. .-, baking that testes better. DC 1 A y. . - .- -.' - V"' 7 '
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