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? 3T)f Sm itljficlb Hrralb, ft CK o** ftouAS P*K TFAt. - "TRUE 70 OURSELVES, OUS COUNTRY AND OUR GOD" ~ ? J ? ??? ? . ' 31 KG LB OOPfBS ViVf nsn-. VOL. 2(i. SMITHFIELD. X. C.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 15. 10O7. ? Noise WILL DIG UP HERCULANEUM. Italian Government Manifesting Inter est in Excavation Work There. Kotiie, Nov. 10 ?The proposal to continue the work of excava tion at Herculaneutn has become go popular, ae a result of the ef fortg made by Charles VYaldsteiu, professor of the arts in Kings College, Cambridge, England, that the Italian government, is about to take the matter active ly in hand. Signor Rava, the minister of public instruction, upon whom the work actually depends, has prepared a bill to be presented to Parliament, which provides for an appropriation of $100,000 for the purpose of removing the houses forming the modern town of Resina, which is located over Herculaneum. and an appropria tion of $5,000 a year for the ac tual excavation. Those College Prize Fights. When President Winston ad vised the boys of the freshman and sophomore classes at the Agriculture and Mechanical Col lege to "fight it out in the open" he was encouraging two hundred or more young men under his charge to violate the criminal law of the state. Aud when the of ficers of the college stood by and gave their approval to students breaking each others' noses and blacking each others' eyes they made themselves parties to the many cases of assault and bat tery. While hazing is not a vio lation of any state law, fighting such as the president advised and his assistants took part in man aging is a violation of such law, and the college officials wbocoun tenanced and encouraged it are as guilty as the young men who actually took part in it. There is a law of the college that there shall be no hazing of stu ? dents. Do the college officials admit that they cannot enforce that law? Do we understand them to have taken the position that the only way they can inforce a college rule is to countenance and advise the breakiug of the criminal law of the state? We can see no other construction to put upon the language of Pres ident Winston and on the con duct of his assistants at the time of the two disgraceful occurrences. The trustees of the college should make a thorough investigation of the affair. Tax payers do not support that institution nor do its patrons send their sons there in order that theyoungmen may be educated as prize fighters. If the college authorities ad mit that they cannot control the students and enlorce the col. lege rules they should resign and let men be chosen in their places who can do so. We do not think the people of the state will en dorse the conduct of President Winston and his assistants in this college prize fighting?Wil mington Messenger, Nov. 1st. Jurors for December Term. The following jurors have been drawn for the December term of the Superior Court: First week?Jesse Hilliard, J C. Hardee, H. A. Jones, C. C. Wil liams, D. C. Lee, Jarrett Stephen son, F. M. Roberts, E J. Clifton, J. W. Creech, Jr., E. P. Britt, Ira McLamb. A. J Talton, J Del Smith, J. W. McLamb, W. B Peacock, L. M. Stevens, Uriah Langston, J.T Cole. R E Baker, C. C Lynch, Geo F. VV'oodard, D W. Murphrey, Jesse T. Creech, | Gaston Watson, W. S. Earp, J. j T.Collier, James Davis, Claude j Lilcs, I. A. Digram. L. S Hamil j ton, W. F. Gerald, Jas. H. Wor. ley, Aden Powell, J. H B. Tom linson, X. (i. Rand. M. G. Olive j Second week?M. H. Jones, II I R. Gullev, W. I). Tomlinson. J 1 M. tillflOi. J C Barber, D, E | Hill, R E Pool, J W. Wood, j J G. Beasley, L. W. Hockaday, L. F. Peedin, Gideon Price, Berry XarroD, J. B, Woody, VV. A. Green, Iredell Batten, Robert j Parrish and John A Johnson. Mr. Holiday Brooks, of Smith field, was in Benson Wednesday , on professional business. State News. Italeigh will vote December 2(5 on the question of prohibition or dispensary?a sort of holiday electiou. While riding in front of a work train in Charlotte Saturday Laban Trapp, colored, fell across the rails aud was killed. The North Carolina Methodist Conference meets at New Berue December 4th, Bishop Calloway, of Mississippi, presiding. The postoffice at Mill Springs, j Polk county, was robbed Thurs > day night of $200 iu money and stamps. The safe was opened by ; the combination and no clue left. John Blair, a painter of Ashe ville, staggering home drunk Saturday night, fell over a Id foot embankment and was picked | up dead with his skull crushed. He leaves a wife and three chil dren. Rev. J. F. Craven, a retired Methodist minister, died last week at his home at Climax, Guilford county, aged 72 His mother, who is 98 years old, his wife and eight children survive He was an uncle of Prof. H. E. Craven, of Statesville. The Chatham Record learns that a number of German fami lies have moved recently to Cum nock, Chatham county, and that by Janury 1st at least 200 Ger man fresh from the Fatherland j will have settled in that section, | all of them to engage in farming. | The Germans are thrifty people and desirable immigrants. A dispatch from Lenoir savs that Lawson Phillips, about .">0 years old, was killed by a freight j train on the Carolina and North I western railroad Wednesday. Phillips was driving a calf attach ed to a long rope. The rope caught on the railroad track and while Phillips was trying to get j it loose the train ran on him and killed him. Death of an Old Man. Perry Sanders, colored, died last Saturday night at the H. A. McCullers place near Clavton, in his eighty eighth year. He was born and reared at the Ransom Senders place od the laud now owned by Mr. R. R. Jones, where Mr. N. G. Rand lives. He belong ed to Mr. Ransom Sanders and after his death served as foreman for his widow many years. Forj a long time he lived at the White Oak place, now owned by Mr. W. M. Sanders. He joined Smithfield | Baptist church before the Civil J War and later, when Shiloh church was organized, he moved | his membership to that place. He burnt logheaps and ashes fur manure in a new ground at night" to make money so he could give ten dollars to help build that church. He refused to leave j Shiloh church to join a colored church, although au effort was s made at one time by the white j members to get him to do so. j Before his death he was the oldest member of Shiloh. He belonged j to the before-the war negroes who are entirely different from those of his race who have grown up in recent years. Several white peo ple attended his burial which took place at the Sanders White Oak place. Secretary of War, Taft, who has been in the Philiopines for some time, left there Saturday for Vladivostok. The Secretary was well received by the Filipi j nos and his departure was attend- > ed by a remarkable demonstra tion. ne bought at Gettysburg. David Tarker, of Fayette, N. j Y., who lost a foot at Gettysburg, writes: "Electric Bitters have I done me more good than any medicine I ever took. For sev- j eral years I had stomach trouble, and paid out much money for medicine to little purpose, until I began taking Electric Bitters. I would not take $500 for what j they have done for me." Grand! tonic for tha aged and for female ; weaknesses. Great alterative | and body builder; best of all fori lame back and weak kidneys. Guaranteed by Hood Bros, drug- j gists. 50c. GLENN'S PROPOSAL TO ROAD. Legislature to Change Rate If Found Unjust Upon Fair Test. Raleigh, N. C , 10 ? In an inter view regarding railroad litiga tion and the proposition made1 i by him to the Southern Railway, I Gov. Glenn said it provides that the railroad and the State stop their suits, and that the railroad give the rate a fair test of six or ; eight months "If at the end of eight months,'' besaiu, "therailroad ascertained that the rate was not injurious or confiscatory, the law is to be continued, but that if it is found to be greatly injurious or con fiscatory an agreemeut would be made to change the rate, and for this purpose the legislature would be called in extra session to the end that no injustice may be done. The law as passed should be obeyed until fully tested. Such action will bring peace and har mony." Comments on the A. & M. Class Rushes. We think there was "fooloeo phy" practiced in arranging for the class rushes at the A. & M. college at Raleigh recently. We cannot see how parents can afford to send their bovs off to college to be taught to tight each other. We say here and now that we ! are unwilling to pay taxes to ! keep up a fighting school any where in the state. We hear of sophomorestudents nettling their differences with the freshmen by means of the class rushes. We would like to ask how it happens that there are any differences to settle between the students of the two classes? It is our opinion that warrants j should be made for the soph omore and freshmen students at the A. & M. College and all others who had anything to do with the class rushes there. If fighting is against the law whv should they not be made to suffer. Sheriffs, Constables, Policemen.j Magistrates and Judges should have jurisdiction on college grounds. The idea that these men have nothing to do with what happens at colleges is one| reason why there is hazing and class rushes. If a young man goes to college prepared to pay his way and at tend to his own business he 1 should be let alone. No reason j exists why he should have to fight somebody in order to be let alone. It is said the sophomores and | freshmen at the A. & M. college! were cheered while they were! fighting It is the same spirit! that loves the cockfight, the dog fight, the bull fight and that \ prompted the people in ancient times to eDjoy seeing men tight j for their lives with bulls and! lions. This spirit should be dis- i couraged and not fostered. Princeton Items. Jack Mitchell lost a fine horse Sunday evening. Dr. A. G. Woodard took in the Exposition last week. Emmet Murphrey, now Chief of Police, has moved to town. Dr J. B.Stiachan left last week for Petersburg, Richmond and Jamestown. Our friend, H. L. Candler, is in town looking well, having re-, gained himself after passing] through the try iug ordeal of ty phoid fever. t Mrs. M. T. Woodard happened 1 to the misfortune to fall and dis locale her shoulder. Aunt Kiziah Woodard is looking after the in- ] terest of the boarders. Nov. 13 J. 1). F. Appendicitis is due in a large measure to abuse of the bowels, by employ ing drastic purgatives. To avoid all danger, use only Dr. King's New Life Pills, the safe, gentle cleansers and invigorators. Gua ranteed for headache, bdious nes. malaria and jaundice, at at Hood Bros, drug store. -3c. s GenerakNews. A dispatch from Marquette, Alien , reporter si* inches of snow there Sunday and trie enow still falling. King Edward of England was (iti years old Sat urday and his birthday was fittingly celebrated by the English people. Ambassador lteid was present ed Tuesday at Windsor Castle when King Edward and Queen Alexandra received the Emperor and Empress of Germany. For the fourth timeCaleb Cow ers was put on trial at George town, Scott county, Ky., Mon day lor alleged complicity in the assassination ol Gov. Goebel. The .Merchants' National bank of Portland, Ore., because of a persistent run suspended Tues day but it said the bauk is sol vent; it hail deposits of $.">,212, Uu2. Representative citizens of Ten nessee assembled at .Nashville Tuesday ana effected a perma nent organization looking to the nomination uf a Southern Dem ocrat for President. (>u Monday night near Trinidad Col., the paymaster of the Ameri can Smelting and refining Com pany was robbed of $22,000 which he was taking out in a bug gy to pay off employees. Miss Ida Veronico Simmontou, of Pittsburg, who was wanted as a witness in the Thaw case, has returned from the jungles ol Africa and will testify in the sec ond trial which begins in Jan uary in New York. The Uuited States Supreme Court Monday reversed the judg ment ot the Pederal Court at Lio tle Rock, Neb., which lined several white men $ 1,000 and sentenced them for one year, on a charge of intimidating negroes. Among the estimates for ap propriatious made by (Jeueral Alexander Makenzie, chief of en gineers of the army at Wash ington, is $2o0,000 for the Cape Fear at and below Wilmington, and $300,000 for the inland wa terway from Pamlico Sound to Beaufort, N. C. Louis Emory vleComas, Asso ciate J ustice of the Court of Ap peals of the District of Columbia, former Uuited States Senator and for four terms Congressman from Maryland, died at his home in Washington Sunday, His death was due to heart failure, He was born in Maryland in 184G. James Coffee, a rural mail car rier whose route was a connect ing one between Tazewell and Lone Mountain, Tenn., was found dead in a public road near the latter place a few daye ago. He had evidently he had been shot from his horse but the motive for the crime is not known, as the mail was undisturbed. Fire whieh started in the Great Northern elevator at Sutherier, Wis., about !) o'clock Friday night, was brought under con trol early Saturday, after hav ing destroyed the elevator, three flour mills, forty homes and 700, 000 bushels of grain. Two scows, a derrick and two tugs were also burned. The loss aggregates #2,518 500 In accordance with the action of the vestry of St Johns church, Richmond, Va , the historic build ing in which Patrick Henrv made hi < great revolutioarv speech, of ficial letters have been mailed to President Roosevelt and Secre tary Cortelvou protesting a gainst the omission of the legend " In God We Trust" from the new ten dollar gold coin. I)r F. J Tygard, president of the Rates National Bank of But- \ ler, Mo., which failed a y ar ago, was last week sentenced to tive vearsiu the penitentiary bv -1 udge McPherson in the Federal Court. He was charged with misapply ing funds of the institution. Ty gard is more than 70 vears old ind is practically paralyzed. He oleaded guilty and was given rair. inum sentence The court inti n a ted that an application for iardon might be favorably con lidered. i KARATAGH VICTIMS, 14,000. Earthquake Killed 4,000 In Town and 10,000 In Adjoining District. St. I'etersburp, Nov. 10.?The first, direct reports from thp scene of the ureal earthquake at Kara taph, Russian Turktstan, about three weeks ago, reached this city j today from a correspondent who accompanied the relief expedition | seut from Jamarkan. Telepraph inp under date of November i this correspondent says: "The town of Ivarataph was completely destroyed. The vic tims number about 4.000 in Rarataph and about 10,000 in ; the ahjoiuinp districtof Denausk. All the villapes in the vicinity j were wrecked. It is probable that there are hundreds more dead in these villapes, but investipation is only now determiuiup the ap proximate number." The State Against The Nation. Last week we mentioned the seizure of a lot of whiskey at t-Seluia from Mr. John H. Hodges, of Smithfleld, by U. S. Commis sioner I. W. Massey on Monday November 4th. On Tuesday Mr. Hodges went before Mr. Z. L. 1 Le.May, a .Justice of the Peace, and obtained claim and delivery papers which were turned overi ] to the sheriff to go to Seltna to ! get the whiskey for Mr. Hodges, j i We can hardly believe that Mr. LeMay would have granted the claim and delivery papers if he had known all the facts connected with the case. Mr. Hodges came here a few weeks ago and took out license to run a ?restaurant ' but for some time he has been j handling liquor and it was get | ting to be known that hedid and | that he made trips to Pine Level j for liquor which he brought back mostly in small bottles. He and \ j two other men here seemed to j have the blind tiger laziness iu charge so far as the white people i are concerned When he took out claim and delivery papers we are told Mr. 1) A Lee put up the | money to make the bond. ()ur idea is that all parts of our I government should work to- j gether to stop lawlessness, but this was not the case iu dealing | with Mr. Hodges. It was a con- j fiict between the State and the Nation. The national govern-! ment's position was that there] was something going wrong and ; that the whiskey should be seized i I and held. The state's position, ( even though not intentional, was t that Mr. Hodges should have the 1 whiskey with which he could sup ply his friends in whatever way he might choose, and in apparent violation of the law, and run ' over the temperance people of Smithfield. The claim and deliv j ery papers did not get the whis-1 key and it has since been carried j to Ilaleigh. We hope that here after our magistrates will inquire very carefully into all such cases and that there may be co-opera tion all around in upholding the laws. Family Monument Erected. .Mrs. Spicy Rhodes, of Mount Olive, on November 2nd placed in the John Webb graveyard a I family monument to the memory of her father, mother and two sisters who have been dead sixty years. Her father was Noel West and of teu children Mrs. Rhodes is the only one now living She , is 81 years of age. , Are bright angels crowding round us With heaven's light upon their , wings? , Every work has its own spirit, | True or false that never dies. j Every word mau's lips have ( uttered I Ethoes in God's skies. I W. J. S. Election on Prohibition. ? Macclesfield, N. C., Nov. 11 ? I An election ou prohibition has t been ordered for December 1G by i the commissioners of the town of f M ancles Held. As the petition for 1 the election was so signed b\P a 1 tweut.y odd voters, probably a t majority of the voters of the; I town, it is asserted with confl- t dence that prohibition will carry t and after December 81 Maccles- t field will be legally a dry town. i Benson News. Mr. C. A. Barber is spending this week in Lillington. Mr. L. E. Stevens is visiting relatives at Lucama this week. Miss Mabel Weeks, of Smith field. is visiting relatives and friends here this week, Mr. U. F. Wallace made a busi ness trip to Raleigh last Satur day, returning Sunday. Mr and Mrs. J. H. Rose and Mrs. Emily Creech spent last Sat urday and Sunday at the home of Mr. J. J. Rose in lower John ston. Mr. A. L. Stephens >n has re cently purchased Mr. W. R. l)en ning's handsome residence on Church street and will occupy it soon. A large number of our people attended the Johnston County Missionary Baptist Association last Sunday which was held near Smithtield. Mr. J. Fenimore Taylor, the humorous lecturer, will lecture at Benson Graded School building; on Monday uight, November 18, his subject being "The man from Dixie." If you want to laugh, come and hear him. A large crowd is expected. The young men of the Benson Literary Society will give a pub lic debate on Friday night. Nov ember 22, at the Graded School building. The query for discus sion is, "Itesolved, That the men tal capacity of man is superior to that of woman." The affirma tive side will be represented by Messrs. K. A. Stewart, Almond Darker, and M. H. Ilawley, the uegative by Messrs. Ezra Darker, Arthur Goodrich and Herman Boon. Everybody invited to at tend. Nov. 14. Sot.on. The Virtue of the Country. As much bs our fellow-citizens from the rural districts are scold ed'for their stinginess and ridi culed for their lack ot manners, when a moral measure comes up for settlement the voters from the farms are the ones upon whom the moral forcesdepeud. A writer in a recent issue of the Saturday Evening Dost clearly sets forth the fact that the tidal wave of prohibition sentiment that is sweeping over the South is due in large measure to the untram melled votes of the people in the country. In the towns there are "busi ness" reasons for upholding the liquor traffic, and a business rea son in the average town over-tops all other reasons. The liquor business being very profitable, and money being the main thing with so many business people, it is the hardest thing in the world to dislodge the saloon, which wields so wide an influence in the business world. The farmer is thoioughly independent of all these things and is free to cast his ballot according to his con science. Furnishing 88 per cent, of the vote in the South, the poli tician, who is also unhampered by business ties, stands with the farmer because he needs hiui in his business, and hence the steady progress of t he temperance cause. Wadesboro, fine as the town is in the culture and intelligence of its people, could not have driven out the saloon but for the timely and telliug help of the voters of Anson county. Salisbury, Wil mington and Winston are not surrounded by *6 fine a citizen ship or liquor would have been banished long ago. Greensboro is the capital of one of the best counties in Xortl%Carolina and ! he people of Guilford are noted or their sturdy virtue. Our towns are more liberal, nore polished and more progres sive than our country districts, jut the rugged moral strength of ^ the country resides in larger neasure among the people "far roni the madding crowd's igno jle strife." We have of ten noticed :he marked change that comes iver a man's views of moral ques tions whey he moves from his country home and identities bim ?elf with the commercial interests )f a growing and prosperous iowu.?Charity audChildren.
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