?3je jsmitbfMb Kfrali. Price Ona Dollar Par Year "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD." single Copies Flva Cent.. VOL. 28 SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1910 Number 46 ^ ? BOY KILLED TWO ROBBERS. While On Duty for His Father As Watchman Robbers Forced An Entrance and Covered the Florida Boy with Pistols. His Act One of Great Bravery. Tallahassee, Fla., Jan. 8.?In a struggle early today with two safeblowers, Paul Sauls, 17 years old, who was left to watch the! postoffice building, shot and kill ed them both on the spot. The boy was only slightly injured. The cradksinen, both of whom were white, have not been iden tified. Young Sauls was on duty for his father, who is night watch man for the building, when he heard a knock at the door. He took up a pistol before answer ing. Some one at the outside shouted that a mail pouch had ben picked up in the street and the boy opened the door to re ceive it. The lad found himself looking into the barrels of two pistols and the order came to "hands up.'' "My hands came up as they pounced upon me," he said. "As they tried to bind me with a rope I managed to get my pistol, in a strained position and fired, the shot taking effect, for only one of the men clung to me. I then placed my pistol on my shoulder and fired to the rear several times, after which I was free from their grasp." That every shot from the ? boy's revolver hit its mark is shown by bullet holes in the dead men. One has three holes in his forehead and right temple, while the other was shot through the stomach. it is Deueveu a conieaerate was outside the building. Three mileage books were found on the dead men. These books were purchased in the Broadway sta tion, New York, January 3rd, be ing numbered consecutively 861!(0 -91-92 and bearing the names J. Martin, J. E. Walters and J. M. Strong. A complete 6jutfit for safe rob bing, consisting of drills, nitro glycerine, fuses, caps, soap wax and electric searchlights were found on the bodies of the men. GENERAL NEWS. One fireman was burned to death, six others were injured, several women were overcome by smoke and 200 hotel guests were driven into the street in St. Louis when fire broke out under the Cambridge and Barnum hotel Friday night. Supported by the Democrats, the House insurgents succeeded last Friday in having the Ballin ger-Pinchot resolution of inquiry so amended as to require that the appointment of the investi gating committee shall be made by the House and not by the Speaker. The vote was 149 to 145. An indictment against the Pa per Board Association, alleging it to be an illegal combination in restraint of trade, was returned Friday by the Federal grand jury in New York. The association comprises 140 paper manufactur ers, who were indicted as indi viduals and firma. Gifford Pinchot was Friday night removed from his office as chief forester by President Taft. In doing this the President gave out a copy of a letter he has writ ten to Mr. Pinchot in which he nays in conclusion: "By your conduct you have destroyed your usefulness as a helpful subordinate of the Gov ernment, and it therefore now be comes my duty to direct the Sec- i retary of Agriculture to remove you from your office as forester." Senator Thomas P. Gore, of Oklahoma, speaking in Danville, .HI., the home town of Speaker Joseph G. Cannon, Friday night at the Jackson day celebration of the Democrats, attacked the stand-pat tyranny of Mr. Cannon and Senator AJdrich, declaring that they stood in the path of progress. He asserted that Pres x ident Roosevelt conducted affairs without their aid, but that Pres ident Taft had surrendered to ?hem at the first summons. i PRODIGIES AT HARVARD. Four Young Children There With Remarkable Attainments. Boston, January 9.?Present day child prodigies?as repre sented in a group of four stu dents at Harvard University whose ages range from 11 to 15 years?promise to maintain Great er Boston's appellation of "The Hub" of the intellectual universe. Included in this quartet of greatly developed child men talities are the youngest known persons to attain the degree of bachelor of arts, Norbert Welmer, aged 14 years, a graduate of Tuft College, and at present a student in the Harvard Graduate school; and the youngest and most inte lectual first-year student in the history of Harvard University, William .J Sidis, of Brookline, 11 years old, a marvelously pre cocious juggler in the most ad vanced mathematic problems. The other two abnormally ed ucated children completing this unique group are less widely known. They are a brother and a sister?Lina W. Berle, 15 years, and Adolph A. Berle, 14 years old, members of the freshman classes at Radcliffe and Harvard Colleges, respectively. They are children of Rev. A . A. Berle, pastor of the Shawmut Congre gational Church, this city. They have spent little of their time in the public schools. Their father early taught them several languages, reversing th.> usual order of instruction, teaching them mathematics later. T a 1 ? it . f, . . xjcss limn a muni 'i air.er v'liu'r ing Harvard young Berle had an article accepted by the Lampoon, a college magazine, in which lie considered the prosidei.t of the, coljege "from a physiological, zoological and English atand point" in a manner most inter esting. The Latest Word on Education. The princnple of sound educa tion enunciated by President Lowell in his inaugural address at Harvard University applies to women quite as perfectly as to men. "Know something of many things and everything about something." This is a modern amendment of Pope's famous cou plet : A little learning is a danger ous thing; Drink deep, or taste not of the Pierian spring. The condemnation of much old fashioned feminine education as being only a "smattering" needs revision. A "smattering," ac quired by proper methods, and balanced by one line of thorough work, is just what a woman newels to make her journey through life rich in experience and satisfac tion. Since education is rather the training of the powers than the mere filling of the hands with more or less useful luggage, it is good that this training should be accomnlished bv nsint matpr I""" ? 1 ? O ~ ial as varied as possible. There may be enough botany to increase a girl's delight in flowers, enough drawing to open the world of pic tures to her, enough of piano or violin to give insight into the se cret and the skill of the musician, enough chemistry to make food mean something more than the mere gratification of the palate, enough Latin to illuminate En glish, enough English to make one free in the company of the most glorious poets, and then enough drawing or music or al gebra or cooking or millinery or stenography or telegraphy or rose culture or biology to give a sense of mastery, and the reward that comes from persistent toil ()0, died a few days ago at the county poor' farm there, lie was lavish with his money, and at the time of his death had only an interest in a mine which was tied up in litiga tion. ? ? * According to the Washington census bureau, it costs the 158 largest cities of the country partmcnts and meet the losses by fire. This contrasts with only about cents for Berlin and 1!) cents for London. American care lessness seems to shine in the comparison. ? ? ? Levi 1'. Morton at 8t> assumes the chairmanship of the board of one of the two largest trust com panies in the country. The office no doubt will be more or less honorary, but at that age it is a good deal to be able to get a round just to collect the direc tor's fee. ? ? ? It is reported 111 Washington that Wm. J. Gaynor, of New York; Governor Harmon, of Ohio; Governor Marshall, of Indiana, and David K. Francis, of Mis souri, have tacitly agreed to stand together in an effort to pre vent William J. Bryan from con trolling the Democratic National Convention of 1912. ? ? * The new senator from Missis sippi, Col. Gordon, an old-time southern planter, hunter and cav alryman, has captured Washing ton in three days. The news paper men love him, and no won der. For, in interviews he is cap able of such picturesque remarks as this: "Knocks I have had all my life, physical and otherwise, but they never gave me any both er. Why, i have had a big bep.r on top of me and dogs on top of the bear, all fighting." What is incomprehensible is how he managed to keep out of politics until he was 7f>. ? ? ? Two thousand new telephones a day were auded to the vast Bell interests?the American tel ephone and telegraph company? during the year just closed. A statement issued at New York Tuesday by the company, recent ly made more powerful by acquir ing control of the Western Union telegraph company, shows that on December 31 last there were about 5,000,000 telephones in cluded in the system, with 10, 250,000 miles of wire, more than half of which is underground. The total net property of the sys tem on May, 1, 1909, was valued at about $712,500,000, while the estimated gross earnings for 1909 will be in excess of $150,000,000. ? * ? Robert Bacon appointed te suc ceed Henry White as ambassador to France, was a partner in the hanking hcfuhe of J. P. Morgan & Co. until 1902. President Roos evelt made him first assistant sec retary of state in 1905. He was a Harvard classmate of Roosevelt He declined appointment to the post of United States treasurer in 1903 because, it was said at the time, he had invited se\eral friends to take a yachting tr.'p with him around the world. He served as secretary Root's first assistant until the secretary re signed to enter the senate. Then for two months Robert Bacon wai> secretary of state, retiring at the close of the Roosevelt admin istration. Ambassador Bacon's home is in New York. Up to Wednesday of last week the various departments of the 816 student* had registered in State University and more are expected to be registered before the session closes. DIVORCED FOUR TIMES. Omaha Man Remarries His First Wife, But She Sues Again. Omaha, Nebr, Jan. 8.?Leroy Maltby, of this city, has beer di vorced four times in a little less than six years. The fourth decree against him has just been granted in District Court here. Three of the divorce were granted in Omaha and one in Independence, Mo., where he formerly lived. These are the di vorees obtained by Maltby's wives: March 17, 1904, by Marie Fee ney Maltby, at Independence, Mo.; Jaly 15, 1905, by Lillian Maltby, at Omaha; July fi, 1908, by Marie Fecney Maltby, at Oma ha, and December 24, 1909, by Anna Smelser Maltby, at Omaha. The first divorce was granted on the grounds of cruelty and nonsupport. The second was se cured on the same grounds. Af ter his second divorce, Maltby remarried his first wife, but in a short time slu> again brought suit for divorce on the grounds of cruelty and nonsupport. This was granted at Omaha. Within six months Maltby was married again, but before another six months had elapsed his fourth wife was seeking a separation an obtained a decree. The Annual Football Slaughter. The football season closed with an unusual mortality list, and the brutal killing and maim ing under the auspices of the un iversities and colleges of the country proceeded with the ac customed vigor. For years the parents of those in danger have protested in vain while the general public have read with horror of the crushing out of the lives of promising young men and the crippling of their comrades in the name of athletics or sport, in socalled pro motion of education. Far better for the univer sities and colleges to organize classes of prize fighters and ad here to the Marquis of Queens berry rules than to put out cat alogues of students each year in mourning, by crushing out of existence of the bright young me i>f the nation. Prize fighting is not more de moralizing and not more brutal, not more degrading and not near ly so fatal as the annual mass acres organized bv the educa tional institutions under the> name of football matches. If they are a necessity in the educational courses of our modern schools let the parents of the students in sist that the matches be played by the officials of the schools and the professors who regard them as such a necessity. If people have to be killed and maimed the country can better spare those who permit such slaughter than those young men who are the victims under the faculties which approve of it. In the past ten years more than a thousand have gone on the lists of killed and wounded through this barbarism of the highest classes of collegiate in stitutions. The shambles of the Roman gladiatorial lists may have soak ed up more blood in the same length of time, but they witness ed no greater loss of life nor Rent , out more maime'd men than have the football fields of America during ten years. Any and every college or university that continues this game of slaughter of the inno cents should be put under the ban of public opinion and made , responsible for what has become a criminal proceeding.?Cincin nati Enquirer. Cuban Itch Breaks Out. Mt. Airy, Jan. 7.?For the past week or so the people of the j Round Peak section have been ex cited over what was thought to be small pox. However, physi cians have declared it to be Cuban itch. It is very conaa gious and has spread quite rapid ly. The Haystack and Beulah publia schools have closed on ac count of the diaeatte. THE ANTI SALOON LEAGUE. Repor of Supt. Davis for the Year ature Distributed. 9,067 Miles Traveled. 10,000 Letters sent out. As we enter the new year, I desire to make a report of the Auti- saloon league work for last year to the temperance work ers and supporters and all friends interested in the cause. In all our efforts and work, we have tried to further the cause of law enforcement and total ab stinence, and to enlighten our people on the subject of national legislation to destroy the jug trade. All speeches made, liter ature sent out and letters written have been to this end. During the year, your superin tendent travelled by rail and by boat 8,563 miles and by buggy 504 miles, and crossed the Blue Ridge by private conveyance four times. We have travelled from the mountains to the sea, and spoken over 150 times I might add. since I have been in this work, 1 have visit"d