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VOL. 28 SM1THFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1910 Number 52
ALDRICH STABS PARTY
CHARGES IT WITH WA8TING *J0O,
000,000 A YEAR IN GOVERNMENT
OF COUNTRY.
Drives Hale to Fury. Maine Senator,
Falls on Colleague for Treasonable
Aid to Democrats. Dolliver Started ,
All. Criticized Series of Protests
As Creating Impression of Public
Corruption.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 21.?"If I
were a business man and were given
permission to manage the affairs of
the Government I would run them at
1300,000,000 a year less than it is
now costing to run them."
In these startling words Senator
Aldrlch this afternoon created a i
sensation among his party associates
and gave the Democrats a timely
piece of campaign ordinance.
"By the employment of prope.' busi
ness methods," said Senator Aldrich,
"the ordinary expenditures of the
" * oonil/.t/l at lpHKt
UOVeruiuvut can uc iouuvvw
JO per cent , or $300, 000,000 a year, j
At present the executive departments
are being managed on obsolete busi
ness methods or none at all. The
American people are never ruffled
by reform or disturbed by the truth.
The cost of arranging a system of
modern business methods would be
but a trifle compared with the great
saving made possible by their adop
tion."
Hale Turns on Aldrich.
"That is a terrific arraignment of
the party in power," said Senator
Money, the minority leader. "I think
the Senator's party will demand an
explanation of such a remarkable
statement from him."
And later in the afternoon Senator
Hale took Aldrich off in a remote
corner and gave him the largest piece
of his mind that the Maine Senator
has ever donated at one time. He
told Aldrich he has made the most
stupendous blunder of his public ca
reer, and that his words would be
hurled from the stump with telling
effect during the campaign. He said
the declaration made it seem that the
Republican party had squandered bil
lions of dollars during the period it
has remained in power if the present
ratio of useless extravagance is $300,
000,000 a year. Hale was mad through
and through, and It was a fierce
scolding he handed out to his associ
ate in bossing the Senate.
Dolllver Started Trouble.
Senator Polliver started the whole
trouble when the bill to create a
Government business methods com
mission came up at the request of
Aldrich for consideration and action.
Dolliver said he desired to give his
IU4l?
Republican colleagues a nice muc
curtain lecture which would be of
no Interest to the Democrats. He
eald countless investigations were
having a bad political effect. The
people were reaching the conclusion
that every public official is either
incompetent of a rogue. Even for
eigners ane beginning to think the
Americans cannot manage their own |
affairs. He said it was a disparage- j
ment that should be stopped.
Dolliver declared that 20 special !
committees and commissions are now I
at work investigating different sub
jects. The aggregate expense of
these inquiries were incredible. The
lowest estimate regarding the ex
pense of the business methods InvestK
gation was $300,000. The people, he |
said, considered all these things as
a reflection on the honesty and in
tegrity and competency of public of
ficials. They would soon reach the
conclusion that a change in adminis
trations would be a good thing.
Reciprocity Administration.
Senator Dolliver threw a hot bomb
at the present deluge of Administra
tion bills by saying that the numer- j
ous inquiries looked to him like an
effort to have reciprocity between |
the legislative and Executive branch-!
es of the Government. The Execu
tive would write the bills and the
legislative manage the Government
busi iess affairs.
Senator Aldricb replied to Dolliver.
and a lively all-around debate follow
ed Aldrlch finally said that In def
erence to the various opinions ex
pressed he would eliminate the pro
vision for the appointment of three
members of the commission by the
President and provide for a Joint com
mission, comprising fire Senators and
five Representatives.
At the request of Senator Bever
ldge, who desires to discuss the bill,
action was postponed.
Mall Booka a Mesa.
Before that action had been taken
there was much discussion of the
bill. Senator Carter traced the pres
ent evils largely to the ambition of
departmental officials. As going to
show the inadequate methods of the
departments, he said that the Postal
Commission was unable to ascertain
from the books of the Post Office
Department the cost of carrying the
second-class malls when it endeavor
ed to a few years ago.
Senator Newlands advocated a com
mission to be appointed by the Presi
dent. Senator Brlstow expressed the
opinion that the Committee on Pub
lic Expenditures should do the work,
which it is proposed to impose upon j
a commission. He said that it look
ed as though the committee were anx
ious to avoid the duty to perform for
which It had been created. He did
rucnltc
nut Ufiicvu inai au/ |?i civ.?,?* a* i |
would follow the work of the Investi
gation.?Philadelphia Record.
PERCY WINS OVER VARDAMAN.
The Senatorial Deadlock in Mississip
pi State Legislature Ends With Var
daman a Loser.
Jackson, Miss., Feb. 22.?Leroy Per
cy, of Greenville, one of the most
brilliant lawyers in Mississippi/ was
tonight nominated as United States
Senator from the State of Mississip- j
pi, to fill out the unexpired term of
A. J. McLaurin, who died December
23, last.
The election was on the fifty-eighth
ballot, and after a deadlock that had
continued since January 4 with one
or two ballots nearly every day.
At the beginning there were seven
of eight candidates, but they dropped
out one aft^r another till four were \
left, three of them, Percy, Kyle, and ;
Byrd, pitted against Vardaman.
Finding it impossible to combine
their votes on any one of the three i
so as to make Vardaman's defeat |
certain, all of the candidates held
caucuses today and it was determined
that all should get out of the race
except Mr. Percy, who was to make
the show-down.
When the result of the ballot was
announced there was a scene of wild
est confusion. The vote was Percy
87; Vardaman 82.
Indians to Plant Corn.
Raleigh, Feb. 21.?A letter from
the farmer in charge of the Chero
kee school farm in Swain county says
the Indians will this year try to
make a record as corn growers, and
will get In the contests. This news
comes from all sections of the state
and boys everywhere by thousands
will be in the boys' club contests.
' RATS" MAKE GIRL LEPERS.
Believed to have Contracted the Dis
ease from Wearing Asiatic Hair.
St. Louis, Feb. 21.?Acting on in
formation' received by the Board of
Health that there are two girls in the
city suffering form leprosy caused by
made of wearing "rats" and "puffs"
made of Asiatic hair, G. A. Jordan,
Assistant Health Commissioner of St.
Louis, said to-day that he would begin
an investigation into the sale of hir
sute goods here. ?
The two young women are being
treated in St. Louis secretly, and Dr. j
Jordan will- make an effort to have
them located and quarantined. Ac
cording to the Health Board's infor
mant, they were employed until a
few days ago in a down town store. '
Judge Womack Dead.
Ex-Judge Thomas B. Womack, I
a prominent member of the Raleigh
bar. died Friday morning after a
protracted illness. He was a native
of Chatham County, was for a short
time Superior Court Judge by ap
pointment, and during the Cleveland
administration was a clerk in the
revenue office at Raleigh under Col
lector Simmons. >
In 1908 he left Raleigh for New
York as counsel for the American To
bacco Company, resigned 'Within a
year and returned to Raleigh and re
sumed the practice of law with suc
cess.? Exchange.
ANTARCTIC EXPERIENCE
DREAMS OF FOOD ALL NIGHT.
Lieut. Shackleton Narrates Hazard
Of Antarctica. In Desolate Camp
When Rations Were Giving Out,
Hungry Men Would Watch Grudg
ingly Every Bite, and Pick Up Min
ute Particles of Bread With Moist
ened Finger.
London, Feb. 19.?Sir Ernest Shack
leton told a fashionable drawing-room
Audience the other day what it feels
like to be ferociously hungry.
During the last stage of his antarc-!
tic expedition, he said, when the |
members of his party were sitting
in their tent, each nibbling his one
biscuit, if a man happened to drop a
crumb, six pairs of eyes would follow
it on its downward path to the
floor. If he had not noticed it, which
was a very rare occurrence, his at
tention would be drawn to it and he
would wet the tip of his finger and
pick it up. Not a morsel was allow
ed to escape.
In his diary for the same day last
year he found the entry: "Very hun
gry, dreaming of food all night; think
ing of food all day." They were hun
gry for three months, he continued,
and during that time had only one
meal, on Christmas Day.
i ney oiten asKea eacn omer wnai
people in the cities did when they i
were dying of starvation, because no
law of man would have stood be
tween them and a baker's shop, if
they had had an opportunity of get
ting in. When they came back to
oivilization they were so shrunken
in size that at first they were un
able to eat as much as an ordinary
man, but he afterwards made up for
it. They then made up their minds
that they would never see a hungry
person flattening his nose against
a cookshop window without giving
him something.
GENERAL NEWS.
Senator Tillman, who was taken
suddenly ill in Washington last week
was in a critical condition Friday
and Saturday and for a time his life
was despaired of. He is now better.
John Pratt, the negro who came
near being lynched at Cairo, 111., for
purse-snatching, was tried in court
next day and sentenced to 14 years'
imprisonment. He plead guilty. An
othtr negro who was arrested at the
same time for participation in the
same offence was discharged, the
grand qury finding no bill against
him.
Nine of the largest wholesale bak
eries in inpw rorK nave iormoa a
combine with a capital of $6,000,000.
These bakeries use 11,400 barrels of
flour a week. The managers of the
combine deny that it is the purpose
to raise prices, but say they can re
duce expenses. That is the alleged
purpose of all trusts but the actual
purpose is something different.
Rev. Dr. William Everett, scholar
and former Congressman, died last
week at Quincy, Mass. He was 71
years of age and was the son of Ed
ward Everett, the prominent states
man. For nearly 30 years he was
head master of Adams Academy in
Quincy, but his duties there did not
prevent his becoming greatly inter
ested in the political life of the state.
He was elected to Congress from the
seventh Massachusetts district as a
Democrat.
A Dispatch from Junean, Alaska,
says the steel steamship Yucatan, of
the Alaska Steamship Company bound
from Valdez to Seattle with 65 pas
sengers, struck an iceberg in Icy
strait Wednesday morning and sank
within etght minutes in six fathoms
of water at high tide. There was no
loss of life and so far as known no
one was injured. As soon as the
collision occurred the vessel was run
on the beach, life boats were lowered
and all the passengers, the food and
bedding and United States mail taken
ashore.
Two deaths from smallpox occur
red at Thomasville Saturday?one
an old man and the other a little
boy, an inmate of the Thomasville or
phanage. The old man was a paraly
tic and the boy had inflamatory rheu
matism. There are eight cases ot
smallpox in Thomasville, in four fam
ilies, but the outbreak at the orphan
age has been itayad.
HOLDS GREAT REVIVAL
$10,500 GIVEN PREACHER SUNDAYI
BI9 Free Will Offering From Youngs
town for Ball Player Evangelist.
Nearly 6,000 Convert* Result of
Most Successful Campaign.
Youugstown, O.. Feb. 20.?Evange
list Billy Sunday closed one of the
most successful revivals In his career
here tonight, when he ended six
weeks of work. Three meetings were
held In the tabernacle and at each
meeting the large structure was pack
ed and overflowing audiences were
addressed by his assistants.
The total number of converts se
cured during the revival is 5,915. The
free will offering taken up for the
evangelist today was $10,500. This
will be presented to Rev. Mr. Sun
day at the ministers' farewell ban
quet to be given him at the Y. M. C.
A. Monday noon.
The evangelist and his party will
leave here Monday afternoon. Rev.
Mr. Sunday will go to Dayton where
he has a business engagement with
Evangelist Chapman. He will then
proceed to his home in Chicago,
wiiere lie win rum up tut? it'iuauiuri
of the week before opening his re
vival at Danville, 111., next Sunday
night.
Nothing like the final meeting to
night lias ever been witnessed In this
city. The tabernacle, which seats 7.
500, was jammed long before the hour
of opening the meeting. Hundreds
tried to crowd through the locked
doors and the windows were jammed
with anxious ones who tried to catch
a word of the farewell sermon. The
revival is the second largest in the
point of converts and also in dona
tions to the evangelist in his career.
The evangelist, worn out by his
hard six weeks' work, preached on
the following text: "And He Said
Tomorrow." Many In the large crowd
had been In the building since early
morning, having refused to leave fol
lowing the first meeting for fear of
being unable to secure admission at
the afternoon and evening meetings.
Scores became restless and dozens
fainted from exhaustion. Frequent
interruptions forced the evangelist to
stop several times in his discourse.
Once he stopped to pray and many
started to leave. Then he pleaded
with his audience not to wait until
tomorrow to accept Jesus Christ.
When the invitation was given, 3!t4
came forward, the largest number at
any meeting of the revival. The total
number of converts on Sunday was
970.
At the conclusion of the sermon to
night the large crowd rushed forward
to shake hands with the evangelist
and bid him farewell. The choir sang
"We Shall Gather at the River," and
the audience joined in the chorus.
Then members of the Sunday party,
including Mrs. Sunday, told of their
regret at leaving Youngstown and the
good it had done them to work here.
Checks were given Miss MacLaren
and Messrs. Fisher and Ackley by
the choir. This trio were active in
?
doing personal work for the past six
weeks.
It is estimated that the revival will
have cost the people of the city about
$30,000, including the money pledged
for the tabernacle, expenses of the
Sunday party and donations to the
evangelist. Theaters and other place
of amusements and the saloons have
suffered considerable in loss of pat
ronage and religious people of the
city expect lasting good to result
from the meetings.?Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
JOY FATAL TO SIX PERSONS.
Smugglers' Shout Caused Avalanche
Of Snow on Swiss Frontier.
Verne, Feb. 19.?A Joyful shout
thoughtlessly given by an Italian
smuggler on having eluded the cus
toms guards on the Swiss frontier,
was the cause of his six compan
ions being overwhelmed and killed
by an avalanche.
The party, coming from the Ori
sons, had with a thousand precau
tions, successfully negotiated the For
cola pass on the Swiss-Italian bor
der. Five of the men were loaded
with valuble contraband goods and
two acted as gulden and scouts. When
they were all usfely on Italian soil,
one of the guides, named Maretoll.
??nt to a Joyful yodel.
In the still air the least sound' caus
es a vibration which may set enor
mous masses of snow moving. This
Is what occurred here. A quarter of
a million tons of snow detached it
self from the mountain side and came
thundering down upon the party,
who were swept in an Instant into
an abyss. Maretoli alone was able
to extricate himself.
Sixty Thousand Dollars for New
School Houses.
Kalelgh, Feb. 21.?This week J60,
000 will be sent out by the State
superintendent of public instruction
to 42 counties in the shape of loans
to aid in the construction of public
school houses. This means at least
as much more will be expended by
the counties for this purpose, and
perhaps twice as much more. There
were applications for over 75,000 of
this state fund, but not enough was
available to supply all, and so the
requests had to be scaled.
TWO CHILDREN END LIVES.
Self-destruction Amnnn I
In Russia Growing. Soy o' Noble
Family, Who Sh?t Himself. Said
He Could Not Do Otherwise.
St. Petersburg, K??b. 19.--At u
children's ball recently given bv tbe
Countess Tlpkevitrh, two children be
loii^Iiik to historic families of It'lssia
committed suicide. During thn ball
a scream was heard, immediate!)' fol
lowed by a revolver shot It was
then discovered 'hat In mm of the
corners of the salo.m a lad of fifteen,
belonging to the nou!? family ol' liar
Jatlnsky, had she. himself through
the heart with a revolver. Tlie youth
died Immediately, without saving any
thing further than the words. "1
could not do otherwise."
In the panic which followed a girl
of fourteen, the Barmens von Pahlcn,
hastily swallowed a jnui'l pastille. A
few minutes later she fell 011 the
floor a corpse.
The suicide of youn^ people of
both sexes Is every year !??? oi"ing
more frequent In Russia. Thy least
reverse, even the failure 'o pass an
eximinallon, is sufficient 10 causd
these neurotic young moderns to
make an end of themselves.
STATE NEWS.
Mr. E. T. Kenter, a progressive
farmer of near Winston-Salem, who
died about two weeks ago, left $2,800
concealed in various places about his
home. His wife and children knew
that he had money but were Igno
rant of its location until after his
death.
The address at the annu-il meeting;
at the Baptist Orphanage at Thomas
ville this summer will be delivered
by Dr. John C. Kilgo. The sermon
will be preached by Rev. Dr. W. M.
Vines, of Ashevillc.
An eighteen-year-old boy, of Ashe
ville was found guilty of manslaugh
ter by a jury tn the Superior court
last week.
The next meeting of iho Tri-Slate
Medical Association which if- com
posed of representatives from the two
Carolinas and Virginia, will be held
in Raleigh in Februa'y 191!.
Mrs. Thomas jChapmon, of Clinton
died at the State Hospital on Thurs
day of last week, of pellagra. She
was the first n^li.'i of Sampson coun
ty to die of !n!s disease.
Hannah R.itl:(f colored, recently
died at her h > ne near Wadesbjro
ai the age of one bvnd'od years.
The bustling little capital of Col
umbus county, Whl'evi'.'e, carried an
election last week for a $25 000 bond
issue for better streets and a greater
Whlteville.
A train dashed Into the team of
Mr. J. V. Thomasson, a travelling
man of South Carolina at Rocking
ham last Saturday morning, causing
Injuries from which Mr. Thomasson
died. The negro driver was also
thrown out but escaped injury. The
buggy was completely demolished.
A bride of only ninety days,'Mrs.
Oscar Williams, of Raleigh, died Fri
day morning of pneumonia.
The Raleigh News and Observer
falls attention to the fact that in
17V4 months Raleigh has lost by
death- seven prominent members of
the legal profession and one United
States Judge. The deaths Include
those of F. H. and Chas. M.' Busbee,
Col. T. M. Argo, .Judge Shepherd,
Judg* Womack and Judga PurnelL
TO HONOR WASHINGTON
A MOVEMENT IS LAUNCHED TO
BUILD A GREAT TEMPLE A3
A MEMORIAL TO FIRST PRESI
DENT.
The Memorial to be Built at Alsxan
dria and to Cost One Million Dol
lar*. Washington was a Resident
Of Alexandria in Early Youth and
The Quaint Old Town as His Home
Town and was Master of Its Ma
sonic Lodge.
Alexandria. Va.. Feb. 22.?The
movement to erect a permanent Ma
sonic memorial to George Washing
ton took its first definite form to-day
when General J. M. Dickinson. Sec
retary of War, and the grand masters
of many Masonic grand lodges met
here with other distinguished men of
the fraternity to form a National Ma
sonic Memorial Association. Perhaps
no Masonic celebration ever held any
where in America has been more
elaborate.
In this quaint old town of ivey-cov
ered walls and rambling gardens', up
on a street laid out by the young sur
veyor, near the spot where in 17."i4
Braddock's young colonel quartered
his troops before the faithful march
to the Ohio; near the historic old
lodge where he was a master and in
the midst of a field rich in the events
of his life and memory, it wi'l be
the purpose of this association to
erect a temple to George Washington,
a Mason. Set apart in the structure
will be a hall of fame in which space
will be alotted to all the grand Ju
risdictions In the country to place
tablets to the memories of their dis
tinguished sons.
Tlie memorial would stand on Wash
ington Street. Close, by is the old
ChriBt Church where, in his mature
years, Washington served as a ves
tryman. On a field not far off he
held his last military review. Across
a shaded green in the stately old
court house he cast his last vote, and
there his will is filed.
Alexandria, by undisputed consent,
is the natural site for the memorial.
Washington moved to Mount Vernon
when he was sixteen with his half
brother Lawrence, and until the chill,
raw day of his death It was his home
and Alexandria was his home town.
He became a member of its council,
represented it in the House of Bur
gesses, endowed its schools, establish
ed its fire department and was mas
ter of its lodge.
The men who will form the asso
ciation met to-day in the same Alex
andria Washington I-iodge room where
Washington occupied the master's
chair. While no fixed plan could be
announced prior to the assembly of
all the grand masters, it is in short
the purpose of the lodge to raise
$1,000,000 to build and endow the me
morial. The Institution will be unique
among the memorials of the world and
will permit every grand jurisdiction
to honor every Mason it esteems to
be deserving with a leaf In its hall
of fame, a photograph and a biogra
phy.
SOLOMON SHEPARD ESCAPES.
j Negro Serving 30 Years for Murder
Jumps From Work Train.
Laurinburg, N. C., Feb. 22.?Solo
mon Shepard, recently sentenced to
the penitentiary for 30 years for th?
murder of Engineer Holt, at Durham,
made his escape yesterday from th?
convict guard on the work train on
the Laurinburg and Southern Railroad
here/
Ix>aded with a ball and chain Shep
ard lumped from a train which
was conveying the convicts to work,
and dodging a dozen bullets, took to
| the woods.
To-day his stripes were found thre#
miles from the point where he mad*
his escape, but despite vigorous
search there is no clue to his where
abouts. Shepard tried to escape last
week as he was entering the State's
prison portals for the first time and
was wounded. ?
For the second time within nil.*
months, street car employes in Phil
adelphia are on a strike. There is
much disorder. Cars have been
wrecked and burned and many peo
ple Injured in the disturbances which
have followed the attempts of th*
company to oparate cars.