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flje ftmitljficlb Befall ??rice One Dollar Per Year , ? "TRUE TO OURSELVES. OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOO " Single Copies Flv? Cant*. VOL. 29 SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1910 Number 9 ONR GREAT HUMORIST PASSES. Mark Twain Died Last Week After Being in Feeble Health for Some time. He Was Known Far and Wide as the Author of Tom Saw yer and Huckleberry Finn. He was Nearly 75 When He Answered the Last Call. The Great Humorist Be gan Life as a Printer and Later Became an Editor. Samuel Langtf6rn Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died at his home, "Stormfield,"^ near Redding, Conn., late Thursday evening of last week, In his 75th year. He had been In feeble health for sometime and bis death was not a surprise to those most closely associated with him. He was buried at Elmira, New York, by the side of his wife who preceded him to the grave some years ago. Mark Twain, as he was best known, was born in Florida, Mo., November 30, 1835, and at the age of 12 was apprenticed to a printer. Later he was a steamboat pilot on the Mis sissippi river and in after years, be fore he began to write books, was engaged in newspaper work in the West. Some of Ills best known books are "The Innocents Abroad" (1869), "Tom Sawyer," "The Prince and are Pauper" (1880), The Adven tures of Huckleberry Finn" (1885), "Articles on Christian Science" (1903) and "The $30,000 Bequest" (1906). Several years ago the publishing house which Mark Twain had found ed failed and the accumulations of years were swept away. He was not legally responsible for the debts of the concern, but notwithstanding he had reached the age to retire from active work he began over again, paid all the debts of the business and ac cumulated considerable property. While his life was given to making sunshine for others he had many sor rows and trials. The death of his wife, many years ago, was a great sorrow, and of his four children only one survives. On Christmas eve, last year, his daughter, Jean, an ep ileptic, was found dead in the bath room. She was his constant compan ion. Shortly fitter the civil war broke out Clemens entered the confeder ate army, joining a company in Mis souri, and was in the service a short time. His pen name?Mark Twain? had its origin in his work as a pilot on a Mississippi river steamer. In making soundings It was customary to call out, "Mark one, mark twain" (t wo).?Exchange. A VISIT TO EDENTON. One of the Oldest Towns in the State?The Largest Herring Mar ket and Many Points of Interest in And Near the Town. If I were to undertake to write up all the points of interest connecting this beautiful old tow;n with the his tory of the state it would be too big a task, and an Imposition on your valuable space and readers. For that information let the younger people look up in history and tell It to those who have out grown their school days or perhaps who were so unfor tunate as to not have any?they are excusable?but no boy or girl who has the determination to get an edu cation in this day can be kept from the fountain of knowledge and render that excuse in the future, 1 am glad to say, our Opportunities are so much greater now than twenty-five to fif ty years ago. With a party of about 20 we visaed the old home place of Gov. Eden about 12 miles up the sound, the spot where his home stood Is still known; also his original burial place. His remains were afterwards re moved to the Episcopal burial ground In Edenton?a beautiful spoi. and church yard well kept and many old graves, some unmarked and perhaps unknown. The remains of other Statesmen?one a signer of the De claration of Independence?all found here with suitable marks and Inter esting Inscriptions. The building where our first tea party was held by 50 good ladies, and resolutions passed that they would drink no tea until England's tax was removed, has been torn down but the spot is marked and will readily be recognized by the large bronze tea pot mounted, near the court house and Confederate monument. Speaking of the Court House: It If the old colonial style, built 1718, 192 years ago. Material all from Ens land and the solid boards which go to form the pannel work over mantel piece all in one and are the widest I ever saw, over 2 feet wide, and evidently hewn fr"bm very large trees. The building la in splendid condition. The Court room is on the lower floor. The jury room is over head and as large as the Court room below, well ventilated, lighted and has two large fire places. The building is a large one, has the usual offices and in ad dition the Masonic lodge. Unanimity No. 7 chartered by the Duke of Beau fort and instituted on the 8th day of November. 1775?135 years ago. Two of the most Interesting arti cles in the lodge room is an old Bible printed in 1737 when "f was printed as we now have "s. The other is a chair, an old Masonic chair made of Mahogany, elaborately hand carved and embellished with all the implements of Masonry. This chair was one of those presented by Lord Baltimore to the Masonic Ix)dge at Alexandria, Va., and was occupied by Geo Washington "the father of his country" while Master of that lodge. During the Revolutionary War, when the section around Alexandria was threatened by the British army, the Masonic lodge at that place was compelled to suspend its meetings and protect this property by removal and in doing so the Master's chair was intrusted to one Capt. G. B. Russe 1 (who with his vessel was there at the time) for safe keeping. Af terwards liecoming alarmed he ran his vessel into the waters cf North Carolina where he remain d until after the war. He decided to make this p'a e his home, becam a mem ber of this lodge, marled and settled here. Afterwards learning that the Alexandria LodgeJiad never been re vived, he on the 6th day of July, 1778, (132 years ago, next 6th July,) presented the cha'.r to Vnanimity Lodge, No. 7, A. F. and A. M., as the old records In the lodge now fully at test and said chair has occupied its present position since that date, one hundred and thirty two years. Three handsome pictures on one large card board showing the inter ior of the lodge room as printed, a the Court House can be had for $1.00. separate picture of the chair and of The entire proceds go to the Oxford Orphan Home. Neatly framed it makes a pretty wall picture. I have one as a souvenir and will keep it as such. I wanted to visit the old Cup- j ulo home and see the furniture there known to be over 150 years old?own-. ed by 3 old sisters?one was very j sick on my arrival and died the day I before I left, of course I missed se-i ing that. I I Any one visiting Edenton should take time to see these places and things of interest?especially should he see Washington's chair and if he I is guilty of prevarlflcatlon, sit in it awhile, It might do him good?with some the shock might be too great and it would then do the work of the electric chair. So the "big yarn tellers" who go, be careful for we are told "Geo. " never "told a lie" and when you occupy the seat ho once did. If you are In the habit of doing that which he was not guilty, resolve never to tell another?I sat in the chair about ten minutes?I did not resolve not to, becau?e I had not found out it was necessary?you the reader may. In the next 1 11 tell you about something now in order what they are doing down there now and not over 100 years ago and when I tell It remember kind reader that I have once upon a time sat in the | same chair that Geo. Washington did, and you must believe every word of It. Jno. A. MITCHINER. Se'.ma, N. C., April 22, 1910. Sign# of the Times. In' the Sixth Missouri district the | Democratic plurality in 1908 was 199j : on February l it was 3778. In the Fourteenth Massachusetts district there was a Republican plurality in 1908 of 14,250 and a Democratic plu rality last month of 5650. In the Thirty-second New York district there was a Republican plurality of 10.167 j a year and a hall ago and on Tues-( day there was a Democratic plurality of 5831. Aldrich, the person chiefly! guilty of the present tariff law, has I election. It is not a violent assump tlon that these are signs of the times, i ?Philadelphia Record. The Sultan of Turkey has the-mea sl?s. I HUGHES TO SUPREME BENCH. Nomination Sent to the Senate Mon day. The Announcement Came as Something of a Surprise, Despite The Fact That it Had Been Gen erally Understood That the Position Had Been Tendered Him. Hughes Will Not Assume New Position Till Next October. Washington, D. C., April 25.?Pres ident Taft late to-day received from Governor Charles K. Hughes, of New York, a letter accepting a tendered appointment as associate justice of the Supreme Court. Five minutes after the letter was handed to the President, the nomination of Govern or Hughes was on its way to the Sen ate. That body had adjourned for the day, however, and so the Senate will not hear officially of the designation of Governor Hughes to succeed the late Justice David J. Brewer until tomorrow. While it is expected that Governor Hughes will be confirmed with little or no delay, it is understood here that he will remain as the chief executive of the State of New York until next October, and will not take the oath of office until the fall term of the Supreme Court opens the second Mon day in that month. President Taft has been anxious to secure the best man he could for the Supreme Court vacancy, and he feels that he has done so. He was much slated over the success of bis tender to Governor Hughes. President Taft said: "I am very much delighted to secure Governor Hughes for the bench. He is a man of wide experience and marked ability, and it is a mighty val uable thing to have on the great bench of the Supreme Court a man of affairs. Governor Hughes is 48 years of age, I think, and even if h' should retire at seventy he will have had 22 years of solid usefulness on the bench." The appointment of Governor Hughes was received throughout Washington with the greatest satis faction. The announcement, howev er, came as something of a surprise, despite the fact that it had been gen erally understood for days that the position was to be tendered him. A BIG LIQUOR SEIZURE. 27,000 Gallons Belonging to N. Glenn Williams on Charge of Irregulari ties by Government. Winston-Salem, April 22?The warehouse containing about 27,000 gallons of whiskey belonging to Mr. ( N. Glenn Wiliams in Yadkin county, j was seized Wednesday for alleged ir-' regularities. This is one of the big- i gest seizures ever made in North Car olina. It is said that when the State prohibition law went into effect two years ago Mr. Williams had in stock about fifty thousand gallons of corn whiskey and brandy. Since then he has shipped at least 20,000 gallons of the two articles, he having govern ment license. Deputy Marshal llark rader, of Charlotte, Is in charge of the warehouse and stock and he is having all the goods re-gauged. The property is being kept under guard day and night. REV. B. B. HOLDER DEAD. For Half a Century a Devoted and Faithful Methodist Minister. Dunn, April 22.?Rev. Barney B. Holder, a superannuated Methodist preacher, died last Saturday at his residence on Broad street. He had been preaching about fifty years, was 69 years and five months old. I Two weeks prior to his death his wifef passed away. He held his last meet ing in July, 1909, since then not be ing able to preach. He leaves three sons, John and Will, of Wendell, N. C., and Avera, of Rocky Mount; four daughters. Miss Meta, Mrs. John C. Cox here; Mrs. Boone, of Benson, and Mrs. Jones, of Elizabeth City. He was buried in Greenwood ceme tery Sunday, the burial services con ducted by Rev. F. A. Bishop. Mr. Holder was truly a good man, full of faith and religion. He was patient in all his suffering and died in per fect peace. He is a loss 'to his town, to his county, his State, his church and his family. i In Nuremburg there are 1700 hous es built before 1600 A. D., and 3o3? built in the seventeenth and eigh teenth centuries. J ' 1 SEVERE STORM SWEEPS SOUTH. Most Disastrous Financial Backset South Has Experienced Since Civil War. Atlanta Sees Some Snow. Cot ton Sejd Oil Mills Offering Their Supp ies to Planters to Reinstate Damaged Crops?Shortage of Seed A Serious Menace. Atlanta, Ga., April 25.?With mil lions of acres of young cotton destroy e<i by the cold weather which to-duy overspread the entire cotton belt with the unusual April accompaniment in many s-octions of snow and sleet, the South has suffered its most disastrous financial set-back perhaps since the Civil War. Besides cotton, young vegetation of every description suf fered from ttie freezing temperatures and fruit was more or less damaged In every Southern State except Flor ida. Keports received tonight indicate that the cold snap has not abated in Georgia, South Carolina Tennessee, northern Alabama, Louisiana, Missis sippi and even further west and for much of this territory a heavy frost and freezing temperatures are pre dicted for Tuesday morning. In At lanta and tlirofl*;h?ut the northern half of Georgia, except near the At lantic, the thermometer has been be low forty degrees above zero all day, with tailing temperatures recorded to night. Atlanta awoke this morning to find snow-covered houses and thermome ter down to thirty-one, an experience never before recorded after the first few days 01 April. Snow fell as far south as Selma, Ala., Columbus, Miss, and Columbus Ga., and in north Georgia, Tennessee and parts of north Alabama and Mississippi the fall ranged from one to four inches. Cot ton seed oil mills in this State and Alabama to-day weie appealed to for seed for replanting purposes and State officials implored the mills to crush no more seed until the far mers have been supplied. It is doubt ful. however, if sufficient seed can be secured, even at the record prices being offered, to replant one-half of the area of young cotton destroyed by the cold. At Columbus, Ga., tonight one' cot ton seed oil mill announced that their entire supply was at the command of the planters and would be sold for $1 per bushel. To-day a carload of peed was shipped from that point to the Mississippi delta and many tele grams were received from all sections cf the South asking for an allotment of seed supplies. Snowstorm at Asheville. Asheville, Apiil 25.?Asheville and this immediate section is experienc ing most unseasonable weather and to-day fear is expressed that the fruit crop has suffered severely and also gardens and truck farms. Much of last week the weather was disagree able with recurrent frost. Saturday morning conditions showed some im provement and there was hope that the worst was over. During the late afternoon, however, a cold wind came up; the thermometer went down and Sunday morning there was frost with a flurry of snow. Yesterday was cold end disagreeable for the most part of the day and last night there was again frost with a cold, drizzling rain about daybreak. The worst of the wea'.bei conditions came before noon when the rain ceased and for a few moments there was a heavy fall of snow?snow of the large flaked, watery variety. t Weather conditions tonight are per haps the most discouraging in recent years. A genuine snowstorm came late this evening and what fruit and veg etables remained unhurt are prob ably killed. Apple Crop Ruined. Waynesville, April 25.?An unusual sight greeted early risers this morn ing?the mountains covered with snow and the flakes coming down in real December style. This is the third snow within ten days, but the former ones did no damage to fruit and ear ly vegetables. This one, however, is more wintry, and the outlook now is that a freeze will follow the storm and thousands of dolars will be lost thereby. The peach crop is abund ant now and may be too far advanced to suffer, but the apples are in full bloom and are in extreme danger of being nipped. Heavy Snowfall in Tramylvanla. Brevard, April 25.?This morning It i la snowing to beat the band here. The ground is already covered with the snowy fiakos and from present indications there seems to be no like lihood of its stopping any time soon. The leaves on the trees are halt grown and gardens have been plant ed. all of which has made it feel and look very much like springtime, but the weather man has given us for the last few days makes it look very much like winter. STUDENT VOLUNTEER BAND. Mission Spirit Strong at the Univer sity?to Go to Foreign Field. Chapel Hill, April 27.?The Student volunteer mission baud received into membership last week Lee F. Turling ton, of the senior slass. This band is now seven strong. The other vol unteers are Eugene E. Barnette, A. R. Morgan, W. L. Cooper, J. W. Free man, C. E. Norman and H. K. Totten. Barnette goes this summer to Brazil. Morgan will go to Afghanstan, which is considered one of the hardest of the non-Christian fields. Tho last missionary to this province was mur dered. Norman, Totten and Turling ton will be medical missionaries. J. W. Freeman is leader of tho band. The volunteer band here at tho Uni versity is doing a great work. Be sides keeping alive the spirit of mis sions among the students the mem bers of tho band do effective duputa tion work In the surrounding coun try. In co-operation with tho twenty students in the rural Sunday school extension work tho seven members of the volunteer band conduct mis sion rallies at tho various rural Sun day schools. Tho mission spirit is stronger here at the University than it has been in a col'ege generation. Tho volunteer baud is larger and more effective than It has evor been. The student body has shown a keen interest. Three hunderd and more students are en rolled in mission classes. Six hun dred dollars has aready been subscrib ed by students to the support of Bar nette on the field of foreign mission ary endeavor. SOME STORIES TIME TELLS. Government Could Have Bought Morse Telegraph for $100,000. It is sixty-five years since the Postmaster General, acting for the United States government, inaugura ted service over the first commerci ally operated telegraph line In this country, between Washington and Baltimore. On that date (April 1, 1845) Prof. Morse and his associates offered to sell his telegraph Invention, now used in every civilized country, to the gov ernment for $100,000. Congress, following one of the most acrimonious debates in Its history, appropriated $:I0.000 for the construc tion of the Washington-Baltimore line In order that the merits of the inven tion might be tested and its value as aa a government perquisite determin ed should it ever be regarded as a desirable Federal purchase. Dismissing the proposition as of too conjectural a value, the Postmaster General, to whose Judgment President Polk deferred, said of the Morse sys tem: "Although the invention is an agent vastly superior to any other de vised by the genius of man, yet the operation between Washington and Baltimore has not satisfied me that under any rate of postage that can be adopted its revenue can be made to cover Its expenditures." To-day in this country alone the Morse system is capitalized for $220, 000,000. Prof. Alexander Graham Bell of fered to sell his telephone patents to the Western Union Telegraph Com pany for $60,000, but the officers of the company said It was only a toy and had no commercial value. This same toy, according to the annual report of the American Tele phone and Telegraph Company, Just issued, earned $150,000,000 last year and has now more than 5,000,000 tele phones in use throughout this coun try.?Washington Herald. Every Senator speaks to blind Sen ator Gore, no matter where they meet him. So expert is Senator Gore In the matter of sound that he can distinguish every man In the Senate by his voice, whether it be In the elevators, the corridors or one of the committee rooms. J EXPLOSION IN OHIO MINE. ^ Lives of 18 Miners are Snuffed Out And 7 Bruised and Burned. The In terior of the Mine Was Wrecked And All Ventilation Shut Off?The Cause of Explosion Has Not Beert Determined. Stuebenvllle, O., April 22.?The lives of eighteen miners were snuffed out In a tremendous explosion In the Youghiogheny and Ohio Coal Com pany's mine at Amsterdam last night. Seven men bruised and burned were resyued from the mine and their es cape from death is regarded as mi raculous. The interior of the mine was wrecked and all ventilation shut off. The cause of the explosion has not been determined by the State mine Inspectors and mining experts who are conducting the search of the wrecked workings for the bodies of 12 victims who have not yet been lo cated. The mine had been inspected but two days before the explosion. From ' the condition of the Interior it is said the explosion, in point of force, was the greatest ever recorded In Ohio. D. L. Ward Succeeds Judge Guison. Gov. Kltchin has appointed Col. D. L. Ward, of New Berno, judge of the Superior Court of the third dis trict to succeed Hon. O. H. Guion, resigned. The district is composed of Pitt, Craven, Green, Carteret, Jones and I'amlUo counties, and Ward was strongly endors d in the district. Col. Ward vaj a number of the Governor's staff nnd has served in the Legislature, lie was the author of the Ward liquor law. The Watts law. It will be recalled, restricted tne manufacture and sale of liquor to incorporated towns. The Ward law, passed by the next Legislature, re stricted the manufacture and sale to towns of certain size, the restriction being made to cut out the cross roads places Incorporated purely to accom modate liquor dealers. Judgo Gulon's resignation takes effect on the 30th.?Ex. Mothers, Give Attention. We fail to-understand how any mother can welcome into the home for her hoys to read, a newspaper that carries several largo advertise ments advising those boys where they can "buy liquor and soliciting their or ders for the stuff that can not be legally sold In the State.?Index. JOHN T. LEONARD IS SLAIN. Man Who Robbed Smithfield Postof fice in 1908 Convicted in Raleigh And Sentenced to Atlanta Prison Was Released, Went to New York And "Blew" on His Pals, One of Whom Slew Him. William Banks, Alias "Bangor Billy," yeggman and postofflce rob ber, was convicted in New York Thursday of murder In the first de gree for having killed John T. Leon ard, his former partner in crime, who was convicted in this city in 1908 for robbing the postofflce at Smith field and sentenced to thg Atlanta penitentiary. There were several other criminals who were associated with him sentenced at the same I time. Leonard was released from the At lanta Penitentiary last Decmeber on I his promise to aid in the capture of j the rest of the band with whom he i had formerly worked. He -went to Brooklyn and met there with some ot his pals, who made his house their headquarters. Leonard kept the Fed eral authorities posted as to their do ings. This was learned by the gang, and Barnes, who will be sentenced on Monday, slew Leonard In his own home.?News and Observer. Benjamin Franklin Aycock, a mem ber of the Corporation Commission, died suddenly at his home in Fre mont Tuesday night. He had been in poor health for some months. He was born In Wayno County In 18.">" and was a brother of ex-Governor Aycock. Mr. Aycock represented his district In tfa'e State Senate four times, In 1889, 1891, 1901 and 1907. He was elected a member of the Cor poration Commission lu 1908 and as sumed the position In January. 1909. He was one of the State's leading citizens and will be sadly missed, not only in his community, but through out the State.
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