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SENATE DEFEATS RESOLUTION.
The Popular Election of United
States Senators Almost Passed.?
Result W as 54 to 33.?Must be
Passed by Two-Thirds Majority.
Washington, Feb. 28.?The senate
to-day defeated the resolution propos
ing an amendment to the constitution
so as to provide that senators be
elected by direct vote of the people.
A brave fight had been made by
the supporters of the measure as
was indicated by the vote. Fifty-four
senators stood for the resolution and
thirty-three against It.
Though this division showed so
large a majority of the senate to
favor popular elections, the number
was not sufficient by four to carry
the measure which required a two
thirds vote for its success.
Immediately after the reading of
the journal the popular election re
solution was taken up during unani
mous consent, granted last week.
Bo long had the resolution been be
fore the senate and so carefully had
the membership been canvassed by
Its supporters and its opponents that
it was recognized from the moment
the question was brought up that
it would go down In defeat. Never
theless there was a large attendance j
on the floor.
STATE BUILDING BILL PASESS.
The Measure Provides $250,000 for :
Fire Proof Building.
Raleigh, Feb. 28.?The House pass- j
ed on final reading the bill for a
$250,000 fireproof State administra
tion building and sent it to the
Senate for concurrence in the amend-.
ment, cutting the amount from $;>00,-1
000 voted by the Senate in changing
from the original million-dollar bond i
issue. The Boyden bill carried. The
hill provides for the Governor to ap-;
point a commission to locate and
erect the building.
Another bill of State wide inter- j
est passed by the House was to aid .
In road building by authorizing the
State to issue four per cent bonds |
and float them, using the proceeds, (
in loans to counties on five per cent ,
bond issues approved by the Attor
ney General. There were 80 votes ,
for and 17 against this bill. I
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STANCIL-ROWLAND. i
Mr. Moses L. Standi, of Smithfield,
and Hiss Lucy A. Rowland were un- i
itod In marriage at the home of the i
brftle'i father, Mr. S. M. Rowland at j
McCullers yesterday afternoon at i
2 o'clock. 1
The house was beautifully decorat- i
ed In white and green. Mr. Har- ,
vey Standi acted as best man and ,
Miss Allie Rowland as maid of hon- f
or. i
In the wedding party were Misses t
Ena Rowland, Lulu Standi, Mada- j
line Fuquay, Daisy Stephens, Etta
Bridges and Messrs. Judson Banks, r
Henry Brown. Toka Banks, Herbert j
Stephens. e
Mrs. N. F. Turner presided at the {
organ. Rev. L. F. Johnson, pastor j
of Raleigh Christian church, per- r
formed the ceremony. l
The present* were numerous and (
handsome. Mr. and Mrs. Standi left
on the evening train for a three t
week's visit to New York. They will ,
be at home at Smithfield, N. C., j
on their return. Mr. Standi is with l
the Smithfield Journal.?Raleigh j
Times, Mar. 2. ,
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Independent Papers. eg
Nobody knows how much the c
(Jtate owes to that email but very s
select circle of newspapers that t
speaks the truth candidly but kindly ?
on the various subjects that come n
up for consideration.
We recently heard an editor of a
paper that has about as much cour
age as a rabbit, abusing another pa
per whose editor la worth a car- j
load of the first named gentlemen, t
and calling him a "knocker." Now ,,
4 "knocker" is always contemptible, t
but knocking is one thing and tak- t
tng a square and manly etand for j,
righteousness and truth is quite an- j
other. We are tempted to call p
names, hat that might not be <juite
proper; hat we have In mind as we
irrtta a paper (and lit is not a dally) i
tba* Is 4tkc aa much good as a
leader of pftblVc opinion aa any oth- j
?r ?ewapapar is North Carolina. This i
writer has been by no nu>ans ex
empt from rebuke by this fearless
editor. He Is not wild, intemperate
and blindly partisan, but in a calm,
judicial, straightforward way express
es his opinion and stands by hi& guns
though he stands alone. The ex
pression of that man's editorial opin
ion has come to mean much in
North Carolina. The demagogues
and the- timeservers fear him as
wjU they may. He is never malig
nant or bitter or abusive. He rare
ly indulges in personalities, but if
1* becomes necessary to call names
he dots it and nobody can misunder
stand him. There are others ^claim
lag to get on the popular side of
all public questions and make a great
ado about their courage. They for
get that it requires no courage to
Jump in front of a procession, and
wave a flag. The man who stands
>y himself in defence of what he
thinks is right is a brave man. We
are glad that we have a few of these
tile exponents of righteousness in
North Carolina and we hope their
tribe will increase.
Independent thinking is more ne
cessary in a newspaper office than
elsewhere, and yet it is rare. But
those who do think for themselves
think also for multitudes of others
and lead the way in, thoee great mat
ters affecting the civic as well as
the religious life of our people.?
Charity and Children.
Over Reading.
There is danger of the average
child getting a severe attack of men
tal indigestion unless his parents
devote some time and thought to
his literary diet. In most of our
country schools, as well as those in
the city, it is compulsory for the
board to provide a certain number of
books each term for the children to
read. Some of our school teachers
permit a child who has prepared his
lessons to take a bc>6k from the li
brary to read during school hours?
ii-il of the teachers encourage the
bringing home of b-oks. Librarians
publish the fact that the number of
books taken out of public libraries
by children is increasing. Whether
this is as it should be depends al
together on the character of the
looks read. Nothing is permitted in
the school library which will harm,
but much of the literature found
(here entertains only; it neither
strengthens the mind nor culti
vates it.
Children need to be taught to
think as well as to read. We be
ieve the child who is allowed to take
i book from the school library should
)e made to write a review of such
look or books. Unless he is made
to digest what he reads, a child is
jnly weakening his mental powers by
-ushing through books. What can be
jxpected from the memory of a boy
vho reads a book half through for
he second time before he finds that
le has read it before?
There is no reason why a child's
?eading should not be systematized,
^et them choose certain subjects
sach year on which they need in
ormation, and let their reading all
>ear on these subjects. Let them
?ead something that will give infor
nation and inspiration. A boy who
s reading the Henty stories is in
i dream. He hurries through, or
orgets his tasks to see what Frank
s doing next. But let him read
listory, or good biography, and he
vakens up to the fact that what he
ias read has had its Influence on
fhat he is and where he lives; it
ets him to thinking and asking
luestions.
Parents should regulate what a
:hild reads as well as what he eats,
lome light reading is well; children
teed entertainment; too much is bad,
nd should be denied ?Wallace's Far
a?r.
Hundredth Anniversary Celebrated.
Raleigh, March 1.?Out at t he
iorth Carolina Soldiers home to-day
here was celebrated the 100th birth
ay of John M. Pool, of Wake coun
y, a Mexican and Civil war veteran,
he oldest man in the home, where
>3 has been since 1S92. During the
;ivil war he was a member of Com
>any E, Fourteenth regiment.
"Pa, what's the difference between
deal Ism and realism?"
"Idealism, my von, is the contem
ilation of marriage; realism is being
narrted."?Boston Transcript.
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j MAN ORANK CARBOLIC ACID. I
Calvin Strickland, Who Lived Near
Blackman'a Grove, Took Hia Own
Life While in a Fit of Deapon
dency. ? x
Benson, Feb. 26.?Calvin Strick- j
land, a farmer living near Black-'
man's Orove, six miles east of here,
took his own life late this afternoon :
ly drinking two ounces of carbolic ?
acid. Strickland was 30 years old,
and was a son of Wash Strickland,
prominent farmer of Meadow Town
I ship. I
lie had been despondent and drank
considerably for the past week. Tak
ing the acid in his pocket, and ,
leaving the house, he said to his
?
wife: "If I don't get back soon send
I for me, I'm going to the woods.''
He had been gone only about j
thirty minutes when his wife found
him dying by a brook in the woods,
about one hundred yards away.
Neighbors were hurriedly called,
but he was dead before they ax
rived.
Strickland married Miss Bertie Lee,
a daughter of Mr. N. I. Lee, of Mea
dow, and leaves his wife and two
small children. Although not thrif
ty, it Is said he had some property.
?News and Observer.
NOTES ABOUT BOOKS.
Mr. Will N. Harben always writes
about real people, and his field is
rural Georgia. The characters in
his books are country or village folk.
They are very plain people and they
are very plainly written about. That
is the strong quality of Mr. Harben's
work. It is sincere, simple and
: real, and it is also interesting. "Dix
ie Hart" is one of the best of these
j Southern stories. Dixie herself is
a charming person; born of the soil,
a perfectly natural woman who uses
the slang of her country and works :
with her hands and is most uncon- i
\ entional, but who never ceases for
a moment to be a woman in the fine !
sense of the word. There is plen- '
ty of humor in the tale which leaves
one with a sense of having been In
the town and made the acquaintance
of the shop-keeper, the shoemaker,
the county judge, the local loaner of
money, and all the other odd and
queer people of the place. Those
who love fashionable society and
feel themselves lowered in social
tone by reading about very plain
people would better leave this story
alone, but those who want the. real
thins in fiction Would do well to
read it.? Ladies' Home Journal.
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The newspapers have been report-'
ing the great popularity of Miss El- I
: en.nor H. Abbott's "Molly Make-Be
lieve," and it is quite easy to un
do; stand why people are reading a
story which is not to be treated as
a f'Pce of literature in any sense,
but which has freshness of invention
and a rollicking freedom of style. It
is the story of a young man engaged
to a distant and Inaccessible young
woman. He is laid low by an at
tack of rheumatic fever. The
| young woman agrees to write him !
. very formal letters once a week for
six weeks. In his desperation he
applies to a much-advertised bureau
1 organized to furnish any kind of let
1 ter, and he falls into the hands of
"Molly Make-Believe," who so con
soles him with her cleverness, her
variety and her very human feminin
ity, that, the engagement with the
frigid young woman having been ter
minated, a nice little romance grows
out of the novel relationship.?Hamil
ton W. Mable.
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Senate Paaaea Mileage Book Bill.
Raleigh, N. C., March 1.?The Sen
; ate discussed at great length to-day
I the Baggett bill for pulling mileage
I on trains as amended by the commit
tee to simply require railroads to
maintain two windows ab all stations
of 2,000 and more Inhabitants so
mileage tickets will be the more
readily procured before boarding
trains.
Senator Baggett got in a substi
tute to substitute requiring pulllag
mileage on trains. A number of
other substitutes were offered but
all were voted down and the commit
tee substitute for two windows In
towns of 2,000 Inhabitants was pass
ed by a vote'of 40 to 3. This was
ordered engrossed and sent to the
Houae.
at the capital of banner.
Postmaster Langdon Weds Miss Cll
da Lee.?Other Matters of Inter
est to the People of the County.
Benson, Mar. 1.?Miss Pauline
Wade, of Dunu, spent several days
here last week at the home of Miss
Leola Smith.
Mr. Preston Woodall and Mr?.
Geo. Holland left Sunday for Haiti
more and other northern cities to
buy goods for the Spring Opening
Mrs. Joe Wood spent last Satur
day and Sunday with Mrs. 11. M.
Pearson, of Dunn.
Messrs. Guy Stewart, of Coats,
and Clarence ltose. of Rocky Mount,
were visitors here Sunday.
Mrs. J. W. Whittenton visited
Mrs. J. W. Baucom, of Dunu, for a
few days this week, returning home
Monday.
Mr. Vlck Austin and family, of
Clayton, recently visited his daugh
ter, Mrs. Jesse McLamb, for sever
al days.
Miss Louise Carroll, who haB
?harge of the Music Department In
the Benson Graded Graded School,
spent Saturday and Sunday with
friends at Meredith College, Ral
eigh.
Miss Bennie Holland, who has |
been visiting at the home of Miss
L.ovie Denning for the past week, j
returned to her home near Garner,
Monday.
Miss Ora Stevens, teacher in the
Four Oaks School, and Rev. Chas.
Stevens, of Wake Forest College, vis
ited their sister, Mrs. Luna Toler,
Friday and Saturday.
Miss Siddie Smith, of Fuquay
Springs, has been visiting at the
lome of her sister, Mrs. W. R. Den
ling, near Benson for several days.
Miss Mary Holt, of Princeton, has
3een at the homo of Mrs. R. A.
Stewart for a few days.
Mr. F. L. Woodall, who lives two
Titles east of Benson, has recently ,
srected a nice cottage on his farm
Tear Clayton and will move his fam
ily there about the 7th of March.
Mr. L. B. Pope, editor of The
Spokesman, visited friends in Rocky
Mount, Wakefield and Raleigh, the
first of the week, returning home
Tuesday afternoon.
Miss Vada Boone and Mrs. J. H.
3odwin visited relatives In and
lear Clayton for several days re
:ently.
Miss Lillian Smith, of Smithfield,
risked her brother, Mr. J. R. Smith,
Sunday and Monday, returning to
Smithfield Tuesday.
Prof. Z. H. Rose, principal of the :
Benson Graded School, went to his j
lome at Fremont Saturday to visit j
lis people.
Mr. R. B. Farthing, photographer, !
will leave Wednesday for Wilson, !
where he has opened an art studio,
rle will be In Benson In the future, ]
>nly on Saturdays.
The most interesting entertainment i
lad here for some time was that
;iven at the school building last Fri-'
lay night by the children, under the
?are of Mrs. Luna Tolar. The chil
iren were all In the first grade and
n the rendition of their pieces they
ihowed excellent preparation. After
.he exercises by the little folks, a <
rery Interesting debate between the 1
? oung men of the two literary socle
ies was had. The question dls- 1
:ussed was, "Should the United
5tAtes Subsidise Its Ship Marine?" j
The affirmative was discussed by
tester Massengill and Arthur Good
?Ich, the negative by Jesse Turllng- 1
on and Claud Canaday. The argu- 1
nent of each of these young men
ihowed thorough research and study
ind reflected credit on the socle- '
ies. The judges by a vote of two
tgainst one, decided that the af
IrmatiTe won the query.
Mr. R. D. Langdon, the Benson
"ostmastcr, and Miss Clida Lee, a
laughter of Mr. Louis Lee, of Mea
low township, were married Sunday .
noming at the home of the bride, ,
lear Peacock's Cross Roads, Elder ^
f. A. Monaees, of Dunn, performing i
he ceremony. After the marriage
he contracting parties and their j
riends attended services at Reedy t
srong Church, and returned to the ,
lome of the bride's parents, where j
l dinner was served. Later In the
ifternoon they drove to their home
n Benson, where a number of friends
lad gathered to welcome them, and
tt which place supper was served.
Miss Lw to well known here, hav
ins been employed as trimmer for
the 11. P. Smith Millinery Com
pany for several months. Her many
friends will bo glad to welcome her
to lienson to live. Mr. Langdon is
our efficient Postmaster and is '
well known in Johnston county. The *
writer wishes them a life of hap- 1
piness and peace.
Will Be Burled This Morning.
Tl.t :emains of Mr. John 1,. T.
Sneed, ? hose death at Fort Douglass,
Utah, was announced in our last
Issue, arrived here yesterday after
noon and will be interred in the
cemetery hero this morning at elev
en o'clock.
Mr. Sneed was the son of Ste
phen and Matilda V. Sneed and was
bom in Smlthfleld in January, 1865.
Before joining the U. S. Army. he
was for several years engaged in
the newspaper work and was at (
one time editor of The Herald.
In January, 1890, he joined the Un-j
ited States Army. Ho saw service
In Porto Rico, Cuba and the P^llp
plnes, In which latter place he con
tracted fever, that undermined his
constitution, and eventually caused
his death. At tfce time of his
death he was Pint Sergeant of Com
pany "F," 15th Infantry, and was
stationed at Port Douglas. Ptah.
He is survived by two brothers, J.
II. and P. O. Sneed, of Durham, and
two sisters, Mrs. L. L. Sasser, of j
Durham, and Mrs. K. J. Holt, of
this place.
College Correspondents.
Much of the misapprehension and
prejudice asaln.st our colleges is
engendered because of the want of
wisdom on the part of college cor
respondents. They misrepresent the
institutions for which they write by
taking three fourths of the space
allotted to them in the papers in
describing the things of least Im
portance in the college life. The em-j
p has Is they put upon ball playing
leads the public to infer that the
chief eiid and aim of the college
course is to perfect the young
men in the art of flinging a ball, j
Of course these correspondents im
agine that the public Is yearning to
know the things they are telling, be
cause they themselves are so much
concerned about athletics, but the
people whose good opinion means
most to the college are not only J
not interested, they are disgusted!
with the weary round of details die-1
scribing the various and sundry i
achievements of boys who would a
great deal better be mastering their I
lessons than running around the
country playing base ball! Give us
a rest O college scribes! Give us
a brief refreshing rest!?Charity and
Children.
The Cost of Congress.
The $700,000 in patronage which
the capture of the House will give
the Democrats is only a fraction of
the total expense of gongrecsi to the
country. Compared with the legis
lative branches of other countries,
Congress is an expensive luxury. The 1
cost of the House and Senate is
close to $14,000,000 a year. The cost [
Df the British parliament is about j
$1,300,000. There are 615 members
Df the house of lords to 92 of the ,
American Senate, and 670 of the
bouse of commons to 391 of the
House of Representative?. Each mem
ber of Congress gets $7,500 a year, a
total of more hafl $3,600,000, where
as the members of parliament are i
unpaid. But, with the salary account
left out, there Is an enormous dis
parity in the cost at Iximdon and at
Washington.
One reason is that In 1713 the
house of commons adopted thte stand
ing order:
"This house will receive no peti
tion for any sum relating to the
public service, or proceed to any mo
tion for a grant or charge upon the
public revenue unless recommended
by the crown."
This means that only such ap
propriations can be voted on as
are submitted by a ministry respon
sible to the country. In Congress ev
ery number is privileged to hold
up the treasury to the extent that
his conscience and his ingenuity
permit.?Kansas C*ty Times.
The Senate yesterday passed the
State Legalized Primary Law 28 to
It. It will pass the House.
LORIMER RETAINS HIS SEAT.
The Charge of Bribery Not Upheld
And the Man From Illinois Will
Stay in United States Senate.
Washington, D. C., March 1?The
Senate of the United States wel
comed into its fold this afternoon
William Lorimer, of Illinois, by a
vote of 46 to 40, following the most
acrimonious and extended contest of
the kind In the history of the coun
try.
With forty Senators convinced Ix>r
lmer s election had been brought
about by fraud and corruption, and
appealing up to the very last min
ute against his admission on the
ground that the weltare of the coun
try was at stake, the majority calm
ly accepted him.
The final scene of the famous
case was perhaps the most dramatic
witnessed here in years. It was like
the closing act of a great murder
trial, except that It was a larger
and more impressive scale. Ix>rlmer
had plead for his political life with
all the fervor of a man actually en
deavoring to avoid a death sentence.
No prosecuting attorney could hare
unaligned a defendant more bitterly
or more mercilessly than Senators
Beveridge, Crawford, Owen and La
Follette excoriated the "sitting mem
ber," who is now a member in the
full meaning of the word.
Lorimer was acquitted on the
ground that no proof had been pre
sented to show that he personally
was responsible for any of the ad
mitted corruption in the Illinois
Legislature, coincident with his
election.
That there was bribery was ad
mitted, but that it was sufficiently
extensive to affect the election was
denied. It was asserted that Lorimer
was the victim of persecution; that
fraud, the "third degree" and vari
rious forms of Intimidation were prac
ticed against him.
The majority of the Senate ac
cepted Lorimer's defense and the de
cision is final. He stands cleared as
far as the Senate itself is concerned,
of all the charges made against him.
State Primary Bill Passes Senate.
Raleigh, March 2.?By a vote of
24 to 17 the Senate at 7:30 tonight
passed on second reading the Hob
good bill providing a primary elec
tion for all parties throughout the
State. On objection it went over
for third reading until Thursday, be
ing set as a special order at 10 o'
clock. The bill was considerably
modified by amendment striking out
Section 17 relating to misdemeanor
charge against a voter participating
in the primary and then failing to
support the ticket of any political
party with which he claimed to be
affiliated. The amended bill changes
the date of the primary from the
first Tuesday in September to the
first Tuesday in August. Senators
Hobgood and Gardner led the fight
for the bill and Senators Hassett
and Pharr in opposition, and all sev
en Republicans. Three Republican
members, Starbuck, Haymore and
Anderson, argued in opposition and
all seven Republican members voted
against it.
TWO THOUSAND DYING DAILY.
The Plague is Playing Havoc Among
The Chinese in Manchuria.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 28.?The
plague is ravaging Pei Chuanlitze,
about 50 miles north of Harbin.
Deaths there are reported to num
ber 2,000 daily.
The disease is raging in Kerin, Hu
lanchen, opposite Harbin, and at Ro
dune, 100 miles southwest of the Man
churian capital.
Bread riots have occurred through
out the stricken districts. The for
eign consuls are preparing to leare.
Troops have refused to March into
the palgue places. Martial law has
been established.
The Chinese Emperor has repri
manded the Manchurlan authorities
for not having dealt more energeti
cally with the situation. The far ttt
Eastern press Is filled with apprehen- .
sions of a recurrence of Boxerism. w
"You had rheumatism Ira your right
leg for years and were cured of it *
In an instant? How?''
"My being accidentally mixed
la * train wreck- My rich* tsc <s a s
cork W* now.''?Chicago Trtbuws.
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