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WM.UAMrrON, NORTH CAROCINA
W« ptty there are no tell styiea la
prion.
Wlwa we have women Judges the
lawyers won't dare talk back.
We hope hobble skirts will not be
* redacod under the new tariff law.
Sqw men enjoy their Indigestion.
Judging by the way they brag about it.
"torn latest idea of luck In New York
la to get to see a play before the po
lice stop IL
Aasuiance come# from Panama that
the locks are safe. Anything with
lacks to It usually la. ,
As a general thing It doosat Improve
• man's chance of going to heaven for
Ma to Inherit a lot of the earth.
Oae wonders what literature and
the drama would do without the re
cruits they draw annually from base
ball
A Pittsburgh man has fined
f&O for winking twice at a girl. Per
haps tb* first one was caused by a
cinder.
Tb« latest feminine fashion la to
have their hands in their pockets.
Sarcastic husbands will welcome the
Oltßl*.
England haa at last won a a porting
ahanplonship from ua, the women's
Colt la thla a tribute to the virility of
Ik* militants?
v Ltn ipats for women la a lata
•tyla. bat unfortunately they do not
displace tho old fashioned clothes-
Ma* recriminations.
If th* tailors wish to do something
an usual why do they not give the
taea knickerbockers and tbua start
a fashion worth while?
Tb* superintendent of West Polut
wants football eliminated. He seems
lo think the students could be maimed
and killed In a better cause.
Scientists have produced something
~Just an good as radium," but we
ahall accept no substitute and shall
demand the old fashioned kind
Tb* passenger who rode with
Pegoud when he looped the loop
shares the fame of the man who
crossed Niagara Kails on Ulondln's
back.
"FadHs decensus." says a book re
viewer In discussing the latest novel
by the author of a former "best sell
sr." -which means that he has hit the
toboggan.
A French dramatist declares that
"any dance can be made vulgar "
True; but the trouble with some is
that they are in the category of the
self-made. /
A German paper Bays that when
% diplomat Bays "yes" he means "per
haps," »uid when he says "perhaps" he
means "no," and if he says "no" be is
no diplomat.
A Scotch expert says that we are
approaching the smokeless age. But
as his prediction applies to locomo
tives and factories and not cigarette#,
no alarm need agitate the commu
nity.
If, as a careful statistician asserts,
Americans paid JG00.000.000 for music
fast year. It Would seem to a plain
person that they ought to have some
thing to show for it—a credituble
song, at leasf>v.
A Philadelphia waiter has had a bro
ker convicted ou a charge of false pre-
tense in handling SB,OOO worth of secu
rities. How many of those who tipped
him had that much?
Radiutn is to be put within the
reach of the common people. This
will help to bring down the high cost
of living. as there is such a popular
demand for radium. •»
A Phlladelphlan who undertook to
demonstrate how it was possible for a
man to stab himself In the back fatally
almost succeeded If he recovers he
arlll ifite it for granted
Accidents wlil happen even in the
"safe" French duels A sword expert
was badly pinked in his 173 d encoun
ter, and Is In a Paris hospital. Honor
taaoes should be fought out over a
chess table or not at all
* A noted English surgeon has dis
covered that cancer is sometimes
r caused by coal used for fuel. He
might also discover with some more
" Observation that apoplexy is some
times due to the coal bills.
African cannibals do not like white
W* as food because of the rank fla
, "war. This would be a sweeter world
U the American mosquito were edu
cated my to the same high standard
fit gustatory discrimination.
, * - Greek women In Chicago will send
«3*MO 0 Greece to rebuild the
koines devastated by the war. This
to te newer to the appeal of the
OSMB fit Greece, who acted oh the
weß-known European maxim. "When
tn trouble of any kind, turn to the
VMM State*."
RAGE QUESTION
/ SHAKES EMPIHE
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COLONIES OF GREAT BRITAIN IN
ARMS AGAINBT EABT
INDIANS.
MAY INVOKE MARTIAL LAW
"
Indians Resent by Striking in South
Afrloa and the Burning of Many
Sug tr Plantations.
Durban, Natal, Union of South Af
rica.- East Indian residents of Natal
declared a general strike, which was
accompanied by rioting and the burn
ing of sugar plantations.
The police force is Insufficient to
deal with the rioters, and white wom
en and children are in a state of ter
ror, Troops have been ordered to the
disaffected districts.
In Durban itself practically the
whole East Indian community struck
work and became so aggressive that
a demand was made for the procla
mation of martial law,
■fhe revolt of the Kant Indians was
brought about by the exclusive laws
it) force against therti here. It had
hitherto been passive, but developed
into violent action.
London, England.—The question of
the British East Indians again has
reached an acute stage, nearly every
dominion and colony to which these
British subjects emigrate either bar
ring them or have legislation which
effectually prevents them from enter
ing or remaining In those places.
The Imperial government, having
more to say In the government of the
crown colonies than It has In that of
the dominions, has taken steps to
make the life of the East Indians In
those colonies mpre bearable. A com
mission composed of a member of the
British Indian government and an East
Indian of industrial experience Is now
visiting the crown colonies to which
indentured Immigration is stll permt
tcd. The commission will make a
thorough investigation into the condi
tions of employment of East Indians
nnd generally Into their position and
treatment In those colonies.
In the dominions the imperial gov
ernment, which Would have Indians
treated as are other British mihlerts.
Is faced with exactly the same difficul
ty as tho Federal government at
Washington has In connection with
California's anti-Japanese legislation.
The people of the dominions insist on
having "white men's countries."
GLASS IS NAMED SENATOR
la Appointed by Gov. O'Neal to Fill
Unexpired Term of Johnston.
Birmingham, Ala. —Frank P. Glass,
editor* of the Birmingham tfeWs, ami
president of the Montgomery Adver
tiser, was appointed United States sen
ator by Governor O'Neal to succeed
the Into Senator Joseph P. Johnston.
Mn Glass is otje of the oldest and
best-known newspaper men in the
state of Alabama and In the South.
Mr, Glass Is a native of Alabama, an
alumnus of Princeton and founded
The Blade in Bibb county in 18S0,
a year later bought the Selma Daily
Times and in ISBG acquired a half in
terest in the Montgomery Advertiser.
In making the. appointment. Gover
nor O'Neal said: "I am still of the
opinion that the provisions of the sev
enteenth nmeniUnent did ni*l deprive
me of power to' 1111 by appointment
the vacancy it) the senate of the Unit
ed States on the death of Hon. Jo
seph F, Johnston. In the exercise,
.therefore, of my constitutional power
and duty, 1 have this day appointed
Hon. P. P. Glass United States sena
tor from Alabunia to 1111 the unexpir
ed term of the late Senator Joseph
P. Johnston."
Observance of Tuberculosis Day,
Washington.—Observance of Tuber
culosis Day, December 7, promises to
be more general this year than ever
before. Just four years ago the Na-
tlonal Association for the Study and
Prevention of Tuberculosis establish
ed the custom of setting aside one
day to direct the nation's attention to
the necessity for a universal light
against the great plague and each
year since recognition of the custom
lias been mose widespread.
U. S. Content to Await Outcome.
Washington. That the Unltod
States, in its policy toward the pro
visional government in Mexico is con
tent to await the outcome of the pres
sure being exerted to bring about the
downfall of the Huerta regime was ap
parent in official circles in Washing
ton. Exciting rumors from Mexico
City wholly failed to ruffle the calm
confidence of President Wilson or Sec
retary of SUte Bryan. "The mills of
the gods grind slowly," was the decla
ration of one high official of the gov
ernment in diseasing the question.
Jacksonville Greets Waterways People
Jacksonville, Kla.—Formal greetings
by local commercial organisations fea
tured the welcome which the dele
gates are getting to the Atlantic Deep
er Waterways' association's sixth an
nual convention. Several special trains
arrived in Jacksonville, bringing dele
gates from the North and East. The
coastal steamship lines will delivered
their quota of delegates on three ves
sels which arrived in port from Phila
delphia. J. Hampton Moore is the he&d
of a party on ,» specially chartered
steamer from Philadelphia
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Blair 1 Lee, the new Unites State*
•enator-elect from Maryland, choeen
by direct vote of the people to suc
ceed William P. Jackson, doesn't knew
when he will be seated. Jackson was
appointed by the governor to fill out
the term o' the lete Senator Rayner,
which does not sxpirs until 1917.
WANT WON MONEY BILL
CURRENCY SNARL IS BEING UN
TANGLED BY THE COM
MITTEE.
Further Time It Given for the Consld
•ration of Provisions of the
Bill.
Washington.—The attempt to force
the administration currency bill
through the senate byway of the
Democratic caucus was abandoned and
the banking and currency committee
of the senate was given time for fur
ther consideration of the bill. A prac
tical agreement by six Democratic sen
ators, half of the committee, and hope
for final report soon, was reported to
the Democratic conference when It
met by Senator Owen and at his re
quest the conference took tro action.
Since the call for the conference was
Issued Senators Reed and O'Oorman
hud joined Cha'troian Owen and Sena
tors Potfiereno, Shafroth and Mollis,
supporters of the administration meas
ure. despite their votes against some of
Its provisions in the committee. These
six Democrats hftve virtually apreed
on a bill wljlch meets the j views of
President Wilson
A further attempt to swing Senator
Hitchcock of Nebraskn in line with Ills
Democratic colleagues, was made in a
meeting of Democrats of the commit
tee after the conference,
It in probable that the Democrats
and Republicans will make a unani
mous report on those details of the
bill which all approve and thpn sub
mit supplementary reports showing
the senate their disagreement on the
fundamentals of the bill. The Repub
licans end Senator Hitchcock have an
nounced their determination to stand
out to the last for the public owner
ship of the regional banks in the new
system and for government control of
those banks.
U. S. AGENT MEETS CARRANZA
William Bayard Hale, Representing the
President, Confers With Rebels.
Xogales, Senora, Mexico. —Crossing
n narrow little street from the United
States into Mexico William Bayard
Hale, personal representative of Pres
ident Wilson, met the Constitutionalist
chief, (.Sen. Venuatlano Carranza, and
his cabinet ami presented to them a
definite proposal from the American
government.
What the proposal was the Ameri
can diplomatic agent declined to say.
The Mexican revolutionary leaders
also were silent, but to those who
have been anxiously awaiting tlia de
velopment ot' the American policy with
regard to Mexico it was fraught with
possibilities for thfe destinies of the
war-torn republic and her relations
with her northern neighbor.
Into a little room of the customs
house in which General CaramsA has
established his "ad interim" capital,
tlie American emissary was ushered to
meet the chiefs of the revolution
against Huerta. Cararnza and his en
tire cabinet were there and with them
Acklen Named Chief U. S. Warden.
Washington.— Col. J. H. Acklen of
Tennessee was commissioned chief
warden of the United States under
the recently enacted Federal migratory
bird law. He was appointed by Sec
retary Houston of the department of
agriculture, and Is the first to hold the
office. Colonel Acklen is pr«sldent of
the National Association of Game Com
missioners, and" formerly was game
warden of Tennessee. He will have
his headquarters In Washington, aid
ing the department in the enforcement
of the migratory bird law.
Track Team Off for Australasia.
San Francisco.—'Three members of
the American t.ack and field team,
which is to ten.' Australasia, fc&iled
with Manager Pistace Poixotto. Cob
lelgh, of New Orleans, the fourth
member, will leave this city ten days
later and will Join the partyMn New
Zealand. The athlete's who sailed with
the t*am manager are George Par
ker, Jumper, Olympic Club; Ilex Caug
hey, shot putter, Ukiah, Cal., high
school, and James Powers, runner, Bos
ton Athletic association. The team
will not return until late In March.
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IRE EXECUTED AS :
PRISONERS OE WAR
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STANDING BY GRAVES, TWO
PRISONERS ARE SHOT
DOWN.
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TOOK PLACE AT CEMETERY
When Rebel Volleys Sounded, Ebave T
and Cordova Tumbled Into i
Newly Dug Gravel.
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El Paso, Texas. —Two former F^ed-,
eral officials of Juarez, who were tak
en prisoners by General Pancho VII- j
la's rebel troops were executed at |
Juarc:;. They were Pabio Ebave ?« '
official in the Juarez police depart
ment, and Juan Cordova, chief oX the
Juarez secret police.
The executions took place at the
Juarez eemetery, the condemned men
standing on the brink of the newly
dug graves and falling in when tlie
firing squad shot them. Both n\en
were sentenced to death by General
Villa and orders were r?arried out by
-subordinates.
Mrs. Ebave, wife o£ one of the con
demned men, was present when the
sentence was pronounced and pleaded
with Villa to pardon her husband, but
he refused.
A squad of 14 Federal prisoner# was
taken to the cemetery to bury 89 of
the soldiers who were killed in the
Juarez battle. One of the prisoners,
fearing he was to be executed, tried
to escape and was shot by one of
the guards.
The rebel officers say there are
more executions to take place In Jua
rez and -that all the Federal volun
teer army officers will be killed.
United States Senator Thomas B.
Catron of New Mexico called on Gen
eral Villa at Juarez and cautioned
him against the wholesale execution
of Federal prisoners of war, which
has been conducted at Villa at Jua
rez since the, surrender of the town.
"I told General Villa that our gov
ernment had acted very favorably to
the rebel government and that it was
my opinion that the executions would
make a bad impression on the Uulted
States government, and probably re
tard any action toward recognition of
the rebels by the United States," said
Senator Catron, after his conference
with Villa. "He did not say he "would
desist In the executions, but said It
was necessary that It he done, and
that it was his duty to his country and
orders from superior officers.
DEFENDS WHIPPING POST
Delaware Executive Telle the Evil
doers to Shun the St^te.
Wilmington, Del.—Governor Charles
R. Miller issued a statement in de
fense of the whipping post and de
clared that method of. punishment for
criminals In Delaware would continue
until the lnw providing for it is re
pealed, "regardless of any attempt
ed interference by a member of con
gress or of individuals residing in
other states."
In his statement the governor says:
"The courts and other legal authori
ties of the state of Delaware will ad
ministers the internal affairs of the
commonwealth regardless of any at
tempted interference by a member of
congress or of individuals residing in
other states who are ignorant of con
ditions aud permit themselves to be
misled by extravagant and highly
colored newspaper articles.
"The persons who have written me
numerous letters, some of theqj abus
ive and insulting to the cltizetiship of
the state, should pause to consider
that state government in America is
based upon statutory laws enacted by
the people.
"I shall uphold the state courts in
the administration of the law, and
warn evil-doers to give Delaware n
wide berth if they wish to escape the
whipping post."
Scott Is Nominated to Succeed Lynch
New York. —At a meeting of prin
ters held here Marsdon G. Scott, pres
ident of Typographical Union No. 6
("Big Six") was nominated for pres
ident of the International Typograph
ical Union to succeed James XI.
Lynch, who recently was appointed by
Governor Glynn to be state commis
sion of labor.
Robbers Gete SII,OOO From Express.
Tampa. Fla.—Representing himse f
to be an auditor for the Southern Ex
press company, an unknown man wall.-
«d into the St. Petersburg office
that company, took oiiarge of th>»
books and papers, worked severa:
hours over them and disappeared.
short time latqr the agent discoverer
that money orders and travelers
checks to the amount of SII,OOO werv
missing. Announcement of the thef»
was made here by Superintendent C.
C. Wolfe of Jacksonville, who wn/
summoned
15 Swept Off Flat Car by Limb-
Waycross.—Wh£n an overhanging
limb struck a flat car on the Way
cross and Southern between Cirtvon'b
Island am* Hopkins, In the Okefonoket
swamp, lirteen pleasure seekers wer*.
thrown off, ""e being killed instantly,
two receiving injuries that are con
sidered fatal, and several being seri
ously bruised and eut The dead: L.
JureaSkP. P. Stewart, legs broken, in
ternal *ihjnri{s; Mrs. P. P. Stewart,
internal injuries. Seriously injured:
Qeorge Squirts and J. H. Smith,
REV. DR. WJt LEAVELL
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Dr. Leavell tf Ca*rollton, Miss., la
the new American mlnieter tc Guate
mala, succeeding Reynolds Hltt. He
Is a son-in-law of former Senator
George of Mississippi and la a Pres
byterian clergyman.
JAPS DO NOT WANT WAR
WE MUST KEEP FAITH WITH THE
JAPANESE, SAYS EX-PRES
IDENT TAFT.
Only Danger of War I* in Our Injus
tice, Declares Former
President.
Washington.—Asserting that the
Japanese government had faithfully
lived up to its treaty obligations by
keeping its coolie labor from American
shores, former President Taft, In Rn
address before the National Geograph
ic Society here, dteclared that the
United States government must, keep
faith with Japan by not discriminating
against its people. "And," he said,
"no matter what the reckless and un-
Just acts of thoughtless people In Cal
ifornia or elsewhere may be, they
should be restraitfSd."
"The only danger of a war," he add
ed, "is in our injustice to the Japan
ese. They are fighting the battle tot
trade and not for conquest or furtljer
acquisition of territory, at least in this
direction. All we have to do to avoid
other than business rivalry is to treat
them as we would wish to be treated."
Critics who have spoken of the prob
ability of an armed conflict between
the two countries and of the landing
of a great Japanese force on the, Cali
fornia coast, the speaker declared, pro
ceed on an assumption that never in
fact will be realized.
"The transportation of any army
9,000 miles across the trackless waste
of the Pacific, with all the chances of
attack upon the troop ships that would
have to cafry them," he said, "ia an
Idle dream and the Japanese would
not deal lu Idle dreams, even If they
coveted our country, as they do not."
Old Ape Spring From Man?
N"#w York. —Dr. J. Leon Williams
of London, an eminent authority on
anthropology and geology, arrived
front Liverpool with fifteen skulls of
pre-historfc man, one of which he es
timated to be 500,000 years .ild. This
skull was found by workmen near
Folkestone, England, in strata that
dated back prior to the pleistocene era
and Its existence and discovery have
confirmed Doctor Williams in the be
lief that mankind is at least half a
mllliofj years old. Doctor Williams
said the finding of these ancient
skulls and other human bones did
not disprove, in his opinion, the pop
ular theory of evolution, but altered
it in some degree. Instead of man
being a descendant of the ape, Mr.
Williams said, these skulls tend to
confirm the belief that the anthropoid
ape was an offshoot of primitive ma®.
13 Dsad 100 Hurt, in Wreck.
Eufaula, Ala. —Thirteen persons
were killed and more than a hundred
injured, some of them fatally,
when three coaches of a Central of
Georgia passenger train left the
at a point seventeen, miles south of
here and plunged down a steep em
bankment. The train, which consist
ed 'of five cars crcwrded with sxerr
sioniHts, was *n rcAte from (Ozark,
Ala., to Eufaula, whe\a fair is being
held. Among those wh?>~escaped with
minor injuries was/Jefferson D. Clay
ton, brother of Congressman Clayton.
Hundreds Work to Recover
Cedar Rapids, lowa. —The rear ol
a seven-story concrete building Hear
ing completion collapsed ca Tying w jth
It fourteen men who wer»> working
on the roof slab. Four w#re taken
from the ruias severely injured and
the others are believed to be buried
beneath a mass of concrete and tw&t
ed steel uses in the reinforcement*.
Hundreds of men worked with axes
and shovels and with the aii of a big
steam derrick removing the debris is
a search for the bodies.
MISSION MEETING
IS CONCLUDED
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NUMEROUS ADDRESSES MADE
AND INTERESTING INFORMAL
DISCUSSIONS HELD.
THE INTEREST WAS KEEK
Large Attendance of Men at Governor
Mann'a Addreaa and Both Men antf
Women Marks United Missionary
Campaign Conference.
Charlotte.— With an earnest appeal
by Governor William Hodges Mann,
of Richmond, Va., for co-operative per
sonal effort In spreading the Gospel,
the United Missionary Conference
was addressed at the First Presby
terian church. An audience of nearly
five hundred men and five women
heard the address which was much
enjoyed. .« ' . .
Featured by a series of stirring yet
practical addresses, spontaneous dis
cussions, excellent attendance and
the fact that not single collection t«ra»
taken for any purpose, the United
Missionary Campaign Conference in
which all denominations unitetj came
to a close recently. Both men and
women attended morning, afternoon
and evening sessions. The Confer
ence was held under the auspices ot
the Home and Foreign Mission board
of North Ataerica.
Mr. Alleh Craig who has been
exceedingly active in the interest
of . the conference presided. The
opening prayer 'was made by Vcv.
Dr. R. L. Patterson pastor of St.
Mark's Lutheran church. Rev. L. A.
Falls, pastor of Brevard Street Meth
odist church read the Second Psalm.
Mr. Morris Trotter led v in prayer.
Then came addresses by Rev. R. W.
Patton, department secretary of the
Protestant Episcopal church and
Prof. R. E. Oianes. Rev. F. M. O*
borne made the dosing prayer.
"China's Challenge to Christianity
was the subject^of the virile address
by Mr. Patton.
A charming address that sparkled
with bright Idea*, was made by Prof.
R. E. Gainos of the faculty of Rich
mond Collfege, on "Investing Our
Funds." i
At the morning session which, like
that of the afternoon, was held in
the Sunday school room, the Discus
sion was entirely informal and ex
tremely helpful suggestions being
tnade and questions asked by those
present as they were dispoped. Rev.
R;- W. Patton, t). D„ department
secretary of the Protestant Episco
pal church, led .the dlsfcuasloti, the
topis beltig "Missionary Education."
Both city and county were largely
represented. Many phases of the tdpic
were discussed.
Big Wcatarn Park.
Ashevllle.—H. S. Graves, Chief t? n f.
te4 States Forester, was in Asheville
recently and attended a meeting of
the Appalachian Park Association.
Mr. Graves was enthusiastic over the
work proposed by the park associa
tion and declared that the government
especially the forestry department, is
in sympathy with the movement. He
endorsed the Idea of securing as many
members to the association as possi
ble. Mr. Graves says the problems
of development along these lines in
the Southern mountains are so great
as to be of national interest. He
pointed out that the protection of
navigable streams is the legal justifi
cation of extending the national -for
ests, but that it is the motive of the
service to secure public benefits in
various ways. One of these, he says,
is the preservation of the natural
beauties of the forests.
New Postoffice Building.
Washington.—The handsome new
government-owned postoffice In this
the first town in the United States
to be named Washington, was dedi
cated recently with elaborate Exer
cises, which included an address by J
Byron R. Newton, assistant
at the treasury. The day was visual
ly a holiday, and nearly the entire
population participated in a ble pa
rade and the exercises at the build
ing, located on the edge of the busl
uess district.
Want to Build Gas Plant. '
Klnston.—Capital in three cities is
seeking permission to build a , gas
plant here. Recently the city jbun
ci! heard the report of a committee In
vestigating the matter. Each olf the
three corporations, located in New
York, Philadelphia and Baltimore; had
submitted franchises, and all Vere
discarded by the committee, jwho
drew up an instrument emboli ng
the best points of all three and! bet
ter safeguarding the;city's interests
than any of those submitted would
have done.
Saved On* Purse.
Monroe. —Robert Gordon, a promi
nent farmer of the county, saved him
self something like SIOO recent* by
having put the proceeds of the side o*
some cotton into two purses. T Mr.
Gordon about 9 o'clock wafe parsing
through a section of rood about ttiree
miles from town, the sides of ifclch
are thickly wooded for miles, *hen
he was accosted by a negro who Aked
to be allowed to ride with him.-Wheik
the farmer stopped his horse he found '
himself facing a pistol, the possessor
of which demanded his money.