6 j jA 5535 S v. H7 THE GMT. SILER CITY I GRIT A NON-PARTISAN FAMILY NEWSPAPER $1.00 A YEAR VOL. VII. MARRIES SILER CITY, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1.911. .NO. 31. A iWW BCDmraM mnMirmAm1??- AUTjMOR IXT. CIRCULAR tSTAIRCAaE THE: MAN IN LOWER TENETC SYNOPSIS. j imci" Wllnon or Jimmy as he Is called t" ! s friends. Jimmy wns rotund and I, ki l shorter than he really was. His , ;ti,m In life wns to be taken seriously, i n pfoplo steadily refused to do so. his . 14 considered a huge Joke, except to I imnelf. If he asked people to dinner ev-,,- expected h frolic. Jimmy marries n. : i Knowles; they live together a vear l e.re divorced. Jimmy's friends r- I ,in(f- to celebrate the first anniversary , f if iilvorce. Those who attend the pu'v nr Miss Katherlne McNnlr. who -v-r one calls Kit. Mr. and Mrs. Dallas v, :i the Misses Mercer. Maxwell Tteed un.1 i Mr. ThorflHS Harbison, a South Ainerlran civil ensliK-er. The party Is in t -. ,: twlng. when Jimmy receives a tele gram from his Aunt Scllna. who will ar rlvf In four hours to visit him and his wife Jimmy gets his funds from Aunt Brlir:i nnd after he marries she doubles h allowance. He neglects to tell her of r liorce, ns sjie Is opposed to It. Jlm ini 1 J m Kit Into his confidence, he tries .y ,ii vise some way ao that his aunt will pol learn that he has no longer a wlf. He '.tgests that Kit play the hostess for ipe nig lit. be Mrs. Wilson pro tern. Kit refufes. hut Is finely prevailed upon to s, t ;he part. Aunt Scllna arrives and the deception works out as planned, as she V.aJ never seen Jim's Wife. Jim's Jap tervant Is taken ill. his 'face Is covered sltb spots. Bella. Jimmy's divorced wife, filters the house and asks1 Kit who is be ir.jr taken away In the ambulance? Bella Insists It 13 Jim. Kit tells"' her Jim is well nd Is in the house, Bella tells Kit it asn't Jim she wanted to see,, but Taka Mra the Jap servant, as she wished to secure his services. CHAPTER IV. (Continued.) "It's "It's Immoral," 1 protested, .minoral to Gtcr.l your " My own butler!" she broke In Im patiently. "You're not usually so Fcrupuloua, Kit. Hurry! I hear thai hateful Anne Brown." So we slid back along the hall, and 1 rang for Takahlro. But no one came "I think I ought to tell you, Bella." I tald ns we waited, and Bella was 6tarlng around the room "I think you ought to know that Miss Caruthers is here." Bella shrugged her shoulders. "Well, thnnk goodness," she said. "1 don't have to see hrr. The only pleasant thing 1 remember about my year of married life is that 1 did not meet Aunt Sellna." 1 rang again, but still there was no answer And then It occurred to me that the stl'lness below stairs wns al- n out oppressive. Delia was noticing things, too, for she began to fasten her veil again with a malicious littie smile. "One of the things 1 remember my late husband saying." she observed, "was that he could manage this house, nnd had done It for years, with flaw less service Stand on the bell. Kit." I did We stood there, with the table. Just as It had been left, be tween us and waited for a response. Telia was growing Impatient. She ralsei her eyebrows (sbe Is very handsome. Bella Is) and flung out her rliln as If she had begunto enjoy the horrible situation. 1 thought I heard a rattle of silver from the pantry Just then, and 1 hur ried to the door in a rage. But the rntry was empty of servants and f'ill of dishes, and all the lights were out but one, which was burning dimly 1 could have sworn that I saw one of the servants duck info the stairway to the basement, but when I got there the stairs were empty, and something was burning In the kitcheji below. Bella had followed me and was peer lrg over my shoulder curiously. There isn't a servant in the hrrise." fhe raid triumphantly. And, when we went down to the kitchen, she s emed to be tight It was In disgraceful or der, and one of the bottles of wine that had been banished from the din ing room sat half empty on the floor "Drunk!" Bella said with conviction But I didn't think so. There had not been time enough, for one thing. Sud denly I remembered the ambulance 'I at had been the cause of Bella's ap pearance for tio one could believe hrr silly storv about TaltahIM I simply left her there, staring helpless ly at the confusion, and ran upstairs attain: through the dining room, past Jlnimy and Aunt Sellna. past L i a Mercer and Max. who were flirting on the stairs, up, up to the servants' bed rooms, and there my suspicions w- re verified. There was every evidence of ft hasty flight: in three b drooms Ave trunks stood lock d and ominous, and the closets yawned with open door, empty. Bella had been right: there was not a servant In the house. As 1 emerged from the unildy empti ness of the servants' wing, 1 met Mr. Harblsou coming out of the studio "1 wish you would let me do some of this running about for you. Mrs. Wilson," he said gravely. "You are not well, and I can't think of anything worse for a headache. Has the but ler's Illness clogged the household ma chinery?" "Worse." I replied, trying not to breathe in gasps. "1 wouldn't be run ning around like this but there is not a servant In the house! They - bave gone, the entire lot." "That's odd," he said slowly. "Gone! Are you sure?" In reply 1 pointed to the servants' wing. "Trunks packed," I said trag ically, "rooms empty, kitchen and pan tries full of dishes. Did you ever near of anything like Itr "Never," he asserted. "It makes me uspect" What he suspected he did hot say; instead he turned on his heel, without a word of explanation, and ran down the stairs. I stood star ing after him, wondering If eiery one In the place had gone craajl. Then 1 heurd Betty Mercet scream and the rest talking loud and laughing, and Mr Harbison came up the stairs again two at a time. "How long has that .lap been ailing. Mrs. Wilson?" he asked. "I I don't know." I replied helpless ly "What Is the trouble, anyhow r 'I think be probably has something contagious." he said, "and it has cared the servants away. As Mr. Ilrown said, he looked spotty. I sug gested to your husband that It might be as well to get the house emptied In cms) we are correct." "Oh. yes. by all means." 1 said Mferly. ; couldn't get away too soon. Til go nd get ;uy " Then I stopped. Why, the man wouldn't expect me to leave; J would- have to play out the wretched farce to the end! "I'll go down and see them off," I finished lamely, and we went together down the stairs. Just for the moment I forgot Bella altogether. 1 found Aunt Sellna bonneted and cloaked, taking a stirrup cup of Pomona for her nerves, and the rest throwing on their wraps In a hur ry Downstairs Max was telephoning for his car, which wasn't due for an hour, and Jim was walking up and down, swearing under his breath. With the prospect of getting rid of them all, and of going home comfort ably to try to forget the whole wretch ed affair, 1 cheered up quite a lot I even played up my part of hostess, and Dallas told me. aside, that I was a brick. Just then Jim threw open the front door. There was a man on the top step, with his mouth full of tacks, and he was nailing something to the door, just below Jim's Florentine bronze knocker, and standing back with his head on one side to see If It was straight. "What are you doing?" Jim de manded fiercely-, but the man only drove another tack. It was Mr. Har bison who stepped outside and read the card. It said "Smallpox." "Smallpox," Mr. Harbison read, as If he couldu't believe it. Then he turned to us. huddled in the hall. "It seems it wasn't measles, after all," he said cheerfully. "1 move we get into Mr. Reed's automobile out there, and have a vaccination party. I suppose even you blase society folk have not exhausted that kind of diver sion " But the man on the step spat his ouuauon. uai.- i said Icily. "There will be plenty to do. There Isn't a servant in the bouse!" "No servants!" everybody cried at once. The Mercer girls stopped gig gling "Holy cats!" Max stopped in the act of hanging up his overcoat. "Do you mean why. I can't shave myself! I'll cut my head off." "You'll do more than that," I re torted grimly. "You will carry coal and tend fires and empty ash pans, and when you are not doing any of those things there will be pots and pans to wash and beds to make." Then there was a row. We had worked back to the den now, and 1 stood in front of the fireplace and let the storm beat around me, and tried to look perfectly cold and indifferent, and not to see Mr. Harbison's shocked face. No wonder he thought them a lot of savages, browbeating their host ess the way they did. "It's a fool thing anyhow," Max Reed wound up, "to celebrate the an niversary of a divorce especially " Here he caught Jim's eye and stopped. But I had suddenly remem bered. Bella down in tha basement! Could anything have been worse? And of course she would have hys teria and then turn on me and blame me for it all. It all came over me at once and overwhelmed me. while Anne was crying and saying she wouldn't cook if she starved for it, and Aunt Sellna Was" taking off her wraps. I felt queer all over, and I sat down suddenly. Mr. Harbison was looking at me, and he brought me a glass of wine. "It won't be so bad as you fear," he said comfortingly. "There will be no danger once we are vaccinated, and many hands make light work. They are pretty raw now, because the thing is new to them, but by morning they will be reconciled." -''It isn't the work: It is something entirely different," I said. And It was. Bella and work could hardly be spoken in the same breath. If I had only turned her out as she deserved to be, when she first" came, instead or allowing her to carry through the wretched farce about see ing Takahlro! Or If I had only run to the basement the moment the house was quarantined, and got her out the areaway or coal hole! And FARMER WILSON TELLS SOUTH HOW TO FARM SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE GIVES SOUND ADVICE TO COMMERCIAL CONGRESS. COMPLIMENTS CORN CLUBS Boys of South Are Showing Their Elders That Corn Can Be Profitably Grown. c WANT TO MAKE A TOUCH? OMIOM IN )Oul Ulf f HE CLOSING SCENES 2ENERAL ASSEMBLY OF 1911 WORKED FOUR DAYS OVER TIME WITHOUT PAY. t CAUTIOUS AT Hex Cn Tag ICTtM T0 I rnmaw M He Was Nailing Something to the Door. tacks in his band and spoke for the first time. "No. you don't." he said. "Not on your life Just step back, please, and close the door. This house is quar antined." CHAPTER V. From the Tree of Love. There is hardly any use trying to describe what followed. Anne Brown began to cry, and talk about the chil dren. (She went to Europe once and stayed until they all got over the whooping cough.) And Dallas said hf had a pull, because his mill controlled I forgot how many votes, and the thing to do was to be quiet and com fortable and we would g-t out In the morning Max took it as a huge joke, and somebody found him at tbe tele phone, calling up his club. The Mer cer .girls were hysterically giggling, and Aunt Sellna sat on a stiff-backed chair and took aromatic spirits of am monia. As for Jim, he bad collapsed on the lowest step of tbe stairs, and sat there with his head In his bands. When be did look up. he didn't dare to look at me The Harbison man was arguing with the impassive individual on tbe top step outside, and I saw him get out his pocketbook and offer a crisp bundle of bills. But the man from the board of health only smiled and tacked at his offensive sign. After a while Mr. Harbison came In and closed the door, and we stared at one another. "I know what I'm going to do." I said, swallowing a lump in my throat. "I'm going to get out through a base ment window at tbe back. I'm going home.' "Home!" Aunt ellna gasped. Jumping up and almost dropping her ammonia bottle. "My dear Bella! Home?" Jimmy groaned at the foot of the stairs, but Anne Brown .was getting over ber tears and now she turned on me in a temper. "It's all your fault," she said. "I was going to stay at home and get a little sleep" "Well, you can sleep now," Dallas broke in. "There'll be nothing to do but sleep. now time was flying, and Aunt Selina had me by the arm. and any moment I expected Bella to pounce on us through the doorway and the whole situation to exp'ode with a bang. It was after eleven before they were rational enough to discuss ways and means, and. of course, the first thing suggested was that we all adjourn be low stairs and clean up after dinner. I could have slain Max Reed for tbe notion, and the Mercer girls for taking him up. "Of course we will," they said in a duet. "What a lark!" And they actu ally begin to pin up their dinner gowns. It was Jim who stopped that. "Oh, look here, you; people," he ob jected, "I'm not going to let you do tbat. We'll getr some servants In to morrow. I'll go down and put out the lights. There will be enough clean dishes for breakfast" It was lucky for. me that this started a new discussion then and there about who would get the breakfast. In the midst of tbe excitement I slipped away to carry the news to Bella. She was where I had left her, and she had made herself a cup of tea, and was very much at Dome, wnicn was natural. "Do you know," she said ominously, "that you have been away for two hours? And that I have gone through agonies of nervousness for fear Jim Wilson would come down and think I came here to see him." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Atlanta. The methods and prog ress of the work of cattle tick eradi cation consumed much of the discus sion by Secretary Wilson, when he de livered his address on "The Agricul tural Obligation of the South." He said: 'The government has recognized the importance of thi3 work, and this year the department of agriculture was giv en $260,000 for the work and counties and states have given $175,000, which will go a long way and do much good. "Your lands are becoming more val uable each year," he continued, "and if you keep up your courage your lands will bring $100 per acre. I say if you keep up your courage; to tell the truth, I never knew the time when you were not courageous." In speaking of the dairy industry, Secretary Wilson said that less than two per cent of the cheese consumed in the South was manufactured here. He said that much of the butter and other dairy products was shipped into tbe South. "I want to see the time when the South can feed itself," said he. "1 have taken a groat interest in the South's dairying and want to see the business a success. But you cant operate successfully until you have ridden your cattle of the tick." The subject of peaches and the dis eases which cost the crop large amounts occupied its share of the sec retary's time. He told of the depart ment's efforts to give instruction to the peach growers so that they would know how to check the ravages of a fruit disease and save many dollar. When the subject of cotton was reached Secretary Wilson lingered for some time, going into the subject of the boll weevil, black root and otaer setbacks to the crop. Mr. Wilson told of how money had been made from peanuts where the boll weevil held sway and prevented the planters from making much on the cotton crop. He said that the pea nut oil could be made a profitable product. Pasturage was a theme which he gave a most interesting discourse on. He told of the various crops of grass for pasturage and for hay, and cited the benefits to be derived, from such crops, and the enormous profits to the grower. Cereals were given his attention for a while, after which he took up the discussion of Florida fruits and told of the new varieties being made and how experiments were panning out. lobacco was touched on lightly; a brief review of the work already done in this industry being given. "The South must raise all of her food supply," said he, "and I want to say a few things here about our farm demonstration work. The stumps in the fleld3 must go. You must get rid of them and use that land. "There is a practice to send the women to work in the fields of the South; this is too expensive the women can make more around the bouse. Let them raise poultry; that industry can be carried on success fully by them and there is much good money in it. Then they can engage in gardening and dairying also, which are likewise great money industries A compliment of worth was paid to the boys' corn clubs of the South as the secretary reached the subject of corn raising. He said that it took the boys of the South to show the elders that corn could be grown to a great profit in the South. He-told of one lad whose father wouldn't allow him to have a horse or mule to culti vate his acre of corn to enter a con test, so the little fellow took his goat and harnessed it to a plow and actu ally cultivated an acre of corn. An other, he said, cultivated his acre with a calf as his motive power to pull the plow. t"t TtAy add TMftM Ttn. Moaev 11 uMtot-p yum. taii o o t T,a 4QUCCM (Copyright. 1911.) Carry a Raw Onion, One Will Be Sufficient to Bring Enough Sympathy Producing Ttars to Easily Effect a L-an of Flvo Dollars. DISEASE STATISTICS GIVEN INFANTILE PARALYSIS 18 GEN ERALLY PREVALENT OVER THE ENTIRE COUNTRY. Census Bureau's Bulletin on Mortal ity Statistics for 1909 Issued. i Washington. There were i 569 deaths from acute anterior poliomye HtiB, or infantile paralysis, 116 from pellagra, 55 from rabies or hydropho bia, and nine from leprosy in 1909 in the death registration area of con tmental United States, which com prises over 55 per cent, of the total population, according to the census bureau's bulletin on mortality statis tics for 1909. Of the 569 deaths from infantile-pa ralysis, 562 were white and only 17 colored. There was a somewhat great er number of cases among male3 and an increased mortality in August. Sep tember and October. The bulletin states thaf no statist! cal segregation of infantile para'ysis as a cause of death has been made heretofore, but the increasing inipbr: ance of the disease and its wide prev alence throughout the country in the form of local epidemics render a state ment of the mortality Important chiefly affects children in the first five years of life, and while not infrequent ly fatal, Is of even more serious con sequence as the cause of more or less permanent paralysis and atrophy; oi muscles. j The deaths from infantile paraly sis in the registration states number ed as follows: California 12 (1 in San Francisco); Colorado 6 (1 in Denver); Connecticut 6 (1 in New Havod) , District of Columbia (city of Washing ton),!; Indiana 14; Maine 6; Mary land 4 (1 in Baltimore); Massachu setts 62 (21 in Boston and 1 in VVor cester); Michigan 16 (2 in Detroit); New Hampshire 11; New Jersey 24 (2 in Jersey City, 6 in Newark); New York 115 (2 in Buffalo, 64 in Greai er New York, 2 in Rochester, 1 in tNTI TRUST LAW MUTILATED litis Passed and Enrolled and Acts Ratified Pet Measures Knocked In the Head A Great Changs In Stat Taxing System. BALLINGER HAS RESIGNED Walter L. Fisher of Chicago Appoint ed Secretary of Interior by Tafi Washington. The resignation ol Richard A. Balllnger of Seattle as sec retary of the interior was accepted by President Taft, and Walter L. Fisher of Chicago was appointed as bis suc cessor. It appears In the correspondence between Mr. Balllnger and the prest dent, which was given out in full by the white house, that the secretary's resignation has been In tbe presi dent's hands since January 19 last; that It was neld In suspense at tho urgent request of the president, .and that the latter at last accepted It only at the urgent request of Mr. Balllnger. In his letter of resignation Mr. Ballin ger gives the condition of his health as the reason for retiring. In giving his consent to tne secre tary'a retirement Mr. Taft takes oc casion to declare with marked em phasis his unchanging faith in the in tegrity, tbe motives and tbe ofilclal standards of Mr. Ballinger, Walter Lowle Fisher, Mr. Ballln ger's successor, is a Republican, and has been notably active in the move ment for the conservation of national resource MUST PAY si Al E DEBT. Supreme Court .cviaei West Virginia Owes Virginia $7,182,507. Washington. Sitting in the unusual capacity of a board of auditors, the Supreme court of the United State computed that tbe state of West Vir ginia was under obligations to pay over $7,000,000 of the $53,000,000 debt or Virginia, which existed when the new state was formed. It was the biggest problem in arithmetic the Su preme court has had to handle In many years. The exact figure held by the court to be the proper proportion of tho old debt which West Virginia is under obligation to bear was $7.- 182.507. GOLD CulNAGE STOPPED. No More Gold corns Will Be Mads for Three Years. Washington. The mints stopped Syracuse); Ohio 16 ((1 in Cincinnati. I clicking eff gold coins when President 2 in Cleveland) ; Pennsylvania 76 (8 m Taft signed the bill which congiesa fhilaaeipnia, 8 in nttsDurg, i in passed permitting the secretary of 3cranton); Rhode island 4 (3 in Prov the treasury to issue gold certificates ldence); South Dakota 6; Vermont against gold bullion and foreign gold 2- Washington 5, and Wisconsin oi coin (1 in Milwaukee). Although no more gold will be coin The disease does not seem partic- ed for-about three years, there will ularly to affect the large cities of be plenty on hand in the treasury 100,000 population and over. For the vaults for all who want It, and in the none-registration states there were, meantime treasury officials estimate in the registration cities only, deaths the government will save about $3u0, as follows: 000 a year Alabama 2: Illiniois 19 (17 in Chi cago); Kentucky 2 (1 in Louisville),! wuon Acnigi ngucca Louisiana 1 (New Orleans); Minne Atlanta. "Fifty per cent, comes off sota 82 (21 in Minnepaolis, 53 in St. the sea island cotton acreage for the Paul)- Missouri 5 (1 in Kansas Cty, t coming season, according to the pledg in St. Louis); Nebraska 8 (Omaha), es of the growers," said President C Raleigh. On the sixty-fourth day he gavels of the president of the tnate and speaker of the house of epresentstlves fell simultaneously or final adjournment of the It'll ses sion of the Norm Carolina general isaembly, four days more than the constitution of tbe state would al ow the members pay for. This ad ournment followed tbe ratification of he final batch of acts and resolutions assed by the assembly, there having een passed snd duly ratified during he session 1,460 acts and bS reso utions. Compared with this work 'or the session Just adjourned, it is nterestlng to note that the 1909 tession passed and ratified 1,318 bills tnd $6 resolutions. The final roll-calls In the two branches of the assembly Just De tore adjournment showed tbe fol dwlng honor roll of those who re named at their posts to the end: Senators Armstrong, Baggett, Bar ber, Barbara. Barnes, Bassett, Bel lamy. Brown. Carpenter. Cobb, Cot :en, Coxe, Davis, Graham. Green. Hansen, Hawkins, Hicks. Hobgood. Holden, Johnson, Kltchln, London, Long, Martin of Buncombe, Manin Df Washington, Pbarr, Rascoe, Sig moa, Sikes. Starbuck, Williams. Representatives. Speaker Dowd Battle, Brown, Buck. Cavlncss. Cle ment, Connor, Dlllard of Cherokee. Herbert, Johnson of Orange, Kellutn, Klrkman, Koonce, Latham. Long. Majette, Markham. McNeill. Mc Phaul, Pace, Pethel. Rawles. Ray. Roberts, Rodwell, Ross. Rose, Smith Df Caswell, Stroupe, Stubbs, Turling ton, Williams of Buncombe. Wooten, The 1911 Closing Scenes. While the legislators were wait ing for the enrollment of bills or rati flcation during the morning hours, the senate and house indulged in a number of notable ceremonies. The famous drum corps of the L O B Branch camp. Confederate veterans. :omposed of J. J. Lewis, W. T. John wn and W. B Royster, known throughout the 8outh, visited both houses and was given a great ova- " " - ... iiv huub. ' V n - : . i surrendered the chair to Represnta tlv McGIU of Cumberland, whose likeness to "Uncle Joe" Cannon is to striking tbat a cigar was given ihe proper angle In his mouth while he presided and the drum corps stir id enthusiasm with drum snd fife. There were stirring speeches snd a goodly collection was taken for tbe '.hree veterans of the corps- At one itage of the demonstration Represen tative Williams of Buncombe pre sided and made a speech that stirr ed special enthusiasm snd gsve evi dence of decided oratorical powers. In an occasional grind of legtsla live work, an attempt was msde to pass the bill to allow tbe penitentiary wardens $300 extra for electrocution duties, but threats to raise th ques tion of a quorum necessitated sur render of the friends of the bill, which passed second reading the night before but came over on ob jection to final reading. Toothless Anti-Trust Bill. ed by Turlington ha the speaker's chair, that there might be some part of the gums left but that they were bleeding terribly. Jaw Teeth Extracted. As passed, the bill has the features eliminated that required officers of corporations to take oath that their corporations are not violating the state anti trust law ; tbe feature pro hibiting use of coupons, prlies, and such in aiding sale of merchandise: tbe feature that would enable solici tors or attorney general to require books, and papers for kamlaatJoa without order of court; tbe require-, ment to he for a Judge to make such order and for examination to be made in the presence of the Judge; It cuts out that feature that would award triple damages asainst trusts In civil cases, and reduces tbe fund that tbe governor la to have at bis command for working up tbe esse for the prosecution In impending cases from $10,000 to $5,000. It was after a two hours' debate that the snat adopted tbe Judiciary committee substitute for tbe Turling ton house antitrust bill by a vote of 22 to 20 Advocates of the sub stitute, notably Senators Bassett, Hsrtsell and Graham, contended es pecially that a corporation desiring to do business in this state should not be required to make oath that it win not violate tbe law. this being tbe principle, charge discussed. They argued that corporations should be treated with the same fairness ac corded to Individuals. Senator Hob good led the fight for the Turling ton bill, and others who spoke for it were Senators Green. Holden, Ras coe, Long and Baggett Tbe sub stitute then passed second and third readings by unanimous vote, and was sent to the house where there was concurrence, and an order for en rollment. Bills Passed In the Senate. Bills were passed and ordered en rolled in the senste to allow the ctate treasurer to give notes not exceed ing $250,0CD if the new revenue act does not provide sufficient money to meet the emenses of tbe ensuing two years; establish a school for youtb fui colored crimlnsls at Asheville; amend charter of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias: authorise thr corporation commission to prescribe rules regarding checking baggage under the set requiring railroads to provide better facilities at siatlons for persons riding on mileage; regu late the public printing by limiting the amount each department shall provide, thereby saving the state $16. 000 annually through eliminating dup- I licatlcn. The senste bill to allow $25 a I month for an additional assistant in I the state library' came from the sen 1 ate to the house snd objection wat mr.de to Its passage on final reading. ! T , -rr -.a fVAFM K rlimKkT- Kilt ttlA point wss raised that it was new legislation contrary to a resolution adopted that assured member de psnlng for their homes that there would be no funher new legislation. The bill wss tsbled Changs In Taxing System. It is a notable fact that tbe new machinery act for the application of the revenue act of the legislature just adjourned adds $500 s year each to the salaries of the members of the Corporation ccmmisalrn on account of increased duties that tbe mschln ery bill requires of them as s state tax ccmmisslc n. These duties in clude the appointment in April of each year of s county tax assessor In each county, personal visits on the pan of members of the commission to each of tie counties to instruct the assessor snd the assistant assessors In the townships snd town wards and the general supervision of the assess ment work the state over. Including equalization of the standsrds of prop erty valuations In the respective counties. This ia the most decided Another Kind. "Ha!" said the Russian count, with a fierce scowl on his Muscovite fea tures. "This worm of an American writer has insulted me with bis pen!" "Has he written a biting satire about you?" Inquired the fair charmer to whom he spoke. "Nothing so gentlemanly I yelled the count' "He has named his pig after met Not Bose ley's Style. Lush That man Boeeley is a regu lar sponge. Nlpton You're unjust to the sponge, old man. Lush How's that? Nlpton When a sponge get soak el "I think you baven't grasped tbe j u loosens dp. No Leadership for Bailey. Columbia, S. C. Senator Tillman says the Democratic leadership in the senate ought to be conferred on Bai ley, for whose ability he ha3 consid erable admiration, but there is a co terie in the upper house which is jeal ous of the Texan, and it is not like ly that tbe honor will go to him. It may be that Culberson will again be the Democratic leader. Senator Till man says there is nothing new in a tarifl fight, and as his health requires attention, he may not return to Wash ington for the extra session. International War Suggested. Mexico City, Mexico. El Tiempo suggests that international war might follow the intervention of the United States in Mexico, and sarcastically ventures the opinion that the Ameri cans would find this bad for "busi ness,' the JDngnsh word being usea. The paper thinks annexation is almost sGre. The paper sums up the prog ress being made in the suppression of the revolution, finds it satisfactory and concludes with the statement that the fate of the country now rests with the government. North Carolina 1; Oregon 2 (Port land); South Carolina 1 (Charleston); Tennessee 1, Texas 2, Utah 3 and Vir ginia 3. Pellagra is a new disease in the a. Barrett or tne Farmers union, upon his return from Waycross, where he attended a conference of the sea Isl and cotton growers for the state of Georgia, South Carolina and Florida. mortality statistics. Only 23 deatts Mr. Barrett said there would be a The substitute for the Turlington house anti trust bill as It came frtm change that the legislature made In the the senate committee on Judiciary, taxing system and wsa a compromise and passed the senate wss concurred between the lenders who Insisted on s In by the house, and Is now ratified separate state tax commission for In materially different form from the immrdlatc radical tep to equalise Turlington bill as It passed the house. ! tai values in the counties or rslher So much so thst .r. Turlington ssys between the ccun"es snd those who he could scarcely recogniie It In that believed that the advance to equltn its teeth are, he claims, completely extracted. He was In the chair in the houae when tbe bill came up for concurrence In tbe senate substitute. Ross of Harnett commented that the bill seemed to be all tbat could be tie bests should he grsdual snd through the pre nt ectnmlsslcn Tbl Is the vesr for general reassessment of resl estate In North Carolina, which recurs every fourth year, and very ernslderal sdvan-es pre exec-t- were returned trom this cause for 1908 and no deaths for any previoue year except one for 1904. .inal conference of the sea Island cot ton growers set for some time in the middle spring season. Race r,k.i in cennbyivania. Pittsburg, Pa. In a riot between "Lucky" Baldwin's Will Unbroken. Los Angeels, Cal. The jury in the white men and negroes on a street case of Beatrice Anita Baldwin Turn- car at Braddock, a suburb, eleven men, five women and a baby, sustain ed Injuries, a number of them sen ous. Several shots were fired, but none of them took effect The trou- Dull, the 17-year-old Boston girl seei ng a one-sixth share of the $11,000.- jOO estate of "Lucky'' Baldwin under .nstructtons from the court, reached x verdict adverse to the claimant. The ble started when two negroes were attorneys for the contestant noted au asked to step into the car from a exception to the instructed verdict and rear plafform in order that a woman answered that they would take an ap- carryine a- baby might board the car. Peal direct to the supreme court. The An insulting remark from one of the Baldwin estate was appraised at $11 npernes aneered the whites and a lre- 000,000. but is said to be worth twice for-all flfM started -hat sum. 90 gotten from the senate and he moved , ed to be made in real estate values concurrence. Rose of Cumberland 1 and tbe purpose is to force a number asked him if there were any sf m- ! of counties now considered to have blance of teeth or even gums in tbe espr-islly lew standsrds of valuation revised bill. The reply came, endcrs- j for taxes to raise them materially. Big Still Destroyed. Atlanta. A new ceppy still of 250 gallons capacity was destroyed, and 5,000 gallons of beer were poured in a stream running by when Deputy Collector Williams found one of the largest seen in recent years in the foothills of Cherokee county. Ciiief Surber was notified a few days ago that a big plant might be found in the Cherokee hills, and detailed Wil liams to undertake the task. Before daylight the officer appeared upon the scene and surprised the moonshiners work. rciuns uie in Fire. St. Petersburg, Russia. .Ninety pe; sons, many of whom were children were burned to death and forty oth ers injured in a fire that destroyed a moving picture theater at Bologole The flames quickly enveloped ilu building, cutting off every avenue of escape. Futile attempts at rescue were made by those who happened to be close to the exits, when the fi re started, and by those from the ou side, but the fury of the flames drove them back before they could reach the shrieking victims. Canada Favors Reciprocity. Ottawa, Ont. That the reciprocity agreement with the United States wil be confirmed by parliament as soot as it is possible to reach a vote wa the decision reached by the libera supporters or tne government in a caucus behind closed doors. Sir vVil fred Laurler and the other member of the government were present, anc were commended for the agreement The Liberal reciprocity bolters state that while tbey were against t'.ic agreement, they were loyal oj all oth er Issues. Steam... .r -.np.i Trial. Savannah, Ga. The Merchants and Miners' Transportation company was placed on trial in the United States rlrcuit court, in a case alleging vio- ation of the interstate commerce laws .egulating rates on traffic between states in which the Atlantic Coast Jne and the Seaboard Air Line rail ways and Harvey C. and Morris K. liller of Philadelphia are involved The transportation companies are charged with allowing rebates on ship ments of grain to the south by the .'hlladelphia firm. Explocion Wrecks Town. Kenos'ua, Wis. With a roar that vas heard for fifty miles, a glare that -as -seen fully as far, and with a con- "ussion that broke windows more than i hundred m:les away, three carloads f dynamite at the plant of the Du 'cnt-Nercouirf company exploded at he village of pleasant Prairie, six .niles west of this city. Nearly every -oiise in tae village, which contains 700 residents, has been badly damaged .nd some of them utterly demolished rlv one man was killed by the ex- nlC3ion. Invitation to Military Officers. The staff and line officers of the North Carolina state militia along with the militia officers of other states are to be asked to witness tbe "maneuvers" of the regular army of the United States to take place Id Texas and on the Mexican frontier. General Wood, chltf of staff of the army, said that be could not say how many North Carolinians would be in vited, but that the representation from each state interested would be the same. This will be a good school ing for senior officers. Method of Assessing Property. Only three counties In the state have an average land value higher than Cleveland. The method of assessing property Is all wrong. In every county but eight the assessed value of land per acre Is less than $10. Cleveland pays Its just share of the taxes and Is always willing to bear its part cf the burden of run ning the government. Cleveland land la vlued at $11.39 an acre. The throe counties that are higher are Gaston, $26.11, Buncombe $17.03 and New Hanover, $15.58. Mall Clerk in Wreck. Mill Clerk J. R. Tslly. on the Nor folk Southern railroad, was painfully Injured In an accident that befell the Incoming Norfolk Southern train du here frcm Norfolk, In which the pas senger train ran Into an open switch at Middlesex and 'collided with s freight train standing on tbe siding. Tbe right shoulder of tbe mall clerk was badly wrenched. He is in Rex hospital here. The engine of the paa stnger train lost Its pilot in the col lislon. In some way tbe switch had txen left open. Wake County's Advancement Wake county leads off with right considerable innovation In the way of agricultural advancement in that her representatives procured from the general assembly a special act for empowering the county commission ers and the county board of duca tion to provide en agricultural in structor for the county at a salary of $1,800. He Is to carry on demonstra tion work in tbe various sections ol the county and devote considerable time to tbe agricultural instruction is tbe rural schools. Committee Places Are Scarce. Washington papers are already figuring on what committee places will come to the members cf the North Carolina delegation in Con gress when tbe announcements art made just prior to the assembling of the extra session on April 4. So far a they have it now. North Carolina, has only one chairmanship in sight that on reform in the civil service which they say will go to Represen tative Godwin. It is considered ridic ulous for Ncrth Carolina to get only woe ehalnaxnahlp of a committee. Changes in Greensboro Daily Newt Application came to tbe secretary of state for a charter for tbe Greens boro Daily News company of Greens boro, tbe stockholders being the pur chasers of the good will and plant from the former management that sold out to W. A. HUdebrand. George B. Crater and others January 25 tt The new corporation has $10.0)0 cap ital paid in and $100,000 authorised. Tbe incorporators are W. A. Hilder biand. George B. Crater and Charles H Mr Knight. A general newspaper publishing business it authorised. -