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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.
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WANT TO MAKE A TOUCH?
OMIOM IN )Oul Ulf
f HE CLOSING SCENES
2ENERAL ASSEMBLY OF 1911
WORKED FOUR DAYS OVER
TIME WITHOUT PAY.
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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
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Ttn. Moaev
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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.
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