North Carolina Newspapers

She $1.00 a Year, In Advance. ' "FOR GOD. FOR COUNTRY, AND FOR TRUTH." J single Copy, B Cents, VOL- XL PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1901. - NO. 51. T - i , . ' " ' .h ! HILL AHP'S LKTTICU. Much ado has of late been made over John Marshall. That he was federalist has long since been well established, but that takes no lustre from his name or fame. Nearly all of the great patriots ol that day were federalists so was Washington Hamilton, Madison and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, of South Caro lina. Our most prudent statesmen feared to risk the people or the states with the reins of government, but wanted a strong central power. Not until Jefferson's day were their ap 1 nratiorminnu tnnHifipjl nnd t.hfi nfinnll V.vi.v..v.u ...v. r x declared to be mastevs of the eitua rytion. John Marshall could hardly V help being a federalist, for history ,says his father and all the Marshall ' ""family were federalists. He grew up with the idea that no government was ' s safe that did not have power and f money and troops and a navy to de fend and protect it, and it would not do to rely on the States separately ' when war . or conflict came. . No ' there never was a greater jurist or ; ' purer patriot than John Marshall and 1 am proud tnat ne was a v lrginian I was considering the list of those who have already been chosen for places in the hall of fame. I think those gentlemen who got up this show did pretty well considering the point of view. " Up to date I believe that thirty have been chosen and our Aitobert E. Lee stands eighteenth on vJ the list. He received sixty-nine votes 1 and outranked eleven who received ' less. The list begins with Washing. - - ton at ninetv-seven votes. Then comes Lincoln, Webster, Franklin Grant, Marshall, Jefferson, Emerson Longfellow, Fulton, Irving, Jonathan Edwards, Morse, Farragut, ulay Peabody, Hawthorne, Robert E. Lee Peter Cooner. Horace Mann, Eli Whitney. Henrv Ward Beecher, James Kent, Joseph Story, John Adams, Channing, Audubon, Gilbert i . Stuart and Asa Gray. The last nam '"ed was a botanist of good repute and received fiftv-one votes. No soldiers of the civil war are in save Lee and Grant and Farragut. Only five presi dents are in. Madison, Monroe and Jackson are strangely left out. Henry Ward Beecher as strangely put in. -1 don't know what he ever did that was great or good. He is the man who said that "Sharp's rifles were better than Bibles to send to Kansas and it was a sin against heaven to shoot at a slave-holder and miss him." He is the man -whose conjugal creed was what McCauly said of Lord Byron, .I'Hate your neighbor and love your neighbor's wife." It will be observed that twelve of these chosen men are ' ' ' from Massachusetts, five from New York, four from Virginia, two from Connecticut, two from Rhode Island and the others scattered around. Well, if I had a vote I think would strike out ten from that list and in their places I would insert Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun, Dewitt Clinton, Alex Hamilton, Patrick Henry, Stonewall Jackson, Sam Houston, Agassiz, Edison and Crawford Long. I don't know whether I would strike Grant's name or not. He was a good-hearted sort of a man with a bulldog tenacity of purpose, but he was no general. Any man who took lour years with nearly three million of men and billions of money to subdue 2G6,00 ragged con federates is no general. But he be haved well after the surrender and said: "Let us have peace!" I was conversing not long ago with a north em lady , a mature lady of culture And refinement, and when I remarked that Grant did not fight to free the slaves, for he was a slave-owner and lived off their hire, she was amazed and said: "Well, what upon earth . was he fighting for? I thought the f - i . i i j v . . war was about slavery ana notning else." And so I had to explain, and I told her how Lincoln issued a pro clamation setting the slaves free in January, 1863, but he excepted Mis souri and Kentucky, and so Grant held his slaves until January, 1865, and kept on hiring them out and 'kent on righting us to make us let ours go. He didn't tote fair. "Can it be possible?" she said; "surely you are mistaken." The truth is the history of this war of ours is just be- ginning to-leak out. Those yanks have abused us so long that some of our people have got discouraged and begin to confess judgment. Some of them are even apologizing for that malignant book called "Uncle Tom's Cabin." I was delighted to read John Temple Graves's reply to Henry Watterson. -It was the truth, every word of it, and our good people thank him for it. Those impudent rascals up north have had it dramatized and struck under our noses for twenty five years and lots of .our fool folks go to see it and swallow it down. I was ruminating about these slanders and wondering what made those peo ple hate U3 so; when I came across an explanation in an old book of mythology which said that when Jupiter first created man he hung two bags on his neck, one hung be fore and contained all his faults and little sins; the other hung behind and contained all his neighbors' fauJM p.nd shortcomings. The map got very sick in a few days and J upi ter couldn't tell what was the matter. He waa afraid the man was going to cue, so ne sent lor riuto, who waa head-devil and doctor to boot. Pluto diagnosed the case and said that the poor fellow waa heartsick from having to look into that bag so much; that his sins were ever before him. and bo he advised Jupiter to swap the bag! around and put the man's sins be hind and out of sight and his neigh bors' in front. This was done and the man got well and has been well ever since. But we will not fuss about the hall of fame as long as they leave out old John Brown. When he is put in we want Lee taken out. Speaking of jonn Marshall being a federalist re mind me to say that Lee was not, for he declared when he resigned from the United States army that his high est allegiance was due to his state many great men nave dinered over that question. Daniel Webster diff ered with himself and in his last great speech at Capon Springs ad mitted that a state had a nght to secede when there was sufficient cause and that the state must be the judge of the cause. That was what Whittier lampooned him about in those malig nant verses. I am revelling over old things and holding converse with some good old things and holding converse with some good old people. I received letter today from an old gentleman of Atlanta who has written me four teen pages in a large loud handwrit ing, for he knew I was deaf. He says he is in his ninetieth year and just wanted to write about the good old schoolboy days and about the great men we used to have. He went to school to George White, who pub lished the statistics and "Historical Collections of Georgia" over fifty years ago, and Charles Wallace How ard was his schoolmate. My friend is blind, but writes his own letters the lines are an inch apart and about four words to the line and yet he writes in a most cheerful yein and tells how good God has been to him all his long life. His name is A. R. Wright and he was born and reared in Savannah. His favorite speech at school was "Loehell. Lochell. beware of the day When the lowlands shall meet thee In battle array." I expect there are a thousand living men who spoke that speech, and that other one, "On Linden when the sun was low." My neighbor, Rev. George Yarbrough, is a man of memories, too. He is our Methodist Episcopal preacher now and it is a luxury to talk to him. He helps me abuse the yankees and says he loves his enemies, but cannot suppress a feeling of holy indignation at their conduct. He has a curious old book printed in 1825 called "The Wonders of Nature and Providence." That part devoted to Indians and their mounds and the Lost Tribes of Israel is full of inter esting data, a It seems to me that the older a man grows the more he learns and about the time he gets full of knowledge and begins to run over he has to lie down and die. What a pity he could not live on and on for the sake of the children and grand children. But as Pope says, "What ever is is right." Bill Aep. P. S. I have received one answer to my Ohio friend's letter, but as no money came for the orphans I have not sent it. Mavbehewill send the dollar, for it is worth it. "Atlanta, Ga. Sir: In answer to your letter I'le tell what I think about the moon. Plant your taters and unyuns in the dark of the moon tho they do very well planted in the groun'. I am a widow under 45 and hav got sum land tho I dont clame any credit fur that cos I got bit from my Paw and he got hit from his Paw The earth must move tord the sun for we got the news of the queens death over here 2 hours before she died. But if I ever marry agin I must have vittels and close a plenty, land or no land. If you want your hog meat to get more bigger in the fryin pan you must kill hit before the new moon but if you want lots of gravy kill hit afterwards. I have got no brothers or sisters and am power ful loansom. I dont think the moon ar inhabited. It is flat like a plate and once a month turns up on its edge and makes the new moon.' I dont think the moon effeks married life. Foaks can make it happy or miserbul jest as tha pleese. Hit is either as happy as heaven or as miser bul as Dantys Inferno as they call hit. I think the moon have got a lite of its own. Foaks tell me that northern men make the best husbands and Im shore that Southern women specially widows make the best wives. Address Mrs. S. S." Parmer Ransom. Gastonla Gazette. Let it be noted in passing that your Uncle Matt Ransom has 1,500 bales of cotton for sale. Oh, mutations of time! " Butler rode the down-trodden agricultural classes" , to the Senate doors in Washington', and now that he is about to step down and out it turns up that your Uncle Matt, who wore a starched shirt and had good manners at the table and away from, it, has beat en the whole kid and push a-farming. When woman cannot win with tears she must lose. SAM JONES IN TEXAS. Says Texas Is Prosperous and Boom ins:, But Needs the Services or IHrs. Nation. I have spent about a week traveling through the cotton belt of Texas from Sherman to San Marcos, from San Mar cos to Shreveport, La. Texas is atill picking cotton every day now. Texas has, perhaps, one million bales of cot ton piled in the cotton yards over the state unsold. Some of the towns have 5,000 bales in the cotton yards, some 10,000, some 2,000, some 1,000, but everywhere you see unsold cotton. have looked over the farms along the way. lhe farmers are very late in the preparation of the ground for a new crop. No rain in the Black Belt of Texas since the 1st of November, and the ground is too hard to plough. The wheat crop of Northern Texas ia not looking well. The drought ; and liessian fly is the cause: but 1 never saw such a glow of prosperity on Texas as she manifests today. The farmers are on top, cotton oh hand at,d money to lend, banks overflowing and mer chants busy. A member of a hrm in Denton, Tex., said to me, "1 can't sup ply my customers with implements. I've sold 100 buggies since January 1. Drummers from St. Louis tell me that their houses have instructed them to sell no more carload lots, but in Bmall amounts to the trade." Texas' surplus this year in the pockets of the farmers is just what the Georgia farmers would have but for the enor- mous.outlay for guano. Georgia must have commercial fertilizers. Texas don't need them. The tenants on these rich farm lands in Texas pay the land lords $3 money rent per acre, and that's what it costs for guano per acre in Georgia. If I were a farmer 1 would rather rent land in Texas than own it in Georgia. lhe black cotton lands of lexas are selling for $30 to $75 per acre; $60 per acre will buy the best lands ten miles from towns. The question is not how much cotton can Texas make, but how much cotton can they pick out. I have traveled through Texas from Texarkana to El Paso, from Texline to Galveston, and I stay within the facts when I say that not one-tenth of Texas cotton lands ever had a plow on them. If you will furn ia b. Texas with half a million more plow mules and negro plowmen they will and can make in lexas this year eight million bales of cotton, weighing 500 pounds each. The delta of the Mississippi in Louisana and the good cotton lands of Texas can make fifteen million bales and not use a pound of guano, and with average seasons make a bale to the acre, one year with an other. Georgia, Alabama, South Caro Una and North Carolina must look to their manufacturing interests and their farmers to diversified crops and home made fertilizers or go broke in a few years. Texas can produce her own wheat, corn, oats and ship millions of dollars worth of cattle, hogs, sheep, mules, horses, etc.. annually. Georgia is no longer the Empire State of the South, Texas has the blue ribbon tied on her now. The thing 1 marvel at in lexas is that her cities do not grow apace with her towns and rural districts. Dallas seems to be full grown, Fort Worth is a dwarf, San Antonio a conglomeration, with her population half invalids, and the other half, I am told, made up ot 27 different nationalties, Austin, minus her dam, is dead. Waco ought to be named Wake-No-More. Houston, the only city of growth and commercial en terprise eince the Galveston horror, put that city in the background; but there are a hundred prosperous, growing towns in Texas, with growing popula tions ranging from three to toffeer. thousand. I have talked with farmer, merchant, cotton buyer, and the general impres sion prevails that Texas will not increase her acreage in cotton very largely may be 10 per cent. Texas never raised a larger crop of cotton in much of the cotton belt than the crop of 1900. Farm wages in Texas are double what they are in Georgia and Alabama, but a farm hand can produce more than double out here. The Dallas News has done much to hold the Texas farmer down. It preaches smaller acreage in cotton and greater diversity of crops, and the constant licks of that paper has done much to make the Texas farmer independent. The Atlanta Journal is also doing the same for the Georgia farmer, with Harvie Jordan putting in his licks. The Texas legislature is now in ses sion and they are having tueir usual warm times. Hogg at the end of the line and Hominy at the other. Hogg wants a constitutional convention, and a whole lot of other things. The other crowd think him hoggish, and so it goes. My, my, how they need Sister Nation, of Kansas, down here in Texae! If she will add one more important feature to her joint-smashing program' and go to smashing politicians, I be lieve I will join her myself. My wife wrote me the other day, say- - i r t t tt mg sne wisnea sirs, nation wou;a come to Georgia. We need her in all the dry counties in the state to organize a band of. drunkards' wives and moth ers to meet all the trains and' break all jugs as the express agent puts them off the trains, and I do afhrni there is no unrighteousness in the drunkards' wives and mothers to take steps like' that to protect their husbands and sons. The whisky-soaked and whisky-bossed leg islature of Georgia has persistently re fused to pass any law . to protect the dry counties from the greed of the wet towns. All whisky laws will soon be unconstitutional as well as all union station laws. I do wish my friends in Atlanta would quit quarreling and fussing so much. Atlanta was once a place of unity and brotherly love, and should always remain so. Quit it, boys. Let brotherly love continue. If a fellow calls me a liar, I am a liar or I am not a liar. If I am a liar, I will take t; if l am not a liar, I will let him stand and he all day; it don't hurt me. Love your enemies, do good to them that despitefully use you, is the advice of him who has conquered more enemies and made more friends than any peraon who ever lived in this sin-cursed earth. 1 have had a most pleasant tour through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, and close my list of engage ments and get home the 10th of Feb ruary, and I shall be glad to get back to old Georgia again. Yours, Sam P. Jomes. P. 8. Does prohibition prohibit? No. Does local option prohibit? No Does Sister Nation prohibit? You come out to Kansas and see. Those joints where she used her hatchet remind one of the Galveston horror. Yours for Sister Nation. S. P. J A Comprehensive Railway System. Baltimore Sun. 1 lhe Southern Railway since its absorption of the Mobile and Ohio ranks with the four or five largest railway systems in the world Before the addition of the Louis ville and St. Louis railway, on Jan uary 1, it " owned, leased or otherwise controlled and operated" 6,434 miles. To this total the road just named added 374 miles, and Ohio now adds 875 miles, making a grand total of 7,684 miles. But the Northern Alabama's 118 miles, the Alabama Great Southern s 374 miles and the Danville and Western's 85 miles "controlled, but operated separately" add 527 miles more still, mauing azbi miles. And there are "other lines," as the annual reports of the Southern politicky say, "In which the Southern Railway Company is interested, including the Georgia South ern and Florida, 285 miles, and the Cincnnati, .New Orleans and Texas Pacific, which make the aggregate 8,834 miles. The last-mentioned road, it is true, is owned iointly with the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day- ion, bo tnat a . deduction may fairly be made of its mileage, but with this deduction the Southern still has over 8,500 miles of road, extending through every part of the South east of the Mississippi. The recent acquisitions create improved facilities for the movement of freight and passengers from such points of the Great West as St. Louis and Chicago to Mobile, Jacksonville. Fla.. Savannah. Charleston and Norfolk and must tend to promote the development of new business in the South. At the same time the traffic of Baltimore with the Gulf States must be facilitated by every improvement oi tne railway lines run ning north and south east of the Alleghaniee when such improvement leads to more efficient and economical operation. Gen. J oil n R. Gordon Robbed. General John B. Gordon, who is de livering a course of lectures on "The Confederacy," was robbed last week in Chicago of his overcoat, in a pocket of which were passes which entitles the former Confederate general to transpor tation over all the principal railroads and checks and papers which he values at $4,000. Gen. Gordon left his over coat on a chair in the writing room of his hotel while he added a few touches to a lecture he is to deliver in Iowa. When he finished writing the coat was gODe and the young man whom the General had noticed in the room had disappeared. The police are searching for the man. Why Does Insanity Increase. Gastonia Gazette. The crowded condition of our already commodious and really magnificent homes for the State's insane, suggests not only yet more ample provision, for this unfortunate class, but should direct attention with still greater power to the prevention of insanity. What is the matter? What has happened to drive so many inhabitants crazy? What, what can be done to make these great institu tions unnecessary? Did we read it, or dream it, or did we hear Dr. P. L. Murphy Bay it, that one-third of the State's revenue is devoted to the care of ts insane. In Training;. 'Did I understand you to say that your son was in training?'' 'Yes' he's hard at it. Jle has an ex- prize-fighter to coach him in slugging, and a rough-and-tumble wrestler to make him fight. Why, say, he's get ting so hardened that a man might jump out of a third-story window on him and it wouldn't hurt him a mite." "What in the world is he training for?" "He expects to go to West Point." ITIA1IK TWAIN'S DESCRIPTION OF HIS MILITARY EXPERIENCE. At the Lincoln celebration last week in New York, at Carnegie Hall, Mark Twain who acted as chairman, in intro ducing (Jol. Henry Watterson as the orator of the evening referred humor ously to his own military career, as fol lows: "I was born in a slave State. My father was a Blave owner before the Civil War and I was a second lieutenant in the Confederate service for awhile. Laughter. "Ob, I could have stayed longer. There was plenty of time. The trouble was with with the weather. I never saw such weather.! was there, and I have no apologies to ofler. But I will say that if this cousin of mine, Henry Wat terson, the orator of the evening, who was born and reared in a slave State and was a colonel in the Confederate service, had rendered me such assist ance as he could and taken my advice the Union armies would never have been victorious. I laid out the whole plan with remarkable foresight, and if Colonel Watterson had carried out my orders l should have succeededl in my vast enterprise. Laughter. "It wa3 my intention to driva General Grant into the Pacific Ocean. If could have had the proper assistance from Col. Watterson it would have been accomplished. I told Watterson to surroun.d the Eastern armies and wait until I came up. I Laughter. But he stood upon the punctilio of military etiquette and refused to take orders from a second lieutenant of the Confed erate Army, and so the union was saved. He was. insupordiaate. Now, this is the first time that this secret has ever been revealed. No one outside of the family has ever known these factH, but they're the truth of how Watterson saved the Union, and to think that up to this very hour that man gets no pen sion! That's the way we treat people who save Unions for us. There ought to be some blush on the cheek of thoee present this evening, but to tell the truth, we are out of practice." Laugh ter. Mark Twain 'then began to talk in a serious vein. His tone and manner changed. The audience soon stopped laughing and took the speaker seriously. He said : "The hearts of this whole nation, North and South, were in the war. We of the South, were not ashamed of the part we took. We believed in those days in what we were fighting for the right and it was a noble fight, for we were fighing for our sweethearts, our homes and our lives. To-day we no linger regret the result, but we of the South are not ashamed that we made the endeavor. And you, too, are proud of the record we made." The Troubles of a Legislator. The life of a legislator is m.t altogeth er a bed of roses. It has not come to us that any North Carolina legislator has been abused by any of his constitu ents, but if any are denounced, they can find comfort in the following letter, written to a member of Parliament m New South Wales by a man who appli ed for a job and failed to get it: "Dear Sir: You re a dam fraud, and you know it. I don't care a rap for the billet or the money either, but you could have got it for me if you wasn't as mean as mud. Two pounds a week ain't any more to me than 40 shillins is to you, but I object to bem made an infernil fool of. Soon after you was elected by my hard working a feller wanted to bet me that you wouldn't be in the house moren a week befove vou made an ass of youself. I bet him a cow on that, as i thougnt vou was worth it then. After I got your note saying you declined to ackt in the mat ter I druv the cow over to the feller's place and told him he had won her. That's all I got for howlin meself horse for you on pole day, and months befoar. You not only hurt a man's pride, but you injure him in business. I believe you think you'll git in agen. I don't. An what I don't think is of more kon sequince than you amajin. I believe you take a pleshir in cutting your best friends but wate till the clouds roll by an they'll cut you just behind the ear ware the butcher cuts the pig. Yure no man. x ure only a tuie ior a tew squat ters. And i don't think yure much of a grafter either. Go to hades. I lower meself riting to a skunk even tho I med him a member of parlerment." White's Pay Cut Oil' by tiov. Aycoek. News and Observer. In the face of an express legislative prohibition to the contrary, the Su preme Court decided that Theophilus White was entitled to the salary of shell-fish commissioner and ordered him paid. The court went even further. When the Treasurer declined to pay, it issued a mandamus to compel him to do so though the Constitution Bays no such mandamus shall issue. Governor Aycoek, however, takes a widely different view of the matter, and has decided that in view of chapter 21, laws of 1899, passed by the last Legis lature, these payments to White ought to cease. He therefore, on yesterday, directed that no further bills of this kind be audited unless first approved by the Legislature. Scientist blindly leave Fifth avenue behind and hunt for the missing link in African jungles. SALOON SMASHING IlIOTtf. 100 Women Make a Raid on the Joints of Jacksonville, Ind. Crawfoedsville, Ind., Feb.13. The women of Jacksonville, near this city, recently organized a Carrie Nation Club and passed resolutions advocating the methods of Mrs. Nation in her crusade against the saloons in Kansas. So wrought up did the league become over the question that they called a special meeting last night and determined to wipe the three saloons in Jacksonville out of existence. Mrs. James Snyder, ' president, addressed the women, who numbered more than a hundred. Mrs. Snyder said that if Mrs. Nation could smash the saloons of Kansas there waa only one way to abolish them in In diana, to take the same weapon used by Mrs. Nation and drive the saloons out by force. Enthusiasm ran high and every , hatchet, axe, club and brick, in the neighborhood was collected speedily. With Mrs. Snyder in the lead the women advanced to the nearby saloon of Dan Grimes, who had jut opened a new place with ''all modern improve ments." Without warning half a hun dred bricks were hurled against the glass front, and before the astonished proprietor realized what was wrong the front door of the saloon looked as if a cyclone had struck it. The inmates scrambled through the back door. - Meanwhile the women had gained the inside and demolished the large mirror and emptied all the bottles upon the floor. Faucets in whiskey, barrels were turned open and the liqucr and wines were several inches deep. Grimes, realizing that his assailants were the newly organized Nation Club, iushed in the saloon and choked Mrs. Snyder almost into insensibility and dragged- her from the place. Her friends were quickly to the rescue, however, and with clubs and what bricks were left beat him almost to death. ' A large crowd soon gathered upon the scene and a free-for-all fight ensued between the saloon element and the sympathizers of the women. Grimes was knocked down and kicked insensible by the husband-of Mrs. Snyder. Mrs. Stephen Garret was struck in the face by a beer bottle and her head mashed. Meantime the women took to their heels and left the fight between the en raged combatants. The police were powerless and the fight lasted half an hour. The condition of Grimes in serious and he may not recover from his in juries. Mrs. bnyder 13 also in a critical condition. The three saloons have closed and will not attempt to open till law and order is restored. Jacksonville is a email place and has always borne a bad reputation for its lawlessness and wide-open methods. The affair has made a sensation, as the people who be long to the Carrie Nation Club are the best known of the place. The citizens say if the saloons attempt to reopem they will be dynamited, if necessay, in order to abolish them. Warrants will be sworn out at once for leaders and those mixed in the fight. A message from that town says quiet has been established, but the citizens have all taken a hand in the affair and say any attempt upon the saloons to open will result in a pitched battle. Win field, Kan., Feb. 13. A mob of 200 men and women, armed with axes, revolvers and shot-guns, to-day totally demolished Schmidt's saloon, the finest in the city. Some one fired a dozen shots from a shot-gun through the front door that Btartled a general onslaught with rocks and guns on the windows and doors. Emma Denny received a pistol ball in her face and was slightly hurt. Although this was an accident, it served to enrage the mob and the cru saders swarmed into the saloon. They found Charles and Henry Schmidt. After driving them from the building through the rear door the mob created havoc right and left. Cigar cases, mir rors and pictures were smashed and those that could not be reached with axes were shot full ol holes. Kev. Charles Lowther prevented Charles Schmidt from entering the place by striking him with axe, inflicting a scalp wound. As he fell to tho ground Henry Schmidt made a gun play in defence of his brother that nearly cost him his life. One of the crusaders, followed up the preacher's attack, bad raised an axe to strike Henry Schmidt, v.hen a compan ion wrested the weapon from his hands. For a time serious trouble seemed likely. The mayor called a special meeting of the council to plan means of quelling the disturbance and providing against further outbreaks. To-night the council decided that all joints must close im mediately. The join tists are defiant and bloodshed is feared. Boy Dies of Lockjaw After Vaccl nation. Francis McCormick, aged 8, died last week at Springfield, Mass, of lock- aw, which setvin after vaccination. The doctor at the hospital says lockjaw did not result from impure virus, but that something happened to the arm after the scab came off. The physician who vaccinated the boy is not known, but the authorities will investigate the case. Mrs. Carrie Nation, the Kansas W. C. T. U. crusader, met a cool reception in Chicago and her lecture was delivered to a small audience. -A V If