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J EI Ciea Year, in Adraac. "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." VOL. XXI, PLYMOUTH, N. C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1910. ; NO; 15. f - t ! fi l Vi MA IT SPELLS SUCCESS Great Knoxvifle Show Is Now , Open. WILL RUN 'FOR. THIRTY DAYS. The Exposition Eegins Business Free of Debt and Money" In Bank An Unusual 'iidition. .", Knoxville, Tenn. The Appalach ian exposition, in tha preparation of which Knoxville and the entire Southern Appalachian region has been engaged for the past eleven months, was 'formally opened Monday. The exposition is completein every par '' ticular, thus pi;. an exception among American,t..itiofls. The exposition begins without ow ing a dollar, there being no mort gages "upon its gate receipts, but money in bank to its credit. This, President Oliver said, argued for the success of the enterprise.' The formal opening was followed by the opening of the midway jungle, presenting forty-five amusement at tractions of high type. The aviation tournament, to continue daily during the thirty days of the exposition, was begun .- by the ascension of StrobeJ's dirigible balloon and Cole man's balloon., Brook's band of Chicago gave splendid concerts from ( the $20,000 marble band stand erect ed, as the permanent exhibit of the marble industry of Tennessee. The live stock exhibition, one of the most complete ever seen in the South, was opened with several hun dred entries showing the various high grades of stock produced in the Ap palachian region. The minerals and forestry, women's negro, agricultural and,, liberal arts and fine arts build ings were thronged by thousands. It is now estimated that at'least 400,000 people will pass through the ' gates during the 30 days it is to run. The special railroad rates of one cent per mile are now on. Preaehers Oppose Prohibition. Jacksonville, Fla. Seven hundred well-known Floridians, who favor local option, the preservation of the State constitution and oppose the adoption of the proposed amendment providing for State-wide prohibition representing every county in the - State, met here Thursday and effect ed a State organization to take charge of and conduct the campaign, which will be seriously waged in every county of the State from now until the closing of the polls on No vember 8. Among those in attend ance at the meeting were preaehers, professional men, merchants, farmers, many of them being men , who stand high in the councils of the Democrat ic party and in State and Church af fairs. Son Must Weigh 150 Pounds. Cleveland. If Mrs. Julia Knes hoek. of this city, allows her son Ed ward, 19 years old, to weigh less than 150 "pounds she will be arrested on a negdect charge, Police Judge Levine ruled." . Tij-o months ago Mrs. Knesbeek had tlOboy arrested on a vagrancy charge. When brought into court he was thin and emaciated and weighed only 120 pounds. Witnesses testified that the mother starved him, and the Judge, dismissing the case, gave the boy into a frien,d-B care. Young Knesbeek was brought into court again Saturday and weighed. , He troped the scales at 154 pounds. The Judge returned the boy to his mother with a warning to give Mm plenty of food, although she protested sho did not want him. Great Market For Apples. Washington. American apples tempt the English buyer. In proof of this statement Albert W. S. Walm, American consul at Southampton, re ports that a shipment of apples from the Wentaehee section of the State of "Washington commanded a higher price than any other American apple ever offered in the open English mar ket. Much of the shipment sold at from 8 to 12 cents a -ound and eager ly taken at that price. Arizona Election, Pheonix, Ariz. Complete returns from the election of delegates to the Arizona Constitutional Convention confirm reports of the overwhelming victory of the Democrats. They have elected a total of thirty-six dele-gates cut of fifty-two, the Republicans have elected eleven. The result makes certain the incor poration of the principle. of direct 1 eolation tha initiative, referen dum and recall i'i the new State Con stitution and forecasts its probable adoption by t.I; e voters cf Jl:t SMte. WONDER 0FJELECTRIC1TY Remarkable and Wonderful Scheme to Commercialize Atmosphere. Greenville, S. C. The first plant in the United States to manufacture commercial fertilizers from the at mosphere will be established at Great Palls, S. C. The announcement comes from the Southern Power company that a 4,000-horsepower. plant is to 'be built at "once at that place, where is located the site of the great hydro electrical development of the com pany. It is impossible to enter into the details of the several processes where by' fertilizers may be produced trom the air. It is an electro-chemical pro cess which centres about the forcing of atmosphere through flame at high temperature thus producing that gas N 02, which with the addition ox wa ter H2 O in certain proportions gives nitric acid, or H. N. 03. The atmos phere is forced in -a ' pipo through flame .where it is said to be "fixed" and then before it is allowed to revert is caught and by the proper mixture of water 'nitric acid is seedred. By subjecting these gases to limestone a very valuable compound used in com mercial fertilizers is secured, namely nitrate of lime. The process is said not to 'be extraordmaily diffleujt and as soon as the practical details are worked out it will he comparatively simple. That nothing coukl be done until the high temperature" was pro curable is evident. And the great hydro-electrical development of this general section removes this most im portant impedimenta. Some idea of the great saving may be approximated when' it is recalled that North Carolina used 540,000 tons of fertilizer last year and South Car olina used 700,000 tons or about !, 214,000 tons in the Oarolinas. Of this amount about 30 per cent, oi , 4vilv 000 tons were used in the Piedmont section. This fertilizer retailed at about $25 a ton or $31,000,000 for tha two States, or $10,000,000 for ihe Piedmont section. And the use of commercial fertilizer is on the in crease. Where formerly but 500 and 600 pounds to the acre were used, there are now' from 1,000 to 2,000 pounds required. The trend of agri cultural efforts istoward intensive farming rather than extensive and the inevitable outcome of more corn mercial fertilizer per acre. And then, too, the time is not far distant when the supply of ingredients that go to make up commercial fertilizer will be sorely imparled and that too at a time when most needed. According to the report of experts the Chile saltpeter bed of South America, where is secured the greater part of the nitrate of soda supply, will be ex hausted in 15-or 20 years and then some other source will have to be discovered. Hence the importance of the vast pioneer work now under way by the Southern - Power com pany. Lashed a White Woman Convict. Atlanta, Ga. For -whipping Annie Claire, a white woman, in the Fulton f emale convict camp, Dr. O. O. Fan ning, a deputy warden, was Saturday reprimanded by the' State prison commission. The question of dismissing Dr. Fan ning was before the commission, but the lighter penalty was imposed when it was testified that the punishment was not cruelly 'administered. A wo man witness said that the skin was not broken, that the marks outlined by the strap were such as might , be found on a child after a whipping. Dr. Fanning told the commission that "cussing and obscenity" by the prisoner were the reasons for the punishment. , Gen. Clement A. Evans, member of the commission, made the statement that the whipping of a white woman, while not directly against the rules of the prison commission, is against their spirit. Utah Democrats Vote "Dry." Provo, Utah. The Democratic State plaforra adopted at the State convention demands prohibition law, direct primary elections, the election of United States Senators by popular vote, the initiative and refer endum and recall, and a tariff com mission. The conservation plank adovates co operation between the State and Nat ional Governments and the widest use of public lands for settlement 'and mining. . Streets Flooded With Beer. Fort Wayne. Ind. A vat at a brew ery here collapsed while Workmen were repairing . its foundation. The vat contained 1S.00O gallons of beer, which poured through the streets. The workmen were caught in the rush and were rescued withdiflieulty from drowning. The beer found an outlet in the sewer," which showed a :;: 1 of more than three feet when it discharged the "suds" in the Mau niiij river. FIGURES OE CENSUS Southern Towns on The Jump in Population. GREAT GAINS OVER 1900 COUNT Census Publication Showing Popula tion of Many Southern Cities-r-The Steady March of Dixie. ; Washington. The census bureau has issued an interesting publication showing the population of many Southern ciiies in 1890 and 1900 and giving the percentage of increase foi that period. By a close study of this tabulation the present population of any of the enumerated cities may be figured out with practical accuracy. This publication shows 'the following results so far as Southern towns and cities are concerned: Increase. "City. 1900 1890 1890-1900 Augusta, Ga. ..39,441 33,300 18.4 Birmingham ..38,415 26,178 16.7 Charleston ....55,807 54,955 1.6 Oha)ttanooga . . 30,154 29,100 3.6 Dallas, Tex. . .42,638 38,067 12.0 Fort Worth ...26,688 23,760 15.7 Galveston 37,789 20,084 29.9 Houston ..... .46,633 27,557 62.0 Jacksonville. ..28,429 ,17,201 65.3 Knoxville .... 32,637 22,535 44.8 Lexington, Ky. 26,369 21,567 22.3 Mobile 38,469 31,076. 23.8 Montgomery . .30,346 21,889 38.7 Nashville 80,865 76,168 6.2 Norfolk 46,624 34,871 33.7 Richmond 85,050 81,388 4.5 San Antonio ..53,321 37,673 41.5 Savannah 54,244 43,189 25.6 Besides Norfolk and Richmond, in Virginia, Roanoke, Charlottesville, Petersburg, Portsmouth and Danville, are expected to keep pace with Lynchburg, which has already show ed a big gain over the figures for 1900. ' North Carolina will show that Charlotte, perhaps, has made as large a percentage in gains as any other city of its size in the country. Her textile industries have grown at such a wonderful rate during the last ten years that the "Queen City". is ex pected to show double what she had in 1900 about 18,000. Then there is Raleigh,' Greensboro, Salisbury, Lexington, - High Point, Asheville, Wilmington, Fayetteville, Durham, Goldsboro and other smaller towns which are expected to swell the State's total population. In South Caro'Iina the race among the "Piedmont" towns Greenville, Anderson, Spartanburg, Union, Lau rens and Greenwood for supremacy, is an interesting one. No less keen is the speculation also concerning the figures for Charleston, Columbia, Sumter, Orangeburg, Florence, New berry and a dozen smaller towns which are making rapid industrial progress. In Georgia, Rome, Albany, Quit man, Macon, Athens, Elberton, Au gusta, Savannah, Brunswick, Colum bus, and in fact, many others of smaller size are expected to follow, at least in a measure, the rapid pace set by Atlanta.1 In Tennessee and Alabama the same story of commercial progress comes. In the, former State the fig ures for Clhattanoozaj, KnoxyiHe, Memphis, and Nashville are expect ed to be entirely satisfactory but it is in the smaller towns that larger gains are looked for. The steady march of progress all over "Dixie" is soon to he shown in the returns now in course of preparation. Can't Bar Leper's Children. Lansing, Mich. That the four daughters of John Jensen, a leper iso lated at Calumet, Mich., cannot be ex cluded from the public schools is the conclusion of Attorney-General Kuhn. It is his opinion he states that thor ough examination has revealed no J trace of. the disease in the daughters, and that they will not be, a menace in the schools if they are disinfected, Te moved from their fathsr and mother. and kept away from them during the school term. What Alabama Convicts Did. , Montgomerv, Ala. For the four years ending August 31, la-t, the Ala bama State convict department was turned into Me State treasury a lift revenue of $1,706,695.87 or mora than $400,000 annually. The gross re ceipts from ' the leasing of the con victs, averaging 2,500 a. year, were $3,075,708.03 for the four years, the disbursements' incident to. their keep amounting to $2,269,072.16. The death rate among the State convicts in the four rear period was less than one and one-half per cent. BALLINGERTO CHIEFS His Case to the Presidential Cabinet on September 26. , Washington. Whether Richard A. Ballinger's resignation as Secretary of the ' Interior, will . follow imme diately upon the meeting of the Cab inet September 26 to attend which he as now en route from -Seattle, or whether he will retain his position indefinitely at least until after the dolivery to Congress of the reports of the committee which invetigated his stewardship of the public domain, de pends now, upon the attitude of hia Cab Inet associates . Mr. Ballinger is coming to Wash ington, his friends here insist, wholly unconscious of any act on his part, either of commission or of omission, for which he should be condemned, and has determined to force his chief and his official colleagues to be n ef fect his judges. If they concur in the view at "present attributed to Mr. Taft, that the accused Secretary shall be sustained as an innocent and par secuted man, he will retain his po sition ; if they fail so to back him upt he will resign forthwith. Attacks Boston Baked Beans. Detroit. " Well-cooked vegetables, rice and meat, as opposed to New England mince pie" and Boston baked" beans, have made the " graceful,' self controlled Turk the superior of the nervous, lank New Englander." This was the contention laid down before the Mississippi Valley Medical Association by Dr. Fenton B. Turk, of Chicago. " Diet has more to do with the making of great men or the deter iorating of the human race to the level of the brute than anything else." declared Dr. Turk. "Compare that armor-plate mince pie, diet indulged in by all America with the two sane meals a day that are enabling Turkev to produce the finest specimens of physical man hood in the world. Mince pie and beans are bringing about race deteri oration not alone in Connecticut and Maine." Millionaire in Customs Net. New York. Mengo L. Morgenthau, the millionaire candy manufacturer caught Saturday m the- custom net, was arrested Monday on confessing he tried to smuggle dutiable goods valued at $9,300. He said he had no excuse to offer. " Later he was held in $5,000 bail. He went to the Customs House at noon, accompanied by his wife, two daughters Misses Agnes J. and Louise Morgan tha u an d a niece and several friends, to explan why jewelry and other articles valued aV $9,300 were not declared when the family ar rived here 'Thursday. A $10,000 Corn Show. Columbia. The premium list of the South Atlantic States Corn Exposi tion, December 5-8, for the four States, North Carolina, Georgia, Flor ida and South Carolina, has been perfected and will he shortly an nounced. Nearly $8,000 has 'been se cured as prizes for the corn growers' who send exhibits. Every farmer in the four States is invited to send ex hibits. Ira W. Williams, the State agent of the United States farm demonstra tion work will hold his corn show for the boys of the corn' clubs in connection with the exposition. Over $2,000 has been secured by Mr. Wil liams as prizes for the boys. Taking this and the "prizes of the exposition over $10,000 will be distributed in prizes for fine corn at the show. Worshipped in Water. Chicago. Six men, claiming to be mernbeis of a Persian religious cult, were arrested by the police while they, with about forty men and women, were holding services in the -vaters of Lake Michigan; The services were held in the water at the foot of Diversy Boule vard, and attracted the attention of churchgoers. The police were notified of the singing and shouting of the cult. They arrived to see women and men being lowered into water up to their necks. Change State Bank System. jWashington. A movement to bring all the State banks if the country into the national bank sys tem of reporting their condition to the public was begun before the National Association of Supervisor? of State Banks closed its convention here. Heretofore it has been next to impossibls to .:(!. -r facts cf the con dition of all the Stata banks because no two States used the same system. Co-opcraticn between Slate and Nat ional Bank exarr-hae-j is desired. R. R. STOCjUS INFLATED The Interstate Commerce Commission Continues Hearing on Bates. Chicago. Stock inflation and mani pulation, designated to turn over to stockholders large sums of money without putting in the Company's record and evidence of more than passing fair dividends was the subject delivered Monday by the" Interstate Commerce Commission here at the continuation of its hearing following the suspension of the general advance of feright rates of Western lines which had been scheduled to take effect Sep tember 1. The stock manipulation feature of the inquiry which aims to bring out what grounds the railroads have for asking the increase was suggested by Commissioner Judson C. Clements and was immediately taken up by the commissioner's attorney, Frank Lyon, and A ttorney John H. At wood of Kansas City, Mo., who appeared for the general shippers committee which is fisrhtinsr the increase. Controller M. P. Blauvelt of the Illinois Central Railroad was the witness from whom the startling disclosures which fol lowed were obtained. Commissioner Clement called ; the witness's attention to figures he had furnished on , direct-examination by the railroad's counsel, W. II. Horton. The commissioner said: "You say, Mr. Blauvelt, that in 1891 your capital stock was $40,000,- 000 on 2,875 miles of road, and in 1910, on only about 1,700 miles more, it was $109,000,000. Also that in 1891 the bonded indebtedness was only $62,000,000 while in 1910 it had itiTt nnn nnn xr.,,, "Well" was the answer, "what would appear to be the excess, went to improve the roadway, and to equip ment and purchase of other roads? "And how was the stock raised for these purposes sold?" continued the Commissioner. "Was it m the open market!" "Part of it was. But most of it was sold to the stockholders at par?" Here Frank Lyon, for the commis sion took a hand in the cross-exami nation, r This part of the testimony opened a-new disposition of a corporation's stock and ommrssioner Lane, after asking if it was to make the stock value approach the cash value and beim? informed it was not, aSowed the attorney to delve into the par stock deals. "If your stock was sold at 150 in open market," asked the attorney, and you gave it to your stockholders at 100, what became of the extra oO per cent of its value!" "Why, t went to the stockhold ers," was the answer. !'Then the upshot of it Was your company added to its capital stock by letting go at par, when it needed money, when it- could have sold less stock on the open market, satisfied its need and kept the capital stock down, giving less capital to figure dividend upon, isn't that so?" was the next query. Controller Blauvelt was unwilling such an impression should prevail, he said, and he explained by saying: "Suppose we dumped $15,000,000 in stock on the market at once, it would send its value 'way below par.' I consider it a good business policy to sell where we were sure it would- bring par, and keep control of the road where it was."' Attorney John n. Atwood of Kan sas. City, representing the general shippers' committee, was anxious to know, he said, how much of the com pany's $285,000,000 in stocks and bonds has thus been sold at par since 1900. Blauvelt answered: "I find the sum was $49,000,000 par value." Overworked Preacher Suicides. Cartersvile, Ga. Dispatches receiv ed here Monday state that Rev. Dr. ,undy II. Harris of Nashville, for lerlv assistant secretary' of the board f education of the Methodist Epis copal Church, South, at Pine Log, ica,r Cartcrsville. died of an overdose of morphinee taken Sunday morn inr with suicidal intent. Drr Harris as at Pine Losr to recuperate from nervous prostration. Dr. Harris was he husband of Cora N. Harris, a ell-known. writer. -. Second Meeting With President. Oyster Bay. N. Y. Well pleased wall the remit ot ni3 conieronce Trim President Taft, Theodore Roosevelt returned to Oyster Boy Monday. "I had a very pleasant .intereview ith the President," said the colonel, and sn entirely satisfactory talk on he New York situation." He admitted that the national situ Vow had ao been discussed hut he j declined to repeat any of the con- THE COMING FIGHT, RooseveJl Will Not Say What He Intends to Do. OLD GUARD CALM AND SERENE- The New York Republican State Con vention Promises to be a Jlot Af fair Watch Besult3! " Oyster, Bay, N. Y. Theodore Roosevelt now has but little more than a week before the,, actual shock of conflict with the old guard in the Republican State convention at Sara toga. He (returned to New York Sat urday from Syracuse, where he sharp ly joined issues Friday with his critics in his speeuh at the State fair, motor ed rapidly from the eity to Sagamore Hill, where he arrived shortly, before noon, and spent the remainder of the day with his family. The colonel refused to discuss in any detail his plans for the fight at Saratoga, or to say whether be be lieves he will be successful. His ref erence to President Taft in his Syra cuse speech, in which he gave his ap proval to a number of the most impor tant acts of the 'administration, are regarded, however, as throwing some light on his probable attitude toward an endorsement ot the administration by the Saratoga convention. what action he will take m case an attempt is made to endorse Presi dent Taft for a renomination in 191 J is a subject on which he remains reso lutely mute. Reports to the effect that he would resist such an endorse ment have brought forth no statement from his, except that he will have nothing to say oif that point, unless the question be raised at Saratoga. Dallas Beats Them All. Washington. The population of Dallas, Texas, is 92,104, an increase of 49,466, or 116 per cent, as compar ed with 42,638 in 1900. Wilkes-Barre, Pa., has 6,19o inhab itants, an increase of 15,3S4, or 29.7 per cent as compared with 51, 21 in 1900. - The population, of Covington, Ky., is 53,270, an increase of 10,3? 24.1 per cent, as compared with'42,-v 938 in 1900. ' : Kenton county, Kentucky, in .which Covington is located, has a population of 70,355, as compared with 63,5S?1 in 1900. ' Racine, Wis., has 38,002, an in crease of 8,900, or 30.6 per cent, as compared with 29,102 in 1900. Waterloo, Iowa, shows 26,093, an increase of 14,113, or 112.2 per cent, as compared vh til2,580 in 1900. Place Citizenship Above Partisanship. Ballston Spa, N. Y. A congress of Governors of the States to outline a primary law for' general use through out the country wias the plan suggest ed by John A. Dix, chairman of the Democratic State Committee, at a conference here with 200 Democratic leaders of Saratoga county. Mr. Dix also advocated a State law that would prevent the use of funds by corporations in corrupting Legis latures. He told his hearers that the time had come' to place citizenship above partisanship to accomplish re forms. ' ; - Never Too Old to Leaxn. Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. A. D. Win- ship, aged 80 years, and a former res- dent of Racine, Wis., but now of Co nmbus, has registered as a student in Ohio State universit.y. Mrs. Wiuship will take an optional course and says that she is going to college simplv be cause she likes to acquire all the knowledge that she can. She has re cently returned from Michigan, Pellagra Claims Distinguished Editor. Salisbury,' N. C. John M. Julian, editor of The Salisbury Evening Post and one of the city's most distin guished yitfng men, died here Friday'. Mr. Julian was in an unconscious con dition for several days prior to his death, which was due to a most se vere case of pellagra. The ablest specialists in North and South Caro lina were summoned to his bedside and relatives and friends and train ed nurses battled to save this valu able life, but an all wise Providence decreed otherwise. Ex-Convict Elected to Congress. London, Ky, By a decisive ma jority cf more than 7,000 voles Caleb Powers df.'ated Congressman Don ('. Edwards for the Republican nomina tion for representative. Congress man Edwaids conceded , that Powers had carriea all but four ot the 10 counties which comprise; the district. Powers was thrice tried and con victed on the charge of. murdering Gov. GoboL, Each verdict was set aside on appeal. Gov. Wilson recent ly granted Powers a pardon.