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J. f TvOr m In H! I! WW . 1 .4$ IIU 1 1 a Year, In Advaac. "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." , . . : Stegia Cay ' Cafa. T t i '"'.. ' '' -j i f " . ; ,pm. v VOL. XXI. PLYMOUTH, N CA JbRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1910. NO. 25. ' ' ' . ' " ; : t . TT r7 . . FAVORS LARGE ARMY General Grant Would Make Every Man a Soldier. IDEA OF UNIVERSAL SERVICE- Present Law Permits Organization i of 100,000 But There Are Only 86,000 Enlisted Conscription Suggested. Trained Citizens. New York, Major-General Frede rick Dent Grant, commander of the Department of the East announces himself as a convert to the doctrine of universal military service. Tie would have every active male cit izen of. the country get a military training which would qualify him for active service in time'4 of Jwar. 'I do not expect to see4 such a scheme put into efFect for many, gen erations," he explained at his head quarters on Governor's Islardy but that it will eventually come about I have noMoubt. As a step in the right direction. I hope that we may in 4 few years see our standing army increased to a strength of 250,00. The present authorized strength is 100,000, but we have actually in. the service only 86,000 men. At present our army is only a nucleus, although for its size it is probably the. most efficient military force in the world, "With an army of 250,000 men we could in a few years have among he people engaged in peaceful occupa-J tions 1,000,000 men trained' to mili tary service. I believe that a scheme of conscription would be advantage ous. I would divide the oountry into military districts and require each district to provide the enlarged army each .year with a quota of recruits based upon population; -.. "Military service has a benefical effect on the morale of the country. Every man who has served under the discipline of an army such as ours exerts an uplifting and edu cational influence in his commu nity." . PRISONERS PAROLED. Ten Men Set Free Under New Law Under Certain Conditions. . .. Washington, D. C Ten' men, con victed of various crimes and sen tenced to the United States penir tentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., for terms ranging from one year to 21 years, have been released on pa role, i : ' V These are the first releases to be made under the law passed at the last session of congress providing ihat a federal prisoner may be pa rolled with the approval of the at torney general after having served one-third of his sentence. In announcing paroles, it will be the policy of the department of jus tice not to make public the home places of the men, or to name the crimes of , which they have been convicted. Their names are as follows: Rudolph Reiley, Thomas- F. Branch, Doc Killingsworth, Ralph E. Yerkes, Angelo Brondo, Wesley A. Martin, Julian J. Klein; William Bresh, Nelson Jones and Edgar J. Summerhays. Burglars Get $16,000. Muskogee, Okla. Three Employes of-the Wells Fargo Express Com pany are held pending an investi gation into the mysterious disap pearance of an iron chest containing $5,000 in silver and $11,000 unsigned currency. The chest wasremoved from the express office here. The padlock on the door had been brok en, the employes stating that they were all absent at the time of the orbbery. Pinkerton detectives are on the trail. $500,000 Lost in Four Years. New York. Irving W. Childs, who five years ago inherited $1,250,000 from the estate of his father, Wil liam H. Childs, has lost $500,000 of his inheritance in Wall street dur ing the past four years, it was al leged in statements by counsel, in a hearing before Justice Blackmar, in the Supreme Court, Brooklyn. Tho fact of the young man's alleg ed plunging was the basis for ap plication in behalf of his wife, Mrs. Gertrude E. Childs, for a bond to protect Ihe alimony granted her. GIRLS BURNED TO CRISP. Explosion of Gasoline in New .Jersey f' Box Factory Results in a Very Sad Tragedy. Newark, N. J. In ten minutes 25 girls were burned alive Saturday morning, or crushed to death on the pavement- in leaping from the win dows and fire escapes of the four story brick factory, at .the corner of Orange and High streets. ' v ,The rush of the flames was so in credibly swift and threw such unreasoning terror into the .hud dled working girls on the top story, that the body of one was found still seated on a charred stool beside the machine at which she jjad been busy when the first cry of "fire" petrified her with fright. The building was a four-story structure occupied on the two low- er floors by the Newark Paper Box Company and the A. A. Drake "Pa per Box Company; on the third floor, where the fire started, by the Anchor Damp Company and ' the Aetna. Electric - Company, and on the . top floor,-where the jdeath list ran heaviest, by the Wold Manufac turing Company,, makers of unde wear. ' ; ' " - .:'. The wooden floors were soaked with oil drippings from the ma chinery and the flames ate thcpugh them like pasteboard. When) they warped and weakened, the weight of the machinery tore them from the walls and they fell into the basement , in a horrible tangle of hotvjron and mangled humanity1. Sadie Benson---and.' employes of the Aetna Electric " Company were cleaning an lectric, light fixture in a gaeo1in8!fjUh. Tbgaso(Tp,e top fire sh' does not know how and trickled in a. little rivulet of flame bntpUJfe. flor',ere sodafull J can of gasoline. The can exploded and the1 burning liquid flew far and rwrde. ' , ' ; . - v. MORE WHISKEY AND TOBACCO. Pepple in-1910 Diftrik 30,000,00 Gal'- Ions More VVhiskeyHhan In 1909 - .Washjngton.The United States' has ' just passed' through a banner year for drinks and smokes and oleomargarine. Here is the nation's record for the twelve months ended, on June 30: 163,000,000 gallons of. distilled spirits 30,000,000 gallons more than the year before. . . ' 55,485,117 'barrel s "of' - fetrhented liquors an increase of 3,000,000. 7,60090,000 .cigars . 160.000,000 more than 1909.. ' u " ' ' v 6,830,000 cigarettes an increase Of : a SOlid-;4,tX)0,000;000; - . 402.000,000 pounds of plug, fine ,'cu.t, ,cii $tii -granulated' $ri sliced, smoking or ' chewing tobacco "or snuff4,o6o,o6b mofre than-the yeap before. ,,, t. . .. - ; , . 142,86'2',282 pounds'' of'bleomar-garine-'-SOOO.OOO pounds increase. " Illicit' distilling, and other-, manu facturing of moonshine whiskey on. the increase "especially" the bu r6a says, "where there are State-' wide prohibition laws." The internal revenue receipts on all those things and certain other things; such as playing cards and mixed flour, amounted to more than .$289,000,000 and . Commissioner Ca bell's organization collected it all at ,a cost. of .about $5,000,000., It cost a penny 'and a little more than 'seven rriills to collect each dollar. When the. present year is ended next June '30, Commissioner' Cabell estimated his men will ,-have . col- lected at Ieasl $308,000,000 at prac-' tically the same cost. Commissioner Cabell recommends that the pay of revenue, collectors and officers be raised to a level with ' corresponding positions in the pos tal and customs service. , ; One Thousand Deer Killed. Boston. The killing of deer in Ave western counties of the State for six days, after a decade of pro tection, ended with approximately one thousand deer accredited to- the hunters' skill with the sliotgun, and probably many others, wounded and left to die in the woods. About $50,-" 000 in license fees will go to the State from: the week's sport. .The open season passed without fatality among; the hunters, and few serioua accidents were reported. Only $8,000 a Year Allowed. New York. Miss Eugenie Laden burg will not get the $17,000 a year without which her mother told the courts last week no girl could .be properly finished. r Surrogate Jackson,, of Hampstead, L. I., has .ruled that, $8,000- a year is plenty fop the edueatidn of any girl of 16 and refusedf to allow Mrs.'Lad enburg more than that much out of the interne of $21,000 a year left her daughter by nor father's will. The lady was disappointed. P.O.IRREU0URITIS T " Atlanta Officials Guilty of Un derweighing Mails. SUPT. TERRELLS RANK REDUCED Many Thousands of .Dollars Lost . ' - Prosecutions May Follow Work Going on For Years Postmaster General Ofter-Ipcompetents.; J Washington. Postmaster Gener al Hitchcock has ordered the re moval from tb postoffice service of Edward F. Ib'dgetk superintendent of stations, and of : James F." Norman and S.' S. F. Giles, clerks, jail in the Atlanta postoffice, as the result of gross irregularities in the weighing of newspaper mail. ; . - The -order followed an. investiga tion of.4 the Atlanta office into ir regularitieshich the Postoffice De partment declares covered a, series of years and resulted in the loss of many -thousands of dollars to, the department. The department' an nounced in connection with this or der that la general inVestigation- of methods -of weighing-, second class. mairthiughout the country as jie.M being.conducted bjytspectors W4tn the idea of detecting stid bringing to an end such irregularities as those disclosed at Atlanta. iBec'ause of the inefflciencym the discharge of his' duties fhe siiperin tlndent of the railway mail service .at Atlanta, L. M. Terrell, who failed to'' take'-jtheprecautionary measures required by the postal regulations in nrpwnt eprfnin nf fhft irreernlnri- - ansferreft-by .'tUe Post- master General's order frm his position of responsibility to a minor placet id the serVice. ' ; supernienueui u. v . pepper, ui the railwav mail division having .hefldqtijfPter's at CTeyeland, has been Bssi'fetfed to Atlanta to supersede u eprintendent Terrell. vClyde M. Re'e'd, superintendent of. the division Of Railway adjustments in' the Pct - iM . , i 4 omce ueDartment, was seni 10 Cleveland, to take -the place of Su perintendent'1 . Terrell. , '"Clyde M. position' in the department has been filled by the promotion of C. H. Mc, Bride, formerly assistant superin tendent of the division of railway adjustment,, .The eyiflence obtain--ed in the investigation at Atlanta had. been .submitted .by the. Post maJgler' Ge'riera'T I'd 'tM Deptfrtlriiaii of Justice and that department will determine the question. koJt .prosecu-J tion TIEVEXUES 6V STEAM ROADS- Earnings For August Reported; by ' Commerce Commission. Washington. The Interstate CommePce.fCoxnmission announced that the net revenues of the steam roads , of the United States ;during last . August ' aggregated $90,028,751, or 377.49 per mile of line, against $90,908;283 or $380.10 per mile- 6f Tine in. August, 1909. The deduction or one-Hwelfth annual taxes left- the operating income $81,163,009' or $3i0.3?, as against $83,000,690 or $346.70 per mile of line in August, 1909. . The mileage operated on, which this summary of the monthly reports. of , the railroads is -based, was 238,493 as against 239,404 miles last yeaj. . . The detailed figures shew thai for August, 1910 the total operating revenues were $254,0005,972 and, the total operating expenses $164,'488, 899, the total net revenue already given; including- outside operations, which yielded a net revenue of little over, lialf a million dollars. Another Fatal Mine Explosion. Providence, Ky. Eleven coal min ers, two white men and nine negroes were entombed in mine No. 3 of the Providence Mining Company follow in a gas. explosion and it is believed that all are' dead. The mine is a new one, the shaft being but 100 feet in depth, with only, a f,ew en tries. The explosion was so vio lent, that little hope is entertained that'the'-miners have escaped death, A mule ".blown out of 4 the shaft alighted 150 feet away,' 'still 'alive: ' War on Ladies Ilat Pin. Berlin. The police president - of Barlin has declared war on the dan gerously protruding hat pin. In a proclamation issued he calls the at tention of the women pf the city to the many recent reports of injuries inflicted Jy hatpin! that projected 1tvond the rims pf. women's hits. 'The"prcidcn4! calls" upon the. wo men either to cease using long pins or turn the points so that they will not be a constant menace to the traveling public. ' WOMEN DEMAND RIGHTS. English Suffragettes Assault High State Officials 4 and "Engage in Riots Crazy For Suffrage. London. The political campaign is being waged with a fierceness al most unknown in England, both by politicians on the stump and suffra gettes on the battlefield. The battle of Downing street, which was fought when several hun dred suffragettes attempted To storm the Premier's residence, -'assaulted filr. Asquith and Augustine. Bierrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland, and broke many windows in the govern ment offices, surpassed all previous spectacles of the sort. About 150 wonien and several men supporters were placed' in the police station. Following ah announcement by the Prime Minister in the House of Commons that if he were still in power at the next session: of Parlia ment the government would give facilities for the consideration of a suffrage bill a large body'. of women, inflamed rather than placated by this promise, which was character ized as "nothing more nor-less" than an insult to the cause," left Caxton hall in search of the Premier. They came upon himon the way to Down ing street; and mimediately formed a hostile cord.oa'round Mr. Asquith, fho recently' -has resorted to all kinds of subeterfuges to keep him self clear of the hands of the mili .tanf women. . . One of them, Henrietta Williams, struck the government leader and the Premier would have fared badly had not large detachments of police come running to his rescue. The police had great difficulty in putting down thje disorders.,and jmany of the women had to be dragged from the scene, with clothes half Horn from Uheir backs. The rioting continued into ths'eVening when . squads,; of women attacked the residence"-- Sir Edward G ieyr4he Foreign Seere-' fkry;-Winsipn. Spencer Churchill, the Home Secretary, and Lewis Har cpurt, Secretary of State for thfi Col- - i ' ' . t J i l.' u 11'' 1 - oiiesV Stones' crashed through 'T" r i j n i ' r : rij fhe windows of the houses, Sir Edwafd ji Grey --bearing the brunt of the at- strolling jMirougli sC'iams P'arkHb the the'wim Club , and swooped dQwn " ilpcpn the aged statesman, knocking hu's Vat over his eyes and kicking .Jihn abcyt the legs. 'When help' came and' the ' women - werer driven off pMc. Bierrell limped to his m&lor.c&r tyt the- arirftpf ; polcemfHj Mrs. Emiline Pinkha, the leader of the suffe.ragettes, was among those taken to jari.- Her si's'fer, Mfs.-Graht-denied admittance, threw a missile through the. jail window..'-, She'' also, was incarcerated. Miss Grace John son was the;Oi)ly. Americnarrested.i. Mr. Churchill ' addressed a big meeting,, from which several men adherents of the-wtfmeH -eavrse .were dragged out by the police. Mr. ChurchyL tr.Qngly defended. ,he propriety' "of 'Irsh-A'meicaris'y'eoh-,' trib'uting to the home rule cause. The cry of American dolars'- Avas' likely to be used as a retort by the Liberals, he said, since Waldorf As tor had announced that he was again the candidate of the Conserva tivpfc for Plymoujth. . t . . .: The principal move of thfe'day was Premier Asquith's attempt to placat the laborites by pressing -to JiPtro duce legislation solving fhe difficulty which has arisen on account of the Osborne judgment. The -labor- party met and declared, that the scheme suggested by he Premier was wholly unsatisfactory:' ' i ' ' Tlie United Irish League has is sued a manifesto against the Lords, calling landlordism and the House of Lords synonymous. California Working For FlxpoSitioh." San Francisco, Cah--Ltd by Ben jamin Ide- Whieelerj president of 'the. University, of California, a party ,o( Californians are in Washington to' pfeseint' to Congress "San Francisco's, claims to the Panama.canal.expQsji tion to be held in 1915.' The centin-' gent was jpined. in the national cap ital by Governor-elect 'Hfrairt John son; Theodore Bell, Johnson's op ponent for Governor on the Demo cratic ticket at thQ recen election, and Gov. 'John ;.'Gillettand other$. Disorderly Women Piinished. ' Londofi. Twenty suffragettes who were arrested for smashing. windows in the government offices, were sen tenced -in the Bow Street police court to two months imprisonment. In pronouncing sentence, Sir Al bert de Rutzen, chief magistrate of the Metropolitan police courts said: "You disorderly women havb been treated" with too much leniency in the past. If will be stopped or heavier sentence given." The wo men showed no displeasure. ATTACKING A BIG TRUST. Federal Government After Great Sugar Combine SO ' Companies With $230,000,000 Capital New York. The Federal govern ment has begun one of its most im portant actions -against great cor porations which" are aid to have violated the Sherman anti-trust law. Henry A. Wise, United States district attorney, filed in the United State court of the southern dis trict of New York,, a petition asking for the dissolution of the Ameri can Sugar Refining Company and 29 other corporations which com prise the so-calledisugar trust. The petition charges anf illegal combina tion in restraint of trade, and asks from the court relief in whatever form may be necessary, including a receivership, if?deelhed advisable. The 30 companies comprising the sug'ar combine have an aggregate capitalization of $230,000,000 and control a large . percentage of the output of sugar ' in this country. The combine is able, the govern ment alleges, to "fix prices arbi trarily. The petition charges that for years the .companies have vio lated the law and. have oppressed competitors and ground them out of existence.. Railroad rebates and customs frauds are mentioned as devices which were employed to raise the combine to. the com manding position -which it occu pies today. BATTLESHIP AT REX'S FAIR. Mardi Gras at New Orleans to Have War Machines. New Orleans. One or more Unit ed States-warships will be sent to' New Orleans for Mardi Gras with a British man of war as a visitor at that time', is the. announcement made here by the New Orleans Progressive Union. In his communication announcing that warships will be sent here at L the time stated, the Secretary of the ISay states that tne department comeibpfafes sending a battleship to New Orleans next spring for a trip -up-the Mississippi :river as far as NatchE; Vty stimtflate recruiting. It will mark the second journey of the Jcind'in navjgatipn.of, the Mississippi river. . L'at.! year 'Vthe battleship Mississippi wen to Natchez, signaliz ing 4.he initial navigation of the Mississippi for such a distance by a vessel of. this class. Built Quicker Than a Jail. Nishville. Tenn. A new church -buiWiiig as contructed from the foundation, painted and the furni-t.ure-.installed . here in one day throjghfhe combined efforts of three .Christian churches, and a ser- vice helid' in it ' tht " night. There were4 about 150 workmen and the task was fiBisheff'ithin ten hours. Movement vo.Jlice Crop. . jiuwitjy, i-iei. ui uuee miuiuji sapks of the 1910 -rice crop remaining- unmarijeteii, asi-estimated by the Southern Rice Growers' Association, about two miHionsacks will be in the hand's 'of ' trie association ty December 7, officers of the associa tion ;here say. .. - Thirteen Lives Snuffed Out. '.nurarAl 'fiklij-i-Jrhirtften miners wprfi IcillpH in nn ATnlnsinn at. Iho Jumbo. asphalt mine and one of the At liitH ill erf 13 nut niiiQi) ai 1.11c; llllliu was broueht out alive but uncon scious., .Five men.yere blown from ik'' Aii''' ,-. fi 1 iw. 1110 iiiuuMi ui Lin' snait uy iim iuiic nf thfi prnlosinn and. the. nthnr 9 were ntovbedj," ?rald Roberts was rescuea auve ana me Doaies 01 8 cpmpanions were brought out of he.mlivss'afteriwHs&uers had dug in the workings all day. W6mwis Ibii?ivTius Headgear. KOxyilla. The Ministerial Asso ciation qf Johnson City, at a special meeting issued an address to the whmeh 6f hat city urging them to i"emov. their hats at Sunday even ing, church services. Ihe address signed "ny 'fevery minister in town except one, states that it is not be cause' lhe .ministers do not admire f h lnvelv ' creations worn, but in order that the Gospel may have full nowier. Mini'stert of other cities hniay itUe sortie attion. mi- in "is Yrars For Ear. nlicity in cutu'ngvoff the right ear of Edward 96? Fil?er, a non-union sailor in this city June 27, Josepn Meyers, alias Mikfl Armstrong, was sentenced to not less than six nor more than thirteen and a half years in Auburn prison. Following the assault upon Frazier by a gang of men. the severed ear was sent by mail to an officer of the Lake Car riers' Association in Cleveland, with a threat of death unless a strike then on was settled. TAR HEEL PUBLIC TALK . .IN I Cream of ' Current County ETeaitf Clipped and Condensed . - , in ar Column, t DEMANDS OF METHODISTS. Imoprtant Action Taken by West-, ern North Carolina Conference. Rev. E- Meyers' read the report of the Committee on Temperance;' which was adoptd. It endorsed the' North Carolina- Afiti-Saioon League"'' and its work, and recommended the organization of law. and order lea- gues in those sections where prohi-. bition kiivs are 'riot, enforced, and ' commended highly the work of the ' law and order- league of- Ashevillet . The sale of near beer was also con-, , demned as an;.evH behind -which greater evil is4hkid.en. '. The .repojt .-. included a resolution that the next General Assemblytbe petitioned to prohibit the sale of near beer; also ' a resolution petitioning tfie General Assembly to prohibit the sale of co caine, morphine and similar drugs. A resolution was embodied alsorec-" orqmending that preachers do wot" give their support to papers which publish advertisements of intoxr-. cants. . ... A . resolution .was- adopted " ex- pressing approval , of Ihe , resolution . passed by the general conference during .thelast. session recommend- . ing that preachers abstain from' the use of tobacco.. Bishop Hendrix , stated "that when he was a young", man he smoked tobacco, but that" he gave it nip when he' entered the ministry. He!said he felt that- he' .coilld not afford' to do anything as a minister that would be offensive to anyone else,-even to entering a , sick room with the odor of the to bacco uponhis breath. GREAT DRAINAGE CO.WTiNTION. Delegates From Eastern North j Carolina Met in Wilmington. The third annual, conveRtion. (of the North Carolina Drainage, Asso ciation convened al.. Wilmington with delegates from all parts of Eastern-Carolina.- Members of the. assciatioij are beginningto rea4e how important is the - drainace . queMipn 4to the eastern part .of the Stale and' great fentnusiasm was inannested Congressman Small .- emphasized the two dominant, pointsjnis ex cellent address-i-gVea'ter' sympathy and co-operation of the people of the cities arid towns' "iMt; theTftra?I folks and thft hnnf iniiTJpf? amnnfi? the rural ",pbpulatipn(,n& "campaign of education With the re" electron 'nf all nrin- cipif bfUcrsr ihe "selfcfidn of .EJiza-: beth City, ras' Ihe,; oext frfl-fce $f.'m form avoringJ.a -course in .draiQage. ... engineeHng' at the State Agricultuir raland" MechaRica-i.- Rollfge'' '-the'-- teachiner of acrf'irniTIhir(fcn thi n"nhi lie schools', tlie..xnptiOrt 6t drdlrf- aC-fl' hnriHs from tn-p'Trtr ' 4z vinra" and provision .by.the .. Sta Jor a. . Irehneritvof-demonstrati0narn1 where alluvial Soil exists, the-' third ahrmaleonv6n?6rii!Val"e, .to 'a. cftfse' wui.iiii puiing on me, united stapes .. rehue cutl'or ,"Seiinple'fc.'''r'v. " Christian ChureiuConvp ntipn. v The third' 'friv'v .Woh of'thp miJifeirinafv r'nmMn nf Sh'o'rfiaf '' tiari', cKiirch riiera' it:$YmAh v completed thg busiges oi,'ht.bQd;, jiu.ntiw cuavenwqnaQiQutned , to. j hold.its -nexfmeetiagh Avden. The corrrention 'was ene-bf-'-'the' mosrt largely attended siiccessfur 'a'rrd ' profitable '. meetings in 'the "fisfory of jthe Christian churchl ". " "v Cotton Produced on -One Aere" "VV; S." Wa'tkiris, living " hofthe'ast" ' 0 Wadesborosnade.a -eplendid.Yec- . ord tnis year, a rom -one and one quarter acres he has;already pick ed 4,000 pounds of seed cottQn . and will- possjbly $et 200 pounds more, un, mis parcel 01 ground Mr. Watkins iised 1.000 nAtmHa of commercial fertilizer 'and ; 2i Joads irom nis Darn'iot.". ;Mr. .vat1un3 also gathered 180 bushels of corn, 1 rom -iwo' acres oi.upiana. ; Codk Caused a Strike. , Sixteen rrie.n of the crew..i5f the domestock ' a ' section 'dredge at work'oh tBe - channel qf-t&e-f ane J .' - Fear, nver strucK.o.iVa9eini an 'object ion abjo coqk being retaia- ,, ed., So,me timdag6 charges "yere . preferred against the cook and. a hear'Wg was" 'If eld by fW" .officer in chapg- of" liver- iroVrvJl'iie'Tf's; (m'S4- the,, charts .riusmisseiii Wl'a.i' wa reinstated and.the neay imnvi- -. -lately ?!tlvorkV ;' :.