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- ' , w - "'B CaaYear, la Adranc. ' V 1 FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH. " Sisgte Cy f Crt, VOL. XXI. v M . PLYMOUTH, N.'O.. BRlbAY, DECEMBER 9,1010. ' NO. 26. - '? -i - -.- - -t NEEDS OF THE NAVY Saving of $5,000,000 for 1912. Necessary Items. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PEARY. Eight Naval Stations Are Recom mended to be Disposed of Total Amount Asked For Navy is $127,- 0G7.329 Business System. V . . i : 'I Washington the estimates of Secretary cf ifte Iravy Meyer' for the fiscal year912, .which shows a saving of $5,000,000 as compared . with the appropriation for the Navy ; Department for the currenjt year, provide, for an' expenditure !of $8, 135,837 for public works at the navy yards and stations.1 These are for items regarded as Absolutely essen tial and are based upon a personal inspection by Se&retary:. Meyer of the navy yards Jid stations, which ' he made on hisfif enYtouf. " The Secretary asks - for $7,630,000 for provisions of the navy, -which is ' an increase of $158,929 over the appropriations- for the current year. ' Provisions for the marine corps are estimated at $820,000, an increase of $96,457 for this year. x As the-first year's appropriation for the new vessels which the Secre- tary recommentlSfthe ngjeS'jgfi.t ;TO00 as the ne.eessary figure Tor-construction and machinery and $6,- 750,428 for armor, ' and armameitfv- wnicn, is 3j,4y,iy less man ints 1 amount' appropriated for the new building program, vthis year.. In-ad-dition the SecVet4ry'reeommenas $10,453,619 for the continuation of "work on vessete-npwnjpdr. ,. con struction,, which. is t $6,982,1,05 .less than the amount appropriated for a similar purpose this year.v The total an1ouh,tyv;hich "wiinb'e submitted to Consr'ress.'for the Navy Department under the naval legisla tive and sundry civil i bills forviext year will be $127,007329 as corhpar . ed with $132,378,080 for this year or . a decrease in exact figures of $5, 311,651 Secretary Meyer recommends giv ing up and disposing of the' naval stations at. New Orleans. Pensacola. San Juan, -Port Royal', 4,ew Iloridpn' Sacketts Harbor, Culebra and Ca vite. fie finds that the, -average. vearlvcost of maintamineiiheser stations for the, past five years has been ,6 yhil;;vry. little; use ful work has ueen" performed Ihere- In making these recommendations the Secretary says he is S3Howing directfy along the progressive plans,. wni.crf nave oeen aaoptea in . our great .commercial and manufactur ing consolidation "-i-this country;; that is, ol dismantling unnecessary and antiquated plants- and discont inuing their existence, wh'ere it has been demonstrated that it is un profitable to continue them at a cost not commensurate with their pro duct.. The discovery, of the North Pole .iy-Robert E. PeVfcy, after years of patient and arduous endeavor is de clared to be an event which, has ay ded to the honor and credit of our country. Says Secretary Meyer: "It is fitting that the government tfiould recognize the valtfe of his services, and their successful jsde f prmination. If it meets with your approval, I recommend that Peary, the descoverer of the. North Pole, be given a commission by legislation, as Rear Admiral of the Corps of Civil-Engineers of the Navy, to date from April 6, 1909, the date oft his discovery of the Pole, and that he be retired as of that date with the highest-retired pay;of that graded ;' , "China Will Expand Navy. PekingV-An important step has been' taken by Chin with the object of expanding and increasing the ef ficiency of her tarmy and navy. The throne has issued edicts creat ing a Navy Department, which up to the present, Has cofliecL merely, of a tentative board for the conduct of" naval affairs. Prince Tsai Suun. uncle of the Emperor, who recent ly paid an extensive visit to the United States, has been appointed president of the new department. Calhoun Family Contest a Will. ; Washington Members "of the Cal houn family that John C. Calhoun made famous came before the Su preme Court of the United Statesjn an endeavor to regain possession xf the "Calhoun plantation" in Green wood county, South Carolina. - The arguments were made in the Su preme Court Chamber, formerly the Senate chamber, the very room in which John C. Calhoun so often triumphed in debate. The planta tion was owned by Down3 Calhoun when he died in 1830. ' VENERABLE WOMAN GONE airs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, Head of Christian Scientist Church, Passes at Age of Ninety. - Boston. Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, the discoverer and founder of Christian .Science is dead. "Natural , causes" explains the death, according 'to Dr. George L. West, a' district medical examiner, who was summoned ' a few hours after , Mrs. Eddy died. Later' D.' West added that the more imme diate cause was probably - pneu monia. . - . .; Sketch of Her Life. Mrs. Mary Baker Glover-Eddy, the "discoverer"' and founder. of Chris tian Sc jence, was born in Bow, N. H..; H"er father was a man of some property and localtrdistinction. r He was a friend of President Franklin Pierce and other well-known men ot his-time. Mrs. "Eddy was "related to Gen. John McNeill, a hero of the battle of Lundy's vLane. On her father's side she was -related to Gen. Henry Knox of revolutionary war fame. She was a first cousin to Governor Hoke Smith of Georgia;- As- a young -woman she was a confirmed invalid until the healing incident which ushered her to the thresholdrof Christian Science. "' In 1843 Mrs. Eddy married George Washington Glover and removed with him fo Charleston, S. G. A few months after' their marriage Major Glover was stricken with yellow fever and died in Wilming ton, N. C. Mrs. Glover returned to the home of her relative in Tilton, N..H.; whece he, son was born. ;In 1853 iin the- hope of regaining . J- r i i . yusstjssiuu ui tier sun, iiuiii wnum she had eehhejj by circumstan ces to $arle?Mps Eddy married Dr. Daniel 'Patterson, a dentist of Franklin, N. hY'. It Was in J866 that Mrsf. Eddy met with tlte accident which was the im mediate cause of her "discovery" of Christian Science. She was living at that time at Swampscott, just outside of Lynn. She fell on the ice and was injured internally so se verely that the physician who was called 'gaveo hope of her recovery. Ignoring the medicine which had been prescribed, "Mrs. Eddy, in her. extremiituhrd-to her Bible. -and calimed to have received such in spiration, and spiritual enlighten ment from the-aceount of the heal ing of the man with the palsy that he arose' from-hei bed a wellwd- ,man..i Foyioirvg-i.this remarkable; lnciaent jurs. n;aay spent tnree years Tin. fed3ii-ng -. a-h explanation of her healing. She had always been a stu denj of, philosophy, was acquainted somtfifatf with hohieopalhy, ha'd ex amined the claims of animal mag-netismand--spiritualism and was -an earnest student of the Bible. After hdr discovery of the healing power of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy made frequent applicationsQf her theory to existing ' conditions. She tested her metaphysical system in 'the "'treatment-' of disease and it is said to have metwith remark ableiiceess.. IL'.. Mrs. Eddy secured ,a divorce from Dr. "Patterson and;in 1877 married Pp..-Asa. CEddy, one of her early students m (jnnstian science, wno diedin 1882, For some years Mrs.' Eddy taught Christian Science ;n Lynn. .In 1881 she chartered' the Massachusetts Metaphysical College in Boston. The charter, for the first Christian Science church was ob tained in 1879 and in that ypar Mrs. Eddy was Called to become the pas tor of the church'. She .was ordain ed in 1881, although she had preach ed five years previously. . Church Unions Committees Act iop. Baltimore The joint commission of -twenty seven, representing the Methodist Episcopal, the Methodist Protestant and 'the Southern Methodist Churches appointed a committee of nine to further con sider ,t,ejyfatter of" union or closer relations of the churches and re-, port to another meeting of the whole commission which , will be held at Chattanooga, Tenn., next spring. The committee was in ses sion here three dajrs. Appealing For Panama Exposition. New Orleans. Headed by Mayor Martin Behrman of New Orleans, a large delegation of Louisiana citi zens, ar.e. in -Washington to press be fore CorjgpeS the claims of this City for an exposition. Fought Duel With Swords. Paris. A''" desperate duel with swords was fought in the outskirts of Paris by the light of torches and automobile 'lamps. The principals in the duel were M. Raucourt, an actor, and M. Champagna ROADS BREAK TRUST LAW Charged With Violations of Sher-Anti-Trust Law. Grain Carried at Illegal Hates. Savannah, Ga. After hearing tes timony for several days the Federal grand jury of the United States oourt for southern district of Geor gia has handed.-jdown indictments charging infringement of the antij trust laws on ,-;the part of three large corporations and two individ uals. The Atlantic Coast Line Railway and Seaboard Air Line Railway were each jointly indicted with the - Merchants and Miners Transportation Company for spe cific violations of the Sherman anti trust and Elkins laws, while Ha'rvie Miller and Morris Miller, grain mer-; chants and members of the firm of L. F. Miller & Sons of Philadelphia, The Merchants and Miners Trans-j portation Company was indictea three times, once as a sole offen der, and twice in connection with me feeaooara Air L,me ana tne ai lantfc-Coast' Line railways. Morris".1-?.1 nf &'"lf '(. . . -Hand exnennif.nresrrrfi Sa.OOO.OuO IOW- r. Miner ana uarvie J. Miner, oi Philadelphia, were immediately ar rested and placed under bonds of 125,000 each. . ; The indictments v; are , lengthy, covering in. one instgnte 75 pages in each indictment 'specific allega tions are made of the acts which constituted the alleged infractions of the trust laws. .'I, The beginning of the investiga tion against the defendants arose from complaints registered with the Interstate Commerce Commission during the summer, to the effect that the Miller firm had effectively destroyed competition in grain 3hipments over an enormous terri tory embracing points along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, and in the South Atlantic- States. Tn -flftdilinn In this infra ft inn of the law, it was found that grammar. ,.fm us Bhipped from Western to Eastern points enjoyed the export rates in stead of domestic, and a .saving, of from one. to . three cents on' each hundred pounds was effected by the Philadelphia firm. FIFTY YEARS ON $567 ANNUALLY. Methodist Ministers DidThis Suc- ' pppssfullv nnrl Cnmfnrtahlv. Sardis," Miss,-That for 50 years he has been in the service of the Methodist. Episropal Chnrch South he has never- earned mcffeTth'an $467 yearly and that he has never left a debt behind, has lived, comfortably and has lived to see' the third gen eration of his descendants grow al most to maturity, was the statement of Rev. Dr. G. Bachman, of this city, beforei a meeting of the Historical Society of ' the North Mississippi Conference. .The, .Doctor accentuated his re marks by admonishing a large class of , young ministers just ordained that the business of young minis ters nowadays was thej salvation of men, not the struggle for church position and personal popularity. ."'He deplored the facf that the crgJ1 seems to have lost sight of this fact in recent years. i i n t Tillman's Son Sued by Wife. , Columbia, S. C Mrrs. Lucy Dugas Tillman has begun proceedings in the Edgefield county court to re cover from her husband, B. R. Till man," Jr., Senator Tillnian's son, $13,730.08 which she alleges the de fendant owes her from, the income from her property. Th"e suit is an outgrowth of the sensational habeas corpus - proceedings wnicn Mrrs. Lucy Dugas Tillman brougnt against Senator Tillman and his wife for the recovery of her two children, whom her husband had deeded to the Senator. The action resulted in a victory for young Mrs. Tillman. Assassin Fires at Prohibitionist. Lynchburg, Va. An unidentified man fired a revolver bullet through the window of the headquarters of the local Anti-Saloon League, - oc cupied by Rev. J..D.IcAlister, gen eral secretary of the State Arrli- Saloon League. The -bullet7 lodged in the wall directly over the desk of Mr. McAlister, who had left the room only a few minutes before the shooting. . Mr. McAlister has been leading the campaign of the "dry" forces in the license campaign. Canal 60 Per Cent Complete. New York. Members of the ways and means committee of the House of -. Representatives have reached Nw York from the'eanarzone, after having 'given hearings .to the -various departments of the canal" ser vice as to their requirements for the coming fiscal "year. -Evidence on estimates was taken for the amount to recommend to" Congress. Canal officials ask $47,000,000. Representa tative Tawney said that in the main the canal was CO per cent complete. UNDLE SAM IS NOT BROKE' Million Dollar Surplus October De 'flcit of $5,000,000 $34,000,000 on Hand $86,000,000 Gen.. Fund. Washington. November was a highly favorable month for the fi nances of the United States Treas ury. It produced a surplus on all accounts of nearly $1,000,000, where October had) produced a deficit of more than $5,000,000. Tjfie working conditions of the na tiofes cash drawer shows a ccfrres pdnding improvement for the month. December opened with a wprking balance of $34,000,000 on hand and $86,000,000 in the general fund, an improvement of a round $2,130,000 in the cash available for Immediate operations. This:-.con-dition wguljserjn to justify Secre tary'. MaoVeaghjsiConfidenee in the Treasury's abil$.j Jo maintain itself fos the present. without financing. As comparedvjJh this date last ; ' u ' n j th, er. Tne result oi all tnis is tnat ine iotal deficit for this fiscal year to 'datef is $20,000,000 as against $44, 000,000 this time last year. The general condition of the Treasury's finances seems to augur against any issue of securities in the immediate future. ' -' PRESIDENT EIGHTH TIME. Diaz Again Inaugurated Chief Mag- Mexico City. "It ,is very gratify ing to mq. to.' say tfiatmy- heart" is full of fa'ithv in the-progress of a people who, like the Mexican, has known how to conouerby .its. own efforts a place among the 'lovers of toi'lf after, having proved its valor m - i . ' i J C J J' f Ci. 30untry;-ana inac ner vp iuaay coma i aeciare tnat, jexiep; oeiouss defi,ni(;flyt-o the groiapof nattqnsof assured stability, because against the firm guarantee of peace which we possess, no -influence tending- to wards its dissolution can . bow'' or. ever shall be able to prevail. . "As to the relations between Mexi co and the United; States and ottycr friendly nations,, n$v.er t have -tney Been ihdre cordial, as waMndicated in a convincing manner during, the celebration ,qf, th.e; centennial"; ,of Mexico's independence." The above w;la the authbribed message of President 'XSazto all na tions on the eve of his inaugura tion for the ejglh,.tim?wi'.Chief Executive of the-' Mexican" nation, given expression,, .through ..medinra of the Associated "Press. A feature of the inauguration pro gram was -tlJe distribtJ&Jm - among the poor of thousands . of dollars worth of food and blankets.by the circle- of ff n'ends of President Diaz. Penniless, Pawned His 'Coffin.1 Atlanta, Ga. The high cost of living forced M. L. Breman to pawn his coffin. Some time ago Breman bought a coffin for his own use be cause he could '"pick itup' at., .a. margain." However, he needed some money and not having anything else to "soak" Iiq had- the catfln carted to a pawn shop. ' 1.. ,,. , Died at 90 and Neve Shaved. ' Nashville, Ind. Elbert . Merida, who ?ijve?l: his 90 years rwithout ever having been ' shaved or having his hair cut, is dead at his home near, here of typhoid fever. He was one of the oldest settlers of Brown county. In his-jittje-log house are a number of rattlesnake skins, to the wieafmg. of wftiwi as'belts .he. at tributed his. long life. .' Confederate Reunion May-16-18. .; New Orlepjie. eorge W. Gordon t geyeral commanding ., the ' United Confederate 'Veterans'; "announces thtrt.he. date pexLt annual re union of United -Com sdenate Veter ans, which will be held-:in Little Rock, Ark., have been fixd for May 16,. 17.and j8, 111. He'anuoyd also 'tnat' the CVnfederat Mmthern" Memorial Asocyition wl'dioldVits meeting in Little flock " simultan eously. This is expoeted to be one of the greatest reunions. End of Denominational Schools? Fitzgerald, Ga. That within ten years there would be little use for the denominational seminaries and colleges scattered through the States, as their places would be filled by the modern high schools, and that only the, higher institu tions of learning would be kept up by the Churches was the statement made here by Dean Walter Agnew of the Chattanooga University as he. ppoke before the Georgia Confer ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in session here. TAR HEEL TUBLIC TALK 0rst of Omrrtnt Gooaty ETenta Clipped and Conde&Md in Column. SOUTHERN'S SPECIAL WORK, r j Experts Will be Sent to Develop Western North Carolina. . Th'e Southern Railway Company, through its land and industrial de partment, is taking rteps to inaugurate a line of work recently outliried by President Finley, in which western North Carolina" is especially interested. . Mr. M. A. Hays, who has had long experience in development work of all kinds as a representative of the Southern Railway land and indus trial department in the New England, eastern, central, western and north western States, is to give special attention for the present to western NorthCaroIina. Invfdition to the work which Mr. HaysVill give his special attention to a trained horticultural and agri culture agent wil be placed in, west ern North Carolina, with headquar ters at Asheville, for educational andjntensive demonstration work among the farmers and fruit grow ers alrf ady , there , and those ' who may settle in the region. Thi3 agent wtfl-cjcoperate with the State Agri cultural Department, the United States Department of -Agriculture and '.all other agencies engaged. in advaryiipg the farming interests of the section. . . ... . NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE Part of the Work of lhel34thAnnuaI . During the past year the follow ing namepp members of the conference- lnve died:" Rev." R. A. .Willis;' Re wjs. Davis, Rev. B. B. Holder and,llev"X.;HGuy.ton a Twd fiew preachers were added to the "conference, ) these being Revs. John W. Frank from the Methodist Pr&testant Ch-urch and Rev. John J. Lewis from the Methodist Episcopal church. Editor Massey of The Raleigh Christian, Advocate made a report on the condition of the paperv The report shows a slight decrease in subs&ift.tfra but is in good condi tion generally. A sensation was sprung in the third days session when a letter was read from Rev, L. N. Booth of Chowan-vcircuit, acknowledging that he had misappropriated missionary and ccfnfptence funds amounting Ho about 200, that he had fled to New Jersey and could not return the money. Charges were immediately preferred and a trial ordered. -His-- congregation had recently presented him with a fine horsa and buggy and a new suit of clothes tbAvear to conference. Chowan circuit had paid all financial claims. Revi.s5- -Hv-Puckett has been a member "of conference for 25 years Cash and subscriptions amounting feto JSOQv'as presented ' to him to uiusu a new uuuse anu iol air tiary presented by Dr. McCracken andj others of, Sanford. Strange Cattle Disease. ' List?-stock owners in several sec tions of Iredell county are somewhat alarmed because of .the ravage iof a contagious deadly disease which seems to be something new in that section. Several farmers have re cently lost cattle which were at tacked by the new disease. -. , Thei'statfr department was appeal ed " to and an assistant state veterinarian has arrived to begin investigations of the desease. ;North Carolinian's Good Job. postmaster- ueneral Hitchcock has. appointed James J. Britt to be tljird assistant postmaster 'general?, vice A. L. Lawshe, who resigned lg.at ofiice some time ago. Mr. Brftt is law officer of the de partment and ranking official of the third assistant's bureau. Mr.-Britt is one of the most active and prominent young Repuiblcans of Western North Carolina, and has his home at Asheville. He is a na tive of Madison or Mitchell county and is self-made in every respect. Educators to Meet in Wilmington. The annual meeting of the south eastern division of the Association of County Superintendents will be held in Wilmington, Thursday, Fri day and Saturday, December 8, 9 and 10. High school principals and superintendents will also be in at tendance. There are five State di visions of the Asociation of County Superintendents and this district is composed of twenty counties," ' in which there are thirty-two high schools. THE GLASS WANTED - t ' Immigration Question Solved by Special' Commission. ABOUT 40 PRINTED ;Y0LUMES. -- : ; - Restrict Unmarried, Unskilled La borers Limit the Number Fop Any One Part And Declare What Races Shall be Admitted. Washington. Sentimental .consid eration in f restricting immigration "should be waived in lieu of the eco nomic problems arista? from ad verse effects on wages' and living conditions -which, the iffl'ge number of aliens have had in recent years by their entry into basic industries, according to the final report of the immigration commission, transmit ted to Congress. The commission unanimously urges the restriction of unskilled labor immigration. ' The commission crefated under the immigration act of 1907, has ex pired and the results of its three- all. phases of ithe immigration ques tion make about 40 printed volumes. '"The present immigration move ment," says the report, "is in large measure due , to economic causes, JLUU CHIigl ailUll J. L AUKXi. JJU li uuu now an absolute economic necessity and as a rule those who immigrate to, the United States are impelled ,by, a desire for better conditions rather than by the necessity of escaping from intolerable ones. This fact should largely modify the natu ral incentive to treat the immigra tion movement from .the standpoint of sentiment and .permit is consid eration! primarily T as an economic prpblem." . . . -'"v . ' fTh'e commission t presents for the con8ide.ratio'n' of ' Congress, several proposals by which " restriction of immigration might be effecled, in cluding reading and writing test, the exclusion of unmarried, amskill ediaborersi' limitations in the num ber arriving'' at" any one port and from particular Vaces; as well as in the amounts , of '.money required to be in their possession, on arrival. The immigrants , now coming, it is -agreed, "don't furnish any more criminals ..or. subjects for charity than thenaiive-bjprn but the ten dency . toward industrial and city life remains unchanged in spite of the fact that1 statistics show the im migrants, to have been more suc cessful 'in agriciultural pursuits, In connection xwith these findings, 'the repbrt urgesthat tiro dIvisidn,Qf ;; formation id the bureau of . immi "gratioh be , so Conducted ' as";to co pperateNyith the States and various societies in amore beneficial, dis tribution of -immigrants among ag ricultuarl se'j'tipjis where they are especially' needed.' . Efforts to exclude all. British East Indians through an agreement with Great Rritain thV . entitinnancA rf .the present Chinese .exclusion laws as' well as present rregulations .with regard. to Japanese and Korean im 'migration, the palsag'of'thc.'House KJII r iV, : J--i'-i: ! uiu ivl me . utpuriaiiuiJL.,)i auen criminals, with changes iri the im migra .tjdW. law to make it applicable to alien seamen .and 1 the appoint ment, of an additional assisfaAt sec retary ot'eommerce and Iabtt'; to de termine rmmigrafen appeals, are specifically .recommended. . Seaboard Employees Made.. JIannv. : Norfolk, Xa.A 5 per cent, in crease in satary.to all, -clerks jiq its service receiving $100 or less has been announced by; the Seaboard. CHARLOTTE MARKETS. v Charlotte Cotton. These figures represent prices paid to wagons: . ' '- Good midd ling ... .......... 1 4.35 v Produce. (Corrected by R.UL Fields & Co.) Chicken spring 20 23 Butter . . .20 25 Ducks .25 Geese per head .45 50 Hens per head 45 50 Eggs ' . 28 Charlotte "Grain. (Corrected by Coclirane-McLaughlin Company.) . He.. .. ... .-.. -.''. '. . , $1.10 Oats '. . w 52 Conv . . .".V. 78 Always Profit Industry. ' If you have great talents, - Industry Trill . improve them; ?tf "you havd but raqderate abilities, .fhdutry wiR sup ply their deficiency. Ifthltt,4s.-denlei to ibl obtained with"0Ut It, -aogsua R ey- noM3.