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New Speech Ochiltree Didn't Make Noted Ttyn Was Prepared to Protest Against the Holding Up of His t Pay ' But House Came to His Rescue. Ills friends used to call the late Toia Ochiltree, congressman from the Galveston (Tex.) district In the early eighties, Thomas Porterhouse Ochil tree, but that middle name was face tious, probably due to the fact that Tom Ochiltree was regarded In his flay as the best Judge of a good beef iteak to be found in Washington. To day Tom Ochiltree is almost forgotten, but for nearly twenty years he was a national character. He was a man who attracted attention wherever he went, and on meeting him for the first time one could not avoid admitting to himself: "Here is one of the most astonishing personalities I have ever seen." Notwithstanding a peculiar and In dividualphilosophy of expression, Ochiltree, . was one of the wittiest, kindliest," jcost sympathetic and most original ofmen. When General Grant was president, he met the Texan, who st that time was living in or near Gal veston. The originality of the man, the qualntness of his thought and ex pression and the magnetism of man ner, which was almost hypnotic in its Effect upon many persons gained for Ochiltree the friendship of the presi dent. At.the first opportunity General Srant appointed him ' United States marshal for the southern district of Texas. Tom Ochiltree, although a good Confederate as long as the Con federacy had any chance, had accepted the results of the war In good faith, and had become a Republican. In the early eighties the Galveston Slstrict was still Republican. The party nominated and elected Tom Ochiltree to congress because Ochil tree had an unusual gift for getting anything his constituents wanted, and not as a joke, as the matter was re garded in some quarters. His seat In the house of representatives was almost directly behind that of Judge James B. Belford of Colorado, him Belf a most eccentric personality," but, like Ochiltree, a man of strong com mon sense. Both men were distin guished for hair that was fiery red. Belford's beard was also of that hue. Ochiltree wore no beard, but had a musutcne m wmcn eacn inaiauai nair Btood out like a fiery bristle. He was a moon-faced man,-while Belford had thin, hatchet-like features. The cor ner of the house in which they sat was sometimes designated as the "place of the burning bush." "Tom," said one of his friends, who met him one night at Chamberlain's, then the most frequented restaurant In Washington, "when are you Agoing to make your first speech?" Story of Panic Frederick D. Tappan's Account of How He Won a Bet on the Resto ration of Public Confidence by Repeal of Sherman Law. "If the Inner history of the so-called Carlisle panic of 1893 were recorded, presume no story ever written which Eas to do with financial matters would be found to contain more dramatic and sensational details," said the late Frederick D. Tappan, the financier who, in 1896, Induced the New York city banks to loan $20,000,000 in gold to the United States to avert a finan cial upheaval. "You know that the Carlisle panic was really a money famine. It was caused by the fear that Mr. Carlisle, as secretary of the treasury under President .Cleveland, might . be com pelled to do what he avowed publicly he might have to do pay all the ob ligations of the government in silver. There was practically suspension of money payment by the banks of the United States. "The Clearing House association of New York and those of other cities ieic mac uas imperative mat tney should take some action. It was spoken of as a wonderful thing that the committee of the New York Clear ing House association, which had charge of accepting securities from the banks and of issuing clearing house certificates upon these securi ties, should have baen able to pass in stant judgment upon the value of these securities although we were accepting them by millions. You see, we were obliged to say, when securities were 'brought to us, what the value of each kind of security was; then, having established the value, to allow a prop er margin, and then to issue clearing house certificates to the bank which offered these securities, these certifi cates being good in payment of bal ances at the clearing house. "But I can tell you a much more dramatic and important circumstance than that with which the public was made familiar through our ability in stantly to estimate security values, and it reveals the great part that con fidence plays' In all business. "The panic was caused by an In I "When I have something to say," Ochiltree replied. "I didn't come here to hear myself talk." A few evenings 'later, Ochiltree met the same friend at the same resort, and said: "I am going to make a speech pretty soon, and I know that It will be heard' not only In, but out of congress." "What are you going to talk about, Tom?" the friend asked. "I am going to rise to a question of personal privilege. Then I am going to ask '.he speaker whether the house of representatives is going to play second fiddle to a damned little clerk in the treasury department.'-' . "What's the matter, Tom?" his friend asked. "Well, I went to the sergeant-at-arm's office to get my month's pay; just at this time It would come In rather handy. But the sergeant-at-arms told me that he hadn't any money for me. I wanted to know why, and he told me I would have to see some clerk down in the treasury de partment; that he was powerless; he hadn't got the money. "So I went on a tour of Investiga tion and located that little clerk, who lnfor.med me that my accounts as United States marshal in Texas hadn't been made good, that there was a "deficit, and that he was holding back my pay as congressman until that Tribute Amused Voorhees Comical Incident That Occurred When the "Tall Sycamore of the Wa bash" Was Compaignlng for "Blue Jeans" Williams. The survivors in the Btate of In- dlana bf the exciting political cam- palgns in which Oliver P. Morton, war governor of Indiana and Republican United States senator; Joseph E. Mc Donald, United States Senator; Thomas A. " Hendricks, twice candi date for vice-president of the United States and once elected,, and Benja min Harrison were among the great campaigners and political managers speak, "after all, with the greatest reminiscent interest of the campaign in which "Blue Jeans" Williams was the Democratic candidate for gov ernor, in 1876. Indiana at that time was an October state that is to say, it elected its state ticket in October preceding the presidential election of the same year. Therefore, It was re garded as of the highest importance both by Republicans and Democrats that the state should be carried for their party. None of these campaigners, how everand it used to be said in Indi- Days of 1893 stant loss of confidence. I said to my friends in the clearing house: 'We must take steps to restore confidence. There is a limit to our capacity to lend clearing house certificates upon securities, but I . am convinced that if the government at Washington will take the first step, then we can move off in time with that step, and In that way begin to check the pan ic' "I made a little wager with one of my banker friends. I bet him that if President Cleveland called an extra session of congress to repeal the Sherman sliver law which wa3 the cause of the trouble then on that very day we would notice a decrease In the demand for clearing house cer tificates. Furthermore, I stipulated that if the house of representatives, in a special session called by Mr. Cleveland, should repeal the Sherman law, we would instantly notice a heavy decrease In the demand for clearing house certificates; and I also declared that If congress should re peal the Sherman law, the demand for certificates would, cease within a week. "Well, when President Cleveland summoned congress into special ses sion In August of that year, we saw at once that the climax of the demand for certificates had been reached. That meant that a little confidence was returning. When the house of representatives repealed the Sher man law, some two weeks later, the demand for certificates fell off heav ily. In ths six weeks that the senate was fighting to prevent repeal the de mand ceased almost entirely and the banks began to take up their securi ties by depositing certificates. On the day that the senate adopted the re peal, practically every dollar of certi ficates had been redeemed, and the day after President Cleveland signed the repeal law every dollar had been redeemed. "My friend cheerfully paid the bet. I had won, ar.d he agreed with me that this was the greatest object lesson showing how vital is the part confi dence plays In modern business and banking we had ever known in the United States." (Copyright, 1911, by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) deficit was squared up. 1 made some remarks to. him. Now, tomorrow I am going to ask the speaker whether a little two-cent clerk In the treasury department can hold up the pay from a member of congress." ' But the next day Tom Ochiltree did not make the speech. It was not nec essary. Just as he expected, the house of representatives overnight had become greatly stirred up by a report that a treasury clerk was holding up the pay of a member of congress. "If Tom Ochiltree owes the govern ment money, let the government sue for It," his fellow members declared. "We won't have a clerk In the treas ury department interfering with our rights and privileges." At once they jammed the necessary resolution through, and in a short time Tom Ochiltree got his money without mak ing his speech.--""' (Copyright. 1911, by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) A Sootable Act. Publisher Let's see: On page 20 you say of your heroine, who lives in Pittsburg, that "she clutched the air convulsively." Author Yes. What of it? Publisher Oh, nothing, only I sup pose the next thing she did was go and wash her hands. 1 Couldn't Blame the Restorer. Barber Hair getting thin, sir. Tried our hair preparation? Customer No; I can't blame It on that. Brooklyn Life. ana not all of them put together gained and held such Vast crowds as did Daniel W. Voorhees, who already had become widely known as the "Tall Sycamor,e of the Wabash." No great barbecue was considered com plete unless the "Tall Sycamore" was present to address the crowds. He had a b fc for.outdodr speak- ing, and he knew how to use It ef fectively. ' During the campaign a barbecue was held tn one of the towns of the southern part of the state. The an nouncement was made that Thomas A. Hendricks, who had been governor and United States senator, would ad dress the meeting, and that Joseph EL McDonald, then chairman of the Dem ocratic state committee, and newly elected United States . senator, also would speak. The people came into town by thousands and all business was suspended. Eight hundred maid ens, wearing simple dresses of blue jeans, made a most Impressive spec tacle. They symbolized, In that way, the popularity of "Blue Jeans" Wil liams. Senator Hendricks spoke. The vast throng listened patiently and respect fully, without making any special demonstration. Then Senator McDon ald was introduced. The people of Indiana liked to hear McDonald, es pecially if his address were not very long. He spoke soberly, earnestly, and to the minds of his hearers, not to their passions or emotions. - Far back on an improvised platform sat the "Tall Sycamore of the .Wa bash." His head was plainly visible, overtopping those of all the others who were seated on that platform. There were occasional calls .for Voor hees, but he paid no heed to them, for it was not his time to speak. At last, the chairman rose to present their distinguished fellow citizen, Dan iel W. Voorhees, saying that-he need ed no introduction. Instantly that great throng let free its restrained emotions. For some moments Voor hees stood patiently and calmly re ceiving these tributes. Then he raised his hand and the storm of applause ceased suddenly. The silence was im pressive by reason of its contrast to the vociferous acclaim of a moment before. Voorhees had Just opened his mouth to speak when a farmer who sat in the first or second row of improvised benches rose, and, turning to the great audience, shouted, in a high, squeaky voice: "And now, feller citizens, we are go ing to have what we've been waitin' these two hours for. We are going to have some speechifyin' that means business!" Voorhees could not contain himself. He burst Into laughter. The great au dience was convulsed, and yet it showed Its approval of those plain spoken sentiments. When quiet was at last restored Voorhees did- give them some speechifying that count ed; and of this demonstration Senator McDonald afterward said that it was without exception the greatest tribute to a stump speaker he had ever seen or heard, and that Dan Voorhees did justice to it in his speech. (Copyright, 1911, by K. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) His Grievance. Weary Voice (from doorway) MJ dear sir, -I have absolutely no objec tion to your coming here and sitting up half the night with my daughter, nor to your standing on the doorstep for three hours saying good night. But in consideration for the rest of the household who wish to get to sleep, will you kindly take your elbow off the bell push? London Opinion. REPORT OF SCHOOLS REMARKABLE SHOWING IS MADE IN THE PAST YEAR BY DUR HAM SCHOOLS. NINE LOCAL TAX DISTRICTS Three New Schools Have Been Erect d at Coat of $8,500 The Except tlonal Class of Teachers Responsi ble For the Good Work, . Durham. The report of the county school board to the state board for the year closed will show school prop erty in this county to be $75,000, of which the whites own $68,000 and the blacks $7,000. The showing for the past year has been remarkable. Three new schools have been erected at a cost of $8,500, making their average nearly $3,000.. There are now nine local, tax districts in the county, two of which were secured last year, one .of these without a dissenting vote. At one of these schools, Lowe's Grove, there will be a change into a rural high school, of which there are now three in the county outside east and west Durham and the city schools. . With a smallpox epidemic that ar rested the work of the Rougemont and Bahama schools, the average term in the white schools exclusive of holidays was 155 days and in the colored 140. In local tax districts there was an average attendance among the whites "of 167 days and among the colored 160. Thus Durham came very close to an average eight months' term, which shows that the people patronize the schools in the country and send their children almost as long as the city school children may go. Statistics are rarely intersting, but the figures of Superintendent C. W. Massey show good work. The system over which he presides owns a wide reputation for its excellency. It is a plant which has been the admiration of hundreds of school people through out the state and the work done has been of high grade. There are thirty-five country school equipped with patent desks and seven teen of the schools have two or more teachers. , Twenty-five white schools teach high school subjects. There are twenty-eight rural white and five colored libraries. There are 7,395 vol umes In these. Of the 3,892 whites and 2,311 color ed children on the census roster, 2,691 whites and 1,241 blacks are enrolled. Commission to Have Summer School. Raleigh. The North Carolina Li brary commission has started a sum mer school at the State Library. . The course will be given by Miss Minnie W. Leatherman, secretary of the. Library Commission and organizer of libraries throughout North Caro lina. Miss, Leatherman says that the course is Intended for those who are actively engaged in library work, and is not meant as a preparato" library course. The purpose is main. to help the librarians of small libraries, al though the lectures will also, it is hoped, be useful to library workers who have had considerable experience. There' will be jfectures on the tech nical side of library work that is to say, on selection of books,, classifica tion, and .cataloguing which things, by the way, have been developed into a science during. the last decade orso. Miss Leatherman has. just returned from a stay 'of nearly two weeks at the Appalachian Training School at Boone, in 'Watauga county. At this school, which, for the western coun ties, corresponds to the Eastern Caro lina Teachers' Training School at Greenville. ' Miss Leatherman classi fied the training BChool library i and also gave lectures on books and school libraries. As the teachers present , represented the country schools for the most part, the rural school library was the subject, as a general thing, of the lectures given. Greensboro. The city commission ers are threatening to indict all own erii of dogs who have not paid the tax on the canines; also they are thf eatening to indict all persons liable for special privilege taxes -who have pot paid them as required by -law. - Planning For Boat Races. Mount Holly. Alive and appreciat ing one of Mount Holly'B natural re sources, the Mount Holly Progressive Club is now planning to induce cer tain North Carolina colleges to adopt boating as & feature of athletics. A lake here, formed by the Catawba river, which is five miles long and nearly a mile wide, is an adequate body of' water for this sport. The accessibility for practice perhaps dis favors the proposition. However, members cf the club are of the opin ion that the matter can be arranged. Special Meeting of Alumni. Greensboro.---A special meeting of the Greensboro , alumni of the . Unk versity of North Carolina was held there being thirty members present. President Dr. . J. E. Brooks presided.; The object of the meeting wa3 to con sider the new plan of state organiza tion as adopted at commencement last May. W. H. Swift, who un der this plan-had, been selected as state field manager of the organiza tion, explained, the details " thereof, and it was cordially endorsed. More than this was done. . " - NEWS FftOM TAR HEEL STATE Short Paragraphs That Have Been Collected For the People of -. the Old North State. Elizabeth City. Owing to the fact that S. A. ' Kean & Co., of Chicago, the highest bidders during the recent opening of bids "for the sale of the fWCOOfl bonds for street paving: and curbing purposes, failed to make good their bid, the board of aldermen is now advertising for bids for the bonus. Oxford. Granville county has suf fered the loss of a good citizen in the death of Thomas D. Waller. He was a great grandson of Job Waller, who came to North Carolina from Maryland many years before the Rev olutionary war and settled on Knap of Reeds Creek. He and his sons took part in the Revolutionary ' war. Salisbury. Charged with a gjerlous assault upon Mrs. R. R. Davfavti1 well known Rowan woman, Etta Fettus, colored, was lodged in the Salisbury jail. The colored woman went to the home of Mrs. Davis to pick berries and when asked to leave the premises assaulted Mrs. Davis with a club, in flicting serious injuries. , Raleigh. A new ambulance com pany has been formed in Raleigh, called Ambulance Company No. 1. The new company, belonging to the Med: ical Corps, is under the temporary command of First Lieutenant W. C. Horton, the Raleigh physician who (organized the new company. The corps to which this company belongs is commanded by Surgeon-General S. Westray Battle, of Asheville. Dunn. It seems that the tigers in Dunn are not afraid of the new prohi-" bition law, judging from-the actions' of a bold member of the wet and morally stunted" brotherhpod. One of the above-named received' a large package by express and immediately proceeded to hand out pint bottles s his friends, but sad to relate, the chief came up about that time and captured the tiger and the remaining thirty-one pints which .he had not sold. Recorder Smith is studying up on the new law. Fayetteville. The arbitrators ' ap pointed by the commissioners of the two counties to arrange a settlement! between Cumberland and Hoke coun-. ties and determine the proportion of Cumberland's indebtedness , which should be borne by the newly-created county have made their report. The arbitrators, who are Messrs. Q. K. NImocks- and Z. B. Newton for: Cum berland and J. H. Smith and Senator J. W. McLauchlin for Hoke,-, place Hoke's share of its parent county's liabilities at $13,250. Wilson. While walking along the tracks of the Atlantic Coast Line Rail road, near the cotton mill, Mr. S. C. (Sun) Stallihgs, was struck by a Southbound passenger train. He died from , the wounds he received. It is said by some that he vjvas walking just ahead of the train; by others that he was walking the foot path and just as the train got near him he stepped in front and was knocked quite a ' distance, . his head striking a cross-tie. The negine was reversed so quickly that it gave the passengers a severe shock. Spencer. North Carolina's globe trotter, Frank A. Orr, of Charlotte, passed through Spencer en r"bute to New , York city, .rolling a wheelbar row, under a wager of $500. The wager is between a New York and an Atlanta man and the terms provide that the looser shall roll the wheel barrow back to Charlotte. Mr. Orr Is in fine trim and expects to win. He is allowed to time himself to twenty miles per day, which he is easily making. He secured letters of endorsement in Spencer addressed to Mayor Gaynor, of New York. Statesville. Deputy Colector Davis has returned from Alexander county, where he and Sheriff Adams, of Alex ander, gave the blockaders a round. They captured and destroyed one of the best equipped illicit distilleries found in these parts. Three men were at the plant and were prepared to camp there for some time. When the officers approacned the place the operators ,left in such great haste that they didn't get all -their wearing apparel. The officers chased them Into the tall timbers but could not overtake them. , , Rowland. A large crowd of 2,000 to 2,500 people attended the new coun ty rally .. and picnic at Alfordsville. This historic old spot, the scene of many festivities in bygone days, never witnessed a larger or more enthusi astic crowd than assembled here on this occasion. , ' Morehead City. While Mr. Kennedy of Fall Creek, holds the record for the largest catch of Spanish mackerel and blue fish, Mr. E. H. Gibson, of Laurinburg, and Mr. W. R. Carr, of Spartanburg, S. C, hold the record for catching drum. They caught drum,7 weighing from 12 to 35 pounds ,Win8ton-Salem. The increase in value of taxable property in WJnston Salem this year amounts to one mil lion seven hundred and sixteen thou sand seven hundred, personal "pro perty aggregates thirteen million four hundred and sixty-one thousands one hundred and fifty-four dollars. Elkin. A severe electric storm vis ited this section. Two men guarding convicts at work on the Elkin & Alleghany Railroad, four miles north of Elkin, were 'struck by lightning, one, Mr. C. R.-McCfrady, being killed; instantly, and" Mr. Walter Slmmoa. was seriously Injured. THE AMENDMENTS HAVE BEEN LOST SENATE SHOWS, ITS INTENTION TO ENACT THE CANADIAN . RECIPROCITY BILL. FIGHT GIVEN UP BY CUMMINS The Amendments That Were Offered - t by the Iowa Senator and Those Offered ' by Senator Simmons Are Defeated by a Decisive Vote. t. Wash,on.N-The Canadian reel- flrocky bill emerged unscratched from the most serious ordeal It hasv yet ex perienced in the Senate. The series of . amendments offered "by 'Senator Cummins of Iowa and the two" offered by Senator Simmons of North 'Caro lina, all seeking to increase the num ber of Canadian manufactured articles that shall be admitted to the United-, States free of-duty, were voted down by' large majorities. The vote, in favor of the amend ments was . so small that Senator Cummins only asked for five roll calls," kalthough he had previously announced I 14- J - i- C i. fL'-J.1" M 11 A t . l -mo iiiijeuuou vl asKiug ior at least 'ten. .The'm&rthium vote for his tariff amendments' was 1, compared to a maximunv vote of 53 against. The defeat of the Cummins amend ments clears the situation in the Sen ate, and leaves the reciprocity bill muchnearer final "passage. ' Sefla'tibr Bailey offered an amend-ment.jfepf.'tfie'-House woolen tariff bill, imposing a duty of 25 per cent on raw ; wool.; Hewill ask: for the considera-; tlon of this amendment and of his ' farmers' free list .amendment, 1' ' Senator Cummins, - after the first few votes J on his amendments ex- . pressed the conviction that it, was the intention" of the Senate not to change the agreement in -any particular and that it&was useless t;o 'press the Senate for 'further votes. Oiuthe proposal to put: flour and cereal products on the list of articles whic'fi.the United States will admit free from. Canada, Senator Cummins was defeated," 52 to 14; on the proposal to put agricultural imple ments on this list he was defeated 53 Lto 12; on the .proposal to put lumber on the list he was defeated 51 to 12. Other amendments voted down pro posed to admit .. free; from Canada, without demanding like treatment of American products," automobiles, iron ore, pig iron, coal,-' "rubbier, cotton, wdblen, leather and silk goods. Senator Bristow demanded a rec ord vote on the rubber . amendment . but enough Senators would,, not join in the demand. rr: ha is:nj wii C- I lo Meyersdale, Pa. Five... men" were killed and two seriously injured when , a traveling ; crane . .bearing a 14-ton steel girder collapsed at a new viaduct being constructed by , the- Western Maryland Railroad at Salisbury Junc tion, one mile below, here. The dead: " John Scott, McKeesport, Pa.; Joseph Smith, Grove City, Pa.; J. R. White, Grove City, Pa.; 'C. H. KennedyrNew River, Va.; E""L.. Sanders, Bulloch ville, Ga. . .. The injured are: A. E. Kluttz of Salisbury, N. C, and 1. C. Garrfer of Belton, S. C, bothof whom, may die. The men we're all structural -'iron workers and were killed or injured In the fall. They were in the employ of the- McClintic-Marshall Construction Company of Pittsburg1 The heavy girder was neing conveyea iosme west bank of tile Casselman river : when , the crane toppled and crashed to the ground. '"; '' Educational Association Session.- San Francisco. The : acceptance bf the resignation of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler from the board of directors -of the National Educational Association and the formal opening of the 'forty ninth annual convention of the asso- ; elation at the Greek theater of. the;); University of California in Berkley oc-; cupied the delegates. Thousands of teachers crowded the Hillside theater ' in the campus of .the,. University of . California, where the .convention was formally opened- 7 Elks Are divert' Freedom of City. Atlantic City.iN.. J. Although they had already taken he town by storm the thousands of Elks for their annual : reunion gathered in the marine ball room on the steel pier and permitted, the people of Atlantic. City , to formally give them the freedom of .' the city. The principal address of welcome in . the absence of Gov. Woodrow Wilson, , who had expected to be here, was made by Harry Bacharach exalted ruler of the Atlantic City lodge. August Herrmann of Cincinnati, the grand exalted ruler, responded. Chespeake and Ohio FenStrike. Richmond, Va. Negotiations be tween officials of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway and representatives of the Various organizations of employes of the system, growing out of a de mand for increased pay; for the men and which have been in progress since July 1 are understood to hav9 ended with the decision of the men to strike. A vote of the men is said to have re- 1 suited in this decision. President Stevens has. telegraphed here that he would" not "consider any increase of "wages under present condition.
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