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V MMiHlimilMMII f : The Medium ' THrMifh whiek jtm reach the ; ; ! i people e Miioo County , . i ; ADVERTISING RATES ON APPUCATIC.1 ; ; iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiniiM - fJHLy VA.VE'RVMb- i 1 T a yrs in . A. 4t cnc ; I imihiiiiiiiiuhiihiim' ! r- is POLITICAL REFORM AND THE GENERAL UPBUILDING OF MADISON COUNTY. VOL. XI. MARSHALL, N. C, FRIDAYMAY 21, 190. NO. 20. Madison County Record. NORTH STATE Item of State Interest Gathered from Here and There and Told Briefly for THE WEATHER " BUREAU AKD ITS LATEST OBITIO. Raleigh SpecUL The work that is being done by the U. S. Weather Bureau is perhaps better known to the majority of citizens than that of any other Bureau of the Govern ment, and it hardly aeema necessary to defend it from such 'attacks as for instance that which appeared' in Ev erybody's Magazine for May. This attack was written by MivEmerson Hough, who makes specific charges, and these charges will be . reviewed and answered in order. First, he charges that the Weather Bureau is unduly expensive, but does not explain that the appropriation for this service is examined critical ly, item by ite,m by a committee of Congress, and that this committee voluntarily increased the appropria tion asked for by $133,200.00, and that last year more than $50,000.00 was returned to the U. S. Treasury. The Honorable) Jas. B. Mann said that this service is the most economi cally administered service, with the work that has been done, in the Gov ernment service anywhere. Second, that it does not progress. It would seem that progress is being made from the fact that representa- tives of weather organizations of Europe have visited this country for "the express purpose of studying meth ods and forecasting under the Chief of he U. S. Weather Bureau. Re searches of great value to the science of meteorology are being carried on by this Bureau, and the world's re cord for the greatest height reached by a kite carrying a meteorological instrument wss attained by this Bu reau at Mt. Weather, Va., the re search observatory; Third, that it is excessively explan atory. This is rather a virtu than a fault. The Weather Bureau has nothing that it wishes to keep secret. Its methods and results, however, must be made known, or the public would not have that sympathetic re lation with this Bureau that it now holds. Fourth, that the service is general and not specific. A knowledge of the problems involved in giving a specific forecast in regard to exact time and locality would at once dispel the charge that the service is too general. Forecasts are made as specific as the knowledge of the conditions will war rant. Fifth, that it is evasive and inten tionally ambiguous. The forecasts are formulated with great! care, and cannot have not in anv sense a Del phic interpretation. They are mado to cover a definite period and all fore casts are carefully examined to ascer tain the percentage of accuracy which varies from 80 to 85 per cent. Sixth, that it offers no well-founded hope of improvement in local fore casting. On the contrary every in ducemept is made to officials in the Weather Bureau to excel in local fore- ' easting, and the practical test - of merit at all experiments . and . all theoretical work is the measure of how much it will improve the fore casting of the weather. : In the cases of the ; Galveston storm and the storm' in which the steamship Portland was wrecked, which Mr. Hough claims the Bureau failed to forecast; the records of marine associations, of the local press, and of the Weather Bureau bear un impeachable testimony - to the fact that the Bureau gave ample warning of the coming of the Galveston storm that the Gulf was practically clean ed of vessels of commerce end no loss of property occurred in the .open sea, and that the morning before the pas- . sage of the storm hurricane signals - Times' Mercury Changes Hands. Hickory, . Special. A ; stock - com pany, with J. Y. Killran as president, and R. G. Mace as business manager, has bought the Times-Mercury, and will continue its publication,' but as strictly Republican paper. Mr. Click is no longer connected with the paper, -but will devote, his time to the Nutshell, a semi-monthly, which he began publishing a few month go. , Br. E. Y. Yates Dies Suddenly. ' Durham, Special Dr. B. Y. Yates, veterran minister : of the Methodist : church, and ' for- nearly . nine vears - lecturer in the department of Biblical Literature at Trinity., College, died Sitting in a chair at his hotel Friday . afternoon. He had been ailing since ' Sunday with a deep cold, but was np "' the street this morning, "After eat - ing his mid-day lunch, he went to the front porch and was sitting reading the paper when his head dropped for ward and he was dead in a few min utes, 'Heart trouble, with which he - had been afflicted for several years, was the cause of hh death. NEWS NOTES Baay Rc&dera. were ordered for Galveston and other Gulf ports. ; la regard to the ease of the Port land the New York Times of Dee. V 1J396 said: - "'In leaving Boston Saturday night the captain of the Portland took chances which no man in his posi tion had a right to take. From a source that warranted implicit be lief, he, like 'every other 'captain on (be Atlantic coast, had received warn ing that a storm of exceptional sever ity would strike him as soon as he leached open water, and that he knew that bis steamer, though well built and comparatively new, was of a type much better designed for enter ing shallow harbors than for encoun tering winter gales on as dangerous a cost as there is in the world. De spite all this and according tohis employer, in defiance of implicit or ders, he steamed out into the gather ing tempest. Why? Perhaps he be longed to the class, once large, but uow small and rapidly disappearing, the memberR of which sneer at the Government Weather Bureau, and prefer to rely upon old "signs" in stead of on new science as the basis of meteorological prophecy.1 Per haps a score of things. Only this is. certain, he should not have sailed, and he should not have been allowed to saiL" Odd Fellows Meet in Charlotte. Charlotte, N. C, Special. Char lotte was the property of the Odd Fellows of North Carolina Tuesday. Delegates to the meeting of the Grand Lodge were here by the hundreds and the streets of the city were aswarm with uniformed officers, representa tives of every town in the State in which is located a lodge of this great order. Others arriveed later. Ar rangements were made by the local entertainment committee to care for not less than 500 visitors. The var ious lodges of the State sent not less than 300 accredited delegates and many more were present for the pur pose of attending the meeting of the Grand Lodge, which occupied three days. , Indian Badly Wounded. Asheville, Special. A serious shooting occurred Friday afternoon about 5:30 o'clock in what was for merly known as the Hicks Souther "soft drink" place on south Lexing ton avenue, when it is alleged that Wade Wilson shot an Indian namsd Whippoorwill. Whippoorwill was drunk or near drunk and doesn't know much, about it. At first he said that the shooting was an accident and later that he was ordered out of the place and that the shooting followed. The Indian was taken to thj City Hall, his wounds dressed and he was then sent to a hospital. He. was shot through the arm and the breast and is said to be bleeding internally. Through Truck Train to New York. Newbern, Special Monday at a meeting of the truckers, Superiten dent Foster, of the Norfolk & South ern, and Superintendent. Fountain, held here, it was decided for the new through truck train to leave here at 11 a. m., for Goldsboro, where it wiU be mads a through train - for New York on the Atlantic Coast Line. The train will at present run on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and the Atlantic Coast Line will furnish 'ai far as possible ventilated cars for the service. The schedule is satisfactory to all and means better prices for the truckers as the goods will reach the markets earlier and in better condi tion - than ss is the case with the present schedule. ' Ex-Sheriff Drops Dead. Salisbury, ' Special J. Hodge Krider, former sheriff of Rowan coua ty, .dropped dead at his home in' Salis bury Friday from heart failure. He was called for breakfast; and when he failed to appear was found dead in his bed. . Ho was 52 years old, a well known officer, and is survived by one sod, seven daughters, two brother! and a sister.' The funeral takes place with Masonie honors, , ' .' Bandits Sold Up Train. Xv Spokane, Wash. Special. Follow ing the hold-up of the Great North ern passenger train by six bandits between Colbert and Mead Saturday night, 12 persons were injured when the locomotive and the mail cars, cut off' from the rest of the train, were run back wild by the bandits, after they had rifled the rest of the train. The conductor saw the wild ears coming back at 25 miles an hour. - He and another trainman placed a tie on the track, but the ears,, though part ly stopped, plunged into' the coaches, throwing passengers from their seats, eutting them with broken glass, - TAFTANDJJlETWENTItni -.' '' ' : - - -' -" ; The following anions poem was composed - by Mrs. Lisette Clayton Hood, hot connected with, the Mill News of Charlotte, N. C on the occa sion of the celebration of May 20th, ItKJt. Its historic as well as its pres ent day allusions, together with its rhythmic merit will make it a good scrap book preservation to the lovers of poesy. A Welcome to the President. The loyal folks of Mecklenburg Extend the glad right hand; Sweet smiles from Charlotte's daugh ters, The fairest in the land. Our gates are spread wide open, The keys are thrown away, The better pleased we all will be The longer you may stay. In Eastern florid verbiage . The town is wholly yours, And all that is therein contained In its historic doors. We give true Southern welcome To our illustrious Guest Who rules and treats us squarely, For he deserves our best. He freed my native City From years of deepest shame, Placed white man over white men; All honor to his name! This act alone has won him The Southron '3 deepest love, " He knows the race Caucasian Was meant to-keep above. Observe our senventy columns, Our noble arches three. Our granite shaft inscribing Those names which History Has writ and proved illustrious Despite the sneerers' claim, And tells the World the reason For Charlotte's deathless fame. Those brave old Mecklenburgers, In far Colonial days, First broke the chains of bondage And earned the nation's praise. Old England sent her minions To break our spirits free; "A nest of stinging hornets" They found our town to be. Our men are patriots ever, Our spirits just as lnc;hr Our valor still unquestioned, As in the dcys gone by. Our Southern hearts are loyal, All struggles past forgot, And Gray and Blue are blended On this historic spot. "Old Glory" here is waving So free on every side, A type of hope united In one grand, common pride. Observe the gallant escort, Furnished our President, The Blue and Grey unitrng Old soldiers worn and bent. We've slain the "Billy Possum," And "killed the fatted calf," Ahd give our heartiest welcome To William Howard Taft. Mrs. Taft Slightiy HL Washington, Special. Mrs. Taft. suffering from a slight breakdown, was taken ill Monday while on her way from this city to Mount Vernon on the yacht Sylph with a party of friends, and was hurried back to the White House. It was said at the White House Monday night that there is no cause for alarm and that Mrs. Taft probably would be all right again in a few days. She was unable to be present at an official dinner at the White House. - President Taft -"himself Monday night prepared the following state ment; in regard to Mrs. Taft's con dition r . "Mrs.. Taft is suffering from a slight nervous attack. She attended the Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital Monday morning, where Charlie Taft underwent a slight operation on his throat. She was. with him for sev eral hours. She then started with the President and a small party of friends on the Sylph for Mount Ver non. The excitement, heat and exer tion were too much for Mrs. Taft's nerves and the party was Obliged to turn . back before - reaching' Alexan dria. -Mrs. Taft wasi quickly carried to the White House. ' The doctor says that after a few days of com plete rest Mrs. Taft may be able to resume her social duties. Dr. De laney is in attendance. Mrs, Moore. Mrs. Taft's sister, acted ss hostess at the official dinner at the White House Monday night.' V V If ore . Than 10.000 ' Murdered in '- Adana, By Cable. The estimates of from 20,000 to 25,000 Christians killed by Mohammedans in the prov ince of Adana made a fortnight ago most be revised. It is now ascer tained that the number can hardly reach more than 10,000, possible less. Thousands who were - supposed to have been killed in the country dis trict have since come into some one of the large towns' for relief. It re mains a fact that much brutality was' suffered by women. GREAT MAN PASSES Bishop Galloway Dies After a Brief Illness of Pneumonia. QUITE NOTED METHODIST DIVINE Ifbst Prominent of the Bishops of Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Banked Among Greatest Pulpit Orators of America His Writings Covered Wider Bangs, Perhaps, Than Those of Any Other Person Connected With the Church. Jackson, Miss., Special. Bishop Charles B. Galloway, of the Metho dist Episcopal church South, died of pneumonia at his home here at 5 o'clock Wednesday morning. Bishop Galloway, Mississippi's s most distin guished divine and bestrknown pub licist, for the last twenty years held rank among the greatest pulpit ora tors of America. Orders were issued for all depart ments of the Federal, State, county and municipal government to remain closed Thursday, and Mayor Crowder has issued a proclamation urging all the business houses to close for the day. Bishop Galloway was possibly the most prominent of the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. He was born at Kosciusko, Miss., September 1, 1849, and graduated in 1868 from the University of Missis sippi. The decree of doctor of laws was later conferred wpen him by the Northwestern University and by Tu lane University. He entered the min istry in 1869. Bishop Galloway's writing covered a wider range, perhaps, than those of any other person connected with the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and he traveled extensively. For a number of years he took an active interest in the prohibition campaign in Mississippi and other Southern States. He was president of the board of education of the Methodist Episcopal church, South; president of the board of trustees af Millsaps Col lege and Vandcrbilt University and was a member of the board of trus tees of the Jolm F. Slater Fund. MONUMENT TO HENRY WIRZ. Veil From the Tall, Straight, White Monolith Was Loosed by Mrs. Per rin, Only Living Daughter of th Dead Commander. Andejsonville. Ga., Special. Under the Stars and Stripe-! and the Con federate Stars and Bars, there was dedicated here Wednesday the monu ment to Capt. Henry Wirz, comman der of Anderwonville prison, and exe cuted at Washington at the end of the war on order of a military com mission, which tried him for murder and flagrant cruelty martyred, not executed the Georgia. Daughters of the Confederacy unveiled the monu ment Wednesday in the hope that it will stand to see Wirz' memory, in time, considered everywhere in a friendly light. Over the hushed throng, scarcely a sound rippled, and tears sprang to hundreds of eyes a Mrs. Perrin, of Natchez, Miss., only living daughter of the dead comman der, loosed the veil from the talL straight, white monolith. Springtime flowers '- were heaped upon the monument, and speakers, who loved the respected "Lost Cause," stood near its base under the once rival flags and told many inci dents in the career of Wirz, stories of kindness to Northern prisoners and of attempts to secure for them food and shelter which he could not get.- . Pleasant A. Stovall,-editor of The Savannah Press, said thst the dedi cation was not intended to reopen questions long since settled, but to do an act of justice too long delayed. Of which Win j worked, he said: "Wirz was ham pered at every step by the exigencies of his own government., wniie en. Disk Taylor was traveling through south Georgia during the latter part of the war, he related that the train stopped at Andersonville. There en tered his car a Confederate officer named Wirz, who said he was in charge of the prison and that the men were greatly in need of provisions and . protection. They were without blankets and shelter and were inade quately snplied with food." .: ' - Memorial Tablet Unveiled. V Petersburg, Special A memorial tablet on the baattlefleld of "Bloody Angle" and a monument at Salem ehurch, in memory of the, New Jersey volunteers. whofeH on the battle fields of Spottsylvania county intte civil war were nn veiled WedneCSJBr. Col B. Massey. representing Governor Swanson, delivered the address . of welcome at the tablet unveiling. General Joseph Plume then transfer red the memorial to the State of New Jersey, and'GovernorFort, of that State, made a speech accepting and transferring it again to the Fifteenth New Jersey rcinnUer veterans -aso-cUtdon. ' v - WASHINGTON NOTES Razors were again used Monday in a hostile attack upon the rates of the Aldrieh bill pending before the Sen ate. The committee on finance had increased the rates on razors in" com mon use from about 56 to 100 per cent advalorem, and as soon as the Senate took up the cutlery sebedale, amendments offered by Mr. Simmons Saturday, eutting these rates - down, were rejected. That had no sooner been done than Senator Stone offered amendments reducing the duties on razors to the rates of the Dingley bill ; ; The judiciary committee of the Senate referred the Connor appoint ment to a sub-committee composed of Borah, of Idaho; Brandegee, of Connecticut, and Overman, of North Carolina. This committee will con sider the matter within the next few days. Senator Dixon, of Montana, says that he is getting a number of letters from North Carolina Republicans protesting against the confirmation of Connor on the ground that his ap pointment is a political mistake, as they see it. James T. Williams, Jr., who was appointed civil service commissioner by President Taft, has tendered his resignation and will go to New Mexi co for his health. He has discovered within the last week that he has tu berculosis. This comes as a severe blow to Mr. Williams and his friends. Although he is under 30 years of age he has made an enviable record here. After several hours spent in the Senate Wednesday in discussing the window glass schedule of the tariff bill, Senator Aldrieh asked that that paragraph be passed over. Some oth er sections relating to glass manufac tured articles, that previously had been passe dover, were agreed to. The Senate proceeded to the consid eration of passed over sections until the iron ore paragraph was reached, when Senator Crawford spoke at length upon the lack of wisdom of any tariff that encouraged the ex haustion of natural resources, which could not readily be reproduced. He insisted that there should be no tariff on iron ore, oil, lumber and coal. Early in the session, Senator Payn ter spoke at length in favor of the removal of the duty of six cents a pound upon leaf tobacco as a means for freeing the tobacco growers from the control of the tobacco trust. Senator Simmons offered an amend ment to the window glass schedule of the tariff bill, reducing the rates be low those suggested by Senaor Cum mins in his amendment to the same paragraph Tuesday. "The rates proposed bv you are the rates of the, Wilson bill, are they not?'' inquired Mr. Aldrieh, address ing the Senator from North Carolina. "Well," replied Mr. Simmons, smiling and hesitating, "that should not be an argument against them. I think if that is the case it weuld rather be a commendation." Substantial progress was made in the consideration of the tariff Tues day, the amendments of the com mittee on financo being upheld by the Senate by substantial majorities. A feature of the day's session was a general discussion concerning the great disparity between wholesale and retail prices of commodities. Re publican Senators declared that this difference was so great as to demon strate that the duty levied by a pro tective tariff had small effect on the price paid by the consumer. On motion of Mr. Aldrieh the sec tion relating to soap was amended so as to place a duty of 50 per cent ad xalorem on perfumed soap. The House provision on Sulphur was further amended so as to place erode sulphur on the free list and to provide for a duty of $4 a ton on re fined sulphur. Speaking in favor of a reduction of the duties' on stone and earthenware as a means of giving the people gen erally cheaper goods of that kind, Mr. Bacon offered an amendment' re ducing the rate from 60 to. 35 per cent ad valorem. Mr. Bacon's amendment was de feated by a vote of 25 to 54, Senator LaFollette being the only Republican who voted in the affirmative with the Democrats. , Almost the entire session of tht Senate Friday was given np to a de bate on the profits of the United States Steel Corporation and toward the end of the day, personalities were freely indulged in by Senators. This occurred after Senator Root had spoken in defense of the finance committee end in criticism of Sena tors who had, eomplained of the fail are of that committee to provide more ample information concerning various schedules. Mr. Money resented what he characterized as a lecture to the Senate, by Senator Root, and said if he desired less speaking in the body "hi should do less of it himself." MAINE REMEMBERED Will Erect Monument to SaSore Who Went Down With Her SIGSBEE DESCRIBES JHSJ$Esv,. Admiral Who Was in Command ef the m-Fated Battleship at the Time of Its Destruction Delivers XQasv trated Lectors Tor the Benefit f the Maine Memorial Association, Washington, Special. For the ben efit of the recently organised Maine Memorial Association, whose purpose is to erect in the national capital a suitable monument to the American sailors who met their death in the sinking of the battleship Maine ia Havana harbor on February 15, 1898, Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee, who was in command of the fated vessel at the time of her destruction, Saturday gave by request an illus trated lecture here before a large audience, describing the disaster. "In many ways it is made obvious that public sentiment regarding the Maine has continued beyond ordinary bounds," said Admiral Sigsbee. "Many disasters have occurred be fore and since, yet none in recent times has held public interest like that of the Maine. Her destruction was a turning point in our own his tory and in the history of Spain a turning point for the better in both cases, let us hope. "The mission of the Maine was en tirely friendly," he explained. "It had no further import than to re assure our citizens in Cuba and te protect them and give them assistance 111 case of necessity." , Admiral Sigsbee narrated in detail the events succeeding the Maine's departure from Key West for Havana on January 23, 1908. Arriving at LTcvaua, the Maine was taken by the pilot to one of the bouys commonly reserved for war vessels. "It was widely supposed in tba Upited States that the Maine was afterward shifted by the Spanish authorities to another buoy, but this was an error," he said. He also denied that the Maine enter ed Havana harbor militantly. Continuing, Admiral Sigsbee said it was important that he should know that state of popular feeling in Havana regarding the Maine and ap parently the best way to learn this was to attend a bull fight. "I have been made ansthema for this by cer tain pious pcoplo. Bull fights were given only un Sunday but my object was not pleasure. It has been decid ed that my ship's company was doomed because of attendance at the the bull fight on Sunday, yet none who went to the bull fight were in jured in the loss of the Maine. Admiral Sigsbee graphically de scribed the scene on the Maine on the night of the explosion. To bear out the contention of the court of inquiry that the Maine was sunk bv a submarine mine, he called attention to the parallel in the destruction by contact with ,u mine of the Russian battleship Petropavlovsk during the Russo-Japanese war. Regarding the policy of raising the Maine I have nothing to say," he said. "It might be better to ask 'why is not the Maine removed t" He predicted that she probably would be blown up in detail as the only practical solution of the problem. Seaboard Loses by Fire. Portsmouth, Va., Special. Fire of unknown origin, accompanied by an explosion, destroyed the general warehouse of the Seaboard Air Line Railway at the railroad terminals here early Sunday entailing a loss of frona $100,000 to $150,000, aod re sulting in the injury of four men, one " being seriously hurt. The injured are: Fireman Walter Bissett, Night ' Yardmaster Matheson, Tom Sellers, colored, unknown white man. Sultan's Women Driven From Palace. Constantinople, By Cable. Eighty women from Abdul Hamid 's harem, . riehly dressed and veiled, were driven in carriages Sunday under the escort of four eunuchs and a troop of -cavalry from the Yildiz to the ancient , Seraglio palace, which has been mi occupied since abont 1S24. Curious bystanders were driven away from the exitof the Yildiz palace by s . (oard of soldiers. The Confederate Reunion. Memphis, . Tenn., Special As- -nouncement is made by the general executive committee that all will be in readiness for the Confederate re union, which will meet in Memphis on June 8, 9 and 10 and all indica tions point to one of the most suc cessful gatherings in the history of the organisation. All Confederate veterans, who desire free accommo dations, wiH be cared for in a general manner. The general committee makes announcement that food, lodg ing and medical attendance will be provided for each and every old sol dier, who shall maka his wants known.
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