mod- iniiinnninniinriHt . tltt- ' fllllllllllllllllllllllllH Medium which you reach the ; - 1 a yXr in A.d'Vanc ', ', ; Job rrlaSa ftroafcljr H-if Do. ' ' iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMtt naauon vouniy Vi- v A va,t mvEimaii i ADVERTISING RATESON APPLICATION i iMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlT POLITICAL REFORM AND THE GENERAL UPBUILDING OF MADISON COUNTY. VOL. XI. MARSHALL, N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1909. NO. 39. ' i .I ' '.. . ' vVv' V. 1:1. - '" ' -'J ' v " laaison othw DR. COOK AT N. Y. BANQUET Makes Aftcr-DInner Speech in Which He Gives . Credit to Others Rather Than Himself Takes Lesson From the Wild Man. ' New York, Special. Cheered by a thousand men and women as he en tered the banquet hall on tho arm of Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley , (retired) Dr. Frederick A. Cook told his story. Thursday ,night before the most brilliant audience that he . has addressed since he loft the court of Denmark. ' While there was no official repre sentative from either State or nation, the assemblage was cosmopolitan and enthusiastic. Crowded in the great ball room of the Waldorf-Astoria they toasted the Brooklyn explorer and listened attentively to his resital .in the form of an after-dinner ad dress. Among those at the tables wore ex- plorers, some of wbom know the dan gers and suffering of the Artie Zone almost as well as Dr. Cook himself. Man of science were there also.but the address was not technical. Commander Peary's name he did not mention except at the end of his speech, when he said: '.'There' is glory enough for all." r. , After due greeting for the ovation Dr. Cook said : "The key to frigid endeavor is sub sistence. There is uothing in the en tire . realm of the Artie, which is impossible to man. If the animal fires are supplied with adequate fuel there is no cold too severe and no obstacle too great to surmount. No important expedition has ever returned because of unscalable barriers or impossible weather. The exhausted food supply from a limited means of transporta- . tion has turned every aspirant from his goal. In the ages .- the Polar quest, miieh has been tried and muck has been learned.' ' Most Important Lesson. "Tire most important lesson is that civilized man, if he will succeed, must bend to the savage simplicity neces . sary. ' The problem belongs to mod ern man, 'but for its .execution we most begin with the food and tho means of transportation of 'the wild man. .' Even this must be reduced and simplified to fit the new environment. . "The effort of getting to the Pole . is not one of physical endurance! nor ' is it fair to call it bravery ; but a proper understanding of the needs of . the stomach and a knowledge of the limits of the brute force of the mo tive power, bo it man or .beast. : " " i "The conquest was only .possible , with the ! accumulated 'v lessons of, early ages of experience.' The fail ares of our less successful predeces sors were stepping, tone to ultimate' success. The real pathfinders of the Pole were the early' ! Danish,' the Dutch, the English and the Norse. ...' Obligation to. Wild Man, ;'. "Obligation is due to the wild man. The twin families of wild folk, the Eskimo and the IndiaL were impor tant factors to us. Tfle use of pem- COMMANDER. PEARY IS HAILED WITH GREAT DELIGHT ' Portland, Me.J Special. From . tho - moment. Commander. Peary ' crossed : tue international' boundary , line at Vanceboro, shortly after 8 o'clock z Thursday morning, until he: arrived at Portland at 8 o'clock Thursday night his reception by the citizens : of Maine amounted to a continuous ovation. - ' v At Bangor important papers on his expedition were turned over by Peajy to Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard, of New Jfork, . president of the Peary.' Artie ; Club.". ' . ". ' - ' ' 'Along the 350-mile route through eastern Maine Commander " Peary : was cordial and appreciative although ': lie appeared' to be rather tired, " - At Old Town, a city of about 6,000, the first big demonstration on); this side of the border was' made. At - Bangor the explorer ? was welcomed by thousands and when he' walked into the concourse from " the train shed was given a succession of rous ing cheers. With Mayor 3. F. Wood man, General Hubbard and. members of the city council he was driven to the Bangor house, where representa tive men of the town entertained him - at an informal luncheon, He was J S makes the penetration of the Artie mystery barely possible, has been borrowed from the American Indian. The method of travel, the motir force and the native insenuitv with' out which the Polar quest would be a hopeless task, have been taken from the Eskimo. "To John R. Bradley the man who paid the bills belongs at least one-half of the honor. ' ' The Canadian government sent "its expedition Under Captain Bernier !, 000 miles out o its course to help us to it." After meeting the charge that he d not get geographic license to seek e Pole by saying he preferred to say little about the start and- letting the noise-be made, after the Polo was reached, he said : . "Now, gentlemen. I appeal to you as explorers and men. Am I bound to appeal to anybody, to any man, to i i i: any Doay 01 men lor a uceusu iu look for the Pole? To the criticism against his equip ment he explained that these- should be simple and not burdensome ana that he had sufficient supplies. "Now as to the excitement of the press, to force things ' of their own pickings from important records in to print," said Dr. Cook. "In reply to this I have taken the stand that I have already given a tangible ac count of our journey. It is as com plete as the preliminary reports of any previous explorer. The data, tho observations, the record, are of ex- ... ,i ' t i TT i aciiy tne same cnaracter. .nereio fore such - evidence has been taken with, faith and complete record was not expected to appear for years, whereas, we agree to deliver all with, in a few months. His Observations. "Now, gentlemen, about the Pole, We arrived April"21, 1908. We dis covered new land along the 102d meridian between the 84th and the 85th parallel: Beyond this there was absolutely no life and no land. 'The ice was in large, heavy fields with few pressure lines. The drift was south of east, the wind was south of west. The clear weather gave good, regular observations nearly every day. ; These observations, combined with those at the Pole on April 21 and April 22 are sufficient to guaran tee our claim. When taken in con nection with the general record, you do not require this. I can see that, but this and all the other records will come to you in the due course of events. "I cannot ; sit down without acknowledging to you, and to the liv ing Artie explorers, my debt of gratitude for their valuable assistance. The report of this Polar success has come with a sudden force, but in the present enthusiasm we must not for get the fathers of the art of, Polar travel.' There is .glory enough for all. There is enough to go to the graves of the dead and to the hearts of the living. ' . --. "Many are here tonight. The names are too numerous to mention. Special mention, for honors must be made , to Greely, Schley, Memlje, Peary, Fiala. Nansen, Abruzzi, Cagni, Sverdrup, Amundsen, Norderiskjold and a number of English and other explorers.' ..?'-.,.:: presented on the portico.' with a mass ive silver loving cup . appropriately engraved; :..',:'-, -. :si"r, -At Waterville he was officially wel comed to the city. : Members of the city government,, school children, a band and a company of ' National Guard met him at the station where, a stand had been ereeted. The school children, each carrying an American flagj were banked solidly about the stand, with- the guardsmen" around them. ' As Peary mounted the stand the -Children cheered and waved their flags. 'A crowd, of several thousand people "joined in the ' cheering . for some moments. ' ( ' ' . ' f,, When Commander Peary stepped to the front his fraternity mates of Col by college ,gave a rousing Delta Kap pa Epsilpn yell, followed by the regu lar college yell. ' ' . , After expressing his . appreciation for the welcome given him Command er Peary spoke of the importance -of-a discovery that had been sought 300 years and the significance of hav ing the Stars . and Stripes the first flag to reach. the top of tho earth. Crowds also greeted the explorer at Lewiston and other stations, fie tween Waterville and Portland, . . . mican and ' the snow shoe, which PRESIDENT ' TAFFS TOUR V-. .- -..r Unthosiastic Thousands Greet ' Him 1 On His Western Trip. ,' . Making his way still further to tha west, President Taffr arrived in Den' yer Tuesday afternoon and at night in the D yer auditorium where a year ago Mr. Bryan was nominated as his opponent in the .presidential race, faced a crowd that in its noisy welcome and continuing enthusiasm recalled some of the scenes of con vention week. The President instead of discussing the conservation of natural resonrcei took up the subject of the corpora tion tax. , ' " He strongly urged that all the States should adopt . the proposed amendment to the constitution, how ever, to make an income tax possible in time of need. . .1 Th President Tuesday night de clared that the corporation tax Was in itself the best form of income tax that could be levied and pointed out that it contained many of .the best features of the income tax law of England. Pueblo, Col., Special. The Presi dent landed across the Rocky Moun tains Thursday morning.- For the first time- he traveled, through the grand canon of the Arkansas, where at one place the half mile deep canon is so narrow that there is not room for the track and the river, and the former has to be carried over the rushing waters by means of a hang ing bridge, suspended by cables em beded in the rocky walls of the chasm. The eleven-mile ride through the anon was made by moonlight. At the entrance overlooking the valley of the Garden of the Gods, with the Rockies in the background and dark clouds playing tag with Pikes Peak, Mr. Taft expressed his admiration of the view with unre strained enthusiasm. At Pueblo the President was driven at the head of a long procession of automobiles to the State fair grounds to face another exuberant throng and to 'make a brief extemporaneou" sp;scbof appreciation. In theVulpit of the famous. Mormon tabernacle in Salt Lake City where 4 years ago Theodore Roosevelt, then President, preached a long sermon , on right living and the duties of good citizenship, .President Taft Sunday faced an audience which he said In spired him to try to follow in the foot steps of his predecessor. ' ' The President's sermon was an ap peal for amity between the people for attributing the best rather than the worst motives to the action of others when possible to do so and not to harbor hatred or animosity. "A soft ' answer turneth ' away wrath, but grevious words stir up anger," .was the text Mr. Taft se lected from the book of Proverbs. The sermon was largely made up of a re lation of spries to give emphasis to the points. .From the tabernacle the President was Briven to review about twenty thosand school children. At one point along the line a thousand or more children had been arranged in a living flag, red, white and blue caps and capes serving to outline the na tional emblem. 1 Thence the President proceeded to the Young Men's Christian Asocia- tion, where he made a brief' address to men'. Lastly the President attend ed services especially arranged foi him at the Unitarian church. Aftei this unusually busy Sunday' morning left bait Lake City at noon iorUgden where he enjoyed an 18-mile rid through Ogden canon and made hit third address of the day at L'estet park. . ' - Four Aeronauts Crash to Death, Mottlins, France, By. Cable. While passing over the national road which leads from Paris to Antibes at a height of between 500 and 600 feet tbe.French dirigible military balloon, ttepuoiique, exploded Sunday morn ing attd fell to (he ground. ' The forfr men on hoard were killed. They were: Capt. Marchal, Lwnt. " Phaure ' and Sub-Iieuts. Vicenot and Reaux. The ear fell -straight down,' carrying ' the fluttering remains of the' envelope, and the occupants , were buried be neath the wreckage. J ? - y Wright Inspects TitUL ? ; New York, Special-rWllbur Wrignt arrived . here Saturday, and inspected the field at Governor's Island ifroni which he and Glenn H. Cnrtiss are expected, to attempt a. series of flights over and around, the skyscrapers of Manhattan during the Hudson-Fulton celebration. "In -the last sis years," said Mr.' Wright,' "we -.-haven't - ad vanced 'much in the 'rt of flying,' and the biplar-j.we used OrviHe and I in Our first experiments at Kittyhawk made some unprecedented records. SNAPPY AND BRIEF Items Gathered and Told While "You HoidYour Breath SOME EVERY DAY HAPPENINGS I4rely and Crisp as f hey An Oar , nertd From the Fields of Actioi at Borne and Abroad. Mrs. Sal va tor Samoniea of Balti more,'; whose house was on fire threw down' a bundle of clothes in 'which she Ji'ad $95. She then climed .down to find the money, gone, which was the chief loss by the little Are. ..Rosa El rod now confesses that 'she swore falsely against Jack Worthing- ton, ef Bartow county, Ga., whereby he received a sentence of 20 years. She Claims that she was intimidated into that course, but that her con science has driven her to confession It seems that they were equally im plicated in her shame. A number of warrants have been issued in Chicago for the arrest ol officials charged with "fixing" juries Th agitation about forming' a new State our of part of California on a& countiof taxation methods is subsiding- from the fact that it .would have to run the gauntlet of the State Leg islature and Congress. A Street car riot broke out at Coun cil Bluffs, Neb., Sunday. ITreadwell Cleveland expert in Bu reau of Forestry, says our timber sup ply s being rapidly diminished and that only one-third of the trees is used while the other two-thirds go t waste. President Tai't drank a toast to tht Mikado last Sunday at Minneapolis Mm., while jollying the Japanese. Wireless telegraphy proved its mer its again Sunday when it brought help? to the Clyde Liner disabled from broken machinery and anchored of! Cape Hatteras. The equinoctial gale eame a da- early this year on the Gulf and lti coasts and its fury was unusually dreadful. - Broad Creek Neck in Maryland haJ another sensation in the finding of tht dead body of a farmer whose death il all a mystery. lTh mother of Vice-President Fair! banks celebrated her 80th birlhdaj at Springfield on Monday. Her dis tinguished son and his wife sent a congratulatory cablegram from tht Philippines. ' Dr. Cook arrived at New York and Peary arrived at Sydney, Nova Scotil Tuesday Peary says he will not acept anj public receptions or participate ir public Celebrations till the contro versy between him and Cook u settled. Mrs. Jacob Fickel (divoreed), ol Cleveland, 0., embezzled $593.76 an being informed by the court that il she replaced the money she would b spared service in the penitentiary Slw asked a loan of $500 from hei aforetime husband who refused. Hei son was unable to raise the money Here's what the judge said of Fickel. "Any mart who is half a man wonhj do as much as is asked of Fickel 't save the mother of his children, ever though he has no regard for her ai his wife." The Spanish troops have made I successful advance against the Moors killing' a number and taking 1,00( prisoners.' It is said that the Japanese are be ginning to raise more cattle and wil' eat more' beef and less rice. A Wilkesbarre, Pa., dispatch sayi Francis Rogers ' has carried thre grape shot in his head ever since thi battle1 of Antietain, until a few day! ago when -they enme to the surfaci and dropped out. He is ninety yean old and is now i free from headache for the first time in many years. " The Tennessee Coal, Iron & Coke Cmpany " will begin at .- once y the construction of an immense impound ing dam at Village creek, near En- sley, Ala.," together with .a suitable pumping station and ' reservoir pre paratory to a $2,000,000 coke' ovei piani, , A bomb ' was found Wednesdaj night in the house at Juares, Mexico where it is arranged for President! Taft and Dias to meet. . , Judge Alford has declared section 24 of the Fuller prohibition law ' in Alabama unconstitutional and inoper ative. It attempted to prohibit the importation, of whiskey and beer fox distribution.;. . i- . s , . Gleen H. : Curtis received .a gold medal i Wednesday, at a luncheon at the Lawyers',' Club, New York, by the Aero Club -of America, for win ning the James Gordon Bennett cup at Reims. " ' : "'r President - Taft made the electrical connection. Thursday, that set the wa ter flowing through .Gunnison . Tun nel, near y Montrose, Colorado, 7 by which. 140,000 acres of arid land is te be made productive. 1 , ' " WASHINGTON NOTES Postoffice Inspectors Tuesday raid ed the offices of the National Trust Company, of this city, procured a large amount of evidence pertaining to the operations of the concern and arrested Henry M. Lewis, manager and secretary-treasurer, Lewis was charged with using the mails in the furtherance of a . scheme to defraud Consul General Hanna, of Mont erey, has been authorized to draw on the Departments State for $1,000 for the relief of the flood sufferers in Mexico. . The money has been pro cured by the American National Red Cross. This is the third remittance to Mr. Hanna and makes the total sum $5,000. Whitelaw Reid, American Ambas sador to Great Britian, called at the State Department Monday and paid his respects to Acting Secretary Huntington Wilson. Mr. Reid said that he had no particular business with the department, but made the customary call preparatory to return ing to London by the steamer sail ing Saturday from ' New York. A telegram to the State Depart ment from the United States Embas sy in Rome states that the Italian Government is sending Admiral of the Fleet Alfonso di Brocchetti to represent Italy at the Hudson-Fulton celebration. The Admiral is a baron and an cx-Senator. A cablegram of Tuesday says an other massacre of Jews has occurred at Kieff, Russia. It began On the Jewish ney year day and lasted for three days. Eighteen Jews were kill ed while they killed several Russians. It is estimated that there were 1,000 casualties. Bids for more than $1,000,000 worth, of big guns, most of which will go to make np the armament of the new 26,000-ton battleships, the Wyoming and Arkansas, were opened Tuesday at the Bureau of Ordinance of the New Department. The spci fications called for 10 12-inch guns, 12 6-inch and 20 5-inch. All are to be finished weapons. The President has denied a pardon to John B. Powers, former superin tendent of construction of the South & Western railroad, who was con victed at Statesville, N. C, of peon age and charged in the official papers with inflicting almost inconceivably brutal punishment on a negro em ploye. Powers was sentenced April 23 last to fifteen months' imprison ment. , Lee McClung, treasurer of Yale University, has been selected as Treasurer of the United States to succeed Charles H. Treat. Representatives of the Nicaragnan government and the George E. Emery Company, of Boston, whose claim, growing out of the temporary annul ment of the company '8 timber con cession, has been pending for some time, have reached an agreement, the NLcaraguan government agreeing to pay the company $600,000 for the pur chase of the concession and the com pany waiving all claims against Nic aragua. The issue has been a notablo one and the delay of Nicaragua . in failing to come to some basis of set tlement, pump. vflr rssnlHiis- in the breaking off of friendly relations be tween the United Slates and that country. A startling situation has developed as the result of a taking of stock of the forestry resources of this country according '-to Treadwell - Cleveland, Jr., expert in the bureaH of forestry. It has been shown, Mr. Cleveland de clares, that we are taking from the forest every year three and a half times as much wood as is added by the new growth. ; Unless there is a modification of the new antirooster ordinance, which stipulates, that poultry must not be kept-within 50 feet of any dwelling in the District of Columbia, there is likely to be a test case in the courts. The new ordinance; also forbids the keeping of roosters' in the District unless- the consent of a majority of the neighbors of the owner of tho rooster is obtained. " ' "'' V Protesting against the treatment they are receiving at the. hands of the State and county afficials of Okla homa, 16,000 Oklahoma Indians, com prising the Creeks, Cherokees, Chicks saws and Choc taws, have caused a pe tition to be sent here seeking relief. The 'petition was discussed by the Indian Protective league in this city. It was decided to, present the petition to congress at the next session. The petition declares that the county and State officials are arresting' the In dians of the four nations and are tak ing their stock abd movable posses sions under the pretext that the In dians are violating the State laws. - CELEBRATION WEEK Carnival of Historic ' Scenes Re-Enacted on the Hudson; HUDSON AND FULTON HONORED 4 . : - Characters and Scenes Presented in Week of Pageants World's Great cbt Assemblage of War Vessels. New York, Special. Henry Hud son, who melted from view 300 years ago iuto those Arctic mists from which tv.-o American discoverers have but la! cly returned, walked his quar ter deck again Saturday, and in sea boots and plumed hat surveyed tho changes aloft and ashore that make his second visit to these shores scarce ly less memorable than bis first. Hij reincarnation or to be strictly ac !nrle. his impersonation, Saturday the reproduction of his ship, the Half Moon, tuid their 20th century tour of seeiu:; New York arc expressions of those recurrent themes of historical contrast and instruction by pageant in which tho central idea of the Hudson Fulton celebratiorf germinated. With New York harbor and Manhattan Is land for a sta;-e, the play opened Sat urday for a v.-eek's run, and will for another week show to lesser cities and towns alon Hie route that Hud son traveled. Hudson and Fulton. Fniton's name follows that of Hud son on the prorramme, as the repro duction of the Clermont followed tho reproduction of the Half Moon on the Waters of the harbor. The two little shops, once so mighty with achievement, made their rounds Sat urday of the warships assembled to do them honor, with 1,000 merchant ships and pleasure craft trailing- be hind them in a parade 15 miles long; saluted the national and the internat ional flags of peace ; were officially re ceived by the city and the Hudson Fulton commission in the afternoon with the other visiting notables, and then at night repeated the course over a river white as day with the glare of the 1 undreds of search light from on shore and afloat, before they anchor ed. On Sunday with more . than three score of the picked fight ing ships of eight nations, swinging at anchor iu the Hudson river, sight seers at the Hudson-Fulton celebra tion looked upon the most impressive assembly of foreign warships that hnl probably ever been seen in America waters. Riding in the river between Forty-fourth street and Spnytc Duyvil, besides the 50 vessels of tin United States Atlantic fleet und;;r Rear Admiral Seaton Schroeder, tin foreign navies are represented by six teen fighting craft in all. Great Brit ian has four, Germany lias four alsi. France has two, Italy has two, Mexi co has one. Argent ino has one and ' Cuba has one. Their massive hulls tuned lazily at their anclinraires represent thi highest development in construction from the great shipyards on the Clyd j and the best, efforts of the Germau naval constructors. Swift cruisers with triple expansion engines and long rakish lines lika greyhounds of the - ocean; massive battleships mounted from turrets to the fighting tops with batteries of thi highest type, swift torpedo boats aul topedo boat destroyers, wonderful submarines every type, of flghtin-; ship known to the United States and eight other navies, four of them world powers, are in this impressive assem bly. The program for Monday include"! aeroplane nights bv Wilbur Wright and Glenn H. Curfiss from Governor t Island and; the opening of various commemoratory exhibits throughout the city. Millennium Did Not Come. West Puxbury, .Mass., Special. The end of the world, arranged as the finale in the strange drama enacted here during -the- past . few days, not having occurred as schedul ed, .most cf. the -actors Saturday left the theater of their activities. Here after they wilt wait in their homes, with the same implicit faith, the ren dering of the1 last act. r. , Strange Electrical Phenomenon. ' New York, Special.--Gripped bj the mysterious " aurora J ' telegraph wires practically all over the world were paralysed Saturday. From early morning until night, . communcation ; was erratic' and at times cut off en- ' tirely between ' certain "points ! Old telegraph operators called it th "aurora," f or brilliant northern lights usually follow such an electn eal phenomenon, ' but- instead of watching for the display, . they bent their mind and energies to untangling the snarl and Adjusting their instru ments. . .. . . V;

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