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POLITICAL REFORM AND THE GENERAL UPBUILDING OF MADISON COUNTY.
VOL. XI.
MARSHALL, N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1909.
NO. 39.
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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
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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
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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. . ..
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