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MARSHALL, NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATOR JOHNSTON
PASSES TO BEYOND
Can not
silencer?
Mulm Invent a soup
Where; oh where la the tea ser-
pent of yesteryear?
6ERVED FOUR YEARS AS GOV
ERNOR OF ALABAMA BEFORE
ELECTION TO SENATE.
The new bathing suite hare noth
ing on current fashions.
HAD BRILLIANT WAR RECORD
Complaints of latest skirts getting
baggy at the knees are heard.
There seems to be more strong
headed than strong minded people.
Is any bridegroom ever In a perfect
ly "fit condition of mind" to marry?
Among the terrifying possibilities of
nomenclature Is hydroaeroterreoplane.
Fashion decrees that women must
wear less. Going pretty far, Isn't It?
It doesn't take an alienist to tell
us women "doll" up to attract men.
A Parisian scientist has discovered
billions of germs In a mud pie. Who
cares?
Married men live longest, statistics
show. At that, many bachelors live
too long.
Notwithstanding that Chicago may
have few nervous people It has plenty
of nervy ones.
We tremble to think what a woman
voter could do to a voting machine
with a hatpin!
Imagine woman fishing for a car
ticket when the new "skirts" with
pockets are worn.
United States Senator Victim of Pneu
monia After Nine pays' Illness
at Capital, . .
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A To Call Special Election - A
A " , To Name Another Senator. 'A
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A Montgomery. Ala. Governor A
A O'Neal Issued the following state A
A ment: A
A "I expect to order a special A
A election at once to fill the a- A
A cancy In the United States sen. A
A ate caused by th death of Sen- A
A ator Joseph P. Johnston of Ala- A
A bama. While this Is my pres. A I
A ent Intention, conditions at Wash
A ington might make it necessary A
A to call an extra session of the A
A legislature to fill the vacancy at A
A once. I am not inclined, how. A
A ever, to think that an extra ses- A
A slon would be more expeditious A
A than a special election." A
A Because of Alabama's election A
A laws, It Is feared that this elec- A
A tion may not result In naming a A
A successor before the final vote A
A on the tariff bill now pending. A
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PATHOS IN THE NEW BALKAN CONFLICT
Despite the fact that as amis tic has been arranged by the waning - nations In the Balkan peninsula,
much fighting continues, between the Irregular troops. This photograph shows the women and children of
Nigrltta at the month of a mountain cave, watching the Bulgarians pillage their homes. - . -
International baseball should make
for world-wide amity If the pop bottle
can be restrained.
Washington. Senator Joseph F.
Johnston of Alabama, died at his
apartment In .the Brighton.
Senator Johnston had been ill for
eight days suffering from pneumonia.
As a mark of respect to the memory
Cubist food Is now the rage. Good
chance for the landlady to hand out
hash under a new title.
Even your best friend hates to lend
you the umbrella his wife gave him
for a birthday present.
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When the cost of aviation Is com
pared with Its accomplishments, - bae
the sacrifice been worth while?
If the tinkle of the alarm clock
was as attractive as the dinner bell,
there would be fewer Jobs lost '
Once more the ear of the long Suf
fering city man Is assailed by stories
of the gigantic fish that got away.
There Is absolutely no excuse for
tainted money now, since the govern
ment began laundering the stuff!
BANDITS ROB MAIL TRAIN
TWO MEN HOLD UP THE FAST
LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE,
NEAR CALERA, ALABAMA. ;
Three Mail Clerks Handcuffed Rob
bers Escape as the Train Enters
Birmingham. '
One of the provoking things about
baseball Is that the opposing team
generally has the best pinch hitters.
JOSEPH F. JOHNSTON.
United States 8enator from Alabama.
Dancing teachers want a six-Inch
rule for dancers. There would have
to be a lightning calculator on the job.
Philadelphia ought to give the rest
of the country a chance to see the
liberty bell, If Its what It is cracked
UP to ba '- , .
Odds are 9 to 5 that your postcard
from the absent member of the family
reads: ' "We are sleeping under
blankets." :" . '-- v '"
With seats on the New York stock
exchange- offered for sale at $38,000
the poor man can at last settle down
in Wall street. ...
A Chicago man was sentenced to
drink buttermilk when arraigned In
court for drunkenness. A soft sen
tence, is It not?
i Xhe vacation tan. you buy In the
drug store is less expensive than the
real thing and Is not preceded by
painful .sunburn.
While thinking of the man who
rocks the boat don't forget the one
who lights his pipe to wlnd'ard In
a gasoline launch. .''
of Senator Johnston, the senate ad
journed almost immediately after as
sembling. .
Senator Overman offered a resolu-
tion lor the appointment or a com
mittee of senators to take part in
the funeral ceremonies and to accom
pany the body to Birmingham.
The vice president appointed the
following committee: Senators Bank-
head of Alabama; Bacon, Overman,
Chamberlain, Hitchcock, Clarke of
Arkansas, Vardaman, Johnson, Swan-
son, Smith of South Carolina, Thorn
ton, Warren, Brlstow, Gallinger, Ca
tron,- Bradley and Kenyon. .
Senator Joseph Forney ' Johnston
of Birmingham was born in North
Carolina in 1843. He served in the
Confederate army from the begin
Ring of the war to its conclusion, and
was wounded four times. He rose
from a private to the" rank of captain,
and was frequently mentioned honor
ably for gallant conduct
Senator Johnston served four years
as governor of Alabama before . his
election to the senate In 1907. His
first election to the senate was to the
unexpired term of Senator E. W
Pettus, deceased. He was re-elected
in 1909 -to his present term.
Whopper of a Grasshopper.
Tusla, Okla. A grasshopper
inches in length and weighing
four
.150
Civilization need not lament the grains was captured by a Pawnee
passing of the cowboy, for the aero-1 county farmer and is on exhibition
nautical rough rider of the gale
even more picturesque.
i in one of the newspaper . offices - of
I Pawnee So far this hopper holds the
state record for size and weight'
Department of agriculture announces
the arrival of new pink bolt weevil.
Failing to get rid of the pest, we can
at least vary the color.
Small Balkan War Aboard Liner.,
"New York. Officers of the Cunard
liner Pannonia, arriving here from
Trieste, report that a miniature Bal
kan war occurred aboard almost con
tinuously dirrfcng the twenty-six days'
voyage. Among tne steerage passen
gers were several hundred ex-volun
teers, Greeks, Servians, ' Bulgarians,
After listening to one of the profes- Turks,' who were returning to this
. Once-there was a" studious person
with heavy glasses who read all the
microscopic, printing on his, sixty-day
stop-over excursion ticket . , .
slonai baseball umpires, we are led to
believe that judging from his batter
ies announcement, he must have been
born and raised in the . One Lung
league. of China.. . . -
country.- Frequent clashes . between
these hostile factions in the first few
days resulted in several combatants
going to the sick bed with severe
! stab wounds. - -'
. The traffic squad of the Indianapo
lis police have been appointed censors
of feminine attire. It is to be hoped
the reform will not be followed In
kind , by making ;. policewomen final
judges pf the masculine jag.
: If the hew skirts for women have
pockets, the hobble 'skirt and the de-
pendence of the sex are alike doomed.
The possession of pockets can be en
joyed only by absolute freedom,' and
with her hands firmly braced in
them a , woman can defy even the
dressmaking aristocrats. . v
. Girl Sold at Auction.
Detroit The marriage department
of the county clerk's office has taken
stem ta Tnillffv an auction sale of a
girl who was knocked down ta the
highest bidder to be his wife. The
girt is Marie- Aman, a Syrian. , Her
father made the sale. There were
half, a dozen bidders. The girl has
been in the country only seven weeks.
She was brought here by her father
expressly to be sold. A Turk, Mo
hammed, Haj Seleem, was 'the sue-'
cessful bidder. The bargain was seal
ed by an Oriental marriage.
Birmingham, Ala. The mall car on
the fast Louisville and Nashville train
No. 4 from New Orleans was robbed
by two unknown white men. ' All of
the registered mail was taken, but no
estimate could be made of the amount
secured. , . '
The train reached Birmingham on
time at 8:37 p. m, and two of the
mail clerks, George Hoover and T. G.
York, were found handcuffed so that
the irons had to be filed from their
wrists, while Chief Clerk Harry Ev
erett had his thumbs securely tied
together with heavy twine. -
The robbers boarded the mail car
at Calera, on the dark side, after the
train had begun to move. The clerks
state that they were immediately cov
ered with pistols and ordered to turn
faces turned to the wall.
Chief Clerk Everett says he has no
Idea how much of value there was in
the registered mail, but that the men
took it all. He says they were both
short,) Blender men, but they did not
get a good loolt at the robbers' faces,
as they were forced to keep their own
faces tprned to the wall. - ; w
The clerks first saw the robbers
jump to the mail car on their hands
and knees. One robber kept his pis-
tola on the men while the other ran
sacked the mall. The distance from
Calera to Birmingham is 33 miles so
that they had plenty of time to make
a thorough job. - No one else on the
train apparently knew that the rob
bers were aboard. .
When the engineer stopped for the
Southern crossing at Fourteenth street
In Birmingham, he happened to look
back and saw the two men jump from
the mail car door. . Thfr aroused his
suspicion, and an investigation reveal
ed the handcuffed clerks.
TRYING TO DEPOSE HBERTA
AMBASSADOR WILSON RESIGNS
AND LIND IS ORDERED .
TO MEXICO.
Believed American Ban ' on Huerta
May Force His Resignation "
at an Early Date.
NOTE TO BALKAN POWERS
United States Wants Religious Liberty
Clause in Treaty. " .,.
, , Bucharest At the -Balkan peace
conference M. Majoresco, president of
the conference, read' a note from the
United States government expressing
a desire to see inserted in the treaty
of Bucharest a stipulation securing
civil and religious liberty to the pop
ulations inhabiting territory which
may be ceded or annexed.
M. Majoresco remarked that such
liberty was the law Tn. every country
participating in the peace conference,
and all the. heads of the various dele
gations agreed it would' be superflu
ous to think of inserting such a spe
cial clause. '.. ;.
Wa8hingtoh.--The intention of the
American- government to make repre
sentations to the Balkan peace dele
gates has . been so., carefully guarded
that it was not generally known 'even
in official circles that a note had been
dispatched to, Bucharest
Five Legislators. Sentenced.
Webster Springs, W. Vs. Sentences
were imposed upon the five members
of the West Virginia legislature by
Judge W. S. O'Brien, lu the superior
cojirL v The legislators were convicted
of bribery in connection with the elec
tion of a United States senator. Dele
gates S. C. O. Rhodes, Rath Duff and
H. F. Asbury, to serve six years each
in the penitentiary;. State Senators B.
A. Smith, five years and six months,
and Delegate Davis Hill five years.
In addition, the five are disqualified
for life from holding any public office.
One- Dead, Two Wounded, In Feud.
Valdosta, Ga. In a deadly hand-to-
hand fight at Moniac, Ga., G. M. Craw
ford, citizen pf that place, was shot
and killed, hls'brother wounded and
C. W. Cobb of Hazlehurst Ga., stab
bed and cut in more than a dozen
places. , Cobb was brought to this
f, suffering from sixteen knife
wounds, and is receiving medical at
tention here. According to the story
told by Cobb, he was attacked at Mo
niac by the four Crawford brothers,
and after killing one of them and
shooting another, he was cut
Washington. President Wilson took
the first steps' in the policy through
which ' he proposes tor deal with the
Mexican situation... He formally ac
cepted ' the resignation of .Ambassa
dor Henry Lane Wilson, to take ef
fect on October 14, and sent to Mex
ico City as his personal representa
tive but not accredited to the Huer
ta government former Governor
John Lind of Minnesota, a lifelong
friend of Secretary Bryan. The un
derstanding is that when a stable gov
ernment is established in Mexico Mr.
Lind will be formally named as am
bassador. '.":"' - "
President Wilson and Secretary Bry
an had frequent conferences. . Ambas
sador Wilson had a long talk with
Mr. Bryan and Chairman Bacon of
the senate foreign relations commit
tee, discussed the situation with the
president at the white house. But for
the announcement of Mr. Lind's mis
sion, no explanation of the policy to
be pursued by the American govern
ment was forthcoming. The state
ment from Secretary Bryan read:
"Ex-Governor , John Lind of Minne
sota has been sent to Mexico as the
personal representative of the . presi
dent to act as adviser of the embassy
in the .present situation. -When the
president is ready to communicate
with the Mexican authorities as to the
restoration of peace he will make
public his views. Governor and Mrs.
Lind departed for Mexico." '
EXPRESS RATES REDUCED
PEACE ENDS BALKAN WAR
TREATY SIGNED BY DECCGATE8
OF 8ERVIA, GREECE, MONTE
' NEGRO AND ROUMANIA.
Threat of Allies to Occupy Bulgar Cap
ital Hastened the Peace . '
, , .. Pact - V:
Sixteen Per Cent. Cut in Express
Rates. .
Washington. Reductions in express
rates which will . cost the companies
$26,000,000 a year approximately 16
per cent of their gross revenue were
ordered by the interstate commerce
commission to become effective on
or before October 16, 1913. Notable
reforms In practices also were order
ed.- ' The most important change pre
scribed by the order is by way of
modification of the present graduat
ed scale ' of paree? rales. One - hun
dred pound-rates for short distances
either have been ' left unchanged or
slightly reduced; for longer distances
they have, been lowered; for fifty
pounds or, less all . rates, have been
practically reduced, . For packages of
more than four pounds going more
than 200 miles and less than 2,000,
the new express rates are generally
lower than the parcel post-rates; for
more than 3,000 miles the rates are
practically the same. 1 . .
By prescribing a so-called block sys
tem, dividing the United States into
950 blocks, averaging 2,500 square
miles as originally proposed, by. Mr.
Lane, 900,000,000. different rates now
published by .the express companies
will be reduced to less than 650,000,
Rate Cases Won by Georgia Towns.
Washington. Commissioner Clem
ents, -in rendering the decision of the
Interstate commerce commission in
the LaGrange, Carrollton and Vienna
rtte cases, condemned the existing ar
bitrary differences In rates - to these
points as compared with rates to At
lanta and Cedartown, the basing
points. The decision of the commis
sion is of tremendous importance. It
will cause a : readjustment, of rates'
throughout the South, and it is esti
mated to mean a loss to the railroads
of four or five millions a year,
Bucharest Peace was concluded
between -the Balkan states and the
preliminary treaty signed by the dele
gates of Servia, Greece, Montenegro!
Roumanla and Bulgaria. - The agree
ment was arrived at only after an
other exhibition of ethe utter helpless
ness of Bulgaria to face her ring of
enemies. '.,.'-; ". ;
The discussions in the peace confer
ence threatened to become intermin
able, but M. Majoresco. the Rouman
ian premier, and president of the con
ference; clinched matters by threat
ening that unless Bulgaria accepted
the modified frontier proposed by' the
allies, Roumania's army would occupy
Sofia. " This threat had the desired
effect and n agreement was arrived
at after numerous private , consulta
tions between the delegates and a
four hours' sitting of the confer
ence. .- . -" '...,- - - .
The frontier, as agreed to, starts at.
a point on the old frontier west of the
Struma river, lollows the watershed
to west of the town of Strumnltza,
thence runs almost through the Stru
ma valley to 'the Belesh mountains
and thence easterly In almost
straight line to the Mester river, thus
leaving the town of Strumnltza, -the
port of Lagos and Kanthl to Bulgaria
and the port of Lagos and Kanthl to
Bulgaria and the port of Kavala to
Greece. The new frontier is a deep
disappointment to the Bulgarians, who
still nurse hopes for its eventual re
vision by the powers. :......s:-:,
It is believed that an agreement for
the demobilization of the various ar
mies will be signed, The news that
peace has been arranged caused great
rejoicing.' . C; v--r'
The 'trouble between the allies arose
from the difficulty of dividing the ter
ritory captured by them from Turkey.
Severe fighting followed and many
thousand men were killed or wounded,
Soon Bfter the . beginning of hostili
ties numerous massacres and acts of
pillage were : reported to have been
committed by the ..various armies.
attitude to:;.i;o I
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WIL60N"TAKE8 COMMITTEE INTO;
"CONFIDENCE -AND OUTLINES
BOTH PAR 1 1 ES WERE THERE
It Is Understood That Huerta Is Only '
Asked le Carry Out Promises Made
v After the Death of Madero. MssV
Ing Was Friendly. -
ROBERT C. 0GDEN IS DEAD
Widely Known Philanthropist Passes'
;, at Summer Home in Maine.
Kennebunk Port,. Maine. Robert C.
Ogden of New York, a philanthropist,'
widely known, died at his summer res
idence here. Mr. Ogden had been ill
a long time, f
Robert C. Ogden was born In' Phil
adelphia in 1836 and amassed a for
tune as a member of the firm of John
Wannamaker. ; He retired from active
business six. yeara aga i " . -
-The news of the death of Robert C
Ogden will be received with regret In
the South, where he was well known:
Mr. Ogden was greatly interested in
educational work and was always a
leading figure at the annual confer
ences of the ! association to promote
education In the South. f
Four Men Killed In Wreck. '
Atlanta, Ga. Three White men and
oe negro were , . killed when a
fast freight train on the Louisville and
Nashville railroad plunged into a cul
vert a ieei oeep, six mues norm ot
Marietta. The accident, was caused
by the giving way of a cement bridge
before a torrent of water from the
rain which had raged for three hours
' I previous to the w reck. - The bridge
was completely wasnea away and the
water so' high that the cars standing
on the track were under a depth of
three feet of water.?- s :Vf i
- South's Bankers Invited. -Washington.
Representative bank
ers of fifty-nine, large cities in the ag
ricultural regions or the South, Mid
dle West and Pacific" coast were in
vited by Secretary MiAdoo to Come
to Washington to confer with ' the
treasury department regarding the dis
tribution of fifty million dollars or
government funds about to be depos-
ted In, the national banlts of thoae
sections to facilitate the marketing
and moving of the crops. This unpre
cedented step will call to Vasliintgon
bankers from the crop centers.'
Knapp td Investigate Farming.
Washington: In v order. ; that the
farmers of the -United -States may
profit by the experience- of farmers
of Europe, Secretary Houston of thri
department of agriculture decided to
Rend abroad Dr., Thomas H. Carver,
headJf the rural" organization' serv
ice, and 'Bradford Knapp, who is" In
charge of the farmers' co-operative
demonstration work in the South. The
study, of successful co-r-rraf.h'e
schemes will be the principal l' -ct
of their trip. - They will vialt Ireland
flrntxthen Denmark and Saxony.
Washington. Two-hours of confer
ence between President-Wilson, Seo-i-etary
Bryan and the senate foreign
relations committee brought about bk
change in the attitude of the admlhla- :
tratlon toward Mexico. " .
President Wilson took the senators
Into bis'confidence far enough to out
line the following: . .
' That John Lind, his special envoy,
to Mexico City, does not bear any'
olvtion of the present situation, but
goes to continue this government's el-
fort to induce Provisional President
Huerta to redeem his promises for
free and constitutional elections. .
That under no circumstances does
the administration propose to recoo
nixe the Huerta government
That Mr. Lind has gone to Mexico
City to be the "eyes, and ears" of the.
Washington administration on' the
ground, and to explain the attitude
otjthls government whenha,has fully
familiarised himself f wfltbn the. atua'
tion. tl s , . -. . ... .
That by withdrawing Ambassador
Wilson and sending Mr. ' Lind, the.
president planned to have a man on ",
the iground who was in sympathy
with the administration here and was
In sense a factor in the situation in
Mexico City. . , . , .;
These policies and suggestions - of
the-President and Secretary Bryan
came out In general discussion. It
was made clear that the purpose of
the conference was to establish more
frank and Intimate relations between
the senate and the administration in
tne aevelopment . of the Mexican -
policy; and in the furtherance of this
idea the President talked freely, an
swering many pointed questions.
While the president - disclosed . .no
definite plan for the pacification1 of
Mexico, the Implication remained that
upon Mr. Lind's reports would depend
to a large extent the future nollcv of '
this country.,. . s
i . The, meeting.: as entirely friendly.
Of the 12 men present only two- sena
tors c Smith of Arizona and Stone of
Missouri are out and -out believers In
a policy of ultimate intervention. N
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Will 8ulzer Be impeached.-'.
' Albany, N. Y No statement ' wae
forthcoming from Governor Sulzer con- -cernlng
the revelations made by the '
Frawley legislative . committee. Jf Al-
though the governor has jglvea no in
timation as to when he may issue
a statement ' in explanation of his
campaign contributions - and stock
transactions his friends predict 'ho "
will be heard from soon. Lewis ' 'A. .
Sarecky, former confidential secre
tary to the. governor, who refused to -testify
concerning , campaign -cohtri- -"
buttons of the executive may be sum-
moned before the bar of the" house "
to explain his position. - -,. -. ..'
- Plan For European- Cruise.
Washington. The Navy's - present
plana are for "the Atlantic fleet 1 to
leave Hampton Roads for Its European "
cruise early In October, immediately
after fall target .practice. 'The ships -
will sail for the Mediterranean Sea.
Secretary Daiieta will tdlscuss . th -
voyage with Rear. Admiral Barger.
oommander-in-chlef. - - . .
'.' 8ays Lind ; Is In No Danger. l-
New York. Whfle fadmlttlng that
Mexico la lacing a grave crisis, Fran
cisco de La Barra, Mexican amDasso
dor to France, in a statement declared
It is. folly to suggest that former Gov
ernor Lind,. the personal representa
tive of President Wilson to Mexico,
would be" subjected td any personal
danger. "-"' . --r--;v..;.-
8enator Kenyon Severe on Trusta.1"
Washington. "It is more Imnortant
to control or destroy the trusts than
to, revise the tariff,", declared Senator
Kenyon in the Senate, .f'lf our Demo
cratic friends, by adopting an amend
ment In accordance to the: party plat
form,Vould assist in this they "would r
accomplish greater -good than by
merely reducing the tariff." Mr. Ken
yon was speaking on his amendments '
to free .list articles -manufactured bjr
the -aluminum; trust at, once and to
free- list ,-: all products of concerns
held by the courts to be monopolies. "
Contradicts Evidence of Conley.
Atlanta, ; Ga-Herbert Schiff, as
sistant to Leo M. Frank,-as superln- ;
tendent Cf the'Natiorial pencil factory
occupied the stand during all. xf a
short, session of Frank's trial for the
murder of Stary Phacan. ch!T con
tradicted statnnents made ty James
Conley," negro fsr'sry swp'-per; 'that
women were frequent viators -at the
euperintendent's c";e." Vt tftified
t,'"t V 1 rs were v'-ct' ' r Iden-
leal vuU those .of I", ':, I ut' sa'J
ha was not at tlie factory ca the af
ternoon cf girl's d:r;rp( arance. ...