Ihz News -Record.
Published Weekly
MARSHALL, NORTH CAROLINA.
Tbe fellow who pities himself gets
Ho sympathy from anybody ejse.
The price of cauliflower Is said to
be going up. Let ber soar!
In tbe bright lexicon of love there
la no such word as eugenics.
Let us hope that tbe fellow who
wears a velvet tie Isn't as big a mutt
as be looks.
It Isn't a good plan to burn your
bridges behind you unless you are a
good swimmer.
A hunter has been shot in mistake
for a squirrel. This 1b combining In
sult and Injury. ,
Suppose bogus foods were generally
known by their real names: Kindly
pass the synthetic ether.
It Is impossible to convince some
people that music and playing on a
piano are two different things.
The advantage about tali ng advice
is that you have somebody to blame It
on if things don't turn out right.
Fashion says, "Wear a certain sort
of thingumbob on your hat," and
every woman In the land wears 1L
Some family skeletons tuwe been
getting a lot of exposure since the
diaphanous gown came Into vogue
The Paris decollete dress for men
has triumphantly thrown the diaph
anous and slit skirts into the shade.
From the example of distinguished
men, the recipe for continual youth
seems to be hard work and plenty
of it-
The reason a woman wants money
Is because having It enables her to
get rid of It In exchange tor other
things.
Scientists have discovered that pig
skin is a good substitute for human
skin. Queer that they overlooked that
so long.
The farmer who used to be a terror
In a horse trade is at the mercy of
tbe automobile salesman, just like the
rest of us.
A Western man is suing a railroad
president because the latter's roa'd
smashed his trunk. At last, the worm
is turning.
It is said that the tango will be the
favorite society dance this winter. So-
ciety never was mucn 01 a piace
an old man
The price of snakes has advanced
$3 a foot. We wouldn't care If the
price of snakes was $1,000 an Inch for
boaconstrictors.
A man may be able to make money
with a common-school education, but
his son must have a college education
to know how to spend it
"Crow's feet" may make Missouri
marble unavailable for that state's
capital. Here's a chance for the
"beauty doctors" to make good.
Urging Yuan Shih-kal to employ
drastic methods, as certain of his sup
porters have done, is equivalent to
urging him to be Yuan Shih-kal.
The incident of spilling a dish of
ice cream Into a young lady's lap
which resulted in a wedding might
not have bad the same romantic con
clusion with a bottle of Ink substi
tuted. Many a June bride who had never
lifted anything heavier than an em
broidery needle Is now swinging a
shovel between the coal bin and the
furnace.
It ie said that women will wear
men's vests this fall. It may be the
time will come when it will be pos
sible to stop a woman and ask her
tor a match.
A German prince who said bad
words over the wire about the service
was fined $7 for beamtenbeleldigung.
One thing that is .cheaper over here is
beamtenbeleidlgunglng.
Wooden shoes, which are attaining
some popularity in this country,
wculd be great for bedroom wear in
old fashioned homes where the carpet
tack occasionally directs Its point up
ward through the night
If men wore knickerbockers they
would not need to send those gar-
mentS lO ine preBens byci j icti uaj,
and the reform might therefore in
cur the opposition of all the United
tentoriums and pantltorlums, ,. ;v.
' popcorn as a breakfast food la recom
mended by the agricultural depart
ment as a way to reduce the high cost
of living. It would no doubt cut down
the appetite if some , manner of pop
ping It after eating could be devised.
Census figures show ' that a man of
forty Is not past his prime and that he
la still liable to "come back." The ca
pacity .for work of good quality in a
man after all depends very much on
the man. for youth, like other treas
ures, can be stored up or It can be
squandered. .
TRYING TO GORNER
THE POTATO CROP
ALLEGED DEALERS IN LARGE
CITIES ARE BUYING UP THE
SHORT SUPPLY.
WASHINGTON INVESTIGATES
Country Endorses Justice Depart
ment's Endeavor to Break High
Food Prices.
Washington. A new phase of the
cost, of living problem was brought
to the attention of the department of
agriculture. T. P. Gill, secretary of
the Irish bourd of agriculture, told
Secretary Houston that speculators In
the large cities of the United States
were actively buying up this year's
Bhort American potato crop and plan
ning to hold out for high prices, count
ing on the existing quarantine against
potatoes from many foreign countries
to aid them In their undertaking.
Mr. Gill Is here to urge the removal
of the embargo on potatoes from Ire
land and has been getting private ad
vices from various sources on the po
tato situation.
Secretary Houston and the Federal
horticultural board held a conference
after Mr. Gill's statement, but no ac
tion was announced.
Representative McKellar of Tennes
see, author of a pending bill to pro
hibit the keeping of products in cold
storage for more than ninety days,
wns in conference with deDartment of
ffifij.ilu nvnr the Htmu rtmpnt'a
investigation of the storage of eggs,
poultry and dairy products. It is said
a preliminary Inquiry has revealed
that 55 per cent, of the present egg
supply held in storage is In the hands
of the great meat packers of the coun
try. Letters and telegrams poured In
from nil parts of the country, from in
dividuals, associations of various kinds
and from business men praising the
department's efforts to break high
food prices by proceedings against the
alleged combination of cold storage
dealers. Interest in Attorney General
McReynolds' declaration that a ijweep
Inc Investigation will be made of the
alleged combination and that if vio
lations of the pure food act were dis
closed nrosecutions could be looked
for, apparently is greater than In any
move the department has made in a
long time.
WASHINGTON AS A SURVEYOR
George Washington Perfect Surveyor,
Say Government Experts.
Washington. George Washington's
surveying done in 1751 when, as a lad
of 19, he ran lines with chain and
compass through the wilderness of the
Virginia hills for Lord Fairfax, has
been checked up by government sur
veyors who have just made their re
ports and who found the work of the
immortal patriot perfect.
Washington, running his lines with
primitive instruments and bon fires on
hill tops, left monuments and boun
daries to which technlcaly educated
surveyors, using high power transits
and all the refined and accurate meth
ods of modern Instruments, allow they
have been able to find no variation.
From the top of Middle mountain in
the Massanutten range the old Fair
fax line may be distinguished without
the use of instruments and can be fol
lowed by boundary fences dating from
the earliest days and by blocks . of
timber which come up for the county
lines and stand out like squares upon
a checker board. Down across tbe
valley of the south fork of the Shenan
doah as far as the eye can distinguish
the line shows plainly.
Washington's survey blazes cut Into
the trunks of trees and long grown
over have been rediscovered and all
are several feet higher from the
ground than those the woodsmen of
today would make. Some authorities
contend Washington made them from
the saddle with a long handled ax. .
The government has been retracing
the old lines because it is buying land
through the territory which they run
for the , new Appalachian forest re
serve. Sultan Lose Suit in New York.
New York. The Sultan of Turkey
was a losing litigant in the appellate
division of the supreme court of New
York. His highness sued to recover
$ln.000 from the estate of Hovhannes
Tavshanjian, a wealthy Armenian rug
dealer, murdered in this city In 1907.
This sum was left to Tavshanjian's
mother, who died before receiving It.
Because she died intestate In Constan
tinople the sultan claimed the money.
The suit was decided against him by
the supreme court and the appellate
division affirmed the decision.
Mayor Shank Resigns. -
Indianapolis, Ind. Samuel Lewis
Shank resigned as mayor of Indian
apolis. The resignation is the result
of labor troubles in the city and a
threat of impeachment proceedings
by a committee of business men un
less further disorders were averted,
Hrtrry It. Wallace, city controller, sue
ceeded to the mayor's chair. Shank
offered his resignation : after he bad
conferred with a number of union la
bor officials regarding an impending
strike of teamsters who told him there
was HtUo hope of averting the strike,
"V
RAILWAY CHIEFS ARE DEAD
HEAD OF SOUTHERN RAILWAY IS
OVERCOME IN WASHING
TON BY APOPLEXY.
President of Atlantic Coast Line Dies
In Wilmington, North
Carolina.
Washington. William Wilson Fin-
ley, president of the Southern rail
way and a leading figure in move
ments for the development of the
South, died here, as a result or a
stroke of apoplexy he suffered a few
hours before. He did not regain con
sciousness after he was stricken.
Mr. Finley's family, friends and as
sociates were wholly unprepared for
his sudden death. Scarcely past the
prime of life-, he was vigorous and en
ergetic, and seemingly in the best of
health, until a moment before he was
felled by the stroke.
Mr. Finley-was born on September
1S53, in Pass Christian, on the gulf
coast of Mississippi. He was educated
in the private school of Pass Chris
tian and grew to early manhood in
the atmosphere or this picturesque
section of the South. At the age of 20
he entered the railroad service as a
stenographer and by 1889 he had filled
almost ever minor position in the
clerical department of various rail
roads. During the succeeding six years
Mr. Finley served several railroad sys
tems In important executive capaci
ties. He became on October 1, 1895,
third vice president of the Southern
railway. Later he was second vice
president of the Great Northern rail
way, but on September 15, 1896, he re
turned to the Southern railway as sec
ond vice president Ten years later,
in December, he was chosen president
of the Southern in succession to Sam
uel Spencer, who was killed in a rear
end' collision on the morning , of
Thanksgiving day, six years ago.
Wilmington, N. C Thomas Martin
Emerson, president of the Atlantic
Coast Line railroad company, died at
his home in this city following an at
tack of acute indigestion while on a
trip of inspection over the system
Mr. Emerson was taken 111 at Du-
pont, Ga., while on an inspection tour
of the road of which he was presi
dent. He was taken to WaycroSs,
Mr. Emerson was elected president
of the Atlantic Coast Line eight years
ago.
He rose to the presidency of one of
the South's greatest railroad systems
from the very ranks by successive
steps, first as clerk In the freight of
fices, later as chief clerk In the passen
ger office, then general freight agent
and later, until July. 1902, general
traffic manager, being accounted at
that time one of the best traffic men
In the entire country. He later be
came third- vice president of the sys
tem in charge of traffic, and in Novem
ber, 1905, he was elected president to
succeed the late R. G. Erwln, of Sa
yannah, Ga.
Clements Found Guilty.
Valdosta, Ga. Warren Clements,
who has been on trial In the superior
court here, charged with the murder
of E. J. Griffin, a merchant of Cat
Creek, was found guilty with a recom
mendation that he be sent to the peni
tentiary for life. The killing of Grif
fin occured about two years ago dur
ing a drinking bout Clements was
tried in the superior court last year,
and found guilty with a recommenda
tion to mercy. His attorneys carried
the case to the court of appeals and ob
tained a new triaL
Over $200,000 Stolen by Clerk.
New York. The theft of more than
$200,000 worth of Union Pacific Rail
road company and General Electric
company securities from the Farmers'
Loan and Trust company of this city
became known when James E. Fdye,
35 years old, a former $75 a month
clerk of the trust company, , was ar
rested as he stepped from a train
from Philadelphia. Foye was charged
with being a fugitive from Justice. At
police station, where Foye was search
ed, the police alleged that a certified
check for $97,000
U. S. ARMY BiRDMEN KILLED
LIEUTENANTS ELLINGTON AND
KELLY ARE INSTANTLY
KILLED IN CALIFORNIA.
Contro'l Was Lo?t, and the Aeroplane
Fell, Crushing Both Men
to Death.
San Diego, Cal. Two Intrepid navi
gators of the air, Lleuts. Hugh M.
Kelly and Eric L. Ellington. U. S. A.,
attached to the camp of the First aero
corps, were instantly killed at North
Island, when they fell from an altitude
of eighty or more feet in a dual con
trol biplane.'
Within eight minutes after Lieuten
ant Ellington had waved his hand as
signal to the mechanicians to let go
tne biplane, the army aviator and his
brother-officers were. dead.
Lieutenant Ellington, a skillful pilot,
occupied the instructor's seat in the
biplane, with Lieutenant Kelly at his
side. The latter, a comparative novice
in the art of flying, was receiving In
structions in the handling of control
levers. Owing to the general arrange
ment of the controlling wires, Lieuten
ant Ellington could be at all times
absolute master of the machine.
The engine, one of six cylinders and
60-horse power, was working perfectly
and the late officers ascended to a
height of 300 feet, circled and then
began a volplane, which was to have
brought them back to the hangars.
Whether at this Instant the aero
planists temporarily loBt control of the
machine, or the initial impetus of the
revolving propeller when the biplane
was at so low an altitude, caused the
machine to tip forward, can Only be
conjectured. But the spectators of the
flight say the biplane suddenly pitch
ed forward, nose downward, and shot
to the' earth.
WILSON NAMES COMMISSION
Two Americans Are Named for the
. Philippine Islands.
Washington. President Wilson nom
inated the three following named for
American members of the Philippine
commission:
Secretary of public instructions and
vice governor of the Philippine Islands,
Henderson S. Martin of Kansas.'
Secretary of commerce and police.
Clinton L. Riggs of Baltimore, Md.
Secretary of the Interior, Winfred T.
Denison of New York.
Mr. Henderson Is a lawyer and chair
man of the state board of publio utili
ties of Kansas and Uvea at Topeka. He
was, for a long time, chairman of the
Democratic state committee of Kan
sas. He was born in Marlon, Kan.
Mr. Riggs was graduated as a civil
engineer form Princeton university in
1887. Subsequently he became a manu
facturer and retired from business
some years ago. t , ,
Mr. Denison was born in Maine, but
Is now a legal resident of New York.
He graduaed from Harvard university
Ship Loads With 56,534 Crossties.
Brunswick, Ga. What was probably
the largestc argo of crossties ever
shipped from any port' in the world
went forward from Brunswick on the
steamship Evelyn. The cargo consist
ed of exactly 56,534 .ties, "every one of
which were cut in this immediate vi
cinity and shiped to Brunswick. Sail
ing vessels as well as- steamers have
often sailed from this port with as
many as 40,000 or 45,000 ties, and on
one or two occasions large steamers
have carried as many as 60,000, , but
this Is the first time tor $50,000."
, Stole Necklace' Worth $650,000.
London. Sentence was pronounced
on four prisoners charged with steal
ing and receiving the pearl necklace
valued at $650,000, 'which disapeared
during transit by registered mail from
Paris to London on July 16,. but was
afterwards found lying on a sidewalk
in London with only one or two pearls
missing." .The accused were arrested
while negotiaing the sale of the pearls.
Two of the men, Lockett and Grlzzard,
were condemned to seven years' penal
servitude each; Silberman to five
vears. , .
REBELS 'PREPARING
10 BREAK :n
GENERAL VILLA IS NOW MAKING
READY FOR AN ATTACK ON
CHIHUAHUA CITY. '
FEDERALS SUFFER DEFEAT
Spanish Residents " Appeal to 'the
American Consul for Protection v
for Lives and Property.
El Paso, Texas. Rebel scouts re
ported to General Francisco Villa at
Juares that they had sighted' the Fed
eral' outposts at Villa Ahumada, 84
miles south of Juares. The presence
of the Federal forces at Villa Ahumada
has caused no little concern in Juares,
as the rebel officers do not know defi
nitely whether they are the troops
whi .h . retreated from Tierra Llanca
after their defeat or are reinforce
ments from Chihuahua, again moving
north to engage Villa.
"I will leave to attack Chihuahua
just as soon as I can get my trains
loaded with provisions and troops,"
said General Villa at Juares.
General Villa wilUiold a review and
parade of his troops in celebration ot
the victory over the Federals at Tierra
Blanca. After the parade the troops
will make immediate preparations for
leaving for the south. ,
Thousands of dollars' worth ot pro
visions were transferred from El Paso"
to Juarez to be loaded on Villa's
trains. - ; ,
Villa expects to have at least 12,
000 men when he attacks Chihuahua.
He said he had sent word for Gen.
Thomas Urblna to bring 3,000 men
north from Torreon district, and that
Gen. Manuel Choa is now in the vi
cinity of Chihuahua with 2,000 rebel
troops. Villa will take 7,000 soldiers
from Juarez, leaving a garirson of
about one hundred men to protect the
city. ,
Spanish residents of Juarez appeal
ed to American Consul Thomas B. Ed
wards of that city, to take charge of
their possessions In the city, as Gen
eral Villa has threatened to conns
cate their stores and other proper
ty. Consul Edwards accepted ttie cus
tody of the property. There are about
one hundred Spaniards in Juarez. They
have aroused Villa's displeasure by re
fusing to accept rebel fiat money and
closing their stores.
One hundred and eighty-four wound
ed men are in the Juarez hospitals
as a result ot the unsuccessful at
tack on Juarez by the Federals.
Villa captured a number of Federa!
field pieces and a military train. He
said that he captured 600 Federals. He
admits executing some of them.; Ap
parently tbegreatest number of dead
as a result of the fighting are those
who faced the firing squad and paid
the penalty of supporting the Huerta
cause rather than that of Villa, Made
ro or Carranza.
NO BAIL ALLOWED ZELAYA
Former Ruler of Nicaragua Is Held on
the Charge . of Murder. ;
New York. Jose Santos Zelaya, the
former president of Nicaragua, arrest
ed In bed at midnight on charges of
having committed murder in Nicara
gua, was held without bail for exam
ination. Pending the arrival of a re
quest for extradition to Nicaragua, he
was remanded to prison. ' '
- General Zelaya was arrested as ' a
fugitive from justice on complaint of
Roger B. Wood, an assistant Uaited
States attorney. Mr.- Wood chaVged
that a warrant for Zelaya'B apprehen
sion for: murder had been issued in
Nicaragua, but did not name the al
leged victims. . It was said, however,
that they were two countrymen plain
twelve years ago and that the death
of Leroy Cannon and Leonard Groce,
Americans slain in Nicaragua, in i909,
in an uprising against the Zelaya re
gime, had nothing to do with: Gesera:
Zelaya's ' arrest !hf''fis :i J
Zelaya was arrested at mldnlglt In
the' apartment o Washington S. Val
entine, He made no effort to escape
andl went "uncomplainingly td th po
lice station,' asking them to give him
what ' conveniences they v could." j The
marshals tad traced, him to the apart
ment after having spent, a week on his
trail.
i
Picked Hit Wife From 400 Wotnen.
V New York. Ernest W., Parrow, a
contracting mason of Patchogue, Long
Island, celebrated Thanksgiving j Day
by taking his pick of over 400 pom
en who had offered to be his life
mate. Darrow had been advertising
for ; a wife - since last May jand' the
several : hundred applicants not .only
besieged him by letter, by telegraph
and by telephone, but: many visited
him in person, , Miss Julia Stagg, an
English girl who landed in Canada
from England,' won and the coupl
were married. k t 4 ,
Two Boy Killed Hunting, i
Atlanta, Ga,-harieB Bridwell, 10-year-old
son . of Mr. and Mrs. A. B.
BridwelL residing on the Mayson and
Turner road, was instantly , killed at
two o'clock Thanksgiving Day in a
pasture not far from his home,, when
a shotgun in the hands of his brother,
BaBil, aged 15, exploded, blowing oft
the entire base of his skull. Shot ac
cidentally while , on Thanksgiving
hunting trip, Johnnie Garst aged 14
years, sou of James E. Garst, a recent
candidate for recorder, died In the
I Grady hospital later the same day.
KEWS 0F NORTH CAROLINA
Latest News of General Interest That
Hat Been Collected From Maby
, Towna and Countlea. " '
Statesvlile. The city ot Statesvllle
recently contracted for a modern wa
ter pump with a dally capacity of
1,000,000 gallons. 1
Hamlet Tbe Sydnor-CIark Com
pany Is the nr-of a new wholesale
grocery company which has Just been
chartered and will begin business In
Hamlet December 1. . ,
HamletThe schedule of the new
train to be put on by the Seaboard
from Hamlet to Wilmington December
1 shows that the train will leave Ham
let at a, m. and return from Wil
mington at 10:30 p. m.
Mt. Airy. The handsome granite
Presbyterian church of this city,
which has been In course of construc
tion for the past two years, Is rapid-,
ly nearlng completion and will be
ready for occupancy In a few days.
Statesvllle The new ticket wipdow
for the exchange of mileage, recently
installed at the Statesvllle passenger
station of the Southern by the cor
poration commission, was opened re
cently to tbe traveling public.' ,
Durham. The old Corcoran Hotel
has been leased by the Incorporators
.of the Mercy hospital and, according
to the announcement of present plans
the hospital will be open for business
about the first of the year.
Waxhaw. Fred J. Bowden and
Will Crow, two young white men, were
killed in Ballface shaft of the Howie
Mine near Waxhaw several days ago.
Bowden was aged 26 and married.,
Crow aged 23 and unmarried. , ;
Clinton. The health authorities of
Sampson county, have issued the first
number of the "The Sampson County
Health Bulletin," the first periodical
of its kind to be published in a strict
ly rural county in this part of the
state. . --
Raleigh. Raleigh was without wa
er supply for seven hours one day re
cently due to the necessity of discon
necting the water plant and the city
in order to install the valves In the
new and larger water main for con
necting the plant with the city. -
" Mebane. The local toDacco.marKei
has had the bes't business this sea
son of any equal period since It was
established. In fact, the sales since
the opening, September 15, have
brought the farmers more money than
did the sales of the whole season last
year. "
Washington. Collectors A. D. Watts
and J. W. Bailey, two of North Caro
Una's leading bachelors, will have to
pay Income tax for being single. A
bachelor has to pay if he gets a sal
ary v of more than $3,000. "Messrs.
Watts and Bailey come in this class.
- Cliffside Mr. James Wall, 70 yearB
old, an old Confederate soldier, died
recently at the home ot his son, Colum
bus Wajl, at this place. He was born
in 1835 and lived all his life In the
High Shoals settlement, near here.
He served the entire four years as a
Confederate soldier and saw 'much
service in Virginia. ,
Asheville. According to Col. T. Gil
bert Wood of the land and industrial
department of the Southern Railway
rnmnanv. there is immediate prospect
of a big development of a natural
limestone deposit in Madison county
by a Virginia concern. -
Greensboro. Former Mayor L. X
Brandt, who vis candidate for the
Greensboro postof flee, has gone ; to
work getting endorsements for the of
fice and already has a strong backing.
So far no one else has announced bis
candidacy, but there will be others to
seek the place. ,
Salisbury. Suffering from injuries
caused by the explosion of a war rello
at Memphis, Mr. H. I. Chilson, a form
er resident of Rowan, county, Ib at ht
o It-V...r a fa WAAlrfl
DOm par oiiduui; tv - " "--
While he was Inspecting .an old sheh
it exploded and a portion of one hand
was torn off and the other badly In-
L Jured.:., ;A::s fit"&;,y-
; Spencer. A remarkable yield of 120
bushels of corn to the acre waa made
on the plantation of the Dorset Land
Company1 near Speneer, this year. The.
corn Is known as Dorsett's , Long
White. -and this is said to be the best
yield ever produced In Rowan county.
Three bushels of the corn In the car
shelled out i two bushels 'of. -grain
weighing 67 pounds -each. ' , "
Washington. Ben Ormond, the
white man who was bo- fearfully
mangled in a cutting affray in the city
several days ago by Joseph Mills, died
TtraaMnvtstn fmimf till. '
Asheville. The county board ol
education recently "awarded a" con
tract for the construction oi a rauuoru
concrete school building ln'Leicester'
township. ' '
Fayetteville. senator iee s. uver
man, in a letter to Mr. J. B. Under
wood, has signified his Intention to
appoint John P. Williams, Jr., ot thla
city, a page in the United States, Ben-,
ate., .
Salisbury .-Mr. Charles D, Warllck,
a weii-known traveling' man of Salis
bury, lost an eye by being struck with
a;nail at his home recently. He 'was
makimg some minor repairs about the
house and In driving a nail; It. split,
one-halt passing through the eye-balL
High Point G. F. Cecil is the "win
ner of the' prize offered by-the Wa
chovia LoanNfc Trust Co., for the best
acre ot tobacco, but, although this
prize Is $50 In gold, it amounts to lit
tle In comparison With the money the
acre's product Bold .for. The ' 1,335
pounds grown on the . plot brought
$496.88.