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VOL ^CXITL mi QASTOMA, N. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER Q, 1908.
SIMMONS •IVJJQDOI PIOBLCM
Ha Waste tta Manntecture and
Sale CaaHnad ta the (owns
aad H* Wasta Liquor ta Pay
Mara Tazaa ta tfc* Stata.
WuUactoa Bpaclil. 2d. ta CWriott* Ob
nnWi
Senator Simmons, speaking
about the work of the Lcgiste
Lature soon to assemble, said
that it was greatly to be hoped
that the Legislature would take
tome action looking to the regu
lation and adequate taxation by
the State of the manufacture of
liquor. He said there was a
strong sentiment in the State
for confining both the sale and
manufacture of liquor to the in*
corporated towns. Bat what
ever might be done with regard
to this action it was manifest
that the manufacture of liquor
should be brought under State
control and police regulation as
far aa that could be dWie without
conflict with the laws of the
United States. He said if the
manufacture of liquor is to be
allowed at all in the State, it
should become a source of larger
revenue to the State than under
existing laws.
There is, he says no grater
evil in the State than those little
copper distilleries scattered
about through the country where
police regulation is impossible.
Generally speaking they exert a
demoralising influence upon the
community in which they are
debauching the morals
of the public within the radius
of their influence. Besides many
of them have become recruiting
stations for the Republican par
ty. In large measure, they are
undermining the work of schools
and churches in these cotnmuui
ues.
If (liquor is permitted to be
manufactured only in incorpora
ted towns, he said the distilleries
can be subjected to rigid police
regulations and the evil of the
business would be largely dimin
ished. At any rate, ne said,
they ought to be adequately
taxed by the State and no retail
establishment ought to be al
lowed in connection with la dis
tillery, for a large part of the
evil of these concerns grows out
of the retail house which is al
most universally run in connec
tion with them. If the Legisla
ture shall datenaina ft> confine
the sale and manufacture of
whiskey to incorporated towns,
each town should by general law
be given an opportunity to vote
upon the question of prohibition
or a dispensary, so that the con
tinuance of the traffic in each
community would be made to
depend upon the majority vote
of that community. Of course
this general law., should be
be so framed as not to require a
vote in towns where prohibition
or a dispensary already exists.
Senator Simmons expressed
the hope and opinion that the
Legislature would give these
questions earnest and mature
consideration, and he added that
if the manufacture of liquor was
confined to the Incorporated
towns and the nasal bar-room
accompaniment prohibited, it
would greatly diminish the work
of the Federal Courts and might
in the near future make,it possi
ble to dispense with one of the
Federal Court districts in the
State, as wall as a large part of
the rtventR force now necessary
and relieve the State of the odi
ous political activity of so many
revenue officials when the Re
Sublican party is In power in the
tate. __
Ha Belglaa Qneea'a Daring,
UM»Tn«i
The talk about the queen of
the Belgian's memoir* is all stuff
and nonsense. Marie Henriette
kept a diary. bat not regularly.
She Jotted down merely for the
purpose of refreshing her own
ner. < All her mental energy ran
into marie, in which she attained
high cotmoisseursbip, and into
bony attain. She was not a
writer, and never knew what the
writing impulse la. In n circus
• she would have been the right
*eun in the right place. I
“>“*»,aa I *nw oi ner oaring
drives fn her pony phaeton acroaa
the railway near Lacken. She
twendly timed her crowing for
the closing of the gate acroaa
th* high road. Whan a man at
the station came oat to shot oat
the public became a train com
ing at foil speed had boon sig
nalled, the queen made a aim
to Wm, which ho understood^
She than gam a whip and raia
to hat four cream-colored ponies
and dashed across tha railway,
Cmuch to soon to escape be
cnuhed by tha train. When
on tha other aids aha wm pale aa
death bnt thrUXng.
THE SOUTH BEPOftE THE WAI.
A Urge Preportian ol ill People
dm Idle, hot Engaged in Neap
Perea lie.
Norfolk Ludavk.
"Life in the Old South” is a
fine paper, con trihated by the
Rev. J. M. Hawley to the
Septembcr-October number of
Things and Thoughts, s bi
monthly magazine of merit pub
lished at Winchester, Vs., Mr.
Hawley’s contribution deserves
special attention because if
refutes the oft-heard charge that
the ante-bellum South was a
nation whose citizen, os s
whole, posed in graceful idle
ness and let the slaves do all the
work. People of the present
day, even in the South (perhaps)
have come to think that in the
years before the great struggle
between the sections the white
men of the North did more work,
man for men, than the white men
of the South. The over
doing of tDe theory that the
South was settled by the
CavalieTS and the North by the
Puritans has, by simple associ
ation of terms, had a great deal
to do with the deepening of this
impression.
We consider the following
extracts from the Rev. Mr.
Hawley’s article to be a valuable
contribution to American his
tory:
"There were in the South (by
the census 1850) in round num
bers 174,500 persons owning
from one to five slaves. If these
whites represented a family of
five persons each on an avenge
—and many Southern families
were large—we have no leas
than 872300 persons dependent
upon five slaves or leas to the
family for support, when only
two in the five were capable of
profitable work, their own sup
port to coqje, at the same time,
out of the profit of their own
labor. Was a population of 1,
745,000 souls ever clothed and
fed by the labor of only one
fifth of their number 7
" However much southern
men may have been accused of
idleness and indolence, very
many of them—slave-holders
and non-slave-holders alike—
were compelled td rely upon
their own energy and industry
for a livelihood. To rely upon
the labor of the few slaves they
owned signified increasing
poverty and embarrassment.
."And how were the thousands
of families that owned no slaves,
and yet comprised two-thirds of
the white population of the
South, to be supported? Hera
again, the United States census
for 1850 gives us many interest
ing and significant facts. The
number of white persons en
gaged in laborious occupations
in the South in the year was
larger in proportion to popula
tion than in the North. The
census gives us the number of
white persons over 15 years of
age engaged in any occupation
in each State of the Union. The
figures are decidedly to the
credit of the South.
•uei us compare a lew North
ern with a few Southern States,
la Massachusetts the percent
age of persons over 15 years of
age engaged in work was 45.39;
tn Rhode Island, 46.71; in New
Hampshire, 45.05; in Connecti
cut, 40.46; iu New York, 47.61;
in New Jersey, 47.35. Now let
ns glance at an equal number of
State* in the South. In Mary
land the percentage of white
persons over 15 years of age ta
med in work was 51.80; in
Virginia46.54; hi Georgia, 47.16;
in Florida, 53.04; in Mississippi,
51.23; in Texas, 54.03. Tbe
average for all the States in the
North was 47.92; for those in
the Sooth, 49.14. But one
Southern State—Missouri—fell
to SO average so low as Massa
chusetts. But two in the North
—Pennsylvania snd Iowa—rose
to an average so high as Mary
land or Mississippi, not on* of
them equalling Florida, Arkan
sas or Texas.
"These facts are decisive of
the question of industrial con
ditions in the South. Whatever
may hwre been the influence of
the African shadow upon ttw
people south of the Maaon and
Dixon Hue, it did not produce
**», who, despised labor and
lived In idleness and luxury. Go
to any State of the South and*
tbq tact remains that tht average
of the white population living
apon the interest of invested
money and baring no occupa
tion was considerably smaller
than iu the North." •
Bight thousand people wit
nessed the start of the six-day
bicycle race, the tenth annual
championship event in lfadison
Sqnsre Garden, New Yoth which
began early Monday morning.
.Six teams are competing for the
prist.
SMM,m POI A HOSPITAL.
Armeor’a Gift ol Gratitude for
Hie ChiU’e Recovery.
Chlcaso Sotcial to U» BaUiaen 8m.
As a monument of gratitude
that hia daughter has been re
claimed from a life of helpless
ness and given one of activity,
J. Ogden Armour, millionaire,
now turned philanthropist like
his father, haa begun plans for
the Lolita Armour Institute of
Bloodless Surgery, which is to
be endowed with $3,000,000.
The drat active step in this
direction was taken to-dav at
Mr. Armour’s home, while the
packer, his wife and daughter
were entertaining Prof. Adolf
Lorens and Dr. Fredlich Mueller
both of the University of Vienna.
Mr. Anuonr’s child, little Lolita,
whom Dr. Lorenz and Dr.
Mncller had treated for coh
gcnital hip dislocation was
brought into the room and
walked across the floor os spryly
u uy cnua.
Mr. and Mra. Armour looked
at each other and both turned to
Dr. Mueller.
"I know,” said the millionaire,
"that Professor Lorenr could
not be induced to accept the
invitation I am going to extend
to you. I cannot find expression
for my gratitude that my daugh
ter is healed. Mrs. Armour and
1 have discussed time and again
the best way oi commemorating
the seeming miracle. I intend
to establish a hospital or insti
tute for your school of surgery,"
he said. " Youi must be at the
head of it. It makes no differ
ence what the cost may be; my
daughter has -practically been
given back to me, and I and my
wife are grateful. For the first
time since Lolita was born we
are happy.
> "Other parents are joyless be
cause their children arc afflicted
with the same trouble. ‘ They
cannot afford to employ you and
and yon cannot afford to come
from Vienna every time one
needs you. Stay here. Make
Chicago yonr home and you will
not regret it.” •
"Shall I ?“ asked Dr. Mueller,
of the famous chief and patron.
"Almost envy you the op
portunity," was the reply.
Then two men, one an Amer
ican and another of tha Teutonic
race, both sealed the agreement
in a grasp of hands and the
bloodless-surgery hospital be
came mil but a fact.
York Coaaty Hunt.
Vorkrlllt Mini ■ I pm Him,
People ere quite flow in catch*
ing on to the fact that the post
office deportment requires two
cent stamps on free rural de
livery letters. Many people
mail such letters with only on fr
ee nt stamps.
Mr, T. A. Wadsworth, for
sometime past the assistant
agent at the C. & N.-W. xkpot,
leaves to-day for Cliff's, N. C.,
to take charge of the telegraph
office at that place while the
railway people are putting in a
new bridge across the Catawba
river between Cliff's and Granite.
Although there is ranch to be
done, the Southern has improved
the physical condition of their
line between Camden and Marion
wonderfully during the past few
months. In addition, (o many
thousands of ties put in all along
the line, all the bridges and tres
tles have been materially
strengthened.
Mr. D. C. Clark, carrier on
Rural Route No. 1, claims that
hia mail wagon U "the thing.”
There was rain all day Tuesday;
but Mr.1 Clark made the trip
without the inconvenience or
discomfort of a wetting. He
aaya that if he had been in a
buggy he would have been
drenched to the skirt.
If ibe railroad people can just
arrange to deliver e morning
paper in Jhe town on the day of
publication, they wfU confer a
great favor. As trains now run,
it is impossible, to get a single
daily paper deli verrdfcrom any di
rection until the day after publi
cation, and the New York papers
are as fresh on their arrival as
are any of the state dailies.
There waa another homicide
at the works of the Catawba
Power Company last Wednesday
afternoon. A negro woman
named Mary Emerson, shot and
killed a negro laborer, named
Solomon Carlisle. According to
tbe woman’s story, the two were
smtudng themselves with a gen.
They had ired ft oat of a win*
dow, after which Carlisle placed
the moult to bis head and told
the woman to poll the trigger,
assuring her that the gun wae
no longer loaded. She pulled
the trigger and ha waa killed.
The coroner's Jury decided that
the killing was accidental.
“I* War*.”
Rictimrwd Ntws.
A handsomely furnished and
comfortable room. The peace
and silence of 11 o’clock at
night and but these two preaeot.
She is in a wide easy chair, her
head thrown back against the
dark velvet, her eyes looking
into his from beneath half-closed
lids. The conversation haa be
come intensely personal and his
voice is low and a little tremu
lous, while hers are deep and
tense and immeasurably sweet,
and each word carries the sug
gestion of caress and Invitation.
She wean something soft and
filmy and dainty, cut to show a
neck as round as an alabaster
pillar and white and smooth as
satin. One hand dangles
temptingly on the arm of her
chair and looks particularly
white and small and alluring,
while the background against
which her head rests becomes
her wonderfully and accentuates
the blush-rose tint that bas come
over her face. Her lips half
smiling, with jnst a glint of
pearl behind them, are red and
tempting as rips strawberries.
She is beautiful and high-bred
and charming, all woman and in
loving and complaisant mood—
iu brief, perfect.
tie Detxu I or ward at last and
ventures to take the hand in
both of his very gently. The
resistance is slight, and the
words which have been swelling
his heart and driving it to
furious beating come hoarsely to
his lips.
Her eye-lids droop, the flash
on her face deepens and her
breast rises and tails fast with
her quick breathing. The lids
lift again from her dark eyes and
once more she looks into bis
with s new light and tenderness
aud yearning and she whispers
the answer she has already told.
He bends forward eagerly and
his arm slips swiftly behind her
shoulders. His lips are within
six inches, two inches, half an
inch of her’s.
"tioiai
With a swift, evasive,- sinuous
movement she twists herself from
his embrace, and a few firm, rapid
steps carry her to the door, which
she quickly opens.
‘"Pal" she cries to someone
above, "bring Jbe lung tester
snd send in a hurry call for the
kiss inspector. I think be will
be needed in about a minute."
Scenes like this may be ex
pected to be frequent in Virginia
under the operation of the Ware
bill, introduced in the legisla
ture yesterday, making un
authorised kissing a misdemean
or, punishable by fine of not
less than one nor more than flye
dollars for each oSense.
Well would the girl know that
once begun on such an occasion
even the fortune of Rockefeller
might be lost in fines between
11 p. m. snd 1 a. m., and sbe
would have no such suicidal
purposes as to begin matrimony
with bankruptcy.
bn bill d the Were bill go into
effect, !t may be well to remark
in this connection, some new
coanting contrivance for keep
ing score would have to be in
vented, if the stories 'of the
novelists who tells of sach
episodes have any foundation in
fact. "He rained a thousand
kisaes on her lovely upturned
face" is a common discriptive
line in these volumes. We
judge that this is a matter of
three or four minutes at best.
Making time allowance for
breathing, this would give some
thing like fifteen thousand kisses
an hour at a dollar a piece, or
thirty thousand la two hoars.
So far as we ate informed, no
income now kown to science
will endure at that grit. If Mr.
Ware will amend his bill by
inserting after the words "kiss"
or "kissing," wherever they
occur, the words in "public," we
•hell be inclined to favor his
measure, however. Very little
really enjoyable kissing is done
in this way and uanally it is an
aggravation to the observers on
general principles. Without this
amendment we do not believe
be will ever get bis bill through,
unless ha can select a legislators
composed entirely of members
above eighty years of age who
have been bachelors always.
Early Sunday morning fire de
at waanmgton. N. c. A drunk*
•n man named B allay overturned
ea oil atove which «*plod«J.
Bailey was cremated in the fire.
The distillery of Mr. W. D.
Aderholdt, near Crouae, was
adaed Saturday by Deputy
Collector on account of come
irregularities._
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Washington, Dec. 1.—Demo
cratic members of tbe State coa
greasional delegation denouncad
without teaervation the proposal
of Republican Federal official*
to indict Democratic registrars.
Senator Simmons gave utterance
to the prevailing sentiment
among tbe Democratic members
when he characterised the con
templated proceedings as out
rageous, ana worthy only of tbe
discredited Republican leaders
negro vote that baa been lost by
their owu ill-advised performance
■There may have been isolated
cases where qualified negroes
were denied registration,” said
the Senator, "but these rare in
stances merely occurred through
a misunderstanding of the law
and afforded evidence of no
criminal intent. Every intelli
gent man in die State knows
that tbe small negro registration
was tbe result of a determination
on tbe pert of tbe negroes to re
buke tbe Republican leaden for
the brutal treatment accorded
them; and now these Republi
can leaders are seeking to ase
the machinery of the Federal
courts to punish the Democratic
registrars for bringing about the
state of adairs for which they
alone are responsible. Tide
scheme of tbe Republicans mere
ly confirms the Democratic con
tention, frequently made, that in
the event the Republicans were
not successful! in the new ven
tures of the last campaign they
Would again join hands with tbe
negroes.1* Tbe Democrats were
not disposed to uphold any wil
ful violation of the election law,
but there was no justification for
these wholesale indictments and
as chairmen of the Democratic
State executive committee the
Senator declared it to be his in
tention to stand by tbe registrars;
not only would he do so. Senator
Simmons concluded but tbe
Democratic party as a whole
unanimously approve of such e
course.
Aa Uadtaafed BUL
MnYoATlM
Ex-President Gale* of Amherst
college wu a mau with three
aaliant characteristics—belief is
compulsory worship as a mini
of grace, nicety of language and
a fondness for bargain hunting
that was almost feminine. As
illustrative of the latter it is told
that on a certain occasion, Mr.
Gates bought for $3 a pair of
trousers that had been marked at
$0 and had them charged.
The 6rtt of the month a bill
■ come ia:
"To one pr. pants, $3”
Hr. Gates crossed off the
"pants* and substituted "trous
ers," then re mailed tbebill. The
first of the next month another
bill came in:
"To one pr. pants, S3."
This time the bill eras returned
as before, but with the following
legend: -
Dear Mr. Thompson—I aa al
ways careful about the language
I use, and like other people to
do tbe same.
The first of the third month
Mr. Gates received e bill:
• "To one pr. peats, $3."
This time be went in person
to visit Mr. Thompson. He ex
plained his position. Thompson
looked at him e moment md
then replied:
"Pres'dent Gates, I’ve been
in the clothing bnsiseaa for
twenty-five yean, and during
them twenty-five yean every
thing in my shops above
$5 has been trousers and
has been
go^agad,
\ . pay for."
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Baking Powder
v
Safeguards the food
against alum.
BARGAINS IN WAUDlfO MUTS.
Have jest received abb lot WaUcfaqr
a ran on at $3 JO each. They are leaden
and rocb bargain* in Walking Skirt* have .
market* before. Abo aee <mr$5.00 Bad$6.00 M
HUM! MOBS.
Belt*, Belt Pfo* fad f Hi
MB THE UTOE MU,
Oer Use of Infaat** Capa ar* ^■i>*i*<qd yoe cm dad'
tke latest at oer atom for the little ana*. Price*, ZSc to $2 JO each.
YOOB BlLLUVEKT VAHT8
to a*. We have jest what yon want material, style,
Viuuiin wont. _ \
Ikes* Good* aod Waterings all b the latest dcafga*.
JAMES F. YEAGER.
ZAOIBS* FURNISHINGS A SPECIALTY.
READ! READ!
GOOD NEWS FOR YOU!
they bown the stock aad they were salted well with the
stock. Yts, we’ve been —Ding lots of animals aad Rood
oats, too.
Now, we have last received a pcetty brack of stock that
walked through the ooaatnr from Trnaraan. also a fall
car-load of horses aad mules that arrived'lai* SatnrdSr
from rite same State, making la all aoase 60 head now
oa kmd
Among tbede are seam *p**»«iir desirable *“**» mad
driving horses, a. few extra good' family hotaaa, mat a
plenty of good farm animals of almost anv ekw is dw
&om 14 to 16 hands high and weighing from 800 to 1200
pounds.
NOW LISTEN I—We are anxious to clone up oar year's basi
ns** ia order to make a new start with the acw year, aad'
si^S&^'SSSiK&'ffiLto-w <~i
or on time. Stock will antely be Mghac after Chriafaaas.
Bay bow and save money. Don’t fail to call and sae war
stock. ,
REMEMBER we gnarantee every animal as represented to
you whoa we sell h, aad remember also that yoa will save
money by baying before the cad of the year, aad by bay
ing bom as. * Yours etc.
CRAIG A WllSO N.
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