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SEMI-WEEKLY
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VOL. XXX,N0.75. $1. PER Y EAR.
REIDSVILLE, N. C, NOV. 17, 1911.
ISSUED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
THE
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REVIEW.
THE NATION'S NEWS
The News Taken Hot From the
Telegraph Wires.
A Record of Lite Happening of,
thu Country Sine Ogr Last Issue
Th Mot lmp,ortant Recent Has
: pent rigs.
It ha be r. d-!d"'l that the .Navy
iMpartntent ni'ly con'iirno oil South
ern navy yards lii active st-rtiiv hy
n new p iali-'..t': ti policy.
Hoke Smith r (i: a Gove; nor 0?
'ie'Hgta ami wit! 'go. to-AVa.-diingtosi'
nxt month to HI! -the sea-; or:i f;:.
to pied by Senu'or B.'n fill!.
Vessels will - allowed.' to piss
itroiiKh the panaiaa cami! .before
t'je official o;xT.i:ii; n hu-.K tuu been
-t for .l.ir.-i -.ry i, DM5. according to
Major F. '. Ixs. of th" United.
..-4itH ci-r'j. of 'n'.;i!!t,'rii.
'n "si majority opinion of the
V-ectimerce court formally h'tmied
ricn. at Watihit'ori Tuesday i:i the
. '.rUi-cor.i'"n"r.tl rate c-hm-.h, it Is
iield that 1 1." l4in'l-.sli'r'-lihiil
provision of u- laicrstati- Com-ii'vrn-
Act U eoititutiona!
The National Municipal U au- lu
tiaioh hi Richmond this week wits,
addressed by a number of prominent
npeakers. Ia a h'tntorcns address, by
Thomas M. Piitaian, m' North Caro
i lia, New Kngladora were incited to
t'lisraK' to North Carolina.
The indicted Chicago meat oaekers
r- making effort to avoid trial aial
u a petition 'Tuesday charged the
- sv.Tnmii anti trust taw uuooiistltu
'tonal; that th" act- violate the
wmh amendment to thf constitution
it Is also chawd tuat the act "at
tempts to esttablish as a crime arts
:h:.t are ict criminal
'resident Firl.-y. h Southern
ia.Hwav Company, announces that, in
r.-niiion of the value 1 their
rvlee and their loyalty to the intents-
of the company, ttio manage
rUont has authori! ao advanc-e in
the nlarie of Its cloaca! employ
ee hf reTo',r. rioww '.') 00 p r
month-or lcs. Tn advan"e l -to
. .effective at once,
Th grandparent? f Row French,
Cherokee, Indmif ho is In bi.
in-unlerers' row ot tin Stale prison
i:ider sentence to bo eU'Ctntutnl at
.KaU'lgh Nov. 24 for tho murJir .'..of
Miss Ethel Shuler. Id Swain county,
.Applied to the prison autlioritw'8 for
,hkft8 of aduUsnioa to the death
chamber 'to' witnc the electrocu
Ttfn. Tlw r rand pan ntb of the 101.
fl'minpd j-outa? tuarv are atyl full
blooded Cherokee Indians.
'TelonV slrip'V' as a rnnisltnient
fo'' "trust Tlmital ' m iho Tuiieil
f' end "coraincr: uJ piracj ujiler
b"nevolent 'ruhiw ot nasjon." " are
proposed in a bill ainemllnK the Sher
man anti-tnutt hi dnifl'-d by Kep
resetatlve Jlcnry. of Texa. to be
iiarcKfticd In the lousn upon the
opening of t'otusreB uexl inoulh. lis
Introduction, will probably mean Its
juvuiaKe In th'J Houiie.
J'Un for tho rittririniion of the
24 subsidiary cumparJt of the
S'andard Oil OompHny of New Jor
ti'V to conform with, the mandate
t,f the Supreme Court of tlw United
MUte have bMit math" public and
fliow that thj holders of ono share
rf Standard Oil of Now Jersey
f lock will twelve varylnt? ajiiounts
in thee ueparatti com panics In. frac
tions of one share. These stocks ,
will be ready for dintribution .on I
nber J 5.
Nothing yon offer her will please her half so
much as the announcement tha you have found
a laundry where she can have all the linen laund
ered and returned to her
ncc frrtm oil ennte in 1 rloii'i
HENRY HUBBARD. Agent
?hon&-26. , ,
MAY DELAY DISINTEGRATION.
Indendent Tobacco Dealr File Pi;
titic.i in An-,rlc.in Tobacco Com-
pany Dis t'ution.
Xew Vork, Nov, lj,After u pe
tliioti was filed here today by inlc-pi'iide-iii
tobacco d'ulcts n.ikit4. In
ttrvoniiuii in the Kcu-riiwi'tit's dis
soliiUon. tiuit as'iinst the tobacco
trust, It fas learned that 'reprenenta
tiv,s of thr Independent iti'erests
"had pie usly endeavored to obtain
the p- rs i al intervention of f'rcsl
Je;it ; Tafl . , Telet;rain were sent 10
(lie Prcsicieht on November ti and "
in the first he was asked to direct
"he Atioriit-y General to request the
CiicuH court to withhold Its decia
lou until the 1'ri.sldenl toulrl make
further h juiry and to ask the At
torney tieiural to withdraw the gov
crmtif-ni's answer and file a new
one "luch will carry out your
viows lis lo tii plants owned by the
conkl! tuition being distributed Into
dJfffretit. and differing ownership."
APer a r,ly had been received
from Secretary Hilles that: the mat
ter w.vi iti Uk' hands ot the Attor
ney General and that the telegraais
which reached the President at Cin
ciunutl wcjkl be repeated to .Mr.
U'jcKeriiham o ire, I'm' second nieS
ae was sent renewing, the Indepen
dent!!' rHnet that the tobacco mat
ter' receive the personal attention
of the President.
District Attorney Wise, acting
upon direction of Attorney General
Wlokershiun, opposed the petition,
aiii Felix II. Levy, counsel for the
independents, luteiireted his oppo
sition, a an Indication that the
Circuit court will not grant the peti
tion. Tho next move In- the case, in
this event, Mr. Levy said, would be
an application to the United States
Supremo' Court of a writ of cer
tiorari. The filing of a petition by the
independent dealers today asking
intervention makes certain an appeal
from the plan to the United States
Supreme Court and inay delay the
disintegration of the tras's in the
4it:lon c-f counsel In the case.
Should the independents' petition
be granted by the Cirtruit court the
cast will be taken to the Supreme
Court by the roctestants, who wtiold
then be parties to tho suit. Mr. Levy
declared sliould the Circuit court de
ny the independents their plea, they
will take it to the higher tribunal
notwithstanding. In addition, the
petitioners suggest "na friends to
the court," that the Circuit court
embody in its forthcoming decne a
clause that the decree shall be
brought, as speedily as possible, be
fore tho Supreme Court .tur . review .
The pctucu. btai the s1l-!liatu:es of
the Natici.al Cigar Loat . Toba .
Association and the Cigar Manufactu
rers Association of Auutlj.
.Members of Cambridge. Mas.. Hap
tlat church have received a scuoiij
letter from 'the Kev. Kicheson, un
der indictment charged with the mur
der of Miss Avis Llnnell, urging the
acceptance of his . resignation a.-
paator. The text of this letter lul
lows: "Dear Hrethren: I oatmot ex
press how deeply. I am touched at
your loyalty and manifestations of
confidence In me In this, 'my ureal
hour of trouble, but I cannot but
feel that the welfare of the church
might be prejudiced while its min
ister Is plac-ed ia his .present posi
tion. I therefore,' notwithstanding
my gratoful apprecaltion of your
kindness, feel that the church should
accept my resignation, of course
leaving It entirely with you when
tho matter should be carried Into
effect."
vi:h Iminiiculatd white-
iss. Mils is the p a:e.
Governor Mann Refuses
To Commute Sentence
of Henry Clay Beattie
Kb hmod. Va.. Nov. I, '..With t'.i
frank and etiiphatic st.u m-.'iit that
he uelieved absolutely in the pri
soner's guilt. Coven or Mann to.iay
declined to grant a respite to Jiehry
Clay lieattie, Jr., coiivlcted in Ches
terfield county for wife murder. The
Governor's refusal to interfere with
the senteiue which . tlx- Supreme
Court declared nil .Monday to be
plainly right, meaus that lieattie will
die in the electric chair ar the State
penitentiary on Friday. Nov. 21.
lieing aware that a final .decUiou
would be reached In his case today,
lieattie, in the death cell, waited
expectantly for some word '.-from the
Goverlior's office. His gray-haired
father, utterly broken in spirit And
strength, who notified him on Mon
day that an appeal had been denied,
.was spared r,he ordeal of conveying a
second message that all hope was
lost. Key, Itetijauiln iVnnis, an Epis
copal minister, who had interceded
in thu young man's behalf, we.tt
quickly and qui -tly to the prison to
inform lilin that every possible ef
fort to save him had failed. Beattie
heat'1 the announcement In silence,
though he was visibly affected. La
ter in the 'afternoon his father. .hU
brother and his young sister called to
.l hl:a.
Unlike the Supreme Court Which
filed no written opinion in refutsing
a writ of ertor, Governor Mann gave
out a statement in which he said
that 'Seattle's appeal was made with
the purpose, if possible, of avoiding
tho consequence tf a crime, of which
he knows lie is guilty.
The Gevortior also stated that the
so-called affidavit of Paul lieattie
was nut worthy of'-. consideration as
evidence. "
In a signed statement to Ileattie's
lawyers and the public. Governor
iMannj said:
"While I sympathize very pro
foundly with the father of 11. C.
Heattie, Jr.. and would be glad to
help him if I could dr.' m with the
proper regard for the public inter
ests, I cannot with any consideration
for thotve " interests interfere with
due execution of the sentence of the
,-o.irt in the Beattie ease.
"I followed the else during the
UNCLE SAM WILL OPEN LINE.
Regirr':nt of Troons Will BJ Dis-
I patched tj Chinwingao, Near Pt'
I king, China.
j WRfhingtoi', Nov. 1."). The State
j Depart me tit has pi-ajtl-rilly decided
to setid a regiment of troops from
Manilit tu t hum iiistau, a -eaiwit
in China about -'jO miles from Pe
kin, on the Gulf of Pechili. The
purpose is to perform ati internation
al duty under the Boxer treaty in
keeping opeu the line of conimutilca
ii(.n be twee Pekin and the sea,
p It was said at the State Depart
ment that the request for the troops
has not yet been made on the War
Department, but it was momentarily
expected. Th" otlicials were careful
to make It appear that the dispatch
of these troops to China would be
absolutely without any political mean
ins and tho movement was not to
be construed as intervention.
Under the treaty which terminated
the Boxer troubles, the Uited States
with other powers, was accorded
the privilege of maintaining a mili
tary force along the line of railway
between Pekin and the sea in order
to guard against such an event as
the siege of the legations during the
Tj'otxer uprisig.' "
The fact that the force to be dis
patched will be limited to one regi
ment, la in iUelf an Indication that
there is no Intention on- the part of
the United States government of in
dulging in any large military deemon-
3tration io China or of taking sides
in the present great struggle for su
premacy between lite imperial; forct j
and the revolutionary party, and it
's detiaretl that no desiens ut en
Chinese territory are entertained.
The main . consideration t,i:i,
prompted tne State Departmanr .- tt.
t is said to be the i k t th.il tn
ports of the Gull of I'cchih aro
closed bv ice anout tins tune every
year an:! it will be necessary to hi. t
the tr(.;:ps now if they are to b.
employed at all during the vvinit-r in
iJhtna.
1'h-t transicri falu'iiiian ii in;.-vm.-j
.it. Mani.a l:f.rt. L.i t .. .
1 . c 1 . J ll- iL , I
the State l)e;ar.tiU".K... or v-j ..
,d.,1'.a. ri'nt.J; -'-!'"' ' - iVaSr.-jU'l;;....
..IcUiik lour ci)5 aie.r siii . t . ... . .
tier sailing oriers.
Wild Silk.
Chinese wild silk is said (o be prac-
led for a year without great ill effect.
trial and as It horrible facts Vere
developed regretted that a crime so
cruel and malicious sho;il:l have o '
curred wi'hin the con tines- of this
State. In the decision of every que
tio Which was presented to the
able jury and impartial judge who
presided at the trial, he was 'careful
to give the benefit of every reason
able doubt to the prisoner; Jiis In
structions were as favorable as cimn
sel for the prisoner could have ex
pected; that he did nr. t err in the
admission or exclusion of evidence
or in his Instructions given to the
jury is shown 'In. the refusal of the
Supi't-me t'ourt of Appeals to grant
4 writ of error.
"There is 'no question cf the hon
esty and fairness of the jurors try
ing the case, nor is there any ques
tion, that the defence made by law
yers at character and ability ob
tained for II. C. Beattie, Jr., every
advan'age guaranteed by law to per
60H8 charged with crime.
"That Beattie is guilty of the wil
ful, deliberate and cruol murder of
his young wif-? I have not the slight
est doubt, nor is it insisted that
there shall be any greater relief of
fered than the commutation of his
sentence to imprisonment for life.
"I do not think the affidavits of
Paul lieattie printed in the papers,
or any other evidence or ennsidera
tlon brought to my attention suffic
ient for the purpose. Nor do I ques
tion the wlsdcm, I might aid the
'necessity, of capital punishment In
cases where human life has been
quickly and deliberately taken. On
the contrary I believe that this pun
ishment Is necessary for the protec
tion cf society, and if on a jttry
would not hesitate in a proper case
to agree to a verdict requiring life
for re.
"TO grant a respite In so plain a
case wouli.be to set a precedent,
would be to temporize with the law
and to encourage appeals to the
Supreme Tourt with the sole jwrpose
of gaining time. 1 believe the best
way to prevent such crimes, as. this
is to punish them adequiilely, cer
tainly speedily. : Therefore the judg
ment cf the Circuit .court of Chester
field will b carried into effect with
out in(crterei:ce from me."
THANKSGIVING THE 30TH.
! Governor Kltchin lssu:s His Annual
! Proclamation.
I AJthough President Taft has al
ready decdied that Thanksgiving day
Una year shall fall as usual on the
: last - Thursday in November, there
1 still- sei ms to be a misunderstanding
j act to tne time. Because the month
i thU year has live Thursdays, not a
I few fMH.ple had the Idea that the
'.President 'would pnidalm the fourth
j Thursday as the hlolday and not a
I few calendars indicate Thursday of
next, week as the holiday,
The fifth Thursday in November,
limb', was the usual holiday, and that
November has had five Thursdays fre
quently in the past has shown that
this has occurred Just twelve times
In the p;ist thirty years. To be more
exact this condition in that time
has happened in 1 882, 188S, 18X9,
1893, . 1SS4.. 18M..1900, .'1905. 1906,
1907 '"and "1911. and it will happen
again. In 1912. 1916, 1917 and 198, not
to recount its repetition after that.
Governor W. W, Kltchin has just
issued his annual Thanksgiving pro
clamation. It is as fellows:
"In obedience to law, 1 hereby
proclaim Thursday, November tin,
1911, a day of thanksgiving so that
the people may rease from work and
assemble in their accustomed places
of worship and return thanks to Al
mighty God tor the blessings which
they, individually and as a people,
have enjoyed during the year. In
our thanks let us forget not with
otr charity the poor, needy and af
liKed. "We ha e enjtiyed freedom-. from
cahutity and disaster; we have
been blessed with harvests and ma
teiir.l comforts sufficient, for our
needs. att;l progress has been made in
qulckpuliu the public conscience to
a higlw- r sense of moral responsibil
ity ai:d civic duty. In our gratitude
ht. lj ...t-.'i'iniue to strive In the
,:. i-u v(w not only lor the . pro
ii i i , . the soil and the fabi tc3 of
I io he.r.d, but also more deeply to
realize car dependence upon ihe
Almi'-'hiy and otr solemn duties u
;;n! avJ tc .-'A i! 9 Creature's "
Purday Elections.
. In several bumpi-mi eeiiti'fs.. nieliid.
I I r:xivr nod Iti'lifinm, elections are
always held ou Sunday.
Palestine and New York.
ilestine H nnotu one-fourth of tn
size of New York.
THE T. A. R. CLUa.
The Study of "Midsummer Nights'
. Dream" Concluded.
With Mrs. Scott FiUuian as hos
tess, the T. A. It. Club held a very
enjoyable meeting on November 14.
The literary program consisting of
three Interesting papers concluded
the study of Midsummer Nights'
Dre-am. "An Ideal Setting for a
Dream" was the subject of Alise
Seal.' paper in which she gave th?
story and setting of the play , to far
away Athens, a country suffi uiently
remote to admit of. Ills taking many
liberties with customs and . ational
traits with littel fear of crlticliatu,
yet the forests of the poet's native
Warwickshire were undoubtedly re
sponslblo for tho description of the
Athenian wood; for Hermea's "faint
primrose beds" and Oberou's "bank
whereon the wild thyme blows, where
oxlips and the nodding violet grows."
For the tuns, Shakespeare selected
the far distant, dim, mythological
day of Thesoet's.. the renowned duke
of Athens and once we are carried
back to those days of myth and
port's farcy the Introduction of fair
ies o.' Titania the gentile queen, of
JeaJoiis Oberon, . and mischievous
Puck, seems quite natural. There is
little' la modern Athens to suggest,
ia the remotest fashion, the Athens
of the play which was supposed to
have been in 1200 B. C, yet Miss
Scales gave an iiiiterweting account
of how the city might look from
the Acropoles 300 B. C, describing
the King's palace with its many
corridors, porticoes, banqueting
rocrus, picture galleries and librar
ies, with the ever present altar to
Zems, their God.
From the side of plot, Mbs Sal
lie McGehee treated the play in a
very interesting paper entitled "A
Perfect Web of Poetic Fancy." The
plot is very simple, there being lit
tle or no development of character;
very little portrayal of passion, nor
much dramatic movement, hence it
is almost as difficult to analyze is as
H would be to analyze the fragrance
of a flower, the song of a bird. The
play must be studied not so mu 'h
in the bare light of facts as with
tho imagination. Frm -.beginning to
end, it Is a perfect festival of what
ever dainties and delicacies poetry
may command a continued revelry
and jollification ff soul where the
understamlii g is lulled asleep that
the Cancy may run riot In unre
straliied enjoyment.
Miss Gertie Harris' paper on "The
Tricksy Sprites" told of the part
which the fairies played in this
Midsummer Night's Dream. The
characteristic 'attributes-of. the fairy
pw.ple-.are probably best'-represented
in Puck, whose powers and aptitudes
for mischief are qtii-t niieiwkeii-'-by-any
gentle relentinga of fellow
feelings, in whatever, distresses , he
fids or occasions he sees much to
laituh at. nothing to pity; to tease
an ! vex poor human sufferers, and
then to think "What fools these
mortals be," is pure fun to him.
Yet, notwithstanding his mad pranks,
we cannot be choose but love the
little sinner; his sense of the ludic
rous "is 'so exquisite, he Is so fond
of .sport and so quaint and meerry In
his mischief, while at the same time
stich is the strange web of his na
ture as to keep him morally Inno-1
cent. In all, he answers perfectly to
the best idea of what a tittle dream
god should be. King Oberon is the
sovereign who presides over the
world of dreams, Puck is his prime
minister; all the other denizens of
Fairydom are his subjects and the
agents of his will, in this capacity,
The-, whole play is Indeed a sort of
ideal dream, and it. It from the
fairy personages that its characters
as 'such mainly proceeds.
Mrs. Harris gave a short quiz on
' .re ,"!rd a.'t of the play, after which
Mrs.-- Filunaii, - asited ' iy . . Miss
Scales, served a delightful salad
course. The club adjourned to meet
with. Mrs. AIvIb Harris Nov. 21.
Ancient Sachets.
Egyptian Indies carried little pouches
of odoriferous gums similar to those
still fashionable in China.
Turk and Thirteen.
So great is the dislike of the Turks
to the number 13 thnt the word is al
most expunged from their vocabulary.
Aksolui&fy Pure
The only Baking Powder made
from Royal G rape Cream of Tartar
NCLALUM,JI(U,1MEJB110SEHAT
MILLIONS FOR ROADS
Southern States Got Goodly
Sura During Year.
United States Bureau of Good Roadaj
Stimulating Nation-Wide Movement;
for Better Highways With Demon,
atration Work.
A special froni Washington eaya:
Speaking of the advantages of good
roads and of what ia being done in
that direction, Secretary of Agricul
ture Wilson declared today that
nearly 444,000,000 was expended dur
ing the present year for' good roads
in the Southern States alone. Tho
Secretary will speak on tho sub
ject at the Good Roads Congress to
be held next week in Richmond.
"Through its- bureau of good
roads," the Secretary continued, "the
Department of Agriculture has been
stimulating the nation-wide move
ment for better highways, sending
out experienced engineers to conduct
demonstration work and a force of
trained men to give illustrateed lec
tures. "Reports to the Department shoir
that the forty-four : millions spent
during the first ten mouths of. this
year wa9 divided aa follows: Ala
bama $3,484,000; Arkansas $2,45,
000; Delaware $430,000; ".Florida' $1.-'
505,000; G30rgla $2,500,000; Ken
tucky $2,500,000; Louisiana, $1,132,
000; Maryland $2,250,000; Mississippi;
$3,130,000; North Carolina $4,505,000;
Oklahoma $1,505,000; South Carolina
$1,100,000; Tennessee $3,900,000; Vir
ginia $4,004,000; Texas $7,600,000 and
WestVIrginJa $1,625,000.
"The Department is co-operating
with State or local authorities in
practically every State and reports
how that over 200,000 miles of roada
were built during the past twelve
months. "A few years ago the Department
conducted an investigation to deter
mine the condition of roads through
out the country. The result showed
2.151,570 miles of public highways,
of which 7.14 per cent, were Un
proved, while there were In the six
toon States j of the South 685,151
miles, of which only 27,185, or 3.87
per cent, were improved.
"Since 1904 ' tho annual expendi
ture of money for road improvements
In the nation has doubled and in tho -South
it has mora than doubled. The. :
movement for good roads Is going to
benefit the farmer in getting his pro
ducts to market expeditiously in all
kinds of weather at a reduced wt,
Is going to increase the value of his
lands, and will give his children bet
ter school facilities. Good roads will
particularly prove beneficial to tho
farmer of the South, where, apart
from the staple crops, the soils will
produce almost every known crop,
and especially late winter and early
spring varieties when transportation
from farm to railroad is rendered
difficult owing to the cut up ami
rough condition of unimproved roads.
"For demonstrating purposes tho
Department recently laid over 1,000,
000 square yards of object lesson
roada of nearly every type of road,
and our road experts are constantly
at their work In all parts of tho
country, while the laboratories are
testing all kinds of possible road
materials in order to secure the best
improved materials for road con
struction." President Flnley, of the Southern
Railway Company, announced yes
terday that the company has con
tracted fcr 1,700 all-steel 50-toa
double drop bottom gondola cars, 50G
steel under-iframe 30-ton ventilated
box cars, and 250 all-steel 51 flat
cars. These additions to the freight
equipment of the company are all im
addition to the purchase Just consum
mated of seven Mikado engines, 60
all-steel coal cars,, and 65 steel under-frame
box cars for the Virginia
and Southwestern Railway Co.,
H .8