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W , -w -w - - ' ' f The Lenoir News. The News Prinery lit Vi r -trt ov 4 i l.1 k ri- A TWICE-A-WEEK. FAMILY NEWSPAPER. THE VERY BEST ADVERTISING MEDI UM. READBY KVERYBODY. ONLY 91.00 THEYKAH. IS NOW PREPARED TO I'D 1 YOUR JOB PRINTING. ALL THE LATEST TYPE FACES USED. GIVE USA CALL. A TRIAL IS ALL WE ASK. US' mm J : Y 1 f 1 M Ay Ayy H. C. pJARTIlSr; EDITOR AND PROP. ; ; ' PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AUD FRIDAYS. PRICE 81.00 T6E YEAE. VOLUME X; LENOIR, IN". C, JANUARY 21, 1908. NO. 20. AH Fuss And Feathers. Industary Newt. It is a common saying worthy of all acceptat-on that the Democratic party is great in promises but small in performance. This is strikingly illustrated by the recent action of the leaders of the party, especially of the governor, in regard to the railroad rate controversy. Amid a great flourish of trumpets the last legislature, which was almost wholly Democratic passed the law reducing pasenger rotes to 21 cents a mile. In the following Juue the railroads attacked this law as un constitutional, in that the rate fix ed was too low and therefore con liscatory. Th's aci '.on on the pai t of the railroads was like stirring up the Democratic wasp nest. It was wonderful to see the governor rush ing to the defense of this law. Numbers of able lawyers were em ployed by the stat . to defend the suit. They loudly proclaimed thki the rate was high enough and in every respect just aud fair and would be unquestionably held by the Supreme Court to be constitu tional and valid. There was no possibility, they said, for the state to lose. The action of the lailroad was the result of a desire on the part of the railroads and the feder al comts to nullity the laws of the state and to deprive the people of the inestimable benefits and bless ings that would flow from this great act a great legislature of a groat party. Along in Jnlv the air became lurid. It seemed at one time as if the govenor might call out the state militia to defend this great law, which represented the best thought and was the (lower of the purest patriotism of the great Dora ocratic party of North Carolina. 1 1 is lawyers Med an answer to the bill- The case was ably argued at Asheville before Judge Pritebard. A temporary injunction was granted. A special master was appointed to take the proofs. The proofs were taken. Victory, un iiestioued victory, a glorious triumph, was proclaimed as assur ed for the state. The columns of the newsprpers were almost mono polized by the governor proclaim ing this great victory as an assured fact. In all this it is to' be sup posed the Democratic leaders con curred. The people who sat in darkness were to see a great light. The great constitutional controv ersy over the powers of the state in respect to fixing railroad rates was to be speedily settled in favor of the state. And all this was to be done for tho dear people, the toiling masses, by their great champion, the Democratic party, triumphantly led by the governor ot this state. But soft! There was a case ar gued in the Supreme Court of the United States a few weeks ago at which the governor was present. It was one brauch of this rate law controversy. The governor heard his counsel argue the state's side He heard certian questions pro 1 T . f L 1 . pounueu io oneoi nrs counsel uy Justice White, and these questions were very poined. The governor and his party became afraid of the Supremo Court. The ysay he went down Pennsylvania avenue puffing like a steam engine and soon came in conference with the president of the Southern Railway Company Visions of vanishing glory passed before his eves, ihere was a re version to type. His heart warm ed towards the railroads as in th days before his nomination, when he was their favorite, and the gal lant and courtly Stedman therefore fell outside the breastworks. The great leader of state Democracy be came convinced that the rate is too and before the court has time to decide anything io the controversy he asks the legislature to repeal the law or raise the. rate. So that all this talk and blaster and confusion and disturbance which have been rending the state for more thau six months amounts to nothing. Nothing is settled. Nothing has been proved. No question of law has been determin ed. All fuss and feathers! Ala3! Alas! for the great party of Intel ligence in North Carolina! Nejro Lynched by his Own Race Concord Times. A long distance telephone mes sage from Selma reports the lynch ing at Pine Level, Johnston county, last week of a strange negro at the hands of a negro mob. The strange negro purporting to be advance agent of a "big show," faked the negro residents into at tendance on what turned out to le a one-man performance by the strange darkey himself. Their heads covered with guano sacks the mob entered the negro's board ing house aany luesday morning and took him forcibly to the woods His body was found at daylight on the Southerd railroad tracks. His identity has not been established The fluent Coffee Suostitute ever made, has recently' been produced by Dr. Shoop of Racine, Wis. You don't have to boil it twenty or thir tv minutes. "Made in a minute' says the doctor. "Health Coffee" is really the closest Coffee Imitation ever yet produced. Not a grain of real Coffee in it either Health Cof fee Imitation is made from pure toasted cereals or grains, with malt nuts, etc. Keallv it would lool an expert were lie to unknowingly drink it for Coffee. Harrison 4: (.o. Boyertown Buries Dead. Bovertown, Pa., Jan. Hi. This ittle borough, w hich lost one fif teenth of its population in the pera house horror Monday night, to-dav turned to the task of bury- ng its dead. Because of the con dition of most of the bodies the borough authorities have asked the bereaved relatives to burv the ead within days. All night ong scores of men worteu in the morgues preparing the luentinea bodies for removal to their late homes or to the cemetery. As early as ." o'clock a line of death wacons moved here and there about the town distributing the corpses and before nightfall most of the dead will be ready for inter ment. The relief committe working in conjunction with relatives has re moved more than 50 bodies from the morgues. It is a common sight to see a man carrying through the streets charred bodies on boards covered by a blanket or quilt. It rained slightly this morning there was a little fall of snow but this did not deter the work of dig ging graves, a torce oi men stall ed to die craves in Fairview and Union cemeteris this morning. Benefits. Raleigh Evening Times. A careful examination of affairs in this State will discover the fact that we are in compBratively hope ful condition. The railroad rate controversy and resulting indus trial and political disturbance seem not to have been an unmixed evil. Very definite benefits are a ppear- ing out of all the unhappy and uu jestful condition. There is, first of all things, a de cided tendency toward the uniting of factious that have seemingly been irreconcilable in the last few months. There seems to be genuine agreement as to t he thing that should be done There is also agn ement on ths proposition that it is high time that we put an end to the warfare between people and railroads by a settlement fair to both. There is clearer kuowledge than we have possessed before, of the faet that it is only in sympa thetic co operation that the highest development of all our int rests can be achieved. The significance of this to the industriai.life of the State cannot be over-estimated With this union of effort, an era of great development is before us. There is evident also an awaken iug to the danger of the methods of the demagogue. We are learning that to follow him is to come upon evil days. If there were no other result from the experience through wnich we have passed, one might almost believe that the lesson was worth the price. With disturbing questions settled for the time at least, with a spirit of co-operation growing among us with a new idea of sane leadership given us, the way seems to be open ed for a period of development that is positive and constructive. Let the wild haranguer, the revolution ary agitator, leave the stage for awhile, and give place to wise, con structive builders. Let us listen for awhile to men who are con structing a saner and more thorough educational life among us. Let us give ear to thoes who know how to produce a healthier industry, more skilled workmen, better roads more efficient schools, a higher morality, a deeepor sense of the meaning of citizenship. We are somewhat tired of noise and dust. STATE XT7WS ITEMS. Landmark. Mr. Harvey D. Abernethy, a ongtime resident of Hickory, died suddenly Saturdav morning. He was in his 55th year. Dr. M. M. Marshall, for 33 years rector of Christ church, Raleigh, has retired and is succeeded by lex: Milton A. Barber. Judge Puruell has removed five United States commissioners from office in the eastern district. They failed to make proper returns to court. It nils the arteries with rich, red blood, makes new flesh, and healthy men. women and children. Nothing can taiio im place; no remeny nas done so much good as Hollister's Rocky Mountain .Tea. ii!5c, Tea or Tablets. Dr. Kent and Granite Fulls Drug Co. Tlip New York Evening Post has the following to say of condi tions in North Carolina: "The Legislature of North Car olina has been summoned in special session to amend or repeal the rail road rate law. lias is only in compliance with the promises made when the statute was enacted. If it dikn't work well, it would be altered or revoked. Undeniably it has not worked well. Governor Glenn has privately admitted this, and now proclaims it in public by calling the Legislature together. His course, it must be said, does not exactly shine by comparison with that of Governor Hughes. The latter, in his veto of the New York two-cent-fare bill, insisted upon investigation before action; the North Carolina way was to jump over the precipice first, and then look around to see where you were." Engineer Outlaw, of the public works power plant at Goldsboro. was seriously stabbed Friday by a Mexican named Hughey. The Mexican had been employed at the plant aud was discharged bv the superintendent. Hughey had been at Goldsboro but a week. En raged because of his discharge he stabbed Outlaw so that the lattler is expected to die Hughey is in The Caruegie library at Ruther ford College, the gift of Mr. An ?'iw Carnegie, was dedicated Fri day. Judge Pritchard delivered the dedicatory address. Mr. John W. Fisher, of No. 11 township, Cabarrus county, iu at temDtiuer to get out of bed, fell to the floor aud broke his hip. He is 77 years old and may not recover. The Cleveland county Democrats are early in the held. The execu tive committee met a week ago and fixed July 1 1th as the date for hold ing the primaries in that county. Gr-y Castles, and aged colored man who had served a term on the Mecklenburg chain gang and was sent to 1 he county borne on account of his infirmity, wandered away from the home a few days ago and as found dead in a creek. Mr. Theo. F. Kluttz, Jr., son of ex-Congressmau Kluttz, and an editorial w riter on the Charlotte Observer, under went an operation for appendicitis in Salisbury Fri day. His condition is very fav orable and his early recovery is ex pec d. I). C. Waddell, .Jr., has sold the lease of the Battery Park hotel, Asheville, to J. B. Alexander, Hugh LaBarbe, P. R. Moale and J. M. Chiles. Mr. Alexander, the present lessee of Toxaway Inn, will have the personal management of the hotel. The dead body of W. H. Har rison was found Suuday morning beside the railroad track, a mile from the Salisbury depot. The cor oner's jury found that he had been killed by a train. He was about 50 years old and a wife and several children survive. Three more men from Smithtown have leen lodged in jail at Grecns lioro, charged with illicit distilling This makes seven in jail at Greens boro and seven other Smithtown denizens are doing time in the Fed eral prison in Atlanta for the same offence. Cards have leen issued for the marriage of Miss Mary Daniel Law, daughter of Dr. P. R. Law, editor of the Presbyterian Standard, and Mr. Marion Miller Inabit. The ceremony will take place at Lum lKrton on the 22d and the couple will make their home at McColl, C. Kodol for Dyspepsia and Indiges tion is the result of a scientific com bination of natural digestants with vegetable acids and contains the same juices found in a healthy Htom ach. It is the best remedy known to day for dyspepsia indigestion and all troubles arising from a disordered stomach. Take Kodol to day. It is pleasant, prompt and thorough. Sold by J. E. Shell, Kent and Granite Falls Drug Cp. Ten pounds of blood are sent throngh the human system at each S. Cards have been issued for the marriage of Col. Calvin D. Cowles, of the United States army, and Miss Kitty Holmes, of New York. Col. Cowles' wife died some time ago and the bride-elect is her sis ter. Col. Cowles' is a North Car olinian and a nephew of Col. II. C. Cowles, of Statesville. The Mocksville Times says that a young man who gave his name as Hoi brook was recently employed to work at W. G. Allen's saw mill. He worked for a week and Sunday a week ago he entered Allen's house and stole about everything he could carry away, including ' a suit of clothes, suit case and a shot gun. It depends upon the pill you take. DoWltt's Little Early Risers are the best pills known for constipation and Kick headache. Sold by J. E. Shell, it'i t ".-r--v . ... ' " I . ' f V '-5: , y l ' Have A Pleasant Parlor. Put comfortable furniture, nice pictures, etc., into it. Abandon the idea of using the parlor only for state occasions. Make it comfortable and homelike for your friends and guests. To do this you only have to see us. Our full Hue of furnishings and liberal terms will do the rest. BernhardtSeagle Hardware & Furniture Co. Spccicil Silc Beginning January 25th, 1!H)S. we will legin a special 30 day Reduction Sale. We will offer special attractions in Dry Goods, Clothing, Hats, Shoes and Notions. ( )ur slock is complete in every depart ment and we wiH see to it that no cus tomers goes away from our store dis satisfied. REMEMBER the Special thirty day Sale to reduce our big stock and come and get some of the bargains while they last. Respectfully, 1 J Patterson, N. C. ..E i A HOSPITAL for indisposed Harness. patient with us. Leave your patients or will charge but little. We will properly treat them and PRHINE HARNESS & TANNING COMPANY. I 4 1 I S low and the law unconstitutional jail. heart beat. Kent and Uranlte Falls Drug Co.
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