North Carolina Newspapers

i S The News a la Devoted io the -. Upbuilding of g Polk County. S K The News I Uniorpasted as a Ad Tcrtlsiay Medium. - Rates Lowv 6 B io,wft LI j be 0FF1CIAL JOURNAL OP POLK COUNTY. INDEPENDENCE IN ALL; THINGS. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $i.oo PER YEAR ADVATaCE. 'VOL. X- COLUMBUS, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 80, 19C5. NO. 49 TEMPERANCE IN CAROLINA. THEG0VERN0R MAKES RULING. WILL LOOK FOR BIG GAME. GIRL AND BABE STARVING. HOW TO TELL EM." WARNER GETS PLUMB. TV A"-' Q 5- She is Only Keeping Pace With Writes Letter to Solicitors on the President's Huntin Her Sister States. Subject of Rewards. g Trip Next Month. South 'State of North Carolina, . "Executive Department, "Raleigh, N. C. March 23, 1905. "Dear Sir: Washington, D, 0., March 17. Presi dent Roosevelt will do some mighty hunting in Texas and southwestern Colorado from earlv in Anril iYnt.il KnmA "So many requests for rewards are time in MaV tt A will rint. iat.um to life being made, some of which do notseem offio.fi in Wnaii? nrrtnn imHI lota in . U jv SUonn or distilleries are permitted by law to operate in North Carolina in only twmty counties looking forward, of course, to the hour when the recently enacted Ward act shall go into eff ect, nilnensaries exist in a dozen others. Moreover, saloons and distilleries may to be in perfect good faith, that I deem and he will be here only a few weeks exist, only in towns, distilleries In towrs " oest to make a rule that no requests until he goes to Oyster Bay to speed of more than 1,000 inhabitants; saloons for rewards will be granted until it re- the summer. He hopes to have a sum in towns that maintain a municipal gov- ceives the endorsement of the solicitor mer ..of out-door exercise and much eroment with two policemen. of the district.; I therefore urge you, sport.- His hunting plans aro not fully This condition is neither radical nor before endorsing any application for completed, as he will not leave here exceptional. There are only 33 license reward, to look carefully into the case until about April 5, and Secretary Loeb counties in Alabama, 29 in Arkansas, and ee whether in your judgment a continues to receive and lay before him 13 in Florida, 33 out of 137 in Georgia, proclamation be issued. invitations from his friends and ad- 35 with one license each in Kentucky v1 he sheriff, deputies and constables mirers in the southwest to stop a few and- in wit h two license each, t in Mary- should be able to apprehend any crimi- days with them, each furnishing assur- land. 12 in Tennessee out of 90, and 46 nal In their own country, and should see ances that he will have the finest in Texas. to it, that if the party is a fugitive in chances of life to shoot real wild game, We have had a great furore in North aether county, that a capias be issued including bears, panthers and lions. Carolina as if her policy were extraor- to tnat county and the arrest be made Some of these invitations are to be ac- The foregoing information in- A!SO 11 iney can locate the fugitive in cepted and others declined, and Mr. another state, they should ask the au- Loeb is making up the list now. He will thorities of that state to apprehend and make'ehanges in it, and this prevents hold the criminal until I can make an accurate idea of the places to be requisition. It Is getting too common visited. for them to take things quietly and ask The trip, as arranged so far, is for the for rewards, when by dilllgent search president to leave here about April 5. dinary. dicates that she is only keeping pace with her sister states in the south. Biblical Ilecorder. - PEACE NOW IN THE AIR. London, March 26. According to ar rangements which are still liable to re vision. King Edward will leave London ou April l). He will join Queen Alex dria at Cologne, and from thence their majesties will go to Copenhagen for the and inquiry, this cost to the state might be avoided. "Having confidence in you, as an offi cer of the state, I will be governed largely by your recommendation. "Yours very truly, "It: R. Glenn, Governor." FRANCE IMPATIENT. Embassey to Confer with President Roosevelt Soon. Washington. March 17. France has ..plphration of the birthday of King Christian, Aprils. A correspondent at WRITTEN BY J EFFERSON DAVIS, officially informed the United States "of Copenhagen telegraphs that, so far as the action of the Venezuelan govern- . Knowu, iiuk i 1 .. I . - 1 . t . . 1 T7 1 1 - L'lwaro. a visit nas no con-1 menu against me rTencn vaDie v-ocu nectiou with llusso-Japanese peace pour Autograph Letter tO Fraililill W pany, which she regards as far-handed parlers, but that King Christian strong- , . ... v , and intimates that French patience is v favors peace, and should the Dowager rOUllu DJf. ULCTS ACpUDV. Empress of Russia also come to her Jlillsboro, N. II., March 18. Kirk father's birthday celebration it will be Pierce, of Ibis town, a nephew of Prcs- regarded as a sigoal for a peace, con- ident Franklin Pierce, has fuud an au- ference at Copenhagen. tograph letter written by Jefierson Davis to It is retried thatM. D'Iswolsky, the Franklin Pierce among other documents llussian minister to Denmark,, left inherited from his uncle. Mr. Dws wrote St. Petersburg on Saturday for Cope n- from the Benate"' chamber ' -under "date "of hagan. . January 30, 18G0, saying: . ' : A St. Petersburg dispatch to the Reu- "The prospect of our country is not less ter Telearrara Company states shat the gloomy than when y .u left. I will stand mmnnf v nf t.hft rnuncil or ministers IS oy "e uae ou uuuoiu mjusihuuou rapidly being exhausted by the conduct of affairs in Venezuela. It i3 probable that the French Ambassador will con fer with .President Roosevelt next week regarding the Venezuelan policy. Gov Frazier ? Succeeds Senator Bate Nashville, Teno., March ,15. Governo1" James B. Frazier was this evening nominat- Only Explanation is That She Fell Liar Known by Handshake, Says Into Bad Company. Prof. Boger, New York; March 16. A young wo- . Chicago March 18. Chicago crcd it man describing herself as Ida Fletcher, men may never more take any risks. " A of Levy; 2 years of 8ge, who says-she hundred of them, representing the big came to this city from a Connecticut gest houses in trade, listened tcnignt to to A n a year ago, has been found dying a phrenologist, who told them j'ist how from starvation in a small room of a to decide between the goats and the Harlem ttnement Eouse. With her I sheep in the matter of paying debts was a baby 8 mcnth old. Quick con-1 Prof. Boger, for that is. the mm to turn ptiori has seized the mother and she whom human nature is an open book, can live only a few Cajp, but she refuses submitted these general rules: to tell the name of her parents. , There is not a bump for thieving, an Elected to U. S. Senate toSucceed : Senator F.. M. Cockrell. Jtfferson City, Mo , March 18. Major Wm. Warner was elected senator on, the seventh ballot toda v. ne was tho republican candidate for.' governor against Governor Francis and i3 now a United States ' district, attorney. . Er- Senator Ccckrcll came within three votes of securing the nomination. Major Warner was elected cn the sixty-seventh ballot tUs afterncon. lie received ninety-ono votes. His closest Neighbors notified th9 police when other for murder, but there is a general competitor, Senator Cockrell, received they learned of her pitiful state. A I conformation of the head which cbarac-1 friend had daily left a can of condensed I terizes the born criminal. milk for the babv. The girl shared I The man who keeps his hands closed this and this was all" the nourishment I as a "fist1' while talking is a natural shehad in twenty daye. The baby was born liar. . Don't give him credit. emaciated and weak, but it is believed it can be saved. The girl will only say she fell into bad company. She had pawned everything of value and finally became too ill to leave her bed. Aii effort is being made to locate her pa rents in New England. Pointed Paragraphs. Whiskey Is said to cause almost as many funerals as doctors. . Many a man would starve if lis wife didn't keep a few boarders. V spinster says that dying an old mafd is easier than living one. Don't imagine that a man can talk on any subject just because he does. A man who Is making a night of it nier thinks of the morning after., It's quite easy to convince some mar rifd men that it is good to be alone. vJany a man lives in the married state wLo isn't permitted to think in it. A milliner is always suspicious of a wxman customer who doesn't want to tify on every hat she has. :!,- POSITION FOR MRS. GORDON. 83 votes. The joint fcssion dissolved soon after the election of Mpj. Warner. Wild excitement, ia which members fought One another, Emashcd thoclcck to prevent adjournment and msd3 ut- A stingy man in shaking hands will I tempts to pull President McKinley. of never rress his thumb on the exterior the senate from the presiding cfSjcr's part of your hand. : r - v chair, marked the last boustf the Mi A person noted for his indecision will souri general assembly. Tor more than offer his hand with a thug. You have half an hour the house chamber, where got to do the shaking, i the joint session was" held, was in the A man who is forceful, energetic and I possession of a mob of legislators who a doer, never shakes hands in a listless seemed to have lobt control of them- ...... V- . 4.. manner. . selves. Such a scene of disorder, has : Any person, male of female, who rolls never before been witnessed in the Mis- the eyes while talking lies for effect, soufi legislative halls. They are cariied away by false pride. The man who locks you s in the eye, talks in moderate tone and modest man ner, who shakes hands vigorously, who is neither nervous nor aggressive, can be trusted.- v All women are a bad riK. l his is due to inherited msntal aa 1 physical traits, in which man figures as a Santa Claus QUICK WORK FOR CUPID. Divorce and Marriage the Same Week. THE WORLD'S GREATEST BATTLE. '.V President is Anxious to Confer a Favor Upon Her. Washington Post ed for United States Senator by the Demo- agreed on the principle of the oppor- while there is a possibility of effecting any- cratic caucus of the State Legislature. The tuneness of initiating steps in the direc-1 thing to preserve and perpetuate the gov- voU was by. Acclamation, no other name tion of neace and correspondents in all I ernment we inheritod. Beyond that my being presented to the caucus. When they 1 I.' ...... . . if! ! ' I ' 111. the principal European capitals all re port that peace is in the air. According to The Daily Telegram's correspondent, at Kobe, who reports having interviewed the American offl- duty and my faith bind me to Mississippi couyened it was supposed the contest was to be a three-cornered one, friends of former governors Benton McMillian ' and Eobert Taylor having been actively at work in their interests. Governor Frazier will sue ceed the late William B. Bate. Tuesday March 21, was the the day set for the for mal election by the general assembly. and her fortunes, as she may share them." The Editors Appetite. A eountry editor who had finished a re- v - . 1 . a 1 A A 1 W K . K cers auu foreign corre&ponaents cap- markaoiy gooa meai at me iarra uomc ui a tured at Mukden, and who have just subscriber remarked to the farmer: "If arrived at iljin, they were all surprised this is a fair sample of your meals I think that no armistice or peace proposal had I'll come here to board.' The farmer who been made. They "confirm previous had noticed the editor's ferocious appetite statements that nobody had the least with sroe dismay, replied: "If this is a idea that retreat was imminent till Gen- sample of your appetite, Til be gol durned 1 T . 1 .T ,1 1 I . 9 T m.am -.rst. ' erai ivuropaiKiu a oruer was suuucui; n j. wnui juu. received late on March 9. Dying Child Saved uy Prayer. To Meet in Raleigh. The next number of the North Caro lina Beacon, organ of the State Inter denominational Sunday School Associa tion, will be issued in a few days, and will continue the Official Program of the State Convention to be held in Puleigh, next month, April 4th, 5th and Gth. From advanced sheets we discover tnat the sessions areto be unusually attractive, bringing together as they will maDy of the foremost men and wo men in this country engaged in the great Sunday School work. His Excel lency Gov. K. B. Glenn, Dr. John C. Kilgo, President Trinity College; Dr. U. T. Vann. President Baptist Univer- Ad visor, Gossi per And Friend. Any man can take a newspaper. It is the cheapest thing he can buy. Every time a hen clucks and has laid an egg his paper is paid for that week. It costs le?s than a postage stamp, less than to receive a letter. It comes to you every week, rain or shiuc, No matter what happens Caton, N. Y., March 20. Saturday -night the tbree-year-o'd daughter of G. C. Rose calm or stormy recovered from the stupor of death fol- it enters your door a welcome friendUfull lowing the continued prayers of the parents of sunshine and cheer and Interest. It and fifty of the townspeople. opens the door of the great world anil ruts The child, ill of bronchitis, was pro- you face with its people and its great event3, nounced to be dying by the attending It shortens the long winter nights. It is Dhvsician. the chill, pallor and rattle of your adviser, gossiper and friend. death all being evident. A messenger was No man is just to his children who docs sent -asking her friends r to pray for the not give them the local paper. No man is good to himself who do.'S not take howspaper8; Exchange. , child's restoration and the family knelt about the bed. In twenty minutes the ra diance of lif nad returned to the child's cheeks and she startled even the faith of those who prayed by sitting up and ex claiming: ''Give me a cookie and some milk." She then sank into natural Sjnner Returns $12,000 Which He sleep. CONSCIENCE MONEY. At daybreak yesterday she slipped out of bed and going to a couch on which her father lay, worn but by his long vigil over sity for Women; Dr. J. J. Harper, Presi- j her, asked that she mieht be dressed. All dent Atlantic- Christian College; Rev. Dr. J. C. Leonard, Lexington; Maj. B. E. Dixon, Prof. Geo. H. Crowell, Prof. T. Neil Johnson, Rev. Dr- A. H. Mo ment and others are among the speak ers from our own state; whllefrom out side the state Rev. Dr. C. R. Black nail, traces of her llliness had vanished. Tester- day was made a day t.l thanks for answer to prayer in the child s behalf. Reflections of a Bachelor. A woman loves to give information, editor Sunday School publications of specially if it isn't. - American Baptist Publication Society, Women mostly think about their chil- Phiiadelphia; Mr. W. C. Fearce, Secre- dren and men about themselves. i tary Training and Mrs. Mary roster There is no use oorrowiui- . uuuUie the gender explained his contribu- oryner, u ieia vioreer anu ici v i n- wnea pupo " - I ti0D, hi the following letter r mary Teacher of the International right. - - a man wtll alwavs be better on ior Received From U. S. Treasury., : Washington, March 1C The largest con science contribution that has been made to the government for many years was receiv ed at the United Stat es this morning. There is no clue as to the sender of the money Tho funds were in currency and amounted to $12,000, enclosed in a plain envelope, postmarked Jersey City, addressed to Sec retary Shaw. The original amount of which the govT ernment was dl-honestly deprived was $3,- Sunday School Association, are to be present. .' . The meetings will be held in the beautiful audience room of the First Presbyterian church. A choir of 50 voices, under the direction of Prof. A. C. Jackson, is being trained for the'oc casion. . " Everv whtte Sundav School In the Koiioirtnor that he could be worse on than he is. There is hardly anything so foolish asl maTmin(r t.lmt. nfioole are crazy to be reformed. " Eternal vigilance is the price of not j getting found out. - , Education is all the things you don i A special to the rom Atlanta, says: ' Georgia congressmen returning from Washington, report that President Roosevelt, as an evidence of his good will toward the south is prepared to numbered 950.000. oner a ireaerai posiuon to Mrs. joun o. Before the present war the bloodiest uoraon, wiaow or tne iamous onieu- battie m modern history was that of erate leader. That the president is Leipsig, in 1813, when 300,000 Germans considering the appointment of Mrs. dfifpfttftd 171 000 French. The Germans Asheville, N. C , March 23. Special. Granted a divorce one day and license received for marriage the second, is the record of Mrs. Susanna Willis Eller, of ' Buncombe. Mrs. Eller is 17ycais old. She left her father's heme on Ucavcr film tn HfrrniA lf ivtfp rf Areomro Historic Engagement at Maiden tfce Eller when scarcely IV She and her Bloodiest on Record; " . tfwbana wueu. me man suuuemy uisappearco, The estimate by a correspondent who going west, it is thought, and has- net was with General Kuropatkin that the since been heard from. In the interim losses on both- sides at the battle of between the abandonment and the d Mukden, were not less than 200,000 merj yorce proceedings J. F. Green weed and makes it appear that this combat was won the young woman. ' With the lapse ' bv far the bloodiest ever known. of two years suit was instituted for di- The largest number of troops ever verje, and at this week's term of couit before engaged in battle was at Aralela. the jury granted the plea of plaintiff. in 334 B. C, when 35,000 Greekf, under Yesterday license were secured from Alexander, put to route a horde of un- the register of deeds' office for the mar discipplined Persans, believed to have riage c-f Mrs Eller and Mr. Green and the second ceremony followed. RECORD OF A DISTILLER. Gordon to a remunerative Federal of fice, possibly that of postmaster at At- anta, is an assured fact. It is possible, of course, that Mra. Gordon does not care for and would not accept a politi cal appointmentt but President Roose- lost 47,000' and the French 60,000. The greatest battle ever fought in this country was that of Gettysburg, in 1863, when 117,000 Federals defeated 68,000 Confederates. - The losses, in cluding prisoners, were 17,000 Federals velt is known to have the appointment and 2? 000 Confederates. The Confed in mind In a recent conversation with a prom inent Georgia republican, the name of Mrs. Longstreet, widow of another fa mous Confederate general, was men tioned, and the fact spoken of that she had been appointed to a Federal posi- Japanese 60,000. lion, mat 01 postmistress 01 uamesvuie. 44 What about Mrs. John Gordon?" the president Is known to have asked. 'Does she need any position?,. It would 1 ive me the greatest of pleasure to provide for tte - widow of the great Georgia general if she needed a posi tion. General Gordon was my personal erates lost 40 per cent, of their force., being the largest percentage, cf loeb ever known. Men engaged at Mukden, Russians, 40O,OOOrJapanese, 50( ,0C0. Russians taken peisoners, about &V Situation, according to latest advises Japanese in possession of Mukden and Fushan, with all the Russian heavy ar: tillery and practically all the enemy 's stores and munitions. -' ; ": Half; possibly more, of the remnants friend, and wa? one of the greatest of all of tlie Russian army enclosed within the Ampriwinq' the nresident said. v - I -r 1. .. l" . i The president ; is known to have b deep feeling toward Georgia. His moth er was a Georgia woman, and his parents were married at Rrswell, where hh. mother's parents had a summer home. President Roosevelt has already an nounced his intention of visiting Sena tor Clay in tho near future, and go with him to Roswell to visit the marriage place of his parents. What the out come of the matter will be is, of course. problematical, but it is absolutely cer tain that the president is ready to offer a remunerative position to Mrs. Gordon as soon as he knows whether she needs or wants it. Japanese lines, the retreat of the re mainder to Tie Pass, the nearest ease, partly cutoff. : . :-: ' . Result: Russian 'military ' power in Manchuria hopelessly broken. Man churia and maratime provinces at the mercy of the Japanese and. early peace on terms laid down by Japan seems in evitable. Dispatch. . FOUND AT LAST state, of every denomination, should be lejirn when you go to college. reoreaentfid ' Entertainment by the citizens of Raleigh free. 1. Send your name, if you expect to at tend, to S. M, Smith, General Secretary, Ualeigb, N. C. Reduced rates on railroads. It's queer how long it takes a man's wife to get over the idea that his lap was made to sit in. "Dear Sir: I am sending you herewith enclosed $12,000 which is to go to the use nt the United States government. Years ago 1 defrauded the go'vernrcent of money but have returned it all and now am pay ing four-fold in accordance with the teach inga of Scripture. Tne way of transgres sors is hard, and no one but God knows how I have suffered the consequences, -and I would seek to do a bountiful restoration. May God pardon, while the United States government is beuefitted. : A tJiNSKB. out. Milwaukee is threatened with a Just before the mosquito season wo- h nt . who drinks milk men begin to make openwork clothes so . In Time to Receive The Rich Legacy Left Him New York. March 18 After a search of The President of Bowdoin Col-1 twelve years James Trav.v of Flushing. . - - ...... . . ............. 1 . ., : . 5. ... -- -.v.- " .-. - lege says, "The Lord is constantly L. I.. has been Ijcat-J in Aistralia. He changing his mind about man." ranawayfrom home fifty-:h.ve years ago The Bowdoin College President in a whaling vessJ, i d uad long ago been does not say just hoW he found it given up for dead by his brothers and others of the famib . Twelve years cg V a wealthy relative of the family died and willed James . 90,000. Advertisements for the missl. gman were inserted in newspajferes all over the world. The State Department also made . attempts to find him. Travis finally siw an adver . . ..... M. . 9 .1 ianmflnt .n an - Anatraimn - nptrsnnnrr unn r.ecse. xne uaraon was reiuseu. mei "o-"" " . . ...rrr.-- AninritT tVif. h urnnlri h I wrote to his fanuly. ocnopiuiw mw tn niraon anv one con- He had been m .rned, was the father cf victed of this offense, as much of the eleven childrea he wrote, and had profpj: . . lv.t tmr ed financial lv. The lescacv he - will tew tn hlind tirer liouor. - - - receive has almost doubled in value. Made Liquor. For Years And Never Tasted a Drop. Mr. N. Glenn Williams, in his open letter to the legislature, he?gi:ig Iliem not to destroy his business, made the statement (hit he 1 a lnee tcu hed a drop of whis key in hW 1 fe.nor al'o ved any of his cin plryecs to drhik. Coming from a distiller this tcmperarc-3 argument grins tremejcus force. Mr. Williams 1 ecds a clear head to run a businun lite that which hasi had '37 years to v. o; k, and Ms men need steady hands. They make an arlicb to -btfucld'e brains and tangle Jegp, Lut their own "ma t ;. be unclouded und ul ab'c. W e have Lard that the railroads and big lu inns hoi.ses are bccouiiiu o&r best temperance societies but th 3 is ths first time we haT3 had a liquor manufacturer to discredit aud c n- dema his owj busiutfs. Vti tbir.k u ore i f Mr. Williams because of the frankness r f his letter, but'be imC.e the bct ?r ecch of all for the Wa'd bill, without intending to do it. We hope Mr. Wd.iam?. who is evidently a man of se'jf c, w ill , f vl w out his own logic and be glad in his Le irt the Legislature has forbidden hinvto ii fi ft up on others the evil he so carefully s; tinned himself. No man ought to hi a better judge of the devilment there is in whiskey than the man who makes it, and we gladly accept Mr. Williams testimony that" he even refused a little for his stomach's sake, and his often infirmities. Let . the paid attorney and played out politicians prate as much as they pleasa about the necessity of having a little l'q vr ffbout the house, here is a man who has lived forty years with . neyer a drop going down his- throat, and he in the business - f imKm ; and selling it at that Biblical Recorder. No Pardons for Retailers. Application was made to the governor recently for the pardon of John Steven son, in Guilford county,' who is serving a term for retailing liquor without li? When Convenient.' There was once in a North Carolina court a case that has gone down as . history in the judicial anfals of "ih F:a!e. J It appears that a doctor n imnd Je.ikius, wlica solicit-., to close an o opca tccouflt by ny',"agrced to do so providel he fchou J be alloxcd to draft the instiuaient. This wa3 "granted him, whereupon bo presented ihc creditor with the fallowing: . "I, Simusl Jenkins," agreo to pay J J.n Iluggbs $2C0 whenever conve ic It; bu; it is utder:toad that said Jenkins is not;t be pushed. Witness my hand and seal this ' Jay of Samuel Jenkins." tney can uito miuuu. s