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COLUMBUb, N.C, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1906.
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"Yellow Dnol, Onerator
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Relurns From Europe.
TO ALBANY AT ONCE
i want Him to Tell A!ii,eg-
Viv A-em n uoc ot
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hin -fw iork 4io xnu vtrauui- an
ror'oniv a'iraction of it Arrives ,
xpectedly From Kxlle.
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any, A. a. juuge Aiuirew
pon. the legislative agent of the
iork Life and other insurance
ainos, retnrnen to tins country
pccicdly. Ho came to this city al
ii t once. lie spent the evening
his family, refusing to see any
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ave his immediate relatives. ,
ic '"judge" reached Albany with
km-in-law, James C. Brady, a sou
Ethony X. Brady. They were met
carriage at the station and driven
!y to the Hamilton home in Thur
r'errace. Early in the evening in
rs were told that Mr. Hamilton
lot at home, nud while his family
that was expected they did
mow his whereabouts. Later a
!
ier of the family made a formal ; rUshed forward to sava Lim. The lec
nent in explanation as follows: ! turer ran out of the room and sum
r. Hamilton arrived home to-night vnoned medical assistance, bringing
his son-in-law. He desires to pass j)r. Herbert L. Towne. the physical
evening with his family, and will airecvor. . nee to the laboratory. Re
make any statement for publica- uscita.ion was attempted, and for two
to-night." : hours the physician and students took
jell comment was made here that ! turns in working over Waite. He died
judge" should come back immc- I two hour1- after receiving the electrical
ily preceding the active opposition ' short:..
c insurance reiorms.
frangements are beiirg made, it is
veil, by which the New York Life l
3r!iig suit against Hamilton, fore- j
lug necessity for action by the )
Fx-Judge Keene. ot counsel for
:pany, was c losetea wan tne v
p.i'.v-l.eneral for .a long
onh ti
e vHit
mc.
lor would talk about th
York City. 'They murdered
SI 'Call, - but they will have the
e of tlieir lives when thef drata
stiie'itos-on IlauViltop.""
nu spoke a friend of Judge" At-
r Hamilton, who met the farmer.!
'ative agent of tlie XewYork Life
Ji lie landed from the Deutschland. 1
le iramburg-American Line, after
ibsciice of several inonths abroad.
declaration was made aftQr Ilam
l.r.d spoken freely to his friend.
bay be taken as an inuication . or
judge's" mental attitude, and fur-
es a reason for his raturn at this j
when the air is fufl of talk about j
iiuil prosecution of those conuected
the insurance scandals. ,
Inn .i'.lon'1: arrival .in this (ity was.
illy unexpected 'v insnrance of!i- ;
Lven tne heaaSiOf tlie Aew sork
l who iiight he- .ixpected to have j
w knowledge or his iiicvements. ex-
sod themselves a- greatl;' sur-
when told that thfc "judge" was
v hack'fiom France. Members of
I'owier Committee, through whose.
;t? ..im J . Mccaii .wnot tue late .
dcut of the New York Lite, was
to Paris, and broujrht . br.ek a
pni'.it from Hamilton purporting
xidaiu li is relations with Jo'lm A.
pa 1 1 and the affairs of the company.
r equally slow to take the news of
return seriously uutil undeniable
K was fnrnishpd . The MeCalls
wish him to tell aTl.
jludgc' Hamilloji sailed from Genoa i
.lV!! i!.ivv 24. lie had come from
f r.nd the Mediterranean route was i
I ouvonient. He wrote bis name j
passenger -Tistn. A. Milton."
I.c ahbreviafion served to keep 'his
tity secret most of the way oxer..
th first two days he remained in
stateroom. After that he mingled
i.v with t'he othei pasengev-and
"en Ily discussed insurance matters.
pa tbe snbiect was "broached.
udgo" ' Hamilton" s return revires
''est in the testimony before tlie
JQ strong Committee, in which liis rc
piis with the New York Life tmd
pr insurance companies were fully
Rained. John A . Mr-Call admittetl
''ut qnalification that Hamilton
received enormous sums'of money.
Ii were used to prevent , the passage
aws wliirh would hav-e injured the j
I'H'ss n hip roninmiips nmi thpt
'' into tlie statute books. Between "
h.m1 V.HH, Sl.347.ftS2.41 of the New
k Liff' m)ncy passed through the
of Hamilton. Of-this amount
',''&'. has not been accounted for.
' Fowler icpoi t. which was pre
il to the New .York 1Ae. February
polds Hamilton individually respon-
4 lor ..'.OGt. According to the
prt thp Albany bureau of taxation
legislation presided over by Ham-
ii got 8705,577 of this amount.' The
mo office annex account" srot '$235.-
Which John A.'-McCfltl nrsnnnllv
hnded. 1
n his sin foment which he sent from '
r'uee hy John. C.: McCall. Hamilton
rutted he had spent $720,550 from
. to 3005, :This statement, which
x put in evidence before the. Arm
oiis Committee on December 27.
wed that Hamilton had received
himself -$160,630, in the shape of re
I'rs mid percentages allowed to him
ier tbe private arrangement with
MeCall. This did not include $90,
1 which he received from the New
P Life for having forced the State
return taxes paid before it was.de-
'1 mat the premium tax law was
mroactive.
filicide Because of a Gray Hair.
pcause she found a gray hair in her
e i anu oorwved that she would be-
Ple ffrav TOW snnn Xf.o IVtlllnm
mas. of Elanor. Pa. . mnmittwi
r;ide bV taktnc nniunn Thnmn.
declared that fire would, never live
srayheaded, - ;' v f -'.: v
DIES BEFORE CLASSMATES
Student is Shocked to Teath by Elec
tricity at AJnion College.
tloliliu- Tart of r Apparatus H
Receive S300 Volt Current and
Fall Unconscious.
Schenectady, N. Y. Before the eyes
ms classmates, wno were watcniug
. a i 1- 1 . 1 . .1 ...nl..
experiment m wuicu u miu'vuiuu-
teered to help. Paul Waite, a junior
and a student of the electrical eag'i.eer-
ing course iu Union College, was killed
by electricity in the laboratory of the
college. The class of which Waite was
a member was gathered in the labora
tory at 2 o'clock in the afternoon for
the usual lecture, and the instructor,'
in illustrating his remarks with experi-
raents. asked one of the students to
help him. Waite stepped forward and
helped rig up the apparatus, which was
connected with the nigh tension elec
tric service of .be college.
The students were watching the elec
trical apparatus curiously, when the
lecturer asked Waite to throw open the
switch. As he did so his body came In
contact with an exnosed portion of the
apparatus and 2300 volts passed
through his nody. Waits fell to the
floor unconscious, while the students
The college has been thrown into
-mourn! ncr as a result of the vnnns
man's. death. Waite was a . pn.mineut
rm.er ot the Cui Psi fraternity and
wns as0 ont. the best athletes in the
college. His home was in Fort Ed-
- ar;. his rather bein one of the weal-
thievt men of that town.
. Word of the young man's death was
sent to his parents. it was learned
here t.at his mother became hysteri
cal. Walt had been horn- the day be
fore ' -'I 'had left his parents in a
happy frame -of tnino. Before enter
ing the laboratory ne h:d arranged
take rart ia an athletic t--rnament.
and he ha.l looked forward to winning
c'hfimpionshb - honors.
It was with a laugh that he stepped
forward to help fix up the apparatus
with which ;t he instructor was to illus
trate his lecture. The minds of all in
the room 'were concentrated on the ex
perimout which was to he made, and
there was no thought
tragedy.
"When Waite suddenly fell to the floor
the students were unable to realize that
anything serious had happened. Most
of those who rushed forward to help
the fallen man thought that he had
fainted, and when it was veanzea tnac
AYaite had been killed hefore their eyes
manv tears were shed.
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HELD FOIt PBINTIXG HAXGIN(L
.
Three Newspapers Indicted Under a
Tress Muzzling Statute,
Sr. Taul, Minn. Cliarged with -violat
ing the State law prohibiting the pub
lishing of details of a hanging, three
leading newspapers of this city have
been indicted by the (Jraud Jury.
The indictments are based on what
is lenown as the John Day Smith law.
i ! fnvl1te till nnlu
lication of any more than a mere state-
ment of the fact that n convict was on
the day in question executed according
to law. It expressly prohilnts the Sher-
iff from allowing any newsnaper re
porter or representative to witness an
execution. No attempt has heeu made
to enforce the law until recently, when
Governor Johnson set the dale for tbe
execution of William Williams. ; He
then cautioned Sheriff Miesen to obey
i the law strictly. -
The newspaper men were -excluded.
Imt all of the thiee. papers contained a
detailed account of the hanging that
day. It is probable that the f-ase will
Wtaken to the Supreme Court to .test
its constitutionality.
The indictments -are against the cor
porations, and not the reporters who
wrote the stories;
DANCEKS FALL INTO FLAMES.,
Fire Start Tndt Floor. Which Col
lapses, and 10 cf Merry Iarty Terislu
Florence. Italy. During a family
dance nt Fwecchio. a quantity of straw
baueath the room iu which the dancing
wa s goi n g o n -a ugh t tire. The floor o f
the room collapsed and the dancers fell
into the flames.
Sixteen corpses have been recovered.
Some persons were Injured by jump
ing from a window.
. p U. S. Leads in Coal Mining.
According to reports received at the
Department of Commerce and Labor,
coal and coke exports from the United
States iu 3005 aggregated $31,213,028
in value, as compared with a little
more than $11,000,000 in 1895. The
United States now holds . third rhnfe
among the nations as an exporter of
coal, but lirst rank as producer.
Balfour Returned to Parliament
A. J. Balfour the former British
Premier, was returned to Parliament
for -the .City of London by a majority
. of ll,3i0 over Thomas Gibson Bowles.
Mr. Balfour is in. poor heaitn.
Negro Lynched in MississiFsn.
A netrro convicted of carrying a pis-
t tol was lynched on general principles
at. Forest, Miss. -
Thirty British Warships at Gibraltar.
Thirty British warships gathered at
Gibraltar, six miles from Ahjeciras. v
L AND OIL I
Investisration by the Interstate Com
merce Commission Approved.
PRESIDENTCRITICISES CONGRESS
In a Me (mac Calls Action Hasty and
Inefficient Asks More Law and
Money Tears Probing Will Keault
In Iinmnwity to OfTender6 lias Signed
Resolution ftelnctantly.
Washington, D. C President Boose
vent sent a message to Congress an
nouncing that he had signed the Tillman-Gillespie
resolution calling on the
Interstate Commerce Commission to
investigate railroad monopolies in oil
and coal, and incidentally gave Con
gress a piece of news officially that
will attract wide attention.
In his message Mr. Roosevelt said:
"I have signed the joint resolution
'instructing, the Interstate Commerce
Commission to make examinations into
the subject of railroad discriminations
and monopolies in coal and oil, and
report on the same from. time to time.'
I have signed it with hesitation, be
cause in the form in which it was
passed it achieves very little, and may
achieve nothing, and it is highly unde
sirable that a resolution of this kind
shall become law in such form as to
give the impression of insincerity that
Is, of pretending to do something which
really is not done but after much
hesitation I concluded to sign the reso
lution because its defects can be reme
died by legislation which I hereby ask
for. It must be understood that un
less this subsequent legislation is
granted the present resolution must be
mainly, and may be entirely, inopera
tive. '.
"Before specifying what this legisla
tion is I wish to call attention to one
or two preliminary facts. In the first
place, a part of the investigation re
quested by the House of Representa
tives in the resolution adopted Febru
ary 15, 1905, relating to the oil indus
try, and a further part having to do
with the tinthra cite coal industry, have
been for some time under investigation
by the Department of Commerce and
Labor. These investigations, I am in
formed, are approaching completion,
and before Congress adjourns. I shall
submit to you the preliminary reports
of these investigations. Until these
reports are completed the Interstate
Commerce Commission could not en
deavor to carry out so much of the
resolution of Congress as refers to
the ground already covered without
running the risk of seeing the two
investigations conflict and therefore
render each other more or less nuga
tory.
In the second place, I call your at
tention to the fact that if an inves
tigation of the nature proposed in
this joint resolution is thoroughly and
effectively conducted it will result in
giving immunity from criminal prose
cution to all persons who are called.
sworn and constrained by compulsory
process of law. to testify as witnesses;
though, of course, such immunity from
prosecution is not given to those from
whom statements or information mere
ly, in contradistinction to sworn testi
mony, are obtained.
"This is not at all to say that such
Investigations should not be under
taken. Publicity can by itself often
accomplish extraordinary results for
good; and the court of public judgment
may secure such results where the
courts of law are powerless. There are
many cases where an investigation,
securing complete publicity , about
abuses and giving Congress the mate
rial on which to proceed in the enaei
inent of laws,, is more useful than a
criminal prosecution can possibly be.
But it -.houKl not be provided for by
law without a clear understanding that
it inay be an alternative instead of an
'additional remedy; that is, that to carry
on the investigation may serve as a bat
to the successful prosecution of the of
fenses -disclosed. The official body di
rected by Congress to make tho inves
tigation must, of course, carry out its
direction, and therefore the direction
should not be given without full appre
ciation, of what it means.
"Exit the direction contained in the
joint resolution which I have signed
will remain almost inoperative unless
money is provided to carry out the in
vestigations in question, and unless
the commission in carrying them out
is ruthorized to administer oaths and
eompel the attendance of witnesses.
- 'I accordingly recommend to Con
gress the serious consideration of just
what they wish the 'commission to . do.
and how far they wish it to go, having
in view the possible incompatibility, of
conducting an . investigation like this
and of also proceeding criminally in a
court of law; and. furthermore, that a
sufficient sum, say $30,000, be at once
added to the current appropriation for
the commission, so as to enable it to
do the work indicated in a. thorougn
and complete manner, while at - the
same time the iov.rr is explicitly con
ferred upon it to administer oaths and
compel the attendance of witnesses in
making the investigation in question,
whiev. covers work; quite apart from its
usuai uuties." .''. ' ; '
The general tone of the message will
be considered fp .Congress as. a slap
from the. Executive, and will go f?r to
disturb the relations between the two
branches of the. Government. :
, Read between the lines the message
is taken by many 'legislators to mean
that urged on by the action of Cong:ess
and the charges of Inactivity in prose
cution of great monopolies, the Admin
istration i is ' contemplating a prosecu
tion of the Standard OH Company and
I luv tYii commnayons;
CO
liOUIRY
PRAIRIE FIRE IN TEXAS
Billows of Flame Devastate! 800,000
' A.cres of Land.
3Iore Than lOOO Head of Cattle B uracil
Ktul Four Unorganized Tetas Coun-..-
tied Laid Waste. -'
Lubbock, Texas. The most destruct
ive prairie fire ever known in the
Southwest swept over four large coun
ties? northwest of here. It destroyed
the grass on more than 800,000 acres of
land in Hockley, Lamb, Cochran and
Bailey counties, burned more than
1000 head of cattle to death and de
stroyed many ranch buildings.
These four counties are unorganized,
and there are no towns within their
borders. They' are devoted wholly to
ranch interests. The fire started in
the northern part of Hockley County
five days ago and was swept south and
west by the high March wind that was
blowing. The grass was dry and of
great height and it afforded fuel for
the flames that caused the conflagra
tion to become one of the grandest
spectacles ever witnessed in this re
gion. The fire raced with the wind across
the breadth of two counties, covering
a distance of fifty miles in a few hours.
This troad wall of flame then swept
soutn antl west, extending its path of
destruction for a distance of more than
100 miles and laying everything in that
broad cope of country waste.
Women and children who occupied
ranch houses lying in the path of the
oncoming flames were rescued and car
ried to places of safety on fleet-footed
horses.
It is estimated that the losses caused
by the, fire aggregated more than $1,
000.000, THREATENS THE POWDER TRUST
Bill For Government Plant May Wipe
v Out DuPont Contracts.
Washington, D. C. The Powder
Trust, known as the DuPont Syndicate,
will lose its valuable contracts with the
Government for -making smokeless
powder if a bill introduced in the
House by Chairman Hull, of the' Mili
tary Affairs Committee, becomes a law.
It appropriates $200,000 for the con
srruer.cSi ox Government factories m
which the four or five million. dollars'
worth of smokeless powder, used an.
nnally by the army and navy, will here
after be manufactured. It is thought
the bill will pass, as it has the approval
of the President, the Secretary of War
and of the Navy.
It Is said the Government can make
its own-powder for about one-half w hat
it now pays the trust. If this state
ment is correct, the Government will
save in a single year on its powder bill
three or four times the cost of the pro
posed Government powder plant.
The introduction of the Hull bill was
flue to an expose of the working of the
Powder Trust made in the House by
Representative Graff, of Illinois, show
ing that the four great powder manu
facturing concerns of the country the
DuPont, the Lafiand & Rand, the Inter
national and the California, which con
siitute the DuPont Syndicate always
put in identical bids in answer to the
Government's advertisement for sup
plying powder.
REFUSE TO TRINT LYING LABELS
Chicago Lithographers Offer Co-opera
tion to Illinois Pure Food Commission.
mcago. ,meago iitnograpners are
going to take up the pure food crusade,
Unless certain manufacturers order la
bels for their food products which tel
the truth, it was said that the litho
graphers would not print them!
This was promised by a committ ee
from the Federation of Labor, which
called at the office of the Illinois Pure
Food Commission. The committee was
headed by Charles D. Wheeler, who
said: -
"WThat we think is that the commis
sion ought to go after the manufactur
ers. Half of the time the dealer sells
an adulterated article without knowing
what is in it. Then lie gets arrested
and fined and has to pay the bill. .
Kympathize with the small dealer. I
is the big manufacturer who is respon
sible for this glucose mixture colored
with aniline dye that goes under the
name of 1am that we are after."
Assistant Commissioner Tatterson
said he favored the plan of the litho
graphers. INDIANAPOLIS CITY THEATRE.
Tomlinon Hall to Ee Remodelled For
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Use' of, Anti-Syndicate Attractions..
Indianapolis, Ind. iayor Bookwalt
er - is arranging to , gijve independent
theatrical attractions a. place in this
city where they may appear. :
For more than a yer the syndicate
has controlled all the theatres jm this
city and many -attractions- have not
been brought here bfvr.iise o' the- bar
placed upon them by the syndicate.
If is the plan of Mayor Bookwa Iter
to convert Tomlinson Hall, owned by
the cityv into a theatre, where indepen
dent attractions may appear. The in
terior of the building is to be remod
elled and every appointment necessary
for a first:class theatre added.
V Cut Old U. S. Clerk's Pay.
The Committee on Appropriations of
the House, Washington, has incorpor
ated in the Judicial Appropriation bill
a proviso that every Government clerk
more thanVsixty-five years old, no mat
ter what his salary is, must be cut
down to $1000 a year.
HE INSURANCE AXE FALLS
"hree Mutual Reserve .Officials In
dicted in New York City.
.ARCENY AND FORGERY CHARGED
resident F. A. Bambam, Vice-President
George D. Eidridge . aI Second
Vice-President Got?e Knruham, Jr.,
Arrested and Bailed Grand Jury's Ac
tion Spreads Consternation. "
New York City. The first tangible
result to appear as the result of Dis
trict Attorney Jerome's examination of
tho testimony that was taken by the
Legislative Insurance Investigating
Committee was the indictment of three
officers of the Mutual Reserve Life In
surance Company 'on charges of grand
larceny in the first degree and forgery
iu the third degree. The men indicted
are Frederick A. Burnham, president;
George D. Eldridge, first vice-president,
and George Burnham, Jr., second vice
president. In all, five indictments were
brought against each officer, two for
grand larceny and three for forgery.
The alleged larceny arijd forgery was
Drought about, according to the Indict
ments, by payments of $9000 of the
company's money to law firms, the ap
parent purpose of which is alleged to
have been to settle claims against the
eompanj while the real object is al
leged to have been ta settle actions
which had been brought against officers
of the company as individuals.
The indictments on wnich a charge
of larceny is based alleged that the offi
cers embezzled two sums, one of $7500
and tho other of $1500, on October 24,
1901.
The three officers appeared in the
Court of General Sessions, where Judge
O'SulIivaa fixed their bail at $12,500
for each.
In the first case of alleged forgery
the indictment charges that $7500 was
entered in the cash book as 'paid to
Nichols & Bacon, attorneys of P. P.
Armstrong, to settle a claim of Arm
strong against the insurance, company
arising out of a contract between him
and the company. In fact, however,
the indictment charges,-the money was
paid to Nichols & Bacon in settlement
of an action which they, as attorneys
for .7. Douglass Wells, Lad previously
brougnt against Frederick A. Burnham
individually.
The second indictment for forgery
charges that the defendants caused
$1500 to be entered on the company's
books as made in payment to James
Scheil & Elkus for legal services ren
dered by them to the company. In re
ality, declares the indictment, the
money was paid with instructions to
turn it over to the attorney ot J. Doug
las Wells to reimburse Wells for dis
bursements which he claimed had been
made by him in defending actions
brought against him by Frederick A.
Burnham, individually, and by George
D. Eldridge, individually, and in order
to induce Wells to consent to r. discon
tinuance of tnose actions.
The third indictment for forgery is
based on the payment of $5000 ojf'the
company's money on September 24,
1901. That payment, tlie indictment
charges, was entered in the cash' book
as made to James Schell & Elkus for
legal services. The real purpose of this
payment is, however, alleged to have
been for delivery to Baldwin & White,
attorneys for J. Thompson Patterson,
for the purpose of settling one action
which Patterson had previously
brought against the company and
against Frederick A. Burnham and' Geo.
D. Eldridge, individually, and three ac
tions which had been brought against
Patterson, one by George D. Eldridge,
individually, one by Frederick A. Burn
ham, and one by the company. j
The indictments produced consterna
tion among officials of insurance com
panies whose methods were exposed by
the Armstrong committee. Their fear
of the results of the probing of the
Grand Juryr under the. direction of Dis
trict Attorney Jerome, was manifest
when it was Jearned that many of
them had retained William Rand, Jr.,
former Assistant District Attorneyr to
defend them.
SUGAR REBATES INQUIRY.
Charges of Agreement Among All Rail
roads Entering New York City.. "
New York City. The Federal Grand
Jury in this city began to take evidence
in regard to charges laid before Attorney-General
Moody tnat the railroads
having terminals in New York and
Jersey City, were concerned in a defi
nite agreement in regard to a division
of the sugar freight business and also
had been paying rebates-to tho Sugar
Trust. The charges, which are brought
by W. R. Hearst, allege that the agree
ment has extended over a long term of
years, and. that large sums have been
paid in rebates. - :
The evidence colle,cd iu the case
was laid j. before Attorney-General
Moody some weeks ago, and after an
i;ijve,t5i,sriott the Department of Jus
tice has deteried that the cases shall
be pushed vigorously at once. -
The. Delaware, Lackawanna and
Westera Railroad Company, Lowell M .
Palmer,, of Havemeyer & Elder; a
Brjooklyn dock company and others are
the defendants in the principal rebate
action, while the other railroad com
panies centreing in and around New
York appear in other cases..
Free Lessons For Maine Farmers. ,
rrofessofs in. the University of "Maine,
have perfected plans to travel through
out the State in a finely equipped
special train and give free lessons in
theoretical agricoltnre to the farmers.
HI H
Items of Interest From Many '
Parts of the State
MINOR MATTERS OF STATE NIVS -
Happenings of More or Less Import-'
ance Told in Paragraphs The Cot-r
ton Markets."
Charlotte Cotton Marked
Low middlim?. . . . .... . . . . .
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.10 345
.10
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New York Futures.
March. ... .
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Big ..Collections.
The State 'Insurance' Department
paid into the State Treasury last week
for ihe February collections of- the- -department"
$51,356.13. The total
amount to date paid to the treasurer
by the department is $195,268.4, this .
sum representing the collections for
the fiscal year, which closes April 1st.
The collections for March,, last year,
were $8,003.67, and more than Jiriti
will be collected for this month, whifh;
will make the total collections for the
fiscal year of the department ' to ex
ceed $200,000, which will be tho larg
est year's collections in the history ot7
the department. The collections J&st:
year amounting to' $197,402.25: The '
highest amount ever J paid into the -treasury
during one year from, ine-in-"
suran cc companies before tlie State ''
Insurance Department was organized
was 89,000. The collections for this
month, aggregating comethir-g , over
$S,000, pay for the expenses of t he In,
surance Depart ment for tbe whole
year. Companies Discontinued,
The Bankers ' Life Iiisura nee Com- '
pauy, of New York, and the Illinois ;
Life have stopped business in North;.
Carolina. The. capital of the. Bank-
crs Life was said to have been im
paired, but neither company bad much'
patrionage.
The Independent Order of St. Luke
a negro fraternal order of Richmond,.. .
was admitted to do business iu this"'
State. " '
Cammisioner Young' approved th.-.
charter of tlie Independent, Order 6 , .
J. R. Giddings and Jolifee Union (in
corporated), a negro fraternal rdevr .
with headquarters at' Wilmington.'
N. . C. Children's Home Society. , f ,
One of 1 fie most deserving of orrr- .
charitable and benevolent institutions
is the. North Carolina -' Children's .
Home Society. Col. Y. IV Of,borrt of-' '
Greensboro , is the president a Qd -Wm.. . -B.
Strcetcr. is State SupcrintunJent.. ;
This organization is doing a world of
good in the way of helping homeless '
children. Ninety-six children have- -been
placed in homes' since its or&anV- . . ;
zation in 1903. Thus a great cnara- (
table work is being carried 'on in our
midst that appeals to every noble in- '
stinet of humanity.
THE EDITOR
Explains How to Keep Up 3I-iital unuL-;
1'hyaical Vigor.
A New Jersey editor writes: '
'A' long indulgence in improper fooT.
brought on a' condition 'of 'nervous dys
pepsia, nearly three years, ago, o
severe that 1 had tojuit work entirely
I put myself on a strict regimen vZ
Grape-Nuts food, with plenty of oat
door exercise and in a few moritkis
found my stomach so far restored that
the process of digestion gave, me pleas
ure instead of. distress; . . .
' "If alo bui'.t up n;y stn'ngt'fr o tfcit:.
I was able to' resume -my ausin?.
which is onerous, as I not only edit uay.
own paper, but also do a great deal ot"
'outside' writing. . '
"I find that the Grape-Nuts diet. en-. ,
ables me to write with greater vigor:
than ever before and without the feet
lug of brain-fag with which 1 used i;
be troubled. As to bodily vigor I
and do walk miles every day without
fatigue a few, squares used to wearjr
Tne befol-e I began to live, on Grape
Nuts?" Name given by Postum Co.
Battle Creek; MIcb. ' 1
There's a rearon. Read the Utlte
book, "The Road to WellvUle in p.fcgv
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