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f I 3t folk ' 1 ... B B - i n Three Cents the Copy. INDEPENDENCE IN ALL THINGS. Subscription Price, $1.00 Per Year In Advance! 1 VOL XIII. COLUMBUS, N. CM THURSDAY FEBRUARY 13, 1908 NO. 41. . ' ' : P ! : - mmmm I filADTM rADAI ivmiii v.rvivLinA rvi inmj n D . ii The News of Old North Slate Gathered and Put in Condensed Form. j Her Purse Snatched. Charlotte, Special. The purse snatchers in Charlotte are continu ing operations without a let up, add another bold attempt was reported by the police, this making perhaps thei twelfth or fifteenth to take place re cently. The victim was Miss Jose phine Worrel, stenographer in a local insurance office. She was seized and thrown to the ground and her purse torn loose from her hand, to which it ay as fastened, by a ribbon. The con tinuous repetition of these offenses all of which are the work of black men has stirred the city to a considerable ilsxree. The police are exhausting rvery means to capture the supposed trang of purse-snatchers. Miss Wor rell came to the city last Sunday from Atlanta, Qa., and had just tak tn up her residence at No. 704 East Fourth street. She has a position in the office of the New York Life Insur mice Company. She carried in her purse about $30. The police officers thought that two of the leading purse- matchers who have been operating in this city, had been captured in the person of Roper Wallace and J. A. Bwopsey, colored, one of whom was arrested Tuesday and the other Wed nesday. The occurrence, however, in dicates that these two are not entitled to blame for all of this fiendish work that has been going on. There are evidences of the fact that the snatch es are organized and judging from the success of their efforts lately, they must be well organized. They are about as shrewd a set of law breakers as the local officers ever met with. A reward of $100 has been of fered by the mayor for the capture of the party or parties guilty, and public feeling is very high. Young Lady Attempts Suicide. Gastonia, Special Miss Bell Nich ols, a well known young lady of Grover, attempted to commit suicide Tuesday. The effort at self-destruction was due to a fit of mental de rangement to which she has been sub ject for several months. Miss Nich ols, had been under the treatment of physicians for the past three or four months, but recently returned to her fathers home near Grover, apparently very much improved. Tuesday morn ing she borrowed her father's pocket knife on the plea that she wanted to trim her finger nails. A short time afterward she mysteriously disap peared from the premises. The alarm was sent out and a searching party consisting of abot thirty-five people was organized and a search begun. After several hours the young woman was found late Tuesday afternoon, wandering around in a patch of woods near the town. She had cut her breast open, stabbed herself near the heart and slashed herself a number of times on the neck. She had re moved her shoes and had wandered around, apparently crazed, but thinly lad. She was taken at once to her home and physicians dressed her wounds. These are not considered of sufficient seriousness to cause death, but the doctor fears that she has con tracted pneumonia from spending the day in the woods, thinly clad and with portions of her body exposed to the cold. SixJDeaths. Tarboro, Special County Health Officer, Dr. W. J. Thigpen, reports six deaths in Tarboro during the month of January. Three of these were under two vears of age. Kilied His Wife, Asheville, Special. A special from Marshall tell of another murder Com mitted in Madison county Thursday night when Mrs. John W. Rondon was done to death. The husband is accused of the crime which was com mitted near Barnard and the message stated that officers had gone from Marshall to place Rondon under ar re&t. School Term Shortened. High Point, Special. At a meet ing of the school board this week it was decided to have only eight months of school this year instead of nine as has been the case the past several years. This was made neces sary on account of the money in hand. For sometime an eight month school term was held but the board thought best to give the pupils as many months in the year as possible and would not now be changed if the money sufficient was available. BMA APFAIDC 1 - Has Two Husbands. Winston-Salem, Special. During the recent session of the legislature a bill passed validating the marriage f Joseph Ridenhour to Mrs. John Davis, both of Davidson county. Mrs. Davis, who was a Miss Reid, married John Davis. Davis left the country and Mtes gone a number of years. Hearing that he was dead, his wife, many years after his disappearance, was married to Joseph Ridenhour. Some tome ago Davis came ack to Davidson county and found his wife married again. Her position was em barassing, because she thus had two husbarids living although all parties were innocent of any wrong in con nection with the marriage. Accord ingly the legislature was asked to validate the second marriage. Sena tor Red wine opposed the bill- con tending that if it passed the woman would thus have two husbands living. Senator Blair favored the bill and spoke highly of the woman. The bill passed its reading in the Senate by practically a unanimous vote. Statesville's New Bank. Statesville, Special. The Mer chants & Farmers Bank, the new banking institution, has secured tem porary quarters with the Statesville Realty & Investment - Company on Center street, and Messrs. F. B. Bunch and J. A. Knox, officials of the bank, are busy completing arrange ments to open for business. All of the capital stock has been paid in and the company has filed its report with the corporation commission. The cer tificate from commission is expected Thursday or Friday and the bank ex pects to open for business next Wed nesday, the 12th. The business will be conducted from the offices of the Realty & Investment Company until the bank's permanent quarters in the Patterson & Andersonjilock are ready for occupancy. Look Out For Fake Dollars. Salisbury, Special Spurious silver dollars of the date of 1899 are bemj freely circulated in Salisbury and of ficers are at work on the case, with a fair clue to the original dispenser of the curios. The coin is a splen did imitation and one was recovered by Grocer H. E. Rufty last Saturday evening without question. Another was nresentaed him bv a lad whom Mr. Rufty detained and questioned The boy said his father had given him the money to make some pur chases and inquiry of the father prov ed the truth of the lad's statement The man said he had been given the money by a Spencer merchant and it is this clue upon which the officers are working. Another $10,000 Suit. Hickory, Special. Reports has it that this city is to have another suit for $10,000 for false arrest and im prisonment. Some time ago, in "the night time, a gang of masqued men tore up the C. & N. W. railroad track on the north side of the Hickory freight depot. Next morning the sec tion boss, with his crew of men, start ed to put the track back. Mayor C'illey forbid it. But the section boss would not listen to the city officers, and proceeded to put the track back. The policemen arrested -him and plac ed him in the lockup. He was not locked up but a little while. Now it is stated that he has sued Mayor Cii ley (who since then has resigned as mayor) and the city for $10,000 dam ages for false imprisonment. Buys Interst in Winston-Salem Cl Winston-Salem, Special. W. J. Brothers, of Eastern North Carolina, has acquired by purchase a consider able interst in the A. F. Messick Grocery Company and will make this city his home after March 1st. He will have an official position with the above well known wholesale grocers with whom it is "understood he has made a considerable investment. Farmers Holding Cotton. Charlotte, Special. There is no doubt of the fact that farmers in Mecklenburg are holding to their cot ton this month with more than usual al tenacity. The recent meeting of the State Division of the Southern Cotton Association, and the near ap proach of the annual meeting of the Southern Cotton Association in Dai las, Texas, have undoubtedly served to stimulate the farmers to more stringent efforts in holding their cotton. PRESI01NT ANSWERS GHARfit President Roosevelt Answers Charge of Playing Politics GIVES REASONS FOR HIS ACTS i j - .f Chief Executive Characterizes the Charges as "False and Malicious," and in an Exceedingly Lengthy Epistle to William Dudley Foulke, of Richmond, Indiana, He Enters Into a Detailed Defense. Washington, Special. President Roosevelt has made answer to the recent statements that he has made use of Federal patronage to further the presidential interests of Secre tary Taft. The answer is in the form of a letter addressed to William Dud ley Foulke, of Richmond, Indinan, and includes a letter from Mr. Foulke to the President suggesting the need of such a statement. The President begins by character izing the charges as "false and ma licious." He follows this with an analysis of all appointments sent by him to the senate for its action to show that in no case has the proxim ity of a presidential contest influenc ed his action. The President's let ter to Mr. Foulke in part follows? Tho President's Letter. The statement that I have used the offices in the effort to nominate any presidential candidate is both false and malicious. It is the usual imagi native invention which flows from a desire to say something injurious. Remember that those now making this accusation were busily engaged two months ago in asserting that I was using the offices to secure toy own renomination. It is the kind of ac cusation which for tho next few months will be rife. This particular slander will be used until exploded, and when exploded those who have used it will promptly invent another. Such being the case, I almost question whether it is worth while answering; but as it is you who ask why, the answer you shall have. Since the present Congress as sembled two months ago I have sent to the Senate the names of all the officials I have appointed for the en tire period since Congress adjourned on the 4th of March last, that is for 11 months. Excluding army and navy officers, scientific experts, health of ficers, and those of the revenue cut ter service. I have made during thi3 period about 1,352 appointments subject- to the confirmation by the Sen ate, 1,164 being postmasters. Of these, appointments in the diplomat- is and consular services and in the Indian service have been made with out regard to politics; in the diplo matic and consular services more Democrats than Republicans having been appointed, as we are trying to even up the quotas of the Southern States. In nomiating judges I have treated politics as a wholiy secondary consideration, and instead of relying solely upon the recommendations of either Senators of Congressmen, have always conducted independent inquir ies myself personally through mem bers of the bench or the bar whom I happen to know, or through Attorney General Bonaparte, Secretary Taft, who was himself a judge, Secretary Root, because of his great experience at the bar. or Senator Knox, who was formerly my Attorney General. In a number of the other offices, chiefly assistant secretaries or heads of bureaus here at Washington, but also Governors of Territories or men holding peculiar position such for instance, as that of commissioner of education in Porto Rico and also in a few other cases, notably those of marshals in certain of the Western States, but including various officers also here and there throughout tho Union, I have either felt that the po sition was of such a character thai the initiative in the choice could only with propriety come from me or from one ef the Cabinet officers, or else I have happened to know of a man of such peculiar qualifications that I de sired to appoint him on my own ini tiative. The President goes at length into all his appointments, and shows that he has in no instance shown a purpohe to further the interests of any can didate, but has had only the good of the public service in vie Pert Paragraphs. Credence should be given to one skilled in his particular profession. Private rights must yield to publio convenience in case of necessity. He who doeth iniquity shall not have equity. A green winter makes a fat church yard. Old Saying. In the British Columbia Parlia ment it was declared the residents of Vancouver might arm against the J apanese. So. 7- '08. PURE FOOD No Food Commissioner of any State has ever attacked the absolute purity ol Grape-Nuts. Every analysis undertaken shows this food to be made strictly of Wheat and Barley, treated by our processes to partially transform the starch parts into a form of Sugar, and there fore much easier to digest. Our claim that it is a "Food for Brain and Nerve Centres" is based upon the fact that certain parts of Wheat and Barley (which we use) contain Nature's brain- and nerve building ingredients, viz., Phosphate of Potash, and the way we prepare the food makes it easy to digest and assimilate. Dr. Geo. W. Carey in his book on The Biochemic System of Medicine" says: ' "When the medical profession fully understands the nature and range of the phosphate of potassium, insane asylums will no longer be needed. "The gray matter of the brain is controlled entirely by the inorganic cell-salt, potassium phosphate. "This salt unites with albumen, and by the addition of oxygen creates nerve-fluid, or the gray matter of the brain. "Of course, there is a trace of other alts and other organic matter in nerve-fluid, but potassium phosphate is the chief factor, and has the power within Itself to attract, by its own law of affinity, all things needed to manufacture the elixir of life. There fore, when nervous symptoms arise, due to the fact that the nerve-fluid has been exhausted from any cause, the phosphate of potassium is the only true remedy, because nothing else can possibly supply the de ficiency. "The ills arising from too rapidly consuming the gray matter of the brain cannot be overestimated. "Phosphate of Potash,- is to my mind, the most wonderful curative agent ever discovered by man, and the blessings it has already conferred on the race are many. But 'what shall the harvest be' when physicians everywhere fully understand Jthe part this wonderful salt plays in the pro cesses of life? It will do as much as can be done through physiology to make a heaven on earth. "Let the overworked business man take it and go home good-tempered. Let the weary wife, nerves unstrung from attending to sick children or en tertaining company, take it and note how quickly the equilibrium will be restored and calm and reason ' assert her throne. No 'proving' are re quired here. We find this potassium salt largely predominates in nerve fluid, and that a deficiency produces well-defined symptoms. The begin ning and end of the matter is to sup ply the lacking principle, and In molecular form, exactly as nature furnishes it in vegetables, fruits and grain. To supply deficiencies this is the only law of cure." Please observe that Phosphate of Potash is not properly of the drug- shop variety but is best prepared by "Old Mother Nature" and stored In the grains ready for use by mankind. Those who have been helped to better health by the use of Grape-Nuts are legion. "There's a Reason." BRAIN POWER Increased by Proper Feeding. A lady writer who not only has done good literary work, but reared a family, found in Grape-Nuts the ideal food fcr brain work and to de velop healthy children. She writes: "1 am an enthusiastic proclaimer of GraDe-Nuts as a regular diet. 1 for . merly had no appetite in the morning and for 8 years whileaiursing my four children, had. insufficient nourishment for them. . '"Unable to eat breakfast I telt faint later, and would go to the pantry and eat cold chops, sausage, cookies, doughnuts or anything I happened to find. Being a writer, at times my head felt Metevy and my brain asleep. "When I read of Grape-Nuts I be gan eating it every morning, also gave it to the children, including my 10 months old baby, who soon grew as fat -as a little pig, good natured and contented. "I wrote evenings and feeling ths need of sustained brain power, began eating a small saucer of Grape-Nuts with milk, instead of my usual indi gestible hot pudding, pie, or cake for dessert at night. "1 grew plump, nerves strong, and when I wrote my brain was active and clear; indeed, the dull head pain never returned." POSTUM CEREAL CO., Ltd.. Rattle Creek, Mieh, NEAVSV GLEANINGS. A grip epidemic prevails In Wash ington. Our money system Is the worst in the world, according to Chairman Fowler. Lord Londonderry accused the British Liberal . Government of cow ardice in dealing with Ireland. Justice Gaynor told the People's Forum at New Rochelle that the courts were abusing their power. It was revealed at a court trial that only three keepers guard 700 prison ers in the New York Tombs at night. Rhode Island intends to organize sixteen companies of coast artillery, a much larger force than was expected. Minister Hayashi declared in Tokio Japan meant to closely limit emigra tion to the United States and Canada. Brooklyn trolley cars killed 102 persons last year, according to the an nual report of the Board of Coroners. In 1907 American makers pro duced $80,000,000 worth of automo biles, and in 1908 the output will be 50,000 cars valued at $100,000,000. Russia threatens to upset the Bal kan situation if Austria persists in her plan for direct rail connection from Vienna through Macedonia to Athens. A clique of crooks or stock-jobbers sought to create a bank panic in New York by warning heavy depositors of perfectly solvent institutions, by tele phone, to withdraw their balances. Negotiations were opened for the appointment of a Turkish diplomatic agent accredited to the Vatican to deal directly with the Papal officials on the protection of Catholics in Tur key. Charles F. Murphy, of Tammany Hall, sued the Broadway Magazine for $50,000 damages for libel. He also sued for similar amounts five firms and individuals who circulated or sold the magazine. Pacific Decrees Are Promulgated. London, By Cable. Decrees restor ing constitutional government, re- extending immunity from prosecution to members of the Cortes, releasing deputies arrested by former Dictator Franco and restoring the freedom of the press were gazetted in Lisbon, according to dispatches. Correspond ents all agree that Lisbon is quiet and now believe that danger of fur ther disorders is over. Big Oar Plant is Burned. High Point, N. C, Special The biggest fire in the history of the city in dollars and cents occurred here Sunday night when the main plant of the Southern Car Company was de stroyed by fire, together with all ma chinery. The loss is between $SO,000 and $100,000 and covered by only one-third insurance. There were were twenty-three cars worth several thousand dollars each almost ready to go out, and these were also destroyed. Tne origin or tne nrc is now unknown, AN OLD MISTRESS. A visitor to one of the stately an cestral homes of Virginia who was be ing shown about by an old colored en tainer paused before a painting. "Exquisite!" he exclaimed, raptur ously. "That must be an old master.' Uncle Nelse shook his head. "No, sub.," he replied, "tain't ole marster. Dat's ole Mistis Al'son." Youth's Companion. 1 CENT; I BEIjOW any other M. nV IfAT i MJ nJ m or on anv kind of terms, loguen r. bicycles, old patterns and aM mS PRICES and wonderful new offers made possible by selling from factory direct to rider with no middlemen's profits. WE SHIP OH APPROVAL without a cent deposit, Pay the Freight and allow 10 Days Free Trial and make other liberal terms which no other house in the world will do. You will learn everything and get much vain able information by simply writing us a postal. We need a tttttmm Aaent in every town and can offer an opportunity to make money to suitable .50 PUNCTURE to introduce 1 ..rT.Zl You 9 samguo p wont let Pair for Oniy m out the mr t CCASH WITH ORDER .6B) NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES. PMmlt of is vears experience in tire SSSSI f 1 H W$8 making. No danger from THORNS. CAC TUS. PINS. NAILS. TACKS or GLASS. Serious punctures, like intentional knife cuts, can be vulcanized like any outer tire. Two Hundred Thousand pairs now in actual Seventy-five Thousand pairs sold last year. DESCRIPTION Made in all sizes. It is lively and easy riding, very durable and lined mgm with aspecial quality of rubber, which never becomes porous and which closes' BP?ail j" m.t Vnowintr thair to escape. We have hundreds of letters from satisfied customers stating that thoir tires have onlv been pumped up once or or SOit roaas is """",y, KT "'7ZZZ 1 r . a x . . . I, ... Wm nefanl an nrdinarv tire the puncture resisting qualities uuk k'"-u -j, . , . 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BankBxlSess or re&ht tor the Editor of this paper about 2f you order a pairoj voriil fintl Tthat thev will ride -easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and look tym'A any price. Ve know that you will be so well pleased tfwhen SST aoueill give us order. We want, on to send us a small trial order at once, hence this remarkable tae oner. COASTER' BRAKES, everything in the bicycle line are sold by us at half the usual eodtS d repaif mJ for our NDB Y Uloe. iia afAT AtAWT ij v .".TTf. .nvon, nntli von know the JTSters wVar; nIt onTy'cosU afrify It only costs COiPilY,0 FEMINISMS NUWS NOTES. Mrs. George B. McClellaD. mother of the Mayor of New York City, is a great favorite at Nice, Italy. Many messages of sympathy were sent to Queen Amelie of Portugal from all the capitals. of Europe. More than 6000 "women are em ployed in the Russian Secret Service Some draw a salary of 2000 a year. The Gil Bias, of Paris, says that Mme. Anna Gould intends to sell her property in Paris anif return to New York. At Lansing, Mich., the Constitu tional Convention voted down by a vote of 4-7 to 84 a proposal for wom an suffrage. Miss Annie Lynam, private secre tary of Representative John Wesley Gaines, of Tennessee, received $50. 000 under the will of her uncle. Mrs. Burton Harrison, who ha lived in strict retirement since her husband's death a couple of years ago, Is- again in Washington, D. C. - At Birmingham, Ala., Miss Cather ine Comer, daughter of Governor and Mrs. B. B. Comer, was married to W. Morely Buck, of Port Dover, Canada. Miss Phoebe Cousins, former tem perance advocate, told the Senate Sub-Committee on Judiciary at Wash ington that prohibition was a fraud and a failure. Miss Lenore Birnbohm.only daugh ter of Mrs. Camille Birnbohm, well known in women's clubs, left her home in New York City to devote her life to social settlement work. Miss Helen E. Flack, confidential bookkeeper for a New York City man ufacturer, got the stock gambling mania and is now held in $5000 bail on a charge of stealing checks. Lady Rosemary Cairns is declared to be the handsomest girl in London's younger set. She is but eighteen years old and is the only daughter of Arthur William, the second Earl of Cairns, who died in 1890. Robert S. Smith, a "farmer living near Muncy,, Pa., lost a good cow re cently by a strange accident. One of her horns caught under the manger and in her frantic efforts to tree her self she threw her body completely over and broke her neck. TELEPHONES Are a Necessity in the Country Home. The farther you are removed from town to railroad station, the more the telephone will save in I time and horse flesh. No man has a right to compel one of the family to lie in agony for hours while he drives to town for the doctor. Tel ephone and save half the suffering. Our Free Book tells how to or ganize, build and operate tele phone lines and systems. Instruments sold on thirty days' trial to responsible parties. THE CADIZ ELECTRIC CO., 201 CCC Building, Cadiz, Ohio. IS ALL IT WILL COST TOO to write for our big FREE BICYCLE catalogue snowing tne most complete line or nign-eraae nW'Vfl V8 TIRirS finNfl RTFS at PRlnRIi manufacturer or dealer in the world. JEr m OMVMI KT fron, tyonr. Sjw jm DIV WafaaW at any frict until vou have received our complete Tee uata- latest models, and learn of oar remarkable iajw young men who apply at once. - PROOF TIRES ? " "A" and pnnet are strips "B" and "D," also rim strip "H to prevent rim cutting. Tola tire will outlast any other make SOFT, FXASTIC and KASY BIDING use. wer twice in r whole season. Tney weign no more ua ' . - -1 -n rmUMi.ririWnf tti vou send one nickel and lira, and a postal to learn everytning. winowi DesUUlSL BjilOMC? . postal tolearn everything. 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