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y "" ... J"- , - : INDEPEN IN ALU THINGS. tkm Price, $1.00 Year in DENCE VOL XIV. COLUMBUS, N. C, TH UXSD AY, DECEMBER 31, t908. NO. 34. I HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR. mIbubI vSBhb HAPP HAPPf'NEW YEAR,! and the highest ot the officials th times, according to the Russian ion. In the streets the people kiss otner, wnether acquainted or not. Thtti favored ones who have been kissed 1 by the Czar are permitted to kiss the hand of the Empress as well. The ceremony of hand-kissing was sup-J CANNOT MD MR. GOMPERS Appeals of the Labor Leaders Con tinues Their Case Bef ore the Courts and the President Has No Power to Assist Them. ' Washington, Special.- In an offi- lished a few years ago under the! ow iw-w-jw naiis EW YEAR'S DAY goes back into the realm of antiquity. far back of Christmas, as all peoples, however they may have differed as to the ir's leDgth or the date upon which le new year should begin, have uni- in this, that it should be properly llebrated. From time immemorial -weil artists, sculptors, poets and pedal! y those versatile fellows, the Bnanac makers, have with one ac ini personified the outgoing year as gray bearded veteran auite ready be gathered to his fathers, while le New Year, a rnhiiRflons. n riv aled cherub, advances gayly to take is place. XotwithRiandlner the creat iglish po?t laureate sines: Toll ye the church bell sad and slow, And trea.i softly and speak low, i'f'r the old year lies a-dying, IS tolling" is nuifVIv rlmwnoH r f incumbent. Le roi est mort! Ive le roi! The advent of the new year has al- 1JS been a time nf rPiniHnp- nnt ne With the Greeks and Romans. La - i 11 v.itn the nations still older. Vft- W were the ways in which the festi- M was kept, but in this they were all peea, tnat a time of new life had pne, that old quarrels must be for- ven, old debts cancelled and every img possible should be done to pte a feeling of "good will toward As New Year's is celebrated its im itation has rparhrt (hrnucrti -"- X VUUQM ranee, Trhir-Ti v-roc. tn tnoxt " iu lUtli lilUCUlU the Latins. In France -it is still ; mort important day of tho year in 18 way of friendlv nie-etlnfrR and an ointment? and Rncial anH famllv fQ IIUU 1UU111J a nous The typical Frenchman on MS c!a' alri'ava fr. n n.;h i s if he has any, and no out uttiacf, jn is sufficient to lure him -o performance of this Mai dntv Amc:- the Chines thrir Npw lar s is th o-roo r,., v. .wm l, - fs'til UOJ Ul I 11 0 J till , l ,u5 Ji. suspeuueu, auu Un a: v. Year's riiv tv.i vfi..a f a'lachs and tho trflnet-namihinn tnai iims toi ,.ts. i i j uiiva uraucutis jiu IrPm house to hnnsn tn comnli- ent the neigbbora -with holr -rnod aes, vhipi-i n-o i .u jih erest. h1, as they expect to recoive in -urn fome ,,ttls present Qn the 1 - ot the year every stranger eri"'? a horse is reauired to throw iro small quantities of salt, 'dacpd in fiiro nn f Vi Q to Y1 A "at purpose. He must then go ae henhouse and place an egg in nest for the hen to sit upon. If -ccuis io periorm ner amy rc; 1& tonsiaered a fortunate on, and is feted i n that hrtiicQ nil- rh; ,n?- This custom is called "the 'J font " th fhich 'H Othpr ir'nata.v. Ok.Ui. )rinn , daaere to the. old or Qre- jnan calendar ui IDs , ' "v 1.11 vu jrear ur 11 n V UayS later tDan 0QrS. ho-,. a ueaicatea to St. Basil, . .c lu uave Deen a native 01 t ln-cappadocia. In Asia Ml- U1 nouse t.O hr,.a J uuucsn ni ii f i iim g iii or (1f tu ,. ; . . 1 Kaini- Mcn, nowever.i Uf ' i ny extended to" xmr seme - mined compliments to the occu - wishing them "a good year" Wac 5 laiseune. Bl. uasu 18 fci rn i. j . The month's first day, Ifce year's first day, the nrst ot January, The circumcixion day of Christ, and like wise of St. Basil. St. Basil, see, is coining here, from Cap pa - docia coming A paper in his hand he holds, and carries pen and ink horn. With pen and inkhorn doth he write, and reads he from the paper. "Say, Basil, say, whence comest thou, and whither art thou wendingl? "1 from my home have now eome forth, and I to school am going." "Sit down and eat, sit down and drink, sit down and sing thou for us!" " Tis only letters that I learn- of singing I know, nothing. " "Oh, then.-if you your letters know, say us your Alpha, Beta " And as he leaned upon his staff, to say his Alpha, Beta, Although the staff was dry and dead, it put forth freshest branches. And on the topmost branch of all there perched and sang a partridge, Who water took up in her claws, and oil upon her feathers, To sprinkle on her jadyship, her nobleness to sprinkle. Superstitions Beliefs. Among the Bulgarians the long connection of the Bulgarian with the Greek Church has naturally led to the assimilation of many of its super stitious beliefs and customs, and their festivals show a curious fusion of old heathen- rites with superstitious Christian observances. The year opens during the feast of the winter solstice, called by the Bul garians "Kulada." Like the Hallo w'een of Scotland, it is a great time among the girls, for all kinds of di vinatory rites respecting their future spouses, and to every line or verse of songs sung during this festive period is added the refrain of "Hey Kulada, moy Kulada." The jinn, or demons, are at this season supposed to be especially alert and powerful against mankind, and the Bulgarians, like the inhabitants of Asia Minor during the similaro1. sorvance of the Fishoti, consider it ' . necessary to taKe every precauuuu against their malevolence. A log of wood is left in every cart, and water in every pitcher, in order to prevent any demon taking possession of them and by hi presence rendering them too heavy to lift or draw. The Albanians are careful at this season not to leave nny article of wearing apparel out of doors after nightfall, and if by some oversight a garment should be so left it is washed before being used, in order to get rid of any spell cast upon it by the super nals. Fire ceremonies play a great part in theCbristmas and New Year's ob servances of the Albanian highland ers. On the eve of St. Basil, January 1, the fire is kept burning all night, and the half-burned cherry branches rescued from the Christmas fire are again thrown on and withdrawn to be wholly consumed on the eve of the Epiphany, when the ashes are col lected and strewn in tha vineyard. In the morning people wash them selves and their children in "unspoken-over" water, and draw omens from the character, grave or gay, of the nerson who first enters the house. A cock Is also sacrificed, for it Is au-1 spicious to spill Dlooa m xne nous St Basil's Day. New Year's In Russia. New Year's customs in Russia are also interesting. In the morning the princes of the ithperial family, court functionaries and servants of the. pal ace come in regular order to presem their homage to the Emperor reign of Alexander II. On New "Year Day at breakfast, dinner and supper, the guests, standing about the table, touch glasses, drink the health of the Emperor, and offer good wishes too each other. In England and America the hap-H piest revels for children are over be fore January 1, but in Scotland they are just getting under full headway. This custom doubtless arose from the fact that the old Calvinists held in detestation the "Popish" celebration of Christmas, and it became sup planted by "Hogmanay," usually held on New Year's Eve. This euphonious name is doubtless derived from the old greeting, "Au gui menez" ("To the mistletoe go!") The festival is distinctively a juvenile function, and they prepare for it weeks beforehand by memorizing songs and making "guisers" ostume3. Housewives lay in a stock of oaten cakes and bake a store of "bridles," which they hand out to the children when they come to the house door to claim their "hogmanay," crying: "Get up. good wife, and shake yen. feathers, -y And dinna think that we are beggars; FSr we are bairns come out to play Get up and gie's our hogmanay. This custom of the hogmanay is -alluded to in that most delightful book, "Sentimental Tommy." Sometimes several guisers go around in a mild sort of theatrical entertainment be fore an appreciative audience gath ered beneath the smoked rafters of the grpat farmhouse kit?hen, Anions the old customs we of to-day still cling most fondly to is . the one of ringing the church bells at midnight,. heralding the birth of the new year, m Although the poetic figure of the old gray-haired sexton pulling his bell: with might and main in the belfry tower has been supplanted by the fin-de-siecle individual who, snug and warm, sits at a keyboard and reels off the music with as much ease as though playing j4M0neymusk'ln thS parlor, the sentiment lingers and, lis tening to the mellow chimes cleaving the' frosty air, one hears the singing in unison of: "Ring out old shapes of foul disease. Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; King out tne thousand wars or old. House Saturday in regard to presi dential interf erence in tbe cases of President Gombers, Vice President Mitchell and Secretary Morrison, of the American Federation of Labor, now under sentence for contempt of court, attention is called to the fact that the cases are stilt before the courts and that no matter what the President's opinion may be as to the the justness of the sentence imposed he cannot take any action looking to f pardon or express any opinion as to the 'merits of the cases. The text of the statement follows: "Various appeals have been made to the President to interfere by par dons in the case of Mr. Gdmpers and his associates. Those making the BRIEF CULUNCS OF NORTH STATE NEW News of Interest d f ran Afl Sections ef the State mad Arranged for fks&y Readers WORKED SLICK GAME Two Strangers Fleec Colored People of Wilmington. Wilmington. Special. Two well- Ring in the thousand years of peace. The TtEOlD AND THE Nty' c Ned Ycor came ro the Old tears doof When m vuvin uhrr uMAinrt thin: Arttfchr0 y tC n Year's Andhij hand$red chill as he slipped the oio let the NcvJ tar In. -Z. Andlhc Ned Year perched In the Old Year's cnair. , . And farmed by Ibc Old TcarS firef And thcJDtd Year Ualched him vKhS Oit fuljazc g 5 blaze rChcd h'5 haild5 r rh fadin And cindcrvo dead deji rc 7nd the Old Tear Prated, aj Old Yeantiill, Or, summer and vWhedsbrind; And n of the future, pith oFaleadVice. Of Jove and orroJ aiwariftcc. That the de&yn$ round Uould brin AndtheNcv? Tear listened, and Uarroed bl In the bloom-of the Old Tcars paty Out he Oavfc no heed of the thornS mat lay In the bud and blow of a eomlnoday, , And, nodding, he dreamed at Tar: The Neyfcar came to the Old Tcar3 door Ji SCnOPa lr the Old War crjaic; Andthe Old Tear tailed till the Newlear Only a Night. Only a night froin old to new! Only a night, ana so mucn wrougnti The Old Year's heart all weary grew, But said. "The New Year rest has brought." , The Old Year's heart its hopes laid down As in a grave, but, trusting, said, "The blossoms of the New Year's crown Bloom from the ashe3 of the dead. The Old Year's heart was full of greed; With selfishnesB it longed and ached, And cried: "I have not half I need, My thiist is bitter and unslaked. "But to the New Year's generous hand All gifts in plenty shall return; True loving it shall understand; , , By all my failures it shall learn. I have been reckless: it shall be Quiet and calm and pure of life. I was a slave; it shall go free, And find sweet peace where I leave strife." Only a night from old to new! Never a night such changes brought. The Old Year had its work to do; No New Year miracles are wrought. Always a night from old to new! Night and tbe healing balm of sleep! Each morn is New Year's morn come true, Morn o a festival to keep. All nights ar sacred nights to make Confession and resolve and prayer; All days are sacred days to wake New gladness in the sunny air. Only a night from old to new; Only a sleep from night to moro Tbe new is but the old come true; Each sunrise sees a new year born. More Hew Charters. Charters of incopo ration filed in the office of the Secretary of given as the cause for the deed. State last week by the following con- eerns: Mill Destroyed by Fire. The Eagles Club, of Charlotte, for ( Asheville, Special. The plant o focial intercourse, the incorporators the Tryon Hosiery Mill at Lynn, K ment Company, of Rocky Mount, cn -tne destroyed property. Aboal with $10,000 total authorised and three hundred operatives were em $1,000 subscribed capital stock. The ployed by the mill around which the incorporators are J. M. Baker, W. E. little town of Lynn, two miles from Fenner and H. M. Avent. j Tryon, has grown up. The property- The Dacctah Cotton Mills, of Les- fc was owned by , the Wilcox family, ington, with $150,000 total author-', who won Hogback Mountain. It it ized capital stock, the company being not known whether or not the mill permitted to commence business . will be re-built. But at the present the Pres-O-wheit $125,000 shall have been sub scribed. The principal stockholders are C. A. Hunt, George Montcastle ancl Joe V. Moffitt. appeals are unaware of the fact that the matter is still before the courts. It is a civil suit between private par ties and there has been no way by which the government could have in terefred even if it bad desired to do so.. Whether the President does or does not think the sentence of Mr. tGompers and his associates excessive I . A - A. i. . I' . nnn,.AHAA K . is nov at present oi suuBctjuuncc cause he cannot, take any action or exercise any opinions while the case bis pending before the courts. When e oecision is maue men iue ri-wi-nt can promptly consider whether the terms of imprisonment are ex- "The President has already in structed the Department of Justice to keep him fully informed as to the progress cf the case so that in the Invent of its becoming proper for him Fto act he may have at his disposal all of the facts which will enable hun to decide whether there was justification for some punishment, whether the sentence is or is not altogether too savere. ident has no more to do with the case than with the case of the $29. 000,000 flue imposed by Jude Landis on the Standard Oil Company, which is also on appeal and concerning which the President has also been repeatedly aked to interfere by well meaning' persons "v?bo rlid not know that he could rot interfere while the matter wos still before the courts on appecl." The Evacuation of Cuba. Havana, By Cable New Yeais deay will witness the beginning of the evacuation of Cuba by the army of pacification, which has been in possession of the island since the be ginning of the provisional govern ment. October, 1906. The first pro visional regiment of marines, num bering about 900, will be among the first troops' to leave. About half this regiment will sail fromHavana on January 1st on the cruiser Prairie, which will return about the middle of the month and embark the re mainder. Headquarters and Companies A, B, C and D, twenty-eighth Infantry will embark on the United States transport Sumner at Matanas, on December 31st. From there the transport will proceed to Ha van a and embark Cornpanies F, G and H, stationed at Guonsjay, and Company E, stationed at Guincs. From that time on, tbe transports Sumner and McClcllaiv-will be em ployed in the cn-baikaticn at inter vivb of the verraindcr cf the 3'tr. Battery B. Tlmd ArtUferv, and tho Fifteenth Calvary, will sail on Feb ruary 2d. TJ--e beadquurters and ISI eye-nth Cnvalry, Hie mountain ar tillery nnd FifUrinfantry; tbe Elev enth Infantrv, and the. j Seventeenth Infantry will leave 'Havana about February- 27th f( r Newport Nows. It is the intention to have ail of these appear in the inaugural parade at Washington.- This leaves or.ly two companies of engineers and tve battaliions of the Seventeenth IntRufcry. These troops will embaik April 1st, which will complete tbe evacnat'en. rf he embarkation of he troops will be effected with as little ceremony as possible. The purpose in deferring the departure of & portion of the Ssv cnteenth Infantry until April 1st has l hrrn t.h snhip.t m nnnsidoi'flhJn sdm. ulaticn, but it is believed that this will he, agreed upon at a conference between Governor Magobn and presi- raking many orders upon which they received part payment have just made a successful getaway with between $400 and $580 of the hard-earned money of the .thrifty colored people and a few whites living in the vicinity of Scott's Hill, this county, Merchan dise of all kinds was offered at un heard-of low prices, and the unsus pecting victims purchased liberally on the glittering promises of the sales men. Their exposure came when they abandoned a horse and buggy from a local liveryman to the care of one of the victims, instructing Asheville Bar Temperate. Asheville, Special. As a result of a heated controversy, which alDaost threatened to disrupt the organisa tion, the Asheville Bar Association at a'called meetimr Wednesday, re dressed strangers claiming, to repre-iMsired the action i taken at it re sent a Chicago mail-order house and -Tt TZV:. , , rected that wines and other bevel should be provided tor the ann banquet of the association, and not only passed a resolution providing that no wines or liquors should Df provided, but prohibit the members from providing their own wines 1 oi beverages for the occasion. -This action was taken, it is said, owing to comment since the publication of the intention to have wine and bev erages for use at the banquet. Suicide With Shot Gun. Burlington, Special. Mrs. John, Tom McAdams committed suicide a him to bring it to the dty for them. . her home ten miles east of Burlinerton They had departed in the meantime. -; Sunday, the news of whieh has just A telegram from the Chicago mail-j reached here. She used a shotgum order house states that they employ i Tying a string to the trigger axio no travelng agents, selling from cat- placing the gun against her Dodyv alogue by mail only. she pulled the string, the charge en tering her- abdomen and death result- ing immedately. Bad health and con- were sequently an unbalanced mind art who 39 1909 Veneering Plant for Maxton. Maxton, Special. Mr. J. J. Kin. caid, who arrived here with his fanv fily from Salisbury last week, will ths nrst of the year, begin the erection cf a veneering plant with a view tc Husband and Wife Dead. The news comes that Mr. and Mrs. G. Frank Burbank are corpses with-working popular timber mainly, and no one to claim and care for the re ne hopes to have the factory in op mains." Mr. Burbank was an optician peration within a few weeks. He 'has located in Greensboro for many years purchased the lot near the crossing but had gone West. Recently he c the Seaboard and Coast Line Rail- returned to take ud his Drofession in roaos ior nis piant, and tne a. u Greensboro. Mrs. Burbanks stopped in a Durham -hospital for treatment. She was getting on nicely till sud denly she died of heart failure Wed nesday morning. When the news Covington house and lot nearby fo a residence. Rowdy Negro Shoots. . Statesville, Special. Lon Sam- came to Greensboro to be given to 'mers-was fatally shot in the abdomen him he was incapable of being arous-' inursaay mgnt at uamwooa oj ed and was soon reported dead. He ! Richard Potts, another negro. Potts was addicted o dope and it is even j wes drunk and was flourishing hi surmised that it may have been a pistol threatening to shoot somebody eath compact between them formed ftt the railroad station. After shoot? the night before. j ins Summers he escaped but wat No money was found to bury them -knobbed by an officer at Statesvilla and no realitives have yet been found , while telephoning to a tnend at Jun to claim them. ell and Froze to Death. Thomasville, Special. Thursday wood. Fire at Proximity Mill. Greensboro, Special. Fire in morning word was received here that warehouse of the Proximity Manuv a woman had been found dead about facturing Company Wednesday de fiye miles west of this place. The stroyed and damaged a quantity ol Coroner's iury found that the de- cotton, warps and starch, the lost ceased was" Mrs.- Sarah Freedle. She amounting to about $50,000. It if was ast seen ahout dark: Tuesdavtwvereu vy insurance. evening one -mile from her son-in-law, Phillip Eddinger's home and going toward his house. The investigation proved that she fell and was unable to arise and that after the snow had quit falb'ng about 9 30 nigaz sne crawieti aoout uov yaros ; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Harris, o through the snow and finally froze Tredel county, celebrated the 64th an to death. She was subject to attacks niversary of their wedding on Dee of vertigo and it Was thought her 12th, failing was due to this as there was; The Mills Camnlxdl T.nmhpr Com. State News Items. The corner stone of the new grad er schol building at Lincolnton wat laiet on last Wednesday, with a p. m., last propriate ceremonies. no proof of foul play. The deceased was about 70 years bid. The Sentiment growing. A Greensboro special says: Before adjourning the Superior Court grand jury recommended that Guilford's Representatives in tbe pany, at Wewbern, went into th hands of a receiver last Wednesday Bleachery Will be Rebuilt. It is authoritatively announced that the Kerr Bleachery and finish ing mills at Concord will be rebuilt at an early date, the contract hav- Tiaxttitt rMJtJL. v 'ing been let to R. A. Brown's Sons " - 1 Thus macrninnont Knilrfinor was aat the passage of a law requiring that on fire by lightning last July whih- nil 4m;t. . J J ' iL. 11 T all criminate sentenced to death in North Carolina be executed in the State prison v the valley surrounding it was over flowed, rendering the fire fighter helpless to save it. $40,000 Fire in Norfolk. Norfolk, Special. -The estimated purpose or Keeping tne narracxs i mid-night the proprietors and two street, will total $49,660, and two- quaners in guoa uruer nu is clerks were about to do Tery Bold Hold Tp. Charlotte, SpeciaL Charlotte had a very bold hold tip Saturday night, loss by the "fire in Barnard & Co.Y the 19th. On North Gr.lham Street " PftijiH;aiTT'pnt- whir h nrnrrA ThnH. dent-elect Gomez. It probably is f or . In the store of Banks & Smith, near day morning at 3.10 o'clock on Main me and possible to turn over to the Cuban authorities a model camp. Cubans wih Hie exception of a few who" profess o fear thai disorder will follow the evacuation of the is land, are greatly pleased at the de parture of the American forces as marking the complete establishment of independence. All show the kind- close up for the thirds of this amount is belivede te night ween suddenly a negro with be fully covered by insurance. Tht a 38 ealibre pistol, confronted them fire started in the rear of the build- with and order to hold up hands, ing, aria quickly swept the entire WrdM--lir -se -sJxuetnrjV unroofing it. Its peeuliai shoek. The. villian kept them situation made if hard to rfight, and covered while the trek, out tho it could ujibly be successfully done money drawer and bnclM off with At. from adjoining buildings and from It contained between, $103 and 200. streams thrown in the front windows The robber sr.on emnticd the drawei i from Main street from the ton rate 'ect with new life. kisses
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