North Carolina Newspapers

!1 . i - ' . - . . ;t mmm a an. an Polk County New? COLUMBUS, N. C There are no joy rider, on a water Why not Introduce the new style of fcelret cuffs In the prfxe ring? Poker playing does not seem to be tartly in the Use of the best church fork. , They hare about everything on the ktest ocean liners - bur . baseball pounds. Since we got fooled on Halley'a somet, we decline to get excited hout the harem skirt. Manuel of Portugal is learning to play golf, but thus far he haa shown to IncHnatton to go to work. Confidentially, would any woman Irish to wear a harem skirt if it were lot likely to attract a crowd? Some people are born famous,, some achieve fame and some weal harem skirts In public places. Even footprints on the sands of time are valuable. Two dinosour foot prints recently sold at $50 each. 'The folding bed and folding peram bulator are to be followed by the fold be bathtub, trunk and cook stove. Green rain fell in Pennsylvania a tew days ago. Somebody must have teen shaking the plum trees again. A harem Bklrt started a riot in Bra ell the other day. We are surprised to hear that it failed to start a rev oration. A physician says that early rising shortens life. On the other hand, why spend most of your long life sleeping. The coronation Is stirring New Yorfc society to Its very depths, and New port bids fair to the depopulated this summer. The motion picture shows may not furnish a high-class entertainment, but think of the money they keep ir circulation. An Englishman has just paid $150, 100 for a Titian. More than one American .has paid a higher price than that for a blonde. A Connecticut horticulturist says It ras a pear with which Eve tempted adarn. Here's a chance to organize "Bother religious secL . A Brooklyn man of eighty is build ng a flying machine. If he succeeds ft will fly away 'With the last rem xants of the Oslerian theory. The lobster famine Is reported tc b getting worse and worse, but cheei ip. There are indications that this 'ear's frog crop is to be very large. - A Youngstown, Ohio, horse, has been quipped with a set of false , teeth Ne are wondering whether he keeps hem In a glass of water on the bureau it night A New York Judge advised litigants rver a property to effect a settlement before the costs and the lawyers got he property. Is this professional sourtesy? The man who sleeps outdoors ma; to doing a splendid thing for himself, ut he appears to be anxious to do as ouch boasting as the man who takes l cold bath every morning. A Scotchman has been fined $10 bj I Chicago judge for planning to com nit suicide. He would no doubt have seen fined much more heavily If his lans had been carried out. An obliging agent has established himself In New York for the purpose pf securing titled foreigners for Amer can heiresses. He. too, must be con vinced that the fool-killer has been fnaflnor rat his InTi The old battleship Texas has been lank after being used for a few sam ites as e target. It only goes to show vhat might have happened if the gun ners on the Spanish ships at Santiago had known their business. ' A lawyer In Boston in an argument feTked fifty-three and a half hours and sed over six hundred ,4 thousand "ords. No . wonder judges- who have listen to arguments' complain that Ihe pay is often poor' fox the work. ; Among those who are holding forth ,be " glad hand, of welcome to the harem skirt are the theatrical man igers and press agents. A woman's slment or lack of raiment is the bod on which the press agent thrives. ' At the time that German spinster! C certain age demand to be called iran Instead of f raeuleln some one in this land of the free would, have aiy bachelor labeled naster." What hat become of the woman with the system of spotting bachelors on sight? . New Jersey has enacted a law pro molting ine seepiag wi wiui con tagious diseases. Those who recall boyhood days in semi-rural regions win reflect that the most contagious Oisease that they knew bees to carry is that which -they always have with them at their business end. ;, , Published Weekly. p" ; . ., ' 111 I Aft fltllftr I Tfl 7 ninTft Tlir n... : .. Vli- - PRES1OEfiTTAFT DEFENDS CAN- - 1 . AWIHft:: I LABOR LEADERS ARE NOW IN - - ' I " v -I ' II I I III JJIviro-. jfcirr2eJ;3:jiSt.-A ' I - . ' . flHl'J M PFR . . ure-s disap-poihtuents PH OTtHij IIKKIIIt UtHltl UtltlUN FOR RECIPROCITY xjk IH LUD ftflbtLta muta int HALS ADIAN PACT IN ADDRESS TO ? A . - E1W - "JAiL ,N L8 NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS. FY ' . A "Mi CALIFORNIA. DEMOCRATS ARE LAUDED ; -r - Taft Says House Democrats Have Acted in a Statesmanlike Manner. New York. Reciprocity with Can ada must be adopted now or never, and 'must stand or fall by its own terms. So declared President Taft in an address at the Waldorf-Astoria at the fourth annual joint banquet of the Associated Press and the American Newspaper Publishers' Association. - His address - was the first of a se ries in which he plans to evoke pub lic sentiment in support of his poli cies, and he appealed to the company of editors and newspaper owners garn ered from all parts of the land to impress in the public mind that reci procity should stand alone and "ought not to be affected in any re gard by other amendments to the tar iff law." His recommendations were warmly cheered. President Taft devoted mostof his address to the Canadian reciprocity agreement. The president contended that the reason why meats were not put on the free list was because Canada felt that the "competition of our packers would Injuriously affect the produces of their packing houses." The effect of the agreement, the president said, is not going to lower the specific prices of agricultural products in our country. It is going to steady them and it is going to produce an interchange of products at a profit which will be beneficial to both countries. The president declared that anoth er reason that should, lead to the adoption of the agreement was that Canada offered a constantly Increas ing market and an ever-increasing trade. The talk of annexation is bosh, the president said. Every one who knows anything about it realizes that it is bosh. Canada is a great, strong youth, anxious to test his muscles, rejoicing in the race he is ready to run. The United States has all it can attend to with the territory it is now governing. In concluding his speech President Taft said: "I desire to express my high appreciation of the manner in which the present house of represen tatives has treated the reciprocity agreement. It has not 'played poli tics. It has taken the statesmanlike course to adopt it. "I am very hopeful that the senate wjll treat the agreement in the same way and that no amendment will there be added to the bill. I think they are dangerous. 433 HOUSE. MEMBERS. Democrats Put Through Reapportion ment Bilk Washington. Under the reaDDor- tionment bill, which for the second time passed the house, the size of that tody Is increased, to 433 members. giving Georgia one additional mem ber. The measure again goes to the sen ate to try its fate there. Atnhe last session the senate failed to approve the increase in the size of the lower branch of congress. What it will do this time is somewhat problematical, but the strong hope is entertained that the senate will permit the house membership to have its way in this regard. - Representative Bell, who is a mem ber ofvthe committee on census which reported the bill, said there was some talk in the committee of making the membership 431 or an Increase of 40, but that would have cut Iowa and Maine out of "one member each, and that aroused considerable opposition, The Houston bill, passed, leaves to the legislatures of the different states the power to rearrange the congres sional districts in their respective etates on the new population basis of one member for each 211,877 or in habitants. Annexation Agitates House. Washington. Another .declaration that annexation is the desired end of the Democrats in pushing reciproc ity and a speech by a new member, revealing rumors of a tariff fight in congress featured the debate on the free list bill. Mr. Prince of Illinois (Rep.) sounded the annexation note. President Taft's speech in New Tork furnished'his text He said the pour ing of Americans into the Canadian northwest and the attitude .of the Democratic party could mean nothing else than annexation. ; A United States Demands Explanation. Washington. The reported declara tion' of Ramon Corral, vice president of. Mexico, that Americans were fo menting trouble in his country ' to force intervention, has encountered the disfavor of the United States. The state department , has called the mat ter . .to the , attenion of Mexico to es ablish officially whether the interview witl, the vice president, in which the statements are . said to have been made, was authentic. The question will be taken" up with Ambassador Wilson at Mexico City (Copyright., 1911. CHILD UB0R CONVENTION . ATLANTA CONFERENCE PLANS A CRUSADE AGAINST EMPLOY MENT OF CHILDREN. Ex-Gcvernor Malcolm Patterson of Tennessee Presided Over the Convention. Atlanta.-rWith welcoming speeches by Gov. Joseph M. Brown and' Mayor Courtland S. Winn, the third annual conference on woman and child la bor held a two-days conventions-In this city. Hon. ' Matcolm Patterson, ex-governor of Tennessee, who is the president of the conference, presided at the meetings, and responded for the visitors to the addresses of the governor and the mayor. Features of the meetings were the stereopticon lectures by A. J. McKel way, the well-known secretary of the national child labor commission. Mr. McKelway showed pictures af factory conditions in the South, which he thinks should be remedied. The problems of child and woman labor Intimately affect the general welfare of the coming generation, and it cannot be solved without the help of an educated public opinion. It was largely for the purpose of Insti tuting an educational propaganda that the conference was called. , In commenting upon the Georgia law on child labor. Miss Jean M. Gor don, secretary of the conference, said: "You have a statute here which per mits an orphan child of any age to work. Such a law, is heartless, and must have ,been framed by a man who ou-Neroed Nero in his cruelty. We hope to be instrumental in chang ing just such laws ag this. 'The conference in New Orleans was successful in bringing about new child and woman labor laws in Lou isiana which have since proved very satisfactory. Today there is not a single manufacturer in New Orleans, who would want to go back to the old state of affairs. "Again, the la-s of a state may be all right, but they are useless unless enforced. We have found that the only practical way of enforcing the law is by appointing factory inspect ors. These should be women of rec ognized social position If they are to be the most effective." Miss Gordon then spoke of the child on the stage and said that she considered the cheap theatrical and vaudeville houses the .worst possible influence on a young person's life. "Young girls," she said, "aje hired for no other reason than their good looks and ability to kick. When they have lost their youthful beauty they are useless for any kind of honest work. They have acquired a taste for champagne, or, rather, beer, din ners and things of that sort, and can not go back to a simple, orderly life. They have fnH 'the easiest way.' " Wants two ,oou to Fight Weevil. Washington. Representative Tria ble introduced a bill providing for an appropriation of $200,000 to fight the cotton boll weevil, the money to bo available for use in the purchase of such land, houses and equipment as are necessary in conducting ex periments st"1 demonstrations. New vorK birtn statistics. New York. Figures which throw light on what matrons of various na tionalities are doing in the way of increasing the population of the city of New York have just been issued by the health department. In the Jewish' district the birth rate is the highest, averaging: 55-per 1,000 of the population. In typically,. Italian sec tions the rate is 50.5. In the negro districts the birth rate, averages 26.6. But in the high class , native Ameri can private residence districts the rate is less thariW per 1,000. No fcany Adjournment. Washington. Speaker Clark , does not agree with Senator Rootftbat con gress is likely to adjourn by June 1. At the white house where he said he had talkedr "neighborhood ' gossip; wits " Mr. Taft, Mr. Clark declared that nobody In the world knew - how' long congress would be here. "1 know as much about iu as Senator Root, and he knows as much about it as I do," said Mr.- Clark. -. 4.1 have, at tended two special . session- of i con gress called to -revise Athe -tariff whici lasted into August. There you are."! CAMPAIGN TO BOOST SOUTH Great Advertising Campaign Planned by Railways and Business Men. Washington Gathered in Washing ton to discuss, 'plans for a compre- Ihensive scheme of advertising to pre sent the boundless resources and wonderful attractions of the South to the people of other sections, were the representatives of practically all the' Southern railroads and connect ing lines. . Atherton Brownell, president of the Century Syndicate of New York, was the principal spokesman and outlined to the railroad men present theplan he had in mind. While the meeting was an execu tive one, and no statement was given out as to the specific details of the measure discussed, it is known that the plan which received the most at tention calls for co-operation by the Southern business men and industrial corporations generally, though the railroads are expected to contribute a liberal share of ,the sinews of war. In addition to newspaper advertis ing, a monthly magazine similar to those published by the railroads of the West, was discussed. The sug gestions were taken under advise ment by the gentlemen present who expressed deep interst in th scheme and appared to believe that it was ntirely feasible, if the funds can be secured. WOULD PUNISH SPECULATORS Attorney General Wants to Punish Cotton Market Bulls. Washington. Attorney Geueral Wickersham will appeal to the Su preme court to sustain the so-called "corner counts" in the government's indictments of James A. Patten, Eu gene C. Scales, Frank B. Hayne, Wil liam P. Brown and Robert M. Thomp son, charged with leading the May cotton corner of 1910 on the New York exchange. Judge Noyes, in the United States circuit court for the southern district' of New York, sustained all of the counts of the indictment except those charging a corner to fix the price of raw cotton. He condemned the prac tice unreservedly, but held it did not come within the jurisdiction of the law upon which the indictments were based. Attorney General Wicker sham's appeal Is from that part of the decision. Underlying the appeal, however, is a move regarded "by the department of justice as far overshadowing in im portance the cotton corner case it self It is Mr. Wickersham's attempt to find a means to finally prevent the fixing of prices by speculation on ex changes of commodities in daily use by the people; A weapon more effective than any the department of justice now has lor the prosecutkm of trusts and' monop olies will be at hand if the Supreme court rules that price-fixing by cor ners of the markets comes within the purview of the anti-trust law. President Taff" and the' attorney general are receiving daily protests and resolutions from farmers', unions and granges in the South, condemn ing the government for its prosecu tion of the , cotton . bulls , and its ap parent "" inaction regarding the bears. Guttenbery k.be brings $50,000. New York. The first book ever printed from movable type brought the highest price ever paid far any book. The rize was the Guttenberg Bible, the 'purchaser Henry E. Hun tington of Los Angeles, and the price $50,000. The purchase was made at the opening session of the -sale of the library of the late Robert Hoe, the largest public auction sale of books ever attempted. Experts have estimated the collection to be worth more than a million dollars. Maliy collectors are bidding., B'Nai b'Kitn convention. "Hot Springs Ark. Delegates repre senting 4,717 members of the Inde pendent Order of B'Nai BTtith in the South held the first business session of the twenty-eighth annual conven tion of the order here. Officers elect ed include the following: President, Leo Pfeiffer, Little Rock. First vice president, Leon Schwarz Mobile. - ' . Second . , vice,, president, Ephralm Frlsch," Pine Bluff,; Ark; . r 7 X Secretary,-' Nathan Strauss, New Orleans. Expected Trouble Did Not Material ?- ' lzer Although Crowds Met Train. Los Angeles, Cal. John J. , McNam ara, secretary of the International Bridge and Structural Iron Workers' Association; his brother, James N. McNamara, and Ortie E. McManigal the alleged dynamite conspirators, ac cused of blowing up The Times news paper plant, last October, killing 21 men, are in the Los Angeles jail, in separate cells, surrounded by extra guards. All three are charged with murder. , The alleged conspirators arrived at the jail ; in automobiles, - after- rujining the gauntlet of two crushing crowds.J which, in their eagerness to get a glimpse of the prisoners, overbore the efforts of more than a score of de tectives and deputy sheriffs detailed to hold them back. , The men were taken from the Cali fornia Limited train in Pasadena, and in .the 9-mile trip to the county jail, by automobile, speed laws were disre garded. During the trip from Dodge City, Kans., where John J. McNamara boarded the train bearing his brother and McManigal, the three men were kept in separate compartments. Conspicuous In the crowd there was Mrs. D. H. Ingersoll, the woman who is expected to play a prominent i:art in the prosecution. Mrs. Ingersoll is the San Francisco boarding house proprietor in whose place the maD known as J. B.Bryce stayed prior tc the destruction of The Times build ing. James McNamara, according to Wil Ham J. Burns, and the other detec tives, is held as Bryce, the man who Is alleged to have laid the inferna machines that blew up the newspa per plant, and the woman was there to identify him. Seated in a third automobile, drawn up by the side of the' one which was to transport the prisoners, she peered into the face of McNamara as he climbed into the machine. The man was shackled to an officer but he kept his unbound hand before his face. In spite of this, Mrs. Inger sell declared afterward he was Bryce, No one, however, could have identi fled him as Bryce from the printed descriptions sent out after the indict ments were found by the gcand jury. Thin and pale, he looked little like the 160-pound man described in the official circulars. r "OLD GLORY" IS LOWERED Holland Runs Up Her Flag cn Pal mas Islands. Manila. P. L-Delayed advices re ceived here, via Joto reported that the Dutch haye taken possession of Pal- mas islands, 60 miles southeast oi Mindanao, lowered the United States colors and substituted the flag of Hoi land. -It is. understood here that Washing ton des not intend to protest against the action of the Dutch, the United States government regarding the isi and us valueless. Washington. A little head' native Filipino found proudly wearing a cap evidently the gift of a Dutch cap tain, precipitated the issue of sover eignty over the Ualmas islands aboui two years ago and the state depart ment hurriedly consulted its maps and records, but the whole questioE died almost at its inception tor want of interest. The Washington government hat no particular desire for the Palmas gioup, although it has ben deemed a part of the Philippine archipelago Down where the Palmas natives live without an American among them there is nothing to interest the gov ernment, and neither the Unitec States nor Holland has ever felt call ed upon to leave anybody in author ity on Palmas domain. Probably hall a hundred Filipinos constitute the en tire Palmas population. Lorimer bankers Arrested. Springfield, I1L-Edward ' Tildec Chicago packer, and William C. Cum mings and George M. Benedict, pres ident of the Drovers' Trust and Sav Ings bank of Chicago, were, arrestee1 on a contempt charge by the Illinou senate. This action by the senate was taken on recommendation of the sen ate bribery Investigation committee after Tllden, Cummings ahd Benedict through their lawyers, had reused t produce Tilden's personal bank -uc count for the month's of May, June July andvAujrust, 1909. . - Morgan Walked to Freedom. Columbus. Ohio. That Oon iAh, H.- Morgan, the Confederate, leader whose mysterious escane fmm ., v - - wu. ... u l 1 . IX If-. . . juio peuneauary fiiovemoer 27,, 1863 together with five of his staff, hatf puz zled historians for almost half a cen tury, walked out of the jjenitentlarj to freedom through the front gate either boldly or aided by officials ai ine msuuiuon, is the belief of thi authorities of the orison '.. Att fr-tv eight years of 4 searcMng, the allegec 4... .. jxiujgau tuuuei was uncovered by prist oners excavating for new cell blocks TEACHERS' EXCURSION TRAN , : DASHES INTO DITCH LOSS OF LIFE. EIGHT BURNED TO DEATH Ralls Spread While Special vVai Making Fifty Miles an Hour g38 Tank Explodes Beneath Dining Car Scores Bruised and Injured. Easton, Pa. So far as it is possible to ascertain here and at the scene of the .wreck, eight persons were burned to death, three fatally injured, tW0 others so seriously injured that lives are despaired of, and scores of perj sons were cut and burned and bruig. ed, some of them dangerously, in the wreck of the teachers' special from Utica, N. Y., to Washington, D. C, on the Belvidere-Delaware division of the Pennsylvania railroad at Martin's Creek, N. J. Five of the victims are young women. It is the general belief that the rails spread and caused the train to leave the track and plunge over the embankment to destruction carrying its load of humanity. Trackmen had been at work at the point of the dis aster and it is alleged that the tracki were jacked up, that no signal was out and that 'the engineer believing he had a clear track rushed into what proved to be a death trap at the rate of 50 miles an hour. The explosion that occurerd at the wreck was due to the ignition of gas In a 'tank under the dining car, the only car which did not go into the ditch. FLAMES DESTROY $6,000,000 Bangor, Maine, in Distress Martial Law Prevails in Stricken City. Bangor, Me. Property valued at upwards of $6,000,000 was destroyed, hundreds of people made homeless and almost the entire business sec tion of the city devastated . by fire which started in a hay shed. A light rain fell which helped to check the fire. One life is known to have been lost, an unknown man who was killed by a falling wall. -Mayor Mullen called out the local company of the national guard and placed "the city under martial rule. Portland, Lewiston, Augusta, Old town, Brewer and every other place within reach were asked for help and sent it. A score of buildings were blown up in an effort to check the flames and dynamite was used continuously. Efforts For World-Wide Peace. Baltimore. The third national peace congress assembled here for four days session under circumstan ces of unusual interest, with arbitra tion treaties and the peace movement attracting the attention of nations and the public on both sides of the Atlantic and encouraging the advo cates of peace in the belief that a realization of their hopes is not far distant. The gathering here is under the auspices of all the leading socie ties of America devoted to the set tlement of International disputes by means other than war. President Taft's speech will cause greater efforts to be made toward set tling all disputes by arbitration. Ugly Revolution in Canton, China. -Hong Kong. All advices reaching here from Canton indicate a desper ate condition of affairs in'that city. There are 30,000 soldiers within the walls and there is great fear that many of these will prove disloyal if it appears that the rebels are about to gain the upper hand. The rebels are strong in numbers and have carried on their work of destruction with fanatical bravery. ' There has been a gathering at Can ton lately of those opposed to the Manchu dynasty. ' The American gunboat Wilmington is now at Shamlen, the foreign con cession. Not Taking Sides Losx Angeles Case. Washington. Denying that .he had ever discussed the contentions of union men that the -wrecking of The Los Angeles Times office by dynamite cc uld not have resulted in the com bustion of inks and oils which follow ed. Dr. J. A. Holmes, director of the United States bureau of mines, stated that he did not propose to align him self with either one side of the other in the big legal controversy between labor and capital, which has grown out of the arrest of John and James B. McNamara. Senate Will Not Make Haste. Washington. Three weeks of the extraordinary session of the sixty second congress having passed into history with a record of rapid-lire leg islation by the house,, the senate is finally organized to transact business but in no haste to consider that part of the Democratic program already disposed of by the lower branch. Canadian reciprocity is the only matter "now heing considered by the senate and tha.t probably will not come before it for discussion for sev- wal weeks. , V