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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-07-10
From Rlqsbee Road TO West Durham,
The Route.
BUSINESS OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
|prIce 10 Be Paid for Rock on Mlnera
Springs Road lliy d. Increased. !l!Il 4 Iurers
ior. August Ternoi Criminal
COurt-BOOks Of Treas.
urer Checked.

The county commissioners Wer'
lin session this week and the fina
day Tuesday-was consumed ii
matters that are Of interest &
khe public inasmucb ss they sset,
lie two OIL. more questions sbou,
which the people. generally, es'
pecially on the Mineral Springs
Ind Rigsbee roads. have. been in,
erested in. =.
Some time ago the matter Of
hanging the course of the Rigs,
zee road 50 that il would go by
Nest Durham and many people
ecame interested and Q petition
Ias circulated and lawyers were
mployed to represent the inter
st of those opposing and favor
bg the changing Of the road.
hose favoring the plan that the
>ad be graded and macademized
here it has been run for years
on out and work has been go
" on toward that end since.
low. comes an order from the
|unty commissioners that this
wv road by West Durham viii
opened with an undergrade
ossing at West Durham. It is
ked that parties interested in
F road win have the macadem-
hg done at a future time. This
hch remains to be seen.
For some time the finishing of
+ Mineral Springs road has
zen at a stand still owing to the
ct that the price of rock was
high. During this time
lch damage has been done to
+ road-bed which had been
hded. An order was passed at
e meeting this week that in or
r to finish this work the pur-
asing agent could pay rs cents
r ton for rock to finish this
hd and work will be completed
early as possible.
THE chairman and county al
fney inspected the books Of
Treasurer and reported that
ey we're in good shape.
An order was passed that a
ftion at the county home be
feened of and set aside as a
spital.
Jurors for the August term of
rham Superior Court for the
al Of criminal cases. were
hSn as follows:
Phillip Moore. j. W. Proctor.
Haskell, J. j. Rigsbee, r. s.
rrard, W. L. Parrish. 7. B.
Ny. J. o. Umstead. ]. ]. Whit
George Lougee. Sr., 7. Z.
rrington. o. X. Proctor, WAL
A. Wilkerson, M. Z. New
b, c. Z. Crabtree, ]. W. Hol-
Pay. N. r. West, ]. Y. Long,
L. Lloyd. J. r. Terry, L. A.
r. c. L. Jourdan, WI. Monk,
D. Bright. K. T. Brogden, II.
vickers. M. r. Strickland. ].
Weatherspoon, +. A. Latta,
vis Tilley. Z. Z. Thompson,
yd lambe, J. G. Latta, w.
Bacon, J. w. Carlton, w. G.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-07-10
". ]. BRYAN BY ACCLAMATION
At $50 o'clock this Morning the Ne.
braSkan Is Chosen.
PLATFORM ADOPTED At 3 O'CLOCK.

Greatest Demonstrations IN the III!
tory d Democratic Meetings.
| No l!ce-P President Named
1 when Convention
! Adjourned.
Atfive o'clock, eastern time
this friday morning, Hon. VIII
liam Jennings Bryan. of Nebras
ka, was nominated as tine. can
didate Of the Democratic Nation
bal convention for president O
tbe United States, amid the wild,
est cheering in the history d
conventions. z-..,( - = =
When the convention con,
vened Thursday the principal
business Of the three hours ses,
sion was the effeeting ola per.
|manent organization and the adj
dress of the permanent chair.
man, Henry p. Clayton, of Ala.
bama.
On reassembling for the even
ing session the rules. were sus-
pended and nominating speeches
were begun. Bryan, GRAY and
johnson were nominated with
appropriate speeches, but the
first and only ballot gave Bryan
1872 votes, or 221 more than nec-
essary to nominate him, which
was followed in the first lull of
applause by motions from John
SON and Gray men to make the
nomination unanimous and by
acclamation. The motion was
carried by every state voting for
it except one lone vote from the
State of Georgia. ,
After the nomination the con-
vention adjourned until .one
O'Clock this afternoon.
The National Democratic con.
vention convened in Denver,
Col, Tuesday of this week. Ten
thousand people were present at
the opening session, when Chair.
man Thomas Taggart called the
convention to order. The first
session lasted two hours and was
devoted to formalities, including
the speech of Temporary Chair
man Theodore Bell, of California.
Banners being brought in con-
tanning a photo of Bryan caused
great applause, and his strength
increased hourly.
The address Of Mr.. Bell was a
review of what he failed to find
in the Republican platform, .and
his remarks were received with
much cheering.
|. ]. Dunn, of Omaha. Neb.,
introduced suitable resolutions
on the death of former president
Grover Cleveland, and they were
carried, and the convention ad-
journed until IL o'clock Wednes-
day.
SECOND DAY.
Convention Hall, Denver, July
8. The Democratic national con.
vention is marking time, so faras
the nomination of candidates and
the adoption of a platform are
concerned and is passing through
the stages of organizations and
the throes Of frenzied demonstra-
tions. To-day has been marked
chiefly by turbulent enthusiasm
and the bitter strife of party
party leaders. the essential de-
velopments Of the day being
these:
Two sessions of the. conven-
ton were held, the first at noon
producing q Bryan demonstra-
tion breaking all records in du-
ration, and Che second at 8
o'clock tonight being the culmi-
nation Of the struggle over the
credentials of the Pennsylvania
delegation and the supremacy of
the Pennsylvania leader, Colon
el Guffrey, who has been de-
nounced by Mr.. Bryan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-22
Reaardina School Books.

Said man identified with the school book trade:
 The report has gotten out in the southern part of the state and is be- ing spread that the histories of Ala bama have been issued by the pub Usher and it is therefore time these histories should be in the hands of the schools throughout the state, when it is an actual fact that not a single volume has been yet placed in the de- pository at Birmingham for distribu- ton, nor has the depository any in formation relative to it except what the country newspapers publish.
 "The central depository is very ac- tive in distributing the school books as fast as received here. There have been some complaints made about the slow deliveries of the arithmetics. This delay was owing to the publishers not shipping them into the state. But the arithmetics have now been received and are being shipped out by the de- pository, but no histories have as yet been placed in their hands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Illinois Central Officials.

President J. T. Harahan of the Illinois Central, accompanied by the directors of the company, will arrive in Birmingham early this afternoon and will spend sev- eral hours here. The party is on tour of inspection and will proceed all the way to New Orleans. When the Illinois Gen. tral opened its line to Birmingham few months ago the event was formally cele- brated. A number of the officials of the road came on the initial passenger train from Chicago to this city, but President Harahan was then in Europe. He now brings his directors on their first run over the new road which lets the Illinois Central Into Birmingham.
 While all the trunk lines entering the Birmingham district are warmly greeted, the Illinois Central is showing itself to be an exceptionally good friend to this city, and its service is beginning to be thoroughly appreciated.
 4 MT. Harahan and his party have ac- cepted an invitation to hold an informal reception at the Southern club at o'clock this afternoon and later like reception at the Country club.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-22
NEWSPAPERS IN THE SOUTH.

From the Charleston News and Courier.
 Without intending to reflect upon their reputations for sobrety, we remark that about year ago "some of the best bnsi- ness men and capitalists of Chattanooga" ascended Lookout Mountain and saw their city double" On no other hypothesis can their attempt to establish the Chat tanooga Star be satisfactorily explained About half hundred thousand dollars was expended in the effort to make the Star shine, but last week it's printing outfit gave up a hopeless struggle.
 There were four daily newspapers in Richmond a few years ago. Then there were two, two mergers having been found advisable. At present there are two aft ernoon papers in that city but it is twice the size of Chattanooga and one of it's papars has only been in existence for a couple of years.
 In Atlanta two afternoon papers have been born. have lived and have died with in the last seven. years. Two or three afternoon papers have died in Savannah within 15 years and there is not an im- portant town in the south that is not a newspaper cemetery. The newspaper nor tality in Jacksonville up to 10 years ago was simply terrific and we believe that the statistics are almost equally melan-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-22
Cooler Weather Predicted

A dry, hot October, bordering on the sos of the thermometer, is about to be ended by rains and cooler weather, al ways provided the weather clerk does not change his plans. It is to be hopeu he will not. The dust is too pervasive and the warm weather is too enervat. ing. The drouth and the heat together are impairing the glories of the sweet gum and the naples and the other woods that desire to end a summer season in lovable tints and hues.
 A few days of wet cool weather would restore the soil and the air and some of the trees to natural condi- tions. An Indian summer is still to come, and November usually ushers in the most delightful season of the year. Possibly it may begin in the last days of October. But whether it comes or not, both rain and fall of tempera- ture would be welcomed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-22

would sometimes take the law into their own hands for the punishment of certain heinous crimes. But this paper has contended that 1ynching is never defensible and has endeavored to show that crime Is not lessened nor lawlessness cured, but rather in- creased, by the lynch method. This night riding terror which is spreading through the land and which is coming very close to this immediate section is the logical outcome of the lynch law spirit that has long been unre' strained in not few localities.
 Let law-abiding citizens arise in their strength and demand unceasing- ly the legal punishment of evil-doers and the repression of the mob spirit. A campaign of education will be need ed, perhaps, but it behooves us all to take part in movement for the main tenance of order and the preservation of society. The Reelfoot Lake atro- city should not be forgotten. It should serve to put all southern communities on strict guard. The lesson must not be lost.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-22
The Tennessee Tragedy

Murder is always appalling, but when committed by organized bands It terrorizes whole communities and stirs the public to extraordinary wrath and indignation. The Tennes- see tragedy of Monday night in which two prominent citizens were called out of little inn on the shore of Reelfoot lake by masked men, seized and car ried back to the woods where one was hanged and riddled with bullets and the other miraculously escaped death, was one of those frightful occurrences that arouses the country and demands speedy punishment on the part of the courts.
 For some time past masked night riders have terrorized Kentucky, Ten nessee and other states. They have destroyed property and put to death many worthy and inoffensive citizens for imaginary grievances, but none of the crimes have been so startling or shocking as that near Reelfoot lake. Capt. Quentin Rankin and Col. R. z. Taylor, lawyers and men of high char acter, controlled the company that owned the lake property and the fish ing rights accorded by an act of the legislature. Many of the inhabitants of that lake region had fished for a living and they questioned the right of the owners to prevent them or to impose fee for the privilege of taking fish out of the lake. The owners in. sisted on their legal rights, and as a result of the conteiton about 25 men banded together and proceeded to make way with Captain Rankin and Colonel Taylor. The former met his death in most brutal fashion. The latter was fired upon and was thought to be dead, but escaped. After a se- we're mental strain and great fatigue of body he forced his way out of the woods and back to his friends.
 The assassins have not yet been ap- prehended, but the prompt and ener- getic measures instituted by Governor Patterson for their capture and pun ishment will not be unavaiIing. Some of those men, if not all, are sure to be caught, and not one of them should escape the gallows.
 The Age-Herald has long denounced lynch law. The laws delays and the frequent miscarriage of justice have beer. the excuses giyel. bE those who
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-22
TRUTH ABOUT ALCOHOL.

From the New York Herald.
 That much of the incorporate con demnation of the use of alcohol is a result of laboratory experiment. un- checked by practical observation, is the opinion of a recent medical writer in England. The experimenter finds that proof-spirit as used in the physiologicai laboratory will have certain eHects upon the tissues, and he concludes that the same spirit in glass of wine will have similar effects upon him who drinks it.
 As well might we conclude, the critic says, that because a mustard plaster will take the skin off a mans back the amount of mustard that he takes with his meat at dinner will have a corresponding effect.
 The writer insists that he holds no brief for alcohol--that it would prob ably be to the advantage of the human race if the substance should never again be used as an article of diet Such elimination, however, is hardly probable, and if we are to continue to use alcohol its abuse will not be prevented by telling untruths about it Fallacies of deduction based on lab oratory findings form the text, the writer asserts, of much random ser monizing about alcohol.
 The human experiment is ignored and that experiment, which is daily be- fore us, shows clearly that a man may take alcohol daily in small quantities through out a long life and die in his seventies without loss either of his good name or his powers of digestion.
 On the other hand, we see the topel who dies in his forties of alcoh ollie de mentia. However desirable it may b, that we should all adopt total abstin ence and thus avoid the possibility oi transforming the former of these cases into the latter, it is certainly use less to affirm that they are to b' classed togeth CT.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-22
HOW STREET ScAREs ITSELF.

From the New York Letter.
 Clarence Housman, the banker, didn't pretend that the story is a new one, but told 1t to illustrate the manner in which Wall street scares itself with it's own stories. "A hungry broker" said he, walked into Broad street restaurant and found every table crowded. He stood there for 8 time, and no one got up. Then he went outside, to dash in again in a moment, all out of breath. Man. he panted, just towed-the biggest whale ever seen-into the Battery In a moment a score of eager brokers had deserted their tables and hurried out to see the mammoth whale. He sat himself down a satisfying lunch. Just as he started on the soup, frantic man rushed into the place, perspiring redfaced, out of breath. Hurry, hurry gasped the new conner. Hurry down to the Battery. They've just brought in the biggest whale in the world down there And the first broker deserted his lunch and ran off, hungry, to see the whale. That's the way with Wall street." was MT. Housmans s conclusion. Down there a man will spend his nights trying to think up a good, soul-tearing heart-stopping lie And when he gets it finished and polished and sets it afloat, he believes 1t himself the first time he hears it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-22
INDIA POVERTY STRICKEN.
Immense Population Living on Aver
 age of 2 Gents Day.
From the Chicago Journal.

From the Chicago Journal.
 In recent book entitled, Prosperous India" are some figures which may be of interest to the American wage-earner and head of q family. The author, the late William Digby, resided for life time in India, and his statistics were gathered painstakingly from official blue books. Some of his figures are astonish- ing.
 In 1850 the average daily income per capita in India was cents. Imagine the poverty of the poor when you con- slider the resources of rich native digni- taries. Imagine that in 1882 the cents had fallen to cents per person. and in 1900 had lost another cent. until the whole immense population was living on an av- craze of less than cents each.
 Then consider for a moment that in 1905, out of the average annual income of about s6. the poor man had to pay a tax of $2, and you will begin to see that the coun- try to which Great Britain points with such pride as an evidence of Anglo-Saxon civilizing power is hardly likely to be as proud as the Engishman.
 The total taxation of India amounts roughly to s2O0,0OOOOo year. one-half of this enormous sum is rennitted to England by Englishmen in the Indian civil or mill itary service. Part of the other half is expended by Engishmen for their living expenses in India What is left goes to public works, military expenses and the usual government costs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-22
COMPOSITION OF TURKISH ARMY.

From the New York Evening Post.
 In view of the condition of affairs in the Balkans the Turkish army is a sub ject of present interest. At the age of 21 the Turkish conscript, if taken for the colors, serves for three years in the Mi gam or active army, then for six years in the Ihtiat or reserve of the active army; after which he passes for nine years into the Redif, or reserve army, and, finally, for five years into the Mustadz or Land
 strum. In case of emergency he may be taken to serve in the Mustafiz for two years before reaching the age for Nizam service. In Asia, however, Mustafiz serv- ice is only for two years, at the end of the soldiers Redif service. Deducting ex- emptions and those medically unfit, about 100O coo young Moslems, come up for con- scription every year, and Of this number about 70000 are taken for the colors, while the balance of 30,Ooo pass straight away into the second-class, Redif after a few months drill. German officers have com piled some numerical tables of strength which may be taken as a basis for esti- mates The numbers of available fight ing men under the present system of service may be given as follows; Nizam troops, 260oo0 Ihtiat, 12o,oOo; first-class Redif, 270, 900; second-class Redif, 360, 900; Mustafiz, 90000; total, 1,100.000. Of these the second-class Redif men may be ig- nored for practical fighting purposes. as only small proportion are even par tially trained. The other men are, or ought to be, fully trained soldiers. The force available for instant service in Eu- rope is probably about 150,O0o men, which in the course of few weeks could be tporaa sad to q76 OO0
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-22
Col. Gorsas May Be Promoted

Surgeon General Robert M. O'Reilly is to be placed on the retired list in January and specials from Washing ton say that President Roosevelt ln- tends to select his successor within the next two weeks.
 The hope is freely expressed that Col. William c. Gorgas, chief sanitary officer of the Panama canal comml,. sion, will be made surgeon general of the army. His work at the isthmus has never been criticised. He has made possible the digging of the canal without great loss of life. He has suc- ceede where the French medical off, cers had failed. He is up-to-date. scieiy life and thorough.
 Altbama is proud of her son, and an Ala kma referendum would place him
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-22
The evil that men do lives after them.
 Julius Caesar.
Cotton Mills In Lancashire

The strike of the cotton mill opera lives at Manchester, England, has been settled, and the greatest cotton manu- featuring center in the world will soon no doubt be scene of great activity. Fall River boasts 100000 spindles, more or less, in about 40 mills, but within a radius of 30 miles of Man chester there are 1876 cotton mills, containing 55,21S,OO0 spindles and 6S4,- SS1 looms, affording employment to 500 000 persons.
 Nearly all the cotton mills of Great Britain are located in the Manchester district, fully 90 per cent of them, be- cause coal is dug there. Like the mill Ht Cordova, Ala, the Manchester mlns rest on seams of coal. Cheap fuel led to concentration of mills at Manches- ter. and a like concentration may take place in this district of abundant coal measures.
 Manchester is the business center of the numerous mills in Lancashire, and that city may be said to name the prices of sheetings, shirtings anu prints in all parts of the world. Much of the larger part of the raw cotton spun and woven in Lancashire is grown in this country, but our cotton meets in Lancashire the cottons Of Egypt and India.
 The south is outdoing the north in cotton manufacturing, but the British mills are holding their own and per. haps always will. Not only cheap fuel but worldwide facilities of transpor. tation are in their favor and instead of decreasing they have of late been largely increased. A cotton milling center in Great Britain is needed, but it need not be in the long run the cen ter of the cotton trade of the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-22
THE SEA.

By Lord Byron. There is pleasure in the painless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes By the deep sea, and music in it's roar; I love not man the less, but nature more, From these our interviews, in which I
 steal From all I may be- or have been before, To mingle with the universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all
 conceal. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean
 roll
 Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in
 vain; Man marks the earth with ruin-his con- Stops with the shore-upon the watery
 plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth
 remain
 A shadow of mans ravage save his own. When, for a moment, like drop of rain. He sinks into thy depths with bubbling
 groan, N Without grave. unknelled, uncoffined
 and unknown.