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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-08-05
Mortgage Sale Of Valuable Lands.

Pursuant to the provisions contained
in a Mortgage Trust Deed registered in
Book No. 20, page 100 and made by S.
R. Harrison for the protection and the
benefit of the undersigned, on the 9th
day of April, 1902, default having been
made in the payment of this debt,
which said mortgage was given to Sc
cure, the undersigned will sell at pub
lie sale for cash, at the Court House
door in the CITY of Salisbury, on the
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of the cities in New York state. The leaders of the g. O. p. became in this way leeches also upon the Metropolis tan company and the protected manu- lecturers and the trusts and magnates in general were worked to the limit.
 This is why the republican leaders in Congress reflse to pass a campaign publicity bill even though President Roosevelt demands such bill. An other slush fund is needed. In another election voters are to be bought by the wholesale in congested districts where nearly every voter has his price. The purchasable voter is numerous erough and the corporations and bene- ticiaries are expected to do the rest. This reduc our elections to farces, but to this has corruption been lead ing the country ever since and in cluding 1896.
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------sos------ THE CURSE OF WEALTH.
rom fine New York WorId

From the New York World.
 There seems to be an unorganized move ment to prove that Americans not only do not worship wealth but that riches are a curse and a disgrace.
 Senator Bailey so strongly resents the report that he is a millionaire that he offers to sell all his holdings in Texas except a 600-acre farm for $10OO, which he will give to charity. MT. Bryan's self respect was so hurt by the statement that he had an income of $75,0O0 that he look pains while in New York recently to explain that it was nowhere near that figure.
 Both seem inspired by the conviction that an indeible stigma attaches to worldly prosperity, and that the esteem of their fellow-men can only be preserved by proof of their being in what the multi millionaire would consider poverty
 Judge Gray of Delaware is said to have refused a business salary of $20O,000 on the ground that no citizen should be pad more than the President of the United States. A salary of $5OOO0 a year repre- sents a capital of $1,0OO000 in brains or property, which puts Mr. Roosevelt in the millionaire class so long as he is President. But MT. Roosevelt looks upon the millionaire as the least envia- ble and one of the least admirable of our citizens, with his hard and cruel face and soft body and with his son a fool and daughter princess.
 Of course multi-millionaires are no rarer today than millionaires were three or four decades ago. But popular fashions change rapidly. If this thing keeps up, the man of uncounted millions to retain his self esteem will soon have to go about in rags and be even poorer than he pre- tends to be when he swears off his taxes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-04
FIRE BREAKS OUT IN
 MERCANTILE STORE

A fire broke out in the mercantile estab- lishment of John Hodges, at 2S21 Second avenue, yesterday morning about 4:15 o'clock causing damage to the stock of goods which may run up to 5000. AL though the fire department was on hand few moments after the blaze started the building was densely filled with smoke which will greatly depreciate the stock of goods valued at about $7000. The loss is fully covered by insurance. The ori- gin of the fire is not known.
 In connection with the fire there is quite an interesting little narrative. The building in which the fire broke out is a two-story brick structure. The upper floor is used as a rooming house. Police Officer Cornett who rooms in the build ing, is the possessor of a fox terrier dog, which he has always prized highly as his one best friend. The dog now stands en- titled to heros medal and a compli- mentary license from the city of Bir- mingham for all time to come.
 The fire yesterday morning broke out right under the room of Officer Cornett, and owing to the texture of the goods which were burning below the whole building was soon densely filled with smoke The blaze was burning with some yehemence in the mercantile store below while no one in the rooming house awoke. The halls upstairs were full of smoke when Officer Cornett was awakened by the terrier standing on the bed beside him barking with all his might. The of- ficer hastily drew on his clothes and then aroused the remainder of the roomers, all of whom were still asleep By this time the hall upstairs was so thickly filled with black smoke that had it not been for an electric light at the doorway it would have been impossible to see the way out
 All of the "sleepers'' got out without injury, but it is believed that had it not been for the little animal who awakened Officer Cornett some of them might have perished from suffocation.
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Watching the Conductor.

Tn order to be efficient in large chorus one must not only be able to read, but he or she must be able to watch the conductor said man who sang in the May festivals under MT. Guckenber- ger. q have known many good singers who lacked the faculty of keeping an eye on the leader who wields the baton. This is usually a matter of experience, but some amateurs seem never able 10 watch the conductor and read the music at the same time. And as the conductor is the man who interprets the composer it is impossible for him to set results un- less those under him follow him closely. A chorus of 50 intelligent sight readers of experience, possessing fairly good voices is far better than a band of 100 singers when many come under the head of dead wood Quality, not quantity, is what is demanded.
 "The same rule applies to orchestras. A properly balanced orchestra of p perform CTS of musicianly training is more sat- isfactory to the musically educated lis tener than an orchestra of 50, many mem bers of which are only half way musi- cians'
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IN HOTEL LOB3IES
Handsome Pamphlet.

The Pratt Consolidated Coal company has shown commendable enterprise in is suing in pamphlet form a report of coal and coke production of Alabama for the year 1907, compiled from information in the state mine inspectors office, along with a map and description of it's own extensive properties and it's own opera hons," said a member of the Commer- cial club
 This pamphlet is finely illustrated and will be found of real value to the indus trial world. The Pratt Consolidated is the largest commercial coal mining con- cern in the south It has done vast amount of development work within the past IS months, and I am told that the productive capacity of it's mines will be- fore long reach 20, 900 tons a day.
 Tn 1907 the total coal output of Ala bama was II. 424,S6S tons, and of this large volume the Pratt Consolidated produe- tion was as follows: From mines op- erated in Alabama, 1,51S,521 tons, from mines operated by lessees on royalty n Alabama, 132, ,637 tons; from mines operated by the company in Tennessee. 441,702 tons, making the total output from property of the Pratt Consolidated, 2,1eaS6o.
 "The company's mining machinery is strct1y modern and it's economic devices furnish an example of the company's pro- gressive spirit.''
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COUSINS FUNERAL
 LARGELY ATTENDED

Bessemer, May 3-(Special)- flu neral of the late J M. Cousins took place from the family residence on Berkly ave- nue this morning at Il o'clock.
 The service at the house was in charge of the Elks lodge of this city and the burial service of the order was delivered by Exalted Ruler r. J. Lamar
 At the conclusion of the service the body was taken to the Alabama Great Southern depot and sent to Boligee. the old home of the deceased. The services at the house were largely attended, show ing in what esteem MT. Cousins was held by all who knew him.
 The Elks went to the house in a body, as did members of Clinton lodge, Knights of Pythias, of which he was also mem Der.
 The body was escorted to the depot by the members of the Elks and Knights of Pythias lodges.
 The following gentlemen acted as pail bearers and escorted the body to Boligee: E. A. Little, w. T. Kennedy, Albert Ross, Joe Whitemore, Sam Stein and A. Argue
 Mir. Cousins left quite a large family connection and some of the family did not reach the city until after the funeral services had been conducted. The inter ment occurred immediately upon the ar rival of the body at Boligee. There were a number of beautiful floral offerings sent down to the train, in addition to those sent to the house. The funeral was in charge of Jacobs & Son.
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PROPOSED NEW COUNTY.
the Marengo Democrat.

From the Marengo Democrat
 Our esteemed brother, E. B. McCarty of the Demopolis Times, is enthusiastic ever the new county proposition in last weeks issue of that good paper. We have reproduced his articles this week so that our people can see just what is being done in this matter. We are indi- rectly accused of not being fair minded because we are opposed to such an amendment to the states constitution It looks to us to be unjust, unfair and not at all necessary.
 It is no new thing to the people of Marengo that the Demopolis people should complain of the courts of the county and the location of the court house, and in nearly every instance where it was prop erly tested, these goo1 people have been adjudged of being not fair-minded. If they are so fair-minded upon this propo- sition why would not the people of Ala bama be equally fair-minded to secede from the union?
 Bessemer citizens and Demopolis cti- zens are enthusiastically in favor of this amendment because they are so fair minded @ as to want new counties for themselves, and if we are not badly mis- taken, every portion of the state that does not expect to become a new county is as enthusiastically opposed to it. Besse- mer and Demopois have selfish reasons i; other sections which will oppose this amendment have no reason except the well being of the state and their coun- ties. Let the people of the state speak in thunder tones against this amendment and say who are the fair-minded
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Personal and General.

Dr. M. c. Ragsdale of Yolande is spend- ing a few days in the city.
 MT. and Mrs. J. E. Rogers have as their guests Mrs. T. D. Randle and Miss Mary Harris of Columbus, Miss.
 The annual meeting of the United Charities will take place tomorrow aft ernoon at o'clock at the residence of Mrs. E. M. Owens.
 Commencing tomorrow morning the week in the city court will be devoted to civil jury cases. There are a number of cases or the docket to be disposed of and it is more than likely that most of the week will be taken up.
 Some of the members of the Bessemer Gun club will take part in the Southern handicap shoot, which takes place at the Fair Grounds next week. There are some good shots in Bessemer and it is believed that they will show up in good style. P. H. Lutrell, one of the crack shots of the club, has accepted a position with the Western Cartridge Co.,, and will from now on shoot with the professionals While the many friends of MT. Lutrell in this city are sorry to know that he is to leave they are glad to know that he has been able to land such an excel lent berth.
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Sewer Bond Election

At 8 o'clock this morning the polls in this city will be opened and they will stay open until o'clock tonight. They will be opened to give every qualified voter an opportunity to ex- press his preference as to a $4GO,OOO bond issue for the purpose of adding to the storm and sanitary systems of this city. A vote in favor of the bond issue is assuredly vote in favor of cleanliness, sanitation and freedom from wasting diseases. The proposed sewers might not drive out typhoid, but they would pull in that direction. Tho city sadly needs the extensions that Engineer Kendrick has planned, and it seems almost incredible that a citizen will cast vote today against the betterment of the public health. The growth of the city calls for growth in the sewer systems.
 There should be a full vote for a full vote will aid in the marketing of the proposed bonds. Let every one then go to the polls today. It is the most important election of the month outranking in that respect the one to be held on May IS. Do not forget to vote, and be sure to vote for a cleaner and healthier Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-04
DESPITE THE DEATH KISS

From the Louisville Courier-Journal. "Cowards die many times before their
 deaths:
 The valiant never taste of death but
 once"
 @ ERMoPHOBIA is an affliction S not less melancholy and not less
 deadly than the diseases dreaded by it's victim, who sees bacilll in every sunbeam and death lurking in every shadow. The malignant microbe intro- duces one poison into the blood while worry breeds dozen toxins, therefore it is not well to take too seriously a book called "The Death Kiss" which has recently come from the press.
 To judge from comment many readers of the book have finished the last page in a frame of mind to fly to the wilder ness to avoid contact with their kind. Hell breathes out contagion to the world at midnight, according to one of the poets, but according to the author of 'The Death Kiss so do our sisters and our cousins and our aunts from early morn to dewy eve, and to court Juliet at close range is to court death or great bodily harm from score of infections.
 Careful and conscientious exploration of the literature of the germ theory will convince anyone whose optimism does not completely subordinate his intelligence that it is useless to attempt to dodge the micro-organisms that infest at least three of the four elements which the chemists tell us compose the universe. Since it is impossible to avoid contact with winged death it is very well to com .bine the pagan theory of the survival of the Attest with the Calvinistic doctrine of predestination and resolve that it Is not worth while to kill the joy of living with the fear of germs only, perhaps, to slip upon a banana skin and tumble into an early grave
 If the author of "The Death Kiss'
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should convince parents of the folly of exposing their babies to germ attacks some quantity of crusty bachelors might applaud, and the babies would be re- ieved of annoyance that is sufficient to make pinafore- -pessimists. If he should give women an excuse for foregoing the pleasure of kissing their dearest foes he would do a service to the race, but if ne aims at converting Romeo and Leander to the microbe theory the futility of his efforts will be equaled only by his cruelty.
 Since the germs of long list of levers paddle about in the water ready to swim down the human throat and start trouble, since the air is sodden with the bacilli of 57 varieties of infections, and miasmatio vapors from the earth are loaded with microscopic travelling representatives of dissolution, since the hotel bed and the sleeper berth and the office, the theatre, the home and the church are freighted with accumulated originators of death left by horde of the slowly dying who have preceded us, why should we attempt to shy around the kiss-germ? The reduction of the grand total of danger is not worth the sacrifice.
 A jaundiced bard has piped this lay: 'The rills of pleasure never run sincere,
 Garth has no unpolluted spring0 From the cursed soil some dangerous taint
 they bear;
 So roses grow on thorns, and honey
 wears a sting"
 A poet of today would draw ghastlier picture and bid us brush aside the roses washed with dew'' pending a medical in- quiry into the question o whether there's catching canlxer in the bud.
 Away with the croaking ravens of sci ence Let us not die the towards multi pie deaths, but rather live valiantly while we live, consoled by the knowledge that the brave taste death but once and that even the sparrow falls at it's appointed hour and by the direction of Providence.
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pevelopment of Public Spirit.

T have remarked with a good deal of interest Birminghams steady devel- opment of public spirit" said an old citizen. The people of Birmingham have always been noted for their ready response to appeals for aid in behalf of suffering humanity, but not until recent years did the business men of that community begin to ap- preciate the importance of concert of action in movements for the benefit of the town.
 While there is yet room for inn provement perhaps, the great majority of our people gladly put their should CTS to the wheel when the city's repu- tation for hospitality or civic enter prise is at stake. Certin it is that the men who are willing to give of their time and substance to enhance the glory of Birmingham far outnumber the close listed citizens or the cranks and croakers."
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MISS FAIRFAX IN "MADAME
 BUTTERFLY.u

Richard Watson Glider, In Putnam's and The Reader for May.
 I. little loosened leaf of painted paper Slow quivering down From a stage Nagasak cherry tree That screens d painted town.
 II. And Hitting back and forth in silken robes A figure slight, With Orient gestures, and fixed Orient smile, And voice of pure delight.
 III. And every note she sang and word she spoke Was for her writ Not nature here, but art and artifice, And cunning human wit.
 ". Yet when that paper petal ,trembled down Spring thrilled the air, And when she sang l knew loves height and depth, And passion and despair.
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POStOflCe Department

The conclusions reached by the joint commission of Congress, appoint ed to look into the methods in vogue in the conduct of the postoffice busi- ness commend themselves to the pub lie. The commission was assisted in its work by business experts not con- nected with the postofice department and, as might have been generally ex- pected it was found that a great deal of unnecessary detail in the system of accounting and a great deal too much machinery were employed in operating this extensive and important branch of government service. It was recommended, therefore, "that the actual direction of the business of the postoffce department and postal service be committed to an officer with necessary assistants to be ap- pointed by the President, so as to in sure the continuity of efficient service and that the postmaster general be chargeable only with general super visory control and the determination of questions of policy"
 The postoffice department conducts a cash business of over $200,000000 a year; and in view of the enormous volume involved, the most approved modern business methods should be applied. Forty years ago the entire machinery of the mail service was notably cumbersome. There has been steady improvement, of course, but still the methods are antiquated when compared with those in use in the com mercial world. Under existing condi- tions, with frequent changes of ad. ministration, it would be strange were 1t otherwise The postoffice should be absolutely removed from politics.
 The next Congress will probably act on the recommendation of the commission. A law along that line is sure to be enacted some day. It would result in a considerable saving of the peoples money and on the whole, a more satisfactory service
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-04
MAN WHO NEVER WAS WHIPPED.

From the New York World
 The man who ruled Knucklesville is dead. His name will not at once suggest itself to the general reader. Nor is it written down in any "Who's Who" of local despotism. He ruled on his physical merits and was no easy boss. When his epitaph is properly written it will de- scribe him in all simplicity as the man who never was whipped.
 Napoleon Bonaparte Tankersley-that was the name. It is enough to swear by, and in Knucklesville, which is a part of Lumpllin county, Georgia, they do so swear. Napoleon had been whipping other people for 50 years when he lay down and went to his fathers. He was a man who said little and did much. His purely provincial repute seems almost a pity. To a world of shifty championships and fy-by-night challengers revolving to the sound of much and mighty talk he might have brought action and relief
 When a stranger came to Knucklesville, so the story goes, he had to fight "Bony Tank or run. As a rule he ran anyway For "Bony' was giant and his fists were large, hard and irrespective of persons There was his own word for it that he had to live up to his fighting name of Ma poleon Only he took no Waterloo in his.
 Tankersley was a good Methodist and no race suicidist. When he went into battle a large family of children rose up to call the other man far from blessed "Bony' would have been a man of mark in the Sullivan district of New York. But he got to be 80, and he is dead, and up here we have just heard of him. Peace to his unconquered ashes,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-04
Sunday School Convention.

The East Lake district Sunday school convention will be held next, Sunday aft ernoon at 2:30 o'clock at the East Lake Methodist church. The programme will be as follows:
 Music.
 Devotions-Rev. w. w. Dorman.
 Enrolment and reports of primary de- pertinent (Cradle Roll infant class, etc.)- Mrs. N. A. Barrett, Mr5. A. T. Collins, Mrs. G. M. Simpson. Music.
 Junior and Intermediate Departments A. A. Vines Mrs. Walter Hill, Miss Anna Smith.
 Music.
 Adult Departmental (Baracca, Philathia etc.)-D. E. McClendon, w. P. Moor, Prof B. F. Crump.
 Music.
 Home Departmental. c. Davis, J. N Martin, J. M. Crow. Benediction.
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Thomas F. Ryan'S Statements

Before a special grand jury sitting in New York city to consider the Metropolitan street railway case. Thomas Fortune Ryan testified that 95 per cent of the stock of the railroads of this countrS consists of water There is, of course, good deal of truth in his statement, but it should be remembered that he was endeavoring to make a favorable showing for the street railroad system that he and his associates had led along to bank rupIcy.
 The truth is, bankruptcy of New York's surface roads was brought about by extravagant mergers and by graft almost without limit. Referring to one political contribution made by the Metropolitan company MT. Ryan recently said:
 "When you consider for a moment that this $500,0O0 which was contributed by a single corporation in this city was more than we were able to raise in any of campaigns in which l was candidate from more than 6O00.00O voters, you get a fair idea of the tremendous influence, one way or another. that the corporations can exert if they want to-
 Perhaps the worst contribution made by corporations was that of $26O,OOO which Mir. Roosevelt induced E. H, Hartman to raise but few days be- fore election in 1904. "The result, ' said MT. Hartman later was, that at least 10000 votes were turned in the city of New York alone" How were they turned in the closing hours of a campaign? Those votes were simply purchased in the congested districts