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Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-26
ADMINISTRATIONS POSITION ON
ANTITRUST Law.
Difference Between the Policies of the
Taft and the Roosevelt Administra-
H0ns Pointed Out by Wickersham,

DlnefeHce Between the Policies of the
Taft and the Roosevelt Administra.
ti0ns Pointed Out by Wickersham
At dinner in New York given in
his honor, Attorney General Wicker
sham made some significant and inter
estfng statements in regard to the
plans of the present administration
He pointed out the need for. differ
ence between the policies of the Taft
and the Roosevelt administrations
The methods which were necessary
to awaken the business community to
recognition of the vitality of certain
laws, Mr.. Wickersham maintained,
were no longer necessary, for what
has been done has made it's impress
sion upon the whole business world.
Men in all walks of life, no matter
how powerful they were. now realize
that they must give some attention
and full obedience to the eountry's
laws. This would have been impossi-
BILE without some of the prosecutions
that were begnn during Mr.. Roose-
velt's term of Office The present ad-
ministration, he said, would not hesi-
tate to prosecute where it was need
ed, and would withdraw suits and dis
miss prosecutions when there was an
Indication of an intention to obey the
law.
The Attorney General said that he
was well aware of the uncertainty
existing as to the present scope and
meaning of the Sherman Antitrust
law, which SO closely touched all the
business activity of the country, and
he would be the last to authorize the
institution af criminal proceeding
against men who without intent to
violate the law have nevertheless act
ed in technical eontravention of its
pcs sible construction. 1t is to be
hoped, Mr.. Wickersham added, that
the Supreme Court will at an early
day authoritatively define the full
scope and effect of the antitrust law.
and that if a construction should be
given to it by that court as far reach
ing as some of the Judges of the
AOuIk VI fAppcAlS III Tue NEW 1Ork
circuit gave in the tobacco case, Con-
gress may so amend the act as to ex-
cept from it's provisions the ordinary
agreements which are the necessary
result of healthy business conditions,
while still effectively prohihiting the
creation of those far-reaehing maaop-
olies which are believed to be incom-
patible with the wholesome growth
and progress of the republic
OF interest was the attorney gener-
ais announcement that the matter is
under consideration by the present
administration with q view to submit
ting to the next Congress proposed
amendments to the law. This state
ment of the head of the Department
of Justice was evidently made with
deliberation, and the business inter-
ests of the country will welcome a
change of the drastic force of the
Sherman law to meet modern trade
conditions.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-26
RoundSIJp Its First Year With
FIattering Success.
Its Commencement Exercises Of Two
Days Largely Attended DIR.
Dixon the OratOf-1e Pre-.
diets Great Things
"a g, For the SChOOl

Editor Argus: The first year of the
Pikeville High School came to close
Friday, on which day and the day pre-
Vious the commencement exercises
were held.
Despite the inclement weather OF
Thursday night, a large crowd was
present to enjoy very credltaDly
rendered program and to hear the ad-
dress of DR.. B. F. Dixon, State Audi
Superintendent E. T. Atkinson in a
few happy remarks prefaced by talk
on the aims of the Pikeville school.
DIR. Dixon, in matchless oratory,
pointed out the glories and advantages
of country life and made a most elo-
quent plea for education gained in the
spirit of personal sacrifice. His speech
was powerful and that it made a
strong appeal to the audience was
shown by the spontaneous applause
with which it was frequently inter
rupted.
of the Pikeville High School, of what
it has already achieved, and of it's op-
portunities for. future development.
He said it should be the leading coun-
try high school of the State, and that
he expected nothing less of it among
such a people as these PikeVille peo-
pie, who by their already splendid ac-
complishments in one year-the hrst
year OF the School-had proved them
selves capable of doing greater things
and worthy of the highest success.
He also eomplimented the faculty of
the school, as evidenced in the pro-
gram so admirably executed by the
student body, and was peculiarly ear
nest and felicitous in his words of
commentator of the principal, Mr.. A.
Raine Freeman, upon whom devolVed
the weighty responsibility of launch
ing the school and shaping its course
and maintaining it's standards.
A very happy feature of Thursday
evenings exercises was the presence
in the audience of Col. w: B. Fort,
whose broad spirit of progress and
patriotic liberality in donating the
fine four-acre school site rendered it
possible for Pikeville to secure the
county high school appropriation.
Friday morning a recital was given
by the music class and in the after
noon the school team defeated the
Goldsboro High School by the score
of 19 to 2, after overcoming the boys
from Fremont the day before by al
most as wide margin.
The school building could not be
gin to accommodate the crowds that
came to witness the final exercises
Friday night, many driving from
long distance. and all were generous
enough to manifest their appreciation
of the varied program by frequent ap'
plause.
Pikeville, N. c., May "a.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-26
Suicide in st. Louis.
It. Louis Post-Dispatch.


During the year ending March 81,
1909, 210 persons committed suicide
in st. Louis. OF these, 151 were males
and So females, 20 were single, 106
married, 81 widows or widowers, the
rest unclassiied: Only four negroes
killed themselves, and of the white
persons 144 were born in the United
States, Al in Germany and Austria,
and II in Ireland. The decade of age
between 20 and 80 numbers 81 sui
cides, between 30 and 40, 35; between
40 and so, 4s. The numbers decline
beyond this age.
According to statistics covering the
decade 1895 to 1905, San Francisco
confessed 52.2 suicides annually per
100000 of the population; Hoboken,
3O.2; St. Louis, 27.4; Oakland, 24.9;
Chicago, 22.7; New York (Manhattan
and Bronx, 22.2; Milwaukee, 21.8;
Newark, 21.6; Cincinnati, 20.6; Indian
apolis, 17,6. The average of SO cities
was 17.S,
The figures discourage all attempts
to generalize a chief or controlling
cause of the suicide impulse. Why
does San Francisco rpeort two and a
| half times as many suicides as New
York? We may legitimately believe
that the difference is due to diverse
| conditions, but among the seething
| mass of influences which, in all large
cities, bear upon the individuals, who
can pick those which prompt self-de
struction?
| The most we can say is that the
| cause of suicide is in conditions an(
not in human nature. Given healthy
natural conditions and men and WON
en- would grow, live and pass away
healthily and naturally, free from
morbid cravings or impulses. In othe
| words, the responsibility is upon soci
| ETY. itself. If there is slime in the so
cial thought and policy, there mus
be slime in individual character.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-26
THERE ARE OTHERS.
Senator Johnston Criticizes Charlotte
Utterances Of Taft.

Washington, May 24.-Senator Jo-
seph F. Johnston has returned from
Charlotte, N. O., where he attended
the Meckleahurg independence cele-
bration and visited the scenes of his
childhood. the senator having been
born within eighteen miles of Char
lotte.
Said the senator this afternoon: "I
heard President. Taft's excellent
speech in which he commended the
idea of strong opposition party as
likely to put the dominant party in a
state upon its mettle and good beha-
vior. There is no doubt that this
would work well and work best in
states where the dominant party has
not been conducting itself as a decent
party should do.
Nobody has heard of the dominant
party in any Southern state seriously
misbehaving. Obviously if the domi-
nant party needs correction anywhere
it is not in the South. Let, the Presi-
dent use his good offices and very
powerful influence for the regenera-
ton OF the Republican party along
these righteous lines In states where
it has been longest intrenched in pow
er, such as Rhode Island, upon whose
statesmen the trusts depend for cham
pionship and salvation; in Delaware,
whose dominant party habitually pur-
chases retention of pewer, and in
Pennsylvania, where prominent mem
bers of the dominant party have been
convicted of robbing the state. There
are other fields for this admirable
missionary work of the President else
where north of the Potomac and Ohio
rivers, and there Is no doubt that the
whole country will agree that the
sooner it is begun the better for the
nation"
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-26
DAVIS DAUGHTER SPEAKS.
Fathers Head ON Silver Service Token
of Reunited Nation.

Colorado Springs, May 16.-Regard-
ing criticisms of the adornment of
the battleship Mississippi's silver ser
vice with her fathers portrait, Mrs.
Margaret Howell Jefferson Davis
Hayes said today:
Eve had no part in this matter,
and accept the tribute to my fathers 9
memory as splendid evidence OF a
reunited North and South
Naturally, l appreciate the spirit
that inspired the movement to have
my fathers head placed on the silver
service, the more so because it came
as tribute from his own State. Nor
have I had any intimation that there
was opposition to IT,"
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-26
THE LUMBER TARIFF,
It Is Still Holding American Lumber.
men on the Anxious Bench.

Nashville, Tenn, May 24.-Satisfied
that there is no danger of rough lum-
Der being placed on the free list, rep
resentatiyes of the industry at Wash
i.It Ion have turned their attention TO
d'.es ed lumber, says The Southern
|. E4berman, and every effort vii: be
made to prevent the abolition of the
present differential duties on that ar
ticle, ranging from fifty cents to $3.50
per thousand feet and which have
been in existence for a number of
years and are still favored by the
House and Senate tariff committees.
A committee of the National Lum-
recently filed with Congress a brief in
support of the lumbermen's conten-
ton that the duties on dressed lumber
should be retained. The brief gives a
history of the lumber industry and
shows how the Georgian Bay saw
mills, of Canada. have developed. The
question of lake freight rates is dealt
with, and it is shown that the Cana
dian mills referred to can compete
with American producers in the great
Eastern and Middle West sections OF
the United States.
| Senator Crane, of Massachusetts,
Senator Aldrich's chief lieutenant, is
authority for the statement that the
/ lumber schedule will be held up until
the last in the consideration of the
tariff bill, because it can command s
number of Democratic votes. In this
| way, it is believed, Aldrich will man
4 age to pull through his bill in goos
shape. -
i Phe action of the Senate in voting /;
!, duty on iron ore is regarded as fore
! casting an ample tariff on lumber
The lumber and ore advocates forme
practical alliance some time ago,
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-26
Revised North Carolina Republi-
caniSm.
New Bern Journal.

New Bern Journal.
1t was hardly necessary for Presi-
dent Taft to make his Charlotte visit
and his speech to further corroborate
his Southern political stand. which
the nomination of Judge Connor has
made so prominent.
In the Judge Connor appointment
there Is considerable talk, and reit-
Grated talk, among Democrats that so
far as affecting the State Democratic
vote, it will be null and void. There
fore Democrats are at present laugh
ing over the political discontinue of
those Republicans who are taking so
hard this Republican appointment of
Democrat. This unusual appoint
ment, from a political viewpoint, can
not at present be estimated in it's later
effects. If Democrats may hope for
political jobs under President Taft,
there must be in the nature of the
case that human leaning towards the
party which can, and possibly may
dispense political gifts, and no per-
son, nor whatever his political faith,
but who may come under the blan-
dishment which an Office possibility
offers. 1t is not that one or two or
six appointments of Democrats to Of
fee by the President may disrupt the
Democratic party, but that it has
some effect is beyond dispute.
Coming to the Republicans in North
Carolina, this appointment and the
Presidents reiteration. of his position
towards the South, there is a decided
division of opinion of the results to
| follow such a policy. On the old order
fast rule of strict party appointments
This change, says one side, means the
| break of the party machine, which
holds in control all the lines of politi-
| cal action, that has brought the North
Carolina Republican State vote up te
side will say that it is a good thing
/ to make the office-holding crowd know
that it's word is not final, that ont
may be a Republican and yet not have
to be a member of the "inner circle.
4 Take it from any viewpoint, there
must be a revision in North Caroline
Republicanism, and this revious i.
i likely to mean that there will be NOR,
IRepublicans than offices this being tn,
worst as hitherto insinuated by Dem
ocrats, which further means that th
Democratic party must look to it
fences.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-26

Augusta, Ga, May 24.-The Georgia
Railroad is completely tied up today.
The management is not trying to move
trains, simply announcing that it has
the men, the means and the equip
ment to proceed and will do so when
the state announces that it is ready
to protect it's property and employees.
The strikers are standing pat They
assert that they have not been and
will not be, parties to any violence.
Sympathfzers with the strikers, it is
set" out, have done all the hurt that
has been done.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-26
ALAWYER ASSAULTED.
Man Arrested Fer Blind Tigering Hurt
Lawyer.

smithfield, N, C., May 22.-MoFe
men who have been blind tigering
have been arrested This time Detec
tive Thompson, acting upon the legal
advice of Attorney O. A. Barbour, of
Clayton, arrested John Hudson, of
Benson, and the detective was carry
ing Hudson to Smithfe1d. While on
the train Hudson made murderous
assault upon the attorney and hurt
his nose and eye, not seriously, but
very painfully, thus adding the crime
of assault to the charge of selling
liquor unlawfully.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-26
FOR GREATER GOLDsB0RO.
Here's Pointer For the Younger Men
of the City Who Propose to Abide

of the City Who Propose to Abide
Here.
The Wilmington Star OF yesterdays
issue has the following item that
should be suggestive of a policy for
the younger men of Goldsboro, who
propose to make this, city their abid-
ing place-their home:
sThe Greater Wilmington Club will
be formed Tuesday night at meeting
of citizens who are deeply interested
in the material growth of Wilmington.
The club will start out most auspi-
ciously, having as its charter men,
bers more than 200 of the prominent
and public-spirited citizens of the city,
who believe that great things can be
achieved for Wilmington through an
organization of its business men all
working for the same purpose, q
Greater Wilmington.
Why not a Greater Goldsboro Club
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-26
Georgia Cotton Mill Man Dies i'm New
York City.

New York, May 24.-Walter Han
son, son of j. F. Hanson. of the Bibb
Manufacturing Company, of Macon,
Ca, one of the largest cotton mills in
the South, died of acute indigestion
at the Hotel Belmont in this city yes
terday. Mr.. Hanson came to New
York recently on business trip and
was accompanied by his wife. The
body will be taken to Macon tomor-
row.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-26
IWOMAN'S BETTERMENT.
This Association is Called ON TO Meet
May 2Sth.

The officers and the executive COM
mittee of the WOman's Betterment As
sociation of Wayne County, are called
to meet May 28th at 1890 p. M in
Superintendent Atkinson's Office for
the purpose Of awarding the prizes
which have been offered for this
school year. Meajssas
MRS. H. A. OVERMAN,
President Pro Tenn.
MISS JULIA e. HOWELL,
Recording Secretary.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-26

Wilson. NJ c., May 22.-On appli-
cation of w. G. Mayo, general man
ager of Mayo Bros. Hardware Com
pany, s. A. Woodward was today ap-
pointed receiver by Judge Allen. G.
C. Daniels, of the law firm of Daniels
& Swindell, went to Henderson and
Yecured the order appointing the re.
cefver.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-26
SERIOUS IN GEORGIA.
Railroad Firemen's Strike Situation
Has Tied Up All Trains Oh Georgia
Railroad.

Atlanta, Ga, May 24.-Gov. Hoke
smith today called upon the officials
OF the Georgia Railroad and officers
OF the Firmen's organization to name
three citizens each to act as an arbi-
tration committee in an effort to bring
about settlement of the strike. 1t
is expected that this committee will
be named at once.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-26
PLANO TUNING.
e. r. PERKS.
Office, st. James Hotel.

Phone calls will be answered prompt
" and satisfaction guaranteed.
milo 4tdw
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-26

j Mrs. Geo. A. Norwood, Jr., is visit
ing relatives in Greenville, S. C.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-26
roDAY's COTTON MARKET.

Receipts of all ports, 1883 bales.
Local spots. IL.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-26

plME-uLES for the Kidneys
90 0ANa' TREATMEMT FOR st.o0
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-16

to the encounter. She win walk to the
very limit of the serpent's striking
range and begin to feint, teasing him,
startling him, trying to draw his blow.
how the emerald and the topazine eyes
glow thenI They are flames. A mo-
ment more and the triangular head.
Kissing from the coil, flashes swift as
II moved by wings. But swifter still
the strong stroke Of the armed paw
that smites the horror aside, finging It,
mangled and gasping in the dust.
Nevertheless pussy does not yet dare
to spring: the enemy, still active, has
almost instantly reformed his coil: but
she is again in front OF him, watching,
vertical pupil against vertical pupil.
Again the lashing stroke: again the
beautiful countering; the living death
is hurled aside, the scaled skin is deep
" torn. one eye socket has ceased to
fame. Once more the stroke of the
serpent; once more the light, quick.
cutting blow. But now the trfgono-
ceplalus is blind, is stupefied; before he
can attempt to coil pussy has leaped
upon him, mailing the horrible fiat head
to the ground with her two sinewy
paws. Now let him lash, writhe twine.
strive to strangle her-in vains He
will never lift his head; an instant
more and he is still; the fine white
teeth of the cat have severed the YER
tebrae just behind the triangular skull.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-16
The BARNARD Party

Now comes the barnyard party for
little folk. Miss Bantam and Mistress
Shanghai, not to speak of the Leg
horn sisters. all waiting to be asked
to dance by those gay young swains.
the Ganders, or, perhaps, Honorable
Turkey Gobbler himself.
These -cIevsr poultry costumes are
really very easy to contrive and the
expense is trifiing. Feathers are
clipped from crepe paper Of the proper
shades and are pasted in layers on
trousers. skirts, tunics and shoulder
capes made of paper muslin With a
generous quota Of dashing tail feath-
ers, chamois or yellow kid gloves for
claws and a head made of "feathered"
pasteboard. with beak and eyes
touched with water colors, all that is
needed to complete the illusion is a
good imitation of natural quack,
cluck, crow or gobble
In keeping with these odd costumes
are the dainty favors for table deco
ration, consisting of tiny dolls prof
fering fruit, pumpkins. etc, and the
Turk and natural looking papier
mache edibles
Some Of the dolls are charming IN
their frocks Of frilled crepe paper Sam
bos there are. too. and jolly Dinahs.
just from ''ole yaginny." one feels sure.
And each dolly is a receptacle for bon
bons or almonds.
The prettiest Of the favor turkeys are
the little bronzed metal models with
the iridescent coloring. Trussed tur-
keys also, seemingly warm from the
oven. with rich. crusty coats of brown.
are popular.
No more effective Jack Horner pie
was ever, thought OF than the huge
crepe paper trimmed basket In which
a flock Of splendid, ripe -for-th oven
turkeys seem to be pushing through the
tall grass, each bird tied by the foot to
a long yellow ribbon, and when the
pumpkin pie and the other delecta bile
dainties have been consumed every
guest seizes a turkey pulls at the rib
bon and finds attached his or her
own particular favor, fancy cap or biz
of appropriate verse.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-16
SHORT STORY
A Tragic Story

tFrom the German OF Chamisso)
There lived sage in days of yore,
And he handsome pigtail wore;
But he wondered much, and sorrowed
more
Because it hung behind him.
He mused upon this curious case.
And swore he'd change the pigtail $
place,
And have 1t hanging at his face,
Not dangling there behind him.
Says he. The mystery I've found.
I'll turn me round, he turned him
round;
But still 1t hung behind him.
Then round and round. and out and In,
All day the puzzled sage did spin;
In vain-it mattered not a pin
The pigtail hung behind him.
And right and left. and round about,
And up and down and In and out
He turned; but still the pigtail stout
Hung steadily behind him.
And though his efforts never slack.
And though he twist. and twirl, and
tack
Alas. still faithful to his back,
The pigtail hangs behind him.
William Makepeace Thackeray.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-16

lished at New York. The Junior
Call recently published in the
teachers corner a splendid article
by Jennie Bright Holden, principal
of the oral school for deaf in San
Francisco. and consequently infor-
nation regarding the work of the
New York school will be of in
creased interest. Owing to the
progress of the public schools hun
dreds Of these unfortunate children
are being brought from the region
of silence to the beautiful world of
sound, where, with trained minds,
they are able TO enter upon lives
Of usefulness. Among the many,
who, led by humane educators, and
by exerting the viii have burst the
bonds Of natures tying, Helen Kel-
Ter stands pre-eminently successful,
and will always be a shining ex-
ample of what perseverance and
viii power can accomplish. Emer-
son placed so much Importance
upon the will that he declared,
The education of the win is the
object of our existence" by which
he meant the education of the will
in the right direction. The achieve
ments of great men and women
have been the result of the de-
termination of the human will to
break down ali barriers and sur
mount ali obstacles.
Educational stories from the
teachers of California will be pub
lished in the teachers corner OF
The Junior Call
The Junior Call artists. Messrs.
Yardley and Rohrhand, are doing
their best to keep the juniors
amused. and the antics of Alonzo,
The Junior Call dog, continue TO
be excruciatingly funny, while the
citizens of Juniorville are gaining
in renown every week. Watch
Dutchy, who is always falling from
some great height, and Gene, who is
always falling asleep, and Bessie
and Tessie, and Al and Bert, and
the real bad boy, who leads the
grand march in the picture today.