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The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-03-24
THURSDAY, MARCH "a, 1910
Between Life and Death Novel
Experience of Col. Neal Arch
Mclean.
Raleigh News and Observer, 23d.

Raleigh News and Observer, 23d.
Col. Neal Arch Mclean, of
Lumberton, had novel expert
ence last week, being between
life and death, as was aptly ex-
pressed by one of his friends.
The early part of the week he
was at Elizabethtown, Bladen
county, where he appeared as
counsel in q murder case, and he
arrived at his home in Lumber
ton on the evening of the day, in
the latter part of the week, on
which a little daughter had ar
rived.
Col. Mclean was in Raleigh
this week, attending the Supreme
Court, returning to Lumberton
yesterday.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-03-24

Mr.. G.E. Rancke drove through
the country yesterday afternoon
to Dillon, SC, where he will
spend a week with his son-i. :
law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
F. M. Lane.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-03-24

A good roads convention will
be held in Hendersonville next
Wednesday, the 30th inst.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-02

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 The dog seems to have turned the tables upon his masters voice." There Is a dog in Germany whose elocution is creating a stir among scientists. vaudeville managers and photog- raphers. Poor Don must wish that he had never opened his mouth. The penalty of his fame is that he is chained indoors to escape abduction.
 In his canine lexicon. to be sure. he has only six words, but each is worth a princes ransom. His master values the dog at $15,000 because of his lin- guistic attainments. That is s250O q word. It is enough to rouse envy in the breast of distinguished faunal natu- ralist who recently traversed Africa, and was paid but s1 word for his ac- count of the journey Don't six words have a greater value than one of Kip ling's poems. He can only express the most elemental wants and needs of canine nature at present but who knows what he will take 1t into his head to say next? He has learned to say mo" with a positiveness that . man. He can use the affirmative mono syllable with equal discretion, where other animals-trained mathematical horses for example-merely nod their heads. He not only answers to his name, as any cur of low degree is ac- customed to do, but he knows that he is a dog, and can deliberately pro- nounce the word. He can also say hunger" cakes" and want" so that he can make it clear when he wants something to eat, and that. for a dog,
 is the prime essential of a comfortable existence.
 But as Don grows older and learns more his opinions on many matters (even at s2500 a word) will prove of enthralllng interest to the world that has hitherto had to gather the doggy view of the universe by indirection and inference. Don might be asked for his views on vivisection. He might be in- terviewed on such subjects as Why I Turn Around Several Times Before I Lie Down" Why I Hate catsy" Why I Bark at the Moon" There are many questions which mankind has been waiting for centuries 10 ask the dog, and now is the chance. One of the most interesting subjects on which the dog might talk would be his opinion of the people in the boxes at the dog l show.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-02
Hutchens Talks of Birmingham

H. F. Hutchens, general Isuperintend- ent of the Southern Railway company at Greensboro, N. C., who has been in Birmingham on a trip to see some friends, left last night for his home He was busy yesterday calling upon many local industrial men with whom he was associated while in Birming- ham. The census figures which were sent all over the country" said MT. Hutchens, did more good for Blrming- ham than any one thing that ever hap pened for the city Every investor and seeker of safe places to assist in build ing was struck with the marvellous showing made by Birmingham. l was in New York about the time tlie figures were announced and the report In that city attracted more attention than you can imagine.
 Later l was in that city when a cit izen of Birmingham was there. Vice President Culp and J. II. Hoadley to- gether with the Birmingham man, were talking of this city, They were all much impressed with the marvellous growth of Birmingham and the man from Birmingham was kept busy an- swering questions put by the others. The advances made are truly wonder full"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-02

pofTficaT Situation in fFe Kingdom pre- dict that the liberals will lose about
 20 seats and will gain about 15. leav- ing them a working majority but little below their strength in the house that has been dissolved.
 This opinion Is largely based on the 21 by-elections that have taken place since last January. In these by-elec- tions there was no net loss to the liberals. There were no gains and no losses. This indicates the strength and permanence of public sentiment and nothing has been developed in the cam paign to indicate changes in it. The uninioists are changing front daily and this of itself shows that they are, if not panic stricken, afraid to stand by the repudiated lords frankly and solidly,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Suggestion for Clearing House


 T have never taken much interest in comparative clearing house statistics, for the simple reason that conditions and methods vary in different cities, said business man. For example, l know Of one city not 500 miles from Birmingham where the clearences are padded by banks swapping checks for the purpose Of making an impression on the outside public favorable to that particular town. Atlanta makes an abnormaly big show ing because all the banks in Georgia clear through that city. And so it goes.
 ''The total volume of business trans acted by the banks of Birmingham is made larger than our clearing house figures would indicate. I have been in- formed indeed that the total of business averages something like P to b times as much as the clearings.
 While the different banks might ob- Ject to making the total of their bus iness public, why could it not be arranged for each bank to report to the manager of the clearing house daily in confidence it's total of transactions and then have the manager consolidate these totals once week and publish along with the week. ly clearings the sum total of the week ly business. The latter item, I am sure, would beat Atlanta and many other cities that beat Birmingham in the misleading statistics of bank clearings. The total of transactions would certainly tell and would nullify at once the prestige hith- erto obtained elsewhere by padding or by other fictitious methods"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-02
MILLIONAIRE AND HoUsEMAID

From the New York World.
 Much is made of the marriage of an heir to millions" and young woman who was once a housemaid. The mar riage of a millionaire political leader and a hospital nurse is included in the same category of romance. What of it? We are periodically reminded that there is nothing in blue blood. and no doubt a housemaid's veins have de- rived eno6gh azure drops from the long past to qualify for a matrimonial alliance with a rich husband. The girls the girl for a that, as in the case of pretty Martha Hilton. the tavern maid of all work whom Governor Wentworth married and Longfellow celebrated in verse; the fair Agnes Surriage. or Sa rah Hoggins, the village beauty who married the Marquis of Exeter. The mother of Don John of Austria was washerwoman, and from Anthony Hope we know how Sophy Crouch. the Eng fish kitchenmaid, rose to Queen of Kra- vonia." Poor Sarah Hoggins died of a broken heart as result of her social translation. But such a contingency is not to be apprehended in the present instance. When a lord marries a chorus girl or millionaire's son a former housemaid nowadays love is not called on to level ranks" to an extent threat ening unhappiness as a result of any serious social inequality
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-02
Birmingbam,s Strides

Birmingham has grown at faster rate this year, perhaps, than in any previous year since l have lived here, and at d much faster rate since our census popula- ton was announced than in any former period of few months" said Albert Fasnacht, the well known restaurant man. Everybody must have observed the large proportion of new faces on the streets recently. I have been here 20 years and have never known anything like the influx of population that is in evidence now. If the census were taken this month and a strict count made. Bir- iningham's population would, believe, go over the 150,0O0 mark
 Birmingham, of course, has improved wonderfully in many ways during the past 20 years. The business district was poorly built when I first saw it. There were very few handsome structures in eny direction. The town had population of 26,Q00 when came here from New Or
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-02
FREEDOM OF ENGLISH SPEECH

From the New York Evening Post
 English spelling may be as cumbersome and perverse as it's refor1ners delight to describe 1t, but in one respect at least cur speech Is girt and ready to enter the race of world languages. We refer to it's freedom from the complications of gram nautical gender Hitherto, we had some vague notion that continental peoples were endowed with a sure and subtle sense for the eternal masculine and the eternal neuter, as well as for the eternal feminine. We imagined every Frnch- man and every German something of an Adam in a linguistic paradise we had to
 learn our le and la, our der, die, and das by arduous application but we supposed you had only to show a thing to the Frenchman and German to see what he would call it. It is, therefore, very dis dressing to learn that Paris does not know the gender of omnibus" and that discussion rages over the choice between ''le Nord Sud- and Ia Nord Sud" as the name of the new terminal. Doubtless the academy will settle the smatter in the end. but it is a bitter dislllusionment to realize that we have to do here merely with the old squabble between vulgar fashion and the decrees of the gram marian, but not with munitions at all English is fortunate to be clear of the | whole difficulty. We can call a ship 'she" if we want to, but we do not have l to do it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-02
Grent MusicnI Season

Birmingham has probably never known season in which so many high class musical attractions were crowded as this" said an old music lover. We have already had Ernest Hutcheson, pianist and Madame Fornia, dramatic soprano and Arturo Tibaldi, violinist; and among the musical attractions to come are the Bessie Abott Grand Opera company With an orchestra of nearly 50 men; the BIT mingham Choral society, Adolph Damn Petersen director, in a grand concert, Liza Lehman and her famous quartet; Scharwenka, pianist and composer; Maud Powell. violinist, and Frances MacMiileh' violinist. This list will carry us through February.
 MT. Kronberg, representing the Rus- sian Symphony orchestra, is in Birmlne- ham trySsg to arrange for a booking TOT one concert in April. This IS one or the great drawing cards in the musical world. The Russians are having phenom- enal success in New York and play to packed houses wherever they go. Modest Altschuler, the conductor of the orches- tra, was a close friend of TschaikoWsky and for a short time studied with him' He is, therefore, in an especial sense an authoritative conductor when it comes to Tsehaikowsky's works, large or small.
 Tt is supposed that Walter Damrosch and his orchestra will be engaged Tor the spring festival-in May The ora toria society is rehearsing Elijah Tor the festival.
 If all these attractions materiallze Birmingham will have progressed in the matter of musical atmosphere. And I be- leve we will hear them all, and the Kneizel quartet for good measure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-02
GOLDWIN SMITH AND GLADSTONE

ment, but I suspect he was more open to infusion
 There was nothing fine or indicative of high intellect in his face except the fire of the eye. The whole frame bespoke nervous energy. Gladstone was first rate sleeper. At the time when he was being fiercely attacked for his secession from Palmerston's government, I was told by a common friend whom I met one evening that he was in state of extreme excitement. I happened, next morning, to have business with him.
 He went out of the room to fetch a letter, leaving me with Mrs Gladstone. to whom I made some remark on the trying nature of his situation. She an- swered that her husband came home from the most exciting of the scenes, laid his head upon his pillow. and slept like a child; that if ever he had bad night he was good for nothing the next day, but that this very rarely happened.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-02
Booming the State

The Alabama Business Mems league means business. Thirty-five cities and towns were represented al the recent conference held in Montgomery, and those cities and towns propose to get together fund of s1oOO0o with which to make known to homeseekers and investors the resources and advantages of this state.
 Such a fund properly expended would advertise Alabama as she never has been advertised heretofore. And back of this fund Is an enthusiasm and a get-together spirit that is full of promise.
 This is the time to make Alabama widely known. We need white farm CTS. thousands of them, and they can not be induced to come here unless we do as other progressive sections are doing-advertise There is not state nor scarcely a section west of Mis- souri that is not systematically adver- Using it's advantages and that is what should be done here.
 Every county. too, should be urged to issue good roads bonds, for when d homeseeker comes here he cannot be held unless we have gosd roads. Ev- cry one of the 67 counties in the state should issue good roads bonds. It is idle to wait for action by the state or federal government. The counties must build their own roads and the sooner they get at the job the quicker will Alabama begin to boom and the prices of land go up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-02
Political Outlook In ElglaDd

NThe hotshe of commons that has just been >dissolved contained 27S union fists, 275 liberals, 40 laborites 71 na- tionalists, and II independent nation elists who accept MT. O'Brien as a leader. As the nationalists and labor ites are born enemies of the tories MT. Asquith had a good working major ity in the house of commons in his favor and an almost solid house of lords against him.
 In order to secure a working ma 1ority in the house of commons the unionists must gain about 70 seats Out of 67O members 325 is bare ma 1ority, and no ministry could get along with less than about 345 members. No one believes the unionists can gain 70 or 80 seats. The better judges of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-02
What Rlrminghnm Missed

q attended the annual conference of representatives of certain large manufac- turing interests held in Atlanta recently and I could have got the 1911 meeting for Birmingham for the asking" said a prominent citizen. Tn fact, many of those in attendance in Atlanta said they were particularly desirous of having the next meeting held in Birmingham; but l didn't extend an invitation, chiefly be- cause of our lack of adequate hotel ac- commodations
 Eighty men camess Ito the Atlanta meet ing, and about the same number attended the year before when we met at the Wal dorf-Astoria, New York Now all of these gentlemen are used to stopping at high-class hotels. and l knew that it would be impossible to provide as many as 80 first-class visitors with the sort of accommodations they would expect to find. Another thing. Many of the men who attend the meetings like something to drink. Atlanta Is in a prohibition state-so-called prohibition-but at the Piedmont the visitors got all the beer they wanted without violating the law as con sTueu III the GeorSld ihelropolls' anu ae the club they were free to drink high halls and other alcoholic beverages. In Birmingham liquor cannot be served at the hotels and not even at the clubs.
 Just as soon as this city has mil lion-dollar hotel and the drastic prohihi- ton laws are modified. we will be in a position to invite the manufacturers re- ferred to, and the invitation will be itlr1ned at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-02
.BdtIeS on Daily Necessities

Congressman Curley of the Tenth Massachusetts district is right when he says that an honest and genuine tariff revision, especially as to articles of daily necessity, is the vital and supreme ques- ton before the people of this country Never was a question more truly national than this, for the pressure of the high cost of living is felt in every state. The democratic party should everywhere and at every turn stand in favor of true and real downward revision. If the Pres ident urges at the short session the re- vision downward of the wool or the pulp and paper schedule every democrat should respond affirmatively upon it.
 What is most needed, however, is a removal of the tariff taxes from articles that enter directly into the cost of liv- ing This" says the New York World, sis one of the plain mandates of the cleo tion No investigation by a tariff com mission is required. No time need be lost in debate. It can be done in a single day. Under the Payne-Aldrich act beef is taxed a cent and half pound; bacon is taxed cents a pound; hams are taxed cents pound; mutton and lamb are taxed 11a cents a pound; pork and veal are taxed 11a cents a pound; poultry is taxed cents pound when it is alive and cents when it is dead. All these taxes strengthen the beef trust in it's policy of extortion by keeping out the food products of Canada, Australia and the Argentine Republic"
 The democrats in the short session should make the fact plain that they favor the opening of the American mar ket to Canadian, Australian and Argen- tine beef and mutton. This is the only way in which ..the beef trust can be crrbed and controlled. The meat trust Is a clear and unmitigated product of the tariff wall, and that wall should be preached whenever and wherever it shuts out articles of daily necessity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-02
Wafer TransnOrtatiOn In the South

George G. Crawford president of the Tennessee company. calls attention in ar able, comprehensive and suggestive arti- cle contributed to tlAE Atlanta constitu- ton and reproduced in The Age-Herald to the unpreparedness of the south for the opening of the Panama canal. Among other things of direct bearing on the iron end steel industry. in the south Mir. Craw- fcrd says: of transportation facilities from southern ports are not provided the southern people are going to be disap- pointed in the beneficial effects of the Panama canal upon their district" This Is painfully true. Other cities farther away will reap the benefits accruing from the canal and our gulf ports will slum- Der on.
 What is true of our ports is true of our inland navigation. The Warrior will soon have six-foot barge navigation the year round, and yet no one can point to a producing company that is getting ready to take advantage of cheap water transportation to tidewater.
 This is not the case at Pittsburg. where the Ohio is navigable about 100 days in the year. After waiting five months for a rise in the river one has come and POO boats loaded with 100000 bushels of coal were at once started for New Orleans and intermediate points. It is 200 miles to New Orleans, and yet West Virginia coal barged down the Monongahela is re- shipped at Pittsburg and sent to New Or leans to drive out Alabama coal.
 Does not this mean that Alabama coal, too, should be barged down the Warrior and Bigbee and through Mississippi sound and Lake Borgne to New Orleans? It certainly does, and yet what coal operat- ing company is preparing to do this? The pioneer company will deserve great credit, and it will reap great profits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-02
Me, poor man, my liberty Was dukedom large enough. ' -Temuest,
Lefarsnn CnnntYls DisgTaCeiuI Jail


 Mrs. Maybrick, who has made study of iails and jail methods, said after visit ing the jail of this large and rich county this county whose assessed values total sl1o.Ooo COT thought Atlantas jail was bad enough. but this is worse'
 Can Jefferson county afford ta have the worst jail-one of the worst, at any rate in the country? This is a question every citizen should ask himself Mrs. May brick was unjustly confined in an Eng fish nrison 15 years, and when she sees A iail she knows at once what it is and what it is not.
 The Board of Revenue need not hesitate fin submitting plans for a skyscraper jail and courthouse to the people of this county. Every day is demonstrating the incapacity and utter unatness of the present jail,, and the people will be fully ready to vote upon the subject as sooii as the Board of Revenue is ready to sub init the question to them.
 The jail of the county needs rebuilding even more than its courthouse, although the latter is sadly outgrown. A county that suddenly springs up to population of 22s,ooo cannot be accommodated in courthouse-and jail-built when the cit! had less than 100000 people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-02
FAsTlDIoUs MILLIONAIRE

From "A Sylvan City"
 Girard died, in the Roman Catholic church, although a free thinker. He had not for years attended any of the ser vices but he said it was best for man tc stay in the church in which he was born.
 The people he liked best were the Quakers. He had sympathy with their disdain of forms, their shrewd business habits and. their Integrity.
 In his own dress he was as neat and particular as they were and did not look unlike them His plain coats were made of the best broadcloth; his underwear, of silk. was imported from China. He kept a pair of shoes for each day of the week and his nieces hemmed his square linen cravats by the dozen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-02
FOOTE AND HIS MOTHER

From the London Truth
 The tories urgently appeal to the liberal unionists for help in the pres ent emergency. The situation accu- rately resembles that recorded of Foote and his mother.
 The latter once wrote to the former
 Dear Sam: l am in prison for debt come and help your loving mother"
 To which Foote answered.:
 Dear Mother: So am I. Your loving son."
 It is difficult to decide which Is the more discredited, the tories or the lib- eral unionists, and both are revising their principles to accord them with the requirements of the public.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-02
DOGS OF SIT. BERNARD
rom the London Globe.

rTOin the LOnuOn GlODe.
 Although the tunnels which now connect Switzerland with Italy have greatly decreased the importance of the St. Bernard and other passes, especially during the eight months of snow. it is still deemed advisable to employ St. Bernard dogs. It is no longer customary, however, to send out the dogs alone with baskets of food and drink; a man always accom- panies them. @These dogs. are not real ly of the famous old St. Bernard breed That originated in the 14th century through cross between a shepherd dog from Wales and a Seandinatian dog from Wales and a Scandinavian and Pyrenean mastiff. The last pure descendant of this tribe was buried un- der an avalanche in 1916.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-02
PRICE OF FEARLEssNEss

Harvey j. OHiggins in Everybody's S
 Magazine.
 Denver's Beast has turned polecat' again. Unable to refute a single charge made by Judge Lindsey in "The Beast and the Jungle" the organs and agents of political corruption and protected vice in Denver have begun a national cam paign of public islander in order to de- fend themselves by discrediting him. They are mailing, by the hundreds to all parts of the United States, newspapers and pamphlets containing every sort of pro- cured lie, spacious misrepresentation, mis- report, and perjured affidavit against the man who has exposed them to public contempt in a statement of facts for which they can find no answer.