The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-26


drawn revolvers, the intrudes lin
ed up the hostess and her guests
in train robber fashion and pro
ceeded to go through the pockets
of the men and the handbags OF
the women, now and than paus-
ing to remove a tempting bit OF
jewelry.
The Congress of Mothers is
planning a practicularly interest
ing program for the conference
to be held in Atlanta February
"a. Delegates are expected from
every part of Georgia, and many
educators of national reputation
will address the meetings. The
meetings on Thursday, February
2, at 8 p. M, will be devoted in the
development of the child-mental,
bodily and spiritual. On Friday
night, February 3, there is to be
a joint meeting of the Congress
of Mothers and the Parent-Teach-
r Association, at which the ma
tional president, Mrs. Frederick
Schof, will be present. Both teach
ers and mothers will take part In
the discussion.
Friday, January 20, the BARRIERS
of Shanghai had a very busy day.
They attacked the cues of hun
dreds of Cinnamon. with shears
and razors. For a year past many
of the leading politicians and
business men have been advocat-
ing the cutting off of cues. There
were many objections, but WI
Ting Fang, former Chinese minis
ter to Washington, had at last
won over to the ANTIQUE party,
and he set aside January 20 as a
day when 145 of the leading bust
ness men, government officials
and bankers had their cues re
moved.
Because the elderly minister
who pronounced the words that
made her the wife of Mahlon E.
Havener kissed her after the we'd
ding ceremony, Mrs. Anna M.
HaVener, a pretty young woman of
Boston; was marched Strai GIT
home from the church by her n ,N-
ly made husband and subjected 10
a sound spanking. He held her
across his knees and spanked her
"awful hard" she declared
at the hearing of her suit for
divorce, In which she charged her
huSand, a well known usinesS man
of Boston, with cruelty.
Large committees will be the
rule In the lower House of the
Sixty-second Congress. Under a
resolution offered by Representa-
tive Coyington of Maryland and
carried by the caucus of the De-
mocratic Representatives. of
the next House on Thursday night
all the important committees will
have a total membership of TWEEN
each. The rules committee
on account of it's particular func-
tons will Eot be so large.
In preparation for the national
political campaign of 1912 a call
has been issued by the board of
directors Of the National Democ-
ratio League of Clubs for a con-
ference to be held in Indianapolis
April II and 13. The conference
was called at the request of the
presidents of the various State
leagues of Democratic clubs that
such a meeting be held at some
central point at which prominent
Democrats from all over the coun-
try may gather and discuss plans
for an active and systematic cam
paign next year.
It came out as a Well Street
presupmtionSaturday that the day
of fancy salaries for the heads Of
corporations is past, and that the
maximum henceforth will be $50,
600. The action of the Uuited
States Steel Corporation directors
in recommending that James A.
Farrell, its new president, receive
$4,000 instead of the 100000
paid to w. E.. Corey, resigned,
was the first symptoms of reduc-
ton. The death of Paul Morton,
who received $4,000 as president
of the Equitable Life Assurance
Society, removes another of the
few men whose service has com.
manded UNUSUAL salaries, and Cos
sip In financial circles has it that
the Equitable trustees were con.
sidering a reduction to $4,000 in
the case of Mr.. Morton's suces-
sor, who is as yet unnamed.