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5 Undesirable Emigrants ? l ^ Additional Means Suggested for Their 1 t Exclusion I 8> ft Af. Gescheidt 1 TJCH has be ?n said and written about the Black Hand and I _ ' I other undesirable emigrants, but no remedy has been sugJ I gested whereby this class of undesirable persons can be f! l^rfl I prevented from enterine our roiintrv I think I ran suecest A A a remedy. Congress should enact a law making It compulsory for a person emigrating from a foreign country to this country to produce a certificate from the place whence he comes, duly attested by one of the highest ottlcials of said place, where be has either resided or been domiciled, that ho is a person of good character and has been self-supporting and never been convicted of a crime; and after uch certificate has been given to the emigrant and presented here to the Immigration commissioners or officials of the United States where he intends to or does land, the same shall be duly reaffirmed by the oath and signature of such person that the facts contained in the certificate are true, then and then only shall he or she be permitted to land. If it is otherwise discovered or ascertained that such declaration is false, then such oath so taken by said person shall be deemed perjury under the laws of the district i 11 U'hloh the* omitrronf lonHo moboo 1 - m ? tt-itib ?uv vuiiQiHiit luuun UI iuai\co uio icoiucii\-c VI domicile, and he shall be prosecuted by the criminal branch of the United States District Court in the district in which he lands or makes his residence or domicile, and he shall be punishsd in accordance with the laws in such case xnade and provided. The mere deportation of an undesirable emigrant is insufficient to check the evil results that follow by emigrants that are undesirable being permitted to land. The laws on deportation can still exist and will not be affected by the law as above suggested or a similar law that might be enacted by Congress. Any person, whether a born or naturalized citizen or an alien, cannot find fault with a law of this character, because such a law will elevate the country from which the emigrant comes as well as elevate the emigrant himself in the community where he intends to make his residence or domicile. This letter is not written with the aim to any particular country, because there are good and bad from every country. ^ ^ | Why the Kettle Drum Is if \ Difficult to Play \. P By Jessie Katharine MacDonald ^ 1 HE kettledrum has been so far Improved that it has a pitch; in fact, it contains the large range of four notes. It is, as I its name shows, a c-opper kettle, or basin, covered over with ^ skin, which can be tightened or loosened by screws placed mi around the edge. Drums of this shape were used by the ^ Jf Roman, and even earlier by the Greeks and Etruscans. But they were not known in Western Europe before the Cru JJ sades. Although it may appear so, the kettle drum is not at all an easy instrument to manage. For, in order to get each of the four notes the player has to turn all the screws, and adjust the parchment anew. For this reason kettle drums are often used in pairs .one tuned to the key note, the other to the fourth below. In this way the drummer has always the two chief notes in the scale to work upon, and, if the composer has not exacted much from him. he will have quite an easy time. But when a change of key Is approaching, it is quite exciting to watch the drummer screwing and unscrewing the drum and lightly tapping to hear if the pitch Is true. And If we recollect that he often has to tune his drum while the whole orchestra is lifting up its voice, we realize that ht must be no mean musician; thar he must possess an exquisitely sensitive and well-trained ear, and a steady hand and nerve as well.?From St. Nicholas. ^ ^ ^ ^ I 77ze Element of Interest | 7 ly Waldo P. Warren / *' ? T has been said that there is only one interesting thing lu J the world, and that is life; and that all other things are in V teresting only as they bear relation to life. + JL + This undoubtedly explains why certain advertisers J make frequent use of pictures which, in addition to the advertised article, contain some suggestion of human life. It lillltllU '8 ra<^tor an<* chlld- tlle 8(>ap and the child, the flour and the woman, the phonograph aud the family. Even a human hand holding a tube of tooth-paste Is considered more interesting than a facsimile of the package alone. An advertiser of men's clothing often introduces the picture of women, knowing that the thought of their presence instinctively raises the standards of dress. Some advertisers who wish to appeal strongly to women do not neglect any reasonable opportunity to introduce a picture of a baby, knowing that it will instinct ively interest the average or normal woman, whether she Is a mother or not. Whenever a picture Includes men and women together?whether it advertises hunting outfits, bookcases, shaving soap, pianos, or automobiles?It is sure to have an added interest for most people because it contains the one I. interesting element of human life. It is tne same element that gives vitality and interest to literature, sculpture, painting, and music?that which illuminates and in some way helps to interpret life. * It is the element that unifies all the arts and industries, and binds society togetber?making "of one blood all the nations of the eartji.'* It is the wise advertiser who works with the predominating tendency of human life, and cleverly assoc.iartes his product with the one thing in wnicb all people everywhere are already interested.?Collier's Weekly. ^ ^ ^ ^ i Sugar Satisfies the ^ $ Inner Man k ? Ey Dr. Woods Hutchinson 5 IVE cnildren plenty of pure sugar, taffy and butter-scotcu, Gand they'll have little need of cod liver oil. In short, sugar is, after meat, bread and butter, easily I' our next most important and necessary food. You can put i the matter to a test very easily. Just leave off the pie. ? _ pudding and other desserts at your lunch or midday dinner. I ^ ^ You'll be astonished to find how quickly you'll feel "empty" I ? ? again and how "unfinished" the meal will seem. You can't . get any working man to accept a dinner pail without pie in ! u. And he's absolutely right. It i3 a significant fact that -the free lunch coun- j tern run In connection with bars, furnish every imaginable thing except i sweets. Even the restaurants and lunch grills attached to saloons or bars of- ( ten refuse to serve desserts of any sort. They know their business?the more sugar aud sweets a man takes at a meal, the less alcohol he wants. Converse ly, nearly every drinking man will tell you that he has lost his taste ror fcc sweet*. The mor.- candy a nation consumes, the less alcohol. The United States government buys pure candy by the ton and ships It to the Philippines to be sold at cost to tKe soldiers in the canteens. AIT men crave It in the tropics, and the more they get of it the less "vino" and whiskey K they want R In fine, the prejudice against sugar Is born of Puritanism and stinginess, equal parts. Whatever children cry for must be bad for them, according to 1 the pure dortrtne' of original sin; besides, It costs money. THE NEWS IN BRIEF= Items of Interest Gathered By Wire and Cable GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY Live Items Covering Events of More , or Less Interest at Home and ] Abroad. I Six states in the upper Mississippi . Valley were shaken by an earthquake . between 8 and 9 a. m., Wednesday. No serious damage is reported. , On the liquor issue in Petersburg, Thursday, the city went "wet." Walter Holcombe, of Rabun conn- . ty, Gn., was implicated with two | other men in a homicide 32 years ago j and sentenced to 9 years imprisonment. The other two served the penalty but Holcombe escaped. Recent- J ly be returned, a gray headed man of 75, to live quietly among home * scenes unsuspected, but was reeog- * nized and now goes to prison. Mrs. Anna Cleveland Hastings. * sister of Grover Cleveland, died at * XT--4 f J /-? - Aianxuru, *_,onn., inst Tuesday at the age of 79 years. Four children survive her. . Filizabeth Mullen, 18 years old. at , Williamson, W. Va., shot .at Norman Pardue, a well known coal operator, I last Monday, the ball piercing his * hand, bujt it struck Geo. Montgomery in the head and killed him instantly. She claims that Perdue wronged her. The price of wheat has taken another decided advance in price. Wm. Bass, a mral mail carrier, demanded of Bradley Parker, a clerk in a store in Wilmington, to sell him ammunition Monday morning with which he purposed to do violence to another. Bradley remonstrated and refused to sell him the ammunition whereupon Bass shot him dead. Bass ia in -ioil The North Carolina State Bank- 1 ens' Association mot in Charlotte on j the 25th, holding its sessions in the ' Solwyn Hotel. Alex. Stroberg. near Sycamore, 111., j found a tooth, last week, of some extinct animal. It weighs ten pounds and is a foot in diameter. Scientists think the animal must have been 50 ( or 60 feet long and high as a com- 1 mon small house, with a mouth cap- ( able of biting off whole tree tons. The American Cotton Manufaetu- 1 rers' Association met in Richmond. ' Va., on Tuesday. The Baptist University for Women ( located at Raleigh. N. C., which has not in any sense been a tiniversity, ) has been renamed Meredith College. The D. A. R.s presented a hand- ' some silver candelabra to the Miss- . issippi at Natchez, on last Friday. The firm of Wilkes, Poe & Co., A at Greenville, S. C., recently received $600 of current money in a letter without revealing from whom it came or for what purpose it was intended I A Mrs. Helen Longstreet.^ the widow 1 of the famous Confederate general, J hearing some one in her house at Gainesville, Ga.t last Saturday night, got her pistol and soon opened fire on 1 a burglar, after her silver ware. He ; returned the fire and fled. She es- 1 caped injury but thinks she wounded 1 him. j Washington Affairs. c Expert physician Edward Ehlers, ^ from Copenhagen, has passed upoK ^ the case of John R. Early, of North j Carolina, and pronounces his case real leprosy. He caught the malady ^ in the Philippines. Early is isolated in a little house on the east banks of ^ the Potomac. S. N. D. North resigned as Direc- ^ tor of the Census Wednesday, and E. Dana Durant was appointed to sue- * ceed him. John L. Girffith is made Consul- t General at London to succeed Robert 1 J. Wynner. In a speech at Howard University, President Taft advised the negroes to strive to win the friendship and * respect of the Southern people. ? Senator Bristow attacked the "No. '* 1 Dutch" text as the "joker" in the ' au*ar Bi-neuuie, weanesday, which en- ! ables the trust to control the sugar trade of the country. Senator' Smoot delivered a long speech Wednesday defending the high , tariff and differential on sugar. Secretary Dickinson has returnad , from Panama, a thorough believer in the lock type of canal rather than the sea level type. In conformity to directions of Pres- 1 ident Tnft to the Secretaries to cut j estimates to meet the deficiency of the treasury, Secretary Meyer has . given the navy a cut of $10,000,000. . The government has found only 17 out of 29 explosives safe for mines. . Fire damp, air damp and coal dust . of various mixtures have been produc- . ed and the explosives applied in the teat. Secretary of War Dickerson is . pleased with conditions at Panama, but was too sick to land at Havana. Foreign News Notes. I ' The Venezuelan courts have de- I olarnrl foefwo ~ ? ~1 . , v, ....JUICIH ill iijc cnarge j of complicity in the attempt to as- ^ sassinate President Gomez. The new battleship being built by England it is said, will be 30 per cent more dreadful than the Dread- ( nought. Ex-President Roosevelt and bis son Kermit seem to meet with unpar- I | Ueled success in downing all kinds I 1 of rare beasts and birds in Africa. 1 1 ASSEMBLY IS HANDS OFF Complaint of Ooceral Bennett H. Young and Rev. C. W. Som-rville Against the Synod of Kentucky. Which Sought to Bring Before the Assembly the History of the Passing of Central University From the Control of the Kentucky Synod, is Not Sustained. Savannah. Ua., Special.?No interference with tlx; present status of Central University of Kentucky is to 3e made by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. The vote :hat decided this question was upon i motion to sustain the complaint of General Bennett U. Young and Rev. C. W. Somerville, of Kentucky, tvhich, had it passed, would have prought before the Assembly the vholfc question of its jurisdiction and vould have delved back deeply into he history of the passing of Central University from the control of the Kentucky Synod. The settlement was reached "Wedlesday afternoon and is probably inal. The vote to sustain the complaint was lost 80 to 99. Two votes, me of them came by former Moderator Rev. W. \V. Moore, were recorded as in favor of sustaining the eomplaint in part. Two minutes each vas allowed the commissioners to lisclose their opinion on the question, ifter the COmnlninnnfc nnJ mnroton atives of the Synod of Kentucky lad finished their arguments. Most >f those who spoke favored the com>laint, while most of those who voted tgainst it were silent. N. C. Bankers in Session. Charlotte, N. C., Snecial.?Meeting promptly at 10 o'clock Wednesday norning for the second day of the hirteenth annual convention of the ^orth Carolina Bankers' Association he members of that organization and 'riends quite filled the Selwyn asscm)ly hall. From the opening to the dosing minute interest was sustained | n all, and none who attended the | session was in any wiso disappointed, ieneialship was displayed by the programme prepared and by the cliaricter of the speakers whose consent o sp<?ak had been secured. Ability >f a high order and careful prepare ion, on the other hand, was shown by lie merit of the addresses delivered. Features of the day were the adIresses by President Herbert W. laekson. of Raleigh; Mr. W. A. Hunt, )f Henderson, the secretary and reasurer, who made his annual remit, an exceedingly creditable showng being made; Mr. William H. iVhite, of Salisbury, who told of the invention of the American Bankers' Association; Judge Robert W. Winston, of Raleigh, who read a paper on 'What the Public Owes the Banker uid What the Banker Owes the Pubic." and Mr. W. O. Jones, of the Park National Bank, of New York, vho spoke on "The Country Banker." Parker Elected President. Richmond, Va., Special.?The convention of the American Cotton Manifacturers' Association was brought 0 a close Wednesday afternoon with he election of the following officers: President, L. W. Parker, Greenville, S. C.; vice president, C. K. Oliver, Baltimore; secretary and treasi^er, C. B. Bryant, who has held that iffice since 1901. To supply six vacancies on the )oard of governors due to the rerma >f incumbents expiring the following vers chosen: W. A. Ervin, Durham; AT. H. Harris, Pawtucket, R. I.; C. D. fuller, Atlanta, Ga.; C. H. Moody, iuntsville, Ala.; Ridley Watts. New fork, and L. D. Tyson, Knoxville, Tenn. Resolutions were adopted endorsing he Overman Senate bill placing a tax >f $12 a head on all immigrants to his country, commending the idea of 1 national highway from Washington o Atlanta, Ga., and favoring the apxiintment of a committee to inquire nto and report on the beat method of finning and baling cotton. Early Undoubtedly a Leper. Washington, Special.?John Early, he leper, now isolated on a farm out;ide the city, Monday submitted to an examination by I)r. Edward Ehlers, >f Copenhagen, brought here for the lurpose by the Washington Post. Dr. Shlers asserted that in his opinion here is no possible doubt that Early s afflicted with leprosy. Early is a lative of Lynn, N. C., and contracted i,. a:~ tiLii! ._ uo uicusc iu me rnuippines. 'Muchly-Married" Man to Serve Five Years. Fayetteville, N. C., Special.?John fTowell was Wednesday convicted of )ijramy in the Superior Court and sentenced to five years in the peniteniary. Howell has been married five imes, having four wives living:, three >f whom were present in court to estify against him. They were inroduced to each other in a majrisrafn '*i r.flfipo O"'' L " 1 n.iu UfJIlt'U lOrethor by Sheriff Watson. Tbev seemed to enjoy very much relating -heir various experiences with their nutual husband. Condemned Meat Now Soap Grease. Greenville, S. C.t Special.?The 16,000 pounds of condemned meat in the local warehouse of Swift & Co., was Wednesday Anally disposed of, the whole lot being sent to Greenville sentral slaughter pen, where it was rendered into soap grease. Each load was weighed and taken to the tank under the personal supervision of Dr. C. E. Smith, the city meat and milk inspector. READY TO OPI Alaska-Yukon-Pacific E Its Gates June 1st. J Button Which Sta Seattle, Wash., Special.?On June 1st, with a blare of trumpets and booming of guns and such a fanfare of noise and gayety as no Pacilic coast city has ever known before, the gates of the Alasko-Yukon-Pacilic Exposition will be thrown open to the public. Although there remain a few finishing touches to be added, the greatest of far Western expositions It practically ready for President Taft to press the golden key that will flash across the continent the signal for the opening of the big show. With all the myriad wheels running smoothly, the managers are heaving a great sigh of relief at having done what has never been accomplished before?the completion of an international exposition before the datt set for the opening. It has been remarked that all oxpositions since the great Paris and Chicago shows have merely done over again what had been done before. The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition at Seattle is going to be different. It is not going to be an exhibit of tho known, but of the unknown. Those who planned this year's show assumed nothing less than the task of introducing that half of the world which is developed almost to the ultimate to that other half which by comparison is not developed at all and which for centuries to come must be the field of the world's greatest work. Seattle's exposition will bring together tho Occident and the Orient and fetch Alaska from the north to know them both. It will assemble the islands and peoples of the south seas, so that Aagal may look at Siwash and the world know each as he is. Also the Easterner may look tipDAVIS* NAME IS RESTORE The following formal announcement is particularly pleasing to the lovers of the Confederate president: Headquarters United Confederate Veterans. New Orleans, May 21, 1909. General Qrders No 13? 1 Tl,? 1 v 1 j.. a iic general commanding lias pleasure in expressing the satisfaction he feels in announcing officially that the name of Jefferson Davis has been restored to the tablet on "Cabin John Bridge.1' As Secretary of War of the United States he had been largely instrumental in constructing tlys aqueduct, and to note this fact his name, with others, had been placed on the tablet, but during the War Between the States partisans caused it to be chiselled off. Mr. Davis being at that time the President of the Confederate States. By this restoration an act of justice has been done to one of America's greatest statesmen. The fact is in itself trival, but it is momentous in significance. It SOUTHERN COLLEGES TO New York, Special.?The General Education Board Thursday announced a number of aprop. "ations, among them several of $200,0w or more. In 1907 John D. Rockefeller gave the General Education Board an endowment of $32,000,000 to be used for the purposes of the hoard. Among appropriations announced Thursday were: Randolph-Macon Women's College. Lynchburg, Va.. $75,000. For agricultural demonstration work in the Southern States, $102,000. For professors of secondary education in the State universities of the Southern Statps. Jfi3.7"iO Hampton Normal and Agricultural i VIOLENCE TO PROPERTY Atlanta, Ga.. Special.'?The first violence to railroad property in the Georgia Railroad firemen's strike occurred Friday night to n moving freight at Lithonia, Ga., and the race situation in consequence loomed more sharply than even the strike situation, notwithstanding a day of much apparent progress towards settlement. A negro fireman was apparently SENATOR DANIEL IN SUP Washington. Special.?The following is a paragraph of* Senator Daniel's speech on the tariff: "In any fair fight?and the tariff all over the world is becoming a fight ?that does not involve oppression, greed, sharp practice, or something of the sort, I stand in all things on the side of the American. It is a natural instinct of a patriotic man to do ?o; lie ought to do so. When vou go to building five and six-story tariffs, with towers and steeples on the top?specific, cumulative, compensatory, ad valorem, prohibitive, and all JUDGE CONNOR TAKES 0 Raleigh. N. C., Special.?The commission of Judge Connor, signed by the President, arrived Friday afternoon, and he paid a short visit to the Federal Ruilding after its arrival. It is understood that he will take the oath of office Tuesday morning before United States Commusioner .TnV.r. u:- : * ? >.. tiniiwi.''. urn rumprniumn was tendered and took effect on May 31st, and bis term began on Tuesday. There \ WAT FAIR xposition Throws Open 'resident Taft Presses rts the Exposition on peoples and scenes of his own country that he knows not. This is the fundamental difference between the Alska-Yukon-Pacific show and its predecessors. But there are others. The exposition will be ready to open on time. It was 95 per cent, completed three months before the opening date, and it did not have the financial aid of the United States government. Equally surprising is the fact that the hotel keepers of the exposition city have made an ironclad agreement not to raise their rates. The railroads expect to carry 2,000,000 neonle tn Spnttlp tide enrnm-n* j They will see the most novel and I what Charles Dana Gibson has pronounced to be the most beautiful exposition ever planned . The manner in which not only the Pacific coast States, but all coutries and communities, have prepared for representation at Seattle indicates that the world places a high valui* on this opportuity to see and be seen in that quarter of the universe where wealth and development will make their gicatcst strides in the next few decades. The nationl government gave no financial support to the exposition, but it has spent a million on i's buildings and exhibits. One liundr'd thousand of this sum was alloted to the Alaska exhibit. The Alaskans themselves promptly doubled this sum in order that the territory's timber, its gold, copper, fisheires and agriculture might have a chance to convince the world that Alaska is not an ioebox, but a treasure chest. Japan, whose peeople have had a little trouble in Washington. is nrenarinor tn ovhihit on a scale for greater than anything attempted at other expositions. D TO CABIN JOHN BRIDGE emphasizes the truth that our countrymen will recognize worth; that Mr. Davis, who was thoroughly Southern in his sentiments, can be truly valued by those who were once his enemies, and that he was actuated by lofty motives and conceptions of duty, as were other statesmen and soldiers of the Confederacy. II. It is possible that this desruble result would never have been reached had not our glorious women taken the matter in hand an pushed it to completion. The Confederate Southern Memorial Association started the work in 1907, and Mrs. J. Enders Robinson, of Richmond, and Mrs. W. J. Behan, of New Orleans, assisted by the U. D. C. and kindred organizations have the thanks of all Confederates for the accomplishment of this work. By command of Clement A. Evans, General Commanding. Official: Wm. E. Mickle. Adjutant General and Chief of Staff. GET EDUCATIONAL FUNDS I Institution, Hampton, Va., $10,000. Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., $10,000. Calhoun Colored School, Calhoun, Ala., (to complete industrial buildnigs), $2,625. Hendrix College, Conway, Ark., $75,000. Davidson College, Davidson, N. C., $75,000. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., $50,000. Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ga., $100,000. Iv nwnliiro Tnctilnfn IT"A 1 xuotuutc, IV <J ?? tlll^U , Altl<| $5,000. Spolman Seminary, Atlanta, Ga., $10,000. BY STRICT SYMPATHIZERS the cause of the trouble, and he was rushed to Atlanta in an engine to save him from what his engineer, at least, believed was a threatening situation. The trouble started in the throwing of one or two stones and the boarding of the freight by men who set the brakes and broke it into three sections. The freight now brocks the main line of the road and the progress of United States mails. PORT OF HIGHER DUTIES that?I must speak to them, examine, and, when they overpass what is .iust, fair, and equitable to the American man, I vote against them. Show me what the just thing is and, I do not care what name you call it, I am for it. Conjurers sometimes use the (r name 'protection' and 'free trade' f without distinct meaning. I may vote / for a 10 per cent tariff on lumber ^ in some form, and when I do, I fear r I shall be immediately proscribed by such new enthusiasts as perhaps my distinguished friend from Indiana (Mr. Beverdidge) as voting for a pro | tactive tariff." ATH OF OFFICE TUESDAY f will be no change in the court officials, it is understood. Major Hiram L. Grant continues clerk and Mr. Tonnoffski deputy clerk. The court docket is a fairly full one. There are three peonage cases, in which the charge is detaining i labor, the defendants being J. H. and Asa Fussell, of Duplin county; Frank I Godwin, of Sampson, and H. G. Ellington, of Johnston. . Y i'&mM