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.
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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.
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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