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making 1 '* Ma line, rich, ^ njR or plain food, |g^yequally valuabl If lndispensaE H For Home Da SHUT OUT PLAY Mayor of Raleigh Barred an Immoral Drama from the Stage. CLOSED UP THE HOUSE ' The (iiil from Hector's" Was Too Smutty for Public Exhibition ami Fifty Illue Coated Policemen Cleared the Theatre ami 1 Jarred the IK>or to All Comers. Wednesday, after a conference with the City Attorney, Walter ^iarK, jr., me Mayor 01 itaieign, is. | C., issued the following order to the chief of police. My dear sir: Taking notice of the 1 general reputation for indecency and ' immorality of the play known as ' The Girl from Rector's," as reported in the public press, and of the indecent and immoral character of the advertising of said play, 1 on February 15, gave notice to the manager of the Academy of Music at Raleigh and the manager of the said play that I would not permit the said play to be given here. As mayor and chief executive of the city of Raliegh, I hereby order yon as chief of police to station sullicient policemen at the opera house known as the Academy of Music so as to prevent the performance of the play known as "The Girl From Rector's," and I hereby authorize you to arrest any one who attempts to pro ceed with this preformance. \ J. S. Wynne, Mayor. All day most of the talk at Ra^ lcigh was about the show and the positive attitude of the mayor towards it. The theater manager employed three lawyer, among them ex- I Governor Aycock. The chief of police and a score of patrolmen entered the Academy of Music nearly an hour before the time set for the performance and bofore the performers had arrived and when there were only a handful of people in the seats, cleared out every body including the manager and took posession. Chief Stall re mained inside and a row of patrol " men stood in front of the great folding doors of the main entrance, which were closed. A crowd of several hundred quietly gathered, but there was no demonstration beyond cheer?, which were intended to ridicule the city authorities. Nearly the e.itire crowd were young men. Four false alarms of fire were turned in. In quick succession. The patrol wagon was kept near the theater so as to > he ready for use. An attempt was made at Lillington to induce Judge Oliver Allen to grant an order restraining the mayor and chief of police from interfering with the performance, hut the judge I declined. The trip to Lillington was made by a Raleigh attorney in an automobile. For nearly two hours not a few people hung around the theater, thinking something might turn up, but nothing happened. It is asserted that a suit for dam- < ages against the mayor and the city will grow out of the closing of the -^fcouse. It was said that if the police had waited until the curtain rose and 1 i . then stopped the show some one was ! to rise and personally denounce the < mayor. This statement was heafd I from several persons, but no ono ! would say who was to make the attack. I Only two arrests were made, one of the theatre electricians by Chief ' Stell at the side door and the other a ] ^pegro employe. The police left tho ; theatre at 10 o'clock. j v i Dentil of Kditor Ford. ] Mr. Arthur P. Ford, for many 1 i }ears editor of the Aiken Recorder, . passed away last week. Mr. Ford was a native of Charleston, but had I lived in Aiken for several years. He i was an excellent gentleman and the < announcement of his death will carry sadness to his many friends. I r I GAVE UP THEIR LIVES ; + IX AX EFFORT TO KESCl'K SUKVIVOKS FHOM A WHECK. Four Bravo Sailors Drowned Before Efforts Were Abandoned to Save Sliipwrecked People. A dispatch from Amoiul, Chile, 'says the Chilean cruiser Ministro and five steamers on the Pacilic Navigation conipanys line are racing south in the forlorn hope that they may save the SS persons who, when last reported, were clinging to the stern of the British steamer Lima as the vessel was pounding herself to pieces on a reef in the Staits of Magellan. 1 Two hundred and five nersons were I taken from the wreck by the British steamer Hatuniet and four of the Hatumets crew sacrificed their lives before their captain commanded his crew to cease their efforts. The Hatuniet has arrived at Amand, Chile, and her captain said: When we sighted the wreck we put out our small boats, which closely approached the stern of the Lima, where passengers and crew had gathered. We' made a connection between the two vessels with 500 fathoms of cable and were successful in lowering 105 persons into our small boats, and in getting them upon the Hatumet. "Heavy seas made the work of rescue perilous and finally the Lima's end of the cable slipped from her stern and became entangled in the rocks. Without the aid of the cable we could not reach the wreck. But for this accident all would have been , rescued. In the increasing seas our J boats made futile efforts to reach the wreck. The Lima threw out another line, which our chief mate made n daring attempt to pick up. "The second connection was eventually made, but the line, suddenly J tightening upset one of our small boats and our chief mate, ship's carpenter, the fourth engineer and a Spanish steward was drowned. My boat rescued the others of the small boat's crew. "I signalled the captain of the ' T.tmn Hint ?*? Im.l K,.* 11 V xivu .. mill II II L (flit; kSIIlil I 1 boat loft and that as this was badly strained we had hotter proceed to Ancud for further assitance. We wore delayed off Ancud by a dense fog." FLAT BOAT SINKS. In Koanoko lUvcr and Two Men Moot a Watery Grave. A dispatch from Scotland, Neck, N. C., says there was a sad and distressing accident Sunday at Hills terry near Palmyra on the Itoanoke river, Tn which two persons wore drowned, a white man named Octa\ius Ilyman, son of Mr. E. Hyman of that place, and a colored man named Richard Whedboe of Portsmouth, Va. Edward Boswell, who was taking a drovo of horses from Rocky Mount back to Virginia, was transporting them across Roanoke river an a flat boat. He was accompanied i y a ferryman, Frank Slaten, Whedbee and Hyman. It is said that the ferryman and the young white man v\as somewhat under the influence of liquor, and by some irregular handling the horses all gathered to one corner of the flat, which caused it lo dip water and sink. ( ?? ? G Rescued at Sea. i The British schooner Silver Leaf t arrived at Mobile Wednesday reports n the rescue of J. P. Roberts, the 1 keeper of the Rebecca Shore light i l-ouse. Roberts was found drifting r In a small boat about twenty-two i miles from Sandy Key and was near- t ly exhausted from exposure, want of r food and water. P ? c Now an international race is on J for the South Polo. Explorers ought r, to he warned not to leave their re- c cords under an Anartic rock. S Ambitious youth is of more value S than Indolent wealth. I ? A BUNCOE GAME Republicans Getting Ready to Try to Fool the People as to the CAUSE OF HIGH PRICES Seuutor Stone Tulks Out l'lainly an<l Warns the Country of the White Washing Scheme I't'opost'd by the Friends oi' the Recently Adopted Turin*. In u recent speech in the Semite Senator Stone of Missouri, said as an example oX newspaper comment, I quote the following from the Washington l'ost of February 3: "Frankly admitting the fear that a prolonged investigation of the increased cost of living by the Ways and Means Committee of the House, or as provided for by any of th? rival resolutions, might drag through out the summer and work to the disadvantage of the Republicans in the elections next fall, the Senate Finance Committee yesterday formulated a programme for a quick, sharp inquiry of the subject in all of its phases. Senator Lodge introduced in the Senate a resolution providing for the appointment of a committee of five Senators to do the work. "No problem, it is said, has proven so enibarrasing to the Republican party. When the majority members of the Finance Committee met yesterday consideration was given to demands from every section of the country that something be done to restore normal prices. Several Senators declared the high prices would be attributed directly to the tariff, and unless something was done to refute these charges the Republican party would be compelled to bear the brunt of the attack." i ills is from one of the most intol gently contucted newspapers in the country and a paper whose partiality for the administration is well and widely known. If it be true that the I scheme is to exonerate the new tar iff law from blame well and good, for 1 know of nothing that stands in greater need of a deep-laid coating of whitewash. Would it not be a misnomer to call such a thing an "investigation?" Think of it, Mr. President, a plan projected and organized not for a broad and impartial inquiry, but for the primary purpose of proving that the new tariff law is in no wise responsible for the untoward conditions which have stirred the people to demand both information and relief. If this investigation is to be made by the men who framed it and forced this tariff Iniquity through Congress, will the Investigation be worth the price the taxpayers must pay for it? 1 venture to conjecture that our friends who are engineering this business will find it difficult to hoodwink a majority of the American people. They may succeed in doing it, but they will find it a difficult task. Mr. President, that a material and marked advance has been made in the pries of the necessaries of life, not only in food stuffs, hut in other necessaries, since the Payne-Aldrich law was enacted is so manifest and universally known as to be beyond Intelligent dispute. Whether this enhancement in current prices is due In any measure to the tariff may be the subject of dispute, but the fact nf the rise in prices since the ??#? - mont of the law is beyond the realm of disputation. I see it reported in the press within the last few days that Dr. II. W. Wiley, of the Agricultural Department, is accredited with suggesting at a public hearing before the District Commissioners that the American hen is largely to blame for the increase in the cost of foodstuffs. He is reported as saying hat the American hen is being bred 'or commercial purposes and taught :o lay smaller eggs and more of hem. He seemed to think the hen night be trained to lay smaller eggs, mt he doubted her capacity to ma* orially increase the supply. Yes, dr. President, the causes for the in:rease in prices may he problemati!al, but the fact is indisputable. No loubt there are others like Doctor ,Yiley who stand ready to accuse lie American hen more vehemently han the American tariff. Again, Mr. President, the Senator rotn Masschusetts in his speech ex>lains the rise of prices partly by vhat ho states to he the fact that the lemand for commodities has increasd without a corresponding increase n production and partly by the fact hat the world's ,giold supply had been ugmented beyond the needs of busnens and the arts. Narrowing the nquiry for the moment to the actual oint involved in what I am saying, t certainly will not be contended hat any marked difference in demand and suoolv for commodities in . tenoral has occurred since tho Prcsl- i lent signed tho new tariff law on ] August 5, 1900, and therefore tho < inlck rise in prices since that date i :an not ho attributed to that cause. < lecondly, while the argument of tho i Jenator respecting tho effect on | )rlces of the increased supply of I I ' TURNED TO STONE I IIODV OF MAX Hl'UlFI) TIIKFI YKAKS AGO PliTlUFlFl) tiemnins of S. T. Blaskey, of George town, When Taken I'p, Was Fount to Ik* a Solid Muss. A special to The State says ar incident which aroused considerabU curiosity in Georgetown came l? tight Wednesday afternoon when the remains of S. T. Hlaskey wore dis interred from his grave in Kim wood cemetnry, where he was huried tnorf than three years ago. It was tin desire of relatives of the deceased that his body be removed and r? Interred in another spot of the ceinitery. Arrangements were made for tin disenterment Wedn? sday evening when several of the friends and relatives of the deceased went to th cemetery for the purpose. When ?n attempt was made to raise the cas kf,t from the grave it. was found that the combined strength of several m**u could not raise it, and others wen called to aid in removing the cas K.et from the grave. When the casket was taken from the grave and opened it was found that the body of Mr. Klaskey haei completely petrified. It was fully recognizable with the exception thai his face had turned rather dark. Kv en the burial clothes appeared intact Mr. Klaskey lived here seven years and was engaged in tailoring and was of foreign nationality. The body was of solid stone and still had the resemblance of Mr. Klaskey. Th< pe trification of the body is attributed by many to stratification e> f th^ earth where the grave* was. FIKND CI I AS 101) AND CAUCIIT. Entered a Lady's Itoom and was Kan Down With Klooelhounds. Henry Oivens, a black fiend, Tuesday night entered the hod room of a white lady at the Healing Spying settlement near Blackville, hut w.'s frightened away when she screamed. Supervisor Jack Morris was notified, and at once went on the trail with 1 loodhounds. The negro was treck'*1 "onte, caught and taken to Humwell, whore he confosed. The white woman whom the negro atneked was sleeping in her home Tuesday night with the light burning. Her husband was away at the time. The negro entered the room in his hare feet, blew out the light and seized the sleeping woman's arm. She awoke at once, and thinking some of her family had been taken ill, called each by name. Her two sister, who were in another room, heard her calls, and hastened to her room. At their coming the negro fled, brushing against one of them in the doorway and nearly knocking her down. Hy his tracts it was found that he had left his shoes behind the barn in the rear of the house, and after leaving the house had stopped to put them on again before resuming his flight. The hounds traced him hrough a wood, and followed the tracts to his house, where he was captured. After being carried to Barnwell he confessed his crime. So quietly did Supervisor Morris work that not till next morning that news of the attempted assault become generally known in Blackvllle. By that time (lie negro had been safely lodged in jail at Barnwell, and there was 110 excitement. Tug Given Up. An atmosphere of gloom pervaded the navy department at Washington Tuesday when the messages received failed to disclose any word regarding the whereabouts of the missing navy tug Nina and the men aboard. gold in recent years may bo well founded, it can not be contended that that cause h is operated to any appreciable extent on the increase of prices which immediately followed upon the enactment of the now law. The Senator from Massachusetts made this statement: "Gold1 is the standard by which other commodities are measured. If gold grows scarcer and dearer, a'l other commodities fall in price. If on the other hand, gold increases more rapidly than the demand of business and the arts requires, it will jecome clump and more plentiful, and the prices of all the oilier commodities which it measures will rise." I feel sure, Mr. President, that the Senator from Massachusetts must have extracted that quotation from tome speech made by Mr. Bryan or 3011)6 other Democrat during the memorable campaign of ISbfi. Th it campaign was anterior to thi new liscoveries?enormous discoveries ? if gold since made in our Western States, In Alaska, Africa, Australia, ind elsewhere, and at that time the estimated per capita circulal'on of the country was lar below that of the present. The actual amount of mon?y then supposed to be in the country was littlo more than one-half of what it is supposed to he at th's time, even If the whole of our possible circulation at that period had been available. . * Bank oi CON Wi Jg Capital Stock l)r|MX*itfl - A Total Assess 1 T i>i Hi4 fjK J. A. McDermott, i Zi T. McNeill, H. Ci. . tlebauin, Hal. L. <iS ' Tl.~ -I i ? r_, tnu IMIICM I ?a IIK 111 11??I ' jfli oliiiH. Associated wit li. t In* i jkj the past (locailo. Out*, polic I tyy the "Independent ItepuhMr." ? /|\ to our custdinrrs every . rea; r/<\ tout with sound hanking. \Yi ! A als, linns and corporations. nS 1). A. Sl'IVKY, ij$ Vice-President. HANK Ol Conwa i CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS . LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDERS ! SECURITY TO DEPOSITORS 1)1 R Hi 1 Robert P. Scarborough, H. li. Buck, George J. Holiday, 1 We continue to jay f> per cent interi ' it youraccouiit I SOBKBT B. BCAKBoiiidT.il, II Pit KB I UK NT. FARMERS lf,NfiRRn 1U11 V liiil/ illNTIOIUS LICFN'SIO Itl lifj IvI Ll,ki> by this iiocsis. hi I'tU'i' Disregard <>i' tli*' (''armors Who Ihul Requested Some Such I'rotortion for Birds. Under tho caption "Request of Fanners Disregarded," The State ed . itorially says: "If we may judge by the resolutions adopted at various . me .it i . .^s of farmers last summer, the farmers of South Carolina wished legislative support for tho Audubon tociety and favored a gun or huuieis license. Certainly every sportsman in the State, and every "hunter, for the pot or otherwise, who is possessed of common sense, favors the enforcement, of sound game laws, and recognizes that a gun tax will not only result in less harrying of game by the most irresponsible element of population, but will furnish the means, in the easiest and most equitable, manner, fod the enforcement of the game laws. "But tiie hill taxing guns was killed in the House. The licneso, as reduced by the Senate, was very small, very small?fifty cents, or less than the price of a box of shells. That license, however, light as it would be upon individuals, would have given the Audubon society the means of not only protecting game, but of preserving the birds that any of tremendous value t.o the farmers. "The bill was lost by five votes, and tho record reveals the absence of forty-one members, or one-third of the membership of that branch of tin Legislature?not a brilliant showing from any viewpoint." In order that every tub may stand on its own bottom when the members of the legislature who may seek for reelection Due the people this summer in the primary we give the vote on this bill as recorded in the house journal on the motion to kill the bill: Those who voted to kill the bill: Joshua W. Ashley, Melvil J. Ashley, Lowers, W. I). Bryan, Bunch, Celey, Dixon, Duvall, Foster, Fultz, Garris, VV. J. Gibson, Glasscock, Graham, Green, Griffin, J. It. Harrison, Ilorger, Jackson, Lane, League, Lee, Mars, Mauldin, Moseley, Nesbitt, Nunnery, Patterson, Paulling, Itichards, Itobertson, Sanders, C. T. Shuler, Singleton, 1). L. Smith, K. P. Smith, Stanley, .Tared I). Sullivan, P P. Sullivan, Way, Whatley, Wiggins, Williams, (). I). A. Wilson I I. ; Those who voted not to kill the bill: Speaker Whaley, Ayer, Bodie, ? Bowman, Brice, T. P. Brown, Brownin o IO M ?? " ~ . . .... i.ijun, i,autre ii, carter, 1 Carwile, Daniel, Dick, Hoard, 10. C. I0d wards, Mollis, Hughes, Dawson, Iceland, Lengnick, McColl, McEachern, McKeown, MeMahan, Nicholson, Niver, Ridgell, Sawyer, Sell)els, 11. A Shuler, Simkins, ('has. A. Smith, ' Stubbs, Suydaiu, Todd, Vander ilorst, < Wells, Wingo, Wright?HO. Those who were absent and did I not vote. Amlch, Berg, Boyd, B. II. t Brown, Bush, Carey, Carrigan, Carwlie, Clary, Coker, Cosgrove, Coth- t ran, Dingle, Isaac Edwards, Eraser, Casque, J. P. Gibson, Hall, Hamer, 1 Harmon, Harris, W. C. Harrison, llines, Hydrlck, Irby, Klbler, Mann, 1 Mobley, Q. M. Riley, w. L. Riley, 1 Roessler, Rucker, Scarborough, W. i 1 L. Smith, Spears, Tobias, Utsey,'< wr*. .i - ? . " JvjF5? r Conway \ iv. s. o. ^ $50,04)0.00 W 150,000.00 250,000.00 :ctoks 3? .Ino. C. Splvcy, I). juL Collins, C. P. Quat- it Buck, I). A. Spivey. rrv mill a nimuwr i 41? .. , . ninK III * l*r- at 'lipid progress of our County for mL y has born for tlir upbuilding of fiZ With this in virw \vr extend otninblr arroininodat ion ronsis- fl^i ' solicit tlie accounts of iudivldti- /K IIAL. L. llt'Cli, & Cashier. a - IIOHKY, y. S, C. $ 5o<)0( 10 oat ; 50 oq 1 10 UOi JIORS W. Ii. Lewie, W . A. Johnson, Will A. Freeman, est on yearly clej>ohitB, ai.ovi tolicI L 1UJ0K, WILL A. FHI FMAN VlCK FitK8IDKNT. CAHHIER HL'KltOldlS & COLLINS CO., Conway, H. C. f*ltOI<'KNHICNAL CAIIDH. II. II. WOODWAlil) Attorney anil Couucelor At Law* CONWAY, H. C. C. K. ST. A.MAN 1J, Attorney at Law Conway, 8. C. K. II. HCAItHHOLOH CONWAY, 8. f Attorney at Law. W. K. McCOItl>, 81'KGKON DlONTIS'l. CONWAY, 8. C. Over Bunk of flurry H. H. BURROUGHS .? ? Phjoiclnn and Hurgcoft: 'Mifiht*:. , ..jism CONWAY, 8. 0. ra^Mp- u?i i m n.._ . . B. woi'i'(Vni) WAIT!" sat*,? . -m Attorney at Lit /< SE*lfc. ,*5tsn CONWAY, 9. C. ,4 THE WORLDS 6REATESTSEWIN6 MACHINE k .LIGHT RUNNING ^ Efyou wunt elthora VlbrntiriKShuttle. Rotary fehuttloor a Single Thread [Chain SlUcU\ Hewing Machlno write to EHE NEW HOME 8EWINQ MACHINE COMPANY Orange, Mass. Many sewing machines are made to sell regardless of Quality, but the Xrw lloiae is made tu weal. Our guaranty never runs out. flk?l<l by authorized denlertt only*' FOR SALB BV ' )Thc man who is unpopular with most women is seldom popular >eniiKh with any one to marry hor. Most men are better nt ? v. 1%V litis >lans than they arb at carrying them hrough. Success is nothing but tho ability o keep from being hampered by disA:ado, W. it. Wilson. Jr., VVycho. Of the Orangeburg delegation, Mr. rlorger voted to kill the bill; Messrs liowman and Shuler voted for the >ill and Mr. Hydrlch was absent and lid not vote for or against it.