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Fried potatoes Cut pared potatoes In thin slices straws or dice Soak in cold water drain and dry on napkin and cook a few at a time in basket in deep hot Cottolene Drain and season with salt Harvey Nprlnglo Newbern Feb 24 Special Harvey Sprlngle of Union street this city and who had for several years held a position as machinist at tho local shops of the Norfolk Southern Hallway d'ed last night after an illncsH extending over a perp'd of several weeks Mr Sprlngle who was 40 years of age Is survived by his wife and two children WvvvvvvvvvwvvvvvvvvvvvvwmvvvvvvvvvvvwvvvwvvvVvvvvvvvvvv Mme Walska Mmo (lunna Walska suys she Is looking for a slave She's perfectly willing to give him the official position of husband in her latnily cliclo hut he must he Because Dowel Palmer Brooklyn business man rt fused to he her sluve the Polish prlma donna has broken her engagement to him IB SPEAK TONIGHT i Parks and Playground Dinner to Ho Hold nt 1:30 Followed by an Address at llunnu Hull Tho event of tonight will he the John Nolen dinner and the John Nolen leeturo The second will fol low the find Parks and playground'! form the prlnelpal theme At 6:80 o'clock In the Chamber of Commerce headquarter! the repuHt will be nerved at which tho guest of honor will bo the well-known city planner who has achieved a National reputation In the course of the past few years He comes as the guest of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce Mr Nolen's address will begin at 8 It will bo delivered In Hanna Hall Admission will be free He will discuss pertinent phnes of the subject of city plunnlng with special references to the needs of a city of Charlotte's size In fact Mr Nolen's familiarity with local conditions makes It possible for him to go Into details in so far as ho chooses to do so und to speak with some particularity about the needs that are already evident and those that will become apparent within the next few years If the rate of growth Is maintained No American has had wider experience in landscape architecture than Mr Nolen and none has exercised a more effective Influence on the cities of the country than has he rights" he Is pr Nolen for tho honorary degree of Doctor Science was conferred on him three years ngo but hei a modest man who Is not given to the parading of titles While the exact scope of his address tonight is not known ho will probably discuss the specific needs of the smaller cities from 2600 to 100-000 people with reference to approaches water fronts streets public buildings small open spaces playgrounds parks highways land subdivisions suitable housing and a general city plan for the future He can tell how established cities have been replanned for he has done pioneer work in this A civic survey for Charlotte Is a subject that Is being much talked of and thought of by leaders park and playground effort here Mr Nolen's address Is likely to throw light on just what could be accomplished by such a survey and will in itself be a survey in general outline of what the city has a'nd should have Tt is expected that Mr Nolen will be greeted by a large audience because the more who hear him the more will there be to carry the spirit of his message out into the bypaths of the city and spread the inspiration of his enthusiasm for far-s'ghted intelligent planning for the future so as to promote and conserve health and cultivate and delight artistic tastes Colonel House Coming Home Falmouth Feb 24 The steamship Rotterdam sailing for New York to morrow will carry among other passengers Col House special representative of President Wilson and Mrs Whitelaw Reid LEGAL ACTIVITIES OF BRANQEIS AIRED BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE A BURNING QUESTION Thomas Hampton Rutheriordton Feb Special Thomas Jefferson Hampton is dead His death has been momentarily expected for several days He was 8t vears old November 80 1915 James Madison Hampton his twin brother lives in Hayfork Cal They were youngest children of Adam and Lucy Williams Hampton who lived on Catheys Creek near here Mr Hampton was married to Miss Jane Long daughter of Col BiUie Long In 1858 She died January 15 1907 Four children survive Messrs A Hampton Forest Citv: A Hampton Westminster Mrs McFarland Rutherfordton Mrs A-L McFarland Charlotte Mr Hampton lived all of his life in Rutherford County with the exception of four years spent in the service of the Confederate States as a soldier in the Civil War The funeral was conducted today at 3 o'clock from old Brittain Presbyterian Church where deceased was a faithful member by Rev Beat-tie and the body borne to the grave by six stalwart grandsons of the dead patrlach Mr Hampton was a man of remarkable sprtghtltness of mind and kindly wit His life was devoted to his family and his business farming SITITIVGISTS ACT Consider Stops to Forex Hand of Democrats and Republicans New York Feb 24 Suffragists of New York State at the lust of a series of Stale confer eiu ex under the auspices of the American Woman Suffrage Association considered here toduy steps which could he taken to induce the Democrats and Republicans to insert in their Nat onai platforms planks pledging sui port of a-proposed Fedetal constitutional amendment gianting the vote to women The turn of the conferences the second of whlili will he held hi Boston tomorrow Us a concerted Nationwide appeal to Congress to adopt the amendment Speaking of the fight to be made before the conventions Mrs tame Chapman Catt National president said she was almost ready to hope for a combination between the Republicans and Progressives because the latter 1 arty is pledged to suffrage An appeal Is to be made to the Democrats at St Louis she said one feature being a "walkless One of the faults of the last campaign in New York Mrs Catt declared was the sense of impend ng defeat fe by some of the women "There were just enough of you she said who felt that way and who resignedly went to mountain or seashore to bridge parties parties or dances to throw the balance the other way State leaders she said have not been giving the National movement sufficient support Mrs Alice Duer Miller speaking of the eftoits to convert Congressmen to the cause sa'd: "The very men who voted In Washington against suffrage because of the of sacrificing the found it expedient to vote negatively on the child labor proposition These men declined to appropriate $29000 for a labor industry but they voted $600000 for the preservation of fish and Yhwxint on Prearod-nosH In the March Woman's Home Companion is an article by Agnes Repplier on preparedness in which she says: "The cartoon of Pam opening his tutteied umbrella with the remark 'Here's hoping it expresses the attitude of men and women to whom histoiy has taught nothing Why should we depm ourselves safe? The ocean offers no more protection In this century than did the Mediterranean 500 years ago A large civilian population offers no more protection now than if did when Theodorlc over-ran Italy We cannot say that we are in nobody's way for we are distinctly in the way of the coveted South American trade We cannot sav that we are not worth invading When Field Marshal Blucher gazed upon the splendor of London he said with the robust simplicity of his race 'What a town to The splendor of New Yotk lying defenseless on her beautiful harbor is enough to make old uch-er turn regretfully In his grave Our Treasury is bursting with the gold Our wealth like the wealth of Carthage Is an affront to the world Our neutra'ity has won for us neither friendship nor respect It has not protected us from repeated affronts It has not saved our citizens men women and children from destruction The sinking of tho Lusitania the Arabic the Hesperian and the Ancona wore tributes paid to our limitless forbearance Whatever may be our capao'ty for self-deception we can hardly base our hopes for the future upon the tenderness shown us In the past" Washington Feb 24 Charges arising from the legal activities of I-ouis Brandeis in the Ballenger-Pinchot investigation the fight between 11 Harriman and Stuyvesant Fish for control of the II inois Central Railroad and the Gillette Safety Razor Company litigation occupied the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee investigating Mr nomination to the Supreme Court today Mark Sullivan editor of Co Weekly told the committee that Mr Brandeis had been employed by to protect Its Interests and those of the public (luring the Ballinger-Pinchot investigation and that no concealment had been made of the employment Austen Fox counsel for those opposing Mr Brandeis charged that Mr Brandeis was on the record as appearing for Glavls a former 'and office official and a central figure in the investigation Waddill Catchings formerly with the law firm of Sullivan Cromwell of New York testified that he sought to employ the firm of Brandeis Dunbar Nutter to get proxies for Mr Harriman In the fight over the Illinois Central Mr Nutter told him the firm would not take the commission unless Mr Brandeis were convinced of the justice of the fight whereupon Catchings had seen Mr Brandeis For an hour or two Mr Catchings said he had the hardest interview of his life an interview with Mr Brandeis 4n which the case was outlined The result was that the Brandeis firm undertook the work but Brandeis was to do nothing and did On cross-examination Mr Catchings testified that in 1908 Mr Brandeis sent to Sullivan Cromwell a copy of a letter he had written to a Massachusetts legislative committee saying that he personally never had been employed to get proxies for Mr Harriman and that Su'll-van Cromwell replied that this statement was correct Mr Fox's charges of unprofessional conduct were based on this letter Henry Richardson and Henry WllPams lawyers testified as to the Safety Razor Company litigation The former told of a long list of suits for control of the company in which Mr Brandeis had represented the litigants on both sides but said he did not care to go so far as to charge Mr Brandeis with had faith si'GMi creek Sugar Creek Feb 24 Mr Mack Sharpe of Taylorsville spent a few days of the past week with his sister Mrs Caldwell Misses Lillian Ritch and Ida Junker of Newell were the week-end guests of Miss Nannie Lee Caldwell Mr and Mrs McKnight have returned from a visit to Mi and Mrs It McKnight of Steele Creek Miss Sallie Phillips of Charlotte is spending a few days with Mrs Somers Alexander Mrs George Donnell of Greensboro was the guest a few days since of her brother Mr Caldwell Mr and Mrs Thomas Rea of Charlotte returned to their home Tuesday after a few days' visit to Mrs parents Mr and Mrs McKnight Tuesday following a custom of some years past an every-member canvass was made of Sugar Creek congregation in an effort to put the financial affairs on a better business basis Dr Green Caldwell of Concord spent Tuesday at Mr Vic Mtsdames Huntington and Morris Trotter were the guests of Mrs Harvey Howland Tuesday Mr Hannon has moved his family from Charlotte Mrs Webb will entertain several young people at a musical on Friday evening Mrs Frank Neal accompanied by her daughter Miss Kate Neal will go to Davidson Saturday to attend the Junior Oratorlcals her son Mr Neal being a member of the junior class The Derita Community Club will observe "Baby by having a baby day on Friday March 3 the regular day for the club meeting A program Is being prepared the feature of which will be a talk by Dr Annie Alexander of Charlotte The public Is cordially invited to be present that day at 3:30 New York Feb 24 Trotterlos and tearooms have a grave new problem Us discussion punctuates the rhythmic arithmetic of the dance floor When a lady asks a gent for a light from hlx cigarette should he hold It for her in his fingers or In hlH lips? really quite a problem A waiter last night touched Harry on the arm as he was leaning over his face so she could get a smoke me sir but the proprietor asks that you hold your cigarette in your he said the Perkins began to explode but offense the rule of the house" That's the new order If you don like It you can use a match Be Healthy Happy and Vigorous Vigorous Men and Women Are in Demand In this strenuous age or competition you need a tonic to make you fit for the battles of life If you feel tired out out of sorts mentally or physically depressed try AMBITION PILLS If you are dissatisfied Jno Blake Drug Co Is authorized to refund the purchase price on the first box purchased AMBITION PILLS have helped others who suffered from trembling and affections of the nervous system It Is folly to suffer from loss of appetite lack of confidence sleeplessness kidney or liver complaints without trying to conquer these afflictions Marked benefit may be noticed from the use of Ambition Pills Fifty cents at Jno Blake Drug Co and dealers Mall orders filled charges prepaid by the Wendell Phftrmacal Company Inc Syracuse )D rested you they would have done so not a spy myself I d'd what I did In order to save your lie If you'll stand me a drink we'll call if square" Uncle Sam World Publisher (From The Manchester Union) The old question as to who reads an American hook having been answered long ago the question now arises as to who is to print an English oook if present war conditions continue Tnp Swedish embargo on the exportation of paper means the practical suspension of book publication in England during the war It cannot mean anything else except that a big field will be automatically opened for American publishers and authors One prominent American publisher who left London last Friday tor his home in New York frankly told interviewers that in his opinion this embargo meant the transfer to the United States of the entire publishing business In the English language that the few English authors who are writing will undoubtedly send their manuscripts to Ameri-ca where they will be published and exported It seems logical enough We have plenty of paper over here and plenty of facilities for producing more Furthermore we have publishers as enterprising as any that the Old World can boast Without paper the publishers of England well with them If a paraphrase may be permitted It lx a case of paper aut nullus" English authors can easily make arrangements for the publication of their productions in the United States and Incidentally it will he Interesting to note the course to he pursued by one George Bernard Shaw in this literary emergency Saved A good story of lielgian espionage Is attributed to Brand Whitlock the Belgian minister says The Philadelphia Public Ledger On all the street cars of Brussels so the story runs the Bruxellois are very careful to say nothing against their conquerors for Brussels Hwarm with German spies as the citizens know to their cost But one day in a street car a Bruxellois was imprudent He nodded toward a wagonload of pigs that was driving past and said to the c' in general with a laugh: "I's queer they don't put the German uniform on those porkers" The words were hardly out of hi mouth when ft hand was laid on his shoulder and a stern voice xald: arrext yop C'onductot stop the Captor and captive got off together The spy hurried his rharge up one street and down another 4nd halted finally before a large cafe "Fool that you hp hissed fool that you are do you want to be shot? There were three German eple to my (ertaln knowledge on that car and if I hndn't ar Currying the Law Very few of uur lawyers carry the green bags whiih were once a badge of that profession according to The Ilaltimoie American think the s'gbt of such a bag once kept Joseph FI Choate from coining to Philadelphia to make a speech" Mr Uonlen said Mr Conlen and another lawyer had gone to New York to Invite the ex-Ambasxudor to England to deliver an address in Philadelphia Mr Con-len's companion earr'ed a green bag which he laid upon Mr Choates table evidently to the great annoyance do you carry in that he asked have some law the young Philadelphia attorney replied "When I was a young lawyer" Mr Choate said rather coldly "I was taught to carry my law in niv And the invtatlon was declined SNOWSTORM STOPS TESTS Droad naught Pennsylvania Unable to Complete standardization Runs Rockland Maine Feb 24 Tho superdreadnaught Pennsylvania built at Newport News racing over the measured mile course off Head on her standardization runs today was caught in a snowstorm which obscured the range marks and forced a suspension of the texts Twelve runs had been made three each at 8 10 15 and 17 knots Bpeed before the snow fell The 19 and 21 knot and high speed runs will be made tomorrow after which It Is expected the vessel will put to sea for more extended trials The low speed runs 'were made with the use of reduction gear which Is being tried for the first time on an American dreadnaught This gear consists of a small turbine attached to the cruising engine the object being to obtain the same speed and ef-fic'ency with fewer revolutions Capt Henry Braid Wilson who Is to command the Pennsylvania when she Is commissioned In May heads the Naval Board of Inspection and Survey conducting the trial LOOK This Bed Is Only $750 MEETING OF EDUCATORS John Shoop Department of Suporintendenc e- Detroit Mich Feb The Department of Superintendence National Education -Association today elected as its president John Shoop city superintendent of schools of Chicago All of the educational associations meeting here this week will also gather at Kansas City In 1917 Round table meetings of six divisions of the superintendence department was the principal business outside of the election disposed of today These meetings covered a wide range of subjects but compulsory education and child welfare seemed to be the more widely discussed Fdward Jones superintendent of schools of Albany declared that a considerable per cent of truants from schools have according to research records been found to be feeble-minded Juvenile court cases have yielded a s'nnlar percentage he added and he said mental tests of truant children in Albany proved that nine per cent were utterly imbecile Mr Jones recommended the use of a truant school to sulve the problem Truants and other delinquents are sent to this school for 50 days Much interest was shown today in program and entertainment preparedness for the annual convention of the National Education Association and its affiliated departments at New York City next July It was announced that President Wilson will if possible address the educators on July 4 Jt also was said that an attempt Is being made to have "one or more speak on the same day Pres'dent David Johnson of Hock Hill estimated that 40000 persons will attend the conventions Three mast were leading speakers at a meeting tonight The Executives Frank Willis of Ohm Martin Prumbaugh of Pennsylvania and Wood bridge Ferris of Michigan told numerous Incidents connected with their Journeys from the country school house to the Executive office It is a 1 1-16-ineh con- tiimous post pattern with five fillers as shown at left A well-constructed steel Bed white enameled and an excellent value at DS Enough Said A railroad lawyer who has had much to do with human nature according to The Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph says: cross-question an Irishman from the old And he gave an Illustration from hts own ex perb nee A section hand had been killed by an express train and his widow was suing for damages The main witness swore positively that the locomotive whistle hRd not sounded until after the whole train hud passed over his departed friend "See here said I "you admit that the whistle sor It blew sor" If that whlst'e sounded In time to give Michael warning the fact would he In fuvor of the company wouldn't It?" 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