W. F. MARSHALL* Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXVII. ■ l'®4»4>4~44»4^ BUND BOY'S PLUCK. A North Corolla* Bor Making Hlo Wot Throogb Harvard. Boston Btrtld. Although suffering from total blinduess since his lltb year, Mr. Edward Ray. of North Car olina, now a student in the graduate school of Harvard, liv ing at 16 Oxford afreet, haa suc cessfully mastered tbe most difficult courses In higher mathematics, in geology, won a degree from the University of North Carolina and is now work ing for the degree of M. A. at Harvard. Here be is taking some of the hardest courses in the curriculum, Gothic and Anglo-Saxon. In addition to his struggle against blindness, Ray has been farther retarded by a lack of fnnda. He baa had to work his way along from the start, and has done this by tuning pianos and organs and by lecturing throughout tbe South. It has been a hard struggle, but tbe young man ia as cheerful and as full of enthusiasm as thelnckiest man in the University. In a struggle for a master’s degree he is attempting something unique. No blind student heretofore has ever had the hardhood to try for other academic honors than that A n Uaa !m 11 a__1_ of health find it no easy task to secure this, bnt this man, with the aid of bis prodigious memory, is able to keep abreast of the foremost scholars in bis class. Kay was born in a country town in North Carolina. His early days were spent at the village school and romping about with other boys. Then be became blind and realized it was for life. Instead of settling down to live a life of nselessness, this affliction seemed only to spar him on. He went to the blind school of Tennessee, and by hard work succeeded in graduating from there in 1896. the first scholar fn bis class. The following autumn he en tered the Raleigh (N. C.) blind school, finishing this course in 1899, again the bead of hia class. By this time he ,had made up hia mind to go to college, for which be was now prepared, iu order to raise tnooey for this purpose he taught subscription school and learned to tune or gans and pianos. He entered the University of North Caro lina in 1900. He took the regu lar courses and soon made a name for himself for hia accu rate and broad scholarship. Among other things he took a laboratory conrae in geology. He completed the work in three • years and was granted the de gree of A. B. The year following he spent In lecturing. He was popular as a speaker, and iu this way t° Pick up enough to fulfill hia ambition of winning a degree from Harvard. Ha was interested in Bnglitb end to came here and entered the courses in Anglo-Saxon, Chan cer, Bacon, Shakespeare and Gothic. He takes all bis notea with a New York point slate end is abls to take them as fully at thr average man with paper nnd pencil. This slate consist* of a metal base containing grooves. Upon this a slip of courae paper is placed aad over this a mov able strip of brass coptsiniug boles. Through these he punches with a small awl a cer tain number of dots, which in a standard arrangement repre •eat letters. It la remarkable to see with what «p«td be has leaned to operate this. To rsad the record all that la neces sary lor him to do Is to pass bis fingers lightly on the slightly raised dots. This be esa do about as rapidly as It would take a mao to apell out a word. One of the most remarkable thing* about Uay it hi* great memory, Forced as his miud has been to answer in the place of eyes, of extensive notes, it bas developed to a point that is marvelous. He bas made a specialty of etymology, and the countless derivations which it is necessary for hiui to retain at his tongue’s end, would make an ordinary man diziy. His reading he has done for him, but it is necessary for him to remember cacb book he is study ing almost word for word and psgc for page. Alter a chapter has been read over to biin three or four times it has been fixed on bis memory for all time. Every precious volume which be bas heard he storca up for future reference, for they are expensive. There are a number of his class-mates at the college who give a bit of their time to him in this way. A startling illustration of the efficiency of bis memory is seen in bis knowledge of mathe matics. He solves intricate problems that have baffled the best uiathcmeticians. And lie has first to draw out in his brain the neceaaary figure, and remem bering this, go on from there working it out with every step taken, so fixed that it shall remain clear to the end. The numbers need a dozen sheeu of paper to keep in mind he remembers perfectly. In this way be has mattered many of the higher branches of mathematics. He says he has bnt little sys tem abont it. He uses the common trick as a help, of mak ing words mud sentences oat of the first letters of a long series of names which he wishes to remember. Otherwise it is simply a process of concentra tion. Ray ia very fond of walking. Every evening after his day’s work is done, he links his aim in the arm of some friend and the two wander abont for sev eral hours. He attends as many of the symphonies as he can, and this la about his only form of amusement. He finds his real pleasure in his studies. His ambition is to secure a position as a teacher', and bopea to be ^ble to prepare himself sufficient ly to bold such a chair in some college. , "I don’t know, of coarse, just what 1 shall do. .1 don’t wish to tench ia a blind school, bnt in some regular college.” That is one of the character istics of the man. Ha asks and gives no favors. Even with hi* serious handicap, be bolds him self on a par with other men— runs from scratch ~-and some how generally finishes in the lead. He is to-day the admira tion and wonder of the instruc tors in the graduate school. 1 ' i»i ■ ■ ■■ Tt MANUFACTURE PAPER. Prefect far Iba Establishment •I Large Plaal at Raaoaha Ra»Mg. RicbmondVa., Mayl4.-Ricb niond capitalists are interested in * orofect for the establishmeat at X uanoke Rapids, about five miles irom Weldon, N. C., on the Roe* nuke river epd on the Raleigh St (irulon railroad, of a large plaat for the manufacture of palp and paper. They control the proper ty at the point mentioned, which baa facilities for enormoas water power. The home offices of the company arr to be in this city, where, it ia understood, most of the capital baa been snbacrihed. The stock of the company is to be put at a maximum of $150,000 and a miaimnm of $100,000, and it is said that $125,000 baa already been subscribed. A charter ia ■oon to ba applied for. CIBCUS BOBBERY’S SEQUEL. W. T. Saailb, Auditor ol lh« Hag* cabeck Clrcao, Arrested a( Cleveland oa Charge ol Loot lag (ba FortMtrth-Salts Slreag Box la 1944. CinuloiW OlMgrttl Clevclaud, Ohio, May IS. William T. Speilh, auditor of the Carl Hagcnbeck Circus, was arrested licre last night, charged with the theft ol $30,000 from the ticket wagon of the Fore pangh-Sells Show in October, 1904, while be was treasurer of that enterprise. The robbery, it is alleged, occurred at Tar boro, X. C. The arrest was made by Sheriff Kerb and Dep uty l’bclan, of Columbus. Spailh was seized while at work in the ticket wagon, handcuffed, hus tled into a waiting automobile and taken to a railroad station 30 miles away. From there he was taken to Colotnbua. Ex tradition papers. have been pre pared an I he will be taken to North Carolina for trial. SPATTfl BEfflES CHABOE. Hi* Attorney* Will right I*qeis ltl*n—Sheriff Cotton, *1 Edg* c#Mh« County, Caused (be Ar rest. Columbus, O.. May 15.—M. T. Spaith, auditor of the Hagen back Show, who was arrested in Cleveland last night and brought this morning on the charge of being concerned in the rob bery of the treaanre box of the Porepaugh-Sells Brother's Cir cus at Tarboro, N. C\. in the fall of 1904 of $30,000. was re leased to-uight on bail in the auut of $1,000. The bond was signed by Robert W. Dell and wife, of this city. There are some queer features in connection with the arrest of Spaith. He was takeu iuto cus tody at Cleveland, on informa tion furnished by the sheriff of Kdgeconibc county, N. C., who asked Sheriff Karb to make tbe arrest. There was uo requisition issued by Governor Pattison at the request of the Governor of North Carolina, and alter Spaith was brought here aud placed in jail a warrant was sworn out by Lewi* Sells snrl Inhn W Cxifl* as administrator of the estate of the late Peter Sella. W. W. Cole and late James A. Halley appear on tbe affidavit at the owners of the money. John W. Cotton, sheriff for Edgecombe county, filed the warrant. He is here to take Spaith back to the scene of the alleged robbery. A determined fight will be m a d e against the return of Spaith and his attorneys said to night that the matter wonld be presented to Governor Pattison in a brief way at Christ’s Hos pital within the next few days of this action. Spaith to-night denied most vehemently that be had taken tbe money. He said it had al waya been bis coatom while he was connected with tbe Forc paugb-Sells Show to put the keys to tbe circus safe in bis vest pocket and place tbe vest under his wife’s pillow, as she slept on the inside of the berth of the show car On the night of tbe robbery, he explained, tbe thief mast have reached over him and taken the keys from his vest pocket, as be was not touched bv the thief. Tba Cotton Sand Oil Industry. UufMttOlmrvn. Tbe census reports show that in 1D00 there were 857 cotton seed oil mills in tbe United States. In 1905 tbe number had increased to 717. Not a bad showing lor the progress of the South. The cotton states produced in 1905 133,000,000 ga lions of cot ton seed oil. North Carolina produced over 6.000.0000. Eaglaytag Children Under 12 in Factories Evidence el Negll. ganoa. gUMWOlt UktMUk. Tbe Snore me Court In a case from Forsyth county holds that the employing of children under 12 years of aga in factories op crates as evidence of negligence in cast snch child employed is injured. Tbe hand of a boy un der 12 years was injured in a machine, where he had been told to plsce it through the neg ligence of soother employe. The Superior Court non-suited the case, but the Supreme Court grants a new trial. Tbe de cision will have an effect in a number of mills in which, it is alleged, children rsallv under 12 are employed, though parents aud children often advance tbe ages of tba latter in making statements to obtain work. """ ■■MMnmip A DAY AT CHADMUBN. aad Scasatiaas Roj Cwmh to Cbadkoura la a Brawknq Seaaa la Eastern North Cara Haa. »m1 Tm*fc»r»’ ImiuI The editor of the Carolina Fruit and Truckers’ Journal ■raade n trip to Chadbourn last baturday, where he witnessed the niritwlKrry movement in the zenith of its glory. All day long wagons of every site and dimension, carts and rigs of more designs than there were colors in Joseph’s cost, came and went, It seemed to us, every auunte in the day. There Wire from twenty to thirty buyers on the spot, and it was a give and take game throughout the day. Cara were iced and re-iced, loaded and bustled out like so many piga or beeves at a slaugh ter house; people were com ing and going, some walk ing, some running in one direc tion, others in another, some laughing, some swearing, some hollering, and takes altogether, •I, was a typical strawberry shipping aeeuc. In the afternoon there were easily 2,000 people on the streets, of all colors and hues, with an occasional CroaUu Indian here and there to wive the touch of border life in the wild and woolly West. Venders of wares, fruits, etc., were valiantly pltading their cause snd telliug their prices in no uncertain sound; hobby-horses were making merry with the pipe organ; paid clutters of a hall dozen to a dozen at different points, some picking the banjo and other* dancing, with an occasional Romeo and Juliet, walking hand in hand, to give a touch of ro mance to the scene. Commis sion merchants and solicitors were in their shirt sleeves mak ing the air ring with their calls for "more cats!” "iced carsl' "refrigerated Icats!" Perspira tion was flowing as freely as baTd cider ever did in the famous "Log Cabin Campaign,” away back yonder in the days of Wil liam Henry Harrison, of Tip pecanoe and Tyler, too, fame. Strawberries came and went at a pace that will long be remem bered, some under the hammer of platform tales, while others went ont on consignment. Money was flowing freely, and in its distribution every man, woman and child teemed to take a hand. There were to be beard aome mud complaints on account of tbe shortage in iced cars, many berriea having to stand ont on the ground in the sunshine for hours for want of refrigerated cars in which to be loaded. The icing station at Cbadbourn, how ever, was worked to its fullest capacity, but not being intended ■« »u initial icing station it naturally fell far short of tbe re quirements of the hour. Doubt ln 'barge did all that could have been done under the circumstances, but even that wm poor consolation to the - pm op nis money for strawberries which were tied up confronted with no cars in which to load them; while the grower who shipped them on consignment. found himself face to face with the same trouble. hilarity and sensations the Oklahoma Reservation towns ia the past would hardly compare favorably with Chadboam at this season of the year, for in the day time it b bustle, sod bustle and hurrah among the buyers and shippers, Idng and re-icing cars, passing sod shifting loco motives, steam whistles, etc., while at light negro minstrels and pickaninnies with their banjos and tambourines make merry with their voices till the cock crows. Oo Sunday every body goes to chnrch when they worship their God according to the dictates of their conscience, where quietness reigns supreme and that good fellowship such as b taught by the "fatherhood of God and brotherhood ol man’ sentiment ia scrupulously oh wnvrl lilted I be Bank's Capital tad CM~ O^ST'H, Ridgeway, a small town thirty ■ilet thia tide of Columbia, 3. C., baa developed an artist in *.K.WV of ■ b,nk W. H. Knn, Jr., son oi the president of the bank, resigned and left town last week. Soon afterwards ft was discovered that the young mao’* accounts were short 125,. 000, which represented the en tire capital of (he Institution. The former teller’a fattier pot up $20,000 and the directors $5,000 and the bank baa retained bus. ioese. Meantime the where abouta of young Raff are un known. WROTELETTER TO BJMiEtf? Omm»I Opiates aiths Cartel it Thai Latter Parpertia* fa Hav< Rasa Writiss bp Prsaidsni ti Senator Allises Was. la R* •UlT. Compared by Alllssa HIsssslL cwtmu Washington, May 15.—Kmy body was of one hum] to-day os the proposition that the letter ol President Roosevelt to Senatoi Allison, purporting to be a reply to bis critics, did aot sound at all like the President. Some then were who professed the belief tbat Mr. Ajlisou, who has won great renown as a straddler at national conventions, wrote the letter himself to himself. It wss realized that this idea was not so fat-fetebed after all wbca it is remembered that Mr. Roosevelt conferred with the Iowa Senator for an hour or so before giving the letter to the press. All the President’s advisers admonished him to remain calm and turn the other cheek if necMunt »n hm. vent another scene is the Senate and they now admit that be turned out a document that is calculated to tarn away wrath. a DrrncRinrr coos or honor. Alter reading the letter ia the Senate to-day. Mr. Tillaaa, hav ing in mind the act of the Presi dent in deserting bis allies with, out warning, observed that the President aad his Attorney Gen eral bad a tight to change their mind if they so desired, but that it was evident that a different code of honor obtained at the White House and among cabi net officials than that which ap plied to ordinary folk. 8ome of the Democrats do not like the Attorney General’s attempt to beclond the issue, when Railey grot him down in black aad white. There is no nae for him to deny anything. cmam Dura ar nr* rates ms STATEMENT. In Mr. Tillman’s statement to day, which again was written, be submitted a statement from Mr. Chandler, who reiterated what he had said as to the President’s re marks concerning Messrs. Fora her, Knox sed Spooner, which over the telephone the President characterised as falas hoods; that is. unless the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge himself is the man who told the falsehood. Bat the mat ter seems to have been dropped, mo far as the President is con cerned. He cr.nnot explain it satisfactorily even to his most intimate friends, who all know that every indication is, despita »h*t tb« President may say, that Mr. Chandler has told the troth. TRMPORAXV CHAIRMAN STATE CONVENTION. Senator Simmons announced to-day that he had —Vwl Locke Craig, of Asheville, to serve as temporary chairman of the Dem ocratic State convention, which meets in Jnty. Mr. Craig will touch upon State and national Mimes and bia speech will really be the opening of tbc State cam paign. 0AST0N1VSOOOD VAT. It la CmbmM tt These Who Observe Memorial Day with the Veterans. CtaasMta CtMlck. 1M. Memorial Day observance in Charlotte ia believed, by sotne, to be too much on the vespers order. The exercises are held too Iste In tbe afternoon and only n few veterans from the connty can find it convenient to attend. Tbe veterans’ division of tbe parade Thursday was a conspicuously slim one. It has been suggested that some ar rangement by which n larger attendance of veterans could be secured would be desirable. The Gaston county plan is an admir able one. Memorial Day is made the occasion of a general gath ering of the people of Geatou county, at Gastonia, wbera tbe veteraos art welcomed with speeches and feasting, tbe arotnea of the town preparing •dinner for them. The spresd Thursday, as we see by The Gasette, consisted of: ■weas* f.Th*» If. aomethin* like It. How would it do fur Charlotte tr£ Oaaton plan? The dav ahoald be made a more hoe pitablc occaaioo. The obaerv anee bar* la too ranch ol a per functory order. Memorial Day deecrvca aotuething better at the hand* of Charlotte people. For 91.99 We will eend Tug Uaaum twice a week from now until 1907. S PARASOLS | Per U4lc», MUtes. mmd 4 «KW —4 »—< ^ Pnrasol time is here. Acd so is the A choicest line of parasols we have w have jost arrived, aH tosh aad sew. d We an showing a fall stack; complete turns d aB 1 tha latest styles. 4 Plata White Usta Ptritsii I White Lie— Embroider* C Sllk*1,1 **• f**™* Cetortede^^^ d It will be a plsasore to shoi W goods. Yoar waste can be ssost P at this store. Come to sac as. J JAMES F. YEAGER f 1 rrr-~m0.. The Love Trust Co.1 ■- — ■ i as.1 I tuurance in standard companies. Real estate handled on commission. Trusts executed. Savings draw aiaslwnm Cotton bought and sold. And Banking, too. '• . ; ^ : With the welfare oi ns town and eoonty ever in mind, we strive to succeed and help others to-m Yonr business solicited, =-' — .. The Love Trust Co* —-——____ I