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.. . —. ■ . |-1-1-„ At M»«»>4»i4«44*444*»<*44A :: KEEP YOUR BYB ON IT ': |j m I! Hwnit*■»r««'»>w»fcUf !! , I M H «>«wi rw ilwrft »t«t» ■ III :: T^**yr-* »•«*M **" M AM 4h VOL. XXVII. O ASTON I A, A And the mala impetui of making the wheel of X Fortune roll the way yon want It ii Savins- T 1 But them are waya and ways of aavia*, s: ^ ^ lipwltm totfn Every CmMtfttw 5 | CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK I 4 4 4 M M M A A *A A A A A t ii REAL ESTATE BARGAINS I FOR SALE. • > i i « i < » « ' < ► J ► « . i; *—• "tata* ij 14«— bum« —yt—m» AT».>rti»»ii». mim. 1 nil k»W Md WC MV Lwa mui*. taoo M. IMotlw An. «)<« m aMlMte. 17 lirti T» l*rr-*-H-| *|-t l—r 7—i M11r nrirn no tI'IIiIIm —*■* *— I—r—*r t* t~t *»«rrl»tl«o «■« m»M»» i! GASTONIA INSURANCE AN^EUtTwMPANY I! < >___ < • FEATS OF TIE BEAVE1. ItavktMi Ability to Cat Tim b • r—Easiest ee Neealifhl IVlfhte. OsidooiUi*. It is wonderful what large pieces of wood a beaver will move. I have frequently seen cuttings of cotton-wood large enough for fence posts that had been moved over level ground and through underbrush to wa ter several hundred feet away. If timber is cut on a beak where a down grade can be bad all the way to the streams much larger pieces will be moved. Beavers are very skillful wood choppers and seldom fail to fell a tree in the right direction; that - is, with the ontta all pointing toward the train of the stream, and never- felling the top of one tree into the top of another. Smooth trails are always made from the scene of the operations on land to the water and all of the material is carried over them. If the cutting happens to be on a aids hill above the stream a slide not nnHka that sometimes used by lumbermen will be made. The cutting of the large rowth staff fi mainly done in the fall and winter; willows,1 small poplars and cottonwoods being used in tbc spring and summer. After getting down the larger trees the branches are all cut off and made into lengths suitable for transporting and taken to the water, after which the trunk ia cut up and as ranch of it removed as possible. The bark of These . pieces, which with the' twigs, form the principal item of food, is all gnawed off hi the water or at the bouses. The barked sticks arc then used in repairing or strengthening the dams or stacked on top of the honse. Beavers generally work moon light nights only, and scarcely ever la tan daytime, though they may sometime* be seen making isssjaiof" u*ew,‘ immediate attention. Contrary to the genera! opinion the beaver does not al ays build a boose ioc himself, lag very oontent with a barrow iotheWnk oi the stream. As is the case with tha bonnes the entrance to a burrow la an dor water, though there is some* iresrxfura sticks aat carried for their food are sometlmea very end offer com fortabla quarters for a targv colony, They seem to be gen erally dog from the banka of the streams which k loo swift to make the building of dams easy and which has a deep channel. A toga batter J*PVW» been driven out by hi* fcltawi for soase cetue or other k very ttdf tt stake each a home is the bank of a stream. When a colony of bcivcn k harraaeed by its encmiee or wbea Internal dkaensions arks on a tfSSSAVBUtS IWIf* iWf VMM BO time la ckooeinga weak portion oHm liter, where the beaks ate well wooded and fall at onca to work. Where the river is rapid one of the alow reaches between the rapids is chosen for a dsm. The wood is cat above the dam'site, sometimes at quite a distance, and transported to the water, where it can be easily moved down stream. The sticks are placed more or less parallel to each other, so as to make a compact strnctnre, and the continuous pile thorn re salting extends directly across tbe stream. Mad is continually nsed tq fill the interstices as the dsia grows is height. At some distance np stream the bouse is now built, also of sticks and mad, tad as secluded sod inaccessible a place as possible. In the days of our great-grand fathers the bea ver was a resident I of many streams and small lakes all the way from Maine to Ore gon. He is now numbered among rare animals, ends few yean ago seemed doomed to total ex tinction. Recently some of the North west Stales have given him a certain amount of protection, and in favorable localities of this region be is now increasing quite rapidly in nnmben. t-iianui SBtktai The Norfolk and Western rail road has issued orders prohibit ing its employes from m»oMpg cigarettes, and they will have to cat ont cigarettes or bant them another fob. The Brotherhood of Knginecrs aad Firemen, k is reported, look upon the order es as Infringement of personal lib erty end will oppose it for that reason. Let h be interference with personal liberty, if the rail road believes H is to the best in terest of its tmstnese to employ teetotalers in evsnr respect they should do so. If en employe does not went to cst'em oat he feet liberty to get another Job. It Is our opinion that be bad better be glad- that some one la trying to break him of a habit he could not gait himself. •. r There art differences of opin ion na to whether the use of ci gerettes hnrts one’* health or not. That depends on sev eral things. Tbe man he smokes e» worn he is hart and the lees smokes the less he is hart. We often beer a follow say he baeMMksd for years and years •nd don’t believe cigarettes hart him- Plthm before be gets through tel Hag you he arid w« ocivcwV a man can ttuokc cigarettes sad live a longtime, hot under as favorable dream •fences he wonld Hve longer without them. We here never been able to understand the inconsistency of tbe temps ranee forces is their attacks. Wa never hear any of oar tsarpersaee societies speak oat against Ac use of cigarettes. It Is tbs evil of whiakey. - ■ ' Bubaeribh for tbe OafftoaiA baits tr m not Sub»1m of MUllsuira Exlrsva* lUMsca ia ffca Mslrepsll*. itwYnthM Zola, is his youth, be lore fame came to him, wrote some stories about millionaires, wherein it •eemcd to him he. exaggerated shamefully in his descriptions of the costly homes and habits of the rich, but later on, when Zola became a friend of million aires, be found that bia accounts of their extravagance bad fallen far short of the truth. In the same way stories about the extravagance of American millionaires that sound like ex aggerations may also fall short of the troth. Here, for instance, are some facts that an interior decorator of New York supplied the other day. They sound ex treme, hot let Zola be re mem MftQ* A man bought for his hall twelve antique marble columns at Pompeii. Finding he coold use only eight of the columns be had the remaining four de stroyed, although be was offered for them twice what be had paid. He had paid *5,000 apiece. Aubussoa carpets, with a pile three inches thick, an often made to order at a coat of $40 a yard. Snch a cost, though, is nothing beside what is ordinarily paid for antique rags. They, measured by the yard, often cost 1300 or $600 s yard. Chairs of ivory inlaid with wood are occasionally sold at $500 apiece. One millionaire’s piano cost $150,000. A five-inch baud of ivory, four years in the carving, run* around the case, which was decorated by Everett Shinn. The gold and silver plate of one household requires an ex* pert to look after it. The mao Is a goldsmith, and bis salary is $2,000 a year. Billiard rooms sometimes cost $50,000 to furnish. The tables sod cues are inlaid with ivory and gold. Certain wines—Schlosa Johan neaberg, for instance, stamped with the crest of Prince Matter njch—are sold at private tales to millionaires for $40 and $50 a bottle. Automobiles ot ninety or more horse-power, made to order, will coat from $90,COO to $40,000. Some millionaires keep a dozen or non automobiles, with n head ebaffenr at $4,000 or $5,000 a year salary aad two or three assistants at $25 a week each. Then there la the ocean going yacht, which cannot he main tained in the moat modest way at a smaller annual expenditure than $25,000. Twe Ujhrim Sltriii. Yoikwlte Kaqitrtr. Rock Hill, July 19—The rain end thunder storm which visited this section Tuesday afternoon did not do any damage in this immediate com inanity ' The lightning played aome of its queer pranks elsewhere, how ever. Mr: B. D. Barton, who lives eight miles southwest of Rock Hill, lost three fine mules at a stroke. The. bolt entered the top of his hern, struck one mule deed, leaped across the eight foot passage way. killed the two mulct in separate stalls on that side made its exit through the wall into the shed, tore-to pieces s singletree of a wagon in the abed, struck the ground thirty or forty feet dis tant and glanced to a wire fence aoum distance further on. losing Itself thereon. There waa a horse, Hr. Bar ton’s sole remaining one, stabled on the side where the first mule waa kilted, with only a partition between them, bat the hone was not harmed. 11m loss would amount to not fees than $500, and there is great sym pathy for Hr. Barton. Speak log of the lightning's queer pranks. I met a man the other day who carried an umbrella from which he had carefully cut off the metal ferrule on the end of the staff. He called my at* lention to it and told me that the reason he did k was be cause ha had ouea sat upon a jury of inquest over the body of a negro, the circumstances of which Indicated that lightning had struck the tip of the um brella be waa carrying, had nut down the metal stag, entered HU hand and killed him. The body was found juit after a atvasa thunder storm, Ms um brella was lying opeu In front of him.- there wee a round hole burned at the top wbexe the rod entered, the negro’s band was •torched and the wheels of Ms watch were fused. It waa al usoat certain that the bolt had .truck the end of the Steel rod of fcU umbrella. And so my (Head xrf. .(| the ferrule. rat PttEAT CIOVBK. Hew OwirifM fw<U the Fke —The (Ml Verb el a Ann VorVrIIU lUqullrr. Clover. Jaly 20.—The Enquirer of Tuesday mentioned the facta that the depot of the Caroline & Northwestern Railroad was ■lightly damaged by the Arc which destroyed Capt W. B. Smith’s property on that morn ing. The damage to the depot amounted to a few cents more thae $100, and the fact that the property was not altogether de stroyed is amazing. Clover baa no fire-figbting facilities, but owing to the fact that there eras a bountiful supply of bask ets and the public well is located within fifty feet of the depot and a bucket brigade was organised and worked faith fully and stead ily under intelligent instruction*, the depot was saved, notwith standing the fact that the roof, which is shingle, and the wenth erboarding caught Arc ia numer ous places and both had boles horned through. At oac time it looked as lithe fighters would io*e, ma mote on uw nnug unc were urged to retreat, but they refused to do so, snd won. Tbe file occurred at about 3 o’clock in tbe morning and tbe party who first saw it undertook to give tbe alarm, bat being a stranger did not know tbc ropes sufficiently well to get quick re sults, however be soon got tbe proper connection sod eventu ally tbe whole town was aroused,. and was, of coarse, non or lees excited. Then was one exhibi tion of cool Judgment that is worthy of especial mention. Among those first around was a couple living on King's Moan tain street, and as soon as possi ble both husband snd wife were on the street. Tbc husband rushed to tbe scene of the fire and tbe wife in the opposite di rection towards tbe section in which tbe negroes live, aod when she got there it was not long before she had roused them up snd bad them on the ran, and those same negroes are largely responsible lor tbc good work that was accomplished. Tbc lady then went to the fire, leav ing bet two children, aged about lour aod two. at borne sleeping, and in bliaafnl ignorance of the tragedy being enacted down town. Tbe actual loss on account of tbc fire will amount to not less than $2,000, with a total insur ance of $675. Tea Much To Ask. Hsnwr'o WttWr. A traveler in the highland ob served while at a tavern in a small village a very beautiful collie. At Eis reqnest the owner was pointed out to him, and be asked tbe men what be woqld take for the dog. " Ye’ll be taking him to Amer ica?" tbe Scot asked cautiously. "Certainly,if von sell him to ’I no cool’ part wk Rob," the dog’s owner then said emphat ically. "I’m mnkk fond-like o’ bim." And liberal ofilers seers no inducement. To his astonkbmeut, tbc trav eler later saw tbe dog sold to a drove for half what he had offered and after tbe drover bad disappeared requested an .explan ation. "Yon add that you could not sell bim," be remarked. A twinkle cans into the high lander's eyes. "No: I did ns say I’d no sell him. I said 1 cooldna part wie him,” ha hM, "Bob’ll be bam la two or three days fra aoo, but 1 cooldna ask him to swiai acta— the ocean. Nat that would Jbe too a—dd* f ufc.* • Boar (taiees a taaipa* (a the WMb—MM—hT^ImL to MM Ttrt PwelS. One cinnamon bear cab from the Rocky Mountain* made a»o»e trouble to-day fa the Department of Jastkc to an au the trusts against* which the department au ycr proceeded. jc irnvto consigned to C. J. Meld, the chief cloth, and waa a gift from 8. H. Dock, a special attorney of th* govern—eat la D—ingtf, Co. Mr. Meld went bear hunt ing lost summer, with Mr. Dong, sad the 50-pound cab was a.re minded of Out trip. A score or more clerks sought la vain to lure the cab from its cage. Boa— one suggested Is suing a summons. Another consulted Milton D. Purdy, In charge of the prosecution of the Standard Oil Company, who thought that, while as octopus required elaborate machinery tc control hi s beer .should be handled with a rope. This courat proved effective, bqt art until the cub had node a vteiow spring at a negro mesasagw who drew the cord too rim •boqt bis throat. LOKAT WINS. 1 ft* McAdeuville went down be fore the Loray in both games ct the Loray park last week, -fi the fir* game, they couldn’t hit Morrow at the right time and la the second game they couldn't hit st all. . McAdeaville barely escaped a shat out is Saturday’s gaaw, their two raas were Blade on er rors. Price was not up to the requirement, during the tea in nings bn strack oat only three men and allowed 9 hits. Gao* by Innings: Tint inning: Ham brick and Prim walk, Sbuiord sai lifieail. Mfiterb , -i Stafford, score. Temple b hit with hall, aad b forced oat at 2nd by Pox. Rhyne fans, 1 bit, t runs. Lindsay Ilea to Pox, Fisher dies at first. Bumgarner singles In left and Grisdsle b out at first, 1 hit. 0 mas. «SSrl?S?,i^*gS: dale, but Staples is out at 2nd base. Haabriek bits in right field, Prim Ians, 8haiord singled; Morrow crossed plate, .Miller b out at lit, 2 hits, 1 mao. Price gets scratch, hk. Staf ford files to Pox, Alexander walks, Abcrorthy feats, Belne walks. Lindsay faas, 1 hit, 0 mas. Third imrinn: Temnle flies to Fisher. Fox is sole ox Aber aethy'a error, Rhyne oxd Staples get hit with ball, Morrow flies to Fisher sod Fox scores, Hambrick is out st 1st, 0 bits, 1 nro. Fie her drives to right Add (or and Price is oat st 1st, 1 kit, 1 ran. Foarth inning: Prim made a bcaatifnl long drive in center field, hot was oat at home, Sho ford sad Miller are oat at 1st, 1 bit, 0 mas. Stafford isos. Alexander is oat at 1st. Aberncthy walks. Belas Isas. Fifth toeing: Temple bit to center. Pox flew oat to Belae. Rhyne and Staples fan, 1 hit, 0 mas. Lindsey is hit with belL Fish er 'fsas, Bumgarner Iks to Temple, Lindsay is oat 2nd base, 1 hit, 0 rtna. Sixth toning: Morrow singles, Hambrick gets 2 bases in center. Prim and Shnford go oat at 1st, Miller singles. Monrow and Hambrick score. Miller Is oat at 2nd base, 3 hits, 2 runs. Grisdswont at 1st Price acoses on error by Prim, Stafford forced Price at 2nd, Alexander files to Staples. Seventh inning: Temple film to Fisher and Fox to Price, Rhyne to hit with ball. Staples is safe on Fisher's error. Mor row Is oat at 1st. Aberaetbt flics to Prim, Belne has, Lindsay flies to milter. xunoncK iios, mm nits to Price Shnford out at 1st. Fiaher walks, Bnmgarncr forced . Fisher at 2nd, Gnsdale walks, Price is oat at let. Staf ford walks, Alexander is sale on error by Fox, Bumgarner aeons. Abernatby^iiigtled aoorin^Qtfo on error by Staples. Uadsav is sofooa error by Rhyne, Alex ander scores, Fiaher tons. 1 bit; Ninth inning: Milter, Tem ple, and Fox retire at 1st base. Bumgarner Ut to right, Otto dale to left and Price to right. Bum ear tier scoring, Stafford is sale on bant, Alexander Is oat st 1st sod Orisdsle at home. 4 hhs| 1 run. Tenth inning: Rhyne boat f * i ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ J ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ $ : ♦ 1 BMCOWfl OAHft. ./S SfStiT" *“ *“ by Price ever the fence for ■ home n bk to ceatar foe fret tone and MiU« aaZrf'eaepievBt stfaL 2 Idle, 1 ran, Lindsey an fiy to short. Fisher apes ent at lot, »e—ern*f ont pitcher to first. Second itntflg • HdiibricV Mte to right. Fox and Ellison strike' ont. Staples cot «t first 1 bit, Oran. Clrisflaie gets first by liriag tot with ball, Drake tank and la ont at fret Price strikes oat Stafford walks on 4 balls end le ont trying to steal second. Thud inning: Werner flesjMt to second. Prim ont at first, Shw iord goes out on fiy. rigbtaad on errorgoae trash ont on fiy, BafiMfil out pitcher to let, Fox ont on fiy. 1 tot; 0 run. G risdale oat at let, Drake (ass. Price flies oat to risrhl Fifth hndag: QHfoti onlnC 1st, Staples tools to csteber, walks. Ivory oot at safe at' Sixth 3rd on error
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