North Carolina Newspapers

Man's Dependence J3v Marie Corelli. iO my mind, the very desire pi? an open confession of weakness a proof tnat .sne ms ground, and is not sure of herself. For if she is real woman if if she has Jhe natural heritage of -her sex, which is the mystic power to persuade, enthral and-subjugate man she has no need to come down from her throne and mingle in any of his political frays, Inasmuch as she is already the very head and front of government. . Let those who will laugh at or sneer down the statement; the fact remains that a man is seldom anything more than a woman's representative. No man, in either business or pleasure, can ever quite shake off the influence ot tne woman with whom he is most privately and intimately connected. Gooa or bad, she colors his life. It is always a case of cherchez la femme. SeeK, and you will find. Behind a slovenly workman there is generally a slumsn wife. Behind the obstinate and stupid man, behind the timorous and time serving man, behind the hasty politician who insults his Prime Minister, will be found, in their several turns,, the rommon-place woman, the hypocritical woman, and the disappointed, egotistical, vain woman. Man is what woman makes him. She bears him and rears him. She W hla sovereign and supreme ruler. From the first breath he draws, she, and she alone, possesses him. When he is born he at once displays that fractious and fickle disposition which is so often srnificant cf his future development and woman has to carry him up and down in her arms, talking nonsense to him, or, as. it is called, baby language." She knows she has to begin that way, because he would not understand sense. But who is to blame for this erroneous impression so widely prevalent among men? Why, the women themselves, of course. Not only because they show the 'most cruel and acrimonious spite and jealously when one of their sex becomes distinguished in art or letters, but because they are the first to start unkind reports about her and against her against her looks, her dress, her manner and even her reputation. There is no length to which women's tongues Trill not run when "downing" other women more brilliant than themselves. They allow men to sea this paltry display of their inferior character every day, and naturally the men draw thtir own conclusions. The yoimeest schoolboy is too often compelled to notice and inwardly comment npcn'his mother's love of tea-table scandal, or his sister's bilious envy, of some cither prettier girl. If such are the early impressions made by the conduct of his own women relatives on a youth's mind, he will, most unquestionably, when he grows to manhood, retain the one "fixt idea" of woman's generally inherent foolish ness, while the talk of "women's interests" will only move him to a skeptical smile. . A Transportation By Francis aylandGlen. T no very distant day the within this Republic will be without grades or curves. They will he laid with 100-pound steel rails, upon broken-stone road beds, -well drained, with steel ties laid in asphalt. The motive power will be electricity developed by water power or gravity. They will be lighted by the same power. and the cars and depots will also be heated- from the same source. There will be no dust to annoy passengers or to soil the inside of pas senger cars or to injure the boxes and axles of the trucks. Cars of 50-ton capacity, made of steel, will be used. They will have at least two tracks and sidings so arranged at stations- that passengers and freight can be loaded and unloaded without interfering with the continuous passing of trains both ways upon the main tracks. Upon such a railway freight can be carried for an average of 25 cents per ton for .100 miles at a fair profit upon the cost of construction, equipment and operation. Upon such a railway a locomotive can haul 2,500 tons of merchandise in fifty cars forty miles an hour, without injury to the roadbed or rolling stock. The cost of motive power will be trivial as compared with the cost of steam power. It is the grades and curves upon defective roadbeds that destroy the rails and rolling stock. An air-line railway without grade can be built from Brunswick, Ga., to San Diego, Cal., that will not exceed 2,100, miles in length. Upon that railway a passenger train can cross the continent in thirty-five hours and a fast freight in fifty hours. With a line of steamers npon the Atlantic sailing from Brunswick to Europe with coaling stations at Bermuda and the Azores, merchandise can be carried from the Pacific at San Diego or Los Angeles to Southampton In nine days or less. Cotton can be hauled from Texas to San Diego at nominal cost. With a line of steamers sailing from New York to Brunswick, fruit from California can be delivered in New York in five days at one-fifth of the charge now demanded by rail. Such a railway can be built in five years and .will become "the highway of the nations across this continent." 99 By Marie Twain. HE Babies! Now, that's something like! We haven't all had th fortune to be ladies. We haven't' all been generals or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground, for we've all been babies. If you gen tlemen' will think fora moment, if you will 50 back fifty or a hundred years to your early married life, and recontemplate your first baby, you will remember that he amounted to a good deal and even something over. . If the baby proposed to take a walk at his usual hour, half-past two in th J morning, didn't you rise up promptly and remark that that was the very thing you were about to propose yourself? Oh, you were under good discipline! And as you went fluttering up and down the room In your undress uniform, you not , only prattled, undignified baby talk, but even tuned up your martial voice and tried to sing "Rock a by baby in the tree top!" t.i;i j 1 - j 11 l i 1 J ' i . a 4.1.2 Trn ' 1 1 UKe tne mea mat a uauy uueau i auiuum iu auymmg. vvuy, uue oaoy Is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can furnish more (business than you and your whole interior department can attend to; he is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities; and do what you please you can't make him stay on the reservation. Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind, don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there isn't any real difference between triplets and insurrection. - . B?e Mo Ji famous treet JBy Edward S. Martin TOPPING in New York there fifty and a hundred thousand people, a large proportion of whom go to the theatre In the evening. It is this enormous money spending crowd that has caused the theatre district in New York to become a world-famous curiosity in electrical street illumina tion. All day long this part of Broadway is a crowded and busy district, full of shops and iestaurants, and a "great thoroughfare of a great city; but at eight o'clock of an evening in the theatre season it is de luged with a crowd which quickly disappears and Is lost for three hours, when it surges out again, and fills the streets, the restaurants end lobster paiaces, the carriages, the motor-cars, the cabs, the Subway; the' Elevated stations, and the street-cars. A part of this crowd goes home immediately when the thea tres let out; part of it disperses to various hotels and restaurants on Fifth ave nue or the cross-town streets, and part of it clings to Broadway, and eats and pauses, there the lights are bright and the streets are lively until after mid night. , It is to cateh the eyes of this evening crowd that the theatre section of Broadway, has been so bejewelled with all manner of electrical contrivance. Advertisement is the motive. The result is somewhat binding, but it Is" undoubtedly interesting, and, softened by due distance, it stirs the' imagination and becomes even beautiful Harper's. , , . The ' Blood. Bet Bill , a million he doesn't knew the i color cf his own blood. It can not be blue yet Bill may be one of the blue-blooded aristocracy. Ask .him If his blood Is all one. color and bet him a million. Then explain that itt isn't. The blood . In the ar teries is a bright red; that In the i . on "Women for a vote on the part of woman RI ill en ii in in new lines of railway constructed in the World are at all times somewhere between vein's a dull .red. The former Is changed with oxygen, the latter with carbonic acid. How can Bill tell a vein from an artery?,. Tell him that veins, when pressed,. do not fill from above; because blood in the veins is always seeking the heart. Thissim-. pie fact is worth knowing in casi of an accident. New York Press. 110! CAROLINA AFFAIRS Items of Interest From Many Parts of the State MINOR MATTERS OF STATE NEWS Happenings of More or Less Import ance Told in Paragraphs Tha Cot ton Markets. Four Burned to Death. Caroleen, Special. At 11 o'clock Wednesday night a large two-storj? dwelling house at Henrietta caught fire fromjhe elosetf below, and before the family or neighbors awoke to make the discovery the flames had ad vanced too far to save the building or any of its contents. The most dreadful feature of the disaster was the loss of two little children sleeping up stairs who were burned to death and their bodies can scarcely be rec onized. Two sons of Mrs. McDade, who occupied the house, were so seri ously burned by their efforts to make their escape that it is not thought that they can live; Also old Mr. McDade was badly burned and may not recov er. Details would pronounce this the saddest calamity in the history of the town. The two young men of the Mc Dade family died from the horrible burns received. The young men were IS and 20 years of age respectively, and nearly gave their lives . to save from the flames the two little children acred 4 anii C. Mrs. McDade may yet die as a fifth victim. MaiiEobbercanrci Wilmington, Special. The mystery concerning the disappearance of a package containing $10,000 in curren cy, in transit by mail from the Atlan tic National Bank, of this city to the Chemical National Bank, of New York, was cleared up by the arrest at the instance of postoffiee inspec tors of Edward A. Nelson. 27 years of age, employed in the railway mail service.. The confession and arrest of young Nelson was accomplished by Col. S. T. Hooton, chief of the post office inspection service at Baltimore j Postoffiee Inspector Wm. J. Maxwell; of Baltimore, and District Inspector S. H. Buck. Nelson had recently re signed from the service to engage in the confectionary business on one of the most prominent corners in the city and accompanied by his wife, to whom he was married 15 months ago, and by his mother, he had gone to New York. The robbery was accomplished by Nelson by slitting the mail pouch that contained the package and he had hidden most of the mouey under his dwelling. Bond was given in the sum of $5,000.00, his wife and mother raising that amount on property they owned. All the money was recover ed. New Railway Company. Winston-Salem, Special. The El kin and Alleghany Railway Company which was chartered by the recent Legislature with a. capital stock of '$125,000 with the privilege of increas ing it to $3,000,000 was permanently organized at Elkin. The meeting at which the organization was effected was a large and enthusiastic one, con sisting of men from Alleghany coun ty, Elkin and vicinity and a number of other stockholders from Winston Salem and other places. The first business was the election of a board of directors which consisted of the following named : Messrs. H. G. Chat ham, R. A. Doughton, A. G. Click, G. T. Roth, A..M. Smith, E. F. McNair, R. M. Chatham, C. L. Smoot, A. H. Eller, H. E. Frich, Choate, C. M. Smith, E. F. Fields, J. F. Hendreu. and W. J. Boyles. - Studying Labor Conditions. Winston-Salem, Special. Mr., D. A. Tompkins, of Charlotte and. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster j of Washington, the special commissioner for the Depart ment of Justice, appointed by Presi' dent Roosevelt to make a report on labor 'conditions of women and chiiT dren through the; country, spent a while in the city enroute to Wilkes county, where Mrs. Foster will study the conditions in the rural sections.' Cotton Mill for Hendersonville. A special from Spartanburg, S., C., to the Charlotte Observer of Friday says : A number of representative business men of Hendersonville, N. C. spent Thursday in the city inspecting the Dayton Cotton Mill, of which A. B. Calvert is president, with the view of erecting a cotton, "mill in Hender sonville 'similar to the Drayton' Mill. A company is being organized in Hen derson villle with a capital stock of $300,000. The majority of the stock it is said, has been taken by the peo ple of Hendersonville, while the re mainder will be raised outside. ' Items of Stato News. ' - The report of the inspector general of the National Guard of this State,. Col. Stringfield, to Governor Glenn will be a suprise perhaps to five com panies, as he recommends the dis bandment of that number for general inefficiency, failure to care, for prop-; ?rty, etc Of course, there are plenty f applicants on the waiting lists and my vacancies are ready to be filled. " TAR HEEL CROP BULLETIN Conditions for the Past Week as Re ported ty the Department. - The weather and Crop Bureau of the Department of Agriculture issues the following, bulletin of : conditions for the week ending Monday, .'April 15th. The weather was. generally partly eloudy to cloudy during the first half of the week, and clear the flatter half. The temperature averaged much below normal, varying from 7 degrees below normal on the coast to 17 degrees in the western- district. The minimum temperature fell near ly to the freezing point every day in the central cistrict, while in the west ern district temperatures below freez ing were frequent. Frost from light to killing occurred all over the State nearly every morning, ice formed in many places, and considerable damage was done in every district. The high est temperature was 72 degrees on the 11th in Robeson county, and the lowest was 22 degrees on the 11th in Haywood county. The rainfall for the State averaging about one-half inch below normal, being heaviest in the eastern district and lightest in the western c'i'strict. .. Snow .flurries were reported in ell districts. A. II; Thiessen, Section Director. Will Move to Statesville. Asheville, Special Preparations are making at the internal revenue offices for the formal transfer, of the office to Statesville. Collector Brown has selected Monday, April 22 as the probable date for moving the office and, if that day is finally ci?finitely decided upon,- the several offices in the Federal building now ocupied by Collector Brown and his force of cV2p uties and clerks will be vacated by the middle of the. week of April 22l It is probable that litle time will be lost in removing the office. It is practically certain that all the pres ent employes of the office, with the exception of C. B. Moore, will accom pany Collector Brown to Statesville. Mr. Moore has been named as the stamp deputy for Asheville and he will consequently stay. There is much packing in progress in the rev enue department and these prepara tions will continue until all records are collected and made reacjy fo transfer. Capital Stock $5,000,000. Charlotte, Special. The directors of the Mechanics ' Perpetual Buildiug and Loan Association are planning to secure an amendment to their charter authorizing an increase of capital from $2,000,000 to $5,000,000. The association now has outstanding more than 19,000 shares of stock, which represents a capital of $1,900,000. Hence the need of an amendment charter. At a meeting of the direc tors one night last week, $55,000 of loans were approved. Within the next two weeks more than $49,000 will be distributed in loans. Nevci before was the association in a more prosperous concVtion., Its business ii steadily growing and the future is big with promise. The Mechanics : Perpetual Building ' and Loan Asso ciation ranks all other associations f its kind in the South and is one of the very largest in the land. Planing Mill Bumsd. Charlotte, Special A fire whict for a time threatened to sweep a large portion of the residence section be ginning near the center of the city, started in the planing mill of Asburj & Finger at six o 'clock Saturday ever ing. The flames were fanned by a high wind and only the timely work of the firemen saved perhaps several hunci-ed houses from destruclion The mill and large lumber yards are a total loss. The plant represented o bout ten. thousand dollars. The .bi building of the Armour Packing Com pany was barely .saved. Albert II Lentz, of ,Mt. Jlolly, while working near the engine at his brick yardy.was fatally scalded ' Saturday; morning. Steam and hot water f rorir a "burst pipe were hurled over, his body while he lay insirt) a walled up space undoi the y at er tank. , The body; of the un fortunate man was almost cooked in hot water, and steam. ; His .life is des paired of. ' ' Tom Walker Hanged. Fayetteville, Special. Tom Walk er, the' negro who murdered Chief oi Police Chanson and Officer Lockamj and wounded Officer Buckingham, was hangedf in the county jail. Foi an hour previous to noon, the time set .for the execution, .and before the official witnesses were' admitted tc the jail, services were held with the condemned man in the hospital ward, where Walker has been confined since his attempt at self-destruction. There were five ministers-, with him, besides the keepers and 'newspaper men. " May Be Patally Injured. Winston-Salem, Special., While working on the gable at the "rcsidenc of ' Mr.' A. F; Messick in Salem,- Mrs Paul Miller, a ydung carpenter,' fell from theN scaffold, a cXstance of To feet, and sustained injuries that maj? prove fatal. He fell backwards and his' back is badlyv injured; besides, he may be internally injured. , The physicians are unable, to'sav whethei or not he 'is internally hurtTbut the- fear that he is FARM IMMIGRANTS WELCOME Planters IXay Brin Agriculturists to ; United States by Entering Into Agretment to Make Them Share Partners - ' Washington, Special. The depart ment of bommeree and labor has made a decision that laborers can be brought in from foreign countries if they are to .be share tenantst such at are commonly engaged throughout the Southern States. Hon. Leroy Percy of Greenville, Miss., made the sug gestion to the department and it was adopted. Heretofore the department of com merce and labor has made no distinc tion beUreen wage; workers brought to tb United States and agriculturists coming, over from foreign : countries. . Under the terms of the agreement proposed by Mr. Percy and approved tvy the department of commerce and labor, planters, can bring agricultur ists to the United States by entering in to an agreement giving the immi grant opportunity through an option to become a share partner with his employer. This differentiates . him from the wage workers who has been brought over by f aetory operators and . against whom -the labor contract Jaw was passed. Mr. Percy submitted his form f agreement ?to Commissioner of Immigration-Sargent, who in turn submit ted it to the solicitor for the depart ment of commerce and labor. Both 3ffivals prounounceed it eminently worthy and . acceptable from every standpoint. Commissioner Sargent said that in the South Carolina case the ruling of the "department was ad verse to the mill owners because the proof showed that they had brought labor from foreign countries with a riew to lowering vses. ' Lost In Breakers. Wilmington, Special. W. C. Lyn ley, of Powder Springs, Ga., and Lloyd Andrews, of Seven Springs, N. C.,. both younfj men employed here several months as industrial insur ance solicitors, are believed to have been swept out to sea an"i drowned in a fifteen foot launch which was found stranded on the beach near Middle Sound, twelve miles below Wilming ton. With a party of friends th?y were at the sound for an oj-ster roast and rowed out in the sound to gun for marsh hens. They were seen to ap proach the inlet by their companions on shore and are believed to have been caught in the strong current and carried out where their boat was cap sized hy the breakers. -The body of neither has been found though most diligent search has been made. : First State" High School. Raleigh, Special. The State cor.rd of education is preparing the rules and regulations for the government of the rural of country high schools which are to receive State aid under the new law. Wake county gets the first of these, the county board having purchased it. This school is at Cary and was bought from the trustees at a merely nominal figure. The public school there is to be mergec1! into it and this will give a faculty of about seven. Students will go to ii from schools all over the country. . Kay Be a Lynching. Greensboro. Special. Special offi cer "W. F. Tomason ofi Davidson county arrived here at midnight bringing with him Cornelius Gant, a negro of that county, charged with an attempt at rape on Mrs.. Swice good, wife of one of the best known farmers of the county. The Gift of Tongues. Raefor, Special. A woman minis ter from Wilmington is here holding a holiness meeting. She professes to speak the "Unknown Tongue" and since the meeting has been in progress several of the followers" have been blessed with the same gift. They claim that they themselves don't know of what they speak but there is an inter preter who can tell them. Municipal Elections. v Charlotte, Special.--In the primary helc!i here Tuesday, Mayor McNIneh, was unanimously re-nominated, hav ing no opposition. For aldermen and school . commissioners . the candidates of the Business Men's Municipal League were all elected over the can didates of the Citizen's Democratic League. Good order and good feeling characterized the contest. Salisbury, Special. In Tuesday's municipal primary Mayor BoyAm was re-nominated by a majority of 180. The fight here-has been rather bitter. yj ij CJ 5j i. J"! 5 THOMAS SHEPHERD JK Licensed Embalmer and Furneral Director ill Sty ''' 'v- - - (P (f) I carry a fist class line of funeral $ Supplies. Opposite Hotel Imperial. w .. N" Ooen dav 1 i i i - " 3 - -i5 k - T1 Ct.i. 1 J -i Professional CaLrdi JEL S. Anderson Attorney and Ccmcellor at Law Hendersonville, N. C. 63 Removed tQ office over new bioi Baftlett Shipp Attorney-at-Law Office in Bank of Hendersonville Bldj A. L. Holmes G. H. Valentin Holmes & Valentine Attorneys-at-Law Office over Bank of Hendersonville Dr. H. H. Carson Surgeon-Dentist Office over Bank of Hendersonville Hendersonville. N. C, Walker A. Smith BAKERY FINE BREAD, CAKES AND PIES Cakes made to order . a tpecialty. Main St. cpp. Baak oi Hendf rwsriUi C0MP1ETE OP 5taple and Fancy G ROC E R I E 8 AT Burckmyer Bros., North Main Street Hendersonville N. C. Your larder applied with the best .the marke aff ord ail Goods as tReprescnteD AT Grocer f and General Provision Ston Hendersonville. N- C. THE BLUE 1UDGE INN ' Hendersonville, NortK CaroPna. i Bargains in Furniture 8AVE MONEY ON SEWU1B MACHINES & 0R6ti Selling Below Cost Full line of Baby Carriages. Sele stock of new goods. Call at our stor in the handsome new brick block. J.M. STEPP. N. Main Hendersonville, N. C. 9) 9) Phone 25. fa 9 and nisrhl- -r3 - tS' xe otitic uuaiu ox education W $13,785- to 12 counties for buildi."! new sehoolhouses, the follwing beir the principal loans : Wake $2,350 f'a ton, $2,500; Forysth, $2,500; tuck, $1,100; Mecklenburg, IKchmonh, $800; Randolph, $ooo' Burke, $3,000. ' ' A charter is granted to the Banfc of-Creswell, with an authorized eani tal of $10,000. This is the ninth bant chartered so far this year. The cVease in the banking business ;a North Carolina has certainly been ie. markable during the past two yea . Past a Hundred. Greenville, "Special. Louise iP. Gowan, the. oldest colored man Iiere die J ' Friday night He was k now n to be more than a hundred years old and claimed that the records showed that he was 116. He was a good man and was esteemed by both vrhite and colored people. He was a mininster in the Primitive Baptist church anil preached as" long as his strength wo permit him to meet his appointments J 1 A F ickers