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THE Lincoln County News. TWICE A WEEK Hew to the. Line, Let the Chins Fall us thpi.i Man: . " ' $1.00 PER YEAR. Vol.1 LINCOLNTON, N. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1907. No. 16 Romance In Short. EVERY CHILD SHOULD WORK. (DISASTROUS FIRE AT HICKORY. &3 Charlotte Man Suicides. V Contem)lation; V Adoration. (Unllant thinks her grent.) Preparation;'-.' lui-o ration. (Off to learn his fate.) . Palpitation; ' ; .;' Trepidation .'-.- . On the lover's side. Desperation; Osculation. Now she is his bride! . .Charles Jloustsn Uoudliss, in Xew York Tribune. To Heaven By Private Car. '',... BV 110LTON HALL . Author of "ThlHgs an They Are ' Etc. The Independent. "But, Saint Peter, " protested the Beneficent Millionaire, "I got my money in accordance with the law."..'.-' "Yes, "said Saint Peter, "You've had the credit of that already, haven't yout What good have you done for the love of Man?" "Why," said, the Millionaire, "my donations to the charities you have the subscription lists my endowed Chair of Political Ecouomy, the Dives Hospital, the Dives Library are these not f "I said for the love of Man," said Saint Peter. "Well, then, if you say solely for the loye of man why, oh, yes. A widow came to me once in great distress. Her son was , her sole support; he was about to lose his place for lack of a pair of shoes. I got her the shoes." , Saint Peter pushed a button and an imp of Satan answered. "Where is the boy Oh, you're the one. This lad," said the Saint to the Millionaire, "went to the devil be cause he did not get that place as errand boy. You may have done that for love but you see you only helped one at the expense of the other." ; The Millionaire frowned. "I gave $100 to my wife for her Flow er Guild work" he said. Saint Peter turned over his book. "Your wife has the credit for that," he said. - . . "I paid for free ice once," said the Millionaire, "and said nothing at all about it" ' . , -' Saint Peter looked at the book again, "That was part of the mon ey you got, by the water works franchise, from the people you gave the ice to, was it not!" he said. "But the .hospitals' pleaded the Millionaire, "and the subscrip tions truly Igave them - partly out of kindness. Then the Em ployment Society that I " organ-" ized." - "Employment Society," said Saint Peter, "now that's something" practical. Did ybu giverpeople employment!" 7 "Well-eh-no," said the Million aire; "but we found them places. " "Oh,' said Saint Peter, "then you only found them somebody else's places anything else!" "Well-n o," said the Million aire. - "Then jou can go to join your friends." Saint Peter opened the gate the same gat that you would liave opened. Snake With Feet. Wadesboro AnBonlan. Messrs, Samuel Dawkinsand J. A. Katliff, good citizens' of ; Cul ledge township, were in our office Saturday and told us of a snake recently found by Mr. Dawkins and which had two perfectly form ed feet, about the size of mice feet The snake was placed in the(iire and then it was that the feet ap v peared visibb. We cannot doubt this story, though we did not see the snake and felt like thanking ' these gentlemen for sending it to South Carolina instead of bringing it to us. A Cotton Mill Man Thinks . That the Wave of Sentimentalism About Child Labor Has Scattered The Would-be Reformers Have Gone Too Far Mr. William E. Watt, Principal of the Gra-' ded School, of Chicago, Makes a Strong Plea. For Child Labor of a Healthful . Sort. Charlotte Observer. Yesterday a cotton mill man of this city was shown the article which is printed below,' from The Chicago Inter-Ocean, on the sub ject of child labor. He read the story wiih much interest and said it began to look as though the wave of sentiment that has .been going over the country against child labor had reached its maxi mum, and would soon begin to re. cede. "In the recession back ward," he continued,- "it may go further than it ought to go. Hap pily however, the cotton mill men themselves were conducting move'-4' incuts' of betterment before this wave set in and these have been going on throughout the agitation. Happily, also, the cotton in ill men will not abate in any degree this work of betterment after the professional reformers have ex pended their eenrgies. The article from The Chicago Inter-Ocean reads as follows: "lamia favor of child labor. Every child ought to work every day in his life. Child idleness is worse than labor. When the boy is given no chance to accomplish anything is it any wonder that he takes to the reading of blood and thunder stories and attempts to practice the acts of villainy he reads about! Is it any wonder that we are a nation of grafters! Four hours of school and four hours of , work ,. alternating will make every child self-sustaining after the age of 10." With this declaration William E. Watt, principal of the Graham school, yesterday afternoon deliv ered an address at the meeting of the Rouse Woman's Ciub, former ly the Anna B. Holmes club, in the club rooms at Thirty-first street and Fifth avenue, in which he de clared that child idleness is one of the greatest curses of the nation. "With a peculiarly devilish in telligence society and the law have preveuted the" boy from getting work that really is work," he said. "He may run messages and sit on a bench with a crowd of vitiat ed youths larger than himself. He soon absorbs theirjvices andjuits work. It is a miracle that all of them do not go down to . perdition right there. But there " Is such good stuff in our boys that they have, in spite of the folly of their eldenva real desire, to become re putable citizens. This strong de sire saves some. Others ' go to ruin. ' - . "Those who have legislated against - child labor have done a good thing. They have Saved some thousands of children from degra dation and decay by the operation of their laws, but they have per mitted many thousands more to come up iu enforced idleness where their bodies have been permitted to rest and grow, but where their minds and souls have been poison ed r to a degree - that makes the wrong . to the laboring children pale into insignificance by the con trast' :'.'; i.' ':'""' ; "Every child ought to work every day of his life. He is born into a world which requires work; and he ought not to be permitted to form habits of idleness and shirking. Child idleness is worse than child labor. ' ''Knowing this, we bring our children up in enforced idleness. We fill our houses with furniture and frangible things that the chil dren must not get against or han dle. We leave no work in the ;A;New;Aid';Fable.; This is not a George Ado fable, though it may sling soine slang. It is a Home Aid ftiblc. Once there Was a .Geezer, who sat around and cut Kindling too small for Cook Stovo-purposes. He Whittled against Time and Flabbergasted against his Town! The town was No Good, ; he 'said strictly on the Blink. Yes, it was X. G. Why, hadn't he lived Here since '84 and found that the Dace was Punky? Sure, Mike! '."'":. Look at that town over in the next County. Grown like Jonah's Gourd. Must be a Jonah here. We've grown some, but I don't see that we're knocking any particularly Big Per simmons. That's the way this Gazaboo knocked his town. One day a Sarcastic Stranger .floated Into tha Town' that was Knocked rom the burg that had Blossomed like Jonah's, Gourd. He Heard some ; : : . .. . ' V . .i .. - : Baa. have just Blown In we " got over all this Bum Business years ago. We passed Resolutions that we would trade at home and help our own town to Spread out so that you could Sight it on the map without using Opera Glasses. But you and a Bunch of. other folks In this town have wasted your Substance In Riotous Expenditures in Chicago by 'mail and let the sheriff hang out thtt 'No1hlng Doing' sign In front -of some of your own town's mercantile Emporiums. Look ; at our Town and then look at yours. What makes the Differ- ence?" ,.' ,.!.,.,,. -.-7.'.m-:--..l,;,. .... Whereupon the Whittling Gazaboo threw a few well cho sen Thoughts into his mental makeup and wen down to the village store to Annex a linen collar in place of the Paper Circles which he had bought from Chicago at Two Bits a Box. MORAL: If you want your town to grow, patronize home enterprises. house which they can do. We force them to feel that they are of no present use in the world, but a great source of annoyance. They must be dressed by others, their hair must receive slavish attention. It is grown long and viciouly curl ed if possible. Their dresses are made to button in the back to pre vent any-thild's helping Jiimself into his clothes,." "Coming up in idleness, thechild is compelled to seek unnatural and secret means of gratifying the de sire to accomplish something. So lying aud-cheating -are- carried on iu and out of school, cruelty is practiced, - depredations are com mitted against life and property in the streets near home, peddlers are assaulted, helpless animals are tor tured and in most neighborhoods the adults admit to you with lam entations that the children about there are as full of the very devil as they can stick. Is it any won der that " we are a nation of grafterst We have been subjected to years of training in the devil's workshop, where these things are concocted. - - r- - . 7 French Aikship. Thfr airship La Patrie, built by the Lebaudys for the French ministry of war, has made its first aerial trip and scored a complete success, it is claimed. It traveled for 2 hours and 20 minutes at a height of 600 feet. It averaged from 15 to 20 miles an hour. It answered its helm perfectly and turned easily. The ballooning staff .of the ministry of war say it is the most perfect airship ever inveuted. Subscribe to the News. . ' of the Flabbergasting and Dropped to the sit uation. "Look here, you," ha remarked to the citizen who was Handing Out the Knocks. "What do you do for this town? Are you doing your part to put this Burg on the Vpgradc? What's that hefty Bunch of lltera- 7 ture sticking out of ' your Clothes?" "That's a "Stall , Order . Catalogue 1 from Chi. cago a town that Is a town." replied the Gee zer. "So I thought," said the Impertinent Arriv al. "Now let me hand you out a nice little Wad of common sense. For the past ten year you have been sending your money to the Chi cago Mall Order houses . Instead of spending: It among your home mer chants. "What would have happened to Chi , cago fifty years ago If all the First Settlers had shipped their Loose Coin to New York on catalogue Inducements? Why, you'd have to use a sand dredger now to find the Original Site of Chicago. Now, In tha Burg from which I . . ' - Running Past Signals. From the Cleveland eialo Dealer. A party of operating officials of a railway running out of Cleveland formed themselves into a surprise party the other night and visited a neighboring town to see whether engineers were paying proper attcn to the signals. The result was ill uminatingr According to the pul lished reports, the inspectors turn ed out the lightsTn tended to" . show that the track was clear, and, iu spite of the warning thus given, twenty-four trains of twenty-five fushed7bjVouIy70nestopping-to investigate what was' ...wrong. , Of four passenger trains only two even slackened speed on seeing the sig nal which meant danger ahead. The road in puestion is one of the best and most efficiently opera ted in the country, and if such a state of things can exist on it, what is the condition on other lines less completely equipped and less carefully operated! If this state of things exist at the point where the experiment was made, what reason is there to believe that mat ters are any better elsewhere! What is the use of signals at all! Making every allowance for ex aggeration it would appear that at the point in question, and presum ably at others, it is the practice to "take cnances" the practice which, probably causes more train wrecks than any other cause. Fad. Take a large body of people waiting for something new. Go out and cut a fresh fool idea. Sprinkle it over them and knead welt - Serve when red hot. If allowed to cool off, will be spoiled. Hickory Inn Completely Gutted Proprie- for lVTnntaoti And Nttmhrr Of TTrav!- ;" ing Men Seriously Injured Woman Suffocated Loss $50,000 Insurance i, C.J...J.. t .. i W7 ; $15,000. The Hickory Inn, at Hickory, was completely .destroyed by tire ; yesterday morning at 6.80 o'clock, -I a nu'mber of guests and other occu pants were seriously injured by jumping from windows and balco nies, but no lives are reported lost so far.' ; '. : .V .'.,.'' The fire is supposed to have started in the cook room, which was occupied by a bell-boy, The alarni was first ''sounded .from the outside by a passer-by and by the time the' fourteen occupants Avere aroused all escape from the doomed building by way of the lower floor was cut off. The lower story was soon a mass of seething, roaring flames, and panic seized the guests imprisoned above, niany throwing themselves from the windows, pre ferring death from the cruel pave ment below to the horrors of the flames. ,' The Hickory fire department ar: rived promptly on the scene and did valiant service in rescuing the unfortunate inmates, but the flames had gained too great head way to save the hotel. Indeed, it was a battle royal with the firemen against the devouring element to save adjoining buildings and pre vent the spread of the conflagra gration. So fierce was the fire that the roaring of the flames could be heard all over the city, like the rumble of an approaching storm. The proprietor of the hotel, Mr. J. E. Montague, jumped from a second story window, striking the hard cement pavement below flat of his back and seriously injuring his spine Mr. A. D. Stanford, of Richmond, story balcony and sustained serious injuries in the back. Mr. Simon II. Bardheimer, of XeAV York, leaped from second story and had leg broken, sustaining serious in ternal injuries. Mr. Norment, of liichmond, Va., jumped from bal cony, had knee and hip broken, and ankle sprained. Was taken home by friends. '. Mrs,' P. T. Fen ix.ll, of Lattimore, Avas suffocated by the dense smoke Avhich filled her room, and Avas rescued by a brave fireman avIio risked his life to reach her AvindoAV by ladder. A number of cool and heroic deeds are reported, but owing to the miserable teleDlione service, the v- m,1wM.1,i,ia m,ttullsl) pacing tne drawing room story clearly. Mr. F. S. Holt, of Kcav York, Avas aAvakened by smoke and heat in his rboiiiTliud had .only time to jerk on a feAv clothes and rush out. He gave the alarm to several sleeping inmates, whbA'ereescued by"the fodders of the firemen. Mr. Holt carried an aged man through the burning hallway to a point of safety. Mr. E. R. Hintou, of Baltimore, is an other man ..'who acted coolly and did much to help the panic-stricken inmates. Every minister and physician in Hickory was present at the fire and did all in their poAA er to ren der assistance and alleviate the suffering. A. The firemen worked liked demons, and deserve great credit. Mr. Goldsmith, of Cincinnati!, who made a narrow" escape from the burning hotel, says the travel ling men of North Carolina should immediately petition the legisla ture to frame a law requiring all hotels to provide fire escapes. The Hickory Inn hid no fire escapes, no electric bells, and no one on night duty to look after the saf -ty of sleeping and helpless guests. The Hickory Inn Avas OAvned by Mr. Frank Loughlan, of Asheville, and the building and furniture were valu-d at $50,i00. The in surance was only $15,000. i T Pi in i Iron' V Wilson. Teller of the Merchants & Farmci's' Nation al Hank, of .'Charlotte, was found dead iii his bed in his room in the Arlington Hotel at'IIot Spr mgs, Ark., Sunday morn ing. Although it is generally believed that he-committed suicide there is no evidence whatever of any kind of deadly drug iu his room. There was no murks of violence on the body, and when found the lea- tury were as placid as though Irf' was in a very deep sleep. . On the 2Sth of December Mr. Wilson left Charlotte for Chase City,- Virginia, for treatment. He had been suffering for some time with rheumatism. After remain ing in Virginia, for several Aveeks he went to Hot Springs, Ark., Avhere he died. Several flays ago some of his Charlotte friends re ceived from him a letter, in which he said he had not been Avell for a Aveek. It is believed that he took an overdose of some strong drug, which affected his' heart. Mr. Hamilton Witherspoon Wil son Avas the eldest child of Mr. and Mi's. George E. Wilson, Char lotte. He was 30 years old on last Saturday and is survived' by his parents and two sisters, Misses Annie and Sarah White Wilson, and a brother, Mr. George E. Wil son, Jr. After graduating from Davidson College Mr. Wilson came to Charlotte, where he began his business career. He was the teller of the Merchants & Farmers' Na tional Bank. Among other social and fraternal organizations Mr. Wilson belonged to the Southern Manufacturers' Club, the Masons, the Shriners, the Kappa Alpha fraternity and the Elks. He was popular in business and social cir cles. ' . ' " ' """ " """'" : ". Messrs. John A. Tate, George I. Wads worth and Dolph M. Young left Charlotte Sunday night for Birmingham, Ala., Avhere they AVill meet the remains. A Terrible Moment. Dr. Blinkins Avas prone to stut ter under the stress of excitement. Xot long ago, this AA-orthy prac titioner had occasion professionally to officiate on ah interesting mis sion, and his vocal infirmity was the cause of a funny misapprehen sion, says Lippincott's Magazine. Mr. Muggins, Avho had set his heart ou a son and heir, AA'as ner- wlun his Phi'si(,iim e,lteml--. . "uocior," oegau tne nusuanu, with A Piilrt, u, (rilAin. a.iil finally, a n --- , r- i t ... . sickly smile "doctor, what is it?" Tr-tr-ti' " began the doctor. "Triplets!'' shrieked lluggins. .'iV i Llllll U ll. . "Qu-qu-qu " sputtered the physician., "Don't say quadruplets!" moan ed the distraught man. "N-n no!" finally the doctor managed to articulate. "Qu-qu-quite the contrary. Tr-tr-try to take it ph-philosophically. It's just a girl!" Animals In Fires. From the Minneapolis Journal. "Fire drives a horse mad with fear," said a fireman. "On the other hand," it doesn't disturb a dog in the least. A horse m a hre burns to death unless you can cover his eyes and lead him forth. A dog ahvays es capes. He puts his nose to the ground, where the air is purest, and with calm speed works his way out. " Cats howl and hide in comers. They can readily be taken up and carried forth. Fear makes them limp and subdued. "Coavs keep cool in fires, and of ten find their way "out of a burning stable without the fireman's help," 1
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