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LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1907.
Vol. 1.
No. 66
EVERY SHIP SALUTES HER.
Twenty Years' Vigil Of Lonely Woman
On Savannah River.
Several weeks ago, us the Sa
vannah Line steamer City of Cal
umbus was picking her way care
fully up the narrow channel of the
Savannah River, the passengers on
deck were surprised to hear Capt.
Burg give three long blasts of the
steamer's whistle. There were no
steamers in sight, and those oh
deck were naturally curious to
know. what the skipper was blow
ing at. A young woman started
for the bridge to find out, but was
restrained by a fellow-passenger,
who said the captain was too busy
at that moment to tell why he sa
luted. "If you will take this ma
rine glass," he said, "and look
over on the south shore you will
most likely see a woman waving a
white flag from the porch of that
little white cottage."
It Avas some minutes before the
young woman was able to focus the
rrioao mi t.lii rnttatre. and the
steamer had gone about 300 fath
oms beyond the place where the
three blasts were blown.
"I've found 'it," said the girl
with the glass excitedly. "lean
see the woman waving the flag.
She is waving it now."
"Yes," observed the man who
owned the glass, "and she will
continue to waive it until we are
completely out of sight."
After many passengers had taken
their turn for a look at the white
cottage the curious young woman
again wanted to know Avhy the
ship had whistled three times.
"I thought you knew by this
time," said the man. "You saw
the woman waving, didn't you!','
- "Oh, I sec," she replied, "How'
silly of me not to have seen it be
fore! Of course, the woman wav
ing the flag on the porch is the
captain's wife."
The man replied: "You'd better
not let the skipper hear you say
that."
"Well, why did he salute the
woman of the white cottager Is
she the owner of the line, or does
he salute everybody who waves a
flag to him along the Savannah
River!"
. 'Not at all, ' ' said the man , who
by this time had the entire passen
ger complement for an audience.
"The woman, whom Capt. Burg
saluted a few minutes ago is recog
nized by every skipper who passes
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Up ilUU. MJ W 11 HIV 1 1 i va ,
" las- twenty years no - steamer has
passed Tybee Light that has not
saluted her as she waved to it from
the porch. "
"But she surely doesn't wave to
steamers at night!"- remarked the
young woman.
"I should say she does. That
little woman keeps track of all the
steamers bound for and scheduled
to leave Savannah, and unless she
goes up to the city shopping, there
isn't one gets past her."
"But why does she do it!" asked
the young woman earnestly.
"Well, how, you've got me,
sighed the man with the glass. "I
don't know that I ever heard the
correct story of the woman's faith
ful vigil. Some say she lost a
lover on a deep water tranip twen
ty years or more ago, and she has
saluted every steamer in respect to
his memory. Others say the pass
ing of ships in the night or in the
day is the only diversion that ever
comes to that Godforsaken marsh
where the cottage stands. "
"What is her name!" asked the
woman. "I'm going down to see
her when I get to Savannah."
Her name is Miss Mortus, ' '
said the man with the glass. "I've
fnrffftttpnhnr first name. She lives
there with her mother and brother
The brother is in charge of the
range lights on Elba Island."
Two weeks later as the City of
Memphis was steaming by the
white cottage ou the south marsh
the same young woman waved a
small American flag from the bow,
and after Capt. Dryer gave the
customary three toots of the sireu,
a tiny American flag was waved
from the porch of the white cot
tage. Rushing back to her -state
room the woman scribbled a hasty
note and gave it to the purser to
be posted ou arrival' in Xew York.
"There's great material for a
novel on Elba Island, " she whis
pered to her room mate, "and the
waving of that little American flag
from the white cottage on the
marsh was a signal that I was free
to write the 'story. New .-York
Tribune.
A Warning to the South.
Baltimore." Auc. 17th We are
pioneers in the introduction of
Southern securities into friendly
markets and this was very soon
after the war, and we have since
done as much as any other
house in maintaining an interest
in such securities and in providing
capital for the development of the
South... '
We view therefore with regret
and apprehension the present atti
tude of the Southern people,
through their Legislatures toward
that capital. They do not pause
to consider that many millions of
dollars were lost in Southern se
curities before they got on a pay
ing basis. If you allow for all
these losses it will be found that
there is no "water" in Southern
securities.
This attitude will surely have
one effect; that capital will not
continue to "go into the South-as it
has gone. ' It is of no use to repeat
that oft-quoted saying, "The South
is going to be the richest section
of the country." Other- growing
and develouine sections have
been built up by the use of out
side capital.
Consider for a moment where
the Southern communities would
be now if all the railroad, city,
street railway, water, gas, etc.,
bonds had to be placed on
local investment, or the communi
ties be without those facilities
which they now enjoy.
Let a real concern for the true
interests of the : South take the
place Of the present situation, or
suffer the inevitable consequences
which are apparent already.
Wilson. Colston &' Co. Charlotte
Observer. , - -
Found Nail in His Skull.
A remarkable discovery was
made by the surgeons of Williams
burg Hospital while they were
operating on the skull of William
V, Albright, who fell from the
elevated structure being erected
across the Brooklyn plaza of the
WilliamsburD bridge. The sur
geon came across a hard substance
imbedded in the skull and a closer
examination disclosed it to be the
head of a nail. It proved to be a
nail fully three inches long, which
had penetrated the brain.
The associates of Albright say
he has had a remarkable career
since he became an iron worker.
He has had several 30 and 40 feet
falls, and one 87 foot fall from a
New Liverpool bridge One time
he fell 100 feet from a bridge in
Pennsylvania into the water and
was nearly drowned before hauled
ashore. Brooklyn Eagle.
Eleven Useless Bipeds.
A Avoracn in a nereby town
announced a "white elephant
party." Each guest was told to
bring something for which she
had no use, but which, too good to
throw away.
Eleven of the nineteen guests
brought their husbands. Ex.
ROOSEVELT BOAR HUNT.
Photographer Tells How Mountaineers
Fooled Nation's Mighty Nimrod.
President Roosevelt's onslaught
upon the nature fakers has set
some of the local wise ones in ani
maldom to rereading the Presi
dent's books on the out-of-doors
with the view of ascertaining
whether or not he always displays
the same cafe in describing the do
ings of our citizens in fur and
feathers that he so vigorously de
mands in others. In this connec
tion a story is recalled at one of
the clubs Avhich seems to show
that, although the mighty Nimrod
of the White House may in no
sense be a conspicuous nature fak
er himself, he is sometimes trem
endously imposed upon Avithout
knowing it.
1 he story was told here to a
party of friends by a photographer
who has served one of the New
York weeklies Avith his camera in
several Avars and in many coun
tries. He has photographed Pres
ident Roosevelt in various stunts,
perhaps several thousand times,
just as he pictured President Mc-
Kiuley before him. With no
thought of the story getting into
print, the photographer told of
accompanying the gun-loving Pres
ident some two years ago when he
accepted the invitation of some ad
mirers to enjoy a Avild boar hunt
in their community, which was in
the mountains not more than a
million miles from Washington.
If you Avill look up old newspaper
iiles you will find in the account
of that hunt that the President's
rifle brought doAvn the sole quarry
of the day a huge old boar Avith
shining tusks.
"As the rather large party rode
into the forest at the foot' of the
ravine, said the photographer, the
President turned to several un
armed neAvspaper men and myself
and said: You felloAvs are making
a good deal of noise and you may
frighten the game away. Suppose
you make a detour and join us in
an hour or so up the ravine.
"Instantly Ave spurred aAvay
from the party and rode ou up the
ravine. A ear its head Ave Avere
surprised to come across a neAvly
built pen of logs. Climbing up
the side of the pen Ave looked down
into it and saAV a large Avild boar,
Avhich greeted us with an angry
snort. At this moment a moun
taineer emerged from the brush
and told us that if we didn't make
ourselves scarce there would be
trouble. Hastily Ave made our
way to the summit and' sat - down
to Avait.
"In an hour avc heard the pop
ping of a rifle. ---When-all Avas still
again wc "mounted "and "galloped
down the ravine. As we passed
the boar pen Ave noticed that its
rude door Avas standing open. A
few hundred yards doAvn the nar
row ravine Ave came upon the par
ty congratulating the President on
his luck in spying the first game
and his skill in bringing it doAvn.
He was Aviping blood from the
hunting knife Avith which he had
slit the throat of a prize Avild boar
that had fallen to his sure aim.
We went back to town that day
Avithout seeing any other wild
hogs, and the President said that
the joke ' was on the rest of the
hunters. Very heartily he thank
his entertainers for keeping their
promise to pilot him to the place
where he would be sure to get a
shot or two at the wild hogs, and
the few of us who were wise nev
er had the heart to tell him."
From the San Francisco Call.
Won't the city fathers bestir
themselves and get electric lights
before ..whiter. , EA'erybody says
"Let there be Light." Voter.
Subscribe for the News.
I OUR ANNUAL MURDER RECORD.
It is About 9,000, Four-Sevenths by Ne
groes and Foreigners.
Everybody knows that thiscouu
try has a very bad murder record.
At present Ave arc having about
nine thousand murders a year,
which is from eight to twenty-five
times as- many in proportion to
population as such countries as
England, France, Germany, and
Japan. Why all this unauthor
ized killing? For many reasons,
which help to an understanding
even though they do not excuse.
We have about nine million ne
groes and a great many newly im-1
ported foreigners, some of whom
are very impu'sive with weapons.
The negroes kill pretty freely. Out
of 7,386 persons charged Avith
homicide in this country in 1890,
2,739 were negroes and 1,213 Avere
foreign -born Avhites, These two
groups, comprising one-fourth of
the population, did four-sevenths
of the murders. That left 3,165'
murders to be distributed among
about forty-five millions of people,
which is not so very bad. It Avill
probably be found, -when the cen
sus bulletin comes out, that the
ratios of 1890 we're maintained in
1900. In recent years we have
had a large immigration of Ital
ians, including, it would seem, a
good many that are not desirable.
The Italians are very useful here,
and the good ones are very Avel
conie. But average Italians, good
as they are, do not help much in
keeping down the murder ratio.
They have very obstinate ideas on
that subject. We read that only
one Europeau country has ever
had a worse murder record than
ours, anil that is Italy. We read,
too, that there Avas very lately dy
ing at Fordham Hospital, New
York, an Italian-who had been
kicked nearly to death by some of
his countrymen. Amputation was
urged upon him to save his life,
but he declined, saying: "If I live
to go out, I shall kill my assail
ants and then I will die in the
electric chair. I might as well die
noAV." One may admire his reus
oning, and sympathize Avith his
feelings, but Italians of his sort do
not help our murder statistics.
Find Bottle After Three Years.
Three vears aco Dr. Samuel
Long, Avith Mrs. C. A. Downey
son and daughter, were visiting at
McCall's Ferfv. While there the
boy Avrote the address of his
mother on a slip of paper, enclosed
it in a quinine vial and pitched it
in the river, thinking that it would
float on and find its Avav into the
ocean.
They were supriscd a few days
ago to pick up the little bottle
containing the mother's address
after three years three miles farther
doAvn the river. It had become
lodeed in a cleft of rock. The
supposition is that the pine cork
which Avas used to cork the bottle
became saturated Avith water and
sunk it. In this Avay it was held
fast.
When the McCall's Ferry Foavci-
Company started to build its
cofferdam, it drained the river,
and when the Downeys visited
this vicinity, the sister of the boy
who had deposited the bottle in
the water discovered the little vial.
In opening it she found the address
to be in perfect condition. York
Pa. Dispatch to the New York
Times.
It was in Brooklyn.
A Brooklyn public school teach
er once required a lad of ten to
compose a sentence containing the
word "dogma." The pupil, after
some deliberation, submitted his
effort. It read as follows: "The
dogma has five pups." Home
Magazine.
THE VANISHED DAYS.
Lay the jest about the julep in the cam
phor balls lit last,
For tho miracle has happened nnd the
olden days are past;
That which makes .Milwaukee thirsty
does not. foam in Tennessee,
And the lid in old Missouri is as tight-,
looked as can bn
O tho comic paper colonel and his cro
nies well may sigh,
For the mint is waving gayly, but the
South is going 'dry. . .-
By the stillside on the hillside in Ken
tucky all is Stilly
For the only damp refreshment must
be dipped up from the rill;
No'th 1'a'lina's stately ruler gives his
soda glass a shove,
And discusses leal option with the
South Ca'lina (ov.;
It is useless at the fountain to be wink
ful of the eye, ,
For the cocktail glass is dusty and the
South is going dry.
It is water, water everywhere, and not
a drop to drink;
We Ho longer hear the music of the
mellow crystal clink,
AVhen the Colonel and the Major and
the (ien'l and the Jedgo .
Meet to have a littleiinip to give their
appetites an odge,
For the eggnog now is nogless and the
rye has gone away,
And the punch bowl holds carnations,
and the South is going'dry. 'j . i
All tho nightcaps now have tassels and
( are worn upon the head
Not the nightcaps that were taken when
nobody wont to bed;
And tho breeze above the bluegrass is
as solemn as is death,
For it bears no pungent clove-tang on
its odorific breath,
And each man can walk a chalk line
when tho stars are in the sky;
For the fizz glass now is fizzless, and
the South is going dry.
Lay the jost about the julep 'neath the
-chestnut tree at last, .
For there's but one kind of moonshine
. and the olden days are past;
For the water wagon, rumbles through
the Southland on its trip, :
And it helps no one to drop off to pick
up the driver's whip,
For the mint beds make a pasture and
tho corkscrew hangeth high,
All is still along the stillside and the
South is going dry.
From the Atlanta Georgian.
Mr. Love And His Ball Team.
Mr. Ed gar Love and his Lincoln-
ton baseball team attracted much
attention during the dull summer
months. Although Mr. Love is
one of the most prosperous, as
well as popular, mill men in the
State he finds time to organize and
manage a nine of college boys and
in that way add to the pleasure
of his and other communities.
The Liucoluton team Avent about
and conqured Avherevcr it tarried.
It defeated Sumter, a league
team, two best out of, three . here
and entertai ned the Charlotte
people Avhile they were doing - the
trick. The team Mr. Love put in
the field last year was not defeated.
If all goes well he will have a fine
aggregation next year. The people
of his community appreciate the
spirit behind the month of sport
that they are given by a well-organ
ized baseball team. Some larger
communities do not do so avcII.
When asked Avhat ho igot out of
the team Mr. Love said: "Well, if I
did not travel about with the ball
team I would have to quit work
and go to a summer resort for rest
and recreation. Baseball costs
little more but I get better results. "
The local baseball team has
come to stay. Cotton mill towns
form leagues and play every sum
mer. Mr. Love's example will be
folloAved by other men - of 'means
The piedmont region of the South
is busy all the time but the cap
tains of industry realize that all
work and no play makes Jack
dull boy.
Mr. Love picks his team from
the college teams of the State, and
thereby gives the young men Avho
compose it an opportunity Tt make
some summer change. Charlotte
Observer.
. Husbands never seem to think
of forping a union to demand some
of their own money to spend.
Alpha's Letter.
Your correspondent has been
very busy for the past month.
This accounts for our tardiness in
giving the news of our section.
Since we last wrote Rock Spring
camp meeting has been pulled off,
and the general verdict is that it
was one of the most successful
campmeetings held for many years.
. Ilex. W. 0. Rudisill recently
held a protracted meeting at Leb
anon which" resulted in twelve ac
cessions to the Methodist church.
Rev. Chronister assisted by Rev.
Moose of Southside closed a pro
tracted meeting at Mountain Yiew
Baptist church last Saturday
which resulted in eight accessions
to the Baptist church.
Mr. C. F. Schronce and Miss
Katie Poole Avere recently married
at Lebanon church, Rev. W. O.
Kudisill officiating. A gloom was
cast over our community last Aveek
by the announcement of the death
of Mr. A. C. Bellinger. Mr. Del
linger was about 82 years old. a
consistent member of tho Metho
dist church and an all round good
citizen. His remains Avere in
terred Wednesday at Bethel ceme
tery, Rev. Moose conducting the
funeral services. He leaves a Avife,
four sons and two daughters to
mourn his departure. Among the
sous is Mr. -Rome Bellinger, of
Lincolntou.
The writer attended the Soldiers
Reunion at Newton last Thursday.
The croAvd was large, in fact it Avas
a perfect jam. The Avhole court
square was literally packed Avith
humanity. Mr. Craig made a most
eloquent and patriotic speech, aud
it Avas well received by the large
audience. .Your correspondent dis
Qbeyed the injunction of the Holy
Writ and took a--, seat 1 near -the -
speaker's stand, and the result Avas'
that Ave like the fellow's coon dog, ,
had to advance backAvard several
scats to make room for the soldiers,
but we Avere still near enough to
hear the speaker, had it not been
that we Avere surrounded by ladies,
God bless them, who persisted in
talking about everything, from the
baby's new dress up to the clash
betAvccir the Federal and State
laws. Mcthinks that if ladies can
not become interested in a speaker
themselves, they ought to have re
spect enough for those Avho wish
to hear, to hold their tongue. The
monument unveiled to the memory
of the Confederate soldiers of Ca
tawba county, both living and
dead, is said to be one of the finest
in the State, and its promoters
have I reason to feel . proud . of . it..
The old soldiers seemed to be hap
py and it made one feel good to see
them enjoy themselves.
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lor the present only. The time
Avhen we shall have better roads is
only postponed. When our peo
ple rightly understand this ques
tion they Avill give it their hearty
support. Our people are Avell sat
isfied with our present system of
working the roads, and we think
that the fear, that in case the bond
issue carried, the majority of our
roads would be worked under the
old system, or not worked at all,
had a great deal to do with defeat
ing the measure. The people of
Lincoln county are too progressive
to continue to drag through the
mud many years longer.
Alpha.
R. F. D. Carriers Notice.
Hon. W. W, Kitehin will ad
dress the Gaston connty Rural
Letter Carriers Association at Cher
ry ville Sept. 2nd (Labor Bay)
Carriers from adjoining counties
are requested to be present and
everybody is cordially invited.
Thos S. Royster, Pres.
A fat woman mistrusts a pair of
scales the way an old maid does
the family Bible with the dates
Avhen all the children were born.