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'County News. LINCOLN Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall as they May. $1.50 PER YEAR 5 CENTS PEE COPY. TWICE A WEEK Vol. 1. OCEAN LINERS START RACE. New Lusitania Will Speed Againt the Lucania Across the Atlantic. New York, Sept. 7. The ad vent of no ship was ever watched with keener interest than that displayed in the maiden voyage of the Huge Cunard steamer Lusitan ia, which sailed from Liverpool for New York this evening. The Lusitania, which is expected to travel at a sustained speed of 25 knots an hour, represents a new departure in marine architecture, so far as her engines are concerned and shipping men are deeply in terested to see just how they will act. The engines are of the tur bine type, heretofore considered too costly to run for commercial .use. -' Added interest is given to the trip of the Lusitania by the fact that the managers of the. Cuuard line started for New York the Luc ania, hitherto the fastest ship aud the record holder for the trip from Queenstowu to New York, a few hours before the departure of the new steamer. It will actually be a race, and will thoroughly test thejcapatilities of the two types of steamers. The two great ships are commanded by two of the flu -est captains in the service, Capt. Watt of the Lusitania and Capt. Barr of the Lucania. Each will know how to get every bit of speed out of his vessel. They are quiet mannered, reticent men with closed 1ms aud steady eyes, men who will make the great race no table. - Shipping men expect that the Lusitania will not only win, but that she will ureaK tne irans-.ai- Ger mans. On her trial trip ' the Lusitania, over a 1000 mile course, did 25 1 knots for an average hourly speed. The Lucania has made the fastest trip ever recorded between Queens- town and New York 5 days 7 hours and 23 minutes which record she accomplished in 1894, when Hor atio McKav commanded her. The vessels will not race back, it hav ing been arranged to keep the Lu- cauia in New Yrork but three days whereas the Lusitania will not sail from New York on the return voyage uutil Sept. 21. On her famous record trip the Lucania left Queenstowu at 10:32 a. m. Oct. 21, 1894. Her daijy runs were 529, .534, 538, 549, 544 , and ninety miles to Sandy Hook, wm-a vim nrrivprl n.r, X TV m . On Oct. 26. Her total distance cov " cred between Launt's Rock, where time is taken at "Island, and Sandy Hook, where it is taken at New York, is 2.779 knots. Whether the Lusitania will, breakthisire cord and how much, is the princi pal subject of conversation among Englishmen today. The Lucania has only two screws, whfcreas the Lusitania has four. The new giant of the deep is 785 feet long, 88 feet wide and CO feet deep from the shelter deck, or 78 feet from the boat deck, which, however, is topped by still another deck. Her floating weight , is about 38,000 tons, and it is es timated that in order to propel her at the required sea speed of 24 1-2 knots the turbines will re quire to develop 68,000 horse pow- er, requiring a tsoai - consumption of at least 1,000 tons a day, or 6,000 tons for the voyage. The coal for one trip would last 400 or dinary householders fifty years. The Lusitania and her sister ship, the Mauretania now being fitted out on the Tyne, were con structed with a view to their use as commerce destroyers of fast tran sports in case of war with a mari time powers. With that object in view the British government ad vanced the Cunard company a loan of 2,600,000 pounds at 2 3-4 per cent, and also promised a year ly subsidy of 150,000 pounds. It was stipulated that the' speed! shouldbe at least 24 1-2 knots. n view of the magnitude of that project a special 1 commission 01 experts investigated the relative merits of turbine and reciprocat ing engines. rui'Dines were adop ted, and these, six in number, con stitute the Lusitania's most strik ing departure from previous prac tice. The six turbines really con stitute two sets of three. In her interior furnishings the Lusitania is a floating palace. Each public room is finished in the style of some well known per iod. If the promises made by the builders of the Lusitania are ful filled it.will mark the final supre macy of British over German ship builders. ' New York, Sept. 9. Dispatches by wire from the steamer Lusitania, one of the giant ships which is ex pected to break the record in making the trips between England and the United States, give some details of how the steamer is act ing on her first voyage. One message says: "The Lusitania traveled at no great pace at once, but the absence of vibration was so noticeable that it made the passengers believe that they were dining in a hotel. After dinner the pace was increased. The electric lifts on board the ship were busy until a late hour Satui- day night conveying people swift ly up and down between the five decks. "While hundreds were explor ing and admiring the comforts of the ship, groups of Cunard direc tors, ship experts and naval archi tects "gathered in the smoking room and earnestly discussed the pros pects of the voyage. The Lucania, which left Liverpool four hours ahead of us, was overtaken and passed at 4.30 o'clock Sunday morning. She had half an hour start of us leaving Queenstown. SLACKENED FOB FOG. "Two hours after we left Queens town, the Lucania was still ahead, At 6 o'clock Sunday night she was about 15 to 20 miles in front of us. A foe caused the Lusitania to o slacken down her speed, which greatly disappointed, the passen gers. There were occasional patches of brightness, during which the pace was increased." Another dispatch sentat 9 o'clock Sunday night reported the ship was 180 miles from Queenstown, The weather was clearer,- it an nounced, and the vessel was ploughing ahead at great speed. I ' 'The Lucania is believed to be near us," the dispatch continued, "but her position is not specified. ShThasliot been sighted since din ner time. The passengers are lining the sides to catch a glimpse of her if possible. The progress of the Lusitania is beautifully smooth. Later dispatches' reported that the Lusitania had passed the Lucania. Georgia's Only Negro Legislator Resigns. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 10. W. H. Rogers, of Mcintosh county, the only negro member of the Georgia Legislature, today resigned his seat in the General Assembly. ... He gave no reason for his action but it is believed that the passage of the negro disfranchisement bill by the last Legislature influenced him. Death of Dr. Murphy. Dr. P. L. Murphy, Superinten dent of the State Hospital in Mor ganton, died at the Hospital Wed nesday after a wasting illness of over a year. Dr. Murphy was in his 59th year and would have com pleted his 24th year as Superin tendent of the Hospital ( had he lived until January. In his death the State sustains a severe loss. , , LINCOLNTON, N. C FRIDAYSEPTEMBER 13,1907. How To Get Rich. Most men desire wealth. The popular idea of happiness is asso ciated with a pot of money. He is a benefactor of his race, there fore, who can show his fellows how to get rich. Generally speak ing, a man does not go to bed very poor and wake up mi the morning very rich, although a few cases of this kind have happened. -.How, then, shall a man get rich? There are various ways. A sharper who advertised the vending of an infal lible recipe for obtaining riches upon the payment of a paltry dol lar used to send the following for mula, viz.: "Work like the devil and never spend a cent!" This scheme is not consistent with mod era ideals. The race track continues crowded with those in whose hearts there lingers the fond hope that a lucky bet will tempt the goddess of for tune to outpour her cornucopia, Time after time, however, she sus. tains her old reputation as a fickle jade, and statistics show but few lucky strikes at the race track Defalcations have begun at the betting ring, and personal losses that could be ill afforded have been suffered because, of the vain hope of getting rich by devotion to the turf. Lottery tickets, policy playing and other forms of gambling, , well called games of chance, but where the chance, is all against the play er who would have wealth, are other oft tried methods to get rich quick. . $ If a man could go into Wall Street and buy stocks or bonds at 50 and presently sell at 150 he would not require to continue such a process long before he would be rich. Every man finds, sooner, or later, that wealth has its price, and to buy even it the price must be fully paid. Self-denial is one of the prices of wealth. He that would be rich must save his money, not waste it The rich man is conservative. A young man who says to himself at the beginning of his career "I will be rich" must start out by spending less than he receives. When his companions squander, he must refrain from "blowing his money in," accord ing to the modern vernacular. He must learn to finance himself and to keep in touch with income and outgo. He must keep account of his money. A small cash book will easily answer at first, but a careful study of this book and an analysis of it will teach himy as nothing else will, where his money goes and how to regulate his tides of expenses. The weak young man who re fuses the amputation of an expense that is unnecessary turns 'volunta rily from the road to wealth into the side track of self-indulgence and bids farewell to the goal to ward which he started with unwil ling leet Saving by a plan is. then, the first step toward wealth. To this first step there must be ad herence in season and out of sea son, summer and winter, day and night. The price of wealth is high, and some men decline to pay the price when they realize what it really is. To the rigid keeping of personal accounts much must also be added. An eye, with the keenness of a search-light, must be trained to lookout for investments that shall first be safe and, second, profitable. Step by step wealth comes, on the average, when the man seeking it goes persistently about amassing it properly. Russell Sage, who was fairly rich when he died, was a poor boy who set out with a determination to get rich, and he got rich. He took no vacations during his long quest, however. He never bought his raiment of fashionable English tailors, and ho did a thousaud oth- er things to conserve his expense account that made him a marked man. The man who, like him, would be rich must not hope for popularity. He must eschew club life. He must count his pennies and squeeze his silver until the American eagles on them scream before he parts company with em, and then when he has done all and he has the pot of gold that was really hidden at the foot of the rainboAV there are some of us who will not finally envy him. The Independent. Alpha's Letter. A nice shower of rain fell here last Saturday night. r odder, pulling is progressing nicely and the weather has been fine for the business. The corn crop, we think will be an average one in our section. It is yet too early to estimate the cotton crop, as a great deal depends on future conditions. It looks now as if cotton has been injured by the re cent dry weather. The pea crop is almost a failure iu our section Rev. Kirby, a Baptist minister, preached at Mountain View church last Sunday. Mr. Bob Beal with a force of hands worked the public roads of our section last week. Bob is a good supervisor and requires hon est work from all his hands. Your correspondent put in five days on the roads aud he knows whereof he speaks. W. II. Sigmon & Co., have pre sented the new Methodist church at Denver, with a beautiful settee, Mr. Jesse McConnell, one of the firm, says that he will present our new church, (Lebanon) with one some time in the future. Thanks Mr. McConnell, in advance. There is now considerable ex citement aroused among our peo ple as to the proper mode oChris tian Baptism. We Avish to say to christians of all denominations that this question has been argued for hundreds of years, and is no nearer settled today than it was at the beginning. And further that the agitation of the mode of water Baptist has never added any strength to the cause of Christ. What a pity it is that christians of all denominations, cannot agree to disagree on this question, and follow the admonition of the Apos tle, "Leaving behind the doctrine of Baptisms aud press on to higher and better. things." Prof. Zeb N. Ilollor, a young manf and a graduate of Davidson, has been employed as principal of Denver High SchooL The, school opened Sept., 2nd with 05 pupils enrolled the first day, and we are informed by those in a position to know that Pi'oLJIollorJs making a very favorable impression on his patrons and that the commit tee have made a wise selection. Sorry that we were not at home when the editor called last week. Mrs. Alpha says she gave Mr. Barr a rather cold reception for the reason that she was 'cleaning the stove when he called and cov ered with soot from head to foot. She fears that Mr. Barr mistook her for a colored servant. As to those water works Mr. Editor, Alpha does not deserve any spec ial credit for thatlabor saving con trivance for by actual calculations he had walked ver 3000 miles for water before he could muster sense enouerh to invent that thing. We have often compared oursclf in this regard to, "Thompson's colt,' that swam the river to drink of the branch. Mr. Editor call again, we have a large rocker prepared especially for preachers and editors and you shall have the privilege of swinging to your hearts con tent. 'Ai.viia. Subscribe for the News. ! State Library A Tragedy of Progress. Go into your native Indiana towu and boyhood home after many years. On the corner of the two princi pal business streets is a large and comparatively new live-story brick building. There is , a department store below and oflices above. On this site there formerly stood an old wood building, the first floor occu pied by a rag, old iron aud general junk dealer, who went about the country in a wagon trading tin and glassware for various kinds of his plunder. The second floor contained the shop of Jake Kern, the town cob bler and shoemaker, who owned the property. His bench was in such a position as to command a view of, the street leading down to the station, and here the editor of the country paper came to get his local items; for Old Jake knew everybody that passed in aud out of the town. Although he followed shoemak ing he Avas an allround mechanical genius, and in the room behind the shop there bench and the was a standing tools of almost every trade. Once he made a little one-horsepower slide-valve engine and boiler. The cylinder and most of the parts were of babbet metal, and the flywheel, crank and eccentric were of an old sewing machine. He was a veritable walking encyclopedia, and for many a year he conducted a coluni in the county weekly under the regular caption "Things to Know." He came to the town when it was young, and out of his savings light this property when the value was small and the prices less. For many a long year he pegged away at his little bench, looked out of the window down the Street that lad to the station, tinkered in the room behind the shop, wrote his "Things to Know" for the county paper and settled disputes for his loafers. Somebody struck gas, and the town boomed. ; People remarked: "leather a dingy old buildiu for the best business corner in town." Then there were different rumors that people had bought it. But the old man vigorously denied them all, -. pegged away at his , little bench, looked out of the window down the strectthatr ledto the station, tinkered in the room behind the sh6p, wrote his "Things to Kuow" for the county paper, and setueu disputes lor 1 ' hi 1 " 1 j . tr the loafers. - One day a real " estate agent called at the shop, made an offer ot $15,000 but the old man adroitly changed the subject, pegged away at his little bench, looked out of the window down the street that led to the station, tinkered in the room behind the shop, wrote his "Things to Know" for the county paper, aud settled disputes for his loafers. Then came another offer of twenty-five - thousand dollars, another of thirty thousand dollars. The influence of his two sons who owned a "shoe emporium" upon the Squarejva)rmightoJ)ear, But the old man pegged on! Then came two raises of five thousand each forty thousand dollars. The two sons opened perfect broadside of argument in favor of its acceptancce, reinforced hv the other members of the "1 , family. The pegging stopped! A wagon drove up. The old man's bench and tools aud trinkets were loaded iu and carried away to the barn behind his house, while the No. 72 loafers looked on in silence. The old man came down every day, loolfed at the old building as it was being razed, stood at the guard-rail and watched the men and teams and scrapers digging the cellar and the masons laying concrete and stone foundation walls. Then he came down only occasionally, and when he did it was by another street from where the old shop had stood. His rheumatism hurt him more than usual. His column iu the county paper stopped. He quit reading books, took to his bed aud had his daughter read the papers to him; later he only asked what was in them, and finally merely for the weather indications. Occasionally some of the old loafers from the shoeshop would come around, sit by the bed awhile in silence and walk out with their heads bowed down. There is no more pegging at the little bench. No more looking out of the window down the street1 that led to the station. , No more tinkering in the room behind the shop. . There is no more "Thing3 to Know" in the county paper. There are no more disputes to settle for the loafers. The old man has gone. And forty thousand dollars is in the bank David Gibson, Editor of "The Silent Partner." Zion News. O. M. Hartsoe & Co., have star-. ted up their cane mill and are making molasses right along. This section has an abundance of mo lasses cane and, therefore, bids fair to raise a sweet lot of girls. Rev. E. N. Crowder held a mem orial service at Zion Sunday m memory of Mr. John Ledford; sou of Mr. William Ledford. He preached from the text: for what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul! Mr. Crowder in the ex position of his sermon said "it was allright for us to be painstaking aud energetic in order to acquire some 01 tins world's goods; out while Ave are, thus, Avorking Ave ought to - have a higher aim in view. The graded school at Cherry- ville, will begin the 16th. This school is directed by Prof. Wilson, a man of broad mind and religious character, all Avho desire entering school this fall will do well to spend a term at Cherry ville. ; ' Stray Boy. Gates-Leonhardt. Mr. J. L. Gates and Mrs. Lizzie" Leonhardt were happily married at the home of the bride just over the line in Lincoln county Tuesday atrilTb'clockT-Both have " been " married before. The groom is a useful, well-to-do sterling citizen and is ever ready to aid iu anything that is calcula ted to help and build up our toAvn, while the bride is one of Lincoln county's most prudent and sub stantial residents. Rev. B. A. York was the officiating minister. They will make their home here. We join their host of friends both in Gaston and Lincoln in Avishing for them a long and prosperous career. Cherryville Eagle. Last Ball Game to be Played Saturday. The "all home" base ball team will play the last game of the sea son here with Hickory Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock. The locals have not lost a game this year, having played seven, and it is an xious to close the season without the taste of defeat, and will put up the game of its life Saturday. Hickory hqs a good aggregation of ball tossersl and "have it in" for the locals. Everybody come out and see us win. ) 0
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