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PRIZE OFFER To Correspondents (rending best lotters from now until Dee. 24tli:First Priie $10, Sec ond Beit $5.00, Third Bett $2.50. PRIZE OFFER To Correspondents sending best letters from now until Dee. 24th: Fir.t Pri $10, Set. ond Bet $5.00, Third Beit $2.50. s Library The County TWICE A WEEK v Ilew to the Liiie, Let the Chips Fall (is they May. ' $1.00 PER YEAR 5 CJ5KTS PER COPT. ' ' ' 1 .' i i , ' ' . i ,. , -. ' ' ' " ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' . ' , ' ' ' - Vol t LINCOLNTON, N. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1907. No. 79 l. , i 1 1 l - - : : ; : ' i s IN SEARCH OF Two Lincoln County Boys, Bill Blunt And Mountains To Seek Their (CONTINUED ..FROM LAST WEEK). - CHAPTER IV. After we had gone to bed every, now and then Jim would say "Give me Home more of the county-sheet Stranger, 14 am cold." After a while the Stranger started to turn over and the slats legan to ' fall out on the lloor. This piled us all in a heap right down on the lloor inside the bed railing. Here we lay right still in order to keep warm. Soon Jim was asleep and began to talk in his sleep. He would curse the fare and then he would mutter things we could not under stand. Then the Stranger said to me: "Misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows but, con sider my liver, this is the strangest one I've struck." We worried along till morning and got up with the headache. After crawling out over the bed rail Jim looked down on the old mattress where we had suffered and said: "That was low down sleeping, wasn't it Bill? But we were not the only ones that had a bad fare. One man told us that his bed was actually so hard that he had to get up and rest several times during the high t. Then the three fellows that were in the other bed, in our room, got up and we all talked till breakfast. Jim asked one of the fellows what kind of a breakfast we would get, "O fairly good on an average," . drawled the man, "Coffee is weak but they make it up on the but ter," he added, Avith a twinkle of .the eye. Two or three suppressed - asmiie, one scratched his hairy jaw, .another yawned and Jim gave a low whistle. I kuew the crowd .was getting ready to tell some good ones. The big fat man that slept with its started it olf by saying, into w&s out in Virginia. I stopped at. a little nasty looking boarding house one night and they gave me a bag of oats for a pillow. Of course I had night mares. Xext morning Avhen the landlord came in to wake mc up he said, 'How are you feeling this morning! Old hoss, hey?' I told him I was feel ing my oats. T Then the man with long whiskers cleared his throat and said: "Fellers, talk about getting in a mess, if you want to get your heel in it bad just go to Webster, bed bugs, there's no end - to Jura, They not only look at the register to see what room you are in but they sit up and wait for you to come in one night I went in late and found them all ou the head board sFngltig 'Where is' My Wandering Boy Tonight.' They are so bad they actually kidnapped am j i v 1- J J a ennu nere uwuue u.u-.k. - Then Jim "broke in" and told that old story, I thought every body had heard, about the Irish men that put out the light to keep the' bugs from finding them but didn't know what to do when a lightning bug came in because they thought it was one coming with a lantern. But somehow this made a laugh, which caused Jim to feel as popular as a rattlesnake in a After - a few - second of silence the conversation changed and they began to talk about curious freaks of nature. The fat man told about an experimental company out in ' Missouri that had crossed a chick en with a guinea and raised a talk ing parrot When he was telling it I looked over at Jim ana saw him take another chew of tobacco. I knew he was oiling up the driv ing wheel of his intellect As soon as the fat man got through Jim says "O that's nothing, I know a man down in Lincoln county that ELDORADO. Jim Swinlcs, Leave Home And Cross The Fortunes. A True Story. crossed a club over his mule and i raised the top off his barn." Just then the breakfast bell rang and each one hurried out to break-, fast as. if he didn't want to be one that would have to wait. Alter breakfast we got our val ises and' began to. get ready to leave. AVhen we went to settle our bill the clerk said 2. 00. Then you ought to have seen Jim's eyes. "Now you know we haint cat 82.00 wuth," said Jim. . I saw that we were going to get into trouble so I paid the man and tried to get him off as soon as pos sible, but it was a job Jim let his temper get away with him and reared like a wild man. "I say $2.00, and three in a bed." And after I got Jim outside he pulled off his coat and hit the door with his fist, "just let him come! Just let him come out! I'll do him one. I'll knock the socks off him before you can say Jackrobison." I told him the police was' coming just to scare him, he picked up his coat and we started on. After we had gone a lew steps he said, " Where's the Police?" I told him that would be all right just to come on with me but he wanted to go back. "When King David lay dying he called his son Solomon to his side and said "My son, be strong and show thyself a man," and I'm goin' to do it, said Jim, as he started back. But I got him stop ped and we went on without any more rumpus. Now we had decided to go to Bryson City. The man that slept with us had told us about some work out there and since business in .Asheville seemed as slack ay a rope with nothing tied to the oth er'end, we made up our minds to start for Bryson City, on the next train. We found on going to the depot, that it would be ten o'clock before the the train left for Bryson City. Now we had about 3 hours to spend in Asheville yet, so we decided that we. would make an other canvass of the city in search of a job. We again started up street and once again the street car came singing by but stopped a little way from us. This time I saidto Jim, . "Let's take a ride on that thing," Jim agreed and we were just about ready to get on when Jim took me by the arm and pulled me away saying, J 'Bill just look at them niggers on that thing. I'd never ride beside a niggerr" Why! we are Lincoln county boys, you reckon we would be-little ourselves to ride with niggers?" continued ' Ji III. - '- " - ' ' '-' ' I told Jim Ave could get in the back seat and ride just ouce and not get close to the niggers, 'and then our home folks would not find it out anyway. But Jim would not agree. He said he would rather walk like a white man than ride like a nigger any how, so we walked on up street. We had not gone far when we heard the sheriff calling Court, and Jim says 4 What's that? some body calling hogs?" I told him it must be at the court house as, there surely were no hogs in Asheville. We soon found that I was right and as a great crowd was going" in we decided we would go into the Court House too. Everything was quiet. We took a seat near the door and listened. A nigger was on trial for riding a horse to death. Another nigger was on the stand as a witness. The lawyer had just asked the witness how the defendant iode a horse. "Wi he rides astraddle Boss!" Said the nigger. Everybody laughed but the lawyer. He turned red in the face and stormed out "Now nigger, answer my qucs tion. "' How does that man ride a horse (pointing to the defendant) I say how does he ride in a crowd?" "Wi he keeps up if he can, if he can't he stays -behind". said the witness. This enraged the lawyer so; much that he fairly roared: "You impotent; .black-', nigger, you tell me how this man rides or. I'll ha ve. the sheriff -to -.take charge of you. ; T say., how does he ride? How does he. ride' when alone!'' "Wi boss 1; dont know how he rides when alone 1 ain't nebber been wid him den,"' said the nig ger. ; The house fairly roared, Jim whispered to me and said "Bill, lets be going, just look at the nig gers around here. You could not throw a stick at a yaller dog with out hittin' one," . We got out as quickly as possi ble where we could get a full breath again. Then I said to Jim "You see what Ave would have been into if Ave hiid had that nigger arrested yesterday." We thought it Avas noAV about train time so Ave started for the depot. After speaking to two or three dry goods signs Ave heard a train; noAV talk about run ning, you might have seen people wauble along but if you never saw Jim you don't;. knoAV. anything about it. When he reached up and pulled his old hat, one leg could not keep ' out of the Avay of the other. ". He soon left me out of-sight. But when I got to the depot he AA as sitting out ou a big piece of tiling as red as a fox and as hot as a ginger mill. He had just begun to get his breath. right when I came up and asked him if Ave were left. , "Xo it Avas an old freight train, I just got here in time to see it off" said Jim. , . I .wk-.'d Jim. ;f he 'meant to leave me if it had been our train. "Xo," said Jim "I wasn't goin' to leave, you but I'd told him you's a comin and had him to waited." 1 asked a man how long it Avon Id be till the train went to Bryson City. He told us that it was about an hour yet so there Ave had to wait. Then I looked around to see Avhat Jim was doing. He was ex amining that tiling, and directly he said to me "Bill haint this a a whoppin stove pipe?" I told him I didn't think it Avas a stove pipe but I could not make him believe it. He said it could not be anything else because it just looked like a stove pipe. - (Continued nextf Tuesday.) " ' To Entertain Bryan. . Charlotte is making elaborate preparations tq entertain Mr. W J. Bryan, Avho is to be one of the leading attractions at the Fall Fes tival. A reception worthy of the name and the guests will be ten dered the former , candidate for President and the Governor of North Carolina at the Selwyn on the afternoon of Monday October 14th, which Avill be knoAvn as "Bryan Day' Mr. Bryan will be met at the station by a delega tion of citizens and a salute of 27 guns will be fired from one of Battery "A's" guns. With moun ted artillerymen ou either side, follOAved by the local military and a bandr the guests of honor.will be driven up Trade street to the square, thence to Fifth street, thence , to the Selwyn. Large crowds are expected from other toAvns to hear the well-known 2fe braskan speak. Death of Mr. Goodman. Mr. John Goodman died at his home, near Ridge Academy, last Sunday and was buried at Trinity church Monday. He was in his 85th year and leaves five children. .Notes From Reepsville. The farmers in our community are very busy these days picking cotton and getting their ground in fix for the Avheat crop. The people are having trouble in getting -guano. I was told today that th"re .was 'not a single sack of guano iti Lincolnton. This is very aggravating to some of us, as it is now oats sowing time.' Jiut it is like one of our neighbors said "last Aveek: "That Liiieoltiton was the poorest excuse for a. town ho knew of. 'Lincoln toii' slept one hundred years, but today there is hardly a hill but Avhat there is a new house on it, or either some one planning to build. We are all proud of the Avay she is advancing, and if the progress is kept up, Ave can expect great things in a few more years. Mr. I'ink Reep moved into Mr. A. P. Willis' house last week. Mr, Willis moved to Lincolnton some time ago and is with the Lin colnton Livery Company. Messrs. Scroncc & Ilauss have put in a tAvo-stand gin inthelviser building and Mr. George Gilbert is ginning iu the old building vacated by the former. The cotton crop is very good, but is about tAvo Aveeks later than usual. One of Mr. Tom Bridges' chil dren got a pea in its ear over a Aveek ago, but it Avas removed yes terday by Dr. Wright, of Lincoln tou. - Messrs. E. II. Hani and Tom are iioav iu Lincolnton painting, they are assisted by Mr. Lum Leonard. Messrs. Calvin and Farel War-lick,- of . CataAvba College, spent Sunday at home. There Avas communion service at Daniels Reformed church Sunday; - Tho communion services, will be held at the. 'Lutheran church the 4'th Sunday of this month, by Rev. Luther Lohr, of Virginia. One of our young sports must believe in plenty of good exercise, as it has beeu six o'clock the last two Mondays when he got in. We understand he has four miles to Avalk, which accounts for his late ness. . The Baptists of this place have lately added a new tOAver and bell to the church. Our school house has had an ad dition built to it, and now wears a neAV coat of paint, which adds much to its appearance. " - : We hope to see all the corres pondents take on new life and Avrite a letter each week from their co mm u n ity. . ;'. - ; ;' : - .'.With the exception of colds, our wholeT neighborhood "" is blessed Avith good health at present. Wild Bill. Honesty A little boy, becoming provoked by his nurse, called her a devil and spat in her face. His mother re buked him and told him he must apologize to n ursie and tell her that he was sorry and that Satan had put it into his head to call her the bad name. He went to his nurse aud said: , "JTursie, I am sorry I called you that bad name. Satan put it into my head. But the spittin' part was my own idea." ' Hagaman Cotton,, j ; Mr. John A. Shu ford was in town Saturday-showings samples of a new cotton he has been ex perimenting with this Fall, the Hagaman cotton, the seeds of Avhich he got from the Agricultural Department in Washington. Mr. Shuford has about 3-4 of an acre in this cotton and has already gathered 400 lbs of cotton and seed, with a good deal still in the boll. He thinks the staple finer than that of the ordinary cotton, it picks easier, and stands the weather better. South Fork Institute Notes. School started here just one month ago and everything is mov ing oil nicely. There are iioav nearly one hundred students, in cluding day students, and more coming in later. The boys have rc-orgauized their Literary Society whie.h. meets every Friday night. The girls, besides .organizing . their Literary Society, have . also. organ ized an athletic club class V Inch meets every evening'-' after school hours. ' . '- . ; .'. '' A prayer service is held every Sunday evening by the students. Great care is taken here to give the students moral training it being recognized as the most important part of an education. The chief aim Of all schools and of every one Avho seeks ; an education is, or should be, to make the country better to help others and if one neglects the development of moral character, they leave out the most essential thing. So many students go through school and come out with well developed minds and prepared, as they think, for a use ful life but, alas, lacking in moral character. Rev. Mr. Wilkins, of Columbia, S. C, closed a very successful se ries of meetings at the Baptist church last Aveek. TAveuty-tAvo were added to the church. The Union Cotton Mill, of this place, Avill soon be run by electric ity from the Southern Power Com pany's plant near Rock Hill, S. C. The posts for the wire have been erected aud the machinery has ar rived. The S. F. I. baseball , team has au engagement Avith the XcavIxhi team for next Saturday. . We hope to see a nice game, :..;. Two Kinds of Giris. "There are two 'kinds of girls in theAVorld," says somebody, ""the girl .who Avorks and the girl Avho gads. Commend us to the former. Work lends dignity to a pretty girl is an added charm to her. The girl Avho Avorks God bless her combines the useful and the ornamental. She might gad about or roll ou sofas, but she prefers to be some account in th world, and goes out stenographer, teacher, saleslady, etc.j and bravely makes her own Avay. Such are the salt of the earth : and of such is the kingdom of heaven." Union Re publican. Which Would You Rather Be? If an editor makes a inistake-Jie has to apologize for it, but if a doctor makes a mistakes he buries it. If an editor makes one there is a laAV suit, swearing- and the smell of sulphur, but if a doctor makes one there is a funeral, cut -Ho Avers and the smell of varnish. A doctor can uso a,, word a yard long without" knowing. Avhat it means, if an editor uses it he has to spell it. Any old college man can make a doctor. You can't make an editor; he has to be born. Ladies Home Journal. Nothing But Hair. The Murphy branch of the South ern Bail way 'is noted for its curves and grades and is considered one of the most dangerous pieces of railroad east of the Rockies. The following conversation was held a short while ago between" two "en gineers at Almond, a meeting point between two enormous grades, Balsam and Red Marble, these grades approximating 300 feet to the mile. John Clark said to Bud Poindexter, "Why do you always come here late? A freight man was on your run last trip and came here three minutes ahead of time," to which Bud replied, "John, that man didn't have a damn thing above his eyes but hair." Cathey-Bartlett The following account, taken from the ;.-Charlotte Observer, of the marriage of Miss Gcorgie riartlefr, will l nri..t,.,. n many friends and admirers here, r Rutherfordton, ' Oct. 4. A tllMlltifill ..'..! ' '- 4.1. .-. 4. -4. j. ouuiiu . iiiujiijim; Mill). HI St. Francis' Kpivopal eh urch yesterday-afternoon at 4 :30 o'clock in -which Rev. Samuel L, Cuthey and Miss Georgie . V, - iiarjlett plighted .their troth and were united in the holy ".bunds of matri mony. . Long before the appointed hour 1 1 , , . , . - me peopie uegan gatiiering anu the beautiful little rock church was idled to ovf illowing to Avit ness this interesting CAent. Promptly at 4:30 the bridal party arrived, just as the beautiful strains of Mendelssohn's 'Wedd ing March" filled the air and breath ed into it a spirit of sweet solemn7 ity and beauty befitting the-, seri ousness of the occasion. The con tracting parties marched down the aisle to the alter in the follow ing order: Rev. Mr. Cathey Avith his brother, Mr. L. A. Cathey, who. was best man; Miss Bartlett on the arm of her father, Mr. George L, -Bartlett, Avho gave her aAA-ay. The ideal ceremony which bound the lives of this popular young couple Avas impressively performed by the rector, Rev. J. C. Seigle, assisted by Rev. E. TS. Joyner, of Try on. There. Avere no decorations or attendants. The bride Avas beautifully attired in a brown broadcloth suit with ..-hat and gloves to match, Avhile the groom av ore the regulation conven tional black. - Rev. Mr. Catliej K a native of Mecklenburg, but has resided in this county for the past nine years. During the first two .years he was p.i;,t'r of the Presl y t eria u ch urch at Forest City, .after which he was called to Rutherfordton, and has serv eYl the church here the remain der of the time" with -.' ability., and distinction. He is a son of Mrs. Xancy H. Cathey, oOieeklcnb.urg,. and a brother of Messrs. X. A. L. A. and J. A. Cathey, of Mecklen burg. Mrs. Cathey is a native of this county, but resided iu Lincoln ton until three years ago, Avhen she returned to Rutherfordton and has since made her home here. She is young -woman of many charming traits of character and is loved and admired by all who Know ner. Many valuable presents Avere given them as evidence of the esteem in which the popular couple is hnlrl Vitt tti nil tnnn v fripiuls hiirft. Mr. and Mrs. Cathey left o-er tne bouttiern tnis aiternoon ior the former's home in Mecklenburg county, after which they will go to Washington, Richmond and theTJ ahies tOAV ir Exposi tion . - They will be aAvay about four weeks..- A LOST CHORD. IV ADBLAIHE ANNE- l'ROCTOK. Seated one day at Hie orRan, I was weary and HI at ease. And my lingers wandered Idly Over the noisy keys. I do not know what I was playing, Or what I was dreaming thon; But I struck one chord of music. Like the sound of a great Amen. It Hooded the crimson twlliKht, Liko the close of an Angel s Psalm, And It lay on my fevered spirit - With a touch of infinite calm. It quieted pain and sorrow, Mke love overcoming strife; It seemed the harmonious echo Jfrprn ourjllscordant life. It linked all perplexed meanings Into one perfect peace, And trembled away into silence As if it were loth to cease. I have sought, but I seek It vainly, That one lost chord divine, Which came from the soul of the organ, And entered Into mine. It may be that Death's bright angel Will speak In that chord again. It may be that only In Heaven I shall hear that grand Amen. Mr, R. F. Harrill, of Charlotte, spent Sunday and Monday here with relatives.