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LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY. MAY 29, 1908.
No. 43
The
Lincoln
EWS
Napoleon.
A little while ago I stood by
the, grave of Napoleon, a mag
nificent tomb of gilt and gold, fit
almost for a dead deity and gazed
upon the sarophagus of black
Egyptian marble where rests at
last the ashes of the restless man.
I leaned over the balustrade and
thought about the career of the
greatest soldier of the modern
world,
I saw him walking upon the
banks of the Seine, contemplating
suicide. I saw him at Toulon; I
saw him putting down the mob in
the streets of Paris, I saw him at
the head of the army of Italy; I
saw him crossing the bridge at Lo
di with tricolor in his hand; I saw
him in Egypt in the shadows of
the pyramids; I saw him conquer
the Alps and mingle the eagles of
France with the, eagles of the crags.
I saw him at Marengo, at Ulm,
and Austerlitz, I ' saw him in
Russia, where the infantry of the
snow and the cavalry of the wild
blasts scattered his legionslike win
ter's withered leaves. I saw him
in Leipzig in defeat and disas
ter driven by a million bayonets
back upon Paris clutched like a
wild beast; banished to Elba. I
saw him escape aud retake au em
pire by the force of his genius, I
saw him upon the frightful field of
Waterloo where chance and fate
combined to wreck the fortunes
of their former King.
And I saw him at St Helena,
with his hands crossed behind him
gazing out upon the sad and sol
emn sea! I thought of the orphans
and widows he had made; of the
tears that had been shed for his
glory and of the only woman who
ever loved him pushed from his
heart by the cold hand : of ambi
tion, v ' ' ' ' '
And I said I would rather have
been a French peasant and worn
wooden shoes; I would rather
have lived in a hut, with a vine
growing over the door, and the
grapes growing purple in the kiss
es of the autumn sun.
I would rather have been that
poor peasant with my loving wife
by my side knitting as the day
died out in the sky with my chil
dren upon my lnees and their
arms about me; I would rather
have been that man gone down to
the tongueless silence of the dream
less dust than tohave been that im
perial impersonation of force and
murder known as Napoleon the
great. Aud so I would ten thou
sand times. Robt. G. Ingersoll.
what s Geography uood f orr
This is from t,hi nhilosnnhv of
" - x - i
Mrs. Louise Schmitt, who berated
a teacher in the Nixon school for
not promoting her daughter be
cause the latter was deficient in
geography, says the Inter-Ocean
. m Jt 1,.. : 4- n
leacner, you uuu muuw iu m:
1 1 euess." said the irate Mrs
Schmitt "I wish it that my
daughter gets through school so
she gets a man. Never mind about
the geography; just promote her
without it
"Why, my other daughter, she
didn't know geography . and she
got a man. I don't know geogra
phy and I got a man. And you
know all about geography and you
ain't got any man at all. What is
this geography good fort See that
my daughter gets through school. '
' tTill-J M T . T?1,
largC WXuuc rtjuw a ic&i a aiu yiXf a la.
"171a TTv 9fi. A whale
35 feet long was captured this
morning by a fishing party in
Hillsborough bay, two miles off
Palmetto beach. A bombardment
of two hours with Winchester
rifles was held before the whale
was killed. It was then towed to
the beach. It is the first one seen
in these waters in many years.
From Triangle.
Triangle, May 25th.
Rev. Chas. Little, pastor , of
Unity Presbyterian church, closed
a three nights meeting at that
church Sunday. Good audiences
greeted Mr. Little throughout the
services. On Sunday the seating
capacity of the building was taxed
to the limit Rev. R. A. Miller,
of Lowell, assisted in the meeting.
- Saturday was , Lowesville's red
letter day in the Prohibition ranks.
Under the namd of "Prohibition
Rally," was produced a most en
tertaining programme The speak
ers of the occasion were Feimster,
of Newton; McCall, of Charlotte,
and Maj. W. A. Graham, of this
county. To say that each effort
was a strong aud unanswerable
argument is putting it mildly, It
is still a matter of conjecture in
the minds of hundreds of East Lin
coln's citizens who attended, as to
which speech was the greatest. It
is safe to say the doubt will never
be settled, for the logic and elo
quence with the sarcasm that
scathed the whiskey traffic is still
revolving in the minds of the
hearers of each herculean effort.
The Reepsville band furnished
music for the occasion aud demon
strated, beyond a doubt,, that it is
the best musical organization in
Lincoln county. The good people
of Lowesville gave a free dinner to
all present Everybody enjoyed
the day with all its attractions and
no doubt, many friends of the
cause of Temperance made. The
most striking contrast between
prohibitionists and the liquor in
terests, and one which was, em
phasized by the speakers of this
occasion was the relation of North
Carolina's womanhood to the tem
perance cause. . With dramatic
eloquence, Mr. McCaTI, asked to
see the man who would take his
wife and child to the polls and
vote for whiskey. And said no
man should vote a ticket where his
own wife could not, with all de
cency, be present. Mr. Feimster,
with a voice that carries well and
his inimitable humor, charmed
his hearers.
The local ball team played the
Machpelah team on the Triangle
diamond Saturday " afternoon and
lost out to the tune of seven to nine
in favor of Machpelah. The visi
tors worked off on the locals five
Stanley Creek players, therefore,
cannot claim the victory. Trian
gle will play Terrell Saturday at
Terrell. - ;-.:"-" :-.-;:v.
Mrsr Minnie Derr, of Stanley,
visited Mrs. Julia Luckey last
week. ,
Mr. Simon Barker has returned
home from Whitsett Institute
where he has been in school.
Col. and Mrs7DrArLowe visit
ed at Mr. R. C. Graham's Monday.
' .' :"' " " ' Romko.
' Too Late.
A very good story has recently
been told in the fleet of an incident
which happened when Admiral
Evans was , in command of the In
diana. An old-time blue-jacket
was at the mast before Capt
Evans, charged with getting food
out qf a mess chest outside of meal
hours. This getting of food for
night watches is a common and
strong desire on the part of most
men aboard ship.
Capt. Evans asked the man what
he had to say; and the man sizing
up the delicate situation said:
"Captain, I didn't take no food
outer that chest. Why, Captain,
there weren't no food in thatchestl
I looked in that chest, and, Cap
tain, I ' met a cockroach coming
out of that chest with tears in his
eyes." Harper's Weekly.
There is no evil comparable in
ita effect or character to that of a
craven submission to manliest
wrong. Lowell. i
The Greatest of all the Crops.
Latest, but largest and best of
all, is the crop of leaves. These
belong to the poor man as well as
to the rich, and they are laid
down by Nature very nearly where
they are wanted on the land, and
on every sort of land. Without
thein the world would soon grow
too poor for human habitation.
Only for the crop of leaves there
would be, in a few years, no other
crop, of wheat or apples or corn.
They replenish the soil annually,
and give to the earth the wealth
of the air. It has come about, or
will soon, that people will know
better than to talk about agricul
ture, and will understand that
they are tilling the air, and not so
much the dirt. Aericulture will
be the new word for the progres
sive fanner. Nitrogen, phosphor
ic acid and potash, these three are
the trinity of Nature; the elements
with which she creates our har
vests; and these three come to us
with the crop of leaves.
Most of these leaves will go low
er in the order of existence. They
will become humus, then soil or
dirt; and then again will reappear
in higher and nobler forms. It is
this humble stuff out of which are
to be made our potatoes aud our
roses. That man is a" fool who
turns back into the air the mag
nificent contribution of the year
burning his wealth. There is
nothing of more importance to the
owner of a rood of land than this
leaf crop. : He should gather it
from the fence corners, and from
the highways, and store it iu his
compost piles. Banked about his
buildings, it will keep out the
cold; spread over his lawns, it will
keep the frost from harming his
plants; used for bedding in his
stables, it will make his animals
comfortable. Yet at least one
half of the leaves that fall inside
our corporations are burned or
otherwise wasted. Go and lift up,
with your trowel, the heap that is
made iu some hidden corner by
the decay of years, undisturbed,
and note the depth of rich soil.
It is not the economy of the leaf
alone that makes it valuable. Na
ture never separates the beautiful
from the useful. What is there
more exquisite than the sweet
brown leaves of the beech and the
oak; what more perfect than the
rare gold that covers the Norway
maple, and the scarlet that covers
the sugar maplel Nature who
made them beautiful knows also
how to spread - them, - to - retain
their beauty. The lawn is far
more charming when covered With
the wind-shaken leaves. Along
the roadside they drift into frisky
rows. There are hollows full, and
little winds arewhirlingand tos
sing them back toward the limbs
where they grew. - But they come
back again to nestle in the grass.
They are tired, and their mission
is done among the limbs. It is a
beautiful thing that change i is
possible certainly if there is to
be progress. The weak spot with
our civilization is that there must
bo climbing all the time. We must
be going higher, and sometimes
we forget that there must be hum
ble passages along this road of
betterment. Nature is not simply
destroying the beautiful when she
throws her leaf crop to the ground.
She is not only hurryiug" thehi for:
ward to blush in the rose, but fiie
is opening flashes here and there
through the tree tops. The per
simmon tree, completely strung
with golden balls, is far more
beautiful than when the leaves
covered the fruit Clusters bend
down the twigs, in ones and twos
and tens, making the tree a bit
of- clean art Every day they
grow more golden under the frost
Angers. ,
What blankets cover the winter
world; yellow, brown, red and
russet! He blunders who rakes
them off into windrows, leaving
the grass to the mercy of the frost.
Only less wise is he who burns
them. What the sod can spare,
and be careful not to rake too
clean, thoseonly carry to the barn,
and let your horses and cows have
them knee-deep through the cold
days of winter. Even here they
are scill beautiful, and the sound
of their rustling in the stables is
sweet to the farmers' ear. Ah,
this nice art of saving and at the
same time using what Nature gives
us! N. Y. Independent.
Galax Industry.
Many of our readers will be
surprised to know the magnitude
of the galax business in western
North Carolina, and particularly
in our neighboring county,
Watauga.
Through the kindness of a friend
we have been given some figures
for a little community within a
radius of four miles. There are
three dealers in the vicinity of.
Shull's Mills, and the following
figures indicate the number of
galax leaves handled by them dur
ing the past fall and winter sea
son, when the galax is gathered.
G. W. Bobbins 11,000,000, J. F.
Coffey 6,000,000, E. N. Gragg&
Son 4,000,000, making a total of
21,000,000 leaves gathered and
sold in this one little community.
The dealers pay 25 cents per
thousand for them and: they are
packed in cases of 60,000 anl ship
ped to many of the large cities of
this country and some to Europe
and used for decorating purposes.
The leaves are gathered by women
and children, and many of them
in Watauga have made rice money
at the business, and bought their
spring and summer clothing dur
ing the winter with the galax
leaves.
A good feature of the business
is that picking the leaves does
not injure the plant, we are told,
but the next season the leaves will
grow from the plant as large and
beautiful as ever. Lenoir News.
His Democratic Spirit.
The coming of age of Miss Gladys
Vanderbilt and the payment to
her of some $12,000,000 inheritance
has brought out a new crop of an
ecdotes about the Vanderbilt for
tune. One of the latest illustrates
the democratic spirit of old Com
modore, says the Savannah News.
Sitting on the porch of a hotel
at a fashionable resort on one oc
casion," it ' is related, - the Commo
dore saw a lady approaching with
whom he was acquainted. His
wife and daughter, who recognized
her,- could scarcely-eontain . -their
anger when he arose and politely
addressed her. . .
"Don't you know," asked the
daughter, after she had gone,
"that horrid woman used to sell
poultry to usf'i
s "Yes," responded the old mil
lionaire, , "and I remember when
your mother sold root beer and I
peddled oysters in New Jersey."
Why This Is Lap Year.
The year 1908 is leap year that
is it has 366 days instead of 365 as
in the ordinary year, the addition
al day being added to the, month
of February, which in . leap year
has 29 days. The actual length of
a calendar year is 365 days, five
hours and 49 minutes. To avoid
the fraction of a day one . day is
added to every fourth year, except
one year in four centuries, when
leap year is omitted to make the
exact calculation. It will be re
called that a few years ago leap
year was omitted. 1
Mr. Robt A. Love, of Gastonia,
was in town Wednesday.
CLAIMS STATE BY 42,928.
Leader of the Prohibition Movement
Issues Statement in Which He Sets
Forth His Views on the Victory of the
Prohibition Forces.
Prom The Charlotte Observer.
Raleigh, May 27. -"Our major
ity is around 42,000 and taking
the State through and through our
majorities are better than our
friends had hoped for, " said Chair
mau John Oates, of the State An
ti Saloon League tonight He ad
ded: "Our league offered a banner
to the couuty giving the largest
majority. It goes to Buncombe,
which gave 3,681. Another to the
county casting the largest percen
tage of its vote for prohibition
goes to Yancey, which voted 1,200
to 15.
"The people nave spoken. This
is shown by the fact that nine of
the ten congressional districts have
given prohibition majorities,.', only
the fourth of Raleigh district be
ing iu the wet column.
"One of our greatest triumphs
is iu Forsyth, Governor Glenn's
home couuty, which was consider
ed doubtful. It gave 1,500 prohi
bition majority, a great compli
ment to the Governor, My own
county Cumberland, where there
was a heavy fight, went dry by
500.
"Another notable victory was
at Salisbury, the anti-prohibition
headquarters, which went dry by
126, the couuty going that way by
600. Telegrams of congratulations
have come to us from Virginia,
saying that State will be the next
to get iu the prohibition column.
"Our victory does not mean dis
solution of the Anti -Saloon League.
Headquarters will be moved to
Fayetteville, and our organization
will be kept up and be ready to go
into battle at a moments notice. "
The returns of the election on
State prohibition as received at
State prohibition headquarters
places the majority for prohibition
at 42,948, figures that are expect
ed to vary but slightly from the
official returns. The returns show
that 77 counties gave majorities
for prohibition and 21 against it.
FIGURES SLOW COMING IN.
Not until to-morrow will the fig
ures of the vote cast for and
against prohibition come in, only
majorities having so far been re
ceived in most cases. The execu
tive committee of State anti-saloon
league to-night met and adopted a
resolution suggesting that next
Sunday or the earliest Sunday fol
lowing all the churches .in the
State hold thanksgiving service in
recognition - of the great prohibi
tion victory, and that a thank of
fering be then taken for the prohi
bition cause. The cost of conduc
ting anti-saloon - league headquar
ters here has exceeded the contri
butions some $1,500 and for . this
Chairman Oates has given his per
sonal note.
The returns are yet incomplete
of Wake's vote. Those for three
townships came in to-day showing
majorities OaK Grove, 4 "dry;"
Pollards, 34 "wet;" Buckhorn 17
"wet" Prohibitionists here esti
mate a majority of 750 "wet, "
while the antis claim 900.
WHAT THE FIGURES SHOW.
Revised returns aud estimates of
the majorities cast for and against
prohibition in the election Tues
day are submitted herewith. Ac
cording to these tables the bill has
received a majority of 43,127 votes
Where no definite returns can be
had the estimates in the prohibi
tion column are liberal. The votes
shown in the wet column are defi
nite. The official vote will not be
ascertained until the returns are
canvassed, and it is practically cer
tain that the prohibition majority
will be considerably reduced when
this is done. However, the fig
ures are given for what they are
worth in order that some idea may
Twenty of the State's ninety-eight
counties gave majorities against
prohibition, while the other seven
ty rolled up majorities for prohi
bition. The most striking feature of the
election is the fact that while
Rowan county, headquarters of
the anti-prohibition forces return
ed a majority of 680 for prohibi
tion, Wake county the headquar
ters of the prohibition advocates,
returned a. much heavier "wet"
majority.
Forty thousand is a safe esti
mate of the official majority. The
figures follow:
Counties which gave majorities
for prohibition:
Counties Majority.
Mecklenburg...... 1,896
Cleveland... 2,114
Beaufort.;....... ........ ......... 529
Hyde..;............... ...... 426
Iredell '.. 1,246
Montgomery..... .... ,...;, 110
Rockingham,. ............ 114
McDowe'l... ......... . .......... 900
Ashe. . . . .. . ' 400
Bertie. . . ; . .... . ..... ... ........... . , 100
Cumberland....,.,....... ...... 500
Lenoir............................. 555
Pasquotank.,.....,.,.....,,..,... 24
Nash.................;..;...'.;"';.' 50
Burke.............................. 550
Madison................. 1,519
Gaston .;....... ......... ......... 1,418
Scotland...,,....,,... ...... ."'. 523
Davidson.;.;..,. ....... .......... 450
Carteret.................. . . .. 30O
Bladen ... ......... ;. . ;, .......... ;. 650
Brunswick.. 200
Rutherford 1,100
Lee......... 500
Craven 375
Catawba...,.,;;.... .............. 814
Wayne.;......,..;..;..;..,.;.....; 100
Forsyth 1,568
Chatham 600
Rowan....... 600
Vance............. . ............ 350
Granville.......................... 250
Union .....;;...........,;.,...... 1, 208
Greene......... ......;.; 400
Jackson........;.....,... ........ 1,000
Robeson.. , . ' . . 2,000
Anson 553
Pamlico....... 126
Currituck............... ......... 225
Buncombe................ 3,681
Alamance. . .'. .............. ..... 1,112
Warren.................. ......... 280
Cabarrus...... 118
Haywood. . ........................ 2,000
Northampton..;......... ........ 882
Wilson 715
Duplin.......... 400
Pender..............;..........,... 250
Lincoln.. ......... 900
Halifax.,.. ............. . 350
Caldwell,....; 600
Sampson....,,.. .;.;... 650
Macon 600
Graham....... 200
Dare 300
Columbus..... 160
Mitchell 700
Jones.... 200
Henderson ; 900
Swain.............................. 550
Clay............. 500
Cherokee. ......... 1, 250
Davie...;..... 450
Moore Jlt,i...... 500
Richmond 275
Polk........ 250
Randolph , 1,500
Harnett ............... 250
Chowau. 100
Guilford 1,500
Pitt. .. 1,000
Transrlvnniii MOO
Watauga 300
Perauimans 11
Caswell , 200
Gates........... 200
Hertford.. 200
Yancey 1,200
Total.. .. ... .. .. . .. .. . 57,877
Wet vote .... . 7,500
Prohibition majority . 44,377
COUNTIES RETURNING MAJORITIES
AGAINST . PROHIBITION.
Counties. Majority.
Alleghany.' .......... . . . .... 225
Wilkes 1,290
Camden 41
xyrreu ........ zuu
New Hanover. 161
Franklin .... 18
Onslow ....................... . 300
Edgecombe 224
Washington. 250
Martin .,. . ...... ...... 430
Stanly 166
Wake. . . . . ... ... ............... 850
Durham , 600
Orange ............... ........ 200
Yadkin...... 515
Surry......... 100
Johnston. ......... .. . ........ . 1,250
Stokes............ ...... 450
Person.....:.... ...... ... . .. 200,
TotsJ........... ....... 7,500