North Carolina Newspapers

T . if T IT ' ' Vol. V. . LINCOLNTON. N. C. TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1911. No. 43 mm mi A. FOUR GIANTS FOR U. S. SENATE. Simmons, Kitchin, Avcock and Clark . Candidates Strong Talent A Sketch oi Each. (By WiP'i H. Miller, in Shelby i. ' Highlander.) Before the peculiar sand-fiddlers have left their holes on the beach, before snakes have appear ed and the terrapin is seen carry ing his baggage on his back, four N. C. heroes are claiming the Sen atorial toga. 1 ;i The conservative and faithful Simmons, the progressive and fiery Gov. Kitchin who loves to fight and reward his friends, the able and lucid Judge Clark who loves to tight trusts and railroads a learned judge without judicial temperament and poise, and last but not the least the grand orator who captivates the masses Charles B. Aycock, are each, striv ing, aspiring and- perspiring to servethe dear public for $7,500 per annum and ten cents mileage on railroads that transport them for only two cents per mile. ' Which one will get there! Echo answers ''which.',' "Whom the fickle public will select, no man can now tell. It is too early to prophesy. , Each man of the four is able to fill the seat, once occupied by the noble old Eoman , Nat Macon , W. P. Mangum, Geo. E. Badger, the eagle-eyed and courtly Mat Ran som and the Great Commoner, Zeb Vance, North Carolina's idol. FUBNIFOLD M. SIMMONS. Senator Simmons, an able man and astute politician, skilled in the subtleties and legerdemain of machine politics, is a non-progressive conservative idemocrat, whom his rivals call a Silurian fossil, op posing progress and Canadian Reciprocity and defending the cor rupting . Senator Lorimer, who gained his seat by aid of a $100,000 "jack-pot." Senator Simmons has grown in senatorial stature and hatf by many years of legislative . experience in creased his influence and useful ness.1 : It was unfortunate for him, a strong democrat of the Conserva tive school to vote against Cana dian Reciprocity, the nearest thing to free trade and for Lorimer, the beneficiary of bribes, to retain his seat in the Senate. Later and stronger proofs of fraud against "Lnrimer. the hero whom the $100,000 jackpot developed and gave him a seat in Congress, have disclosed Lorimer, and Senator Simmons will have to vote to un seat Lorimerthis time, or Kitchin, or Aycock, or Clark will get his scalp. I like Senator Simmons and it is often unwise to change our Con pressmen as soon as they have been there a few- years and have acquired a reputation, i) requent changes are detrimental to our state and hurt our influence in Congress. Why swap him for a new, untried man! If he again votes for Lorimer, he will injure his chances of re-election. I think he will vote right this time. WILLIAM WALTON KITCHIN. Gov. W. W. Kitchin stands, like Saul, head and shoulders above his fellow men, lor he is six feet high and like Buck Kitchin his father, he is a born fighter and has never yet known defeat The The KitchiDS like a fight better than chicken pie or pound cake. ,. Did not Buck Kitchin years ago curse out the carpet-baggers from the seaboard to the moun tains and rally the white men to victory! ; Did not Governor Kitchin at Charlotte defy the machine for three days, crush out the minority and win over all oppositions! He there evinced practical and sue cessful politics, yet he stayed in his hotel rooms and marshaled his hosts to victory. Kitchin has made a good gover nor and has rewarded many of his friends with office. His record is clean. Senator Simmons is a born Conservative politician; Kitchin is a Progressive, and they tram in different schools of politics. ,TXJDGE WALTER CLAEK The tliird aggressive and pro gressive candidate is Judge Walter Clark, who has for two decades fought against trusts, combines and railroads, and one whom the railroads have fought in vain. ' He is now on the supreme court bench a splendid writer and able jurist of fine legal acumen. m All four aspirants are lawyers: lawyers claim -eighty per cent of all the high offices. Judge Clark is by far the ablest jurist of the four.- v . . ' He wants to go to the Senate to help fight the trusts. His plat form is progressive and popular and he advocates the aggressive ideas of Bryan and Woodrow Wil son. Uov. Kitchin thinks (Jlark will not be in his way, but we shall see later. Thousands will accept Clark's creed, but a man running without capital,' or a bureau to run his campaign, is severely handicapped. CHARLES BRANTLEY AYCOCK For more than a decade there has been magic in the name of the peerless orator Aycock, whose eloquence at Charleston thrilled President Roosevelt. From his retreat he again comes into the limelight and flings his banner to the breeze. Four intellectual giants striving for mastery. Aycock's eloquence enthused North Carolina -for better . school houses and better schools and he richly deserved the title of our ''Educational Governor." In the fight against negro domination did not Aycock lead the Democratic hosts to victory, when the negro was disfranchised! ' He is a grand old Roman, with a noble record, but he is handi capped by want of money. In the early glory of the Repub lic, the grand triumvirs, Clay, Webster and Calhoun, each sought in vain the presidency and. each helped to pull down his illustrious rival, and the trio saw the coveted honor go to mediocrity to clever, weak men, without a record and without enemies. . In this North Carolina senator ial contest of giants, ' who will get the plum? In the above criticism the writer expresses no choice Let the race be clean, free from strife and from the big use of money to run each candidate. ' Let us have peace and no dirt throwing among giants. " Rosenbau m-Frank Charlotte Observer. Salisbury, May 26. The follow ing announcements are out: Mr. and Mrs. M. Handelsman will give in marriage their daughter Nellye Prank to Mr. Nathan Rosenbaum on the evening of Tuesday June the sixth one thousand nine hundred and eleven at eight o'clock 430 South Church street Salisbury, North Carolina. The honor of your presence is requested Miss Frank, a step-daughter of Mr,. Handelsman, is a charming young woman and came here with her parents some months ago from Florida. Mr. Handelsman is pro prietor of JheHub dry goods store. . V Mr. Rosenbaum is a prominent young business man of Newport News, Va. Immediately after the marriage the young couple will take a trip through Canada and on their re turn will make Jheir h6me in New port News. , E. F. D. 3 NEWS. Thepeople are busy working their crops, most of them are through planting They are carry ing on a good Sunday school at St Stevenson church. Mr. Boston Lackey .... is . teacher Miss Ada Shull visited Miss Essie Dellinger Sunday at the 'Daniel mill Mr. Fife Tompkins and Mr. Laben Rhyne made a flying trip to South side Saturday evening Mr. Beny Shull visited Mr. C. M. Rhyne Sunday Mrs. O. M. Rhyne is on the sick list this week. Hope she will soon be - out again Misses Ida Rhyne and O Hie Edwards spent Thursday with Miss Maude Smith Mr. Robert Hoffman visi ted in Charlotte last week. Mr. and Mrs. Noah Shull and their daughter, Miss Ada, attended the sale of the late David Toder property Thursday. Miss Mattie Rhyne and Mr. Laben Rhyne also attended I will close, for this time. If this misses the waste basket I will write again. Big Tom. Dr. L. A. Crowell has purchased a handsome Maxwell automobile. SEABOARD FREIGHT MAKES FATAL PLUNGE The Double-Header Coal Train Plunges i Into Watkins Creek Three Lives Lost and Others Fatally Injured. Three souls were ushered into eternity Sunday afternoon when the big "double-header" freight train which , passes through Lin colnton and is well remembered by our citizens fell through a wooden trestle three miles west of Ellenboro and about two miles east of Bostic. The . freight was following behind the regular after noon passenger train which passes Lincolnton at 5:45. The follow ing description , was taken from yesterday's Observer: "Capt. Frank Howell, of Char lotte was conductor of the train which consisted of twenty-nine cars loaded with CliAhfield coal destined for various points in this section and to the south. The train was drawn by two engines, owing to its weight. The fact that the trestle was burning was not discovered until too late to halt before reaching it. Both en gines and fifteen of the cars crash ed through the fireeaten wood work totho; stream below, five cars piling up on the two engines. Engineer Green's body was extri cated at once. A wrecking train was started from Monroe for the scene of the tragedy as soon as tidings of it reached that place. The dead are: Engineer J. Mack Lindsay, Monroe. Engineer Rod M. Green, Mon roe.;, ( Fireman Roy Dooley, Monroe: Early Lewis, colored, the other firemar, and Lon Nealy, brake man, are perhaps fatally injured. Conductor F. B. Howell of Char lotte was in the caboose on the rear of the train and was unin jured. The bodies of Engineer Lindsay and Fireman Dooley are still un der the wreckage and can not be removed until the wrecking crsw arrives. The tram was moving slowly eastbound and had passed nearly over the trestle when it gave way, both engines falling a depth of forty feet and seventeen steel coal cars piling on the engines. The second engine, on which were Engineer Lindsay and Fireman Dooley, was covered up complete ly and neither man has as yet been located. j A mangled hip can be seen but it is not known to which man it belongs. . Engineer Lindsay's people live at Cherry ville, while he made his home in Monroe, His white fire man, Roy Dooley, also made his home in Monroe; Dooley's people live . at Wilmington. . Engineer Rod Green, on first engine No. 704, lived at Monroe. His re mains have been taken to an un dertaker at Shelby. Early Lewis, the colored fireman on Mr. Green's train, felt the tres tle give and jumped in time to save his life, although he is pain fully and perhaps fatally injured about the head and shoulder. , Lon Lealy, a colored brakeman, was on the tender of the second engine.He has a broken back and the doctors say he will not recover." Engineer Lindsay lived at Lin colnton several years ago. He was engineer at the Elm Grove Mill and is well remembered by several citizens. Picnic at The Bridge. On Friday the 9 th of June, two weeks from tomorrow, the citizens of Catawba and Iredell counties, with all those from' Lincoln who will join in are preparing to have a big basket picnic at the river bridge. Ever since the bridgo has been complete, the good people all along the line have . wanted to celebrate the occasion of the open ing and have decided upon this oc casion to do . so. Mooresville will have a large representation there, and it is hoped that the services of the band will be secured for the day. There are several string bands in the country which will add to the pleasures of the occas ion. Plans are being made by these people to have a great " time and our town will do all in its power to make the event one of decided pleasure to all who might wish to participate. Mooresville Enterprise. ' Spare the Robins. It is with great wonderment and sorrow that we learn that it is the custom in some parts of the coun try to kill, and eat our beloved rooios! That any . practice so re pulsive should be tolerated by kindly people shows hpw custom dulls the sensibilities and makes one unaware of what others plain ly see. To broil and eat the pet canary would seem the same thing to those strange to the custom. In the Northern and Eastern states the robins are our dearest home birds. They build their nests most trustingly in the trees around our houses and even among our piaza vines. They permit us to see their nursery cares and we grow to have the deepest interest in the beautiful greenish-blue eggs which soon become awkward speckled fledglings, and with the father and mother robins we share the care in protecting them from marauding cats. In the early springtime friends greet each other with the cheery salutation "Winter is over, I heard the robins this morning." Children and grown ups alike re joice in their return. j Many are the beautiful legends woven around the robins, which show that from time immemorial he has been beloved by his human brotherhood. It was the robins that piously covered with leaves the "babes in the wood." , The robin is said by one old legend to have gotten his red breast in this way: When our Saviour was toiling up Calvary a merciful robin, seeing and pitying his agony, with his strong bill pulled out one of the thorns from his cruel crown. The breast of the bird was datibed with the Sav iour's blood, and as a sign of ap proval for his merciful act, the Heavenly Father decreed for all time his descendants should have their gray breasts turned to red. Still another legend, told by Whittier in beautiful verse, is that the "robin got his red tfreast by carrying in his bill cool water to alleviate the sufferings of lost souls ,in Hades.- His feathers were burned red on his merciful errand. No bird is more celebrated in literature. Our American poets from Whittier in the North to Sidney Lanier in the South all delight to feiog his praises. "The Robin "laughed in the orange tree, 'Ho, windy North, a fig for thee; While breasts are rad and wings are bold And green trees wave us globes of gold. Time's scythe shall- reap but bliss for me. Sunlight and song and the orange tree." .- Besides our delight in his song and companionship, the robin serves' us most affectually by rid ding the orchard and lawn and garden of many noxious insects. His service to his human brother hood in this way can hardly be over-estimated. -: -j . Our wild pigeons, once so nu merous -that ; at the - time of their migration they would darken the air in their flight, are now to oar shame and sorrow entirely exterm inated. There is great danger also of the extermination of the robins, for they flock together in great numbers in the winter in the Southern cedar swamps to feed on the berries and are killed by the thousands by thoughtless men and boys and are sold for a trifling sum in the market for human rood. Will you not do all you can to stop this practice and save these birds from extermination which are so dear and so helpful to a large portion of our country! So that "They'll come again to the apple tree, Robin and all the rest, When the orchard branches are fair to see. In the snow of the blossoms dressed; And the prettiest thing in the world will be - The building of the nest." Houston Post. Half the joy of life comes from getting good out of things as we go along. Some, of us are always putting off our enjoyments. After a while, we expect to take a rest, see a friend, read a book. But af ter a while never comes, the' good times we are looking foward to lies as far away as ever. All our life is spent in meaning to overtake it and enjoy it. Meanwhile we toil, drudge, and grow old, passing by with unselfish eye the happiness we might get out of every day. TWO SUCCESSFUL MEETINGS At the Baptist Church Pastor Bennett Is Assisted by Rev. L. R. Pruett of Charlotte The Presiding Elder of the Shelby District Helped Conduct the Meeting at the Methodist Church. The meeting which has been in progress at the Methodist church for the past week closed on Sunday night Rev. T. J. Rogers, the pas tor in charge, was ably assisted by Rev.SB.Turrentine, D. D. of Shelby. Thirty pr more professed faith in Christ and about that many will be received into the Methodist church at an early date. The spiritual life of the church was quickened through the earnest forceful sermons of Dr. Turrentine, who is an eloquent preacher and scholar, having received prepara tion for his life's work at Trinity College, the State University and Vanderbilt University. From Lincolnton he went to llorganton, where he will preach the annual sermon before the students ot the graded school. , At the Baptist church, services have also been held at 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon and at eight o'clock at night. Rev. L. R. Pruett, of Charlotte, who is help ing Pastor Bennett, has been preaching strong, appealing ser mons tc large and appreciative congregations. Up to Sunday night ten or more have expressed the desire to become members of the Baptist church. Yesterday afternoon Messrs. Jul ius A. Suttle nnd L. R. Gilleland were ordained as deacons, the or dination sermon being preached by Rev. Jno.vv. Suttle and the charge being delivered by Rev. L. R. Pruett Chas. B. Aycock. High Point Enterprise. There is no man in North Caro lina who has more of the affection and confidence of the people than Ex-Governor Charles B. Aycock. The announcement through the press that he , will be a can didate for United States , Senator has been received with interest and approval here to a marked degree. He is one man in.the State against whom nothing is said and no matter how strongly one may favor another man he always winds up with a kindly word for Governor Aycock. This is not a matter of surprise because he is not only a lovable man him self, but he has done a service for his State to which every, voter may point with pride. Not since the days of Vance has there been a man in public life who has as much of the love of all the people as he. As a campaigner even in the beginning of his career he has had no equal. As Governor of the State when he revolutionized the school system and trebled the facilities, he has been without a peer. At political conventions all eyes turn to him as the one man - in -whom- the people trust implicitly and even those who do not think as he does many times, recognize in him a leader at once able, safe and powerful. Asa candidate for the people at large and one in whom the business men of the State - have confidence, the party could find, none stronger. ' ROUTE SIX NEWS. Our farmers are very busy work-' ing their crops. Corn is looking fairly well, cotton is a very poor stand. Mr. Robert Lynch and Miss Georgia Bolich and Mr, Ralph Weaver and Miss Grace Ear- ney of Southside were happily married Sunday at Bowling Green S. C. We wish them lone and happy lives. Mr. L. E. Warren has the largest cotton stalk we have seen. Mr. and Mrs. L. E, Warren visited Mr. and Mr. J. A. Carpenter Sunday. Mrs. Robert Earney of Southside visited Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Rhyneof this place Sunday. Mr. L. C. Rhyne and sister Mrs. Francis Gates took a trip to Bessemer Saturday and returned Sunday. News Reader. A few new factories will mean more families, more families, will mean more houses, more houses will mean a larger town and more business. Let the men of business pool their loose cash and start a few new factories or use their influence to get some manufacture to locate here. Will You be a Fire Warden and Saver of Life? ' ;. .. . . , . Average annual nronertv loss in the United States, $250,000,000. It is estimated that 50 of it is due to carelessness. - Will vou join a movement to reduce this enormous waste of property values and the destruction of life accom panying it! PLEDGES FOE THE SAFETY OF THE HOME. I will keep the supply of matches in a metal box, and throughout the house they shall be confined in a proper receptacle and out of the reach of children. I will use safety matches so far as practicable, . I will not permit a child under ten years old to use matches. I will see that lamps are not filled by artificial light, or after dark. That coal oil is kept in a metal can and in a safe place. That all scraps, litter, excelsior and paper are removed or placed in a metal receptacle before night fall. That ashes are kept in a metal receptaple. That gasoline will not be kept for use in the house, except in absolutely air-tight metal recep tacles. That ' cotton batting or other flimsy . decorations will not be used on Christmas trees or other ornamentations. I will enforce neatness and will have a scrupulous care for fire prevention. I will promptly turn in the alarm for any fire that comes to my attention and then will assist in extinguishing it, if my assis tance is required. I will remedy or cause to be re ported any defect in connection with the heating, lighting, cook ing or power plants within my control within twenty four hours after discovery. I will be very careful about lighted cigars and pipes. During the month of October I will have all. flues or stoves or furnaces examined by a competent person and put in proper condi tion and reDair for winter use. Defective flues are responsible for 13 per cent of all the fires. Fires in the United States cost over $500.00 per minute. The annual per capita fire waste in the United States is $2.51. The cost of fires each year is one half the cost of all the new buildings erected in a year. The fire waste in the United States the last ten years is twice the value of the annual cotton crop. '. ... ., The fire losses in the United' States in 1910 would pay the total interest bearing debt of the coun try in four years. They would build the Panama Canal in two years. They exceed the total cost of the army and. navy of the United States for the year. They-were greater than that the annual expenditure for pensions or the annual cost of the - United -States Postal service. If all the buildings burned last year in the United States were placed close together on both sides of a street, - they would - make an avenue of desolation reaching from Chicago to New York City. Lincolnton has been blessed with few fires,, but let us take warning from- the fire of May the 12th and - do everything we can to prevent fires. No wind and efficient work saved our town. MRS. M. L. LITTLE ENTERTAINS. On last Friday afternoon, Mrs. M. L. Little entertained most royally the Embroidery Club. Each member was received at the door by the hostess and invited into the parlor by Mrs. C. S. Lit tle. Pink and white being the color scheme, was carried out beautifully in the ices and cake. Mrs. Little had as her guest of honor Miss Nellie Roseman, the bride-to-be who is to be married the 7th of June. X. Parents Rhnnld hffAiiMnna almnfc giving their children permission to stay out of school. Every day out is a day lost to the school work they cannot make it up. They will soon be behind and want to stop school find fault with the teacher say she is par tial, etc., when all the time the parent is to blame.