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n ' I. I 'i M HORRIBLE COLLISION Cel. Cody's Show Train Is D:.cJ!y Wrecked. mym MIS.EAa HIS ORDERS. 'iy: Second Section of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show Collides With a Scuili Bound Freight. Salisbury, N. C, Special. The little village of Linwood, 12 miles north of Salisbury, was the scene of an accident at 4 o'clock Tuesday morning, whirl will be heard of with regret by admir ers of Col. W. F. Cody and his Wild West show. Engineer Lynch, of No. 75. the southbound through freight, misread his orders, hence the accident. -He . was to pass the second section of the show train at Lexington but misread 'Linwood. A3 a result the two trains had a head-end collision half-mile north of Linwood, the collision oc curring on a perfectly straight section of track. Both engineers saw the danger in time to slow up though not to stop, and IS?, trains were only go'ng about eight miles an hour at the time. Roth engines were badly smashed and nil the cars of both trains violently jol- vjil Five care of the show train were almost completely smashed. Both the engine crews jumped and escaped in jury, the only man seriously hurt b2 ing Trainmaster W. A. Williams, of Greensboro, who was on the engine of the show train. He got a violent shock in jumping, though no bones were broken and he was taken home a few hours later- The employees of the show train were thrown out of their berths but none were injured. Col. Cody was in his private car "Cody" at the rear of the train. After inspecting the wreck he left his head cowboy, Mr. Compton, in charge, and proceeded north with his uninjured cars and a fresh engine y sent from Spencer. But it was among the horses that the greatest damage was done, Oil of the poor animals being either killed outright or having to be shot. . Thc'r bodies lay in heaps among the wreck age, frightfully mangled. In some cases a fragment of wood was driven entirely through the body of a poor animal, disemboweling it. Of the survivors, almost equal in number to those killed, there was hardly one but had a torn side, a lame foot or a glazed eye. The horses on this sec tion too, were the finest trainedhorses. Col. Cody could not restrain his toars at the sight of the mangled body of his pet. the little horse he rode in breaking glass balls with a rifle. The remaining horses were loaded on cattle cars at Linwood station at night and taken to a large railroad stock yards at Spencer, ' where they will be cared for by the company. This day was one of the busiest in the life of Dr.D.H. Manogue, veterina ry surgeon of Salisbury. Promptly af ter the accident a wrecking train was sent out from Spencer and the track , was cleared in time to let morning trains pet through averaging several hours late. Tuesday afternoon the wreck was a confused mass of splinterred cars, en- V J gines, tenders and the bodies of the dead horses lying down a 15-foot fm 'bankment on the east side of the track. The bodic3 were sold at 50 cents a piece to Mr. H. T. Hatton, of Salisbu ry, who will ship them to Baltimore for the value of the hides and bones. Railroad officers on hand were Divis ion Superintendent N. J. O'Brien, of Greensboro; Road Master A. A. Well3, of Greensboro; Traveling Auditor W. C. Strachan, of Salisbury; Route Agent, H. L, Adams, of Charlotte, and Capt. W. G. Crutchifisld agent at Sal isbury. Col. Cody discussed the oc- currence with some of th&3e, showing & commendable spirit. Ko was to have given his last per formance before wintering at Dan ville, Va., Wednesday but of course tire had to be giv?n over. Ho hs.A a contrnci -stipulation with the Southern in case of accident, stat i ing values of stock, etc. The total net "V los3 is estimated at between $40,000 and 150,000. The careless engineer did not wait to be discharged but left for the North on No. 36. Brief Mei t'on. Count Boson de Perigord, who re ' cently married Miss Helen Morton, has bought the chateau of Valencay for $543,073. The Pan-American Congress, now meeting in the City of Mexico, de cided to hold three sessions weekly. President Castro. on account of exigencies caused by revolution, has suspended payments the Vene zulean states. The United States government will not obstruct" Earl Russell's entrance into this country. Third Assistant Secretary of State Thos. W. Cridler will resign to become European commissioner for the Louisiana Purchase exposition. EGG-SORTFRS IN DENMARK. They Inrprot All Eggs Keforo They Itcacli the ?laikct. A writer in .a recent number of "L:i Nature," after referring to the coni-merc-tal Methods of handling eggs in France, sives an interesting account of the co-operative plan in use in Den liuu'k: From this it appears that the Danish producers all deliver 'their eggs, each of which is required to be stamped with the name of the owner, to specified depots situated near rail roads everywhere, where the opera tion of examination and classification is effected automatically by a very lugenious apparatus consisting of a dark chamber for examination by transparency and a long table for classification. In the first process the eggs are placed in rups jointed to an endless belt. This carries them into boxes giving them a rotary motion. The belt is actuated by the operator in the dark chamber through the agency of a small hand wheel at his right, while to his left there is a drawer for the reception of defective eggs. Under the eggs as they pass through this chamber there is a lamp. The operator consequently simply glances along the rows as they pass him, and is able at once to detect a bad one 'without inspecting each one separately, making the examination at the same time accurate and quick. The classifying apparatus consists of nn inclined table, one extremity of which is for a certain length covered with felt. Here the eggs are deposited and then slid by girls over the glass surface which covers the balance of the table. This portion is provided at places, here and there, with parallel bars that arrest the different sizes as they pass along. If any lodge be tween thee liars they are taken out and put in special receptacles that flank these spaces. Four girls, it is s-nid can classify and pack with the device 1410 eggs in ten minutes. They, with one examiner, five in all, make the whole labor force necessary for the operation of oue of these depots. WISE WORDS. Music is well ;;aid t lie the speech of angels. lias to trips up its own heels, fetters and stops I .self. Few things are impossible to dili gence and skill. A blessing must be shared before it will be repeated. We get. much by beseeching; we get more by bestowing. (.'are admitted as a guest quickly turns to be master. If you would create something you must be something. To repress love is to dwarf it. To oppress love is to double it. Friendship is an attribute that ean rot have Its value overestimated. It is easier to believe an 311 report than to inquire into the truth thereof. Joel's gifts bless as they are re ceived; they bles.-i twice as they are imparted. (Jreat wants proceed from great wealth and make riches almost equal to poverty. (Jood taste rejects excessive nicety; it treats little things as little things, and is not hurt by them. The man who Is afraid to look fairly and squarely at his 'own life and char acter is the man for others to avoid. True Story of a Western "Hail Man." History has it, with what accuracy let us nut inquire too closely, says E. Hough in Everybody's Magazine, that when Billy the Kid was yet a boy, not more than fourteen years of age, somi one addressed to his mother a disre spectful remark. This was in Arizona, and at a. time when resentments were .".wift and deadly. The story goes that the boy drew a knife, fatally stabbed the man, and then fled the country. From that time Billy the Kid became an outlaw, and an outlaw he remained for the seven years which completed tiit span of his short life. To-day there is a little lowly heap of earth located at Las Cruces, New Mexico. To the curious stranger some idle native may, now and again, point out this little grave and explain, with a certain pride, that Las Cruces pos sesses the tinal resting-place of tiie worst bad man that ever infested the Southwestern border. An ancient Mexican, who sometimes shows tills grave to visitors, once made t ho cau tious remark regarding its occupant that, had he lived, lie would probably have turned out. to be a bad man. "And how old was Billy when he died?" asked one curious stranger. "Twenty-one, senor," replied the ancient. "He died almost one might i-ay, befcre he fully began to live." "You say he was bad 7" remarked another stranger. "He is said to have killed many men. "How many? How many, amigo, had this man killed at the time he himself died 7" "He had killed,'' replied the ancient Mexican, "twenty-one men, one fr each year of his age, may the saints defend us," said the Mexican. "Ha was a good man, and very kind t poor pecple. Yet, had he lived, he might, according to the opinion of come, have iumed into a bad uiaa" SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL New Enterprises That Ara Enrfchlnj Ot:r Favored Section. Building in the South. For several months the supply of houses in Richmond, Va.. has not ben equal to the demand. Similar condi tions are noted at San Antonio, Texa.3, and at Jackson, Miss., although during the last year there have been erected in the latter tity many small houses, in some instances the houses being rented even before the foundations have been laid. Activity in building operations at Memphis, Birmingham, Atlanta, Jacksonville and other cities is maintained. There is nothing of a boom in this respect, but the steady, substantial progress both in the con struction of entirely new building3 and in the improvement and enlarge ment of older ones is a sign of a heal thy situation of Southern trade and in dustry. To Hake Florida Sug r. Messrs. M. A. Carlson, A. M. Soder lind and Fred Reynolds, of Chicago, completed last week the purchase for $7,500 of 1,500 acres of land near Lau rel Hill, Fla., which will be converted Into a large sugar cane plantation, with syrup mills complete. One hun dred acres will be planted in sugar cane next spring, and the acreage will be increased each spring until the en tire tract is under cultivation. Culti vating, grinding and evaporating equipments of the latest irnprcvel pat tern will be purchased for tb.3 eater prise. Will Benefit Columbus. It is announced at Columbus, Ga., that capitalists hare purehaeed control of the Chattahoochee Fall3 Co., and will invest $1,000,000 in the thorough development, of that company's prop erty. This property includes 1.000 acres of land, of which 7,000 feet front on the river, where a fall of forty-two feet will afford, it is claimed, about 1400O horse-power. A dam 1600 feet long will be required across the river. Messrs. George J. Baldwin, of Savan nah. Ga.; Stone & Webster, of Boston, Mass., and other capitalists of New England are the purchasers. Developing; Water Power. Fred J. Coxe, of Wadesboro, N. C , Is now-completing arrangements for the development of the Bluitt Falls on the Pee Dee river. Charter has been secured for the Bluitt Falls Elec trical Power Co., with capital st02k of $250,000. and it is expected that early contracts will be lot for the construc tion of dam, the installation of water power machinery and of electrical equipment for the transmission of the power to Wadesboro, Rockingham and other neighboring towns, to be utili zed in industrial operations there. It is believed that 10,000 horse-power can be developed. Cotton O ! Notes. The McKinney Cottonseed Oil Co. of McKinney, Texas, sold last week 2,000 bales of cotton at a price rang ing from 7 3-4 to 8 cent3 per pound. The cotton will be shipped direct to Liverpool. The Planters' Cotton Oil Co s' now mill at Waxahachie, Texas, has been comple:cd and the machinery all pla ced. Tne entire plant has cost $70,000 and while late getting started will run during tne full season, a stock of seed having been laid in. Beaumont oil will be used to run the machinery. Exporters' quotations for cottonseed products on the 21st inst. at Galves ton. Texas, were reported as follows: Cotton seed oil, prime crude, loose, f. o. b. Texas mills, October-November 26 1-2 cents; prime short ton f. o. b. Galveston, and prime cottonseed meal, $23.50 for October-November; i'nters f. o. b. compressed Galveston, choice, 3 5-S cents; A. 3 1-4 cents and B, 2 7-S cents. Textile Notes. The fire that destroyed the Rantlle ran (N. C.) Hosiery Mills, referred to last week, was caused by the explos ion of a gasoline engine. The loss was over $20,000, and the plant will be re built. The Hatchie Manufacturing Co., re ported incorporated last week for manufacturing woolen goods, Is of Brownville, Tenn. Capital stock is $12,000. The Anniston (Ala.) Yarn Mills has been completed and is about to com mence operations, the production to be hosiery yarns. The spindles number 5,000, and the company is capitalized at $100,000. Tho Cooleemee Cotton MiKs of Coo leemee, N. C, ha3 completed the in stallation of 1200 looms, and will now manufacture high-grade brown sheet ings and drills for export and domes tic use. This mill is operating only about half of its full complement of spindles. The Gpindles will number 35,000 when all in place. The Cherokee Falls Manufacturing Co., mentioned last week, is of Chero kee Falls. S. C and th addition tn Its buildings is now la course of erection. I " Laiui,&iui.u(, will jj i w i i u c ' w ' l : il for 10,000 additional spindles, but fur ther than this no information is ready for the public. The new building is to be three 6tories high, 100x104 feet, a3 was stated. The Greatnp-s of Little Object?. It was a saying of Henry Ward Beechcr that "the little ihirgi of life give us the most trouble." The com mon house-fly was his favori'.c illustra tion. More than half the disorder, that de stroy human life are produced by 'pesti lences tc-o small to lie seen by the neked eye. The nlagucs that destroy animal life are cf the sine mvi-T'h: orig:n. And pracf'ciily all the ravaging of the crops h dene by small insects and worms. Not less true is it that the good thirgs o-f the world, the thirgs that mike it a more comfortable world to live in. are mostly little things. Of- the about Coo patents every week granted to in ventors in this country 550 arc for small mechanical devices of general every day utility. The electrical cand- that lights at the touch of your finger, the folding umbrella that you can drop into a small handbag or carry in your over coat pocket, the machine that cuts green corn from the ccb and the oil-can th.it cr.n't c:cp!cdc arc good types of the little inventions that are really great The grer.t era-making inventions, like the telephone and the telegraph, are ne cessarily few and far between, and only in a few instances have their real au thors made any considerable money out of them. The little mechanical novel ties, counted by thousands, usually bring their creators a fair reward ?nd often a large fortt'-" V-j. Tf irld. Magne'ism cf the Eat'b. It is well known that clay baked in a brick furnace is magnetized along an axis which corresponds to the axis of the terrestrial magnetic, field at the mo ment of baking, and it is notworthy that the magnetization is very permanent. On these facts M. Folghereiter has founded a method of studying the inclination of the magnetic needle in antiquity. He determines the direction of the mag netic axis of pottery of Etruscan and Roman times. The declination of the needle cannot be determined in this way on account of the impossibility of know ing exactly how the vases stood in the baking ovens ; we know that they stood vertically, but no one can say which side was to the front. It is quite possible that this method may be extended to determinations referring to geologic ep ochs by observing the direction of mag netization of clay strata that have been transformed into brick by flows of hot lava. The latter question is now being studied in the volcanic region of the Puv-de-Dcme in France. Nexv York Sun. The Real Throne of Britain. The English King may be said to have three thrones, of which the finest and most splendid is perhaps that at Wind sor Castle; the most frequently used one is that at Buckingham Palace, and the true English throne (so designated because, seated on it, the Sovereign re ceives the Ambassadors, in state) is the one at St. James' Palace, London. Lady's Magazine. Almost exactly half the ccal exported from ' Great Britain in the last six months went to the four countries France. G' "v. vMn nrul Italy. "Cause and effect constitute an in teresting study," says the Manayunk Philosopher. "It is usually the woman with a scrawny neck who decries de collete gowns." Best For the Bowels. No matter what ailK you, headache to a rancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. Gascatikts help natura, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 1U cents to start setting your health back. Cas cakets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet ha3 C. C. O. stamped on it. Beware of imitations. Tho boarding house bore bores the boarders. FITS permanently cured. No titsornervon' ness after first day's use of Dr. Klina's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise f res Dr. It. H. Kline, Ltd.. S31 Arch St.. Pfcila-, Ta. Marriage may be a failure without bank ruptcy. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, soften the gums, reduces inflamma tion, allays pain, curds wind colic. 25o a Ooie Doctors' bills oiten make a man wish he were dead. IamsurePiso's Cure for Consumption save 1 my lire three years ago. Mrs. Thomas Kon f ixs, Maple St., Xonrica, N.Y., Feb. 17, 1903. The electric light po'e stands in its own light UNION M".1IH Unnot For Bore i lie reputation or w. Siloes for nt vie. comfort all other makes sold at tliesu -rices. This es rellent reputation has ben won bv merit nlont .L.DouuUs J'r lt 1 ...v.... j i. ...... t .: snoes Ulan ne Donplas makes and sells more fc;xslift4 fcifftfi fflC'Vab atiifaetlon than oilier fcuoaml r'5C4 3 SEr Vf 3.50 shoes lcU!.e his reputation for a,ii'Jv4 U XIj-' filwst SX0a;u1 $3.50 hooi muot bo maln- iiMVA SfSJr'Sf fiVatainl. lTe standard has ! wjr been pUuvd B B strive Ustfl ImLJ? so lilch that the wenrer receives more vnUu H 1 fiJ. .TC any oinur two minuracture in me world, fr'-int f 'o l'"let utl. W. L. IWu.Tla. fl nd SI 60 iSnn nr. E It. Hr: of 1 he . high rrade leather ar just aa goea ,a every wnr. Sold bf C3 Dovrilai (0 vearer at oneprojil lr tional nonai tnents medlnm, or 5 xm&s&-j&z 1 2' LL j!Stlgff Doug-laa, Brockton. Mass. the huv-Mifj';-3iRy. Whers to Find its Nest, and Hovit Feuds Its Youno-, In 5". Nicholas, Henry Hafes writes of the ri:by-throatcd humming-bird. The htimmir.-birds builds 0:1 the uj per side of a branch ,a branch Rcnor ally about the size of the nest. Tlse nest is beautifully feUed with fine wliitc vegetable down and studded on the out side with fine lichen , and minute speck of bark like the branch ilsdi. They do not seem to retire to se cluded place- to buiid; they arc as ec centric in their choice of a ni-stinrj-placc as in' their nature and habiti Some suppose their nests arc near the gardens or vines they visit; but that ii not often the case. A few magic vibra tions of the wings, and they arc far away in a few seconds. The last nest I found wa on the outer end of a branch of silver poplar that hung over a public road ; every carriage-top that passed under it was within a few feet of the nest the fa?t place in the world where I should have expected to find such a nest. I fhodd not have seen it except that I was ac cidentally looking up ir.t: the tree, and I saw, protruding over, the sid? of the nest, the long, fine bill that happened ju t then to stir. The nest might hav been passed hundreds of times and been taken for a small knet unless thus be trayed. These birds lay but two eggs, tinjr white morsels. The young birds wlien first hatched are curious little things, and feed by inverting their bills in the mouths and threats of their parents. As the food of the parents is composed of nectar and fine insects, it is easily made ready fcr the little ones'1 tiny stom achs. it "An attack of la grippe left roe with a bad cough. My friends said I had consumption. I then tried Ayer's Cherry Pectoral and it cured me promptly." A. K. Randies, Nokomis, HI. You forgot to buy a bot tle of Ayer's Cherry Pec toral when your cold first came on, so you let it ran along. Even now, with all your hard coughing, It will not disappoint you. There's a record of sixty years to fall back on. Three sizes : 23c, 50c, 51. Ail dnjIirta- Consult your doctor. If he ay take ft. then do as he s;iys. If he tell yon nut to take It. then don't late it. tia toawi.. Leave it with him. We are viltlBii. J . C. AY12K CO., Low!!. E&s Liver PsHs , That's what yea need;' seme thing to cure your bilious ness and give you a good digestion. Aycr Pills arc liver pills. They cure con stipation and biffcnsiiess:': Gently laxative. 25Z. 45 PIECE Sheet Music L41CM IiIO given away in hound form t- intr ! our muHu: and catalogue of ro d ta:nsc in e try h rue. Priu lei roin same pin esi..4!?; ruu cic. Send 13o tor inailiiik;ex ns-. Piedmont Muia C o., Winston, ..C. Mention this p;M r. 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