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W. F. MARSHALL, E4ilor «n4 Proprietor. DEVOTED TO THE PROTECTION OF HOME AND THE INTEKESTS OP THE VOL. XXIII. GASTONIA, X. C., TUESDAY, JULY lOO2. ' . -.... l,. 1JL. -m ■ ■■WBLf II'., I __ UNDER TONS OF WHEAT. Ftghi.Year.Old Bot At St. Lonit la Drawn inla Orain Elevator on Eallui Chain. St. U«l« Remit}llr. 17lh. Georg*;, ihe 8-yenr-old sun of William Heller ol Hemp Station, about three miles northeast of French Village, St. Clair county, wns caught in a stream of wheat on Mouday afternoon and smoth ered to death before help reached him. The wheat was being automatically moved iutonu ele vator when the accident ocoiired. George, with hia father, had gone to Heuip Station to nnloud u quantity of wheal into the elevator there. The wheat was in freight cars, nud an endless chain was used to transfer the grain from the cars to the eleva tor. While the men were engaged in unloading the grain, George was playing about the cars. To ward the latter part of the after noon Mr. Heller missed the boy and sought him everywhere. The children abonc the elevator said they had seen him Inst near the endless chain of buckets which raises the grain into the elevator. For some time the father and his friends hoped against hope almost that the lit tle fellow had not been caught and buried liciieuth tons of wheat in the elevator, hut finally a pnrty was set to work digging iu the mass of gTain. This was transferred as well as could be lrom one bin to the other and finally one of the work men caught sight of a little shoe. He hurriedly notified the other men and silently they worked about him. It was almost im possible they knew for the boy to be alive uuder the weight of grain, and when they finally re leased his body they discovered that he was dead. The grief of the father when lie was notified of the death of his son was pitiable. Friends assisted him to his home and others formed a stretcher on which they carried the form of the little fellow. Deputy Coro ner Brielder, of Hast St. Louis, held the impiest last evening, returning a verdict of accidental death. __ Cuban Annexation Issue. Sl. Hr public. (Dew.) Representative Cooper of Wis consin, docs not use too strong a word when he characterises as ■'brutal" the talk of the annexa tion of Cuba now beiug indulged iu by certain Republicans whose imperial spirit cannot approve of the establishment of an inde pendent republic which could be so ensily conquered instead and added to our insular possess ions. The Wisconsin Congressman is right also in declaring that the forcible annexation of Cuba, against the consent of the Cnban people, which is nndoubtedly the object of those now so loudly urjring a discussion of the annex ation issue, would be in viola tion of onr pledges to Cuba and to the world. We cannot afford to deal treacherously with Cuba if we are to maintain our national honor. There is no escape from this view of the sitnation. Trust interests behiud the movement for the early annexa tion of Cuba must not be per mitted to stultify the United States for the advancement of selfish ends. They are all powerful with the Republican parly, but the American people must take an honest stand against them and the party which they own. This government’s good name is vitally at stake in the matter of our dealings with Cuba. No power should be great enough to make ns prove fulsc to n little country now glorying in liberty and selt-roverument and looking to us, tne world’s example of the blessings of liberty «nd self government, for that support and encouragement to which we ate bound by our creed of free dom . __,_ Speaking of Ibo Weather. Rd«ion TrtiMrriiri. Hilton—What fools we mortal* bcl Wilton—Think 1 ’ve heard something like that before. HUtou—Titlingy and I got so heated the other day ubout the temperature, each of cour*C sweating by Ida own thermome ter, that there ha* been a cool ue*s between n* ever aince. Wilton—Well, wait until next winter and the coolneaswlll pat* away when vim get into a heated argument about the lowness of the temperature. Statesville’* free delivery of city mail goes into effect Decem ber first. FROM CAPE TO CAIRO. Indications That Rhodes’ Am bitious Dream May Soan be Reallz ad. W**hinKloTi Vom. 1 Til*. Before many years Llie world may tie astonished to find that the loug-fostered dream of the late Cecil Rhodes lor the opening up of the Dark Conti mut ha* become a reality aud that a constructive line ol steel rails stretches from Cairn to Cape Town. The State Depart ment made public yesterday an interesting report on railroad development in Africa from United States Consul Knviuhd, at Uierul, bearing date of May 10. The cousul says that by an agreement signed at Brussels the previous mouth by Robert Williams with the King of the Belgians, the Herman route was abandoned and the railway from Cairo to tin- Cape is to l>e carried through the Congo I'ree Stale to the upper waters of the Nile.^ From Stanley Falls on the Upper Congo u railway is to be built to Mahagi nil Lake Albert Nvanza, imd this con nection will supply tlie miftsiug lhik between the Cape and Egyptian railways. Consul Knvndnl points out tlmi the new railway project does not necessarily replace the original ceutrat lines tbrongii German territory ns planned by Mr. Rhodes and the German government. In lact, he suys that it is quite likely, if the proposed railroad is built from tile coast of Dar-es-Salafiui, the capital of German Hast Africa, that Jthe original Cape to Cariu scheme by way of Tulxna will be realized. "Roth lines,” says the consul, "may astonish the world before many years as full fledged realities.” Consul Kavndat says that all maps of Africa more than six mouths old are obsolete, because history is being made so vapidly and is chaugiug the face of the country so materially. The consnl says that the United States is not playing an impor tant part in the development of Africa, and that "Stanley’s momentous work in the seventies lias not been followed by his <iuontlam countryman." Only with Cape Colony is onr com merce of any material impor tance ._ Salted His Well la Vain. N*» Orlfann Time* Democrat "Some years ago,” said the narrator, "an oil hooni hit Litchfield, ill., and every body for miles around was sniffing for oil. and every stranger suspected of being an expert looking for u good tiling. An old. farmer named Loomis, hart a big place three miles out of town, which would have been a fortune for him had he not been possessed of u mania for swapping, manifested in a perennial attempt to trade off his land for twice its value. ■'When the boom was at the top notch Loomis received a vistor who took so much iu terest in the farm, so liked its appearance, location, etc., that the old man scented a petroleum man and saw visions of incolcu ablc wealth. Being a shrewd man, Loomis did uotcare to take any unnecessary chances with Providences, and on the quiet he scut the hired man out the back way with or4et* to dump the kerosene oil can into the well. The visitor liked the entire place, inspected the barn, the chicken yard and then, a, if by chance asked for a drink of water. Loomis was waiting for that and hauled up a brimming buck et before the man’s own eves and poured him out a gourd full with a fibc, opalescent scuui tip on it. The visitor smelled it, tasted it, made a wry face and asked if the water was always like that. 'Oh, yes,’said Loomis ’but yon soon get accustomed to the taste, and our doctors say that it is the finest water on earth for the stomach.* 'Well, I’m din^ dauged if I’ll ever get used toll,* was the unexpected reply. ’I ain looking for a form not an oil well, and if I've got to haul my drinking water three miles from Litchfield I guess I'd rattier buy nearer town.’ " It took Loomis six mouths to get the taste of oil out of his well, and by that time the boom was over, and nothing was left of the oil craae, but rotting derrick and abandoned shafts.” The loss by the recent fire at Clinton as sent hi to Insurance Commissioner Jas. R. Young by MayorH. B. Chcrmitt, amounted to $73,100: insurance $17,500. 3oin« smaller losses that could not he estimated st the time make the loss MORGAN S GREAT GUMP. “Sublimity” Which is Decidedly Different from "Cheek or As surance ” Clnraao tnlriOcrnu. The current nmnber of the Phrenological Journal prints a I<ortrail of Johu Picrpont Mor gan, with this brief comment upon that gentleman's cranial development: Sublimity is very actively dis played in Mr. Morgan’s head, as in all large investors who strike out for extensive control of im mense corporations. It will be noticed that whatever Mr. Mor gan does he does on a large scale. Firmness, self-esteem, conibativcness. all help, but sub limity sets the ball rolling, starts the commercial tunc and finances the enterprise. 1 lie suulinic faculty is located midway between tlu* faculty of acquisitiveness and Hope ami is Hanked on each side by ideality and rnutiousness. In the ordi nary head the space occupied by sublimity depends u good deal upon circumstances. Like all the other faculties, sublimity is, of course, subject to contraction and expansion and, like all other, it may be cramped by discourage ment or developed by success. There was a lime when phren ologists wen.' wont to speak of this faculty as assurance, and irreverent! persons, even in our days, arc prone to allude to it as check. And it is, perhaps, in teresting to note the peculiar conditions which make the use of each of these terms appropri ate. Should a man rush into Mr. Morgan's presence on a busy morning, lor example, and say to him: "John, I need fifty thousand dollars immediately; kindly give me a credit slip and I’ll send you around collateral after awhile,'' that was assur ance. Should a man rush into Mr. Morgan’s presence on a busy morning and say: "See here; I’ve got to have fifty thousand before noon and I haven’t got a thread of security, but I'ui mak ing a turnover on the exchange, and I’ll pay it back by 3 p. in.," that would l>e check. But should Mr. Morgan call a group of capitalist* together and say: "Gentlemen, you represent interests which combined have a value of $100,000,000.1 propose to consolidate you and stock the combination for $400,000,000, takiug $100,000,000 or on amount equal to your original capital stock, for ray share as a promo ter of this magnificent enter prise,’’ It goes without saying that this wonld lie sublimity. It Is well for students of phren ology to heed these shades of difference. A close observance of them is likely to prevent owk wark mistakes. One who has merely assurance may perhaps attain to a certain degree of suc cess, particularly if it become* known that this assurance i* based upon what the world calls nerve. Another who has cheek may for a lime sweep everything before him. But it requires the faculty of sublimity in its largest and most perfect development to sweep up everything from a coal trust to a steamship combination aud then to keep nglit on sweep ing without pause. The Themes Teasel. Vofk fitu The Thames tunnel is a small affair in comparison with the immense borings which ere soon to connect New York with New Jersey find Brooklyn, ycl eigh teen years were consumed in its construction. It passed through nearly as many vicissitudes os have been encountered by the Hudson River tunnel, and the active labor involved about nine years. .It cost $3,000,000 and was a financial failure from the beginning, the tolls being only $25,000 a year, hardly enough to keep the lining iu repair. Hnlf a century ago it was spoken of as a "stupendous work.” Each foot passenger paid a toll of one Emy. The tube was reached means of cylindrical shafts of steps each. In 1850 the "Pancy Pair" was held in it. and this under-tlic-Thainea exhibi tion attracted 60,000 person* in five days. In 1805 the East Lon don Railway Company bought the tunnel for $1,000,000 aud it uow running fifty trains a day I through it._ The Shirt Valet la the Palplt. Kooxlut MIoflCIlIxM. The Rev. J. H. Rice, paator ol the MethndUt chnreh. created quite a »cn*atlon by appearing in lit* pulpit clad in a neat-fit ting aturt waiiit. Several mem ber* of the congregation were * attired in the popular garment, I which ha* apparently conic tn | May. SUOAB LANDS IN TOE SOUTH. Sufficient It Supply Entire De mand ef United State a If Prop erly Cultivated. lVilminctno RUr, UUl Judging from the antics of the beet sugar men, and the onset they made on Congress when a little tariff concession was asked for Cuban sugar, one would think that this country’s future dependence tor sugar is upon the beet farms and the licet sugar factories, while as a matter of fact there is sugar-growing land enough in the South to produce all the sugar this country can consume for years to come. At present the sugar cane growing aren is practically confined to a portion of Louisiana and Texas. Small iinantities are grown in Mississippi and Florida, while there is a good deal of sorghum grown throughout the South, mainly for,domestic use, which does not figure in commercial use, which docs not figure in commercial calculations. But there is of sugar lands proper enough to produce all the sugar that can be consumed in this country for years to come and leave a considerable margin for export, and the cane can be grown and the sugar manufac tured, too, more cheaply than beets can he mown and the sugar manufactured. it is estimated by competent authorities that in the State of Florida alone there are 5,000,000 acres of land now unproductive, which would if put under cauc culture produce 10,000,000 ton;, of sugar, or over four times as much as this country now con sumes. This laud could lie cleared and prepared for sugar at an average cost of $10 an acre. Hut in addition to this there arc millions of acres in the South oil which it hus been demonstrated that sugar cane can be profilably grown aud to produce sugar enough for the world without a single licet. And yet what a howl is raised when it is proposed to re duce the population of the beet sugar "infant." Tr*t7 (he Boldest Outlaw el Years. CollUi'n Weekly. JOlh. Not since the days when the insane desperado Charlie Rand terrified whole counties in Southern Illinois lias there lived such an outlaw as the wild creature Tracy, who for nearly a month has held at bay sheriffs;' posses, militia and vigilante committees in the State of YVashington. He escaped from the penitentiary after killing three of the guards, and by great daring and really marvcllons cunning and marksmanship has held his freedom against thous ands of pnrsners, now appear ing in a woodman’s shanty to lake toll nt the muzzle of his gun, now racing acloss Puget Sound in a stolen launch, now turning in a graveyard oil the outskirts of Seattle. Up to tbe present moment he hat killed nine men and wounded many others. It is hard to conceive at first how one man can be* couie a figure of terror to a whole resolute community, how his outlawry can last for even a day; but the "bad man” of the West, with all the strength, endurance and acuteness of the insane, is a hard proposition even for the border sheriff who is looking to kill him, but always has a sage thought for his own safety. One thiug ia certain, though—that he will be taken dead or alive. The "alive" it added for euphony. Efscilin and Suffrage. SvShm Minlnn N'<U>. Many of the States are adding an educational clause to the re quirements of suffrage, hence it becomes imperatively obligatory on tbe State to give the children ample opportunity and encour agement to prepare themselves for the demands of citizenship. Otherwise the State places itself in the attitude of requiring cer tain conditions from the citizens and at the same time depriving them of the means of meeting those requirements, ft is uot in high schools and colleges, says the Montgomery (Ala.) Adver tiser, that the ohildreu are taught to read and write, bnt in the humble and nnobtrasivecomtnon schools of the connin', and these should be made aa free and ef fective as the State is able to do. Lenoir Electric Company baa been incorporated to build aud operate an electric light plant. Incorporator* are G. L. Bernhardt, (ieo. F. Harper, (». W. F. Harper, and L. MTPark* and the capital etoclc la $50,000. Thia, nay* the New*, look* like Lenoir i* to have eletric light*. Y»rk Cauaty Haas. V urkvtiU Ciwlwr. mb Dr. J. W. Campbell hat re cently enlarged and remodeled hi* residence on Kings Mountain street, in Clover, and it presents quite a handsome appearance. Mrs. C. C. Cornwell, of Dallas, X. C., spent several days in Yorknlle this week, the guest of her cousin. Mrs. W. E. Hurt, returning home on yesterday morning. Craig Byers was charged with assault and battery with intent to kill. He had tried to kill another Xegro for being too at tentive to hi* wife. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. In the case of Ella Gaither, charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, the jury was unable to agree upon a verdict. The defendant had tried to kill another woman for alienating the affections of her husband. Mr. J. R. Pegrmui, who has been qnile ill for the past two weeks or more, was on the streets again Wednesday. He fell off eighteen potiuda during his illness and has evidently bad n pretty hard mb of it. He went to Cleveland Springs on Thurs day. Mr. W. S. Wilkersou has about 25 acres of sorghum on his plan tation this year arid it is said to he looking remarkably well. The fanners of the neighborhood have not planted cane extensive ly as duriugsome previous years, hnt including hi* own crop, Mr. Wilkersou calculates on having as much as he will care to man age. In the case of Pharr, adminis trator of D. W. Hartuess, vs. the Southern railway, tried in Char lotte this week, the jury found for the plaintiff in the sum of $1,000. Hartuess, who was a brakeman in the employ of the Southern railway, was killed in Charlotte on March 11, 1901, while engaged in coupling cars. I'harr, administrator, brought suit against tbe railroad for $30,000 damages. The annual reunion of tbe I York regiment of Confederate veterans, is to be held at Mt. Gallant, the former residence of Colonel Cadwnllader Jones, four miles northeast of Rock Hill, on Wednesday, July 30. General orders have just been issued to that effect by Major James F. Hart, colonel comtuauding. The order command* the veterans to gather at the time and place mentioned with their families and friends and to bring full baskets, with which to contribute to the comfort and enjoyment of the occasion. The old school building at Clover, which was among the first erected in the town, having bccu built about 1877, is to be enlarged and generally improved before the Uegiuuing of the fall session. When the work shall have heeu completed in accord ance with the prepared specifi cations, the building will be more in keeping with the pro gressive spirit ihat has made Clover what it is to-day—one of the most desirable towns in which to live in the Piedmont section, and of course everybody who knows much, knows that the Piedmont section is the most deligliful on the continent. In the case of the widow of Engineer Metcalf, who is suing the South Carolina and Georgia railroad on account of the death of her husband at Buffalo creek last summer, a Rutheford jury recently returned a verdict for $15,000. The amount sued for was $40,000. Mr. G. W S. Hart represented the railroad. His principal contention, and the fact was sustained by undisputed evidence, was that Metcalf ven tured on the trestle after due notice of Us probably dangerous condition. He held, therefore, that the railroad was absolutely absolved from responsibility. The railroad has appealed to the supreme court principally on the ground of alleged error in the finding under ttte condition outlined. R< Val Baking Powder Safeguards the food against alum. Summer Fabrics Going. •••Get your share nowand me money... To clear them oat quickly wo have reduced our prices ec aU SutMsor fabric*._ Uwn. and Dimities worth 15c, 2Sc, an* 25c, goi**. fa white they laal lar oaty_ Parasols Hall Price. ragr-fL >1.”, 4 $1.” each each Corsets for Sommer comfort. Latest shapes. J. F. YEAGER, LAWKS' FURNISHINGS A SPECIALTY. T - I Fall in Hammocks. Summer is going and with it our splendid stock of hammocks. We do not wish to carry s single hatn» mock over to next season and so not only s pert of summer has gone but s big lump out of hammock price* has gone with it. We are cutting to cost and have only these left: Fiva $2.90 Hammock* to fa at $1M Owe $1.75 Hat—ck to fa at $135 Thraa $135 Hawtaacka tofa at . $13$ Four 98c Hammocks to fa at 88c Buy quick, bring the cash, and enjoy the comfort of a good hammock the rest of the summer. Sooner von buy. the more service you’ll get this summer. Marshall's Book Storea _ON THK CORKER. McCORMICK CORN HARVESTER AND SHOCKER. !™ ■" —— _!L. ——■» PH several > cars the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., has experimented with a machine for cutting and shocking corn, and for the season of 190£ is able to offer tbe McCormick corn harvester and shocker to those com growers who prefer to honest ' and shock their corn without binding it into bandies. As a corn shocker the McCormick is unequalled in lightness of draft, and its [ operation in the field is as simple and rapid as is possible with such a machine. When the shock is completed it is necessary to stop the machine, after which the shock is tied by hand, and with . the aid of a windlass, which forms part of the shocker, the driver raises tbe shock, swings it to one side, and places H on the ground. . A frame around which the stalks an placed is drawn from the cen ter of the shock after it has been placed on the ground. With a little practice tbe shock is unloaded in as short a time as Is re quired to form it, thus making the capacity one-half that of the com binder. This machine will fully meet the requirements of the agriculturists who prefer to husk their corn from the shock in the field and then bind the stalks into bundles by hand. If, however, the corn is to be drawn from the field, stacked, fed unhusked to the stock, loaded onto and unloaded from a wagon or fed to a shredder, it will be found most economical to cut it with the Mc Cormick vertical corn binder, os the labor saved win more than pay' for the twine and shocking. For sale by CRAIG & WILSON. is. X” ..a—assis—saw—■» I FIRST! nnliitktMBi ! nrai m tha ttmta nmhtktiHM* nm via a« mri nm a A* kMrit «i a« »Mit« FI**T EVElTWBtlt r] U FUST ALWAYS | THE GASTONIA GAZETTE Twle« A «A«fet AGRICULTURAL a! MECHANICAL COLLEGE INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION: A cMnWmtfam ol Unary And n work in AntedUnn. CkmUn Win iliinrtRf. KbII Comtam (4 nml CgarAM <Mi*«A.). Tuition aim room, tMCkcnt. MB m« 1 Day At tM A SV. CotVge."
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