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Good health it the best of
earthly blessings, but if we were
not tick sometimes we would not
appreciate it. And there is a
good side to almost every mis
fortune. Old age has its privil
eges snd sickness its compensa
tions. I knew that my family
loved me, but I did not realise
how much until this lingering
attack required nursing snd
night watching, snd they had to
sit np with me as I sat in s chair
flLtid struggled for breath. Breath,
more breath, was wbat 1 wanted
and I could not get it lying
down. I thought of the last
verse that David ever wrote,
"Let everything that has breath
praise the Lord."
All during my long illness I
have had three trained nurses—
my wife and two daughters, and
two married daughters and a
grand-daughter besides on the
relief corps, and they have been
so watchful and willing and so
good. The oldest of the nurses
baa been in training for fifty
years and has apent all her mar
ried life in nursing and training
others and knows just what to
do and when to do it. What
would a large family do without
a good«old mother? But at last
the girls had to force her to go
up stairs where she could sleep
vntbont hearing my cough that
was wearing ont the bronchial
tube and the larynx and epiglot
tis snd Scylla and Charybais and
other mysterious organs. And
I had good doctors, too, who
diagnosed me twice a dsv snd
sounded my heart with their
telephone tubes and thumped
tny chest aud beat my stomach
and looked at my tongue and
ran the handle of a spoon down
my throat and gagged me and
prized open my eyelids snd
ti ned my pnl9e and then wrote a
long list of prescriptions that
broke a drug store and made up
a menu of what I should drink,
and then confined me to the
trained nurses to carry out the
program.
I was as humble as a wet dog.
for the truth is I was alarmed
and so was my wife and children.
1 didn’t see how they could get
along without me. but I am bet
ter now, and for three nights
have slept in my bed and recov
ered my breath and only lack
strength, and am gaining that.
It is worth being sick to have
such nursing and find so many
friends who sympathize aud wish
me to get well. It pleases me to
have them call and cheer me
with their presence, but my doc
tors say, "Don’t you talk much.
Let them do the talking. You
have no breath to spare.” And
every mail brings such good,
kind, loving letters from all over
the Sunny South and some from
Ohio and Illinois and Iowa.
They humble me and canse me
to wonder what I have been to my
people all these years that bnngs
me such benedictions.
Yes, I call tnem my people,
for now I am a patriarch, and
even children write to me and
call me grandpa. I have been
too sick to answer all these let
ters and could only reply by
proxy, bnt I will answer them
when I get well. 1 am writing
this to thank them all and to
say that I believe my heavenly
Father haa given me another
lease and I shall continue for a
while longer to make a weekly
visit to the homes and hearts of
all our people. -
There is another good thing
about a protracted Illness. It
gives a man such good oppor
tunities to look back, to ponder
and ruminate. His helplessness
makes him humble and humility
makes him kind. Right now I
love everybody, except some. I
believe I could love Teddy if he
would retract end apologise. He
ought to do that if he expects
any peace of mind. A letter
from Dine •Mountain college,
Mississippi, begs me to writ*
end ask him not to visit that
state until he does retract, and
says the besn have bad a con
vention and resolved to keep
in n»»jr dens when he comes. 1
thought he was a pretty fair
speaker, but a friend of mine
heard him at Asheville the other
day and says he acts like a bull
In. breeches and cfvorts all
round and threshes his arms and
shakes his legs and twists up
his uoae and mouth and slobbers
out his words, but he don’t re
... . .. .
Bat tms is etiouwu -about
Teddy- l*et ds torn him ovct to
tha tender mercy of Dr. Whar
ton, who told as why be was
•hy of his mother’s state sod
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A VICTORY FOR THE SOUTHERN
Tbs C. 4 N. W. Will k« its Feeder
—Story si the Dams si Mali
Carried so hy the Mill Men
aad the Rail read Officials—
The “Pestle's Ova Lias"
Seises a Oeldeo Opsortenity
Jasl la Tins.
J. U. A. ia CbarleU* Obemt.
Newton, aept. 22.—A trip over
the new line ol the Carolina &
Northwestern Railroad from
Dallas to Lincolnton is calcu
lated to raise the query, Why
was it not built years ago?
There arc doubtless lew such
opportunities for railroad devel
opment lying around loose these
days. The managers of the
Carolina & Northwestern have
swapped one small station, Har
diu, for the exclusive business
of nve cotton mills and at least
a portion of the carriage of
other manufacturing enterprises.
In addition to this the mill
owners agree to pay the road
about $20,000 bonus. The lat
ter amount is the estimated
cost of dray age which the road
will save the factories in five
years’ time.
The new rood lias been ex
tended from Lenoir to Gastonia,
on which portion standard-gauge
freight and passenger trains now
make doily trips, while the sec
tion from Chester to Gastonia is
yet operating the three-foot can.
The transfer is made at Gas
tonia. Copt. Ross continues to
stand by the small outfit, bat
says he will rail it on a siding
for the last time about December
1st.
On the trip North from Gas
tonia the engine is ran backward
because no turning facilities
have yet been arranged for the
standard-gauge locomotives. As
a consequence the mail car is in
the rear, while the passengers in
the first-class coach may aranse
themselves by watching the iron
horse’s many movements.
A luge force of hauds is at
work at the South Fork River,
about three miles north of Dal
las, building stone piers for an
iron bridge, the material for
which is already at hand. Leav
ing the old road-bed on the
north bank of the stream the
new line follows the river in
nearly all of its crooks and ttirns
for about twelve miles, passing
the doors of the following mills
in the order named: Hardin,
High Shoals, Long Shoals, Lin
coln, Laboratory and Daniel.
With the exception of the latter,
which is connected with the
Seaboard Air Line by spur
tracks, all were heretofore with
out railroad facilities. This
change of route on the part of
the railroad Involved consider
able heavy grading and gave
the rood somewhat the appear
ance of climbing a mountain,
but lengthened the course from
Dallas to Lincolnton by only
one-quarter of a mile, 1 am tola.
In addition to the new freight
traffic secured by the Carolina &
Northwestern, the passenger
business promises well. There
are many people at every mill
and they will doubtless travel
more since the trains approach
their doora.
Whether there is any truth in
the report that the Southern
Railway is behind the Carolina
& Northwestern is probably only
known to parties interested, but
it is a fact that the big system
will be benefitted to the extent
oft adding the traffic of these
mills to its business at the ex
pense of the Seaboard Air Ldne,
for the little road has no connec
tion with the latter system, and
I am told that no provision will
be made for a transfer of cars at
Uncolnton, bnt that In order to
reach points between Gastonia
and Lincolntcm they must be
delivered to the Carolina &
Northwestern either at the for
mer place or some other point,
thereby giving the Southern a
share of the carriage. The fact
that the Chester-Lenoir road
now uses the Southern’s track
from here to Hickory, ten miles,
and that it proctiredita standard
range rolling stock from the
same concern are also cited as
proof that the two roads are on
exceedingly good terms. It is
•aid, however, that thia is as far
as the Carotin* & Northwestern
officers will admit that the -con
nection roes.
The mill men who arranged
the building of the road via their
plants relate s story st the ex
pense of the Sesboard Air Line
people which is at least interest
ing snd shows to some extent
that there is bluffiiug done in
other things besides poker play
ing. After making repeated at
tempts to get the Seaboard peo
ple to agree to build a spur track
to tbeir factories without result
the scheme of celling oa the
■snow range folks was pro
posed. But the mill men didn’t
want a narrow gauge road and
even after they began to commit
with the Carolina & Northwest
ern officials they were doubtful
about their being prepared to
undertake a change of their en
tire system. Each step in the
deal with the narrow gauge peo
ple, however, caused some signs
of activity on the part of the
Seaboard and so the game went
on. Finally some time last year
President Barber, of the Carolina
& Northwestern, appeared at
Lincolnton and notified the in
terested parties that he was
ready for business and wonld
sign the papers. This was done,
the railroad official binding him
self to ruu a standard-gauge train
over the proposed route on the
first day of July last. Despite
heavy rains and many drawback*
on the day named an engine and
several cars made the tnp, com
plying with the letter of the con
tract. It is said that a day or
two after the signing of the
agreement with Barber the Sea
board sent a representative to
Lincolnton with the papers
ready, but be was told that be
was too late.
When tlx time came for cross
ing the Seaboard track the
builders of the new road selected
a high fill just north of Lincoln
tou and went through at night to
escape possible delay on account
of legal complications, it is ssid.
The new line goes through Lin;
cotnton in a deep cut, which in
volves a "y," at a depth of about
25 feet. The right of way through
the town is said to have cost in
the neighborhood of $5,000.
Among other things, a brick
store had to be purchased and
torn down.
A Waste *1 6n4 Rhetoric.
Washington Poat.
The Kew York Sun’s double
leaded protest agaiust any plank
iu the New York Republican
State platform in favor of a con
stitutional amendment empower
ing Congress to regulate corpo
rations is an extravagant waste
of good rhetoric. No bann
could possibly result from the
adoption of such a planlc. There
is a world-wide difference be
tween a declaration by a party
convention and the endorsement
of tbst declaration by a New
York legislature. And the in
finite distances of the universe
are scarcely greater than the
difference between the construc
tion of a plank by a State con
vention and the planting of it in
our national Constitution by a
two-thirds vote of both Houses
of Congress and the consent of
the legislatures of three-fomtbs
of the States.
There is not even a remote
probability that this question
will be an issue in 1904. Should
Mr. Platt’s convention make a
plank of it, which it probably
will not, it will pass for surplus
buncombe. Indorsement o f
President Roosevelt’s candidacy
need not be accompanied by in
dorsement of any suggestion of
a change in the relation of the
States to the nation. As The
Post has recently asserted, with
the exception of the three war
amendments, there has been no
enlargement of the area of Fed
eral authority, no surrender ot
the powers-reserved to the peo
ple and the Sutes, since the
Constitution was adopted. And
there isn’t going to be any sur
render. Nothing that Mr.
Platt’s convention may aay. on
the subject will have the least
effect on the situation—a situa
tion so fixed in permanent so
lidity that only a great domestic
war can change it.
TwmtM I* Drawn About.
Mew Yorti Trlboa*.
Unfortunate victims of unscru
pulous lawyers are still hopeful
of obtaining mythical millions in
England and on the continent of
Europe. Proof baa been heaped
on proof almost to the height of
Pelion on Ossa that no such un
claimed properties of huge pro
portions exist anywhere on
earth. These oversanguine
heirs of Queen Mab fantasies
should advise their attorneys to
fake a journey to the moon or to
some distant planet and to col
lect their contingent fees when
they come back with the treasur
es which they have secured,
either in cash or in easily nego
tiable securities.
The Annele Jans " gold brick"
has been decided by the concur
rent action of tha courts to be
the cheapest of brass; and so of
scores of similar schemes. Neith
er in the British Court of Chan
cery nor anywhere else in the
Old World or the Naw are there
huge fort n nrs in unclaimed es
tate* to be obtained by litigation.
Melaueholv is the fate of those
who put their trust In plans to
get possession of such rainbow
pots of gold.
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HEWS ITEMS.
A Cleveland county lady re
cently sold a SO acre farin' in
South Carolina, near Grover, for
$2,000.
A convention will be held at
Asheville in October in the in
tercat of the Appalachian Park
movement.
At Sandy Ridge, in Union
county, Thursday, Goodman
Haney, a wel} known resident,
committed auibide by hanging
himself.
The Annnal debate between
Trinity and Wake Foreat Col
leges was abolished Friday by
action of the Literary Socie
ties of Trinity.
The Hoover gold mine near
Rozzell's ferry, in Mecklenburg
county, has been purchased bya
Pittsburg, Pa., firm and will be
operated on an extensive scale.
In North Carolina there are
now 188 free rural mail routes
with s prospect of retching 200
in the next few days. A year
ago there were only about
twenty.
In the case of Seawall vs. Car
olina Central Railway at Car
thage the jury rendered a ver
dict Friday for $4,500 in favor
of the plaintiff. The amount
asked for was $10,000.
The American Molasses Com
pany was incorporated a few
days ago at Trenton, New
Jersey, with a capitalization of
$3,000,000. It is another trust to
control sugar, syrup, molasses,
glucose, sorghum snd the like.
A special term of the United
States District Court has been
ordered to convene at Charlotte
November the 20th to try the
Reese-Dickerson embezzlement
esse from Asheville. Judge Mc
Donnell, of the Western District
of Virginia, will preside.
The wife of Captain Frank
Marshall, one of the most efficient
conductors of the Southern Rail
way, died Monday at Norcross,
Ca., after an illness of several
weeks. A brave and very ten
der hearted man is sorely be
reaved by this great affliction.
A• at other places where the
disease once gets a foot bold, so
in Charlotte sin^ll-pox is difficult
to eradicate. Another nest of it
involving three or four persons,
one of them "broken out" with a
severe case, was found Tuesday
in a bouse on Corner of Stone
wall and Brevard Street.
Mr. Charles Locker ny, super
intendent of the spinning* room
of the Richmond Cotton Mills
near Lanrinburg was shot and
killed Friday by Norms Saun
ders. The shooting occurred as
a result of the discharge of
Saunders’son, who was employed
in the mill. Saunders is in jail
at Laurinbnrg.
The population of Cuba in 1887
was 1,931,687, or 59,000 more
than 1898. Allowing for the
probable increase between 1887
and 1895, the year in which the
insurrection broke out the loss
of life as indicated by the two
censuses is estimated at nearly
200,000 a loss to be attributed to
the war and the policy of recon
centration.
Mrs. Jno. W. Stafford whose
elopement from Greensboro in
July with Mr. Barnest Hardin
created such a sensation, re
turned incognito, to that city
Wednesday night from Balti
more, where they have been
living. Her avowed object was
to see her sick child. The
general belief ia that the family
will be re-nnited.
Mr. John I. Douglass, who re
cently eloped with Mian Hattie
Summers from Statesville re
turned Friday from Texas and
was placed under arrest. He
denied running away with the
girl and said ne knew nothing
of her whereabouts. He gave
bond in the sum of $S00 for hit
appearance to answer the charge
of desertion.
Stole the Assistant Peatmaater
iMmiih tuteih.
A young men named Blown
waa recently appointed poet*
master a t Crouse, Lincoln
county. Being ignorant of the
management of the postoffice
be applied to Postmaster Bark*
ley, oi Lincoln ton, for assistance.
Postmaster Barkley seat bit
daughter to teach Mr. Brown
how to manage the poatoffice.
Mr. Brown waa so well pleased
with hia teacher that be wanted
to retain her permanently, but
ber father objected. The young
lady, however, was willing and
abont 5 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing, while she was in the Lin
coin ton poatoffice arranging the
mails, Mr. Brown cams along
and invited her to ride. She
consented and, the couple went
to South Carolina and got mar
ried.
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sept. 2 5th-2 6th.
yOU are respectfully Invited to
be present and Inspect our
autumn display of the newest and
most fashionable Millinery, Purs,
Ladles* Coats, Dress Goods,
Walstlngs, Trimmings, and all the
latest designs of Appliques and
All-overs.
JUST RECEIVED
Another shipment of Walking'Skirts
Is black sad gray which be on
display. Also the Peco Skirts which
so easily take the lead aawag gar
meats of their class.
Remember the dates—next Thursday and
Friday, and be sureto visit us. We shall
be happy to see you and to place all the
courtesies of our store at your service.
JAMES F. YEAGER,
Ladies* Furnishings a Specialty.
THE UNIQUE CITY OP DALNY.
Not a Fast ol Laad has Dean Said,
Thaafh Ovsr 9MDMN Bay.
Bata Expanded lar Improve*
maate aad PahUc BoUdlaia.
Municipal haul.
At present there is being foan
ded on the shores of the Pacific
Ocean the Russian city of Dalny.
This city will form the terminns
of the new Siberian and Manch
urian Railway, and its site has
heretofore been known asTailcn
waa.
The unique thmir about this
new city u that it begins its
municipal life with all modern
improvements. There are piers
of stone and cement; a large
breakwater, with no ships to
seek refuge behind it. The
streets are graded and paved, al
though there is no traffic for
them as yet. The different
quarters of the town have been
laidjont, space provided for parks
schools, churches, etc. Gardners
are already beautifying the
parks. Electric lights and elec
tric railways are already in ope
ration. As yet not a foot of land
Mid, although over
$6,000,000 have been expended
for improvements and public
buildings. The population bow
exceeds 50,000, 23,000 of which
are employed in building the
railroad, which is to be owned by
the Russian Government.
U it calculated that the city
wlO coat $18,000 before the peea
prtseut plans are completed. It is
provided that when lands am
told taxation *wiU begin, and the
city ’s government will be placed
in the bands of acouncil, elected
by the taxpayers, of which two
members must be Russian sub
jects sad not more than two
Chinese or Japanese. The port
will be au absolutely free one,
as the Government wishes to
encourage trade.
Clus. Holmes, colored, was
dring a brick Iriln at Coolenwc
cotton mill Tbnrsday night when
a side of the line slipped oat and
Holmes wan buried under hot
bricks. He was so severely in*
fared that be died next day.
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