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W. r. MAKSBALL, Editor lad Fnpriator. VOL XXV. Jl ... . '--mamm Howland Mi the A. < N. C. ■i FmpmUIm to far a Laaai tor a Tana a! H Taara aad Hi A<vaaa ta Sind S25MM to BaMamaato Daria* tba Firs Fire Taara. CbailMWObaarvw. Newbern. Sept. 1.—The stock holders of tba Atlantic & Nortt Carolina Railroad, in session a Morehead City, this afternoon voted—893 to 95—to lease tbi road to R. S. Howland, of Ashe ville. The State vote was cssi for the lease. It was a distinguished gather ing which met to-day to decide on the question of the lease oi the road. Last night it wai said the deal had really beer consummated, needing only of!i' cial endorsement. The local in' terest was satisfied the leas* would be made sod there was nc crowd attaoding the meeting here, but outsiders were In evi dencc. Ex-Governor Jarvis, J. H. Pon, Governor Aycock and Messrs. Beckwith and Ballard, members of the board of internal improvements: Judge Womack, Colonel Davidson, and Attorney General Gilmer, were among those present. Shortly after 12 o'clock the meeting of stockholders was called to order by President J. A. Bryan, who nominated J. E. Robinson, for temporary chair man, George Green secretary retary. On call it was shown that a quorum was present. The chairman declared the meeting organised. President Bryan said it was the desire oi Governor Aycock that the meet ing adjourn to mect at Morebcad City, and ou motion adjourn ment was taken to meet at 3 p. m. at the Atlantic Hotel at Morehead. Special can were provided and the crowd at once boarded these, which were at tached to s sboofly train, which was held. The stockholders took dinner at the Atlantic Hotel at their own expense, and it was 4 o’clock before the meeting was called to order. The proxies' report was read by the secretary and adopted. It showed 17,262 shares represented with 1,410 votes. The temporary organi sation was made permanent. State Proxy J. W. Grainger, said the Governor had received two propositions for a lease of the Atlantic & North Carolina, upon which be and Mr. Ballard agreed as favorable. By mis take the secretary read a propo sition front, a Philadelphia syn dicate, this being withdrawn be for the meeting. The proposed corporation to be known as the Goldsboro, Newbern & More head City Railroad Company signed by W. I*. Kennedy, B. B. Borden, William Dunn, W. S. Chadwick, name a lease prop osition lor 93 yean, to pay 3 per cent, the first 20 years. 3 1-2 the third ten years and then 4, 4 1-2 and 5 per cent each successive ten years, and 6 per cent, the KftlllM** nf lha lima provisions were included to pro vide tor interest on bonded debt, payment of taxes during lease, meeting all expenses, keeping property up and subject to ex pert examination by 8tate; also to protect the road from dama ges, accept supplies on hand at market value, secure all rental, deporit *1,000.000 aa securi ty. Tbe Howland proposition covered same interest rates for a term of years and was for 91 years and dour months. It is also agreed upon the vari ous provisions aa the first propo sition ard ia addition agreed upon an expenditure of *230,000 for betterment on tbe road dur ing tbe first three years, tbe lease to be la tbe name of R. 8. Howland, or tbe Howland Im provement Company, of North Carolina. When tbe propositions were read K. C. Duncan offered a resolution that tbe Howland proposition be accepted. Cal. Tbeo. P. Davidson was given permission to make a few re 2*™*- He gave_a sketch of Howland, of bis *300.000 invest ment in western North Carolina, his character and bis reputation among the peonfe of Asheville, among whom he was bald in bigh esteem. He also told ol his property holdings ha Rhode Island, California sad Cuba. C. H. Poy said ha was against the lease end entered a protest, giving warning that if * lease waa riven iu validity would he •tested in court. C. A. Mowers, holding stock proxy for Pamlico eouuty. said he agreed with Mr. Poy. Ilia people would favor lease hr SS years at 5 par cent, with 1 par cent added each ad ditional ten years, with a aacuri U^MVIHUy 1CMCC Ul fi.JW.uw. Governor Jarvis favored ths - lease and spoke aloanently, to which Ur. Poy again replied, opposing the lease by private i stockholders of the road to How r land. On a vote on the Dnncan resolution 893 favored it and 97 I were against, the State vote being cast for lease. The Terrible Hark •! Jap’s Se cret Powder. New York Tlaes. One bears a great deal in these 1 days of the exploits of Admiral : Togo, of Generals Kuroki and Gku. Military experts all over the world express their admira tion for Japanese strategy; naval experts declare that Togo has almost revolutionised warfare on sea. Doubtless these encomiums are deserved, but the military and naval experts all seem to forget one man who, as a matter of simple fact, hae dona more to secure victory for Japan than all her generals and admirals to gether. There is working in tne University of Tokio a quiet little man who, if be is almost ignored ootside bis own country’, is fully recognised in Japan it self as a national benefactor. No one outside of Japan, and very few persons there, know how the powder invented by Professor Shltnoae, of tbe Uni versity of Tokio, is made. The oue of the greatest of the nation al assets, and it is guarded with an amount of care extraordinary even when compared with tbe elaborate measures taken in Ja pan to make all military and naval details inviolate. Bnt as to the terrific power of tbe Shi moae powder there is no secrecy now. though no foreigners knew anything about it before the present war began. The Rus sians are in the unfortunate position of learning all about its effects by personal experience, while tbe foreign military at taches at the seat of war look on and marvel. The Shimose powder forms the bursting charge of the Japa nese army and navy ahell. The result of the explosion it causes has astonished the foreign ex perts now at the front. The armor-piarcing shell is rent into thousands of small fragments, which arc hnrled through tbe air with snch force that they tear through tbe sides of an iron ship as would a projectile from a machine gun. The Russian warships Variag and Koriets, sunk by tha Japanese at Che mnl-Pho. were found on exami nation to be riddled all over their decks and aides by frag ments of shells which had been filled with tbe Shimose powder. The explosive force of tbe powder is known to exceed that of guncotton or dynamite many times. While a shell with a bursting charge of these explo sives is brokan into compara tively few pieces, tbe majority of which are scattered through a limited arc, the Shimose explo sive scatters the psojectile into 3,000 or more fragments. More over, these fragments are driven uirreuon wud equ*i force, Inc result being* as one expert says, that, "nothing in the vicinity can live." The report! of the land battles from Russian sources dwell with pathetic emphasis on the invar laMe superiority of the Japanese artillery. It was to this artillery that the Rnsalans gave the cred it for the Japanese victory is the battle of the Yaln, and h was largely on account nf their ar tillery that the mikado’s troops won at - Nans ban Hill and Vaf angow. In spite of its tremendous force the powder can ba handled with perfect safety. It la also extraordinarily cheap, its cost being less than hall that of goa cotton. The Catawba Power Company headquarters from Rock Hill, 8. C., to Charlotte September 15th. • S»«l> £. Chediater, who died in Asheville last week, kft an estate valued at $74,000 to be divided between her aeven chil dren. George Holliday, colored, committed suicide in the jail at Fayetteville Thursday by hurl ing his bead against an iron bar of tba cell. The Unooln Journal says that the population of Uncolnton has trebeled in the last four the taxable property bM doubled hi the last three ycifla The State ba* chartered the Wuutauga County Rank, com ns,acfcr£fcc $100,000 to $125,000, ovne, run EArElinCflTS. WaU rnrtt.4 Whm 41 mMm Piagah. Sept. 3.—A strange of tbe male sex weighing abou 10 pounds made his arrival a Mr. Porter Morrow's Saturday Mr. John W. McRcady has i giant red oak in bis yard whicl is 13 feet around, actual mess u re incut. Mr. McRcady is bav mg an experiment in cottoi culture. On one acre be ap plied 400 lbs. of Durham 8-2-1 goods and on another be applied 200 lbs. of Durham 8-2.50-3. Of the first tbe cotton is arel boiled, on tbe latter the cottoi u about the average. Mr. John A. Morrow wai thrown by a tnnle Tuesday and badly hurt. On Friday be wai on tbe way to town leading a mule behind the buggy. The animal gut scared at a busk and jumped against the hind wheel, breaking oot several spokes sad pulling Mr. Morrow oat back ward over tbe seat of tbs vehicle, bruising him op. Mr. Bd. Morrow sprained hit foot during tbe game of ball Thursday between Pisgah and Union Grove and it keeps him on tbe hop. MC. jonn w. McKesdy went to the city of King's Mountain Friday on business. The writer’s sprained knee joint is doing as well as could be expected. Mr. and Mrs. Lem T. Mor row, Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Morrow, and Mr. and Mrs. Cy rus S. Canon were visitors at Mr. John A. Morrow’s last week. Mn. Ida Bradley wss the guest oi Mr. W. P. Morrow last wank. On the writer’s test farm the teosinite is doing well—19 sprouts to one stalk. Sand vetch covers the earth like dew. Soja beans stc five feet tail and blooming. The Kaffir corn is in tassel. Pisgah was defeated by Union Grove in a game of ball last Thursday by a score of 9 to 4 io favor of Union Groye. Mias Annie May Weir spent last Tuesday in Kings Moun tain at Mr. G. C. Hopper's. Mr. C. W. Chaney of Loray is preparing a handsome, mod ern, and commodious residence ou his farm adloining Mr. W. Jack McCready. We have jest received a letter from Mr. James A. Morrow of Bine Ridge. West Virginia. Ha speaks of visiting home folks in Pisgah in December. Farming pays in Pisgah. A young man rented a worn out farm near here last year and cleared $260 off his cottoa, pro duced 420 bushels of corn and cleared on it $340.20; 1600 bun dles of fodder at $1 per hundred —and then married a nice, quiet, sensible girl end settled down to enjoy life. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. M. Han sell leave this morning for fVwiL.. ___a sltl nr_J_ Mr. John W. Howell's, the fath er of Mr. O. M. Mr. B. B. Weir of Dallas has the contract to erect a number of new booses for the Arlington. Work has began and will be prosecuted until completed, which will occupy about three months. Mr. J. P. Jackson of Gasto nia. has some magnificent cotton on bis farm naar here. The stalks are loaded down with the heavy bolls. Mr. Jackson used 400 lbs. of IWIimi fertilizer tc the acre. Mr. and Mrs. — Shieldi were the guests of Mr. Pin Bradley Inst Friday. Also Mr, and Mrs. C. A. Spencer are via itots at Mr. Bradley's. Mr. Joha A. Morrow baa i field of com 16 feet Ugh which will average two ears to tbs stalk, or 35 baskets to the acre ■—■ ——— fnsAMun m WAT TO CUBE WpWWm | to to* *• Bwhifi Ear li ! Malted ta Ike Sidewalk. There ia only one custom U our country which I would like U r eatabllahed ia America, and t tfcae is the costom of dealing t with drunkards, said Isaac Yo , bannen, a Persian missionary, i who lectured to a large sadieact i at t h c Norwegian Lutheran . cbnrch last evening, "la am ■ country when a man gets drunk i we take Urn and nail mm to the sidewalk, driving the Bailees l through his ears. Then when people come along they i spit in bis (sea and Mckhua na til he is sober. I think this method would do a great deal ol good In America, because you have more drunkenness then we do. There are no saloons ia , Penis, the chief beverage being homemade wise. They don't even know wbat beer ia. "Our officials have several ways of making prisoners coo* (css to crimes.'' said Mr. Yoban* neo. "The favorite method is to take them on a stand, around which all the people of the towa gather, and then put out one eye. If the crime ia not very great, an ana ia cat off or a leg severed. If it ia only a trivial offense, orobablv an ear is up. riflcad. Very often innocent people are anbjected to these torments, bit U cannot be helped. "The Persians very seldom hang a man for crime. If be kills soother be is floed il5 and allowed to go. If he kills ten or a dozen end the people finally decide that he ought to he put oat of the way he is hanged. But he is not banged as they bang men in this country. He is hanged by the feet and a heavy weight is tied to bis bead. Then he is allowed to die. If the accused prisoner is a woman her hair is shorn from her bead providing the offense is a trivial one. If it is a serious one she may be tuned into a room filled with mad cats and be scratched to death. "Persian jails are dark cellars and contain no furniture what ever. The government doesn't feed prisoners, this being left to friends ot the accused. If be bsppens to have no friends he will starve to death. Often times when food is brought by friends the keepers of the prison appropriate it so the prisoners have to go hungry.* KAHSA5 IS COHTEHTf. VlflUm ABsa White fit* Roth* la (ho Matter With Am Stats. Kansas is called excitable— but she is aa calm as a bas ket of chips this year. Hot a wave of trouble rolls across her peaceful breast. Bight years ago people were flocking into the Gazette stopping the paper. T. G. Wibley stopped it three times in that-campaign. But this year he is taking the pa ____-rt without ao much as a yip of dis approval. And when Wibley la satisfied the world ia soaked in goose grease aod is smooth all over. Bight years ago the Pop ulists were going to reform the world at the next meeting of the legislature and were carrying banners up and down the streets denouncing Wall street, waving flags at the octapos, aad shak ing sticks at the gold bags. These were hot, happy and ram bunctious days. A man could start a riot fay reading the alpha* bet in e Iona tone; produce e revolution by reciting the multi plication table in n dramatic manner, and get six months in the hospital by declaring for either of the tea commandments against the; Chicago platform. Bnt now Ttssan is aa idle as a pointed turtle on a plaster perm log; olacM aa a hired man asleep under a hedge fence, and happy ns a big sunflower (hat nods in all the breeze*. The reason is that Kansas baa paid her debts, has money in the hank, a clear conscience, and "an organ in the parlor to give the place a tone." Bvery* thing Is lovely and the altitude of the goose is above timber Hue. Hew Mary's Lamb Encaged. WaMriaatoa U*>r Mery had a Attic Isaak; fbt meat trust dida't know That Mary bad, it or they woald Have sefeed k ioog age. The Bad Telephone Company serves 1200 people in Charlotte and employs 25 yonng women operators. Charleston alone ol the Carolina towns baa a larger list, ao the Charlotte Observer says. _ Sabocribe to Thb Otmuu Gasxtt*. I A young woman of Wilkes bore. Pa., who woo flood 8i /or swearing at a visitor sffijrjsysirrjaa pka for the liberties of tbehome the thought sometimes occnrs Jbet tbe swetteal of pieces might be the better for boom of the to etrictions that apply to osir broader social intercourse. It is by no means certain, for •sample, that the heme of the young woman referred to is im prowad because she raises her voice there Is profanity. We »gbt even argue that there would be a much greater im provement if she did not raise ber voice at all. A low, aoftiy modu lated voice xs not only pleasanter for tb* visiting neighbor, but for the old folks at home and tor the brother and sister. On the other hand, a ecreecUag and • bawling, even vrithont profanity, ate particularly hard to bear when there is no escape iato the outer dark ocas. However, this is butouephMe of the question, which Is really mennotit. Sometimes tbs lib erty of the homo goes to the other extreme and it. self in a portentous silence that •• as difficult to endure ns an ex cited outpouring of denuncia tion. In one case, aa fa the other, we miaa the goad farm that is imposed by society sad we long far a return to society, far formality instead of freedom. Anything, in fact. Is preferable to the much too cosy home ctr cie, and under nrh ccs the comfortable old slipper does not suggest comfort. It feels rather as if it might be something to throw. Bet whether freedom shrieks or goes dumb the desideratam aeems to be about the same, and it is the mom with man and wo man. Why ignore the little re finement* and graces and cour tesies in the borne that arc far CO®*?® *ae ootside? Why should the Wilkcaberre girt make her qneer distinction? It is said by medical experts that of tbe 90.000.000 peonla in toe United States to-day. 9,000, 000 will dieof tubcrculos is unless some method of prevention be used. That is a statement that ought to startle and aranse toe people to action. Bat it will be disre garded by most of those who rend It—by some because they will not believe it. end by others who do not believe that there is any possibility of their becoming victims. SaB i ■
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