w. F. MARSHALL, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXVI.
I Citizens National Bank 1
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R. P. Raakla,
C. N. Evaaa,
J, M. Raw,
J- A. Olaaa,
R» R. Hay—a.
love Letters. ,
Chalk*)* Ckroaicl*
Miss Mery Bdwsrds always
‘ was a very bright girl. When
Sam Hawkins began to pay
her very serious attention it was
observed that Mrs. Edwards
manifested objection, not to say
prejudice, against Sam. Miss
Mary would sometimes defend
Sam and sometimes she would
pass by her mother's reflections
which were prejndicial to her
beaux;
One day Mias Mary very seri
ously requested . on interview
with her mother in the parlor.
The elder lady conceived at
once thnt Sam was to be the
subject of the interview.
"Mamma,” commenced the
young Indy, “1 think yon have
been unfair in your judgement
of Sam Hawkins. Now, I want
to retu) to yon some of his let
ters to me and then nee if yon
won’t think differently.
Mrs. Edwards objected, bnt
Miss Mary was insistant. She
read one letter, Mrs. Edwards
tossed her head and said it was
one of the most maudlin com
positions she ever beard.
“Perhaps X happened to get
his worst,” said Miss Mary,
"listen to another,” She read
another.
"Worse yet," said Mrs. Ed
wards. "Surely, Mary, you
wouldn’t throw yourself away
on a man who would write let
ters like that.”
«Well.” said Miss Mary, “Jet’s
give Sam one more chance and
read one more."
The letter was read and -again
Mrs. Bdwards objected. Still
another and then the mother
aald: "1 don’t intend to listen
to any more of that stuff. I’ve
■aid all along that Sam Hawkins
was a wishy-washy young fel*
low and these letters prove it.
I want you to quit going with
hint." and she started out.
“Wait, wait{ mama," called
Miu Mary. “Do yon know I’ve
made a ridiculous mistake. The
other day l was up in the .gar
ret and found this bundle of
letters, I thought they were
Sam's to km, I see now they
are thirty years old sad are from
dad to yoa. Mow. if yon don't,
on the spot, withdraw all ob
jection to Sam, Pit give these
letters to The Chronicle to pub
lish * ' '
Mrs. Edwards thereupon faint
ed and then the writer left.
’ Imagination Kills Han.
Nor Ytrt Tribe**.
Inability to scratch an ampn
tated leg eaased the death fast
night oT William 8tabl of 976
Intervale avenue, the Bronx, at
the Lebanon Hospital. The
leg wea amputated a week ago.
and after Wing embalmed was
buried in sn Astoria cemetery.
Two months ago Stahl was
taken to the Hospital, his leg
crashed from a falling stone
while dt work on the Southern
boulevard, bood-poiaoniog set
in and the'leg was amputated
* above the knee.
8000' after the operation Stahl
, complained that . the missing
leg itched, and the novae ad
vised him to scratch it.
"Pve beck a-train’ to do h,"
•aid Stahl, "but somehow. I
can’t find the blame foot. 1
can move it all right, but when
I try to find It it's not there."
, The nurse explained that ft
was all imagination, hot Stahl,
, . weak from the shock, refused to
believe it. 9o greatly did he
worry over the lag that should
lmve been there sad was not
that la bis nervous state blood*
saxi;^- 8“H
A movement la. on loot to
place a statue of Zebulon B.
Vance la the capital at Waab*
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COLLIE RECOVERS THE CAT.
Ttkoa a Ua| Jovraey (• FM
(ha Frlud it Hla Tenth.
New York Time*.
A family living in Vermont
removed from their long-time
residence to another village,
aome forty miles away. They
took with them a Scotch collie
of unusual intelligence, but left
behind the family cat. The
collie and the cat had been
warm friends for several yean
and had fought each other's bat
tles with courage and impartial
ly.
After the family reached their
new home the collie was evi
dently lonesome One evening
aa the family was gathered
about the opeu fire tome re
marks were made about this and
the man of house, patting the
collie on the head, said: "I
am sorry that are did not bring
George With ua. Von miss
your old playmate, don’t you?”
The next morning the collie
had disappeared. Three days
afterward he came into the yard
in a gTeat state of enjoyment,
meat, indicated in the uaual dog
way, followed by George, the
cat. Both seemed somewhat
excited, and the collie showed
marks of battle. Bach seemed
greatly, delighted in the com
pany of the other, and the old
time status quo was at onqe re
sumed.
Out of curiosity inquiry was
made by the family, both at
their old residence and along
the line of the main highway
between the two places, which
developed the fact that the dog
appeared at the old home, very
deliberately and very distinctly
induced the cat to start on the
journey with him and had pro
tected him en route, with a
rlaah a! bm.. _
— '”'•7
mile.
.Of coarse, the question arose
“ to the language by which
he told George his wants and
w"0* _ inducements Wtrt
offered to go with him on the
hazardous journey.
Still Harriot aa tha Bins Bach.
Lzabertoa Anna.
There U Charity and Children
harping on the "Blue Back”
again 1 What in the name of
common sense waa to binder a
popil learning to spell when that
was half he studied for yean?
We would guarantee to make a
good speller with the Congres
sipaal Record as a text book
within th« tima that was usually
Slven to mastering tha "Blue
aek." ' Our teachers try to
teach too mnch sqd succeed la
teaching too little—that la ail
that is the matter. The books
are all right. When tha school
la as good aa the books art, the
child today learns twice aa much
in a riven tima aa ba did when
tha Bine Back” waa aatocrat.
Wt aver that ia our correspond,
once little la found from the
older people, all of whom gran
up on the Bhje Back/’ to rec
ommend that classic. Thorough
week la. school makes good
spellers, whatever the method
thtt
dolag things right
is all that is required— howevdi
that habit ia developed. Th«
writer studied Webstar for man)
winters bat never learned tc
•pell till at college, he grew *
careful In bit study of Greet
that ha could not only spell tb«
Greek words but could place th<
accent at the very spot. He ii
ao great expert now, but car
spell a little better tbaa the re
•alts of a country newspaper of
fice would, at times. Indicate
For instance, he didn't spel
* biography” wkh e **y” in th<
last (sene, bat tha type had i
that way just the same.
Subnerlbe for the Q/UUrm
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M Wf LOCOMOTIVES.
Kmtt Ea|Un to be Used on
fhe Southern—Superintendent
NcNmm Talks latsraattadly
•I the Pleas.
The following from the Green
ville, S. C., News will be reed
with interest:
Division Superintendent P. L.
McManus spent yesterday in
Greenville. He is much inter
ested in the new locomotives
which are being broken in on
tbe division between this city
and Atlanta. The big freight
engines are known as the "700
class” because their numbers
begin with 700 and do not teach
800. On the other hand the
"trailers,” or passenger engines,
are of tbe "1200 class” for the
same reason.
Speaking of the locomotives
and the interest the men took
in them, tbe superintendent
said:
"Engine 1228, the Pacific
type of passenger locomotive
which has been 'breaking in,*
went sooth on No. 39 to day,
and if the reached Atlanta in
in good abape will come out on
38 Tuesday. Tbe railroad peb
ple are anxious to see what this
engine will do with No. 38 which
has grown too heavy lor the pres
..._•_
"Engines’1228, 1227 and 1229
are now being broken in between
Atlanta and Greenville and
tbeae with engine 1228 will
handle trains 38. 35. 36 end 37.
Six more of the Pacific type en
gines are en route from tbe lo
comotive works at Richmond.
" Fourteen of the 700 claae of
engines for service between
Greenville end Atlanta are en
route from Richmond. The 400
and 50d class of engines hereto
fore used ere being sent to the
Danville, Savannah, Knoxville
and Atlanta diviaious and it la
expected that in ten days noth
ing but 700 clean engines will be
in use on through freight service
on tbe tenth end of the Char
lotte division.
"The engineers axe very much
pleased with tbe 700 class of lo
comotives, and as each regular
man is to have bis engine regu
larly assigned to him, or in other
words as tbe engines, to use a
railroad expression, are to be
■deeded to the engineer,"' spies-'
did results ere expected by the
officials and by the engineers.
"Engineer Charles Blackman,
who will handle engine 1226 on
38 and 35, helped set his engine
np at Atlanta and insisted on
.handling her every minute of
tbe time in which she was break
ing in, which is an indication of
how the men feel about their
new engines, with a new yard at
Atlanta, another at Greenville,
and tbe new engines, the men
expect to do some fancy rail
roading.
The Wsstirs Union Paid the
Fries.
XBderxm. R.C.. Dalis Mail.
Thera has been another and
probably the final turn in the
case of tbe city of Anderson vs.
the Western Union Telegraph
company. Tbe -mayor has im
posed a fine of $25 upon the
company for doing bnsinesa in
the city without a license end
the fine has been paid. It will
be remembered that at the first
W UK year. wnen toe city coun
cil rdned the license fee on tele
graph companies the Western
Union protested and tried to get
an injunction in the United
States conn restraining the
city from imposing such s
license. Judge Brawley, how
ever, after bearing the case, de
clined to grant the injunction
and the WesternUnion there*
npvn p«id the license. which
•donated to $100. end a penalty
of $20 for failure to pay the
j within the time pre
scribed la the ordinance.
By some overnight, however.
I the Western Union’s officials
forgot abont the ease that had
been brought in the mayor's
cowrt for failure to procure tha
license. The mayor celled
their attention to iTimd out of
courtesy to them offered to hold
tbe esse ovrr until suck time as
would onit the attorneys to be
Indent. The attorneys, after
thinking over the matter', de
cided that it. would be best to
enter a plea of guilty, end this
i *« done. Tha mayor Imposed
i a«ne of $2* and this was paid.
; Thus tha telegraph company
i has had to pay into the city
> treasury the sotn of $145, be
i sides the amount psid out la
i lawyers’ fees. The amount
. originally flaked for Was only
; Sept. W. C.' Clements ol
Wake oonnty'soggttu that the
tent books in negro school)
1 should t oootaifl ^ pictures oi
negro’children end farming in>
piemente Instead of the picture,
I lOWttltde
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Editor's
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Kan»uCltjrJ«ur»*t.
A captions Bsstora editor
asks petulantly wbat tbe boss
ball writer of Tbe Journal means
the following:
"Tinker led of! for the Cuba
and owned. Hvera slammed a
clean single to left and west to
third on King's solitaire to tbe
same place. Kliug purloined
second. Pfeffer sauntered on
four wide ones, and the 'To
let’ signs were pulled down
from all tbe bases."
lu our mind's eye we can
picture this Eastern editor as be
•a. Of course, be . wears
whiskers, sod they are probably
red sad cut Van Dyke. He
parts bis hair in tbe middle—if
be bas any bait—and wears big,
round glasses. He was the pet
of bis family and apent bis
early youth in some ska. re
fined Boston nursery, and never,
never, played "one-old-cat" in
tbe alley with boys of bia own
age. Ha never climbed a tele
graph pole to witness tbe borne
teem "pedal tbe bag" lor a win
ning nine, and could not have
experienced tbe triumphant Joy
of chasing a fool ball outside
tbe fence wbkh, when garnered,
entitled him to m «mi mi
bleachers.
As the years of his adolescence
passed this editor always kept
at bis work during the long,
sultry days of scanner, sod
never longed for «. breath of
fresh air, the blood-stirring sight
of the big green diamood and
the blessed privilege of "root*
fag" for the home team, and
burliog picturesque maledic
tions at the robber umpire. The
editor was studious and careful
ly avoided sneaking oat to the
ballpark on a Saturday after
noon and telling his confiding
wife afterward that the reason
she coaid not reach him at his
office because his telephone was
out of order. Oh. no. Our
captions brother editor was a
model. The result is that be
has allowed the world to go by
him. He sits in isolated ignor
ance of the greatest American
institution—baaebalk
The absolute poverty, of writ
ten language to express human
emotions was probably first ex
emplified when the palensoic
sporting writer, with his stylos
and bis papyrus pad, tried to
describe the first cocos nnt
twirling game between the
Megatherium Mad Raters" and
the "Megaiotaurus Giants."
Prom that timwto this the lan
guage of sport has always been
in advance of the ages. It has
outstripped the clastic aliats.
who are bound by rote end rule.
The baseball writer, with his
sleeves rolled bp and hit trusty
typewriter eating on n roll of
paper, is a maker of language.
He is nature’s own method.
He gets dose to the readers
because he is sublimely free
horn hampering grammatical
form, and his vocabulary is
evolyed as ba goes along. It
weaves itself from the woof of
encircling smoke from his mal
odorous pipe, sod as be gayly
sails out into the boundless
realm of his red and green im
agination he coyly picks the
choicest idioms and lits from
flnmpf fA dAmror tn ftWm o4awSas>o
gardens of budding synonym
sad blooming metaphor.
Tbe baseball writer writes for
these who naderaUnd his Ha*
gmlstic vagaries and ibvel in tba
seeming confusion of bis corn
1>ldz phraseology. He Is the
on realistic frse lance, who de
nies the right of precede at and
rides roughshod over the stick
ler for literary iateb. He
knows bis readers qnd they
know him. When be says
"Tinker led of for tbe Cubs
sad ospBod” every legitimate
thirty-third degree "fee" grasps
Immediately the graphic picture
fhus painted. Let the baseball
writer slone. Ia bis very
philology be ooatiibutea a
vivid and refreshing contrast to
tM monotonous news pages and
the wearying precision of the
nice, round editorial sentences.
And we who also write for a
living must oonfesa to a Mask
ing admiration .for bis boldaeas,
his originality and tbe easy
familiarity of bis style.
. The Lambert on Argos sayi
tba Raleigh and Southport raft,
rosdia pushing oa to Payette,
vffl#, if it really goes to South
port, it will doubtless pass be
§r to vs. wJSs
twelve or fourteen tailes of Lass
i berton. Connection wkh Ibt
1 SSfSJ'ttTJBJUS
It coaid be arade a great track
oanyiaf Km.
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TW TOUT
At the annuel meeting
Wilmington last week of the
North Carolina Track Growers
Association Secretary Bsuvaa’s
report stated that the total
acreage planted ia itiawhulii
ia the various sections of the
territory last season woe 7JB*
nrees; that of the season of 1«H,
8358 acres. Ninety per cent,
of this increase of 1,000 sens
was ia the Chadbonrn section
alone.
aftBHSSWJtr’SE
"Mr. Baamaa’s anmonl re
port to the Hast Carolina Track
aod Frail Grower* ’ Association
is aa interesting document. It
gives one some Idea of the mag*
nitade of the frail and vegetable
industry of this section of the
state. The facts and figures
given will bn a great surprise
to a good many people living in
the center of this gnat fruit and
track growing section. . That
such great progress in this Hue
has keen made iu tbs last isw
yenrs is almost beyond belief;
audit la still growing. As vast
as it is this industry in this sec
tion is yet ia its infancy- Ha
possibilities are almost Wand
M*ckl#*fr«rg'« HnlBibfllltw
XtUn*
The first new bale of Meek*
lenbnrg cotton was brought to
tbediy to-day by lfr. J. A.
Blakcngr, of Providence town
ship. Mr. W. A. Watson was
the purchaser aad 12 cents the
price. For It yean Mr. Make
nay has enjoyed tbe distinction
of being the producer of tbe
first bale of cottoa of tbe rtveoe
ta this county. ,_
JLUhtola* Speed la Chicago.
The New Yorker can ride to
Chicago aa quickly in IMS as he
could to Albimy a little over half
•“•rtnjT *to. He can go to
Salt Lake as quickly to-day aa
he conld to Chicago in 1854.
jnat after through-rail conntfl
ttroi between New York aad the
lake city was first opened. Yet
tbe work of annihilating time
baa jnst started. Front the
apeed attained by electricity re
ccoUr. in experimental trips
there is a prospect that twelve
hours trains from New York to
Chicago win be commoner by
1915 than eighteen or nineteen^
boor trains are In 1905. When
wa get the 120-mile-aa-boar gait,
which room of our railway e»
perta, predict fora quarter ofa
century hence, if not earlier,
•eventeen-hour toripe between
New York and San Francisco
will be lamiliar. Things in tbe
railway world which were not
even dreams aa recently aa the
time of Daniel Draw and fnm
modore Vanderbilt ate coounos
pUeca to-day, or are jnst ahead
of aa. _
p"Mi,ri£rcML.t* vmm
■•Meant*, is.
Tbe Charlotte Bvetrfng Chron
icle speaks a burning truth to
the following paragraph;
lap nays: "The executive
committee of the North Caro
lies Literary and Historical As
sociation bu decided to mehe
the principal feats re of tba
session to be bald on Teesday
of State Fair weak October 17th
—the launching of a asovement
for Map a statue of leboloa
B. Vanceis statuary ball, ia the
national ttfM.* All North
Carolina will applaud this move
meut, but why atop balf way ia
ft? Thera Is Hither Span
which sbonld be placed la tba
space allotted to North Caro
line. A statue of Vance woaM
wear a frosra without a states ol
Ransom Ay the aid* of it.
^nuwa w nee e^w^w^mpa ee^^w
the name of Zeb Vance; bat tlM
Cbronicle ia ripht. We shook
not stop half way. There seat
another man-Matt RassoM-Hi
li>s sMssCipe.of streamea aa<
patriots with Vaace. They wan
t an n-giants tbronph tba dart
days after the war who wrapli
amll for North, Carolina. It fa
meet that the next work shook
he the erection of a Reason
■tatos is the enpitof square
After that wa can look to tbi
adornment of atatoarr hall ia
Waahinetoe.
Nat Crump, oolored, was trie*
ia Saba be nr Tuesday for aa at
tempt to MR Cfoy Grubb am
Clamtce Thompson by trim
i apoa them from ambeah aboa
two miles from Grubb’s bouse
May n 1905, aad was feus
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Let u have a km* list to odd to this at business price*,
hot don’t ask two prices, be reasonable aad go with the mark*
ets in buyia* or seWa* say daas of property. BafawtfeaiaU
seldom do orach business. Always remember tbs other perw
•on is eatitled to a share of the rood tkfecs that ara gob*.
If yoo srsot to bay. let as know what it la aad we srill try to $?■
pleaw you.
We like to kaow the " ^ P
aad. win aadeaeor to pmiapt
L—_ .. i
which have to be paid, bat we use
lectio—. % ■
Some people are afraid at brokers.' It is oar
leraa trtamSoas. the bwm1Sbc4e?as^*iS^Sa I
they have a bettor Mss haw to"***** I
JlgV Improves. of Gastonia, b W&
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DUE WEST FEM j
! czncoLLEGEr—i
' Po.rty-«tv*«tb Utfm HjUrt. Wtk.
•trot hcalty o( 3 tw, t| «>», )M paptta
»ro« 11 tUlo.; 70 boordert. HJ0.00
I 1 pipe* he gmiM ohwty, ihow>wtk wo*.
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j Rev. JAMBS BOYCE. PreskMH
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