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VOL. XXVI. _ GASTONIA, N. C., TUEBOA
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any amount of accommodation desired at the legal
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carrying balance* with a* above thu rate. Our
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NOVELTIES IN MEN’S WEAR.
Lnlkn TtMi VaMiiml Nats. Cost*
Witt • Maa la U»l»«.
Autumn baa ruled a stamina
change la the outward garb ot the man
of fuahlon, say* a Imndoo cable die
pateb to tbe PblladoiiAla Public Lodg
er. The greet novelty la masculine lull
Unery Is tbe brawn Horaburg, with a
fall plaited bow fastened in the very
trout or tbe bqt A tentative attempt
la alee being made to la trod uc* the
beaver bat la tbe Inevitable brown, but
tbe batten aro by so means assured of
tbe eneevee at this resurrection. A new
motoring bat of tbtn waterproof tweed
bat. however, been successfully laancii
od. A pair of goggles are lugcuUiuely
Bred In tbe peak, end wbou they are
nut required tbe peek Is eltupty folded
buck.
Many novel materials ere being
culled Into requisition far tbe new ties.
Kklcriy moo beam with delight when
they eee the knitted and aim embroid
ered ties of tlisir youthful days. There
la e decided tendency in favor of
checks end spots bi tbe designs. Pop
lin. crepe de ddne, leather, velvet aed
Bp it* Molds silk, the letter la rich but
subdued color*, are *B being need for
tie*. Very neat whan won with e tin
gle collar to tbe half lack baud of ant
ed suede or dreesed leather, festeeleg
tn tbe front with a ptala Hasp
The great discovery at the day to
maaenllne neckwear, berwevrr, la fee
tie of crepe de chin* for erentng wear.
The little atrip of lawn baa coat It* vto»
am* many an anxious moment and
•polled tie. Man have area baaa knowa
to sacrtltoa all pratonatana to amaitassa
by wearing tba made ap tla. Aa a boon
■ ad a blowing, tharafora. khm tbe
acw tla of doad wbHa rrap* da clilaa,
wlikh la aaft aad yielding aad tlaa
without trampling. •
Tln> bra plaited ahlrt la la high favor
with lb* oarmtara. The plait* vary
from a pinhead lark lo an tack wtda
box plait. Tba new baedkerrbtof,
whk-li U aadtetantty small to allp aaally
lata tha mif. tins a at Ik atrtpad bonier.
The frock caat baa a I roost vaalabad
from Dead etreet. ranch t* the dlamay
of Ilia vreat aad tallaaa, wits view tba
tla* of 0>* tnomhag cast with aarvew.
Tba morning coat la worn long aad la
cat away M tba float. Tba aaw atyls
Cl tool arte Id overeaat la, however, tba
real uavaity *f to* wtatac tailoring
rarm ana. TUg trtampb *f tba toiler's
art, far whkto a fatara aa gtarlaaa as
that of tba ragtan la paodktad, areopla*
to* central puaHluo In' to* vast and
wtadawa, where It barar fall* to at
traet aa admtrtag crowd.
' . ,th*
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Skbacrfbd for tha Oajttohia
Oa*rmt
--1 1 =g^g^=gggg—-1 I-IE—!
NEW RADIUM BATH.
hTwUm «t *•» Twk Dmiw Pee
TNMant of UmwUm
Dr. BaatKl O Tracy of New York
etty baa luventod a "radio active fluor
escent bath” toe the treatment of rheu
mattare. gout and circulatory dlaturb
ancea Dr. Tracy deecribea the bath
aa follow*:
Water, chlorida of aodinm. chloride
of ealdom aad carbonic goa are pieced
■u a large cylinder and am her* made
radio active, fluorescent aad efferraa
cent. aad the solution la tbo cylinder Is
tliorougkly mixed by paddle* rerotred
by aa electric motor.
Tb* bath con be taka* at aay tem
perature from 18 to 110 dogma* r„
uaoally between 88 and 00 degree* T.
TIm patient I* covered with a fluid
changing from a light green to a pal*
yellow. After a few minute* of Im
menloa hi* body la torend with mll
lloim of bobble*, and bo experience* a
erneatton aa though a mild dactrle cur
.wot were pemlug through him.
Alter tea or twenty mtaotm be
come* from tb* bath and I* tboroughly
dried with hot tow da. no raata for a
Ha**, after which h* gate damage.
When the patten* to through with hi*
bath ho font* wfautil and Invigorat
ed, and altar a sortm of baths he no
ttoaa aa Improvement la hte gaaaral
condition.
Tram 111* tountaj of "Odobor Day*"
Mr. M* Borroogha contribute* • par*
of note* to (ho Coon try (ktedir that
bring tb* f toting of aatnmn mrtaualy
n«ar to the reader, *aya th* New Yerb
im Inna at inn unn aa wmaa:
Tba bostaulaf of • cbaags la tba
wsetbar from vary waraa to eoU and
rots, tba bird* aoddsnty vary asmerosa
•ad frloudly. roblaa all about tba
ptplas a ad dartlny i»a»l tba
Aa laiaiaatlns aortal af ■»««*■ —
la tast tba miUtary rates af starships is
•bast Ia ba mada by tba rraaeb artU
tary. says tba Kaw Tarb Trtbaaa. It
a»ay bo iwawlaad that tba fast af thatr
rabM mar ba takas aa aatabUahad ap
to a cartala pslot to tba Mtlafhcflaa of
tba Tiaadb Military aathodtlaa, akaaa a
pattaaaaat "harbor" far alrahlpa baa
baas eitaldUbsd lu tba artntary qaar
tor of «m garrtaaa af Tool Thta -hay.
bar" will l>a aaad as a rosUaoal castor
far atodytay tba eoaatiea aa to what
rannual aaa ba abtotood frMb alnhtpa
to aid tba dafaaaa af a fartMtod ptoas
s
i-Aw. .or'ir; .dlfc'A-r * JtV;*«
WHE11 THE SEEDS AM BHOT
Ml firau DirtlW (e lelelng
Theai la thin Caantry-Seme
MM Aun Parma Used for
This Parpaaa—Stalaa Thai
Naha a Saadally a( C arista
Seed*.
New York 8«a.
There are at tbe present time
more than 800 farm* in the
United States—farms, that is to
say, devoted to the production
of vegetable, field crop and
flower seeds to be sold to farm
er! and gardeners. Some of
these plantations are very ex
tensive, comprising as much aa
1,000 acres.
Cabbage seeds are produced
mainly in New York State, par
ticularly on Lom {stand and in
Connecticut. Cucumber seeds
come from Missouri, Wisconsin
and Nebraska.
Corn and onions for seed are
raiaed all over tbe country, and
the same is true of melon aeeda,
but carrot seeds and lettuce
seeds are mostly from the far
West, California contributing
tbe best and tbe greatest quanti
ty.
Peas for seeds are obtained
from tbe neighborhood of
Traverse, Mich., and Manitowoc,
Wis, tbe output of that region
being free from the little worms
which are liable to infect pass
grown elsewhere.
We send immense quantities
of farm and garden seeds to
Europe, but import only a few
Jrinaa, such as fancy grass seeds.
Of clover and grass seeds we ex
port hundreds of tons annually,
Yankee clover being in especial
ly great demand abroad.
Most of the red clover seed
comes from tbe neighborhood of
Tnlf'Hn. in «alaas*fo nis.>
tbe principal market for that
product. Nowaday* clover seed
U quoted a* regularly aa wheat
aud corn on the produce ex
change*. and the same may be
said of timothy seed.
Iowa alone produced more
than two and a half million
bushels of timothy seed last year,
and during tbe same twelve
months we exported more than
$3,000,000 worth of grass and
clover seed. These figures will
give a notion of tbe magnitude
of one branch of the seed-raising
business. Utah is of all the
States the greatest grower of
the seeds of that wonderful for*
age plant alfalfa.
Onion seeds are gathered by
going through the fields and
cutting off tbe pods at tbe lops
of the stalks, tying them in
bundles and thrashing them ont
on canvas. Beans are allowed
to stand in the field until they
are yellow after which they are
■talked up until perfectly dry
and thrashed out.
Peas are permitted to get dry
and hard in the rows and then
are taken to tbe barn for thrash
ing. To get cabbage seeds, tbe
sulks grown one year must be
plantedjhe next, when they ran
to seed. The same is true of
carrots; the roots which have
developed in one season are put
into tbe ground the next and go
to seed.
The harvesting of seed is a
business requiring no little ex
pert neas, most kinds being gath
ered when not ell of the seeds
are yet ripe, because otherwise
many of them would be lost.
lfalous, encumbers and to
matoes are crushed in a press
and permitted to decay to some
extent, the crude mass being
finally thrown into water, when
tbe pulp rises to tbe top,
the seeds sinking to the
Douotn ana oetng too* separated
out. Seed bearing stalks of
cabbages and other vegetables
are carried to Um barn in sheets
and there thrashed oat.
Tobacco seed is raised com
mercially in Virginia. The best
is grown by ,tba plan ten them
selves and carefully saved from
season to season, with {a view to
tba> perpetuation of valuable
virictici •
This is the ease not only in
Virginia and Maryland, but also
in Connecticut, where the most
anxious care is exercised in the
selection each reason of the
tobacco plants that are to yield
seed.for the following year.
. The scientific methods
adopted in seed growing is to
be attributed much of toe im
prove m s n t accomplished in
many economic plants, the most
careful selection being made
from year to year of the mother
plants for the oext crop. This
Is true not only of truck and
•sld crops, bnt also of flowers.
It is in California that most of
the flower seeds are produced,
including the bulk of petunias
verbenas, nasturtiums and sweat
!• most Ba rope an countries
there art seed control stations,
so edited, at which seeds an
tested by simple, yet Interesting
methods, the work of sprouting
them being done mainly by
young girls. There are forty
such stations ia Germ say, where
they have created such a senti
ment in favor of pare seed, as
opposed to the adulterated stuff,
containing more or less weed
seeds, commonly sold, that the
best dealers are glad to submit
samples of their merchandise
for proof of quality, guarantees
of which are returned by tbe
stations after examination and
trial.
The Department of Agri
culture is anxious to establish a
similar system of seed control
In this country, if Congress can
be persuaded to enact the re
quisite legislation.
wuaipcion Wsssnasr.
News from all sections of the
State shows that the cotton
planters held back more cotton
of last season’s crop than ever
before. Union countv farmers,
we arc told, have sola over four
thousand bales since July 4th.
In Pitt county there were given
in by tax listers eleven hundred
bales against three hundred the
year before. The Scottish Chief
states thst cotton is coming in
at a rapid rate; that there were
nearly one hundred bales sold in
Maxton from wagons tbe week
before and tbat much more than
double that amount was expect
ed tbe coming week. Very lit
tle of this cotton last mentioned
was oi the new crop. It urns
principally old cotton which tbe
farmers had refused to sell last
spring for six and seven cents a
pound, and for which they are
dow gening over ten cents.
Tbe feet that tbe farmers were
able to hold back so maeh cot
ton shows conclusively that they
are. as a claas, in bettcT finan
cial condition than they have
been for a long time. This it
the first year in many that they
have been able to extend the
cotton market tlirough tbe en
tire year. Heretofore tbe press
ing demands of landlords and
creditors have forced them to
pot their cotton on the market
as fast as they could have it
picked and ginned. They were
at tbe mercy of the men to whom
they owed money as rent or for
supplies. Tbe past year many
of them became independent of
these creditors. If they will be
judicious and economical for the
next year or so they will become
still more independent and will
soon be able to make the re
ceipts of one crop pay tbe ex
penses of raising the next, in
stead of, as in the past, mort
gaging the entire crop before it
la planted and fading at the end
of the year that they have been
fortunate if they have made
enough to satisfy the demands
of landlords and furnishers of
supplies, and can start the next
crop without carrying over debt
from tbe last yesr and making it
an additional lien on the crop to
be raised. When the 1 aimers
can thns become independent
they will soon begin to add each
yesr to their savings. This will
result in fewer tenant farmers
and more owners of smsll profit
able farms.
untwr tnrt.
Is rob~i «.( airy purpta
Ttw 4lrta«t him an elafl.
AM Iwrn at pWaty
TIh bvabaaeniaa mate* staA.
TSa raraSalfla ara njtlrtat
Tba srohard boughs ara blurting
•x CO ill wssltb of sad aadaitZ
Tba ahayttard wtada ara drlttag
Whits Sac ks acres* tha sktaa;
Tha Vlas’* nab auadaataga
Ara ulad la Tmasi dyoe;
Tha abaataura diooaWy Urgooa
Tha hoar aoulnola atatm;
Adawa tha »*M tha aoaaaa
llaMt a* Us tsrah ad ha aw.
Tha Jauatr Mr h liirhay
' AM* tha laaaat tree—
A crate fas ta ftathara.
Ptschilalag wlaatiMai.
Tha araftr rraw, alow srtnytag
HM Mar flight alaay.
Marti— tba woodkcnd thecae
With art tie rrsohs at aaay.
Tha gtoeaM aauda tmtUst,
Abteeh with autMea ahaaaa
Tha (last htag nsdotr hlaaad hart
Hrr c banka ara aH itflaaia.
Tba gtatatr aha to srtalil
With sSereea af fairy ysMi
Tha «Mi rtsh, laa^
••ra*tli'fiiiil as
. Tha try, (Molly ett
Baa caoyht tha {
Ms romped sears
n—tsalh tha I'rtaiaaa slosh.
Tha htrrh. or-ocnt Mi tartan
»«»« -Q »- .-a t _ .«a , |fc . , a
»•*■ new wiviecT»ewe,
CVaya to Ms aaHaV f
Tha miatr ad ha
T%2rB
TO aayhyra, yetitly wall
Tha poryte astsra asd
Tha be ashlars Dairy tatand
■olid kgaHi a h—j_i at a I ml l
^MM—og ■ dW^Ws Vws^T^^H|
That# rtsMta, la aaarat,
Ara polaUny aa mas it sates.
Qaaaa Aatama'a hrwwa ara itadhiay
with warmth ad earner w.aa*.
Mar drraaar eyre ara ataahai
Oh. Mm mm ran dhrtaot
Xaw soiMhy. aun arawaad humaiar
Maturaa an gtoi aoryrtaat
•odds She rasoaa. aa ttyeee.
Ta soy hrr Mat yaaJhaa.
eaat) waltar Orohaai la Hattaaal May.
aetna
Svbycdby tot tki OASITTB
OZMKS FOR THE SWISS
“Kmr in llas»l«s»l~ m; bo the title
Of the Owt couutry ie Miaaoari wlto
* are roan if the CwIm prr«ran«wt
haepa l La promts** made 6a Sana* A.
nnata*. gmarai laualfntiaa apawt at
the Frisco system. who ratanud re
eauttf fresu a two months’ trip ttns^
kSMlaud. frauds. Swltxcrlind -~e •«.
»t7. say# the at. lamb rost-Dlenanh
With hha came a party at Swim
farmers, who am. to report hack Co
tfarir fOTermsaat an too adaptability
at (Mark lead Cor too rtoe and dairy
industries. It tola report la favosaMa
the balk of Swim emlfrattoe sr* ha
tamed to MMeoari. cad pariupa oo per
cant at Ota URN farmer* who cat eat
yearly far the aew world win came Co
UlaeaoH la Xecto America rather thaa
to Arsaatiao UapubUc fee Soatfc Aar
lea.
“Ctries ftmas am the aat daatfa
ble Inumlfrmals." aald Mr. Mi«bm,-pew
rUed they era pot La a n auiij that
rsarable* their nattra lead. Room of
Uic Alps am eatOrmtad to (hair very
tme. the takahicaatf faiad to lewnr
raaiom to winter, te more to aphsl
postures to the early saouasr. ns.
cumUthm eaa be dupSeetsd la the
(huts and than ws shall try to esto
aixe the Stria*.
“Olis them a frw jean aad tha
tn utBTH. irtWMn
Ibroogb the Uaarka 'wifi
chalet dinging to tha t
arauad
■ad rattle wth
grew, ta tore W
cottage fadarlaa.
“On tha lower n
gru»a, aad ae tbo gwtae
the Oiuti tuajr
lianpii.
“Itreuerin*.
adertod for tha__ .
their rardtrt la farareMf hi
ether townie lalieUted by thrifty gwlae
will oprlag op la Ha nalgbharhani
~ Although arena ta luibig ibrii |n
pk- tear* the coaotry. tha Uda of In
tuigmioo la too atroag ta ba atoppad
by government acttoa, aad It la pn
poaed to direct the luiaiigratlou into
aallebie Adda rather thaa let tha peo
ple rah into the datebae of lead aharka.
I bare tbo praalee of Imalgioilia
Cauualaotauar Drytna of tho hwlaa
government that ho win direct
to the Oaork country If thaao
hare giro a flrerabie rardlct.
-Prraldeot Bucket af tha
pablic U doey-Iy taterracad. aad
I uw bha lu Ban raeaatly bo __
that If tho Ozark raoatry aad MIeoeart
la general wnaa ay to ny JaantpUau of
It be would porecuallr aaa that doeira
blc mnlgnuiu ware directed to It. Xot
ouly femora, but niaaafatturwa.
chataauiakera aad battwmekan aad
wtaemakera will ba tndaded la tha
dwtae aottlera.
“Our aaaa la Baric* haa 1tjafiOO
franca ready ta pot lata a man ary aa
■aaa aa the Aral erUlera moke their re
“Aa to tha ItiUaua, they, to* wfll do
well la aoatheta Mtaaaurt aad northern
Arfcmoaa. bat Iboy man bare a bad
or. Tbalr ooloay at Tootttowa. aadar
the kedwWIt af Father Baodlat. haa
taraaA thabar land worth <18 aa
“Tba tewt hM tot—a (fee See*
at fmgiatlm. from M Mrtk aad
finii. Ml tki naitiy Matlhtob
MMvr w at fm it -rrttanT n
fiww with aa greet itzVto* m m Okla
homa to tb# boom Sara. Iimtoi
lailb| grcnrMi if psoalsS with Mrs
Ma tana eetUarr, aa la srr Om piaa."
Miaa Halm Otter, of Dm
Weat. a daughter of the late Dr.
W. ML Oner, who for many
yean waa president of Braklm
College, waa married Wednes
day morning to Mr. Irwin
Uddell, aa attorney of Washing
ton, D. C.
■J-L-L . 1 I——warn- i iu
——a—MMMma
« v * .
Be Sore to Use
Only
at Tarter
Bathe Powder
Food made with ikn
hairing powder carries alum
to the Aotnach imrhai^rl
ScientiAa have positively
dcmonAnled tin and that
nch food k partly indi
tmneafchftd.
C*j
1 ■ ■■ i 11 i ■—
-rrrsrrv
Paetal T(
(way's Fifth Atlantic Cable from
s».S3.5Ssjyaa
pet la opbralion on October 8th.
This Makes seven trana-Atlan
tic cables noshed in direct con
nection with the Haas of tbs
Postal Telegraph-Cable Cota
paar. All of them are duplexed
so that their combined capacity
h fourteen massages at ana tfaaa.
The new cable is the bast sad
au*t expensive submarine cable
ever laid. It was manufactured
by the TtUiraph Construe tiou
and Maintenance fl"~r*“r of
London, having been begun in
March 1905 and loiahad and
shipped on board the Ccustmct
iou Company's steamer Colonial
on August 3, 1005.
Atlantic cables are always laid
from west to east because the
prevailing winds, la the sni
months on the Atlantic are
the west and shipsT
better weather
dn^SwOMhad to America,
arriving off the coast of Nova
Scoria on Angnst 36th, and
landed the heavy Chore end of
the cable on tbe morning of Au
gust 16th. Moving outworn tbe
shore she struck a rack aad ot
maiaed fast ou it for four days.
Tbe iqjuries she sustained cam
GX-sisiftssssa:
marine cable aboard. She was
the largest aad heaviest ship
ever taken on that dry -dock, ex
ceed tw by thousands of toss tbe
United States, battleship Indiana
of tda thousand tons, which
went into dry-dock thert a
connle of vrara isn Reiuin
were Bade and the Colonial took
the tea again. On September
Sid, she laid her conne from
Caaeo, N. S., paying eat abb.
On September 28th. the pasted
through • hurricane in mtt-At»
Untie, although on that day the
weather on both aides of the At
Untie waa reported fine, with
gentle winds. On October 3rd
she anted without mishap at a
Point 1*7 milea from the coast of
Ireland, wham the final splice
waa to be mode between the
cable that aha bad paid out tern
the American side and the 117
oaOoo of cable previously laid
westward from th* Irish coast
by the Wamdhli. Cambria in the
I
(
day/ waiting amaathCT mbs *to
enable her to make final spike,
which waa made on October fltb.
At some points the cable was
Uid at the depth of nearly three
miles Wow the surface of the
son. The quantities of material
na«d in tbs moauiBctun of ths
csbis mttt IA11J00 pounds of
ssst uC ' :
JS.__ :
then that of nay i
equal length In the Atlantic.
sdSs&Sfktti
ocean bed end depth of water,
aniaeiaasM
weighta of the sections of tlx
cable, the cable which is laid ta
&n^iS5!3?n
!^ v* a bearyeabk from deei