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NOTES OFTHERAILWAYS
Burlington's Plan to Run Trains
by Telephone.
FAST TRIP 07 A MOTOR OAR
One m Ik* dates raatts MsSt Italy.
Ikm Hites m Iteat, tart of War
V* St sap Ors4l OsawtS at miitl
Cara—Vatar BstlrssS VlsSset mm
tUa taltaaspslla Ssstkars,
Tba BurUugtou railway It preparing
to giro a practical test of Ota opera
tton of trains by telephone, says tbo
Kansas City Times. Tba work of
■triaging additional wires between
Kansas City sad BL Joseph Las been
begun, and by lata fall every station
will have been equipped with a new
telephone service. Tbo phones will
connect with a system of wires which
land to tbo dispatcher's office In Bt
Joseph aud to tbs ofipartataadeat of
terminals' odlce In Ksaaaa City. Wban
the eervloa la started trains will be
operated on tba Mock system, nslog
the manually oontroUad signals far
train orders Hurllngton odbriale ha
llo vo that tba service will give better
satisfaction than use of the telegraph.
A limited telephone twice between
Kune*. city aad St. Joearfa la new in
••• by tbo Darlington, but uo effort
la made to control tbe movement at
trains by It ezctotfve e< ttw teWwraph.
Tbe pboaee are need bow by station
a (elite ta talk over beelaeee matter*
that come a» la Uie!r oOeee. lb# tale
phene at the Bean Lake etatlon ta new
need by eooductun Vo eaU tbe die
patdtor'a eSIe* far order*. There I* he
operator at Beaa Lake. A. T. Perkloa
of St. Joeaph. superintendent of tbe
Une hatweea Kansas City aad St Jo
eeph. who wa* at ton Kaaaaa City Co
lon depot recently, aald:
"material far ronetraetion af the ad
dlthatal telephone aerrtee ta oa band
and tbe tier* ate being trallt. VTo have
never made an affort to Mack train*
by telephone, hat wa batters n a goad
ptaa aad wUl gfva It a trial at least.
Wa da not ptopoee to do away with
the tola graph. JEheae wtrea are always
bwy and will freqneatly ha need for
securing train order* when the tote
phone wtrea are baay. We believe toe
telephone le Jvnt a* *afa er even safer
then taletoapb. Kettbar taatremant re
eorde Me miaaige*. hat plain talk la
•fton better toaa toe talk of e tale
hay. We hope te bare tbe wtrea
all af ton
ffwtoitV
patrk^te^ the MewMfeah WertlL^ the
ca the Hi* 111 lino, and the car dlmbed
U with the greatest case. Superin
tendent of Motive Power TV 111 lam IL
MvKrett. Jr.. Ita designer, was at the
throttle. Ueoeral Manager Mohler end
a party were on heard. It waa tiu
uiunluetu opinion that the motor ear
waa dvr lined to drive tbn locomotive
out of huahuma on local passenger traf
Be.
'Ur. Holder waa so plruaed that ha
luvtmrtcd Mr. MeKeca to procead at
oueo w|ih tlw voueiructtou of two now
van trllh eugluee ef 200 horsepower.
Tfco prreent car Is of 100 horsepower.
TUcee new cars win be oo a different
principle. the motor being constructed
to carry the engine. the lighting plant,
u luggage room and mall sectleai aad
a trailer being used to haul paeeengers.
A braliMuau In the Bants F# ranis
i stopped by tlw aide of aa uaitarstuad
. box car. which seemed ta be a dwarf
beside ft big furniture car beside K.
ray* the Kanaai City War. The brake
man wrote ou the smaller car with
chalk;
Hush, little boxcar;
Don't yeu cry.
You’ll be aa alevmler
By and by.
"The way the capacity of freight
ear* U bring Itu reared.’' eftl| U. T.
Ulce. chairman of the state beard of
railroad conumailaaara. "It wouldn't
surprise me If the brakemao's com
rent! came aaar hilling off the attua
tloa. Within the last few years the
«tra nf ordinary bos cars has i».
emu-wl In k-uglb an Uto way tram
tueutjfoar to alnty toot and tb* ca
parity of raal ran from 40000 to 100,
000 poooda. Tbaro baa baoa a big la
orraar lu tho ktaa of Hr* atoefc can,
but cut to tb* aarao nstrot aa In th*
otbrr itaaaaa of car*.”
TTbut la tlalmod will b* ooo of tb*
loo next and blgbcwt rlndncta cuuatmct*
ad la tb* Ualted ntato* la to b* buttt
by th* IadtanaiwlU gombrth Railway
aoupaar «•> tt* **w Indianapolla tin*
oaar Btootnltold, bid., aaya tl>* Chicago
Chronic k» Tb* atraatar* will bar* a
auxttoam bright at m tMt and a
l*agtb at MtO fa*t. Magteaara of tb*
mhuta Central otnaiwa) thro* tnootba
la trying to gat a root* through tho
dUtiirt (hat would aarag* a ravin*,
tort th* big via>1 oat wai tbo only way
of too dMVutty ft la oxpertad
that th* wot*. win anaanma atx bmoBw,
and tb* ecat will ho *300 000 Thta win
ba th* Mggrat rortlaotrlag work o*
th* nr* road, whlrb win roman la
dlaaapolla with th* mala Hu* *f (h*
nn**t* Contral railroad at HwHo city.
A qoatat tarlctml of tbo Brltlah a*.
KMUttoo'a rooout train jowrnry ta Ho
lawtfo »*a Iho Mortar af aaaaa «*•
trichn at Martial! a tattoo, which atalta
ad with atatatr gait along tho train,
gaagtog ta at th* itolioi. tort dtodata
lag lb* affrrad dalatto*.
^toUNUawha* gadH»,
A H0BI1BLE SIGHT TO SEC*
M. Fag lag Or sham and Hit
Cal 11a Dag da a Msam Trick to
a Colored Faaala CycUd
Tho Dag Tatra tka Damssl'a
Draaa all tad tbo Calaaal
Laagha at Her Predictaaat.
Ckulolii OtMmtt,
"I law ■ horrible sight, the
other day," said Col. Peg Leg
Graham, of Pinevillc, Saturday,
as the boys foie-gat hexed to
bear him talk.
"What waa that colonel?”
asked an Observer man.
"One day just about noon,
when the cotton pickers were
coining in for dinner, I stood on
tny front porch and, looking
down the Steele Creek road,
saw something strange ap
proaching. I couldn't 6gme
ont what it was for quite a while.
The old woman cattif out and
she suggested that it was a
balloon that bad lit on the
ground and waa trying to move
off but I tried to think of • fair
that week but I hadn't beard of
any close by; I knew that the
Mount Holly fair, the greatest
[Mr ever held in these parts,
bad burst, and it was too early
for the Mecklenburg fair. But
the thing looked like a balloon
all right. As we watched, it
kept coming towards ns. It waa
pulling the long grade above
iny house. I became more in
terested. 0
"We see so many danged new
things, these days, in the way
of automobiles that T
know what to expect. Vixen,
my old collie dog watches for
■utomobiles and it takes two
days to quiet her after one
passes. Sometime ago, way in
the night, I beard her holler
like tbe veiy old Nick himself
had her ana in a jiffy, she broke
through tbe front door, tore
through the bouse, burst out the
back door and ran clear away
horn home. 1 never heard such
s jacket os she kept but I knew
what had frightened her—one
of those confounded automo
biles. The next morning, when
1 got up, she was still far from
home, on top of a hill, in tbe
held, barking as if she bad treed
»°mething in the moon. I
jailed her and she came run
ning, but every fuss turned her
back and made her hark. When
l succeeded in getting her to
the bouse and calmed her. she
went to the road to scent for the
bea»t that had scared her. I
Followed her and there in the
dirt saw the track of the auto
mobile.
"Bat, I am leaving my story.
Yes, me and maw, watched that
thing come up the hill. It be
gan to look like some body on a
wheel, but I had never seen tbe
like before. About the time it
got within 200 yards of the
bouae Vixen came tearing out,
with bristles tip, growling and
bulking. She was mad. I
knew then that it was a negro
on a wheel for the old collie
naturally hates a negro and a
wheel. Bnt, bless my soul, the
negTO proved to be a great, big
fat woman. The wind had
gotten beneath her aldrta and
had them blown ont like a
balloon. The old thing was
having a mighty hard time.
She couldn’t nde well anyhow,
much less in a gale. Old Vixen
spied her and went for her with
a vim. Me and the old woman
were still on the porch, looking
her glory, kound the wheel
■he ran. Brat in front and then
behind, grabbing at the akirta.
* 'O’—way f rnm here!'
■hooted the negro.
"But that jnat made old Vixen
hot, ahe rushed in closer, and
■bowed more teeth. The negro
was afraid to light and her skirts
were becoming tangled in the
wheel. It was better than a
■how. Well, air, when one side
of the skirt was tied and twisted
io the wheel Vixen caught hold
of the other aids and In two
■bakes of a dead sheep's tail the
poor old colored woman was
without a dress. The wheel
held on to a*pert of the skirt and
Vixen fetched the other part to
me. There stood the rider with
nothing left bat her wheel and
pod name. Maw ran in the
boose while I lay down on the
porch and laughed. The negro
left her wheel lying in the road
and sprinted to the nearest ne
gro cable. Maw sent her down
another skirt and the wheel.
Vixen la opposed to the new
women. I aew that that day.
"But I tell you it tare was a
right to sec. I haven't laughed
so much since the war. The
fanner gets eysn with these
darned msebmea that scare his
horse now and then."
Snbeeribe for the Qastonia
Quim
CARNEGIE ON LEARNING
Why the Steel King Oppose*
University Training.
OBSm FOE PBOnSSIOKAL WOKE
»«« "• fall tl rants a Maa I'M
■aalBM* tat llakta a Orsiau a
KaUtfau tWMtlM -n. call* nut
FahMs taktal lanlM't VHtlatl
last is at las.
Aa Amrrlcaa who was rsoautiy •
!»••* at Andrew Caraa«to at tUibo
CMUa asuda to tb« Kew York World
tram Bcetlasd an mcosaat at tils visit
•» ths (tori kin*, from width the fat
towlac. a cuavoraalloo at tha brsak
fsst ttbir, is aa sxesrpt:
Zb* subject at odacatum earns up. A
•ansi Hatch baron dectsrad that
msay psuplo art eraradocatad.
“Taa," remarked Mr. Oaruonto. -Load
Bear bare, who trail Ora langaanoa,
knows too muefa."
I* ragty to a qoosUso the pbUuaaphar
of Okiba lasandtad out Utis wajr:
“One of the aberratiour of tko an*
to the aacrtic* of time to aadsat rlea
toea on the part at yean* ors i»spar
ln* for a business carasr. A nu with
a university education to n mas lost
to com merer. A young man who ba
|Us baatoass at ainktsrn i* vary niseh
hatter aff than ha who spends torso
or few years tn a uatrerstty otodyin*
•M nubs ns who Mead XOOO years ana.
ntunymn emrmUhe* amen* Mvsgas tn
the classics t* no preparation fur a man
•elan lato the Iran, steal or eoai kart
naan Uraak and lotto ata a* mors
aa* than Otertew. exesyt to the few.
Why ahonid Fnalisb aaUera bar* to
laa» tha lotup of vtr*0. Horace
and (leers r HtonUati cOeere study
cmmi wura ttw result? They MX
foolish courage. Instead of each*
thameol*** they allow themes! rm to
be abet aad aay they ara dying ter
their country. I prefer aa attcwr wbo
woald maka as Intelligent run whea
aacaaaaiy »»d then coma back and Ure
ter bis eoontry."
"Da you condemn nnlrarahy educe
tioe ter nil?'
“By no amena. I aa spooking of the
aaaleaaaosa of aalracaity educate* far
tec young man wbo has ta make Ufa
way la lira. Tha tnsa wba la boro ta
wealth can da aa he pleaaaa. Ha baa
no Interest for tua. Ha rarely amounts
Is anything anyway. Tboau preparing
for prof casinos 1 pursuit should go to
tee nnlratuHy by all nsaana”
“Da you maka any exception7"
“Tea; clergymen.
“Unt vanity edacities Injure* then.
U lend* them to higher criticism. They
begin to pick flaws In the BtbU. Tha
nacoaat they begin teat they are deem
far; tbey are bo good for rwUgtoo. They
lead to lateUedaal aad religious an
archy."
The Carnaglcs ware oatartnlalag a
boose party. la addition ta tea learned
tord Baay, tea Dutch batrm, who wrete
books, tad aatna eminewt 81a rs who
had came to prase at aa addwma. tea
gaawta ware an acevmpilsbod arch
daaaen of tbo ctnuvh of wegteed a
genial Vow York physician and Ua son
ny wife, a bright American girl, who
kept tea ball rolllag. aad lfra. Cama
gic’s slater, who plays billiards oetan
tttcally and bant* (ha man at tea
puna.
A remark by He. Caraagla about
looking to tha mamas of tea people to
rare aerial Uli led ta a ceovarsattoa
ape* democracy.
"Ate yoo Mill as devout a batterer In
tea people aa srbm you wrote Trtum
gbaut Democracy.’ Mr. Oaxnaglcr I
"Tea,* be rapUaA ’Tears barn
mad* me lava teat mar* aad
mom If democracy doe* not succeed,
than teats ta no hope tec humanity.
Tha classes have failed; now domoc
r«cy ta grttlag a show. I bora no tear
for democracy ta America. Whan
thing* l**gtu to go seriously wrong
(here the people sat team right with n
•addon Jerk.
“What to tea grant** A ns arias a In
"Tba pabHc acbool hoeeu
“Whet makes America ao Croat r
“BuualHy aad Urn that that It* foau
daUeu vu laid by a rnlnntolag race."
hykbeaa*?
“Ka It laeraaaaa. I an mere re
pnbHcaa (baa If I bad bean beta ta
tmirtn, far I raauaa Mbr (ba aoaaa
lo* uf the ward republic. Tba treat
thine to ta bo a amaaa sad aot a aab
Jaat"
from tbts (ba eenveraaUoe drift* ta
tmpmmu Tamla* t» oaa * bla
goaata wba bad tba staff of a social re
form* la Mac. Mr Corooglo soldi
“I bare tba ba* tempi ante toctera
ta Scotland. 1 lira aa lain*I of M
par coat la tba* wayas today man
arba cede to me at the aad * tba year
■od Van me they baas been total ab
■tataon. It wort* tike a (ton. Tbay
ara all tampan ta; all bare money la
(ba ba*. Uy roue chauffeur mlobt
retire tomorrow, and tba Interest aa
bla money would brine la 9000 a year.'’
"Do tbay soar ptetaad ta bo abataJa
era wbea tbay ara aa*" 1 asked.
“Its. A SeetriMaaa will a* Ua ta
yea. Da kaewa bla Bible and bis
Bane. It may ba tba Btbla, bat I
*t* It to tba laffaeare of tba aatteaal
peat, who tanfbt them that 1 mas la
a mu far a* that.'"
A «M% 9m*.
A fM pro rale* with yeaag *rta to
the deerftaff * jewels, the am totter*
* wMd> ape* e asm*, (ram itmdii
toll aarUaeaa. Tha Mae Me* free*
rerts. Fat a atrl earn* Thames e
temu**, I hyacinth, three amaraUa,
aruby aad a aapyhIra array* la
prayer enler aa* ba satssaaS,
Subscribe for tke Gasstts
WARTS SIMM FOB BS SDR.
Cuticle (or Grsliiaa_
•» fsllew-eik'. WUe Saye fee
waa Peeled tea Hack.
QkatluUm Olww.
Spokane, Wash.—Oct. 13.—
Georg* A. Lovejoy.aa Elk, who
was selected to furnish cuticle
*}’!! * Wlow Blk’s wife, Mrs.
Pied B. Sc tries, suffering from
•event bams, yesterdsy brosgbt
*«»•■ C. P. Thorns* tor
$10,000 as tbe value of 30 inches
ol ‘.klP hc **r» ‘he doctor
peeled ofi his legs while under
chloroform.
Mr. Lovejoy asserts that it was
represented to him that tbe
surgeon would take from bis
thighs only two or three strips
of cuticle three or four inches
long and three-fourths of aa
inch wide. After the operation.
Lovrioy found that the fronts of
bis legs between koce and hip
were stripped of skin, sod it eras
ten days before he was able to
leave the hospital. Mrs. Scarlcs
was burned in an accident with
a lamp at Lewiston. Idaho, and
was brought to St. Lake’s
Hospital, Spokane, for beat*
meat. A number of Rika
volunteered to furnish cuticle to
cover the burned places, but
Lovrjoy proved such a promis
ing subject that while under
chloroform all the skiq neces
sary. except some supplied by
Mr*. Scarlcs’ husband and
brother, was peeled oi bis legs.
ceufol. bat the women wu so
weakened from long illneu that
•be died.
Soring* lank Incident*.
A n«ed little newsboy ca
tered • Pittsburg bank one day
and boldlv invaded the private
office ol the president.
■Say, mister,” he said, "can I
pat souse money in this bank?”
■Certainly you can,” the pres
ident answered; "how mack do
yon want to deposit?"
■A quarter!” exclaimed the
youngster, palling a handful of
pennies and nickels oat of hit
pocket. The banker took him
over to the receiving teller and
introduced him with all the def
erence that he would have abdwn
a millionaire. ~
The boy left the city sooa af
ter opening the account, bnt be
kept adding to bia deposit from
time to due, and as he was nat
urally bright and shrewd, every
thing he undertook prospered.
He i■ back in Pittsburg now, the
bead of a successful manufac
turing concern and one of the
bank’s most valued customers.
a * a
A year ago a proud young fa
ther out In Michigan sent $25 to
open an account for bis first
born son, then leas than n week
old. "The hoy'll need it some
of these days,” he wrote, "and
we may aa well begin to save
for him right off.” Six months
later a tear-dlmmed letter came
asking to withdraw the money
to pay the little fellow’s funeral.
a a a
A working woman in a little
town In New York sent a dollar
bill in the name of bar daugh
ter, six yean of age. "She’ll
be married by snd by,” she said,
■and ought to have something
to start life on.” That was
nearly two years ago, and al
most every week sioee a dollar
bill baa been added to the ac
count. There’ll be a sang little
marriage portion for the young
lady some day If nothing hap
pen*.
• a a
Not long ago a woman living
in Illinois sent $5, with explicit
instructions not to let ber*old
man know about it, as he’d be
•her spending every cent of H
for drink.”
-V
..14.
M.UvI.bD.bUr.
That the New York Life bu
charged up $1,103,930.14 for
"law expenses" since 1900. el
w b i c b "Judge’’
handled S470.8Z7.9Z at Albany
presumably lor the purpose el
defeating '‘strike** legislation, is
at coce instructive from the
•taadpoint oI the poBcy holder
and stimulating ferns the
point of public morale. .
It brings alee the
that the Mew York
in recent years mast
seated a magnificent
aS'lrasrSFls
haps it Is net tee Isas ansa new
for Mr. Jemma to broaden his
capacities and insert the probe.
The New York LegfsUUu*
has bees ratten—no other word
aptly describes the condition—
mnee long before the days when
■Mr. Theodore Roosevelt first
became coaspicnona by Ms as*
saufespn the lobby; and there
are doubtless soma members, uf
the old regime still doing busi
aem at the same eld stand in
spite of Urn present reformers.
After dm investigation of
insurance nutters, if tbc re
formers could tarn their search
tight upon their own body's
recent behavior the result would
probably be one of the greatest
boodle exposures of this era.
The half has never been told—
indeed, scarcely imagined—of
New York’. l«ri.l.t;„«
CMeMCkarat.
Then axe but few States la
ibe country which excel North
Carotins in the extent of her
Balnea work. Every iadkatios
b that the nest national Boraca
convention will be held U Char
lotte. At present there ere hot
two cities bidding for the meet*
tag and these are Albany, N. Y.,
and Cherlotte.:^Tbi» matter
rests with'fihd national executive
committee which is to meet in
New York city in January.
The fact b worthy of note that
of the nine executive ofietn
two of these are from this State.
Mr. R. V. Simms, of Raleigh,
b first vice-president ol the or
ganisation and Mr. J. P. Flow
era, ,of Charlotte, general sec
retary. At the national con
vention held in Detroit, Mich.,
lam month, Mr. J. P. Flowers
was tbo only speaker south of
the Mason and Dixon line on
the programme.
Mr. clovers b an old Lowell
boy, and bis Gaston county
friends retake in the good ha ta
accomptisbisg sod in the honor*
which Imvo come to him in his
w®nt»
An Pnwkima Pattest.
&r. Fred K. Cooke, who »*•
c«tly located in Durham, for
tbo practice of hb profomton,
had quite an nnwelcotee patient
a few days ago. Wo am from
the Durham Herald .that Walter
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