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GA8TONIA, Ν. Έ7, TUESDAY, JULY K>. ΙΟΟβ.
HALL. Niter and Proprietor.
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And the main irapetua of makLnjf thw wheal of
Fortune roll the wajr jroe want it U SavHnf.
But there are way* and ways of aaviar.
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Whe· jm hear the fire whittle, it makes
yen leel good (e kaow that year property ia
ineored.
Call aad let aa prepare yea 1er each an
eaaergeacy.
:: Gastonia Insurance ν a a
a a a and Realty Company
TSAINS COLLIDE FOI FUN.
ProB*lwi d Acted Caillais·
Ahmi Ftrtr Hmaa< Spec·
tilm m the Brifklen Track.
Near New Jerk.
New York KinM. S4h.
Potty thousand person» waited
impatiently three hour· yester
day afternoon to see two steam
engines in s bead-on collision,
when running at about forty
miles an hour, in the Brighton
Beach track. The engines were
smashed into η mass of twisted
iron, and thousands of persons
joined in arush. at times amount
ing almost to a panic, through
water and mire, to gat nieces of
the wreckage as sou ventre.
Grand stands and lawns were
crowded at S o'clock, the time
announced for the collision.
After waiting two hours in a
boiling sun and shut 08 from
any breese, the thousands be·
came illnatured and demanded
that they be shown the collis
ion. A vaudeville entertainment,
which conld be seen by only e
few, did not satisfy. Then the
management announced that the
delay was to permit the crowd
from Sheepshead Bay race track
to arrive, and the collision did
not take place until β o'clock.
Through the center of the race
track, across bog and mire, a
railroad track neerly belf a mile
in length was built. The two
engines were eighty tons each,
but of an old type.- In tbeir new
pahit they looked fit to draw e
modern express as they pufied
and panted back and forth
across the track many times
during the sfternoon to- keep
up interest. They were built
for a New Jersey railroad and
for several years had been used
In frptorht varHe
With tracks thickly m tided go
tbc wheel· would not slip, the
engine· were aUrted from either
enam the railroad. Roy Mat
thew· and Βdward J. Dwyer,
who have been in two similar
collision* in the weat, were the
drivers.
Throwing; wide the throttles
and whiatlea, the drivers atarted
the encinea and, after they had
«Μ fifty feet, together with
the firesoen, jumped from their
ceba. They landed in tend tad
were uninjured.
I Gaining speed at every sec
ond the engine· leaped forward
toward each other, and the greet
crowd toee to Its feet. There
,waa a roar whea the engines
met, each reared half its length
'in the air and there was a shower
•of spark·, followed by a nub of
•team that ia a second enveloped
(the wreck. For felly a minute
the bell· on the angine· rang,
aad the eoiro of escaping steam
was heard a quarter of a mile
away hi the grand «tende. It
waa fally three «liantes before
the steam cleared m tbet any
part of the wreck could be scan.
Almost before the engine· bad
turned em to rein· came the
rush ol men end women from
Pe track and rraad steed ι
ceae of the wraok. They
rtgh the mud end water,
M half way to thai/knee·,
seer the engine·. White
were trailed through the
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mud and men fought in the
nub.
Mounted policemen hurried
to the wreck to drive back the
crowd for fear of an accident
in the (team, but were power
tea·. While the ateam was rush
ing from the engine* in clouda
men and women clambefed over
the engines, into the rained
cab* and over the heated boilers.
Half a ton of coal that was scat
tered over the tracks was carried
away for souvenirs. The engines
have been sold ss scrap iron and
will be blown to pieces with dy
namite.
Qalnt Vieille*.
Daily Tad. New·.
Sit down, the next time you
plan to go m visiting and make
out a list of the every day neces
sary things you mesn to take
with yon. Then, Jxfore you
lock your trunk, ran over the
list, and aee if you've forgotten
any of them.
No matter bow dearly your
hostess may love you, a visitor
who is continually borrowing all
sorts and conditions of things,
from niua and sewing utensils to
lounging robes and fresh blouses,
is, to put it mildly, a nuisance,
wbo has literally worn out her
welcome.
One long-suffering hostess,
whose lounging robes were tbe
envy of her numerous visitors,
was tbe most generous mortal
alive, until she realised to. what
lengths some' women, those who
ought to know better, win go for
tbe sake of wearing pretty, ef
fective clothes.
Every one of her lovely robes
was borrowed and worn to trail
around tbe bouse in, or to look
languorously attractive in at
breakfast time. Yet, two or
three of tbem had cost between
t «mJ * - - - 1 a m ··
— — - — — -i><>w>nl «UUH*
apiece; «ad not one ο! the
«Owen who wore tbem so cere·
lesaly posataaed ■ cingle robe of
that claes. One pale blue
beauty-crepe de chioe embroid
erad ία the name pale shade ίο α
deaign heavy-beaded chryaao·
themama—waa al moat raised by
the tboughtleaa—or worse—
treatment it received.
Yoarown kimono, yoar owe
mrini ntensila, all the little
personal things ahoald be among
those you take with yon.
When yon leave be aa pane·
tilious a Dont collecting your
varions trlflee—not like the girl
who Wit her thimble in one
room, α dreaa in the cloeet or
another, and almost every other
mom honored (?) by eome one
ot her poaaamioaa.
Look over everytbisg you
pack; yon don't want to carry
ofll aotne trifling thing ο I yoor
hoeteas' by mistake. And if yonr
room is rail of them, the error
if eaaily mad·.
Tht whole thing in s nutahell
is: remember the rare distinc
tion between "mine and thine."
aad remember it particularly
when yon are vieitisg.
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TKAOCDT AT CLOVE·.
Nr. J mm· fladm^eth Killed by
Csatact with Live Electric
Win.
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Accidental contact with a live
wire in tbe transformer honae of
the Clover Manufactnring Com
pany wu the cau·* of tbe in
■tant death of Mr. Jarae· A.
Hedgepetb, at Clover, tbia
raoruiug at aboat 6:15 o'clock.
From information obtained by
telephone, it appear· tbat Mr.
Hedgepetb wa* assistiotr Mr.
P. B. William·, the wperin·*
tendent, and Mr. 11. B. Max
well, the machinist, in over
hauling tbe lightning arrester.
The current had been cut ofi
last above tbe arreater and all
below was safe. After tbe men
had been working for some few
minute», Mr. Hedrepeth, evi
dently forgetting the danger,
touched the wire above the
safety switch and in an instant
be waa dead, almost without a
groan.
The deceaaed «ras a native of
Cheater; but entered tbe employ
of tbe Clover Manufacturing
Company soon after its organi
sation and has been connected
with the growth and develop
ment of the propel ty ever since.
He baa been employed in various
capacities, all changea however,
being in the direction of promo
tion, and for many yean be haa
enjoyed the highest confidence
and esteem not only of his em
ployers but of his fellow em
ployes. During a number of
years be haa been engineer and
general overseer. He was about
fortv-five years of aae and leaves
a widow and six children, three
daughters and three son·. The
eldest child is a daughter about
eighteen.
lfr.
of the Jr. O. U. A. M. and of
the W. O. W. and in tbtK and
other organizations carried in
surance to the amount of $2,·
500. He was also a member of
the Baptist church and stood
high as a church worker.
It bu been arranged that the
funeral will take place to-morrow
morning at 10 o'clock, the re·
ligious services being conducted
by Rev. W. E. Hurt and the in·
term en t under the auspices of
the Jr. O. U. A. M., and the W.
O. W.
The Bast Medicine.
Ni* Yart Fii,
This gift of throwing off csre,
of having a bit of sentiment, a
relish for a joke, a love for verse,
a careless regard lor accumu
lating money, a desire lor the
lighter ratber than the heavier
literature, called by the genera)
term imagination, is the best
medicine In life. The British
cessas shows that In Ireland
there are 412 centenarians, or
one to every 10,000 of the popu
lation. Scotland is a good sec
ond. In all Prance the last cen
sus shows 293 centenarians, with
Germany far behind with 171.
German stolidity Is half cousin
to worriment. The light-heart
ed German wears bis age well,
seldom grows bald, not often
wealthy, but csrries with him
much of the hsppiness of life to
fair old age. The Englishman
worries along nntil he is 00, and
is then old. He is bald in the
early fortin if bis mind is bent
upon one thing. Americans have
discovered that specialization in
liltr" — 1— ftl·' — —·
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bald net».
Then soi Ikv.
Chafltr and CkUdm.
Does anybody believe for a
moment that Zeb Vance, if be
were is tha zenith of bis (lory
today, would tell dirty Joke» as
be did la his dsy? Aycock, who
comes oesrest to measuring «ρ
to the "Great Commoner," made
a campaign ao clean that no
blush waa ever brought to the
face of the most mtdest and
gentl· woman who beard him.
Strang· to say, it was once held
that toe private life of a public
man did not come within the
purview of the public gsxe. It
was quite the thing for can·
didstes to drink and cutse and
carouse all they pleased ao they
attended to their duties as serv
auts of the people. Thank Ood
the day has come when public
sentiment demanda that a man
be decent everywhere, if he
would gain and bold the favor
of thu people. A few politicians
still hold to the old notion that
what they do in private is no
body's business just ao they at
tend to the loties for which they
were elected, but these men are
buck satnbers add the sand is
«lipping from beneath their feet.
Λ man's private and public life
is one and the same. The "Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde* period
has passed.
Subscribe for the OAjrrrr*.
Τ· Utilise Cattan stalk».
VoiWtUI. Bixpvlrtr.
Information cotncx from New
York to tbe effect that Mr.
Harvie Jordan i* to quit the
Sont bent Cotton Association to
become the mtoHtr of · fiant
corporation ο I $15,000.000 origi
nal capital to manufacture cot·
ton stalks into paper denatured
alcohol and other by-producta,
and which will incidentally look
forward to a monopoly of the
ginning and packing of cotton.
The name of the new organi
zation, which hai already been
incorporated under tbe law· of
Maine, le the "Cotton Stalk·
Product· Company." Mr. Jor
dan i· pre«i dent and the other
officer* arc: Vice president,
Samuel F. B. Morse, New York;
secretary and treasurer, Arthur
B. Kales, New York. Di
rector», John P. Allison, Con
cord, Ga.; W. P. O. Harding,
Birmingham, Ala.; William H.
Hasehtger, Birmingham, Ala.;
Harvie Jordan, Atlanta, Ga.;
Arthur P. Kales, New York;
Samuel F. B. Morse, New York;
William C. Seddon, Baltimore;
William P. Andiver, Montgom
ery, Ala., and John D. Walker,
Sparta, Ga.
Moat of tbe paper now being
need is made of aproce and pine
and the supply of these woods is
retreating far into Canada with
the result that there la an an
nual increase in the cost of get
ting them to tbe mills, which
necessarily have to remain
stationary. Practical experi
ments have demonstrated that
cotton etalks may be converted
into.all kind· of paper of much
better quality than can be made
from wood and since the area
required foe the production of η
bale of cotton is good for a ton
of stalks, it is estimsted that tbe
supply will not only be easily
sufficient for the entire home
consumption but there will be
left over an abundance for ex·
port both in the form of pulp
nwJ
Alone with paper and alcohol
other by-product* to be nude
from cotton stalks include ace
itone, material for smokeless
gunpowder celluloid, pyroxlyn
and fertilizers. It is calculated
that the company will be able to
pay from $1.50 to $2.50 a ton for
cotton stalks delivered at its
plants, which are to be event
ually scattered throughout the
cotton regions at intervals of on
ly five or six miles apart.
Mr. Jordan is very enthusias
tic over ultimate developments.
He .thinks that the production
of denatured alcohol at some
thing like ten cents a gallon will
result in a tremendous stimulus
of the use of gas engines and
these will be available lor pul
ling gang plows, farm wagons,
automobiles, freight vehicles,
etc. Better roads will be a nat
ural outcome of new conditions
and transportation by motor car·
will then be cheaper than by
railroads which Mr. Jordan
thinks will have to go out of
business.
With the numerous contem
plated plants of the. Cotton
Stalks Products Company in full
operation, the South will toon
be getting something like ooe
hundred million dollars a year
additional from products that
are now going to waste and there
will be almost incouceivsble
stimulus to industrie· of all
kinds. . *
As we see it there ate wonder
ful possibilities for the gigantic
enterprise Mr. Jordan has in
view, and if his plans are suc
cessfully carried out, we may
look for a tremendous increase
in the prosperity of the south ;
bot then it Is just as well not to
allow ourselves to become too
enthusiastic over promises, be
cause at best the promised ben
efits are to be onlte a while (n
coming.
tutialii Craat Τμπ.
TMMUtiH.CMMM Mm aad C»«fl*T
All the Industrial enterprise*,
inrlnrting cotton «ill·, the oil
mill, 1 timber yard*, and also a
majority of the «tore·, the
batik* and the postoffice, sus
Kded operations on yesterday,
otherwise there was no
special observation of the day at
this place. The day waa cele
brated on a· extensive wait,
and in the tiine-bonored way by
some of the neifhborin» towns,
notably Qsffney and Oastonia.
and as a result the railroad·,
restaurante, hotels, dispenaers of
soft drink· aad Hvery «table*
did a ruahinr business. It i«
•aid that the Carolina and
'Northwestern Railroad handled
wore than 1,000 passengers loi
Oastonia, then belag two train·
with a total of twelve loaded
car·, aad the passengers were
about eqeslly divided M be
tween whites nd negrot·.
Oaitonla ta · treat towa aad a)·
waya baa aa eye to the main
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Plût OUT; rOH JUMMEVT.
A Omm lulif riiMi Back at
s&rn&fiis^
aigg'jSi.y'·
"Some time ago," Mid a man
connected with toe High Shoals
cotton mill, i· Gutoa county,
to an Observer reporter yester
dey. "the High Skoal* Company
«υ putting in the piers lor ·
new bridge «croie the South
Pork oi the Cetawbe river. A
cofler deai bed to be baltt around
the foundation spec# in the mid
dle of the stream, end in order
to cet the «eter oat oi the inside
of the dun, e duplex pomp wu
lined up nod trow was carried
toft in e pipe, which led from
the boilers 100 yards away, and
ley oa top ol the iratad. This
pipe was very hot.
"One day a came rooster, ac
companied by a number of his
lady frieode. came alost ud,
in crossing the pipe, stepped
upon it. The pipe burned
his feet ud he Jumped off,
but turned and stand at the
lone, black thine with a look of
defiance ia bis eye. Be deliber
ated jumped upon the pipe
again. The pipe, knowing no
better, burned the cheatiekeer
again and, that date, he aeemed
to thinfcjhe had bee· attacked,
and be went at the pipe, ham
mer and tones fashion, beating
it with hie wines aad peck in* it
with bis beak aa though be were
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•Iragiit «m km «ad ferions.
and «u kept up lor u hoar or
DOR. F very tia>« be auae in I
contact 4viu the pipe be «ι
scorched · little, which kih.
only to make him fight all the
more desperately, far he seesKd
to (eel that his opponent «m
getting in a Wow oa hits now
and then.
"The battle eontiaocd until
the rooster waa dead and the
pipe all covered with blood and
feathers lor. a distance of
six feet. Several tiara the
chicken was caaght and car
ried away from the pipe, bat
every tiaie be returned to re
new the fight. No snlmal ever
fought a braver battle."
TIE TtlALOT JOIIM BIOVH.
Seme Fee tar ee d Oae ef the
Decisive tattles el (he law.
Daring all the proceedings in
his trisl. John. Brown never
stirred from his couch, but lay
with cloeed eyes, appareatly oa
conscious of the legal battliag
for bis lite; and whea the jary
filed into the room and recorded
their verdict of guilty of each
of the three indictments, he
merely turned over oa his sida
and settled mors comfortably
npon his pillows. » » » When
the clerk demnaded if be could
adgn any reason why sea*
te nee should not be ptoaouaced
upon bia, be stated at the
bench in evident astonishment,
and it was some moments be
fore be answered.
"I have, may it please the '
court, a lew words to say," he
began, "la the first piece, I
deny everything but what ! have
all along admitted—the design
on my part to free the slaves.
That was all I intended. * ·
Now, if it is necessary that I
forfeit my life for the further·
an ce of the ends of Justice, aad
mingle my blood with the blood
of the millions ia this slave
country whose rights ate disre
garded by wicked, cruel, and
Let it be done. I«et me as., —
word farther. I fed entirely
satisfied with tin treatment I
have received on a? trial.
Considering all the circum
stances, h bas been mote sta
tions than I expected. Bat I
icel no coaaciousoese of t*ilt. I
have stated Iron the ftrit what
waa my intention and what was
not. * * * Now I have done."
In the bosh that followed this
quiet, simple utterance, John
Brown waa sentenced to ha
h anted on December t, and a
few moments later ha waa
smuggled ont of the bnildtnir,
net a msn hi the andieocu being
permitted to stir until ha had
. returned to his (tail without the
I assistance of the militia, whose
services Judge Parker had
haughtily declined, holding that
soldiers had no bnsitiesa fa a
I court of law.
I Bew'l Kill the Bawk.
Csyatnr LIS I» A ■■ilia,
Man has sinned more than any
other animal in trifling with an
:2reÎ?M.?l*BCei' «.®3*βΓ crops sad
the hilling of hawfca are sppsr
e»Uy unrelated, yet the hawks
·*» tha laid mice, the field mice
prey oa tha Immature bees and
the bees ferUUae tha clover
bloeeoms. The death ol a I
ns
take and a consequent deetruc.
tfouoftl
Made
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CHARLES D. MclVBB, PresMeet,
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The teacher·* madattioet,
advertised for Jtdy 12. 13 and 14,
have bees t>o<tponed tnrtO July
19. 20 *mA il Tfcto cbtture ia
queace of tb**Vl2ctioo of lb·
conety »up»riateodetel by the
State Board of Education m «
member of the Sob-Text Book
Comintiiion, which will bt ia
«eatioa duriî»r the former Act*·.
F. P. Saul, S«pt.
Bel moot, N. C. Joly 5,1908.
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