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W. P. MARSHALL, Editor u4 Proprietor. VOL. XXVII. . _ _!.··. ί ■ porta·»'» wltwl luruabMt It* bin- jL· If we but kntw it— Wb· alwar· iwti. arttli all Hi* Tim. Hi· ibovkW U> it." ^ ί And tbe main impetu· of making (he wheel ol Fortune roll the way yem wut it li Saving. J Bat there are way· and way* ol aaving. st it 4* fctthrc Every CwUcrcUw ί CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK | ;i REAL ESTATE BARGAINS ii FOR SALE. Wr q«^ ta ni», an· o< iH« iao*t 4c«ir>blc »Uc*· o< r*i4r*c« >»*»· ' il i; il "îsaKtf^issavaiffKtiaiir»-»·-"·*** ii I-4 noakooHt· Franklin An. Xnoutw. f771.00. ·· lu*« a»d lot n«*i Larny MUls. SMO.M. 10-loU M BMdMi Art. price* oa tp»UcUiM. II-Mii·· ΙΊμΙΙΙ· AM. mu An· MAI· prie·· ο· iMllciilai. ; "saJr-r.'»»«!·' 1 Mtatlil. ak« tot «Ilk well ilitalad oa W*M Τ W· mrm (a U· Mrlnt ft rrwrty et may toiii^tlN mm* nrtlN ! wMtafto tayw nil «fl (M R t· Iktlr *<niU|t to m« u. : GASTONIA INSURANCE AND REALTY COMPANY ii • 'nMIMUmMHM »' · es IS THE TROLLEY C9MIN6? Several Northern Parti·· Raw Pkkniil tor · Um I· Cm· nacl Ckiriitt· With IiUmIi and Other Palnta—Why Sack ι LbM Sbauld k· Mil. Clkarlotte Obttrrtf. nth. Th*t a trolley lioe is soon to be built from Charlotte to Gas tonia is' becoming more and more probable. Within the past few months the Southern Power Company has been approached on this subject by three separate interests in the North. Capital· iats of almost unlimited means are behind the enterprise and, if it is once started, it will be a That such a line ia to be uilt is bat a question of time. There is no field in all the country where the conditions are so favorable. Piedmont Car· olinà. of which Charlotte is the center, is the section of the neat est possibilities in industrial and electrical development in the world. There ia no area of equal aise to be found anywhere, which can show such progress aa baa marked that of pied· mont Carolina the· past decade. Within a radius of 100 miles of Charlotte are more than one-half the cotton mills and looms in the Sooth. New cotton mills are being reared in every village and hamlet. The day seldom passes but that some new enter prise;!· put under way in this sec tion· With the growth of ths man ufacturing interests, tbe popu lation has increased by leaps and bounds. Around Gastonfa, Charlotte, Concord, Rock Bill, Gaffney, Spsrtanbnrg, 8. C.. mill settlements have sprung up, which are destined in tbe MM cities great manufacturing cen ter». Not even the electrical devel opment of Niagara can compare to tbat about Charlotte. The several developments of the Southern Power Company on the Catawba and Brood River·, the one iaUaeaa* development of the Whitney Reduction Company, at' the narrow of the Yadkia River, and' the leaser developments by smaller corperatioua on other streams, mafce piedmont Carolina a field of wonderfal opportunity. Al ready the Southern Power Com pany la selling its hydro-elec tricity hi lame quantities to the manufacturing enterprises of all this section. All tba power from the development near Port Mill, 8. C., has been contracted for and a good portion of the first development ai Great Falls, S. , C.. has already bean placed. The Southern Power Company owns aeren power aftea on the Catawba River. Proa theae properties, capable engineers bava declared that more than 100,000 of electrical borse-powei can ha obtained. Tba prêtant develop meat at Oreat Pall· will open up 45/100 hone power. Tba «errent ie to be conducted up the rivet te the site of the develop—t at Pert MU1, 8. C.( «ban H «U1 ha distributed te art? sss: s. C., Ki«f*a Mountain, Geo tonia, Mt. Holly, Charlotte, Statesvllle, and elsewhere. A big Hne will be πιο to Gastonia ■ad on to Charlotte, passing through Belmont, Pin evil le ana other intervening point· where the carrent may be desired by the manufacturer·. In the central atatea. each as Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, where the inter-urban trolley lines thread the country, con necting town with town and city with city, one of the heavy items of expense is the installa· tion of relsy current generating stations at regular intervals along the lines. The expense of these sub-stations adds approximately fifty per cent, to the cost of the power. Should a line be run front Charlotte to Qastonia and be· yond, the current for the oper ation of snch a system coula be secured from the Southern Power Company at stated intervals without additional cost. In other words, the Southern Power Compuay has offered to thoae capitalists who have the matter nnder consideration, power in large quantities de livered at any point along the line wherever needed. Con tracting for the power in thou sand hone-power lots, it can be secured at very low coal. It Is the ultimate plan of those who are now discussing the matter to extend the lines on to 8partanburg. venno h » tuât there is do field in all the land when the opportunities are so favorable to the construction of a fine system of trolley llaea as that about Charlotte. The officials of the Southern Power Company have repeatedly stated that they wen sellers of power and not «sen of it. The way is therefore open. Ia talking this over with one of the prominent experts of the above mentioned company, an Observer reporter wss told that "the first cone would be the first served." He. declares that trol ley can will be running to Gas· tooia from Charlotte within five yean. Mr. Inaptacfc Dines. Mr*. Alex Houston recalls the follow!"» amtiaio? incident, of which she was herself a-wit* II "A number of yean ago a pertr wen returning iron the senshon, when they had been •P«ndin* tba sommer, and stopped off from the car at Albany. Η. γ., far a hsstv dinner. One gentleman in J»<s *2 came to settle bUWtl the waiter chared for two fares. " -Why, I have had only one dinner.' said the man. " Well,' ssid the waiter, 'von mit your knapsack in · chair that mifht have b««n occupied bf one who would pay for a eee| ♦ « 'All right,' said the man, aa I have paid for ymi. eat, Mr. Knapsack, eat,' sod be opettd bis koapaack and filled it with all ha oould reach at tbe table, to the great eajcryment of all Who witnessed tbe Incident," IUNAWAY M AIM MES. Bugm·· Levitv Witfc VUd They in Mita Viewed—I Cute· That S h · · I d hi Ckuiid. IktaM KM»Ufa. Nothing that the newspapen do is worse or more dangeroni than the humorous and approv ing way lu which they tptaV habitually of runaway marriage·. They sera to aaaume that public sentiment invariably must be on the side of tbe runaway* and that when a boy of nineteen successfully elope· with a girl of sixteen something very bril liant and delightful has been done, Cupid has been triumphant and the cruelty of oppoaiug par ents baa been overcome. When a fnll grown man and a full grown and matured women love each other and determine to marry nobody has the right to interfere. It is their owa •flair and they undertake the moat aolemu and sacred of all contracts on their own personal responsibility and prepared to accept the consequences. A girl of sixteen is about aa well fitted to make proper choice ol a husband for heraelf as a baby of four years old would be and ι boy of twenty is not a bii more capable or equal to s a c h a responsibility ia choosing a wife. Legally they may be of age in some SUtes. Practically they are not. Tbey are children in effect; and yet when they assume a rela tionship which taxes tbe best of matured thought and bean aud purposes the newspaper! and a considerable part of tbe public laugh and applaud and encourage. xi wuuu uc ugiy du ι pcrneDi wholesome if aow and then toc uwiptptn would priât aome ol the miserable detail· of the re ■nlta of tbeae romantic ud ap proved expedition·. Most of u Have seen a good many of them —satiety, discovery, weariness, the horrible awakening to the tact of · wretched aad irre trievable mistake. How many sf these girl wives after one or two or three years of mis· cry inexpressible are ibendoned or in despair re turn to their parents with their babies in their ama to eat the bitter bread of dependence and to face a life from which the ihadow never cmn be lifted, to :arry with them memories of un failing bitterne**? How maav )f the procession of wretched, sainted, draggled creatures for· ever moving on toward Potter's ield, under the supervision of the police, are victims of these :hfid and runaway marriages? These ate the records which the jubilant head 1 i a e * aad the bu morons parsgraphers of the newspapers do not consider. Ninety-nine times in a hun ired the parents of the girls aad boys love them with sincere ι Section aad earnestly desire their happiness, and seek to prevent them from making fatal Mistakes. It may b« assumed klways that the mother and lather who have had children of their own have brought them up ind have aome knowledge of Ufa md the world, have good rea toas for opposing a proposed narriage. Yet. when the boy who could not be treated to buy ι calf selects a wife for himself, * the girl, incapable ol choos ing a calico skirt intelligently, undertakes to decide oa the vital laatter of matriatoay, both re· seive «—tinted carries* applause md congratalatio·; ana win the parents with heavy hearta tad dismal 'aad well-Justified Fears for the future, try to make the best of it. they are derided u having been outwitted aad re tarded ss if their opposition was mere cold sad bnrtal lack of ijnapathy with Love's young ire am. ri <L. :—- —- · * shance their not· «ad try to ta mu «a tbdr reader· the great tact that marriage la a eerioai ind aolema ousioMM, they would rid tbemaalvea of the responsibility of Mcovraaiot •obm Itbonaanda of feather headed aad immature boy· aad rirla from wrecking their live* ever* year. The C. Λ N.'W. Raiiwai Hompany haa leaned the follow· Ing aotice as )oint circular No. 1; To All Afentai Upoa application aad aaffi sient notice to thia office, Spec* lal Round Trip Rates will ba □noted parties of Twenty-lve It Fifty people om ooe ticket, oe regular traîna, between any twe pointa, on theee llae·. BSeotive oo and after April let, 1908. Β. V. Rjcid, Oeoeral Paaaanger Agent "LAW «m ItM TtETH." 8MK*r laller Talks al ths reaitaadary to a βτΝ» si KMrYttkTlaa·. Λ conversation at tbc Waldorf Astoria, in which Senator Bailey, of Texas, participated a few even in υ* ago, baa created a (teat deal of comment anion? tbc persons involved and tboae to whom they related it. Mr. Hailey. wbo bad made a flying trip to New York, *ti seated at a table at the Waldorf· Astoria with some frien da, wben several persons prominent in cor poration affairs came up. Some of them wet· officials of tbs Standard Oil Company. The gentlemen at Mr. Bailey's table were acquainted with them, and Introduced tbetn to the Senator. Tber sat down, and the con versation natarally tarned on the recent events at Washing ton, the determination evident there to make things unpleasant lor corporations, and in particu lar tbe passage of the railway rate bill, wttb the stringent amendments added in the Sen ate. Mr. Bailey did not say much at this stage of tbe conversation. He listened to the Standard Oil men, wbo gradually became stronger in tberr expressions. They complained bitterly at tbe dieposition evident in Wash ington to make things unpleas ant for them, and aharply at tacked the railway rate bill and tbe Senate amendmenta. Pres ently Mr. Bailey, wbo bad been listening patiently, struck into tbe conversation m an emphatic • You eeotlemen who ran these corporations," Mid W, "nut obey the lew. If jroa bad obeyed it in tbc first place, you would not have this new legialation to complain of. All roar proper ties arc bcld by virtue of tbt popular respect for law, aad yet yon arc the very men wbo are doing most by yonr acts to break down this respect for law. " H very time Congreaa paaaes a law yon violate it. You bave violated every law we bave given yon. We cave yon tbe inter· state commerce act; von violated that. We gave you the Sherman anti-trnst law; yon violated that. Then we gave you the KUcins law, and yon violated that. Now, we give you a new one. If you violate taat we will give yon another that will have Iron teeth." A panse ensued after this dé claration of Senator Bailey's. After a while one of the cor· poration officials preseat asked: "What do yon mean. Senator, by a law with iron teeth?" "I mean a law that will send every one of yon to tbe peniten tiary." · After this very little waa aaid by the others present about tbe unfairness of Congress* attitude toward corporations. Tbe con versation, however, continued along tbe same subject for a while, and presently Mr. Bailey said: "The ownership of competing corporations by tbe same nana cannot go on. The Pennsylva nia Railroad combination is one that will have to be broken ap, and wiH be.* Afterward, in speaking of the same subject to others. Senator Bailer said: "These corporation officials wbo violate the law, who break every law that Congmaa enacts, are doing more to cfeate anarch ists end socialists than all the propaganda that thoea people can pat into operation from now t01 ooom'a day." Waalk Km» tow Umm IM The, Carotin a lid Nortb weater* railway baa U«ued the following BOtka aa Joint-Circular No. I; To AH Ageota: Thla winba your aotbority to «all Round Trip Ticket· be tween all Station! oa tbeaa llae· at a rata of One Pirat-Claaa Fare, pin· twenty-five Mat· (IS) for the Round Trip. Ticket· to ba ■old oa Saturday of «Kk week, rood, returning on Moeday fol lowing· date of aale. ■ Th· above rata· will go into effect oa Saturday, April 7th, 3908, and are affective oatll an<4 includlae 8atarday, October 27th. 1906. Dae re ruler Local Tiokats, marking acroaa face of aame, " Week Knd." Acknowledge receipt of tbla Circolar, below. Approved: L. T. Nicaoue, Oeoaral Manager. E. P. Raid, Oeoaral Paaeeacar Age at. Sobacriba for tba Oaptomza (kiam Ml alitor. «β UoMlk Coariai MmmeL On rudiac the Account of* banquet riven to Mark Twain in New York on tbe occasion of hi· seventieth birthday, it m· called to my mind a viait which 1 paid him ia bia nom a abort while ayo at the Gromoor Ho tel. Αι I bad bee· with him on several occasion· in the clob· of New York, and had appealed with him on tbe platform ta om of hi» delightful entertainmeota at Madison Square Garden in IBM, I wu enxloaa to meet him Main. I wa told hr · mutual mend of out* that lie wu ia the dty, but did not viait or receive coamany. bat it was niiatad that I call at tbe hotel andkaîe my card. After handing; mf card to the bellboy, with no thoatht of toehy the pat ha· norist, Γ loitered in the hallway looking it aoaw ph-tme· which The boy came dowa the eleva tor with a rush aad «id: "Mr. Clemens says coax eight ap; be want· to see yon." Oa going lato We room Ifoaad UhB lai A atAAeiMftllAAè οίκο m β fccutBDcoi poDuon m bed, smoking a cigar, "one at a time," with a boge pile of aewa papera. augesiaea aad writing 7.V .It _i J U— » ed OM moat cordially, an5. al though I tried to go, fairing that I was taking tip time that waa valuable to hi sa, ha vooldat bear of it, end for nearly four botira we talked aboot the tine whea we first met—ehca he, James Wbitcomb Riley and I laced the great crowd of Mew Yorker» ία ^an enterfadnwewt grew tired of talking about the Old South. and laaghed and cried alternately whea I woald tell hie of something which (*> called bis boyhood day· in Dixie. Mark Twain is a aoathern naa, with a heart full of lore for his native section, bat broadened as be is by intimate contact and long association with the people of the North, be is an American of the bigheat type, with the ability to sec the peculiarities which dlSereatiat· tie people of both sections of om great con»· try witbont losing in any way bis affection for and identity with both. Daring my stay with hi·, when we spoke of the grand civ ilization which waa destroyed by war in the South and the bane· fnl influences of the carpetbag reign which followed, and front which we art still suffering, η stranger looking in o· as would have thoagbt that we were weep· ing over the departure of tome near relative. When I brought op some little incident char· acteristic of Southern plantation! Hie, which none of those who bad been reared could appre ciate, Mark's eves would ill up. and for several minutes η dead silence prevailed. His long ab sence from ua, so far from dul ling bis sensitive Southern na ture, has intensified his love for those things which a coll, calculating, mooey-makiug and money-loving people are pleased to call "sickly sentimentalities." I told him of a thing which happened to me when I was at the Mary Baldwin 8eudnnry.ln Staunton, Va., a few months be fore, lecturing; on the "Cbarnc a I.a! «.I rvig m w~ this school neirly all of the onion ara m bol the majority of flic girl* are from the «oath. Daring ay talk 1 had aonaotblng to ι tb« people of KetUt «ana "My Old Kentucky! The very minute that I strack the ait a perfect flood of tear· caiae from the Kentucky firls, and it broke om op, Ae tefV io« of it broke Marie Twain «p. too, and when he kad recovered from it· effect·, he aaid: "Polk, the next time yoa to to that •ckool talaarapk aie. and I'll ha on -hand, for I an aaxioo» to witaeaa one more time a scene which coold have happened oo where eiae hot is the south." Loot may thi· good man live to brighten the live· of the pa* pie, aot oatjr of tbla country, but of alt lands aad wbea he dice we ahoald raiae a monument to hi* memory aa one who ha· draak deeply at the foantaia· of aatute, and who cornea nearer knowing human natore than aay other man who ha· lived rise* the day· of 8hakaapaara. J. T. Badaota, who kilkd a druakea man on aa waa acquitted by lattice'* court oe «ka of aaU defeaae. The draakea man, Aiexaoa. had made threat* aad waa ia the rWKtt85MKS*,,k Due West Female College REV. JAMB8- BOYCE, Rre»l<fent am dub «nr, Awmux co„ ·. c. il SOUTH FORK INSTITUTE! jj FALL TEfiN SeomS SeTTSHBSS 4. MM. attffS in 8 View Ian, $β to |7. f Write for catmloffM. -WW 4. 4. PArSSVE. I»rf ■■><»«, «. C. % UNIVERSITY
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