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EDISON'S MEAT SCI VICE.
Hu Helped to Maks TVs Natisa’s
i ff*y*rlty‘
Taming from the sweep sad
glitter oi American prosperity to
the men who have made it
possible, one thinks oi Thomas
Alva Edison. His is "the
honest life, the niefnl life, the
friendly life," that deserves
earnest attention in this astonish
ing year of moral incendiarism.
"We arc groping on the verge
of another great epoch in the
world’s history," h« said to me
not long ago. "It wonld not
surprise me any morning to
walra np and leant that some oae,
or some group, of the 300,000
scientific men who are investi
gating all over the earth has
seised the secret of electricity by
direct process, sad begun an
other practical revolution of
human affairs. It can be done.
It will be done. I expect to see
it before I die. I expect to see
airships flying before my death.
Snch a discovery will nuke it
possible to drive ships across
the sea by electricity at a rate of
40 or 50 miles an hour—three
days across the Atlantic from
shore to shore.
"1 worked as s Western Union
operator ftt Detroit, Memphis,
Louisville end Boston," said Mr.
Edison, "and all the time I
studied and experimented with
electricity. The • first serious
thing I invented was an electrical
machine to count votes in con
gress. I had been handling
press reports, as aa operator,
and I noticed it took a long time
to count the votes after each roll
call. My machine wonld show
the total vote u few seconds
after the roll cell. I thought
the device was a good oae and I
think so now. Bnt when I went
to Washington sod showed it to
the chairman of the committee,
he said, 'Young man, that works
all rights bat it’s the last thing
on earth we want here. FUU
bartering and a delay in toe
count of the vote are often the
only meana we have for defeat
ing bad lag illation.’ I waa
sorry; bat I ought to have
thought of that before. My
next practical invention was the
quadruple* telegraph, i .taTtad
in to work'It on the Atlantic and
Pacific telegraph line between
Rochester and New York. Bat
- then was a chump at the other
end o! the wite aad the demon
stration ended in a fixxle. It
waa yew before ^be juadraplex
Joined hands with a maafamned
Callahan, aad we got np several
improved types of stock-tickers.
These improvements wen a
saceess. When the day of settle
ment for my inventions ap
proached I began to wonder how
moch money I weald get. 1
waa pretty raw aad knew noth
ing about business, bnf I hoped
that I might get $5,000. I
dreamed of what I conld do with
a money like that, of the tools
other thiags I conld buy to
work out invention*. Bat 1
knew Wall Street to be a pretty
bad place, aad bad a general
suspicion that a man was apt to
get beat out of his mousy there.
So I triad to keep' my hopes
down; bat the thought of $3,000
kept rising in my mind.
"Well, mm mat was seat
for by the president of the
of the Gold and Stock
Telegraphy Company to talk
f^asvitfa
rtnss.“i;bai.is
£SSS£U,S3-,.S2S3
i&iTxsSi i,sn
might get nothing at all. That
*raa one of the most painful and
exciting moment* of mv life,
my, how I beat my brains to
know what to say I Finally, I
■aid. Suppose you make me an
offer I*
“By that time I was scared.
1 was more than scared. I was
paralysed.
“‘How would $40,000 do?’
asked General LeScrts.
"It was all I could do to keep
my lace straight and my knees
from giving way. I was afraid be
wouldhear my heartbeat. With a
great effort I said as calmly as
I could, *1 guess that’ll be all
right.’
"With that money I opened
a new shop and worked oat
apparatus foe the Western
Union Telegraph Company.
My automatic telegraph, which
handled 1,000 words a minute
between New York and Wash
ington, was bought out by Jay
Gonld and the Western Com
pany. It is in litigation yet.
"Then the qnadruplex was in
stalled. I sold that to J. Gonld
and the Western Union Com
pany for $30,000. The next in
vention was the mimeograph, a
copying machine.
"When Bell got bis telephone
oat the transmitter and receiver
were one. Professor Orton of
the Western Union Company
asked me to do something to
make the telephone a commer
cial success. I tackled it and
got up the present transmitter.
The Western Union Company
eventually made atillioni of
dollars oat of it. I got $100,000
for it.
"looking over the whole
country," said Mr. Edison, "I
have come to the conclusion
that the neatest factor in our
progress has been the newspaper
mess. Russia is much bigger
than this country in every way. '
She has a tremendous popula
tion and immense natural re
sources. Yet she la 50 times
slower. Why? Because aha
luks the power of a free press.
She cannot units or harmonise
her forces. But when we want
oo inyimav in America toe
newspaper* taka It up. Every
body reads the newspapers,
everybody knows the situation,
and we afi act together.”
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TERRIBLE IfEORO SLAIN.
Araiafrsef. hrmi Mr.
W. i. WhUener With ■ Sfcsvsl
MR Trias to Brash Vows thi
Dmt •! IBs ■—t ffltinni
Shoots Him 0ss4 With a Shot
Mr. W. J. Whitener, formerly
a policeman at Clover, shot and
killed a negro near Yorkville
last Thursday morning. The
Yorkville Enquirer gives the
following account of the affair:
, Mr. W. J. Whitener shot and
killed Mingo Armstrong yester
day morning.
e kttlmr occurred on the
Glean & Allison fans, four miles
southeast of Yorkville, nt about
S o’clock*
Armetroog was a laborer and
Mr. Whitener is superintendent
of the farm.
Together with two other
negroes, Will Dickson and Will
McConnell, Armstrong had been
instructed to assist in clearing
■ P»e of saw-dust, Mr.
Whitener looking after the
proper prosecution of the work.
After working e little while,
Armstrong, according to the
testimony of his fellow-laborers
at the coroner’s inquest yester
day, picked up bis shovel and
began walking around the pile
of saw-dust.
"Why don’t yon stop your
foolishness, and go to work,
Mingo?” asked Mr. Whitener.
Por reply Armstrong raised
bis shovel and Matte? toward
Mr. Whitener in a threatening
with bo weapon of any kind
available, Mr. Whitener retreat
ed. Armstrong followed with a
juickeniuf pace sad Mr. White
oer continued to his house, forty
»r fiftr yards away, the negro
following close behind trying to
itrike him with the shovel.
On reaching the house. Mr.
Whitener juuped inside and shat
the door. Armstrong attacked
the door with his shovel, cutting
>ut the wire screen and making
rreat gashes ia the panels.
Presently, as if realising that he
could not break the door down,
the negro stepped out into the
raid and stopped some distance
sway.
Having observed the negro’s
movements from within, Mr.
Whitener took down his shot
tan, loaded it and walking out.
Me called to the negro to know
what was the matter with him,
md Armstrong bristling np
igala, with fury in bis connten*
sace. made soother charge with
^Stop?* said Mr. Whitener,
’or I will kill yon."
The negro was then within
ifteen feet. Instead of stopping,
lie raised his shovel high over
Ilia head as if to strike and Mr.
Whitener fired.
At the report of the gan Arm
rtrosg fell in his tracks. The
charge took-effect in his neck
sad be was instantly killed.
Immediately after the killing.
Mr. Whitener notified the
sheriff by telephone, came to
Porkville and gave himself np
for commitment to jail.
Coroner Loathian went to the
iceae of the killing yesterday
morning, aotMaelod a jury with
Ms. Thad L. Carroll as foreman
sad held an inquest.
. Several witnesses, including
the two laborers, who were em
ployed with Armstrong, and
who saw the whole affair were
rnamlaed, sod their testimony
was all the same, practically an
• Mr. Whitener bad already
been committed to jail and was
sot at tba inquest.
TllP til TV rolls vnn«t m A_
the effect that Mingo Armstrong
to kb death from a ahot
Bred from a gun ia the bands of
W. 3. Whitener; that tha said
set of Mr. Whitener was com
mitted la aelf-deienae, and ia
the opinion of the jury the kill
ing was joatiflable homicide. .
Amatrong was about fifty
reara of age and was well
known aa a farm laborer. Ha
waa regarded aa being entirely
responsible nnder normal con
ditions; bat it waa generally aa
derstood that when angry or na
iler the influence of whiaky, he
area a very dannerona man.
After giving himself np to the
iheriff, Mr. Whitener secured
the cervices of Thos. P. McDow,
Baq., and the understanding is
hat habeas corpos proceeding*
kevcalready been instituted. It
b not thought that theta will be
unr trouble about securing Mr.
Whitener’* admission to hail.
High Point b to have a soap
the efforts of Rev. Mr. Lick
Mkain, a converted Jew,
Snbectibe foe the Quumra.
LINCOLN'S PERSONAL
_ PRESENCE.
Of Thai ami ills brats TrodilUa
Has filvea Incurred Uaas.
St. Michel
For many years it baa been
the hihloo to call Mr. Lincoln
homely. He was very tall and
very tain. His eyes were deep
sunken, bis skin of a sallow
pallor, bis hair coarse, black
and nnrnly. Yet be was neither
ungraceful nor awkward nor
ngty. His large features fitted
Us large frame, and his large
bands and feet wars bnt right
on a body that measured 0 fast
4 inches.
His wea a aad and thoughtful
face, and from boyhood ho bad
carried a.load of care. It ia
small wonder that when alone
or absorbed in thought the face
ahoold take on deep lines, tbe
eyes appear as if seeing some
thing beyond tbe vision of other
men, and the shoulders stoop, as
though they, too, were bearings
weight. But in a moment all
would be changed. Tbe deep
ayes would flash, or twinkle mer
rily with humor, or look out from
under overhanging brows as they
did upon tbe Five Points in
kindliest gentleness.
So, too, ia public speaking.
When his tall body arose to its
full beieht, with tbe bead Jbrowa
back and bis face fransngared
with tbe fire aad earnestness of
bis thought, he would answer
Douglas in the high, dear tenor
that came to him in tbe heat of
debate, carrying his ideas so far
out over listening crowds. And
later, daring the yean of war,
when he pronounced with noble
gravity the words of his famcua
addresses, not one in tbe thongs
that heard bio could truly say
that he was other than a hand
some man.
It has been tbe fasbioa, too, to
say that ha was slovenly and
careless in his dress. This «i««
is a mistake. He was no tailor’s
figure of a mao. but from the
first he clothed hioudf as well
as his mesas allowed, and in the
fasbioa of the time and place.
In reading the grotesque stories
of his boyhood, of the tall strip-j
ling whose trousers left exposed
n length of shin, it must be re
membered not only how po6r he
sens, bat that he lived on the
frontier, where other boys less
poor were scarcely better clad.
In Vanvalia tbe blue Seans be
wore was the dress of bi« com
panions as well, sod later, from
Springfield days on dear through
bis presidency, his costume was
tbe usual suit sf black broad
doth, carefully made and scru
pulously neat. He cared noth
ing for style. It did oot matter
to him whether the man with
whom he talked wore a coat of
tbe latest cut or owned no cent
at nil. It was the man inside
the coat that interested him.
In the same way he cared little
for the pleasures of the table.
He ate most sparingly. Ha
was thankful that food was good
and who!some and enough for
daily needs, bat ha could no
autre enter lsto the mood of the
epicure, for whoee palate it is a
matter of importance whether ha
eats roast goose or gdden pheas
ant, than he could have counted
the grates of sand under the sea.
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TOUVEIlfl ttWOlim.
Sa s«n Mr. LeUa af tha fflm*
paaai Tralloyliao la thoGw
towho—Ofral Charlotte Inata
"We will atort” week oa <mr
Hoc to the river within a year,*
acid Mr. B. D. Let fa, president
of the 4C’a. at the special wamd
iog of the board of eldenaen.
The above statement is oae
which Charlotte aad Mecklen
burg people hew been waiting
expectantly tg bear for several
yean. It baa been aa uncon
firmed rumor during thlettae
that the 4C’a would soon day
ran their can to tha Catawba.
Work is nowin progress on
the new Hoc to Chadwick aad
Lakeview Park, which, when
completed will lessen the dis
tance to the Catawba by over
three miles. The survey from
Chadwick to tba Davidson
place, the objective point oa
the river, will begis in a few
weeks. Aa elort will bo made
to avoid public highways as
much as possible, so that a fast
service can be pat oa. The dis
tance from Charlotte to the
river, aa the line win go, will
ha ahmt IV milaa
A MAMMOTH PAUL
The 4C'a own 1.040 actus of
land oo the beaks of the Ca
tswba. Bvetyoae who has
visited the place will testify
that If r. Letts was aot exag
gerating when ha stated last
night that the see aery is
the finest cast of tha
Bias Ridge. The irises has a
froetaga of two muss aa the
ri ver sad 700 octet of it la a
imScn forest In the seotfoa.
It is the present plea of the
4C's to make a asaaoth park
of the satire place. "Every op.
poctnaity wiu be takes to de
velop aad asake it store beau
tiful," said Mr. Latta. It is un
derstood the* ia than aa ■■■■■■
meat park—a Coney Island, or a
White City—will be added aad
perhaps a large hotel built.
COKCSSSIOKS OPAHTSD.
The primary purpose of Mr.
Latin's appearance before die
city fathers last sight war to
ask that tha board sanction the
Crossing of the Southern Rail
way tracks oa South Mint aad
West HiD streets by Us trolley
lines sad that it pass aa ordi
nance embodying tha same rules
for the Ctussiags now fat force
on South Tryoa and North Bre
ar'd streets, to the effect that
both trains and trolleys be re
quired to eoaie to a full atop at
the crossing, all of which was
gristed by tha aldermen.
Mr. Latta said that he had aft
first booed to cross the rail
road at First street, instead of
Mill, through a subway, but the
railroad people had objected to
that. Such a subway would
cost from $10,000 to $20,000.
Tha petition was aa follows-.
"To the Honorable Mayor and
Marnbrn of the Board of
Aldermen of tha City of
Charlotte.
"Gentlemen: In the extensive
sad important improvement now
begun ea route to Hoakin's Mill
aad with greater operations ia
roafr ■million wait of the city,
It will ha aecemary lav «is to
cross the Southern Railway
with our double track system
both at South Mist Strom aad
West H1U street, aad we ask
that you pass aa orrtloauca
sanction lag oar trossiag at
grade the said Southern Rail
way tracks at the two desig
nated points and, with the de
sire to secure safety to the pub
lic aad avoid accidents on the
part of oar respective com
panies, 1 suggest the snaw
miss sow ia fence under similar
condition* at South Tiyoa
■beet aad North Brevard street.
Wy ■ mi ft air Ia h* alUwnJ hn
lay U»W track on West Trade
kircet for a distance of 1Z0 feet
exclusive of corves, to be used
as a lay-over switch sa indi
cated bv tbe attsebtd sketch.
D. Lana, President.n
oauutancn anorrsD.
After tbe petition was read.
City Attorney Hugh W. Harris
drew ap the
which VI
Ths ord) _ '
"Be k nrdalncd by tbe beard
of aldermen of the city of Char
lotto: ,
^Sactiou L Tba^ aryery rafl
croaa MhrtKTweJt Hill
in tbe city of Charlotte shall
cause aD locomotives, trains and
cars, of every kind, running on
said tracks to come In a
a?^a sr :m.
dogmas tom forward and give
of urnil_r
sod West Hill
mM. shall
Its said tracks to come to a com
plete stop M approaching nkl
railroads aad pj^nvwe its
coodnctor or tsgmsn to go
ibead of the car sr motor and
rive tba forward signal before k
■hall be lawful to move sack ear
k motor across said rsarsaf
tracks.
"Sec. 3. That corny agent dr
employe of any tsUtoad- com
pany. or of any * street railway
company, who shall violate the
provisions of this ooBssarr
shall, upon conviction, be tnb
iacted to a penalty erf fifty doi
"Sec. 4. That this
■ball ba in force tram
the 1st day of Septus
ThaHae as far as CbgSwIck
will ba donble-tracked.^yirom
there on to the river It will be s
heavy single track. Special
heavy vestibule cam will hi pvt
cbased for the line end they win
bt m h trains. -We will
btve as pretty a park as them la