North Carolina Newspapers

W. P. MARSHALL, Bdltor and Proprietor. Devoted to the Protection of Hone nnd tbo VOL. XXVII. . GASTONIA, N. C., PRIQAyT ‘M$k mol"?* } Wi E.P. KahkimC. H Kvajii. rUrVttt. A. O. VTSU. CtiACrr. CAPITAL MO.OOO THE CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK OACTON I A, N. C. Accounts of Merchants, Manufacturers, and Farmers Invited. Liberal Dealing along Conservative Lines. SAVINGS We have added a Savings Department, in which we pay 4 per cent., compounded every three months. If you have not already opened an account in this department ujc invite you to do so. LUXUBY III A EANCB BOUSE. Wyoming Log Cabin Cantatas a Fina Collecllsn al Chius, Sil ▼ar ani Cot Siasa—Hostess la a Bun Warn a*. M<* Ywk B«nU, A little one*story, six-room log ranch boose m Lander. Wyoming, with sage brash land stretching sway from it in all directions sad with only a lam* bering mountain stage coach drawn by four horses connect* log it with the outside world, has in it more and finer cut glass, china and silver than any other house, public or private, in tbe State. Arapahoe boasts not near 50 sools, all told. But tbe traveler going by stage from Lander to Shoshone will find its ranch bouse an uncommonly food one at which to stay over night, for Mrs. Becker, its gracious host* ess, does not spend all her money ornaments for her table. She always makes enough to pay tbe salaries of two first-rate Chinese cooks and to supply her table with delicacies. Many ranch bouses look neither more nor less inviting from the outside than does this one. Dirt, poor food, cracked dishes, wretched service and in* sufierably bad beds compose tbe accommodations. The traveler is tgreebly surprised, then, when he finds tbe wealth of cut glass, cbiua and silver ware which graces Mrs. Becker’s table, excellent service, every delicacy that a city market af fords, cleanliness everywhere, easy chairs and couches, beds, fresh and comfortable and an atmosphere of refinement. Mrs. Becker’s ent glass, china and silverware are the gride and the delight of Arana* oe and of all tbe countryside IVUBU IUUUI IV. C,VCU luC 1U disuslwho have got a glimpse of them regard them with e sort of proprietary interest. Not long ego Mrs. Becker sent an ordeT to New York for a thou sand dollars’ worth of cut glass, and that thousand dollars' worth is not all abe haa. Besides her vain able collection of cat glass china and silverware Mrs. Becker has many hundred dol lars’ worth of Navajo blanket* and Indian curios. She made an army officer’s wife a gift of $500 or $600 worth of blankets and enrioa recently end thought nothing of it. She is a West ern women and does things in a Western way. Not long ago Mrs. Becker gave e party at her ranch boqu to which she invited aome of her best known folks in Lander end army officers and tbeir wive* from Port Waabakie, It was a unique society function. Bach of the numerous guests went home from it with e costly gift from the hostess. One young lady was given a saddle, a another a beautiful and costly souvenir spoon with an elk’s tooth set in the handle and ike others received gifts equally valuable. The leal Thing la Arrive This leer. OoMII CfcwafcU. The shedding of the leaves is a good idea sod the a mead meat is accepted. But Ike . cotton picking machine which Thh Omm hopes for is in sight, leavoo or no leaves. The expe rimental picking In the Jokneoo field lost fall showed that the leaves do not bother k as much os they would bother tbe^mid picker. We expect to s^^he formal, practical advent of the cotton picker this year. gobsefibe for Tig Oastomia Oahmm. CLEVELAND SftINSS _TO IE SOLD. Sautk Carolina Capitalists Will Maka Exfaaaiva ininnaiatf. *•»»■»* Otwmr, Charlotte, N. C.. Sept. 3.—A matter that will interest Raleigh people is a rumor which has reached here that Cleveland Springs, the well knows resort in Cleveland county, will be sold within the next few days to a syndicate composed of promi nent South Carolina capitalists. Col. Leroy Springs and several other eminent men of wealth from Rock Hill and Lancaster are aaid to be behind the pur chase. Recent visits of these gentlemen to the popular resort have revealed splendid oppor tunities for making the springs a famous place for recreation. The rumor ta to the effect that a commodious hotel will be erect ed to acoommodatc the large crowds that will flock there dur ing the summer. Many other iirmrovemehts will be made to add to the beantyof the place. SOMETIMES IT DOES! A Hearty Meal Should Never Assay nr Distress. A hearty meal should give a sense of gratification and com fort. It should never annoy or • distress. If yon have indigea tiou and discomfort after eating, it shows that your digestive organa are weakened ana they cannot properly care for the food which baa been swallowed. If yoa cannot eat and digest with pleasure and comfort three good sqnare, hearty meals each day, you need to usa Ui-o-na stomach tablets, and you should go to J. H. Kennedy & Co., for a box •I VUVT, Mi-o-ns is sa unlike the ordi nary pepsin digestive tablet as the electric light is more valu able than a tallow dip. Mi-o na cures indigestion or stomach trouble by strengthening and regulating the whole digeative system, thus enabling the organs to lake <»ra ai the food yon e*t without any distress or discoatfort. UM Mi-o-ns. lor s few days and the awousaest, sleeplessness, several debility and weakness back Uhk*. Iota ol appatHe. headscha and “ w s«%, «as 7°* the gmaraataa they give with every 90c box ol Mi-o-ns. —87-*l. Cenfampt Is Bun. John (Philip Sousa was con demning the law that a Hoars certain talking machine com panies to make records of his famous marches and aelPthea broadcast without paying him t single penny for the privilege. "I have only contempt (for such a law as that.” said the greet bandmaster. "When I think of the injustice of it I boil over with contempt. I remind myself of a Washingtonian who was halad before a magistrate ♦or committing a nuisance. "The Washingtonian bad committed no nuisance, but Mvevtheieas the decision went against kirn, and he was natural ly incensed. Forgetting him self, be told the magistrate *hat 5* 5*l<?,F*,t of him, and was fined $5 for contempt. "He produced a $10 bill to pay the fine with. The clerk took it, searched hip drawer, then made nail to band tha bin back **■*‘1 have no change,' be eaid. * ‘Oh, never sriud about the change.1' snorted my friend. Keep U. I'll teke k out In contempt."' Sabacribe for Thu Oaxcttu. IHPlOVEMtHT AT MONTIIAT. Manilla latraat Aaaaciadaa Will btaai iMnawn tea la BnlMJng ■» Their Property la the Naaalalaa. Charlotte xm. A meeting of the executive committee of the Moan tain Re treat Association waa held last night at the home of Mr. R. O. Alexander in Dilworth. This committee ia composed of the following prominent men of this city and State: Rer. Dr. J. R. Howerton, president and treas urer; R. O. Alexander and S. B. Alexander, Jr., of Charlotte. Dr. Henry Lome Smith, of Davidson; A. C. Miller, of Shelby; John P. Love, of Gas* tonia; James R. Young, of Raleigh: P. B. Brown, of Wash ington, N. C.; J. D. Murphy, Dr. Campbell and R. T. Smith of Asheville; and A. L- James, of Laurinbnrg. It waa agreed at the meeting that the contract for improve ments at Montreat would be awarded to Lockwood, Green & Co., the well know contrac tors and landscape architects of Boston. The contract calls for a snrvevance of the 4,000 acres owned by tbe association, con struction of a commodious hotel, laying off and macada mising of roads and driveways. Installation of equipped water works and electric plant and the construction of two lakes. The estimated cost of the proposed improvements is $150,000, and to meet this outlay, it was agreed to issue $50,000 of pre 1 erred stock. The improvement* which the committee have in mind art of a monumental nature. It mean* the building up of one of the best section* in the mountain* of tbe State, aud this to be done. acoord<ng to tbe contract by April, 1907. The firm to whom the con tract ha* been given it well fitted to push tbe work to rapid completion. Tbe surveying will begin nest week and the force will be shifted to other develop ment* ju*t as soon as one piece of work baa been finished. The auditorium'which is to be erected will be one of the finest in the South, costing $25.000,. with s seating capacity of about 5,000 persona. The new hotel will contain 125 rooms, which with the present capacity of tbe old building will make ample room for the guests who will visit the place. All improvements will be of the highest order, aud it is the intention of those behind the movement to make Montreat one of the most noted resorts in the South. The natural beauty and surrounding* of tbe place make this aim possible with tbe ex penditure of such a ram as baa been donated for the purpose. Pawhatsn’a Oak. Jaatotewm liaaaalM. One of the most notsble trees in America ia a massive old live oak, four to Eva feet in diameter, with a spread of more than 70 feet. This monarch of the Jamestown Exposition Is sup posed to be nearly 1,000 years old. It was a large tree when the first settlement of James town was made. 300 yean ago. •*>4 was a favorite resting place of the Indiana of Chief Powhat an’s powerful tribe. According to authentic reports Indian war talks were made nader the shade of this old tree in the early days when the fit at whites settled in America and the Indiana began the long, hopeless struggle for their homes and banting grounds. . To Plx Cettsn Prices. CohmMa aer. Mava mi. Caeriar. The Cotton Growers’ associa tion .win soon.hold a meeting at which tha executive committee will arrange its campaign for tha season now on and will at the name time fix the pike for cot ton. This price is what the ex executive committee! suggests its members should get before ■filing their product. In the meanwhile the associa tion la doing tome work and de fining iU position, lu latest announcement is: • "To the cotton growers of the South i "Bear speculators are ham mering down the price. "Bplnnen will, therefore, buy •park e ly. "If you want a profit on this crop yon must market tpariagiy. Every halt you rush on the mar ket is the strongest possible bear argument. "Market your cotton oaly so rapidly as tha .pinners demand It, or yon will pay dearly for your burry." TID AND TOHVHXI. VhaCiMafiKM mlMfjb bmp Jot Acraaa tba Uae. ▼srkrMt* Baavliw. 4U. Mr. sod Mr*. Juki F. Thom son arrived in Yorkvilk this morning from New York. The cotton receipts of York* vine from wagons for the year beginning September 1, 1905 and ending^S* ptember 1, 1908 was Capt. H. 8. Ross, the popular conductor of the C. & N.-W. trains Nos. 9 and 10. is oft for a vacation in the monataiaa of North Carol lbs, accompanied by Mr. Laban Falls, of Oaatonia. Work on the power dam in Broad river in Cherokee county has demoralised the price of labor in every direction for miles. The farmers of Broad River, Cherokee and King'* Mountain township* ace baring the same trouble that waa ex perienced by Bethel, Fort Mill, Catawba and Bbeneser daring the building of the dam of the Catawba Power company. There is plenty of money in and around McConnellsvllle for the erection of e big cotton ariU; but the sentiment of the com munity is rather against this form of industry, the feeling be ing that if the mannfactering field is entered at all, it will be best to select some industry that calls for higher skill and A little negro boy was brought before Mayor Roddey of Rock Hill a lew days ago oa charge of violating tbe cuy ordinance ■gainst gambling within the in* corporate limits. Mayor Rod* dey refused to try tbe case; but told tbe boy to appear before tbe entire council. The mayor’s refusal was based, oa the propo sition that k waa Wrong to puaisb tbe little negro and let tbe bucket shops conduct tbek gambling business without let or hindrance. Right you are, Mr. Roddey. Tbe surveying party of tbe Sooth and Western railroad, which baa been operating in the western part of tbe county (or some weeks, for some days past being encamped at Sutton's Spring, kbxee miles from York* viDe, broke camp yesterday .and went to Gaffney. Mo positive infonuotion could be bad as to tbe movements of tbe party. Members of tbe party, however, told visitors to the camp that there eras to be a survey across York to Catawba by way of Rock Hill, and that Charleston was the objective point of the survey. Pretacts Bar Husband With a Pistol. liMtkHmMObemr. Winston-Salem, N. C. Sept. 3. Bernie Leonard, a young man, was shoe is the forehead and band this afternoon by Mrs. Wesley Holston. He will probty die. Leonard and bis brother, after cursing Mrs. Holston sad ber husband on the street, fol lowed them home. One of tbe boys was knocked down by H61 ston aa they entered bis door. Tbe brothers then pounced upon the old man, knocktngbim down and were beating him when Mrs. Holston came to her husband’s rescue with a pistol, firing every ball in it. Bernie’a brother fled when be saw wbat had hap pened. tin. Holston was not arrested, aa the officer held that •be was only protecting ber own household. Rtw (fee FibIIt lew Vm laded Worth WllhMhMQ Bwbcf. - We kara of an incident that occurred la the negro settlement southeast of Ibis piece, across the river, - not long ego. A negro was beating hla wile In front of the cabin, which waa on the public mod. The women was down on the gronnd and the man waa ■ tiling neon and choking her by clutching her throat with one baud, when a white man came along the road in a buggy. Seeing what was going oa. he Jumped tat of his baggy and raa op behind the negro and with a 4§ struck him ovCt the bead snch a blow that the pistol And at tbs mom instant, and the negro roiled over down the hill, lis bead skinned sod dated. The woman Jumped op and ran round tba house hollowing, "Don’t shoot biai anymore I don’t shoot him anymore I” This ended It. All that any of the ne^ror* knew^ was that Far Me Wa will send Tn OAggrn twice a week front sow and) 1907. ___ Subscribe (or the Oasrm. total mm Arm ctow. CMfly Shat Vbaa Once Their ladarbUM. No bird ia better knows to the farmer than the raeimou Aaneri eu crow. No bird iaao de tested, bates the other bawl none ia mote freqaenUy tamed. Ae old farmer oatasar Chat, baa, N. J., who baa hasted crows for more then forty yearn, describes them aa remarkable mixtures of intelligence aad stupidity. "Etch flock of crows basks king or leader whom tbe rest obey implicitly mad without whom they become utterly de moralised aad seem usable to act for tbeauaiveo,” bo says. "If roe want to destroy a whole •ock of crows tbe first thing to aim at is to MU tbe king. "I remember when I wee a small bey aa ancle of mine planted a large; field of eon, which a flock of crows Instantly selected as a fas (Hag ground, fora long time they act at de fiance all eSorts to disperse theta. The king crow oat epos a tall tree, from which he Barney ed the country for a great dis tance. As sooa as my uncle or his men came ia sight be would sound tbe signal of alarm, aad he and all of his followers would take flight; kef no sooner were tbe me* too far away to shoot then tbe kiag weald make tbe fact known, and the entire flock would return. After wasting a quantity of ammunltioa and tbe greater pert of a awruiagwkb rascals, my ancle bunted as np. ■‘Steve,’ be said, Wn pretty goad with agaa. Nov I'll ull yoa wbat—I'M give yoa a dollar Isr every crow yea nil out in that field of mine.' "I suppose be thought that, on tbc chance of aannag a dol lar. I would spend tbc east day or two chasing crows oil hb corn. Well, I didn't aay any thing. 1 took my gun aad start ed off thpt afternoon. Theta wen the crows at work la the field and tbc kiag oa the tall tree. "He caught sight of as as I cans* over the top oftba hill, and gave the signal. '« down the road7 hi bashes Just .icruaa " and waited for i hour, but the crow have tone for tbc day. cided to give it up till the next morning, aad started backup the road. Jut as 1 disappeared over the top of the bin l beard a loud caw aad, turning, beheld those crows coming in a swarm toaettlt on the field, Several times I tried to steal up the road on them, but it was no use. Then I resorted to strategy. "X went np the bill aad quite a piece dowk tbc other sUk. Then, when 1 heard' the kiag crow give the signal to fatten, I slipped behind the bushes by the roadside and succeeded in creeping ell the way back with out bis catching sight of nsa. X picked him of snaily, aad as they did not hear him give the signal of alarm the other crows west oa feeding until I bad shot several of them. riMDt uocioe Dooy ot cue king crow, tied it to that of* large hawk which I had sbotoo nr way than, aad toaaad thaw Into the middle of the feld. The crow la the most cariooa bird on earth. The whole fleck came •trooping down to abhmtha an teryofa crow aad hawk lytaw than together. I that aad shot late their taidet, hat they never ■rented to learn. ba'^tH8! *U V Bb0t W““* ole's end asked him to pf see mm* he owed awT He veataotcuy i ed i -After awhile be _ _ . ‘1 gneee I*H have to eak von to let me efla port of that bargain we amde. 1 didn't calculate exactly how good with tin von are.' "Well, iflWf yen, ancle,' 1 •aid. Tv* bad • lot of spotl this aftemoen mid If eon'll give me beck the dollar I spent eo •hat to kin thoag crow* I team kwill be all right.' ss&Sl^.'vSiai distance, and I've never know* It to Im. Somehow It la en ab ject which seem* to have a pc odur fykaHan for thaw drlvlag thwT&ont aftbafa "Some lamer* *n»wlaak whole flocks of esew* at 0M by dwhi a atnSad owl op h n tree wham they mwgt*s*tn | MADE IN ♦ OWN SH | "«w Tailored Skirt. 4 New Tailored Wa ♦ tinea Collar * Wl £ New Waal. Salto 4* -r> " 1 4* own artistic aewiv* rooau aad have ia «ji ciaaa qaaBbaa wbieh wfll rtwaei «|» Wa iavfee.jrMi (a aaa thaaa. ♦ JAMES F. YEAGER £ ♦ 4* *+♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦+♦♦♦♦» AH crows, yon know. Uke to tease an owl. licrows are sac* ceseiolly decoyed by • staffed owl practically the whole flock S3JLST.S ^TnS 2L,sru*‘vart,,fi bet Out mm otiktr ..■bit sis shot sock time. .<%£!! &s22Vy^ learned to hare a friendly lad ing foe all crows, beeaaae afa devoted pet in owe of the f ^ • "I do not think crows are so fond of con as soaro tenta imagine,” in tdd. the -writer. "Tbe old birds trod their young IsmeMoodtEey^aAer'wies tber go into the haaldr tilled •elds. In hooting for these they nntnndly damage the corn to S Certain extent. My pet wonld not tench (train of any kind. I think he wonld base starved before rating con. ■I shed tsars when float that Mid. I called him lackey. I got him by dialing to thy tan si a tall pine tm and car pot him in a bon aboot two fast sqooBs, with a Men acme the front. After keeping Mm there about one week 1 left Mm oat for a walk. Very soon he was so tame that Igan him entire freedom. , He slept Is the trees in snmtair and In the chicken hone,with the bens in UrtoawbotSrj^lSd^f"*!® •od ieo his vlgn till the led Salfc imna every (Mat we had on OUT table excepting the gratae. He weak great lover eiauatoii , _. „ be **•-. r*h«» savagely as a dog. ly ip li i emeu tree ia tbe yard. bold the meet in one of bis claws aad tear oC pieces with Us bill, all the time making aohm enongb to awake* the deed. Ha erne alee very bad oi SSmapfarl 1 b«"coot? would take the smptaa oat la the yard aad hide it aadaraeaee leaves i aad woe ta the dag or uSfssSsn ****** "Ha wemld 'arm hide ear. thing while aayeat waa watch* lag him. U you would tuns pat a coverlet over h. and then run off about tweaty feet wheCe you could saa Urn aad coos 1 j ' to die end scratch to g^HI. M VH tit there. . started to go when be