Friday; February is, iio.
TUB GASTONIA GAZETTE!
FAGB TIIREB;
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THIS ia only on
of the advantage!
of these shingles.
They're fireproof,
wlndproof, make the
handeomeet kind of a
roof, and when they are
once on they're there
to etay, for "Cortright
Metal Shlnglei" laat aa long at the building itself.
No trouble, no care; a coat of paint once every five
year ia all the attention they need.
Yea, they're cheap, quite cheap, considering their ad
vantage, and we're aure you 11 be more than satisfied
with them from the minute you see them on your root
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Exclusive Agents
Gastonia, N. C.
JURY LIST.
Names of Jurors Chosen for Feb
ruary Term of Gaston Superior
Court.
The following are the names of the
Jurors drawn by the county commis
sioners at their regular January
meeting to serve at the February
term of Gaston Superior Court, which
convenes at Dallas on the 28th of
February: .
FIRST WEEK.
J. R. Ross, Mount Holly.
E. B. Brlttain, Gastonia.
C. E. Tucker, Belmont.
A. F. Henry, Cherryvllle.
E. L. Little, Gastonia.
J. W. Bumgardner, South Point.
W. H. Crocker, Cherryvllle.
T. L. Craig, Gastonia.
Math Qulnn, Crowders Mountain.
H. Garrett, Crowders Mountain.
R. O. Brown, Cherryvllle.
B. F. Ormand, Crowders Moan
tain. George Wright, South Point.
W. E. Farnsworth, Cherryville.
J. W. Capps, South Point.
W. H. Stowe, South Point.
Lee L. Bryson, South Point.
R. H. Thomas, South Point.
W. V. Ramsour, Crowders Moun
tain. J. W. Atkins, Gastonia.
W. M. Boyce, Gastonia.
S. C. SIpe, Cherryville.
J. A. Hager, Cherryville
S. BImer Spencer, Gastonia.
. W. S. McKee, South Point.
. J. Boyce McGlll, Crowders Moun
tain. s . -
J. O. Rankin, Gastonia.
J. P. Brlson, South Point.
R. L. Rector, Dallas.
P. R. Falls, Gastonia.
D. A. Roberts, South Point.
B. T. Morris, Gastonia.
B. F. S. Austin, Gastonia.
Perry Dover, Gastonia.
R. B. Shields, Gastonia.'
SECOND WEEK.
S. W. Wilson, South Point.
E. O. Webb, Dallas.
Charles Lineberger, Dallas.
J. D. Cole, River Bend.
L. A. TA McGInnas, Cherryvllle.
E. Hope Adams, Gastonia.
J. A. Smith. Crowders Mountain.
P. R. Huffstetler, Gastonia.
S. N. Craig, South Point.
J. H. Curry, South Point.
George F. Beam, Cherryvllle.
John R. Hallman, Cherryvllle.
W. E. Gardner, Cherryville.
W. M. Costner, Cherryvllle.
R. L. Stowe, South Point.
W. D. Crawford, Gastonia
R. A. Love, Gastonia.
J. M. Williams, Gastonia.
CANNIBALS OF THE PACIFIC.
At Raeford, Cumberland county.
last Thursday night Jerry Willis
colored, killed his wife and tier
mother, Annie Jones. He escaped.
Wireless telegraph communica
tion will be established between Fry
ng Pan Shoals and Southport on
the North Carolina coast. This Is a
dangerous stretch of coast and this
will doubtless prevent many wrecks
The establishment of this service
was secured by the board of commls
sioners of navigation and pilotage
for the Cape Fear river and bar from
the Navy Department through Sena
tor Overman.
A Story off GraMsiark
By George Barr McCutcheon
Aothbr cf "Grouitttrk,0, "B9vrly of Grtnutark," "Brrwfr't Million," "Jan Cabli,"
"Th9 Man from Srodnty'," Eta
A Devil-MayrGare Young American in a Land of Romance.
Novel Adventures in a Strange Little Kingdom.
CapUvotingj$tq Best Vein
1 . .-f w 4 Jm.
and a Great Treat for Our , Renders
Will Begin in The Gazette Next Week.
Lieutenant Underwood Writes Inter
estingly of tlie South Pacific Can
nibals, Giving Much Information
About Their Life and Customs.
Lieutenant R. O. Underwood, of
Gastonia, who la on the battleship
Philadelphia in the Pacific fleet, has
recently seen something of the can
nibals of the South Pacific and
writes The Gazette an Interesting
article on their life and habits,
which will be found below. The
Philadelphia Is expected to reach
San Francisco this week and Lieu
tenant Underwood will later be sent
to some post in the West. He is a
brother of Mrs. Z. B. Harry, of Gas
tonia.
He writes as follows:
The Pacific fleet consisting of
eight armoured cruisers, is unable
to steam from Honolulu to Manila
at a high rate of speed because of
the lack of coal capacity. This ne
cessitated the fleet stopping off In
some harbor to coal from colliers.
Guam should have been the logical
place but, on account of her harbor
being too small to accommodate a
fleet of eight ships the only safe
harbor near was Nares Harbor, Ad
miralty Island.
It is located on the northwest of
Admiralty Island, which lies a few
miles north of New Guinea and
south of the equator, and is formed
by a chain of small islands and reefs
resembling, in a geographical char
acter, what is known as an atall and
the harbor proper is the lagoon with
in the atall having a single entrance
through the reef. It is a possession
of Germany.
Though German, the only Ger
man representative Is a trader whose
warehouses are located on one of the
small adjoining islands, and he lives
by bartering with the natives. His
output of goods consists principally
in tobacco and cloth for which he re
ceives in exchange from the natives
cocanuts and capra (dried cocanut).
The island is about ten miles wide
and thirty long, the longer direction
extending east and west. Numerous
mountains abound, the highest peaks
reaching to a height of four thous
and feet. Being tropical in location,
the vegetation is very thick: so much
so that it would be difficult to pro
ceed far into the interior without
some means of clearing a suitable
trail and, too, the natives are vic
ious by nature and the mere fact of
entering into their domains might
be considered an invasion and an en
croachment upon their sacred terrl
tory which they may attempt to re
pel.
The native men average in height
five feet and ten inches, with well
formed, muscular bodies used to
much walking and paddling canoes.
They wear long hair which is kinky
and made brown by the sun. It is
about five Inches in length and
stands out all over at full length and,
to keep It out of the face, it is pin
ned back by a long tooth comb. The
skin is generally brown, though in
some it is black. The nose is flat
and pierced so a peculiar stick of
bone about an inch in length may be
worn. In this position it obstructs
both nostrils. The lobes of the ears
of most of them are mutilated so ear
rings of various sorts and sizes may
be worn. Their bodies are filthy
and stink horribly. The odor of
smoke from their fires of course, Is
the cause of much of this stench.
The people have the custom of the
Pacific islanders, including the Fil
ipinos, or blackening the mouth ana
teeth by the use of bedel nut and the
application of lime to it. The chew
ing of bedel nut seems to take the
place of tobacco, alcoholic drinks,
smoking and other Buch luxuries In
dulged in by the white man, except
it does not intoxicate them. It was
noted that men everywhere had it In
their possession and indulged In its
use freely and with apparent satis
fac:ion. Men and women alike wear only a
breech cloth made by tying a strip of
cloth about three inches in width
around the waist and another piece
of the same width suspended from
the waist piece in front and rear.
These cloths are of various colors
and the wearers seem to be particu
larly attracted toward red. No oth
er articles of clothing are worn ex
cept that in some cases where they
obtain some article of civilized wear
ing apparel they use it. In one case
the chief of a small island was dis
tinguished from his colleagues by the
possession of s cap with a visor of
which he seemed to he very proud.
Many of them were without wearing
apparel of any kind.1
The women are rarely ever seen
by a white man and, upon onr ap
proach, they and the children are
shrewdly concealed In hats .closely
guarded near which no. white, pian is
permitted te approach. - Finally; af
ter much persuasion' and assurances
from us that we would not harm
I them, one woman was conducted into
Makes the food of maximum
quality at minimum cost J
our presence. She was, perhaps, not
more than twenty years of age,
somewhat diminutive in height, shy,
wore closely cropped hair, and pos
sessed no characteristics of the fe
male sex other than that her limbs
were or more delicate lines tnan
those of the men. Her body was
shrivelled, stooped, wasted and thin
and she evidenced signs of having
become a mother at an early age.
This seems to be the cause of the
difference in physical development
of the men and women.
Their huts are arches of straw
twenty feet long and twelve feet
wide on an average and are never
more than eight feet high with
small door at each end only large
enough to crawl through and with
ground floors. The stench of these
huts is stifling. For beds boards
were placed crosswise extending from
the outer wall and elevated two feet
from the ground. There were no
mats nor bed clothing.
Earthenware of the most primi
tive sort served as cooking utensils
It Is supposed the natives live by
fishing and upon snails, crabs, fruit
and from vegetables produced on the
small farms near the villages. There
were signs of wild boars In the woods
and, as skillful as they seem to be in
the handling of their spears, they
possibly feast upon swine.
One man spoke sufficient English
to make it plain that they ate the
flesh of their enemies. They rarely
ever eat white people for two rea
sons, viz: he is difficult to get and
the flesh of the black man is sweet
er they claim.
Their method of roasting their
victim is first to dig a trench and
then build in it a very hot fire, when
the earth is thoroughly heated clean
the fire from the ditch put the man
in cover him with earth and then
build a fire over him.
The war implements are confined
entirely to the use of spears. Fire
arms are unknown and they seemed
not to understand how a bird up in
a tree would fall upon pointing an
instrument at him that made a
noise. Their spear blades are hewn
from a dark flint stone and when
finished have two sharp sides. The
blade is mounted on a wooden han
dle about eight feet in length.
Many of the men had scars on
their breasts and backs which had
been inflicted by a similar weapon.
They use a smaller pronged spear
made of wood and poisoned. From
the number of these scars it is rea
sonable to suppose that they are not
peaceable at all times.
The writer observed them closely
and In bodily form they bear a re
semblance to human beings but for
facial expression and an expression
of intellect In the eye there was a
total absence.
It is easy to believe that such a
being could devour human flesh with
out a feeling of horror.
UNCLE HAM'S PAY ROLL.
Comitig to bo an Knormous Burden
for Country to Hear.
Indianapolis News.
It is well that the people of this
country should realize what a bur
den their government is coming to
be. We know what vast sums have
been spent and are being spent for
army and navy and pensions, but we
do not always realize how great has
been the increase in the ordinary ex
penditures. It was pointed out during the last
campaign that almost 100,000
names had been added to the na
tion's pay roll during the adminis
tration of President Roosevelt. Thus
involved an Increase of salaries of
$70,000,000. The increase in em
ployees was at the rate of 14,000 a
year, and in salaries of $10,000,000
a year. In the last full year of Mr.
Roosevelt this rate of increase was
exceeded, the number of new employ
ees being 22,000. And the figures
are Btill climbing. We now have
370,000 public servants, as against
328,000 last year.
These figures should give ua
pause. We are now paying more
than $400,000,000 in salaries alone.
Each man, woman and child is being
taxed $4.50 each year for the ordin
ary expenses of the government, a
sum which used to be almost enough
to meet all expenses, ordinary and
extraordinary. No one doubts that
the government could, If it were or
ganized and conducted on business
principles as it probably never will
be be carried on for one-half the
amount now used to maintain It.
But even if we cannot get a busi
ness basis we ought to be able to
make some retrenchment In our pay
roll. The land is filled with special
agents, secret service men, inspect
ors and Inspectors of inspectors.
Special counsel have 'been hired to
do work which other men were paid
for doing and should have done. As
sistant attorneys have multiplied he
yond all reason. And the result is
now before us. Nor have we reach
ed the end.
It is not surprising that the pres
ident should have a good deal to say
about economy. It is an old-fash
ioned and almost forgotten virtue.
In these days of high prices and
mounting taxes, it ia well that we
should give some attention to savins
money. All this money comes out
of the people, much of it from those
who cannot shift the burden of tax
ation that is, the poorer people, the
much-talked-of ultimate consumers.
Early Tuesday morning Are prac
tically destroyed the plant of the P.
D. Gold Publishing Co., at Wilson,
publishers of The Wilson Times and
Zion's Landmark. The loss was
$15,000 with $7,500 Insurance.
LAND POSTED NOTICES.
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pent; two doses; for SSVeats; 00 for
orders receive
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prompt attention Gasctte Publish
ing CtK, No, 230 Mala arenae, Gas
tonia, N. C
Mrs. Tillman Gets Children.
Tuesday the Supreme Court of
South Carolina handed down a decis
ion in favor of Mrs. Ben Tillman.
Jr., giving her possession of her two
young children, Douschka Pickens
Tillman and Sarah Stark Tillman
who had been deeded, under the
6outh Carolina law allowing such at
procedure, by her husband to his
father. Senator Ben Tillman. The
case has attracted nation-wide inter
est and has resulted In strong talk
in favor of repealing the present
South Carolina law. Mrs. Tillman's
attorneys at once took steps to get
possession of the children. The 8n
preme Court held that the deed was,
Invalid in that It did sot bear thai
signature of the mother. The opln
Ion handed down was a lengthy one
consisting of about 1,000 words.