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FACB SIX. TIIB GASTOXIA OAZETTK. FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1010. B1GGIHG A BIG TIGER COLOSSAL .RCTUR1JS The Jungle Monarch Was Trap ped tolling In His Oath. fc The Fcurth Brightest Star )n A!l . the Heavens . A FEAT OF MARKSMANSHIP. 1 !?(3!i IN REALITY A MONSTER SUN. OYER GASTON COUNJY. i i 1 - '. : " M'ADKXVILLK MATTKUS. .nation could not C0NC!V5 CF A HANDIER AND PRETTIER FORM f.M THAT WHICH 13 PRESENTED m CRYSTAL DOMINO SUGAR I.S'THl COULD THE MOST PATirL LA!? PEOPLE ASK FOG MOf?E PERFECT PU&rTY. NOR ECONOMICAL PEOPLE rOr? LLCS WASTE. SOLDsyGROCERS - SUGAR ST MONUMENTS VK WANT A ;OOI MAX TO KKPHKSKXT I S IX GASTON corxTV. oxi: who tax givk his fntikk timk to the work pi:kfi-:i:i:i-:d. wi: mam kaiti aythixg in the link of (kmktkity work. matk1ual and workmanship Gl'ARANTKKD. IT WILL PAY ANY IX OUt LINK TO OFT Ol It PKK'FS. OXK NEEDING ANYTHING Mecklenburg Marble & Granite Company East Second Street. Phone 557 Charlotte, N. C. LlSHINGLES awi: PROOF ,; i 'T'HEY will not burn. 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We also keep in stock legal blanks of all kinds, rural route en velopes, manuscript covers, receipt books, note books, type writer papers, carln n paper, stencil board, scratch pads at 5 rents a pound and other supplies. Mail orders receive prompt attention. Gazette Publishing Co. Phone 50. No. 236 V. Main Are. Gastonia, N. C. Or.ly the Brut' Had Showed Above the Water, and th Well Placed Bui lot, Firod F rom an Elephant. Entrd th Noatjal and Broke HU IJaek. Ao Interfstlritf aecoant Ct , tiger haul li given by one who bud a wide experience In huuting t bin imwt dnn gerous of tM'UHt. Mounted uKn ele- pbaats. tbe writer and bis companions bad beeu beating the Juugl witbout making a llml until, as tbey were about to give up the search, a sudden disturbance among tb elephants ap peared to betoken a tiger near at bund. Giving directions to the others as to the order of nitircblnjr their ele phants, the writer ordered his ma bout to turn into the thick feathered foliage to the left In search of a mk)I of water which he remembered to be there. There was a slight descent to n loug but narrow hollow ubout fifty or sixty yards wide. This was tilled with clear water for an unknown length I was Just about to make a remark when, instead of speaking. I gently grasped the mahout by tbe head as 1 leaned over the howdah aud by this signal stopped the elephant There was m remarkable sight. Atout 120 yards dlstaut on my right the head and lie; k of a large tiger clean and beautiful, reposed nliove the surface of the water, while the body was cooling, concealed from view Here was our friend enjoying bis lllet bath, while we bad beeu pound Ing away up and down the Jungles which he had left. Fire nt him." whispered the ma hout, "or you will lose hiin! lie will see us and lie oh " Hold your tongue!" I answered ne can't ee ns. for thp sun Is at our back and Is shining In his eyes. See how greeu they are." At this moment the tiger quietly rose from his bail) and sat up on end IIUe a dog. I never saw such a sight His bend was beautiful. Htid the eyes shone like two green electric lights as the sun's rays reflected from them, but his huee l!y was dripping with muddy water, as he had leen reclin Ing upon the alluvial bottom. For quite a minute, the tiger sat up in the same pos'iion. At last, as if satisfied that lie was In safety and se clusion, he once more lav down with only the head and neck exposed above the surface. "Hack the elephant pently. but do not I urn around." I whispered. Im mediately the elephant bucked througl) the feathery tamari-k without tlr slightest sound, and we found our selves outside the jungle. We coul I breathe freely. "Go on. now. quite gently till 1 press your bead, then turn to the right, de scending through the tamarisk till 1 again touch your turban." I counted the elephant's paces as she moved softly parallel with the Jungle until I felt sure of my distance A slight pressure upon the mahout's head aud the elephant turned to the right. The waving plumes of thv dark green tamarisk divided as we gently moved forward, aud lu another mo ment we stopped. There was the tiger in the same position, exactly facing me, but now about seventy-five paces distant. "Keep the elephant quite steady." 1 whispered, and, sitting down upon the howdub seat, I took a rest with the rifle upon the front bar of the gun rack. A piece of tamarisk kept wav ing in the wind Just in front of the rifle beyoud my reach. The mahout leaned forward aud gently bent it down. Now all was clear. The tiger's eyes were like green glass. The ele phant for a moment stood like stone I touched the trigger There was no response to the loud re port of six drams of powder from the "tive-seven-seven" rifle, no splash in the unbroken surface of the water. The tiger's head was still there, but Id a different attitude, one-half below the surface and only one cheek and one large eye still glittering like an emerald above. Upon examination it proved that there was no hole whatever In that tiger, the bullet having entered the nostril, broken tbe neck and run along the body. The animal consequently had never moved. This tiger when laid out straight, but without being pulled to Increase its length, measured exactly nine feet and eight inches from nose to tail. Youth's Companion. It la TugM to Ba at Lsaat a.Hua. dead Tlmea Larger Than Our Sun In Diameter and la About Nina Hun drod and Fifty Million Mil. Distant. Most of us are prone to think of our snu aa being tbe largest txnly In ttio heaven, tbe grand high lord of all the little planets aud tbe twinkling stars. Such la very far from being the case. Practically all of tbe fixed aud twlu- klloK stars are aa largt aa. and some even larger than, our own sun. 1 Tbey a ppea r s ma 1 1 on ly ttecu use of t bel r grea t distance, for they are Just as truly suns with families of plauets dying round them as is our central orb. There Is one of these stars lu par- tlculnr that has attracted the atten tion of astronomers, not only on ac count of Its great sie. but also Its enormous dlstauce frotu our solar sys tem This Is the star A returns To have some concept lou of the almost In conceivable distance that separates It from us the astronomical standard of measuring distance must he compre hended. Now. light does not come from a luminous Uidy Instantaneously to our eyes It lakes time to come, because it Is a wave motion in a medium. I lie velocity of Itgnt as most recently determined Is about ISci.oOO miles a second Multiply tbis by the number of seconds in a year and we have a distance known in as tronomy as it light year Therefore when a star Is. say. six trillion miles away we say it is one light rear orr. which means that the Iturlit from the star takes one year to reach us It mav Is of some Interest to know that there Is no fixed star less than ten light years away, or sixty trillion miles This is tbe one known as Alpha Centaurl. Most of the stars are much farther eveu than that. Arcturus being the farthest one measured to date Arcturus Is thought to he at least a hundred times larger than the sun in diameter. That would make it 10.000 times larger in surface, or the dimension that Is ordinarily compared By means of the pliotoinerer Its bright ness has been determined to be ii.'Jtill times that of the sun It is the fourth brightest star in all the heavens. fMri us, the dog star, being tirst u bright ness. As regards tlie distance from us. it has lieeir found to lie a little over Kin light years, or !C. trillion miles This distance, of cuurse. cannot be conceived by mortal man. it is so stu pendous anil amazing. However, one cau get a slight idea of it by means of au everydav analogy Think of tlie fastest express traiu going at the rate of Hut miles an hour toward such a star and compute the time It would take. It Is found to be in round nuin hers exactly I2I).(hn).immi years: Now. as we know that li lias taken Its light eo long to come to us aud as there are great many stars whose distance Just as he finished a prayer in a ehurch at Dove,r, Del., Ferdinand Wolfe fell over dead. Miss Florence Shankland, aged 21, a melancholy lady or Louisville, Ky.. killed herself last Thursday because sae feared that poisonous gaset caut "a)d by Halley's comet would inuff out Iter life at any moment Sarah Peterson asked Seth E. Crews ia Chicago if it would be legal it ahe married John R. Smith, a wealthy man, on his death bed. He said "yea;" She married Smith, who died immediately afterwards, left her $350,000. The lawyer "by cogent rea soning arrived at the conclusion that if her "yea" was worth J350.000 to her, his "yea" was worth a tenth, or $35,000. He sued and got $5,000. Three hundred and fifty thousand gallons of burning oil was a alght witnessed in Fort Richmond, CL, laat week when a huge tank of the Standard Oil Company caught Ore. The loss is $100.000.. Hia Last Requaat. Charles Dickens used to relate an anecdote of tbe last moments of Faun- tleroy. the great banker, hanged for forgery in 1S24. His elegant dinners had always been f olio we i by some re markable and matchless enracao. the source of which be kept a deep secret Three of his boon companions had aa Interview with him la the condemned cell the day before his execution. They were about to retire when the most impressive of the three stepped back and said: "Faontleroy, you stand on the rerge of tbe grave. Remember the text, my dear man. that we brought nothing into this world, and It is certain we can take nothing out Hare yon any objection. thrortyto tell me now. as a friend, where yon got that cnracaoT. 1 Life to fruitful la the ratio In which ft Is laid out la aoMe action or patient perseverance. Uddon. has never been measured exactly, but which have Iteen computed to be ap proximately several million light years away, we have aosoiute proor or the great age of tbe world and tbe stellar universe. The elements composing the sun Arc turus ure. peculiarly euough. very nearly the same as our sun. As it is one of the most wonderful and as tounding things that a scientist can teli what a star so far away is com posed of. a small explanation of the modus opera ud I would not come amiss here. It is done by meifns of a small instrument known as the spectroscope. which consists of glass prisms so ar ranged as to split up the light falling on them into its constituent parts Now. every substance has the power to cause a certain color or Hue In the spectroscope If if is in a. luminous con ditiou. so this instrument is simply pointed at the star whose composition is sought, and if any line is found that corresponds to h substance that we know about we assume that this sub stance is found In tbe star examined . Another Interesting thing Is the meth od pursued in determining the great distance of the stars. This is done by determining their parallax or angle made at tbe star between two rays from the" star striking at two differ ent "points in space. As the greatest distance that we can measure off In this way aud stilt take tbe angle is the diameter of the earth's orbit, that distance Is Invariably used. It is al most 200.000.000 miles, but that as Is seen. Is very small compared with tbe enormous distance of tbe star. Now, tbe angle thus measured from Arc- turns Is only two-hundredths of a sec-. ond! When It is remembered that there are (X) seconds In a. minute. 00 minutes In a degree and 300 degrees In a circle, it la at once seen what a small angle the parallax is and bow careful tbe astronomer has to be In, his observations. Indeed, for a long time, before modern delicately meas uring' Instruments were invented, no tar's distance could - be found, for there waa seemingly no angle formed, and thus tbe old scientists had to as sume tbe star to be at Infinity. Pitts burg Dispatch. , Gueaa This la 80. Mrs. Ben ham How much did yon pay the minister when we were mar Tried T Fennam-r dldnT pay bJnW'but don't worry: no man ever had the beart to attach a man's wages for that kind of a debt-New York Press. - - Beware so iotur aa yon live of Judg ing people by appearances, L2 Fon taine. ' - ' Correipondence of The Gaiette. ..: McADENVILLE, April SS.Mlse Vwlle GrisJale' visited friends and relatives at Mayeiworth and Belmont laat week. Miss Annie Hooper re turned Saturday -vfrom Charlotte, where she spent several .'days with friends . and relatives' Miss brace Albea is spending . several . weeks with friends at Salisbury and Spen cer. Mr. Frank Costner, of Gas tonia, spent several days here last week assisting at the Taylor' Drag Company's store. The public school here closed last Friday after a seven-months sesslon. The year just closed has been a most successful one. Prof. Ransom, of Bessemer City, was ably assisted by Misses Abbie Hall and Bertha Stowe, of Belmont. The protracted meeting which has been going on here for the past two weeks, closed Sunday night. Rev. 11. S. Howie, the pastor, preached a most excellent sermon Sunday morn ing at 11 o'clock, at which service the Lord's Supper was administered. Sunday' evening the presiding elder, Rev. J. R. Scroggs, preached a strong sermon. MIbs Jessie Moore and Miss Drusil- la Wilson were Charlotte shoppers Saturday. Mr. R. R. Ray was a business visitor to GreenBboro last week. Mr. and Mrs. I. F. Matpy were Concord visitors Saturday and Sunday. Dr. O. W. Taylor -spent Saturday and Sunday In Charlotte. Miss Carrie Latimer was a Gastonia visitor Saturday. Mrs. Dora Webb was a Charlotte visitor Saturday. Mr. G. WC Rumfelt visited Charlotte Friday. Mr. Ralph Ray, who has been in Baltimore for several months taking a course at a dental college, has returned to his home here for the summer. Mr. J. H. Schoolfield. of Xew York, was a business visitor here Thursday. Mr. J. B. Reid went to Gastonia Friday. Mr. R. H. Smith, of Spartanburg. S. C, is here placing some additional work to the spinning frames. Mr. Smith has a patent on a spinning frame which he has invented. He has been offered a handsome sum for his patent but has not yet sold it. Mr. J. I. Hammett has been ap pointed by Sheriff T. E. Shuford to serve out the unexpired term of Deputy Sheriff S. B. Brymer, who re cently accepted a position on the Gastonia police force. Mr.. Brymer was for several years a deputy sheriff here. Mrs. J. L. Webb has returned from Hickory. Miss Bessie Earney went to Gastonia Thursday. Miss Lottie Albea returned to her home Sunday from Salisbury and Lexington where she visited friends and relatives after being a patient in. the Whitehead- Stokes Sanitarium, where she was greatly benefitted. Mrs. Alma Ezell, of Charlotte, is the guest this week of Miss Lottie Albea. The five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cole died here .Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock and was buried Tuesday in Goshen Ceme tery. The delegates from Liberty Bell Council, Daughters of Liberty, of Mc- Adenville, who attended the meeting of the State Council at Gastonia this week, have returned and report a very successful meeting. The dele gates from this place were L. M. Rhvne. Miss Cora Mauney and G Rumfelt. REVe. Q, DUKES U'riUtt , My wift hat turn in vtry . aW ttttt ckall! , Kothint utwud TO USE PERUNA. my .w.v.w .'. .. .v.v.v.v v. VVjWrc5N 's IS i I MRS. J. C. DUKES. Rer. J. O. Pukes, Pastor of the Uni tarian Church of rtnetown, N. a, write: 'My wife has been in a very bad atate of hcilth for several yeara, and nothing nee mod to do her any good until aha begun to use l'eruna one month ago. Since then the color has returned to her f toe, and she ia gaining in flesh every day, and I believe she is a well woman to day. "My little boy, ten years old, was pale and had but little life. He began to use Peruna the day bis mother began. To-day his face is rosy, and hejs out in the yard running and jumping with the rest of the children." Stomach Trouble Relieved. ' Mrs. T. J. Ballard, Pryor Creek, Indian Territory, writes: "lain happy to tell you that I keep free from my old tomach troubloj feel no catarrhal symptoms at all. I am able to do my work, eat and drink what I want, and rejoice that I found a sure cure in your valuable medicines, which I failed to find in the betof home physicians." Bishop Horner Coming. Bishop Junius M. Horner, of Ashe ville, will preach at St. Mark's Epis copal church here Sunday evening at 7:45 o'clock and will also administer the apostolic rite of confirmation. Special music has been prepared for the occasion and the interior of the church will be attractively decorated. Sunday morning at 11 o'clock Bishop Horner will preach at Bessemer City and Monday night at St. John's church. High Shoals. The classis of North Carolina, Re formed Church of the United States, w ill meet in its eighth annual session at Lenoir Wednesday, May 4th. This body has a membership of seven thousand in this State. SEABOARD AIR LIMB SCHEDULE. W. Lowell Locals. Correspondence of The Gazette. LOWELL, April 28. Mr. W. T. Wilkinson, of Charlotte, was, the guest of Mr. S. M. Robinson Tuesday. Miss Kate Robinson left Wednes day to enter school at Banner Elk. Mr. B. F. Leonhardt was a Gastonia visitor Wednesday. Mrs. C. V. FIte and children, of Charlotte, are visit ing Mr( and Mrs. H. S. Adams. Mr. D. W. Mitchem was a business visitor to Gastonia Tuesday. lr. and Mrs. D. P. Stowe, of Belmont, were in town Sunday. Mrs. S. M. Robinson and Miss Edith were. Gastonia shop pers Tuesday. Mrs. L. E. Rankin and children visited relatives near Belmont Thursday. Mrs. M. A. Cloniger and grand-daughter. Miss Verna, who spent a few days with Mrs.- WVrO. Cash ion; left Monday to visit relatives In Gastonia. Mrs. Cleveland .Guin has been quite sick for some time. Mrs. Dr. Frank Rob inson and children are visiting her parents. Rev. and 'Mrs. M. T. Steele, at Mooresvllle this week. Mr. Wil liam Grissom, who recently moved here from Tlorida, has taken the place of Mr. Will Hugglns In the blacksmith shop. s - Mrs. -. Elisabeth ; Bowman, who some time ago moved from Wades- boro to Oklahoma,, has Instituted I habeas corpus proceedings at Wadea- boro to secure possession of her three children - from, ' her uncle, Thomas R. Bowman.' These arrivals, departures and connections with other companies are given only as information. Schedule taking effect February 6, 1910, subject to change without notice. , Trains leave Charlotte as follows: No. 40, daily, at 5:00 a. m., for Monroe, Hamlet and "Wilmington, connecting at Monroe with 33 for Atlanta, Birmingham; with 38 for Raleigh, Weldon and Portsmouth. With 66 at Hamlet for. Raleigh. Richmond, Washington, New , York. No. 133, daily, at 10:35 a. m., for Lincoln ton, .Shelby and Rutherford- ton. No. 44, dally, at 5 p. m., for Mon roe. Hamlet, Wilmington and All lo cal points, connecting at Hamlet with 43 for Columbia, Savannah and all Florida points. No. 47, daily, at 4:45 p. m., for Rutherfordton and all local points. No. 132, 7:15 p. m., connecting at Monroe for all points North, carries Portsmouth sleeper. Trains arrive in Charlotte as fol lows: No. 133, 9:50 a. m., from all points North, brings Portsmouth sleeper. No. 45, dally, at 11:55 a. m., from Wilmington and .all local points North. ; No. 152, 7 p. m. from Rather fordton, Slielby, Lincoln ton and C. N. W.. Railway points. Johnson City. No. 46 arrives 10:30 a. xu , from ; Rutherfordton and all local stations. No. 89, dally, at 10:50 p. m., from Wilmington, ; Hamlet and Monro; also from points East, North and Southwest., connecting: at Hamlet , and -Monroe.' i. .'-.' t .. , ' Cafe cars on all through trains. , ' , ; Ticket office Selwyn hotel. ' All trains run dally. For further Information call en or address . .. , .James XER. JR, ff.P Av ' . , . ; .;. r charjott, n..c x H. 8. LEARD, D. P, Jl.. . V .. Raleigh,-N. C. - C B. RTAN, G. P. X, . - Portsmouth. Va,"
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