MOUNTAIN ISLAND NEWS.
Correspondence of The Gazette.
FOUNTAIN ISLAND. July 80.
Mr. and Mrs. Bland, of Charlotte,
and Mr. Ray. of MeAdenvllle, were
YUltor at Mr. C. K. Hutchinson's
Sunday. Mlsa Maraon. of Charlotte.
1a a guest at Mr. C. E. Hutchinson's.
Mr. Q. R. Grice spent Saturday and
Sunday In Gastonia and Charlotte.
Miaa Hettle Bumgardner return
ed Monday from a visit to Indian
Trail. Mlsa Llnle Lewis, of Ala
bama, is visiting her uncle, Mr. W.
R. Autry.
To keep your health sound; to
avoid the ills of advancing years; to
conserve your physical forces for a
ripe and healthful old age. guard
your kidneys by taking Foley's Kid
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Grace Bryant, an Inmate of a dls
reptuable bouse in Ashevllle. com
mitted suicide last Tuesday night by
drinking carbolic acid.
Last Wednesday Edward Brewer,
a young Virginian, fell 30 feet from
a trestle over 6outh Fork creek on
the Southbound Railway near Winston-Salem.
His head was split wide
open but he regained consciousness
and talked with his brother. He
died 30 minutes later.
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PRISONS BREED TUBERCULOSIS,
There Are- 12,000 Consumptive la
the Penal Institutions of the Unit,
ed BUtea Alone.
That there ara 11,000 tuberculo-
al prisoners la tha State, federal and
local prisons and Jails of the United
States, with less than 15 special In
stltutloos and hardly 800 beds for
their treatment, are some of the
charge made by the National Asso
ciation for the Study and Prevention
of Tuberculosis In the, following bul
letin Issued today.
From several Investigations that
have been made, It Is estimated that
on an average about fifteen per cent
of the prison population of the coun
try Is afflicted with tuberculosis. On
this basis, out of the 80,000 prison
ers housed In the penal Institutions
of continental United States at any
given time, not less than 11,000 are
Infected with this disease. If the
Philippine Islands and other Insular
possessions were taken into consid
eration, the (u ruber would be much
larger. Some of the prisons of
Pennsylvania, Kansas and Ohio show
such shocking conditions with refer
ence to tuberculosis that many war
dens admit that these places of de
tention are deathtraps. Similar con
ditions could be found In almost ev
ery State, and in the majority of
cases the only sure remedy is the de
struction of the old buildings and
the erection of new ones.
Only twenty-one prlsofis in fifteen
States and territories have provided
special places for the treatment of
their tuberculosis prisoners. These
institutions can accommodate, how
ever, only 800 patients. In three
fourths of the major prisons and In
practically all the jails of the coun
try the tuberculosis prisoner is al
lowed freely to Infect his fellow
prisoners, very few restrictions be
ing placed upon his habits. When
the congregate mode of prison life is
considered the danger of Infection
becomes greater than in the general
population. New York and Massa
chusetts are the only States where
any systematic attempt has been
made to transfer all tuberculous
prisoners to one central institution.
The largest prison tuberculosis hos
pital is in Manila, where accommo
dations for 200 prisoners are provid
ed. The next largest is Clinton Pris
on Hospital in New York, which pro
vides for 150
The fact that 100,000 prisoners
are discharged frem the jails and
prisons of the country annually, and
that from ten to fifteen per cent 'of
them have tuberculosis, makes the
problem of providing special places
for their treatment while they are
confined a serious one. So import
ant is the problem that the Prison
Association of New York in co-oper
ation with the State Charities Aid
Association is preparing to inaugur
ate a special campaign for the pre
vention of tuberculosis in the penal
Institutions of the State, and will
seek to enlist the co-operation of all
prison physicians and anti-tubercu
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" THE OIL WELL SHOOTER.
Sometimes Blewn Inte Eternity With
, Hie Own Ammunition.
la certain of Che petroleum produc
ing districts It becomes neceawary some
times In opening an oil well sometime
when the' well has" become dogged or
apparently exhausted to begin or re
new the flow by exploding nitroglyc
erin at the bottom of the well. This
explosive is employed because It is ex
plodes readily by the dropping of a
weight upon it A man who carries
nitroglycerin from well to well for this
purpose Is known In the oil regions as
a "shooter." . s
The shooter has wagon to which to
carr his explosive A square box un
der the seat Is carefully padded, and.
when It has been solidly filled with
sans of nitroglycerin, which Is a mo
lessee like fluid, he fastens down the
cover and drives slowly away to the
wwli that hes to shoot Usually be
makes the trip very early in the morn-
ins; to avoid the customary travel and
so diminish the chance of danger.
For the most part the roads are bad.
and the wagon Jolts along In a way to
make any one bat an old shooter de
cidedly nervous. If It Is dark there
is great danger that a wheel may drop
Into a hole with fdfee enough to deto
nate the explosive! Several wagons
bearing shooters and their loads have
been blown np. bat noSrae ever lived
to tell what sort of Jar caused the ex
plosion. In such a case lKtle Is ever found ex
cept the great bole In the ground which
the explosion has dug, with possibly a
wheel of the wagon a quarter of a
mile away la one direction and another
In the opposite direction.
The shooter generally takes from
80 to 240 quarts of nitroglycerin in
his wagon. The smaller amount Is
quite enough If It should explode to
leave no trace of the driver of the
vehicle.
When the shooter reaches the well
which is to be treated long torpedo
tubes are placed within the casing of
the well, and the nitroglycerin Is poured
carefully Into them. The well may be
1,500 feet deep and Is seldom less than
a thousand. When one of the tubes Is
filled It is lowered with the utmost
care to the bottom of the well This
operation Is repeated until the shoot
er is satisfied that the load Is heavy
enough to accomplish the purpose.
When al! is ready a bar of iron, known
as a "go-devil." Is dropped Into the
well. The instant It leaves his band
the shooter takes to bis heels, seeking
a place of safety. '
Suddenly the earth trembles; there
Is a crash, followed by a snap; a muf
fled sound arises and becomes louder
and louder until a column of oil and
water shoots from 75 to 100 feet Into
the air. The country for hundreds of
feet around Is filled with clouds of
spray floating to leeward. When this
subsides the well Is In operation and
the shooter receives his fee and drives
away. Harper's Weekly. j
The Dsad Man's Hand.
Charms as cures for sickness were
common In England a century ago.
Lady- Wake, who was born In 1800,
tells of a grewsome cure adopted for
the removal of some birthmarks which
disfigured her face. Her mother was
persuaded that ."a dead man's bund
laid upon my cheek and bands would
effectually remove the marks," she
writes. "As a man could not be killed
for the occasion. It was necessary to
wait till some one died. An old man
at last did die in one of the nearest
cottages, and I was taken there In my
sleep. , I remember afterward being
constantly stopped by the widow who
always examined my cheek In order to f
ascertain the state of her husband's
body, ss the marks, she told my nurse,
would certainly fade away as be turn
ed into dust. Whatever the cause of
the cure, the marks in time disap
peared.' "K'e the Cut."
An aged country rector who bad an
old tailor as his clerk, returning from
his church one Sunday with the lat
ter, thus addressed him:
"Thomas, 1 cannot think how it is
that our church should be getting
thinner, for 1 am sure I preach as
weU as ever I did and ought to have
far more experience than I had when
I first came among yon."
"Indeed." replied Thomas. "Ill tell
you what; old parsons nowadays are
just like old tailors, for I'm sure I sew
as well as ever I did in my life, and
the cloth Is the same, but it's the cut.
sir. Ah, it's the new cut." Pearson's
Weekly.
Flewer of the Air.
There Is a plant in Chile and a simi
lar one in Japan called the "flower of
the air." It Is so called because It ap
pears to have no root and is never
fixed to the earth. It. twines round a
dry tree or sterile rock. Each shoot
produces two or three flowers like a
My white, transparent and odorifer
ous. It incapable of being transported
000 to 700 miles and vegetates as it
travels suspended on a twig.
A Leading Citlsen.
"Didn't you tell me Faro Joe was
one of the leading citizens of Crimson
Gulch r; '
"WeU. Answered Broncho Bob. "be
was. When he left town be led the
vigilance committee by a quarter of
a mile clean totter next county."
VTashlngton 8tar
- OMitt Mean-It That Way
Willie I say. ma. if dad as to die
would be go to heaven? Ma Hush.
WWlet Who's been putting-such ri
Oculous thoughts Into your bead I
London Opinion- " V : . "...
On today , Is Worth two tomorrows.
-Franklin. ' -
HIPPED THE LiOil
14
A Oonte&nSetween Human and
SAND0W WAS THE VICTOR.
tripped to the Waist, the Strong Man
Wrestled Wltn the Enraged Animal,
Who Was Mi ttened and Meaaled, and
THorowghly Subdued Him.
The story that Richard, later term-
d "Cbeur de Lion," derived his name
from the feat of tearing a live lion's
heart out of its , body is usually re
garded today aa apochryphal At this
distance of Urn It is Impossible to
toll what was the truth. ; But If Rich
ard bad the strength of Sandow and
strere with the Uon under conditions
similar to those under which Sandow
wrestled with a menagerie lion in 8an
Francisco some years ago there may
be a basis of fact for the legend. In
the Strand Magazine Mr. Sandow told
ef the event
It ' was to be straggle between
brute strength and human strength.
Merely in order to prevent the Uon
fapm tearing me to pieces with bis
claws, mittens were to be placed on
bis feet and a muzzle over bis head.
This Uon. 1 mm tell you. was a par
ticularly fierce animal and only a
week before, had enjoyed a dish that
was not on the menu his keeper.
Well, the eagBgement was accord
ingly made and "A Uon Fight with
8andow" widely advertised. The an
nouncement, I am told, sent a thrill
through the cities for a hundred miles
round, and tn eedar'to be equipped for
a performance wblcb would be found
to attract hundreds of thousands of
people I decided to rehearse my fight
with the lion beforehand.
I had it hi my mind that the effect
of mlttenlng and muzzling the beast
might be to put him off the fight by
frightening htm. and. realizing bow
. foolish 1 should appear facing a lion
that would not fight, I was desirous
of making certain that this should not
be the case.
Accordingly the Hon was mlttened
, and muzzled, but only with the aid of
. six strong men. sTnd I entered the cage
unarmed and stripped to the waist
What happened was In direct opposi
. Hon to my expectations: bagging bis
paws and Incasing his bead In a wire
cage only served to enrage the brute,
i and no sooner bad I stepped Inside
than be crouched preparatory to
springing upon me.
Bis eyes ablaze with fury, he burled
himself through the air, but missed,
for 1 bad stepped aside, and before be
bad time to recover I caught him with
my left arm round the throat and
round the middle with my right, and,
although his weight was 630 pounds, I
lifted him as high as my shoulder, gave
him a huge bug to Instill Into his mind
that be must respect me and tossed
him to the floor.
Soaring with rage, the beast rushed
fiercely toward me and raised bis huge
paw to strike a heavy blow at my
bead. As his paw cut through space
I felt the air fairly whistle and realized
not only my lucky escape, but the
Uon's weak point and my strong one.
If only be struck me once I knew it
would be my coup de grace, and I took
particular care that he never should.
As I ducked my head to avoid the
blow I succeeded In getting a good
grip round the lion's body, with my
chest touching his and his feet over
my shoulders and bugged him with all
my strength. The more be scratched
and tore the harder I hugged him. and,
although bis feet were protected by
mittens, bis claws tore through my
J tights and part of my skin. But I had
him as tn a vise; his mighty efforts to
get away provedjof no avaiL
I Before leaving the cage, however, I
was determined to try Just one other
feat. Moving away from the Hon. 1
stood with my back toward him, thus
openly Inviting him to Jump on me.
At once he sprang right on my back.
Throwing np my arms, I gripped his
head, then caught him firmly by the
neck and in one moment shot him
clean over my head, assisted by tbe
animal's 'own impetus, and launched
him before me- like a sack of sawdust,
tbe action causing; him to turn a com
plete somersault.
. While be lay there, dazed, the door
was unlocked, and I went put, my legs
and neck bleeding and with scratches
all over my body. Butfor these trifles
I cared nothing. I felt that rfoad con
auered that Hon and that I should have
little difficulty tn mastering It on then
next occasion In pubUc,
So' thoroughly was he tamed, how
ever, that, the great ngnt lastea dui
two minutes., When be would fight.no
more I lifted him up and walked round
the arena with htm on my shoulders.
he remaining as firm as a rock and as
quiet as an eh) sheep.
feint Style.
. Edward, aged six, was sent to a bar
ber shop to get bis hair cut. Tbe bar
ber whe was assigned to the Job had
red bait -
: "Would yon tike to have your hair
cut like miner asked tbe barber.
"No, sir." answered Edward.. "Cut
It some other color, pleased-Chicago
News.'.
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Peer Service.
. As tbe fire truck came clanging along
the: street car tracks Uncle Ben stood
at the comer and waved , his . hat
-Ding Itr be exclaimed when the
track bad passed. "That wouldn't stop
iWthesr-BoffaJo Express. ' '
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Happiness Is- A bird we pursue oar
Ufa long without catching it- VTrey. .
TIIM YOUNG MOTHER t A
:,'C::" ;... AND THE PAT HOO.
No a Fable Simply Straight Goods,
One time a HUE! mother, who was
only twenty-five years old, began to
feel Ured all the time. . Her appe
tite had failed her for weeks before
tha tired feeling came.. Her thf ee
little girls, once a Joy fh her life,
now became ' a burden to her. It
was, "Mama," "Mama." all day long.
She never had noticed these appeals
until the tired feeling cams. The
little mother also had red spots on
her cheeks and a slight dry cough.
One day, when dragging" herself a-'
round, forcing her weary body to
work, she felt a" sharp but slight
pain in ner cnest, ner neaa grew ais
ty and suddenly, her mouth filled
with' Diooa. Tne nemorrnage was
not severe, but It left her very weak..
The doctor she had consulted for her
cough and tired feeling prescribed
bitters made of alcohol, water and
gentian. This gave her false
strength for a. while, for it checked
out her little reserYe. When, the
nemorrnage occurrea soe ana an ner
neighbors knew she bad consump-
B. 1 i
llnn ' .1 ,V- .1 . .. ...1 J Umwa
known and told her months before.
Now she wrote to the State Board
of Health and said: "I am told that
consumption In Its early stages .can
oe curea oy outdoor lire, continuea
rest, and plenty of plain, good food.
I An not want to die. I want tn live .
and raise my children to make them'
good citizens. Where can I go to get
well?" The reply was: The great
Christian State of Indiana had not
saving the lives of little mothers
from consumption. At present, the
only place you can go is a- grave.
However, the State will care for
your children in an orphan asylum
after you are dead, and then in a
few years a special officer will be
paid to find a home for them. But
save your life Never. 'That Is a
cranky idea," for a member on the
floor of the Sixty-fifth Assembly said
so. "Besides, said ne, it isn t Bus
iness; the State can't afford it. "So
the little mother died of the prevent
able and curable disease, the home
was broken up and the children were
taken to the orphan asylum.
A big fat hog one morning found
he had a pain in his belly. He
squealed loudly and the farmer came
out of his house to see what was the
matter. "He's got the hog cholery,"
said the hired man. ' So the farmer
telegraphed Secretary Wilson of the '
U. S. Agricultural Department (who
said the other day he had 3,000 ex
perts in animal and plant diseases),
and the reply was: "Cert., I'll send
you a man right away." Sure enough.
the man came. He said he was a D.
V. S., and he was, too. He had a
Government syringe and a bottle of
Government medicine in his hand
bag, and he went for the hog. It
got well. It wasn't cranky for the
Government to do this, and It could
afford the expense, for the hog could
be turned into ham, sausage, lard
and bacon.
Anybody, even a fool, can see it
would be cranky for the State to
save the life of a little mother, and
It could not afford it, either.
MORAL: Be a hog and be worth
saving.
The background of tills story b
laid in Indiana, but its truth applies
wlth equal forcs to our own stite
I t. v,n r-,,
500 annually on her public health,
North Carolina is spending the ex
travagant sum of 112,000 annually
on our public health.
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Popular Excursion to Norfolk, Va
and Return August pth, isio. ; '
' The Southern Railway will oper
ate its annual Popular Excursion to
Norfolk, Va., and. return , August
Sth-llth, 1910. Trains will consist
of first-class day coaches and Pull
man sleeping , cars. Two whole days
and one ; night In Norfolk, ample
lima to Visit .tie many attractive
points In and around Norfolk.
4 Following round trip rata from
Gastpnla, $5.00.
For. detailed information see large
flyers br call on your depot ticket
agent.- ,. AO.
R. H. DeBUTT8,
Traveling Passenger Agent. T