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VOLUME XI. JLEISTOIR, X. C, APRIL 20, 1909. NO. 48
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JCenilworth Inn Burned.
Special to The Chronicle.
Ashcville, April 14. Kenil
worth Inn, the magnificent $140,
000 property of Mr. awl Mrs. J.M.
Gazzam, which caught fire this
morning shortly before 2 o'clock,
was burned to the ground. The
lire originated over the kitchen
range and when discovered was
burnimj fiercely. The hotel, lo
cated nearly two miles from town,
was inaccessible to tire protection
and the firemen, while responding
prompty, were of service ouly in
' the use of ladders.
At the time of the fire there were
between 500 and 700 guests in the
hotel. All these are accounted for
this morning.
Former State Sen.itor Gazzam,
the owner of the property was
sleeping on the fourth floor. He
was not awakened until the house
was in tlaines and was forced to
jump to the ground. In jumping
his head barely missel a stone
arch. He is at the Biltmore hosp
ital seriously injured internally, it
is feared.
A guest in room No. 2t!S was
rescued by Patrolman E. C. Mc
Connell, who broke in the window
and found the guest asleep. Mc
Connell and the guest were cut olf
by the flames and came down on
the outside by leaping from
balcony to balcony.
Fire Chief Bernard, who went to
arouse Seuator Gassam, was cut off
by the liames. When Gazzam
jumped, Bernard darted back
through the flames and reaching
the stairway came down to the sec
ond floor and jumped. His eye
brows were singed off and his face
slightly burned by contact with
the flames.
Tom Foster, a negro servant,
had the most narrow escape. He
was sleeping on the third or fourth
floor above the dining room an
was not awakened until the floor
ing of the room was burned away
and his bed, tilting to one side,
threw him out. He leaped from
the window to a porch below am
sustained, it is feared, serious in
ternal injuries.
The Kenilworth Inn with its
furnishings cost i?310,000, with
875,000 insurance.
Municipal Cleanliness.
Spriiitftleld Union.
The Street Com mission of Now
York says: "Some day the people
are going to wake up. and things
won't be thrown in the streets."
But things will be thrown in the
streets in every city just so long as
cities do not provide receptacles at
convenient places to receive the
stuff. Waste cans on the curbing
do not appeal to one's esthetic
taste, but they serve a very useful
purpose, as Berlin and other pro
gressivc Europeau cities have found
out They keep a consideruble
quantity of waste paper, fruit
skins and other things from litter
ing up the streets. Some American
cities provide these waste cans, and
it Is surprising the amount of rub
bish they collect in the course of a
day that otherwise would have
been thrown into the street to make
additional work for the sweepers
Iu Berlin they have perfected a
svsem of collecting the rubbish in
these cans so as .ot to strew it
along the street, as is sometimes
done with the scavenger wagons in
use in Springfield and other places
In Berlin covered carts empfiy
the contents automatically and
prevent the contents being thrown
about. And this is only .one oi
the many things that European
cities do better than American
cities, yet over there they do not
boast of their wonderful progres
siveness. We are jnst beginning
to learn some important lessons in
regard to municipal cleanliness.
Little Tales of President Taft,
In 1883 Bill resigned an internal
revenue collectorship, to which he
had been appointed by President
Arthur, to practice Jaw, and one of
his very first cases was the defense
of a mau charged with having
stolen an umbrella from a stand
full which a merchant had placed
just outside his store door on a
rainy day. The merchant was
placed upon the witness stand, and
Bill asked:
"How do you identify the um
brella alleged to have been found
in;the defendant's possession!"
'By its geueral appearance; it is
one of a special lot. I have others
with which to compare it," the
witness replied.
"That proves nothing," Bill com
mented airily. "It is a very con
ventioual type; iu fact, I have one
just iike it," ottering an umbrella
for comparison.
"And does that prove auy
thing?" the witness insinuated.
"I have lost .more than one um
brella from that stand!"
Another little gastronomic ad
venture occurred in a Southern
town, where Mr. Taft was appar
ently the only guest at the hotel
lis first meal was breakfast, and
two limber-backed darkies vied
with each other as to which should
capture the big man" When this
had been accomplished the victor
rushed off, soon returning with a
huge waiter filled with dishes
"But, I say, Sam," Mr. Taft
protested gently, as the contents
of the tray was being transferred
to his table, "haven't you any
breakfast fooodt"
Sam rolled his eyes wildly.
" 'Deed an' we is, Hah!" he ex
claimed. "We got fried ham,
fried chicken, fried steak, fried
tish, fried sweet potatoes, reed
birds, frog-laigs, hot cakes, corn
bread, wattles, biscuits, lightbread
eggs, honey, coffee, an' milk. Ah
dun brung all dat, sah, an' ef dat
ain't 'nough breakfast food, 'deed
Ah don't know what Ah gwinedo,
sah, 'kasje taint nigh hog killin'
time yet!"
While United States Circuit
judge, a washout on the railway
once marooned him in a small
Ohio town, to the "hotel" of which
he proceeded in search of break
fast, there being no dining car at
tached to his waiting train. The
andlord himself waited upon the
table.
Til have," Mr. Taft said, his
appetite sharpened by a 12-hour
last, "some broiled steak, scram
bled eggs, smelts, broiled kidneys,
hot rolls, buckwheat cakes, break
last bacon and, of course, you
will first bring some grape fruit or
oranges and coffee."
"Do you really calculate to get
all that, stranger!" the landlord
asked curiously.
"Surely. Why not." Bill asked
auntily. "Isn't this a hotel?"
"Wall, yas, it is a hotell' ' the
responsible party replied, "an' I'll
git you your breakfast codfish
balls, doughnuts an' cofi'ee this
morn in'."
He turned away, but paused to
remark solemnly:
"Au' say, stranger, ef we did
have all that you wouldn't get it."
"Why not?" the astonmhed
guest demanded.
" 'Cause I'd eat it myself!" was
the conclusive and emphatic reply,
a longing expression spreading
over his face.
New Wealth For The South.
Charlotte Observer.
We very greatly hope that the
cotton stalk paper mill at Cordele,
Ga., whose construction begins to
day, will prove an unqualified suc
cess. If this plant can profitably
produce newsprint paper from its
intended material, the South will
become endowed with a new source
of wealth. To recall that no im
portant use was made of cotton
seed until a comparatively recent
period is to auticipate how succeed
ing generations will look upon the
manner in which cotton stalks are
now treated.
Of the cotton plant's adaptabili
ty for paper-making there can be
no reasonable question. It is
simply a diminutive tree not so
very diminutive either in some
countries where it is native. Cot
ton stalks are true wood, and of a
proper softness. So highly fibrous,
however, is this soft wood that the
practical difficulties in the way of
utilization for paper-making have
appeared formidable. Paper could
be made, but could it be made with
success commercially! The Cordele
mill's projectors evidently believe
that this question now admits of
au answer in the affirmative
Vhether or not the process has yet
been sufficiently perfected, it cer
tainly will be lefore very long.
The modern industrial world, hun
gry for material of every kind,
often forced to seek substitutes for
material approaching exhaustion,
caunot ueglect the cotton stalk in
definitely.
As an important factor in the
cotton-stalk paper mill's possibili
ties, there must not be overlooked
the constant rise iu paper prices to
keep pace with forest destruction
Paper produced under cir
cumstances which five years ago
would have been highly disadvan
tageous might well earn good pro
fits now. With this tendency con
tinning and with the cotton-stalk
paper people improving methods
as their experience increases, we
may reasonably expect the new iu
dustry to establish itself upon a
firm foundation. Once it leoomes
so established, the boil weevil will
receive an important check, for all
investigators agree that complete
destruction of the stalks each fall
is the best preventive yet suggest
ed
Here's to the cotton stalk paper
mill the next broadening of
Southern industry.
Professor Massey in Progressive
Farmer.
Timothy is the great market grass
for hay in the North, and is the
best grass perhaps in our
high mountain plateaus. It is not,
however, the best grass for most of
the South. But there are other
grasses better suited to the South
that are equally as good as the !
timothy, and, in fact, far better;
than most oi the timothy sent
South, which is often the dead i
grass from which a seed crop ha1-:
been threshed, and is not murh
better than straw.
In nil parts of the South, I
wherever the soil has Ijeen ini-
proved by the truck growers, every i
one has seen the crops of crab grass j
that follow the early truck if I
simply let alone. Crab grass hay,
grown on these fertile soils and i
cut at the proper stage, is as good!
as timothy. But the great hay!
and forage crop of the South, the i
crop that has a higher feeding
value in the hay than the red
clover of the North, as high feed- J
ing value as alfalfa hay, is the
cowpea. With this plant we can
grow a larger crop of more valua
ble hay than any grown in the
Northwest and can grow it after
producing a crop of grain on the
same land, and at the same time
can leave the land with increased
fertility byreasu.i of having grown
it.
All over the South there are
equal opportunities for the pro
fitable use of the pea for the feed
ing of stock and the improvement
of the soil, and with cowpeas and
crimson clover any sandy land in
the South can be brought np to the
production of two bales of cotton
ner acre while inakin? a profit in
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the bacon produced and cured on
the place.
I hivelost none of my enthusi
asm for the pea, for the longer I
live the more I am convinced that
this "clover of the South" has
still greater future before it for the
Southern farmer. Will you not
let it heln vou make monev this
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year!
"Take Professor Massey 's advice,
and sow peas, sow them now, so
they will get ripe early, then turn
vonr hotrs into the fields and let
them get fat. Sow peas."
Grace: Pimples, blotches, rough,
shiny skin are from the blood and
stomach. A simple never falling
remedy one that makes dear,
healthy complexions, pure blood,
perfect digestion, is Holli8ter
Rocky Mountain Tea. Surprise your
self. Tea or Tablets, 35 cents. Dr.
Kent's and Granite Falls Drug
Stores.
The Value of a Smile.
The thing that goes the farthest
toward making life worth while,
That costs the least and does the
most, is just a pleasant smile.
The smile that bubbles from a
heart that loves Its fellow men
Will drive away the cloud of gloom
and coax the sun again.
It's full of worth and goodness,
too, with manly kindness blent
It's wortli a million dollars, and
doesn't cost a cent.
There is no room for sadness when
we sec a cheery smile;
It always has the same good look-
it's never out of style
It nerves us on to try again when
failure makes us bine;
The dimples of encouragement arc
good for me and you.
It pays a higher interest for it is
merely lent
It's worth a million dollars, and
doesn't cast a cent.
A smile comes very easy you can
wrinkle np with cheer.
A hundred times before you can
squeeze out a soggy tear.
It ripples out, moreover, to the
heartstrings that will tug,
And always leaves an echo that is
very like a hng.
So, smile away. Folks nuder.
stand what a smile is meant.
The Cost of Any Refrigerator Lies,
Not in the Purchase Price,
BUI IN HE EOST OF ICE THAT IT CONSUMES
So the l)est in the long run, though perhaps it may cost a
little more, is the cheapest box for you to buy. The Odorless
make are so constructed that ice keeps much loDger than in
any other 1kx foods are perfectly preserved. We guarantee
no taint and if any refrigerator purchased of us isn't jnst as
represented, your money back.
WE SELL THEM ON EASY PAYMENTS
No. 33, Ice Capacity :0 lbs 12 00
No. 34, Ice Capacity 75 lbs 15 00
No. 35, Ice Capacity 100 lbs 16 50
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Resolutions
Whekkas, It takes more backbone than it does
wishbone to succeed in business
RESOLVED,
1st That we will continue to buy our hides;
RESOLVED,
2nd That we will tan our own Leather;
RESOLVED,
3rd That we will make I tetter goods.
RESOLVED,
4th That we cut out all talk about competitors
and stick moreclosely to our own business.
RESOLVED,
"th You resolve:
"WHEN IN DOUBT, BUY OF PRICE!"
PRICE CLINE HARNESS & TANNING CO.
A New Wireless Telephone Sys
tern.
Mr. Fessenden keeps the details
of his discovery secret, but he de
dares that the recent test during
which the station at Brant Rock-
was instructed to keep forwarding
messages, while coast statious aud
government vessels equipped with
wireless apparatus made attempt
to interfere, established 1eyond
doubt that the non-interfering
system is a success in every way.
Wireless messages letween Brant
Rock aud Washington are now of
constant occurrence, and transmit
ting and receiving apparatus for
battleships and coast stations,
which is expected to work over a
distance of 1,000 miles, is soon to
be installed.
"Tom," a mammoth elephant in
Robinson's circus, Saturday after
noon at Des Moines, Iowa, picked
up his attendant, Charles Bartlow,
hurled him into the air, and then
beat his body into pulp against a
small barn in the winter quarters
there. After inflicting fatal in
juries to his keeper, the big brute
ran through Ingersoll Park, up
rooted half a dozen small trees,
turned over three circus wagons,
tore the roof from the barn, and
demolished a rustic bridge across
the park lake. It took forty men
an hour to capture the beast, and
then five bnllets were Bent into
him.
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CORN PLANTERS
BL'V THH RIOHT KIOi
"The Daisy"
Rival Gordon Plows
tin II and See Them
R. H. SPAINHOUR & CO.
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Wreck Near Old Fort.
Ashevill, April II .Passengers
aboard train No. 22, from Ashe-
ville to Goldsboro, leaving here at
8 o'clock this morning, had a
narrow escape one mile east of Old
Fort when the train was derailed
and four coaches overturned. The
cause of the accident was not re
ceived by officials here.
Several passengers suffered
severe bruises and sprains, but all
escaped with their lives. None of
the iujured is dangerously hurt.
The injured: Minnie Carson, Old
Vnrt. ankle snrained Kate
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Hemphill, Old Fort, leg sprained;
J.L. Whitlock, Asheville, arm
sprained; A. F. Jackson, Dillon,
S. 0., arm sprained; Mrs. John
Monroe and baby, Asheville,
slight cuts from broken glass;
Conductor Murphy, left knee, arm
and back sprained; Flagman
Schoape, Salisbury, badly
bruised.
All coaches, the chair car and
baggage car were derailed and
turned over. The injured were
taken to the Burgin House nearby
and attended by physiciau from
Asheville and Old Fort. Superin
tendent Simpson, of the Asheville
division; General Superintendent
George R. Loyall and Law Agent
Guerard went to the scene with
physicians.
Children especially like Kennedy's
Laxative Cough Syrup, as it tastes
likes maple sugar. It not only heals
irritation and allays inflamation,
thereby stopping the cough, bat it
also moves the bowels gently and in
that way 'drives the cold from th
system. It contains no opiate. Sold
by Lenoir Drag Co., J. E. Shell and
Granite Falls Drug Co.