Discusses Shelby Mill Making Thread (Lexington Dispatch) That is an interesting story that comes from Shelby to the effect that a cotton mill there ha a changed its product from the usual type of yarn to domestic cotton thread, a product that is necessary in every house hold in the land. It develops that all the present supply of domestic thread is made in Conneetieutt and is sold through New York agencies. This monopoly has rot been chal lenged and the price has been slip ped up until ten cents is paid by the user for a spool of 200 yards. The ^helby mil! finds it can make a pro... fit by putting up a spool of 400 yard. to sell for ten cents. This is an example of the gradual diversification of the products ot Southern factories, especially those i f North Carolina. In Lexington we have seen' something of the trans formation. Furniture factories here where a few years ago only the brazenly cheap sort of furniture we • made are now making products tha* stack up well along with the best cf their class that Grand Rapids or any other place - an afford. Cotton mills that almost created a sensatioi when they began making cloth that could be used in underwear now nuietly go about their way making the cloth for dress shirts, fancy goods for women's dresses and even draperies of exquisite loveliness for milady’s boudior. And they are be ing furnished ready for use almost vi’hin sound of the whistle of the mill where they are made. While the gradual diversify utioti is most gratifying, it is yet not ra pid enough. Too many products Have to be shipped in here that might bit ter be made here, ana re these mar;' j.-wbrem that the a. uih has not yet vtudured into. The v ore things rjv South can make tret are real.- for the co’inimmers c*e the more mil. .-tn.itial will he the prosperity of i:? it.! -sir » life. S Hindus Bathe With Clothes on in Rites The item ef information that the Tibetan Lamas nor; visiting England indulge in only one -.wash a year sug ' rests a state of primeval savagery to car Western ideas cf what is right and proper. But in various parts of the world strange customs, prevail which to the practical mind would be classed as sheer madness, say the L noon Post. Tv is probably news to many that 1 ieh-caste Hindus take their daily hath with their clothes on! And yet it ts a fact. Their religion compels them to have a bath daily. They will neither touch nor eat: anything before having their bath. It is considered in decent to. bat lie naked, oven within t'-' ir own houses, and a rich zimindnr < r a poor Barman obeys the same role. Men, women and children are gen erally seen bathing in open wells tanks or on seashores with dhoties on. A. dfcoty is a piece of white cloth about s’x to right yards long, wrapped n •'ond the body. After the bath they iirst wrap a dry dhotv around there ;nd let the wet one slip from under refth, so that they neither expose t n.c-ir body not let the dry doth get wot. Even when traveling they man age to have their daily bath at sta t ons where the trains halt for about twenty minutes. Aiost of the rail way companies ’ nve wells near such stations spec ially for that purpose, and the spre lablc of this strange religious rite being carried out with unfailing re gularity is one which causes Wes tern people to marvel at such zeal. Twelve boys who are members of the cotton club in Lee County made an average yield of 1.499 pounds of seed cotton per acre last year. RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT. Whereas God in his infinite wis ooni has seen fit to take unto Himself, f the lata Officer Painter, is reported to have said that ‘JO per cent of the' men of the Cherryville section were engaged in violation of the prohibition act. His was a severe arraignment of the men who were responsible for the death Of the populai officer, it is a well known fact that t maity bootleggers who come into Gaston county courts come from that gener al section of the county. Most of the illicit btismcma probably originates in the South Mountains. Wheroever ; it begins, it always ends in tragedy < r ruin. It ought to be stopped and j the good people of Gaston county can stop it if they will rise up in ! their wrath and demand that the vio I la tors be punished to such a degree that tiny vvtil not soon be caught again. KING NO LONGER TIRELESS DANGER New York.— King Alfonso, of Spain, whose dancing exploits at the It veieria won him no little interna tional repute, is no longer the tire l I-ess dancer he used to be says Alex anderP. Moore former ambassador at Madrid. “Whoa 1 noticed this,” Mr. Moore told the National Institute of Social acietiecn last flight, “I asked him a bout it.” “Mr. Ambassador,” Mr. Moore said the King answered. “1 hove carried' more tonnage, about the dance floor limn any other man in Europe. I feel that I have done my share.” Appreciated Hurry—What did Schrani say when •or give him the brandied cherries we rent to elms;* Ids convalescence? George—lie raid ho was afraid he was not ntf '.v.'; enough to eat the fruit, but in- appreciated the spirit in which it. was sen . TOMORROW BEGINS All Kinds Of WASH GOODS Table Damasks SILKS AND WOOLENS Here are hundreds of bargains in beautiful dress fabrics-table damask, etc. An opportunity that home dressmakers will be de lighted with. Our January Sale has left us with an accumulation of short lengths, though there are many dress lengths in the as sortment. Now they must be cleared out regardless of former price. All kinds of fabrics in the season’s favored colors and patterns. Come and pick out some of these remnant bargains. Leads the florid in Motor Car Value• 25% 3 Greater Power m and New «f Smoothness Quietness k ' Responsiveness Special Display of the New “Enclosed Car” Motor Come view this new motor just introduced at the New York Show* Nash has engineered it to develop 25% greater power with phenomenal smoothness, quiet ness, and 23% faster pick-up* P. F. GRIGG DEALER, SHELBY, N. C.