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New Iberia enterprise and independent observer., 1905-09-09

that seemed heavy, after the passion
ate voice had ceased. Then an icy
tone made sharp contrast as the en-
peror said, These ships, men, and
gold, Captain Lafitte-how is it that
you come to have them?"
LATTE found 1t difficult to control
himself--to make his voice and bear
ing accord with the respect he felt.
and had but now expressed, for the
man whose sarcastic calm turned
back the impetuous torrent of his
feelings. But the tone In which he
replied was quiet, although husky
with repressed emotion.
Despite, Sire, the tales which have
distorted my name and acts, and
which I perceive have reached your
ears to prejudice you against me, l
claim that what l have of property
was personally gained by legitimate
means-in trading, and also by war;
fare which was perfectly honorable
In its way. 4 have come with the
same heart for whose love you once
cared, to pray that you let me serve
tou, il may, and die happy, in win
ming back the peace of mind reck-
less boy threw away"
A new light swept like softening
hand across Napoleons austere face.
Captain LATTE. you are right" he
said, with an entire change of voice
and manner. He extended his hand;
and I4afitte. with rush of new emo
tions, bowed deeply, and pressed it
to his dips.
AS he raised his head, the emperor's
fingers frightened their clasp, and he
rose to his feet.
"A man whose heart can treasure
such love for me during all these
many years is surely one who should
not be misjudged," he said, looking
up into the younger mans face;
'most surely not by me, and at such
a time as the present"
AS he uttered the final words he
placed his arms around Lafitte's
shoulders and embraced him.
''Sire!"
A volume OF emotions spoke in that
single word.
"Sire. my whole heart is grateful
for these words Of confidence and
esteem. No one can realize better
than myself how grave was the mis-
tske made; and no man would make
greafar sacrifices to undo It,
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer., 1905-09-09
Dukes Costly Tomb.

The finest tomb in Great Britain il
undoubtedly that Of the Duke Of Ham
atom. IN the grounds Of the Dukes
seat \ 60 ever $1,00o. 900.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer., 1905-09-09

At recent Official brake test in
Toulon. France, the results showed
that 1T eleven miles an hour n horse
required twenty-six yards to come to
full stop, while an automobile trav-
cling ut the same rate of speed came
to a standstill in two and three-quar-
ters
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer., 1905-09-09
Wooden Railroad Rails.

Railroads with wooden rails were
first used :. collieries in 1879; east
lron rails were nrst used IN 173s.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer., 1905-09-09
Old Canal still Naviusbge.

Foss Dyke. IN Lincolnshire, con.
strocted BY the Romans, was EnH
lands hrst canal. It Il still navigable.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16
ASHORE, N. G.

Nh. S. Bryant and Mr.. S. G. New
lin have recently purchased the en-
tire corporate property of the Randle-
man Manufacturing Company, and
they practically own the Navomi Falls
plant, neal their recent purchase. Mr..
Newlin is president and Mr.. Bryant
secretary and treasurer Of both cor
po%rations. Nj. Bryant owning the
controlling interest in both plants.
The mills consume 1900 bales Of cot
ton, with an output Of 100000 yards
Of plaids and 100000 seamless bags
annually. They operate 10000 spin
dies and LOIS looms and have recent
ly put in place two improved Samp-
son water wheels Of 230 horsepower,
each Of which greatly reduces the cost
Of production, which is a matter of
very great Importance IN this day OF
close competition in most all lines Of
manufacturing in this progressive and
wide awake country Ct ours.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16
'EXILE NEWS Of INTEREST
Notes Of Southern Cotton Mills and
Other Manufacturing Enterprises.
Asheville, N. G..

The Asheville Cotton Mill plant will
soon be operated by electricity fur
nished by the W. 7. Weaver Power
Company, from the latter's water
power plant on the French Broad, five
miles below Asheville. The mill is
now being equipped with the neces-
sary motors These are Of large size
and power, the machinery to be af-
fected being grouped into units fly
floors and not actuated by a motor at
tached to each loom, as in the Olym-
pia Mills at Columbia. The steam
power will be discontinued. To sup
ply this power and TO meet other de-
mands, the Weaver Company has re-
Gently doubled its power producing
capacity by the installation Of a Bull
lock 750-horse power 660-volt dyna-
mo which is now in operation.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16
Faithful Failures,

Such vas the quaint description an-
piled by Robert Louis Stevenson to all
human beings who had done their best
to do we'll in life. He felt that how
eve much We tried. We should hardly
be able to realize the highest ideals;
we should be failures, judged by that
lofty standard, but we should at least
be faithful because we had done our
utmost.
To get on in life. speaking of mate
rial things only, is the desire of every
one, yet it is only the minority who
do their best. There is a lamentaoIe
lack of determination. a deficiency of
grit" and go" in so many of us. We
see the object, we sigh for its attain
ment, we make spasmodic attempts
to reach it, but We shrink from taking
too much trouble about it, and we
cannot strive steadily and unsWery-
ingly for it.
Those are not the faithful failures.
We cannot impress too strongly upon
our children and upon those older ones
who are just commencing life, that if
they would succeed in climbing the
ladder to any appreciate extent, they
must cultivate the quality of "sticking
at ito use a popular phrase-and
that they must aim high. If we so
seldom reach the rung Of the ladder
which we have in view, and experience
teaches us that this is more frequent
than we like to believe, then it is bet
ter to fight for a still higher position.
The probability is that we shall fall
short of that position, but attain one
higher than would have been the case
had we not been aspiring.
Stevenson, doubtless, had the moral
side of things in view when writing
those words, but they apply equally
well to the material facts of life.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16
AGAINST FREAK NEWSPAPERS,
Significance of Recent Decision of Post
office Department.

In their struggle for business some
newspapers have found it necessary to
bolster up Indifferent publications by
the addition of calendars, sheet music.
patterns, blocks of postal cards, cut
out animal pictures, animal masks,
cut-out dolls, soldiers and naval YES
sells, circulars, hand-bills and card
board s%Dectacles. The purpose is to
make the customer believe he is get
ting a bargain, and this forced circula-
ton, which is not 0 on the merit Of
the paper itself, is offered as proof to
h advertiser of actual worth. It is a
deception to both the reader and ad-
easier of accomplishment because the
publisher has been permitted to circu-
late his cheap John assortment through
the mails at second-class rates.
The POstOffice Department, casting
about to decrease it's enormous expetf-
ditures, has discovered that these
newspaper owners have been imposing
upon it, and has issued notice that the
practice must cease. The point is made
that this matter is purely ~extraneous,
and cannot come within the provision
of the law of 1879, which permitted the
mailing of newspaper supplements at
the second-class rate of a cent per
pound. 1t is estimated that this action
will work a material reduction in the
amount of mail handled, and will, to
that extent, relieve the present'conges-
ton.
1t should also have the effect to in
crease the standard of the newspapers
that have engaged in the business. The
publishers will be forced to furnish a
higher quality of new in order that
their publications may compare with
those newspapers which have been
hewing strictly to legitimate lines.-
Toledo Blade.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16
sci turned to the little girl and spoke

sci turned to the little girl and spoke
to her very softly.
Il want you," he said, "to tell us
what you told uncle and me the other
Gay about nursing mamma when the
lady you see there" he pointed TO the
prisoner, was asleep"
The silence that followed was broken
only by sobs from the auditors in the
room where women ware weeping like
chidden children. Then a little slrill
voice broke out:
"She-she was sleepy in the chair
when nanny asked for her medicine"
What did nanny say"
She said-she said, Dear. give me
my medicine, I ought to have had it
long ago but Dora was s1eepy-so
sleepy and-and couldn't give it to
her"
And what did you DO, little one?"
Counsel's voice trembled.
IL got the bottle, and poured cut
the stuff in q GLASS;"
She hesitated, looking frightened. A
kindly court attendant patted the fair
curls, and she continued:
And Dora was so sleepy and I was
so glad cause l could play doctor. 1t
was such fun. I climbed on the bed
and said so fiercely. Open your mouth
Il nanny opened her mouth and I
made her drink all the stuff"
And what did nanny do?"
Muffin! She went sleepy again."
The unconscious little murderess lost
her grip of things and cried as if her
heart would break:
Mammal want nv mamma-mv
mammal"
Tender hands carried the poor child
away.
Dora tainted when the jury. without
leaving the box, brought in a verdict
of Not guilty. and Jack took her
home in a cab.
In the quiet Of the house she recov-
cred. and went to her room and locked
herself in. Now that the trial was
over, the sense that she was a free
woman again swept over her and al
most crushed her. Jack paced silently
up and down the passage outside her
room for the remainder of that day
and I'll through the long night. When
dawn broke he tapped gently, and the
door was opened from within.
Without a word he lifted the girl in
his arms and kissed her tear-stained
face. And then suddenly he gave a
low cry. for the beautiful reddish
golden hair, whose soft waves he had
so often caressed, lay in streaks across
a wrinkled brow, and in the place of
the gold was the sheen of many silver
threads.-New York Weekly.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16
a PARABLE or PROGRESS.

eaid the placid pool to the ripping rill.
hill:
POh, stay with me here! It is foolish and
wrong
IJor you to forever be rushing along.
stop here on the heights; for, as sure as
YOU flow,
lou will only sink further and further he
low.
You are noisy and boisterous: be quiet
and hear
The choir OF the song-birds carolins near.
Be contented, my brother, and patiently
try
made You lie.
1t is wiser and easier far to lie still"
Sad the placid pool to the ripping rill.
SUI The ripping rill to the placid pool.
A. it lay IL the shadows so quiet and cool:
81 know it Is easy and pleasant to STAY
IN one HoWer-clrcied bed on the hillside
That each leap leaves me lower; and that,
as | flow,
Some desert of death may await me below.
Yet some spirit inpels, in such magical
That l feel it is better to simply obey;
And, somehow, as onward / leap in the
night.
dpN'iN NIS loLSe, Instant valley. l know
1t is right,
And thar safety is sure if I keep natures
rule.
Sad the ~rippling rill to the placid pool.
s. the placid pool lay selfishiy still,
Eeflecting the stars and the sunshine. until
il, purity paid the high price Of its peace;
IL water grew stagnant; its very life-lease
Mas cancelled IN scorn by the sun over
head,
And the placid pool died in its flower
circled bed.
But the ripping rill, as it sped on its way,
GreW larger and stronger and deeper each
day.
The sunshine strewed gems on its breast
as 1t ran,
TO do useful service or nature and man.
1t grew 10 a river, and. when dutv-free.
1t found permanent peace in the infinite
~Char.eS Wesley Casson, in the Christian
Register.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16
$50, 100000 Yearly For Golf.

Would you imagine that something
like $5O,000,O00 could be spent yearly
on the game Of golf? To begin with,
there are $40 golf clubs in England,
76O in the United States, 632 in canny
Scotland, 1874 in Ireland, forty-three in
Wales and sixty-three in different parts
of the continent. There are, all told,
probably not less than 5000 organiZa-
tons devoted to golf playing.
These clubs, counting their grounds,
buildings and preliminary expenses,
represent a permanent Investment Of
$4O,OOO,OOO to $50, 1000, 900; ard compar-
atively few of them Il be run at a
yearly expense of less than $4,000. The
average membership is about 200 and
the average yearly subscriptions of
these 100000 golf players amounts
to nearly $4,000, 900. Each of the play
ers is equipped with an outfit that costs
On an average about 500; and the year
ly purchase of golf clubs, all over the
world, amounts, therefore, to several
millions Of doilars.-Springfield Union.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16
Gastonia, N. G..

A gentleman who is in a good posi-
ton to know says that as far as pos
sible H. Beeler Moore will succeed
his father in the management Of the
cotton mills in which Captain Moore
was interested. Mr.. Moore has been
in office with his father since the
building of the Modena mill and is
familiar with all the work in hand.
He possesses many Of the traits OF
his lamented father and las unqUes-
toned business ability.
The Loray Mill is working more
hands than at any time, perhaps.
since it began operations. Many
new people have moved In and are
working there. Last year it used only
two of its large boilers. Now. it is
using four. There is nc night work
at this mill.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16
Textile Notes.

W. B. Munson, J.. B. McDougal, S.
P. Archer and J. R. Handy have in
]corporated the Denison, Texas, Cotton
Mill Co., with capital stock Of $780,
900. They will utilize an established
plant.
Leroy Springs, the well known cot
ton mill operator, Of Chester, S. c..
is said to contemplate the erection OF
a 100000 plant at Cheraw, S. C.
Sam R. Chew IS reported as inter
ested in a plan for the organization
Of a 100000 stock company to builc
a cotton mill at Banburen, Ariz.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16
Easy Fishing.

Catching fish by hand is becoming a
great sport on the Auxvasse. The
method is to feel under the roots of
trees oyerhanging the water, under old
logs, rock heaps, etc, until MI. Fish
is located, when it is a comparatively
easy matter to run ones hand into his
gills and pull him from the water.
Several catfish, weighing in the neigh
Dorhood Of se~venty-fve pounds, have
been captured i'll this way during the
past few weeks. - Mokane (MoD Her
ald-Post.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16
How to Water Plants.

1t is much wiser to give plenty of
water once every few days than a
little each day. The latter method
keeps the surface moist, and the roots
naturally rise for the moisture, so that
they are near the surface and will be
injured by the heat OF the following
day.
Give enough water to go deep, or
else just enough to wash the leaves.
The amateur should by preference wa.
ter at night, for then the moisture has
a chance to do it's good work before
evaporation starts under the heat of
the suns rays, as it does almost at
once when watering is done in the
morning.-Garden Magazine.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16
Train Kills Two In Auto.

Rutland, VT, special.-Deputy Pc
lice Commissioner Harris Lindsey, OF
New York City, and Miss Eliza P.
Willing, of Chicago, were almost in
stantly killed at Pixies Crossing, near
Bennington, VT, Monday afternoon,
when a North Branch train on the
Rutland Railroad struck the automo'
bile in which they were travelling,
Miss Vikings nephew, Ambrose era
mer, and the Chauffeur, ]. Adamson
We're thrown out and badly bruised
and cut. but not seriously injured.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16
Haw River, N. G..

The Tulinwood Manufacturing
Company has begun work in its new
plant, recently completed. It is eN-
pected the output Of %oottonades will
o o reach $4,000 pounds weekly. The
plant has an equipment of 2,2l0 spin
dies and 125 looms. The main build
ing is 240 by IS feet; engine room
40 by 80 feet; boiler room, 30 by 40
feet; dye house, rs by 50 feet; cot
ton warehouse 40 feet square. This
enterprise represents the investment
of $50, 900.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16
To Investigate Tobacco Errors.

Nashville, Tenn, Special.-Congress-
mar John w. Gaines, of this district,
has received assurances from Washing
ton that the Federal grand jury will
investigate the alleged tobacco errors
made in the Agricultural Department
some days ago. Congressman Gaines
requested the President to have the
papers in the case turned over to the
Federal grand jury, and he received
word that this has been done.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16
To Convey Special Government.

Washington, -Special.-The cruiser
Galveston, which arrived in Hampton
Roads, Va, is taking on coal under
hurry orders, preparatory to making a
ed by the Navy department, at the in
stance of the State Department, to the
duty Of transporting Professor John
H. Hoilander and his secretary to San
Domingo. The professor is to contin-
lie the prosecution Of his inquiry into
Dominican finances and resources.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16
Anderson, S. G.

Water power electrical develop
ment.-The Hattons Ford Power Co.
has been incorporated with capital
stock Of $15O.000 to develop water
power and build an electric plant at
Hattons Ford, 16 miles west Of An
derson. 1t is estimated that 5000
horsepower can be obtained. Angus
tine T. Smythe Of Charleston, S. c.;
R. S. Lyon and Fred G. Brown Of
Anderson are the incorporators.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16
Did Not Whip Convict to Death.

Atlanta, Ca, Special.-State War
den J.. C. Moore returned from Carters-
vile Monday, where he went to investi-
gate the death of the convict, Liddell,
who was said to have been whipped to
death by J. w. Tierce, the deputy war
den at the Sugar Hill camp. Mr.. Moore
made a very careful investigation and
reported that the prisoner died from
natural causes.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16
Cherryville, N. G.

At the annual meeting Of the board
Of directors of the CASTOR Marufac-
turing Company, a 10 per cent. divi-
dend was declared, the 5 per cent
semi-annual dividend having been Or
dered in February. The reports Of
the officers showed the mills to be in
a prosperous condition. New officers
were elected as follows: President.
J. NJ. Rhodes; vice-president, J. A.
Black; secretary and treasurer, D. P.
Rhodes.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16
Meridian, Miss.

1t is expected that contracts will
be signed ir the near future for the
equipment Of machinery for the Bea-
trice Cotton Mills. This is indicated
by the fact that General Manager L.
Cohen, of the company and Il of
the directors John II. Christian, have
gone to New York to investigate as to
machinery contracts.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16
Shifting His Strength.

Gunshu Pass, By Cable.-Field Mar
shall Oyama apparently is changing his
dispositions and reducing his forces in
Manchuria to augment those in Korea,
where his front extends through Tcha-
bootoun. Tehantaaou, TshaketZy and
Manchentz, constituting an uninter-
rupted series OF powerful Notifications,
mounted with seige guns.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16
Fatal Wreck Near Macon. Ga

Macon, Ca, Special.-In a head-on
collision two miles from Macon be-
tween a north-bound Central Of Geor-
gia passenger train and a south-bound
freight at 5 o'clock Monday afternoon
two were killed and three were SO Sc
riously injured that death will probably
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16
|2SaK0PUlRKRs1
AIS &
lSSS1 sI@p Of ~SS

\ gigantic baobab of Central Amer
lea, with a trunk Twenty-Five feet
through was thought by Humboldt to
be not less than $3.50 years old.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16

The Murray system of printing by
biography has been used by the Brit
ish postottice with great advantage.
The German postofice has been giving
it Il prolonged trial, and the Russian
postofice has just given all order for
the apparatus.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16

Mexican botanists believe they have
now discovered a life span even great
er than this, and from the annual
rings 4 cypress of Chepultepec. whose
trunk is lis feet in circumference, is
assigned IN age Of about sixty-two
hundred years.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16

A Boston scientist says that hypno-
tism can develop only natural instincts
and the best %hypnotist in the world
cannot make 4 really moral person do
wrong. From experiments he has
made he believes that seventy-fve per
cent. of the human race, if unre-
strained by family pride and other like
considerations, would steal.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16

A Viennese naturalist declares that
nearly all reptiles that die from natural
causes close their lives between mid
night and morning and fewer still i'll
day light. Most reptiles seem aware
of their approaching death, seeking
out particular places and there await
ing the end, while those whose lives
are spent underground come to the
surface before death.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16

In a recent address Professor II. f.
Osborn gave some additional facts
about ancient American horses. It ap-
pears that in North America there
were always from four to six entirely
different varieties of the horse family,
living contemporaneously. Some were
slow moving and relatively broad
footed horses, living in the forests;
others We're very swift, having narrow
feet more resembling those of the deer,
and lived on the plains. Moreover,
there We're American horses larger
than the huge Percherons of to-day,
and others smaller than the most di-
minutive Shetlands. Strangely enough,
the greatest beauty and variety in the
development of the horse family were
exhibited here just before the total
extinction of horses on the American
continent, a catastrophe which still
offers an unsolved problem for inyesti-
CATION.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-16

It was recently demonstrated before
the Society Of Biology at Paris that the
ancient custom of burning such sub
stances as sugar, resin and certain arc
matte plants for f%umigation and disin-
lection was of considerable value, as
these materials gave off vapors with
antiseptic properties which made them
most useful germicides. This is due
to a large amount fornic aldehyde in
the vapors, and it was found that when
two grams C~hirty-one grains) of sugar
were burned in a bell glass of twelve
Itres d2.6 quarts capacity, objects in
fected with the bacillus coli. bacillus
typhosus, the vibrio of cholera, the
bacillus tuberculosis, and other path
enogenic germs were destroyed within
half an hour. Other more resistant
bacteria required a somewhat longer
exposure, but eventually succumbed.-
Harper's Weekly.