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The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
North Carolina Mill Men.

Greensboro, Specialize first an
nual meeting of the North Carolina
Cotton Manufacturers Association
convened in the Guilford-Benbow
Hotel here. Two sessions were. held.
The first was held at IL O'Clock, but
lasted only a few minutes, a commit
fee on resolutions consisting of
Messrs. Caesar Cone, ID. Y. Cooper
and S. B. Tanner being appointed.
The afternoon session was called to
order at 2.3O O'Clock. President R.
NJ. Miller, Jr., presided. The first
item, was his report for the year. 1t
was a highly encouraging one and
was received with enthusiasm. The
manufacturers, he said, are to be
congratulated upon the condition Of
affairs. Labor and capital are CO.
operating and wonderful progress is
tie result. Organized with a mem
bership of 80, the association now has
a membership of 167. President Mil
Ter called attention to the scarcity OF
labor and also discussed freigh rate
determinations. He said that such
determinations are unfair on the
part Of the railroads and a great in
Justice to shippers. He closed with
a recommendation that the associa-
ton have a committee go before the
Interstate commerce commission and
seek relief. The report was unani-
urously received. The secretary and
treasurer, MI. W. l.. Myrick, then
lead his report, which was received
and adopted. Mr.. D. A. Tompkins,
chairman Of the committee on COM
merce, then read the report from that
body. This was also adopted.
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WON AFTER as YEARS
Philadelphia Scientist Gets $1,000
Award For Light Experiments.
DR.. Paul r.. Heyl Demonstrates We.
locity of Projection, Using the
Star Algol for Experiments.

Philadelphia, PA prize OF
$1,000 that has been standing for
forty-eight years to be awarded to
any resident of North America who
should determine by experiment
whether all rays of light and other
physical rays are or are not trans
mitted with the same velocity has
been won by DR.. Paul r. Heyl, as
sistant in the Department of Chem
tstry of the Philadelphia Central
High School.
The money was deposited with the
Franklin Institute, of this city, on
March %, 1859, by Uriah A. Boy
den, in his day an eminent mechan-
ical engineer Of Boston, and the in
stitute has advertised the proposition
monthly ever since.
During this half century twenty
five or thirty essays have been pre-
scented by Investigators, but after
careful investigation by a commit
tee appointed in each ase none was
found meritorious.
DR.. Heyl succeeded in demon
strating by experiment that those of
the ultraviolet rays of light for
WHICH glass Is transparent, nave
the same velocity as the light rays
proper. He. reasoned that If the We
locity Of these rays were different
they would not arrive from q distant
source at the same time.
For his test he selected Algol, a
well known, variable star in the on
~stellation Perseus, as the source of
light. By means of a attraction
grating he eliminated all but the ul-
tra-violet rays of a known frequency,
and by focusing them On a sensi-
tive plate obtained photographs of
the star.
After developing the plate the suc-
cessive images plainly showed a fad
ing and recovering, and although the
exact location of the minimum
brightness could not be absolutely
determined, the approximate coinci-
dence of the time of the minimum
brightness of the visible and the
photographed rays was obvious.
These tests were repeated several
times to eliminate the possibility of
error and also to take in a certain
range of the ultraviolet rays. The
investigation extended over a period
of two years.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27

E 81 .f-.
New Orleans, Special.-Two miles
in the interior of a big swamp neal
this city the headless body of Walter
Lamana, an italian child between Z
and s years old, who was kidnapped
and held for $4,000 ransom two
weeks ago, was found by police and
vigilants just before daybreak Sun
day. He had been strangled to death
according to the confession of one Of
several Italians held by the police.
The boys neck is supposed to have
been broken when he was strangled,
causing the head to become separat-
ed from the body when decomposi-
ton set in. The head was found a
short distance from the body.
Five Italians, two of them women,
r under arrest charged with be-
ing accomplices to the murder and
extra details of police and deputies
r maintaining order IN the excited
Italian quarter Of the city. All day
long small crowds : have been dis
persed promptly by the police de-
spite whose precautions a report has
gotten out summening a mass meet
ing at Elk Place. Seventy armed
deputies have been placed on guard
at the Orleans Parish prison, the
strongest in the State, where three
of the prisoners are held, and some
apprehension has been felt over the
safety of two ether prisoners who
were Saturday night taken to an adj
joining parish.
Seldom since the Malta lynchings,
16 years ago, has New Orleans been
so stirred with threats of violence as
Sunday and some Of these threats are
made by those who participated i'll
the disorders at hat time. The law
and order element is much stronger
than it has been heretofore, a large
number of leading citizens having
pledged themselves to prevent VIC
lence.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
The Retail Merchants.

Greensboro, SPECIALIZATION having
chosen Charlotte as the place for the
next meeting and elected officers for
lie ensuing year, the North Carolina
Retail Merchants Association adj
Journed Thursday at noon. The fifth
annual session, which covered three
days Of the week, has been in many
ways d successful meeting. Among
tie things determined upon r the
appropriation for a fight on the test
cases Io1 alleged freight discrimina-
tons, ;he organization Of a fire in7
slrance coilapny with a capital of
SlO2.090, .alio other matters of a rou-
tine nature. The officers elected are
as follows: President, N. L.. Craw-
ford, Winston-Salem vice president,
j. n. NcCauSland, Charlotte; seere-
tary, j. W. Carter, Winston-Salem;
treasurer, Alexander Nichols, Ashe-
vile, general counsel, Norman II.
johnson; directors, j: II. Scott, 3.
i. Broughton, and Clearance Sawyer.
Tic following named are the district
vice presidents: First, R. F. Tutle;
second, N. B. Josey; third, A. A.
Joseph; fourth, W. d. Watkins; fifth
F. E. Smith; sixth, E. D. Nail, sew
enth, j.. A. Morris; eighth, T. B.
Brown; NINTH J. O. Gardner, tenth,
Taylor Rogers. AZ
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
Eight Killed and Thirty-Five Hurt.


Hartford, Conn, Special. Eight
workmen were killed and So injured
when a passenger train on the High
land division. of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad crashed
into the rear of work train that was
backing into the city from New Bril-
tain at the Sigourney street crossing.
Of the injured two probably will die.
Some of the victims within easy
reach were dead, bss were left while
the rescuers tried to extricate the lie-
ing. In one instance it took an hour
and a half to rescue one workman
who was pinned between the trucks.
His head was hanging down back
wards and he suffered severely, bNt
the rescuers encouraged him while
doctors reached between the frame
work which held him a prisoner and
treated his wounds on his face and
head. There are three unofficial vcr-
sions of the cause of the wreck. One
is that the passenger train for New
Britain went out on a wrong track.
The second is that the work train had
the right of way until z O'Clock and
should have had a clear track, that
the passenger train was ahead of time
at that point. The third is that the
work train opened a switch and fail
ed to close it.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
NORTH Carolina AFFAIRS
Items of Interest From Many
Parts of the State
MINOR MATTERS0F Of STATE NEWS
Happenings of More or Less Import
@ Told In Paragraphs-The Cot.
ton Markets.
Charlotte R1in Burned.

Charlotte, Specialize George A.
Howell coarse yarn mill, at No. 206
East Fifth street was burned to the
ground Friday night. The loss was
estimated at $4,000 to- $4,000 which
vas fully covered by insurance. The
fire is believed to have been of incen-
diary origin, matches having been dis
covered in the cotton Thursday by
Mr.. Howell. The fire was a fierce one
and difficult to manage. The adjo;n-
ing property was in great danger, but
BY heroic work the fremen confined
The blaze to the single building.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
A Pistol Duel to the Death.

Memphis, Tenn, Special.-Consta-
bic J. H. Goad is dead and Isola
Reed, who it is stated, had been drink
wounds which are considered fatal, as
a result of a pistol duel late Sunday
between the constable and the negro.
Reed, viii is is stated, had been drink
ing had taken possession of the home
of a negro woman, and when Goad,
at the resquest of the woman, at
tempted to arrest the negro, he was
fred on by Reed and fatally wounded.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
North State Notes.

The plant of the Norfolk Lumber
Company, at Wade, was completely
destroyed by fire Saturday night. The
origin Of the fire is unknown here.
The plant was insured, but the
amount Of Insurance has not been
learned.
The State Board of Education an
nounces that the first examination for
5-year certificates for public school
teachers will be held by each county
superintendent the second Thursday
III July. This is under the new law
which also fixes the minimum salary
OF holders of such certificates at $35
a month. The first examinations for
high school teachers certificates will
be held July 25th. The minimum
monthly salary for these is $40.
With skull crushed and one hand
severed, the lifeless body of Charles
Cheek. of Burlington, was found
early Thursday morning lying beside
point near Hollis Chapel.
A National Guard company is Of
gaplzed at Durham. It is accepted
will be mustered into service
next week. It will become Company
NJ Third Regiment, taking the place
OF the one d;sbanded at Sanford last
week. 2s.&E IlIa
Charlotte Baptist are preparing TO
o ooa: a new church at a cost of $780,
4 charter Is grated the j. L. Alex
S Snq Hotel Company, Asheville,
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
Sale of Valuable Properv,;.

Gastonia, Special.-At a meeting
of the central committee having II
charge the Milestone and Vermont
Mills, of Bessemer City, which passed
some months ago into the hands of 9
receiver, it was decided to sell these
two valuable pieces of property al
public auction and the receiver, Mr.
L. L. jenkins, has been instructed tc
carry out this plan. Wednesday, An
gust 29th, is the date set for the sale.
Persons interested will be shown the
property either by Receiver Jenkins
or by the superintendent in charge
of the plants.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
TWO PASSENGERS DROP DEAD.
Francis T. White, of New York, a Vic.
tim of Apoplexy in Pittsburg.

Pittsburg.-Two through passen-
gers died suddenly on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad here. Francis T.
White, of No. 54 West Fortieth
street, New York, dropped dead from
apoplexy on a Pullman coach Of the
Chicago and ST. Louis Express when
the train was 4 the Union Station.
He was on his way West. Mrs.
Kate Thompson, sixty-ive years old,
died in the waiting room after alight-
Ing from a trail. She was on her
way from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to
Elizabeth Pa. Both bodies were re-
moved to the Morguel here.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
G.. A. r. CONDEMNS ROOSEVELT.
He Rode Under Rebel Flag and Re-
Turned Others.

Bangor, Me.-At the Grand Army
Encampment of the Department OF
Maine, here, bitter speeches critics.
ing President Roosevelt and attack
ing the South were made and loud
ly cheered by the veterans. Colonel
F. s. Walls, of Vinal Haven, retiring
Department Commander, said:
go South, and what do you see:
Flaunted to the breeze the old rebel
rag. Even Roosevelt once rode tr-
meath it. Was it right for the res
ident of the United States to do that?
Ought he not to be. condemned"
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
WRECK OF THE LAKE SHORE.
Cars Thrown in Heaps at Columbus,
Ohio-FiVe Persons Injured.

Columbus, Ohio.-Big Four pas
senger train known as the Lake
Shore Limited, one of the fastest
trains on the New York Central lines,
ran into an open switch in the north
ern part of the city when running
at the rate of fifty miles an hour.
The engine and every coach was
thrown on it's side and the passengers
were piled in heaps, five being Sc
verely injured, as follows:
Mrs. Eliza+eth Lowry, aged sixty,
Cleveland; hip injured. ]. G. Cree
gan, C,--eland; back spraiRed. H.
L. Reed, Mansfield; face cut. Mrs.
DIR. Hyndman, No. SIT West 144th
street, New Yor'-; back hurt and
body bruised. Joe Mahafey, fire.
man; fatally injured.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
Tea Yielding to Coffee.

Americans are drinking less tea
and more coffee. The importation Of
coffee in 1896, less the quantity ex-
ported, aggregated 804,692,275
pounds, as compared with 843.652,-
91S pounds in 1906. There were TO-
71O,376 pounds less of tea imported
in 1906 than in 1895.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27

Adams Express Company's Melon.
The Adams Express Company dis
tributed 100000 to stockholders,
amounting to a 200 per cent. diVl-
dend Oh the stock.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27

The Cosmopolitan Shipping Com
pany, of Philadelphia, complained to
the Interstate Commerce Commission
that the Hamburg-American Packet
Company was a monopoly in restraint
Of trade.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
Colby Football Player Drowned.

While boating with a fellow stu
dent and two young women on the
Messalonskee River at WaterViue,
Me-, Oscar B. Peterson, fuHback OF
the Colby College football eleven last
fall, was drowned. Peterson and an
other of the party in attempting to
change seats upset the boat. Peter
son was to be graduated next week.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
Wilmington Firm Makes an Assign,
ment.

Wilmington, Special.-Bremer &
McMillon, proprietors Of the Elite
Market, Second and Market streets,
made an assignment for the benefit
of their creditors. The liabilities are
about $4,000, and the assets about
$500. MI. Sol Sternberger, Jr., is
the assignee.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
Now Government For Dies Moines.

BY an overwhelming majority the
citizens of Des Moines, Iowa, have
adopted a new plan OF government.
1t provides for live elective commits
sioners, one to act as mayor and the
others as heads of departments. All
other officers are made a~ppointive.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
A Sensational Surprise at Lenoir.

Lenoir, Special.-Fhere occurred
a sensational surprise here when A
W. Dula, jeweler, had his clerk, Il, Fl.
Tomberlin, arrested for stealing.
Tomberlin had in his possession sew
eral watches and some small pieces
OF jewSelrys He was bound over in
5000 bond until court, which was
quickly given.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
united States For Armamcnts.

General Horace Porter surprised
the Peace Conference at The Hague
by giving notice that the United
States reserved tho right to present
the question of the Limitation OF
ornaments.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
Wool Growers Incorporate.

The Great Western Wool Growers
Corporation was organized at Cancn
City, Col, unG me laws OF Coo
RADIO, with a capital stock OF $780,
000.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
Midshinmen

Seventy-three midshipmen gradu-
ated from the Naval Academy at AM
napolis, Md, and received diplomas
from Secretary of the Navy Metcalf.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
New RECORDS in Pig IRON.

The production of pig iron contin-
ues making new records without de-
pressing prices, and the cotton mills
have contracts assuring activity far
into the future.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
Labor Struggles Successful.

Few serious labor struggles are in
progress and more advances in New
England mill wages extend the bene-
fits to 100000 hands.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
FaHors Penny POSTAGE.

In an interview at London Mr..
Henniker Heaton gives his arguments
in favor of universal penny postage.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
HEADLESS BODY IN SWAMP
The Young Italian Boy hid
mapped in New Orleans.
ITALIAN TELLS STORY OF CRIME

Lad Kidnapped and Held for $4,000.
Ramon at New Orleans Strangled
to Death Because of His Cries and
Pleadings to be Taken Home-Con-
fession Wrung From One of the
Suspects, Who Was Taken From
His Home Into the Woods and Put
Through Sweating Process.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
Wholesale Prices Quoted in New York
MILK.

MILK.
The Milk Exchange price Tor standard
quality is 2Mc. per quart.
RIJT"rER
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MIX THIS AT HOME.
Valuable Prescription Which Anyone
Can Easily Prepare.

The following simple homemade
mixture is said to readily relieve and
overcome any form of Rheumatism by
forcing the Kidneys to filter from the
blood and system all the uric acid and
poisonous waste matter, relieving at
once such symptoms as backache,
weak kidneys and bladder and blood
diseases.
Try it, as it doesn't cost much to
make, and is said to be absolutely
harmless to the stomach.
Get the following harmless ingredi-
ents from any good pharmacy: Fluid
Extract Dandelion, one-half ounce;
Compound Kargon, one ounce; Com
pound Syrup of Sarsaparilla, three
ounces. Mix by shaking well in a bot
tie, and take teaspoonful after each
meal and again at bedtime.
This simple mixture is said to give
prompt relief, and there are very few
cases of rheumatism and Kidney
troubles it will fail to cure perma.
nently.
These are all harmless, everyday
drugs, and your druggist should keep
them in the prescription department;
II not, have him order them from the
wholesale drug houses for you, rather
than fail to use this, if you are af.
flicted.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-02-15
GUIDES CHILDREN.
Experience and Mothers Love Make
Advice Valuable.

An Ills. mother writes about feeding
children:
eff mothers would use Grape Nuts
more for their little ones, there would
BIZ less need for medicines and fewer
doctor bills.
eff those suffering from indigestion
and stomach troubles would live on
Grape-Nuts, toast and good milk for a
short period they would experience
more than they otherwise would be-
lieve
"Our children have all learned to
know the benefit of Grape-Nuts as an
appetizing, Strengthening food. 1t is
every evening, with few variations,
like this: Mamma, let's have toast and
Grape-Nuts for breakfast; or, let's have
eggs and rape-Nuts'-never forget
ting the latter.
Zone of our boys in school and Is
ysars of age repeatedly tells me his
mind is so much brighter after having
Geape-Nuts as part if not all his
breakfast" Name given by Postum
Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the lit
tie book, "The Road to Wellville." in
pkga There's Reason"
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ONE DAY BEHIND SCHEDULE.
Boston Business Man Wanted to Take
Time to Catch Up.

Several years ago, when the Univer-
slty of Chicago held it's decennial
celebration, John D. Rockefeller was
Its guest for several days. A bewild-
ering succession of functions followed
one another in such quick succession
that each affair was from one to four
hours late.
At the great banquet on the closing
day, Mr.. Rockefeller, in his after
dinner speech, told the following
story:
81 have felt for the past "a hours
like the Boston business man who
lived in che suburbs and came in to
his Office every day. One winter after
noon he took the train for his home,
but terrific snowstorm was raging,
and about half way to his suburb the
train was showed in. All hight the
passengers were imprisoned, but early
in the morning they managed to reach
nearby telegraph station, and the
Boston man sent the following dis
patch to his Office:
"'Will not be in the office to-day.
Have not got home yesterday yet
Montreal Herald.
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Used Him as Eraser.

The late DR.. Henry Martyr Field
some years ago related at a Williams
alumni dinner rather amusing Incl
dent of his freshman days at college
Being only IL years old when he
entered he had not reached the point
where the natural friction between the
big boy and the small boy ceases and
he was at particular feud with one Of
his fellows. stalwart country youth
fresh from the farm. One day young
Field went early to the classroom and
put upon the big blackboard very
exasperating caricature of his en-
envy, with his name beneath. When
the aggrieved party saw what had
been done he said not a word, but
catching up his youthful tormentor, he
used him as an eraser and after rub
bling out the offensive picture quietly
took his seat.
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convivial cheer that went around the
festive board through the medium OF
the ponderous punch bowl, or the
quantity cut champagne glasses. Many
a trifie that tells of the love of fem
mime finely fills another case-rare
bits of lace, miniatures, silver and
CHINA delicious bit of feminine folly
woven indelibly into the meshes Of
all time.
1t does seem bit CHASTITY to turn in
with the ghosts of the great, upon the
bed where Washington died, but it
has been done; and, too, where Lafay-
cite rested. On the quaint little dress
ing case, where reposed his august cue,
now, each springtime, lies a riotous
mass of modern hairpins and feminine
furbelows. The sitting room of Nellie
Gusts, that Of Martha Washington,
the family dining room and the library,
each with it's wealth of heirlooms, tells
of the painstaking care and research
of many years. In these rooms the
Regents sleep, and work, and live, and
Undue themselves with the spirit of
the Washingtons.
The attendants, for the most part,
are more replete with new uniforms
than historical information, but there
is reason for knowing that it was in
the dear old library that Washington
received the official announcement of
his election as president of the United
States. There are II closets in three
sides of this room-curious little
closets within closets, none perceptiblA
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Henry Clay and Lew Wallace.

"Mr. Clay was of personality once
seen never to be forgotten. Tall,
slender, graceful, he had besides the
air majestic which kings affect, i'm.
agining it exclusive property.
Throughout Mr.. Clay's performance
my eyes scarcely left his countenance,
which, as he proceeded, sank from
sight until, by the familiar optical
illusions, nothing of it remained but
the mouth, and that kept enlarging
and widening until it seemed an elias
tic link holding the ears together.
Indeed, at this late writing, my one
distinct recollection of the man and
his speech is the mouth and it's capac-
ity for infinite %stension. "-Autobiog'
raphy of Lew Wallace.