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YOL. X.
HiS SALARY $1 PER YEAR.
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Smaller! Paid Government Officer is
Gibbs, of Nantucket,
Among the long list of Government
employes who draw salaries from
Uncle Sam’s pocketbook, the distinc¬
tion of being the smallest salaried of
any falls to Charles Henry Gibbs,
keeper of the “bug light’’ at Nantuck¬
et. who annually on the 10th of July
receives a check for §j., his year’s sal¬
ary, and he promptly goes to the bank
and cashes it with as much concern
as if it were for a million dollars in¬
stead of 100 cents.
Whr.t is known as the “bug light
house’’ is situated oa a hill near Mon
ernoy. cn the south side of Nantucket
harhor, and at the time when the :sl
«u(! was at the height of its fame as
a wh’Hir.g pert, was considered an in¬
valuable guide to vessels entering tho
liaibci at night. It ranged with the
light ea the Brant Point in such a
manr.c; as to indicate the channel ent¬
rance; but for over twenty years it
has r.ot been used at ail, the shifting
sand.- cf Nantucket bar and the build¬
ing of the jetties bringing it several
hundred feet out of range. The name
"bug” was applied to the light by
the cl 1 mariners as a nickname, evi¬
dently from its resemblance to a fire¬
fly when seen at a distance.
However, the Government still re¬
tains the lighthouse and is willing to
pay a man ?1 a year to live there. The
keeper has no work to do, but is al¬
lowed'to keep hens and breed cats lor
.» livelihood. Mr. Gibbs is one of
Nantucket’s eccentric characters, and
lives alone, coming to town only when
his stock of provisions is getting low.
He is a native of the island, and in
early life learned the cooper’s trade,
.afterward going whaling for over 20
years, and made several 'voyages
’ .round the Horn.,” visiting, nearly ev
cry sea oh the globe. Since giving
up the sea he has made a living at
whatever kind of a job he could se¬
cure, and about eight years ago he
secured his present position as keeper
of the lighthouse.
Despite his three score and ten
years he even now hires out to neigh¬
boring farmers in haying time, and is
an expert berry picker,_ claiming he
can pick more berries in a. day than
the liveliest youngster cn the island.
Mr. Gibbs wears neither shoes nor
stockings in the summer time, but in
the winter resorts to the old fashion¬
ed leather boots. He says he does
not get lonesome, for his cats keep
him company; and ha always has one
event to look forward to each year
—the coming of his check in July,
when he indulges in a few delicacies
for his table and one or two heads of
tobacco for his enjoyment during his
long winter months.—Boston Herald.
IS GOOD FOR JEWELERS.
Ping-Pong Hard on Watches, and the
Man Who Makes Repairs Profits.
“Ping pong is a fine game,” said a
jeweler, who does a lot of repairing,
to a New' York Sun man. ‘No outdoor
or indoor sport has ever given us so
much to do. It is surprising how many
persons have broken their watches
since the game became a fad.
"You see, people play the game with¬
out removing their coats or waist¬
coats. In the excitement they forget
about their watches, and the first
thing a man knows his timepiece
bounds cut of his pocket. Sometimes
it strikes the table, but wherever it
•does fall the watch is damaged.
“That is net all. A player may tie
his watch to his pocket, but still it
...gets out of gear. The, constant jump¬
ing around and the swinging of the
arms disturbs the works so the watch
has to be brought to us to be regula¬
ted.
“I have had as many women's watch¬
es as men’s to repair. The women
are even more careless than the men.
Their watches dangle from their shirt¬
waists, and as a result the watch
jumps around like a weathercock in a
gale cf wind.
"Surprising as it may seem, my in¬
come from repairing watches has al
most tripled since the craze for ping
pong began.”
The State Historical Society of Iowa
has authorized the compilation of the
messages, proclamations and papers of
the Governors of that State, and Ben¬
jamin F. Shamhaugh, Professor of
Government at tim fixate University,
has been chosen to <So the work.
‘To thine own seif be true,and it will follow, as night the day, thou cans’tnot then be false to any man.”
LINCOLNTON, GrA , THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23. 1002
Naming Children.
What names thoughtless parents
give to their helpless offsprings,
says a writer in Good Housekeeping.
By marriage, to be sure, Henrietta
Dudley may attain to the estate of be¬
ing a Coup, or Rev. Mr. Fiddle may
have the honor of being made D. D.—
these little incidentals are in a mea¬
sure voluntary and valuable—but what
excuse is offered by those who are re¬
sponsible for the existence of Corne¬
lius Cobh? Through a long life he
has risen superior to his suggestive
cognomen, till his white hairs (what
he has left!) are crowned with a pro¬
fessorship; but every boy under his
influence, while he loves and honors
him, calls him Corncob!
In this matter of names truth is
stranger than fiction, Therd’s no
end to ridiculous combinations. Tho
rise to prominence of every success¬
ful soldier or statesman, or naval hero
is followed by a crop of namesakes.
Deplorable as is this bit of human
weakness or the appropriation of
meaningless names from popular nov¬
els, or the “ie” which ruins the beauty
of so many fine names, I suppose we
must accept it. But is not a protest
in order against saddling the innocents
with the lifelong burden of a name
which is an offense alike to euphony,
good English ..and a common percep¬
tion of the eternal fitness of things?
We smile, albeit with-a quick throb
of sympathy when our son John comes
home from school and tells us with
the inhuman glee peculiar to his kind
that the new boy's name is Otis Sweet.
Or when Constance—named for her
grandmother on her mother’s side—
speaks of her little brunette friend,
Isadore Black (I refrain from multi¬
plying examples); but the unfortun¬
ate owners of such names do not
smile, and have shed tears, many and
hitter over a trlfcl they should never
have home, and for which they are
in no way responsible. As Mr. Jack
Sunsby said: ‘‘The vally o’ these here
observations lies ir the application oo
’em.”
MORE RECRUITS WANTED.
Ur.i^prf States Army and Navy Soil
au-siy in Need or Men.
Uncle Sam wants recruits for Ills
navy, and cannot get them, Tho
male population appears to be em¬
ployed at bette. wages . uan he can
offer. It is proposed to tend recruit¬
ing officers through the South and
West, with the hope of enlisting men
who have been employed in the wheat
harvest, and are now temporarily idle,
It is estimated that at least .2,000 men
coukl easily be placed. Reports from
the recruiting stations during the ear¬
ly spring and summer were most un¬
satisfactory.
When the coal strike assumed such
proportions that a prolonged lockout
was assured, the Department sent re¬
cruiting officers into the anthracite
district, believing that the unemploy¬
ed miners would embrace the oppor¬
tunity of entering the service. They
were disappointed. Most of the
miners were as much opposed to ser¬
vice in the navy as army and militia
service, and they not only refused
themselves to enlist, but discouraged
their friends. A somewhat surpris
ing discovery was made by the re¬
cruiting officers, however. The ac¬
cepted idea of a miner is that he is
big and brawny and strong. These
ofiicers assert that a majority of the
miners who did apply for enlistment
were unable to pass the required phy¬
sical examination. Many of them
were color-blind, or had other affec¬
tions of the eyes, due to their long
confinement under ground. Cthere
were partly deaf from working in a
space where explosives are used for
blasting.
The war vessels authorized by the
present Congress will create a de¬
mand for about 3,000 additional re¬
cruits, and it is estimated that within
a few years there will be need for 40,
000 enlisted men in the navy. The de¬
mand just now,, however, is for re¬
cruits to bring the force up to the
25,500 authorized and needed in the
service.
It is proposed to open recruiting
stations as promptly as possible in
Texas, Missouri, Alabama, Mississip¬
pi, and other States in the section.—
New York Post.
The Detroit river is the outlet of the
greatest bodies of water in the world,
aggregating eighty-two thousand
square miles of lake.
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SOMETHING FOR THE “ALL-HOME
PRINTS” TO DIGEST.
(From Homerville, Ga., Journal.)
In these days of rapid strides of ad¬
vancement in every line of industry,
it is simply foolishness for the publish¬
er outside of large cities to try to print
his paper all at hone, as bis fore¬
fathers used to do, when no other way
was open to them.
The principal and legitimate field of
the country weekly is first its town,
county and State, and then the outside
world. It is now possible for the I
country publisher to secure in some of j
the large cities paper partly printed, j
which contains the news of . the day i
from all over the world, as well as the 1
State news of his own State. Owing ;
to superior facilities and machinery, I
this central office can supply these j
partly printed sheets made up of the
very latest and uo-td-date matter, in
eluding telegraphic ' illustrated ne ws of all import
ant events, articles on
topics , . whicn , are engaging- ... Lie worlds .,
attention, popular sermons and letters, ;
and Iisher calculated in fact to every make competitor 1 traction ,e country that pub- city is I
a strong of the |
paper which beeomesfhis opponent to :
an extent when it reaches out to the !
country towns for subscribers.
docs This all ready-printed the above,'also jfcappr, gives the while pub¬ it
lisher more time to ho.other
matters from which llkn be
made, and to neglect a
loss. We refer, for 1 ibb
printing, . collection <J
new subscrihAj ..
a mi mber^f occnfS||j
itable
Any publisher i&Havewses that
he prints his paper all at home is mak¬
ing a very shallow boast, if he really
dees so, since he cannot give his read¬
ers nearly as good service as other¬
wise. If he is making the claim while
using plates to fill out with, he is
misrepresenting the facts, because the
setting up of the type to make the j
plates which he uses is a part of the
printing of his paper, and the matter
is edited, set in type and stereotyped
away from home.
There are few, if any, country week
lies in this State, or any other State, j
which do not use either ready-prints !
or plates—consequently the really all
home-print paper is out of date al
most obsolete—a thing of the past—
and surely nothing to boast of!
Over ten thousand publications in
the United States are at present being
partly printed away from home, and
we are pleased to say that ours is one
of this number. We have found the
plan a material help in many ways.
Our work is half done for us every
week when we receive our paper; and
the rapid growth of our subscription
list and our advertising columns since
we adopted it form the best proof of
its popularity with both readers and
advertisers,
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Would “Dam the Hogs,” Too.
The Ozark Mountain (Mo.) News
tells a story of an ex-Kentucky colonel
of the “quality folks” sort whom he
once met in western Kansas, “The
colonel was an enthusiast on the irri¬
gation scheme that was sweeping over
Kansas at that time. He was so posi¬
tive in his theories and so high-tem¬
pered that few people cared to dis¬
agree with him. One day as he was
standing in'front of the office talk¬
ing with several friends, ‘Pink’ Bar¬
clay, that lives over on Snake creek '
came along, turned and the after colonel shaking and hands said: j
around to ,
‘Colonel, I’ve got'forty acres of land
lying close to Snake creek that I want
to irrigate and I would like to ask
your advice about it.’ ‘Very well, sah,’
responded the colonel, ‘My advice is
dam the creek.’ ‘I did do that,’ said
Pink, ‘and cut a ditch down across
the land, but I couldn’t get rise
enough.’ ‘Then I would dam the
ditch, sah,’ replied the colonel. ‘That’s
just what I did do,’ said Pink, ‘but
the hogs rooted holes in the banks.
What would you do about that?’
‘What would I do?’ snorted the
colonel. ‘I would dam the hogs, sah!
I would dam the hogs!’”
There are men who never seem to
get out of breath running for office.
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R. G. TARVER, Manure*
Onr One Dollar Brogan is better. Our One Dollar and Twenty-five
Cents Brogan beats the world.
Onr Onr One lwo Doliar and Fifty tents Shoes big are simply Our superb, ivvo L ollar and
Dollar \ ici Kid Shoes a value.
Fifty Certs H«id-*wed Shoes are the best on the market, Shoes want sell
We can g ,y e von Ladies Shoes at 75c, but the we to
Ud ron are $1.00 and $1.25 Ladies every day Shoes and our $1.2o don’t and $1.50
ie8 Dress Shoes Thev are RED HOT BARGAINS and yon
f it _ Now our ^.00 Ladies Shoes are as good as anybody’s $3.00
Shoes.
We never forget the Children and Babies and this line of Shoes thi*
reason is better than ever before.
HATS! HATS! HATS!
Our prices in Hats are simply-Tornado Swept. We-give you Boy»
Hats 10c, a real good Hat 25c. Men’s Felt Hats G5c, Men’s Extra Good
Felt We Hats $1.00, and so on to the end. in
don’t expect any one to come within a mile of us this season
Price and Quality. When ia the city be sure to Gall and Examine and be
Con rjneed
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fid EASTERS Sfflffl CO.
907 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
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Has inaugurated a'great Slaughter sale. It is the
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the City.
All summer shoes and Oxfords, .Men’s Women’s and Children’s will go
positively at cost.
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••AT REDUCED PRICES. •
MILLINERY—The Gee-Hive has had a very successful Millinery
Season and it can well afford to dispose of the remainder ol the stock at
half the regular cost.
A. 910-912 COHEN, Broad St., Proprietor, Augusta, Ga.
When you visit Augusta call on
Louis J. Schaul
the RELlAfcLl old PAWNBROKER, Shot Guns For $4.50.
Jackson Street,
Eirst Oldest door from Pawn Broad, Shop in AUGUSTA, GA.
C. A. WYLDS,
DISTILLER.
Buy direct from manufacturer and save middleman’s profit 1
r Wines JUG and TRADE Liquors A SPECIALTY. of all Kinds
Satisfaction guaranteed. Give me trial order.
833 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
NO. 21.
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Boots, Shoes &
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Hotter Bargains and Better
Shoes than ever was
Before.