V T* Sam 9wad Fatatssa.
*nc prooicm oi itfinr sweet
potatoes through the winter is
one that troubles many people
lu this section. Them are many
individuals who understand the
art thoroughly, and who need
no advice ou the subject. There
are others who seem to be un
able to succeed, no aiatUr what
msthod they attempt. We have
ran across a novel plan that is
recommended in The News and
Courier by A. W. Brabham, of
Hamburg. Aa to its practical
value, wa an unable to give an
opinion, ft is quite simple how
sad seems to be well
an a small
writes as
The time to near at hand
when the sweet potat. crop will
ba limited and aa usual, pat
away to spoil. Perhaps there is
bo crap that spoils upon the
farmer's hands equal to the
potato crap. - It to safe to ray
that half or all the potatoes pat
away for winter and spring nse
spoil, either by rotting in winter
or rprooting and drying oat too
much in spring.
Sach losses on this valuable
crap pet aw to thinking and ex
perimenting. Of course, suc
cess did not come the first year,
hot it did come, and now I do
not loan 1 per cent; of my po
tatoes, and 1 believe I can keep
them in an absolutely perfect
condition till August.
It was thus that I came to
make my discovery: 1 noticed
that when I put away my po
tatoes that those nearest the
bottom of the pit, lying on the
damp earth, in contact with no
straw or other foreign matter,
kept better than those that were
l*ot#cl*4(?) by straw or other
covering, and I reached a con
clusion that should I pot my
tubers deep enough into the
earth, keep out ill rain and
cejfU that the problem was
•owed. This I have proved be
yond any doubt.
as soon as the first fro* in
October nips and bitea tny po
tato vines, I pot in ploughs aad
■•■d takes and harvest my crop,'
I dig pita three feet wide, ux
feet long and five feet deep, fill
in with potatoes to within two
feet of the top. Any kind of
clean, dry staff, such as bay/
fodder, rice, oat or wheat straw
may be used to fin in the re
maining space np to the surface,
then a roof of boards is made to
•bed off the rain, and upon this
roof is thrown two 'or three
inches of earth to keep out the
cold.
Potatoes thus put away will
not rot. or lose one pound per
bushel in weight, or sprout till
mid-summer. Aad they sweeten
»»<! get softer as they age and
mellow in their sepulchral-like
receptacle.
Just here I am led to think
that this method would be an
ideal one for keeping apples,
65.w2S.res»,srK£
tables, perfectly fresh from one
season to another.
Fruits and conserves were ex
humed only a few years ago at
Pompeii and other buried cities
of the east just as fresh as they
were when put away in cans and
jam nearly 2,000 yean ago. Aad
from this discovery the great
canning industry o f to-day
sprang.
In putting sway potatoes in
pits there are simple rules that
must be followed:
Wg or harvest potatoes before
bard frost. Fnoat-bitten pota
toes will not keep, and even
could they be kept, they are not
edible.
Do not dig your pit deep
enough for the water to ripe
(seep) into the pit. On a high
elevation you may dig the pit as
deep as yon wish, hut on very
low lands do not go so deep.
Do not pat any straw or for
eign substance on the bottom of
yporpit. Put the potatoes on
the cool, damp earth.
Usa no "sidings” of anything
yrinit rim walls of yonr pit.
Lft the takers be in contact
with tbs cool, damp, earth.
Do not make year pits too
!. Three fact wide, six feet
sM fire feet deep will give
J «*«lt» oe high land. On
farads three feet dero will be
> **otmh; fill half fall of
potatoes wfeM the pit is three
If tSTtop filling of straw Is
■ot sound sad dry, free from all
mould or sot, use no straw at
Tark Hama.
TbdrriU* Kaealrar. Ort U.
Mr. Dm Clinton, of Bethel, is
again at work at the store of J.
M. Heath & Co.
Congressman Finley raised 125
bushels of fine onions on bis
Plantation near Rock Hill this
year and has sold quite a quan
tity of them at H a bushel.
Although there are some ex
ceptions to the rale, the pee crop
•cons to be pretty generally a
failure again this year. The
tionble if probably doe to lack
of rain more than to any other
one cause.
Hero And Ramah postoffices
are to be discontinued today.
People who have been supplied
from these offices will hereafter
be served by R. F. D. carrier
j Ho. 1 from Yorkville, and R. F.
D. carrier No. 1 from Clover.
This is, of course, provided,
boxes are erected.
Of course, we are interested
in the question of child labor in
factories, but what we want to
know is, what will become of
these children and their parents
when the legislature prohibits
their labor? So far as the fac
tories arc concerned, they will
no doubt continue to manage
somehow.
The sweet potato crop is rep
resented sa being unusually large
and good this year. Potatoes
have been retailing on this mar
ket at 50 cents a bushel. Bat a
small portion of the crop has
bean dug up to this time. When
digging becomes more general
prices will decline unless the
potatoes are put up for winter
instead of being offered on the
market.
A cottage belonging to the
Clover Manufacturing company,
was destroyed by fire on lost
Thursday . morning about 2
o’clock. The cause of the fire is
unknown, but is supposed to
have originated by reason of s
defective stove flue. The insur
ance on the house was $300 and
its value $400. There was no
insurance on the contents and
our informant was unable to aay
what part, if any was saved.
Mr. R. O. Darwin, of Smyrna,
was in Yorkville Monday, with
aome very pretty specimens of
gold ore taken from a mine on
his place recently. He reports
that the prospectors have been
quite active in his neighborhood
along Broad river of late, and he
hopes to see some extensive op
erations before a great while.
That there is gold in that section
there is no question. It was not
far from there that a $5,000 nug
get was found in the later 40's,
and it has not been a great many
years since a number of placer
miners made good wages washing
the gravel in the branches. AH
experienced miners who have
prospected in the neighborhood
have become very much interes
ted. _
Applaading so Faith.
Mww Yort Time*
One of (he clergymen who
«n present at the opening of
the General Theological Semi
nary was speaking of the bashful
ness of the late Dean Hoffman.
"The Dean/* said the clergy
man, "was called upon to speak
at a mass meeting held in the
interests of a cause which re
ceived many benefactions from
him. He spoke briefly of the
merits of the csnse, and then
said apologetically:
" I am not much of a speak
er.’
" 'Atnen I’ responded a Metho
dist brother from the first row.
"The Dean, somewhat dis
concerted, continued a while,
and then said:
" 'I’ll detain you only a
moment longer.'
" ‘Alleluia !’ again broke in
the man in the front row, and
the Dean sat down very red in
the face, bat he enjoyed it all
hugely, when he learned after
wards that the man in the front
row was very deaf and had inter
jected his approbation entirely
on faith, not on hearing.”
•armaa Matchmakers toined by
The German match making
business, in which about $8,750,
000 of capital is invested him bean
brought within a measureable
distance of rain by the oatjmt of
the American Diamond Match
Ccmgany’a new factories near
Matches that star months ago
ware sold from German works
ft $20 a case are now selling at
$18 a cans, or $1 below the
ns1 ananas
German branch baa bean lx op
W*Y9 prtCM MKrv (M
ofcrs made by the old companies.
Child Slavery la the Saaih.
w—emtdPwt
Under this alarming title, the
New York Herald devoted nearly
two pages of its last Sunday’s
edition to an exposure of the
honors of child labor in the
Southern cotton mills. The
manufacturer* are pictured as
monsters fattening on the blood
of innocent babies, and their
victims described as emaciated
and brutalised wreck* oat of
whom every vestige of childish
feeling has been crushed by
remorseless task-in asters. "They
prosper on the blood of slaves”
—meaning the callous employ
ers and the wretched children.
Thousands and thousands of
these innocents are sacrificed to
the greed of the millet* and the
ignorance of their parents.
They are denied the opportuni
ties of public school education.
Both their bodies and their
minds are starved. The wicked
employers, caring for nothing
but their own sordid ends, trick
the Southern legislatures into
postponing enactments that
would forbid this dreadful crime
against humanity. Thus there
are no laws restricting the hours
of labor or protecting infancy
agwinst this soulless avarice.
Not long ago the esteemed
Chattanooga Times undertook
an investigation of this subject
and the result was much less
startling. It showed in the first
place, that very few children
under twelve years of age were
employed in the Southern cotton
mills; that moat of these were so
employed at the instance of
their own parents and not bv
the contrivance of the millers';
that the proprietors as a class
infinitely preferred to have them
at school and in many cases
actually erected schools at their
own expense for the benefit of
their employes’ children; finally
the labor was not at all severe,
and as compared with neglected
idleness, altogether preferable.
Moreover, it transpired that the
millers in nearly every locallity
had joined hands with those who
advocated legislation prohibiting
the employment of children un
der twelve.
Now, it is well known that a 1
very large proportion of the
capital employed in cotton mill-'
ing at the South has been trans
ferred to that section from New
England. It is equally notorious
that the personnel of these enter
prises has been imported from
the same part of the country.
One may assert, indeed and
without much fear of success
ful contradiction, that the in
dustry is under New England
control.
That young children are at
work in some of the factories
cannot be denied. That this is
wrong in principle needs no
discussion. We oppose child
labor in factories, North, South,
Bast, or West. All we insist
upon is a truthful and intelligent
statement of the case.
Hot Waited as the Stag*.
Cleveland Plain Dulit.
The fact that a young woman
of Philadelphia bears witness
that the exercise of faith under
the direction or according to the
tenets of the Faith Cure sect has
cured her of tbe desire to be
come an actress may be set
down as highly creditable to
both the girl and tbe sect. This
is more especially so because it
interfered with what seems to
have been a course of prepara
tion for a dramatic career. The
young woman says that since
the stage fever left her she
hasn't touched a drop of strong
drink or smoked a cigarette. So
it is a very good thing that her
erase for histrionic honors was
dispelled. The stage has no
room for accessions of this sort.
It makes places by preference
i only for recruits who will come
prepared to work, and work
hard, for the honors they seek.
The profession of acting is an
arduous one when properly un
dertaken. Its rewards are few
and its pathway is roogh and
wearisome. If tbe silly seekers
for footlight glory could know
and understand this it would
not require the faith of a sect to
dissuade them from their folly.
Ilf • Straight Tip.
Kcw rartTlan.
Congressman Charles N.
Fowler, of Hew Jeney, tells a
*tory of a mall boy who was
oversnpplied with green apples.
"I had gone to see one of my
constituents down in Union
County," said the Congressman,
"and found Urn trying to give
aotaa medicine to a young son
who had eaten too many green
Mphi whiles Christian Science
neighbor waa assuring the boy
than waa nothing at all the
matter with him.
"Tthink I ought to know/
rroanad the boy, *1 guess I’ve
got Inside iufonnatioo.’ "
The Supreme court has Just
named to James Wilco*, con
victed of murdering Nellie Croo
■y at Kltssbeth City, a new trial
M the ground that the magui
tads and nature of the demon
strations made within and with
out tha court-room for the pur
pose of breaking the force of
counsel's argument were such as
to require a new trial.
Th« Wntchsi al Soot hern tail
way Employs*.
A*fc villa Citlaa.
A new order respecting the
regulation of the timepieces nsed
by the employes of the Southern
Railway is soon to go into effect.
J. W. Forsingcr and company,
of Chicago, have been given the
contact to furnish the time for
the road at the stations mid to
regulate the watches of the em
ployes of the trains. Heretofore
this had been in the hands of the
local officers of the railrokd com
pany and the new departure,
wbUe not au experiment in rail
road circles, is an innovation for
the Southern Railway.
The company which isto have
charge of the timepieces of the
employes is going to make sev
eral new requirements, it is un
derstood. None but standard
watches wUl be permitted. It is
I the policy, it is understood, to
have the employes use the same
kind of watches so that there
will be less likelihood of varia
tion. Whether this is true or
not could not be learned locally.
It is quite certain, though that
a number of men will have to
buy new watches.
The Forsinger company has
charge of the time keeping of
several of the important railroad
systems of the country'- They
put in electric clocks, and have
contracts with the Western
Union Telegraph Company for
getting the time from Washing
ton. ___
(he Whitt Teacher.
ladtaupolla. led. DL. p«*ch JSth.
For several years s school for
colored pupils with a white man
as teacher has been maintained
at Tell City, but recently the an
tipathy of the whites in many
southern Indiana, connties has
become very marked, and at the
beginning of the present school
year the colored patrons of the
schools asked the local trustees
to appoint a teacher of their own
color, as they preferred one of
their own race to teach their
children. The board refused
the request, and Leander Yarito,
a white man was installed as
teacher. None of the pupils
came to school, and inquiry de
veloped the fact that it was the
purpose to boycott the teacher.
Comity Truant Officer Malone
was notified and gave each pa
tron the five days provided by
law. Hat the colored people
were not to be outdone, ana a
colored teacher, Nannie Bell of
Cannellton, was obtained, the
colored Baptist church opened
and a private school commenced
Monday. The truancy Law of
the State provides for a "public
private or parochial school."
Professor Yarito opens and closes
his school on time, bnt wit hoot
pupils. Having a signed con
tract, he will draw a salary.
Wood’s Seeds.
Crimson Clover
will yield under favorable oondi
ik.!« 8 to 10 tom of groan food per
acre, or II lo 2J tone of hey and
h worth u a fertitiling crop, ISO.
to |23. per acre. Full info mutton
It couulued in onr Kail Catalogue
Jeet breed, which we will mail nee
upon requret
Weed’* Pad CataAgna alao talk
all about Vegetable and Farm
Sand a for Fall Waathf. SaM
Wbaat.'OaU. Rya, Barter,
Votcfcea, Qraaa and
Oowr Seed*. ate.
Write for Fall Catalan* and
preen of any Brad* daelratl.
T. W. WOOD & S0N8,
Seedsmen, • Richmond, Va.
SCHOOL
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Teachers and patrons
oi schools now opening
in all parts of the coun
ty will please bear in
mind that.
MARSHALL’S
BOOK STORE
in Gastonia carries all
the public school books.
Uig supply Just received.
A A
...School Supplies...
Such as composition
books, pens, inks, tab
lets, slates, copy books,
always on hand.
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PRINTING ihm grips
Jvet us tell you what a customer wrote
us not loop since—here it is:—
"I enclose check for $17.28 in full of
amount due you. We have had a (treat deal
of work done before by other houses, but
yours, we find, surpasses them all. I will
see that yon pet all of our future work."
We have the original on file in this of
fice and it will be shown to any one who de
sires to sec it.
Onr printing is the kind that keeps old
customers and grips new ones, to their own
pleasure and profit.
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Gastoaia, If. C.
SOUTHERN
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NORTH, EAST and WEST.
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TAX NOTICE!
1 will be at the following places on
the date* named for the pcrpoae of
receiving the state and county tax
due for year 1902:
Gastonia, Saturday, Sept. 27.
Lowell, Monday, Sept. 20.
McAdenville. Tueaday, Sept. 30.
Bessemer City, Wedoeeay, Oct. 1.
Stanley, Friday. Oct. 3.
Belmont, Saturday. Oct. 4.
Dallas. Monday, Oct. 6.
Mount Holly Tueaday, Oct. 7.
Mtn. Island. Wednesday a. m. Oct. 8.
Lucia, Wednesday p. tn. Oct. 8.
Carpenters' Store, Fridays, m. Oct. 10
Landers Chapel. Friday p. m. Oct. 10.
CbenyviUe, Saturday, Oct. 11.
Fullers' Store. Monday. Oct. 13.
Union, Tuesday s. in. Oct. 14.
South Point. Tuesday p. m. Oct. 14.
Pleasant Ridge. Wed. a. m. Oct. IS.
Crowders Creek, Wednesday p. m.
Oct, IS,
Pattersons School House, Thursday,
s. m. Oct 18.
Crowders Mountain, Mills Thursday
n. m. Oct. 18.
Dftlings' and Kings Mtn. Mills. Fri
day. a. a. Oct. 17.
Com and Lola Mills. Friday, p. m.
Oct. 17.
Gastonia, Saturday, Oct. 18.
Hardin Mills, Monday a. a. Oct 20.
High8hosda, Monday p. m. Oct. 20.
Tackaseege, Tuesday s. at. Oet. 21.
KinaviUe. Tuesday p. m. Oct. 21.
Alexis, Thursday a. m. Oct. 23.
8pencer Mtn. Mlila, Thursday p. m.
Oct. 23
C. B. Aaxsraoxo. Sheriff.
C. A N. W. RAILWAY,
ILOWlNOJtOCK UNI.
IkteM* Iff "Ur, Jim. It Mi. IML
■Mtara Tim Sumter*.
NEW ROLLER MILL.
My patent flour mill hi now
running on full time 3 miles
Hast of Bethel church on Crowd*
er’s Creek. Haven flret-claas
miller and guarantee satisfaction.
Trial solicited,
R. J. DAVIS.
•w •iiMi* i» a*
Professional Cards:
GEO. W. WILSON,
Attorney at Law.
GASTONIA, N. C.
Craif & WlUon JluiWin* Pbam 131.
At Dallas every Monday.
P. H. COOKE,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
GASTONIA, N. C.
OBce in Ci»l| ft W^lfon Buildlnn.
At Dallas in Clerk’s office every
first Monday.
R. B. WILSON,
Attorney at Law.
GASTONIA, N. C.
P. R. FALLS,
DENTIST. .
GASTONIA, N. C.
Office over Robinson Bros. Store
Phone 86.
dr. o. e. McConnell,
DENTIST.
Office first floor Y. M. C. A. Bid’*
GASTONIA, N. C.
Phone 89.
SOUTHBRN RAILWAY.
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