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GINTER. SOMETHING OF THE LIFE AND CHARAC TERISTICS OF THE MAN. An Interesting and Wonderfully Sue cessful Career-One of the Pioneer Cigarette Manufacturers His Pos sessions in and Around Richmond Uenerous in His Charities and Liber eral in Expenditures for Public 1m provements. The following brief sketch of the lile and business success and achievements of the late Maj. Lewis Ginter, is fur nished by the Richmond correspon dent of the Baltimore Sun. As the dead man was financially interested in Henderson property and was per sonally known to many of our readers the article will be read with increased interest no doubt : AN INTEREST N; AND SUCCESSFUL CA REER. Major Lewis Ginter's wonderful suc cess in life and his acquirements of a fortune variously estimated at from seven to ten million dollars is an in teresting story. From a poor youth, who started here in the forties, strug gling for existence, he had risen to be the wealthiest man in the whole South, an important factor in the most pow erful corporation in this country and the largest owner of realty in Virginia. Through all of his life, whether in comparative poverty or as a man of abundant wealth and influence, Major Ginter always deserved and command ed the highest respect of his fellow men. Major Ginter was born in New York on April 24th, 1824. His father died in his infancy and left him to the care of his elder sister, Mrs. Arents, by whom he was reared. His family were Dutch, who very early emigrated from Amsterdam to New York and became people of some note in that city. When seventeen years old he found his way to Richmond and secured em ployment as a clerk. By rigid econ omy and attention to business a few years later he was enabled to start in life for himself. Several years be fore the civil war began he became a member of the wholesale notion house of Ginter, Alvey & Arents, which did a prosperous business until the begin ning of hostilities. AN OFFICER IN CONFEDERATE ARMY. Soon after the breaking out of the war his executive ability and rec recognized business capacity easily secured for him an appointment of trust and responsibility in the Con federate quatermaster's department here. Afterward he was made quar termaster of Gen. Joseph R. Ander son's command, with the rank of Ma jor, lie surrendered with Gen. Lee at Appomattox Court House. THANKED liY STONEWALL JACKSON. When Gen. Jackson made his cele brated flank movement around Pope in 1S62, after the army left Rappahan nock river and on the first day's march to Salem, he found that the army was very short of food, and se lected Major Ginter and sent him for ward, protected by a number of Black Horse cavalry, to ask the city to send food to the troops. The people were almost without meat and bread, the Federals having stolen nearly every thing, neither had they horses suffi cient to carry the little food they had to the troops. They hitched up their ox carts, however, and emptied their meathouses and storerooms into them, and Major Ginter led them back to the column as it passed by. General Jack son thanked Major Ginter that night for his wonderful efficiency, and rec ognized that both he and the people ot Salem had done good service to the Confederate cause that day. For years, whenever any members of the old Georgia Brigade came to Rich mond they were entertained by Major Ginter, and renewed their old army acquaintanceship with the gallant Ma jor, with expressions of great enthusi asm and love for him. A T1CTIM OF "LLACK FRIDAY." At the close of the war he went to New York city, where he became a member of the brokerage firm of God den, Harrison ev Co., composed of well-known Virginians. He met with marked success in this new venture until the memorable "black Friday," in the summer 1S69, when so many immense fortunes were swallowed up in the whirlpool of Wall street. Al though left almost bankrupt, he was not disheartened, but wit-h the indom itable will characteristic of the man he was determined to make another start. A year or so later found him in Richmond, where he associated himself with the late Joseph Allen, who was engaged in a small way in the manufacture of cigars. It was de termined to establish a small plant and begin the making of cigarettes, a business then in its infancy. They opened & factory and employed a dozen or so hands; and this was the beginning of a business which later on was destined to be developed into one of the most extensive in the country. In a few years the firm of Allen & Ginter was known in all of the leading markets of the world. IN THE AMERICAN TOUACCO TRUST. About 1SS0 Mr. Ginter bought out the interest of Mr. Allen for $150, 000, associating with him in the busi ness the late Mr. John Pope, whom he had brought here from New York as a clerk. The latter died here about twelve months ago, leaving a fortune of about $2,000,000. The new firm rapidly developed their business until their cigarettes were known and sold in every market of the world. They established agencies and representa tives throughout the leading markets of Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and South America. When the American Tobacco Com pany was formed Mr. Ginter's house became one of its most important mem bers. Mr. Ginter was made one of the directors of the corporation and his partner, Mr. Pope, the general manager of the Richmond establish ment. OTHER POSSESSIONS. besides his American Tobacco stock, his possessions consist of the most valuable real estate in Richmond and its suburbs. Despite the fluctu ating prices and the disposition to speculate in the stock of the American Company, Mr. Ginter, his friends say, never indulged in any speculating in these securities. He has done more toward improving and beautifying the suburbs of Virginia's capital than any other man within its limits. His most conspicuous realty here are the magnificent Jefferson Hotel, completed and opened about two years ago at a cost probably of a million and half dollars; his city residence on Franklin street, the most select and fashiouable thoroughfare here, and his country home. The urban residence is by long odds the handsomest in the whole South, with the exception of that of Mr. Vanderbilt, of Biltmore, N. C. HIS BEST MONUMENTS. The magnificent city structures which Major Ginter has caused to be erected here are by no means the best monuments which he leaves. The lav ish and judicious expenditures on Richmond's suburbs are equally mem orable. His investments and improve ments on the Brook road, for miles around his country home, possibly amount to more than two million dol lars. This thoroughfare, which before the war was but an indifferently kept one, is now macadamized for a dis tance of five miles, and is one of the finest in the whole country. Hand some and costly villas line it, and the scene presents to the eyes something wonderfully like fairyland. Here the deceased has spent hundreds of thous ands of dollars in establishing a pleas ure park and in the construction of an electric railway, which connects it and the surrounding country with the city. CHIEF OBJECT IN LIFE. Maj. Ginter's chief object in life was to build up the interests of the city of Richmond as far as he possibly could. He gave employment to more people than any one who ever lived here. Nearly 4,000 people were fed daily by wages earned from his ciga rette factory. He often was heard to say that he had made all his money in Richmond and intended to spend it here. The largest of all his plans was the erection of the Jefferson, which has become world-famous as one of the finest and most beautiful hotels known to the travelling public. The desire to see a fine hotel here was born as a result of his extensive travels and the complaint that Richmond ho tels could not compare with those of oth er cities. His principal idea seems to have been to attract the tourist and others, who while appreciating the many points of interest about the city, might also learn of its great natural advantages. PERSONAL APPEARANCE AND TRAITS. In person Major Ginter was rather below the average stature, slightly built, with naturally a quick, active movement indicative of purpose of some great purpose in life which, if not always before his mind, was ever present as an inspiration. His countenance was strongly expressive, both of intelligence and benignity. His conversational resources, when drawn out, were rich and very instructive, for on subjects not technical his knowl edge was both varied and thorough. In one thing he was pre-eminent, that is his rigorous punctuality to engage ments, springing from his acute sense of justice to others. He would rob no man, no more so of his time than his money. He was never behind the hour appointed for an engagement, nor did he linger after the business was accomplished. GENEROUS IN HIS CHARITIES. On the Hermitage road and not far from Maj. Ginter's home stands the heroic statue of Lieut. -Gen Ambrose P. Hill. This was erected by money generously donated by the wealthy cigarette manufacturer. He has al ways been generous in his contribu tions to all charitable and other good causes. He was a liberal contributor to the Lee monument fund, and was expected to be to that for the erection of a memorial to ex President Davis. Major Ginter was never an active pol itician, though at times he manifested a lively interest in the campaigns. In some of these he gave liberally to the Democratic fund. He was one of the most unostenta tious of men, and although he gave away thousands to the poor and needy, no one but the confidential clerk knew of this generosity. He was especially kind and helpful to the widows and orphan children of his old friends. To these he was always thoughtful and considerate. He gave thousands for the education of the sons of men whom he had known in his early life. SUPREMACY OF THE MORAL SENTIMENT. The crowuing excellence of Maj. Ginter's character, that which gave it HENDERSON, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1897. COMING W. H. HARRIS' WORLD-FAMOUS NICKEL PLATE SHOWS WILL EXHIBIT AT- Henderson, Tuesday, Oct. 19th. 50 FAMOUS PERFORMERS 50 Elephants, Lions, Tigers, Ponies, AND A HOST OF FUNNY CLOWNS. SEE "GYPSY," THE LARGEST ELEPHANT ON EARTH. SEE "BARNEY," THE SMALLEST ELEPHANT ON EARTH. Two Performances Daily, at 2 and 8 P. M. Doors open one hour earlier. at once its strength and beauty, was the absolute supremacy of the moral sentiments. One of his oldest friends remarked the other day that he never heard him utter a profane or unchaste word. Another trait, which none who knew him can ever forget, was an inexorable sense of duty, which al lowed no concession to indolence or or self-indulgence, no discrimination between one class of duties and another which knew no grades in obligations. It did not spend itself in occasional acts of conspicuous heroism to duties with which even common nature may be inspired, but it was evidenced equally in an unvaried attention to the dry, routine exactions of daily life. Formal, but not severe, stately with out pomp, dignified without severity, formidable in his self-reliance and reti cence, individual, positive, scrupulous and exact, but neither aggressive nor caustic. The personality of Maj. Ginter although it impressed many of his acquaintances as exclusive and cold, was sincere, manly, gentle and even tender. He had strong convic tions. He was uncompromising. He never flattered anybody, and he never assumed a cordiality that he did not feel. His temper was urbane, but when offended by frivolity, incompe tence or sycophantic fawning three things he especially detested he would express contempt and scorn with energetic indignation and righteous vehemence. GOYERNOR O'FERRELL's TRIBUTE. On being informed of the death of Major Ginter, Governor O'Ferrell said: "Major Ginter's death is a public calamity. Not only will Richmond feel it, but the State. No man in my opinion, who has ever lived in Vir ginia contributed more to her business welfare. "His success was wonderful, and in it he displayed a public spirit which made him a benefactor indeed. "But it was not only the promotion of business enterprises that made his success a blessing. His charity was boundless, soothing and healing; he not only had pity for distress, but he relieved it, yet it was all done silently and unostentatiously. While I would not dare question the ways of Him Who doeth all things well, to the hu man understanding, it would seem that such a man as he was ought to live always. From many an humble home which he had brightened there will come no flowers to bedeck his bier, but a deeper tribute will be paid his memory by the flowing tears. "He was a man of remarkable men tal vigor, and being a close observer and great observer his mind was a storehouse of useful knowledge. "His hospitality was as unlimited as wealth. In the social circle he was most companionable, his genial nature and conversational powers making him most attractive in any social gathering "From the time I came to Rich mond to live until last winter, when his health failed him, his courtesies and kindnesses to me were so marked that I shall never cease to remember him most tenderly." Mothers Praise Hood's Sarsaparilla, be cause, by its great blood enriching quali ties, it gives rosy cheeks and vigorous ap petites to pale and puny childrea. Hood's Pills are the favorite family thartic and liver medicine. Price 25c. ca- Some of us have more ups and downs in this world than others, but when we get to the cemetery we will all be on a dead level. A nic Lin of hercnles Trimmings at H.THOMASOVS. Acrobats, Aerialists, Wire Walkers, Jugglers, WHEN 1 GO HOME. CECIL. JOYCE. When I go home, beloved, in the darkness, ldfeamofall our meeting there will be And smiling weep, and weeping, sob with gladness, At that dear thought when I go home to thee. When I go home when I ro home, be loved llow shall I tell thee all I have to say, Or hear the mysteries thy soul has fath omed Since last I kissed thy lips that chill, still day? And it seems that words shall be too nar- row When I shall feel thy touch upon hair. uiy Shall feel thy lips kiss down my tired eye lids, And know and clasp thee waiting faithful there. For oh, the p. in of all the bitter parting Shall float away upon the vanished tears, And in the gladness of that great home coming I shall not feel the weight of these grim years. I shall forget the days of weary weeping, I shall not know the nights of hungry pain. For light and love shall wear their golden garments. When 'gainst my heart thy heart shall beat again. No dazzling height 1 ask, no crown super nal, To greet my soul when it stands shriven free. No gleaming robes for me the highest Heaven, Just to go home, beloved, home to thee! Confusion as to the choice of a blood pn rifier is unnecessary. There is but one best Sarsaparilla, and that is Ayer's. This important fact was recognized at the World's Fair, Chicago. 1893, being the only blood-purifier admitted to be placed on exhibition. The Nickel Plate Show. Of the Harris Nickel Plate Show, which will appear here on Tuesday, Oct. 19th, the Columbia (S. C.) State of Aug. 31, says: Harris' Nickel Plate show is worth a great deal more than the price of admission. It is a oue-ring circus, but it was one of the best that has visited Columbia in a loug time. Two per formances were given. At' the after noon performance there was a fine at tendance. At night the teut was too small to hold the people. They were packed in like sardines and everybody was pleased. Not an expression of disappointment was heard. The show has been much improved since it last appeared in Columbia. Mr. Harris has selected ouly first class performers, and his stock and au imals are kept in first class condition. The den of lions in an excellent one. There are plenty of good old-time clowns, and they keep the audience iu a continual roar of laughter. Their jokes were good and most of them fresh. Besides, they were clean. Hall's Hair Renewer cures dandruff and j (Hartford Globe.) scalp affections; also all cases of baldness , . - where the glands which feed the roots of I 1 he element of success in mercan tile hair. : lile life seems to be ihese: irst, have j seroething that people want; second, ARE YOU BANKRUPTinheakh. constitution undermined by ex travagance in eating, by disre garding the laws of nature, or physical capital all gone, if so, NEVER DESPAIR Tutt's Liver Pills will cure you. For sick headache, dyspepsia, sour stomach, malaria, torpid liver, constipation Klllnncnpcc UUIUU-llC-3 and all kindred diseases. Tutt's Liver Pills an absolute cure. The Negro as an Obstacle. (Biblical Recorder.) The colored man will be with us of the South always. His tribe now num bers 7,000,000; his increase is about 200.000 annually, To send him back to Africa is impossible and not to be considered and if it were not it would be utterly impracticable. To colonize him in this country is also both impos sible and impractible. Amalgamation is losing ground instead of gaining which is vastly to the credit of our country. So the colored man is here to slay. We must take account of him, we must reckon on him. Since the gates of Eden closed on Adam and Eve no greater calamity has befallen a people than that which was thrust upon the stricken South by the act giving 7,000,000 slaves, sons of generations of slaves, the right of franchise. From that day until now the course of the Southern people has been a desperate struggle up-grade against odds that would have daunted a less valiant race. Politically we are where we were three decades ago. No reforms could be initiated, no ad vanced positions be taken, because every year and hour the slightest dis affection would throw 10,000 colored voters into ascendency. Take a sim ple instance. The editor of the Bib lical Recorder, now gathered to his fathers, was denounced and abused throughout North Carolina because he would not advocate a Prohibition party. Those who knew him knew why he was silent. He knew that to advocate the Prohibition party would divide the white people, and the col ored voters would rise to power. He preferred liquor selling with honorable white men in office, to liquor selling with incompetent colored men and representatives of them in power. His position was sound. This is only one instance. Hun dreds might be named. For ever reform creates division, every new idea causes disaffection. And in consequence the larger element of the white people in the South are politi cally the slowest in the world to move. And it will be so as long as there is the almost inevitable consequence that to initiate a change will turn the country over to an incompetent and unworthy regime. Without another word it is clear that the negro is an obstacle; clear that inevitably the Southern country must be retarded in her political progress so long as he is an obstacle. It is clear that he is here to stay. What then? Disfranchisement. It is the only hope. There is but one ground that will reach the mark and that is Illiteracy. It is a good one; it will stand the test of common sense and plain reason and right. Is it im possible? It cannot be. Is it imprac ticable? It cannot be. One year or two years may not achieve the end, but it is worth a decade of struggle. Other issues pale into insignificance he side this; they should not be suffered to interfere. If the unintelligent vote of North Carolina c uld be eliminated the State could then address herself with a single eye to the heeds of the people. Irregularity. Is that what troubles you? Then It's easily and promptly remedied by Dr. Fieace's Pleasant Pellets. They regulate the system perrectly. lake one for a gentle laxative or corieciive; three for a cathartic. A Grandmother at 34. Mrs. Sarah Davidson, of 35 1 East Seventy-second street, New York, is only 34 years old, but she is the grandmother of Baby Beatrice Britz, who arrived in this strange world about a week ago. Mrs. Davidson good huraoredly speaks of herself as "the youngest grandmother" of the metropolis. She was a wife at 13 and a mother at 14. Her daughter Mrs. Julia Britz, is now 20. Mrs. Davidson herself looks to be about 25. She has all th beauty and grace of a young matron in fact, she would pass for a belle. Free Pills. Send your address t j H. K. Uucklen & ('., Chicago, and get a free sample box of Dr. King's New Life Pills. A trial will convince you of their Merits. These pills are easy in action and particularly etlect ive in the cure of Constipation and nick headache. For Malaria and Liver troubles they have been proved invaluable. Tliey are guaranteed to be perfectly free from any deleterious sulistance and to le purely vege table. They do not weaken by their action but by giving tone to stomach and bowels greitly invigorate the system. Regular size "2-x: per box. Sold by M. lKrsey, Druggist. Elements of Success. stand ready to sell your goods at rea sonable prices; and third, and most important of all, let the general pub lic know what you have for sale and the price. A merchant may have the best goods in the world and stand roHw n 11 jtt rrirp artuallv below cost and if no one knows about it j his goods may grow fast to his coun 1 icrs. newspaper .iuvci w-iug is the be- best method of communication tween merchant and customer. NO CURE-NO PAY. is the way all druggists This sell Urorti Tattelen Chill ic lor ! Chills and Fevers and all forms of Ma- It is cininlr Imn nt ftninin in a. tasteless form. Children love it. Adults refer it to bitter nauseating tonic. Price 50 cents. ifoeptle AFRICAN A will care Rheumatism ana Scrofula to 5tay Cured. PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE. FACE YOUR FATE BRAVELY AND EVEN FATE WILL SURRENDER. Daily Toll the Choicest of Blessings Instead of a Curse Without it the World Would Wreck Itself In a Generation Thank God For the Trials and Struggles of Life Relig ion Consists in Making Ourselves Little and Qod Great. (New York Herald.) For inv yoke is easy, and my burden Is light. Matthew, xi., 30. How was it possible for Him to make such an assertion as that? Judged by ordinary rule. His life was a wretched failure. Without domes tic ties, not having where to lay His head, distrusted by friends and prose cuted by enemies, it seems incredible that he should speak of His burden as light. In a similar environment we should regard our burden as loo heavy to be borne. t . . sucn a statement made iy s-uch a personage under such circumstances may well give us pause. There mut be a philosophy, a whole system of philosophy, under it, and it may well be called the Philosophy of Life. We have been wondering for untold ages how to make our days and years more comfortable and more productive of personal happiness, but have reached no solution of the problem. We have had thousands of theories, and they have all failed to accomplish the pur pose. We have groped in the dark like blind men, but we have not re duced the sorrows which we must needs suffer to a scientific and practi cal basis. On the contrary, after this long lapse of time, we do not know what the under side of human exist ence means. We find it impossible to get near enough to God either to sec His face or to understand His plan. We talk very foolishly about having outgrown Christianity, ami yet here is one of the primary principles of its Founder of which we seem to be in total ignorance. The very thing we have tried to do and never succeeded in doing He tells us how to do, and we are so deaf we cannot hear what He says. It is well enough to listen to the baby talk of the world's philo sophic childhood and to ponder at our liesure the spiritual solutions of life afforded by other climes, but it was in the latitude and longitude of Judea that life and immortality were brought out of darkness into light, and we must sit at the feet of the Christ if we would become adepts in that kind of occultism, which alone can fill the valleys to a level with the plain, re move the mountains from our path and make the way smooth from earth to Heaven. If I may be pardoned for using so homely a metaphor, it seems to me that the right philosophy of life can be spun from the single word Atti tude, just as the beautiful web is spun from what is inside the spider's body. Our trouble comes from the fact that we have not yet learned how to spin our web. The material is all at hand but we do not know how to use it. It was Christ's attitude toward His Father which was the corner stone of His religion, and it is our lack of that attitude which makes us miserable rather than resigned. He began and ended His earthly career in the belief that this was God's world and not His, while we begin and end it under the conviction that the world is ours and not God's. He saw God's plan and regarded Himself as a part of ii, His only duty being to do God's work in God's way. We, on the con trary, have a plan of our own and sub ordinate His way to our wishes, in consequence of wkich life becomes an inextricable snarl, and instead of being resigned we are rebellious. The sol dier who defies his general loses the battle and blames his superior officer, but the soldier who obeys order lend, his voice to the universal shout of vic tory. Our poor notion of religion is that God should do whatever we ask of Him, but Christ's religion was to do what He was commanded to do and not for a moment to worry about results. If we have a Captain let us not usurp His authority. If we pro pose to be captains that is another matter. The probabilities are that while we know enough to obey God we do not know enough to tell Him how the universe ought to be run. Re ligion consists largely in making our selves little and making God great. We are poor? Well, we belong to a very large assembly and we are in very good company. So far from being a curse the necessity toil is one of the choicest Without it the world would for daily blessings, wreck it- self in a generation. You have a thousand struggles? Thank God for that. Struggle and a. nobler manhood belong to each other; they are twin brothers. The man who has no struggles has no idea of the dignity of life. Struggle changes one from wet clay to marble. Face your fate bravely and even fate will surrender. But you have griefs and bereave ments. Then you have passed through the vestibule and are in the temple it self. God has thought you worthy of serious work and is asking you to do il. If what He does is right then what He does is best. It may be hard. It may call into play all your reserve force, but still it is best, and therefore you can be resigned though His hand seems heavy. With Heaven right ahead t i- an 1 the door already swinging sl;wly on its hinges, th-.s little front gardrn lis NO. 41. may prick us with its thorns but the s;ght of the house which is to be our home makes the wound easier to bear. Loved ones are standing in the door way, but there is dtit in ur Cycs and we cannot see them. If we can stand in that altitude to ward eternal truth the yoke will be easy and the burden l:gh'. George H. Hepworth. THE DANGER to which the Expectant Mother i exposed and the foreboding and dread with which she looks for ward to the hour of woman's severest trial is appreciated by hut few. 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Oct. 14, 1897, edition 1
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