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! . f tonia he aze 1 ESTABLISHED IN 1880. Devoted to the Protection of Home andthe Interests of the County. ESTABLISHED I!t 1SS. f J. T. CO. Gastonia, N. C. : Maych 1; 1888. One Dollar and a Half per Annum, ) TVTv Q ' r' in Advance. J AMJ 7 Proprietors. . tte - . i J it It r Bill Arp letter. ' Atlanta, ConiCiuUou. How, graceful is the first blush of tcoming spring! It has- .not come, but v it iS npt,f&r, atf ajara the robbing have X brought us. the. news. We see tirem now every day .and they" cheer us with ; khJr presence. I' woukV not shoot : tiobbin nd am sorry that I ever did, ;I would not, shoot any bird that ad ,mIbisterato oreas6fe; It is 3 sin - to kill anytHhjtf feraport tbat is ex ept snakes. .What a beautiful rano- cent yfettjo i birds enjoy that is except wkilbzaTisnd'yet the boys " kiU birds just, to be killing something. Very. oftn- they wound ; them and the nxns ininzi iinzer ia piud. iuiu uj jju , misery. Boys,- it is all wrong; don . do it. When ycKgWhCSgTiitrfty game that Is good "lor VijTtable, such as squirrels, . rabbits .' m pannages, butdoXtJWAzeftway.at every, little " ibird yQ.ai.see.. Don't shoot the robbins nor tj$pvjgftThey are -too gentle and loving to 'be killed. They love our homes and habitations. ' . It is an : old superstition that the birds choose fneir mates oh Valentine day. . - Of c6Brs,this is not true, for - away up north it ;is still midwinter, and away dowg south; the spring is over, It is only; a. narrow .belt of. country that has the'vefnal equinox in March Whether itra-winter or summer does not depend upon the months, . but whure we are located.- The old world was first settled in our latitude north of the equator, and so ' all the names and lgns and traditions and supersti tions jhaye"cxine' dawn to us along the .game parallels, but'Jthey don't fit some . -othef countries at all. ft is hard for us "teTealizethat away ddwu below the ..equator December 'is "hot- and July is .cold. StVahMitine never lived down theinYjere'fhTffruT TSegau mate in Septemrbef and? the March -wjnds do not blow 504 jUiedo woojd bloom in April, nor the children have . their pic nics in May. The whole coursejof nature's f seasons is reversed and we " .would harU'ly -'knbw einefves were we suddenly transplanted . there. I was readbTIierotber.day in a northern papriioWl"-4emUe3lted in that region, where the ttiermometer t was 50 degrees below zero? -"and in another column . was the foreign news tr- t f 'Tavut"ei awfolheat it W 1-0 degrees ab"ove . zero bri - the 15th of January. This was only a dif ference of 170 degrees, and the people . in both countries were .suffering about alike, though in one it was heat and - the other cold. , The good St. Valentine was behead ed about 25(J. ears after Christ. He v'as a man of great' learning and piety and charity, and everybody , loved him but the wicked Emperor Claudius, and so the people commemorated his vir tues by making the day of his death a notable day. As -he loved everybody and everything, they got up that pretty . superstition about the birds mating, Afterwards the boys arid girls took it no and said it was a eood time of the ' year for them to mate, and so they started the custom of writing love . letters and playing sweetheart ' for little while. At first they drew lots for their mates, and a pretty, sweet girl had to play sweetheart to a knock- kneed, cross-eyed, twist-nose booby ir she drew him. '" ' V The young people love to receive pretty valentines that speak loving words in pretty verses, and iheje is no harm in that kind. They are symbols of love's young dream, and are for A and lassies onlv. " "fliese old bach elors and maidens whc fallen in love and fallen outcores of times, and have fooled andu-ted with Cupid until he has flefrom their hearts, - have no right tfend or receive a val entine. Iftb really want to. mate, let them mv a busiuess transaction of it and6 a business letter and wy4yf.w truly." Mroe M. Brown is in love with eyooy I know, for be has issued the ttiest valentine I ever saw of a busi esskind. It is a gem a thing of beauty, and the story it tells of the -battle of Kennesaw, and how the blue and . gray met together in love and kindness over their dead comrades, is worthy of the good Saint Valentine. It makes a man feel like taking the Kennesaw route and going up north and hugging every soldier he met. . February has a curious history. In fact, it took several centuries for the year to get split up into-montlis as they are now. Augustus Cesar had August put in the calendar, to please his own vanity, and Julius Cesar had July put in to get even with Augustus; and so King Numa bad February put in in honor of the festival of Lupercus Februus,'one of their mythical goVis. -This festival was held annually on the 15ta day of February, and some histo rians say that the observance of the 14th . day came from that festival. May be it did. May be it dident. The good Old saint, has the credit of it, and the best right to it, and so we will let him keep it. There is no use in under mining everything that has been pleas ant to- us in the past. They have blot ted 'out William Tell and are after Shakespeare and the other day I saw an article headed " Santa Claus must go." Some men would assassinate Joan of Arc and Alladin and Sancho Panza - and Cinderella , and Jack and the Bean Stalk and Uncle Toby and Tarn o' Shanter and Christmas and the Fourth of July. What is the good of drying up all the imagination of our natures? . Here are the very names of the week that came down to us from the Scandinavian mythology, and an other mythology gave us the names of the 'planets and constellations. . . So let St. Valentine and StvPatrjta have their days, . and St. Paul and St. Peter their churches, and St. James $a hotels. " "Spring is coming, and as usual, from time immemorial, I have been working in the .garden, planting potatoes .aud peas and onions and strawberry plants and ever and anon Mrs. Arp. would walks out and smile on me and encour age me to keep on that line if it took me all summer. My back' hurts me right now. I got down on my marrow bones and put out 300. strawberry plants with my own hands and knees. ifo little boy to help me now," for he is at school, and I have to wait on my old self all the time. Mrs. Arp advised me to-day to stop digging awhile and cut up some stove wood for a recrea tion. I read a very sad account about an old man cutting stove wood and a stick flew up and hit him in the eye and put it out. I told her about it and she said she didn't reckon ft would happen' agnin in a hundred years. It too't me two days last week to grade the terrace in the front yard and. then I had to dig 24 holes for the new roses that Mr. Berckmans sent ber from Au gusta and it took ar wheelbarrow full of rich earth for every two . boles, for she says uiere is a ngnt way ana a wrong way to plant out roses. She says that ..exercise is good for me for I am get' ting too round and work will reduce me and make me sleep sweeter and not quite so loud. - So it is all right and I sliant complain. There is another dog.-come. home uaipn is working down at the mines arid took a notfpn to send THs fine dog hoinr. Tbat makes four degs. right hnirti lj u-buuckttnd We can't stand,jt sy..c .0 . : J ... dunu jranZwul .mts: AiVuLher is Carl's and : my wife she claims the shepherd as her pet, but she got. mad with bun the other day and she wished be was away off on some farm 00, while she was out visiting, 1 gave the dog away, but it didn't stick. He came back home before she missed him and it. was lucky for me that he did It reminded me of Dr. Felton when he walked out on his piazza and saw a lot of cattle in his corn-field. 41 Here, Madison Madison, come here, Madi son! Don't you see those fence-break ing cattle down yonder raising the corn? Jtun, Madison; they will ruin me absolutely! Get your gun and kill the last one of them! I declare it is exasperating to have nabors' cattle de vouring your substance in such a way. Bun, Madison con plague the cat tie!" " The doctor went m and sat down in vexation, and was using language up on his nabors when suddenly went the gun, bang, bang, bang, He bounced from his chair and hurried to the door and screamed: " Madison, you Madi son; Madison" bang, baner. baner "you Madison; I do wonder if that fool nigger is shooting those cattle. If he is I won't have anything to do with it not a thing." It won't do to take folks at their word every time. Ralph's dog is a pointer an educat ed pointer, and will bring your hat to you. That's what he writes. Well, I don't want my hat brought to me; I can go after it, and now, it will take as much to feed these four dogs as to keep a cow; and before long their taxes will be to pay again. When I was up at Anderson the dog tax was on band and the marshal could hardly find any- oouy wuo owned a dog. "Haven't you got a dogr" "Ho, nary dog, nothing but a little pup about so high," and be put his hand nearly to the gronnd. He stopped at another house and inquired: " Got anv dosr?" Why, what is that animal slipping under the house?" " Oh, that that little Gee; why, that ain't mine that's Susy's little fice he's no dog and he don't belong to us, nohow." Xabor Freeman and I were about to be ruin ed by some loner-nosed, razor-hak hogs, and my dogs were afraid of them but one day I heard an awful squeal ing in the strip of woods back of my house, and I thought I heard a man say, " bite bim, Tramp! seize him Tramp!" So I hurried down there and found a bisr, brindle, strange dog just tearing a big hog all to pieces. but I ' couldn't find anybody sicking him on, and I didn't feel like sicking Lim off. The next day the owner came fooliufir around with a gun, and said he saw a big, brindle dog run under na bor Fieeman'8 house, and he was gwine to kill him and sue for damages besides. Nabor Freeman straightened uo with indignation, and said " he is not my dog, sir. I don't know any thing about him. If be is at my bouse he don't belong there, he just tuck up there. My opinion is that that dog is a tramp. I can,t keep these stray dogs from eatinsr hoe meat when they are hungry." Well, those hogs never troubled ns any more, and my respect for stray dogs has greatly increased. Calhvun an4 Cleveland. . America's most illustrious states man, the Honorable John C. Calhoun, gave utterance, in Congress, February 9th, 1835, to these momentous truths, which deserve to ber seriously pon derecf, IfepesciaCjr at this time) by the people of the United States: As greatly as these causes have added to the force of patronage of late, there are others of a different nature which have contributed to give its a far greater and more dangerous influence.: At the head of ; these should be placed the practice so great ly extended, if not for the first time in troduced, of removing from oflice per sons well qualified, and who had faith fully performed their duty, in order to fill their places with those who are rec ommended, on the ground that they be long to the party in power, a practice endangering our'political institutions, and the liberty of the country, ; Cases of such removals may be found in the early stages of the government; but they are so few and exercised so little influence, that they may be said to constitute instances rather than as forming a practice. It is only within the last few years that removals from oflice have been intrqducedla3 a sys tem; and for the first time, an oppor tunity has been afforded of testing the tendency of 'the practice,' and witness ing the mighty increase which it has given to the force of executive patron age; and the entire and fearful change, in conjunction with other causes, it is effecting in the character of our. po-: litical 'system. Nrir will it require much reflection to perceive in what manner it contributes to increase so vastly, the extent of. executive-patron age; ' ' . : -: ;;. : 'Ji long, as, offices, were con&iderecl as vubatJ frn&festo jbe conferred on the. XTVni. li ifiT comcnSri good, and not for the benefit or gain of the incumbent or his party and so long as it was the practice of the government to continue hi office those who faithfully -performed their duties, its patronage, in point of fact. was limited to the mere power of nom inatmg to accidental vacancies or to newly-created offices, and could, of course, exercise but a moderate in fluence, either over the body of .the community or of the office-holders themselves; but when this practice was reversed; when offices, instead of being considered as public trusts to be con ferrcd on the deserving, were regarded as the spoils of victqry, to be bestowed as rewards for partisan service, with out respect to merit; when it came to be understood that all who hold office hold by the tenture of partisan zeal and party service, it is easy to see that the certain, direct and inevitable ten dency of such a state of things is to convert the entire body of those in of fice into corrupt and supple instru ments of power, and to raise up a host of hungry, greedy and subservient par tisans, ready for every service, howev er base and coyupt. Were a premium offered for the best means of extending to the utmost the power of patronage; to destroy the love of the country and to substitute a spirit of subserviency and man-worship; to encourage vice and discourage virtue; and, in a word, to prepare for the subversion of liberty and the establishment of despotism, no scheme more perfect could be devised; and such must be the tendency of the practice, with whatever intentiou adopted, or to whatever extent pursu ed." : ' ' Such were the oracular utterances of that patriot-statesman that lofty spirit, upon whom ' . Every g-od did seem to set his seal. To g-i ve the world assurance of a manH What a rebuke do his words admin ister to time serving politicians who would crawl to wealth or power over the purity of the commonwealth and the liberties of the people! to the buz zards that would fatten npon the na-i tion's vitals, screeching over the car cass: To the victors beUmq Vie spoils! What a distressing spectacle to see the interests of a great people tossed to and fro by the schemes and intrigues and chicane of men who . have neither the feai of God before their eyes iior the love of their country in their hearts. " We cannot but dread some impending calamity, when we see the honor and prosperity and glory of a nation made the sport of the party tac tics and the little selfish schemes of little men, who, by the visitation of God, happen to have some control over j a great subject aud some influence in a great commonwealth;" who are una ble to extend their vision beyond the I domain of self, or the narrow circle of party, pitiful pigmies, wljo can rise to no loftier ends than the esh pots of Egypt, ( contemptible parasites who would thwart the policy arid obstruct the efforts for reform of j our noble President, whose amplitude of mind, integrity of purpose, simplicity of de-. sire, consistency of actfen, evince that his conceptions are raised to the magnitude and importances of his mo mentous duties, that his Wmiprehen siou is as broad as the ountry for which he acts, his aspirations as high as its certain destiny. "A statesman is a sublime character a jobbing politician t&k little for contempt.": ' V An impartial comparison of the present' administration wf th all that have preceded it, noting the diffi culties contended with, jjnd the ob stacles to full success in fthe way of each, plaees President Clf veland next to ? President Washington. " And should his course, to thefend of his career, prove to be as adnf&rable as it has been thus far,- It wlllbe no easy question for the American people to determine which of the fewb - should be first in the hearts of pis country men." The President :of the whole country, he should be made President by the whole conntry, without oppo sition, the unanimous enolce of the people. Such a singulai distinction Would be due to him, by eason of sin gular merit, honesty,jusice, courage, unswerving devotion tp principle. Should, it not be accorded him, it would ,only prove that the ; American People fall far below the American President; and that men re weary of hearing him characterized, as Cleveland the Just., - .. -L Let the prayers of the righteous con tinually go up.toT " The prince of the Kings of the Earth, the Head of all Principality and' PowerV,' that this American Fabricius may7 be fortified by divine grace and guK&d by divine wisdom and "be every ,ay fitted for the vast responsibilities of his exhalted office; that this example may tell with power upon the whole country; that the reign of probity, justice and econo my being fully inaugurated, may intro duce the Golclen Age of th4 Republic, to cfaeer and delight a happj land, rejoic ing in that righteousness! which exal- f thatsin which is a reproach to any people! Dr. A. VT. Miller ; in York ville Enquirer. : , Newipapcr Law. Below we give the. United States Postal Laws relating to newspapers and subscribers : ' ' 1. Subscribers who do not give ex press notice to the contrary are con sidered as wishing to continue their subscription. . . 2. If subscribers " order the dis continuance of their periodicals the publisher may continue sending them until all arrearages are paid. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their periodicals from the office to which they are directed they are; held responsible until they have settled their bill and ordered them discon tinued. 4. Subscribers move to another place and fail to inform the publisher, and the papers are sent to the former di rection, they are held responsible. 5. Auy person who receives a news paper and makes use of it, whether he ordered it or not, is held in law to be a subscriber. : 6. If subscribers pay in advance, they are bound to give notice to the publishers at the end of their time, if they do not wish to continue taking it; otherwise the publisher is authorized to send it on and the subscriber is re sponsible until express notice, with payment of all arrears, is sent direct to the publisher. The new postal amendment has made it a penal offense to refuse to pay for a newspaper and the subscriber may be imprisored for fraud. In CnuMumption Incurable? Bead the following : Mr. C. Morris, Newark, Ark., says : "Was down with Abscess of Longs, and friends and phy sicians pronounced me an incurable consumptive. Began taking Dr. King's Xew Discovery for Consumption, am now on my third bottle, and able to oversee the work on my farm. It is the finest medicine ever made." Sesse Middlewart, Decatur, Ohio, says : "Had it not been for Dr. King's New. Discovery for Consumption I would have died of Lung Troubles. Was given .up by doctors. Am now in best of healtb." Try it. Sample bot tles free at R. H. Adams & Co.'s Drugstore. Net Once in a Thonand Yean. What is it that occurs orice in a minute, twice in a moment, and not once in a thousand years?. The letter m; which is always in sweet gum and Mullein. Taylor's Cherokee Bemedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein will cure coughs, colds and consumption. THE BEVEBEND GEORGE II. THAYER, of Bourborn, Ind., says: ' Both myself and Wife owe our lives to SHILOH'S CONSUMPTION JURE." For sale bv R. II. Adams &Co. - GASTOW AND CLEVELAND. M.ne Latter Subscribed, tke Former Didn't; but Oantoi Oot There All the Same.'' ' j . Pleasant Ridge, X. C, February 22, 1888. Mr. Editor: Please give me a small space to tell my little puny story. am fresh from a visit across the west side of Gaston, and do not think that I exaggerate when I say on my left was Cleveland ana on my right was Gaston. What a contrast between twin sisters senatorially! j On my right (Gaston) everything j was bright and lovely, wheat and oats looking fine; and everybody appeared j happy. On my left (Cleveland) everything looked in the midst of solitude. Small grain. as a rule, is very small, and looks like the grim monster, Death, bad seized upon its vitals. And why the differ ence in twin sisters? One married by mutual consent; the other married for spite. One married an economical husband; the other married an extrax- agant spendthrift. Gaston county has the most econom ical government of any county in the state, or nearly so. Gaston has more railroads to-day than Sister Cleveland, and is not out one red cent, while Sis ter Cleveland has voted : thousands of dollars to build up. northern capital and fasten on themselves monopolies that they, their children and their children's children can never get rid of. Gaston has acted wisely in this, as in mauy other repects; not saying that she has committed no blunders or. mis takes. " j , ' : j J ;. To build a railroad is to build up a monopoly without pay or thanks.! I can say a great deal about railroad monopolies, but will refrain for the present. :'; ."'. j. : J ' v Economy is the mother of prosperity. Save your first money ; and you will al ways have it. j j ' j Gaston is the best . County in the state, as I shall attempt to show in my next communication, if jit has got a long snout to it, that they call a " pan handle." A down-East lawyer once remarked to me that Gaston had more men over the common level of man kind than any county in the state. ; Have we retrograded or improved? Let others say; I "will not at this time. 1 see in the last issue of Tiie Ga- i, hi U tOnilnuulcatiua 1 think- from Stanley's Creek, the question wnere in the Bible may the words nephew,' plane and . rule ' be found!1" I give it up for the present, and ask the question, Where is the verse in the Bible that has "frost," " snow '? and "ashes " in it? I am a very poor reader and can't find many things in big books; don't know much about books, nohow, and but very lit tle about anything else, 'as I grew up in an age of little progress, but now live in fast days too fast for me I frankly confess, but still I live and move and have being with the rest of Adam's " critters." Bob Peak. The Crowd Who Para Us. You cannot read the lot of those who daily pass by you; in the street. How do you know the wild romances of their lives the trialsj the temptata tions they are even now enduring, re sisting, sinking under? j You. may be elbowed one instant by the girl desper ate in her abandonment, laughing in mad merriment with her outward ges ture, while her soul is longing for the rest' of the dead, and bringing itself to think of the cold-flowing river as. the only mercy of God remaining to her here. You may pass the criminal meditating crimes at which you will to-morrow shudder with horror as you read them. You may push against one humble and unnoticed, the last upon earth, who in heaven will forev er be in the immediate light of God's countenance. Errands of mercy errands of sin did you ever think where all the thousands of people ' you daily meet a re bound? Ex. Electric BitterM. This remedy is j becoming known aud so popular as to so well need no special mention. : All who have used Electric Bitters sing the same song of praise. 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C, February 23, The following is a meagre outline of the facts connected with the recent crime of Ben Welsh: For some months it has been whispered around in the community that Welsh was treating his wife, together with his gray-haired father and mother, very badly, but as it was a family matter no one interfer ed. It was not until yesterday about twelve o'clock when his savage treat ment grew so bad that it could no lon ger be endured by bis brave wife and parents that the matter was disclosed and public attention and aid called to their rescue. Ben had gotten to a high pitch of madness, had run everybody out of the house and had his ax break ing up Chinaware, splitting and chop ping up the furniture and doing any and everything that is malicious, when the sheriff ame to arrest him. He did not rests: uae omeer and soon he was brought before Trial-Justice Wither spoon. The amiable, cultivated wife of Welsh, and his feeble, careworn fa- iner ana motner nad naidly put . in their appearance before the citizens became interested. The court-room was soon crowded, and as the ill-treat ed, injured wife and parents trembling ly related their painful story of the savage, drunken madman's cruel and brutal assaults upon them, even the most peaceful citizens grew wild with excitement. The case was so aggrava ting in its nature that it required con siderable effort on the part of the offi cers to keep the citizens from taking the matter in their own- hands; aud if it had not been for the large bond the court required, which it was well known Welsh could not give, he would have been: lynched, Welsh is now in jail to await his trial at the coming court. Tlfe following is the principle part of the evidence taken by Justice With- erspoon at his trial yesterday evening at five o'clock. Mrs. M. Ella Welsh, defendant's wife, sworn, says: Her life was, threat ened on last Friday, and defendant swore if he had a pistol he would blow her brains out. He has struck and beat witness a number ef times, and in a mean and angry manner since the last peace bond was - given. He (de fendant) has drawn a pistol on witness several times, and on one occasion cnreatenea ner me. . He, has kept a double-barrel gun in his room for three weeks, and several times has drawn it on the witness. Witness had' bruises and marks on her person which he made last-Friday. f He has broken up the dishes, etc., and had the ax cutting up the table to-day. Have heard him threaten to kill Ira B. Jones, Esq.,1 John R. Welsh (his father), and Mr D. D. Barrier (witness's brother).' Barrier was threatened to-day and others at different times. Witness is afraid of her life, and is afraid to go home if defendant is turned loose. .j "Cross examination: Was married sij; years ago in the month of December, i John R. Welsh, father of defendant, sworn,. says: " Defendant has commit ted so much crime while drunk that I cannot tell it all. Have seen defend ant's wife run out of the kitchenwith defendant after her. Have seen him strike his wife with his fist many times and have seen her flee from him often in the dead hours of the night for pro tection. Have stood between defends ant and bis wife to keep him from in juring ner. Defendant has broken up the crockery, cut up the pillows and blankets. Heard him curse and abuse his wife with bis fist over her, calling her a G. d. yellow b. I'll kick your bead off." , : f Harriet Welsh, mother of defendant, sworn, says: "Defendant has done so many wrongs to his wife that I can't tell them all. Have seen him strike her many times. Have seen where she has been bruised by defendant saw the bruises on her person was badlv bruised. He (defendant) has run her into witness' house many times and witness had to lock her up for safety. He followed her to witness' kitchen and threw a stick of wood at her and was after her with a large knife, which he drew from his pants, and said he had a notion to cut her G.' d. heart out. Defendant on another occasion followed his wife to witness' house and tried to take his father's stick out of his hand to beat her with, have seen him break up tableware, and she begged him not to do it." f Cross-examined: Suppose the crock ery was Mrs. Ella Welsh's. Mrs. Welsh always claimed the property, ; Grudma'a Tea. The old grandmother made mullein teas for croup and coughs. ! Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein is a mullein tea combined with sweet gum, a pleasant cure for coughs and croup. ."-''' T- ARE YOU MADE miserable by In digestion, Constipation, Dizzines, Loss of Appetite, Yellow Skin? Shiloh's Vitalizer is a positive cure. For sale by R. II. Adams & Co. ' ; f The Ineffaceable Record Exchange. ; - ' ! r.The emotions awakened in us at dif ' ferent periods are of a widely-varying character. The pensive, retrospective thoughts of evening, when night gent; : ly draws her sable -curtains around a sleepling world and bright, twinkling stars and mildly-shining planets peep out from amid the folds of the dark draperies of. fh'e skies, differ greatly from those which catch -the brighten- ing light, dewy freshness and invigora- ting air of the morriirig. So the emo- -tions which spring up" spontaneously to greet the new-year are different from those awakened by- the " 'dying year " season for memory and leafs.4' 4 And ' as there are times appropriate to antic ipation, when we try to forget the dead past and press forward . to things new and untried, so there are seasons appro-' priate to memory, when it is "'greatly wise to talk with our past ' hours, and 'f : ask them" what report they'-bpre to heaven, and how - they might have borne more welcome news." During the year that is now rapidly, drawing to a close we have existed,: have ' been , actors in life's drama, have made im pressions not only upon our own lives and characters, but upon the lives and characters of others-. ' - . - But the solemn, thing- about these impressions these entries we : have " made, these lines and chapters we have written is that they are ineffaceable " -what we have written once, we have ' written forever. : . , .- What Pilate said to the Jews con-'. cerning the inscription he had nailed above the cross of the dying Jesus, we may say with equal fitness concerning every page and' verse and line of the volume we are. about to close " what I have written, I have writen.' , We, have made impressions upon, the char- . ; acters and destinies of others as well as upon our own. The influence which , mind exerts upon mind is a mysterious and powerful characteristic of our be- , ing, yet no one can divest himself of this power or refrain from exercising , it. .We are living for coming: ages, ll Generations yet unborn will feel the---, touch of our. personality and be the better or ' worse of our . having livecL - The good man never dies, for his very, grave blossoms1 and bears fruit until ' the resurrection mora, And the ; bad ' after his body lies in' the tomb. -Dur ing the past twelve months who can enumerate the words that have escaped the lips, words gentle and. helpful or ' words blighting and damning, or who"- can reckon up his acts good or bad that ' fill ap the volume of the -year, and yet : not one shall live or find a grave or live an idle life or prove false to its parent- -age, - , :.:y .;:-vl: Our days are past but never gone, - for ' . - - : -.'' . C:-' when past, they haunt us still, , The spirit walks of every day deceased, And eihiles an angel or a fury frowns." Words and actions may be deeply re- -. gretted and sincerely repented, the oc- - casions which called them into being L may have passed from memory, but they wilj live on all the same, produc ing fruit in the characters and desti nies of others. The heroes, martyrs . and saintly characters of the past still live, their influence being embodied ia a thousand forms of living truth, free-' " dom and piety. Nor have, the Vol taires, Paines and Byrons ceased to be -leading actors in the drama of life, but their influence is rolling onward from -their silent graves with cumulative sweep and power, corrupting, destroy ing and damning. - 4 ' ' ; - -': Many a dying man would have given worlds to recall his words "and senti ments in a dying hour or to have-blotted out his deeds and put an end to his. . moral feeing. ' But no, these live after the man to curse his memory and blast the hopes of other. Some months ago the touch of a finger in the citv of Washington was sufficient to set in motion hundreds of wheels and thou- sands of complicated movements more than a thousand miles away. But more wonderful still, our words and acts may have set in motion influences that will be felt and acknowledged a thousand years from now influences w hose vibrations may tell upon haips of joy or harps of grief "throughout eternity, These reflections are sufficient to show us howcarefol and serious should " be our review of the past year. ' These f reviews maybe helpful in preparing for life's final review which may come ' ere long. It is a most solemn thing to " live, for what we have written, we have written. - ' ' Bncklen'v Arnica Salve. . i The Best Salve in-the world for Cuts, Bruises, ores, . Ulcers, Salt v Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped. 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Gastonia Daily Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.)
March 1, 1888, edition 1
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