The Gastonia C-=~ - --- ■-■-■ -.1-1 *«=■-« --- ■ ■— t .» : I ,B,n I-n-T^i3ijL_tjM_LLM_j_aijjftfn ___ -—-—--H^rrm^^uMj-JzziKniinmi^jmaaaMM Vol. XV1I1. Gastonia, N. CM August 12, 1897. ---- - LETTER PROM BILL ARP, AUTHORSHIP OP A POEM STARTS A D180U8BI0H. tf Bartow RmdUhsIm Ovm Mmmj TVilnjpi TBai Art •«•»! Olhrni ▼Bal Wirht It. lull Arv In Atkiota OontHintton. The lest letter I bad about lh« poem waa anonymous. Of ooursa. It wns, for It read: "Man want* but lltUa btra Wow. tt© Yoarw and Uakliihiui mj, flut woman wants It all. rou know. And wmma II rt*til an my” Mr*. Arp was sewing on some lafau tU* garments at I quietly laid the mis sive on her lap. tth* neither smiled nor frowned nor stopped the play of her needle as she remarked; “Maybe they do, bnt tliey don’t get It nor ex peel,*’ "T reckon," said I, "I.bat some stin gy Old benedict wrote Ural; soma fel low wbo would spend more money on hla horse ttisn uo Ills wife." ’’No,’’ aatd Mrs. Arp; "It was some old bachelor whose rejected sddressei liase made him eynlcal, and like Byron be rents his rayanga In doggers). When you go down town I wish you would see Mr. Uicka about that din ing-room ohalr. Maybe he oao put a new cane bottom in IL We nerd It sometimes when we hare company; and that old sideboard ougbt to be iwvarnlshed and hare new knobs. Do you know how uid that sideboard It "Tea," said I; '‘Jim Sumter mads It In llUi. Uu was one of the best men and bolt workman I t-rer knew. I paid him SJu for the sideboard. Be was a well rend, well bred man, s good neighbor aud a good oil!sen, and I hart respect for the sideboard. It la like so epitaph on Ills tombstone and seems to read: ‘Sacred to the memory of—’ Tee, 1 will *e« Mr. Ulcki about the sideboard. U tbrro anything else In hie Una that you want T" “No," sbe said, "but you know we are obliged to have another extension table. We gsv« outs to Jessie when aha was married anJ have been using ono that was left liete three ye-trs ago and now the owner lui aatlled down and wants It. You had butter atlrcd to this right away." ■ uaiH away, ngat imaj , ■ numu, *'Mui vuutn jmniM It ail, rou kitvw, And vinu it rtiriil mj/ Mra. Arp looked at ms and remarked “1 want these thing* for you and the children. It’s precious little* that 1 want for myself now. I don't thick (tie admire* the tong or the santlment. I know It, I know it, my dear,” said L "Tt»er* was a time when you wanted a good deal for yourself aud It pleased me to gratify yonr every with and more than you asked lor. Noth ing was too good for you when 1 bad the money, .Silks and tablee. lawn* *M muailut, carriage* aud horses. Wilton carpel* end damask ouclsics, and so fotth, and so on. et cetera e pUrlbus ucum. Hut Anno Domini kept rolling cm and the war cams sad I discovered that you ware gradually losing your concern for yourself, and aU your cure was for your children. 1 was ruminating about this while you ware stitching away so earnestly upon that little gar ment for cow your love und earn have Ispped over lo another generation. The HtU* grandchildren have come In for a share of yonr maternal love, and your personal ifnnt* have come down to a minimum. Of course, you must be clothed as beeomrs the maternal head of numerous mid lovely offspring, for if you are not a quern yon have reigned fo your bouM nearly as tong a» Queen Victoria has lu England and—” ” «»», vunw wim uu uuw, ft iu ubj Wit*. "You had butter go to U>wo, Aunt Ana says the rice is out and the cowfeed too. I wm rumluatiog, mid I, "bow for tunate It was tbat yoor ambition sur rendered about the time my money did. Yon oeaesd to crave flue things as I used to get you. You xdanted yoor wants t» our misfortune;. Why, 40 years ego I would not have let you go abont In tbat grimly gray maalin. 1 bad a contempt (or obeap things, es pecially for you; didn’t I, my dear 1 You certainly did, said tbs, with u kind of tad, reminiscent smile lo bar ton* of yolor, “but this muslin Is good eoongli now. Bat you better go to town. There ere four little grand ohildren hero lo dinner, and Aunt Aon wants Urn nee right away. And want* It right away, 1 hummed to the Cun* of "Auld Lang Syne." somehow I can't get that refrain oot of my mind—“And wanta It right away. Sometimes 1 Iblok that men don't underaiaud nor appreciate woman’* nature. Sbe was created wllh a love for the beautiful, for ornament, for Bowen and gems sod Jewels aod gold aod silverware snd dautaak and flee linen. She can't help her Mature, and Ibis very naimr proves tbat aba la nearer Heaven than w# art. What do 1 earu for diamond* t Not a coot. 1 wouldn’t giv* a dollar for a liualitl or thorn. An old fashioned tin waiter with Bowers painted nn It Is a* good ae a sliver on* lo am. I wouldn’t wash the window glee* more than once a year, and a wsthpan suits mass well as a obioa basin. But I recognise the fact tbat I am it man with an unre Bned Datura. The 13 gates of Urn New Jtrod*turn that an made of pre eknm ttonea are no attraction to me; neither are tin gold-paved streets that 8». John ■« In his vision. Bat slid I have hop* of getting there and bt eomlng mere rvBned, for I do leva Bower* and pretty birds end nrange treat aad luacloes fruits aad beautiful eSeaery and meintalna aod the great vmtere of U>e mighty at*. My wife and my daaglrtert can spaed half a day In looking at tbe beautiful Ibiaga In the shew, window* in Atlanta, hot I never step to gas* or edmlre, eg eept, perhaps, lo look at the piano graph's display nr the life-like models of levutv women lltat teem amIIlag at my three-eeon and tee. Reading and otesrvatlen teach as* that all good I id on have reverence (or womankind ui are conscious of bar boiler nature tier belter morals and emotion*. Shakespsnrs and Scott writ* of women ss minitiering angoU. Wadsworth says of b«r creation: •A pCTteot wuaan eoWy piano**, To wmm, to comfort •ml oomin*»dT No great poet esve such a rake as Uyron would have written: "Atwell bsUove e woaan. or en eplisoh. Ur nnjr other thin* tlwt'afabc." Evtn Solomon lu oil bit glory wilb hi* wives and ooncubluee, said: Young man. tejoloe witb the wife of thy youth, and be thou always rav ished with tier love. Edward W. Bok lays in the Ladies' Homo Journal. “No economy It so felee and misguided as that whieh seeks to withhold one pleasure from tho Ilfs of s good woman, a true wife or a loving toolbar. The best borne a man «aa give her becomes tiresome if slit Is asked to live In it and stay In it 300 days in • year. The Lord knows that woman's life I* hard enough, bhe travels a nath of sudurancs sod suffering to which the average man Is so entire Stranger. Then 1st ua make that path a* pleasant as cosy sod as bright as possible. Every dollar that a mao spend* on bit boom for lb* hap. pines* and oomfort of hie wife will oome back to him four fold. That is true—all true. Better mend the broken pane or that cord or that gala latch and sometime lake an boar off from business and lake her to ride. The Odd Fellows and Masons und Knight* of Pythias are gnoj Instltu liot.t, but tlHiuld not come In between a man and his wifa. Tb» mother went* help with the children, for I tell you, tny brethren, there la no care nor anxiety Ilka nursing aud caring for a little ohlld. ami nobody but a mother will dn it willingly. A mother who has reared eight or ten children from infancy to maturity and four year* of the lime dutlog a pitiless war, when she bad to gee from the foul Invader with her little ones and hide them, half clad and always hungry, can say with Paul; “t have faughl a .good Ozht; 1 have Hulahed my course." see, Paul said that, but lie was no old bachelor, and knew nothing of what a mother suffers Th* emt paUwlic lioe In all poetry Is that of Pill-Green* llaJIrck, where he apoatroobltes death: to tor iaor In ikn **w—Wa list-Wennltlna al ikf Ilnur wh*a Mir akvliix niiyM-tsi A(Mia Wtiew UH. Hun (v«n In Min Marnlnnl—A Stairway tin Uktlt Aaaaat at StU Heart a at) Me|te aatl liltl ana ua Hit. Mta«t» ware It lilya. Ur. I.T. Treasons, Stv'r of iho IWpiur Kntae MMoaMms*. Some year* ago for Die Orel time I croeaed the leuxl of Hie Sky from Mor ristown, Thud., tn Salisbury. N. U. Tlve greater pert of lbs railway had been recently oonslracted. sod the tralos ran cautiously and slowly oyer the newly opened line. Iwavtng Morristown about U a. m.. we reached Paint Book on the North Carolina line about 19 m , sad began our drllgtilfsl trip up the French Broad river. It was su October day with the nlr full of warm sunshine, end with scarcely a cloud to east a shadow upon mouulelu or river. Tbe delay for dinner at the Warm Springs Shortened the remaining hours of lbs nsrer-lo-b* forgotten day. Willi de liberate speed tbe train followed every eurvalor* of the French Broad ns It turned from aide to side ervkjng, through that channel It ht* chiseled In tbe everlasting rocks. Its pathway to Ih* see. This noted river finds Its birthplace Htong His cliffs of tbs Blue Bhlge not far from Caesar’* Head In South Caro lina. Calling together Us tributaries from every side It unite* them Into a bi\Md Boo-1 that northeastward flows down the Wiry slop* of tlm beautiful Silky end metis nt Asheville tbe sparkling hwaunaooa that comes leap Ing like a fawn down the western slope* of the living wall which sepa rates the depressed mooutsin plateaus from the Piedmont vutleysof Ike east. Thus reinforced, the two tutu their faces tn the west and prepare to break through the mountain ranges, chain after chain, until at last their Im prisoned waters flow out into tbe great valley llut from Pennsylvania to Ala usraa atnoes tbo Mine Bulge from the Allegl««ny. Ttili oonfltct of the ages le not ret ended. Tbe mighty river h*e Indeed out Ha way through the aounuln bnrrlt re and galoed Die wide Talley down which it flows to Hit gra-* bah) and blackened eliflf net unimpeded to the clouds, end tlisre clothed to tbelr very wimmitK witti l*.fy cover ing of close wove., forests, they seemed like sentinels guarding tbs Inuer shrine Of lilts sanctuary of the mountain world. At lest tbs parting beams of the dying day, like Mosee, ollssbed to the mountain tops to bid the world farewell, and tbo silent shadows were lifted from the vales to cover the steeping world. We reached Asheville Just ‘ as ths •entinel.Ure eet thttr watch lo ths •ky. Tl»e train would resume its journey to Salisbury with the morning light, So I sought tbe Mwaunanoe •‘‘del nnd retired »o rest at the usual liour. I could out sleep. Ths reool ot th* lings red In my son). “»d Itaw permitted to walk through Man before sin bad stained lUglorlee. and seen what, since its ueopenlng gatee have Wan forevsr barred, no hu man eye can aae. I she old scarce have Weo more enraptured by lie renin n Waoce Uiau 1 was l hat night. Before tbe dawn I liad descended from my chamber to the olBee where, fortunately for me, (be proprietor waj ®" y°u sre awake early,” said ‘t ie more »hen an hour before n. ,Hh’* t"u *r*r t**” I" Asheville before? Would you like to sea the sun rise from Ute top of tlie bolel y Vou have plenty of tins*.” la h few minutes an > perilog In the .oof lot as ont into the cool air of tbe ■•T"*"*' . A1 Bm ■•' "*• derfc except a ttreek of gray down ufhi the eaeterp boelAie. Then aa nut eye* grew more accustomed to th* dark, and Die light slowly Increased, there oases out ibe dim and ghostly outlines of ths giant mountains emerging from Uis floods of darkoese. ■■ '*’* ,ul ike narrow Ice of glowing eriowor. was broaden Ing on the upward arching sky. Thire :,btru,’w® i*01"*“*• glowing l«hk Tbe arrowy beams of the erne ing day were transforming tbs mists of morning luto the light of heaven. Jn»t In front of os old 1‘lsgah's bald nn« oreggy sommit smitten by tbs eomlsg sea looks na though the morrv •?***£?£ vesfed her with Its molten glorias Far away wsetward peak after peak U meeting the rising day. Balaam and «nd Jam leeks " ■?*T**,r «««rds bed been hlndlsd *• •■•emits. A hundred more ere joining !e the Hue ef glory. Stead tog on these heights so oesr to hcAVea, angsts' Imoda s*«m to be dlaangaglng ths curtain* nf tb« night, and down thsir ragged aides and deep ravins* Uts loosened draperies of dartnsae fall. Swiftly eastward acroes tbs broken plain tha hosts or morning are driving Dm shadow* of Ilia night, and Held nod forest and mountain crag and ths wide reach nf Rowing river are celled hy tha ootiqcnriiig light until dwannmma'* forest-tangled fountain* yield to the dominion of the day. and work, and he did it like a man, alwar* at hie poet of duly. He worked Mllhfklly and dili gently at a email wtlary. raving np avery crnt lie could. and a few weeka ago found out be had money enough to buy a good lwuaa on Broad it reel which he pun: I ward and bad the deed made out In hlo doar mother'! name We put him down a» a noble young man, and tell Ilia boy* to go and do hkrwlar, Inrtaad of throwing their money away on clgarcltoa and other thing! I hat wreck thrlr young man hood. «MMMuhav nmk. HnnlolUt* Our. laaWweiUii LanA^a.k. Mr. Jama* Millar. Jf..huain fait poaoeaaloo a plot# of furniture la tbe way of a clock whlofc l! noted for ite peculiarity a! well aa lla age. 1c haa Wen la nan for 181 yearn end Mill keep* good time. Tha eloek alia upright on the floor nnd Ik 7 fart and 4 tnotwa high. Tho wurka art very at rung, moat of then being mode of Iron. The Indication! arr vary good for the clock‘e betag bare at leant a half a cen tury yet. Mr. Millar *kya It hat boon handed down from kit aaaeatore and bo haa ao knowledge at to where It waa purehaaad, but probably It It one «f the otdwt In nnenUel nee to bo beard of for ml lea aroond. W# k(U Xeat*. Ike /rent Mood rvena dy. A tore aura far fallbtg manhood. Troat Terre not A IX. aktoala, V. O. RVRVBB IIKB MOXMV. t ——.... , Bat Mm Aakaa Or.,: Iltmliwt Ya-twr to ■Itmum toy ItotTiMMU/iaiurt MMM an! in* ran t aortal Beta raw#. i Mow To** llnua. On that day Mm. O’Kellly, aim live* at <47 KtM Oun Hundred and See-n. ! UrnUi St mot, «nu tint/ houMOlaanlMg. I and llllla Tommy, who was on a flail to Iter, way playing in Ui.t kitchen. Seeing iliat hla aunt tool engaged, and tiring «'f Uim usual forms of enj .yiesjit. : Tummy k*t hImuI upon nu «K)n iriag : expedition. Us started In at tlw bo* I tea drawers, and soon d I scorned h fat pockstbuok. His infantile fancy con I cel yeti Uial It would !*■ capital run tn throw tlw pookethook Into Ui« kltcbeu tang* aud WtotcU It burn, lu an Io nian t Im liad th* lid of l ho range off, aud Ih a moment lie was clapping hla | hand* and gleefully laughing at tha Hama* ao they danosd about the laather I pocketbook. In tlio rear room lit* aunt dtlsctarl tha smell of bamlitg leather, and, har rying Into tha kitchen, asked Tommy •hat ha had boon doing, but llw artful lad bad he*>d Iter appnioebtag foot step*, and hastily replaced the ltd oo the stove. Ht declared that Iw "was doing nothin1.' But Uw smell was there, and Mrs. O’Knilly opened the •love and sew the ol)*ct smoldering. Sho hurried to the bureau drawer, and mimed the porfceiuook. Sbe accost'd Tommy. II* denied. She pUysd a tattoo on Tummy, and be confessed that Iw Imd Uirrwn tlw poekathook Into the «tovw Mrs O’Kellly quickly ttshed llw smoldering leather from tlw Q uses nnd oa ref ally opened It. Only a mam of bnn.ad paper eoafronlad. her. She wus liic-'Utolable, for lu Uw pocket book had been ooa ten dollar Mil. w-vt a (We*, flea one*, aodooe two duller (•III, Uw sselogs of many mouih*. one mm ultra no max* something out uf lha aalrfM, but all that was visi ble was a corner of tba ten Hollar bill She look llie burned packetbnok sad Ks contents to Uia agent of tba house In which site reside*, John Ntearer, Wl sss eg>OS Is at 147 Bast Due Hun dred and Taeatr Uftli bLresl, rad i-a plained ilia matter in bins. O i July if he draw up au H«idavlt, whlab she Sigurd. Selling forth tliw oontruts of the pocket hook nad tbe manner of Ua drat motion, and Ilia foil.•win* day Ilia pocket book and aalirs were delivered at tint Sub-Treasury, lo WsU Street, together wltli tb* kfldsvlt. Mrs. O’UaUly was still bemaoalng bet loss Saturday morning, whan the postman whistled in tbe ball and called out: "Mr*. Kate O’Ktllly.'• Mrs. O'Betlly hurried down su'ra and was banded ao official looking document, bearing tba stamp t.f tb* United Bute* Treasury Department. She tore It *k r«j quiet sud demure it Is the Judge's daughter. “Young litlklns vu here hurt even ing." said the Judge, and the jodse’* •cow) was something awful to behold as lie Mid It. “ Wss hr, papa?" asked the lodge's daughter. “Was Ire!" roared the Judge. “Don’t you know that lie was?" “Oh, of crane, I know Hurt be was," bet you were Making a state ment, tod not asking A question, and 1 liave often heard you any that In a trill It wasn’t policy to admit any thing. *It is lima enough In admit a tiling. ’ 1 liava heard you say, ‘afltr the other side has proved It.’ 1 hare ewlrrrd no denial, you know." The judge mumbled somelhlug about the new woman taring a llttls too MBflitat times, but Dually waived tins point and suggested t Fiat be I tad p-r ronaily seen young Ullklos on the front porch t>m previous evening. “Yury likely.” admitted the Judge’s daughter, calmly. “I am prepared to oouaeda the fact that ha eras there, v> that It Is unnecessary for yoe to Intro duce the evidence." Tim Judge himself admits Ural un one can l« mors provoking than Ills dneghtcr Is st llmce "I not «u)y mw him thsra," eontln uvd the Judge with soma Imprawlvo «■», “but I aetnslly M« him kiss you.’* “Tes," Mid the fudge's daughter pleasantly. “Oeorgete an awful trsae." “A lease!" erh-d Ilia Judos. “Oh, lie just delight* In bothering me," explained the jndee's daagliter. “Oh. lie rluoa, dors he?" Inqelred the jsdge sarcastically. “Well, It ao hap pens that I saw you return hla hiss." The jsdge’e laughter laughed mer rily. “The idea of a map. who I ms devoted bis life to law not knowing say letter than that.'’ she said. “Why, I wasn’t rsturulog the kiss he gsva me. I was •Imply replavlnfng the one he had atari ee.” Then U waa that the judge gave up the unequal strife and retired to hla library, talking to lilmsvlf In italics. Knur hundred miners want on a •trike st Chicago last week. OAK HEDGE INSTITUTE. 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