The Gastonia
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Vol. XYIH. {JliJ'JMKSifcW Gastonia, N, C„ September 23, 1897.
MAJOR JONES’ COURTSHIP.
By riajor Joseph Jones, of Pinevllle, Georgia.
LETTER XL
rmzvrLLB, Dec. 90.—To Mr.
Thompson: Dear Sir—It Mean out
folkei always la lo a fuae. FI rat it
was DOTln. then it wm* bogkllllo, and
cow every thing la topav-lurvv ataklo
ready foe Crlsmut. 1 do blieve Ilia
olggwa It showered every spot from
the garret to the doreatepe, aod every
time I comt into tbe bouae (bay's all
holler in oat, “ui«r now, Ids* Joe, lest
look at your traektl" and “don’t you
step on the heath, for it’s Jest re
deoed,” and “don’t you (pit agin the
Jam.” and aich foolery, jo*l at If peo
ple’s house* wasn’t made fur ’em to
live in. It really put* me out of all
patience to see aich nonsensical dolus.
And mother, she** had all the nigger*
ehoppln aeaage meat to maka mlnot
pie, aod pooodln aploe and ginger, aod
making marvel* and but in rgt to
male* ponodeake, aod all aoru of
swett doloe for Criamua; fur wbeu she
take* anything into her head, aba ain't
a gwine to be outdone by nobody. 8be
sea Crlsmni don’t oom* but once a
year now-a-days, and sbe's gwine lo
treat It haneum when II dors cum—
•bo’s gwine lo abow tha Bull in tee that
•he’* used to at good llvlu a* moat of
foke*.
Well, I glory in her spunk, but It’e
monel root expensive to go things on
Umi big Qger that ebe’e oo now; It
never ought to be dona only for wed
dlna, end It wouldo't do torn wtaar
ther was to be many weodlna Id the
same family.
1 tell you what, I waa monslroua
riled tothsr day whan I got a letter
from Crotohett oallln me all aorta of
hard uemea, and abuiln me every thlog
be could think of. 1 showed It hi the
Stalllnaea. and Mioa Mar? led he waa
good for notblog wicked retch, to go
and run off and leave hie wife and chit
dnm, and tbeo wbeo he was found out,
to dare to go end write about a respec
table geaUoman la that way.
“Thal’a Jest the way with the world,
my oblld,” ere old Mlsi AUllioe, "the
bigger rascal a wan la the mote Inaur
auoe he’s got. That'*Jest what put
me agin him et fust. Whenever I see
to much insurance 1 always suspect
User's eons rascality with It."
And that's my Ulef, too, Mr.
Thompson; I'll toll you how I lodge
fokes what I don’t know much about.
When I eee anybody tryln right oK to
show bow smart they la, sod lakiu all
Use oooyarsalloo to themselves. I keep
my eye oo 'em. Cause when people It
account Ussy's got sense enough to
know that other people will Bud It out:
hot when they really ain’t nobody, and
when they koow they’d amount to lees
the more tbey’s found out, then they
try to make people blleve liter’s the
mischief and all. before they can have
a chance to ees Into ’em. Hein’t you
never found It eoT f nannuvce la like
varnish; It makss Use commonest kind
of yaller pine look saolly like mahoga
ny. and Insurance covers ell the rut lea
Ptaoce in the character of Use wont
kind of raseali sod makes ’em appear
like gentlemen.
uo tell mi wbat upon yeatli all Ihl*
talk meaua about the world Io a eend
mxi April. l’eu beard a great deal
about killer’s dSctrlce, aad bustle*,
and Dickens’ Note*, lately la tbe pe
pm. No other paper but the "Miscel
lany” bain’t (rot much else in ’em. Is
It a April fool business, or Is it a faetf
If tbe world wa* to bast up bruit that
lime. It would lutrrfere with people’s
calculations monstrous, specially mar
ried fokae. Ttisr wa* a man liar* last
week from Aug11**/, and he sed It was
a fact, that ba seed it all iirered out oo
u piece of paper, and ther was no mis
take about It. Ha was col lectin tor a
clock man In Boston, and he sed they
waa cloeiD up Manets an tint account.
Now I don’t Ilk* to Mleee oo atrli non
tense: but If It was to cosse.out true, I
wouldn't Ilk* to be so took In.
Mother nod old Mian Stall (ns sod
two or three more old ladle* la io n
mighty Qdget about It. and old Mist
SUIlloi dreamed aba seed two mooes
(other night, and oo* of ’em was all
blaslo with An tod Ilyin about In the
aky Ilka all wrath. I don’t easily
know wbat to think about It, bat
Lber’a one thing sarlln, It’s got to be
gin monstrous early in lb# morning on
the third day of April If t a'u’t up to
set that woods sire about Plnerllla,
Jest at that Uma I wouldn’t Uka to
»n»»** for the consequences among
to* old urimln
But I’m not gwtoe to 1st slob mat
iDwnon wiin no7 marrying
latloo. I oall It speculation, (or, you
know, tbar'a oo tolltn bowtbeee things
is (Wins to turn out. In Ibe fast
plsoo. It’s * ob*nos if a body (its the
gall bo's oourtin, and after he’s got her
*11 to blaaself, for bettor or for wore,
It’* • chance again if tha don’t tore
out a monstrous alto worm nor he taefc
liar for. But I think mica's • pretty
aafa Msoaaa, for Miss Mary M Jest a
lantle tbs smartest, asd beat, and tha
botlfnleet gall In Georgia. I ’re need
Iter two or tbrss time* asms tha candy
pnUin,’ sad I alo’t no ore’n half so frakl
of bar as I need to be. I told her
tether night I bad a Crtemot gift fot
her which 1 hoped oho would taka and
k*^Wh*t le it. MaderT” sat aba.
•Ob,” ass I, “It's to math tog what I
wouldn’t glrn to nobody elm In tt«
world t”
-Wall, but what la tty—do tall am."
•’Something,” am I. ’>what you atoll
from a» a long Umo ago. aad tenet
you’re got It I want you to kca» It,
and tire as* one Ilka It In return.”
••Wall, do tail me what it la, fast,"
•ea me 1 and I seed her out her eye at
Mias UarllM. aad aort o’ smlla.
••But, will you glee me ore In re
turif” ms L
••Whet. Majer-lelt mo whatf”
••1H tail you Or lam as are,” tea I.
‘•Dot wilt you glre am yours in re
turaT"
•■Youral Oh, my-,” then her (am
■ot undiit puppy, end she looked
aowo.
•‘You know whet, Him Mery,"see I
—“will you?"
She didn’t ley nothin, but blushed
| worse sod worse.
“Now, mind," era 1, "I must base
s answer (,'rtsmui Kts.’’
“Well,’’ sea sha—end then sbs look
ed op and laughed, sod seal—“exchange
is no robbery, la It, sister Carlin*?’’
“No. sit.” M* she, “but I reckon
Joseph got hi* pey bout tbe same time
you stole hto-”
“S’op. atop, sister, Uijer didn't say
bla heart—’’
“There, there I” w* Him Gerties sod
Ulw Keaiab. olappio tber hands aod
latitn aa load aa they coo Id—“there,
there, lltUe Innocent slater hi* let the
oat out of tbe hag. at lust. I told you
to, Major."
“I neyer felt so good afore in all my
born days, end Mias Mary, pore gall,
hid her race lu her bauds aod began to
ory, she felt su shout It. That's the
way with the gelle. you know, they
always cry when they feel tbe happy
ret. But X aoon got her In n good hu
mor. end then 1 went home.
I'm gwtoo to bring her right op to
the sera loti CUrlamus, ur I ain’t here.
It would take a berbera’-abop, foil of
CrotoheiU to back ma oat now. I’D
tell you how I come »ut In my next.
No more from
Your frteud, till daatb,
Joe. Jokbs.
LETTBK XII.
Pluerllle. December 37.
To Mr. Thompson: Dear Sir—
Crumus It over, end tbe thing 1* does
did ! You know I told you in my lest
latter 1 was gwlne to brlog Miss Mary
up to Uie chalk on Crisaas. Well, f
done It, slick ns a whistle, though It
come mighty nigh beln a serious blal
neas. But 111 tel) you all about th*
whole circumstances.
Tbe fact la, I<a made my mind up
■ore’ii larcaty times to Jest go aod
come right out with the whole btsl
uses; but whenever I got wfaer she wae
end wbeoeyer aim looked et me with
her witebio eyes, aod kind o' hi ashed
at me, 1 always felt sort o’ ikecrod
aod falnty, and all what I mads op to
tell ber was forgot, eo 1 couldn’t think
of It to save Et. But yon's a married
■an. Mr. Thompson, so 1 couldn't
tell yoo notblo about popla the ques
tion, as they call It. It*a a mighty
grate favor to ax of a pretty gall, aod
to people what ain’t used to It, It goes
moo*irons bard, don't it ? They say
widders don’t mind It no more’n noth
in. Hut I'm makio a transgression,
as tbn preacher set.
trismus eve l pul oa my new null,
and tltaved my face a tllck a a
tmoolbln iron, and after tea weot oar
to old Mtu Btatllneee. Aj won a 1
went Into Ibe parler whar thar was all
ksttin round Uve Are, Mia Carlin* aoa
Mia Keaiah both laughed right oat.
'‘There 1 there!’’ tea they, “I told
you ao. 1 koow’d It would be Joeapta.”
“What’i I done, Mia Carllao f”
!•
“Yea come under little aieter'e
chicken booe, and I do believe tbe
kaow’d you wee comic when the pat
ilever the dote.”
“No I didn’t—1 didn’t no such
thing, now,’1 at Mia May, and her
face blushed red all ova.
“Oh, you needn't deny it,’’ eu Mia
Keel ah.' ‘you belong to Joeepb now,
}at ae turn as tber’i any cbnrm In
chicken bones. ’1
I know’d that wu a Drat rata ebance
lo ay aomathlug, but tbe dar little
oreater looked ao sorry and krp blokhln
•o, I cuoldo’t ay nothin sadly to tbe
plot I ao 1 tank a chair and reached np
and lack down the bane end put It in
my pock ft.
“Whet ere yon gwloe to do with
that old cbtaken bone now, Mater?”
Mk Mia Mary.
“I’m gwlne to keep It a long aa 1
lire.” ea 1, “a a Crliaos preant
frea the handsome it gall In Georgia.
When I ad that, abe blushed worse
iyd VOTM.
“Ain’t you shamed, MaJtrT” lea abe.
“Now you ooght to give her a Crle
mue rift, Joseph, to keep ell her lire,’’
ted Mia Carlin*.
• Ah,’’ an old Mia Stallla, “when
I w«» a gtll are need to hang np our
atoeklna—*’
-Why. mother!” ea ell of ’em, “to
ayetuekloa right before-”
Then I felt a little streaked, too,
oeua they waa all Mubin’ a hard a
tbev could.
"flighty Uty !>' ms tha old tody
“wbat monstrous 'floamaat to ba
abora ! I’d Ilka to know what harm
there la In i took In. People aowaday* la
Blttlo’ ■} mealy moo Iliad they oec't
call nothin' by Ita right nine, and 1
don’t aaa aa toay’a any batter than Um
“l.’J1.®* P-0** .WM Wbwl 1 •
gall Ilka yoo, child I um to h*ag up
m^atoekioa and gH ’em full of prra
Tba gal la kap laughin' and blushln.’
“Merer mind,” aaa Miaa Mary,
“Majer’i got to glya ma a Crtamua
gift—won’t yoo, Major I”
“Ob, yaa,” aaa I, “yon know I ymm
tod Toil OM.” p !
“But I didn’t moan that,” aaa aka.
“I*ra got ooa tor yon, what I want
yon to kaap all roorllfh, bat It wonld
taka a two boahal teg to hok} It,”
•aa I,
“Ob, that’* tha klad,” ms aba.
“Bgt wlH you promtaa to kaap It aa
long aa yon lnr# F” me I.
' Starts loly 1 will, Msjar.”
*%MoO0inMM ’flniMMrit ootjhUva—
old people don’t kaow oothln’ about
parfhaaaaa,” aaM old MBs Statllaa,
jaat gwlna to alaap wltU bar ntltta la
“Mow yon boar that, Mbs Oarlloe."
Ml. “Bha aaa aba’ll keep It all her
life.”
“Van. 1 will." aaa Mias Mary-"hot
what I* itr*
“Borer mind,’’ aaa 1, ”y#a bang ap
• bag big aouQgb to bold It and you’ll
dad out what it la, whan you aaa It In
tlm morale,’ ”
Mite OarliDe wlnkrd at MIm lCnslab
aad than wbltptrtd to her—then they
both laughed and looked at me aa mln
chleeout aa they ooukd. They
’apletonad aometblng.
“Toani ha abort) to glra It to ma
now. It I bang np a b«g,M aaa Mia
Mary.
••And proalae to keep It," ata I.
"Well, I will, caiiM I know that
you wouldn't girt mo nothin’ that
wnao’t worth keopln.
They nil agreed time would Imag up
n bag tor roe in put MIm Mary’a Crii
mun praneot id. ou Ibn back porch,
and about 10 o'clock I told 'em good
evenin' and want home.
I not np tin midnight, and wbeo
they waa all gone to bid I want aotUy
toto tbo back gnu nod wool up totu
porch, and Lb nr, abort) enough, wan ■
grant big meal-bag bangin’ to tbo jiee.
It war moDStroun mibaody to git to It,
but I waa lermlned not to book out
ho I ant tome chain oo top of a bench
and got hold of Iba rope and let mjr
aalf down Into tba bag; but )aai at I
waa fftttto’ In, It iwung agio the
c<uira, boo Down may want with a
tarrlbla rack at; but nobody didn’t
wake up but Mle* Sullloaea old oar
dog. and bare be oom* rlpplo and
taario through the yard lib* rath, aod
mood and round ba want try In to Aod
what waa tbe matter. I aerooelied
do wo io tbe bag aod didn't breathe
louder oor a kitten, for fear he’d Aud
me out aou after a while he quit
barbie.
TLe wind began to Mow bomlnebte
ootd. and tb* old bag kipt tnrnin round
aod ewingln' ao It mad* me eee-elok aa
tbe miachlef. 1 wot afraid to move
for fear tha rope would break and let
me fall, and tbar I eot with my teeth
rattlin’ Ilka I bad a ager. It auacaod
Ilka It would oarer ooroe daylight and
[ do believe If I didn’t love Mlaa Mary
ao powerful I would fro** to death;
for my heart was the only spot that
frit warm, and It didn’t beat qoore'o
two lleks a mlolt, only when I thought
bow Mie would be (apprised la the
morn id, ’ and than It want lo a canter.
Blmeby tin cuaaad old dog coma up oo
Urn poroh and begun to smell about tba
bag, aod tbao be barked Ilka he
thought bo‘d treed aometbiog. -Bow;
wow l wow!" aaa ha. Then he’d (mail
agio and try to git ap to the beg.
“Git oat I” aee I, vary low, for faar the
galls mooght bear me. "Dow, wow t”
me lie. "He goo* 1 you Uxnloeble
fool,” me I, aod I felt all orer In apoti,
for I apected every mlolt he’d nip me
and what made It worae, I didn’t know
wbar about* he’d taka hold. “Bow I
wow t wow !'• Then I tried coaxin'—
“Come her*, good feller,” uee I, and
whistled a little to him. but it waa no
uaa Tbar be stood and kep op hit
evarlastln’ wlitolo' and barkln,’ ull
night. I eouldn't tell when daylight
was brankin’, only by tbe cfalokeoa
orowtn,’ aod I was is oca trout glad to
liear ’em, for if I’d had to stay tbar
one hoar more I don’t bellave I'd trer
got ont of that bag alive.
Old Mim StalUne coma oot fust, aod
aa soon aa the seed the bag, me she.
“What upon yoalh baa Joseph went
and put in that bag for Mary ? I’ll
lay It's a yearllu’ or aome liva animal,
or Brain wouldn’t bark at It ao.”
8b* went la to cell tb* galls, and 1
aot tbar, ihtysrln’ all over ao I cooldn’t
hardly apeak If I triad to—hot I didn’t
•ay nothin.’ Blmeby they all coma
running out oo the porch.
“My good ocawhat 1* It f" see Mia*
Mary.
“Oh, It’s alive 1” am MBs Kedah “I
seed It more.”
"Call Cato and make him cat the
rope,” let Min Carl I nr, "and leU am
what it la. Come here. Onto, aod git
till! btf down.**
"Don’t hurt It for the world,” see
MBs Mary.
Cato untied Hie rope that waa round
tbe jiee aod let the bag down easy oo
the floor, aod I tumblad out all oovered
with ooru meal, from head to foot. i
“Goodoresgrooioui 1” lea Mle* Mary,'
“If It ain’t the Majei htmaatf I”
“Yaa,” aaa I, “aod you know yen
promised to keep my Crlemon present
a* long aa yen livad.”
Tha galls laughed tbemeelvee almost
to death, and want to brualilo’ off tb*
meal aa fast sa they could, earin' they
was gwlna to haog that bag up every
Orta®aa till they got husbands too.
Mlaa Mary—Meet her bright eyes—ah*
blushed as beautiful as a morning
glory, aod sed she’d stick to her word.
She was right out of bed, end hat batr
wasn’t homed, and her draw wasn’t
Axed at all. but the way aba looked
pretty waa real dlatr actio.’ I do be
Here If I waa frone stiff, one look at
her sweet fee*, aa she ttoed tbar lookin’
dswa to tb* floor with bef rouglah eyes
aud her bright curia failin' all orer her
eoowv neek, eould bare fotobnd ms
to. I tell • you what. It ante worth
baa gin1 In a meal bag from oua Oris
tout to another to feel aa happy aa I
hare aver aaosa.
I went bom* after we bad tba leagb
out und tot by Ute Bra tIU I got thawed
Io the forenoon all tba BUltloaeu ooaaa
over to oar boaae uud art bud ooa of
tba greataat Crlataoa dlnnora t)Mt ever
waa aaad la Oaorgla, and I don't be
lieve a bapplar aaaapauy ever lot down
ta tba aama table. Old Mka* tttullloe
aad mother aettled tba mat oh, aad
talked over everything that aver hap
pened la tbelr retain**, and laughed at
m aad Manr, and cried about tber
dead Laubenda. aaaaa they waaat alive
to aaa ther eblldren oarrad.
lt*a all Milled now. 'oept wa hala’t
aot ilia waddle day. I’d Ilka to kayo
It all aver at once, but young gala el
way* like ta be engaged a while, you
know, ao I apoaa I mint wait a re oath
at an. Uary (aha aaa I couato't Mil
ber- MIm Mary aaw) baa bam a good
deal of troaMa aad botheration ta m;
but If you oouVd *M bar you woelda’i
tblak I ought to grad a* ■ litUa ea tw
in ta git tub a awaat litUa wife
Tan an eat oom to th* waddle if you
poaatbiy bka. Ill let you know whan.
No more from
Your ft teed, tin death
Joe Jomb*
H. B-—I llketefargot to tall yeu
about route* Pet* Hi gat aoapt ao
•(nog whan ha heard ot say lng»ge
meot, and he’a bean aa seller aa hoea
npple or er mam.
LKTTEll X1U.
PinevtUa. Jaa 0,—To Hr. Tbooparw:
Dear Mr—There's been a awful emt
aatarfy la Plnsellto aaoaa I writ ay
toot latter tn you. Little did I tblok
than what area a comlo. though I al
ways thought noma cussed thtug would
turn up )aat to aplla my happiness
_ Last night I waa oyar to old Hlaa
htalllnaas, talkln long with Mary and
the gal if, and maklo osleulattOMa
about Dm waddln and booae-kaeplo.
and alcb things, when all at ones lhar
*•* a terrible aliakln and a rack In,
Ilka lbs bouaa was (wine to tumble
dowu on top ot ua. The gaMa all
•quailed out aa loud as they oould bol
ter, and ootcbrd right bold ot me, and
bugged eluse to me till they almost
f*8 breath out me, aod old
Mtea StalUna tainted away Into a fit of
tbo hlghatarloka. The ibaklo didot
last icora’n a mlnlt Iwt It had a mon
slrmia onriooe Mia white It did lank
When It waa over tbo gnlla Ml to
rnbbin the old woman's bsnda, and 1
poured n gourd of water la bar fnoa to
bring bar loo, sod blmebr ebe got bet
lint all Piusvllle waa aback ap as
wall aa ui, and everybody era* ruatiln
in every direction to Sod oat whet was
the matter. Some of lha alffera lock
to the woods at bard ae tbay ooold run
and some of ike old oooe got down on
tbor knur* and want to pray In Uko tbay
waa at a oanpmootln. for a wblle
tbore waa a general >«alek, but wboo
Montgomery aed it waa only u
•hook of a yratbquake, and tbo danger
waa all ovvr, the people got over titer
aoaro. Mary wee frlgnuaed dreadful
*l *“*\tot »*> noon got over It, and
ao did Mtea Yeelab. and Mira Carllne.
But pore old Mine Stalling-! do Wlevo
°** footbquake baa ebeokall bar aanaaa
out of Iter, for sho hasn't talkad about
uotlnn elan but tbe world combi to ao
atod ever aaoaa. Site tea aha didn’t
dream about them two among for
nothin, and that the yvath ahakln
that a way la a abore alga that aotae
thlog terrible la gwlao to ha(>pen. But
that ala’t tbe worst of It. Sbe aaya
ao and Mary muetn't git married not
till after next April. She sea nobody
ougtit to tblak nothin about anything
Mae but gluin ready to die, and that
It'a wicaed to think about wnddlua
and aieb like, now, 1 told her If the
world was to oome to a a«M), aaa I. tf
we waa married her daughter wouldn’t
be loft a wldder, and I waver oontonud
do way, without I waa married fust.
But It ain’t no nan to orgy with her,
for abe blteves io panor. Miller now
like a book, and wont listen to no sort
of roaaomo. Sbe sea It waa Jaat ao
when old Mr. Noah built tbe ark—
nobody dldo't biiovo blm Ull the water
waa up to Uter ohioa, and them they
couldn't help themselves.
So you see what a Qx I'm in—after
all my doable, end jest when I thought
I was gwlna to ba happiest, man io
Georgia, a yealh^uake most come Jeat
to upset my calculations. I italot no
notion of puttla oS the weddln so
long, bet I spoae I moat wait if l
can’t do no better. I'm in I to pea
though, old Mlu Stailioe will git over
tor liver, and oooe to her sense# loug
afore April. I’ll ba abore to let yoo
know. No mure from
Your friend, till death.
JOI. JoXXa.
P. 8.— You oust exons* mistakes
and bad writln this time, for I
am io a great burr? to wad you this,
aa I know your reader* will be glad to
bear the dredful nawa of a yeatbauake,
even If tber ain’t no llyw Inst. Every
body I've seed this mornm look* tort
of akeery ’oapt cousin Pete, and he
•ea Uint nothin to the sbakln what
they bsv* in Egypt eometlcaen.
(To Oe Continued Next Thnraday.)
PassMl Iks milU«n-aal* kwk.
Usmifsurerers- kstunl.
Annual eoUoo eonnmptlon in the
South ha* for the Bret time passed the
(olllloa-hale nark. Th# following
Bguras fur eight years, taken from tha
report of Secretary HssUr. of th* Mew
Or loan* Cotton Exchange, slvow th*
growth of eotton manufacturing in
eight year* In th* 8outh, compared
with that of the North In the same
period:
Th* signifies no* of th* figure* h»
ootam greater when It It obwrvvd that
whll* th* oooaamptloc lu Northern
mills In 1807 was bat MM mot* bate*
thao that In 1000, and much lew than
that In 1001 and 1HW, th*consumption
to rtouthurn rail la bat la tb* eight year*
not been late thao that of 1801, and to
1807 waa nearly duubto that of 1000.
Dollar** rwUMal l»««lrjr.
Halotoh Oar. GkaHgtaa Wwvsr.
Senator Bailor Is ihouUac “Danone
Ibo oonmtaelonars I" Bailey, of North
Carolina, «uU to know why, If there
lo auoh • row shoot the rooting hy
MoJ. W llaoo to Othe WI loon of the
Round Knob rating house, It la not
aorroot to oak If Lbara la ''undue ie
fluonoe” In the leadsg at OoTarnor
Knoarll's aradda villa to Senator But
y
It Is aatd funiter that the Governor
hoa conferred asroral tNaaa with the
Senator aa to the proper thing te do.
Ho greatly valoao Senator Hatter'*
opinion In all matter*, and. as a re
publican pat It to-day, "Baybeesld
to loon heavily upon the .Moator."
V*r«u«vaje ooa-rr
Advertising la vary Doeh Ilka riding
a biayele. If you don't keep Boring
tbo wheel yon will M of, nod If yon
don't paroled In advortMog, your trade
will fall a*.__
Don't fall to try Rise’s OoooaOiaaoo.
It earns. We aal and guarantee It.
J. X. Carry * On
HBi* «W f*UU.
JrpJmmm Telia Akaat Maria* Mrkaal
*• <*»»« la HA. Lome Keewblii\
- Oo* winter. whoa tIHaga «M power*
f“‘ How at flquau Oeek, aad *v*rr
body wm tired of apitUng aa u>« it*n
£■* lyloxahout flab end eraba aad
lobaUta, Horn* Barber auggaotod Uat
waglt upa ringin' school It waa a
happy thought aod embody took to It
at oust. We Brad up tba old eooper
abop. pat In atom and bsnobes, and
ajut near to Philadelphia fora teacher.
Thera wee over forty of oa In the elm,
and Boat to tba teacher Moaee tort o'
boated U>e Job. I ain't tollin’ any
! thing but the salaam troth whoa I a?
that Mom Balter bad a voice oo hits
which would jump a row off her foot.
I* waa a mixture of fog-horn, hum
cat*, cooch-obelt, bray and growl
When bo waa oot on the boy you oouM
buar Mm two allua away. Boom
aigbta, titUng by hit own fl reside, ha
would akig, aad wbou be did 10 the
rant of Hasan Crook would alt aad
ahivar. Thera rant a tierin’ voice
In the bolt crowd, but that voloo of
took the cako over all. Tto
***cbor aaked him to Hag aumthlo’, to
m to git a Itoa oo bis votes. aad Mom
draw a long breath aad M tr go. It
aoowod at If every ahlegle ou that oM
co-tperubop fluttered, aad tba taaober
turned pale aad backed off aa ha naked:
"Mr. Barber, la that your own mo
rtal vuloeV"
“Of coo re*, "aa Id Moan.
"Mow long hav* you had it?”
“Over forty year*. Wbil'r the mat
tor with my vomr’
"I doo't boow. Did a bolldiog ever
fell na to It?"
"Mow."
"Ever bit on tba ehlat byaoaoosn
Ho, I've auue takes mighty good
koer of my voice, and I’ve lining It
bara to be trained to alog. What I
want to learn to alng la ‘Yankee Duo
die’ and ‘Tha Sweet Blceabv.’ 1 kla
um • Yankee Doodle* to rook tbe yuong
'uoa to eleep, aod tbe other to toftoii
ap Urn oM woman when aba glia mad.
Leone Uy agin."
H« pot on a lee tie mote power thla
Heat, nod the Umpe went nut and tbe
duor boated wide open. If seventeen
plain in •-mlllt had all Marled up at
ooea the ini tea couldn't bre bln wuea.
It waa two tnlnlla before Urn teacher
got breath ’no ft to say;
“Mr. Barber, I don’t want to dt»
eourage you, bat ir 1 waa yoa I
wouldn’t torn to Bingin'. Your voice
la what they call ’aot’.’’
“How wtf” eaka Moeaa
“It’s bln dole’ bianaei in one lino
fur forty year* peat, aod it’ll bo power
fol bard to make a change. If 1 bad
aleh a voice a* that I’d hue out fnr a
government fog-iiom, or I’d walk
etjund aearln’ tougfao and priio fight
era to death. ’’
“But I want to laarn to alog eopra
■o.” aaya Moeaa, feeliu’ hurt aud mad.
“Thee I’ll be goto’ back home,"
aaya tha teacher. “Tber’ ar* aoine
tbluga In Kite world which no man kin
do, and one of them la to teaoh you to
Mag.’’
That made Maeee boppln’ mad, and
he aetd It aba couldn’t alog nobody alee
ahouldL As he wne a party good man,
and allot willin’ to load hie jnaok
knlfeoradhaw of tertecker, tome of
tbe folka took aidao with him, aod aa a
eoeeequaoce that elogin’ school didn’t
go off. Ho basted ou tlm hull thiog
iaatde of a week, aod wbaa Im aot
down toeing “Yaakee Doodle” to bit
Mat boro tbe apllataro aod abavln'e
flew all over Squnn Croak. Tbroe er
fnar weeks later ha got another Idee.
One nlgbt, when the gang of ne wae In
Parkor’e grooery, eumthln’ waa s«id
about bow to apoil ‘whale,’ nod Metre
nx up and Bays:
“It don’t make eo much difference
•bout Bingin', bat we otter know bow
to apoil whatever cornea along. I've
ble ketchra’ crate aod lobatara fur tha
last twvnty-fiva year*, bat 1 couldn’t
mil one of ’em to save my neck.
When I’m tendin' a box up to Maw
York them fellera don’t know where
in It till limy rip tbe kirexe off.
Twant long ago that my arabe got
mixed op with eomabody'e elaa’e ’eauaa
I oouldat apoil ’em. What I aaya u
fur Squsa Creek to her a tpeilla’
aobool.”
It ’paired to tut good Idea, ud we
all went la fur It, aod wo repaired ap
Um oooprr-ehop agio and tented oat
one evenin' to spell. Jason Spooner,
the Town Clerk, waa appointed to hold
the spellln’-book and afore the per*
formaooa atarted off, be tori:
“Wo her started In to boost Hqnsu
Creak oet o' lbs quagmire of diesis
ahan by I aimin’ to apell, aod nobody
oust gR mod and disturb the meetla'
’eaoeo bo can’t bit things tbs fust
Um. Mere couldn't soeiFaai’ to tbs
day of b<e death, and thar bee Mn
kings and queans who was jest as bod
off. Tbs fust word out Is 'oIsm,' sod
aa Mom Barber Is at tba head ef the
line, nod aa he shipped orer 100 bar’ll
of els DM to Mow York last arson, bs
kin bar tba fust go at It.”
“What sort of o elataV” asked
Moses.
“Any sort.”
“But thar’a versa aorta o’ okas,
too know, and 1 ain’t tryla* to spell a
hard-shell fnr a aoft-eltell or a little
nest.”
”Tliar' may be rarne Hurts o’ elanm,”
says Jason, ,rbot thar’ Is only one way
In spall her. Jlst draw a long Wreath
aod start off.”
”Pm • pollin’ It k-n-l-rn. clam. ”
“Wbleb ain’t right, and I’ll past to
the nest.”
That word west to lerou different
moo afore Isaac Harper spatted It
right He kinder thought it woold be
glean oat, and ao be bought a caa ef
claea-cbowdsr to the afternoon to
study ip an It. Bimefap Moose was
glroo a show on the word erst, and ha
•apt to Jam:
■Ton mlsed them cUar on m end
pot M ont. Mow I'm wantin’ to
know M this to a hard shell or aoflshetl
erahT"
”Ht Jlat erah.”
“A big one or a little oanT"
■float sap aa to that. That’ ain’t
. - - Ml !■ »11U—
I* L. /mm, PrmUmtL J. D. Moou, Outkiir.
First National Bank,
or OA8TOXU. X. c.
State aud County Depository.
OOMMEIOTD KOBBt AUGUST «, 18S0.
CUjBtftl Itookf -
■urpha, - -
Diridwdi p*id mam n
ftoaoioii. /;•
L. LJmUm, t.C.frnmm, ■
P> Mmt*, T. T>mik
. ■•=::> • * rum.. ' .?•* ViW/'-M
[_ •onot*»—■nunteof ln«*<ua—. Wmw.and ThrMiaHjHia mii WI jmm
•ant aRh onwwvM»i banklrur. ****** **** ************ *****’
outhln' down la the book mat
ersb."
"Thea I dtol try to spall It," oaf*
Mooaa. “Wlai I •Mkb* blrgbs*.
If the man who writ tt* spall to'
book dtda’t know lhar» ««■ several
kinds o’ crabs I ain’t to bUmofur It."
Jaaoo aaM tbo word would pass to
Uw oejrt, but U dtda’t. Mosm fa*
that bo was bein’ tbrowod down on
crabs, aad ba got go ptemb mod that
h« smash ad the door aad broke a wta
drr, aad ilia iptllln’*ckaal broka ao ia
* row. Soon waatad la toga imwttb.
out Moasa, toass ooritaadsd tbat ha or
tvr be given a show, aad batwtot tba
two Squaa Urvek clipped baa* lata
that quagmire of deeolaefaaa aad do
■Pjfo aad ovary body meet eroaad
■pallia1 Jest as ha plraaad. It’s tbat
wav now. We spell ‘-oyster’’ savta
different ways, aad hoe as good aa
’lother. aad when to comes te "lob
•tar" aoraa folks trim to spall tt and
•oma draw* a ekalk-Uae actons tba bog
aad stakes two claaaa atooe sad of to.
«'»r i» W«w» vnvcawnr.
A Oplsmai* D—stlm is a RaMrlasU
MSW Rr-ssRSw. Riba stirs Th*,
H.fhMthls Wrosvt.
Orssavttlo, (*. CJ Rows.
Dr. and Mrs. F. A.. Ml lee. i< this
£?*■ «®«d« *» deed of glhuftbsU
valiiabla CM sir’s Head property, coo
stating or th, buildings of the famous
Caesar’s Hoad rsoort aad U)| aoraa
of vaiojd^ land to Farmaa aaM*
Miles refused **>.000 ia
enob for tbtt ixoparty a fsw years ago.
Tba ooodltioaa named by tbs do non
an that tbs Forman trustees pay them
aa annuity of *800 and give thorn (no
board lathe hotel, or ana of Urn aot>
tagofl. whoa Urn hotel ia open. The
trustees an given absolute ooatrot of
“** '*'*•£•* *^Ur the lint of next
mouth. The aaaalty to to ba paid
dmtog tba Ufa of both, or either, of
the do dots.
Tba news of the gift will package
about aa modi surprise the friends of
aad tba public generally aa tt
vHH delight them. Tba ftcat known of
Lbta ualjic splriud lataotloa of Dr.
aad Mn. Milos waa tost weak, wbea
lbs For—n trnetsea met la Colombia
to Meet a president and won presented
with a memorial from tba owaata whs
mdd they waatad to help the neeaa of
Christian odscallop throogb Forman.
Bi-Ohcmmmmi »■■■ Uayn
Wllkwooro OkronJcto.
Uaagraaameo Ubm; mM wMl* ever
bereatooart that if yoa would (It*
Hart Bower oae night to Meapand
dream oa aeaea, that be oontda't be
boat on preaaattng tha oaaa to tha
|my. Mr. Bo war ooaaturf* to try it
one algbt tart weak. He got along
lovely Ull ho name name a mole in
tha path. Ha lot drive to Inek Um
mala away and bta toaa mam la via
taat oMUnrt wtth the feet boa* of
tha bad, and the next day Hort war
llwplng a little. HataoTthe opinion
that melee are daogeioee even In
dienme. nod ha doaaa't propoao to try
Lloney’e plea again right aooe.
laMWMuaaiikt.
Uneut» JnralL
Ttk* othar day, IMIb HUHMt, eol
•nd, *Im lira to Praadaao, mi bar
bedding oat to M. That awaatog aba
took u to, nada aphar bad, raUrad
•ad alombatad paaatfallT uatll taarn
tog. Soon attar aha arm lha aazl
aarntog, aha waa borriOad to aaa aa
•aaraaaa apaaadlag addar crawl tnm
oat moot tha pOkiw oaaaa. Ittaaap
poaad that tha anaka got Iota tha pll
*“ balog mmgd tha£y
bafora. Wlianara lha Tttoan thtoka
•C bar ajght<aala* with tha raaa
mam mk« oodar bar haad, aba alwal
tarna whtta.
Profe—tonal Card*.
Wm. H. Lewis,
—ATTORNEY- AT- LA W.-—
—or Um— >mWi —» raoto
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fP. IT. HOFFMAN,
-DKtiTiai
•MTOIU, --I*, c.
arOSoeovec Pint National Bank.
0. B ADAMS, a. U. K. M. nnc, M D,
Adams & Ueu>,
PHYSICIANS An 8UBQBONS,
aASTOMTA, m. c.
OOeaat J. B-CatryAQo^pp
ftOB’T. L. DURHAM,
-tAWTMB,
Gastonia, a. CL
A « MMFmtM*
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•asvomta, v. o.
Wll> pmctloa So tba ooarU ol Gnaton
ai«A adjoin in* ut i
In thr radarnl Oourti.
FG. WILSON, M.D^
Gastonia, N, C.
PHYSICIAN AND tUMBOK.
OTOOm at Turraoca*! Drag Mors.
_gbonXs.lt,
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W. H. Wilson, M. D„
PHYSICIAN AND fUBOBON.
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. PHYSICIAN AND SCBGB0N.
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