The Gastonia __ owotod to the Protection ol Vol. XVIII. (n&T'JiiiMHoo.) Gastonia, N, CH December 2, 1897. - !—1 • 1 -■ BILL ARP READS EPITAPHS. | Viam AJT OLD OEMETEBY WHBRB ILLUSTRIOUS KEN WERE BURIED. tii* Trial* *r •> utiar«r-ll*Mii* • I'taf.nr Tml. HmIi ■»«»*« rralgwt Train I* aider in r*llU as lull Arp to Allaat* Consul atleas mills by cams and capacity. Charlotte has eleven of . Iter own. Now, 1 was ruminating about thla In connection with Ore cent cotton. And there is some comfort m-it, for we keep at boms all ths proQt tber* is lu manufacturing and we give employ uieut to thousands of oar poor and dependent people Suppose that every township in Georgia had it cotton mill and that all Us citnilug were spent aud sc attered In tbe community, then we wouldn't feel So bad over lb* low price of the great staple lYe would indi rectly share In the profits of manufso turing. Once again I visited the old llroe hooorsd osmolery— tbe Oral graveyard or old Meekieuburg county. I wa* somr to sea that It has of I ale bean nrglecled and baa growo op to briar* and weed*. 1 took note of some of tit* old inscription* and this one especially attracted my attention: "Oil, Cmi-ov« up— an km. ***« ^wiaorr oC Patrtok lUrtj. WhA wu bom lo Tipwm/, lrtknd. **11 •* A holy tod wMotoiM Utoavfet to Dr Ay for Uw Um4 (hat thoj mAy Ik; loo—d fro a • *H»lr slam.—II M«orth—a O, M. There lias a good Romau Catholic, thought I. He went to purgatory and llio pelaet prayed for him. Tben I ruminated about Maooabees not being la the snored canon, but was in the Apocrypha, and the Apocrypha wti ruled out of the King James version la 1k20. Then 1 turned tn aa old Dlble that had Ibe Apocrypha and found that the 19th chapter of II Maccabees had only forty-Bve verses, bat the last three had the same Injunction to pray for them who are dead, and further more, that Judas Maccabees raised among his soldiers ‘2,000 drachma aa a ain offering for thorn who were ilalo. 2 make no comment on this. Martin Luther translated the Bible and left In It these two books, ss be eald, fbr consideration. There is another tombstone at Obs raw that Interested, for It merits the grave ef no man or woman now known. It reads sa follows: afrussg JSV counter—wbar are they to the, What-whslSes >»|ti or low nr paeurrem Vcefcapa j far surpawad dl other men. Porkaji, I rwt betuw than all-^what tksn > Un nice It, strange. that tbua amt a tatnl •tUou anoyeat na mhi kldoa no raaitor The other morning about daybreak I left Charlotte for J.ambertOD, on the Wilmington road The break fait house waa aaventy miles away at Liam let. aod when we not there I beard the conductor aey: “Twenty minutes for breakfast.” Hut I didn't hear bint •ay chauge oar* for Wilmington and polulatbl* tide. You aeo X am getting quite deaf In oo# oar aad cant hear ail out of tbe other, but my wife aayi that It I* aatonlahlug how quickly I hear the break feet bell. We bad a epleodld meal, and I regained ay erat In the same car. When about a mile from town the conductor called for my ticket, and recogntxsd ac aa bound for Lumbcrtou. He frantically pulled the bell cord and told me to get off aod hurry hack, for maybe I could catch the Wllmlegtoo train, Slight thee I waa dletreaaed, far I knew there was no other train that day, and I was billed to leeture that night. The land was shoe-mouth deep, but I gripped my baggage end fox-trotted about 300 yards aad suddenly discovered that I would have to put oo braker for my wind wan giving out. Another hun dred yard# aad 1 bed to Mop aad Mow, for my heart waa thumping like a Uita drum, and there la au much heart failure aowadeyn that 1 got alarmed and put down my valise end sat oo It. Juet then 1 an* my traiu (teaming away like a snake In the gram, aad I Involuntarily exclaimed, -Farewell, vain world, I'm going boom.” do I took my time and made hnate (lowly, and when I reached the station waa tbe picture of disappointment sod despair. “Whet can an old man do but dlef” I murmured, Wish now I had my pltotugrmpb ea 1 waa foxtrot ting through that send, and then another as I as that train steaming away without me. Bat all's wed that ends wed. I found s freight train that waa going to leave for I.umbertoa at 11 o’woofc. but tbe conductor eealdat aey when It would i* there. I wired my friend that I waa left, but to bold the fort, for I waa coming-aad he did. It wae only folly-four miles, but It took m over right 1*M howm to get there. I bad only time to weal) ap and brush up aod eat ewppec, but I found a need bourn *•* Mv subject rnrn -The Cracker sad the Cavelier,” and my friend InUodeeed see by saying, -l.tdlte and gentlemen. I have the pleeacre of Introducing to you tig die tmguMied Georgia ears lief, who will bow proceed to sddreea the north Oeroliaa crack era" Well, tbw hroagbt down the house to (tart oo. aad put everybody la good honeor. eepactally when I apologised for mp delay and portrayed my trials and trlbuhUous. Lumbar ton la a good old tows, and luii tho beat waterworks that 1 bars ever seen anywhere. They bare four mowing artesian wells for public oat, and many more private onsa. These public ones, Including pipes and every thing, coat Urea than fl.OOO, aod I know of many a town tbat would give 810,000 (or similar privileges. Luna b«rtoc does not realise what a treasure that water is, fur It la coM end pure. Tba next stop waa at Weldou, In Hillflix county. 1 don't know whit those people have done to McKinley, but be has already appointed eight "•gro postmasters la tba cuuoly aod aix nf tbam have accepted and an In oflloa. Tba people are hot, ( tell you, for lba negroes outnumber the whites and brag that "tbelr time baa eons at last, thank tba Lord.’’ It used to be that whew a man wnao't Irreverent enoath to tall a man to "go to bell” be would tell him to go to -Halifax." I understand now what he meant. It has been nearly arty years slnoe I stepped at Weldon and the town hasn’t changed much. Tbs people are higMoosd and bare good manners, for they live etoee to tba Yirglala Hue and com* from aristo cratic stock. From Weldon I Jour neyed to Washington, on Pamlico souod, a lively city nf 0,000 people. X was asourted to tbs Kicks boose, where all the drummers couflegate, for Mrs Kicks is a mother to them all and tbay love her. I found her borne (all of (beat. They coma aud tbay go on evnry train. I Ilka tba drummers acd aympatbisa with tbam for they are far away from home and many of tham have families and have to leave them, as ( do, to make a living. I am a drummer myself, bat 1 don’t like the name. It U slang sad duos not Ot such a reapaetat le clast of geoUamen. It originated from lba militia musters wbeu drum and Oft were used to call up tba boya and gel them In line. Ttia sergeant would cry oot: “Ob, yea; oh. yes; all who Uduug to Cap*atn Jonas’s company parade here." Than tba drum would rattle aud lha fife would whistle sod the boyi would gather sad fall Into lina. Drumming now tneaat coma right beta and buy my goods and the drummer rattles his tongue with earnest alacrity. I feel sorry for them now, for 5 cent cotton haa nearly ruined tbelr bualnem. Rut they keep going. They are averywhara. Tbay get on aod off at ayery station by □tgbt aud by day. Tbay keep up the hotels and largely help out the rail roads. They are smart and good look ing and wall behaved and know more about averythlng than any olbar class. They are continually robbing agaluat the world aod absorbing knowledge. Well, this ls tba historic region where dir Walter Raleigh’s last oolony waa planted aud whatu Virginia Dare waa bon. I saw Virginia. Her name w-is on a beautiful steamer that waa loading at tba wharf. A sweat little girl laughed at me for oot kuowiog all about Virginia Dare a long time ago. Her father save that Mr. Me Milan of lied Springe, baa written a book about the lost oolooy and that the CroaUne now have free schools that are separate from both black and while races. The lost colony amalgamated and rats oegaeetsd with them Croats ns aud no doabi but that Virginia Dare’s blood flows lo some of tbelr veins. From here I am homeward bound and am happy on the way. ■■Mm ■«» la Iks rullwltaij Kslctxti 1VSM-VIsilOM. There ere now two babies lo tbe Slate prison, tbe ooe wfaleh wa* boro last simmer and one wblob waa brought here from tbe Halifax farms last Saturday. Tbe latter la nearly two mootha old and the mot bar has been In Uie penitentiary sioee June. Both of tbe babies are colored. They will be sent away either to tlislr moth era' relatives or seme rms aiss as soon as they are old enough. Warden Rureell says that the wo men in the pi l*o» are harder to sass age and gtva more trouble than the mao- It I* difficult to taseti them obebitnoe to the prison regulations. However, they are never whipped. Their pan lahment consists In oondn log them in a dark nail and- feeding them on bread and water.. A woman who had oobtlnoally given trouble was recently subjected to this punish ment and Warden Russell cays It made a new woman of her. Aa OM nears Cacteaw TorkvlU* Bagnlrsr. According to a oustom, dating book to a petal to which tbs memory of men does nos ruu, aod backed op of recent years by a statute, the prevelllag party In cook elvll contention Is required to give the foremen of tbe Jury, upon the delivery of the verdict, tbe sum of |1. lust why this Is, U>* Afsirer haabena unable lo Qnd anybody to explain, ex cept that possibly It In In the nature of “binding the contract,” so to aprak. Sometimes the jurors oaa these dollar* to treat themselves ton Mg dinner, sometime* they give them to some eharlUM* purpose, end sometimes they divide them op for their own use. They asay, of count, do with tbs mon ey to they please, for It Is theirs by law and by right Tt« jury just discharged received pay for afaoet Bfteeo wrdlcta. and the money waa divided equally among those who sat on the respective ease*. ' POOR BALES TO TBE ACRB. THAT'S WHAT A POUT FARMER RAISED. Th» Seeth Uwnllu IIMtN ankn KlantaaNV*a «mu»WM firm -A« l>a«rlnr:il .erf iu Kmlli B» "HM by Mr. K. •». TtwipMi. Oomaeouloiso* YoAvIMo Uaqulrur. Having finished the gathering of the en» off of my pat acre of cotton, I will now. In oompliaoce with yonr re 3o«et made to ois some weeks ago, so savor to give you a history of the ex periment. To begin with, tbe plot of lend waa stepped off by one of asy neighbors aa follow!: First line. 80 yards; second linn, GO yards; third line, 00 yard*; aed fourth Kn*. 05 yard*, enclosing a total of 4,010 square yards of dark gray land with yellow subsoil. How, to go beck a lltUe. Two years ago, (in INK) this plot was fartlltstd with 600 poaada of soluble goaao and planted la aora. The yield was be tween 40 and 60 boabels. Last year (18M It waa fertllmad with 16 two boras loads of lot scraping, scattered broadcast, and 1.000 pounds of soluble guano, Charlotte acid and German kalnit plaoed In drill. Altar this. It waa planted with King cotton, and the yield waa 846 pound* or lint. - About the middle or Marsh, of the present year, I made a compost heap, oousiatlag of do bushels of cotton teed, tlx two Imres loads of stable manure, 800 pounds of Charlotte add and 900 pound* of kalnit. After a thorough mixing, these materials ware covered with rich earth and left tu a low, fiat heap until the 16th of Aptll, when, af ter having turned out tbe old stalks and smoothly harrowed my acre, I spread over It the contents of the com pnet heap, aa evruly as possible, and tlieu turned It under to edepth nf Irons sis to eight inches, after wbieh 1 egatn used tbe harrow to level and pulverise the lend. With the manure in and Use land thoroughly pulverised,! next took a terrace level, ran a line directly through tbe centra of tbe plot, and from this Una, each way, laid off the rows 41 feet apart from centra to cen tre. Then. In the furrows. I drilled TOO pounds of equal part* nf soluble aueoo. Charlotte acid end kalnit, end after that, with a 6-iaoh steel efaovei, 1 prepared the buid In low fiat beds for planting. toe wans usd were wbat might very properly be called Further Improved Klbff. They conalated of 100 pound* carefully selected from the best boll* '•H tbs beat sulks that grew on the *aaw laud the year before Oo the 90ih of May, I aide harrowed ll>e acre, and two days afterward west over it spin, acd, by hand, pulled it up to one stalk to every 0 or 8 Inebea. Tbla work 1 did myself, la order to be aura that It was done right, and alio that I might be assured that there wee outblag left but healthy, vigorous stalks Oo the 27lb of May ( aide-harrowed •gain, ood oe the let or June (binned to 18 Inches In the drill. Next, on Uie 10th of Juoe, I skied with e abort straight shovel and 18-lucb bow, and on the Md I skied again with larger shovel and 10-loch bow. Then, oo lbe 16th of July, I hoed end run three furrows with shovel end 18-Jeeh keel aorspe. Last, oo the 38th of July, I went through tbs middles as deeply aa 1 could with a bull tocgue, or scooter, and than, on the same day, "laid-by” by leveling off with shovel and beet scrape. The work of picking, ginning and packing has lost been completed, with a total yield of four bales, weighing respecttvHr 430. 441, 453 and 808 pounds. In all 1,723 pounds of tint on the acre. Now, Mr. Rdilnr, I knew that this la a phenomenal yield of oottou to be gathered from ooe acre, and many of your readers will doubt this report. 1 have uot got anything to my Thomas; bat to others who believe in the poeei blllty of things that they Uiemeehres have never meu, I beg to say that what I have done la nothin;; mors than they can do If they wilt use the mesas Let them select the right kind of mad, fer tilise their lead well, work It properly, and my word for it they will be grott 6ed at the result. I At lot myaau, I bate been tuloa tba KIbi variety for eometime past. I am not prepared to My that tba King ia superior to all other varieties for all kind* o( soil; but la this allmate, on highly fertilised leads, I think the King beau any other variety. while my tooetm tbla year haa been Id a large measure doe to the seed— probably I (two more to Uio aeed than anything alee; Mill 1 think that the deep farrow at the last working had mueh to do with the yield. My opin ion here It baaed on past expcrieooe. I Imre earerel times before gall «r«d two bales from one acre, and each time tlwre was a considerable quantity of froit whieb failed to matura. Some of it rotted and aotae of It dried up. Any how, It did Dot open 1 began to think It waa Impose!bit to cultivate or ferti lise so as to gat mors th so two bales. The trouble seemed to be that after a certain point, tte Maiks wo old become so large aod tba foliage so dausa as to aaoeaaerlly causa the mo aiding and rotting of tba lower bolls. llat la the King variety tbla trouble Is. la a large meaaara, overcame. Ow ing to Urn nataral Its bits of tbe pleat, dwarf growth no-1 early malertly, the Malk dues not grow m large coder same ooudlllooa It puts oa more fruit to Urn elM than ear other variety of which I have any knowledge, aod while the foliage is all acOrient to give tba stalk a healthy growth, yet this fullage la not aa dmme. even under Urn atlaalaa of high enltlvatlow, *hd this year I notWmd but very IItiis iroaMe oa ao eouBt of Urn retting of the earty belle. Tbla yeas the cotton on Urn ■are re ferred to above hlsemsd at least two wwaka Mrttar thee ordlaary varieties. It haa baM mrlht every year. It hM elan metered eartiar. Heretofore 1 have neglected Ike deep farrow sinadj deecribed. The effect of Ihet furrow baa Mrtaloly been most notlemWc. Tbe oouon kept oe meturtor alaeuet uj late ea other variative. ami I tblnk tbe **■ topdf tee an urn of lfc Tbe furrow deepen* tbe feeding root* end give* greeter vitality. Then another thing. Although I here referred to tbla cotton aa a dwarf I wluh to be understood only It haa dwarf tendeaclea and obat acUriatkea oiidrr ordinary olrcum •Lanoee. During the preeeot fall ( b»eu picked white cotton a foot above ®y heed, or 0} feet from the ground. lo conciliaten. let me my aleo that I have written till* aecoant only bemuae yoo naked am for It, and that nay oh J*61 *■ Mtee at youre, to diamante* ate Information. I haw on oclton •**? °® b*.n“•* a >MtM>r raw •* ■UlUllM. Ctartoua otMorrar. , Mecklenburg U tain represented at tin. cotton growers’ Banting In Atlanta ou Daoember 14tb, by Mr. A. H. Logie, wbu will «o with a plan which Im will PM** aa a remedy for cheap ootton. piaouaaln* U, eltusUor, U general tarma, Mr. Logie aay* that lit* oon aaoao* of epiolon aeeiua lo be that the acreage should be reduced tb* supply thereby diminished and the prlos ouc enioenUy edrasead. The general prop aelMoa la quite right, but the operation quit* impoeslbie without any organl* • eatlon whldi by Its very nature would | aet a premia a upon every greedy Judaz In the bead. Then there would ba1 o»}r • li»P l>»*Md top price to be! gained and whal'a everybody** baal-1 l>*— to be gained au«l what** every body’s bus local Is nobody's busliwm. Lack of unity, lack of responsibility, Ignorance *f cause and effect on Uie part of many, greed for more than oar share, a moat natural disposition "to let tbs other fellow dj the reduction” and a thousand oUier difficulties beset any such plan a* a" general arrange meut for a general good, flow, then can the end ba accomplished (If indeed any reform nan ba had from the present utter disorganization), and fta fanner receive a Just Compensation for Ids la borf This year’s over-production la llttla better tbun a famine, for the farmer baa nothing to show for bla crop and anotbar year la wasted or lost to him. . Mr. Logla’s plan for au organization to batter the oondlUon of the cotton farmer, la for one that will: 1. Manipulate tbe marketlug of the raw produet fur tba benefit and *e oouot of the producer, tod, 2. BstsMIali a uniform. Deed wil ing prtoe to the oooaumer. aud, 3. Banish all speculative alemeut and prescribe outside capital oontrol. A Xmptoy only borne banks aud provida a eouliogant fund for opera tion* without asking one cent from the produoer; banka to Iw Uie tr niters for bandlloff fuodi. 5. Deal only with the mills or sell only to the consumer. 0. Adjust tba supply tn Um demand by destroying any turpioi at the pro doocr’s cost, bet guarantee tbe pro ducer a good cash advance and full pnoe. And lastly keep wltlitn our borders a yearly profit of 10 per cent. Of the whole as well aa handling the snllrc output. Should each a aclieme be put Into suesseefal operation and the South se cure tbe full benefit of the earnings of our ooUon produet, says Sir. Logie, It Is sasllv sees bow proapernu* our land would become, for In flvo years, there would not be a farm mortgage, a sorry mule nor a poor, ragged farmer lo the i cotton belt. Y* HIi»|mU (h« *«fwi Wm%m, Orlaui TlmuhDciwMflt. Tbe chief aim of Uu coming consti tutional convention D the ellminattoo of tbe negro vote from cm polttloa. Thle baa bteo frankly acknowledged, tbete Is no attempt at concealOMot. end candid announcement of our pro framme In thle matter aad oar leaeone Uterafer are more maul/ and wiser than any attempt to eeuoral our pur pose. Tli a Republican paper* bare re oelred tbe proposed action of the LouirUua oonvrotlon in a far batter •pint then could have been expected, and moot of litem agree that corns eeeh action u neematry In the Inter est of bonaut politic* aad good govern ment. »HU Wawtlwe tenet troaalaMC Nvwton Mat—prlac. Oongrueemen Sbufoid M now fondly cultivating the erguelotVMM of the “dear people" In Qeetea and Cleveland MuuUts added tv this Congressional 1)1 strict by tbe laut. UfMaUre. lie hopes t<> represent tbe “dear people" af tbe seventh District oeee more In Coo frroa, but It te oar opinion Diet at tbe expiration of tie present term, be will be red seed to private life, to engage again la ralaiug Jersey cattle end •weM potatoes. The oral Caegrroe aaa from this dtetriot will be a aimoa pure democrat of wbem wa trill all be pro ad. W. 1. C, COHPKRBMCE, U8T or APPOlVTMEVn FOB 18Z9 TUB. Tk« nMMMi Mwro new pmm. la* KMw far MaUp sauui Site. ■alM la Aaaanl Uwlnrwi Aaalaa* aaa4*jr Sallr-Inl SleeMap at *ls. MM. Ths ana sal »L IUIH, P. M. ML Airy Motion—B. K. Boror Mt Alrodrooll-J. pT^K: Pilot Moon tola alroott—T. H. Po Slkla and Jonordllo aUUon-P. L. Tomand. WHkottooro and North Wllfcodboto autiou-B C. Sprinkle. WUkoe dwelt—,/. F. Borland. S*»rt« elroult—8. W. Brown, tfoeiiog Sprint* oiroolt—Soyaoor TrSkirao* elroult—A. J. Berne. Croaton oiroelt—J. P. Wot*ago oiroolt—W L. Dnwooe. Boom olrowt—IT. L. Jf Maine. SHELBY DtETBIOT. w. n. wua, p. b. HMby Motion—B. M. Hey]*, ggky QlrooU-T. T.^y^ar. ^ ^ Downea. * **’ ggttn^tnu Staoioy Crook etroelk—A SborrW. Brsaussitsjsr tdnoolatoe olronH— VT. F. Wmmo. tawon illo oiroolt—D. M. Lttekor. liSKlSSntffrJBS: R3!&s*i.iae sssrssstii^jsr 4 I .V '