North Carolina Newspapers

Published Twice a Week. $1.00 A Year Until May I, I: THE GASTONIA V. P. MARSHALL. Editsr and Prawtatar. DEVOTED TO THE PROTECTION OP ' ■ nini—i—r—imri 1 1—m i i ■■■■■■■■ mi ■■■■!■■—him—————————ijuuux__u_ VOL. XXIII. GASTONIA, N. C„ FRIDAY, APRIL 11. 1002. ■■■—■II i -- ■ -.l..i. i. .m.r--'' 1 —lu . ' . iih i ■■■mi ii n a n Flic AT Airs HOUSE. The Alarm Made Bill Oat a Mare Oa Him. Bill Arp l« ArUtrU CoaMitslloa. Fire and water and air. The three thing* that cost the least and are most necessary to onr existence are the most dangerous when unrestrained. Lost Sabbath evening my wife and I walked down to Jessie’s house to comfort her in her sick bed, and play with the little girl* and help nurse the little baby boy. Suddenly the fire bell gave an alarm and my wife walked ont on the veranda to find out where the fire was. In a mo ment she came hurrying back and almost screamed, "It's onr house -rit’s our house; run quick. Ohl mercy." I threw the baby down on the floor—no, I didn't cither — and departed those coasts with alacrity. Firemen and people were hurrying that way. I struck a fox trot for awhile, but soon relaxed into a fast walk, and then a slow poll up the hill, for I felt my palpi tation coming on. Before I reached the mansion 1 met some of the advance guard returning, who said the fire waa out. So I sat down on the front steps to blow for a minute. When I went through the hall to the kitchen where the commotion was, 1 fonnd our daughters and some good friends still drenching the smoking walls and pouring wf ter down the flue up in the garret. The accumulated soot of twenty years had caught on fire and somehow got to the lathing and then to the ceiling and dropped J_A_ »L- a_ VT ~l._I.._ at home. The cook was in her cabin asleep. Her little boy was sitting ou the back steps and when onr girls arrived he very r'etly said: "Dar'g a fire in Then they heard the crack ing flames and saw smoke pour ing through a broken pane. On opening the door they were as tounded, (or the whole room seemed ablase. One ran to the front door and screamed "Fire, fire, fire," and the other went to the telephone and then they flew to the water faucet and good neighbors gathered in and nlled the backets and went to work. They were jnst in time, for a delay of ten minutes would have caused the loss of the house and all of our time honored furniture and pictures and books sod my wife’s fine clothes and golden wedding presents. When I left Jessie’s house my wife hailed me on the ran and said save some thing, but 1 am not certain whether it was her fine dresses in the wardrobe or her silverware in the dark closet or her Bible that she had read a chapter in every night for all these long years. I had a good old Baptist annt in Rome and when her house caught on fire away in the night and the firemen time run ning ahe ran on in her night clothes and begged them to save her Christian Index. She had a stock of them and treasured them more than anything else. vjur jjwu uiu proirasur, uuu, F. McCoy, ol Franklin college, used to lecturel to us students, and his favorite subject was the " Regularity of Irregular things,” and he satisfied me that the long er my house escaped a fire the more 1 was liable to have one. The chances against me increased as the years rolled on, and so I have been expecting a fire. The insurance companies un derstand this and base all their calculation and rates upon it. They will tell you what ia the average life of a dwelling, a store, a planing mill or a chnrcta. The Kafessor Illustrated with a dice x and said if you cast the dice a dozen times the six spot might come up three or four times in succession and the ace several times but if you cast the dice a thousand times each number from one to six would show up about an equal number of times. That ia according to the cacnU tion of chances and proves the regularity of irregularity of irreg ular things. So it is with the regularity of irregular things. So it ia with the rain-fall which however uncertain In its coming amounts to about the lame every year. Since 1883 the losses by fin in the United States have averaged 8105,000,000 a year, the lowest being 8100,000,000 and the highest $110,000,600, and yet in 18/1 the lorn in Chicago alone was $200,000,000. But where did fire come from and who gave ft rad when. There ia no mention of fire in the Mo saic account of tha crestion nor for two thousand years after it. Until after the flood there was not mneta need of fits, for the people were not permitted to eat meat, Tlieir food was the fruit ol the earth. But I reckon they did have fir* and blacksmith shops and made hammers and hoe* aud nails, etc. Noah could not have built the ark without tool* and noils. The presump tion is that the Creator supplied Adam with toolato dress the gar den, and Abel with knives to sacrifice the firstlings of his flock, but there are Indian tribes in our day and negroes in Africa and Esquimaux in the Artie regions who have no knowledge of iron or its uses. A thousand years before Christ, Homer wrote that Jupiter only possessed the ele ment that we call fire and when man was created he refused to give him fire. Bat Prometheus stole some from heaven and gave it to man and it made Jupiter so mod he chained him to a rock and sent eagles to eat his liver out aud as fast as they eat it by day the liver grew by night, but finally he was unchaiucaand the eagles driven away. It seems that Promethus was a friend to mankind and by the command of Jupiter actually created man out of the mud that was left afterthe flood of Deucalion, away back in the ages. He was a god nearly as powerful as Jupiter and was always in a quarrel with him. He taught mankind architecture, as tronomy, figures, medieine, nav igation and all the arts that adorn life. At Athens and other ancient cities, temples were built to his honor. They believed that the very fire he brought from heaven was still preserved and was al ways burning on an altar in the temple of Vesta. It is called the sacred fire—the Vestal fire—the fire of the hearthstone and must not be allowed to go out. If it does go out from accident even me family who use* U must go to the temple of Vesta and get a new supply. Of course all these stories about the gods are super stitions, but they are very fasci nating ones and old Homer still stands as one of the greatest poets, and ranks as the equal of Shakespeare or Milton. That reverence for sacred fire is not yet extinguished, and it is said that the Roman Catholic priest hood burn candles in their cathe drals day and night because the custom was handed down from ancient churches and those churches probably got it from Grecian and Roman mythology. Auyhow, we kuow that the Jews had great reverence for fire, for theyTrad to use it in their sacri fices. and God appeared to Moses in a bunting bush and descended on Mt. Sinai in fire and the Is* raelites, were guided through the wilderness by a pillar of fire by night, and fire came down from heaven and destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and many other im portant events were marked by fire. In our young days when there were no matches it was no sure or certain thing to find fire on the hearthstone every cold morning that came. Sometimes the live chunk was buried in the ashes at bed time went out or was bnrned up and then one of the boys had to go to a neighbor and borrow fire. It was sJways called borrowing fire, for it was reasonably expected that the neighbor would sometimes find himself in the same conditi.on The Cherokee Indians made fire by rubbing two hard dry sticks together with great rapidity. I have seen little Indian boys do it very quickly, and I tned to imitate tnem but ruled. But it the good pure vestal fire came from heaven I reckon old Satan got some of It when he fell and took it down below. That’a the kind that concerns us most. The old preacher who used to go around preaching about the " Mountains of Hepsidatn where the lion roareth and the whang doodle mourneth' for ita firstborn and he played on s harp of a thousand strings—spirits of just men made perfect,” also had a few broken remarks about fire. "My impertinent hearers, there are several kinds of fire and camp fire and fall back, but tbe kind that concerns you most are the fires that is not quenched and is called hell fire for short.” Ormy Mala Dead. CoatorS Tribm*. 3. The lam gray mole of County Commissioner R. P. Cline died yesterday. [There used to be an inquiry like this going the rounds: What goes with all the white mules? If white and gray are synonymous as applied to mute colorings, the above item may help to answer tbe qnestion Gamttk.] Bx-Judge Adams, of Greens boro, who has been seeking a Pederal appointment and was recently chasing a judgeship in Alaska, has been offered the place of district attorney in Alaska at a salary of £1.000, which he declined. COUNTY BUSINESS. tnaing A account al Banian— Transacted by (ha Caaunb* alsaara Thai waa No< Published la Ud 1—ae. The following are the account* nodi ted and paid at Monday’s and Tuesday's sees ions: T. E. ShuJord, supervisor._f IS.75 Blvirm Hunter, cook pest bouse 104)0 Ann Hunter, washing at peat house__ 1.75 C. C. Craig, small pox c-xpen. 2.00 Anders 4k Floyd, mu oil-pox ex. >0.00 M. B. Smith, supervisor._ 5.(0 J. H. Beatty, supervisor...... 12.35 R. A. Ratchford. supervisor .... 13.(6 U. U- Rhyne, small pox guard >0.00 J. H. Kendrick, supervisor_ 13.00 W. R.Crouse, supervisor_ lS.yu E. R. Cannon 4k Co., coffln for pauper (claimed $13.10)_ 10.00 J. P. Handsel!, smnll-pox ex... 15.00 J- II. Jenkins, county physician one month_ 30.00 A. C. Stroup, conveying Lnth . w Cltmmer to hospital . 12.*5 J. M. Sbaford A Co., small pox expenses_ __ 23.33 H. I.. Rhyne, keeper Co. home 17.41 J. A. Halford, smallpox ex... 0.00 A. W. Wort man, smallpox ex 7.30 B. H. Gardner, small-pox ex... 10.00 W. fl. Barrett, small pox ex. . 3 00’ Wm. Phifer, small-pox ex_ 2 JO Crowders’ Mta. Cotton Mill, small pox expenses_ _ U 22 C. B. Maaaey, supervisor. 08 40 C. C. Cornwell, Clark, ofica supplies, etc_... 3>.« C C\ Cornwall, C S.C.,coun ty liabilities Pab. torn coart 174.72 P. R. Hutfstettler, supervisor.. 43 63 W. C. Abernethy, supervisor.. e.00 J. P. Joy. black ami thing-_ 3.00 W. L. Smith, small-pox guard 174)0 Harry. Snyder, amall-pox ex... 12 30 J. A. I). Saunders, conveying _ prisoner .. 2.03 " Mun, anpcrvikor., . IS.to P. W. Jeokina. wood for peat house ___ 1.50 J. R. Lewis, amall-pox an_ 44.2) J-B- LSwi*> “ppliesCo. home 85.41 W. L. Stowe, small pox guard 36.00 B. L. Wilaon. amall-pox cx_ 1.00 J. B. White, board of jury_ 22.75 J. T. Oates, conveying lunatic 1.00 A. Clouingar. wood peat kouae 18.00 amall-pox ex ... 100.00 J. H. Jenkins, amall-pox ax. 82.50 R £• «opervi»or- 12.45 D. F. Fridajr, supervisor.. 67.30 A. P. H. Rhyme, small-pox cx 72.00 Abe Cltmmer, small pox ex... 2.50 Jaa. T. Rankle, small pox ex 1.25 J. P. Hoffman, board of jury... 13.00 Dallas Drag Co., medicine for ^"R3<s,:. county home ... . . _ 3.85 DaUaa 1 >rug Co., medicine for county jail _ 3.30 DaUaa Drug Co., medicine for amall-pox patients. 30.95 W. P. Eddleinan. chaisgangex 776.71 W. P. Eddleman, alone for road 555.65 W. P. Eddleman. skovels. . 18.50 I. N. Alexander, arreat and return bf Paul Pratt..... ._ 11 AS C. H. Armstrong, sup. for jail.. 62.74 C. H. Armstrong, jail fees.. 128.70 M. A. Carpenter, clerk of com alias toners, etc- 30.90 J. R. Connell, Commissioner.. 13.60 M. D. Friday. Commissioner ... 13.50 C. K. Hutchinson,let.on note. 7.27 Gastonia News, advertising... . 1.00 Fontham & Moore, amall-pox expenses___ 68.45 Kindley-Belk Bros. Co., small pox expMnes-- 10.00 I-ong Brothers, small-pox ex.... 14.55 F. Robiraon. exam/lunatic. Parks Spurrier.. 2.00 C. W. Nipper, examining Parka Spurrier, lunatic__ 2.00 T. 8. Leonhardt, arreat etc. of J. B. Padgett.. 6.2S W. W. Davis. M. D.. small pox expenses (claimed $5.00)_ 1.00 W. Meek Adama, inquest John „ 8 with.. 20.40 8. 3. Mauney, coffin for pauper 10.50 Prank Welch, amall-pox ex. 7.00 B. D. Stroup, supervisor_ 40.74 J. 1. Hammett, medical atten tion to Jim Dyers, (claimed 4.00)..., .. 3.90 Gastonia Gazette, advertising 2.60 Joseph Hoffman, wood for peat bouse- .75 G. R. Rhyne, janitor for court 6.00 Chat. Jenkins, whitewashing jail, etc. .. 15.88 J. W. Kendrick, Commissioner 7AO T. C. P«rram. Commissioner... 10.80 P. D. Wilson, couv'iag pauper 1.50 W. J. T. Stars. l>oz for pauper .00 8chneck Ford, pauper... 4.00 It it ordered that Mark Greg ory be dismissed from county home. It it ordered that F. V. Gaston at outside pauper be dropped from the outside pauper list. Elisabeth Mincey and daugh ter are declared paupers nn<l al lowed to go to county home. Plato Carpenter relieved of road duty on account of in firmity. It ia ordered that county appro priate $400 to raiae the steel bridge at Spencer Mountain Mills, contract to be awarded to J. N. King aa per his plana on file. Chaa. Brooks is declared an outside pauper and allowed $8.00 per quarter. R. H. Garett, agent. G. W. Teague it relieved of road duty. T. C. Childers allowed to peddle without license. It it ordered tbst the county superintendent of roads locate the road aa surveyed by A. W. Hoffman, leading from the Gastonia road to a point near Clarence Wilson’s, aa per re port of taid superintendent of roads filed with minutes of this meeting. J. A. Peatheratone allowed to peddle without license. O. W. Teague, allowed to peddle wlthontlicente. Tom Hawkins ia allowed to go to the County Homo. Thomas Kiser ia granted a permanent road exemption. Monthly road report of treas urer is accepted and filed. Jno. H. Rutledge Is elected road supervisor for all that part of Dallas township north of the South Fork River. It ia ordered that the public rood as petitioned for by C. S. Carpenter and others be es tablished by connt>' superinten dent. It is ordered that County superintendent roads locate and establish public road (and boild two bridges) as petitioned (or by R. H. Garrett and others. J. Q. Holland appointed to fill vacancy on auditing com mittee caused by the resignation of T. C. Pegram. It is ordered that C. B. Arm strong and M. A. Carpenter be and are hereby appointed to have a house erected at the county home 32x18 feet with hall way Hxl8, each room to have one window and one door, and the hall to have one door. LIST takers. The list-takers for the year >1902 were appointed as follows: Dallas Township—G R. Rhyae. GasTonia Township—W. I. gftowr Gastonia Crrv—J. P. Holland. CnowiNcas' Mountain—J. T. Ostcs. Sooth Point—W. R. Feed. Cmrurvville—L. H. J. llooser. Rtvna Bend—W. B. Railed** Shrewd Bnr Rabbit. Tort Title aaoaliTT. "I have more than once heard," said Dr. Miles Walker the other day, "that rabbits have a way of throwing dogs off their scent by donbling ou their trails; but I have never been sure just how much fact there was in the story until now. I have had the satisfaction of seeing it for my* self. " I chanced upon a very pretty chase. Three dogs were ont for a hunt on their own account, and aa I passed along the road, the rabbit crossed ahead with the dogs a hundred yarda or so behind. I stooped to watch the thing ont. The dogs pressed forward at top speed, and after running several hundred yards turned back. About the time 1 noticed this I saw the rabbit again beating back on his old track, the dogs following without difficulty. The rabbit continued to a point near the spot where he had been jumped originally, made a circle ol a hundred yards, and then again came back into the trail over which he had passed twice, and went off a^ain in the direction he was going when I saw him first. The aogs followed the first track back beautifully ou to the starting place and around the loop; but when they struck the point where the rabbit ran into its twice traveled track, they were at a loss which way to go. They ranged out for a short distance in different directions: but invariably pulled up again at the now twice traveled track and finally gave it up. In the meantime the rabbit nad gotten well out of danger." She and II. lUttnllk JUtfaltk. The Charlotte Observer re cently published the answer of the Stale of North Carolina (the answer was prepared by Attorney Gilmer and other eminent at torneys) to the suit brought by the State of Sooth Dakota for the payment of certain railroad bonds issued by this State. In the answer prepared by the lawyers North Carolina is referred to as "she" while South Dakota is mentioned as "it." Thereupon the Observer rises to ask why this distinction. Lieutenant Governor Tuner, of Iredell, often the following explanation. He says the original thirteen States ("one of whom Kotth Carolina ia which," as Col, Sin clair used to say), being " mother" States- have always been ac corded the feminine gender— "she"—while the States added I to the Union after its* formation have been neutral—" It.” There* fore North Carolina is "she" and South Dakota "it." It ia stated that the cotton mill at Cooleemee, Davie county, is to he enlarged. A new shed 400 by 100 feet will be built and the num ber of looms will be Increased 25 pet cent. The number of spin dles will be increased from 25,000 to 40,000. Such expensive ad ditions ate contemplated that it ia believed the water supply of 1,800 horse power now used will be insufficient and the directors of the company are looking over other streams for additional power.___ A Nashville dispatch says the recent damage by floods ia Tan sente aggregates a property loss of $5,235,000, covering an area of 17 counties in the State, and the loss of life la estimated at 25, PIES1MNT IN CHARLESTON. Ck vlntm Mm im4 Cmtkr Washington. April •.—All th* preliminanas attending the Presi dent’s trip to Charleston have been completed and everything is in readiness for the start to morrow afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. Secretary Cortaiyou and L. S. Brown, of the Southern Railway, who have charge of the arrange ments, completed their work to day, when they assigned the President’s guests to places on the special train, and presented each member of the party with individual invitations for the various functions to take place at Charleston at the Exposition. The train that will carry the President and his party South is one of the most elaborately equipped specials that has eve* traversed any railway system. The President's car will he beau tifully festooned with choice flowers, so that Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt will make the journey m a bower of loveliness, tha handiwork of the floral artist. Small. The other ears will be lighted with electric lights put in expressly for this trip. Up to the last moment it was expected that Secretary Root would be a member of the party, bnt .owing to the pressure of public business, in connection with the war department now pending before Congress, it is impossible for him to leave Washington at this time. The personnel of the party is as fol lows: inc r re lucent, airs. Koose velt. Attorney General Knox and Mr*. Knox, Secretary WUion, Secretary Cortelyoo. Assistant Secretary Loeb and lira. Locb, Commander W. S. Cowles, of the navy, and Mrs. Cowles, Dr. John F. trie, Mrs. J. K. Grade, the Hon. Marat Halstead and Mrs. M. C. Latta. The schedule of the trip shows that most of the travel is by night, so that stops along the road will be avoided, except when absolutely necessary. The President does not intend to in* dnlgc in any rear platform ora tory. He will have something : to say to the people of Charles ton during his visit, which will be appropriate to the occasion, and at the same time breathing with patriotic motives and per sonal love and regard for all of his countrymen. A Tslanted North Carolinian. WUtalaatoa IS—am Rev. Dr. Robert P. Pell, a native of North Carolina and a ■on of the late Rev. William E. Pell, a well known Methodist minister, has been president for some years of the Presbyterian Female College, of Columbia, S. C., and has been elected president of Converse Female College, at Spartanburg. He is a success dearly. The Columbia State noticing bis election con gratulates Converse College and says it is a loss to Columbia. It says: Here Dr. Pelt has done a fine work without the advantages he will have at Converse College. There he will have an even bet ter opportunity to demonstrate his ability as a college executive and an educator. There are very few men in the Sooth who have as thorough an under standing and as deep an interest in the educational situation in this section as Dr. Pell has, and it is most fitting that he should be celled to a larger field of en deavor. We probably knew him as a little boy and are glad of his distinction. He has a brother of equal mark residing in Richmond, Vu., Rev. Dr. Peil, who is a Methodist. Ought ta Botha Law Everywhere A«b*vl]t* CUteaa. Kentucky’s highest court hsi hurt decided that in case of total destruction by fire the full amount of the insurance polic) must be paid, regardless of snj stipulation in the policy contrar) to this rule, and that the actus low must be paid where thi property is damaged to an extern lew than the amount of th< policy.. This is not the law it some other States, bat H on eh to be. _ • They have counted up Us Baster ofltrlaga in the church* in New York sad they are sail to amount to $900,000 in roam fiurine*. This is limply tki money that was pot on the plate la the Protestant Rpiscopa churches alone there on Bast* Sunday. In Grace Chanch aloa the amount was ovar $110,OOG Probably this constitutes the re cord for a single Sunday's col lection, HEADWEAR For Ladles, Misses and Children* -- --- ' ' - : Immediately after Barter U when the real apfarited selling at Millinery begins. Score* of New Pattern* have been added to our stock during the past two weeks, and we atm prepared to mre the trad* with the latest creations. Slllw Is patterns for Shirt Waists sad Salts. White Goods of every kind, sad acwsst designs Is Sheer Linens. Novelties la Belts, Neckwear, Handkerchiefs, Braids, ete. "r, - — L*cca, Embroideries and Appliques. J. F.YEAGER, Ladles* Furnishings a Specialty. PIANOS and ORGANS RAY CASH AND GET WHOLESALE PRICE. For 60 Days the Best Makes are Offered at Wholesale Prices for Cash. Stieff P»»no* are the only-world renowned teninan hi ■old direct from factory to purchaser. X am Stieff* factory saleaman and have rtitug to tell yon. Listen! Pur 00 days I will aeil a piano or organ to any one at a ....Straight Wholesale Price ea a Cash I handle three other make, of good instrument* which I can sell yon lower than the lowest. Also have on hand a lot of nice second-hand piano, and organs, received in exchange, which go from $15 to $8S I can’t sec everybody—too much territory. But write me and I’ll can on you, and whpt’s more, will ante you money. , W. D. BARRINGER. Salesman Chas. M. Stieff. GASTONIA, N. C. . V The McCormick HARVESTING MACHINE. IXPtBSptjauRmng^hBjiaLtoa Proved Itaelf the beet on earth leet year, aad la tMa year better thaa ever, with aavaral votaaMe lapmaiato. To aoo this machine la to want R, to try It la to hay It. ■- iniT-a '••i&l- ' CRAIG & WILSON, Gastonia, N. C. HAMMOCKS With you would come is and oae the season’s saw hammocks. They will surely "catch you good." The saw waavea this aeeooa are uausually pretty, the colors aad superb striping* prodace la some instances charming tapestry effects, white the materials aad making ate all Hut could be desired. Price* 88c up to $6.00. THE NEW BOOKS ALSO are here with their charming covers, pictures, aad ■migTi of in* structiou aad entertainment. Our counters, too, ate a-bloom with ! tbe new April magasines. • Pleas* drop ia and browse among them | to your heart's content. • PASSB PARTOUT. Have you learned? We have the omits aad free lustractioa I books. Gold aad silver bindings at 30 cents per rail, cetera at Iff r cents. The mount board ia the deep tbits and fed. Large aleck t to select from. Mall sad pb<m* orders solicited. : MARSHALL'S BOOK STORE, i On the Corner.