Published Twice a Week. SLOO^YearUnaiMav 1,1902.
THE GASTONIA G
w. r. MA1SHALL, Editor ssd Prsodrtor DgVfTtl TO THE ftOTECTtOW OF HOME AMD THE lWTElEStS Of WE COUFTTY.
VOL. XXIH. GASTONIA, N. C.. FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1902, ~
Big Saturday and
Monday Sales!
We always place our best bargains to the front
these two days - for then It Is that so many of our
best customers do their shopping for the entire
week. You will find here the newest and best In
all lines and, too, at prices that cannot be matched
Is this part of the Sunny South land.
Newest Spring Shoes. They are here in abun
dance and olir buyer Is now among the manufac
turers of the North and East picking up bargains,
raking In with the cash everything .that bobs up In
sight. Of course he cuts the price half In two.
Now for a month or more the railroad Iron will be
kept hot delivering our
SECOND SPRING PURCHASE.
Just to make Monday one of the most Interest
ing dayn of all, we will offer 600 yards Cannon
Cloth, full standard goods. 10 yards only to each
customer. No mall or Phone orders accepted and
on sale only between 10 and I o'clock Monday.
The Sic Cannon Cloth at per yard - • 5c
men s new Loiorea snirrs, "Lion Brand." rieated
bosom. French Percale and Madras. Beautiful
new patterns.. « 98c
MOur Curtain Lecture" will prove of Interest to
every housekeeper. All kinds that are new and
up to now. Cable Cord Lace. Ruffled Bob
blnet. - - - , 48c to $10.00 a pair.
New Dress Goods. Silks, Woolen and Cotton
Fabrics of the newest designs and Ideas.
Men's and Boy's Clothing. Superior quality and
workmanship at under prices.
PRICE Is our greatest salesman and will tell
why and how we do the biggest business.
Kindley-Belk Brothers Co.
CHEAPEST STORE ON EARTH.
AKT WRITES ABOUT SPtlRi.
Flawera and Birds, sad Qoatss
lie F Batons hta.
Bill Aip. is AtlMtt CaMUtMIca.
It is not quite time to indulge
spring poetry. 1 tried it some
year* ago and strained my mind
and shall not try to again. One
poem it enough to make a man
famous and i have never seen
mine improved upon:
TVc hjwR for Xtf aai cf
Aft dim *
That is classic and expressive.
It thymes well and measures
well and is considered the cham
pion spring poem. But I will
venture to make a few remarks
about flowers, for as Solomon
smith. "The winter is past; the
rain is over and gone. The
flowers appear on the earth, the
time for the singing of the bird
has come and the voice of the
turtle dove is heard in the land."
It is an old story that when God
made man and gave him bearing
and seeing and taste and amslf
ing: He created bitds to sing
for him and please his ears and
grass to grow and herba and
trees to bear him fruit, but Adam
wasn’t very happy and said these
are very good, but they cannot
k>vc me nor talk to me or com
fort me when I am sick and and.
I am here alone and not even
your angels visit me. And so
God took pity on him and crea
ted woman and then he was
happy. But woman didn’t care
to be digging “d hoeing and
planting ana looking after the
sheep and the cows and ao the
Lord created flower* especially
for her enjoyment. He slao
taught her to aing and make
music on the harp and hence
came the old traditions that
wotuhn and music and flowers
were Ood’a beat gifts to man.
You. see that neither Bowen or
mnsic is mentioned in the Mosaic
account of the creation and
tradition says that they were not
made until woman was. It is
singular that in soma of tha
ancient language* the same word
that means woman meant flow
ers too. Among the ancient
Greeks, Romans, Persians and
Bgyptiana there was great rev
erence tor and even idolatry of
flowers. The lotus or sacred
lily was worshipped as a god in
Egypt. In Japan the chryaan
theum is equally sacred and
nearly all of their female children
are named for some flown. In
all countries every temple ser
vice. every festival or banquet or
sacred day—every birth or mar
riage or death or funeral cere
mony calls for a profusion of
Bowers. When soldiers went
out to fight and when they re
turned they were crowned with
wreath* and garlands; strangers
were given flowers when they
came to see you. Every flower
had its meaning and its senti
ment, as for instance a red rose
meant "I love you;”a white rose
"I will marry you." The Chi
nn** make the most lavish use of
flowers. No modern nation has
such love and taste for them nor
snch beautiful gardens and
Japan comes next. Chins is
called the Flowery Kingdom.
Almost all of the civilised nations
have a national flower. Egypt
Turkey and India have the lotus
Japan tha chrysanthemum, Spain
the pomegranate. France the
iris or flenr de ha of Louis VII.
Napoleon tried to abolish it and
put tha honey bee instead, but
the people rebelled and it is still
the iris. Scotland has the this
tle, Ireland tha shamrock, Wales
tka look, Mexico the cactus, Ger
many tha com flower, England
the rose, and the United States
none at all. In 14S» we tried to
make it tha golden rod but failed.
The North voted for tha trailing
arbutus and the roee and some
green house flowers, and there
was no flowtr elected. The
trading arbutus don't trail in
this part of the country. Well of
course, the rose fa by universal
suffrage the quean of all flowers.
About six hundred yean ago the
Duke of Lancaater chose a red
«>se foe his emblem. Hisbroth
w, the Duke of York, chose a
whits rose. The descendants of
these two princes got to Ighting
™ ***• CTp*n *nd it was called
W £ the roses. Bat after
• *Wle the son of one married
the daughter of the other and,
the two rosea were united into
one and called the Tudor row.
In the eleventh century the Danas
made war upon Scotland, and
one dark night planned an at
tack upon a fortress that was tha
key to the whole country. They
took of their fboes and breech
es eo aa to swim across the moat
thinking that the moat was daep
and full of water. But the Scotch
had nearly filled the moat with
thistle, and it stuck the Danes so
terribly that they yelled in agony
uid got out qnkkJy and the
Scotch took them unawares and
idlled nearly all of them before
they could pnt on their shoes
and breeches. The thistle saved
Scotland, and so they look it foe
their national flower. Away back
in the centuries, when good St.
Patrick went to Ireland aa a
missionary, lie preached to them
about the Trinity and how there
were three persons in one God
and the people laughed at him
ahd said it waa impossible and
they didn’t believe h. So the
saint picked up a shamrock stem
with its three leaves growing out
of itand exclaimed: "Why not!"
If this little plant con make three
from one, why can’t God do it?"
So be convinced and converted
all that people, and they took
the clover or shamrock plant for
the national flower. In the 6th
century the Normans invaded
Wales and just before a great bat
tle one dark cloudy evening the
Welch went through a field
where the leeks or wild onions
were in bloom, and every man
plucked one and stuck it in his
hat so sa to distinguish their
soldiers from the enemy, and by
this means they whipped the
fight and saved their country.
Alter that they took the leek for
their national flower. When
Napoleon Bonaparte overran
Germany and the emperor and
his family had to fly from Berlin
and conceal themselves be was
awfullv diitmiMl an<4 tlwv
to have perished. But him
mother made garlands of a little
wild flower known as the corn flow
er or kaiserblurae. and put them
on him and cheered him up, and
when Bonaparte was vanquished
the emperor adopted the little
wild flower as the national
emblem. When Louis VII
started out on the cnuades be
chose the iris as his badge, and
when be returned with hu army
it was adopted as the nation's
flower. This is enough of
national flowers, I wish we bad
one for onr nation, and wc will
have one when this Federation
of Women's Clubs takes hold of
the matter, and I hope it will be
the golden rod. It grow* from
Maine to Mexico ana bends its
graceful head in field and forest.
The reason I got to ruminating
about flowers was because onr
good ladies gave an entertain
ment the other night which was
quite original ana peculiar. It
was called the enchanted garden.
There were twelve pretty flowers
painted on a long curtain and in
front of them was an old gardner
teaching a pretty little girl her
first lesson in flowers. He told
her their origin and how they
got their names and whenever
ne mentioned one of the flowers
that was on the curtain and
pointed to it, that flower disap
peared as if by enchantment and
in its place there appeared the
face of a pretty girl or woman,
who sang a song that fitted the
flower—such songs as "Only a
Pansy Blossom, ” "The Last
Rose of Sommer," "Pond Lil
lies." "A Bunch of Daisies,” etc.
At intervals between the songs,
the old gardener told his pupil
how Clyta fell in love with
4^.11^ sV^ _s.1__ _ a
* W* auu, aiiu
•be gaxed upon him to continu
ally that he got tired ol it and
turned her into a heliotrope, for
thia Greek word meant turned
by the ann. And bow Apollo’a
cup-'bearer was a very handsome
boy and Apollo loved him to
much that another boy killed
him through envy and his dead
body was changed iato a
hyacinth. The Creek spell
ing is Yacintkns and Apollo
stamped the Greek letter Y on
every petal, and it is there yet.
And bow a very vain and hand
some youth spent all his time
lookiag at himself in a fountain
of clear water and one day he
fell in and was drowned and
Apollo changed his body iato a
narcissus. And how the- car
nation was always a pink fleah
color for the Greek word cantos
■mans flesh, but aow it is all
colors. And bow dandelion
■uana a lion’a tooth'from the
•hape of its leaves, and the tulip
awaas a tubes and the garaalam
means a crane’s bill from the
shape of iu seed pods, and the
nasturtium means anoaa twister,
for whoa you sawll it or taste
the seed the pungent odor and
tasta moke you drew ap your
face and curl np your nose. And
the old maa told about many
others, and It seems that weaot
only got the names of the days
end the months end the stars
from ancient mythology, hut we
have even kept the nausea of
their (lowers. If flowers were as
scarce as diamonds and pearls
ssJSSS
ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.
Three Handsome Prizes to be Awarded
for Three Largest Clubs of Subscribers
Sent to The Gazette by Saturday,
May 3rd—Particulars of the Contest
Tire Gazette is one paper in Gaston county whose circulation
is growing greater and not lew. It la uow issued twice every
wcek; it is printed throughout from new type, neat, clean, attrac
tive ; edited with care in every department, it endeavors to be re
liable always, to print the news and tell the truth,, and is devoted
to the protection of home and the interests of Gaston county.
These things, together with the aid of its friends, are making the
paper go at a rate which eclipses all its previous records.
But we ieel that our very kind friends are entitled to some re
ward. Therefore, encouraged by the results of other similar offers
made to our subscribers in the past, we have, as previously an
nounced, decided again to interest onr friends who have helped ua
and arc helping ua now to make Tint GAZUTTU what it is to-day.
There are two important points to note: first, Tot Gazstts is
offered twice a week for a dollar to all who get the dollar in by
Saturday, the third day of May; second, to the three persona who
bring us the three largest lists of new subscribers by that date, we
will give three handsome prizes.
wow lor tne particular* concerning the contest ana the prizes:
FIRST PRIZE—To the person who brings in the largest list
m* P*id subscriptions under this offer by the date named, we
will give a choice between two handsome twenty-dollar prizes.
1- Choice number one is a fine new improved Colombian
Phonograph now on exhibit at Torrence’s Jewelry Store. It is not
the small kind with a cylinder record. It is an improved load in
strument with a circular record like a dinner plate, and can be
heard easily across the street. This fine machine and six records
(three large and three small) make np this outfit.
2. Choice number two is a most beautiful ladies' Mahogany
Desk, with chair to match, now on exhibit at The GaatSnia Book
Store. The desk is Maccy's make inlaid with white holly and
mother-of-pearl, a lovely piece of furniture, as every lady who sees
it will testify. The chair to match goes with it. Bring the largest
list of new subscribers and take your choice of the two superb
prizes described above.
SECOND PRIZE—For the second largest list of subscriptions
under this offer, the prize will be a choice bet wees a very large
and handsome new five-dollar hammock and a five-dollar Water
man's Fountain Pen—both at The Gastonia Book Store.
TjilRD PRIZE—For the third largest list of subscriptions
brought in under this ofikr, the prize will be a fine three-dollar silk
umbrella or a beautiful three-dollar rug at Thomson Co.’s store.
Anybody is a new subscriber who does not now take the paper,
with this limitation: a mere transfer of the paper from one member
of a family to another or from one neighbor to another for the
of getting a name on the list is not seeming a new subscriber. Of
conrse no honest person would resort to a scheme like that.
The contest is to end Saturday night, May 3rd, so that we can
make up the awards Monday for the paper coming out on the fol
lowing day.
These are the conditions of the contest, and we hope our friends
will get to work and forward subscriptions as fast as they get them.
Everybody who knows ns knows that these prises will be awarded
just as we say. If the biggest list contains no more than one sub
scriber, the person who brings it will get ooe of the twenty-dollar
prizes.
thing* the most abundant so
that the poor might have them
as well as the rich. It doe* not
take money to bny sunshine nor
shower the green grass nor the
song* of birds nor the daisies
nnd lilies that adorn the fields
and meadows. The meat poets’
books are loll of beautiful
thoughts about flower*. Shake
spear* lament over the death of
Imogen, is fall of tears and
flowers.
"Tear ratorira* lira, ah tower* ! are llvtaa
Uaek'rad rack lraf • book."
Mrs. He mans says:
"MtajMSowi**. freak Sower*, lortkokrtd* to
Tkes^Sm bora to Mart taker *Wataak*if."
And Wordsworth says: "It is
my faith that every flower that
blooms enjoys the air it breathes
and is conscious of its own
beauty."
It waa a tradition among the
early Christians that when Mery,
the mother of Jeans, fled with
her child into Egypt beautiful
roses and lilies sprang vp and
bloomed along her pathway aa
she journeyed through the plains
of Snaroa and Jericho. Woman
and flowers are always foand to
gether, both in fact and hi fancy.
Some men like flowers, too,
especially young men who an
in love, bat with many men dog
fennel and gimpson wood are as
sweet and pretty aa rosea and
- M - * -■* -
VIOICWf «**ra»■**■^^****
From whet we can learn tome
of onr county candidate* are be
ginning to atlr thing* pretty
Bvtly—tho*e who hawa not an*
no line ad aa well aa tbo*e who
hare. The fact that it ia dro
tion year with thaac conld ha
plainly diacovered duri/ig the
preaant IM of court. Tht
^ndSkT^d ,ntL2r 'Ey
genial fellowa mat their friend*
wa look for tome lively campaign
ing Utie^MT._
ftnbecrihe lor The O/unmet.
=aa— — ■ ■ as a
"Bali* Central.”
AIIMIJMIWL
Some of the good people of
Bvanston, 111., whose sense of
propriety has been shocked by
the nse of the word "hello” in
conversation over the telephone
have inaugurated a movement
to bring about a discontinuation
of this inherently vulgar ex
pression hi favor of the more
polite form of greeting, such as
"good morning" and "good eve
xing.”
The proposed innovation u
supported by the argument that
the term "hello” has long since
been eliminated from ordinary
conversation in refined circles
and that having suffered this
fate it is not in proper taste to
employ it in conversation over
the telephone. The change has
already met with every general
adoption in Bvanston and is
cordially indorsed by the trie*
phone anthoritir*.
But we dotibt li the country
at large will look with favor upon
the reform which has been
started at Bvanston. Despite
the association of the word
"hello," it meets the demand of
the age in which we live for
a3T?o h?Sdy’fr^f ±sz
iikcjv w retired from active
service for some time to come
•*f**flJ^wegto nmed*1^
Moore was sweated a law days
ago lor ateaUnf about 10 bushels
of cottoa seed from Mr. W. B.
Sellars, of Morvea. Bea, oa be
mee to taking tire seed.
them to
._. _ JffJtil. but
smsaiii
"Take earn of the miBiona,”
ssLsr araens aess
•elves."
I» eO you need to start aa ac- J
count arith the 2
GASTONIA
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THIS PRIVATE RAV1XRS SAXE to I
9 can be opened oniy to our Baring* Department,:
9 kept. Von are exported to Tnwldi jfinn
9 it to onr Soring* Depnitamt oresrionaHy,
P be rrmored,(entered ttp to ynnr credit on
9 to dnur interest. A '
tC*n at tke Oaatoni* Banking Co. or aend tin n postal rord. sad f
■* will tell yon all abort it
I Gastonia Banking Company, ]
PIANOS AND ORGANS
PAY CASH AND GET WHOLESALE PRICE
For 60 Days the Best Makes
are Offered at Wholesale
Prices for Cash.
Sdif Pianos at the only vnld renowned instrument
•old direct from factory to porehaacr.
I am Stieff's factory salesman and have something to
tell you. Listen!
For 00 days 1 will tell a piano or organ to say one at a
_Straight Wholesale Price os a Cash Baals....
I handle three other makes of good instruments which
1 can sell yoa lower than the lowest.
Also have on hand a lot of nice second-hand pianos
and organs, received in exchange, which go from $15 to
I can’t see everybody—too much territory. Bat write
me end I’ll call on you.and what's more, will save you
money*.
W. D. BARRINGER,
Salesman Char. M. Stiefi.OASTONU. N. C.
The McCormick
HARVESTING MACHINE.
■■•ccagsgBsaofe—
Tbe Prosperous _
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Prayed Itself the best os earth last year, aad la this
.si..-‘-ifnrtlr IwpmTBaiSBU
Te see this siaehlee la to waat R, to try It Is t» hay It.
- -~"=T”rr%-arri- •'£'• v"
CRAIG & WILSON,
_Gastonia, N. C.
HAMMOCKS
With you would come la and see the season ’* now hammock*.
They w01 surely "catch you good.” Tha now weaves this season
are unusually pretty, the colors tad superb striping* ptbduce hi
aooe instances charming tapestry effects, while the materials and
snaking mu all that could be desired.
Prices AAc up to MAO.
THE NEW BOOKS ALSO
are here with their charming covers, pictures, end i
•traction and entertainment. Out counters, too, i
the new April magasiaas. Pleats drop in end browse i
to your heart's content.
PASSE PARTOUT.
Have yen learned? We have the ontdts and free instruction
hooka. Gold and silver bindings at 10 cents per roll, colors at 10
cents. The mount beard in the deep data and red. Large stock
to select from. Mail and phout orders solicited.
MARSHALL’S BOOK STORE.
On the Corner.