North Carolina Newspapers

["SlTHE GASTONIA ti—m—mmmmmml_ Published Twice a Week—Tuesdays w. r. MA13BALL, MKar ami TnwritUr. ~ DEVOTE* TO THE HOTECTIOH OF BOMB AH* THE INTE1ESTS VOL. XX1U, GASTONIA, N. C.t TUESDAY, JULY S. 1908. Air OH TO twits. Itnir1*^ •! Them by the Story •1 WUlitm TalL am Arv la AiUataCoaatlMlMi. How the old people ding to the stories and traditions that charmed their childhood. Good old Mother Akin came to sec me sod comfort me in my sickness. She has had her share of trouble, bnt is always bright and cheer ful and brings sunshine with her. Somehow the story of William Tell came up, and when I re marked that it was now general ly set down among the critics as a myth or a pretty fable she said "she would not read any snch heartless scandals nor did she believe them. The world is full of these iconoclasts who would break up every idol that we have worshipped. The story of William Tell is one that is fit to be believed and handed down to generations. Voltaire started that fable theory because h* did not like the Swiss. Many books have been written on both sides, but the old family traditions that have come down to ns for 600 yean are still as much the faith of the Swiss people as their re ligion. William Tell is as much today their national hero and the founder of their republic as Washington is of ours and the little chapel on the lake where he was drowned is still preserved to commemorate him.” WeU, whether it is a tact or a (able it U one of the prettiest stories ever told and ought to be repeated to the children ol every household. It was in the four teenth century when Austria had overridden and conquered Swit zerland and had stationed her tyrant bailiffs in every canton to subdne and humble the people that one Gessler placed the ducal cap upon a pole in the public and bow to it. Tell re and waa seised and con demned to death, but as he waa known to be the best bowman in Switzerland he was offered the alternative of shooting an apple from bis sou’s head. The boy was hit idol and he begged for tome other alternative, But Gessler refused. Sixty yards was measured off, the boy sta tioned and the apple placed. Gessler and his cohorts looked on whUe Tell bowed his knees in prayer. Rising he looked to heaven and then let fly the arrow and pierced the apple in its cen ter. The boy ran into his arms, and another arrow that had been concealed fell upon the ground. "What was that arrow for?" sqid Gessler. "To shoot you, you brute, had I slain my son.” For that be was condemned to prison and Gessler took him in a boat on the lake, but a violent storm came up and Tell was unchained to steer the boat. He made for the shore, leaped to a rock and with • pole shoved the boat back into tbe stormy waters. Hurry ing along the lake he procured a bow ana arrows from a country man and shot Gessler as the boat passed. "TeU’s Leap” and Tell’s Rock” are still known to every child in Switzerland. Later on he lost his life while saving a lad from drowning. What la unreasonable about this storv? We had a Gessler in Rome at the clow of the civil war. His name was de la Meta, • bpaniard who came over U> fight for pay. Ha did not hoist the ducal cap, hut he stretched the flag over the sidewalk and our female Tells (some of whom are living yet) would not walk under it, out crossed over to the other tide. Then be stretched another across the whole street and they walked around the block. Jt was not so much of disrespect to the flag ns it was contempt for the foreigner who - unfurled it. He refused to let our wives sad daughters receive or mail letters unless they cams betas* him and took the oath of allegiance. He had tea of our young man and several young ladles arrested tar acting in tab lean to raise a Httle money to re place news la the churches: Tbs pews had all been taken out and made into troughs to feed the bones in. He was forewarned that night by * i*gt© that if he didn’t release those girls he would be killed before morning, and he would have been. Yes. " Leonard 8pots” were all around here lust as they arm in North Carolina. We had Gcaslers and we had Tells-too obi i wu rtnmtuuuir loom Switzerland, that kfatoncil and wonderful country. Now. chil dren nod youn* people Hater. It ia only * Wttje **■» of a coun try about one-fourth tbe alte of Georgia, «"d nearly haH of t*at SmtU&BlLRS: In th« world. Lake Lucerne (that'r Tell’a:) Lake Geneva l2r$$£^tt\S£?a the grand old mountain*—the Alps and the Jura and the Jung frau. Think of the hospice of the good St. Bernard, where they kept that fine breed of dogs who were trained to go out In the most fearfnl snow storms in search of lost travelers and car ry food and urine to them and bring them safely to the hospice. One of my first books bad a pic tnie of two of these noble dog* diggiug in the snow for a man ana feeding him almost dead. One of the dogs had a bottle strapped arcana his neck and the other a basket of food. In another picture a little boy was on a dog’s back and his arms around ms neck and the dog eras balking at the door of the hos pice for admission. Those pic tures and the stories about them were as dear to me as the story of William TeU. , But think of the little Switzer land, with its population of three million people and all at work except the babies. About half are shepherds and herdsmen on the mountain slopesjand benches, raising sheep and milch cows, and in the year 1900 they sold over ten million dollars’ worth of butter and cheese. Down in the valleys and aronnd the lakes are many towns and little cities that hum like bee hives, for nimble fingers are making watches, jewelry, hair work, lace, silk and cotton fabrics as fine as gossamer and hundreds of other little things which taken all together, make the commerce or that little water covered and snow capped re public nearly double the com merce of any other country ac cording to population. All the children from 6 to 12 years and her young men have to be taught part of two years in military tactics. There is no standing army, bat every citizen is a willing and ready soldier to defend his country. Its govern ment is s republic divided into twenty-two cantons or counties, sod to maintain this republic they have Jieen fighting all con tiguous nations for nearly six hundred years and have whipped every battle they fought. Austria, Prussia, Maximillian and at last Bonapart tried to subdue that people, but failed utterly. They never had an army of over 30, 000, and defeated Prussia with 60,000 in seven pitched battles. Austria demanded 20,000 Swiss soldiers to help her fight Turkey. Switzerland refused to furnish them, and that brought on wax. and Switzerland whipped it. We see by the New York papers that they have completed the new government building at Berne, and'the pictures of them are lovely and the people are proud and had a great festival when they were opened for business. Grapd country — great people. John Calvin left hi* mark upon them, for of all the twenty-two cantons only three have kept allegiance to the Roman Catholic church. But all are devoted Christians, and on every Christmas day and every Baiter morn the young men and maidens come tripping down the mountain paths singing their Christmas or Raster carols and making the cU«s and valleys echo with their songs. But it u said tbit their young men fight Cor pay and are mercenary soldiers. Yea, but they choose the side they believe to be right. They would not fight for Austria against the Turks, nor would they fight lor Bonaparte, nor for England against the Boers. Aud now the civilised world has let them alone and the little republic has bad peace for nearly a hundred year*. .___ Tar* Canty's Kafiroad Stack. Yerkrin* *■—Irtr. m. In connection with the note of the fart that President Barber, of the Carolina and North-West ern hsa paid the county $2,500 for its stock in his company, it should have been explained that this does not complete the trans action. The county still bolds the stock against President Bar bar's obligation to complete the work of broad-gauging the road oy January 1, next. If he fails u> complete, tha broad-gauging fro* Lanoir to Chester by the data mentioned, he forfeit* not nn|y fbe stock that has been HI Jgfi *»t > certified check for $500 is addition. Uamta (nihUiItI Tb* Seaboard Air Ido* bad recorded ia the Register1! oCce bare Wedaeeday a mortgage given to the Continental Timet Company lor $75,000,000. Tbia mortgage ia beiag recorded In •Very coanty through which the Seaboard passes. Tbia la. per bega, Um largest mortgage ever recorded bare and centalaa 6,500 words. SUMMER SCHOOL »t THE SOUTH North CarallnJaas in Batlghtnd •I laMnrflle and an aa Haad la Fall Faroe. To Uo BdKor of Ik* Ooaottai The summer school of the South hss been organized and established in response to a grow ing demand ou the part of pro greaaive teachers in all of the southern states for a summer school of high grade. Knox ville, Tenn., was selected as the place for the first session. This selection was a happy one, the climate is healthful and pleasant, the surroundings attractive, and the accommodations all good. The total number of students registered is twelve hundred and ninety-five. Three hundred more arc expected. The course of study is all that could be desired; it is arranged under the following heads: 1. Common School Subjects and Methods. 2. Psychology and Pedagogy. 3. High School and College Subjects. a. general Lecture*. The (acuity is a strong one. It contains men and women of ma ture scholarship and successful experience as teachers. It is an inspiration to come in contact with snch master minds. Cer tificates will be given stating just what work has been dome in any course. Too ranch praise cannot be given to the management of the school. Dr, Dabney and Prof. Claxton are nntiring in their eSorts to make our stay both pleasant and profitable. The summer school is a decided suc cess and we wish that more of the teachers could come under its influence. Especially fortunate has the management been in securing note*! lecturers. Dr*. Wm. T. Harris, E. E. White, A Ip bon so Smith, Chss. D. Mclver, Clinton Hart Merriam and others lectured the first week. North Carolina has about one hundred delegates here. They have organised a North Caro lina Club with Dr. Eben Alexan der, Professor of Greek in the N. C. University, as president. The "North Carolina" spirit is showing itself in the very enthu siastic meetings of this club. It is a remarkable fact that four teen members of the faculty are either North Carolinians or have lived in North Carolina long enough to have come under the influence of the great educa tional movement which has been gaining strength there for several years. Dr. Mclver made a fine impression at the open honr lec ture. Gov. Aycocfc will lecture soon. This Southern educational movement means so much to the Sooth. We are grateful for the generosity of a number of libera] men and the hearty co operation of the authorities of the University of Tennessee and the citizens of Knoxville und Kuox county by which this school was made possible. Mas: Wiunt K. Douglass. v JbMmWmWMUl*. Numerous cotton-mill com panies in the mill districts of South Carolina declared their semi-annual dividends on July 1. The mills in and around Spar tan burg. S. C., declaring these dividends were as follows: Ar lington Cotton Mills, 3 per cent. Arkwright Mills, 3 per cent: Beaumont Manufacturing Co., 3 per cent; Clifton Manufacturing Co., 4 per cent; D. E. Converse Co., 4 per cent; Bootee Manu facturing Co., lyi per cent; Whitney Manufacturing Co., 3 cent; Mary Louise Mills, 5 per cent; Cowpens Manufacturing Company 4 per cent; Pac olet Manufacturing Co.. 5 per cent; Pelham Manufacturing Co. 5 pet cent; Spartan Mills, 5 per cent; Tyger Cotton Mills, 3 per cent; Tncapan Mills, 4 per cent; Victor Manufacturing Co., 4 per cent, and Fingerville Manufac turing Co., 1M per cent. These dividends amounted to $218,963. CktfJhOhMrmja Many Charlotte people went to Gaatonia yesterday to partici pate la the celebration of the 4th. Everybody—visitor! end others—seems to have bed a m time, sad Gastonia deserves au sorts of coneratnlatlons for ths successful handling of the big gala day. _ Ifrtgtt Ctalali Olumr.ia. The Observer congratulates its Gastonia friends upon the con spicuous success of their Poorth of July celebration. A grant crowd was present and it Is to be seea from Mr. Bryant’s story that the celebration was ia some of its features altogether oniqne. MOKE QUESTIONS. A Voter Wonts to Knew How tfco Candidates Stead oa Church sad School Koaso Is corpora Boas. To t»o KSltor of tar Uumai 1 see in one of your lames of last week where a voter asks if it is not just that the voters should know bow each legislative can didate stands on the question "How are our Roads to be worked in the Future?"—which is right. Wc ought to know, and we also aa voters want to know how those candidates for the Legislature stand on the ques tion of incorporations. We don't want to vote for a ■an to go to the Legislature and do all he can to down us in our business. We all know that it ia unreasonable to incorporate school houses and little negro churches from 3 to 5 miles. There would not one object to either being incorporated some thing like half a mite; that would look somewhat more reasonable and would look like more religion about it. Don't you think so yourself? A man don’t like to be run o\er in that kind of away—taking the advan tage because he has the chance to do so. 1, for my part, never did think that there waa any Christianity in that kind of work. now we wui im oar next leg islature to repeal all of those 3 mile incorporations and incorpo rate every school house and church all over the State, if they wish a half a mile. That will look more Christian-like, and will give every free man a living chance. I dont hdieve in some people having all chances and downing others from their busi ness. Ain’t 1 right? I have al ways been a Democrat and I think they ought to consider and do better for their friends. _ A Votus. T1VV su> *ua. a- IWi|m, Mr. John T. Crist, of Lenoir, spent Wednesday in Yorkville, leaving for Gastonia on Thurs day morning. Rev. R. M. Stevenson was called to Fairfield county Thurs day night by information of the death of his mother. There is a noticeable scarcity of labor about here at this time. There is plenty of heavy work to do at good wages too. Misses Annie and Pearl Wallace left yesterday morning for Gastonia, where they will spend several days with relatives and friends. Miss Mary Ashe, of Yorkville, submitted Wednesday to an operation at the hands of Dra. walker and Pryor for appendi citis. She was critically ill for some hours previous to the , operation and her life wan despaired of; but now she is resting comfortably and it is hoped that she will soon be out of danger. At a meeting of the tows council beM last Tuesday night, the resignation of Mr. John A. Harshaw, as policeman, was ac cepted and Mr. Clarence Men denhall, now of Clover, waa elected to fill the vacancy. Mr. Harshaw resigned because of the bad condition of his father’s health. Mr. Mendenhall h«s been policeman at Clover for quite awhile and has made a reputation for efficiency. The deposits in the Loan and Savings Bank are larger than at any previous time in the history of that institution at the same season of the veer. Not only is the aggregate amount of the deposits larger: but so also is the number of depositors. With in the pest year -accounts have been opened by a number of fanners from different parts of the country who have never been known to have anything to do with the banking business before. Major Micah Jenkins has been appointed collector of internal revenue, to succeed George R. Koester, sad it is understood that he still accept the position. Then is reason to believe the Republicans will make a strenuous effort to prevent his confirmation also; but there U no probability that they will suc ceed, for it is not likely that they will get the same amount of Democratic assistance, ft is as sumed, of course, that Major Janhiaa ia a Democrat] bat so for as we bare seen, ha has made no announcement on that sub ject. _ Robert Poster, the 10-year-old sou of Mr. Robert J. Poster, of Hickory, vaa drowned in tbs Cape Psar river at Payettevflle Sunday morning. BKOKE KOOSEVELTS UBS. rui«i«ii*u re* . President Roosevelt, It Is said, is much interested in the demon strations of the science of Japa nese wrestling which have been given at the capital for some months by an American athlete recently retnrned from the Orient. This recalls the fact that, while serving as governor of New York, the sews cause out from Albany - that he was having a dally bool at the executive man sion with an abtletic instructor. These boats came to a sodden end, bat why has never been told because the interesting story la known to very few. The man who gave Governor Roosevelt his daily wrestle was called away to New Orleans. The governor was not inclined to give np his wrestling, which had done him a neat deal of good, and so be asked the "pro fessor,” if he conld not Bad s substitute. The instructor sent np * brawny Irish longshoreman, to whom he had tanght the "science,” and recommended him to the governor's considera tion. At tbc usual hour the next day the mat was spread on the top door of the governor's mansion, and Mr. Roosevelt and the longshoreman went at it. Un fortunately the longshoreman had not been trained m the art of self-control and, instead of the gentle scientific resistance which the "professor’' bad offered, he went at the governor very fiercely. Iu aa instant Mr. Roosevelt’s fighting blood was ap and for about twenty minutes there was a fine exhibition of wrestling. Finally, however, the big long shoreman's brawn, coupled with the science imparted to him by the ’’professor,’’ told, snd told disastrously. Thegoveruor was flung violently. The crash al most shook the rafters. In an instant Mr. Roosevelt was on his feet again, ready to go ahead. Suddenly be felt a twinge of pain in his right ride. With much reluctance he con cluded that perhaps he had enough for the day. The pain in his side grew worse after he had once more donned his ordi nary attire, and toward night-fall a doctor was sent for. An exami nation disclosed the fact that three ribs had been broken, and further wrestling was strictly forbidden. Iferth Carolina’s Wealth. CkiiMM Nm That North Carolina is rapidly forging to the front as an agri cultural State is evidenced by the report just made public by the Census Bureau. The report shows that on June 1,1900, die total value of the farms of the State was nearly two hundred million dollars. About one fourth of this am on at represents the value of farm buildings and three fourths the value of lands sad Improvements other than buildings. Including farm im plements and machinery and stock, the value of North Caro lina farms reaches a total of two hundred and thirty-three million dollars. Mit report gives the value of the farm products as nearly one hundred millions, an increase in ten years of sixty millions in value, or practically triple what it was in 1W9. This report should be en couraging not only to the farm er* of the State, but every citi aen aa well. The development of the State has been alow hut ■are and it mast be a source of infinite satisfaction to the inhabi tants to be able to case upon the facts and figures that speak of the increasing wealth of the State. North Carolina's re sources are (unlimited and it is only n question of time when she will lead her sisters. Tub Sbmi-Wbkblv Gaxbttb, One Dollar a Year. _ . r ■.*>. V,"’ » /*j; .\ - 4. MILLINERY! « ————W" AU Trimmed Hals at refaced prices, triwaileg Thursday morning, July 3rd. We sis# have a lisa of Dimities, Lawns, Ckaakrys, «*rr, which are going at reduced prices. Children's Ideal Waists* the thing far hat weather. Price 21c. EMBROIDERIES, Laces, and White feeds Is pretty dfsIdSfl amd nsmesl of iilaimi " NOVELTIES. Pans, Parasols, Umbrellas. _LADIBB* jjRMl8Hn«^/f^reSi.TV. McCORMICK CORN HARVESTER AND SHOCKER. PR several years the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., has experimented with a machine Mr catting ml corn, aad for the season of 1902 is able to offer the McCormick corn harvester and shocker to those earn growers who pswtor to hsnssl and shock their corn withoat binding It into bandies. As a eon shocker the McCormick is aaeqaaDsd la lightness of draft, aad Its operation in the field la as simple aad rapid as is pnmfliV with soeb a machine. When the shock is completed it is -UTrararj to stop the machine, after which the shock is tied by and with toe sid of a windlass, which forms part cl the shocker, the driver raises the shock, swings it to one side, and places it on the gronad. A frame around which the stalks an placed is drawn from the cen ter of the shock after it has been placed on the pwfS With a little practice the shock is anloadcd in as abort a tone aa is re quired to form it, tons tasking the capacity nnr half that of the corn binder. This machine will folly meet the requirements of tho agriculturists who prefer to bask their con from the abode in the field and then bind the stalks into bandies by »»««i If, however, the corn is to be drawn from the field, stacked, fed yylffltVf1 to the stock, loaded onto aad unloaded from a wogoa or fad to a ahredder, it will be found moot economical to cut it with toe Me* Cormick vertical com binder, as the labor saved wO! more than poy for the tsrine and shocking. Par sale by CRAIG & WILSON. I FIRST! ' ’ 'V'.-' '<* ■ r si ^ * ttUt EVEKTVHEtE nm ALWAYS THE GASTONIA GAZETTE '"I't'V Twfc* a waafc DO YOU WANT GOOD TINWARE? • If the tinware you have been getting was sot satisfactory, don’t get disgasted aad say there la aat Mag good ttarwara aiada, far this la aat the ease. Wa are RMklag right Ma la OestoMaTtowg#-' that la liar aapcrlerte theordlaarykind, aad what U hatter, the price la oat SMich higher. Call far Laag Brothers' head-made Tinware aad taka aa ether. Long Brothers, GASTONIA, N. C.