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IwaawwMMiwww " ■ ' "r- u -- s i- Gastonia Twice a Week, 11.00 a Year »MMMMe«s«scs909££ Publlohetl Twlce a Week -Tuesdayh and W. f. MARSHALL, Edlter aad Proprieler._ DP.VOTRD TO TAP. PROTECTION OP HOME ^ND THEINTERESTS OP VOL. XXIII. GASTONIA, N. C„ FRIDAY, JUI.Y IH.IOOU. "" *"****"^"* - ... . "■ *i i ■ —————— ASP AND DULTUHs. Bill S«c«T*riojt From Illness Tolls ol Medicine He Took. Bill Arp- in AtlnnU ConMitulum. I don’t know whether I enu write a letter or not. I will try. The effort will keep me from thinking about myself. For a mouth 1 have been playing "Bil ly in the low grounds,” but I had ujpoo<lIdoctor who has nursed me night and day aud cheered uie up aud comforted inc and I am on the up grade, though ns the (Georgia cracker says, "X am powerful weak.” This doctor is my son and he says he has not forgotten how his mother and X nursed him for three long mouths in Florida aud saved his life and now I shall not die ft he can help it. I take all his medicine, quinine, strychnine, calomel, spirits of nitre and capsules without number, and tunics, too, and if I g.-l well I will never know what cured me, but he will. Wlint would the world do without the doctors? King Kd ward uud I would have died last week. About twenty years ago I had a spell like tilts one, for I bad been working in the water nil day trying to dam up the branch iu the meadow so that the chil dren could go in bathing. That night I liked to have died and old Dr. Kirk was scut for und worked on me for three or four days aud got me up again. My wife told me that if I didn’t be more careful of myself 1 wouldn't live otil my days. She told me the same thing the other day, and she knows. Old Dr. Kirk is a trump. He was our family doctor until he got old and tired and moved away to live with his children. Before he moved to this place from South Carolina he had a love scrape over there, and had a rival, too, and they fell out. The girl wouldn't have either one of them and the other fellow heard that the doctor had told stories on him to the girl and so after the doctor located here his rival wrote to him and demanded a retraxit or a fight. The doctor wrote him a stinger and refused to make a retraxit, bnt would accept his challenge and fight him until Hades froze over, as the fighting code gave the challenged party choice of weapons and lime and place and distance he should choose rifles at long range and the next 29th day of February as the time aud the other fellow must stay where he was aud shoot over this way aud he (the doctor) would stay here and shoot over that way and both must aim high so as not to hit anybody lietwcen them. But I must stop now and take breath. A good long breath is wbnl 1 want. The old woman was asked what disease her hus band died of and she said the doctors differed about it, bnt she always believed he died for lack of breath. I don’t want to go that way. 1 was ruminating about these physiciaus, for doc tor is not the proper name. Doctor means a teacher of any thing whether it be science or art or law or pharmacy or theo logy. Physician is Ihc right wora. ir is a very ancient name for the profession. The Bible tells how Joseph got the physi cians to embalm his old father, bnt I do not think it was a very popular profession among the Jews for it is mentioned only two or three times ami with doubtful favor. King Asa bad a disease in his feet and would not call upon the Lord for Tclief, but sent for a physician, and he died and slept with his fathers. Then there was a woman who hod had an issue of blood for twelve years and suffered ranch from many physicians and sp^nt all she had and was nothing bet ter, but rather grew worse. The Jcwa unto this day do not give much patronage to physicians or quack medicines. I never knew bnt one Jew doctor, though there arc a few emineut ones in the large cities, for whatever a learned Jew does he does well. '1'heTe is a doctor Jacobi in New York city’ who stands at the head of the profession aud is consulted by the rich and great men of the nation. wow, i4ti me siop ior biiwmto good, long breath. When I was a boy we didn’t hove but one doctor in town, and he weighed 300 pounds and was never in a hnrry. He left little babies around ever and anon and when one came to oirr house our old cook told us where he got them and she slyly pointed to hia corporoaity. He had a little oflke on the street and a Ice shelve* with bottles on them containing calomel, salta and castor oil, senna and eatnmotnile and Peruvian bark, balsam of copaiba, and such simple thing* and in the comer was a skeleton in a box that stood upright, with a screw in the skull, uiid some times the little long door was open nnd wc school children could peep in and then run for our lives. It was an awful sight, lint the old doctor got too old aud fat to practice and sent to New York for his nephew. Dr. Philo J). Windinnn, a student of Vuleutiue Mott, the great New York physician and siirgeou. He was us smart as liis tutor and went to catting aud slushing our people just like killiug hogs. He straightened cross eyes ami sewed up hare lips and cut stoues out of bladders. The agonising screams of poor John Thompson, my school mate, still hauuts me, for lie was simply dying of stone bladder aud the doctor cut it out. It was as large as a pigeon egg, nnd the little boy got well. My brother and Jim Craig studied under Wiud inau, and when they wanted a stiff they would go out to the Redlaud grave yard in the night and dig up a fresh buried corpse ami haul it to a little room buck of their office aud cut it np and boil it down and make a skeleton of the bones. 1 went with them one night and helped them to dig tip a negro, but somebody rocked us as we were Uikiug it out aud wc had to run for our lives for they threatened to shoot. That satisfied me with the bnsincss aud I never went again. But our little town wasn t big enough for Windman and so he moved to Colutnhtts and made a great reputation. About that time yellow fever visited Savan nah. and Windman believed lie could stamp it out and that he was au immune, but he wasn't. He tqok the fever right away and died. It is a curious coin cidence that three doctors from our town went to Savannah to fight the fever and every one of them took it and died. But 1 was ruminating about the suffering and agony that the advance in surgery and physic has saved mankind and 1 rejoice that Crawford Txing has been given the first place in the Hall of Fame. I was in school in Athens when his discovery was made, but the magnitude of it was not realized until ioug after. I was one of the first to have a tooth extracted by the use of his lethean. T<el me rest awhile, lor I am weak and nervous and, a* Bryon said— "Mr viaiooa tlii In* palpably before our." I have just enjoyed a good, long letter from uiy old school mate, Nathan Crawford, of Liu colntou. He is the honored school commissioner of the county and will die in harness, I reckon. He is in his eightieth year, but we were class mates, for he was one of these sure and slow boys, while 1 was preco cious and uncertain. Only three of ns left uow, for Tom Alexan der is living at Rome. Nathan writes a good, old-fashioned, cheerful letter, and says that he never stole Frank Alexander’s watermelons, and hints that it was Overton Young and a boy of my name. The only reason that he didn’t steal them was that he boarded with Mr- Alexander and got a plenty without stealing. It is too late now for him to assume i a saintly morality, for Tom and I still live to testify. But it was a refreshing letter aud the mem ory of Nat Crawford is always comforting and refreshing. Now, for a good long rest. Panncefeta’s Remains Landed. Wnbtadm Po.u Southampton, Rnglnnd, July 14.—The United States armored cruiser Brook jyn from Auiinpolia Jnly l, having on hoard the remains of Lord Pauucefote, late Ambassador of Great Britain at Washington, arrived here this morning. The body was landed noon after 11 o’clock. Pull naval honors were paid to the remains of Lord Pauncefote. His widow followed the coffin from the warship to the train, which started for Newnrk-opon Trent, where the funeral will take place to-morrow. i ne ceremony ot the transfer of tbe remains was itnprc*aive. One hundred and twenty-font bluejackets composed the bearer P»rty- Tl»c coffin was taken between lines of seamen with arms reversed to a specially draped railroad carriage. During the removal of the body the American and British bands played Cliopm’a Poneral March. Besides the widow and the family. Rear Admirable Joseph U. Coghlan, the officers of the Brooklyn, the United States con sul, John K. Ifopley; a number of tbe British naval officers, and the mayor of Southampton, fol lowed the coffin to the train. Minute guua were fired by the Brooklvu and British warships until the depnrtnre of the train. MR. WU WILL WRITE BOOKS. China** Minister Will Tell hi* Peaple ot America. WuliioiUw Po«t. 13th. It is not expected thul Minister Wii will leave Washington for his new post in China for some weeks in the first place his suc cessor, Liang Cueu Tung, is now attached to the Chinese special embassy to the corona tion of King Edward VII headed by Prince Chun, a son of Prince Cbing, who is the head of the Chinese board of foreign affairs, and the embassy is expected to attend the eorouatiou ceremony iu August. Then, too, Minister Wu must have time in which to close his affairs iu Washington. PriuceChuu, it is learnedhere, is to return to Chinn hy way of the United Stales, and the' of ficials of the Chinese Legation are not prepared to say whether the Minister will take up his duties ill the legation upon his arrival in the Itiiitcd States, or go to Chiua with Prince Chun and return Inter to Washington. Officials personally acquainted with the new Minister describe him as a mini of imposing stature, being over six feet iu height, and slightly inclined to stoutness. lie speaks English fluently. Minuter Wti, in speaking yesterday of his return to China, said that the first aud most nrgeui need of China is a fi nancial readjustment which will relieve the conutry of the great and increasing burden caused by the payment of foreign obliga tions in high-priced gold, while silver is the onlycnrreut money. China also needs three things, education, railroad*, aud news papers. More young Chinese students should study in the l.niled States and Europe, and there should lie a system of popular education, lie said. Railroads are a strong force in educating the people by bring ing them into closer contact, aud high-class newspapers are another form of education. The Minister did not indicate how the improvements he desired au to l»e brought about, but called attention to the fact that lie him self was :m advocate of the first railway to be built in China, and indicated that lie wonld favor extensions uow. The Minister intends to write two books—one on America for publication here, aud the other on his observations outside of Chiua, for circulation in that country. This latter work will be intended to spread Mr. YVii’s ideas among the peo ple of his own country, llow ever, as he has before him at least two years’ work in the codification of the foreign laws, the Minister does not know when he cau start his books. "Wc have ambition to do many thiuga,” lie said, 'Mint life is very short, and there is not lime for many things.” CHAFFEE COMES HOME. Has Roan Relieved of Command la Philippines. \V»»hinciim Po»*. lSUi. Gen. Chaffee lias been re lieved of command in the Philip pines and ordered lo the com mand of the Department of the Bast by au order issned yester day by Secretary Root. The order read as follows: "By direction of the President Maj. Gen. George W. Davis will relieve Maj. Gen. Chaflee of the command of the Division of the Philippines September 20, 15*02. On being relieved, Gen. Chaffee will, with his authorized aids, repnir to Governor's Island, X. Y., and assume command of the Department of the Usst." A few days ago Gen. Chaffee was cabled that he could have either the command of the De partment of the Bast or the De partment of the Lake if he de sired to come home at this time. He was informed that the retire ment of Gen. Hrooke afforded an opportunity of making either change he desired. The cable gram closed with a commenda tion by the Secretary of War of Gen. Chaffee’s service in China and the Philippines. A reply was received Saturday from Gen. Chaffee stating that he left the matter entirely with the Depart ment, but that he would prefer ! N#w York in case he was re* I lieved in the Philippines. New BaiMlofa. Ch«fU*l» K»«r«. I Mil Mr. K. H. Ovcrcaah, the con tractor, ha* juat retarnetf from paatonta, where he l* engaged in building the new Catholic church there. Mr. Ovcrcaah has secured the contract for the Bap tist church building that will soon be erected at Belmont. It is to be a frame structure mid a comfortable one. THE IECOKO OF THE FOUKTfL General Summary *1 Accidents and Loaaaa by Fire Issultiaj from Celebration of Indepen dence Day. Cltarieatoft K«w aad Courlrr. Possibly il may not Ik u bad tiling for the Filipinos and our other colonists after all that they are to hr excluded from sharing with ns the enthusiasms and jojfnl demonstrations of Inde pendence Dey._ The Chicago Tribnne, according to its custom, has compiled n list of casualties attending the celebration this year in the nation proper, and the record is rather discourag ing The number of killed, it is stated, was 31, which is probably as much as iu any 1>atlfe in the Philippines. The number of wounded was 2,649, which is considerably more than the record of any battle in the Phil ippines. The damage liy fire was, how ev er, surprisingly small, the total loss on that account being placed at only a vjuaitt r of n million dollars, which was probably considerably less tliuii the cost of the fireworks that caused the damage. Iu the way o( details, it is shown that in Philadelphia, the fountain of independence, one liersou was killed and 439 injured for the day. In Chicago, four were killed and 111 injured. In New York, 73 were injured. Bos ton reported 200, Kansas City 134, Troy 05, St. Louis 54, St. Joseph 50, Cincinnati 53, Racmc 37, l^avenworth 36, Al bany 31, and oilier places re ported from 30 down to 1. . Fireworks, it is noted, were responsible for 031 casualties, skyrockets for 110, cannon for 368, firearm* for 546, gunpowder for 422, and runaways, incited by "explosives" of various kiuds, for 29. The greatest fire loss was $100,000 in Lee, 111. Tlixou, in the same State, lost $50,000; Kansas City, $28,000; Los Ange les, $18,000; Boston, $10,000; Mansfield, Ohio, $10,000; New York, Providence, St. I^onis. Syracuse, and St. Joseph, $3,000 each; Rochester and Stocktuwn, $1,500 each. Twenty towns and cities reported losses of less than $1,000. A noticeable feature of the ta ble, it is remarked, is that the South is hardly represented in it, St. I,ouis, Kansas City, St. Joseph, Louisville, Baltimore and Memphis being the only places in this section liaviug that dis tinction. It makes a different showing, of course, al Christmas when it expends its money liber ally for fireworks and earns its share of trouble in return. WHAT NEGRO EDUCATION COST Amoaitt Pall 0«t Prom 1874 ta the Present Time—Taxes Pail by Nefroea. Nm sad Obxcrvc*. lSUi. The Hinonnts paid for negro education from 1874 to the prex ent time arc as follows: Kmix 1874 Vm.G47.gj Hmm lfflu toliHd . ljRinJMSJ Norxix) SchnoU, tmalint** J30JSXMJU To*«' — ■-.is .Munson In 1900 negroes received for schools, $214,001.56; for houses, $9,493.50. a total <>»$223,495.14. Taxes for 1900 payable on prop erty, $19,649.78; on polls $109, 772.89. Total, $129,422.87. There were 12,000 insolvent polls at $1.50 each, making $18,000. Hence the amount actually paid by negroes was $ LI1,422.67. $223,495.14 minus $111,422.67 equals $112.072.57, so the negroes received for schools In 1900 $112,072.57 more than they paid. lu ascertaining these figures the entire expenses of school superintendents, of county boards and treasurer’s commissions, etc have been charged up to the white fund. i he part tuc negroes receive of local taxes levied to support graded schools in the cities is not included. This would per haps amount to $10,0(10. Tlie entire school fnnd dis bursed that year was $903,045.20. The negroes received nearly one fourth but paid only a little Over one-tenth. Of the $100,000 apportioned to help needy districts, $8,2798.89 was sent out and the negroes re ceived for needy districts $20, 910.09, about one-fourth. At Winston Thursday lightn ing set fire to and burned 200 bales of cotton belonging to P. & H. Fries. The houses in which the cotton seas stored was also destroyed. One of his fire men in his efforts to extinguish the fUuues was painfully injured by a bale of cotton falling on hint. A MANLY SPEECH. Dr. AUtraui’i AMrtu at Chi cafo IMnnllflUa a Favor* •bit Inpraasiaa at the North. Atlanta Journal. No Southern man re talus the rexpoct of hi* own people or gatus the confidence of the peo ple of the North who adopts an apologetic or cringing tone when he speaks to a Northern audience about conditions in the South. Wc have had some Southern men to go North and misrepre sent this section in ■ wnv that would have been very irritating hot for the fact that such pre tended expoueuu of Southern sentiment misrepresent grossly the people of this section. While the number of these Saunters of false colors is de creasing, the men who by reason of their knowledge and charac ter. arc really qualified to x|teak for the South everywhere are finding more op|x>rttmitic-» to tell the truth iu the North about our people, arid are using them with good effect. An admirable address of.the kind that deserves and wius admiration from all sections of the country was that which Frcsideui Alder mau. of Tn lane University, delivered at the Fourth of July celebration of the University of Chicago. His sub ject was "The Southern Boy and His Opportunity." TlicChicugo newspapers characterize the ad dress as one of the most notable that has been made in that city by auy Southern num. It should be circulated throughout the country generally, for it is a candid and correct report of sen timent that prevails here on Questions that have been much discussed—-often very unreason ably. Nobody can controvert the truth of these utterances of President Alderman: "The South is to-day the most American part of the country and the most conservative. By conservatism is not meant igno rance, for the passion for educa tion in the South is far-reaching and the results already felt. The little towns where tlic inhabi tants used to doze under the trees aud hotly discuss State rights are now lnwy, thrifty, aud happy. The glory' of having fought uobly for a lost cause lias given dignity to tlic Sonth just as it will giyc strength to the Boers for generations to come. * * * >» "The negro question was a hard one to dispose of, but the Sonlli lias acted in a wise way in insisting that the negro, as a political factor, should not be recognized. The South realizes that the negro is a human factor. It was a piece of folly to thrust the franchise upon the negro in the first place. Socially, tl»c Southerner will never recognize the negro as his equal, but he will recognize him as mi Ameri can, justly entitled to rights of training aud education which is being given everywhere to the youth of the South.” If the people of the Korth want to know how the people of the Sonth really stand on the negro question they can find the de sired information in the Chicago address of this truly representa tive Southern man. His candid and courageous ad dress from which we have quoted only a very few of its many Im pressive thoughts, does him honor and will do good in the North as well as in the South. It is reported that the South ern Railway has secured or will secure the Ohio River and Charleston Railroad and will extend it from Huntdale, N. C„ to Marion, X, C., to connect with the main line between Asheville and Salisbury in order to have a coal road near its Washington and Carolina end without the long haul from the JclHco district through Knox ville. __ The untie diiutct at John* town. Pa., laat week, resulted in the death of 114 persona. It ia now believed that all the dead bodies have been recovered from the mine, _ R< tot Baking Powder Uakei the bread more healthful. Safeguards the food against alum. Summer is going and with it our splendid stock of hammocks. W« do not wish to carry a single ham mock over to next season and so not only a part of summer has gone but a big lump out of hammock prices has gone with it. We are catting to cost and have only these left: Pfv* S2.lt Hammocks to go at .... $U| 91 Bwnnrt to go at $lj§ Three SlJSlMMMckt toga at .... fi ff c Peer 91c Hammocks tege el .... Uc Bay <iuick, bring the cash, and enjoy the comfort of a good hammock the rest of the munuier. Sooner von buy, the more service you’ll get this summer. Marshall’s Book Store, OX THE COHKBU. McCORMICK CORN HARVESTER AND SHOCKER. COR several years the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., has ■ experimented with a machine for cutting and com. and for the seaaon of 1902 is able to ofierthc McCormick corn harvester and shocker to those corn growers who prefer to harvest and shock their com without binding it into bn miles. Aa a com shocker the McCormick it unequalled in tightness of draft, and its operation in the field is as simple and rapid as is possible with such s machine. When the shock is completed It is necessary to stop the machine, after which the shock is tied by hand, and with the aid of a windlass, which forma part of the shocker, the driver raises the shock, swings it to one side, and places it on the ground. A frame around which the stalks ate placed is drawn from the cen ter of the shock after it has been placed on the ground. With a Ettlu practice the shock is unloaded in aa (hurt a time as is re quired to form it, thus making the capacity one-half that of the coni binder. This machine sill fully meet the requirements of the agriculturists who prefer to husk their corn from the shock in the field and then bind the stalks into bundles by hand. If, VrrrvTi. the torn is u> be drawn from the held, stacked, fed unhuaked to the stuck, loaded onto and unloaded front a wagon or fed lo a shredder, it will be found most economical to cut it with the Mc Cormick vertical com lander, as the labor saved will more than pay for the twine and shocking. For sale by CRAIG & WILSON. FIRST! First in the mills First on tke streets First In ths bosses First with the news First in tke hesrts o! tbs yespla FUST EVERYWHERE FUST ALWAYS THE GASTONIA GAZETTE Twice a weak Oae dollar • year Charlotte Private Hospital. 12 North Chinch Street. Charlotte, N. C. * Medical end Surgical cases treated. Trained Nerses. Modem Equipment. X-Ray Machines and Accesso ries for giving Electrical Treatment. Hospital Staff: JOHN R. 1RW1X, If. D. C. A. MISF.XHE1MKR. M. D. ROUT. L. GIBBON. W. D. AGRICULTURAL gjl MECHANICAL COLLEGE INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION: A eovibtaottof! of theory awd an work tal*t»aiirt*c Cheat* sataSLBfagja/aa teacher*. JOB atuAeaU. new h Day at ik A. A M. Colteye * __ Th* GASTONIA GAZETTE - ~T W J C E A WEEK r-r Ow P>M* • Y—r. CmkfA+rm**.
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