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VOL. XXIII. GASTONIA. N. C.t FRIDAY. AUGUStT. 1902. .
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES.
' Stats Ticket.
For Chief Justice of (ha Supreme Court:
WALTER CLARKE,
ot Wake.
For AsoocUto Jnelleu* of Supreme Court:
IIKNRY UROVES CONNOR,
of Wtleon.
PLATT D. WALKER
ol Mecklenburg.
Tor Coepondloo Commissioner:
EUGENE C. JUtDDINGFIBLTL
of Woks.
For Ss pennies dent ol Public (attraction:
JAMES V. JOYNKK.
ol Caillord.
For Judges ol Superior Coart:
2nd District: K 1. PERILRR
4th • C. M. COOKM.
Mb W. R ALLBN.
Sth W. H. NEAL. '
10th • a. F. LONO.
11th • X vRONE*
13th W. h. COUNCIL
l«th • X. H. JUSTICE
tith e FUND MOOSE.
l(Rh • G. S. FERGUSON
Coagraesleaxl Ticket.
For Hoorn o/
KDWIN YATES WEBB,
ol Cleveland.
Ticket 12tk Jxdki.l DUtrict.
For Solicitor 12th ladle lot District:
JAMES L WEB*,
uf Cleveland,
Ceonly Ticket.
For fttnls Seuule Mod District:
STONEWALL JACKSON DURHAM.
For Uoesc ol Kspmeotativee:
WILLIAM THOMAS LOVJZ,
JOHN F. LMSFItR.
For Clerk ol Superior Court:
CHARLBS C. CORNWELL
For ShottS
CHARLES B. ARMSTRONG.
Far Rogisierof Doeds:
MIT.KB A. CARPRNTEK.
For Treasarer:
JAMES R LEWIS.
For Corooer
W. MEEK ADAMS
For Surveyor:
JACOB KISXM
For Coooty Csmmlssloireta:
J. U HOLLAND.
J. R. CONNELL
JOHN M. OASTON.
JOHN D. R. McLRAN
R. A. WHITE.
A WORD FROM PAW CREEK.
A Daring titer Brings the Elec
tion Rntnrns Pram Thai Par-all
Settlement.
ChArlotu Obtcrm. J-lr 29
A weary rider dismounted in
front of The Observer office yes
terday, walked into the braiding
and announceed:
"Paw Creek, Box 1, gives
Gluyas 12 and Hunter four!”
"For what!” asked a wonder
ing Observer man.
"For the Legislature,’* was the
reply. "The returns from Paw
Creek Box 1 complete ail the
official Tetnms. why, it was
only last Monday that we had
the election and I think we have
done remarkably well to get the
returns from Paw Creek in
seven days. And jnst think of
all those votes—16! It’s no
easy job, 1 tell you, to add np
one vote and then another till
you get to 16."
"It was a pretty orave tning
yon did in bringing the news all
the way from Paw Creek," said
an admiring bystander. "Re
minds me of the ride of Paul
Revere or some of the other old
johnnies."
"Well, it was a little nervy,"
said the horseman. "But I got
fresh horses at the various posts
along the way and defied all
dangers that beset me. I tell
you this thing of election re
turns is an. important matter,
and a precinct can't get ’em iu
too quick. As I rode by day and
by night thinkin’ about the
eagerness of everybody to hear
from Paw Creek and what a big
difference those 16 votes would
make. And I certainly am glad
that I arrived so quick. It's a
fearful responsibility to carry
around in yonr saddle bag* the
sentiments of 16 dtiseai. And
won’t Chairman McCall be re
joiced to percieve that I am here
so previously?”
Cm’I Wear Suspenders II Css! Is
Left OH.
K*w Yatk Sin.
A man wearing both suspen
ders and belt entered one of the
moat fashionable restaurants on
Broadway oa Wednesday even
ing with his coat thrown over
his arms. He sat down at a
table, shifted his coat to his
other arm and looked around,
saw a half a doren men in shirt
waists and without coats. This
decided him that he need not
don bis sock, but be soon found
that his decision was aB wrong.
A waiter approached him and
told hiss politely that he would
liave to wear bis coat if ha
wanted to be served there.
"How is that?” ha asked.
."Do you make exceptions in
favor of certain parsons ? Those
fellows over there are eating
without their coats."
"Yea, but It is your suspen
ders," saM the writer In a
whisper- "If you win retire aad
remove yonr suspender* it will
be an right.”
After a moPient of thought the
patron concluded to put on his
coat, although It was the hottest
night In the year.
JOE ON TOE RETIRED LIST.
Smart set Horse Thai Ever Polled
■ Fire Eafiae—Beal Ike Record
lor OolcknoM, Helped to Hitch
Up end Could Cooat.
New York Ran.
Joe, the wisest burse iu the
fire department, has been con
demned, which means that his
days of going to fires ore over.
In consequence of this news a
cloud of gloom hongs over the
engine house of Company 7, at
Centre and Chambers streets.
Just how long Joe lias been a
fire horse could not be ascer
tained yesterday, bnt it is con
ceded that he has been "It" in
No. 7’s house for twelve years.
He lias takcu a prise at the
horse show and he Holds the fire
department record for getting
into harness quicker than any
horse that has ever ran to a fire.
He and Frank, his mate, arc big
sorrels.
"Joe,” said Lieutenant Bun
drick yesterday, was a horse
that any cue would fall in love
with. If you asked him to
shake hands he would raise bis
right foot and offer it to you just
like a dog wonld offer you bis
paw. If any of the men belong
ing to the company was ill that
horse sympathized with him by
nibbing his head on the sick
man's shoulder and shaking his
head from side to side.”
"And he could couutfrom one
to fifty,” declared Fireman Sam
Anderson. "He was just like a
circus horse. If you asked him
liow many daya in the week he'd
like to work be would paw the
ground once. Then if you asked
Him how many days he’d like to
loaf he’d keep pawing the ground
until told to stop.”
"Yea,” chipped ,in Fireman
Martin Kenck, "and he coaid
odd up figures and write down a
sum on a blackboard whenever a
piece of chalk was placed in his
mouth.”
"Well," said Engineer Hamp
er, "Joe can do that even now.
I really believe that horse would
make the fire under the boiler if
he wps only able to strike the
match. He lifted wood in his
mouth and shoved it into the
furnace under the engine when I
told him to doit."
" I want to say that Joe can do
everything but talk," remarked
Fireman Finnegan. "Yon can
ask Gruber, Kraft, Hublilx or
any of the other firemen attached
to this company. He learned all
sorts of tricks, such as sticking
out his tongue at folks when tola
to do it, and when he asked bow
little boys laughed he would
draw back his lips aud show his
teeth.”
According to Engineer Hamp
er, Joe loves music, for when
the organ grinders come around
be shakes bis head, keeping time
to the melody played, or stamps
his feet to mark time.
When the alarm was rung In
there was not another horse in
the house who acted os quickly
as Joe. He never waited for the
chain in his stall to drop, but
stooped and crawled under it.
Then he would dash over to the
engine, slip his head through
the collar and be ready to leave
the house in less than five sec
ooas.
The men of the company
taught him to pick tip his collar
from the floor, and place it on
his own neck. They alto taught
him to ring the dormitory bell
by yanking a rope with his
teeth, but he seemed to take
such a delight in rousing the
men out of their beds that it was
found necessary to remove the
bell rope. They taught him to
do a cake walk and to waltz and
to bow and answer questions
with a shake of the head.
Joe has been placed in a rear
stall in the engine house, where
he pines for a is mate, who has
also been condemned. While
Joe will be kept at the engine
house until a new horse is broken
in and trained to the sound of
the gong, the new horse, which
arrived yesterday, will occupy
his old stall. Later on Joe will
probably be sold at auction.
S Patrick lfaher, captain of Bn
ne Company 7, who Is away on
s vacation, was informed of
the situation last night by a
mend who hopes to save Joe to
the company for another year.
The captain will probably come
home mid tee whet cm be done
for the old fellow.
The man who is worrying most
over Joe is. lieutenant Jack
Sullhrar, of Truck 1, whose
quarters adjoin those of Bngine
7. Sullivan taught Joe to pick
out the American flag and the
men flag from a dozen flags
thrown on the floor. After
placing alt of the flags on the
poorSallivaa would say: "Which
>• the moat glorious flag on
earth?" and the horse would an
■wer the question by picking up
the American colors in his mouth
and waving them. Then Sulli
van would tell Joe to pick out
the flag that his friend Jack
Carrall was born under and the
home would raise the green.
Daaouclafl (ha Amendment.
Wilntortvn ®t«r.
The Republicans of Swaiu
county held their convention a
few days ago and adopted a
platform, of which the following
is one of the resolutions:
" We denounce the Democratic
party of North Carolina for hav
ing disfranchised 20,000 white
men by the iniquitous tax pro
vision in the so-called constitu
tional amendment.”
This shows the animus of the
Swain county Rcpnblican* to
wards the constitutional amend
ment, and it may be taken as an
expression of the sentiment of
Uic machine Republicans of the
State, who arc goiug to over
throw that amendment if they
cau. It also confirms the warn
ing that Senator Simmons sent
out some time ago.
This denouncing resolution is
short but there are some points
in it worthy of note. First, it is
an assumption that 20,000 white
men have been disfran
chised by "the iniquitous tax
provisions of the so-called con
stitutional amendment.” This
is simply Senator Pritchard’s
estimate. As these are his
figures it ia likely that the de
nunciatory resolution is also his.
But aside from this, it is an
arrant assertion to say that the
ameudment disfranchised these
white men. They disfranchised
themselves by failing to comply
with the law, which they had
ample time to do and could have
done without feeling it seriously.
There it not oue in ten of them
who could not have paid his
poll tax, and if they didn’t it
was because they were indiffer
ent about it and preferred to
lose their vote this year rather
than pay the poll tax. The
amendment is no more respon
sible for their disfranchisement
than any other law which
prescribes a penalty for refusing
to ' do something which is re
quired or for doing something
which is prohibited.
Why didn]t they, while they
were about it, denounce it for
disfranchising voters who failed
to come up- to the educational
qualifications ? Isn’t that as
"iniquitous” as the poll tax
provisiou ? And why didn’t
they denounce it for disfran
chising their negro allies who
failed to pay their poll tax?
Werf they ofraidt out there, to
show this much interest in the
negro, or do they want to make
it appear that the party is a
"white man’s party.” and that it
has dissolved copartnership with
the negro ? But they should
not ignore and go back on the
colored contingent that way, for
they will still need their votes.
1971.
Southern Education.
Twenty-eight states and oue
territory were represented at the
Summer School of the South,
which was held at Knoxville,
Tenn., from June 19 to Jnly 31.
The ' registration reached 1970,
which did not include many who
attended only a part of the time.
Every southern state was well
represented, the smallest number
from any state being fourteen
from Arkansas.
This is the greatest Summer
School ever held in the South,
and Dr. G. Stanley Hall, of
Clark University, Mass., who
spent a week at the school, said
of it: "It is the biggest one in
the world. In numbers and in
terest it has never been sur
passed. The character of the
work being done is of the best.*
The management is already
preparing fur an even greater
school next summer. In order
to give the teachers better ac
commodations s canvass has al
ready been started for $15,000
with which to erect a commodi
ous dining hall, and it Is confi
dently believed that the build
ing will be ready for use next
summer.
This school is a direct out
come of the Southern Educa
tion Board movement.
Unique Way at Escape.
Wilmlastoa War.
Charles Flier, a burglar, serv
ing a terra in the New Jersey
penitentiary, got ont last week.
He didn’t file his way ont, but
while la be invented a sewing
machine that he claims is away
head of those now in use. He
got some moneyed men interest
ed in it, and they interested
themselves enough in him to get
him pardoned, and now he nas
quit the burglar business and is
at the bead of a company oigan
iscd for the manufacture of the
machine,
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POINTS ON FUZE F10RT1N6.
Many Mows 1m Swill far Ohnnr
ntiN-MMN’ Wandarfsl
Pawar la Enter* and Adarinfa
tar Pimlahmant.
‘ An 014 Htmd.*' la Slil—radSm
Anybody who has seen a mod
ern prize fight knows that it is
impossible (or tbc eye to follow
the movements of two well
trained and expert boxers in the
ring. Even the most experi
enced sporting reporters, with tbe
best appliances, are compelled
to report details in a meas
ure by Naess wosk. A quick
mail can hit. block and recover
so fast thst it is impossible for
any eye to follow him.
In the discussion whether tbe
Tecent fight between Fitzsim
mons and Jeffries at San Fran
cisco was a fake or fair this fact
should be kept in mind. I saw
and reported the fight between
tbe same two men at Coney
Island, in 1899. On that occas
aion Fitzsimmons dropped bis
Crd just as he ia reported to
c done in this case. All who
saw that contest must carry in
their minds the picture of him
as he stood with his hands fallen
to his sides, his knees bent,
staring, stupid snd helpless, and
waiting for the finishing blow,
which was given precisely as at
this recent contest. He was
dazed by a awing with the left
on the side of his head and put
out by a tap with the right.
The thing to be remembered
is that Jeffries is the biggest and
strongest man who ever went in
ring. Imagine 218 pounds of
solid bone and muscle, with
every ounce of superfluous flesh
trained off. Against a weight
like that human blows are power
less. When we think of the
tremendous coating of muscle
and hardened flesh that lies be
tween his vital spots, and any
blow aimed at them we can
understand how much appar
ent punishment be can take.
Any good man can hit hard
enough to cat bis flesh and
make superficial and ugly wonnds
but iu price fighting the blows
that hart are those which jar
sud shake and impair vitality.
On the other hand, any blow
scientifically delivered, with a
mass of power like his behind it,
must hurt, even though its effects
may not be visible on a bony
frame like that of Fitzsimmons.
It is prize-ring history that uo
man has ever been able to strike
Jeffrie* hard enough to knock
him down. Anybody who looks
at his enormous legs and neck
and chest can understand this.
UXOBSBBVKX) BLOWS.
Very likely it was the blows
which the reporters did not
catch which wore out Fitzsim
mon’i strength and power* of
endurance. Even a short arm
jab from a fist like Jeffries’s,
driven by hiztremendous mnscu
lar power and energy, must jar
and weaken the strongest man.
It should be remembered by
those who cry fake that Corbett,
who was as strong as Fitzsim
mons and the quickest man who
ever went into the ring, made
Jeffries look like n novice, and
for round after round hit him
almost at will. But he never
was able to jar that mountain of
hard gristle and iron muscle and
powerful bone, and was whipped
virtually with one blow when it
landed at last.
The fact of the business is
that Jeffries can take five blows
for one from any other man now
in the fighting game, and win
out. That was the secret of
Sullivan’s victories in his prime.
He met better boxers than him
self—men who conk! outpoint
him and land oftener than be
did, but when he landed at all
the results were terrific. Foot
Ryan, after hit fight with Sulli
van, said when the first straight
blow landed on him the idea
flashed through his mind that a
neighboring telegraph pole had
fallen on his head.
SwiltnSknMRtibtCnfiifa
Nwfm.
CMantOkamr.MrM.
Onr Raleigh tetter this morn
ing says that it ia rumored that
Senator P. M. Simmons will not
stand for re-election aa State
chairman, at the meeting of the
State executive committee. It
is to be hoped that this ia true,
for while Mr. Simmons has been
a most aggressive end successful
campaigner, since hia election
to the highest office within the
gift of bis State he has been
handicapped by hia position aa
chairman. A United States Sen
ator should not be burdened with
the active campaigns of his par
ty, and it would have been better
for the State If both Messrs.
Simmons and Pritchard had de
clined these honors from their
respective parties after they be
came member* of the upper
branch of Congress.
PUCE Of AMUSEMENT.
TwsnlyHra NUIlens Saaat by
Thsafar-foara Laal Tear.
CklaivlalaOctu.
When an authority in matters
theatrical asserted recently that
the people of the United States
spent $25,000,000 in theater*
going last season, the statement
was received with that incredu
lity characteristic of a people
grown accustomed to willful
exaggeration from similar
aoarces. It gained neither the
dignity of consideration nor the
interest of argument. It was
sat down aa preposterous and
passed, to the waste heap of
sensationalism.
Still, there were some with an
inherent love oi statistics who,
taking pencil and pod in hand,
couvinced themselves, at least,
that the kernel of truth was
llierc. In point of attendauce,
as well as in poiut of interest,
the theater-goiug record for the
season of 1901 -'O' eclipsed that
of auy previous year.
Recreation, particularly as it
applies to play-roing. has stead
ily advanced through the suc
cessive stages of being con
sidered a sin sad waste of time,
and a luxury to be indulged
only by the fortnuatc. until it
has come to be looked upon, if
not as a necessity, at least os a
relaxation to be coanted a bless
ing. There are many instances,
m fact, when attendance upon
the drama has been advised by
reputable physicians to patients
whose nerves have reached the
distressing point of being "on
~The trouble that troubles j
others is quite likely to amelior
ate the troubles of the tired man.
In consequence even the most
il logically romantic of heroes
who worries through four acts
to attain the victory which the
playwright has provided for him
not only carries his own assumed
burdens, but lifts from tbe
minds of worried auditors the
cares which infest their own
particular play.
The years of 1893 and 1894
were the gloomiest which tbe
present generation has known.
Business failure succeeded busi
ness failure. The abundant
good nature of a fun-loving peo
ple gave away under a pall of
pessimism which settled over
the country. The theater was
boy-cotted. A suggestion of the
old Puritanical idea that to laugh
while there was suffering was
sacrilegious invaded the at
mosphere in the West, and h
was not until resignation had
been succeeded by hopefulness
that the boycott was raised.
Gradually the theaters worked
their way into confidence of
their former clienteles, and
since that time the increase, as
said, in both interest and at
tendance has continued.
Were- another period of de
pression to assail prevailing pros
perity, it is altogether probsble
that play-going would again be
placed in the list of luxuries,
for it takes many blows of the
hammer of experience to weld
the anchor of knowledge, but it
must also be admitted that a
continuance of this popular form
of relaxation would provide
clearer and stronger minds with
which to carry on the work of
rehabilitation.
Twenty-five millions a year Is
a goodly aom to throw to the
managerial birds but the per
centage of return in reality justi
fi«a the scctnjpg extravagance.
The Observer says that during
a storm Thursday evening
lightning killed 24 Southdown
sheep belonging to Mr. Martin
C. Davis, who rives on s farm
four miles from Charlotte. When
the storm began the herd of
sheep, 25 in all, gathered trader
a tree in tbe posture close to
Mr. Davis' house. The stroke
of lightning killed, almost
instantly, all the animals except
one. _________
Thu Gastonia Gaxsttk is
only One Dollar a Year, sub
scribe now.
WtoC]
Baking Powder
mnMtlM.
Safeguards the food
. against alum.
HMMMMalSSSSHfi pmStSb
tmm
Your Share ^ Here.
Get it now and save money.
•■ W* fctT* •or pHcw
10c
< |I» each
each
Corsets for Summer comfort*
Latest shapes.
Parasols Half Price.
J. F. YEAGER,
LADIES' FURNISHINGS A SPECIALTY.
A ♦ WONDERFUL * MACHINE
Dhak Stas:—
AH of oar neighbor* who have mh our Coen Shredder and
Coni Binder work an well pleased with it: As for ourselves, we
will eay. it is one of the best saving machines a man can have on
his place. As to what it can do. wc will ear. ywn can ran it six
hundred revolutions per minute and it will thresh peas from vines.
Bet your peas separate and steed np ynnr vines, making excellent
teed lor stock. It will thresh oats at regtdxr speed. Thus yon see
there are three machines in one. Our Horses and Maks cat the
cortf. (odder, stalk, and all after it is shredded. Wc have tried it
only one season and we are highly pleased with the machines sad
their work.
Yon cannot make a mistake when you come in and buy oar
Mowers and Rakes as the McCormick machines are made of the
rery best material and they have every guarantee that ha
with any machine. Further, we carry a line of repairs. We ate
headquarters for the best machines on the market to-day.
Yours for business,
CRAIG & WILSON.
Fall in Hammocks.
Summer is going and with it oar splendid stock of
hammocks. We do not wish to carry a single ham
mock over to next season and so not only a part of
summer has gone bat a big lamp oat of hammock
prices has gone with it. Wc are catting to cost and
have only these left:
Twn $2J§ Hammocks to fo at . |til
One $1.75 Hammock fo go at $L3S
Twn $1.25 Hammocks is fo at .... $1J$
Three Me Hammocks te fo at • • . Me
Buy quick, bring the cash, and enjoy the comfort of a
good hammock the mt of the summer. Sooner you
buy, the more service you’ll get this tenantcr.
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