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[SI THE GASTONIA omniDt?ocoocooroo»9Qocll Published Twice a Week—Tuesdays W. F. MA1SHAU. uiitr m< frorirtr. _DEVOTED TO THE PtOTECTION OF HOME VOL. XXIII. GASTONIA, M. C„ FRIDAY, AUGUST S. 1008. DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES. State Ticket. per Chief Juntfcu ol Ik* Suprv«i« Court: WALTER CLARKE, ol Wok*. Pur Auoriatr JaillCM ol Supreme Count HENRY CROVEE CONNOR, ol Wilooo. PLATT D. WALKUK. ol Meckltnbaft Por Corporation CnutnJnaloner: EUGENE C. BKDD1NGF1KLD. ol Wake For Sapcrlntcndtnt nl Puhllr lantnctloai JAMKS Y. JOYNKK. ol Guilford. For Jodfra nl Superior Court; Sod Dlrtnct: R H. PKMSLUS 4th * C. M. COOKK. Uh W. K. ALLEN. Sth W. M. NEAL, loch * ilP. LONO. llth • B. R. JONES. Uth • W B. COUNCIL. Uih « M H. JC8T1CB. 15vh • FRUD MOORE. IOth • G. S. FERGUSON Cenfraasiooal Ticket. Fur Houao ol Kenrryyulat^reu Mb Cnnrrreu EDW1N YATES Will ol Clerelaud. Ticket 12th Jedlclal District. For Solicitor Jfch Judicial Dtutrlct: JAMBS L. WEBB, ol Clear land. County Ticket For State Seoul* 32ad JHaoict: STONEWALL JACKSON DURHAM. For HouaetK Repeeaautathrea: WILLIAM TIIOMAS LOVK JOHN F. LEKPRR. Fur Clerk ol SuFcrior Court: CHARLR8 C. CORNWELL. For Shtufl' CHARLES B. ARMSTRONG. For Real a ter ol INuda: MILES A. CARPENTER. For Treaaum: JAMES H. LEWIS. For Coroorr: W. MEEK ADAMS. For Surreyor: JACOB KISUR. Pur County Cotunalaaloaara J. U- HOLLAND. J. R. CONNELL. JOHN M. GASTON. JOHN D. R. MCLEAN. R. A. WHITE. EVANGELIST SCH00LFKLD IS DEAD. Soccanbed to Typhoid Fever— HaM a Meeting ia Gesteals. There are many in G as ton ia and Gaston county wlio will learn with grief of the death of Kvangelist Schooliield, which occurred early Wednesday morn ing at bis home in Danville, Va. Four or five years ago he con ducted a meeting in the opera house here, and all who attended will remember with what fervor and seal he was devoted to the evangelistic work. Ail Asso ciated Press dispatch, dated Aug. 6. to the Charlotte Obser ver gives the following par ticuiars: Mr. James £. Schoolfield, widely known as an evangelist, died here at 12:30 o'clock this morning. He had been ill for some weeks with typhoid fever, which became complicated with other ailments. He was promi nent in this city, where he was identified with important indus trial developments and enjoyed the esteem and unbounded con fidence of all classes. He was a prominent Mason and was at one time an officer of the grand commandery, Knight* of Temp lar, of Virginia. He was the founder of the Riverside Cotton Mills, of this city, and was for yean engaged in the hardware business. He was 52 years of age. _ Moody I e-nem lasted In 10th. Chariot** OWrrrr. Asheville, Aug. 5.—Congress man Moody was to-day ne-nomi bated to succeed himself by the Republicans of the tenth district. The convention was held at Waynesville, and the old line Republicans claim that it was the largest they ever held In the district. All the Republicans of Haywood, Major Moody’s home county, were admitted aa dele gates and perhaps fifty Asheville Republicans attended. Thomas Settle presided and his address, which was of more than two honrs' duration, was the notable feature of the con vention. Locke Craig, who yes terday Inaugurated his senatorial campaign at Waynesville. was directly attacked. Mr. Craig had referred to the negro ques tion in his speech, which promp ted Settle to say he had too much respect for bis audience and too much self-respect to en gage in a controversy with Mr. Craig ob this subject. C. J. Harris placed Moody in nomina tion, after which the Congress man addressed the convention briefly. The resolutions stroarly endorsed the candidacy of Sena tor Pritchard. The Charlotte News learns that the old A. R. P. church at Huntersville was tom down this week by Mr. L- C. McCoy, who ■awed the lumber and built tbe church ?7 years ago for $1,200. Ia Norfolk, Va.t coal jumped to darbt dollars a ton Monday and owl** to a treat scarcity only half-ton orders wen filled. ARP TALKS ON ASTRONOMY. Ha Thu Gives President Room* velt i Rout hr Hla Cancel!. Bill Arp. In Atlanta CoaMitatln. Dog days I So many of the young people write to me about dog days that J will answer briefly that there are no dog days. It's nothing but a supersti tion that has come down to us from the ancients. -The Dog star, or Sirius, has its time to appear in tbe heavens and rise and set like other stars, but it is a very irregular time, and so what we call dog days may begin the first of July or many days later. The rising of Sirius in a line with the sun Degins now on the third of July and will con contiune unfit the 11th of Aug ust. Those forty days were be lieved by the ancients to bring very hot and sultry weather and many malignaut diseases; but this hits been disproved by modern astronomy, lor the ap pearance of Sirius is very nn certain, and in the course of time it will rise in the winter. Now a little more about this wonder ful star. You know that we have eight planets that belong to our solar system. They all revolve around the sun just as the earth does, and the nearer planet is to the suu the faster it travels. Neptune is 16,000,000, 000 of miles distant, and it takes 16S years to get around. But Sirius is away outside of our solar system and is 120,000, 000,000 of miles from us, and gives 400 times more light than our sun. It is the largest and brightest star in the heavens. It is called the Dog star because it appears to be in the tail of the constellation that the ancients named Major Csuis, or the Big Dog. They were a smart peo ple, and we still keep their map of the heavens and their names of the stars, but they had no telescopes and did not know that there were any stars or snns ex cept those we see with the naked eye. But now, young people,listen! It is now established and proven that there are millions of stars and,solar systems afar off in space, and that ours is the smallest and most insignificant of them all. Wc are nothing and less than nothing in the scale of existence. It has always been a mystery to me why the Creator of the boundless universe, that has no limit, sbonld have chosen this little world of ours for His greatest work: the creation of man in His own image, a little lower than the angels—man who sinned and fell aud was redeemed by the sacrifice of the Son of God. I don’t understand it. I cannot comprehend it. This little world is not bigger than a can non ball, compared with some of the planets and stars afar out in space. It has but one little moon, that does not condescend to show us but one side of its anatomy. The other night we went out to Mr. Granger’s beau tiful home to look at the full moon through bis great tele scope—that cost $5,000, and ia mounted in a high observatory with a dome that revolves as the earth revolves. It was a mag nificent spectacle; but the view of Jupiter with four moons, and Saturn with his rain bow ring and seven moons, was much more beautiful aud impressive. Of course those planets must be inhabited, for the Creator would not have surrounded a dead world with such luminous and beautiful satellites. Wc don’t know anything hardly, and it nu> me wun disgust 10 see young men ■trotting around like peacocks—acting like they made themselves and knew everything and expected to live always— when the truth is, they don’t know where they came from nor where they are going, and can’t add an hour or a day to their ex istence. I have but little hope for a vain or a conceited man, and a vain woman is no better. A conceited man is close kin to an idiot; and a vain woman of her beautv should sometimes re member that she had no hand in creating it* for it was God-given or inherited. "Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?” Of au the faults of which hu* manity is guilty, that of conceit is the hue to be forgiven and the hardest to reform. 1 ruminated on this yesterday when I read what Roosevelt said in hu speech at West Point. The editor who publishes ft speaks of him as otir well meaning but im pulsive president. Ha should have said our. "conceited and erratic president.” lu speaking of the great men whom West Point had graduated, he said; "I claim to be a historian, and 1 speak what 1 know to be true, that West Point has turned out more gnat men and mom states men than any other institution in the United States." It wss self conceit nnd ignorance that provoked such s monstrous ab surdity, for Colonel Sprague of Yale College lias recently chal lenged .him to the proof, lias shown beyond all cavil that Yale can number ten times the great men that West Point can num ber. Among them 1,383 minis ters of the guspcl, 78 justices of supreme courts, 17 chief justices 546 doctors, 39 governors of states and 38 United States sen ators—besides these, Yale has tent forth an army of educators established 480 colleges (190 for women), and 8,000 high schools, West Point has sent out none bat soldiers. Teddy ought to be ashamed of himself, but he will not be. He is not vet ashamed that in his ao called history he called Mr. Da vis an arch traitor and repudiator and told what he did when gov ernor of Mississippi, etc. His at tention has been called to these malignant calumnies against a St statesman and whose cur* am at West Point that be ordained when secretary of war is still in force and who never was a member of the legislature nor governor of Mississippi. No be is too couceited to lake back auything or to apologize for hia mistakes. The man he slan dered was dead when be pub lished those lies, but his widow lives and there are thousands of veterans all over the south who cherish his memory and who now hold hia slanderer iu su preme contempt. Yet he claims to be a historian I When a gen tleman finds that he has uuwit tingly wronged another hehastens to apologize, bnt a conceited idiot rolls tbe morsel under bis tongue and chews it as a cow chews and swallows her cud. He feeds on his conceit. B. A. V. 5—All bail to Evan How ell—The soldier, the editor, the friend in need. I have known him intimately since childhood. His good father was married in my town and I think I am the only living man who was at the wedding, though I was then but a child. All hail to my frieud. He has the right to run for mayor and Atlanta will houor herself by electing him. Looked Death la the Face. Vorferillt Beqelrtr. Mr. Prank M. Harrison, a prominent citizen of the Walnut Grove neighborhood, of Spartan burg county, bad a horrible ex perience while driving to his home from Spartanburg last Pri day afternoon. The public high way crosses the railroad down a steep incline, and on one side the track is sunk in a deep cut. Jnst as Mr. Harrison, who was accompanied by a little girl named Lillie Veagey, approach ed, a freight .train passed, and he considered the crossing safe. At his horse's head reached the centre of the track, however, he beard a shout and looking np saw a material train bsdting down upon him at tremendous speed. The shout had come from the engineer a hundred yards away, and the nearest car was within 20 feet. With a pow erful effort Mr. Harrison jerked the horse to its haunches; bat the hill behind was too steep to admit of retreat backing. The first car struck the hone~s head, and the passing cars rubbed the animal’s bent neck until a pro jecting bolt bead caught in a name, bending and breaking it. With remarkable intelligence the hone stood firm. Because of the little girl, Mr. Harrison did not jump, and in this horrible position they sat until the entire train passed. Aside from the nervous shock, which was terri ble. the only damage on account of the experience was the broken hame and an ngly stab in the horse’s throat. _ Ante ea the Rampage. Sotti—d OlfUt. An automobile belonging to Dr. B. H. Dallas got on a ram page yesterday in the blacksmith shop on the corner of Grand Avenue and Bast Stark Street. It had been taken into the shop lor repairs. While the black smith was at work the auto de cided it was too hot inside, and made a dash lor the open air. First it made a plunge for the side of the building over the slough, bat the blacksmith man aged to reverse the motive power, when it started in opposite direc tion. This time the auto went through to the street, tearing the door down and running ever It. On the outside in the fresh air it because docile and was caught. No damage was done the carriage._ Mr. John A. Byars hoajmc ceeded Mr. A. B. Reinhart aa manager of the Cherokee Inn at Blacksburg. HOW TICKLirOOT&OT ITS NAME Th# Queer Origin el (he Detigee tlon •! • Tun PectoWce. IMIIm Mot*1*z Mew* Many years ago I beard of Ticklefoot, a small postoffice situated in the east corner of Grimes county. Having some timber laud to look after ont near there I visited the place. None of the resident fanners near the postoffice could give me any in* formation until I met a veteran of some 84 years oi age, who had in early days lived around that vicinity, and be related to me the following story: Many years uo there lived in the vicinity of Ticklefoot a man. who came there a stranger from whence no one knew. He was a very non-cominnnicauve man about hia early history. Being pleasant and agreeable in manner and speech, he soon won the confidence of his neighbors. There were at the time he set tled there, several good-looking widows who were iu good cir cumstances. The new-comer bought a small piece of land and prepared to farm. During the time he was fixing up his place he commen ced to pay marked attention to one of the widows and after a short courtship they were mar ried. For more than a year their married life appeared to be a happy one as far os the neigh bors could see. Shortly after this period the wife was ionnd dead in bed. There was no sign of violence and the neigh bors and friends who came to the funeral supposed that the wife bod died of heart disease. After she was buried her husband administered on her separate estate and acquired the property that she owned before ner mar nage to mm. In the conrae of eighteen months he married again. Hi« second wife was also a widow with considerable property. Af ter about sixteen months of mar ried life the second wife was fonnd dead in bed without any symptoms of violence. The physician who practiced nearby was called to make an examina tion of the corpse, and after viewing the remains, gave it as his opinion that the woman died of heart disease. Both the friends of the man and the dead woman, after the burial of the second wife, became suspicious and avoided his place. None of the neighbors called upon bim for a long time; and when tbc time for mourning had passed and the twice widower in three years attempted to pay court to anoth er widow, his attentions were received coldly. He was also shunned by the young ladies in the settlement. Shortly after these experience! iu attempting to get a third wife he disappeared from the settle ment and returned in about three months with a big, buxom woman, whom he claimed as his wife. They did not live so hap pily together as he and his pre vious wives had done, and stones were frequently circulated in the settlement that they had serious quarrels. One night about 12 o'clock the third wife of the man, awoke tbc nearest neigh bor, who lived about a mile dis tant, and when admitted to the bouse, her hair was disheveled and her garments torn, and she had a wild, scared look on her face. After being quieted down and asked to explain her unnatural appearance and looks, she stated that her husband had of late fre quently attempted to tickle her to death, ana last nignt had almost succeeded. She further said that she believed that his two previous wives had been tickled to death. When asked to explain she told the follow tag: Her hatband wit very devoted and kind for a year after their marriage, bat titer that began to iindlanlt with everything the did aronnd the bouse, and with in the last two week*, after re tiring, be would commence to tickle her. He continued this nearly every night nntil the be came to nervous that the would laugh ii be woald point hia finger at her, and that night the wont to bed before him, tired oat, and was toon asleep. About 11 o'clock the awoke and found bertelf tied down in bed and her hatband sitting at tha foot of the bed tickling the bottom of her feet. She attemp ted to rise and could not, and Implored him to leave her, bnt be continued his hellish Work till she could stand H no longer. With almost superhuman effort the broke the bonds with which the was tied and rushed out of the home. The next morning tha whole tettletnent wat aroused and went to the houae to lad it deaetted. * -— LL^j^xm The man had Bed. Although •carcli parties were sent oul in every direction, be was never seen a vain. From this story •xoutjbt nam* oi Ticklefoot postoffice._ York Co only Item. TofVrin, Umvurrr.tti,. Tbe S. C. & Ga. Extension depot at Blacksburg baa been practically abandoned, and trains over this division stop at tbe Southern depot in the heart of town. Mr. Janies Gardner, who has been living on the J. R. Wither spoon place for several yean pant, died last Sunday morning after a long illness, aged K years. He was buried at Allison Creek on Monday. Rev. W. O. Neville conducted tbe funeral services. Mr. Gardner carried the mail be tween Yorkvtlie and Charlotte iot many years. Captain W.B. Smith, oiJCIover •n unreconstructed rebel, think* the women made better Cooled* eratea during the war than the men. In a pretty little speech delivered at Mt, Gallant re-nnion he said: "We soldiers Barren dercd at Appomatox: but you ladies did not surrender there, have not surrendered since, and 1 do not believe that yon will ever surrender.” A letter from Norfolk, Va., tells of the recent marriages of daughters of the late Major J. W. Avery, at the home of their mother, Mrs. L. A. Avery, at 372 Boush street, Norfolk. Miss Myrtle was married on July 22, by Rev. E. R. Miner, of St. Luke's Episcopal church, to Mr. Ashby B. Greene, of West Point, and Mias Pearl, on Jnly 29, by Rev. Dr. Barr, of St. Lake’s church, to Dr. Edward T. Har grave. of the U. S. M. S. Dr. and Mrs. Hargrave] will live, for the present, at Progresso, Mexi co, where the doctor is stationed. From Volume V, of the 12th census reports, we father some interesting information about the dairy interests of York county during the year 1899. The total number of forms reporting dairy products was 3,229. and the total value of the products reported was' $147,003 of which amount products to the value of $130, 652 were consumed on the farm. The total number of gallons of milk produced was 2,475,931, of which 30.552 gallons were sold. The butter production amonnted to 533,675 pounds and of this 82,286 pounds were sold. The Micah Jenkins Camp of United Confederate veterans field its annual reunion in the court house last Monday. Captain W. B. Smith was re-elected com mander; Captain E. A. Craw ford, 1st lieutenant commander; W. H. McConnell, 2nd lieuten ant commander; J. A. Watson, adjutant. Captain W. B. Smith and Mr. S. A. McElwee were chosen as delegates to the Green ville re-union, and Messrs. R. W. Whitesides and E. W. Falls as alternates. Mias Daisy Glenn, daughter of Mr. S. A. Glenn, of Bethel, and one of the prettiest young ladies of the county, was chosen as sponsor for the camp. Oar Trad* la Cnbo. OtMcrm.SOU. - During the past year Cuba bought $6,064,000 of cotton goods. How much did she buy from the United States, her "nighest” neighbor? It would naturally be presumed that the bulk of its cotton goods would be purchased in this country. As a matter of fact, however, it bought only $464,000 from the United States and $5,800,000 worth from Europe. TUa was during the year, too, when the American flag waved from Motto. These cold figures dis pose oMht theory that "trade The Southern Cotton Spinners’ Association ought to remedy this state of affairs, for there is no reason why we should spend a hundred million dollars and sacrifice seven thousand lives in the hope of selling Mods to the naked Filipinos and neglect the Cuban market at oor very door. RoVal Baking Powder Sih|utdi the food s^iinst f k?Wt Thit week we give oar customer* and the buying public a waist silk opportunity that ia golden with prW rcnnomy. WAIST SILKS That sold far $1. $1.28. and $1.50 per yard non Jo wfcHa ttey last far only 69c per yard. — Tbi* ia a marked down clearance aale of these sooda. They axe aU elegant fabrics. Why should they ■ot be yours? They nay be yoon, if you call aoon enough at a» J. F. YEAGER'S, LADIES' FURNISHINGS A SPECIALTY. STAR LAUNDRY. wm DO NOT TMtl Charlotte, North Carolina. NOTICE. I have tut day give* Mr. J. B. Boyd, of this city, the «■—*— agency of Gaatoola and McAdemville. Ha will ran a wagon and have an office fart as a laandiy. He will take yonrwoch and ivtatn It to yon the same day. Will give yoa the aanw u any up-to-date laundry. V am making this arrangement ao every body can send their goods to the lawkby. I am going to give the best work that can be had la the Southern States and it the cheap est prices. Guarantee the goods to be satisfactory in every nrprrl. I will be glad to have yonr patronage. All orders laft In the office will have prompt attention. If yon have any laandrr ttH it or ’phone 168. . Do not forget the Star Laundry, J. B. Boyd, Gastonia Agent. H. B. McDOWELL, Proprietor. A ♦ WONDERFUL ♦ MACHINE. — ■}-; ■. . - ' . ■* DBAS Sr**:— All of our neighbors who have Men oir Cora Shredder aad Corn Binder work are well pleased with it. As for ooraelvea. we will say, it is oot of the best saving machines * man can have on his place. As to what it can do, we will say, yon earn tan it six hundred revolutions per miaute sad it will thresh pots hoot vines, get your peas separata aad slued up year vines. "“Wt excellent feed for stock. It will thresh oats at regular speed. Thus yon see there are three machines la one. Our Bones and Mules eat the com, fodder, stalk, aad all after it is shredded. We hove triad it only oae season aad we are highly plesasd with the machines aad their work. Yon cannot make a mistake when yon come in end boy oar Mowers and Rake* as the McCormick machines are made of the very best material and they have every guarantee that can be twde with any machine. Further, we carry a line of regain. We an headquarters for the best machines on the market to>day. Yoara for hnslnam, CRAIG & WILSON. Fall in Hammocks. mu*n— ■■ ■ . L^_m9mmmmtmamrsaam -•* Summer Is going tad with it oar splendid stock of hammock*. We do not wish to catty a single ham mock over to next eeason and ao not only a pact of summer has gone bat a big lamp oat of hammock prices hat goae with it. We are eattiag to coat and have only these left: Twa t2J# Hammocks to |a al .... |1jM One tl 75 Hammock te |a at tIJS Two I1JS Saamiacfca ta fa at .... tl.M Three Me Hammocks flg fn It * Me . Boy (Pick, briu* the cash, and enjoy the comfort of a good hammock the rest of the aammer.. Sooner yoa bay, tbe sacra service yea'll get this aammer. Marshall's Book Store, ON THE CORNER.
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