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nUriTHE GASTONIA XTwica a Waak. 1141 a Yaar8 Saaoaoaaoarr-rfmuiTTr___ Rubllafied Twice a Week-Tuodaya W. P. MA1SHAIX, Ea<or a»d rraariator. DEVOTED TO THE P10TECT10H Of HOME A1TD THE WTEJ VOL. XXIII. ._ GASTONIA, N. C.t FRIDAY, AUGU31 SWIETHEAIT. SLEEP! fit. John La cm In Luofftuoa'a MoeMlar. Sweetheart, aUvp; N Iff hi epieade her Mil Onr ttaia aUaatl town. . Aoff tba far-off title la aiualcal Where the tittle tinea of breaker* fall. And the wear r aaa troet dun. sleep, oh. (leapt forth* world ntpooco: Drop your bead Ilka the tired roaeo; Theta tilt the daffodil down uncluaea Over the (leepItM tea. White btrda drift to their dtur weal Dale on (Hr Headland atrep: ' Cod a rreel roaa la pole in the weal. Mr little rate nut etnk Ui tear And Sower la the lead of aleep. Sleep, lot the wind of tu*ht <» blow In* Bchoet fatal of the cattle lowtu: O roarer eceutaoilhelonv der'a mow tar, liver the btlla In me. Now the moon like a allvcr ehip Siena throneh the Mar 17 Mr: And the Hrhtbouau at the barbor'a lip. Where the cleaimr aMwoeda rlhmand drip. Winka with hie Sene red ere. Sleep, oh. aleep. (a tba ma«lo« loam tear. Clide to the land where tba elect an roemtnjr: Wake when the aun flimca over the loomia*. Splendid aprar nl aeot Schwab’s Braak-Dswa. Richmond Krwe. Any workman of the United States Steel Corporation strug gling aloug on wages of $1 or $1.50 a day, with his muscles tense and strong under his skin and hi* nerve* steady, may well feel sincerely sorry for his boss, Charles M. Schwab, whose sal ary is a million dollars a year. Mr. Schwab at twenty was earn ing a dollar a day. At forty he is earning something over three thousand dollars a day and is a wreck, broken down in the very grime of his life and what should e the fullness of his strength. He is described as having lost hope and interest in life, living under the shadow of the fear of death. It is hard for a young and healthy man td imagine an other man with a million dollars a year, his future provided for. his family relations happy, sod his character unblemished, ut terly miserable. Yet the doctors tell us that when a man’s nerves have given away there is no comfort or peace or happiness for him, no matter what his con dition may be. It is easy to imagine that as Mr. Schwab sits on the piazsaof his home he weakly wonders whether what he has won is worth the price he has paid. Wealth and luxury, distinction, achievement, and power are splendid things to strive for. He has attained them at the cost of work and work, of plotting and planning and thinking, of vigi lance day and night, of encoun tering new difficulties and dan gers and disappointments day after day. He has overcome and has gone to first place in the commercial world, and his nerves are destroyed—those almost in visible, attenuated little filaments which constitute the telegraph system of the body, and of which hundreds of thousands of men of twenty-five, obscurely swing ing hammers and lifting steel bars, are unconscious. It is an old question whether a man by preference won Id know a few snort yean of the fierce pleasures of achievement and conquest or live long, strong of body and peaceful of mind, ob scure, knowing few emotions, and winning nothing but-years and peace. Probably most men who lake either course envy the other. It may be that Mr. Schwab’s reserve force, inherited from a poor, frugal and hard-living an cestry. of which nobody has ever heard, may come to his rescue in time, and with the help of rest and quiet restore him to some measure of his strength and nerve power. The chances ap* K, however, to be against him. ring from what the doctors say, according to the newspapers, death after a year or two linger ing or a far worse fate of long and hopeless residence in a mad house are before him. Certainly a man at a dollar and a half a day, with a healthy and well-de veloped body and a mind com paratlvely untroubled, canoot afford to envv such an outlook as that, even if It is accompanied with more than three thousand dollars a day as an incoma. Those who have known even one night in which merciful sleep wunld not come and every limb was twitching and quiver ing from disordered nerves may understand something of how a nervous break-down feels — of days without hope or interest, tortured with vague and unde fined «>pt*lim§iona, of night* in which darkness brings no ob livion. but only the necessity to think and think, while the bruin strives like a bunted and tortured thing to escape from the legion* pf cruel *«d relentless thoughts which crowd upon it. Those who can realise this may* well pity sincerely poor Mr. Mchwab, with his million income, who has worked so hard and so suc cessfully that be baa made it im possible for him to ltd. ARP ON GREAT MEN Sara Vfabaler Was the Qreateat Man af the Country am Aip. is Atlanta CaaBtttiMlaa. "Say nothing unkind concern ing the deed—speak no evil of the dead," is the translation of a Latin maxim that is more than 2,000 yean old. Nevertheless, history is made up of the charac ter and deeds of notable and great men, and it is our duty to study them aud profit by their example. That Latin maxim was intended no doubt to apply to our ueighborwho has recently died and not to the great public men whose acts and deeds make up history. The world has a perfect right to analyze and criti cise the characters of Alexander and Caesar and Cromwell and Bonaparte and Benedict Arnold, but even these were not settled until a century or more had passed after their death. Bona parte is not settled yet and English, French and American historians are still hammering away at his character and his deeds. That he was a scourge to mankind and the age in which he lived and a traitor to his de voted wife and all to gratify his selfish ambition, no reflective man can doubt. The disposition to idolize great warriors handi caps oil young historians and captivates the people when one of these fighting men offers for office. It was this that elected Taylor and Harrison and Jock sou. How Roosevelt will get Along with his war record lor killing bears remains to be seen, bat I reckon that be is relying more on being a historian and slandering men after they are dead. He will lose nothing up North by telling lies od Jeffer son uavis. ne Delongs to tne same school of historians that Prof.Cioldwin Smith—that lying Englishman who wrote a history of the United States that was taught in Northern colleges and said that the first settlers of Vir ginia were renegades from Eng land—mostly convicts who were given choice of the gallows or of exile to Virginia, and strange to say they chose the exile. But I was ruminating about the last words of Daniel Web ster, who in mv opinion was the greatest man the country ever produced, not the greatest but the grandest—the most godlike. He made many great speeches, but the greatest of all was that delivered at Capon Springs, where he was brave enough to qualify all his utterances con cerning the rights of the States and to declare that any State had the right to withdraw from the Union when unjustly treated and that the State was the sole judpe of that. Por this he was denied the privilege of speaking again in Panneil Hall. For this he was sacrificed in verse by Whittier. For this that speech was left out of his pub lished works—the publishers say ing that it would greatly damage their sale to have it in! This brings me to the text I started to write about, for I have received three letters from cultured gen tlemen who tell me that "I still live" were not Webster's last words, but there were two more that the editor suppressed, and these two were "more brandy.” These gentlemen concur in say ing that Webster was very fond of brandy and in his last days indulged too much and during his last illness his physician kept him alive on brandy. The'tnom ing he died his physician called ana finding him alive but appar ently nnconadous, said to the attendant. " He cannot live hut a little while, but if he should live' until 8 o’clock give him some brandy.” When the clock struck 8 Mr. Webster roused up and pointed to it and whispered, "I still live—more brandy." The last two words are left out of the biography and may not have been said. Nevertheless this version has par sly led much of my sentiment and all I can do i$ to laave it in doubt. I remem ber that it was said of Jfr. Web ster that he was overfond of his brandy toddies. Brandy was a gentleman's drink, whisky was for the common people and rum waa for eggnog and for the yan kees to ship to Africa to buy nrggers with, Even in my young days the gentlemen drank brandy—peach or apple, or cog nac. It was kept on the aide boards and was always offered to visitors. When I waa about 14 yean old John McPherson Ber rien came to our little town of Mwreneevill# to attend court. He waa considered a very great man. He was oar United States senator and had been attorney general of the United States un der Jaekaou. After I had swept out the store I walked down to the hotel to get a glimpse of him. lie had just gotten up snd came out e« the piazza in his shirt sleeves to take a wash. After that the landlord brought him out a bottle of brandy and some sugar and the great man took a liberal toddy. It was a revelation to me to see how sud denly a great man could come down to the level of common people. But then it must be re membered that Mr. Berrien was from Savannah. Now here is another letter in which I take pccnliar interest and commend to the veterans of Geor gia. For years I have lamented that we have no record roll of oar Con federate soldiers. I alluded to this not long ago in one of my letters, and it has provoked an old friend to write to me upon the anbject and. give me en couragement. The letter is from Hon. Walter Clark, associate justice of the supreme court of North Carotins, and who was recently nominated chief justice. He has recently finished the history of the North Carolina regiments, in five volutnos, having been chosen for this work by the Confederate Veterans’ Association. These volumes are not s roster, but s history of the acts and deeds of every regiment (eighty four in number). Twenty yearn ago that grand old State published a roster, in four volumes, wherein is recorded the name of every officer and private, and what became of them. North Caro lina was the banner State of the Confederacy, and continues to be. With a voting population of 115,000, it sent 13,000 troops to the front, and 41,000 of these were killed or died in service. Judge Clarke has promised to seno me five volumes just published and also to procure a copy of the roster, so that we may see bow it is done, and if the few veterans who are mem bers of tbe next legislature will get together in concert and make a demand for recognition we can still do a great deal in preserving the names of those who are entitled to a place in tbe ball of fame and in tbe memory of generations to come. I see that Captain Krouts has of his own motion undertaken to make a roster of the first regi ment of Georgia volunteers. That is right. Better late than never. Young man, whoever yon are, was your father a soldier in the Confederate army? If so, how can you prove it? Where is the record ? If I were to die to-day not a child of mine could prove iny service. What is tbe matter with Georgia ? Is there no Walter Clark among our people ? Is Tip Harrison dead? I<et ns begin this work before the year closes, for every year diminishes the sources of information. Unpensioned sol diers are passing away. Time cuts down all—both great and small—except a pensioned sol dier. They do not die, but multiply as fast as they grow older. __ BED-BIDDEN 41 Years. Wayne County Has Such ■ Cttl ms, and Perhaps Thar* la sa Ollier Suck Caaa as Record. GokUboro Anm. There lives in tbe town of Fremont, N. C., a man, who if he lives to see the 10th day of next September, will have lain in bed practically the whole of « years. He (a Mr. W. H. Shake! ford, father of J. H. Shekel ford, who ia well known aa one of the most industrious and ac tive men in that part of the county. Mr. w. a. Shakellord, the afflicted was born and reared in Greene county, about two and a half miles northeast of Speight's bridge. He was born May the 18th, 1822, and is consequently over 80 years. As a child he was not healthy, but grew strong er after his twelfth rear, and worked on a farm until his thir ty-seventh year, when he became afflicted with what he terms "a eying way of the muscles of the ck combined with some affec tion of the nervous system.” Mr. Shakelford took bis bed on the 10th of September, 1859, just 43 years ago the 10th of next Sep tember, and has remained there ever since. He can get up and walk across the room, but is us able to stay up for but a few minutes. He fa a man of Intel ligence, reads not a little, con verses well, has t good memory well stored with reminiscences of the past. It Is rare that ooe meets a man ovet four-score yean old, but hen is something stranger still, a man over 80 yean old-dS oi which have been spent in bed, Subscribe to The Gastonia Gasxttx. THE STATE TUASUtY DEFICIT A Clear Statement ol it—The Laet Legislature Increased Appropriatiene Mar* Than • Hall MUUm. NwnUU f Hiliiirt. The clearest statement we have seen of the condition of the State Treaaary is made by the Biblical Recorder, which obtained Ua figures from State Treasurer Lacy. It it not sur prising that there is a deficit when one contemplates the wonderful increase in appropria tions made by the last Legisla ture. Thl Recorder states the case clearly, giving the facts withotit bias, and what here follows may be accepted as correct. The Recorder says: "There was in the State Treaaary January 19.1901, when Treasury Lacy took charge, a balance of $37,528.36. The ap propriations for 1901 exceeded those for 1900 by $294,907.9*. The appropriations for 1902 ex ceeded those for 1901 by $164, 203.55- The total appropriations for 1901 were $867,95L 28; the total for 1902 were $1,031,160.81; giving a a total for the laat General Assembly of $1,899,118. 07. The appropriations for 1899 were $633,430; for 1900 were $673,049.42, giving a total of $1,306,479.48. The total in crease of appropriations by the General Assembly of 1901 fa. therefore, $592,638.59. This is quite a leap. To make such an increase was to invite a deficit, as Senator McIntyre (we think) pointed out. The State is growing; bnt no State grows so fast as that. "The receipts for 1900-1901 wdre *1,602,666,48; the receipts for 1901 1902 were *1,700,000? total *3,302,686.47. The receipts for 1898 *99 were *1,545,717.08? 1899-1900 were *1,617,993.91; total *3,163.711.80 If from the amount of increase of appropri ations for 1901-1902—*592,638.59 —you will subtract the amount of increase of income—*138,966. 88—you will find the remainded, *453,671.71 which is the estima ted current deficit. "While a deficit of any sort is more or less embarrassing, one canted by appropriations for elementary edacation and for the insane (which constitute *300,000 of the deficit, and which were necessary), or one canted by pensions to Con federate veterans and such Snsions do account for 3,000 of the deficit, may not be attacked or criticised suc cessfully unless it can be proved that tbe money was not needed and waa extravagantly naed; and we do not think there ia any ground for suspicion in this respect. "The fact, however, that ap propriations have increased from *2,183,959.98for the four year end ing 1896 to *3,205,597.55 in the four years ending 1902— an in crease of *1,121,638.59—calls for grave concern, even if it does indicate that the State is grow ing. There is bat one con clusion: The State must order economy wherever possible, and yet it must not do itself harm; and it must not increase any ap propriations unless it is impera tive : and even then it must in crease the taxes, must get a larger, a very much larger reveftue. This will be tbe chief task of tbe General Assembly toon to be elected." Standard Oil. N*w Tort Trtm. A stock that can drop 25 points in a day without cansing com ment, not to mention panics, is not to be found every morning, unless yon wsat to pay about *700 a share for Standard Oil. Transactions seldom amount to more than a few hundred shares and they have to be bought out right in the open board. A drop of SO or 100 points ia that secar jty is nothing of conseoueoce: it shakes out no msrgms and disturbs no market conditions, la 1900 and 1901 the company paid dividends of nearly 7 per cent, on tbe market price of *700 a share, or 48 per cent on tbe par value. _ The Hm and the Beea Via*. Witelunemiwr. Last spring e neighbor gave a lady who lives in QaDedge town ship a few beam of a new and improved variety to plant. Soon after the need were placed in the ground the proverbial old blue ben came along and scratched the last one of them np end ate them. The lady discovered the depredation at once and, not to be ontdooe, die killed the hen and ate her and recovered the beans before they had been damaged. The beans were again planted end thin time they came np and made a beautiful yield. SETTLUV0 TUB FAH ESTATE. TIm Attorneys Will Net Set • Chnece at Fair MUUaaa—M> ▼isles to be MadeWUhaul Utl> Wcakiaatoa Pott. IStt. We ere glad to Hear that the parties interested la tbe Pair millions—or sttch of them as are Involved in the automobile trag edy of last week—have decided to settle tbe question among themselves. This is both sensi ble and becoming. A squabble over the property would no doubt result in transferring nine tenths of it to tbe'aUomcys, and the contestants would nave to divide no little more than a legacy of hatred, heartburning, and sorrow. If, as the 'various accounts suggest, the property is in States which have borrowed from the French code their laws of suc cession and inheritance, there need be do great difficulty and but little more expanse involved in the settlement of tbe two estates. Under the provisions of that code, Mr. Pair must be supposed to have survived bis wife. If only for an instant. They were hurl ed against e tree simaltuneoualy, and both died without making an intelligible sign. Under the cir cumstances, Mr. and Mrs. Pair having been ol the same age, or virtually so, there can be no option save that of assuming that tbe man lived longer than the woman. All the litigation in the world, though it would undoubtedly en rich a doxea attorneys and as many court officials, must neces sarily in the end come back to that hypothesis. Tbe cbanSmr, who survived the accident, may persuade himself that he saw this or that motion indicating Hie in either Mr. or Mrs. Pair after the other seemed quite dead. The wife of the gatekeeper will pos sibly develop a like theory. But •nch testimony is worthless, and will serve only as a hook upon which to hang an eternal and a fruitless controversy. a uivivuvuivcuiitfuicucti mca ical man, had he Happened on the spot at the moment of the accident, might have been able to pronounce with authority; but the opinions of laymen, in spired by muscular contortiont— which as frequently occur im mediately after death as imme diately before it—are of no sort of value, and should not be con sidered for a moment. Aa we have aald, It is peculiarly grati fying to us to hear that the par ties la interest have decided to settle the matter out of court. Not only ia the decision good for decency and common sense, it will also result in a dividend for the heirs. A Congressman Worth Having. AatwrUte CttWtKh. That the people of the Seventh district have done wisely to send Hon. Theo. P. KJuttx to Con gress and will do well to keep him there ia shown by bis ratal free delivery' record. It is a splendid tribute to Mr. KJottz’s indefatigability that be has se cured for his district more free delivery routes than any other congressman from North Caro lina. He has had 28 routes es tablished. while Congressman Pon,of the Fourth’district, comes next to him with 24. Mr. Klotts ia not, however, resting on his record. There are now on flic applications for 82 other routes and he has secured the services of an inspector who will this week begin going over them. This is the sort of work a con gressman can do that wfU bring the benefits of the government right to the doors of the farmers of the land, and it ia the sort of service that the people of Mr. Kluttx’s district will appreciate. BmnIm to Chicago, NCmtiuf a IS Box el Cigars Thrswa la. ItaWM. To.. PIOUS, mil Five handled tickets were sold to Chicago yesterday afternoon at startling prices as the result of a war of ticket brokers, the outgrowth of the fight of the Missouri, Kansas * Texas, the International & Great Northern, the Cotton Belt and the Santa Fe for Northern passenger bnti nass. The lowest rate before yesterday was $18 for the round trip. One broker cut it to $8. Another broker at once cut it to $4. Yet another announced Houston to Chicago, 30 cants: Houston to St. Louis IfO cents; Houston to Kansas CHy, 10 cents. Another met the cut and offered a $S box of cigars with each ticket._ In a Greensboro yard the hail Sunday sight killed SOI English sparrows. Another tata raked op half a bushel of dead ones lu bis yard. Three Things New. 1. STREET HATS. JELS" thea. They are new and fust In, at YEAGER’S. 2. WALKING SKIRTS. J.‘,! faction of style. New lot fust In, at YEAGER’S. 3. NEW WAIST GOODS. Just arrived, and they cum In Patterns only. Beautiful Persian effect. Come to YEAGER’S for dll the new things In Millinery and Ladles* Furnishings. «J. F. YEAGER, LADIES' FURNISHINGS A SPECIALTY. - _~ '■■■■. : V- : ■ ^r.vV STAR LAUNDRY. wm do nor ran MBOBO LAUMMHf* •mmMsansunsmnw Charlotte, North Carolina. NOTICE. I have this day given Mr. J. B. Boyd, of this city, Um entire ■gcncy of Gastonia aad McAdeaviBc. He will ran a wagon aad have an office just as a laundry. Ha wfll take year work aad nature it to yon At same day Will give yon the same tt any np-to-date lanadry. 1 atn making this arrangement ao every body can send their goods to the lanadry. I ant going to give the beat work that can be had in the Southern States aad at the chwi<p est prices. Guarantee the goods to be satisfactory in every respect. I will be glad to have your patronage. All orders left im the office will have prompt attention. If yon have any lanadry scad it or 'phone IBB. Do not forget the Star lysandry, 3. B. Boyd, Gaatoaia Agent. H. B. McDOWELL, Proprietor. Fall in Hammocks. “a==™5—«* Summer is going and with it oar splendid Mock of hammocks. We do not nidi to cany a single ham* mock over to neat season and so not only a part of summer has gone bat a big laa^ oat of *»— prices has gone with it. ’ We are cutting to cost aad hare only these left: Two $2M Hammocks lo (» at .... $1M One $175 Hammock (o go at .... )US Two $1.25 Hammocks to (eat • - • $LM Throe Me Hammocks lo go at flip Buy quick, bring the cask, aad edoy the comfort of a good hammock the rest of the summer. Sooner you boy, the more sendee you’ll get this summer. Marshall** Book Store, ON THE CORNER. aHaHHMaMPMHaBSnSMMMBassssnMHMMMMMaaMalMMMMaHMHaMMMHaaHMaMV MRS. P. H. COOKE’S MUSIC SCHOOL PAUL TERM OPBN» MONDAY. UP. Imt. Mr». Cooks will receive popUs at her Home oppgrits Oakland to arrange tor inat ruction; nbo hem re foe practioa os Brief Pteno, If dr,i red _ VOCAL, PIANO, OR OROAN INSTRUCTION. One less— s seek--|I4M par aafk Two lessons* wank- It.— par wgatk. -m*-' ..... Belmont Academy ‘Op ana lltk aa—al aaaalow a afar present ■aeatfemeat Sept I, IMS. I Stud—ts prepared far collega or far j business. For particular* writ* ta J ... ■ I 111 -«'■■■■■■■■ I MlwP P. P. HALL, ML MO NT, R C.
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