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[WITHE GASTONIA Twte« • WMk.91.Ma Turl ..il ___Pnbllahed Twice a Week-Tuesdays and Friday a. W. F, MAKSBALL, Editor PrWri*tor. DEVOTED TO THE PROTECTION or HOME AND THE IWTtlgSTS tf Til 5SK VOL. XXin GASTONIA. N. C.. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 7. 1808. Hv ' My MytiUr. SWjfm tha Wat mn ol hex life AW robbed heeeelL with lories Start. Uaeclattnotr. For new tth willing baade aht tailed Proai Aar t* Aar. Foejse aha scared wbaa headaUoag roots Wool A Sara Ua war. Her cent to arsi sir credit once. Are weary sow: Aad list baa ear the acal of care Open bar brow. Aadthoocb we other eyee (baa aiiaa Their ineaaiag trace. 1 nod mr biatocy la tha tlaaa Of bar dear face. Aad, held Hla graia. Who tbowtra gift a Aa ahtalag eaada. I com at her dara aa pearla that (alia Freer Hie hied baade —- ■ ii. i■■ i ..mge—tagteg "WHEN PEACE, LIKE A UVEA." Circumstances Under Which Nr. Snl Wrote tho Ryots. rblUdelpkU Itm "It Is Well With My Soul" was written by H. G. Spafiord, and the popular tune to which it is always sung is one of P. P. Bliss's best compositions. Mr. Spafiord was a member of the Chicago bar and an elder of the Presbyterian church. He has been successful in his profession, but has made some unfortunate investments, and when the financial panic of 1873 seriously disturbed the business of the country Mr. Spafiord found that his savings of many years had been swept away. The members of his family were prostrated by this disastrous turn m their affairs, and he acceded to the wish of helpful friends that they should visit Europe and thus be removed for some time from scenes of his financial ruin. Mrs. Spafiord and her four children took passage on the French liner Villc du Havre and the story of that voyage is one of the moat appalling of the many calamitiet of the sea. When in midocean and in the blackness of s November night in 1873 the steamship collided with the Glasgow clipper Loch Earn and in twelve minutes the former went down, carrying to death 230 souls, and among them were Mr. Spafiord’s four daughters. . Mrs. Spafiord sank with the vessel, but floated again and was finally rescued. • The saved were taken to Havre and from that city she sent a message to her husband in Chi cago; "Saved, but saved alone. What shall I do?” This message of fearful import —sufficient to drive reason from her throne"—was the first notice Mr. Spafiord had that hia dear ones were not as happy as when he parted with them a few days before in New York. In hia unutterable sorrow Mr. Spafiord did not chant a dirge to impossible hope. When he reflected that bis property was lost in destruction’s waste, that his wife was painfully prostrated, and that bit four children were buried in the dark waves of tbe sea, there came from hia heart of hearts a song of trust and resignation that haa many times encircled the globe: "Wbaw Mia Hka • f1r*», MtaadMk mi w»*. Wka sorrows. Ilka aaa btliawa roll: Wkalnir as let. Tboa hut MSI a to aar. It Is wall. UU wad with ay amt. When lfr. Spafford returned from Havre with bit invalid wife he said to his friends: "I never felt more like trusting God than 1 do now.” Spafford's hymn of resignation with its fine musical setting by the lamented Bliss, is one of the moat helpdnl of the many gospel songs written doting the past quarter of a century. One Sunday evening a service of star was given by one of ottr large city churches at which the story of "It is Well With my 8onl,” was told, and the lines song with great tenderness of expression by the audience and choir. Attending the service was a gentleman who had suffered financial reverses in the panic of 1893. Whan he heard the story of Spafford'* heavy affliction and Joined in singing the hymn so pathetically inspired, be said to his wife on his return home from the service: "I will never again complain of my lot. "It Spafford could write such a beautiful redguatioa hymn when he had lost all hi. children, and everything else save hia wife and character, I ought auiely to be thankful that my losses have been so Hght.” It is Stated that Mr. C. B. Jordan, of Salisbury, N. C.. k organising a stock cotepauy for tteaK&KSKAa: V. c. TIDED OF TEIA3. A Farmer Citizen ef York Cemty Welghe the Deed end the Bed el Texas, ea4 Prefer* flit OM Yorkrill* X*4«lr*r. Oct. 4th. Mr. B. P. Lend, formerly of thl* county, but for a number of years pest • citizen of Texet, arrived here laat Tuesday, and haa been putting in the time since trying to find a suitable plantation. He has enough of Texas and is desirous of return ing to his old home. The teporter had a short talk with Mr. Lead Thursday even ing, and from his conversation it would seem that he considers the agricultural outlook quite gloomy in Texas. There has been a general failure in both the corn and cotton crops this year, and from biz observation and experience, cotton growing in the "Lone Star" state seems to be practically doomed. Tbc trouble with cotton ia on account of the Mexican boll weevil. The pest began to make its appearance in Southern Tex as about ten years ago, and since that time it lias been spreading northward and eastwara, at the rate of about 50 miles a year. Because of the weevil, cotton raising has already become a thing of the peat in many por tioua of Southern Texas, the fanners having changed from cotton to rice, sugar-cane and other crops. "I planted this year," said Mr. Land, "for 40 bales of cotton. That is with good seasons, and no injury from the weevil, I should have had that much. It is not unusual to make from a bale to a bale and a half to the acre. The boll weevil made its appearance, however, and alto gether I will not get more than 5,000 pounds of seed cotton. A large farmer near by had some 600 acres in cotton, and his yield was hardly as in proportion as mine was. "The department of agricul ture, Mr. Land went on to say, "has had several expert entomo logists in Texas for several years past, tTying to discover some means of destroying the boll weevil; bnt np to this time noth ing has been accomplished. The weevil makes its appearance with the squares and blooms, and when there is a good season in June or July at the fruiting period, just at the time a good season is needed, yon can put it down that your crop is gone. Tlie only thing that seems to affect the boll weevil is hot, dry weather. It does not thrive on cotton that is stunted or back ward, where the son can get to the square* and blooms; but gets in its work on luxurious growths, where the squares and blooms are protected from the sun." "In addition to the boll weevil this year, the fanners of almost the entire state have had to contend with a terrible drouth. Except in a few localities, the corn crop has amounted to practically nothing, and taken all together, the Texas farmers are having a rough time of it, Mr. Lana is now thoroughly satisfied that the Piedmont section of South Carolina is superior to any part of Texas as a place to live in. "Yon have to work harder here maybe," he says, "but there is never snch a thing as a complete failure of all kinds of crops. You are always assured of plenty of good drink ing water, and taking it one year after another, this country is the best of which I have any .knowledge.” Mr. Land did not say positive ly that he would return to York connty; but from the tenor of his conversation, it ia safe to assume that such is his Intention, if he can get suited in the matter of the right kiud of a farm. He is a good citisen, has a wide uconaidtance in this vicinity, and his numerous friends will welcome his return. . A Ceee at laifltilln. KJmIm Tn* P,«aa. Imagination grown strong in tba hnman mind and many are the laughable results from allow* lag it to govern one's feeling. An example of Ibis ia Kinston •o«na time ago showed how com* p j ®ne can be fooled by im agination. A certain gentleman thought that a hog pen belong ing to a neighbor wee the eaaae of sickneea in hie family « made complaint to the au thorities, who want to iaveati Ke. On the way to the place gentleman explained how offensive the odor was, and everything about how bed it wee to have a hog pen near one’s premises. When they got to the piece, lo and behold the bog pen had not been completed, and there never had been a hog ia ft. So mach for imagination. EDUCATION OF THE NEMO. Whiten Feel that they Have Dene Veil Enough by the Negra— Nat Inclined la ge Mara. By the very stroke end finger touch of God's power there 4 an ineffaceable difference between the races of men. This differ ence, stamped upon the races far back in creation's gray dawn, still speaks ol the mysteries of God's purposes; and stndy the matter as we mty, no mao will ever be able to know why God made the races of men so dif ferent. l ms race distinction has been more accentuated between tbe white man and the negro than between any other races. Be sides the general differences in other particulars, their color is positively different. By reason of some one’s sin—it is now too late ta raise that question— there has come upon the people of the country and especially the South, a race problem that almost defies solution, and that problem is between tbe white man and the negro. An emancipated race, abased by the power of government with the sovereignty of the ballot, they have been a menace to the qmet and happiness of the people of the South for more than a third of a century. We say abnaed with tbe ballot, because we verily believe that had the negro been left to work out his destiny in this country without tbe ballot, his Condition here to-day would be a hundred fold better than it Is. One of the troubles with which the white people have been con fronted is the constitutional provision for the public educa tion of the negro, and whether it is realised or not that feature of oar system of public education is the greatest, hindrance to the free schools in North Carolina and the South. And right or wrong, liberal the views or con tracted, the white people of tbe South are going to be slow to sec it their doty to tax them selves as heavily for the educa tion of negro children as for their own. Where in North Carolina to day can yon find a community of white people who are willing to be taxed locally to supplement the public school money ? You cannot find many and this is the reason: Our people feel that they have done well enough in the education of the negro. If we had a constitutional change whereby there would be a limit to taxing of the whites to educate the blacks and leave them free to increase taxes at their option for the education of the white children, there would be a fresh wave of educational enthusiasm all about us. We believe that Bditor Bailey said the biggest truth in the Biblical Recorder that has been said about the free schools for the negro when he said: "Four months’ school is as much as the white people can be expected to give the negroes; and it is as much as the negroes will make good use of." It is a wonder, indeed, that the white people are willing to do as much as they have done for the education of the negro; and from the out rages reported and the records of our criminal courts it does seem that tba race is making very little improvement. , The white people have already done well for the education of the negroes In North Carolina and can hardly be expected to do more. Selling Ceal far Jewelry. bhlM«o Special to Baltinier* ka In one of Hoyt's farce a two characters, Ruben snd Cynthia used to come oat on the stage and sing to each other about the topics of the time. One of these stenass by Cynthia was as fol lows: "tossw'air&am If they took to burning diamonds And aoid coal for jewatry No one then ever thought coal would be sold for lewthy, but that ia whet is being dons in Chicago these days. A man stood at Adams and Dearborn streets and offered," genu ins black diamond stickpin*" at IS cents apiece. The black diamond* were tamps of hard coal fastened to washed gold pins. The sale of these "jewels” was brisk and hundreds of tnea wore them la their cravats. "The pries of these pins will probably doubts in e few days," cried the salesman. "Boy now at bedrock prices: we guar sates these to be genelne anthracite. Corns here end get the real ar ticle before ft ia to lete." "Hownw aim notes. A Necessary Quality that Caamal Possibly Be Bad Under Ex* istlaf Law. NcwYOTkTIaML In the coarse of some ex tremely sensible comments on the numerous recent statements tost there is no lack of money at present except in New York, the Financial Chronicle says, as we hive frequently had occasion to say in substance: "Money has become close here and not so close in the West and South be cause New York has it this speculative period furnished in good pert the interior with the necessary extra funds for their crop work." And this occurs each year be cause of onr "fixed-currency system." "The idle notes at the period of the least business ac tivity accumulate at the point where they can find beet end safest occupation,” which is Naw York. "They possess no homing quality, and conse quently, being out of nse, gravi tate in greater part to the lead ing trade center.” This accu mulation makes easy money, stimulates leading, and when the annual demand comes the lows most be csilled in. rates go higher, and money becomes close. The essential difficulty lies in the rigid nature of oar currency ana in what the Chronicle so calls the lack of "homing quality,” of onr notes, either the United States notes or those of the banks. This quality could really be obtained . Jk* notes by the method of the Suffolk Bank system, bat it cannot be had under the present law, which makes both the issue and withdrawal of notes slow and expensive, and makes both processes depend more on the price of the United States bonds than on the relative demand for money. Arretted at Newts*. YortrvUJ* Knamitcr. 4th. James Hammond, the man who attempted the life of Superintendent G. A. Buchanan, of the Arcade mill, Rock Hill, some months ago, is under arrest at Newton, N. C., await ing a reauisition. Hammond got himself into a difficulty with Superintendent Buchanan and snapped a revolver point-blank at Mr. Buchanan’s breast. Somebody interfered before be was able to repeat the attempt successfully. He made his escape shortly afterward, and a warrant was sworn out for his arrest on the charge of ssaaalt and battery with intent to kill. Sheriff Logan was notified on Thursday that Hunmond had been caught at Newton; but that he refused to come to South Carolina without a requisition. Sheriff Logan immediately telegraphed the sheriff at New ton to swear out a warrant and commit Hammond as a fugitive from justice, and after sending these instructions he proceeded to take steps to secure the re turn of the prisoner to Yorkville. It will probably be a week before Hammond it landed in the York county jail ; bat he will no doubt be here in plenty of time lor the next term of court. A Pitiable Story. York DlssaWh. Mtfe. After looking for the last time on the face of his young wife, whose body lay in an under taker’s room, this afternoon. John Moore, a compositor, of 26B West Twenty-first street, was handcuffed to two keepers and. with tears streaming down bis face, was led away to serve the remainder of a three months’ sentence. He hed been committed to the workhouse for stealing a bottle of milk for his wife, who was then lying st the point of death. Moore eras caught by the driver of a wagon ia the act of pilfering the milk. The magistrate was deaf to his pleadings in behalf of his wife, and sentenced him to the workshop. Two days later Mrs. Moore was removed to the city hospi tal. She died there a weak ago. Prom Warden Pox the husband leaned of her death and was given permission to see her body before It was buried. He knelt beside it and prayed for forgiveness. Then he was taken hack to tht island. When the President gets the doctor's bill lie will conclude that Ms leg has been nulled In stead of laacedt and ft may be that for a fleeting moment he will regret that be is not the obscure eitisen whoso medical expenses for the same kind of an injury would be abo«t three dollars. MIS. CAIHE NATION AT Tilt. Hm A special dispatch to the Bal timore Son from New Haven says: Carrie Nation succeed to f10'** what Wm. J. Bryan failed to do in IBM, when he triad to make 2,000 Yale stn denu hear him to the cad of his Ah' <rf tb* hatchet said it was as streanous as Kansas. Through one hour filled with side-tp^ming comedy Carrie Nation stood oa tbo granite steps of Oabore and talked of prohibition aad kindred iobjects to a cigarette aad pipe smoking assemblage. S he singled out individuals and mode them the butt of her talk. Occaaionsllr aa impromptu glee club ssing topics! songs ■bout her, compelling her to stand quiet aad UstenT Finally rite was almost rushed to her hotel by a crowd so danse that thesteaet cars stopped and the sendees of policemen were needed to escort her. Students shook hands with her, right aad left, by hundreds. On toe way she snatched a cigarette from tbc lips of a student Once oa the steps of the hotel she tamed aad threw kisses to the crowd. Her talk was like her usual ha ran rues. She began: " U*t spring the ‘Jolly Bight' of Yak wrote and invited me to come. They neither smoke nor dnnk. I learn to-day that they have increased to eighty-six"— the students broke in with the •ong "Your’re Only Pooling," and later sang "Good Morning Came.” She waited her turn and Mudl: •I’m not a dream, but sub stantially 193 pounds.” Referring to confirmed drunk ards, she said: "If we can't reacne old hogs, let’s save the young pigs like you boys." The students, sang, I’ve been drunk six months, show me the way to go home." "But you're on the way to—," she replied, and I wish I had my hatchet here now." When aim told of bar jail ex perience the students broke in with "Ain’t dat a shame?” She sighed: "Yea, indeed, they did keep your honey out in dccold." Ther bawled out: "Give ns a drink, bartender,” and went through the repertoire of college drinking songs, to esch of whkh sbe made some pertinent reply. Much of the talk was too pointed to print and the students told her that she was "naughty to say such things." Ckvtattt Otwnu, Your correspondent was re cently told of s moonshine sdll that deserves first prise for in genuity. It was not in Cbcrokce county, but not very far away. It waa in a bole under a corn field, and np above the natural product was waving In the breese aad ripening preparatory to be ing transformed into the fluid extract. The door was between two rows and wes kept covered with turf. Down below was a comfortable room and a plant with a capacity of 20 gallons a day. The smoke was carried three-quarters of a mile through pipes aad there mingled with the boughs of a mighty oak in order not to mar the beauty of the land scape. Water waa secured by merely polling a stopper from a pipe that connected with the pare aad sparkling water of a ■jniai^half a mile np the moun Man—snt to True Bawl—, WasMastaaSMt. Commissioner Ware says the government has paid out naarly $3,000,000,000 in pensions since the establishment of the system. These figures speak volumes for the heroism of the taxpayers. Rev. J. Wat. Jones, of Chapel Hill, H. C.. has been elected secretary of the Confederate Memorial Asaaodation, vice Pen. John C. Underwood. Baking Powder ' V ' f W 1 ‘W/* Safeguards die food np^ fhfl, IB Furs of which vc carry a choice and moat bcaotifol aclectloo of the dlfereat styka, kind*. •mA **£?**• mm to PWMftwdl MEN'S SUITS AND OVERCOATS . FALL AND WnnR.19M.lM3. ■AJcV* ROMAN, the Clothier. CRAIG & WILSON. GASTONIA, « » * - NORTH CAROLINA. WE arc now 1(1 position to furnish Onto IWH*. Wagons. Buggies, Surreys, ond all kinds of Farming Implements sock as Disc Plows, Turn Plows, Spike Tooth Harrows. Also we have the nicest Use of winter Lap Rohes that has over boos la this town. Wo are always glad to hove oar csstoaMrs call and see os whoa is seed of anything lo the above line. Wo nitcad a cordial Invitation te one and all. Respectfully Yours, Craig & Wilson, Do You Need Any . • ■ . ■■ . • BEDROOM FURNITURE JL smjmcoucHB, i WILLIAMS FURNITURE CO. Pavl» Block._O—totif » N. C» Charlotte Private Hospital. »Hor* CfaK*S«vo«P ” Charlotte, N. C. Medical and Surgical cum (mM. TnM Nunes Modem Equipment. X-Ray MacMaaa and Access^ rWa far girln* Electrical Traataaeat. HoarrrAL Srayy: JOHN 1. IRWIN, IK. D. C. A. IK1SBNHBIMBR. M. D. most. L. GIBBON, M. D.
Gastonia Daily Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.)
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