Advertise whnt yon do,
j.' Do what you advertise.
THE miTTt is the beat
medium. Us circulation
grows greater, not less.
V. P. NAISHALL, Editor amd ProprUtsr.
VOL. XXIII._ GASTONIA, N. C.t FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31. 1803
THE DAY OF
ENLIGHTENMENT
Never before iu the history of this good old State has so much
attention been given to education—to the business of learning
things. Books are bought and studied and owned as never before.
How important a part do they perform in our education! From
them in lisping childhood we learn the wonderful alphabet, and
through all after life these gentle friends add to our wisdom and
onr pleasure as long as we take delight in their companionship.
And, it may be safely remarked, the degree of refinement in
any home may be measured by the attitude that home maintains
toward books. Refinement, you know, is a very gentle quality that
may dwell alike in the humblest cottage or the proudest palatial
home. In neither, however, may its presence be snapccted if the
books therein are maltreated, neglected, or left to any evil fate that
may over take them. But in either, the orderly and respectful care
given to the books of the household is an unfailing mark not only
of tidy housekeeping but of a certain degree of culture and
refinement.
And if the books are handsomely shelved in the modern sec
tional book eases, what more could house-keeper or book-lover de
sire? These sectional shelves with disappearing glass doors are
the book cases of the present and the futnre. The old kind be
longs to days that are past and gone. We want Tug Oazettb’s
readers to know all about the •
Sectional Book-Cases
l (Fjf* ) which we handle. And by reading Of them here,
V —!/ we hope you will be induced to come and see
them tor yourself. They consist of
THREE SEPARATE PARTS.
Here they are: Base, Book
Section, and Top. The book
section or shell is enclosed ex
cept at the top, and has a glass
door. The door may be opened
outward by the little knob and
pushed back above the books.
The top, base, and sections all
fit in their proper places with
out any knocking, banging,
nailing or screwdriving; a little
girl can put them together os
easily as bnilding blocks. Now
bring these
THREE PARTS TOGETHER
thus, and yon have the begin
nings of shelf-room for a large
private library. Raise up the
glass door and slide it back at
the top and the shelf is open to
receive yonr books. Place them
on the shelf, close the door, and
there yonr books are, easy to
see, easy to get. and protected
from dust and dampness.
now, you neea not nave more shelves than books—no empty
shelves, no scattered
books—your book case
grows as your library
grows. The Y. E. sec
tions build together one
upon the other and end
to end like bricks'in a
wall, until you have
housed your books from
| floor to ceiling around the
entire room.
FOUR STYLES. SEVEN SIZES.
The Y. & E. ue made In four styles: (1) Plaid Oak, (2)
Quartered Oak, (3) Birch Mahogany, and <4) solid Mahogany—all
hearing a superbly finished surface. The Solid Mahogany costs
$10 per section; the others from $2.50 to $5!50 per section. There
are seven sires, to accommodate the varying dimension* of books.
PRICES.
We can give you an idea. Take the first illustration, and this
is what it will cost in plain oak: Top $1.50, Base $1.50, Book
Section $2.50; Total, $5.50. That’s a start. You can add another
shelf for only $2.50 and double tout book space. Five shelves
($12,50) with base and top ($3.00) will make a pretty book-case in
deed with a shell capacity of 160 inches. The section quoted is the
smallest size, but it is amply large to hotd a volume 8x9 inches—
pretty big book, yon see. For .each jump in sise add 25 cents to
price of the one below.
Quartered Oak and Birch Mahogany cost only 50 cents per
section more then the Plain Oak. The solid Mahogany, very rich
and attractive, costa $10 to $13 per section.
Come to see the cue* in our
store, sod include a sectional
home for your books among
your furniture plans. By the
way, we hare a catalogue with
more illustrations and mom par
ticulars than we have room for
here. A copy is your* for the '
asking. Yon can look over it by
the fireside in the quiet of your
own home.
It ta a day of enlightenment;
buy a sectional book oaaa and
buy tbe bem from
W. r. MARSHALL < COMPANY'S
Outodi Book Store.
NEGRO ANB THE NORTH.
Bill Arp Ooea Nat Objart to their
Teaching Yankee Ckildreo.
All** l* CoaatUatioa.
My northern friend who asked
me to hold op on the negro and
let him go dead has sent me a
clipping from a Newport paper
and says: Here is a good text
for your next letter. It read as
follows:
"Newport, October 14.—At a
meeting of tbe school committee
to-day, George Bills and wife
objected to having their son
taught by a colored teacher and
said that if their ton was not ad
mitted ,to another school where
the teacher was white they would
keep him at home. Tbe com
mittee refused to change him
and ordered that tbe boy be ar
retted as a truant. The father
filed a plea of not guilty and the
case will go to tbe higher court
and be tested.”
They have compulsory educa
tion there. It seems that this
teacher ia the daughter of a
preacher, who ia the American
consol at St. Thomas. Ha is a
loyal republican and there ia pol
itics in it, and the lily whites
are in the minority. She may
be one of the 400 that Wattersou
is tronbled about, and so I will
tnro over the text to him.
The same mail that brought
me the text brought alerter from
my grandson, who is in the em
ploy of tbe Westingbousc Com
pany. of Pittsburg, and is an
electric engineer ana is now put
ting down a plant at Utica, N. Y.
He writes that his contractor bad
a number of white men employed
but as labor was scarce he picked
up an idle negro and told him
to go to work. The white men
rebelled violently against this
and threatened to quit, so tbe
negro had to be sent off.
When I was last in Mississippi
the barber who shaved me said
he came down from Illinois on
account of his health and was
amazed to find white folks down
here patronise negro barbers,
and that if one dared to open a
shop in any town in Illinois he
would be mobbed and run out of
the place.
ifiice Banquo'g ghost, this race
problem will not down. It has
as many phases as there are times
and places. Shortly after the
war the yankee school maims
hurried down here to educate the
negro, but they soon tired of it
and went back. Now a negro
woman has gone up there to
teach their white children. That
is all right. We don’t care. As
Cobe says: "Its all optionary
with me." Now I will let the
negro go dead for awhile. It
will take many years yet to set
tle the problem, bnt it will be
settled.
The two races work together
very harmonious in ourtown and
county and we are reconciled to
the situation. 1 wish that every
community had as many bless
ings ss we enjoy. No strikes,
no murders no ontrages of any
kind—no cursing, no cyclones
nor floods nor famines—no pesti
lence, no fires. We have good
schools, good churches, good
preachers and good, humble con
gregations. Every church has a
nice comfortable home for the
preacher and there is one more
for the presiding elder. We have
• good sociable community with
no stucknp families. Not even
Sam Jones’ folks put on any airs
over the rest of ps. *1 visited
them on Sunday eve and was
treated with the most cordial
hcvpitality. Their home is a pal
ace and their garden and grounds
• little paradise.
x am gening strong again atm
walked to town last week for the
first time in three months—when
I came home my wife shook her
fist at me and said: "I believe
yon will outlive me yet." Prom
the tone of her voice I thought
maybe she was mad about it. We
have nearly completed the finest
court bouse in the state. It is la
fall view from the window where
I'wnte and I never get tired of
looking at the beautiful dome
that shines like silver In the son.
"A thing of beauty is a joy for
ever." ‘ Our garden is now
adorned with beautiful roses aad
I cat them every morning: and
my wife allows me to sendtbem
to the pretty girls—ao. I mean
to the ancient mothers in onr
neighborhood. At night I have
to help a pretty lassie with her
arithmetic and algebra and
Latin. 1 get stalled sometimes,
bat we generally get through all
right. We have a telephone and
my daughter, who lives a mile
away, has one. So when her
daughter gets stalled she tele
phones her and our lassie tells
her over the ’phone how to do it.
Sometimes it takes many figures,
muHiplring aad dividing, etc.,
aad if there is a mistake made of
only oae figure near the begin
<dng it teas through to the end
and gels bigger and bigger as it
goes. Aud so uiy lassie is disap
pointed because she did not get
the answer. Then I go over all
the figures carefully and find the
error, and she has it to do over
again. Just so it is with our
habits aud conduct. If a little
bov tells fibs or stories, the habit
will grow on' him and by the
time he is grown he will tell lies.
If s boy swaps knives with
another boy and cheats him. he
will get into a habit of cheating
in a trade and nobody will trust
him. When Tom Benton was
for the first time a candidate for
office, it was told on him that
wbeti be was a school boy be
stole a knife from another boy
aud bad to give H up and take a
whipping. And so be didn’t
get elected. My father always
said that knife story was just a
political lie, but I nave knowu
politicians who would steal
knives and lie, loo.
1 had s most grateful compli
ment the other day, and it was
as pleasant as it was unexpected.
The Dalton lawyers and the
Calhoun lawyers were hen to
attend the funeral of Colonel
Harris. After that sad mission
was over they joined with our
local bar and our judge and
Visited me in a body in my sick
room and did me special honor.
Pot a while we exchanged wit
and wisdom and pleasant anec
dotes. I shall not forget their
kind and grateful visit as long
as I live—soch .things are worth
being sick for.
And we had a baby show yes
terday at my daughter’s home.
She has a fine little boy a year
old who is beginning to walk
and talk. She gave a dining to
two young mothers, who each
had a little girl a year old and
they, too, were learning to walk.
It beat the Atlanta horse show
to see the three little rots totter
ing across the room .as merry as
larks os they tried to show off,
sometimes colliding‘and falling
down—then up again and on
another round. It was a pretty
sight and their mothers were
proud and happy. A young
mother is the proudest creature
on earth. She is always calm
and serene.
The Plans Timer.
A lady stepped into a piano
ware-room recently to engage a
tuner, but before doing so insis
ted upon the strongest assursuce
that the tuner was responsible,
says the Philadelphia Musician.
She was so determined tbst the
manager became curious to know
the reason for her disbelief in the
reliability of tuners. She gave
her experience with the last tuner
■be had, and this ia the story as
she told it:
He had about finished tuning
the piano, when he looked up
and said:
"Your instrument was in an
awfnl condition. You onght to
have sent for me sooner." '
"It wns toned only three
months ago."
"Theu the man who did it cer
tainly didn’t know his business.”
"No?"
"No ma’am. He had better
be doing street cleaning than
tuning pianos. Why. my dear
madam ^ a delicate instrument
like a piano needs fingers equal
ly delicate to handle it, combined
with an ear of unerring accuracy.
The individual who attempted to
tune ^his instrument last evident
ly posaeased neither of these. In
fact, I am free to say he did ft
more harm than good.”
"Indeed?"
"Indeed he did. May I ask
who so abused your instru
ment?"
"It was yourself!"
"Madam, yon are wrong. I
never tuned a piano in thia
house before."
"Probably not; but you tuned
that instrument. nevertheless, or
made a botch or it in attempting
to ao so. It belongs to Mrs.
Jones, who sent it here while
she 10*001 of town. She told me
yon alwnys tuned it nod to send
for you when—"
But the unhappy man fled with
such haste as to make his coat
tails a good substitute tor a card
table? _
0CM to Alabama.
Class Mom slain X«ws. >UL
Mr. Knsb Harmon with hia
entire family toft Tuesday eve
ning for their new home at God
frey, Alabama. Aa baa been
stated before, Mr. Harmon is
there in the lumber business.
He tells ns that the lumber there
is the very finest that can be
bought st a low figure. He hai
bought several hundred acres of
land and the timber oS s still
larger tract. Hia sons will oper
ate the mill wblto be himsell
will do the farming.. Mr. C. It.
Falls will also go with Mr. Har
mon, having been engaged bry
him to ran a blacksmith shop.
A Recollection of HoBow'om
T« ti» nefkir ot tea u«utu:
Blessed is tbc man wbo has
celebrated anniversaries from his
youth I Then, if be be wrecked
in all the world calls good, and
like Robinson Crusoe. "Alone,
all alone,” be can recall the past,
ana. as the anniversaries recur
visit his memory gallery of
portraits, and with bis hearts
pbone entirely reproduce each
Lapp)' hour.
Outside of church festivals and
birthdaye no timeds more marked
than the eve of All Saints—
Hallow’een.
The Scotch have piled it with
legends and droll traditions, and
Robbie Borns bss immortalised
it with one of his inimitable
poems.
The writer proposes to enjoy
the frolic of this year by living
over again one that occurred
fortv years ago.
He is the host, and though
keeping bachelor’s hall, he has
no trouble in gathering a lively
troop of lads and lassies. A
bright fin on the hearth is
necessitated as much by the
latitude of the place as the
traditions of the celebration; for
wbo docs not know that apples,
nuU, corns and other things are
as susceptible to beat, and attract
or repel each other as sensibly
sa do the beans of the boys
and girls who offer them up ?
The Rev. Sandy McPherson,
a Scotch Presbyterian preacher,
u there, and without doubt the
lion. He is a mingle man of
middle age and universally
admired and beloved in spite
of some startlinj? eccentri
cities. His health compels him
to fortify himself at times with a
compound much tested in his
native land, which may he taken
"before, between or after meals.”
i ae wnter prefers not to at
tempt a descnptiou of himself,
and for the other members of
the party they were as bright,
jolly and handsome as the young
folks of to-day. Scotch songs
were mnch in evidence, such as
"Duncan Gray," "There’a no
luck aboot the hoose” and "My
ain fireside.”
The tnb of floating apples was
patronized and the platter of
flaming raisins. And Ob, what
fun at the anpper I
The first coarse was the haggis,
which the host pretended was
the only edible to be had. He,
the Rev. Sandy, Irish Billy, and
one or two more could scarcely
wait to be helped; but the
majority could hardly abide the
smell. However, in doe time a
bountiful supply of more popular
viands was served add then
came the grand climax—the
acquisition of a sweetheart by
each lady. She was led by the
host into a room containing a
dressing bureau before whose
minor were placed two candles.
A solemn address was made to
her as she was bidden, to say.
when the host bad gone oat and
closed the door, " You, my tree
love that’s to be, come this
night and appear to me.” Nearly
all hod the same experience.
They began—y-v-yoa m-tn-my
t-t-true," and from behind a
large rocker jumped a great, big.
dreadful, handsome, bold, bad
man and an explosion followed.
"Oh girls, it was inst awful!”
Here the writer wishes be could
make the pen and paper scream.
Here be will close his descrip
tion. He lost trace of his friends
long syne, lovely Lida was
married; Irish Buly died, and
Rev. Sandy was corralled by a
frantic, fair, fat, frisky, forty
power fool widow, who if he
has been very good, possibly j
admininisters to hhn a gill ef
the -essence of cereals ones a
week.
David S. h- J oka sow.
.Gastonia, Oct. 28, 1902.
AtaMm OUt*. ,
As Atchison girl who is
chaiing s nan ha* received a
doaen anonymoa* letter* warning
her of sorrow. It is found that
they were all written by a
woman who has had nine chil
dren.
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Baking Powder
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oor latest arrivals in appliqned design* that** do not
hesitate to any that they constitute the 1"rVTfiliT
Hoc of their kind ever brought to thia *■*«« We
wiah every castosnerw* have would drop h> to see these
AppBqued Pfflow gum, Tab W
Bureau Scarfs, andWash-atsnd Cavers.
We bay* them appiiqaed over net, fftygntd canton
with hemstitched borders, and plain centers with
appUqned edge*.
. A Prices from 25c to $2JS. 4
The quality of ever> piece in perfect. Our stock to
varied, complete, end moot caiefuBy selected. Weto
yke you to sm tbeee decidedly iotereeting goods, end
shell be fled
to go over then with yon.
JAMES F. YEAGER.
_ Ladies* furnishings a specialty.
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Entirely New—Not a Revision.
EDITORS
More Good News.
We tare just received. Mother
car-load of alee Tennessee Hoc
aea and Moles; among tarn am
some tittra fine Mg moles weigh
ing 1100 pounds and upwards;
also soma nice, kind, work
horses, single driving horses and
saddlers. Come and saa oar
big lot of stock, we hava more
than fifty bead to show yon and
they will he sold at prices to
•nit the times. If you want a
good horse or mole be solo to
call and see os at once and oblige
CRAIG A WILSON.
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