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grows greater, not less.
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W. r. MARSHALL, Efl4ar an* Pragrictw._DEVOTED TO THE PROTECTION OP HOME AMD THE
VOI* X3CUX.__. GASTONIA, NT. C„ TUESDAY, NOVEMBER <4, !
THE DAY OF
ENLIGHTENMENT
Never before io the history of this good old State has so much
attentiou been given to education—to the business of learning
things. Books arc bought and studied and owned as never before.
How important a part do they perform in our education! Prom
them in lisping childhood we leant the wonderful alphabet, and
through all after life these gentle friends add to our wisdom and
our pleasure as.long as we take delight iu 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, yon know, is a very gentle quality that
may dwell alike in the humblest cottage or the proudest palatial
home, tin neither, however, may its presence be suspected if the
books therein are maltreated, neglected, or left to any evil fate that
may over take them. Put 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 cases, 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 future. The old kind be
longs to days that are past and gone. We want Thu GArHTTK’s
readers to know all about the
Hwub Sectional Book-Cases
which we handle. Anrf by reading of them here,
we hope you will be induced to come and see
them for yourself. They consist of
THREE SEPARATE PARTS.
Here they are: Base, Book
Sectiou, and Top. The book
section or shelf 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 as
easily as building blocks. Now
bring these
THREE PARTS TOGETHER
thus, and you liave the begin
nings of shelf-room for a large
private library. Raise up the
glass door and slide it beck at
• the top and the shelf is open to
receive your 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 need not have more shelves than books—no eoiMv
shelves, uo scattered
books—your book case
grows as your library
grows. The Y. H. sec
tions bnild together one
upon the other and end
to end Klee bricks in a
wall, *until you have
housed your books from
| floor to ceiling around the
entire room.
POUR STYLES, SEVEN SIZES.
The Y. & E. are made in four styles: (1) Plain Oak, (2)
Quartered Oak, (3) Birch Mahogany, and (4) solid Mahogany—all
bearing a superbly finished surface. The Solid Mahogany costs
$10 per section; the others from $2.50 to $5.50 per section. There
are seven sixes, to accommodate the varying dimensions of books.
PRICES.
We can give yon an idea. Take the first illustration, and this
is what it will cost in plain oak; Top $130. Base $1.50, Book
Section $230; Total, $5.50. That’s a start. Yon can add another
shelf for only $2.50 end double your book space. Five shelves
($12.50) with base and top ($3.00) will make a pretty book-caae in
deed with a shelf capacity of 100 inches. The section quoted is the
•mallcstftise, but it is amply large to hold a volume 8x9 Inches—
pretty big book, you see. For each }nmp in sise add 25 cents to
price of the one below.
Quartered Oak and Birch Mahogany cost only 50 cents per
section more than the Plain Oak. The solid Mahogany, very rich
and attractive, coats $10 to $13 per section. >
Com* to m« the cues iu our
■tore, and include a sectional
home for yotir hooks among
your furniture plans. By the
w«y, we have a cat^lugne with
more illustration* end more par
ticulars than we have room for
here. A copy is yours for the
asking. Yon can look over it by
the fireside in the quiet of your
own home.
It is a day of enlightenment:
bay • sectional book case and
hay the best from
w. F. MARSHALL < COMPANY'S
Gastonia Book Store.
"MAOMTUDE IK
COMMERCIALISM."
»r« a Paw a! tba llama that
Eater lata its Msks-op.
Xnr York WmM (Dm.).
In tlie report of Mr. Carnegie's
address ss a rector of St.
Andrew’s University the figures
which he gave to convince
Britons that their Uncle Samuel
has a" magnitude in commercial
ism” which they cannot hope to
overcome were omitted. But
we can readily imagine what
they were.
Doubtless he told them that
within thirty years the pro
duction of American farms and
plantation* alone has nearly
doubled; that American exports
now exceed in valne those of
any other country ip the world j
that this is already the leading
wheat-growing nation; that its
com crop is larger than that of
all other nations put together;
that its production of the two
staple meat*—beef and pork—
larger than any other nation’s;
while oCcotton, the lesding dress
material of civilised man, it
grows three-fourths of the world 'a
total supply. The total annual
value of its manufacturers is
double that of Great Britain, and
equal to that of the combined
manufacturers of Germany,
Prance, and Russia. And its
mines produce more gold and
silver than those of any other
land.
Moreover, Mr. Carnegie may
have told his British hearers
that their Uncle Samnel has
more miles of railroad than all
Europe and two-fifths of the
total mileage of the world; that
bis telegraph mileage is twice as
great as any other country's,
and he sends more telephone
messages in a year than are sent
by the whole of Europe. His
mails carry more letters and
packages annually than all the
post-offices of continental Bn rope
combined, and his newspapers,
free and unccusored. outnumber
those of Britain two to one and
are more than one-thiid all the
newspapers printed in the world.
Pacts like these fully justify
Mr. Carnegie’s exhortation to
the people of Great Britain to
cease dreamiug of "material
ascendancy.” It is manifestly
vain for them to contend against
such "magnitude in commercial
ism” as these figures express.
Mrs. Thsroton Oats a Diyercs
Because Her .Hatband Kept Jc
oa tha Jump.
ladUospolia DUiurrh Mtk.
Mrs. Joseph A. Thornton se
cured a divorce today in the
Supreme Court on her own testi
mony. She said that she mar
ried Charles A. Thornton ten
years ago and that they had
moved 30 times, or oa an average
of three times a year, her hus
band contending that it was
cheaper to move than to pay
rent.
She said her husband is get
ting a good salary, but after the
first year of tneir married life he
had figured ont that, he could
move cheaper than to pay rent
and they had left every house
they bad ever lived in when
S'ectment proceedings were
ireatened, and had never paid
but the first month’s rent at any.
Small Fax at Kings Mountain.
Kiac* Manataia Nrm.OM.31.
Tbe disease may be said to be
abating, at least not spreading.
There is one new case at tne
Bonnie mill in the Sahms family
This is the second case in the
same family, the first having
been dismissed and turned loose.
This case is getting along nicely
and is a mild one. At the Dll
ling hill a majority of the cases
have gotten up. There is one
new family, that of David Put
nam. affected at this mill. This
family is bard by those that have
had the disease. In this mill
locality there has been about
three severe cases, but the others
have been very mild, in many
instances not going to bed. As
mnch vaccination as can be
urged upon the people is being
done,, but no one is compelled
to do this. He takes his choice
in risking the disease. Tbe idea
of the authorities appears to be
to *et all who will to vaccinate
and to Isolate those who do take
the disease.
Keep Up Ike Ooed Wark.
WnUatta* Smiac Mar.
The gentlemen who have keen
making experiments to find a
convenient substitute for coal
should not give up their efforts
because of tbe resumption of
'work st tbe mines. There may
be other and more serious strikes
and besides this, there is a sus
picion that coal la unreasonably
dear even under normal condi
tion mf production'
ATTEMPTED UPEtT TAILS.
Farmer Karnodla Says Past*
Biker Waller, #1 Burlington.
Offered Him 129 (a Deliver
Five Democratic Vetea.
Chvlutts Otemw.
Burlington, Oct. 31.—Mr. R.
A. C. Kernodle, a prosperous
farmer of Boon-Station township,
in this county, aaya ha was ap-'
preached by Postmaster Walker,
of tblsjplacc, to-day and was of
fered $25 if he would secure five
votes for the Republican ticket.
Mr. Kernodle is very indignant
over the matter and went at
once to consult a lawyer abont
it. He says .it ia the second
time the proposition was made
to him and that be paid no at
tention to it the first time, but
when the subject was mentioned
the second time he became in
dignant and condndcd to test
the matter iu law. His son, a
boy of some 12 or 13 years of
age, and Mr. C. P. Neese, a
leading jeweler of this place,
were both witnesses to the affair.
His counsel sought an interview
with Solicitor Brook on the
matter but the result of the con
ference was not made public,
Mr. Kernodle went to hia home
this evening and said he would
return to-morrow and sec about
the rustier. Mr. Neese aaya Ihe
report is unqualifiedly false, so
far os his connection with it is
concerned, and be so stated to
Chas. R. McLean, an attorney
at this place. Mr. Neeae ia a
prominent business man and a
Democrat and his veracity ia
unquestioned.
White lev oh Means at the Seuth.
WtakliMw Ns.
We have already heard from
the negro politicians and profes
sional officeholders at the South,
and are quite aware of their feel
ing as to the new Republican
movement in that sectiou. That
they oppose to what is called the
"lHIy-white* dispensation a stub
born and bitter hostility is suffi
ciently notorious. Quite a num
ber of meetings have been held
in North Carolina, Alabama, and
elsewhere, and from others, also
we receive noisy, if not dignified
and convincing, asaeveratiou to
the effect that never, no never,
will the barbers, bead waiters,
janitors, aud valet-dc-chambre
who have heretofore furnished
the colored contingent in Re
publican leadership at the South
permit themselves to be effaced.
We are told, in accents more or
less impressive, that they repre
sent the bone and sinew of the
party organization and that tltey
expect and intend to continue
the time-honeyed industry of fur
nishing delegates for future de
livery at nominating conventions
and receiving Federal patronage
as a consideration thereof.
Meanwhile the white leaders,
who are tired of the odium and
the ostracism to which their as
sociations have hitherto con
demned them, reiterate the de
clarations that attended their de
parture from the old order of
things. They are determined to
build up a respectable Republi
can patty at the South and they
have at last, after more than
thirty years of failure, realised
that the consummation in ques
tion can be achieved ouly by
eliminating the negro factors
from the equation. They pro
pose to carry out their deliberate
ly formulated policy without the
smallest reference to Northern
opinion, no matter from what
high quarter it may be proclaimed
Tficy nave to live at the South;
they are acquainted with the so
cial and political conditions;
they have to bear the conse
quences of any blnadcrs that
may be committed. They there
fore, will direct the course of the
Republican patty in that section
ana stipulate the terms upon
which it shall be organised and
led.
It is abundantly evident that
the white Republican leaders do
not Intend to depart from the
policy they have adopted, and
that the so-called "Uny-white”
movement will be pushed to its
legitimate conclusion without
the smallest reference to outside
opinion or any considerations of
expediency.
Charlotte's Tests far Aarnnisl
CkirieM* OlHcnr. * f
lu conjecturing about what
this community likes in the way
of amusement the casual ob
server is again at aea. Henry
Wattersou lectures here to two
score paid tickets; Sam Jones
plays to standing room; a circus
gets 12.000 spectators and only
a thin Hue of fashionables see a
gorgeous Sbaketperian produc
tion; Sundays everybody eats
cold lightbread ana goes to
charch, and daring tne week
society plays euchre and the rest
of the population ride* on the
merry*go*rosind.
0
THAMKSOIVntO 1AT MOV. J7th.
k Fredaaaatioa by the PraaMea*
Dasignatiaf a Day ef Thanks
giving.
According to the yearly cus
tom of oar people, It Mill upon
the President at this season to
appoint a day of festival and
thanksgiving to God.
Over a century and a quarter
baa passed since this country
took its place among tbe natrons
of tbe earth, and during that
time we have had. on the whole,
more to be thankful for **»■« baa
fallen to the lot of any other
people. Generation aftergener
ition bu frown to iraahood and
passed away. Each hat had to
bear its peculiar burdens, each
to face its special crisis, and
each has known years of grim
trial, when the country was
menaced by malice, domestic
or foreign levy; when tbe hand
of the Lord was heavy upon it
m drought, or flood, or petti
«ence; when In bodily distress
and anguish of aoal it paid tbe
penalty of folly and a froward
heart.' Nevertheless decade by
decade we have struggled on
ward and upward; we now
abundantly enjoy material well
being. and under tbe favor of
the Most High are arc .striving
earnestly* to achieve moral and
spiritual uplifting. The war
that has just closed has been
one of peace and of overflowing
plenty. Rarely lias any people
enjoyed greater prosperity than
wc are now enjoyinr. For this
wc render heartfelt and solemn
thanks to tbe Giver of 'Good,
and we seek to praise Him, not
by words only, but by deeds, by
the way in which we do onr
fellow-men.
Now. therefore. 1, Theodore
Roosevelt, President of the
United States, do hereby desig
nate as a day of general thanks
giving Thursday, the twenty
seventh of the coming Novem
ber, aud do recommend that
throughout the land the people
cease from their ordinary occu
pations, and in their several
homes and nieces of worship
render thanks onto Almighty
God for the manifold blessings
of tbe past year.
In witness whereof I have act
my hand and canted the seal of
the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washing
ton this 29th day of October, in
the vear of onr Lord one thou
sand nine hundred and two, and
of the independence of the
United States the one hundred
and twenty-seventh.
By the President;
(skal) Tukodokk Rooskvxlt.
John Hay, Sec'y of State.
Preefdent Pacelet HIM
CkartotM 0>MHW.
Spartanburg, S. C., Oct. SI.—
News baa been received hen of
the death of Capt. John H. Mont
gomery, in Gainesville, Ga., the
result of a fall received there to
day. Capt. Montgomery -was
president of the Spartan Mills,
in this city, the Gainesville, Go.,
Cotton Kills, and the Pacoiet
Manufacturing Company, of
Pacoiet, S. C.
Capt. Montgomery was per
haps the largest cotton manu
facturer in the South. Besides
being president of the Pacoiet
and Gainesville Cotton Mills
capitalised at $4,500,000, he was
also president of the three Paco
iet Mills, of South Carolina, and
a stockholder and director In
several mote. His son, V. Mont
gomery. of Spartanburg, togeth
er, with his brothers, arrived
here with his family, this after
noon. The remains will be in
terred st Spartanburg Sunday.
Begged’ WfcUa Brhy. Bet te be
The 16-year-okl son of Asal
Walker, who lives in the edge of
Randolph, accidentally shot him
self In the thigh last Saturday
evening and died within a few
hours. The boy had been
hunting, but wham found was
near the stables. His only
words were to his father, asking
him not to scold him. Three
squirrels were lying at bis feet.
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MILLINERY.
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la oar MUUaeiy department will be found the
latest shapes, materials, and trimmings with •
• a skilled Milliner who knows how to fashion
them with artistic taste into the moat stylish
bttiwmtr Sot Ladies. Misses, and ChUdran.
JACKETS.
A|Cotnplata stock of Jacket* foe T^au» ud
•elaetien yon an asostHkaly to find jnst the
sue aad value you want
anuanra waists.
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ja*v imvca,
vqk cmcutoml
Remember we have the ion, Ger
mantown wool, aad sepfcvra far crochetfan
purposes.
ALWAYS
A select stock of Silks, Dram Goods, Ap
pUqun, aad trimmings of Ml kinds ou
JAMES F. YEAGER.
_LAD1B8* FURNISHINGS A SPECIALTY.
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We haw ]wt wttiitd another
car-load ol nlca'Teansanac Boa*
aea and Maks; among then an
aoaia extra ine Mg nxlea weigh
ing UOO pMtada aad trpwarda;
alao tone oka. Mod. work
horses, single driving bones and
saddlers.' Come aad ja* ear
Mg lot ol stock, we have non
than fifty bead to show yoa sod
they win be mid at prices to
nit the times. If yoa waot a
good bona or tank bo son to
emll aad see ns at once aad oblige
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