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VOL. X_XJII. . GASTONIA. X. C.t TUESDAY, NOVEMBER IS. IPOg
CONDENSED STORIES.
Kelly MiyHert to Learn That Inf
Land Mlfht Whip U. "Again."
W. W. (“Hustler”) Sally was, if
not the first, the moat strenuous of
Am erica n theatrical man to invade
London in tha eighties, when hie
brazen, pagan methods of “boom
ing” his entertainment created
something of a sensation. Ho was
the quintessence of Ycmkea gall, but
really made himself liked by hie
breesy manners and hearty ways.
Ona evening when ho was away for
a brief period half a dozen friend*
were lounging in hi* office. There
were fire Kngluhmen to a solitary
American, and the quiptot speedily
convinced tho Yankee that lha en
tente cordials was a matter of indi
vidual testa. They simply wipod
up tbo office with him and rendered
him helpless by their boastful
throats of the things England would
do to tbs United States should them
come another war between the two
countries. And they bad figure*—
stacks of 'am—to prove thaur argu
ment. Finally Sally, blowing hard
on a big and black cigar, arrived.
Tbo victim grootad him joyously. ■
“Say, Sally, the** fallows havo
lied me on the rack the last hour
telling me that unless tbs United
State* lavs very low England will
simply wipe us off tho earth !”
Kelly’# cigar rolled to on* sid*
of his mouth, his eyebrows lifted
and in a ton# of profound surprise
he naked:
“What! Againr
•am Got th* Tip.
Secretary Shaw tells this on him
self:
“Bam, the darky who brushes my
clothe* in a barber shop down in
Washington, is particulsriy clarar
"lit MM nun xoua coat aoaix."
in delicately reminding customer*
that he expects a tip. Ono morning
after I had been shared I was think
ing of other things and was walking
away without dropping a coin into
hia hands.
“ ‘Let me brush your coat again,
Mr. Secretary,’ said Sam, running
after me.
“ 'Why do you want to bruih it
again V I naked.
""Cause, Mr. Secretery,’ mid
Sam, without cracking a smile—
' ’cause I might brush out soma
aold (last, air.
"Sara got bis tip."—New York
Herald. __
Didn't Mm Lay Doorknob*!
Dr. Henry Van Dyka tall* a itorr
of an old Irishman who waa engaged
in the buainaaa of chicken railing
near Princeton. One day a trav
eling man exproaaod mirprfue at tha
tiea of to much connate! at feeding
time and suggested that tha mss]
bo mixed with eawdnat, ineieting
that the hona ’Would not know tha
difference. A few months later tha
traveling man wad again in the
community, and be asked If tha new
diet had been tried and what tha re
mit had been. "It Wcrirka beautiful
ly/* wad the reply. “See that old
reUow banf w*lt I tried her on
naif and ball, and aha liked H so
wall I changed to all sewdnet, and
the la at time ah* hatched three of
the ohioka had wooden lege and a
fourth was a woodpecker."
M Into tha Fleet Raw.
That wna a novel expedient by
which one young woman wna en
abled to iee King Edward during
the coronation crash In London.
Her itorr show* the value of di
plomacy. T wae right behind,
ma’am,6 aha said, relating her expe
rience to her mistress " ‘Oh/ I
•aid, 1 (han’t see anything in this
crowd.* And then a young man
that I hadn't not lead mid, ‘Why
don’t you faintf* Taintt* I oaiu.
'Who** going to faint f And then
he up and calls, ‘Hera’s a young
woman faintingv And a p’iicemiti
come through, and they carried me
«t to the front I me mleadid.
in, Urn yen mg man helped the
p'Hoecaan.'*_
Subscribe for lint Oairttr.
A HARO^ WORKER.
"Privite” John Allen, who repre
sratsd a Uiiiinippi district in com
graae for Mrtral years, but who vu
left at home two years ago by con
stituents who thought he was not
tsrions enough to be a successful
legislator, was in Woshingiou re
cently on business connected with
Use St. Louie exposition. While In
oengreae John Allen wns known as
"the srit of the house." During his
last visit to Washington he us* din
ing with some friends at u down
town hotel. The hour was lute, and
the conversation dragged. “Private"
Allen began yawning. Finally ha
stretched out both arms und with a
long drawn yawn said, “Well, gen
tle men, I must co to my hotel end
go to bed, for I have some hard
work to do in Ahe morning."
Knowing Hr. Allen's aversion to
work of any kind, one of tho party
aald:
"Why, John, what work bavo you
to do in the morningf"
"Oh," drawled the Hiseiaeippian,
"I have to get up."
PrlM Manay doing A-bogglng.
Tlioi-« it about $16,000 in tho
United States treasury >■ prlxo and
bounty money for sailors who took
part in the Manila and Santiago
battle*. Every penny of prize and
bounty money that the court* de
cided wai due to officers of th* fleets
of Dewey and Sampson lias been
distributed. In speaking of this
matter Auditor Brown of tbe navy
said it ia undoubtedly due to tho
fact that the tailor* do not know
that the money ia ready for them.
Many of tho tars in the two naval
engagements were of foreign birth
and knew nothing of the system of
dividing prise money and bounties.
They have sine* been transferred to
other ship*. Sorao hero died end
others have gone out of tho service
and into other trades.
Tariff Freaks.
A Gorman gentleman returning
from southwest Africa brought with
him a tiny monkey, weighing about
two pound*. From Tanga to Genoa
the animal was conveyed gratis.
Thenea to the Swiss frontier Is. 3d.
was charged on it is "a bird.” . Tha
St. Gothard railway officials, how
ever, viewed it as "a dog” and
charged 7 shillings, while on tbe
Eastern Swiss railway it became a
mere “package” liable to eight pence.
Through Baden and Wurttemberg
th* animal was passed free, but at
Stuttgart it ognm became "a dog*
and cost another la. 5d.
A ftamarkabU Blind Man.
Dennis A. Baaidon ia Boston's
meet remarkable blind man. He
baa been sightless for thirty years,
but ho is s successful architect
buys all the goods for th* Perkins
institute. Mr. Itaardon is th* ar
chitect of fifteen completed build
ing* detignod for tlie Perkins insti
tute. By passing his fingers over
the treeing paper he ia able to feel
the line*, so sensitive is his touch,
end he can tell whether tho idee his
been carried ont os he intended.
Mr. Beardon carries e watch with
out • crystal and ia nevor et a lost
to know tha time.
Cosmopolitan Fattl.
In order to glvo her a legal statue
Mmo. Patti, wo are told, has token
out latter* of naturalisation as e
British subject This helps to aug
ment Use greet diva's cosmopolitan
km. 8b# was born in Madrid, her
father was a native of 8Ieily, and
her mother a native of Romo. She
wea brought up by on "Amerjcsw"
stepfather in the United States,
married a Frenchman and also
an Italian husband before she set
tled down In Wales, Is the wife of a
Swedish nobleman, Baron Coder
atrora, and is now a daughter of
Joke Bull.
Tee Mueh Fir the Locuste.
Geryville, in south Algeria, wai
infested recently with a cloud of lo>
cuati. Garden* and plantation*
We covered with a flutteritg gray
brown pall of the destructive in
aocta. The major in command of
■ the garrison was seised with a heroic
idee, lie called out the band and
directed them (o play up fortewimo
and march against the foe I The lo
custs capitulated: at onco. The mu.
sic waa too much for them, and with
one accord tber cleared away to a
lasa musical neighborhood.
Hew to De It
A man named Humphries in
Olevstand began bnaineet with a
pushcart loaded with popcorn, and
new ho la rich. Bis roeipe la, "If
you want to got ahead, get acquaint,
ad with your Job." Volumee could
“7.10.®0!? ,ad C*B- therefore, he
omitted.—Brooklyn Eagle,
A Mistake
Stella —I cams near miming a
proposal tot night
Bella—Yon did t
fiteQe—Ysa. He got down on hla
birr, and I thought ho woo merely
looking tor a pingpoag ball—Har
Tn« Oairtti, fl.00 a year.
BILL A«rS LETTER.
Tbs Philosopher Talks el
Yuksti end Netreee— Bin
Wife Is Nsrslai Him.
Hill Arp la AUaaU CoMtitatlaa.
Lord Bacon said, "Wives are
young men's mistresses, com
panion.') lor middle age and old
men's nurses." There is truth
in that and iny wife is nursing
me now. Ottr girls have gone
off, one to a wedding and the
other to Atlanta on a visit. T
told them to go for they bad
been penned up here with me
for four long mouths and their
mother said she would take care
of me until they returned. I
get along pretty well daring the
a ay, but at night my cough is
distrexsing and my wife has to
dose me with various remedies
until I go to sleep. The rain
has come at last and purified the
air and I feel better. Yes. we
two are alone in a great big
house. She sits iu her ac
customed corner and sews most
all day long, while 1 sit opposite
in mine ana write or read aloud
to her and when meal time
comes she sits at one eud of the
table and I at the other, and
that's all.
Old Father Gibbons came 9
miles yesterday to see me and to
invite me and my wife to his
birthday dinner. Next week he
will be 89 years old and still be
gets about lively and takes a
comfort in meeting his friends
sod abusing the yankees. It is
hard to reconstruct these old
veterans, especially when they
come from Virginia. He and
his brother moved to Georgia
just after the close of the war.
He settled iu this coanty on a
good farm and hist brother lo
cated in Rome. I never was at the
old gentleman s house bnt once
and that was in 1808. His brother
was a game man and had been a
colonel in the Confederate army.
When the carpet-baggers and
mean niggers overran their
section and plundered every
rebel's home the colonel orga
nized a band of avengers aud
played knklux among them and
whipped them and rsu them off
and later they came back with
federal officer* and the colonel
and his band had to leave to
save their lives. Not long after
the colonel hod settled in Rome
the Virginia carpet-bagger* got
a military order for his arrest
and transportation to Virginia
for trial. A deputy marshal and
another fellow came secretly to
Rome, but the colonel had al
ready been advised of their com
ing aud so one dark night about
10 o’clock he came to my house
and told me his peril son said he
could go to his brother's place,
iu this county and hide out until
thei pursuit had blown over. So
I hitched my horse to our rock
away and we left in baste. I
knew the road to Kingston and
he knew the rest of the way. It
was abont 3 o’clock when wc
reached the place and saw the
gin house ont in the field. There
we stopped and be took refuge
in it and told me to tie my horse
out in the bashes and then go
down and rouse up his brother.
This is the old man who asked
us to come and dine with him.
When I knocked at the door he
came in his night clothes and
said, "Who is that and what do
yon wantf” 1 wmspereo ray
bnrineu and told him to talk
low, for we didn't want the
family or negroes to know any
thing. He put on bis clothes
and went to his brother and I
got {& ray conveyance and made
for Rome, where 1 arrived about
sunrise. Tbe colonel kept hid
in tbe gin hoase under the cotton
for nearly a month sad then
dared to return for the officers
had departed. I never see thin
fine old Virginia gentleman but
what I think of that ride and the
narrow escape his brother made.
Verily reconstruction Was worse
than war. But it is all over now
thank the good Lord, and we
can hold onr reunions and carry
our battle-forn banners and build
our monuments and lay the
corner atone for Winuie Davis
and lynch the brutes that assault
onr wives and daughters and as
Governor Oates said to onr de
tainers in congress. "What are
yon going to do about it?" And
as for lynching, I repeat what I
have said before, "Let the good
wotk go on. Lynch 'em? bang
’em! Shoot 'em I Born ’em."
Israel Putnam went into a cave
with a torch to shoot the wolf
that had devoured the iambs of
his flock, and just so T would
lynch the brutes who outrage
our women. He is not a human.
He is a brute, a beast aod alt
these demonstrations by gover
nors and Jadges and sheriffs are
hypocritical and perfunctory. In
their breasts they rejoice ia the
lynching.
And there is another set of
hypocrites who Infest our sooth
crn land. 1 mean those (or the
sake of filthy lucre and nothing
else invite Roosevelt to visit
their city and they promise him
an ovation. He comes nearer
being a figure-head of the presi
dent than any wc have had. He
is a confirmed alanderer of a
great and good man and he
slandered him and will not re
tract or apologise. Our women
have jort laid a corner stone for
a monument to his lamented
daughter and our veterans and
members of the legislature ap
proved it by their presence, and
yet some of the same creatures
would invite Roosevelt to Savan
nah and Macon and Augusta. I
wouldn’t invite any man to my
town whom I wouldn’t invite to
my house and no man who
tougnt lor the ion cause or
respects Mr. Davis would do
that. There is more patriotism
to-day among oar wuulen than
among onr men. A friend wrote
me from Atlanta that he was
going to have 5,000 copies of
General Jackson’s great speech
on the "Wanderer* printed in
pamphlet form for distribution
at a small cost among onr people.
I have promised to help him
advertise it, but I had no idea
that he conk! sell or hardly give*
away a thousand copies, for our
old meu and cultured meu and
patriots were nearly all dead and
this generation does not care
whether General Jackson made
a speech or not. I asked a col
lege man if he had ever read it
and he seemed surprised and
asked who was General Jackson.
Onr people who have grown up
since the war have fallen into
northern lines and are for money.
Money is their ambition, their
idol. Morgan and Rockefeller
have done more to corrupt the
youug men of this country than
a 11 other causes combined.
Those who are smart are looking
for some short cat to fortune—
some scheme, some tricky way
to shear the lambs and get some
body’s money for nothing. This
it sad, bnt it is the truth.
Well, the election is over and
we are just where we were. We
did't expect anything else. Sen
ator Morgan can take comfort,
for be said long ago that it was
best to let the repnblicans have
the house as long as they had
the senate. Give them rope, all
the rope, aud let tbe country see
where they will run to and by
the next presidential election the
people will be alarmed and turn
the rascals out. So mote it be.
It Was a Mad Bag.
YotkriUc Eaoalm. !S(1i.
Mr. Geo. W. Williams, of
Yorkville, has received a report
from the Pasteur authorities of
Baltimore, that the dog by which
he was bitten sometime ago was
really afflicted with hydrophobia.
It will be remembered that im
mediately after being bitten, Mr.
Williams left for Baltimore,
carrying with him the head of
the dog. He placed himself un
der the Pasteur treatment and
Kve the dog's head over for
cteriologkal examination. He
thought no more of the result of
the examination until last week,
when a pig that had also been
bitten by the same dog, began to
show signs of disorder and he
wrote to Baltimore tor a report
of the bacteriologists on the dog’s
brain. The report was to the
effect that the rabbits that had
| been inoculated developed
hydrophobia, during the latter
part of October. The pig. of
course, was killed at once.
Oirl Mss at the Peat Haase.
CbtrloU* Obtnm, lStfc.
Miss Minnie Sehenck, who has
been ill with small-pox for about
10 days, died at the pest house
yesterday. As has been stated
in the Observer, Miss Scbenck
had a very malignant attack of
the disease, and her condition
was critical after the first day of
her illness.
Miss Scbenck was the daugh
ter of Mr. George Scbenck, who
Uvea at 718 Soutli Church street.
She was a hard-working girl,
whose wages contributed much
to the support of her family.
The occurrence !a too pitiable
to dwell upon. The horror was
not emphasised by any lack of
attention, medical or otherwise;
yet it is doubtful if words can
be used to more ghastly purpose
than in tha saying that it was a
young girl who died and that at
the last she wss in a pest house.
Liverpool capitalist! daaira to
wake the west coast of South
Africa rival the Southern States
of America in growing cotton.
They sent a hundred tons of Am
erican icrd to Africa last season.
The cron matured in ninety
day*, ana tba staple was highly
satisfactory in both quantity and
quality.
FRENCH Aigg THAT IlIZsT
Mad* Succaaafsi Ascaats Mi
BMMata. B atoning to Start*
tag fatal*
waaiutocroa.
Nantes, France, Nov. 15—The
airship built lot the brothers
Pierre and Paul Lebaody made
a very successful trial to-day in
this neighborhood. Several free
ascents and descents were ef
fected. accompanied by cvols
tions in all directions over the
fields and woods bordering the
Seine between La Roche Guyon
and the town of Bonnieres.
The flying machine returned
each time to its poiut of depart
ure at the rate of 25 miles an
hour. There were four persons
in the car.
Yuk Connty Items.
TotkvilU Bunlm. lith.
Chief of Police Love caught
three dogs during Wednesday.
They were put op at auction
Thursday afternoon. Two were
redeemed, and the third was bid
in by the town and killed.
A heavy piece of machinery
that waa being transported by
the Catawba Power Company
from Old Point to their works at
the river, smashed through the
bridge over the creek last Mon
day. Fortunately nobody waa
hurt and even the mules escaped
without injury. The piece of
machinery weighed abont 30,000
pounds.
Matt Bvera, the well-known
colored malefactor who has
figured so extensively in the
coart of general sessions of this
county and on the chaingang
sod in the penitentiary daring
the past dozen years, waa com
mitted to jail again on Thursday.
The charge against him this
time is disturbing a religious
meeting. He was arrested at
King’s Mountain, N. C.
Pursuant to previously adver
tised notice, the board of trus
tees of the YorkviHe Graded
school, on Wednesday, let the
contract for furnishing the new
graded school building. There
were present five representative*
of differeut Ironses dealing in
school furnitnre aud the compe
tition was quite lively. A. T.
Woods, of the American School
Furniture Company, Piqua, O.,
was the lowest bidder, and se
cured the contract to furuish 180
desks, 100 opera chairs, 200 feet
of recitation seats, 500 square
feet of slate blackboard, one
desk for superintendent and four
desks for teachers. The bill for
the entire purchase amounts to
about $800.
Irish potatoes have been doing
well this year where they re
ceived proper attention. Mrs.
C. H. Smith sent The Bnqnirer
some fine specimens the other
day of the Bliss Triumph variety
that averaged nearly three-quar
ters of a pound each. She has
100 bushels and they are worth
$1 a bushel. Mr. W. A. Young
blood, of Concord, says that one
of his neighbors, Mr. Paris, has
a bountiful second crop from the
first planting. He ssed potatoes
from his patch as he wanted
them in the early summer and
left the patch alone without
digging the potatoes. The aec
ond crop got the start of the
grass and weeds, and is now
heavier than the first crop.
Sweet Potatoes.
Yort-Ul* Imim.
Refering to the harvest of Mr.
D. A. Matthews, of Clover, of
fifty-five bushels bf potatoes
from one-eighth of au acre of
land, the News and Courier
says; "More than 800 bushels
of sweet potatoes have been
gathered from one acre in tba
coast country of the state.
Among the refugees from the
low-country to the upper part of
the state during the war, was
Mr.' John Wilson, who estab
lished himself at DonsldsviUe,
in Abbeville county. Our
recollection is that be raised on
sn acre of laud on bis farm at
that place, more than 800 bnshek
of potatoes." _
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INFANTS HEADWEAR.
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W« have a complete line of Infante’ Cepe la all the newest
design*, very pretty, stylish, and attractive, from
38c to $2.60 each.
UNDERWEAR.
Come and inspect oar line of Ladies’ Hisses,’ and
Children's Combination Saits and Underwear.
NOVELTIES.
Wc are constantly getting in tha new things the
■tyilah novelties—sach m COHB8, BELTS, PURSES,
BAGS. etc. Have just received the aeweat thing out
in back combs. Com and get yours while they am
REMEMBER
That we are always in the load on Walking Skins—
Oxford grey, light grey, and Mack. . W " i
PECO SKIRTS
am the leading garment. Prices $1, $1.25. $1.50 each.
JUST ARRIVED
Kew lot AppHqoes, latest oat in Made and cream
Medallions.
JAMES F. YEAGER.
LADIES’ FURNIBHOIQS A SPECIALTY.
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