North Carolina Newspapers

W. r. MARSHALL, Editor u4 Pr^riolor. Biiiw.-!. —■=»»— - 1 "■■■ ■ I— II ■■■ —- ■ ■ ——-rWWTT~ilWW—. VOL" XXHI._ GASTONIA, N. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28,^002 CONOKSSMEN ROT IN. Mr. Joy Coll* Casualty loll la tbo Account* Committee. ffuUMIM Hut Charles P. Joy, member of Congress from St. Louis, who was defeated at the polls after ten , years’ service, stepped blithely into the room of the House Committee ou Accounts. No one was present at the time except W. Tyler Page, the c!6rk of the committee. Mr. Joy is the present vice chairman of the committee. "Is Congressman Bull in?” he isked, in a childlike and bland manner. Mr. Page simply smiled, for Chairman Bull, of the committee, was left at home in a very hearty manner by the voters of the Providence (R. I.) district. "Is Congressmen Loud in?” snin insinuated Mf. Joy. Again Mr. Page smiled, for Mr. Loud, of the committee, adorned the outside of the breastworks in San Francisco. "Is Congressman Henry C. Smith in?" proceeded Mr. Joy. Mr. Page by this time wss laugh ing heartily, for Mr. Henry C. Smith, of the committee, failed of renomination in the Adrian (Mich.) district. "Is Congressman Wooten in?" persisted Mr. Joy. Page con tinued laughing. He saw what was coming, (or Congressman Wooten lost the Dallas (Tex.) district for nomination. "Is Congressman Joy In?” "Is Congressman Page in?” As Mr. Joy was beaten in St. Louis, and Mr. Page himself was buried as a candidate in Baltimore, they were only con structively "in.” The Committee on Accounts was almost wiped out at the late election. Its chairman, vice chairman, four other members, and its clerk heard the dull thud * of defeat. By virtue of these fortunes of war Congressman Hildcbrant, of Ohio, the junior Republican member of the com mittee and the only surviving Republican, will go to'the head of the committee next Congress. The Committee on Accounts heads the list of House commit tees, and, while it is hard hit. is not the only one in which will appear great changes next Con gress. The Committee o n Mines and Mining comes next. It loses its chairman, Eddy, of Minnesota; Connell, of Pennsyl vania; Sheldon, of Michigan; Moody, of Oregon; Glenn, of Idaho; Edwards^ of Montana, and Smith, of Arizona. But of this number only Connell was defeated at the polls. Old Tabacco. Soaaokc News. Ur. B. R. Browning, of Little ton, has a box of manufactured tobacco that Is now nearly a half century old. It weigh* 108 pounds ana was manufactured in 'Lynchburg. Va., before the Civil war and before the days of tobacco tax stamps, consequently it bears so revenue stamps. Ur. Browning has been approached time and again by would-be , purchasers, but he has declared that the tobacco is not for sale. Some few yean ago he bad an amusing experience with a reve nue officer. The inspector noticed the box of tobacco, which Ur. Browning kept on exhibition in his store, and he said:*' "See here, Mr. Browning, how is this yon keep manufactured tobacco in your atom on which them Is no stamp?" Mr. Browning replied, "l am not offering that tobbecco for sale" "That makes no m Serene*," •aid the officer, "I will have to take (that box of tobacco with me." , -Mr- Browning replied, "Ob, I gueaa not." "Yea, but I will," said the man. "It is a viol•«on of the law to have it here, even if yon are not offering it tor sale." Thinking be had carried the joke about far enough, and see ing that the man was in dead earnest and about to seise and possess the valuable prise, Mr. Browning pulled out the invoice which he always keeps bandy, ■bowing that he purchased the bo* of tobacco daring the war, befon the existence of the war revenue tax. and that it was manufactured dong before the war. . Seeing tbst be bad no claim, the man gracefully acknowl edged (that be bad no idea that there waa a box of tobacco in the State older 'than the rev enue laws of the laud. Mr. Browning will tend Ida box of tobecoo to the World's Fair at St. Louis, in 1904. THE AH EMC AH COLLEGE. Tw» Ualvaralty PrasUasU Dis cus* the Daafin that Threatea It. Hew York World. It is perhaps something more than a coincidence that two university presidents should on the same day and in different States take as the chief theme of their discourses the dangers that threaten modern education. President Butler’s statement at Swarthmore that "the traditional American college is disappear ing before our eyes,” ana will unless disintegrating influences are checked, "disappear entirely in another generation or two." was in effect a defense of his plea for the shortening of the college course, thus saving it to subserve the higher ideals of the American people. Otherwise in the opinion of Columbia's presi dent, the American college will disappear and it is stated we shall have left "an agreeable finishing school or country clnb for the sons of the well-to-do." President Harper, of the University of Chicago, on the other hand, in an address at Handel Hall, in Chicago, had this to sa> of the'tendencies of modern education: The greatest danger of modem times is the tendency to specialising in all lines. I think this spirit is responsible for unionj trusts, and combina tions. We would not have had these combinations had not the specialists forced their organiza tions. With due deference to both these distinguished educators it will be difficult for the general public to accept their conclus ions. But even should the big universities be finally given over to the specialists and become the finishing schools for rich men’s sons, the American college will still exist. There are scores of them all over the Union that are tfnknown by name even to many educators. They do not figure in the big football games, and they are not patronized by wealthy students, bnt they are doing good work, nevertheless. To them the American people will not look in vain, even if the leading uni versities specialize and refine until they are beyond the reach of ambitious American youth who have to fight their way through college as strennonslv aa any champion ou the football field. A Pulp'Mill (• B« Established ia Western North Carolina. Aabrrflk DUpaU*. Western North Carolina is to “*2? * palp paper mill factory. The enterprise is backed by millions of dollars and will be one of the largest industries of the kind in the entire South. Already are the promoters of this new industry for this sec tion on the field of action and ars negotiating for the purchase of a large boundary of land, known as the Whittier lands, located near Eorney creek. The lands in question contain 72,000 acres. The paper mill company Is represented by Mr. T. W. Kneeland, of New York. Mr. Kneeland hopes to close up the negotiations for the Whittier lauds now pending at a very early date and to begin' opera tion as soon thereafter as may be possible. His company owns similar industries in different parts of the country, their two largest mills belngm New York and Ontario. The western North Carolina mill will uot only manufacture pulp paper, but will also turn out the fin ished product. The kinds of wood nsed will be hemlock and balsam. The Whittier lands are said to be famous for their fine growth of both of these woods._ Aa Uuml Appticatisn •( flu A*Mn lute. RlMktl btmdu • A certain citizen of North Carolina was not long ago promised the office of postmaster at a certain place. He was poor; had a large family and no means of support save his daily labor. Delighted with the pros pect he went to the place. When he got there be found that the man who had the office and whom be should supersede was SB" *»» "to • Urge family. Seeing This, he sent word to 1«“ him the office that he would not take It "The present incumbent," he said, "is a poor nun and a good one. I will not take bis place from bias. It would concerns me before Ood.” And he went to work. This is the beat example of the Golden Role that wa have found In North Carolina public life. LABOl’S TtlUMflfS President Osmpsra' n Extremely liters etlng Trad# Dscomsxt. Bodoo Globe <T>*d.) The report of President Go ra pe rg, of the American Federa tion of T.abor, presents severs! points touching the utilities of the organisation which afford much food for thought. Nothing, however, is more striking tuan wbat he cite* as "a splendid exhibition of solid arity,” wherein be describes the magnificent returns that were made in response to the call for contributions to help the strik ing coal miners. It used to be said flippantly by employers when their mkn wtnt on strike that they would in time come back as humble supplicants as soon os hunger pressed sufficiently hard upon them. So the coal operators complacently affirmed that the only manner in which the strike could be ended would be by the return of the men to work un conditionally. t i ue wina ior tne nrsi nine tn history wu taken completely oot of their sails when they found each separate trade of the vast army of organized labor contributing so promptly and generously that when the strike was settled the miners bed an ampte fund to sustain them in idleness, if need be, all winter. If snch an organisation of federated trades can be kept up the starvation argument of in dustrial oppressors is lost for ever. Tbe heroism of the "scab," so much lauded by President Eliot, will go for nothing, and compulsory arbitration will exist os an unwritten law rather than as a written compact, which might often be worked to tbe jnjury rather than tbe benefit of Mr. Gompers' observations on child labor in the South are timely. He shows that in limit ing the suffrage to an educa tional qualification and then keeping the rising white popula tion ignorant in the mills, the South is simply bnrying itself in a mass of white ignorance— hoisting itself by its own petard. Mr. Gompers’ report is one of the most interesting public trade documents ever published and will bear careful study. Vo Ara Klch. Richmond New*. Nothing can do more to com mand the world’s peace and to keep all tbe governments of tbe earth in w&oleaome awe of this republic than tbe publication of the financial record of these United States for the last five years. In these five years we have fought two wars, bought and paid for an archipelago in the Pacific and a few bunches of miscellaneous islands elsewhere, have doubled our army, added largely to tbe navy and been lavish in internal improvements. In the same time wc have been forced to abolish the extra taxes for war purposes, and the fitst of last month, according to a Wash ington letter in the Dispatch this morning, we had $356,000, 000 cash in the treasury, and the government is many million dollars richer than it was at tbe beginning of the five years’ period. At the same time, the people are more prosperous than ever before and the harden of taxation it felt less. No other government can make such a magnificent showing of resources. Wars are fongfat with dollatra in these days, and we can command twice as many dollars as any other government. The meaning of that is that our friendship it a thing to be retained and onr hostility is to be avoided almost at any cost. Wc are in position to be the guardian of the world's peace simply by moral force ana the overwhelming power of riche*. Surely there has never been in all tbe world's history a time when riches could be put to snch sublime use. Seathara Maa Bosorsd. CknloMlIm, It nay be a torprise to many to know that Governor-elect Lu cius P. C. Garvin, the Demo cratic and snccesafnl nominee lor the Governorship of Rhode Island, ia a Southerner by birth and was for many years a resi dent of Greensboro. Mr. Garvin was born in Knoxville, Tenn. His father died when he was six years old and Ms mother re moved to Greensboro, where she taught In the Greensboro Peaala College, later marrying tha late Wash McConnell of tnat town. Mr. Garvin left Green*boro be fore the war. The Record says many Greentboro folks still re member Mm. SOLO HEB BABY. ’ Beclvad for lt~|«WFroa• Child leoo Coagio. Mr Hd Kra. A. Wriitnud. D|. T* Mn. Oarah 0*ldb«*|. To aoo hultfcr Mil La loot___f to* IttOH'd par Bent. AAtAH OOM>SU*0. Aim: Maa M. Ctato. Hourr. Mr. «ud Mr*. Abraham Welt bard, of No. 242 Monroe street, an rejoicing to-day because they hove a baby in their home. Mrs. Sarah Goldberg is weeping in her cottage in Bayonne, N. Y., because her baby is gone. She has three other children but she misses the tiny infant that came to her seven weeks ago. Mr. and Mrs. .Wetiburd have long wanted a [baby. Six little ones have been born to them, but neither (lived more than an hour. So they advertised a week ago for a baby of their faith to take the place of the laat little one that lingered with them only long enough to gasp a few timea and Uttar a few feeble moan*. Mn. Goldberg answered the advertisement. She explained that her husband has deserted her six tnoutos ago and that she found the struggle of caring for her four children too great So the baby was sold for $500.| Max M. Gants, notary public witnessed the hill of sale above, which will-bc filed jn the county clerk's office. U4y Henry Somerset’, Otaer tsUsos Hnr Vet Ben. Lady Henry Somerset is re ported to have remarked as she was about to return to England, on Wednesday, that during her month’s visit to the United States her chief surprise had been at the "general sobriety of the American people,” and she attributed it to their "greater alertness and enery,” as com pared with the obviously more intemperate people of her own country. Inasmuch os her association* here bad been almost wholly with women active in the tem perance movement, among whom she herself is one of the most completions figures, her opportunities for observation as to popular habits may be said to have been partial and closely limited; but the conclusion she reached is confirmed by statis tics of the comparative consump tion of alcoltolic stimulants in this country and England. Her observation as to the greater prevalence of sobriety here is coufinned also by travelers gen erally in coming from the one to the other country. The appal ling degradation due to gross in temperance so observable in Liverpool and London and the great towns of England and Scotland generally does not force itself on even the casual attention in America. A Snake la a Cattta. Hlekaft Mutchrr. A lady, daughter of Noah Lots, died of cancer at her home in South Carolina. Her body waa brought to Salem church, in Lincoln comity, for interment. When they took the casket out of the box at tbe grave to place the box in the grave, a black snake, four or five feet long, crawled out of the box on to one on the men. It was killed. This created quite a sensation. Many were the theories as to bow it came there, and. what it meant. In the minds of many great superstition took up camp, and it waa amusing to hear the various comments. The most reasonable theory os to how H came in the box u, that the box was left out over night and it crawled in and got under some paper and trash left in it, and which waa not removed when tbe casket was placed in- it. Take it for what it is worth. Orent fhrywitiw firs war. Sssrtsskaia Jourasl. The fact may not he generally known that Uncle Samis in the chrysanthemum business, and that his exhibits in this line are something altogether gorgeous sad almost unique. The chrys anthemum show which the sec retary of agriculture has been giving in Washington has even excited the envy and admiration of tbs Japanese colony there, who allow that they never saw anything more beautiful at home. The specimens which have been grown under the di rection of the agricultural de partment’s experts, rival tbe rarest of tbeir kind In the world. Whether or not the raising of chrraantbemams is of any prac tical value to tbe science oi agriculture, it is gratifying to know that the department is producing the beat in the market. ILLICIT MSTILLCUES. Aetfroyed Ay . la Qreanvtlle Ceufy. 8. C Cbmleatoa, S. C.. November 20.—The News Courier special from Greenville, 8.C., lays: A record-breaking raid was made last.night by a party of revenue officers and State con* stables oil tlit dark corner section of this county. T>» destroyed six large illicit distilleries, seventy-five fermen ters, eight thousand gallons mi beer and mash and slaty' gallons oi new wines. Threaof tbeslUls were found in operation, bet the moonshiners in charge eeoaped, being warned by sentinels of the approach of the lading party by signal yells and repeated firing of guns. The party was com posed of Deputy Adams. Deputy Marshal Putnam. Constables Cooley, Allen and Bell. Whs Pays tht Bills? _Thc*j££T£f Steel rails has in creased about ten dollars per ton since the beneficent Dlngley bill undertook the care a««d maintenance of tlie trusts. year the avenge price was $26 per ton.! It is a fact that railways ia foreign countries may buy rails from the United States Steel Trusts at the price we formerly paid; since the trusts can aell them profitably at the old price. In slang parlance, the tariff profit is "pure velvet* for the trusts. It may bfi maintained that, since railroad combinations arc in the nature of trusts, the effect of the Ding ley bill in this case is only to protect one trust at the expense of another, and furthermore that to strike a blow at the railroads is indirect ly to bit all the trusts which patronise it. Bat the tariff has no such effect upon trusts gen erally. Railroad combinations are the vehicles of trusts, are made in the interest of trusts and are dominated by them. Discrimi nations in favor of trusts neces sarily follow. The railroads, having to meet increased expenses on account of the tariff, are compelled to take the bulk of their profits from the individval patron. A railway journal remarks that should earnings decrease with out a proportionate decrease in the price of railway materials, many roads would be hard pot to it to make ends meat. * Unquestionably somebody pays that vast increase in the cost of rails, and it is safe to say that the individual* pay their own there aod that of the trusts as well. It is not merely a case of dog eat dog ss between trusts. It is the innocent public which is really hart._ Ska Watched Ba. Chic taw Joonal. When Mr. Good heart came home to sapper, he found Mrs. Good heart in a state akin to de spondency, which wss quite an asaal with her. ’•Why my dear, what is the matter?” he amdonaly inquired. "Matter enough," said she. "Our servant has left tis, and here is a letter from Sarah Annft tage saying she arQl be bar* to morrow and expects to stay over Sunday with us. What on earth is to be done?" "Oh, that will be all right.” said Mr. Good heart. "Harofd can act as dining room waiter, Millie can be maid of all work, and yoo can be cook. Yon know yon are a good one. We shall get along swimmingly.” •And what brill yoo do?" in quired Mrs. Goodheart. "Me? Ob, lH be a gentleman,” he replied. "Very well, we will try ybnr San, Edmund," said she, cheer ily, "bat I am afraid wo shall all feel rather awkward la onr unaccustomed tolas.” Mr. Goodheart says aha waa as cheerful as a lark all the re mainder of tho evening. RoVal Baking Powder v .'^7 a* IflfAilUit aIuRL ^ ■_ i Belts. ' ■«■**» 4eafcas ia Belts Jest hmm m caeta to Handkerchiefs. Taffetas and Sifts. w«»h dlka la^rwMltoa '’m'to UM v*f yarf. Jaat raeatoad a saw akto> ■Mat last waak. —. ■■ "■■■ i ■ ■ ■ Do You Want to Know? 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