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mil THE Gaston a grows greater, not leas. ■ _ --V- — ■ Published Twice a Week—Tuesdays W. f. MA1SHALL. Editor —i TtwiHw. DEVOTED TO THE P10TECTI0N Of HOME AND V°L- XXIII. GASTONIA, N. C.. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2. BILL Air. The Burlaw Phiisaofber Write* of Wamen’s CM*. miU At* I* AllmaU Censtiutlcm. I've been watching these women—these club women. For a long time I did not like the name, but I am reconciled. I sever visited a man's club but once. It was a gathering of very nice, well behaved social gentlemen with eatables and drinkables in the background, but nobody partook to excess while I was there. The excess came afterwards, if it came at all. But a woman’s club has neither eatables nor drinkables nor cigars- Of course it is a very social gathering but they mean business and they do it. -Only a few yean ago a few ladles of this town determined to do something for the town and they formed "The Cherokee Club." and soon had more jncmocrs ana wcm to wuik. au the metnben had passed their teens and the married ones had laid by their ocop. They secured a charter and then got a lease from the city and the State for 50 yean control of the ground between the hotel block and the railroad and adorned it with grass and gravel walks and enclosed it with a chain fence and placed handsome iron seats by the shade trees and planted a beautiful fountain in the center and peopled it with gold fish. This beautiful park is the hoik ing ground for the children and a cheerful resting place for their tired mothers ami a trysting place for young men ana middens. Near by the trains are passing at all hours, and our new beautiful passenger depot is near at hand, where our people congregate to receive their friends or bid them good by. And the club did it all, for the old depot would still be there if the women had not stirred np the men to demand another. Then these women began to plant flowers and shrubbery in the school house grounds, and next they started a small li • brary in a small room, and circu lated good books among our people ami they kept on and on until they got a larger room and more books, and Kept it open two days in a week and the demand for books soon widened to the country and every week they sent opt four boxes of sUty volume* each along the mail routes, and so nave estab lished a rural circulating library that has proven a blessing to onr country boys and girls, and the books always come back unhurt and axe sent out on another mis sion. Next these good women started a. sewing society among the poorer classes in our com munity and arc taking turns in teaching the girls bow to cut garments and make them and where they are very poor they give them aid and comfort. It u all charity. But last of all and best of all they have actual ly laid the foundation of la Club Library building that will h6Id thousands of books and where all the best magazines of the country will be taken. Tbe city fathers gave them a beautiful lot and If the weather permits the building will be finished and paid for sad occupied in three months. It will not only be a library for books but a place for rest for the traveling man as well as for our country friends and their wives and daughters when they come to town. Besides these uses it is intended to have literary and musical entertain merits there that will be far more elevating and refining than the average shows that perform • In our opera bouse. These sense women organized a lycount course for two winters ana iKMttu nuny wen, our 10 Miff ate off for lecturer* coat* too much for a town ol thia slse and so they; am going to *ecure bom talent and talent from Atlanta and Roma and Dalton and 'have entertain meats at pmnte price*, my at 10 emu admission, a* Professor Proctor, the great astronomer did up North. He told ms he never charged more in a mannfactur , ing town and always gave the working people the preference ol •oats and always had a crowded It we* a' cheap sad delightful school to them. What thaba «lub women will do next I do sot Know, but they □max business. They mean to elevate their own sex first end if the *Mn and boys soma hi they will find a welcome. I suppose tbit this library buildlns wrUbe the first that any club has erected in the State, and what I wish to remark and emphasise is that there is not a respectable, town or village ia the State but can do something oa this asms lias. How I hear yon aatr, where | did yon get the money to do all this/ "Heaven helps those who help themselves.r Oor women began with very little. The railroad gave them $50 to start on and gave them part of the seats in the park. Then the clnb gave an oyster supper and made a good little sum. Later on they held a bazaar, and later on a concert, and after awhile another supper, and all along at intervals they smiled at the merchants and others and got some more money and wheu they run clear down they assess themselves and we husbands and fathers have to sell out. No, you don't need a Carnegie, but if you have one great, nig hearted man and his wife in your community like we have you will not become bankrupt; where there is a will there is a way. And my observation is that women esn do any good thing tney combine on. A thoughtful man who witnessed the laying of the corner stone said to me, "This is the best work that haa ever been started in this town and ia doing more to uplift and en courage our young people than anything else. God bless the women." ” Lord Bacon said," Knowledge is power.” It is force. It i« money. A good library ia better than a university. Dr. Jonnson said "Knowledge is the wing with which we fly to heaven." One of my boys (Frank) is a civil engineer and bnilt two plants of water works in Ohio for Ur. Huntington. One day the pump at London got out of order and he went down in the deep well to fix it but failed. A secofld time be tried it bat it would not work and the water in the reservoir eras getting low. He telegraphed to a neighboring town for an expert to come by the next train. He came and fixed it in half an hour, Frank felt relieved and thanked him and asked him for his bill. "Ten dollars," he said; " two dollars for railroad fare, $3 for fixing the pump and $5 for knowing how." That's it; knowledge is money. Some time ago I advertised for a copy of General Henry R. Jackson’s famous speech on the "Wanderer" and also for a copy of Daniel Webster’s last and greatest speech made at Capon Springs in June, 1851. in which he qualified all his previous decimations about the rights of a State to withdraw from the Union under certain con tingencies. That speech was suppressed at the North and ia not found in his published works. Well, I have been favored with both. Senator Mangum, of North Carolina, heard tne speech delivered and he with other Southern members of Congress had it printed in pamphlet form and his grandson, Wiley Mangum Turner of Greensboro. N. C., has found it among bis grand father’s papers and sent it to me. My friend, Mr. Bd. Holland, of Atlanta, Ga., has had both speeches neatly printed in one pamphlet, together-with a brief biogrsphv of General Jackson by his friend Joseph M. Brown, and this invaluable pamphlet will be mailed to any address on re ceipt of 25 cents. It will be sent to students of colleges at the cost .of publica tion. Address Bd Holland, At lanta, Ga. - And now here is ‘a letter from an old Federal soldier living at Live Oak, Fla. His name la F. W. Angus, and he belonged to Genera! Sickles' brigade, and days after • battle in Virginia in 1Bo2 he found in the woods the dead body of a Confederate sol dier and he jk comrade dug a grave end buried him. In hit pocket wea found a pass from Colonel John S. Reid, colonel commanding Third Georgia reg iment, and the name of tne sol dier wee D. P. Williams. Also another pass from Captain D. B Langston, commanding com paay a. . I find In General Avery’s ros ter the names of both these offi cers sad if Private Williams has •nrfwtrvivinf relatives and would like to heve these passes I will send them. I wrote in a former letter that' the beam bom Mississippi bad Wd a convention and resolved not to come out of their dens to be shot m to sny Preaidrnt who slandered Mr. Davis, i am pleased to read that Governor ix>ngiso did not invite him there and that the veterans of Memphis will not attend the ovation that Mamphla baa promised him. After denouncing Mr. Davis (who was dead) as the arch traitor and repndiator, it sterna to sm to be the most unblushing Impudence for him to put bia fat on that bellowed ground, fa says in his so-called nl story that when Mr. Davis was Gov ernor be vetoed tbe bill that was passed to pay tbe repudiated debts, when the troth is Mr. Davis never was Governor, nor did he ever advocate repudiation. Teddy, old bo>, when are you going to retract and send an apology to Mrs. Davis, who is still living. You say in your book that we were all traitors and anarchists. How about yonr Uncle Captain Bulloch, who served with Admiral Semmes in our navy, of whom yon wrote so gushingly to Mr. Cunningham, saying he was a most admirable man and very like Colonel New come of Thackcry? Was he a traitor, too? Bat Cunningham says Teddy is all right and show ers editorial praise upon him in "The Veteran.” I wonder what the veterans of Mississippi think of that. Teddy said: "I am going to Mississippi to hnnt bear," and the bean said, ‘Forbear!” York Canty llama. Yorkville Snoalrof. Nov. fOth. The public building which the government ia to erect in Rock Hill for the postoffice and other purposes, ia to be located ou the corner of Main and Cald well streets. The price to be paid for the lot is $S,500. Work is to commence soon. The Richland* distillery is said to be paying revenue tax to the government at the rate of about ll.OOO.UOO a year. A few years ago the total collections of the internal revenue service in South Carolina only amounted to about $00,000 per annum. Mr. H. C. Simpson, the Catawba bee man, is in Yoris ville this week on the jury. He says that this has been the poor est honey year he has experi enced in five or alx years. He baa averaged only about eleven pounds of honey to the colony. He is unable to explain the cause of the failure, but under stands it to be general. The first rural delivery mail wagon brongbt to Yorkville, was unpacked by the Heath Elliott. Mnlc Company last Friday, having been ordered by Mr. J. C. Elliott at a venture. Several of the free delivery carriers examined it immediate ly upon its arrival, and on Satur day morning it was purchased by Mr. D. C. Clark, carrier on Yorkville Route No. 1. It ia a handsome vehicle, well-adapted to the work for which h is in tended. *cr*wmm uqtinr. Nor.2*U». Thanksgiving day made a curious weather record. There was snow, sleet and rain and it .was bath warm and cold. Mr. W, S. Lauridge has moved his family to Gastonia, near which place Mr. Lauridge is engaged in saw milling. Mrs, Lauridge and the children went up on the train Thursday morn ing, and Mr. Lauridge took his household goods through the country in wagons. The Woodmen of the World have arranged for an oyster supper at Tirzah next Friday night week, at which they will entertain their friends from the vicinity and the county surround ing. The Tirzah Woodmen have give entertainments of this character before and they have always proved very enjoyable. It is beginning to look as if the settlement of the issue be-' tween Samuel W. Mitchell and the Woodmen- of the World la going to be an unusually dif ficult problem. The first attempt was made at the last April term of the court. It resulted in a. mistrial, the jury standing seven to five. That was after the case bad been presented in pains taking detail by both sides. The second hearing, which was commenced on Tuesday morn ing Of this week, and continued until Wednesday night, has re sulted the same as the first. The jury remained out with the papers all of Wednesday night, and at 9 o'clock Thursday morn ing, the court found it necessary to order s second mistrial. Speaking of the Mitchell caser to a party of gentlemen in the poet office lobby, Thursday morning. Sovereign Commander Root, of the Woodman of the World, uid that even if the plaintiff should get a verdict ha would never be able to collect hla judgment for the reason that the order is expressly forbidden by the laws of Nebraska to pay out money except for purpose* stipulated in its charter; that It baa no right to levy an asscss ment to pay a judgment of this kind. Mr. O. VT. S. Hart, of course, has a vary different opinion on this subject, end will tugsg* to collect for bis client sny such judgment as be may be a COMING TO BEt OWN. North Cartliu m Ihi Upward toad—Sha la Improving la All Particulars and Will Nov or Agaia Bo Poor ar Igaoraat. BJWtcel Recorder. ' North Carolina has been rated and is now regarded widely ns the poorest and moat illiterate of toe States fu the American Union; and hcT prideful expres sions have often been received as mere ignorant and childish boasting, pardonable and pitiful. Wdl, North Carolina has been hnd it poor in this world's goods, sod there is as large if not a larger proportion of illiter ate men—white or colored—In her borders tbsn in any of the other States. And notwith standing, North Carolinians have loved North Carolina, have de fended her in the presence of the critical and the scornful by pointing to her war records, by extolling the parity of her Anglo Saxon blood, and even by boast ing of her ability to fill all the blanks in the government 're ports on natural resources; and they have apologized, saying that the war coat much, the negro much and reconstruction much. And souse have foolishly taken grace to themselves for the achievements of the past and have actually made it oat that North Carolina is the great est land and her people the most advanced and noble fa the world and encouraged the people in proud and idiotic content. ii we are giaa mat a time is shortly to come when the critic will be withstood by what he shall see rather than what he shall hear, we are also glad that the time has come when the people are too intelligent to •after a stump-speaker to spothe them in their poverty or in difference by foolish flattery. North Carolina is coming to her own. The State is in the midst of a marvelous transition. She is growing in a thousand ways. Look at her newspapers! Ten years ago they were dying on two thousand subscribers a year. Now they begin to flour ish, and for a sign they give s service that was not dreamed of ten yean ago. Look at her cities, Wilmington, Greensboro, Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Ashe ville, Durham, Raleigh—how they prow; and such a crop of thriving towns. Hickory, Dunn, Wilson, Salisbury, Kinston, Lex ington, Spencer, Rocky Mount, Goldsboro, Fayetteville, Monroe, Henrietta, Shelby, Caroleen, Elisabeth City ana a score more, all active as few towns were ten yean ago. Mara me educational move ment. What flourishing acade mies, what crowded schools for girls, what college enrollments, what a.power in the passion for public school improvement I Ten yean ago there was nothing like it; and lew dared hope for any thing like it. ' Mark, too, the new literary and historical interest. Back of all ia the industrial movement. There is new life in North Carolina because there is new business. The mills have stirred the State from border to border and to its very heart ia the back country—not only cot ton mills, but all manner of wood-working establishments. Each of them gives work to men who found it bard to live in the the country on rented land; each brings new population from the backwoods, where it was mostly useless and gives it place and power for service; each makes a new market for the farmer and the merchant; each increases the income of the State by multiplying upon the value of the raw product, both of men and material; each brings new men and material; each brings new into the region of progress. And the farm, It is abandoned? By no means. There never were so many good farmers in North Carolina, never so many good farms, never‘such intelli gent farming. The mills have relieved the farms of many who only deitroyed land and now they have became patrons and snpporters of the farmers. We read the other day that the in come of the farmers of North Carolina in 1899 was nearly 80 per cent more than their income in 1880—an increase from $50 000,000 to $89,000,000, a tremen dous leap in ten yean. The ad vance over 1899 la folly MO par o*ut this year. Tha snni of it is this: North Carolina is in the beginning of an unparalleled advancement material and intellectual. The arteries of her life throb with a Ker they have not before felt. trill never again be a poor State—her activities are too di verse: she will never again be an it: Iterate State—her educe tional ranks are too strong. She is coming to bar own. Only good achievement* stand ahead of her. Let ns be mindful then—sra who have the the boon of living in each a time—that oar State shall also grow as a State, and shall send only strong and noble men to Washington—and keep them there; shall be heard in the world because of her wis dom and virtue; and let as endeavor that our religious forces, our institutions of educa tion [and charity and missions, our spiritual Hie shall keep pace with the tremendous movement that we are now in the midst of. So our boasts shall prove pro prophetic sod vindicate us at the last, as we point to North Carolina's great present and future while speaking with emotion of her undoubtedly hero ic past._ "*ol Wagaa" Raw uf ltfMt. MnrYwfc WwM. M«*. tl. Thera are two kinds of wages. One la called "money wages," the other "teal wages." The former is the actual number of dollars paid to the wage-earner, the latter is what it will really pay for—in rent, food, fuel, clothing. The question that deeply in terests every American home to day is, What are "real wages” to-day at the high-water nunc of Prosperity? This calls for a com parison of present prices as well as wages with those of 1807 or 1896, when prosperity was at low tide. This comparison is comprehensively made in the Sunday World's news columns to-day. Prom the mass of figures collected from the lend ing cities of the Union these facts appear: 1. That $1.84 to-day buys about the same amount of neces saries of life as were bought for $1 four years ago. 8. That to offset this 84 per cent increase ht the coat of liv ing there has been no rise in wages ’ in many industries and callings; s rise averaging 15 per cent in the wages of skilled labor; a rise of 5 to 10 per cast in several manufacturing Indus met. 3. That the "real wages'' of the family with only one bread winner are. therefore less by from five to 24 per cent than they were in the less prosperous times of 1897-96. 4. That the "real wages" of ‘families with two or more bread winners an batter than four yean ago for this one reason— that they are all as s rale at work now, whereas some of them were idle in 1897-96. The World's tables of actual wages and prices in different parts of the country on which these conclusions are based are fnll of interest and instruction on this vital topic of the time. They agree in the main with such incomplete official statistics ss are available. The Labor Department's figures and Dunn's standard tables show a steady rise of prices since 1697, averag ing at least 30 to 3S per cent and an average increase of wages not exceeding 18 per cent. Wall Street Arithmetic. ■LLoaUamSblfc. According to the Boston Com mercial Bulletin, Wall strset arithmetic ia as follows: a The Balk tin failed to com plete the table. What makes a -tariff acbedale? « Mills Clesiai Bowa. BaMafc Ttan. Hat Many of the mills is this stats are having to close down for waat of coel. The Cannon Man ufacturing Company shat down at Concord yesterday and the Concord and Gibson mills state that they cannot ran longer than next Tuesday nnlesa they can get a sappty.• R >Val Baking Powder Mokeotkebread o>« r vjsuQcvUuUS me icxxi agralnafr flliw^ ^rassriss; i Tie 2 MlfcSUrt JUS WB HAVE leeched mother ” car load of Tsoneaass Hones sad Maks which hove been carefully ■■Isotod bf oar old Mead sad barer, G. A. Anderson, who has the rtpctS tion through this community of buying good triable work stock. These are not unlike the Uad ho asasjhr brings, as if yw on ia need of either a good Horse or Male come sad sse oar stock sod get salted. Stack Bust be as they are npmanfsd to oar CRAIG & WILSON. to Know?! r ipi new wml ^national! CLOPAEDlAl ^wvoiwT'“£*r*oe*W[ RevW®»- I THE GASTONIA GAZETTE One Dollar a Year.
Gastonia Daily Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.)
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