Itt the death of Thomas B. Mi this country loses one of its big men and the- greatest . ijirttr the lower branch .of ^■HfrarertoA • The attempt of Democrats to keep the negro Sam Vick in tbs poet oficc at Wilson is unworthy. 8tm of tht aery men who howlad the loudest at McKinley’s >eg»o pnfastm" are telling 3taT* toiaapoaeni At Marsh vine Academy la Union county a tear yean ago the history darn voted on the qaaatfaa: Who hat born oar greatest President? It basooree of gratification to as and we kaow it will also stir gtedaass la the heart of oar good friend, Mr. Kates Caraoa, to ante' (bet Grover Cleveland lad an thereat aad scored tea votes to George Washington's three. The vote was Qbvnlaad 10, WasUagtoa 3» Jefcraoa 3, aad McKinley 2. Cleveland's name is likely to ba writto larger in history later oa fa Grover Cleveland as they have been exemplified fa few ■ fas fa all the «hU’i history. The sin oi foolish speech or fa. tradee writing cannot be charged against him. Bat says lodge P. I. Osborne, "I firmly believe that if Mr. Cleveland’s daughter, Bath, woso to have the croop he would fay to care her by writing bar a letter.* Mo truer or wit tfarthca —ylag thct when there’s croop in Jafigc Osborne’* family , be gats a cheats at ptinted in the ' Charlotte Phone. * KECCmON AT ALBEMA1LE. — Mf. tad Mr*. Mnu Entertain tn ■aaar al Mlaa lav* al Oasto f. ■ ■ / -• AAcmrh, Dae. &—Mr. and Mra. Ja* D. Bivins were at hona last matag from 9 to It to a large number of invited taflUahOr lighted and artistical ly decorated with given bouse «o«sss, ■ Jisiea Dy Muses Sarah Heath aud Don Beane. The lesdir* feature of the evening wm a literary contest in which a rhyme was given to each goes! with blanks to be tiled in with the titles of well knows books. After a spirited contest it was found that a number had answered correctly. The prise, a dainty souvenir pencil, was awarded by lot to .W. B. Ball. When the boor foe departure arrived all went away voting Mr. and Mrs. Bivins tba moat charming of entertainers. Those present1 Were: Misses Pattie Me pain, Bess* MiHer, Lula and Ada Khttlx, Verona Kirk, Be trie Lilly. Carrie Weaver, Ella Ford. Sara Allen, Eugenia Rowe, Salttr Heath, Qpca Heamc and Esther Milton; Messrs. Free man, Flowe, Hocton, Patterson, Hutchison. Means, Lindsay, Klutts, Bell, Rosa. Pemberton, Poker, John and Claade Heath, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Price, Mr. and Mo. J. C. Leslie. Paying the Wadding Fm Queer things happen in the experience of persona. One of them, while out of town, was called back by a rash letter, telling him that a joyful couple waited Mm be to made one. He took the first train for home, and shortly alter his arrival the two presented themselves, After the ceremony, the bride, who appeared to be the business partner, drew him aside and asked* "Parson, how ranch will this be?" "Oh, 1 have no fixed charge lor weddings," answered the clergyman. "Anything yon please." "Well, say," cdotinned the blushing {sir. "can you change a dollar?” And, as Huckleberry Finn says, "he done it." On another occasion a happy pair met at a clergyman's house, and (he bride got there first. In order to speed them on their rosy way aa quickly as possible the clergyman started to fill out the marriage certificate while waiting for the bnsbaod-to-be. "And what is the first name of the groom?” he asked the tow, I ain't just sure, bat folks call him A]. I don't know whether it's Albert or Aland. PH have to wait and ask him.” So the* paper coaid not be filled until the groom arrived. Mustn't she have caught him in a rash? One of the moat remarkable yeans of this sort is told of a clergyman in Brooklyn, and it is trwe. He was called to the door ooa evening by a stont pall at the door bell, and found there s sailor and Ms sweetheart- They hod come to be married. Ha performed the ceremony. At the end of it the tailor asfcdd the aaaonot of the foup, sod was tojd, there was no fined charge. "Will a dollar do?" asked the RINGS MOUNTAIN REVS. 0>.-i y. «f UN 111 til Dec. 8th.—Policeman Hord has been displaced oa oar town force and J. L. Ferguson succeeds turn. Mr. Furguson sold his interest la the King’s Moon tain News to acceptthis podtioj; He sold to his partner, LesHe McGinnis, who will go K •lone is the business. Osroc Oratand of Old Furnace a flagman on the Son there has been at home several days oa account of a badly sprained ankle He has ranch improved and re turns to his work to-day. Rev. W. R. Mister, of Shelby, will preach at Long Creek church next Sunday morning at 11 o’clock a. m. at King’s Moun tain Um same night. Those who bear him will be well repaid. J. F. AflUon sod Win McAl lister killed a company hog last Friday that netted 450 pounds. Thw is more meat than we town folks axe accustomed to. Vaccination has proceeded very nicchr in oar town daring the past few days. Now and again persons are found who sternly oppose the work, but when it comes down to business they "bare the arm.” Since com pulsory vaccination began last Wednesday morning we guess near 1,000 persons have Deen vaccinated. Hie two county physicians and two of our resi dent doctors haye been kept busy. There have been no new cases brought to our notice since our last letter to Thr Gazrttb. Mr. Falls, of Fallston, is teach ing the public school at the Lula and Cora mills. He is a good young man, a splendid teacher and the committee have been fortunate in securing bis services. ^Sowy to say that Mr. P. S. Baker has been quite sick daring •hn wank. The young people generally attended the singing convention at Bethlehem yesterday. These me Becoming very common in this Action. Conductor Moss was kept on the run last week by doubling on account of one of their men being off. CBE1KYVIUE. Oorr»»po»€—c« of Kb* Oaaott*. Onr deputy sheriff, B. L. Mc Ginn as, has moved to Cberry ville. Mr. William Hirt, of Potest City, and Mr. Ji M. Lindsay, of Lawndale, former cidsena of Cherryville, came down on the train this evening. Mr. Hirt brought his comet and clarionet, sad Mr. Lindsay his tubs, aha assisted tbe Cherryville comet band in rendering music at the oyster supper served at the Commercial hotel. This supper was given for the benefit of the Band. Tbe sapper was prepared by Mrs. S- S. Mauney and Mrs. M. L. Rudisill, and served by MIsms Essie Rudisill, Julia y i ii 11 1 '*•2 j /'J ' 1 • . •. j |V c < * » _ .i/ai — a.-• A LOVELL LOCALS. December 8th— Mrs. R. T. Mitchell, of Dents, spent last week as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Hand. Bln. J. X Hand and Miss Nellie Roseman spent a few days at Belmont last week. Mi. and Mrs. Bert Robinson and Miss Nellie Robinson, of Charlotte, spent Sunday with Mrs. M. A. Linebergcr. Messrs. J. C. Landmm and A. R. Lcnbardt spent Sunday at Belmont. Mr. Will Pierce, of Chailotte, was a Lowell visitor Suudsy. Bin. R. A. Miller is visiting friends and relatives in Char lotte. Mrs. C. V. Pite, of Chsrlotte. visited home folks one day last week. Prof. Alexander Graham, principal of the Charlotte Graded schools, spoke at the Academy Saturday afternoon it 2 o'clock on the local taxation question. • The elec tion for the purpose of decid ing whether or not Lowell shall have graded schools will be held Tuesday bight. Miss Nellie Rote man enter tained a number of young people with' n sociable Wednesday night. The feature of the even ing was a guessing contest en titled a "Floral Love Story." Mrs. R. G. Mitchell won the prise. Rev. M. H. Hoyle, former pastor of the Methodist church here, has gone to his new charge at Weddington, N. C. The Baptist church will have a Christmas tree but the time for having it has not been an nounced. sit®* Give® Beatty. One* Duffle Berta* Rett and sleep are the Sisters of Mercy who go about to smooth wrinkles swsy from women’s foreheads and otherwise repair the ravages of too strenuous day®. The idea of constant oc cupation is all wrong. And the woman who has acquired the art of resting—for it is art—will be able to show in middle age a face luminous with life ana youth when her industrious sister is sere and gray. The sort fingers of sleep are said to knit up the "tangled skeins of care.” My only complaint is that wo men do not keep the knitter busy. It is a grave ailment that will not yield to sleep alone. But the wise medicine men say that only children and animals know how to yield absolutely to its in fluences. Men and women car ry their walking worries into slumber and change it into s oormiui tning. But watch a little chap rosy in hu nap. His lips curve with smiles and now and then he bursts into laughter so full of mirth that you'long to waken him and learn what it is all about. The baby that laughs in his sleep will awaken good natnred. But the saa old children of la bor or trouble sleep with pain drawn brows snd their . breath comes in sighs. Par them there is no smiling, snd rest is s stranger to their pillows. And, say the doctors because they fail to prepare for the excursion into the dreotn country in the proper way. According to them, we may learn to lay aside our men tal trials at night by a simple bending of the will. A bright woman said to me the other day as we talked in the confidence producing steam room. "l leit myself becoming s vic tim of insomnia. I went to bed each night confident that I could not* sleep, and lived up to the conviction. Then I tried all sorts of'foolish lures to the coy goddess of slumber. I counted an imaginary thousand sheep jumping over a wall. I ended that task to wonder walrefully if sheep raising was s success after 411. I repeated the alphabet and recited endless rhymes, with no other effect than greater wake fulness. Then I sat up laud saidi Away with all this nonsense. I'm going to sleep.” "And did you?" 1 asked. "Of course, 1 did. And that was the end of my insomnia.’' A blue-eyed woman- had lis tened smilingly to the talk and the other suddenly turned to ward her to qpeation: "I don’t believe von ever were bothered by sleeplessness, were you? You always look so fresh and earsacj and yet you have lots of care”. What do yon do?" "I”—she blushed and hesita ted a little, sad then said simply aUd Without the least chiding in her tender voice: 51 wash them them all‘sway with a little Thee* «m amoaeat of ailaaca Then a any-haired patron wyb had joined the gmp.reached ^A^tro are tight lay deer," aha aakf, "I thank you for ra arindlajr taa ao awettly of the way. I aaad to know it wall. Bat 1 mat afraid that for many yean it haa been lor rotten. 1" —aba etoppad aid that* were taan ia bar ayaa—"I aai going to Bad it again. It ia beat, arach tbabaat. Wotaea loot faith to «abo* i EX-SPEAXES IEEE DEAD. Pms»<1 Away Early Sunday Marn tog ia the Arltogtsa Hold at Washington. In his apartments at the Arling ton Hotel, Washington, at 12:10 o’clock Sunday morning Hon. Thomas Bracket Reed, former Speaker of the House of Repre sentatives, passed peacefully away, surrounded by tbe mem bers of hia family and hia physi cians, whose efforts to save the life of the distinguished states manfwere unavailing. Death was caused by uraemia, tbe deceased having long been a sufferer from i Bright's disease. Mr. Reed arrived in Washing ton just a week previous to At tend to some business but be came ill soon after his arrival. At one time it was thought that he bad appendicitis but symptoms of this disease soon disappeared. The body was taken Sunday on a special train to Mr. Reed’s borne at Portland, Maine, where tile funeral will take place this (Tuesday) afternoon. T1»m Were the Winners. TV) IK* Editor or til* Ourtti: Stanley, N. C. Dec. 6, 1902. Please allow space in your valuable paper for a few lines from Morris’* School Home. Two weeks ago I told the children I wanted them all to write a letter and I would have the two best ones published— one from a boy and one from a did so, and 1 have at the two which I send you arc the best, consider ing the age of the pupils. 1 think this is a step in the right direction, for I believe it will encourage the children— and they will strive to do better next time. Youra respectfully, Maggie Herman. My love to all who see this Your scholar , La usa Max w xix. Dai.las, N. C. „ _ . _ • Nov. 30, 1B02. My Dear teacher: 1 will try to write you a few lines today. I am a Uttle boy eight years otd and am going to school. I love my teacher and aiy school mates. 1 study reading and spelling. 1 love to take walks at school with ay teacher. I will close hoping yon weU (Dear teacher. Your Uttle pupil Eaju. Rjrvrnc. IN MEM0R1AM. MRS. JOSEPHINE THOMPSON. Whereas, Onr friend and co worker in our Orphanage Com mittee, Mrs.'Josephine Thomp son has been called from among us by death, therefore be it Resolved (I) That while we would subnftt to God in this our calamity as to & just Sovereign and wise and loving Father, yet we feel sad at the death of our friend. Resolved (2) That she was a pleasant woman, a faithful and promising worker and a const ant Christian, Resilved (3) That we. who are ourselves wives and mothers, do appreciate the grief of her hnaband and children, and com mend them to that God who gave his only son for us all. Resolved (4) That a copy of these resolutions be furnished her family, and copies be sent with request of publication to Onr Church Record, The Gas tonia Gazette, and the Gasto nia News. Mrs. R. C. McKean Mrs. J, F. Love, • Mrs, F. Torrence. A TbiWaf City Kara ia a Day. nssfls Cay, OWfc, DMprt*, SsS, Bagla Chy it daylight thia morning wu cornfields and raw prairies. At dark to-night it i waa a town of 1,000 people, with a completa municipal organise don. a bank, a daily nawapaper, a fairly good hotel, four restau rants, seven saloons and a score of mercantile establishment* and no end of gambling bouses. All the business enterprises are housed in substantial .frame structures,, many of which lack nothing bat point pf being com pleted. An excursion over the 'Frisco mad brought in 1,000 people; from JCmuies,, Klseoarl, Iowa and Oklahoma, The lot drawing began at day light. Racbboomerpaid in$23, which entitled him lorn 25-foot burins** lot be a 50-foot residence lot, the selection to be by lot tery. Only a third of tha lota were disposed of to-day. Bagla City win beva 4,000 peopleby the end of tha weak. * < V .1 . , I . i HteouquuiTCf Tor Ciotrnng of» every docrlptlon. THOMSON COMPANY' the piece to hoy your Dress Goods, Dry Goods, Shoes, etc. THOMSON COMPANY, Ladles* Wrappers, all styles. THOMSON COMPANY, big Shoe sale going on every day. . THOMSON COMPANY—Every day is a bargain day. Thousands of merchandise going out of our big stores every day. Our prices mate them move quickly. No trouble to show goods. Come in and feel at home. All welcome. THE PEOPLE’S STORE. Thomson Company. STOP T BAT COUGH I Dost let'it hang on! Don't do It! It'» terribly hard on your throat. Bo aider, there'* no use in letting it run. It'* a tax oe> your atrength, and gulla you down. Take a ■eBssaaaHBs Our PINE TAR COUGH BALSAM will atop coughing if any thing will. Ther* may be a few complicated caeca, which it will not cure, but in inch, we refund your money. Price 2Sc. Fwst Torrence St Co. d d BgUWHtTt. d d FOR A COMPUST*. LINE OP.... Blankets, Comforts, Pillows, ,; s Bogs, Window Shades, •ad for the finest line of. furniture 1« the city, co to the. WILLIAMS FURNITURE COMPANY. ClafeBWIaaa BaMbf. Mum* 101 Advantages in Baying SAeee . H ERE! home store* ■ell as rood shot* for children as we do, that is. Shoe* that will wearasloor bat there isn’t ■ store we know of that will i sell yon as rood shoes for the money a a wc will, everything OUR MESSENGER SHOE^ TRAM NARK - Hnmn considered, atyla, fit, and wear, am have all tha aa riotta leathers, all the various atyla*. from heavy school aboaa to the de cidedly dreaay at prices from a 50c to S3.00 ROBINSON BROS. non kits, >< mra ntmttm*. The New , ,« ?0* '•HI find it *t MISS RUDDOCK’S UP-STAIRS OVBR MORRIS BROTH»<8. Tbe new material*, the new styles, the new colon, and new combi nations. And onr knowledge,skill end taste or all ft yonr . ^ Mrvloe. Yonr inspection i invited, ytmr order* so ft rl# m ft t- ItCIINi ^ Miss Haddock,' «. r "y t • i # **,.'• ' 1 . t * • . * » - * - rl. • •