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W. r. MA15HALL, EShar amd Propriator._DEVOTED TO THE P10TECT10N Of. HONE AND THE INTE1ESTS OF THE COUNTY.
VOX- XXIV. GASTONIA, N. C., TUESDAY. JANUARY e. 1303.
TURNING THE P*GES.
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Calendars, oi all shapes and
■isos and advertising all hinds of
things. And to-day we consider
those for 1903 with their pages
yet untnrned and unsoiled, and
may look over the three hundred
ana sixty-five days between now
and the New Year of 1904,
spread before ns in their order,
and ponder on what they hold
for us and will bring to us as
they come.
We know in a general way
how they will be. Just ahead
of os are the short days and the
long nights, with soma cold and
storm, snow, probably; and sleet
and ice. Then will come the
days with the indescribable
breq|h and fragrance and feeling
and promise of spring, snd after
them the first faint nimbus of
green around the early trees and
a little later the budding and
the glory and the blooming.
Violets and jonouils and snow
balls, roses ana the drooping
and fragrant locusts, the dog
wood shining in the forest in
May, the pink flush of the peach,
the faintly blushing bridal white
of the' apple, the drifting snow
of the cherry blossoms, will
follow each other as they are ap
pointed by nature. The days
will lengthen until the twenty
first of June, marking the high
tide of summer light and
splendor and afternoon holidays,
and from then on will shorten
almost imperceptibly through
July and August with tbeir langu
orous, sleepy best and abdandtog
life and suggestions oi ripening.
Presently the Autumn and the
Winter will be with us again
and another Christinas snd New
Year will be impending.
Bat, what between us and
then ? What may any one of
these three bandied and sixty
five days spread before us on
the new calendar bring to ns ?
What of the yay we hope for,
the disappointment or disaster
or grief we dread ? What of
good hr ill we do not think of,
mar or hope now ? " We know
tehat the days sis they sweep by
Will faring to the world in the
accustomed, ordinary course of
nature, bat what does the vast,
teeming womb of this new year
i hold for each of ns—what of
achievement oc . overthrow, of
gain or loSs, of tears or laughter?
What between now and the first
of next January will be the
development* of the hope* and
the longings, the fear* and the
expectations and ambitious of
to-day?
Ah I If We could but know !
Everywhere .in this- world to
day hearts are looking and yearn
ing back to {he first of Janfcarr
ofl90Z, whenHhc pages of which
the last was east aside yesterday
were fresh ^.and unturned—
across that ostp and hopeless
gulf of the ygar gone, and sound
ing within themselves the bitter
.^"Ah! If sre could have known 1”
Bow different many things
would have been, how many
things said and done would
have been left unsaid and un
done, how piany left unsaid and
undone would have been said
and done. V \
•elves, but which is divided for
us, probably, oftener than we
know of ana very mercifully and
beautifully.
So turning the pages of the
new calendar, our sight or finger
may fall idly on any one day of
the year, and we may wonder
whether that day of this year or
some future year Will be the
day—some coming day of some
month on the calendar we know
it must be—and to keep in our
minds that the days before that
one will make the time for
preparation for it that we may
be ready when it comes with
courage and resignation and
welcome.
But the great mass of us—
nine hnndrea and eighty-odd of
ns in each, thousand who read
this, according to statistics
will go on through to the first of
January, 1904, and will live to
turn the pages of another
calendar and to look back over
another year aud forward to
another. It is for us to
determine now what kind of
record we shall make, as we
turn and tear away the lehves of
the calendar month after month
and day after day, to look back
upon from the first of next
January.
We may not know nor deter
mine what our fates or our for
tunes may be in the year before
us. We may know aod deter
mine what we ourselves shall be.
We know that a year hence we
shall be aycar older than we are
to-day. We can determine for
ourselves whether yrc shall be a
year better of a year worse.
The dearest hopes wa hold
may be crashed in this coming
year; our living joys may be
changed to mournful memories.
It has been so with many people
in every year gone and it will be
with mahy this year and every
year to come. Yet with all that
with courage and cheerful hearts
and steadfast purpose and
thoughts fixed always on the
living present and the future
ever holding hope and opportu
nity, we may find ourselves at
the end of each year stronger
and broader, more kindly and
more hopeful, riper and higher
than at the beginning; with a
story of good and generous and
loving thiixgs thought and said
and dene to look back upon,
with the biota of harihpeSs and
selfishness and folly and vanity
fewer and fewer as the years go
by and the pages are turned arid
time drawn us nearer and neater
to that certain day of some month
of some year when for us the
last page shall have been torn
•Way and the end shall have
come- That is. after all; the
grand use for )lfe and for the
years as they art given us, many
or few. „ 1 . • •
It is not true that every man— |
TWywlWIihm. Bgio
Utltht by ■obacrihlngr for Tm
OAJTOirMr Qamtt*, Mttri-wrok
ly for Oar Dollar a Ymt.
OCULAR moor FOR THE JURY.
Bow • Rsssurcsfid Lawyer
Easily Won a Slaodar Csaa.
Wubiatnaa Our.
"Resourcefulness in • lawyer
in the actual trial of a case is as
necessary as the same quality
in a ceucrnl on a battlefield,"
said Representative Champ
Clark. "I saw my old partner,
ex-Ueut. Gov. David A. Ball,
gaiu a slander caae once under
difficult circumstances — as it
were, snatch victory from the
Jaws of defeat—by a nappy exer
cise of that wondrous common
sense with which he is so lavish
ly endowed, and without which
in any man all other gifts are
only vanity and vexation of
spirit.
"Ball bad for a client a wisen
faced, shambling, wild-eyed old
tie-chopper, named Sam Barnes,
slim as a racer and short of
stature. A 1st, stocky, 200pound-'
er named Zacb Booth had ac
cused Barnes of stealing ms ba
con and had forced Barnes in his
own cabin, in the presence of
his wife and children, to bold
out his foot for measurement to
see if it would fit certain suspici
ous tracks.
"JBaraes was podr as Job’s tur
key, but Ball is a sort of heaven
appointed attorney general for
the poor. They are always with
him; both in court and at the
polls. Consequently Barnes
went to Ball with his bleeding
heart and shattered reputation
straight as a bird could fly. Suit
was promptly instituted sgainit
Boothe. The case came up for
trial and poor Barnes began to
bowlup as usual. Ball an cere moni
ously jailed him in his back of
fice for three days, leadipg
him to court by the ear a s
a policeman would a prisoner
-^but he kept him sober until
victory perched upon- their ban
ner.
"Chi the witness stand Boothe
swore that the reason he knew
that Barnes stole the meat was
that the thief entered the smoke
house through a window 10x16
inches, where two 8x10 panes
had been broken out, ana that
Barnes was the only man in the
neighborhood small enough to
get through that hole.
• "The jury scowled on Barnes
and smiled on Boothe, and
Boothe beamed eleaginotuly on
everybody. He metaphorically
patted himself on the back as a.
sure winner. But a change
came over the spirit of his dream
very suddenly. Ball had heard
that he was going to swear that
way, waa loaded for him and was
laying for him.
"while Boothe was in the
midst of bis self-congratulatory
grinning. Ball yanked a window
sash 10x16 from under the table,
and before Boothe, the court or
anybody else knew what be was
np to, he bad- slipped that sash
over his shoulders and rotund
’abdomen with fat capon lined’
to the floor.
•Then he asked a juryman,
whowasaix feet four inches high,
to stand np, and be passed him
through that sasb. The demon
stration was complete and his
triumph assured. He had
furnished the jury what Othello
demanded of I ago—'the ocular
proof.’ The jury caught ou and
transferred their smiles to Buses
and their soowls to Boothe.. All
the sheriffs’ ever commissioned
couldn’t have , kept that crowd
from cheering, and Barnes was
awarded Snbstantisl damages."
Said (• Eadses* Craff.
BjiVicS TIbsm.
The Winston Sentinel of last
aftemgDp state* that President
Winston of the A. & If. Cottage
here, - and President Alderman,
of Tnlane University, have writ*
ten letters to members of the
Legislature urging them to sup
port Hon. Locks Craig, of Ashe
ville, for United States Senator.
The Sentinel criticises both for
taking part in the matter.
Dr. Winston was fshed fay a
Times reporter if he desired to
say snvthmg.onthe subject and
replied that he did not can to
make any statement.
MOfQ hMltkful
Safeguards the food
i£«fe# ili«^
THE GOLDEN RULE.
A STORE RUN BY THE GOLDEN
RULE OUGHT TO PROSPER.
SO MANY PEOPLE THINK.
We are trying to run our store
that way. That Is, we will not
charge you more for goods than
we think you would charge If you
were In our place.
Yes, It Is to your Interest that
we shopld prosper. If from any
cause we should fall to prosper
you might be told that a store
could not succeed and sell goods
cheap.
Remember that»the more
goods we sell you the cheaper we
can sell them.
Therefore give us your trade
and your cash, and we will try to
make It to your Interest to trade
with us.
We'guarantee everything we
sell you. If it Is not light, we
will make It right.
We Invite friendly criticism.
COME, SEND, OR ORDER FROM THE
Golden Rule Store.
B. G. RHYNE & do.
GASTONIA, N. C.
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Ywrk CmMy Items.
YortrvUk Bnoaint. JuiatTM.
Port Mill township has at
least two citizens who are over
90 years of age. They are Mat
thew Merrit and Stephen Sutton.
Mr. Menitt-is about 94 and Mr.
Sutton about 92. The latter is
■till in good health and able to
travel miles on foot. Mr. Sot
ton’s health is not so good. 'He
it subject to attacks of indispo
sition during which he is con
fined to his bed.
The marriage of Qeorgr Wil
liams. Esq., to Miss Eulalia
Lowrir, in the Presbyterian
church last night was a social
event of unusual interest, and a
large number of people gathered
to witness the ceremony. Rev.
W. G, Neville odfciated. . The
presents were both numerous,
beautiful. and valuable. In all
they included considerably mote
than a hundred. The bride is
the eldeat daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. R. B. Lowry, of YorkviBc,
and the groom is a son of the
late Jonathan B. WDIiams, and
both are highly esteemed and
popular in Yorkville. Mr. aad
-Mrs. Williams an now at home
to their friends in their resi
dence on Bast Liberty street.
The reporter learnt on what it
coo aider* to be good authority
that there will be toother daily
passenger train on the Charles
ton division of the Southern
from end after January 13. It
has not been practicable to get
exact information. It is under*
stood that the principal object
of thf train is to handle a sleeper
between Charleston end Ashe
ville; but as to whether It Is to
make daily round tripe cannot
be stated. It ia quite possible
that the train may not be put on
at ell; but there is every reason
,to believe that our information,
M far as it goes, is straight. If
the new train ia put on, then
will no doubt be an improve
ment <u the mail facilitfes from
the south, which now furnish so
ranch ground for complaint
along the whole Hue of the
Charleston division.
Ruy. A. U Stoogb, the van*
enble pastor of Flint'Hfll Bn
tbt church, in Port Mill town
ship, preached his last rego£r
B his
pastor of Plint Hill for two
terms, aggregating in all about
Kr-.rasa
that
’■eu commoe his
dotics with entile satisfaction to
S’ijat'yrtgua
heavy demands on his time end
ffrvkee, and ha* no idea of quit
aSSS-ffiS
Jim in contemplation th* «no
3?" *,,*** efcl*** at Piee
N. C.
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Yartnflh rtamtiw
Although the pri^i of mid
•ad hones is Ugh compared
with what it haa bees, the oat
look is that then will be a good
deal of haafaa— dofag is this
kiad of property this wiater and
•priag. There are a number of
as=*hS3
promises to contiam to hold ap
rt jeaat^vus^ the next crop haa
been sold. There does not seen
to be say reahonable probability
of ebap cotton daring the
present year. Than
good reason for the
UMtanay _ ?
to past la a-— t
acreage were disappointed ss to
their plans sad now there
to be nothing left bat to
more heavily in cotton. _ j
another important reason lor
batter business la thd fact that
tho average condition of (ha
people is orach better than ft haa
teen at this date for several
r^nput. %_
.
This is an oppartva&y that seldom come* to fct)«at
wb«t you have been waiting for. And to think th«t
wffl b.ve b.lf your UQUmt The
in* to co«e hue the best choice, oT comm.
Infant** Capa.
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w» -mi a— »*■— i- -■ ritim (lien |i^in
from
25c to $2.25
JAMES F. YEAGER.
laubt furnishings At specialty.
ONE HUNDRED
TENNESEE HORSES at MULES.
.... 1 "tZ r Vv-'/v- • ' * *
We will hive fifty bead erf well selected bones and
Males arrive Safari*. We eta tbes show yam
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Com and sec ns before baying iaj alia else. •
Wby bay from strangers when yon know as to be
iriUrtel We can save yoo money and «t the
same time fully satisfy yoa..
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” ■ciicwyuuaK giMumfeotoi m in*
resented to yoo when yoo buy it.
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CRAjQ fk WILSON.