iBin The Gastonia grow* grtftUr, not Um. - -Published Twice a Week—Tuesdays and W. t. MA1SHALL, Editor and haprtator. _DEVOTED TO THE PROTECTION Or HOME VOL" XXrV‘ _GASTONIA, N, C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 0, BILL AXP LIKES COD-FISB. Data up by Daybreak Every Morning. While Mr*. Ary Sleeve Late Rill Arp la A>laat*Coa*tttuilou. Married and gone. It ia tbc same old story. Love and court ship. Then comes the engage ment ring and a blessed interval of fond hopes and happy dreams, and then the happy day is fixed —the auspicious day that ia never to be forgotton—a day that brings happiness or misery and begins a new life. Then comes the license, the permit of the law which says you may marry, yon may enter into bonds. The state approves it and the law allows it, and it will coat yon only a dollar and a quarter. Cheap, isn’t it? And yet it may be very dear. Then comes the minister, and the happy pair stand up before him and make some solemn vows and listen to prayer and a benediction and they are one. In a moment the trusting maid has lost her name and her free will, and is tied fast toaman. Well, he is tied fast, too, so it is all right all round, I reckon, bnt somehow I always feel more certain about the woman than the man. She is a helpless sort of a creature and takes the most risk, for she risks her all. I was rnminating over this, for there was a marriage going on at onr good friend Sam Jones' house, and their pretty daughter, Laura, was changing her name and her home on this the last day of the year and going off to live with a man she hasn’t known very long; bnt I have diagnosed him from his face and features and am satisfied with her choice. He is a big-hearted ftntleman, or else the signs fail. wanted to be present and give them ray blessing, but was not well enough to go—I’ve got the elephantiosia from my toes to my kees, and can hardly meander across the room, bnt I am always interested in the marriages of out young people. It is the most serious business in this life, and if the peri! of it was known beforehand many of the youug people would hesitate to make the change. The chains of matrimony ana the bonds of marriage are the right words. When men make a partnership • they can't get along well if they are unlike in disposition, or in moral principle or in business ways, bat they can 'dissolve and separate at pleasure and try another man. A man snd his wife onght to be alike in almost everything. In some things folks like their opposites—their counter parts. A man with bine eyes goes distracted over a pretty girl with hazel eyes—I did, and I’m distracted yet when I 'look into, them, though I’ve been doing that for fifty-four years. But in mental and emotional qualities and in tastes and habits and politics and religion they should class to gether. I sever made any mistake about my choice of a partner for the dance of a life, bnt I've thought of it a thousand times that if Mrs. Arp had hnown I loved codfish ana got np at day break every morning, she sever would have bad me. It was nip and tuck to get her anyway, and that would have Ken the feath er to break the camel's back. Well, I’m mortal glad she didn’t know it, though I am free to aay that if I had known she slept until the second ringing of the first bell for breakfast and was fond of raw oysters, it would have had a dampening effect up on my ardor for a few minutes, only a faw. But 1 have seen some mighty clever people eat oysters raw and sleep late in the morning. Bnt still a man and his wife can harmonise and corn promise a good many of these things, it is a beautiful {{lus tration of this to tee Mrs. Arp cooking codfiah for me and fixing it all op ao nice with eggs ana citem, add It ia a touching evi dence of my nod yin g devotion to her to see me wandering about the house lonely and forlorn ev ery morning for an hour or two. aM forbidding even the cat to walk heavily while the aleepe. That codfish, business comas to me honestly from my father's tide, and my mother put apwith it like a good considerate wife, and we children grew up with an idea that It was good. I've beard of a couple who got mar god went o9 to Augusta on a tour, and the feller stuck bis Sk into codfiah ball sad took a e. He choked it down like a hero, and when bis beloved asked him what was the matter, re pliedi "Don’t say anything about It, Uaady. but as sure f* yon are born there is something dead in the bread." Well, we can make com promises about all such things as habits and tastes, but there are some things that won’t com promise worth a cent. If a girl has been brought up to have a good deal of fceeotn, and thinks it no harm to go waltzing around with gay Lothario who loves to dance, and after she gets a feller of her own, wants to keep at It and have polluted anna around her waist, she had just as well sing farewell to conjugal love and domestic peace, for it is against the ordor of nature for a loving husband to stand it, and he oughtn’t. Ana now another buoy year •has gone—gouc like tlie water that Baa passed over the dam— gone ueyer to return. It has carried«nany friends along with it and left sad memories in the household, hut on the whole it has been a good year to us all and Providence has been kind. Now is the time to look back, and review the past, as did old Janus for whom January was named. He was the porter, the gate keeper, of heaven and had two faces—oue to look back and the other forward into the my sterious future. Nums Pomptl ius gave him his name and his high office, for he was next in power to Jupiter. He added two months to the calender and called one January for Janus and the other February for the mother of liars. Until then there were bnt eight months of forty-six days each. Numa added two more, which gave them thirty six days each, and January was the fourth month aud remained so for more* than two thousand years. April was the first month and remained so until two hun dred years ago. Why it was chanced I cannot understand, for April ia much more like the be ginning of a new year than Jan uary. April comes from aperio, to open—the time when the earth opens and the grass comes up and the flowers bloom and the birds sing. But the name of al most everything seem to conform to that old mythology, and we can't get rid of it. My great 5rand-lather lived and died on er that old calendar when April was the first month of the year. Julios Caesar and Augustus Caesar stock in two more months and made the year of twelve months of thirty days each, but April remained the first month and ought to be now. Bat whether Christmas be in December or in April, we lave Hie old superstitions that cluster around this season of joy and gladness. I always thought H a pretty idea for a man to be weighed every Christmas or New Year—to put his acts and deeds in the balances, the good on one side and the bad on the other, and let him rise to heaven or fall below it as the scales might tarn. This is not an orthodox doctrine, for'it ia said that one bad deed will outweigh a thousand good one. Nevertheless, Belschazsar was weighed, and the •scriptures abound in snch figures of speech It will take miracles of grace to save ns, anyhow and we must all help one another, for the devil is doing bis best. -David comitted mUrder; Solomon worshipped idols; Cain killed bis brother; Jacob cheated Esau oat of his birthright; Nosh got drunk, and Peter denied his Master, bat they all repented sod got forgiveness: and it there is any difference be tween folks now and then I don’t know it. Then let us all love onr Maker and be good to our fellow-men. Whe Will be the Candidate? Wagriaet^'JDUpejcIi to PhUadclukU "I think the contest in the next national Democratic conven tion for the presidential nomina tion will be between Mr. Gorman. Judge Parker, oi New York, and Mr. Olney, of Massachusetts,” said Representative Richardson, Democratic leader in the house, to-day. "I think I can see a loaning in Mr. Bryau-toward Mr. . BeT* »■ no quest loft that ne Is being boo mad in the H* **£* + formid able candidate. Mr. jG<>rm»n’a friends will not let the nomina tion go to another without a con test, nod Judge Allen B. Parker, of New York, is forging to the front very rapidly. Prom what I bear of him be would he entirely acceptable to the south ern Democrats if he should be the choice of the convention.” What will be the iaenc, after yon get the man?” Mr. Rich ardson was asked. "What better issue do we want than the one the Republican party is oow fnrmahing us through Its division oa tha tariff question?” Mr. R irhanlkon- said, "The people ere demanding tariff reform. The Republican high-protec tionists will not give it to them.” LEMON JUICE DLLS TYPHOID. • __________ Value of (he EaflUfc Discovery Cantirmed Here. Cktcaao Dicprtck. Chicago, Dec. 29—Thatlemou juice will destroy .the typhoid germs in water is announced authoritatively by the Chicago, Health Department after careful experiments extending over three days. One tcaspoonfnl of the juice to half a glass of water is known to be a good combina tion, and repeated trials have invariably produced the aame result. Every germ waa killed. Further testa will be made at once to ascertain how small an amount of lemon juice will destroy the bacilli. Dr. Reynolds is also investigating the properties of manufactured citric acid. If the acid will take the place of the lemon a great saving will be accomplished, for it is inexpensive as compared with lemons. The action of the lemon jaicc is to cause the bacilli to shrivel up and die. Their power to produce this poison wbicb causes typhoid is thus destroyed, and water which in its original state was highly dangerous to drink becomes as innocuous as if it had been distilled. The investigations and an nouncement of the Chicago health authorities are the result of in announcement made on Christmas day by Dr. Asa Ferguson, who announced that the lemon juice was a deadly foe to typhoid. It has long been known that certain acids wonld kill the bacilli, but their efiects also was to kill human beings. The harmless acid In lemons was entirely overlooked until Dr. Ferguson chanced to drop a little lemon juice into a culture tube containing typhoid germs. To his amuementue discovered that they died almost immediate ly. and he at once began further experiments, which resulted in the annonncemenl of the dis covery. _ BAIT LEFT OUT IN THE COLO. Taken in by Dad Hearted People. GoldabovoCor.,BaMcti Po«t Sib. The weather was very in clement last night for leaving babies out ou piazzas, but the party who left the little black haired girl baby on the piazza of Mr. Johu H. Brown did not intend for the child to suffer and made sufficient noise to attract attention before leaving. When members of the family came to tbe door to pee what occasioned the noise they saw something lying on the floor in front of the door. The bnndle was taken up and it was found to contain a baby which had never been dressed and could not have been over two hours old. The child was wrapped in' a ee of plain black calico. e young little stranger was taken into the honse and tbe good wife of*- Mr. Brown took some of her own chil dren’s clothing and made the litde one as comfortable am possible. A number of people have been to pay tbeir respects to tbe little stranger to-day to see if they could discover any traces of favor, bat so far no one ha# been able to recognize any feature that would lead'to the identity of the mother. Mr. £ro^n is an employe of the Goldsboro Baggy Co. UmlidM TastimotriaL Chicaco Trtbos*. "Messrs. Shewer Kewer & Co.," writes I Workover, "one of our agents presented me a copy of onr Family Almanac for 2903 the other day. I don't think much of the medical part of it, bnt I have enjoyed the anecdotes and stories very ranch. They arc the kind I have always used." Dr. .Lorens, the famous Aus trian surgeon sailed from New York for home Ust week. He likes this country so well that be will return and make n tour of it with hia family RoVal ““fiing Powder Safeguards the food against Akim. 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 should prosper. If from any cause we should fall to prosper you might be told that a store could not succeed and sell gc:j* 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 right, we will make it right. We invite friendly criticism. COME, SEND, OR ORDER PROM THE Golden Rule Store. B. G. RHYNE & CO. GASTONIA, N. C. —^_ w Ooa Play la Saarth Carattaa. WlltllaftOQ Pott. Ml. Two facts worth bearing in mind have transpired as a result of the shooting match between ttean. Wesley Spires and Chas. Hutto in Lexington County, S. C., Inst Saturday. Fact the first; It doesn't pay to fool with men's families in the South. Fact the second: The rifle Is not in it with the doable barreled shotgun when it comes to serious business at close quarters. The story, as given our special dispatch from Columbia, S. C., is very simple. Mr. Spires is a mild-mannered amiable, easy going citizen with an attractive wife. Mr. Charles Hutto was a gay Lothario, who wasn't wise enough to get a wife of his own, but must pay attention to somebody else’*— Mr. Wesley Spire's wife, in fact. Mr. Spins approached the late Mr. Hutto one day and suggested to him ia the pleasantest way imaginable that he had better drop it. Hntto couldn’t bring himself to take that view of the matter, and ad vised Mr. Spires accordingly. Then Mr. Spires, still speaking without heat or haste, opined that Mr. Hntto had better have a glia with him next time he called, there being just a chance of his seeing something queer. In due course Mr. Hntto called again, and having Mr. 8pires injunction in mind, brought a gun over his shoulder. Mr. Spires saw him approaciug and issued forth, carrying a gun also. They buried Mr. Hutto yester day with tha nsual ceremonies. He was s prominent citiren and his decease cast the usual gloom over the community. We ven ture to eay, however that every family man io Lexington County blames Hutto for having invaded Spires home, and that every marksmen thinks he practically commhted suicide when he went up against a shotgun with thir teen blue wnistlers in each bar rel and nothing but a rifle in hia haix). The Manser is a good enough thing in its way. So is the Krag-Jorgensen. But private quarrels are not settled at a die tance of 1,500 yards, and as these things go in Lexington ton County, neither of the weap ons mentioned ia worth half as much as a plain white flag. Be ery ready busy citizen knows I that. $2§ Worth si 1. B. Cfeilatto 0>Mmr . As an illustration of the Southern negroes. Rev. D. J. Sanders, the negro president of Biddk University, this city, related the following incident to some members of the Presby terian General Assembly at a recent meeting. The story la reported by the New York Times; "Negroes ate great lovers of pomp and. ceremony, of titles and decorations, and the mem* bars of a large bat ignorant negro congregation in North Carolina cooedyed the notion that it would add v. ry much to their inflnence as 41 church if r1#.p£t<£ co*U “PPend the initials D. D, to his name. "One of the brethren learned that a certain institution in the North would confer atfch a degree foe ■ price. He wrote, and got a letter from this in stitution stating thnt $50 would secure the desired honor. "Meantime the members of the congregation went to work to rsise this $90, but tbofr ut most efforts failed to secure more titan $25. "The committeemen put their heads together, and it sms finally decided to send the mosey, wltn this message, to the Northern institution; " 'Please send oar pastor one D. as we are not able to per for the other at this time.'" Marconi ia quoted as saying that when his wireless system is completed messages can be sent serosa tlie Atlantic for one cent a word. Cheap talk that. Mr. Marconi should be encouraged by all persons who are not inter ested In the copper cable bust oeen.—Wilmington Star. SACRIFICE SALE Hats and Jackets I HAVE just 40 trimmed bate— * decant material and Up4dp atyk. Tbey add lor $IM to $3.00. Bat I do not wiifa to cany thorn longer and kayo marked all theae I 1 It la lew thap wholesale coat. Pb* comer* gat bnt choice, of cocoa. Now again; I have one doeco Jacket*—half of tbooi Cor Mica, half for children. They retailed foe tail dollar* each, hot TEN DOLLAR JACKET is YOURS for $540. These src the facts sod figures. The fiat to ooao will be the luckiest. JAMES F. YEAGER. LADIES’ FURNISHINGS A SPECIALTY. ONE HUNDRED TENNESEE HORSES at MULES. We will have fifty bead of well selected hones and nwla arrive Saturday. We cm Oca show yoc more than one hundred bead to adeeft from. . Come and ace at before baying anywhere -Hn Why bay from w*ai I —J am*t* W m I