THE GASTONIA
Published Twice a Week-Tuesdavs
W. r. M At SHALL, Eillor waA Profit*r, DEVOTED TO THE P10TECTI0N OF HOME AND
VOL. XXIV. GASTONIA, N. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY
EXPLAINS TEDDY’S ACTION.
A Physician Wreta HU a Descrip
tion ot the President's Band.
Bill AfS !■ the Atlanta Coroittntion.
"A little more grope. Captain
Bragg." said General Taylor, at
the battle of Ilueua Vista. And
so we say now to Captain Teddy,
"A few more niggers to offices
up North and a few more lo our
Southern postoffices. Go the
whole hog while you are at it.
McKinley gave you a starter by
appointing u negro over a white
community at flogansville, and
another at Athens, tbe cultured
college city of the South, but
he got alarmed sad took the
back track. It was just such a
cate at you have now in Missis
sippi at Indianola, for the people
of Hogansville went fonr miles
to get their mail rather than
take it from a negro—a dirty
politician.” Teddy naa done no
worse on the postoffice line.
The postoffices are the people’s
not the President’s. They are
almost as near to us and as
sacred as is our preacher or onr
family physician. No greater
insult, no greater outrage upon
our rights, could be perpetrated
by a tyrant than to appoint a
negro as postmaster in a white
community. The difference be
tween Teddy and Mr. McKinley
is that the latter played fool for
awhile and quit, but Teddy
keeps it np and grows more
defiant of Southern opinion and
Sodthern indignation. Some
times providence afflicts the
people with a fool, and some
times with a knave to tyrannise
over them, but it looks like we
are to have both, fool and
knave in the same person. But
"tbe Lord loveth whom he
chastenetb.”
A medical mend from over |
the line writes me that he has a
growing sense of justice and
abounds in sympathy for oar
long-suffering people, but that
Teddy’s deformity does not
come from original sin or total
depravity, but from physical
defects in bis anatomy and
says:
"I have studied his cranium
and find that be has too small a
cerebellum. His occiput goes
straight up from the sinciput at
right angles and leaves no room
for moral attributes. A perpen
dicular back bead like Teddy’s
indicates a fighting, bear-killing,
‘athletic and foolhardy man. The
aphryon and the xnessial plane
are cramped together and Ted
dv'a back head is a perpendic
ular plane without hill or dale.
A man with a very small
cerebellum is peculiar, and it
will be found on inspection of
the sinciput or forehead that the
nose and cheek bones generally
rest on an enormous jawbone, or,
as yon might say, the jawbone
of an aas. If Teddy had lived in
Sampson’s day he would have
rejoiced to have been him
armour bearer and called his jaw
bone some.”
Just so—exactly—not only so,
bttt also. 1 understand it all
now, and thank my medical
friend. The lack of cerebellum
and medulla oblongata *and
occiput has made Teddy crazy
about bears and negroes and
other black woolly things.- But
I should like to know wnat kind
of a cerebellum that fellow Crum
picker or Stumpsncker or Dirt
dsn ble has got, that makes him
so venomous toward our people.
At Teddy’s request he nas in
troduced a resolution to have a
committee appointed to visit
Indianola and see what our peo
ple are doing to the colored
postmistress. Of course, be will
be appointed chairman of the
committee, but I'll wager ten
dollars he don’t go. He is
nothing but a gas-bag and a
coward. Mr. Thompson tried to
get him to come down to Ala
bama and see how the negroes
on hi* big plantation were get
ting on. He waa invited and
accepted tbe invitation, but he
did not come. He was afraid.
And that is what diaconrages
me about my avowing sense of
lost ice prevailing among the
Common people up North, if
they are getting anyTdnder why
do they send such a malignant
man to Congress? Hating the
Sooth seems to he the stock in
trade of most of the Northern
members. • The brainy men,
like Charles Francis Adams,
have modified—and modified
very much of late. Forty yean
ago be waa commanding a
nigger regiment down here for
which I will never forgive him,
bat lately he has made a speech
at Charleston and another in
New York, in which ^ he says
concerning the right of a State
to accede: "If we accept the
judgment of modern students
•nd investigators it would seem
as if the weight of argument
falls hito the Confederate scale.
The imee waa settled by might
and not by right." Then why
don't they petition onr soldiers
and pay us tor the property they
destroyed—and ask our pardon
besides. Four generations!
Old John Adams, John Quincy
Adauis, his son Charles Francis
Adams and now this Charles
Francis, his son, and lie is 70
years old and has been forty
years finding out that we had the
right to secede and they bad no
right to free our negroes without
paying for them. Rc-sides all
that, this Adams took charge of
a whole regiment of our run
away negroes to fight ns with.
Lew Wallace did the same thing.
Yes, he did worse. He was
president of the court that tried
Win and convicted him and
bung him on perjured evidence.
The longer I live the more I am
convinced that as a general rule
the smartest men are the mean
est—especially the politicians.
Think of Henry Ward Beecher
preaching from bis pulpit that
Sharp’s rifles were better than"
Bibles to convert the slave
owners of the South, sod so his
people bought the rifles and the
ammunition and told old John
Brown to go ahead. But the
tuggers were loyal to tueir
masters and wouldn’t bum nor
kill nor destroy. And hence
Lew Wallace and Adams and
many others armed all they
could musyts up and joined the
grand army aud marched them
down upou our helpless women
and children. At that time
there were 30.000 runaways np
North — fugitive slaves — tbe
meanest of the race, and nobody
but an unprincipled dog of a
man would have led them
against us. Down further South
the negroes mixed with gentle
men and were true and taithfnl
during the war and as General
Henry R. Jackson said, they
ought to have a monument built
to their loyalty as high as the
sura.
But, pshaw 1 What’s the use
of scratching the old sores?
Let them scab over. Are we
not all brethren since the
Spanish war? Did not we all
fight and bleed aud die together
in Cuba? Don’t tbe editors and
political orators tell us fhat
fraternal peace prevails between
the sections? I am still tick,
and have been out of the house
but twice iu three months, and
maybe that is why I brood and
ruminate over tbe wrongs we
have suffered. When the spring
comes and the birds begin to
sing and the flowers to bloom
maybe I will write more loving
letters; and if Teddy will retreat
and apologise for tbe lies he told
on Mr. Davis I will let him alone,
considering that his cerebellum
is limited by the medulla
oblongata and the sinciput.
I never read the modern novel.
They come and they go and are
forgotten; bnt Miss Pettna of
Alabama sen- me the "Princess
of Glendale," and I reluctantly
took a glance at the first page
and got caught. I turned tbe
leaf and read on and had
devoured oue hundred pages be
fore breakfast and all of it dur
ing the day. It is a faithful and
charming recital of Southern
borne life before tbe war. Then
the war comes with iu distres
ses, and Forrest with three hun
dred men pursues Struct with
fifteen hnrdred and captures
him, and Miss Emma Sanson
figures aa a heroine in guiding
Forrest across the river, and
then comes the sad story of Sain
Davis, the typical Southern hero.
Interest never fiags in the beau
tiful story and it will be a land
mark for our children and chil
dren’s children, for it is faithful
to the truth of Confederate his
tory. Bill Art.
P. S.—Tht Constitution is
mistaken. Williams, who made
that beautiful speech In New
York, was not Northern Wil
liams, but Southern Williams.
He is from Missouri, and said
"we of the South." Not a
Northern man except Charles
Francis Adams said a kind word
for as and he left ont Mr. Davis.
M he had said what Watteraon
said or what Southern Williams
said be couldn’t have gone back
to Boston. B. A.
New Prelfht Schadale*.
Toflvllte a»«*lnr.
Colonel L. T. Nicholt, general
manager of the Carolina and
North-Wettern railroad, aald a
day or two ago that ao toon at
poetible after the completion of
the work of (tandem ganging
now in progreaa, he propoeea to
change the achednliea of hhi
freight train* ao aa to hare on*
go north fa the afternoon and
the other go aontb in the morn
ing. H* intend* that they shall
pane Yorkville in the neighbor
hood of 6 e. m. and 0 p. nt.
Tint OAsrmt. $1.00 a Year.
HOTEL FOE WOMEN ONLY.
Tfco Martha Washington Ratal,
Which is lo Opon This Month,
Marks (ho Execntiea of n
Novel Mas.
CbulMa New,
New York, Feb. 5.—The Ho
tel Martha Washington, the new
hotel for women at 29 Hast
TSveuty-nioth street, will be
open for the inspection of the
public tomorrow. On February
J5 tbe house will be opened for
business, sad the newest scheme
in the woman's movement in
New York will have been for
mally launched.
The Martha Washington is
the realisation of a fond hope
cherished for years by tbe pro
fessional and business women of
the city, who heretofore Iwve
not had a place where they could
secure good hotel accomodations
within their means.
The high-class boarding house
in the past baa served as a sub
stitute with those women who
canuot afford the luxury of hotel
life and it was the lament of a
young woman, compelled toseek
accomodations in a boarding
house during a visit lo New York
uiai lea to loc inception of the
Martha Washington enterprise.
She was a friend of Charles D.
Kellogg, manager of the Charles
ton Association, who evolved the
project fora woman’sbotel,which
through a series of evolutions,
has developed into tht Martha
Washington.' It has been a labor
of vears and has been attended
with all sorts of discourage
ments, bnt the men and women
whom Mr. Kellogg interested io
the scheme remained loyal to it
throughout, and by their perse
verance eventually won success.
Dr. Ducien E. Warner is the
president; Charles P. Cox, vice
president; Charles M. Jesup,
treasurer, and Mrs. Richard Ir
vin. Mrs. Payson Merrill, Sam
uel Macauley Jackson and Her
bert B. Turner the other direc
tors of the company. These,
with other sympathisers with
the project, formed a corpora
tion in March, 1900, with a cap
ital of $400,000, to further the
enterprise.
Prominent persons took bold
of the matter and their aid made
the disposal of the stock pos
sible. Mr John D. Rockefeller
subscribed for $30,000 and Mias
Helen Gould took $10,000 worth.
But those of moderate means
also subscribed, and many of
the stockholders are women vfbo
have put their own earnings
into the company.
Having seenred a fine lot in
Twenty-ninth street with a
frontage of 75 feet on that street
and Thirtieth, the plot running
the length of the block, work
upon the hotel was begun in the
year 1900 and rapidly pushed to
completion.
The building, which is prac
tically completed, is 12 stories
high and bailt of pressed brick
and stone. The cost of building
and site is nearly $800,000.
The first and second floors are
devoted mainly to the office,
restaurant, dining halls and re
ception rooms, and the other 10
are used for apartments and sin
gle rooms, of which there are
about 400 for permanent patrons
and 200 for transients. It is the
intention to rent the single rooms
and apartments to women only,
who will be able to get rooms
for as low as $3 a week. Prom
this minimum the rates go to
$17 a week and higher for large
soitea.
•The hotel will be like any
other hotel, except in this, that
the rooms will be let only to wo
men. There will be no male
loungeri, bnt the men will not
be barred from the restaurant,
the diningrooms, or the drawing
rooms. Am long as the women
are unmarried they can remain
in the hotel, bnt when they take
husbands the doors of the Mar
tha Washington will be closed
to them except as vfsitors.
It is estimated that the hotel
will accommodate more than
600 patrons. Five hundred al
ready have engaged rooms, ex
hausting all the permanent quar
ters, and there ore more than
200 on the waiting Hat. The
"woman” idea will not be car
ried to excess in the selection of
employe#, although wherever
possible women will be given
the preference. The elevator
operators, bell boys, the head
waiter, and some of the clerks
will be men and boys, but the
cashier, the book keeper, some
clerks and the waiters art to
be women and giria. The man
ager ia Mr James H. Case, a
hotel man of experience.
Another feature is the library.
This was donated by a woman
who wished to show bar appre
ciation of the enterprise. It has
bees forntshed under Miss Kel
loggs direction and she has
copied the bookcases end chairs
from the furniture in Washing
ton’* library at Mount Vernou.
The fireplace in this room is
very handsome, and the mantle
is aur mounted by an excellent
bas-relief of Martlin Washington.
American Saa Fairer.
IM. L*ui» Jtepablfc.
One of the inevitable result*
of the Venexnclan crisis—a situ
ation of actual hostilities on the
danger line of the Monroe Doc
trine—is that of an increase of the
American Navy to the strength
demanded by the country’s rank
and the priuciples and interests
which its Government must de
fend.
This effect of the present dis
turbing situation is alteady be
coming apparent. lu the lower
branch of the National Congress
a bill has Just been.introduced
by Representative Dayton of West
Virginia calling upon the Secre
tary of the Navy to lay before
Congress at once the views and
recommendation* of the General
Board and the representatives of
the Naval War College in refer
ence to a policy of uaval increase.
This is the first time such action
has ever been taken in Congress
aud indicates how strong is the
sentiment in favor of an adequate
development of American pow
er.
1 Here is no reason to doubt
that the Senate is similarly alive
to tbe teaching of the Venezue
lan complication. At this stage
of our growth as a potent factor
in world-influence the necessity
for the possession of a navy
equal to that of a first-class
European Government is too
plain to be ignored. The causes
which have lead to the introduc
tion of the Dayton bill In the
House, and to tbe presentation
of a naval-increase resolution in
the Massachusetts State Legis
lature. must logically have
prevailed to create a cor
responding sentiment in the
minds of Senators. No sane
American fails to perceive the
folly of this Government’s at
tempting to maintain its dignity
and protect its rights in future
with a navy so inadequate as to
offer a continual temptation to
aggressive rivals.
i
ican Navy to a strength sufficient
ly formidable to compel the pro
foundest European respect
should be certain aud swift in
materialization. There is no
great Power in Europe that
would not rejoice to see tne Mon
roe Doctrine discredited by
force and the claim of this Gov
ernment to forbid European ag
gression in the Western Hemis
spbere set aside and invalidated.
That we shall some time have to
arbt for the maintenance of the
onroe Doctrine is almost be
yond doubting;. Tbe first neces
sity of tbe situation is a navy
sufficient to enforce respect.
A Little Lara Sfary.
torn Bet.
' A dreamer and a man of ac
tion loved a woman.
The dreamer said: "I shall
write verse* in her praise; they
will touch her vanity and she
will love me for them.”
But the man of action said:
"How old-fashioned 1 1 shall
corner the stock market, and
that will bring her."
So the dreamer wrote the ver
ses, and he induced a friend of
bit. who ran a 10-cent magazine,
to print them. And the man of
action cornered something or
other, and became a billionaire.”
In tbe meantime the girl mar
ried a man who inherited kis
money and they lived happily
ever after.
mu the dreamer wn so proud
of his verses that be didn’t care;
and the man of action was so
busy that he didn't care. •
The only one to suffer was the
man she married.
Tex Suggested ta Lila lastrraaca.
fttatMvIlte LMiwrt.
A prominent dtisen of States*
yille. in conversation with the
Landmark a few daya ago, sag
aeited that .inasmuch as the
State, the conntiea, and the towns
were all casting about for addi*
tional sources of revenue, that
the Legislature should levy s
tax on investments in life insur
ance, Just as other investments
ere taxed. Mach money is in
vested and more ia being inves
ted daily ia life insurance poli
cies, aed the gentleman named
insists that this form of invest
ment should be taxed just as
be«k stock and other holdings
of lika kind ere taxed. The idea
is a new one but on the face of
U there is no apparent reason
why this Ux should not be levied
aed we pass the Idea to the
finance committee of Legisla
te re.
■AIETOOTIOT Pf HAIMBSS.
PttlaWs Plight a! PHmmt n
®i War to a lafermatery.
WwMosto* l>o*t.
Deputy United State* Marshal
Dockery, of Noftb Carolina, en
tered Capt. Boardbam’s office at
headquarters yesterday morning,
driving a small barefooted col
ored boy by atrapa arranged
about bis shoulders. The boy's
feet were bare and ke shivered
as be trudged along the street on
“"**>• ‘o police headquarters,
red Hines was the boy’s name,
and he waa so ignorant be coala
only describe bis age by saying
he was one year older than 12.
The marshal waa on bis way
with hia prisoner to the Chelten
ham reformatory at Cheltenham,
Prince George County, lid.
Capt. Boardhsm urns filled
with sympathy for the shivering
“^“ked why he bad no
shoe*. The depnty explained
he bad not been told to make
the purchase, and be bad left
Gibson station, Scotland County,
N. C., io such haste *h«» be had
not thought of buying shoe*.
Ctpi. Board bam teal out and
bad a pair bought for the boy.
fhe local authorities kept the
boy iu charge until tfie deputy
was ready to go to Cheltenham
daring the afternoon.
Yark Cnnaty bams.
Vodnrlll* Knalnt, Ilk.
The Catawba river was on an
other rampage last week, the
water being high over the works
of the Catawba Power Company.
An engine that was being used
for driving piles was washed off
a lugh trestle work, and np to
the latest advises bad not been
fontfd.
A local cotton buyer remarked
at 10 o'clock yesterday that tbe
receipts of the day would prob
ably aggregate between 150 and
200 bales. He was basing his
conclusion on the number of
bales already marketed and tbe
number reported as being on the
way to town.
Ur. C. D. Anderson, a highly
respected citizen of the Neely
Creek section of Catawba town
ship, died last Tuesday of can
cer, after a long illness. He was
abont 80 years of age. The fu
neral took place at Neely’sCreek
church on Wednesday afternoon
at 2.30, tbe services being con
ducted by Rev- Oliver Johnson.
The surviving children of the
deceased are lira. W. H. Wil
li?®*. Jfcj. J. L- Lea, and Mr.
W. T. Anderson.
The track-laying gang of the
Carolina and North-Western rail
road passed through Yorkville
last Thursday afternoon, and
they were makiug extraordinary
time. Some of the railroad ms
claim that they ore spiking down
the heavy steel rails at the rate
of 2)4 miles Ja day. The gang
bad started during theday at tbe
21 utile post, near the old depot,
and is now proceeding north to
ward Bowling Green. A part of
the narrow gauge track between
Yorkville and Chester has all
along been equipped with heavy
iron rails and so me of these rails
will be condoned in usa tempo
rarily.
Mr. W. W. Wilson, of Lowell,
N. C.. dropped into the Enquir
er office on Monday and showed
the writer an ouiqne old hand
bill that is of peculiar interest to
the present pnblishers of this pa
per- The handbill, or poster, is
about 12x14 inches in sise, of
firstclass rag paper, and contains
a prospectus of the Yorkville
Miscellany, published by John
B. Grist, in 1848. The proapetus
sets forth that during tbe year
The Miscellany would print the
story of an expedite, t that Peter
Clinton fitted out i-.i York Dis
trict in 1778. and led against the
Indians ia Spartanburg, Green
ville, Anderson ana Flekans
counties. Tbe public was ad
»t*cd of the terns* of subscrip
tion, etc. The handbill is of
more especial interest on ac
count of the personality of the
printer, its age and ita highly
creditable workmanship.
RoVal
Baking Powder
Safeguards die food
against
AlMilIhlyMiHiMCipMM
Roman, the Clothier la moving
this week Into hla new stand next
to Torrence’s Jewelry Store. Now
better prepared than ever to serve
our growing trade. We Invite yon
to call on us at our.new place. A
cordial welcome and many bar
gains await you. Too busy mov
ing to write more.
ROMAN,
The Clothie'r.
HORSE TALK.
W'HEN we ADVBRTISBD oar stock early la January, we
had more than one hundred head to select from, aad mow
we only have about 30 bead left —which shows that we
have sold seventy head during the past two weeks. We mew wish
to aay that we have ]ust received another car load at Mates
wa can yet show run a aloe lot of selected stock to cbooaetna*.
Come sad see us at once aad get suited.
This question is ofcaa askad: "How can Craig ft WUsoa aall
so mamy Horses and Mules, also sack a. aamber a! Wagoaa,
gtes and Barries, aad why do people rone sofar to boy from these."
1 We buy our Hones aod Mules la a stock raising country
where they are raised as a sarplas, therefore wa have the opporta
tunity of buying the beat Hones aad Moles that are raised.
». We bay and skip id car toad tots.
S. We give oar customers the opportunity to work ftta to
their satisfaction before taking them array from our stables.
«. Oar stock is guaranteed to be an represented.
S. Craig & Wilson have bad seveoteaa years mparlsm 11 bap*
ing sad selling Horses and Matos, aad they know haw to gait pan.
•. If not convenient to pay cash, we give vefp liberal tmiuk
7. It docs act requite a rick ana to b«y from as. ,
*■ Wa always have a large number of Hecsas aad Males to
wlcct ftevi •
V I. If our customer buys a Horse or Mato that does eat salt
him, we will exehaage aad amka avecythiag sartsfsslssy.
10. As to Wagons aad Boggles wade eot only bey ews <*
two Jobs at a time, bat bay them ia car-load tots, ««Hfg ia al
•mreral hundred iota during tbs year.
11. The large qaaatky gusraatees the lowest prtoas. .iS'.'V
12. We have had sxperieooe In ualag aad wearing sat mw |
Jobs sad bp such actual aapwrtoecu wa know what to bap to Wk
lS. We are pertnaaeatly located her* forth#
Ifofm w w_a mm* _E ^. B mm mm’ H
aaytMng ia oar line, if yoa wfil' kladlp tell as what yea want, we
will try to salt yoa.
CRAIG A WILSON