W. r. MARSHALL Editor u4 Pr-rl«tor. DEVOTED TO THE PROTECTION OF HOME AND THE VOL. XXIV. GASTONIA, N. C„ Kiel 13AY, FEBRUARY 37, 1003. ~ ^__ ___ Save Money for the Savings Bank. HOW? Buy your Groceries cheaper. As you have wood, coal, heavy cloth ing, shoes, etc. to buy, it's a pleasure for us to divide our prof its with you and sell you goods as cheaply as we possibly can. We have a few Suits, Hats, Caps, and some Dishes and.Glass ware to go at prices that cut to the quick. We have a cabinet each of Wood's and Ferry’s Seeds and onion sets. Wood’s Earliest, Red Bliss, Early Rose, Burbank, and Peerless seed potatoes at prices that are right. Give us your trade and your cash and we will try and make it to your interest to trade with us. Bargains in Groceries all the year round. Come, send or order from the Golden Rule Store. B. G. Rhyne & Co. LIFB IN THE WEST. IlliruUiI LaMar From Fanner GaMatlan Naur Living la la 41m Tarrllary—Candltians and Haaaera • I Lila Existing Tbara. To my Gaston Friends: I will write you a line to let you know how cold it is ont West. Up to last Friday, the thirteenth, we had experienced very little winter. On Friday we had an ice bark and on Sat urday night sleet and rain. Then came the blizzard, the wind blowing at a fearful rate with the temperature eight de grees above xero. I said at breakfast, "Mr.- McHwain has gone to Lindsay, one of the new towns. One of the boarders said, "He will freeze to death.” Poor comfort, don’t yon think ? Yon cannot appreciate this re mark unless yon could see and spend the night in one of the little shacks iu one of these new towns. I am afraid Mr. Mcll wain will have pneumonia. He sleeps in all sorts of rooms with out fire He went to Oklahoma Terri tory abont two weeks ago and organised the first Southern Presbyterian church in that ter ritory at Mountain Park. He spent ten days there preaching. I must tell you abont the house he stayed in. It consisted of one little room where be and the family ate and slept and a little room in the rear about the ■isa of a bath room, where they cooked. I asked Mr. Mcllwaln how they did when bed time came. He said, "The good ala ter retired into the cook room until he got in bed." Well he organized there with eighteen members. Of these 11 were nun and 7 women. He wa*t frpmUiere to another new town, Frederick, and found some Presbyterians and Cumberland Presbytariana and Congregation sUsts. They told him to send them a preacher, and they would pay him. In January he organised at Marietta, 1. T., a town of fifteen hundred inhabitants about 30 miles from this point. At this place the number* were mostly women, there being only two men. Those two were good ones. I went to Marietta and enjoyed it. I veTy seldom go with Mr. Mcllwain and generally when I do go I wish I had not. If you knew this country you would un derstand. Yon will say I am telling all about Mr. Mclllwain, and bis work and very little about my self. All I can do is to stay in my room and read and pack Mr. Mcllwaiu's grip and re-mail bis letters. Now yon willthiok " she certainly has a good time." You would not think so after trying it. x The hardest work I ever did was to do nothing and just wsit. I feel like my life was a failure. T guess I am doing a little some thing in staying here to comfort my husband. I do not know whether you know it or not but it is a fact that people never call on Evangelists’ wives. 1 have been employing myself reading history. Since Christ mas I have read, "Prom the Dis covery of America to the Close of the Civil war." One of the many judges at our boarding house has ylven me access to his library, which 1 enjoy very much. You see I do not have to spend iny time making preparations lor receptions and club meetings. This is a tony city, however. They hove receptions, theaters, and all kinds of amusements. On St. Valentine’s day our bank er’s wife decided she would give a reception to the ladies of Ard more. She ban a beautiful home and those who were there tell me the decorations were very pretty and the refreshments were good enough for a'Vsnderbilt. One thing I noticed, the poor were invited as well as the rich. Well, 1 started to tell something abo^t the city, but got off on the receptions. Ardmore b the largest city in Indian Territory, fifteen years old, and has nine thousand people. There are three bank baUding* would be or naments to ayy city. There are also a great many twp and three story brick stores. In fact I aiu afraid there sire toouiauv. There are ten churches, one college, one convent, and a beau tiful waiting room at the Union depot. Several things about tliU coun try 1 do not like. They do not believe in capital punishment. They will clear a man of mur der, and send him to the peni tentiary for stealings cow. An other thing ia, yon can get a di vorce too easy. If my husband were not a preacher I would be afraid I would lose him. A mar ried man will fall in love with a youug woman, get a divorce and then re-marry. In a few yeans he will get another and to on. The same with the women if they have no children. Most of the people here are comparatively young people and they call everybody old who ia over forty five. If I stay here long they will really make me think I am old, and you know that’s not true. When 1 left I decided I would take Tkk GAZJtrnt. then I de cided I would not. I was afraid you would not write to me if I took the paper. As letters have, of late, been coming in a little slowly I have decided to take the paper. I would like to take a trip to California and other places but Mr. Mcllwain can not spare the time to go with me. So many of the Gastonia girls are marrying and goiog to be married. I will have many uew homes to visit when I come back, if I ever do. May Heaven’s richest blessing crown these homes. This severe spell of weather has excited our sympathies for more than two hunared thous and bead of cattle in tbc Indian Territory very many of which have not a particle of shelter. Some of them have died already and ntauy mote must die if the storm continues. Such a thing as a cattle farm is unknown in this Territory. Mr. Mcllwain in hit travels found a poem beautifully framed and hanging in the parlor of an old Confederate soldier. This poem I send you for publication. A CONFEDERATE NOTE. * Representing nothing in Cod's earth now And naught in the waters below it As a pledge ol a nation that is dead and gone. Keep it dear friend and show it. Show it to those who will lend on car To the story that this paper enu tell Of liberty born of the patriot's dream Of the storm cradled nation that fell. Too poor to possess the precious ores And too ranch of a stronger to borrow We issued to-day our promise to pay And hoped to redeem it to-morrow. Out the days rolled on till the weeks became years And our cotters were empty still For coin was so rare that the treasury q naked If a dollar but dropped in the till. ilut the faith that was in ns was strong indeed And our poverty well discerned For these little checks representsd the pay That our suffering volunteers earned. We knew it had hardly a value in gold, Yet as gold our soldiers received it ft gaaed in our eyes with a promise a£££ patriot toidierbelieved it, I Uut our boys thought little of prion Of of bm/that were over due. We knew If ItW bought bread for a 'Twasthe heat our country could do. Keep It for it tells our history over From the birth ol its dream to the last, Modest and born of Ute Angel of Like hope of success it has past. I THEME IE NO SUBETtrUlE Woman, When puiu and anguish wring the brain, A uiinUterinc sugcl thou.—A*/V »' Scotl. The influence of woman i* felt throughout the whole civilized world. All the successes, wheth er great or stnill. that men have achieved, sere due to the care ful nurturing aud noble exam plea of good mothers. Whether at home pursuing the wifely or sisterly task, or abroad on the field of battle, making calm and bright the laat hours of the dy ing, like "the Angels of Buena Vista," the irresistible force aud powerful impression of woman’s character areas unalterably fixed on the heart of the recipi ent a* though branded in letters of fire. When overtaken and almost overcome by some financial trouble wbitlier does man flee for succor? To bis loving, thoughtful wife. Armed with her sage counsel, be is enabled, frequently, to "weather the gale." And when disease, that much dreaded foe of mankind, seizes ou him. when bis frame is racked by pain, and bis mental peace destroyed by the halluci nations of a fevered brain, who is it give* him case and dispels the Hideous visions? Patient, gentle woman. What would tnan be without her? We shud der and hesitate b« fore replying: A hardened wretch, without honor, without shame, without mercy; an utter vagabond and wreck! Wc cannot doubt that woman is a most powerful agent in the dissemination of good when we reflect that she is most highly favored in the most cul tured and refined sections of our Union. For it is the worthy only that appreciate the worthy. Like music, woman “bath charms to soothe the savage breast." She has a power of per suasion, a certain eloquent ad dress, that carries conviction snd makes her an indispensable aid in Christianising the heathen. If woman’s advice, entreat ies and tears, were heeded more often, our penitentiaries and jails would be less foil. By the sweet, steady light of her noble influeuce and example, woman is to man like the guiding-star to the lonely wayfarer. In in tellectual ability, a 1 1 history proves that she is man's equal, at least, if not superior. What man was more heroic than Joan of Arc? Who was a more astute politician than Madame DeStael? What a bright array of genius and talent do the names of Hannah More, Lydia H. Sigourney, Felicia Hemans, Mrs. Ellis, Maria Edgeworth, Alice and Phoebe Carey, and a host of others pre sent] Woman’s watch-care of inau lasts through his life-time, from the cradle to the grave. Whether as maid or matron, sweetheart or wife, mother or sister, man is blessed with her loving oversight until death ends all. Woman! She is the queen of all hearts, the mistress of the world. Long may abe live to teach the sub lime lessons of purity and truth! —Jerry Haldeman Winn, I^ntis villc, Ky. CiUlng Milana In Pakrnary. Mahmilt* LaniteutrV. tOfh, Mr. JT, D. Clark, of Rock Cot neighborhood, cut the last of bit last years's crop of watermelons Monday. The melons had been preserved in a bin of wheat since they were palled last fall. Messrs. John Roneche and Eu gene Phifer, of Statesville, who helped eat the melons, say they were as good as when first polled from the vines. CBEKOTILLE. • ' nr um Tiinm Feb.21—Mr*. SalHe McGinnas Mr. Wiley McGinnas, died fhiintday evening about ««°,o clock, aged 27. She had been til several weeks, with a complication of diseases. Her death leaves two little children motherless and a husband sorely stricken in heart. She was the only child of Mr. and Mn, A. M. Anthony. She was a mem ber of the Lutheran church. Her funeral attended by a large con course of bereaved relatives and sorrowing friends, waa held at the Lntlteran church Friday afternoon at half past two o'clock and waa conducted by her pastor Rev. R. H. dine. Tbe storm of last Monday night did considerable damage in Cherryville and community. A pan of the roof of the Gaston Manufacturing Co's, store was blown oS. Mr. N. B. Kendrick's buggy house was blows down completely demolishing his car riage, and breaking his baggy. Part of tbe roof waa blown off Mr. Hoffman's picture gallery. No dwellings suffered damage other than demolished stove flues. A vast quantity of timber has been blown down in tbe for est and many fruit trees up rooted. A Mr. Johnson, who recently moved here, was tried before. N. B. Kendrick Esq., last Tues day for beating his wife, and sen tenced to serve on the chain gang for a term of thirty days. . The public schools of Cherry - villcd closed last Monday. Only a three months term this year. Tbe great educational " hullaba loo” of last summer appears to have been nothing bnt a fallacy. G. Lee Beam killed a hog this week that netted 559 pounds and C. P. Stroup one that netted 322 pottuds. Mr. S. S. Mauney will leave for Raleigh Monday evening to see about establishing another county. On last Monday morning Mr. S. S. Mauney filled a half gallon bottle with white beans ana gave each customer a guest at tbe number of beans in the bottle for every dollars’ worth of goods bought. The one guessing nearest tbe exact number to re ceive a nice bureau. This con test lasted only one week. More than a hundred gnesaca were re corded each day. The guesses rouged from five to twenty-two thousand beans. The contest closed Saturday evening. The beans were coan ted, tbe number being 7.114. J. L. Mom was tbe lncky man, his gneas being 7,110, Mr. Manner bad a lot of shelf worn goods that he proposed to sell at and below cost during the contest. And lie disposed of about $1,000 worth. The Story ol Elina Peer Beys. John Adams, second President was a son of a grocer of very moderate means. The only start be had was a good education. Andrew Jackson was born inn log bat in North Carolina, and was reared in the pine woods for which the State is famous. James K. Polk spent the earlier years of hia life helping to dig a living out of a new farm in North Carolina. He waa afterward a clerk in a country store. Milliard Piilmore was the son of .a New York farmer, and his home was an hnmbla one. He learned the business ot a clothier. James Buchanan was boro in a small town in the Alleghany Mountains. His father cat the logs and built the house in what waa then n wilderness. Abraham Lincoln » is the son of a wretchedly poor farmer in Kentucky, and lived la a log cabin until be was twenty one years old. Andrew Johnson was appren ticed to a tailor at tbe age of ten years, by bis widowed mother. He was never able to attend school, and picked up all tbe ed ucation be ever bad. Ulysaea S. Grant lived tbe life of a village boy. In a plain boose on tbe banks of the Ohio River, until be wms seventeen yean of ^Jamae A. Garfield was bornJ* s log cabin. He worked on fae farm until be waa fttroag enough to use carpenter's tools, when be learned the trade. He afterwards worked on a canal. Grover Cleveland's father waa a Presby terian minister with a small sal ary and a large family. William McKinley's early home waa plain and comfortable and hit father was able to keep him at school.—^arfiy Veaar Mrs Aihnemlt. Ed Cray, colored, who'killed John Poster. In Waynesvllle, last waak, la still at large. Just strived, s esau pi the very latest didsns is hosiery (or ladies’ end misses' spring wear. If you k^u our stock you haves'! sees the newest these la fa these »ofc. Also Just arrived, a NEW LOT of NOVELTIES Three goods liave not beau shown ou this market before. JUSf REMEMBER that Dress Goods. White Goods/of the newest weaves sad out. Embroideries. All-overs, Appliques, sad Tlhmlsa Mt always found with ns sa the aew things nudes their appssznaou. ^^AJl invited to inspect our Hass. New goods will coating to come in. SK3!^B^^aBSS3B5553SBS JAMES F. YEAGER, LADIES’ FURNISHINGS A SPECIALTY. CRAIG & WILSON We have ju»t received another car load of well HORSES AND MULES. Wc now have a hH of Mules and Horse* that *Dy one nwv select froai. aad cat Mtkcd. Ia all w« have about seventy-five head in oar stables. Now Is the tfaw to come and boy a alee Male. We guaranta# satisfaction when you bay from os. Ottr lenas and price* sre also m.de to suit you. Now is the time to coax sad bay a brand oew Vehicle. Wc bow have the afcaat lot that wc hare had ia our repository for a long while/ > .* 0, STAR ARCHARENA BOARS NO. 1. This board ia 24 inches square, baa elegant -*Ta1flsd hardwood rim finished in imitation mahogany. Pud |g «| _»- „ neer, light and strong aad finished la colon. Crolciuole Carmans Flags of Nations, and other games, 50la all. can be -1—J « board. It i. the be* eba*, comSUtio. bolrt ew uSE Tbn regular price ia f2J0. but for thirty days saa ofier this handsome game board with complete outfit ##• mm for only .* .. !■ ■- ■ "