W. P. MARSHALL. Eiit.r u4 Pr.pri.tor. DEVOTED TO THE
VOL. XXIV._GASTONIA, N. C.. FRIDAY, MARCH O. 1003.
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EMINENT UTTERANCES
4***4 ON 4*dAA
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
Under tbfa bead will be priated from time to lime noteworthy tttcrucci
on theme* of current interest. They will be taken from pablic addresses,
bonk*, maemsfnea. newspaper*, ia fact wherever we aaay fiad them. So*ue
tlmea these selections will accord wHh rror views and tbe views of oar read
ers. sometime* tbe opposite will be tree Hot by reasoo of Ike subject matter,
the style, the authorship, or the views cspiesned. each will have an ckraevi
of timely interest to make 11 o conapicaoaa utterance
Disease e Crime.
Walter H. Pajr*. ftl Dedication ol New Mbrary at Trinity Collet*.
It is wrong that any community should permit any human beiug
to have typhoid (ever, smallpox or any other of the preventable
diseases. We have already demonstrated that nearly ail diseases
ore preventable by tire action of the community, State or nation.
Where such action is necessary to make the civilization in which we
live healthier, that is the community’s business. Then wc will
come to look upon the appearance of any disease as a crime and
some one will be punished for it every time. So that the ideal
community must be healthful.
. , _ Warning fo Fathers.
Bslitbarr Son.
Bishop’s case should be a warning to alt solicitous fathers.
They should not fail to ascertain whether or not a stranger in their
home is a gentleman, even if he docs take liquor and wine into the
home.
Ruimlllg laadiurfe.
And they had better not invite the geutleman out unless they
have the drop on him. If an attempt is made to put out the gen
tleman in the old-fashioned way—with the toe of a boot or with a
club—the gcntlemau aforesaid might slay the father and juries of
the Mecklenburg variety would resent sucli a lack of hospitality by
justifying the set.
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The Oregon 1
In making an argument the other day in behalf of the lighter
type of battleships like the Oregou, Representative Cushman of
the State of Washington rose to the occasion with a bit of eloquent
rhetoric that is worth preserving.
"We built the Oregon, if yon please.” he said. "The Oregon!
what mighty memories that name stirs within us! The nation
held its breath while that sheathed monster of the deep plowed her
way through 10,000 miles of ocean foam to be preient on that fate
ful day at Santiago. As she bore down on the Spanish fleet she
looked like the great, gray avenging angel of God Almighty.
And wheu there was heard the boom or her mighty guns the
yellow rag of Spain sank from sight forever from the western hemis
sphere; the sky of Christendom was enlivened with the folds of a
new banner.”
Carnegie’s Sharp lidkule.
Jadcc Ausnatu* Van Wrak. baton tht Soatbam Society of New York.
Shakespeare in "Shylock" sowed the seed of agitation against
the collection of debt out of man’s flesh and blood, wltich, con
tinuing for two centuries, resulted in the effacement from Ameri
can and English law of the right to imprison your fellow mao for
debt, which has been .proclaimed one of the grandest reforms of
onr latest civilization. Yet greater is the evil and brutality of na
tions going to war for debt. Mr. Carnegie has done more to firmly
establish the Monroe Doctrine than all others since the days of
those who created it and has sown the seed of agitation for the
elimination from the international code of the right of nations to
go to war for debt, destroying the natural equilibrium of nations
in peace, when he requested the two strongest nations of the old
world to send him their paltry bills against Venezuela for settle
ment, making them appear as pigmies in comparison with the
smallest of civilized nations as well as in comparison with an
American industrial prince. It was the stroke by a master hand
with the weapon of sharp ridicule to call these nations to a sense
of propriety belonging to our age of progress which circles around
that central figure of the world’s history, the great Prince of Peace.
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A Noble Eulogy ol tbe South.
Smtot C*orc* P. Hoar, before tbe UlKMi Leesae Club of Chlcese.
I know bow sensitive our Southern friend* are on this matter of
social equality and companionship, and I think I might say fairly,
and properly—and that perhaps 1 have a right to s*)r it—that it is
not wise for the people of the North to undertake to'deal rashly or
even to judge hastily of a feeling to deeply implanted in their
bosoms.
Time, the gropt reconciliator, will reconcile them to that if in
the”»atura of things and in the nature of man they ought to be
reconciled to it . And if in the nature of mao, time does not recon
cile them, It will be s sign that they ought not to be reconciled to
it; and that some other mode of life for them must be devised.
Now, my friends, having said what I thought to say on this
question, perhaps I may be indulged in adding that although my
life politically and personally has been a life of almost constant
strife with the leaders of tbe Southern people, yetis I grow older
I have learned notonly.to respect and esteem, but to love the great
qualities which helougto my fellow-cltlsen* of tbe Southern States
They are a noble race. We may well take pattern from them in
some of the gTeat virtues which make np tbe strength as they
make the glories of the free States. Their love of home; their
chivalrous respect for women; their courage; tbeii delicate* sense
of honor; their constancy, which can abide by an opinion or a
purpose or an interest for their States through adversity and through
prosperity, through tbe years' and through tbe generations, arc
things by which the people of the more mercurial North may take
a lesson. And there is another thing—covetous ness, corruption,
the low temptation of money has not yet found any place in our
Southern politic*.
Now, my friends, we cannot afford to live, we don't wish to
live, »nd we do not live, in a state of estrangement from a people
who possess these qualities. They are friends of ours; born of
horning; flesh of our flesh; blood of our blood, and whatever may
be the temporary error ol any Southern State, I for one. If I have
e right to speah for Massachusetts, say to her, "Entreat me not to
leave thee nor to return from following after tbee. For where tbon
goeat, I will go, and where tbon stayest, I will stay a|M And thv
people shall be my people, and thy God my Qod."
THE NEGRO PBOBLEM.
Bill Arp Says Everybody Is Tired
el It, end Let's Bays a Real.
Alluii CoMtltutioa
My wife reads the papers more
or less every day and keeps up
with the sensations. Most of
the time she sits in her accus
tomed comer and plies her nee
dle and thread, making little
garments for her grandchildren,
or new covers for the cushions
or mending underclothes or
darning stockings or something.
When she gets tired she walks
in-the garden or gocsjldowu to
see Jessie and the children. She
went to town yesterday and
bought some thread and some
toilet soap and got weighed and
asked the family all around to
guess liow much and one
guessed it, exactly one hundred
and fifty pounds. She asked
me to guess, hut 1 said no~ahe
had had her way so often and so
long that I couldn’t come near
it and she shook her fiat at me.
Good gracious t When I mar
ried her the didn’t weigh a hun
dred and wore number two shoes
and stepped like a deer. "Tern
pus fugit” Next week will be the
fifty-fourth anniversary of our
wedding dny, fifty-four, the tal
ismanic number made up of
uiues or its multiple, as 3. 6, 9,
18, 27, 54—3 and 6 are 9, 1 and
8 are 9, 2 and 7 are 9. 5 and 4
btc 9. And soon onr birthdays
will come along again, the first
aud fifteenth of June, and time
keeps rolling on.
My wife was reading the paper
and suddenly stopped and spoke
to we, saying: "Well, isn’t it
about time to quit writing about
the negro?" " Why ao ?’’ said I.
"Why, don’t yon see that the
whole business of the race prob
lem was settled in Atlanta last
Sunday ? The mayor and the
preachers, black aud |white, all
made speeches, aud seemed to
agree and everything is harmo
nious. So if I was yon I would
write about something else.
Take up George Washington for
a change and let Booker go
dead."
Well, they did play on the
harmonica right smart and I
hope the problem will take a
rest, for everybody is tired of it.
Even Crutnpacker is tired, and
now says the negro must work
out bis own salvation. That's
all right. When they call off
the dogs. I’ll quit. They are
waking np to the true character of
the negro. A Chicago man who
has been visiting the prisons
•ays there are about forty six
thousand negroes in that city,
which is about two per cent of
the population, and that the
prison records as shown him by
wardens, jhow the negroes to be
thirty per cent .of all thecrimin
als confined, and that the negro
quarter of the city is the rendes
vons and retuge of nearly all the
white burglars and thieves that
infest the city.
But that’s none of my bust
ness, as iny wife says. Chicagb
needs them for municipal poli
tics. But I have quit.. Let the
negro go along and evolutc, as
Crumpacker says. I had rather
look out of my window and see
two little girls coming up the
walk hand in band to see me
than to write about anything.
And the little boy ia coming,
too. Hia nnrae ia rolling him in
bis carriage and be will ran to
me as soon as tie gets in the
room, and will nestle on my
knees end say hia little worda,
end mv greatest comfort is that
all of them love me and
won't go home without kissing
tne a sweet goodby. That nurse
is a copper-colored girl about
twelve years old, and she loves
that baby and watches him at
carefully at a mother. She ia the
daughter of our sexton, who is
the janitor of the public school.
He and his good wife ere excep
tions to all the frailties of the
race, and so are their children.
If there were many like them
there would be no race problem.
Those three little children come
to sec me every day and make
me forget myself and my long
illness, and I find myself whis
pering, "Suffer little children to
come unto u»e." "And a little
child shall lead them.*' What a
pity they have to grow np and
loee their innocence and ace
grief and trouble. How sweetly
•ad are the memories of out
youth.
One poet t«ya;
‘wGfctsi'eysajaa;
And another aaya:
1 "SSSTiKT”' “•
The little window where the mu
came peeping la at more.
It never rone a wlefc too toon,
Nor Vwigjrt too long aday.
hot now I often winhUie night
Had Mown my breath away.
And no do 1 remember the
little window and the long happy
daya, hot 1 have never wished
that I had died in childhood,
nor do 1 wish to die now. 1
wiah to live tor tire sake of these
same grandchildren, for f know
1 can do something to guide
and comfort them along the
journey of life, awl they would
miss nir. A child without a
grandpa aud grauduia has not
had ita share of happiness.
What a beautiful verse is the
last one* of poor Tom Hood's
poem:
"I remember, I remember, the fir
trcca, <Urk anil liigli.
1 used to think Uieir slender tope
were clone against the sky
It wm a childish ignorance, end now
'tis tittle Joy
To know l'ui farther off from heaven
than when 1 wue a boy."
Last summer the little baby
boy was sick. We feared be
would die. As he lay upon a
pillow in his mother’s lap, the
little 4-year-old girl went up
close and whispered to her moth
er, "Mamma if baby dies mayn’t
1 keep him for a doll?"
I never lire of their childish
talk. It is always sincere, and
that is truth, for sincere means
without wax—unsealed, "sine
cerum"—no secrets, open sad
read if you wish. It is an old
adage that "children and fools
never lie," and this reminds rue
me of George Washington, who,
tradition says, cut down a cher
ry tree, anil wbeu his father iu
qnired who did it, replied * Path
cr, I cannot tell a lie. I did It
with my little hatchet." I don’t
believe that. It ninst have been
a mighty little tree that a little
boy could cut down with a little
hatchet. And. if be was bad
euongh to do it and knew better
he wouldn’t have made such a
saintly speech as "Father, I can
not tell a lie." My history says
that many of the little stories
came from the nursery. But
he did. wheu yet in his teens, un
dertake to mount and subdue au
untrained blooded horse, and tbe
horse reared and ran and plunged
so furiously that he Unrated a
blood vessel and fell dead with
George on top. His mother was
greatly grieved, and scolded him
severely. I never kuew until re
cently that be took tbe small
pox on Barbadocs island, and
was slightly msrke I all his life.
George says in his letters that
his negroes gave him moch
trouble and great concern, for he
had to be away on public busi
ness most of the time and could
not look after them. He inheri
ted one hundred and forty and
six hundred acres of land and
his wife one hundred and fifty
more and seven hundred acres
of land, and I reckon they did
give him trouble. He never
bought or sold any and set them
all free in his will.
And now please excuse my
mention of s matter personal to
au old soIdieT, W. F. Lee, a pri
vate oFCompany D in Hampton
Legion. He has lost his horn, a
long beautiful bora that
while iu camp below Richmond
Richmond be dressed and pol
ished and engTaved with bis
name and a wreath. He took
the born from the head of a Tex
as steer at a butcher pen in the
rear of Grant’s army. He sent
it home in the fall of 1384 by his
brother, who stopped over night
at Colombia at the Wayside
Home and there lost it. He
says, "Major, l am growing old,
awaiting the blast of the last
tramp, bnt 1 would like to blow
my own horn once more before
I die."
Do please somebody send him
that horn C. 0. D. to Piedmont,
S. C.
Tbs Law Altsrds Practically ns
Prat action.
Oartum HmU*
This thing of killing people
upon slight provocation is be
coming alarming, and what
makes it worse, the lew affords
little protection. If it had been
absolutely certain that a hang
ing would follow a murder the
tragedies at Charlotte and
Raleigh would not have occnrred.
By Way al a Lmhi.
chiw*r«t.
"One of our cars ran over
another man last night," an*
Bounced the anperlntendent of
the afreet railway line.
"Well," replied the president,
"after a while the people will
, learn that the only safe place is
aboard the car and that 5 cents
is a small price to pay for safety.»
It is currently rumored that
Jmlire Bryan, who fa an uncle
of Mrs. Ludlow Skinner, ntid
who will not preside at the May
wood murder trial, fa endeavor
ing to secure an exchange of
courts with Judge Shaw, by
which the loiter will bold the
criminal Urm there beginning
March 23rd.
ST. LOUIS* WATti SUPPLY.
An Ingniry Uni PnnUahm Law
»ara lafamaUnf, ProtUabls
Employment.
China* Rocord Uctclil.
Testimony ia now being taken
ui St. Louis in the case of that
city against the Chicago drain
age board /or alleged pollution
oi the Mississippi River, which
is the source of the St. Louis
water supply. This testimony,
together with testimony.taken in
Chicago, is to be used in the
suit uow pending in the Supreme
Court to stop the operation of
the sanitary caual.
While lUe taking of tettimouy
furnishes interestingand profita
ble employment for the lawyers,
it can nanlly fail to emphasise
in the public iniud tha absurdity
of St. Louis’ contentions. In
order to fully appreciate this
absurdity one to tut be somewhat
familiar with the map of Illinois,
and be must have some knowl*
the pollution of waters of
the flllinots River that is going
on in the intervening towns be
Johft and Gnifton, when
tbf Illinois empties into tha
Mississippi. Between these
towns an Ottawa, Spring Valley,
Hennepin, Chtilicothe, Peoria,
Pekin, Havanna, Bcardstown,
Monteaama, Meredosia, Bedford,
Hldred, Hardin, and dozens of
smaller towns and villages, each
sending a constant stream of
sewage and other forms of
pollution into the river. At
Peoria, with its distilleries and
P*«. where
30,000 head of cattle are
collected and fed at one time
from the refuse of the distilleries
the contamination of the river it
continuous and enormous.
It should also be noted that
the Missouri River, one of the
filthiest at res ms ou the globe,
empties into the Mississippi
below Grafton and above St.
Louis, and that in addition to
the pollution from this source,
about fwo score towns empty
their sewage into the Mississippi
between Grafton aud St. Louis.
Granted that the St. Lonis
water supply is polluted—and it
certainly uever was fit to drink—
how are the experts to dis
tinguish between a drainage
canal microbe and a microbe
frou>' the foul cattle pens of
Peoria? How is it possible to
deterraiue that the alleged
pollution is not from Pekin,
Havana, or the towns on the
Missouri River?
‘End il Strikes la England.”
New Tort Piooi
A crisis in the fortunes of
trade unionism in Greet Britain
is reached with a verdict of
$115,000 to the TaffVale Rail
road Company against the Amal
gamated Society oi Railroad
Servants. This verdict means,
in brief, that strikes in the Uni
ted Kingdom will be impossible
except in cases where a labor
organisation chooses to expose
itself to bankruptcy through the
damage suits that will be almost
a necessary consequence of a
revolt. The incorporation of a
labor organization and its mala
rial evidences of responsibility
in the form of property of any
character will be either a deter
rent of a strike altogether, or it
will be made to suffer the conse
qnence of any infringement of
the rights of the employers,
and as the judge who tried the
esse referred to remarked, "You
camuot make a strike effective
without doing more fiaa is law
ful."
Postmaster Vick lots his of
ficial bead not because he is a
napo, bat because he baa given
aid and comfort to the Demo
crats. When an administration
goaa reason banting k is liable
to pick np some queer odds and
ends.
Lace Stripe Hosiery
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Just arrived, a case ad the vary latest designs in htfrgrlpt '
hosiery for ladies’ and niiasss’ spring wear. If yea haven't seca
our stock yon haven't seen the newest there b fat these goods.
Also lost arrived, A
NEW LOT of NOVELTIES
in Neckwear, Bella, Brooches, Beit Mas, Backles, Beak' Mas,
Shirtwaist Sets la the newest styles.
These goods have not been shown on this market before.
JUST REMEMBER
that Dress Goods, White Goode, of the newest weaves sad pat
terns, Embroideries, All-overs, Appliques, and Trianalogs are
always found with as as the new things make their appearance.
AU invited to inspect oar liaea. New goods will oaatloas to
come in. SSSBBttrSSBSBBBSSS
JAMES F. YEAGER,
LADIES' FURNISHINGS A SPECIALTY.
CRAIG & WILSON
We have jut received another car lead of cell»—»Hn
HORSES AND MILB9.
We BOW have a lot of Males and Horses that any eae
may select from, and get salted. Is all we have about
■eveaty-flve head la oar stables. How Is the **-tt to
come and buy a nice Mule. We Ruaraatee satisfaction
when you bay from ns. Oar terns and prices are also
‘made to sait yon. Now is tbc ties* to coom aad bay a
brand new Vehicle. We aow have the nicest let that
we have had in oar repository for a Ion* while.* .* .* .*
i : ' / i 1 ■ .f,ry a7-' /'*V * w-^v
Wfaik the holiday season is over, still we have avaitina us
many lou« whiter evenio** in which some aort —nmaisnTnnrt
be found hi the shape of indoor fames. Nothin* in the way of
tbat is superior to the different styles of Mae boards which mm
handle. wmhbh—a=-=-mnsa—-wnsaBW
STAB ARCHABENA BOARD NO. 1.
This board is M inches square, ha elegant moulded hasdwood
mu finished in imitation mahofasy. Pane] is of Vyly ud,
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STAR ARCHABENA BOABD0O. 2.
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hardwood fraae-moch latfm and handaoaer thsatW No. lift
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