i • : I . _ “SHis, glvlag my FREE OF CHARGE to every body* a large msitmwt ef «oa« exquisite NATURAL FLOWER PER FUMES aa4 TOILET ARTICLES* manufac twed by Walter Pratt A Co.* In their extensive laboratories at Chicago and Iowa City. The Walter Pratt perfumes and cosmetics have an astshHshud fsputatlon far purity and delight lor and are antiseptic in their ef _ We tissues ef and Imparting a aaftuaaa and fmahnraa ta the Impoverished akin that Is refreshing to behold. The above aasacd premiums are given to everybody alike upon the followingcondltlonsi As soon qaynahave'boaflht Sft.00 worth of jjneda for cash, of aar Wpg Is aur stare, yau will receive FREE say SOc article contained la display ease la front of store. A purchase of >TdO wHl entitle yon te any TAc selection ef arm. Please bear la mind that we make no ad vance In the price of our goods on account of this offer. We respectfully solicit your patronage and will take pleasure In presenting you with the premium to which your purchases will entitle yea. If your first purchase Is less than $5.00 a card wlU he given yon upon which your pur chases win he kept till the requisite amount has heen reached. MORRIS BROS. - DEPARTMENT STORE. TWii b m reason why the cotton mills at North Carolina should be reached to pay a tnppm nanemse tax. xae great iadnatrial development of this State began with the estab lishment of cotton mills. The ■access of this enterprise pared the way for other industries and i Old North State to a i of her poeaflrfHtics aa a manufacturing center. ttS» NM ibifbcr mfwm HhlU •at the £•* Bales at • MiUlsaaire. St. toafe Bloomington, 111., March 7.— One ol the oldest millionaires in Illinois lives here. His name is Abraham Brokhaw ,and be is 85 yean of age. He accounts lor bis wealth by saying that he always stack to what be set ont to do. His vig orous health he attributes to the met that he has never tasted liquor or used tobacco in any ions. ®,r°khew was a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln and Stephan A Douglas, fa fact, be lwew all of the prominent men of Illinois at that time. Peter Cmtwright, the blunt old meth odist evangelist, who expounded the gospel with his fists wheu *t became necessary, was a close friend of Mr. Brokhaw. The Bloomington millionaire has lived to see all bis former associates pass away. winn caps in oaio. Seventy tl Others Now Vol UmH Toledo, Ohio, March 13.— Whitecapping in Ohio has been revived with a vcugance, and through the northwestern part of the state wifc-beaters especial ly are being not only whitr capped but tarred and leathered as well. Several minorinstances htvt .come to tbe public notice of late, as a sort of warning to those who might be derelicit in the way of proper behavior, but recently more stringent and radical methods are being em ployed. Near Trowbridge, in Wood County, Harvey EUtadder, a worthless fellow, who had ac cumulated little beyond a lot of debts, a bad reputation and a large family, was known to continually heat and abuse his wife, a fiail little woman with scarcely life enough to assert her right to live. Fifteen or eignteea men, wearing white masks and armed with a rope and two or three horsewhips, visited BlsUdder's hovel after it had been known that he had beaten his wife and young son nearly to deatb. They took him from' the _ house, whining and begging like a craven coward, tied turn to a small tree near the bouse and lashed him soundly. His screams could have been heard half a mile away. He was then gagged, to prevent further outcry, laid npon hia stomach and paddled with wooden paddles antil it seemed as Jh°u*h he would be nearly killed. He was then permitted to ante, the gag removed and told that if he ever beat bis wife ot abased his family again he would be either tarred and feathered or lynched outright. He promised faithfully to do what waa right, and was then permitted to crawl home. He was almost unable to walk. ESCAPSI) PROM TORMENTORS. Two nights later a band of well-disguised men, numbering perhaps a score, went to the borne of William Irene at Pottage, Wood Connty, and took the straggling man to the outskirts of tne village where they began to make prepara tions to take the law iota their own hands; Irene, it is claimed, had neglected bis invalid wife and sick child shamefully, and the regulators thought it time to interfere. The men were well equipped with a large tar bucket and two pillow cases full of feathers. Irene, in anonguarded moment, broke from his captors and they were unable to re capture him. He has not been seen or heard from since, bnt the report has been thoroughly circulated among his friends and acquaintances that if he returns he will be tarred and feathered in regulation style. "drab" Sissie, near Rollers ville. was taken from his home at night by nearly forty well masked men, wearing white crepe over their faces, and whipped nearly to death. The claim was tirade that he had ■bused bis wife until forbearance was no longer a semblance of virtue. He wonld get drunk and run her out of the house at the dead of night in her night clothes, chasing her with a knife nutil she wonld be com pelled to take refuge with neighbors. It is averred that he would amuse himself by dragging her about the honae by the hair of the bead and bad been known to catch her, throw her head back and then draw a knife across her throat in a threatning manner, and on two or three occasions even cot through the #kin. BAD TO »B CARRIED IIOMft. Sissie was so badly ponisbed that be will not be able to walk [* » week. He was carried back home and put to bed by several of the party, and told l<„he *v,r abused bis wife they would hang him to the nearest tree until dead. work to purify the domestic atmosphere, so to speak, in Northern and Northwestern Ohio, It is said that the orrac ixatiou, which is divided Into three or four sections, numbers about 200 men. and that it has the quiet sanction of the authori ties, who arc prone to wink at its operations, so long; as they do not encroach npon a domain which does not require drastic measures. CLEVELAND’S POPULARITY. A Otowlai Tribal* bom (h* MmI Enthusiastic ol Bl* Ad ■bias Friend*. PkiUddsbla Fmllic Udni The popular demonstrations which have marked the recent public appearauces^ and even Mine ol tne private journeys, of Grover Cleveland reached a notable climax in the ovation spontaneously tendered the ex Presideut in the Brooklyn Acad emy of Music ou Sunday even ing. A meeting gathered to con sider means (or honoring the memory of Henry Ward Beecher turned again and again from its purpose under a realization of the presence of a living hero; successive speaker* departed from their premeditated ad dresses to pay him tribute, and every mention of his name evoked outbursts of enthusiasm from the great audience. The proportions of the ovation, to gether with the nature and source of the eulogies which it applauded, constituted a signal proof of the new and really phe nomenal regard in which the former President is held to-day. Mr. Cleveland has long been under the cloud of misunder standing. He left office politi cally a well-nigh friendless man, rejected by the controlling cle ment of his own party, and never, of course, given more than a grudging aud left-banded sort of commendation by the other. It is likely that Mr. Cleveland has suffered under the injustice and ingratitude of public opinion—though no word of bitterness hat escaped him. In the years that have elapsed since his retirement, it has neveT happened to be the interest of any political group to champion bin just claims to public regard, neither have events engaged in any happy conspiracy to rehabilitate his fame. What has happened has happened nndramatically, slow ly, spontaneously. Mr. Cleve land has emerged. The innate excellence of his character and the essential merit of his acta have quietly issued from eclipse. Slowly there has gathered in the public consciousness an ap preciation of the fine integrity of the man, his sturdy honesty, bis unspectacular but none the less splendid courage. Events have receded, perspectives have al tered, passions have died out, and at Inst the country very gen erally and with a singular for getfulness of partisan prejudices sees iu Grover Cleveland, in the phrase of Justice Brewer’s ex temporaneous encomium, a man "whose stanch support of public honesty and of national financial responsibility have glorified the history of this republic.1’ ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. _.vine •at tlimn on or h* V *t f+rmty, l*o< . Aria ini ttmior oi v6T9lib.ai.iMa. wt» H. Lewis. Attorney MORTGAGEE'S SALE OF LAND. Tm. N*dc« if Reffotratkm tad Eloctiaa. NO GIFT BY MRS. ROOSEVELT. Osetian (« Scad Handkerchlsf to Mlanssoto Women's Fair, WkilllEn U»1 Pf*t. St. Pan!. Minn . March 13.— The _ wniiion uf Minnesota are wishing the women of Texas bad not called Mrs. Roosevelt's gift liandkcrcliief a "cheap cotton rag.” Because now Mrs. Roose velt poli'.rly, hut positively, de clines.- to send a handkerchief to the bazaar which the women of the Minnesota Territorial Pioneer Association expect to give in A^ril. The handkerchief bureau, which Mrs. Roosevelt organized in order to meet the demands of fair committees for handkerchiefs has been abolished; it went ont of existence immediately after the Austin -..omen expressed their opinion of the White House gift to their bazaar. The proceeds of the fair in Minnesota will go to establish a bed to some local hospital, where indigeut Territorial pioneers will be csred for in illness. Fifty new rural free delivery routes, says Postmaster Bailey of Raleigh, will be put in opera tion over the state during this month. Saw Hit Finish. Ctiicuo Ikvn. "Are you preparing to die?" asked the elderly female of the condemned prisoner. "No, ma’am, I ain’t" replied the victim of circumstances. "But the feller in the next cell cau stand a lot of talk. Yon might call on him.” * Professional Cards. LUCIUS J. HOLLAND, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, DALLAS, N. C. Office near residence. R. B. WILSON, Attorney at Law. GASTONIA, N. C. P. R. FALLS, DENTIST. GASTONIA, N. C. Office over Robinson Bros. Store Phone 8t>. dr. d. e. McConnell, DENTIST. Office first floor Y. M. C. A. Bld’g GASTONIA, N. C. Phone 69. Morlfafee'a Sale of Land. r .% 8L IS . Aaril ktk. INS, » >r« In Cberrrvilte _count., and dnerthed and at rotlowm: gwe^n1!?. 6I«K « poltitoi J» a mall sine and rock, thener tea to a teantoa black nuk, these itea to arykTIheoce NlOB 31 '“* bUBlUOlO*. coalmining try estimation 20 mere a. more or ^Tktu Marcli 2qd. 1003. {r Lifer!'' ‘} Koitwim. NOTICE or ELECTION. QacUiu of Removing Use Coen ty Sent to ke Voted upon Wednesday, April 22. M03. Notice ia hereby given that pursu ant lo an act o< the General Assem bly of North Carolina, ratified Feb ruary the 20th, 1803, that on the 22sd day of April. IMS. an election will be held at the various voting place* in the several precinct* of Gaston Conaty. State of North Carolina, as hereinafter set forth, "To ascertain the will ol the people of said County aa to the removal of the County seat from Ita present lo cation in the town of Dallas to the town of Gastonia In said County." Those persons voting for removal shnll vote a written or printed ticket worded "For removal," those voting against removal shall vote a written or printed ticket worded "Against removal." VOT1HC, MACKS: Belmont Precinct at J. P. Stowe's Furniture Store. Union Precinct at Union School House M*>- I, Precinct at City Gastonia No. 2, Precinct nt J. D. Rmmh's store. Uhrun'a Prsclnel at Glenn's store. Cbei t Precent at old F. O. near S fsnnt-y'S store. Cnry a Precinct at C irpenter'a llOfl, IOaer*a Precinct at Fuller's Wood ! jS»»«a»«r City Precinct at Mayor's Dilling Precinct at Dilllag's Mill wT OVC . ,t Crowder's Mtn Cotton Mills store. Preelnet nt old Telephone Molly Precinct at Mayer's jf*8 Preelnet at School Mouse TisifrSicfStt rfev. Feint Precinct at New Mope lea Precinct et Court House tu mSStTi*: lyAC’ X r*V