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THE GASTONIA Published Twice a Week- Tuesdavi W. P. MARSHALL, Editor ami rr.yrt.fr. _DEVOTED TO THE PlOTECTltN OP HOME AND THE VOL. XXIV. GASTONIA, N, C„ TUESDAY, MARCH 34, I ' ' t 1 IU1 ■aggfwpgjmnm POINTS AND PARAGRAPHS _ON TOPICS OF THE TIMES. ^^————— ■ 11 mm—m—*»»•» * • UiKtcr this heart will b« ortuted from lime to time nottwotiUy utiaraace* oa theme* of current interest. They will he taken from public addressee, book*. nifuiRn, newspaper*, in feci wherever sre way And them. Some time# tbe*c selections will accord srttb onr view# end the views of our read er", sometimes the opposite will he true Bat by reason ©I the subject mutter, the style, the authorship, nr tba view* expressed, each will have to alemeul of tlnatly inter**! to mtke it a conspicuous utterance. Up pad Abent bat oat Being Walt. N«weoct yn»TiM-H«nU. While the Mississippi river is not doing so well, it is st least able to be ont of its bed. Tha Prahlbltlaalat'a Advantage. Ftota A Jourmcr lo Nature. I was like a Prohibitionist who was eating mince pic with brandy in it. * * * To know just how good brandy is in mince trie, one must be a Prohibitionist. Bryan’s Influence Waning. YOrkTilM Bnquirwr. It is claimed that while at one time every Democratic member of the senate was disposed to bow to tbe political leadership of Mr. Wm. i. Bryan, tbe Nebraska man bas not now a single followerin the upper house of congress. Mr. Bryan still has a few' frieuds in tbe lower bouse; but bis popularity is also on the wane in that body. Oravsr Cleveland on the Isthmian Canal. It is very gratifying that the bill bas passed tbe Senate and I hope there will be no further delay at tbe beginning of the work which I believe is going to mark au epoch in the commerce and transportation of the age and will be a glorious contribution by tbe American nation to tbe trade of the world. Stody and Work Combined. Halalah Tlaii. The plan of jomc of our orphanages to reqnire a boy to work part of tbe day, and spend the balance of the time it. school is no bad plan for auy school to follow. No better lesson can be tsugbt a boy, than the knowledge of what constitutes an honest day's work. Tbe man who teaches a boy how to work successfully on a farm or in tbe shop is no less his benefactor than tbe teacher who imparts to him a knowledge of books. Witt Bryan la Showing Thom. C*UUr* Weekly Mr. Bryau’s advice still carries much weight among Western Democrats, but his friends would do well to point out to him that the role of watchdog of the party is popnlar only when played with moderation. It doesn’t do to bark all the time. A majority of Democrats, like a majority of Republicans, want to win. Thus far Mr. Bryan has only shown them how he thinks they can lose. The Tact el Mr*. Wigga. Alice Htfra Mice, in Lorwy Mery. You cao coax a’ elephant with a little sugar. The woraer Mr. Wiggs used to act, the harder I’d pat him on the back. When he’d git bilin mad, I’d say: "Now, Mr. Wigga, why don’t you go right out in the woodshed an* swear off that cuss? I hate to think of it rampantin’ round inside of a good lookin’ mau like you." He’d often take my advice, an* it always done him good an’ never hurt the woodshed. A Mighty Snail Feeling Ahead ol Some Folke. 8t*lc*vllU Ludmik. It is not so popular now to abnse Mr. Cleveland as it once was, but the unreconciled element will never see any good in him. He was violently denounced for issuing bonds to maintain the credit of the government and we were told that under no circumstances should boudg be issued in a time of peace. Next year the politicians will have to defend this bond Issue In the campaign and tome of them will feel mighty small ff they should have their denunciation of Cleveland quoted against them. The Wars! Acl ol tha Legist star* klblical U*corrtrr. The worst act that was passed wsa the uew divorce law. It recognises abandonment as a ground for divorce, and provides that two yean abandonment is sufficient canse for divorce; aud allows remarriage of either party after five years,- This is abominable. It is enough to disgrace the State. It is a step backward, not for* war'd. It ia an invasion of the home and of the Christian religion. It makes a form of bigamy legitimate; and also makes marriage a means of seduction rather than wedlock. It was enacted iu the name of deserted women and children. It will increase tbeir num ber by ten where it will enable one to marry again. On this subject of divorce our State bat been shamefully in different. Had the ministers or the press of the State done their duty, this law would never have been enacted. We trust that the religious organisations of North Carolina will see to H that it is re pealed by the next General Assembly, and that the grounds for di vorce are limited to the four provided in the Code. A Tribute te tbe Trained Norse. Richmond Mcwt-Lc«d«r. Tbe trained nurse as an Institution is comparatively new in this country, but she has become a universal pet and heroine, and baa won her high place in the country's estimation fairly and by honest work, and the highest, purest and moat modest heroism. She baa manifested that most sublime courage that meets daugcr with open eyes and deliberate purpose and because of sincere de votion to unostentatious duty and love for humanity, which not only looks death in the face, but endnres life with penalties oi pain and suffering, exaction and privation and heavy and soul-try ing task, accepting all these things os part of the life's work. The newspapers of this immediate part of the country have called attention recently to two notable cases—one of a young wo man who gave her life nursing small-pox patients in the alms house in Richmond, the other of ■ nurse at Fredericksburg who volunteered to go alone into a family of twelve poor and isolated people, all down with measles, and to take charge of them all. Probably there is no* n day that some similar instance of beautiful devotion, generosity, fidelity oud courage does not devel op somewhere in the country. The American trained nurse is not only a model of professional excellence, but she is a very splendid example of womanhood of tbe best kind and an illustration of tbe aobleat type of humanity. ARP ON BISTOBY. The Boy* an* Olrla Writ# Him Far Historical Facta. AUliu CocuAttuilwa. So many young people who are thirsting for historical knowl edge write to n»e for help that I feel encouraged uud will answer their inquiries as far as I can. These young people in the country towns have schools to go to, bnt they lack books—read ing books, cyclopedias, biogra phy, and if 1 was as rich as Car negie I would plant a library of such books in every community. I would have a million sets of some standard cyclopedia printed for every school, even if they cost fifty million dollars. That would diffuse knowledge auioug the young people and do more good than all he is doing n big cities. But wbat we most need in the south are historical books that will be standard with ua and relate the truth about the sooth and secession aud the confeder acy sad slavery and the war and reconstruction. I had a cyclope dia that gave a whole column of apology Tor old John Brown and the pedigree of every northern race horse, and no mention of John B. Gordon or Format or any of our southern poets or authors or orators. I swapped it off at half price for the Inter national by Dodd, Meade & Co. The tributes in that work to Mr. Davis and I«ee and Jackson are all that coaid be de sired and mare than was cxpec-t ed. I wonder what haa become of that great southern publishing house that was projected in At lauta some time ago. That is what we want and must have to perpetuate southern history and defend our fathers and grand fathers from the slanders of northern foes. It is northern novels sod northern playa that have already poisoned the minds of thousands of oar young people. Only yesterday I glanced at a serial story in an Atlanta paper and the first thing I saw was a verse which read: •John Brown'* bods tin noaUferiM ■■ tbc Hal ki* «oarW**o* iDVCfeias am.” In a Missouri paper I saw where ,» yankee troupe were playing "Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” And now a fool fellow from Wiscon sin wants to get our governors to appoint delegates to a conven tion in Atlanta to determine the race problem, and It is said that that man Spencer is at the bot tom of it to get up a presidential boom for himself. I suspected there was a nigger iu the wood pile, for these northern politi cians never do anything from pa triotic, unselfish motives. Han na’s scheme fell through and Spooner thought be could patch it up. But the South never was more aroused aud united on the negro qnestiou and will resent all interference, whether it cotues from Washington or Wisconsin. Wisconsin! What impudence! A state whose foreign population is 62 per cent of the whole, aud of these there are 88,000 who can’t speak English and only 760 negroes in the state and three times as many Indians. What does Wisconsin know or care about our race problem? In the last few days I have re ceived three letters from young people wanting to know some thing about the confederate flags what were the designs and who Resigned them. I wish I could sketch them and point them iu this letter, but all I can do ia to describe them and give their bis rory. There were four iu ail, but only two lived to see the cud at Appomattox. No. 1, or.the "Stars aud Bars" was adopted by the Confederate congress at Montgomery. Its stars ware on a bine Reid and its red and white bars made it look somewhat like the Stars and Stripes, and sometimes it was mistaken for the United States flag, and so Geo. Beauregard designed . No. 2, "The Battle Flag," sod Gen. Joe B. Johnson adopted it and it never was changed. It wes a bine cross, or rather an X studded with stars and set on a red field. Ko 3. i„ tyay, 1983, the confederate congress adopted a *•*. It was a miniature ?•“*« fl»« •« ou a white field thot had a whit* border at the side aud at the bottom. Bat It proved to be a mistake, for it bad too much white and afar off was mistaken for a flag of truce. And so on March, 1865 con *?***, ad°Pted No. 4 as the no IkmmI flag. Tills bad the same battle flag on a blue field, bet the white border was smeller and a red one pat on the ontslde of thot. Thu flag did not wave very long, only about a month but nevertheless it remains as | the nations) flag of the confeder ate states. But the dear old battle flag N'o. 2 was the fighting banner of ev. ery company. Our wives am! our daughters made them (orthe boys in gray, and many of them were smuggled bark home again after the surrender and still kept aa household treasures. Our boys, the Rome Light Guards, bad o u e, and ouc night the youug people gave a tableaux performance in the city hall to raise a little money to put some benches in the desecrated churches for all the pew* had been takeu out and converted in to horse troughs for the slafl horses. One sceuc ill the tab leaux represented a battle field where women were ministering to the wounded and tbe dying, and one dying soldier, the en sign bad this old tattered nud war-staiued flag grasped in his ham! just os be held it when be fell. The Spanish commandant of the post was there with bis wife, and when he discovered the flag, got furiously mad. He imnped up on his seat aud yelled: "Take dat t'ing avay, dat is treason—dat is an iusult to me and de United States. I tend for my soldiers and I arrest de whole party." He ran wildly down the stairs and across the street to his quarters and came back quickly with a dor.en Dutchman in arms to uiakc the arrest. He inarched the young man over to his office, bnt paroled tbe young ladies until he could hear trout General Thomas, whose headquarters were In Louisville. 1 was mayor then and we had some hot word*. He said finally he would release the young men nntil he could hear from General Thomas. So I wrote to General Thomas by the same mail. He very graciously forgave us, but warned us not to do so any more for tbe display of a confederate flag was treason aud the punish ment of treason was death. Tats is cuougli about nags. There is no treason in displaying one now. Time u a good doc tor and Time keeps rolling on. My wife and 1 had another wed ding last Saturday—and good friends were calling all the after noon to say good words and con gratulate as on onr long and nappy married life. Early in the morning, while my wife and the family were at breakfast, I came in late and slipping up be bjnd her planted a venerable kits upon her classic brow. - She belt endowed ac In bMirw, She classed me In * mnek embrace; I No kfcr didn’t eltkcr.) And beadlu* bdlk bar brad looked up -- And need Into nr fsee." Yes, she did that, for it took her by surprise. I hadn’t kissed her since the first day of last June—which was her birthday. Twice a year satisfies her now; Cannon's Tty Siary. riiUadtloWa )SM Congressman Cannou, who is a power in argument and qnick at repartee, enjoys displays of similar resourcefulness in others. During tha hot summer cam paign in Illinois he songbt tem porary rest in a hammock stretched under the trees in the yard of a c'ouutry hotel. From nis window the shade looked in viting, but on the root he found the lawn strewn with tomato cans and other debris. On many of1 these more or leas nnaamtary mounds were myriads of flies. "I bad no soouer stretched myself in the hammock," said Mr. Cannon, "than these flies attacked me, seemingly by the million, n was intolerable, and in no pleasant frame of mind I looked up the proprietor. "What do yon mean,' I de manded "bv stretching your hammock in that fly-haunted field of torture yon call a lawn? " ’ 1 know the flies are bad out there now,' he answered, 'but Mr. Cannon you ought to use the hammock during hammock hours sod you’d have uo trouble from the flies.' "What are hammock hours?* 1 inquired. "'From 12 to2 p. m. daily,’ be replied. ‘Dnring these boors flies will not stuck yun in the hammock.' “I wm mneb interested in the man's Socritic skill in evading the issne and wishing to draw him ont, I asked: "Why are (here no flies around the hammock between 12 and 2? " ‘Oh,’ he rejoined, "at that hour they’re all iu tha diulug room."_ The Hnstler say* North Wilke shut o it to have another (urnittuc factory with a capital of $15,000. The Anthracite Coal Strike Commission made its report Wednesday to President Roose velt. The report will be made public Saturday. DECREASE iajSIZEof FAMILIES. The Average Family lea I*, creased Mere Thai Oae Par wi la Fifty Taara—Sama ef the Caesaa. Haitimoiw Bn. The size of the average family in the United States has de creased a little more than one person in the last 50 years. In 1850 the imputation of the conn try was 18,987,000, made up of 3,598,000 families of id persons each. In 1900 the entire popu lation was 78,303,000, made up of 16,239,000 families of 4.7 per sons each. In 188D the size of the family had decreased to five pci sons At the present time the largest families are in the Southern States, where the av erage is five persons as against an average of 4.6 in New Eng land and 4.4 iu Mew York. As wealth* increases the fami ly is sure to decrease. The young mail as e rule is not con tent to get warned until lie can support.nis wife iu the style to* which she has bees accustomed. That is, be wants to start where his parents and the pareoia of the woman leave off . The girl’a parents wera, perhaps; poor when they married and worked hard and lived in simple style. But they have reared toeir daughter differently and sbe is not coutent to start poor, This causes a delay in marriage. And then, among the well-to-do people, a much longer period is devoted to education. Fifty years ago a great proportion of the wouieu married between the ages of 17 uud 20, and if one reached the age oi 25 unmarried she was likely to be considered an old maid. Now a girl who attends a boarding school or high school graduates at the age oi from 18 to 20, and if she goes to college four wore years are required to complete her educa tion. Fifty years ago a boy graduat ed from the leading colleges at 18 or 19 years of age and oy the time lie was 21 conld have his profession. Now the boy is about three years older when be graduates at a university, and it takes him four years instead of two to qualify for the practice of a profession. lint it is only a ■mall percent age of tbe young men and wo men ol tbia country who go to college. Those, however who arc wealthy enough to obtain tbe higher education form tbe class, according to recent state ments by gentlemen who have had opportunities to gather in formation, in which families arc decreasing. Perhaps the principal reason for the decrease of the average family is the more rapid increase of the urbau population— tbe crowdiug of people iu the cities. Among the farming people, where food is cheap and abun dant and there is ample hotise room, people marry yonng and it coats next to nothing to rear children. In a few years they become helpers to their parents. This is toe reason, perhaps,j why tbe family in the Sonth, I where « greater proportion of the population is rural, is larger than the family in tbe North. In the city a larger proport i -1 of the peuple cannot afford to get married or to provide for chil dren if the/ are married. Be sides this, the mortality of chil dren In the city is greater, and that reduces the site of tbe fam ily The decrease in the site of the family since 1850 is the more marked when we consider that in that time medical science baa advanced ....J tbe child horn now has a tunch better chance of living than one had who was born half n century ago. The Postmaster General has demanded the resignation of Postmaster Cheek at Hillsboro. Cheek was found short in his ac counts. He made good tbe shortage but the department thinks he ought to go. RoVal Baking Powder Mahanthe brand arenr^j^ C.w_n_i4 hXulSruMuS ^(|y XOOCI against alum. ssstisMsrtf WBBHS M WflMipMPR FOR Ladies, Misses, Children. They are oa jBSWKB ‘ line ever shown. s . V I . ,** LADIES* SAILORS. ,%ssss,sisa,ss XifSXr ** <0aDd nght brre *° °°r «“nwtir» list of MILLINERY. Sf'JZSSZfiTcu %2r wltk *" opeais*, Wt "* ■** P**P*red to 111 order* la advance with the a* wit etc- " •uoni direct from the foretnoac fashion centers. Onr odllioery this season promises to anrpam any previoas record. DR£SS GOODS AND ACCBSSQIMBS. Here yon will find th: newest styles, latest d trims _« tW sautSSnaa»*-* z&amz WHITE GOODS. Our white noods department is complete. The laswast hae we have ever shown and the prettiest fabrics. JAMES F. YEAGER. CRAIG & WILSON We have j a*t received »~"*tirr ear of wall broken morse® AND IMIUL.es. We now have a lot oi Moles and Horsts that any on v may select from, and get suited. la all we haveabout seventy-fire head ia oar stables. Now is the tine to cone and bay a alee Male. Wc guarantee satisfaction when you buy from as. Our itnv and pekes ate also mad* to suit you. Now Is the tin* to coast and bay a -i? '4 brand sew Vehicle. We now have the lot that we have had ia oar repository far a lone while.' CRAIG & WILSON liTWii all CMHtrlMB One of the many factoneon tribotiog to thotamarkably rapid and M>td growth of St. Looiaia the marvelon* development of the Southwwttad other territory tribniarytotUtcltyla all Haaa of t«de. la 1904 there erffl he huU WorM* Wr h the world. The peeaidaatlal whole world m ahoald mb aerfbc at ooee for that paar of pe amble to tha farmer, merchant or pt oferaiouat man. Ita tale asf&rtsftffti?* sgssss-hsrt family Ionroal. r ■Hon price of $1.00 paper* each weak, year. _ . . -J A Mmn tilifi _Apraparty «mM ad la Tmi QaistTs. » b o c eilF TUa la tba plaea to sal ynr ctoecrka cbaa*. Ut m tpala V** *ow friaaat ci pl*rinr rotr oc5J!T TT'_
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