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W. r. MAiSHALL. Editor mai Propci.lor._PEVOTEP TO THE PKOTECTION OF VOL. XXIV. GASTONIA, N. C„ TUESDAY, APRIL 88, 1903. _1' _I i ..—■ POINTS AND PARAGRAPHS ON TOPICS OP THE TIMES. Vadar thle baud will be stinted Imntlulg Uom aMeawibr atlatuacea on thaoim of current tolerant. Tker will bt ultcti from public addraaaea. bookv maaaiinaa. itevepaDcra. In tact wnttaear tan nan Bad llaem. Soma llnaa lhaae aclectlnna will leimd with our rltai and Ike view* of oar read ■**> aometlmen tke opponita will ba true Bat bjr rraaon of tba aublart matter tba Kfle, tbr authornhlp, or tbe viewa expreneed. aarh will hare an alanrtnt of tlmalr intaraat to make It a roaxplcaoun utterance A Oinlirm Combination. Cleveland PUlu Dealer. Jfttnes Gunpowder aud Grace Gass, both of Cartbagc, Mo., were recently married. Only think of the anxiety that must have permeated their sporkiug days! Pew Pineo Would bo Imposed. KU-bmoaU Kotfldcr. Wc would welcome « law requiring every man requested by a hundred of his fellow-citizens to ataud for election for a municipal legislative body to obey the request under penalty of heavy fine aud imprisonment. The Trna Christian Religion. Ralwiflb Biblical Recorder, Mr. Sheldon’s book, "In His Steps,” quickened the world’s heart in respect to imitating Christ. Its domiuaut theme was "What Would'Jesns Do?’’ That is, to be sure, a high standard ol living; but there ia a more fundamental attitude. When Mr. Shet dou and Dr. Meyer came across the Atlantic together a newspa per remarked that one represented the Imitation of Jesns as the Christian Life; the other represented the Appropriation of Jesus as the Christian Life. We regard the Appropriation of Jeans as the true Christian religion. History Vindicating Cleveland. York will# Rmqairtr. As to whether Mr. Cleveland has any idea of standing for the presidency again we have no information. We are donbtful as to whether he could get a nomination, and we are doubtful also whether he conld be elected if nominated; but we certainly do not believe there ia anything to be gained by further denunciation of his record by Mr. Bryan or anybody else. The soundness of his judgment and the wisdom of his action have been too completely and fully justified by developments. There are already too many evidences that Mr. Cleveland will be remembered as a patriotic statesman even after Mr. Bryan has been forgotten as an empty windbag. Idcmih «( Bribery. Tbc Nation. That the crime of bribery, electoral and legislative, is on the increase in this country, we have an accumulation of painful con vincing evidence. One deep of shame answereth unto another— Rhode Island to Delaware, Albany to Harrisburg, St. Louis to New York. Men whose right hands are fuH of bribes sit in the high places of government, go about the streets with heads erect, are in good repute in society and often in the church. Yet they are confessedly making the very pillars of our public life rotten. Popular elections they are turning into merchandise, and render ing the so-called "will of the people" as expressed at the polls a thing for corruptionists to sneer at even while they manipulate their purchased voters. When Aching Hearts Went Duty'e Wey. H A. Noon, la Biblical Recorder. It waa during the terrrible struggle in the Confederate War known as "the Wilderness Fight"—that tfie company led by Cap tain Plato Durham was ordered to change position as the company marched on in the rear of the line of battle. While passing the company of which the father Durham was a member, an acquaint ance of the Durham* cgUed out, "Captain Durham, your father was killed last night, and lies just back of the lines, unburied.” He marched steadily on. Columbus, who was orderly seargeut of the company, said, "My brother, may I not turn aside and bury our father?" The Captaiu said in reply, "The country needs every available man to*day, my brother. Our father will be buried.” What Wa an Worth. NwbrllW Arnitan. If Pierpont Morgan owned the world, instead of only a part of it* he would be worth about $400,000,000,000. If he owned the United States his wealth would amount to about $94,300,000,000. The United 8tales baa the greatest total wealth and the smallest debt of any of the world’s great Powers, but on a per capita basis Great Britain is the richest. While |he property and money of that mighty nation amounts to only $59,000,000,000, as against onr $94,300,000,000, its wealth amounts to $1,442 per person, while in the United States the wealth amounts to only $1,235 per capits. The second richest nation ita Europe is Prance, which has wealth aggregating $48,000,000,000, or $1,257 per capita. Germany’s wealth foots up $40,000,000,000, or $709 per capita. In addition, she has $800,000,000 lent or invested abroad. Rnssia, with its im mense territory end population, hat wealth amounting to only $32,000,000,000. The UfKT ot 6r««t Liras. Dr. a«. CUIr KtKtlwar. In Rdaciiloul Confrrrae* M KirVmand • And so I know that not in Virginia is the roil of great men the roll of the dead alone. The spirit of Patrick Henry is as alive as ere his words. The snbltmity of Wssbingtoo csn be conceded to no single mortal, bnt portions of his transcendent qualities can be ascribed to tha heirs of hia fame and to the guardians of his dust. The versatility, the philosophy and the genius of Jefferson may be united in no one being, but his virtues add bis principles cannot be confined or restrained -or parodied—in the State which be vir tually made and which la large sense made him. The example well as tha decisions, the character as srell as the learning of John Marshall are neither an extinct nor an ontlasred inheritance among his people. The genlns and tha faith of Stonawal! Jackson will ever be a factor amoug those whom he led and for whom he died. The greatness and grandeur, the roagaaaimHy and the modesty, tha consecration and the courage, the example aad the incentive which Robert B. Lee personified on the field of war and in the still air of delightful studies in collegiate shades will be not only forever a transforming influence not oaly within Virginia, not only within the Soetb, not only throughout the republic, but across the seas and aronnd the world. PREACHER, DOCTOR. LAWYER. Tbn Tran Foactin oi lha Minlalar, the Phyalclaa and lha Lawyer. Medical Talk. There was once a minister of the Gospel who had had a great deal of experience and had out lived the time when his fervid evangelical zeal overbalanced his better judgment. He had reached the age of mental de velopment in which good, sound, practical sense lian taken the place of a morbid desire to save souls from a supposed impend ing doom. One day a man came to him for advice. This mau im agined that he was a great tinner and in dangeg of losing his soul. He went on to tell the iniuister a long stoiy which re vealed very clearly to the minister that the man's concern about the salvation of hia soul was mostly, if not wholly, due to a depressed condition of his nervous system. So the minjster advised the mao to go home and to think no more about bis soul’s salva tion. To cease sesrehiug the Scriptures (or the way of salva tion, and to go calmly about the duties of life without any fear or misgiving about his eternal welfare. He advised him to tee that he made everybody about him happy. To give bis bouse a good cleaning every morning and a nice, (rein bed to sleep on every night. To see that all creatures depending upon biu> or related to bim were made comfortable and happy. Do this for one month and return to me and I will advise you furth er. This was the minister's advice. He was a good minister—a wise minister. It is a pity the world is not full of such divines. There was once a lawyer. This lawyer had passed through that phase, of life in which he gloried in litigation and found great relish in stirring up discord by encouraging petty quarrels among neighbors. He had seen the folly of legal procedures sud noticed that nearly every one of his clienti in the end found themselves worse ofi than at the beginning. A man came one day to this lawyer to tell hint about a grievance be had against his neighbor. He recited a long story of little differences and minnte bickerings by which be had becu annoyed, and he bad now concluded to begin suit for damages. The lawyer listened to the story and then began to give his client some f>ood advice. He showed him the folly of further estrangement. He pointed ont the trivial character of his complaints. He advised him to go home and lay aside all thoughts of his neighbor’s depravity and never mention the matter agan for a whole month. If you meet your neighbor, treat him as if you were fnends. Don’t allow yourself to say a word against nitn or to do any thing unfriendly toward him. If at the end of a mouth yon find yourself of the same opinion that you are now, maybe I will begin your suit for you. At the end of the month bis client was thoroughly ashamed of himself and no suit was ever begun. The neighbors had be* come reconciled. This lawyer waa a good man —a noble man. What a pity It is that there are not more of them in thia world. There was once a doctor who had practiced medicine so long that he hod forgotten all about his graduation and diplomas. His title of M. D had long since* ceased to puff him up and he had entirely lost every vestige of vanity concerning his profes sional wisdom. A man came one day seeking advice of tbU doctor. Tbe doc tor listened to bis Ion* story of ailments and drug-taking. The patient went on to recount the numerous aliments through which be hsd passed, aad tne large number of physicians by whom be hsd been treated. The doctor listened to his story attentively, sympathetic •Hfv After the patient had finished hie story, he advised him to ouit taking drugs and visiting doctors He implored him to go home and lay aside the whole matter of drag-taking and doctors and diseases. Pot one month don't admit that you are sick. Don’t take e dose of medicine. Don't men tion a doctor's name. Don't tell anybody that yon are sick or admit that you ara feeling bed in any particular. Cease at once complaining and think that you are fust as well as anybody else. Keep this up for one month, then come aad visit me again aud I will treat your case with medicine if I find it necessary. The doctor's persuasions pre vailed aiid the man obeyed hi* advice to the letter. In 06c month he relumed to the doc tor’s office better than he had been for years, fully persuaded that lie had only to continue in the same way a few months longer, when he would be en tirely restored to health. What a magnificent doctor that was I What a blessing to the neighborhood in which lie was located! What a bene diction to the families be visited! Who can estimate the vslue of such a matt? May his number increase. May the dav hasten when the colleges will be turn ing out just such men into the world to mitigate human suffer ing. The true function of the minister l« to lead people to a sweet, trustful confidence in God, guardiug them from the fear of sin and evil and all the imagi nary calamities with which futurity has been peopled by ignorance and superjtitou. The true function of the lawyer is to guide wrangling neighbors out of the quagmires of discord and estrangement in to the fraternity of universal brotheibood. The true function of the doctor Is to prevent diseases by winning the obedience df people to laws that govern the body. By teaching them the folly of supposing that there is any other escape from human ailments than right diving, and an un shaken faith that a mau reaps exactly what he sows, whether it be health or disease »• Collect Back Tu Proa tko Llcrnot Men H»«r» n»d OtoMrrtf. The Stale Auditor has had printed a number of copie* of the opinion of the Supreme Court in the case of William* ys. the county commissioners of Ire dell, in which case the plaintiff, in paying his purchase tax, had deducted from the price of his liquor $1.10 per gallon, which he claimed he had advanced to the distiller to pay the government tax. leaving the price oulv 15c per gallon. Tne opinion in this case will be mailed by the Auditor to ev ery sheriff in the State, and ac companying it will be a letter signed by the State Auditor and the State Treasurer, calling attention of the Sheriffs to the matter and directing them, if the retailers in their counties have been in tne habit of paying their purchase tax in any such way as this, tt> go to work immediately collecting bark taxes doe tbe State. The reason for sending out this letter is that it was stated in tbe argument of the Williams case that it was the general cus tom of the liquor dealers to de duct tbe government (ax in mak ing their returns, and thus pay less than one-eighth of what their actual purchases called for. Tbe auditor and Treasurer are determined to probe this matter to tbe bottom. A Billion-dollar Country. New York World. The Treasury Bureau of Sta tistics reports that from April 1. 1902, to March 31, 1903, inclu sive, the imports oi the United States for the first twelve mouths in our history reached a billion dollars. The exports for the same period reached $2,414, 786,954. The recent increase in them renders it likely that by the end of the government fiscal year on Jnue 30 they drill have reached a billion and a half, and so have broken another record. Neither our imports nor our exports had reached half a bil lion dollars in 1870. Imports touched $750,000,000 in 1890, exports in 1800passed the same sum, and in 1892 first passed the billion mark, receding from it in the "lean years" thft followed. But since 1897 they have beeu continuously above the bilUoa. In some other respects this is a billion-dollar country. We have one billion-dollar trust and six billion-dollar railway "groups." There is a billion dollars In the savings banka of this State. The farm auimata of the country are worth three biilions and the farms altogether twenty billions._ A commercial estimate pots the annual cotton crop of Brasil at 200.000 bales (500 pounds each), of which about 50,000 bales are exported. w ► ► coin rot nmimiVES. Tha First SUiani Will Probably Bs Mada Abaat May 1. Wuhisgtaa turn. The first shipment of Philip pine coin will be made from San Prancisco shoot Msy L Secre tary Root gave instructions yes terday to Can. MacAithur to have officers detailed to receive the coin from the mint and place it aboard the transport for Manila, when it will be tnroed over to the Philippine government. Tbe 1 n r g e s t shipment of coin will be made from New York about ten days later, when the money coined at tbe Philadel phia mint will be sent by way of tha Suez Canal to Manila. The Bureau of Insular Adairs of the War Department arranged with the Trftiury Department for coining nil the silver that will be used, as well as for engraving and printiug the paper money, that will be pnt in circulation as a part of tbe plan for carrying out the act of Congress for the Philippine currency. Tbe pro ceeds of the saleof bonds, which was awarded yesterday, will be used to purchase bullion and pay the expense of coining and print ing the Philippine money. It is expected that soon after the ar rival of the new coins in tbe Philippines the Insular govern ment will complete the neces sary measures to pnt them in i circulation. Tha Ssatk Coming ta tha FrwaL Charlotte Nava That was good news that came from Norfolk concerning the ar rival in that port of the good ship St. Bede. Thera is nothing unusual in the arrival of a ship at Norfolk; they pnt in there every day, but the interest that attaches to this particular ship grows out of tbe fact that her cargo consisted of cotton goods manufactured in the South and consigned to China. The strik ing feature of this announce ment is that this cargo of the St. Bede’s is the first of its kind from the Sooth—the beginning of a new era. The New Sontb, awaking to a realization of her glorious future, waves aside the middleman and ships her own cargoes direct to the great Sast. It is bnt a beginning, bat other! Southern manufacturers a ill fol low suit. Truly it is a great step forward. The CiMNMinMl Oratora. *rr. T. a. Law. la riruilss Commencement orators a:« ia dtmaod. As the years j»» by the number diminlshe* If ft were not for a claas of fellows who >i ve ambitions scheut a la mind t!v sell >o1s would have to close, «• appears, without ora tion*. Rnt tbere is ever to be a re»oa». „ w iringmen, wepre same, to k^cp alive the cus tom of having a comtnencinent oration Another thing ia no tier able. Those who apeak on these historic occasions do not tnake the elaborate preparation that the fathers did. It ia not infrequent that we bear crowds criticising the orators for deal ing out extempore, if not Im promptu speeches. There is too little honor also in it, to encour age the orator to spend money for oil to get np e highly credit able addreee. The preachers who happen to be orators come nearer doing their best than any other clam._ Andrew Carnegie has given 9600,000 to Boolter Washing, ton’s iuatituto at Ttwhecgee, Ale. . Prof. C. C. Crittenden of the Chair of Pedagogy and assistant prol***or of Rngfiah at Wake Forest College, died Thursday. Six hundred workmen on the new National Soldiers’ Home In cowrie of construction at John son City, Tenn., struck Priday for an increase in wages. The Home ia being bnllt at a coat of 99,000,000. Our Strong Jost new millinery It c ■ctitt, with tattc, 'M . iw, tad " abort, me ere ngoi m NECKWEAR. • «** VA of tfca amtttl tfctagt la caBaa SILKS. . ^ugragi’iy.a a/a'isr-s; •aay’sivqa color*. SoTaadfSe par yardT ««».«•. Hack, aad WHITE OOOD1L tgzsgieizsiszi-***"**™* DRESS GOODS, la voile*, toobeira ead a variety of amw weavea. CORSET® AND BELTS °* <°r* cornets. EMBROIDERIES. ApfBqtta qm| — m* tuaflnoartai* in the tine of trbn miaca. All detifoa, latest style*, tad OH price*. JAS. F. YEAGER, LADIES* PU1WI8HIWQI. HORSES MOVING We aow have on head only about 25 hasd of Hapas and Moles. The last ear load for this ssami hu already ami red. : s;trt**t:it it**tr Twelve ear loads fa oar record for this inm I The choice stock we now have on haad fa moving fat; come at wk» 4i»<l mak* roar selection. : : : : j : ; $ NEWBUOOIE8, ■ . *»' '. /is;. . r ■ ?' ■ ?>..} With the arrival of spring we have redved a lot of dig new Baggies lost oat of the factory. We are pjhg to Ml them. Get ooc and eajoy that Easter ride yon nre plau ningfar. : : t : j : : : t j x : . . . . CRAIG & WILSON Now is the Time, A A A 4 A Gastonia Savings Bank the Place. TIT Bidia I ITj " rn W isfa Do you aave any part af year samfags T If nri,wMlstriaffsMthiNHtt? We waat ^pfn^^ajtheh^tof.y-a. MM UtuTHtoMSSto.41"1'1"4 *""*■ AAA Start to-day thrhditt of aaviag asasy. It frowa^^aad the tonger H grows, the aaaler R viilhAii GASTONIA SAVINGS BANK. L- L- HAADIM. Ca—nou L. L. JEWKD>8. 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