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THE GASTONIA ___Published Twice a Week—Tuesdays W. F. MAI SHALL, r mad Pwprkior. DEVOTED TO THE PROTECTION Of HOWE AMP tag UrnaroiB or TIE vc. VOLl XXIV> GASTONIA, N, C.. TUESDAY, MAY g. IQQ8. - . --- EgLL' - - ■ ■ POINTS AND PARAGRAPHS ON TOPICS OF THE TIMES. Uarter thin Heal wltt he orioteJ Iron time to time uoirworiby ithraecn oo U«o» of current liter**. They will He takmm from public ad.lre**e*. booke. mtytame*. newspaper*, m fen wherever we mnjr And them. Bam* timee tbewr selection* will accord with our view* and (be view» of eer read era. •omtlime* the opposite will he tn*c. But by raaeoo of the tabled matter. tUe eeihorahlp. or the view* eepmted. each will hare an element of timely lolercrt to mute it a contpicoeti* utterance. An Exhorfalian to Cloor Minded nnd Devext Potriotiam. Gruret CUtrUiil, at 81. TmiU Dfdicalioq Kxooeiliun nulldiaua We are all proud of our American citizenship. Let u* leave this place with the feeling stimulated bv the sentiments born, of the occasion. Let tin appreciate more keenly than ever how vitally necessary it is to i»ttr country's weal that every nne within its citizenship should he cl.-ar-minded in political aim and u*pira tion,sincere and honest i:i hit concept! »n of our country’s mission, and aroused to higher mid mom responsive patriotism by the re flection tli.it it is a s •lemn tlii: n to belong to a ptnpir favored of God. _ Cleveland's Dignified PosiHoa. coiling w««ur. We do not believe that Mr. Clevelnnd seeks another term in the White House. He is now leading the life of a nseful and hon ored cilisen. When he speaks he is listened to, and his influence is strong for good. Neither bis health nor hit inclination, we imagine, favors another stretch of labor at the capital. There could be no more dignified position than the oue which he now holds—the position of honored citizen. Living at Princeton, in contact with young minds which are to influence the fnture, emerg ing into the larger world now and then with a letter or a speech when he sees an opportunity for good, he occupies as fine a place as this republic offers. Hast Hake the New Days Great. PT*M4rol Jtaoarrelt at At Uwi». The old days were great becanse the men who lived in them bad mighty qnalities; and we must make the new days great by showing these same qnalities. We must insist npon cour age and resolution, npon hardihood, tenacity, and fertility in re sources; we must insist npon the strong virile virtues; and we must insist no less upon the virtues of self-restraint, self-mastery, regard foT the rights of others; we must show our abhorrence of cruelty, brutality, and corruption, in public and in private life alike. If we come short in any of these qualities we shall measurably fail; and if, as I believe, we surely shall, we develop these qualities in in the future to an even greater degree than in the past, then in the century now beginning we shall make this republic the freest and most orderly, the most just and most ^mighty nation which has ever come forth from the womb of time. Tha Preachers sad Preaching il the Oldea Times. North Cirallu lutw. We like these old soldiers, who laid the foundations deep and well in the years gone by. We arc building now upon those foun dations. -And as we rear upon them structures pleasing to God and helpful to men, let us remember in love and honor with our tongues the foundation builders. F. M. Jordan has done an eter nal work for the Baptists of this State. We believe that more men and women can trace their conversion directly or indirectly to bis preaching than to any other man in or ont of the State. We like the old style preaching. It has charms for ns which the new and weaker style does not have. And it haa power, too. because it is blessed of God through Hit Spirit. We do not mean that the gos pel of power is confined to these older men—not at all. Many, very many, of the younger preachers preach with the same power and glorious effect. It is only a matter of devotion to the Truth and desire to carry ont the will of the Master. And without tbis no pulpit can be powerful. Tha Train Yard al a Great City. Prank NottI. In The Ptt. Just before crossing the bridge on the north side of the river she had caught a glimpse of a great railway terminus. Down be low there, rectilinear, scientifically paralleled Snd squared, the Yard disclosed itself. A system of grey rails beyond words com plicated opened out nnd spread immeasurably. Switches, sema phores and signal towers stood here and them. A dozen trains, freight and passenger, puffed and steamed, waiting the word to de part. Detached engines hunted in and out of sheds and round booses, seeking their trains, or bunted the ponderous freight cars into switches; trundling up snd down, clanking, shrieking, their bells Billing the air with the clangor of tocsins. Men in visored caps shouted hoarsely, waving their arms or red flags; drays, their big dappled horses, feeding in tbeir nose bags, stood backed up to the open doors of freight cars and received their loads. A train departed roaring. Before midnight it would be leagues away bor ing through the Great Northwest, carrying Trade-tb* life blood of .nations into communities of which Laura had never heard. Another train, reeking with fatigue, the air breaks screaming, ar rived and baited, debouching a flood of passengers, business men, bringing Trade—a galvanizing ellirlr—from the very ends and cor ners of the continent._ Am Era la Statesmanship. Prf.idmt SoMCVtlt at fit L»ot« We meet here to-day lo commemorate a great event, an event which mark* an era in statesmanship no less than in pioneering. It is fitting that we should pay our homage in words; but we must in honor make our words good by deeds. We have every right to take a just pride in the great deeds of onr forefathers; but we show ourselves unworthy to be their descendants if we mike what they did an excise for our lying supine instead of an incentive to the effort to show ourselves by our acts worthy of them. In the ad ministration of city, State and nation, in the management of otrr home life and the conduct of onr business and social relations, we are bound to show certain high and fine qualities of character un der penalty of seeing the whole heart of our civilisation eaten out while the body still lives. We justly pride ourselves on onr marvelous material prosperi ty. end such prosperity must exist in order to establish a founda tion upon wblcb a higher life can be built; but unleae we do iu very fact build this higher life thereon, the material prosperity It self wfU go for bat very little. Now. in 1903, in the altered condi tion, we must meet the changed and changing problems, with the •pMt shown by the men who. In 1803, and in the subsequent years gained, explored, conquered, and settled this vast territory, then s desert, now filled with thriving sad populous States. DIVINE BAND IN B13T0IY. Ex President Cleveland Palate Ont Evidences al Providential Direction la tbs History Lead* lad ap to tka Louisiana Pur chase. Cfew Cltwlaad u ik. Lmm*. Id conclusion, I hope 1 may be permitted to suggest that our thought* and surroundings on this occasion should lead us to humble recognition of the Pro vidence of God in all that has made us u great nation. From our begiuuing a* a people our course has been marked by oc currences aud incidents so strik ing, so significant, and so con stant that only superstitious dullness or intellectual Mindm-ss will piece them lo the credit ol luck or chance. •• In the midst of our rejoicing to-day, it is peculiarly Suing that recall with so be rues* and nieekneas some of the happen ings in connection with the great event we celebrate, which im pressively illustrate the interpo sition of Divine Providence in our behalf. We songbt from a nation ruled by one whose am bition was boundless and whose scheme for aggrandizement kuew neither the obligation of public morality nor the restraints of good faith, the free navigation of the Mississippi River and such insignificant territory as would make such navigation useful. While our efforts Coward the ac complishment of this slight re sult languished and were fast assuming a hopeless condition, the autocrat of Prance suddenly commanded one of bis ministers to enter into negotiation with onr waiting and dispirited rep resentatives and exclaimed: "I renounce Louisians. It is not only New Orleans I cede. It is the whole colooy without re serve." U was only nineteen days thereafter that tbe treaty {pnt ferring to us tbe magnificent do main comprised within tbe Louiana Purchase was conclu ded. This astonishing change in our prospects, which dissipated the fears and apprehensions of our government and tevised the promise of our perpetuity and happy destiny, came at the very moment that Bonaparte was organizing a force to occupy the Louisiana territory in the prose cution of colonial occupation and development, which if con sflinated, would probably have closed the door even to the slight acquisition which we originally sought. The French colony of Santo Domingo, was however, a prime factor in this scheme of occupation, and it was essential to its success that this colony sad Louisiana should both be in cluded and should supplement each other. A serious revolt then raging in Santo Domingo delaying proceedings, the occu pation of Louisians was post poned until this revolt should be overcome. The troops sent from France to accomplish this appa rently easy task was so stubborn ly resisted by hnndreds of thous ands of freed blacks, fighting against their re-inslavemeut, and they suffered so terrible from the climate conditions and dead ly fever that after the sacrifice of twenty-five thousand soldiers, mane of whom were intended for the subeeonent occupation of Louisiana, Bonaparte’s plan for tbe occupation of both colo nies miscarried. This disap pointment, and the conception of new schemes of war and coo qoeat by the restless dictator of France, and his need of money to carry oat these schemes, were controlling circumstances into leading him to throw lu onr lap the entire Louisiana territory. None of these circumstances were within onr procurement or knowledge, but wbo shall say that Goa was not accomplishing hU designs in onr behalf atsid tbe turmoil and distressing scenes of Santo Domingo's re volt? And bow can it be said that there was no Providence In the unexpected, unyielding and ■ncceaaful fight for continued freedom on tbe part of the ne firoea of Santo Domingo, or in fatal pestilence that vied with bloody warfare in the de struction of tbe army of subjug ation, or in tbe fever of war and which heated the blood of Bouanarte, all combi ning to turn him away from tbe occupation of tbe Louisiana ter ritory? All these things so re mote and to far out of sight Kittled with tha coercion that longs to the decrees of God, to a consummation which restored to onr people psscs and content ment, and secured to our nation extension sod developmaut be yond the dreamt of onr fathers. Thus we may well recall in these surroundings the wonder ful meusure of prophecy's ful filment within the span of a short century .the spirit, the patriotism aod the civic virtue «if Ameri cans who lived a hundred years ago, aod God's overruling of the wrath of mau and hia devious ways for the Messing of onr na tion. _ ELECTtlCITY VERSUS STEAM. • ■ Eveotaatly Use Steam Laceme Mast Ohra Way to (be Electric Mater. Cslraso TtOmnr. The propos'd deny >u*t ration at Laiixlng, Mich., of s new system of electric railway con struction is only one more of M-wrnl demonstration* and testa which are slowly snd apparently surely paving the way toward the future abandonment of steam as the motive power in land passenger transportation. It may be a long time yet before the steam locomotive gives way to the electric motor, but every thing seems to indicate that the time is coming. If the experi ments at Lansing prove success ful they will show thst s long step has been taken toward the substitution by reducing the coat of equipment at lease one-third, doing away with substations— which would effect a Urge saving in labor, conserving the energy which is now dissipated in the stopping and starting of cars, and greatly in creasing the speed. An experi ment which promises so mnch will be watched with great in terest. Meanwhile, whether the ex periment succeeds or not, it is evident from the way in which capitalists are planning to build electric linea over long distances that these linea are seriously cutting into the business and revenues of the steam roads. Already steam railroad com panies in some parts of the country arc buying up electric lines and using them as feeders for local territory they cannot reach, but more significant than this is the organisation of com panies to build long electric lines, like those proposed be tween Chicago and Detroit, Chicago and Indianapolis, and the proposal to parallel the Boston and Albany road with a branch from Springfield to New York. The railroad men pro fess not to fear the competition, as it will be impossible to get electric can through from Boston to Albany in anything like the time trains now make. This is not so certain, for ai i ready one maximum of 100 miles an hour has been made in Germany. What can be done in Germany can be .done here. The obstacle now standing in the way is that such a speed on an electric road would uot be legal in Massachusetts or ia New York. The'moat serious factor in the problem now is that it does not pay to nae electricity on long distance trains, but if Ur. Arnold's experiment or the experiment of others in the same direction, prove successful, and electricity can be made cheaper than steam, then, as a matter of course, the roads will use it. It may be a long time before this is the case, bat events seem to be shaping them selves to such a result. DMaa HmlJ. The mere fact that property ia bringing no Tetnrna os tba ia* vestment is no argument that it should not be taxed. There are numerous vacant lots ia this town that are. paying nothing on the investment, but yon just try to buy one of them and you will learn more than we can tell you. Elementary Schoal fhyalelagy. St. Imm Odette. For per* confusion of thought the following brief essay by a school child of twelve on the "Human Body" would be hard to beat: '’The human body ia divided into three part*—the bead, the chest, and the tummick. "The head contains the eyes, ears, now, month, and brains, if any. "The chest contains the heart, Innn, and pert of the liver. "The tummick is aatirely de voted to the vowels, of which there are five, namely, a, e, I, o, u, and sometimes y and a." -'-u—L. hi i.ii.T— MOOTS or MAMIES WOMEN. Sopnaa Coart Molds That Bos. boat isa’I a Trespasser so Iks Wils's Ptsssrtr. Among the cates is which opinions were headed dowu yes terday by tbc Supreme Court, was ou< which in the language of the coart presents the novel feature of a wife seeking a indi cia) separation from her haiban l by the criminal action of "tres P***-" It was State, appellant, vs. Albert Jones, from Woke. The case is one in which the wife owned a plantation in her own right and after her marriage to tbt defendant he came to live with her thereon. Leter trouble sprang up between them. The wife left tbc place to avoid him and then forbade him from going on the property, tbc title being in her own right. Jones was convicted before a justice of the peace for trespass and Sued. He appealed to the Superior Court and the judge held there was no trespass. Then It came np to the Supreme Court and the majority of the coart in the opin ion handed down yesterday com firms the Superior Court and Chief Justice Clark in a dissent ing opinion holds that the nun was in error. Judge Clark contends in his opinion that under tbc constitu tion u married woman has free and fall control of property os if she were single. Under marital relation the husband has the right to her company bat not to control her property. That be could have a right to her com pany only by her consent ac cording to the highest recent authorities, the law having no process to catch the wife tad force her to live with her hus band whom she believes to be un faithful to her. This being so he bad no right to go on her property even in her absence against her will and use and oc npy the same. To permit him to do so is to infringe appn the constitutional provision that a wife boa a right to control her property as folly as though she were single. A Clean Spot la PMaharfi Richard Mansfield has a great regard lor Pittsburg from a financial point of view, but artistically he sees no beauty in the city’s grime and smoke. Soiuv yean ago. alter a per formance in the Smok) City, Mansfield ^and his coui pony visited a naiatorium for a pl .iuge in the swimming pool.’ Standing on the edge of the greet tub, filled with clean inviting water, one of the acton ventured to remark: "Here we have at i mt one dean spot in this cilyl" "Yes. Tesnpnded Maosfield. os be twitched nervously under his imaginary burden of grime, "bat it won't be after we gat oat of it." Price ot Silver Usee, The let ret quotations indicate that even the silver mitten win profit by the defect of the free end Unlimited coinage of silver at sixteen to ooe. The purcham ot silver for aas in the Phttip Ciet sad some other castes re pat up the price of that metal 15 per cent, within five moolha. The first thing we know we ahull' find the silver mine ownara and the silver mine State* tad-hot advocates of the gold Standard and imperialism, and Colonel William Jennlags Bryan and the State of Arkaa sea will ha left lonely on the out post Una without reserve or hope of reinforcement. Mrs. Marty lie Keith, the old am MM ia Alabama, died sr^ufris,r>~r>' - ?? ? ? A w f The errltmatian of tfca INt urban bt bahaMa At • beautiful creation* of our millinery department. Raw TPflaai ASd"F and yon have a line of isb. Notkia* needs I I ClYV to be added to onr Hna afgooda.it ia complete. Straw "L"^' ’“c‘ i. OOoVr^S^1' e«AW Children’*, Mime**. Uttle Boy*’, Ladies’tailors fwm 25c to». If you know what yon went you can find it in oar atoc*. If yoedo not know, inspect oar stock and a decUion will be «*0y JAS. F. YEAGER, LADIES* FURNISHINGS. New line of Neckwear bet arrived. Stock of Standard Patterns __ always on kand. HORSES MOVING We bow have on hand only abort 23 head of Hones aad Maka. The but ear load far thk season has already amived. : : : : x : : : • , t i t : i i Twelve ear loada is our record far this aaaaoa! The choke stock we bow have on head is aovl^ fast; come at once and make yosr selection. NEW BUGGIES. With the arrival of spriag wa have mired a lot of -t»-t new Buggies lost ort of the factory. Wa art going to aaD them. Get one and enjoy that Easter ride yoa are piaa> ning far. : i j : : j j • •••...*. t CRAIG & WILSON AN UNQUALIFIED GUARANTEE":::: goes with cvexytiiiag that leaves oar rtoa^: rtM o do this for we know yoa will art be i__ chsndise yon bay here, la ear clothing, it _ artv yoa to examine the fine workmanship sod try ms a artistically tailored -!!!:-. e«, cat scrading to the infest design. oftfe mSrt^^ tailors perfect-fitting in every respect even to tho of ™r «oSn3?wdwwS ?S The Saits in either of the above lots ate wort more than oar prices in every ease. Yo» will bid a splendid eseortmnat of other flarinw ■-» ▼arionsfabries and styles at all prices from_ =o.^'iKs^r2irjs 52g ^c^sm style bat oar prices win save yoa moaey on every t__ J. Q. Holland & Co I ____J
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