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THE GASTONIA W. f. MAHSflALL, Editor md fropri.fr. DEVOTED TO THE PI0TECT10N Of HOME AND THE INTEIESTS OF THE VOL. XXIV. GASTONIA. N. C.t TUESDAY, MAY 13. 1903. " POINTS AND PARAGRAPHS ON TOPICS OF THE TIMES. l"**B**,®®®*4****’**®*®“**®**^M^f*»ii» we r n<~Mpi— r— n ■ •!**«•.*/»< • Ornler tkb bn) will be ncinterl from time to time noteworthy utlcriaeu on them re ol current Intcrcet. They will be IUvb from public al.bctaee. book». m»«a>i_nee. newepapei*. la lad wherever we may Had them, dome Umea Ibeer Mlrctlooa will accord with our view* and the view* ol war mil the opposite will he true. Bui by raaaon of the aubiect matter. . ™ **IJ'W«>l|>.l«Uic.Ticw» enpreued. each will baee »n element ol timely nlcml to make it * conepicuoo* utterance. Divorce Evil at the Toe. Rortasfield RrpnbHcao The story of three sisters in a wealthy ami aristocratic New York family who, between them, had secured four divorces, is uot parallelled, of course, by the case of the two brothers in a million aire family who ere now in the divorce courts at the same time. Yet the two stories belong to nue bunch. You may yet hear of parents and several married children nil suing fur "bills" nt the same time. Honor C-nn'nf to Cnl. Bryan. Kidmswd Niw* t,-.iln. It may be remarked iucilmtally til it if Mr. Cleveland should be renominnted, he would owe the honor as much to Colonel Ur van as to any other force. Business men have their antagonisms as well as their preferences, and in every part of the country they distrust Colonel Bryan, os be has laborotuly invited them to do. There fore Colonel Bryan’s persisteut attacks oil Mr. Cleveland have won for the latter increased confidence and good will. The Search lor the Other Hall. J P. Kh In A Jotnntv to Nitdrt Man is sent into the world unfinished. Nature seems to say to him at the start: * "You are incomplete. I have made that other part of you, but I do not remember where I put it. Yon will have to hunt for it." I have met many men who went about for years in this Psyche limit, muttering to the women they met, "Where do you suppose the other half of me was put?” PraaManl kooaaralt as Acciiant. Cki«. H. rarklinrai. la baada? wTTaaa. If ever there was such a thing os an accident the promotion of tile Chief Executive to bis incumbency of the office is au in stance of it. Accidentally made Vice President by the enmity of a jealous compatriot, what jealousy iuitlated the crazy malignity of a Czul gosz consummated, and the thing was done. He happened to be close to tbe pool Ilethesda at the moving of the waters and the ir responsible Pole rolled him in. There was a providence in it, doubtless, but only iu the sense in, which there is a providence in all accidents. ' " ■■■ Time Will De Justice. Rich mood Newo-I.e*4rr All we may know of the future is what we read from the past; and from the past we know that iu the future human minds will look back upon us and on our days. We know that as a country and a people Time will do justice for us in ali things and will show ns as we arc with our faults and virtues, our achievements and failnres; and that to us as individuals Time will be merciful in blotting out much 6f the evil and weakness of us from the memories of others as it is uicr ciful in teaching us to forget, to soften or to look back through a veil of silvery mist. Palatial a Dark Picture. The Notion. That crime of bribery, electoral and legislative, is on the in crease in this country we have an accumulation of painfully con vincing evidence. One deep of shame answereth unto another— Rhode Island to Delaware, Albany to Harlem, St. Louis to New York. Men whose right hands are full of bribes sit in 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 confessed ly making the pillars of our public life rotten. Popular elec Uons they are turning into merchandise and rendering 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. Waea ol a Psiluitar General. Nrw Yortt Herald. ' Postmaster General Payne’s mail these days is tremendous Almost every man, woman and child in the country seems to have a grievance against the department now that the game is open. One woman has lost $5 in the mails and another a black leather belt. One man iu the country objects to the way his Postmaster hands him bis mail, and another wants tbe office moved to his store right away or he will vote for Cleveland. „ mort appeal of all came yesterday from a New York Representariv* in Congress, who i. dally threatened by an Italian in his district, who lost $100 In $e mails. Tbe money has been traced and found, but In tbe process of red tape it will be another week before the Italian can get It. He refuses to under sUndred tape and meanwhile the Representatives is In constant fear of sudden death. The North of tbo CUy. Vnmk M«rrl*. U Tb» W». * Or, again, it was South .Water Street—a jant of delivery wagon* and market carta backed to the curbs, leaving only a tortuous path between the endleaa files of horses, suggestive of an actual barrack of cavalry. Provision*, market produce, "garden truck" and fruit*, in an infinite welter of crate* and baskets, boxe*, an sacks, crowded the sidewalks. The guttet waa choked with an overflow of refuse cabbage leaves, soft oranges, decaying beet tops. Theali was thick with the heavy smell of vegetation. Pood was trodden under foot food crammed the (stores and warehouses to bunting. Food mingled with the mud of the highway. The very EfE!? £!?L “ nue"d‘°* uourlabmerit of snatched mouthfuls picked from backboard, /f0m ^ lop iD(, lbe edge of the aide walk. The entire locality reeked with the fatuesa ,^7* A 1<,od 01 P'«n‘y- the inordinate 7* S' 'r™ iUe,f “F00 lbc and .i*1' Mo°lb o1 th# <**' drawn from all directions, over a territory 0f lmrne.se arw, thi, gfot of etude rahaistenee was racked in. a. if into . rapacious g.llct, to sinew, and to nourish the fibres of .« imme.sur.ble ALAHAP1A CONSTITUTION _ SUSTAINED. Tka Halt Ml States Supreme Caurt Gives Na Kalial ta Na. (raa> Diafraacfclsatf la Soath ara Stataa. Wubinstua Svrclal to SiIUbor s«u By sustaining the decision of tbe United Stales Circuit Court, recently made in the case of Jackson W. Gilts v*. the regia-' tration board of Montgomery comity, Alabama, the United States Supreme court today ruled that the government at large had'nothing whatever to do with disfranchising the negro in the South, am] that the mat ter rested entirely in the hands of the State officials. Gilei, a negro resident of Montgomery cbm.ty, Alabama, was not permitted to vote at the last county election. He filed suit against tbe registration board , of the county and the Circuit judges ruled they had nothing to do with the matter, a* it was out of their jurisdiction. Giles’coun sel decided to take the matter before the highest tribunal in tbe United Slates and asked fot a ruling in the Supreme Court. Justice Holmes, who delivered the opinion said that for the court to interfere would be un heard of relief in cases present ing only political questions. The court as a whole did not pass ou the question certified by the Circuit Court for tbe middle district of Alabama, and Justice Harlan dissented on the ground that the court should have de clined to assume jurisdiction. Justices Brewer and Browu united in a dissent, in which they upheld the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts, on the ground that as Giles was denied the right of voting for a member of Congress by refusal of the right to register a Federal ques tion was involved. According to this decision ev ery State in the Union can dis franchise the negro and keep him from voting. The ruling is consequently of the utmost im portance. Justice Holmes' written opin ion was not made public, but he made quite an extended state ment from the bench, reciting at some length Giles’ petition, in which Giles claimed to speak not alone for himself, but for 500 other negro adults of Montgomery county, who, lie said, would be disfranchised as a result of the enforcement of the suffrage pro vision of the State constituliou of 1903. The case bad been dis missed below for want of juris diction, bnt Justice Holmes said a majority of the court was of the opinion that the Supreme Court should not confine itself tg the question of jurisdiction, but should consider the case on its merits. He then announced that it would be impossible to grant the relief asked. _ He pointed out that while Giles is contending that the franchise system of Ala bama is a fraud, he declares bis competency as a voter under it, and closed by saying that it was beyond the power of a court of equity to grant the petition. Justice Harlan in dissenting said that in him opinion tbc case should have been dismissed for want of jurisdiction alone, as was done in the Circnit Court, and he criticised the court’s opinion, sayimr that it left the question of jurisdiction in the air and that he was not willing to be a party to such proceeding. Justice Brewer delivered the otbcT dissenting opinion, in which Justico Brown concurred. They expressed the opinion that the Circnit Court should have been reversed and that H should be directed to assume jurisdiction of the esse. Cheered Oen. Joe Wheeler. WMklnnoa M. Oen. Joe Wheeler, the guest of honor at the Iroquois Clnb leet night, received an ovation from 3o0 members of the club and ita guests,when, in a patriot ic address, be declared his un dying loyalty to the United St'hi and predicted for it a great and increasing growth along commercial lines. He spoke of the expansion of the nation, as tba result of the Spanish-Amer ican war, and pointed out that Europe would give untold mil lions to possess the vast advan *■«*». East which tbc United States now holds in the hollow of its bands. The occasion wss tbc May smoker of the club, and a large number of prominent Washing tonians and many members of the newspaper fraternity contri buted toward one of the most successful entertainments of the year. Charles A. Hamilton, one of the corpe of correspondents, was the chairman ol the evening A portion of the Marine Bend furnished enjoyable music. Tb* Mountain Fa«d. WmIunsIoo I>o«t "The disgraceful feuds we have had in Kentucky have proved almost ruinous to our State, aid Mr. George *x. Wn»y, of Covingtou, at the Raleigh. "They have been the direct cause of keeping out capital ami of deterring many from necking homes within the Common wealth. The better class of om people feel deeply the reproach that is cast on all by the violent “eeda of a few lawless men. the kind of fends that resulted in the Into killing in Breatbitt County were unknown in the old ante-bellum days in Kentucky. In oldeu times men used to meet and fight to the death, but the fighting was done manfully in open fashion. To day we have ah era of foul murders and assassinations which have brought a reigu of absolute terror. These assassi nations were the Outgrowth of the war between ihe States and a part of its public demoraliza tion. "Being a border Stale, with adherent* of both sides, ther was a chance for the develop ment of more than ordinarily bitter feeliug. These prejudice* were hei^bteued by political controversies, and it soon began to bfc the customary thing for men to range themselves iu hostile bands prepared to shoot whenever a member of an op posing faction hove in sight. Feuds thus begun are handed down from father to sou, and kindred to the remotest degree are dragged Into the deadly strife. Sncb a state of society is more beetling the Middle Ages than this enligtileaed era. and there is uot a true sou of our State who is not humiliated over existing conditions.” Cmn Ra lie Hug Agate? YorkviII* H«ninr. A curious case has arisen in Alabama. A negro named Tom Barth was legally hanged aud he was pronounced dead by the physician and his body was turned over to his relatives as is usually done in such cases. It tnrned out, however, that the Negro wob not dead, and with the application of proper restor ative remedies he has become entirely well and is now sitting up and enjoying life probably. At any rate, he is living, and the question is generally being discussed as to wbat shall be done about it. whether he shall be permitted to live or most be hung again to satisfy the de mands of law. Hard on the Ante. Chariest* OUmtr. Str 8th. There was a cough that could have been heard two blocks, a continuous wheeze and a too loud choo-choo. "That is Mr. O. L. Barimger, in hisoldaufo,” said some one. And that was what it was. Two years ago that automobile was considered the finest thing iu Mecklenburg county. It was the second one brought here. The first one was used for adver tising soap and attracted as much atteution as a stray elephant. Mr. Barringer bad rare sport with his machine; used to run it up on the sidcwalkj and out-dis tanced strange, country dogs; nacd to take his friends out sane and strong and bring them back —collapsed, nervous wrecks. Then the onto one fine night seemed to blow up of ite own accord and for many months was unused. Finally. Z. V. Kendrick tinkered with it until it was fit for a safe family vehicle on the quiet country roads; bnt it is on ly in the last day or so that the auto has crept into town again. It snorted around the streets last night, and if Mr. Barringer will indulge plain speech, his anto remided oac of the old one-horse •hay. Actually it is at pretty at ev<? kut it has become the victim of comparison. Oth more splendid automo biles have been imported into the city, and Mr. Barriugcr’s machine, fresh from retirement, has lost the art to awe with its magnificence. Once that cough was beautiful to hear; now it ia a discordant note. Once the machine bad a majestic roll, but now it sputters Insignificantly. The experience of Mr. Bar ringer is not unusual. It applies to those who adopt any inode of faahion. fhlt lyetr an auto ia •11 tight, bnt next year ll mnat bo new; or otharwlae, It will loom up aa a mule cart beside a golden phaeton, i_J TNME IS NO SUBSTITUTE I Money a ad Depravity. Collier'. Weekly. Iii twenty empirics men got rich in one general way only, and that was bv fraud nnd oppression. Hence.' natu rally, the belief that it was as difficult for a wealthy man to be good «s for a camel to go through the eye of n needle. Hence .Jto the absolute connec tion between poverty and godli ness. Spiritual principles re main, bnl their application, chature. Oppression, (rand and miriiariublenca* are still sins, but they are not to-day universal among the rich, nor are tbe poor superior in general moral feeling to tbe wealthy. Natural ana use nil occupation did not bring wealth in the years when fisher men gave eternal form to moral truths in Galilee. To day a good and belpfnl citizen naturally possesses and uses a certain amount of property, and nobody chooses the pauper as an ideal. After Mr. Pierpont Morgan had boarded the Cedric, via the secoud cabin gangplank, he was subjected to au old-time tirade on wealth. An old man with white hair pointed bia finger at the financier and cried out: "Go to, uow, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall cotne upou you. Your riches arc corrupted and your garments moth-eaten.” Mr. Carnegie was on the ship and mu doubtless included in the diatribe. Such a wholc-sonled condemnation of a man, merely bccanse be is rich, apart from any use he makes of wealth carries us back to the early days of history, wbeff wealth itaelf meant de p ra v it y._ Our circumstances make it right for us to judge money more discriminatingly. We need to know not only whether a man has money, bat how he got it and what he does with it. 11 he obtained it by fraud, political bribery or grind ing hone and life out of his fel ldp beings, no gifts to charity or education will make him oth er thau a bad man. If, on the other hand, tais money has been and remains the means of hon orable and butuaue employment, be is doing good, even if he does not indulge in gifts. He may odd to his merit by gifts for good purposes, but far more im portant is the regular me he makes of bis property. It is a Utile thing to give away .bree million a year if your inert *.e is six million. It is * great thing so to use fifty million, or fifty thousand, as never to wto-i^ or to debauch a workman, a < .isto nier or n legislator. The pos session of money in these Jays is one of the highest priv’l.-gee. Once it allowedithe ownet to be charitable. How charity is the least noble among tbe opportu nities wh:eh it gives him. It gives him c opportunity to be Inst. It enables Mm to keep hundreds of his fellow beings happily and usefully employed, and to treat these employees not «• if they were either tnaheines or inferiors and charity seekers, hot as if they were men like himself, wijh lives as important, with ambitions equally reasona ble. Mayor C. M. Stedman. of Greensboro, baa beta invited to deliver an add rets at the aaanal banquet of the North Carolina Society of New York on May 20. Banff* Tseng faspfaa’ Union. Atlanta. On., My M2. IMS. For .the National Convention ^ptiet Young ReopU’a Union of America, which meet* in At lanta. Oa.. Jnly 9-12 tbe Sooth era Railway will aell retain tickets at one first-close fare « cents) lot the round Uip. Tickets sold from points beyond a radios of 900 miles from Atlanta on Jnly 8, 9. and 10. Retnrn limit to enable passengers to reach original starting point Jnly IS. • ' mTw . ii I, | g AN UNQUALIFIED GUARANTEE:s: : mmssrSsmM^ ayyaftfis I*e toond la «y other maker’s clotta*.***** _ . *r* •fPeclaly Invited to examine oar , 5sSiSSSf SdteSi'”?*" r? d,,"““lc *i - °*i cat according' to the latest deafens of the !f!r’rt!Pt+2a'*" evef> respect even to the amafl ol the shimlcltrs, collar or nth* rwiae and which wa act] lor. i I Iji' Snitit in either of life above lota are worth from tt to IS more than our pnee* in every earn . ** w * You will llud s apleudid assortment of other Snrinv !■ wiona lsbrics andstylei at all price* from-SoUK'*:' Oar Juvenile Department Is replete with the best »«—» tfcll country affords, both In strle and quality. We *«i| tontion to a hue of 96 J«d $6.90 valaes we are* ** Our Hate and Hrte«dS*fy7r^ to thenem •tyle but oar price* will save poo money oa every J. Q. Holland & Co. HORSES MOVING We now have on hand only about 29 bead of Hocare and Moles. The last car load for- thk —baa already arrived. : : ; . . Twelve car loads is oar record for this season! The choice stock we now have on h*«nt la moving fast} coma at oner and make yoor selection. * NEW BUGGIES. ;y. With the arrival of spring we have redved a lot at -W new Boggiea just out of the factory. We are going to adl them. Get one and enjoy that Easter ride yon are plan ning for. : : : : : : ; : i : i j ; ; ; . CRAIG & WILSON —1 . '- ii_ __ 'LL:' V . 7,T- /'s'. m v< < Good Hammocks. * Best Hammock*. They Are AH Here. <«*“ “ k.W»C* ‘TT^. «***-**¥t nt vou to see then*. YoU «.„..«»•» » ^ .« «• untUly°u "*ve y„,«— »-r* *%“«!. *• ’•* Mall’S BOOK STWf> MM® oJthe corner. *■■ i *' .
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