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The Gastonia ______Published Twice <1 Week—Tuesdays W. r. MAI mail, gjlif aaJ rreprhHr. DEVOTED TO THE P»OTECTIOW OF HOftE AWP THE MTEDECTS VOL. XXIV. UASTONTA. POINTS AND PARAGRAPHS ON TOPICS OF THE TIMES. Vsdtr felt bead wtU be orbited trorn tine to tine BOttararUtr otic ranee f> !• 04 ewmrt iateneL They will be tehee lien tnbUc eddteaeee. "••MlMi. *••*?**•*»• *■ whereeet we nay fed then. Bum* Uneefeeee eeleetioae will accord with oat views eed the views of ee> reed. ?*■ ?■«,— tty °»pe»tte wfll be tree. Bui br leeeoe ef fee eebleci metier. **• the views expressed, eech wfll bew an eleneet e< Hnely istereet to neks It e eeesetceees etteraece. Tha People Want (a Hear (he OnmI. Louisville Ctai atlaa Observer. Though dead, Charles H. Spurgeon yet speaks and preaches. We have seen the statement that twenty thousand of his sermous are sold in pamphlet form every week. This is a solid testimony to the faithfulness with which Spurgeon preached the pure Gospel of the grace of God. It also shows that the people want to hear and will listen to the Gospel as the message of God which meets the needs of their souls. .... —mm. .m I Tbs Difference (a in Nan. Welter B. race, at A. & M. Colics*. Thirty years ago an old man in Khamcat worked two acrea of land and made just enough "truck* to buy liquor on Wilmington atreet to get drunk twice a year. I used to see him riding out Hillsboro street standing in his wagon, making a speech in praise of Governor Vance. 1 have seen two acres in a colder climate of no better land—till it was made better by man—yield a crop worth $500 an acre net. The difiereqee is not in the noil. It ia in the men. Waary ot IsnstiII. Shelby Star. There is a noticeably saue and sensible efloit ou the part of Democrats all over the country to get together in the next presi dential election, in which event Democratic success is almost an assured fact. The people are tired of Roosevelt—of his folly, his wild and untamed manner, hi* insincerity in dealing with great public questions, especially the race question, and there is just and severe criticism of his administration, honey-combed aa it is with frauds and scandals of one kind or another. TIm Maddlsr Wha ~Kctta [*.'* Th« PtfipUMlc u Charlotte Newt Slang li too useful and too expressive for the Peripatetic to avoid, despite his assumption of a classical name. Take the phrase "batting in." We could not get along without it now. On three occasions lately, men have been acquitted of assault and bat tery because the battered person "butted iu." One had "butted in” by interfering with a policeman and bis prisoner. Another bad butted into rather exclusive society where he was not wanted. Another had bntted into a quarrel between a man and his wife. The verdict of the court iu every instance was that since proof had been offered that the complainant had "batted in,” be should be taxed with the coats while the defendant was entitled to a med al for the punishment meted out. The man who has "butted in” where he has no business will please reflect upon his ways before he gets knocked ont. Tha Old Alliance Goad Enough to tenow. Cbvlottc New*. If the South wants to defeat Rooseveltism, which we assume in writing this, then it will have to make a new the alliance be tween Itself and New York, New Jersey, Indiana and Connecticut. The electoral vote* have been changed a little since the lost Presi dential election. New York has thirty-nine now, but the old com bination that Cleveland carried in 1884, an J that Tildeu really car ried in 1878, will elect a Democratic president and a Democratic Honse of Representatives will go in with him. The Solid South, including Maryland, Kentucky, West Virginia and Delaware, have 167 electoral vote* and the other four States mentioned, bringing the number to 240 a majority of one. That is the natural alliance and the congenial alliance for the Sooth. Neither the South nor the Bast are very much in love with Roosevelt. The business interests of the country ate afraid of him and regard him as an unsafe man, a sort of cross between a genius and a crank._ What la North Cara line? w«um h. r<m «t a. a m. contm. What is North Carolina? With all respect to the work and to the character of the men of the past and to the men of the present, and to all that they have done—they are not North Carolina. Our history has been bnt a fleeting chapter of men’s first deeds in a wilderness. The one stable thing—the one lasting thing we know in all God’s nniverae is the soil that we stand on. That is North Carolina—these rolling bills that were here whan our ancestors dressed in skins and lived in caves, these sand slopes that lead eastward to the sea, these uplands that rise to onr mountains. These are all fertile, each in its own way and each according to the knowledge that men bring to their culture. These are North Carolina, end yon will be the first North CaroHaans worthy of this fertile marvel of creation, if you win the wealth it offers-tbe wealth or food, of refreshment for the epirit, of serenity and breadth of mind. Your civilisation depends on this—whether the man be hind the plow be a clod hopper, or a sympathetic scholar of the •Oil. ^ Japan Cheated and Aggrieved. WariAWaklH Jim. When the Japaoese-Cfainese wsr ended with victory for Japao, the Japanese demanded a concession of n part of the mainland! China was power!am to Resist and wu even willing to get off so cheaply. It was then that Russia stepped in. Japan was in a mood to fight even Russia, but Germany and Prance also stood •gainst her. It was a anion of three great European powers •gainat the ambition of the Japanese. At that time England could have turned the acate In favor of Japan by risking a wars bnt this Salisbury'* government was unwilling to do. The Japanese, therefore, were denied the fruits of their victory.' Now In the practice! acquisition of Maachoria by Russia, Ja pan chapter in the deliberate plan to exclude her from the Asiatic mainland. Having fairly won by industry, by the arts, by governmental reforms, and by war a place among modern powers, *be finds herself hindered from expanding la her own hemisphere by powers of the other half of the world—hin dered by the mtfon* whoee civilisation she has imitated from reaping the rewards of her ambition and power. This must seem to the Japanese mind aa intolerable situation. War will come out of k at soma time, for 49,000,000 of Japanese feel cheated and eg. fnfiVfn. % ITILURE AT UAlnESVILLE. • Terrible Destruction la Thle •aergU Town-A Hsadrsd People Killed—Greet Lose el Prapsrty. CbailMMB Nm and CwTlir. Gaineaville, Ga., June 1.—A tornado of terrific force (track Gainesville this afternoon out of a clear sky, earning a fearful loss of life In this city aud New Holland and White Snlphor. As near as can be calculated at this hour the figures are eighty five men. women and children dead and perhaps forty more fa tally wounded, with a property loss of something like $300,000. The death-dealing storm ap peared suddenly a little before 1 o’clock, snd within two min utes it bad killed nearly a hun dred persons, torn two stories from the five-floor brick factory of the Gainesville Cotton Mills, demolished almost two hundred cottages, razed two brick stores to the ground and blown down innumerable out-buildings. By what appears to be a miracle the tornado's fury was confined to the outskirts of the city, the main business and residence portion not being touched. Tor rents of rain accompanied the wind, but within five minntes after its first onslaught the sun wss shining upon a scene of fesrful destruction. The list of the dead is con fined mainly to operatives of the Gainesville Cotton Mills and the Pacolet Cotton Mills, and two thirds of them were women snd children. Unconfirmed reports from White Sulphur, seven miles from Gainesville, say that about twelve persons were killed there. The tornado did its appalling work in such an INCREDIBLY SHORT TIME that it is difficult to obtain a co herent description of its charac ter. It appears to have swept down from the southwest, strik ing (he Gainesville Mills with s roar like the report of artillery. After lifting two stories from the structure it swept on to the uortbward, leaving a trail of de struction along summit street, which is inhabited almost exclu sively by negroes. Nearly a hundred cottages of colored peo ple on this street were levelled to the ground, but by a fortu nate circumstance the tenants were all absent, having left the city in the morning to take part in a negro picnic. The furious wind next de scended on the plant of the PACOLBT COTTOK MILLS, at New Holland, two miles from the Southern station. This is one of the largest cotton mills in the Sooth, employing more than . six hundred hands. The storm spared the Pacolet facto ry, but entirely demolished a hundred of its cottages standing nearby and tenanted by its op eratives. Here the fatalities were greatest, upwards of thir ^ . as a a a a IS^lUg uuncu ID the ruins of the cottage* Bod ies were blown hundreds of yards and many of them when picked up bore no semblance to human ity. The trunk of one young boy was found with the head ta ken off as if by the guilotine. Prom New Holland the torna do swept onward to tbe east in the direction of White Snlpbttr, a town of about one hundred persona. The extent of it* de struction there cannot now be definitely told, but reports so far received indicate considerable loss of life. The bodies of most of tbe dead in the two cotton mills were fearfully torn and mangled; the sknlls of many of them were crushed and the lhnba broken: some were torn and crushed about tbe abdomen, with tbe viscera visibly protruding. Tbe local physicians who gaye tbe first aid to tbe injured, say the tights were horrible beyond de scription. The death list is ex pected to be of much greater magnitude by morning, as near ly thirty are believed to be hurt beyond hope of recovery. Gainesville has only TWM.VB local ravmciAirs and their services were found to be entirely inadequate to the sit uation. surgeons came in to night, however, from Atlanta *nd several other points, so that the number In the city now is about forty, and all possible care and attention U being given the injured people. At a meeting to-night of phy aldaaa, newspaper men and cft isena of Gainesville a relief com mittee waa formed, with James K. Gray, of Atlanta, as chair man. Supplies aril! be rushed into tha stricken city as rapidly at possible. Oainetville feels able to taka car* of tbe immedi ate need of the sufering. but anlem supplies are received much distress is likely to result. as the families visited by death and mutilation were almost without exception dependent upon their daily labor for sup port. tux ritopiuTY ix*a. it is now estimated, will reach about $300,000. The Gainesville Cotton Mills were blown down and nearly ev- j err employee in the building! hilled, including a large number of children. The Southern depot was blown down. The Gainesville Iron Works were demolished and several people perished in the wreck. The Gainesville Cotton Oil Mills were blown down. The old Piedmont Hotel, now used as a school and apartment house, was rased and half a doz en or more people were killed in IK* The Richmond Hotel was wrecked and several persona perished along with it. One hundred and twenty-five cottages a school house and a church, were blown away, in the negro section of the town. Five brick stores on the main street of Gainesville were swept away. In all two hundred build ings are demolished here. „Thc cyclone went on to New Holland, and it is believed that at least seventy-five people were killed there. Neither the Arlington Hotel nor Brenau College was in the track of the tornado, and they are therefore safe with their oc cupants. DETAILS OV THE DISASTER. Juat after tbe noon hour tbe city was struck by a terrible tor nado, killing probably one hun dred persons, unroofing the city hotels, other large buildings and destroying tbe Gainesville Cotton Mills. The greatest loss of life is reported in the destruc tion of the cotton mills, where about eighty persons are report ed killed and scores injored. Eighteen persons were killed in the city near the centre of towu, and the railroad station, where four large stores were blown down. The storm had driven many persons into these stores for refuge and they were probably all killed. There were five hun dred persons at work in the mill when the tornado struck it. The mill was a tbrce-atory build ing. The first story was left standing, but badly wrecked. Tbe second and third floors were completely demolished and tbe employees caught under the wreckage and mangled. It la now estimated that there' are at least seventy-five bodies under the wreckage of tbe third floor. It is not known bow many persons on the second floor of th« building were killed. The roof of the electric car barn was lifted and the building badly damaged. Tbe railroad depot suffered also. Dshnitiana. Pacific Unllariaa. Gleans from a recent examina tion in the San Francisco schools: "Define fathom and form a sen tence with it." "A fathom is six feet. A fly has fathom." "Define species." "Species is kind. A boy must be species to bis mother." Define odorless." "Odorless is without scent. A man who is odorless cannot ride in the car. The First Natlonnal Bank of Shelby began business yester day. The private bank of B. Blanton & Co., was merged into the larger concern. ■•W BAILEY MTYOCfMtEBS Ami Haw Ha Cmn ta Hiki the n« §£?*,*** Mia. • The $200,000 fee said to have heee earned in Wall street by Senator Bailey, of Texas, gives point to a story told by a max trom Tcxas upon tbe manner in which Bailey got his start. ' Bailey," said the Texas man, >as a struggling young lawyer to the new section into which be had moved. Time bad rolled around to nominate a Democratic candidate for cougresTTbe day of tbe convention bad been set. It was conceded that s cer tain old nun in congress would be given tue Humiliation. "Having much leisure and but little money he thonght he would walk to tbe convention. After he had been os the road for some time a. fanner drove op behind biin. Wauter git in an’ ride?’ he said to the young law yer and Bailey gladly accepted. Going to the convention? asked Bailey after a while. ’Yep’ said tbe farmer. ‘Ever hear of a young lawyer named Bailey round here?1 asked Bailey. St>°se so,’ said tbe farmer. Ye*,’ condoned Bailey, ‘and be will be over there to-day and 1 tell yon wbst well do. "Well call ou him to make a speech. You see all yoor friend*, tcli them about Bailey, and we'll call on him.’ "The farmer said *1) right. Xo more was said about the matter until there was a lapse in the convention during the preliminary movements of the body. Suddenly the old farmer , got up and suggested that the convention hear from Mr. Bailey, a rising young lawyer of these diggtna ’ be said, ‘and a feller who talks like puttin' out fire.' Bailey 1 Bailey 1 Bailey I’ more than a doxen yells weut op and Bailey came forth. Joe Bailey toady one of tbe hottest speeches of his life, and the upshot of the whole thing was that the ‘risiu* young lawyer of these diggin's' got the nomination for congress and is now Senator Bailey of Texas." Labor and Knr Malarial. Houdnra Fun VluuiM. There is scarcely anything of vnloc that does not coine from labor. This is a truth so uni versally admitted that it may be considered an axiom. Why man is so constituted that be values the result of labor more than be does those things which come to hiut spontaneously and with out effort is inexplicable, but the fact still remains. L^bor produces wealth, not simply material wealth, but mental and moral wealth. Labor gives knowledge and discipline to the mind and strength and solidity to the moral faculties, as well as material prosperity. Take a piece of iron ore that lies buried in tbe ground; it is of small val ue. A whole ton is not worth more than fifty ceula. Let labor dig it out, pat in the fnraace, smelt it, puddle it, roll it, wrap it np in a grave of charcoal for cementation and convert it into steel cither in this way or by some other .process; cut it into small strips, file, polish end temper them for watch springs and the ore once wortu fifty cents will be worth a thousand pounds of silver, or S13.000. AH this value has been derived from labor noon raw material, worth originally one-twcnty-six-tlions anoth of its value as a manu factured product. Labor is the greatest magician known to it b • llgmnant that binds na to civilising influences: it is the master that rules tbe world. ■■■MmBsaaMmnRa ■ V ■ Summer Millinery! No Matter wba " tod o«r ■Winer . fa the Um of the _ * is constantly pn Mjijmsij goods w s ciallinc. Here’. Something Rare In Vollea. We lostiBMtios U. bat It Is time sod at good at it’s «rc offering- one lot of draw patterns fa White Good.. 72-iuch Or*andies, yard, 25c to 75c Lswas, plait. . . 5c to 40c Newest at tractions In Babraldwim, Lacan, mod ^rrTliars Paw. Parasols, and Umbrellas lor style, novelty, beoafa, service. Oar line of summer Corsets and Girdles bo sorpMsad. JAMES F. YEAGER, LADIES* FURNISHING*. - I_———wm— Craig and Wilson ——f—— Come iti, one and all. Onr doors are always open to oarcas-U tomera ud friends. We now have ou hand several car-loads of nice new Vehicles just ant of the factory. We have on om floor several nice rubber-tire Buggies that we exe going to •ell. We have a lot of Old Hickory Wagons on haad yet, though wc have sold a great many tikia season. The best Cultivator on the market to-day is the Steel King. We have a few left, come and get one or two and save labor. We think it is one of the best labor savin* farm implements that can be bad on the farm. We still have several fine Hones on hand. They are sU nice drivers, qmlet and gentle, HI wed broke. Cal! and see them before yoo b«y from anyone else. _— Craig and Wilson OURS ARE THE BUMM1EST ■ ~ Windows In Tows* A competitor Mid «> bat w« kw* it uran U too AmMI*-- ^ ^-"- T MVli.il Uko os Irishman bans* his coat la tba etotefc of a tree whaa ha lalahorta* m tfca stmts, that's shoot the way oar easts haw fa the wlafaw. Too am saw sack inartlttia tMtedla plapsd la aN year Ufa. lt*o Pnnsy to Watch the pattte baaeiaetor (f) Pot Him la Oar Window lor as Attraction. niMaomum.. Tho Only Stars la Oaatoala or in Oaataa aoaaty that coat at a predt. Wa sail dort adroit!.. «of w. do. t tattoo* fa MM a. —‘r—--Tr —r~~ ROMAN, THE CLOTHIER, y»lu>w ntomr. neox* a.
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